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Eating the Cookie

One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. _______ was “having the cookie”. If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn’t have the cookie, life was _______.

Unfortunately, the cookie kept _______. Some of the time it was money, and sometimes power. At_______time, it was the new car, the biggest contract. A year and a half after his diagnosis(诊断) of prostate cancer, he sits_______his head regretfully. “It seems that I stopped learning how to_______ after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it _______, he is unhappy. But he is two and a half and I am forty three. It’s taken me this long to understand that the _______ will never make me happy for long.

The_______you have the cookie it starts to fall to pieces or you start to ________about it crumbling (弄碎) or about someone trying to take it away from you. You know, you have to________a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be________that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it ________ you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ________ the cookie is not what life is about.”

My patient laughs and says________has changed him. For the first time he is________. No matter if his________is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. “Two years ago, cancer________me, ‘What is really important?’ Well, life is important. Live any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to________with the cookie: it has to do with being ________.”

1.A. Happiness　　 B. Success　　 C. Business　　 D. Love

2.A. normal　　 B. common　　 C. worthless　　 D. useless

3.A. increasing　　 B. changing　　 C. decreasing　　 D. recovering

4.A. one　　 B. a　　 C. no　　 D. other

5.A. shaking　　 B. nodding　　 C. knocking　　 D. raising

6.A. grow　　 B. learn　　 C. live　　 D. work

7.A. burns　　 B. breaks　　 C. shares　　 D. throws

8.A. disease　　 B. change　　 C. kid　　 D. cookie

9.A. hour　　 B. time　　 C. second　　 D. minute

10.A. think　　 B. come　　 C. worry　　 D. doubt

11.A. give up　　 B. add up　　 C. use up　　 D. call up

12.A. brave　　 B. curious　　 C. aware　　 D. sure

13.A. unless　　 B. because　　 C. though　　 D. until

14.A. Eating　　 B. Protecting　　 C. Having　　 D. Making

15.A. death　　 B. energy　　 C. life　　 D. cancer

16.A. happy　　 B. weak　　 C. upset　　 D. sad

17.A. result　　 B. fortunate　　 C. business　　 D. behavior

18.A. asked　　 B. left　　 C. deserted　　 D. recognized

19.A. deal　　 B. do　　 C. connect　　 D. link

20.A. alone　　 B. alive　　 C. ambitious　　 D. active

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

To our joy, the operation is___ success and the patient is now out of ___ danger.

A. /;/     B. a; the    C. /; the     D. a; /

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I sit outside of my daughter’s nursery school classroom, patiently waiting for her. When the door opens, my daughter runs out with a broad smile. She _______the excitement of school.

＂How was your _______?＂ I ask casually, while _______wanting to hear every single detail. ＂It was so good, Mommy!＂ my daughter replies. That’s it. That’s all I _______.

On the car ride home, I ask her a lot of questions. She answers me with a few words, but never goes into much _______. Usually she tells me that she wants to _______something else.

It has only been a few weeks, but I still find it so _______that my daughter has a whole morning in school without me. I _______ask the teachers for details and I am often provided with the same _______answers that my daughter gives.

Now, three mornings a week, I close her classroom door behind me and she has her own ________. I am given some ________of her days like apples glued onto paper trees and paint dirt under her fingernails.

I know she ________this privacy and the time to ________a new environment and meet different kids. ________, I can’t help but want to know about the details of her days. The ride home is the ________time that she will provide me with some ________about her morning.

When we pull into the driveway, I change the ________to something else. I am sure that my constant questions annoy her, so I try to ________them to the car ride after school.

I am ________that my daughter doesn’t quite know our driving route yet; she can’t tell that I sometimes take the long way home, ________we have those few extra minutes together.

1.A.learns B.adds C.misses D.enjoys

2.A.morning B.afternoon C.evening D.night

3.A.tiredly B.carelessly C.secretly D.suddenly

4.A.get B.need C.plan D.understand

5.A.study B.detail C.advice D.work

6.A.wait for B.prepare for C.worry about D.talk about

7.A.strange B.simple C.common D.practical

8.A.always B.just C.even D.never

9.A.satisfying B.funny C.short D.confusing

10.A.direction B.imagination C.influence D.experience

11.A.kindness B.excuses C.evidence D.challenges

12.A.promises B.achieves C.deserves D.ignores

13.A.remember B.explore C.choose D.consider

14.A.Then B.Again C.Also D.Still

15.A.only B.other C.second D.last

16.A.permission B.information C.devotion D.intention

17.A.interest B.rule C.conversation D.routine

18.A.take B.guide C.show D.limit

19.A.proud B.disappointed C.anxious D.grateful

20.A.although B.because C.so D.or

高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

The patient was warned ________ oily food after the operation..

A．to eat not                             B．eating not

C．not to eat                             D．not eating

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

The patient was warned   _______   oily food after the operation.

A. t o eat not            B. eating not         C. not to eat                D. not eating

高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Many of us learn valuable lessons from our patients. I was 36  to learn one early in my career as a nurse. I have 37  her name, but she has influenced the way I treat many other patients.

