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In my culture, it 's not accepted or normal to go against my parents' wishes. I belong to a small and native community in the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico. We' ve lived here for centuries, and my family has been growing cotton for as long as anyone can remember.

When I was small, I had a lot of work to do. My father was sick and we were poor, so my sister and I would get up very earlier every morning to prepare food for the whole family. After school we would run home quickly to help do housework. On weekends, I would go to the village market to sell our cotton. Every time I sold something, it was good news for the whole family.

When I became a teenager, I wanted to study to become a secretary. By Working in an office I would be able to earn more money, which would be good for my family. I knew I was smart and that I would do a good job, but my parents refused to let me study. I listened to them and followed their advice in order not to make them unhappy.

Years later, some students from California came to our village. They were organizing an educational workshop for local people. We would learn new things and technology about growing cotton, and have the chance to network. This was a good chance for me to learn something new and useful. Of course I was willing to take part in it, but my parents said no again this time.

I have wonderful and generous parents, who are kind to everybody around them. Even when our family could hardly afford food, they would welcome guests with coffee and cookies. I knew they refused me because they wanted the best for me. I knew they were worried about me being away from them, but I knew they were wrong. Attending this workshop would be good for our family. I would be able to learn something new and useful, and our business would grow much faster than it could.

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Paragraph 1:

Therefore, I put my foot down and decided to go.

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Now I no longer live together with my parents,but I work with them every day.

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2 . One morning in early fall, I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by ________, because we had never seen geese there before. I wondered where they came from and why they’d ________ our pond. As the days passed, I couldn’t ________ getting a closer look and started talking to the geese. They craned their necks and raised their heads ________ but seemed to realize I was a friend and not an enemy. I felt ________ we were bonding.

One day as they were feeding in the grass near the driveway, I discovered the reason for their ________—the male had a broken left wing. He was ________ to fly, and his lifelong mate would not leave him behind. I marveled at the ________ between them.

I asked a wildlife biologist friend what I should do. He explained that sometime a broken wing will heal by itself and suggested letting ________ take its course.

________ the first day of November, I was working in the vicinity (在……附近) of the geese with my tractor. I caught some ________ from the corner of my eye.

Both geese were running toward the pond, wings beating ________. The geese gained enough altitude to clear a neighbor’s house, then ________ back toward me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of sight.

I grew ________ them during their stay at our pond, and I miss them. I’ll never forget their ________ to each other. We could all learn a lesson or two from this pair.

1.

A．anger

B．surprise

C．terror

D．sorrow

2.

A．cleared

B．destroyed

C．chosen

D．disturbed

3.

A．resist

B．imagine

C．escape

D．admit

4.

A．naturally

B．happily

C．sadly

D．cautiously

5.

A．whether

B．even if

C．how

D．as though

6.

A．absence

B．delay

C．visit

D．departure

7.

A．unable

B．curious

C．eager

D．afraid

8.

A．bond

B．quarrel

C．conflict

D．competition

9.

A．chance

B．nature

C．fate

D．knowledge

10.

A．For

B．During

C．On

D．To

11.

A．atmosphere

B．division

C．response

D．movement

12.

A．wildly

B．occasionally

C．slowly

D．aimlessly

13.

A．floated

B．circled

C．slid

D．skipped

14.

A．angry with

B．fond of

C．tired of

D．grateful to

15.

A．sympathy

B．objection

C．adjustment

D．devotion

3 . Mother Teresa and I were deeply engaged in this close conversation when we were_____ by loud voices coming from down the hall.

First I smelled them, then heard them: middle aged couple, both very tall, very large, very ____ perfumed and clearly very rich. With no greeting at all, the woman shoved (推挤) a ____ into my hand. She and her husband   ____   Mother Teresa from her chair and situated her against the wall between them. Then they   _____ like giant bookends on either side of Mother Teresa or       ____   a photograph.

As I snapped the photo, without hesitation the woman put her     _____     under Mother Teresa’s chin and forced it up. Shocked that anyone should     ______ Mother Teresa that way.

