“I have cancer.”Mom said and held me in a tight hug.I could feel her chest shaking as she tried not to cry but failed.
For all of my twenty-four years,my mom had been supportive.Strength and protection had always flowed from her to me.Now I knew it would have to flow the other way.
Mom didn’t stay down for long.After the shock of breast-cancer,she armed herself with a notebook and a pen and a thousand questions for the doctors.She took notes on white blood cell counts and medications(药物)with long names as though she were studying for entrance exams into medical school.”The not-knowing is the worst.”she said.
The operation was successful.The chemo(化疗)was the harder part.I went with Mom to every chemo treatment.She rarely complained,though her hair was gone and her toenails and fingernails fell out one by one.She joked that she could save money on nail polish and put it toward the doctor bills,even though she never wore nail polish.”Cancer can take my hair,my nails,my health,my very life. But it can’t take my smile.”Mom said.
Mom learned to share her fears with me,and it formed an even deeper bond between us.Yet I am certain there were fears she didn’t share because she was still protecting me-worries she only shared with Dad.Even in the darkest hours,she would just joke about the cancer. Mom always said,”When you look your greatest fear in the eye and laugh at it,you take away some of its power.”
Mom was one of the lucky ones.She did beat her cancer,though not without scars.From her,I’ve learned I may not get to choose what I face,but I do get to choose how I face it.
1.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.There were other ways to treat cancer.
B.Knowledge of cancer would be helpful.
C.Mom had to stay stronger to beat cancer.
D.I should be the one being there for Mom.
2.Which of the following words can best describe Mom?
A.Humorous and generous.
B.Considerate and ambitious.
C.Optimistic and determined.
D.Caring and knowledgeable.
3.What is the fifth paragraph mainly about?
A.The fear Mom shared with me.
B.The ways Mom faced fear.
C.The jokes Mom told me.
D.The bond Mom and I formed.
4.What lesson did the author learn from Mom?
A.Luck counts in beating diseases.
B.Complaint does no good to one’s health.
C.Positive attitudes get one through hardship for
D.Sharing feelings helps reduce sufferings a lot.
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“I have cancer.”Mom said and held me in a tight hug.I could feel her chest shaking as she tried not to cry but failed.
For all of my twenty-four years,my mom had been supportive.Strength and protection had always flowed from her to me.Now I knew it would have to flow the other way.
Mom didn’t stay down for long.After the shock of breast-cancer,she armed herself with a notebook and a pen and a thousand questions for the doctors.She took notes on white blood cell counts and medications(药物)with long names as though she were studying for entrance exams into medical school.”The not-knowing is the worst.”she said.
The operation was successful.The chemo(化疗)was the harder part.I went with Mom to every chemo treatment.She rarely complained,though her hair was gone and her toenails and fingernails fell out one by one.She joked that she could save money on nail polish and put it toward the doctor bills,even though she never wore nail polish.”Cancer can take my hair,my nails,my health,my very life. But it can’t take my smile.”Mom said.
Mom learned to share her fears with me,and it formed an even deeper bond between us.Yet I am certain there were fears she didn’t share because she was still protecting me-worries she only shared with Dad.Even in the darkest hours,she would just joke about the cancer. Mom always said,”When you look your greatest fear in the eye and laugh at it,you take away some of its power.”
Mom was one of the lucky ones.She did beat her cancer,though not without scars.From her,I’ve learned I may not get to choose what I face,but I do get to choose how I face it.
1.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.There were other ways to treat cancer.
B.Knowledge of cancer would be helpful.
C.Mom had to stay stronger to beat cancer.
D.I should be the one being there for Mom.
2.Which of the following words can best describe Mom?
A.Humorous and generous.
B.Considerate and ambitious.
C.Optimistic and determined.
D.Caring and knowledgeable.
3.What is the fifth paragraph mainly about?
A.The fear Mom shared with me.
B.The ways Mom faced fear.
C.The jokes Mom told me.
D.The bond Mom and I formed.
4.What lesson did the author learn from Mom?
A.Luck counts in beating diseases.
B.Complaint does no good to one’s health.
C.Positive attitudes get one through hardship for
D.Sharing feelings helps reduce sufferings a lot.
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My mom held me and my brother tight, tears of happiness ______ her face, feeling proud of our final success.
A. to cover B. covered
C. having covered D. covering
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“Mom, I have cancer.” These four words catapulted my son and me on a journey that lasted two years. On that day I felt a wave of paralyzing fear.
Scott was the oldest of my four children. He was 33 years old and a successful assistant principal at SamRayburn Hifht School in Pasadena, Texas. He and his wife Carolyn were busy raising four active children. Scott was 6’2’’, weighed 200 pounds and had never been sick a day in his life.
A few month earlier a mole（痣）on his neck had changed color. “Dr.Warner called,” Scott said that spring morning. “It’s melanoma.（黑素瘤）” I tried to comfort him, naming all the people I knew who had survived skin cancer. Yet, I felt small tentacles of fear begin to wrap around my chest.
