2 . When I became CEO of a hospital, I feared one thing greatly – public speaking. I’ve always ______ public speaking because I ______ thought I did it very well. ______ in this high position, presentations are a big part of my ______. Just recently, I was the ______ for the ribbon-cutting ceremony of our new building. I also spoke to the Rotary Club and was on the ______ for our annual gala (庆典) where I ______ introductions and awards presentations.

Soon after I took the job, my wife and I went to ______ with a married couple, who both hold high ______ like me in their companies. As we ate, I started complaining (抱怨) about how I had to do so much ______, and Bob, the husband, said something that really ______ me. He said that, as a CEO, the most ______ aspect of my job was public speaking! The days of having to prove my ______ in other areas were over; I had obviously done that to get where I was. Communication skills were all I ______ now. And he was ______. I realized I needed to make the time to properly ______ and practice for each speaking situation.

So, I’ve ______ that. I now schedule time into my workday calendar to write and practice my ______. I spend a long time perfecting the presentation before I ever standing front of a group to ______ it. When I take the time first to write a presentation, I will ______ a much better, more finished product.

1.

A．missed

B．hated

C．forgotten

D．appreciated

2.

A．still

B．never

C．always

D．sometimes

3.

A．And

B．So

C．But

D．Or

4.

A．time

B．life

C．job

D．plan

5.

A．host

B．reporter

C．guest

D．actor

6.

A．way

B．side

C．stage

D．phone

7.

A．collected

B．translated

C．sang

D．handled

8.

A．market

B．dinner

C．hospital

D．church

9.

A．situations

B．levels

C．standards

D．positions

10.

A．writing

B．teaching

C．speaking

D．awarding

11.

A．frightened

B．affected

C．troubled

D．confused

12.

A．satisfying

B．important

C．worrying

D．difficult

13.

A．interests

B．points

C．skills

D．personalities

14.

A．enjoyed

B．wasted

C．shared

D．needed

15.

A．right

B．perfect

C．polite

D．friendly

16.

A．wait

B．search

C．prepare

D．hunt

17.

A．done

B．lost

C．spread

D．discussed

18.

A．statements

B．explanations

C．presentations

D．introductions

19.

A．hold

B．change

C．attend

D．deliver

20.

A．come across

B．depend on

C．pay attention to

D．end up with

3 . I live in New York city and my neighbours are people I don’t know. My city, neighborhood and block are filled with people who don’t know me, don’t care to know me, and don’t talk to me. I find that it’s pretty hard to love people you don’t even know. And sometimes, we all, myself included, use that as an excuse not to try. I read Brendan’s story recently and was moved.

One day, Brendan, a young man in New York was on the way back to his Brooklyn apartment when a homeless woman called Jackie asked him for money. He said that he had no money. By the end of the week, she asked two more times, and each time he answered “No”. The woman looked sad, so Brendan said, “I am on my way to a job interview. If I get the job, I’ll take you out for lunch.”

Brendan got the job. He took Jackie out for lunch. That was when their friendship began. They built a strong friendship by supporting each other and spending their birthdays, holidays and difficult times together, over a period of eight years. When Brendan’s heater broke, Jackie made a blanket for him. Two days later when he told her that he had lost his job, she left and returned minutes later, bring him food to eat. She continued to do that during the whole winter. Even with so little, she often gave back.

Over these years, Jackie moved from the streets and subway stations into a halfway house, and is now moving into an apartment. To celebrate it, Brendan wanted to do something special for Jackie. He went with her and helped her to pick out everything she would need for her new apartment.

May Brendan’s story encourage us to find a new way to honour, serve and love the people around us.

1. What can we learn about the author from paragraph 1?

A．He often stays indoors.	B．He cares about his neighbours.
C．He is good at making friends.	D．He hardly talk to his neighbours

2. What did Brendan do when Jackie asked him for money?

A．He was angry with her.	B．He didn’t give her any.
C．He offered her some food.	D．He gave her some spare change.

3. What happened after Brendan and Jackie had lunch together?

A．They developed a new friendship.	B．They helped each other to find work.
C．They fell in love with each other.	D．They discovered they were classmates.

4. What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Jackie’s finding work.	B．Jackie’s moving from the streets.
C．Jackie’s moving into an apartment.	D．Jackie’s moving into a halfway house.

4 . “Dad,” I sai one day, “Let’s take a trip. Why don’t you fly out and meet me?”

My father had just retired after 27 years as a manager for IBM. His job filled his day, his thought and his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall in Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.

My father saw me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wanted me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.

He agreed to travel with me through some national parks. We met four weeks later in Rapid City.

“What is our first stop?” asked my father.

“What time is it?”

“Still don’t have a watch?”

Less than an hour away was Mount Rushmore. As he stared up at the four Presidents carved in rocks, his mouth and eyes opened slowly, like those of a little boy. “Unbelievable,” he said, “how was this done?”