Right after the photos, she and her husband, without so much as a “thank you” to Mother Teresa or to me,   _____ in a noisy rush.

Mother Teresa returned to her chair and continued   _____ nothing had happened. But I was _____ anger towards this couple. My body was tense, and hatred   ____   through me.

Later, I wrote Mother Teresa a letter, telling her how I had     _____   towards her visitors.

In her ______ she admonished me, saying that while I had expressed sympathy for the poor, the sick and the weak all my life, I had no_______ of the suffering of the wealthy: the isolation, the hardening of the heart, and the ___of the soul that can come with the burden of wealth. She said that they need as much compassion as anyone else on earth.

I thought back and realized that Mother Teresa had had no   _____ with the wealthy couple. To her, they deserve   _____ love, no less and no more than the orphans in her   _____ , and she had treated them with love and respect.

“You must open your heart to them and become their student and their teacher,” she said in her letter. “     _____   them in your circle of love. Do not shut them out. They also are your work.”

1.

A．attracted

B．annoyed

C．amazed

D．interrupted

2.

A．gently

B．poorly

C．heavily

D．lightly

3.

A．camera

B．present

C．notebook

D．purse

4.

A．helped

B．invited

C．lifted

D．pulled

5.

A．pushed in

B．stood out

C．took in

D．hurried out

6.

A．asked

B．insisted

C．suggested

D．demanded

7.

A．face

B．eyes

C．arm

D．hand

8.

A．love

B．treat

C．like

D．hate

9.

A．apologized

B．disappeared

C．turned

D．greeted

10.

A．as if

B．even if

C．so that

D．in that

11.

A．absorbed in

B．adapted to

C．concerned with

D．filled with

12.

A．burst

B．sought

C．ran

D．saw

13.

A．felt

B．identified

C．hated

D．ranked

14.

A．response

B．reply

C．reaction

D．letter

15.

A．recognition

B．mind

C．attention

D．head

16.

A．happiness

B．sadness

C．kindness

D．loneliness

17.

A．argument

B．conversation

C．problem

D．question

18.

A．pitiful

B．deep

C．equal

D．long

19.

A．care

B．service

C．welfare

D．benefit

20.

A．Inspect

B．Respect

C．Include

D．Contain

4 .

[1] I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability-to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… [2] When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a marvellous vacation trip-to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make wonderful plans: the Coloseum①, the Michelangelo② David, the gondolas③ in Venice, etc. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. [3] After months of eager expectation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The airhostess comes in and says, “Welcome to the Netherlands.” [4] “The Netherlands?!” you say. “What do you mean, the Netherlands?? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy.” [5] But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in the Netherlands and there you must stay. [6] The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, awful, dirty place, full of diseases. It’s just a different place. [7] So you must go out and buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. [8] It’s just a place. It’s slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around and you begin to notice that the Netherlands④ …and the Netherlands has tulips⑤. The Netherlands even has Rembrandts⑥. [9] But everyone you coming and going from Italy and they’re all boasting about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, “Yes, that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned. [10] And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away because the loss of that dream is a very, very significant loss. [11] But if you spend your life regretting the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about the Netherlands.

① ② (1475~1564) Italian artist and architect ③ ④ ⑤ ⑥(1606~1669) Dutch painter

1. The author compares her motherhood to ________.

A．her involvement in traveling abroad

B．her experience with an unfamiliar task

C．her dream of enjoying beautiful scenery

D．her journey to an unplanned destination

2. By “you begin to notice that the Netherlands has windmills ... and the Netherlands has tulips’’ (paragraph 8), the author actually means that ________.

A．the Netherlands has many scenic spots to visit and enjoy

B．the Netherlands is a country with many paintings to appreciate

C．a mother of a disabled child can also feel the bright side of her life

D．a mother who has traveled a lot can receive a special treat from her child

3. From paragraph 9, we can tell that other mothers are ________.

A．proud

B．anxious

C．sociable

D．sensible

4. To the author, the special experience of being a mother is ________.

A．beyond her endurance	B．more a gift than a loss
C．worthy of others’ sympathy	D．preferable to going to Italy

5 . Have you ever watched an artist paint a picture? He or she works close to the canvas (油画布) ______ small sections at a time in the process of completing the whole painting.