I was working the 3-11 pm shift at a small hospital at that time. The patient was a 42-year-old woman who had 38  a heart attack. She was expected to stay in  39  for about two weeks before being sent home. She was 40  that she could not see her three young children. We did not 41  children into a hospital in those days.

Every evening, we would 42  our children. I had one daughter and I loved her so much that I could not 43  not seeing her every day. The patient was getting 44  and we both knew it wouldn’t be long before she would be home 45  her little ones again.

About a week later, she 46  me to sit with her for a while. I held her hand and she told me she was 47  and thought she might not see her kids again. I tried to let her know that her 48  so far had been great. It was 10:30 pm, almost time for the 49  of my work. I told her I had to hand in my 50  and that I would come back to her room.

Then I 51  with my friends. It wasn’t until I had got home that I realized I had forgotten to keep my promise. “That’s OK,” I thought, “I will spend 52  time with her tomorrow.”

The next day I was told that she had 53  at midnight. She wanted company and I let her down. She left the world quietly. If I had stayed in her room, would she be home surrounded by her 54  right now? I would never know. What I do know is this: I have 55  every patient’s request since that night.

1.                A．fortunate       B．afraid          C．smart    D．brave

2.                A．replaced        B．spread          C．asked    D．forgotten

3.                A．treated         B．suffered        C．checked D．damaged

4.                A．town           B．school          C．room     D．hospital

5.                A．delighted       B．calm           C．upset    D．hopeful

6.                A．need          B．allow           C．pull D．force

7.                A．talk about       B．look after       C．play with D．deal with

8.                A．imagine         B．avoid           C．enjoy    D．practice

9.                A．fatter          B．better          C．warmer   D．older

10.               A．between       B．against         C．with D．on

11.               A．asked          B．paid           C．permitted D．ordered

12.               A．relaxed        B．scared         C．confident D．honest

13.               A．attitude        B．method        C．progress   D．idea

14.               A．development    B．period         C．change    D．end

15.               A．homework      B．report          C．design    D．drawing

16.               A．argued         B．arrived         C．boarded   D．left

17.               A．extra          B．useful          C．valuable   D．little

18.               A．died           B．disappeared     C．escaped   D．agreed

19.               A．kids           B．patients        C．nurses    D．doctors

20.               A．learned from    B．looked for       C．cared about    D．made up

高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

In my work there are a lot of business trips, and what I hate about my job is eating alone. It always makes me feel lonely to see others laughing and talking. So, it was a better choice for me to have room service.

However, after enjoying room service for days at a hotel in Houston, I needed to get out of my room. Though the restaurant opened at 7:00, I arrived at 6:30. The waiter at the front desk made a comment about my “being there really early”. I explained my dislike of eating alone in restaurants. He then seated me at a lovely table and asked me whether I would mind if he sat down with me for a while.

How delighted I was! He sat and chatted with me about his career dreams and the difficulty of being at work on nights, weekends and holidays. He said he hadn’t enough time to be with his family. After 20 minutes, he saw some customers at the front desk and excused himself. I noticed that he stopped in the kitchen for a moment before he went to the front desk.

Then one after another waiter came out of the kitchen and had a wonderful chat with me. That night, three other waiters, even the cook, had come out of the kitchen and sat with me!　　 About one hour later when I asked for my bill, all the people who had sat down with me came over in a big group to my table, and presented me with a red rose. And I was moved to tears! What had begun as a lonely night ended up as a beautiful experience.

1.The author asked for room service because _______.

A. he wanted to save time in this way

B. he didn’t like to eat with other people around

C. he didn’t wanted to be recognized by the waiters

D. seeing people laughing and talking made him feel lonely

2.How did the waiter feel when he saw the author come in at 6:30?

A. Surprised　　　 　 B. Pleased.

C. Dissatisfied.　　 D. Angry.

3.From the third paragraph, we can learn that the waiter at the front desk ______.

A. knew how to attract more customers to his restaurant

B. found it not easy to balance his work and his family

C. was getting tired of his present job

D. had never had such a chance to talk about his worries

4.The author wants to tell us that ______.

A. people are actually all lonely in their own way

B. restaurants should put the need of customers first

C. the act of kindness by strangers can make you less lonely

D. restaurants are full of surprises for lonely people

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Anorexia nervosa (神经性厌食症) is an eating disorder that I struggled with for most of my middle school years and a part of my high school years.

At Riverview, ______ was usually a nightmare for me. As I ______ the dining hall, all the eyes would be fixed upon my bony figure. I would take my place at a table full of friends and ______ to enjoy a "normal" lunch. The ______ was that I would not always eat lunch, and that greatly ______ my friends. They would watch to make sure that I was eating properly, almost ______ food into my mouth.

And then, I transferred to Madison High School. I decided not to tell anyone at that school about my eating disorder since I had almost ______ by that time. Strangely, I stopped fearing lunch when I started at Madison. No one knew that I had an eating disorder, ______ they did not care what I ate. This ______ a huge amount of stress from my life. It was still hard for me to eat in front of others, which is ______ for an anorexic, but I was able to put some of my ______ aside.

