1 . A man came to the USA from another country. After    1    (settle) down at an island, he went into a cafeteria to get something     2    (eat). He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order, but nobody did.

    3    (final), a woman with a tray full of food sat down opposite him and informed him     4    the cafeteria worked.

“Start out at that end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At     5    other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”

“I soon     6    (learn) how everything worked in the USA,” the man told his friend. “Life’s a cafeteria there. You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price. You can even get success,     7    you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it for you.You have to get up and get it     8    .”

You can’t change the inevitable. The only thing you can do    9    (be) to control your attitude. Once you reach that point in life, happiness and     10    (satisfy) can’t be too far away.

2 . One day, about ten years ago, while working at the cash register (收银机) in the gift shop at my University Museum of Natural History, I saw     1     elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair. As I looked     2     (close) at this girl, I found that she was fixed on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, a neck and upper body,     3     (dress) in a little white skirt. As the couple wheeled her up to me, I turned my head toward the girl. When I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back     4     the girl, who was giving me the most optimistic, largest smile I had ever seen. All of a sudden, her handicap (障碍) was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl,     5     smile just melted me     6     almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of     7     life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and     8     (bring) me into her world; a world of smiles, love and     9     (warm). I’m a successful business man now and whenever I think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable (非凡的) lesson about life that she taught     10     (I).

3 . Once upon a time a farmer had a dog and a rabbit. One day he organized a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He dug a hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He wanted to see     1    animal would find them first.

The     2    (cheer) and optimistic rabbit threw himself into looking for the carrot,     3    (dig) here and there, totally convinced that he would find it. But the dog, after sniffing around for a bit,     4    (lie) down and began to complain about how difficult it was to find one bone in such a big field.

The rabbit dug for hours, and with every new hole the dog complained even more about how difficult this     5    (be), even for the rabbit.     6    the rabbit thought that each hole dug was one hole less that needed digging. When there was no place in the whole field     7    (leave) to dig, the rabbit dug a tunnel right to     8    the dog had been lying all the time. There he found the carrot and the bone.

This is how the dog lost the game. He had come to     9    right place at the very beginning but failed to find the bone     10    he only complained and didn’t try at all.

4 . Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it. From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse. But if you get a closer look you will notice one of them is blind. Instead of     1     (abandon) him, his owner has made him a safe and comfortable barn to live in. And if you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell     2     (come) from     3     smaller horse. Attached to     4     (it) halter (缰绳) is a small, copper-colored bell assisting the blind friend to follow him.

    5     you watch them, you’ll find the horse with the bell always checking on the blind one, and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to     6     the other one is, trusting he will not     7     (lead) astray (迷路地). When the horse with the bell returns to the barn each evening, he will stop     8     (frequent) to look back, making sure that the     9     isn’t too far behind to hear the bell．

Life does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges. Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little ringing bell of our acquaintances;     10     other times, we are the guide horse, who helps others to find their way.

5 . 语法填空（共10小题，
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31~40的相应位置上。

My father woke me     1     early in summer morning when I was fourteen and announced: “Get up. You’re going to with me to cut the grass.”

The idea     2     my father actually thought I was big enough to help him in his business made me feel proud and     3     (excite). From sunup to sundown my father, my young brother and I worked in the large yards in a rich part of Atlanta, Georgia. By the end of the day I was tired out,     4     I felt good. I had put in a hard day’s labor and had earned $6.

One day my father found some leaves I’d missed and pull me aside. “Clear away these     5    (leaf) ,” he said firmly, “and don’t make me have to tell you to do it again.” The message was clear. Today I value the importance of doing a job right the first time. It will never fail to impress the person you are working     6    .

After two years my father told my brother and me that he felt that we were old enough to do lawns on our     7    . Every Saturday during our last two years of high school, we set out early in the morning with the same desire and drive we had gained while     8     (work) under our father.

Taking care of lawns was not exciting or high-paying, but that didn’t matter. It taught me that any job is a good job and that whatever I was paid was     9     than I had before.

In every job I’ve held — from doing lawns to     10     (wash) dishes — I have learned something that helped me in my next job. If you work hard enough, you can learn from any job you do.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。
Many years ago there was such a child with the name Hokey    1    father brought home a mirror. Hokey had never seen one before so when he saw it for    2    first time, he didn’t understand    3    it was, but he saw another boy in the mirror, which made him very happy, for he thought the boy had come to play with him. He spoke to the stranger in a very friendly way, but received no reply. He laughed and waved at the boy, who did    4    (exact) the same thing. Then he thought, “I’ll go closer. It may be because he doesn’t hear me.” But when he began to talk, the other boy imitated him.
Hokey stopped    5    (think) about these strange actions, saying to himself.，“This boy is fooling me. He does everything that I do.” The more he thought about it, the    6    (angry)he became and soon he noticed the boy became very angry too. So Hokey    7    (strike) the boy in the glass, but he only hurt his own hand and went    8    (cry) to his father, who said, “The boy you saw was    9    image. This should teach you an important lesson, my son. You should never show your anger to others. Now remember that in real life when you strike    10    cause you will hurt yourself most of all..

7 . 阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。

What would you do if you failed? Many people may choose to give     1     . However, the surest way to success is to keep your direction and s    2     to your goal.　On your way to success, you must keep your direction. It is just like a lamp, g    3     you in darkness and helping you     4    (克服)difficulties on your way. Otherwise, you will easily get lost or hesitate to go     5    (向前).Direction means objective, you can get nowhere     6     an aim in life. You can try to write your aim on paper and make some p    7     to achieve it. In this way, you will know     8     to arrange your time and to spend time properly. And you should have a    9    (信念)that you are sure to succeed as    10    as you keep your direction all the time.