But every once in a while,   the ______ must step back from his/her work and look at the whole picture. Only by stepping away from what they’re working on can they ______ the proper perspective(视角). The proper point of view is ______ to the end result.

It’s no difference for any other creation.______ it’s a business,   a project or your life,   you need to step back ______ in order to get it right. From a ______，you can see things you can’t see when you’re close. The difference is in working on your project ______ working in it. It’s all too easy to focus on something but ______ the important parts needed to create a satisfying result.

Stephen Covey calls it “______ the saw(锯)”. It would be ______ to keep sawing without stopping from time to time to make your ______ sharper. But unfortunately,   that’s what too many of us ______.

Just like music,   we need spaces ______ the notes in order to create the lovely melody. A continuous collection of notes with no spaces is not good—it’s ______.

You may need to take a vacation to ______ work or study. At other times,   it's better to take a course or attend a meeting to ______ some new ideas. Sometimes,   it may be better to take a complete break,   to go away and just do something totally ______ —take on a volunteer project, build a house for Habitat for Humanity or some other worthy causes.

The important thing is to take the breaks. Without them,   we are not ______ and we don’t enjoy our work or our life as much. Our pressure ______ and both our work and our health suffer.

1.

A．picking

B．painting

C．losing

D．enjoying

2.

A．scientist

B．teacher

C．physicist

D．artist

3.

A．turn

B．change

C．gain

D．give

4.

A．important

B．special

C．ordinary

D．popular

5.

A．Although

B．Where

C．Because

D．Whether

6.

A．finally

B．sometimes

C．immediately

D．slowly

7.

A．height

B．depth

C．distance

D．length

8.

A．instead of

B．together with

C．such as

D．less than

9.

A．meet

B．destroy

C．collect

D．miss

10.

A．repairing

B．sharpening

C．touching

D．hiding

11.

A．foolish

B．interesting

C．clever

D．practical

12.

A．way

B．mind

C．tool

D．sense

13.

A．notice

B．do

C．find

D．lose

14.

A．through

B．before

C．behind

D．between

15.

A．music

B．noise

C．sound

D．pollution

16.

A．look forward to

B．catch up with

C．get away from

D．work hard at

17.

A．obtain

B．prove

C．desert

D．explain

18.

A．difficult

B．necessary

C．common

D．different

19.

A．native

B．creative

C．attractive

D．sensitive

20.

A．reduces

B．disappears

C．increases

D．improves

6 . Last year, I received a special present. My children ________ me a stainless steel coffee machine for my birthday. I love drinking coffee every morning and couldn’t ________ to use it. But ________ I poured my first cup, the coffee spilled (洒出) all over the table. Thankfully, no one was around to see my ________ face! I kept trying, but each morning I ________ be seen wiping up the coffee. Then I realized if I poured very ________, there could be no spilling. My normal ________ was to rush through breakfast to get on with my day. But eventually I learned not only to pour but to ________ the experience: the taste and the stillness of a new day.

It promoted me to ________ upon whether I was rushing through in other areas of my life. So I started to appreciate even the most ________ moments. When shop owners apologized for keeping me waiting, I’d say, “Not a problem. I’m not ________.” I even enjoyed sitting in front of my house talking with ________ and sharing our own stories, ________ we had known each other for a long time. It seemed that the world around us slowed to a ________ we could handle.

Stillness not only slows the pace of life, but also ________ the soul, helping us to enjoy the world’s small pleasures and realize the truth of life.

1.

A．lent

B．offered

C．gifted

D．asked

2.

A．help

B．wait

C．know

D．complain

3.

A．since

B．before

C．as

D．until

4.

A．disappointed

B．delightful

C．amused

D．astonished

5.

A．would

B．should

C．must

D．need

6.

A．quickly

B．casually

C．slowly

D．patiently

7.

A．promise

B．practice

C．tradition

D．standard

8.