I was thankful for the students at Riverview, but they knew me only as an anorexic. My friends cared about my health, but they ______ to care about me as a person. Truthfully, all I wanted was for them to ______ me and not to fix on my eating disorder.

The students at Madison took the time to know who I ______ was. They had no idea that I had been an anorexic, so that a particular label did not ______ their opinions of me. I was finally ______ for my talents and achievements, not my failures. I was honored as a good student. I was no longer afraid to show my true ________.

My days as an anorexic taught me many lessons that I would never _______. They taught me about life and how to be a better friend. I learned about the joy of ______ tasks such as eating lunch. I appreciated the people who helped me to see that there is more ______ life than having an eating disorder.

1.A. learning　　 B. exercise　　 C. lunchtime　　 D. homework

2.A. left　　 B. cleaned　　 C. crossed　　 D. entered

3.A. try　　 B. offer　　 C. remember　　 D. stop

4.A. purpose　　 B. attempt　　 C. problem　　 D. excuse

5.A. surprised　　 B. worried　　 C. puzzled　　 D. bored

6.A. allowing　　 B. forcing　　 C. providing　　 D. dropping

7.A. succeeded　　 B. lost　　 C. recovered　　 D. quit

8.A. but　　 B. unless　　 C. so　　 D. though

9.A. lifted　　 B. created　　 C. caused　　 D. developed

10.A. serious　　 B. unbelievable　　 C. relevant　　 D. common

11.A. fears　　 B. desires　　 C. beliefs　　 D. doubts

12.A. refused　　 B. failed　　 C. pretended　　 D. promised

13.A. select　　 B. forgive　　 C. love　　 D. affect

14.A. really　　 B. probably　　 C. eventually　　 D. merely

15.A. express　　 B. color　　 C. share　　 D. confirm

16.A. determined　　 B. identified　　 C. envied　　 D. recognized

17.A. responsibility　　 B. personality　　 C. appreciation　　 D. ambition

18.A. forget　　 B. review　　 C. skip　　 D. draw

19.A. tough　　 B. complex　　 C. specific　　 D. routine

20.A. during　　 B. to　　 C. of　　 D. through

高二英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析

My father and I were very close. I loved pleasing him, and he was always 21 of my success. If I 22 a spelling contest at school, he was on top of the 23. Later in life whenever I got a promotion, I’d call my father 24 and he’d rush out to tell all his 25. In 1970, when I was 26 as president of the Ford Motor Company, I don’t know 27 of us was more excited.

Like many native Italians, my parents were very open with their 28 and their love not only at home, but also in public. Most of my friends would 2 9 hug their fathers. But I hugged and kissed my dad at every 30—nothing could have felt more 31.

He was a(n) 32 man who was always trying new things. He was the first person in Allentown to buy a motorcycle. 33, my father and his motorcycle didn’t 34too well. He fell off it so often that he 35 it just a month after buying it. As a result, he never again 36 any vehicle with less than four wheels.

Because of that motorcycle, I wasn’t 37 to have a bicycle when I was growing up. Whenever I wanted to ride a bike, I had to 38 one from a friend. However, my father let me drive a car as soon as I 39sixteen.

My father and I loved and 40 each other. We were close to each other all the time.

高二英语完型填空简单题查看答案及解析

My father and I were very close. I loved pleasing him, and he was always proud of my success. If I won a spelling contest at school, he was on top of the world. Later in life whenever I got a promotion(升职), I’d call my father right away and he’d rush out to tell all his friends. In 1970, when I was named president of the Ford Motor Company, I don’t know which of us was more excited.

Like many native Italians, my parents were very open with their feelings and their loves not lonely at home, but also in public. Most of my friends would never hug their fathers. But I hugged and kissed my dad at every opportunity. Nothing could have felt more natural.

He was a curious man who was always trying new things. He was the first person in Allentown to buy a motorcycle. Unfortunately, my father and his motorcycle didn’t get along too well. He fell off it so often that he got rid of it just a month after buying it. As a result, he never again trusted any vehicle with less than four wheels.

Because of that motorcycle, I wasn’t allowed to have a bicycle when I was growing up. Whenever I wanted to ride a bike, I had to borrow one from a friend. On the other hand, my father let me drive a car as soon as I turned sixteen.

1.What nationality was my father?

A. American     B. Italian          C. Indian           D. Britain

2.My father didn’t allow me to ride a bicycle because ___ .

A. it was made out of his motorcycle.

B. It would cost him quite a lot of money.

C. It had less than four wheels.

D. He was afraid that people would laugh at him.

3.I hugged and kissed my father at every opportunity, ___ .

A. even though I hated to do so

B. because I was told to do so by my mother

C. as I was named president of the Ford Motor company

D. for I felt it quite natural to do so

4.What does the underlined word “ vehicle” probably mean?

A. bicycle     B. motorcycle

C. car     D. tool used to carry goods or passengers

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