Sculptor Gutzon devoted 14 years to this sculpture and then left the final touches to his son. We stared up and I asked myself, “Would I ever devote my life to anything?”No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my father’s voice. Now I hear them in my own.

The next day we were at Yellowstone National Park, where we had a picnic. “Did you ever travel with your dad?” I asked. “Only once” he said. “I never spoke much to my father. We loved each other-but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”

The last sentence—it’s probably the same thing I’d say about my father—is what I would want my child to say about me.

In Glacier National Park, my father said, “I have never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world. I can keep traveling, I realize- and maybe a regular job won’t be as dull as I feared.

Weeks after our trip, I called my father. “The photos from the trip are wonderful,” he said. “We have got to take another trip like that sometime.” I told him I had decided to settle down, and I’m wearing a watch.

1. What can we learn about the father from paragraph 2 and 3?

A．He followed the fashion.

B．He got bored with his job.

C．He was unhappy with the author’s lifestyle.

D．He liked the author’s collection of stamps.

2. What can be known about the author from the underlined paragraph?

A．He wants his children to learn from their grandfather.

B．He comes to understand what parental love means.

C．He learns how to communicate with his father.

D．He hopes to give whatever he can to his father.

3. What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story?

A．The call solved their disagreements.

B．The Swiss Watch has drawn them closer.

C．They decided to learn photography together.

D．They began to change their attitudes to life.

4. What could be the best title for the passage?

A．Love nature, love life.	B．A son lost in adventure.
C．A journey with dad.	D．The art of travel.

6 . It was Australia Day. We had spent the afternoon _______ with friends. When we arrived home, the message bank on my mobile phone was flashing. It was our daughter, Annabel, who had just been left at a boarding school over 500 kilometres away. Annabel’s _______ voice greeted us “Hi, mum and dad, I’ve lost my phone!” After just four days at school her main means of _______ had gone missing at an Australia Day celebration. We realised the chance of finding the phone was _______ for we hadn’t installed (安装) the Find My Phone app.

The next morning, my mobile beeped (发出哔哔声) loudly. When I replayed the _______, a kind voice announced that she had something that _______ my daughter and hoped I could call her back.

Annabel had written my number on the inside of her phone’s case—good thinking! “I’ll take it to work _______ you see if anyone can pick it up,” she kindly offered after I _______ that my daughter was at a boarding school and I lived a six-hour drive away.

After contacting the people I _______ who lived nearby, I was out of luck—no one was able to ________ the phone.

Later I decided to ask our angel (天使) to post the ________ to my daughter. But to my ________ , this angel, who had already spent a busy day at work, was making a two-hour round trip on a Saturday night, especially to ________ a phone to a complete stranger.

I gave her ________ and she delivered the phone into the hands of my daughter. The only word of an explanation was: “I’ve got four ________ of my own. I know how a mother worries.”

1.

A．working

B．training

C．celebrating

D．travelling

2.

A．tired

B．excited

C．concerned

D．relaxed

3.

A．escape

B．transport

C．communication

D．expression

4.

A．fair

B．slim

C．unique

D．important

5.

A．game

B．video

C．conversation

D．message

6.

A．moved

B．changed

C．appealed to

D．belonged to

7.

A．until

B．since

C．unless

D．while

8.

A．explained

B．suggested

C．complained

D．promised

9.

A．respected

B．knew

C．invited

D．appreciated

10.

A．pay for

B．give up

C．look for

D．pick up

11.

A．phone

B．gift

C．letter

D．suitcase

12.

A．satisfaction

B．relief

C．surprise

D．disappointment

13.

A．introduce

B．mail

C．devote

D．return

14.

A．direction

B．support

C．permission

D．rewards

15.

A．student

B．children

C．visitors

D．passengers

8 . I’ve heard such a story. On a Friday _________, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. The music was _________, and many people who hurried to go home _________ and put some money into the hat of the young man.

The next night, the young artist took out a large piece of _________ and laid it on the ground. Then he began _________. The music sounded more pleasant. Some people gathered and they found the _________ on that paper, ”Last night, a gentleman put a (n) _________ thing into my hat. Please come to get it back.“ When the people saw that, they felt very curious and _________ what it could be. After about half an hour, a man _________ there in a hurry and said, ”It can’t be true! You... you...“

The young violinist asked, ”Did you __________ something?“ ”A lottery ticket (彩票),“ the man answered __________.

The violinist took out a lottery ticket. “Is it?” he asked.

The man was too __________ to say a word. He __________ a lottery ticket a few days ago. The awards (奖) opened yesterday and he won $ 500, 000. So lucky and excited did he feel that he __________ 50 dollars and put it into the hat when hearing the music. However, the lottery ticket was also thrown into the hat without being __________. After the violinist finished his performance, he found the lottery ticket in his hat. Thinking that the owner would probably return to look for it, he came back to where he was given the lottery ticket.