A．possess

B．clarify

C．realize

D．enjoy

9.

A．reflect

B．decide

C．react

D．respond

10.

A．difficult

B．ordinary

C．special

D．awkward

11.

A．in difficulty

B．in trouble

C．in a hurry

D．in danger

12.

A．colleagues

B．friends

C．relatives

D．strangers

13.

A．only if

B．as if

C．if only

D．if ever

14.

A．pace

B．stage

C．point

D．occasion

15.

A．explains

B．inspects

C．blesses

D．feeds

7 . Directions: Read the questions below and write an outline in response to each question to state and support your opinion on a topic. Please also list examples, facts, specific reasons, personal experience, or statistics/figures briefly to support your opinion as well.
1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The best things in life do not cost money.
Opinion: _________________________________________________________
Supporting ideas:
_________________________________________________________
Examples, facts, specific reasons, personal experience, or statistics/figures:
_________________________________________________________
2. Some people think that government should spend as much as money as possible on developing space technology for the exploration of the moon and other planets. Others think that this money should be spent on solving the basic problems of society on Earth. Which view do you agree with?
Opinion: _________________________________________________________
Supporting ideas:
_________________________________________________________
Examples, facts, specific reasons, personal experience, or statistics/figures:
_________________________________________________________

8 . A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complain about stress in work and life.

Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of _______ — porcelain (陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal (水晶), some plain-looking and _______, some delicate (精致的) and expensive — telling them to _______ themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you _______, all the nice-looking and expensive cups were _______, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is _______for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the _______ of your problems and stress.It is definite that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. _______ all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you all went for the _______ cups. And then you began ____________ each other’s cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and ____________ in society are the cups.They are just tools to hold and ____________ life, and the type of cup we have does not change the ____________ of life we live.Sometimes, by ____________ only on the cup, we fail to ____________ the coffee.

1.

A．tools

B．materials

C．cups

D．gifts

2.

A．cheap

B．simple

C．beautiful

D．valuable

3.

A．invite

B．allow

C．help

D．adapt

4.

A．noticed

B．admitted

C．accepted

D．relaxed

5.

A．sold out

B．taken up

C．broken

D．abandoned

6.

A．normal

B．unfair

C．selfish

D．painful

7.

A．way

B．value

C．judgement

D．source

8.

A．Why

B．Although

C．Unless

D．What

9.

A．ordinary

B．best

C．special

D．strange

10.

A．using

B．washing

C．eyeing

D．introducing

11.

A．position

B．kindness

C．character

D．temper

12.

A．improve

B．contain

C．mix

D．limit

13.

A．way

B．pace

C．direction

D．quality

14.

A．concentrating

B．relying

C．keeping

D．holding

15.

A．drink

B．enjoy

C．share

D．boil

9 . I wrote my first poem at the age of seven and showed it to my mother. She read and cried, "What a beautiful poem! " Shyly but_______, I said yes. She poured out her_______."It was nothing short of talent!"

I could hardly wait to_______ my work to my father. I spent quite some time_______for his arrival. I _____ placed it right on my father's plate on the dining table. I was sure he would be able to_______my poem.

At almost 7 o' clock my father burst in. He seemed ______. He circled the dining table, complaining about his employees. "What is this?" He was________for my poem. "Buddy's first poem!" my mother replied. "And it's beautiful, absolutely amaz..."

"If you don't mind, I'd like to decide for myself, "Father said.

I ______my head as he read that poem. Seconds later, I heard him dropping the poem back on the table. Now came the moment of _______.

"I think it's terrible, "he said. I couldn't look up. My eyes were getting _______.

"Ben, these are the first lines of poetry he's ever written , " my mother was saying. " He needs_______ ."

"I don't know why, "my father held his ground. " Isn't there enough awful poetry in the world already?"

I couldn't _______it another second. I ran away from the dining room crying. Up in my room I________myself on the bed and cried the worst of the_____ out of me.

That may have been the end of the story, but not of its _______ for me. I realized how fortunate I had been. I had a mother who said, "I think it's wonderful ! " and a father who drove me to hear" I think it's ______."

