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A Faithful Father

My husband ,kissed me  goodbye ，stroked, the baby’s  cheek and then rushed out of the door ，into his busy day. With the cold of the morning fading, I fed my baby and it fell fast asleep. Usually I would place it in bed and quickly have the house somewhat in 36______ ,

This morning ，however, I stayed seated ,just 37_____,with the baby in my arms ,The thoughts  ran into 38______ of the mornings with my husband, a father rushing out of the door to meet the obligations of life. It was only a small jump to thoughts of my own 39______

My mother passed away when I was ten, and as I looked 40 ______I could see how much of a family man my dad was. He went to work every morning and 41______ to his family every evening. He 42______ food, clothing, warmth ，and protection. He was a faithful father.

Setting the baby down ,I dialed the 43 ______ number. I had just realized the 44 ______ of the ordinary—the daily life going on around us that we often took for granted, and that it needed to be 45______

“Hi ，Dad. ” I said, 46______ back tears.

“Hey, Bud- How are you? ” 47______ was in his voice.:

“ Fine, Fm just calling to say. ,, thank you. ” I got it out before my throat 48______ too much for me to speak.

"What for?”

— For getting up and going to work every morning of ray life. Now that I have my' own 49______ and I see my husband doing the same ，I just wanted to thank you for being 50______ ”

There was 51______ for a moment as my dad composed himself ，and with a small . .52______ in his voice he said, “You’re welcome, Bud. ”

I don’t  remember much of the rest of the call, 53______ that moment of revelation (显露） about my father, I will never forget. There are those who are known for their heroic 54 ______，and also those who are known for their fortunes and fame ，but it is the 55 ______everyday fathers who are the true heroes. I’m thankful that my father was one of them.

1.                A．use            B．line            C．order    D．fashion

2.                A．thinking        B．dreaming       C．imagining D．praying

3.                A．conversations    B．struggles        C．incidents  D．memories

4.                A．baby           B．husband        C．mother   D．father

5.                A．out            B．away           C．back D．around

6.                A．moved         B．returned        C．escaped  D．walked

7.                A．provided       B．collected        C．sought   D．bought

8.                A．popular        B．relative         C．regular   D．familiar

9.                A．difference      B．significance      C．balance   D．absence

10.               A．recognized      B．arranged       C．reduced   D．achieved

11.               A．sending        B．pushing        C．holding    D．putting

12.               A．Sympathy       B．Stress          C．Doubt D．Concern

13.               A．cleared        B．hurt           C．ached D．tightened

14.               A．child           B．duty           C．plan  D．career

15.               A．inspiring        B．faithful         C．considerate    D．admirable

16.               A．peace          B．calm           C．silence    D．rest

17.               A．tremble        B．hesitation       C．passion    D．sigh

18.               A．and           B．but            C．or    D．nor

19.               A．ideas          B．deeds          C．remarks   D．words

20.               A．outstanding     B．patient         C．ordinary   D．honest

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“And this is me kissing the Blarney Stone”, says Carrie, my seventeen-year-old daughter. She turns the pages of her new photo album, recounting her recent ten-day _______ abroad, and my mind wanders back…way back to when she was only five.

“Someday I’m going to Ireland”, she said, holding her Childcraft book in her lap. Her blue eyes _______ as she looked at the beautiful pictures. “Well, maybe you can!” I said. However, it was _______ for our family to pay for the luxury of traveling. I was working as a secretary. My husband Charlie had to close his _______ last year due to his poor health…

Ten years later, Carrie came home from school one day, hardly able to contain her _______, “Mama, you’ll never _______ where the class is going. To Ireland!” she smiled _______. “You’re kidding!” I said. “Ireland! Where you’ve always wanted to go!”

“The trip is _______ for year after next, and the $2,100 can be paid in installments (分期付款).” Then she added, “But that’s too much… isn’t it?” Her voice was _______ yet doubting. “Well,” I said slowly, “Daddy and I can’t help much; ________, you have two years to earn the money.” “You think so?” Carrie’s face lit up like a Christmas tree. “Well,” I ________, “maybe you could use your father’s bakery and sell baked goods.” Sell baked goods? We ________ at each other. Carrie was an excellent ________ ! This would work!

So the plan was ________. Carrie began working, making a variety of baked goods. She used dried apples, cooked, seasoned and spiced to perfection. Soon, however, fried apple-pies became the customer favorite. All ingredients were ________—real shortening (起酥油), real butter—and the crust (皮) was handmade and hand-rolled. Finally the pies were fried to a beautiful, golden brown! The finished product was an extremely pleasant treat, winning ________ from even the little old ladies in these hills who have been making dried-apple pies for decades. ________ began rolling in, and the Ireland fund grew, and well ________ the given time the trip abroad was paid in full…

Now I’m looking at her album as she proudly points out the ________ she visited: castles of Ireland, historic bridges and churches, cobblestone (鹅卵石) streets of Dublin… so much like those in her Childcraft book. My daughter will forever remember this dream come true, a dream that began in the heart of a five-year-old girl and was completely made ________ by the delicious apple pie!