Someone asked the violinist why he returned the lottery ticket to the man. He said, ”Although I don’t have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty, I won’t be happy forever."

1.

A．morning

B．afternoon

C．noon

D．night

2.

A．quiet

B．beautiful

C．shocking

D．interesting

3.

A．slowed down

B．sped up

C．passed by

D．went away

4.

A．paper

B．glass

C．plastic

D．cloth

5.

A．working

B．sliding

C．singing

D．playing

6.

A．poems

B．articles

C．words

D．texts

7.

A．important

B．fantastic

C．dangerous

D．lovely

8.

A．talked

B．cared

C．expected

D．guessed

9.

A．came

B．rushed

C．walked

D．left

10.

A．damage

B．discover

C．forget

D．lose

11.

A．proudly

B．worriedly

C．seriously

D．carefully

12.

A．tired

B．disappointed

C．excited

D．surprised

13.

A．bought

B．made

C．drew

D．sold

14.

A．handed out

B．took out

C．lifted up

D．picked up

15.

A．destroyed

B．noticed

C．guided

D．caught

9 . We walked in so quietly that the nurse at the desk didn’t even lift her eyes from the book. Mum pointed to a big chair by the door and I knew she wanted me to sit down. While I watched mouth open in surprise, Mum took off her hat and coat and gave them to me to hold. She walked quietly to the small room by the lift and took out a wet mop. She pushed the mop past the desk and as the nurse looked up, Mum nodded and said, “Very dirty floor.”

“Yes. I’m glad they’ve finally decided to clean them,” the nurse answered. She looked at Mum strangely and said, “But aren’t you working later?”

Mum just pushed harder, each swipe(拖一下) of the mop taking her farther and farther down the hall. I watched until she was out of sight and the nurse had turned back to writing in the big book.

After a long time, Mum came back. Her eyes were shining. She quickly put the mop back and took my hand. As we turned to go out of the door, Mum bowed politely to the nurse and said, “Thank you.”

Outside, Mum told me, “Dagmar is fine. No fever.”

“You saw her, Mum?”

“Of course. I told her about the hospital rules, and she will not expect us until tomorrow. Dad will stop worrying as well. It’s a fine hospital. But such floors! A mop is no good. You need a brush.”

1. When she took a mop from the small room, what Mum really wanted to do was________.

A．to clean the floor

B．to please the nurse

C．to see a patient

D．to surprise the story-teller

2. After reading the story what can we infer about the hospital?

A．It is a children’s hospital.

B．It has strict rules about visiting hours.

C．The conditions there aren’t very good.

D．The nurse and doctors there don’t work hard.

3. Which of the following words best describes Mum?

A．Strange.

B．Warm-hearted.

C．Clever.

D．Hard-working.

10 . Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our washing room, holding Brett’s jeans and shirt full of burn holes.

Tired and defeated, I________to the floor. The clothes were just one more thing Brett had________. He often got almost everything in the house out of ________. Many windows in our house needed repair due to his breaking ________to steal money when he chose to live on the street. Yet none of this could ________ the emotional damage Brett had done to our once quiet home.

As a native speaker, Brett came to live with us when he was 12 years old. During the next few years I had dealt with Brett as ________ as possible, but inside I was shouting, “I don’t want him in my house another day, Lord! I just can’t ________ him!” Having wiped my tears, I continued ________ him as before.

When Brett was nearly 18, he landed again in the juvenile hall (少管所). After that, my husband and I had to send Brett to a boarding school for helping ________ teens.

At the ________ ceremony, each graduate held a white rose to give to the person who had ________ the most to him or her.

Brett spoke ________ to his parents and then spoke to me, “You did so much. You were always there. For my mom and dad, I was their ________. But you, although________   enough by me, always________ me such love. And I want you to know I love you for it.”

Love is action. We may not always have positive feelings about certain people in our lives, but we can love them.

1.

A．demanded

B．sank

C．carved

D．dropped

2.

A．ruined

B．begged

C．torn

D．broken

3.

A．danger

B．date

C．trouble

D．order

4.

A．on

B．in

C．up

D．away

5.

A．pick out

B．relate to

C．compare to

D．regard as

6.

A．patiently

B．willingly

C．strictly

D．rudely

7.

A．appreciate

B．educate

C．stand

D．refer

8.

A．parenting

B．pardoning

C．comforting

D．struggling

9.

A．lazy

B．troublesome

C．disappointing

D．careless

10.

A．opening

B．official

C．victory

D．graduation

11.

A．afforded

B．meant

C．supplied

D．owed

12.

A．lovingly

B．globally

C．proudly

D．nervously

13.

A．friend

B．enemy

C．kid

D．teenager

14.

A．confused

B．troubled

C．touched

D．suffered

15.

A．cost

B．dated

C．based

D．showed