Our next stop was MDAnderson, the famous cancer hospital in Houston. Scott had surgery at the end of May and was scheduled for radiation treatments over the summer recess. “There is an 80 percent chance it won’t reoccur,” the doctors said. At the end of summer, all his tests came back negative and Scott was back at school in the fall. However, in December, Scott discovered a lump on his neck. It was examined and the result came back “malignant.（恶性的）” We now realized that Scott fell into the 20 percent category. I could feel the tentacles tightening around my chest. He entered the hospital for an aggressive treatment, a combination of interferon and interleukin.
After five months of treatment, he had radical surgery on his neck. The test results were encouraging, only three of the 33 lymph nodes（淋巴结） removed were malignant. We were very hopeful.
For the next six months, Scott’s follow-up visits went well. Then in October, X-ray revealed a spot on his lung. The spot was removed during surgery and the doctors tried to be optimistic. It was a daily battle to control the fear and panic each setback brought.
In January, he was diagnosed as having had a “disease explosion.” The cancer had spread to his lungs, spine and liver and he was given three to six months to live. There were times during this period when I felt like I was having a heart attack. The bands constricting my chest made breathing difficult.
When you watch your child battle cancer, you experience a roller coaster of emotions. There are moments of hope and optimism but a bad test result or even an unusual pain can bring on dread and panic.
Scott was readmitted to the hospital for one last try with chemotherapy. He died, quite suddenly, just six weeks after his last diagnosis. I was completely destroyed. I had counted on those last few months.
The next morning I was busy notifying people and making funeral arrangements. I remember having this nagging feeling that something was physically wrong with me. It took a moment to realize that the crushing sensation in my chest was gone. The thing every parent fears the most had happened. My son was gone. Of course, the fear had been replaced by unbearable sorrow.
After you lose a child, it is so difficult to go on. The most minimal tasks, combing your hair or taking a shower, becoming monumental. For months I just sat and stared into space. That spring, the trees began to bloom; flowers began to pop up in my garden. Friendswood was coming back to life but I was dead inside.
During those last weeks, Scott and I often spoke about life and death. Fragments of those conversations kept playing over and over in my mind.
“Don’t let this ruin your life, Mom.”
“Make sure Dad re models his workshop.”
“Please, take care of my family.”
I remember wishing I could have just one more conversation with him. I knew what I would say, but what would Scott say? “I know how much you love me, Mom. So just sit on the couch and cry.” No, I knew him better than that. Scott loved life and knew how precious it is. I could almost hear his voice saying, “Get up Mom, Get on with your life. It’s too valuable to waste.”
That was the day I began to move forward. I signed up for a cake decorating class. Soon I was making cakes for holidays and birthdays. My daughter-in-law told me about a writing class in Houston. I hadn’t written in years, but since I was retired I decided it be time to start again. The local college advertised a Life Story Writing class that I joined. There I met women who had also lost their children. The Poet Laureate of Texas was scheduled to speak at our local Barnes and Noble. I attended and joined our local poetry society. I never dreamed that writing essays and poems about Scott could be so therapeutic. Several of those poems have ever been published. In addition, each group brought more and more people into my life..
I don’t believe you ever recover from the loss of a child. Scott is in my heart and mind every day. However, I do believe you can survive.
Scott fought so bravery to live and he never gave up. He taught me that life is a gift that should be cherished, not wasted. It has taken years to become the person I am today. The journey has been a difficult, painful process but certainly worth the effort and I know that my son would be proud.
1.How old was Scott probably when he died?
A．33 B．35 C．37 D．40
2.What does the underlined sentence “ The bands constricting my chest made breathing difficult” probably imply?
A．It implies that Scott’s mother was likely to have a heart attack.
B．It implies that there was something wrong with Scott’s mother’s chest.
C．It implies that Scott’s mother was very upset and panic because of Scott’s severe illness.
D．It implies that the cancer had spread to her chest just like her son.
3.Which of the following statements best shows the author’s feeling about Scott’s death?
A．It was a daily battle to control the fear and panic each setback brought.
B．She felt a wave of fear.
C．She felt a feeling of fear begin to wrap around her chest.
D．The fear had been replaced by unbearable sorrow.
4.From Scott and his mother’s conversation, we can know that Scott is ________.
A．considerable B．humorous C．determined D．sensitive
5.The author intends to tell us that___________.
A．it takes a long time to make a person recover from the shock of losing a child
B．Scott is proud of his mother
C．life is full of happiness and sorrow.
D．We’d better make our life count instead of counting your days.
6.What might be the best title of the passage ?
A．Life is valuable B．Grieving and Recovery
C．Love and sorrow D．Alive or dead
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I called Mom yesterday and she said she had something delicious ____ for me.
A. in common B. in store C. in general D. in order
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On a dark grey morning, my mom said in a quiet voice. "Your dad and I have decided that we’re moving to Singapore.”
These words did not_______much in my five-year-old brain until the day we had to_______ and say goodbye to our close friends.
Normally，mom always booked our_______together. The_______of sitting next to a stranger was never something I had to worry about, until now. Booking it late, we weren’t given_______when buying the seats.