Every one of us needs that mother force, from which all________flows, and yet the mother force alone is incomplete. It needs the balance of the force that warns us.

Those _______voices of my childhood ring in my ears through the years, like two opposing winds blowing me. Between the two poles of approval and ______ , both in the name of love, I try to follow my true course.

1.

A．undoubtedly

B．proudly

C．anxiously

D．honestly

2.

A．motivation

B．appeal

C．criticism

D．praise

3.

A．recite

B．describe

C．present

D．introduce

4.

A．longing

B．preparing

C．praying

D．planning

5.

A．gradually

B．desperately

C．confidently

D．casually

6.

A．appreciate

B．revise

C．read

D．admit

7.

A．relaxed

B．calm

C．miserable

D．upset

8.

A．searching

B．looking

C．reaching

D．applying

9.

A．shook

B．lowered

C．raised

D．turned

10.

A．decision

B．excitement

C．opportunity

D．devotion

11.

A．dark

B．wide

C．wet

D．bright

12.

A．argument

B．judgment

C．encouragement

D．adjustment

13.

A．hold

B．attain

C．control

D．stand

14.

A．threw

B．seated

C．left

D．pushed

15.

A．confusion

B．pressure

C．disappointment

D．tiredness

16.

A．challenge

B．development

C．difficulty

D．significance

17.

A．elegant

B．awful

C．fluent

D．controversial

18.

A．failure

B．creation

C．limit

D．imagination

19.

A．inspiring

B．comforting

C．disturbing

D．conflicting

20.

A．doubt

B．advice

C．admiration

D．support

10 . I grew up in a small town. There was a man named Joe, who was uneducated and couldn't talk _______. He was good -natured but not very smart, _______ every one teased him.

One day when I was sitting on the porch, he came walking by. I was about 12 and thought it would make me _______ grown-up to play a joke on him as some _______ did.

He asked what I was doing, and I told him that my father had _______his job and that we were short of money. I could see my friends nearby _______ so I went on with the _______ . From his _______ expression, I'm convinced that I had fooled him _______.

I knew he lived a __________ life with low income, so it was__________ when he asked whether we needed anything. I told him that we didn't know if we would have enough to ____________, and he replied, " You poor thing.”

That night I heard a soft   __________ on the door. I thought it was the wind whipping against the door, so I ____________ it. The next morning I found a small box of food outside my home. I knew it was from Joe. I looked into the box of canned food with __________   in my eyes. I felt ashamed of taking advantage of his __________ for me. Later I__________ the whole story to my father and said I wanted to return the box. My father scolded me and __________ that I keep the box; otherwise it would hurt Joe's feelings.

Although the food was not __________ , I knew Joe gave the best he had. I did not __________ the gift.

1.

A．fluently

B．loudly

C．publicly

D．honestly

2.

A．if

B．or

C．so

D．but

3.

A．feel

B．become

C．sound

D．smell

4.

A．peers

B．teenagers

C．adults

D．idiots

5.

A．found

B．lost

C．enjoyed

D．changed

6.

A．playing

B．cheering

C．smiling

D．laughing

7.

A．report

B．story

C．tale

D．legend

8.

A．doubtful

B．impatient

C．puzzled

D．concerned

9.

A．properly

B．fairly

C．completely

D．finally

10.

A．happy

B．meaningful

C．simple

D．tough

11.

A．embarrassing

B．funny

C．reasonable

D．sad

12.

A．drink

B．spend

C．wear

D．eat

13.

A．knock

B．footprint

C．crash

D．bang

14.

A．opened

B．shut

C．ignored

D．locked

15.

A．thanks

B．fear

C．tears

D．pride

16.

A．consideration

B．support

C．love

D．sympathy

17.

A．confessed

B．translated

C．repeated

D．recommended

18.

A．preferred

B．insisted

C．ordered

D．decided

19.

A．fresh

B．cheap

C．valuable

D．tasty

20.

A．appreciate

B．admire

C．cherish

D．deserve