I was_________as I walked on the plane and down the aisle. What I saw was something _______to an alien to me. It was an Indian lady dressed in a traditional Sari and having a massive bindi( 额前的人工痣) between her eyebrows. But her_______wasn’t the only thing that_______me away. I made a__________ as if I had smelt something sour.
My mom__________walked me to the back of the plane, and__________she wasn’t any different from me and I should be respectful because it was her__________and religion.
As we got prepared to__________, the lady buckled(扣住 )her seatbelt and took out a book from her bag. At that point I am__________that the book was in English! After a short sleep, I__________to dinner time. I got spaghetti and so did the lady sitting next to me. She was eating the same thing as me!
Throughout the flight, I__________in my young little mind that she was just a human being like me though she looked and__________differently, which provided me with a__________of being a human being who__________all types of lifestyles.
1.A. expect B. register C. fail D. find
2.A. meet B. stay C. leave D. settle
3.A. flights B. seats C. rooms D. tables
4.A. joy B. dream C. terror D. opinion
5.A. preference B. promise C. attention D. sympathy
6.A. ashamed B. relaxed C. tired D. fearful
7.A. equal B. superior C. known D. familiar
8.A. voice B. appearance C. attitude D. skin
9.A. gave B. put C. look D. scared
10.A. wish B. deal C. face D. decision
11.A. immediately B. fortunately C. excitedly D. sadly
12.A. worried B. argued C. explained D. shouted
13.A. culture B. accent C. question D. plan
14.A. take up B. take off C. take on D. take out
15.A. nervous B. relieved C. shocked D. upset
16.A. awoke B. paid C. slept D. skipped
17.A. confirmed B. predicted C. doubted D. realize
18.A. sang B. dressed C. sat D. lived
19.A. control B. trouble C. sign D. foundation
20.A. knows B. believes C. convinces D. accepts
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About a third of all common cancers in the United States, China and Britain could be prevented each year if people ate healthier food, drank less alcohol and exercised more, health experts said on Friday.
Reports from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) suggest that making simple lifestyle changes could prevent some 40 percent of breast cancers alone in Britain and the United States, as well as tens of thousands of stomach cancers.
“Even in 2011, people are dying unnecessarily from cancers that could be prevented through keeping a healthy weight, diet, physical activity and other lifestyle factors,” said a WCRF medical and scientific adviser.
WCRF findings are supported by World Health Organization (WHO) reports, which say regular exercise can prevent many diseases such as cancers and heart diseases.
Cancer is a leading cause of death around the world and its incidence(发病率) is rising. Each year around 12.7 million people discover they have cancer and 7.6 million people die from some form of the disease. There are about 200 known types of cancer.
Rachel Thompson, the WCRF’s head of science, said that while the message was simple — that not smoking, eating good food and being a healthy weight can help ward off many cancers — it was still a difficult one to get across.
The WHO says adults should do at least 150 minutes of exercise a week. This could be done by walking for 30 minutes five times per week or by cycling to work every day.
Peter Baldini, head of the World Lung Foundation, also called on all governments to introduce smoke-free laws and raise the price of cigarettes. Tobacco kills millions of smokers every year, and tobacco-related lung cancers also kill hundreds of thousands of people who don’t smoke but have been exposed to it second-hand.
“There isn’t a magic bullet to cure all forms of cancer, but we have the opportunity and the duty to protect people from developing cancer wherever possible,” Baldini said.
1.Which of the following words can best take the place of the phrase “ward off” in the sixth paragraph?
A. protect B. prevent C. develop D. cure。
2.Which of the following statements is Not true according to the text?
A. Exercising and eating healthily can help to reduce cancer risk.
B. Each year about 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer around the world.
C. Every year millions of people die from smoking and lung cancers.
D. Adults should walk for fifty minutes three times per week.
3.Which of the following can be the best title of this text?
A. Simple life changes could stop millions of cancers
B. Cancer is a leading cause of death
C. Our bad lifestyle caused many diseases
D. The incidence of common cancers is rising
4.By writing the passage, the author mainly intends to ____.
A. advise people to develop healthier lifestyle.
B. warn people of the danger of cancers
C. explain why many people die from cancers every year.
D. introduce the ways to protect people from developing cancers
5.We can infer from Peter Baldini’s opinion in the last two paragraphs that ____.
A. all the lung cancers are linked to smoking
B. there is no medicine to cure the cancers but it’s our duty to find one
C. all governments should take measures to control smokers and protect people’s health
D. it’s our opportunity and duty to persuade people to give up smoking
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— Tom, could you give me a hand in the following exam?
— ______ . Mom won’t allow me to do such crazy things.
A. No problem B. It's a pleasure C. Forget it D. My pleasure
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— Tom, could you give me a hand in the following exam?
— ______. Mom won’t allow me to do such crazy things.
A. No problem B. It's a pleasure C. Forget it D. My pleasure
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—Mom, can I have that transformer?
—Behave yourself and you____ have it．
A．could B．shall C．must D．may
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My normal monthly emails to and _______ pen pals have disappeared with my tight schedule.
A．in B．for
C．from D．through
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