1.A. training　　 B. journey　　 C. study　　 D. work

2.A. brightened　　 B. darkened　　 C. hardened　　 D. weakened

3.A. wise　　 B. wrong　　 C. difficult　　 D. pleasant

4.A. bookstore　　 B. bakery　　 C. agency　　 D. grocery

5.A. disappointment　　 B. surprise　　 C. sorrow　　 D. excitement

6.A. realize　　 B. understand　　 C. guess　　 D. forget

7.A. shyly　　 B. slightly　　 C. bitterly　　 D. broadly

8.A. delayed　　 B. planned　　 C. continued　　 D. made

9.A. sharp　　 B. hesitant　　 C. hopeful　　 D. firm

10.A. thus　　 B. even　　 C. also　　 D. still

11.A. suggested　　 B. insisted　　 C. wondered　　 D. disagreed

12.A. pointed　　 B. stared　　 C. shouted　　 D. laughed

13.A. secretary　　 B. traveler　　 C. cook　　 D. student

14.A. canceled　　 B. changed　　 C. discussed　　 D. laid

15.A. natural　　 B. delicious　　 C. clean　　 D. soft

16.A. praise　　 B. awards　　 C. trust　　 D. titles

17.A. Menus　　 B. Ideas　　 C. Orders　　 D. Questions

18.A. within　　 B. from　　 C. beyond　　 D. for

19.A. buildings　　 B. sites　　 C. cities　　 D. countries

20.A. necessary　　 B. important　　 C. popular　　 D. possible

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Only after the straight-talking repairman handed me the bill and waved goodbye did I finally acknowledge the painful truth: Our 20-year-old clothes dryer was not going to last.

I turned to my husband. “He says we’re throwing good money after bad,” I sighed. “I think he’s right.”

“When do you want to go shopping for a new one?” my husband asked.

I glanced out the window, admiring the sunlight dancing on the big-leaf maples（枫叶） in our backyard. Perfect drying weather. Suddenly, I recalled my mother hanging laundry on a clothesline during my childhood. My sister and I had played hide-and-seek among the sweet-smelling sheets waving in the wind.

I suddenly had a plan. After the wash cycle, we covered the maples with damp blue jeans, shirts, socks and towels. The only things that didn’t go outside were my underpants. And I persuaded my shameless husband to let his big boxer shorts(男式平角短裤) stay indoors, too.

There is a secret pleasure to hanging laundry outdoors. It is the perfect excuse to get up from the computer. While checking on the laundry in the backyard, I could commune(亲近) not only with cotton T-shirts, but also my cats. I could watch cautious deer run through the yard with their young, listen to nervous squirrels in trees and observe a family of wild turkeys by the road. I returned to my desk refreshed.

And, except for the sandpaper feel of sun-dried bath towels, the drying method was a complete success. When autumn came, I’d scan the horizon each day to evaluate the chances of sun-drying. One morning I saw rain clouds. I had a load of wet clothes in my arms and no place to put them.

I found my husband. Together we hung laundry throughout the house.

Then my husband gave me a hug and a smile. “I think it’s time to buy a dryer…” he said, “… like, today.”

“Good idea,” I said, just as the infamous Oregon rain started.

Our sun-dried laundry habit was finished for the season.

1. Why did the author want to try sun-drying?

a. Her husband insisted.

b. She wanted to cut expenses.

c. Their dryer wasn’t working.

d. She had good childhood memories of using a clothesline.

A. b c B. c d C. a c d D. b c d

2.What could the straight-talking repairman have said to the author?

A. “Continue to use it even if it is old.”

B. “You should have taken better care of your dryer.”

C. “You shouldn’t have wasted money on repairing your dryer.”

D. “Just buy a new dryer even if it’s very expensive.”

3. What was the biggest benefit that sun-drying brought to the author besides dry clothes?

A. She loves sun-dried bath towels.

B. She felt healthier and closer to nature.

C. She could bathe in the sunshine, too.

D. It gave her a break from her housework.

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?

A. The author has stopped sun-drying since autumn started.

B. The author later became fed up with the trouble of hanging up her clothes.

C. The author listened to weather reports every day when autumn came.

D. The author realized sun-drying was seasonal and thus had its disadvantages

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A few days ago we – that’s me and the husband – took a cab to the station. Chat with the driver fell to the wrong of cyclists, and the misunderstanding of the road rules. So far as the rules of the road go, there seems to be one basic principle: when you are driving a car you hate bikes, when you are riding a bike you hate cars (and I guess walkers hate everyone).

There is an obvious difference of viewpoint built in here. It wasn’t until I started to drive a car (almost 20years after I had first rode a bike) that I actually realized that you could not see a cyclist at night without lights. In fact I now want to shout at late night cyclists without lights(like motortists once did at me): “You’ll get killed, sunshine, I can’t see you.”

The problem is that cyclists do ride headlong into danger. It's not just not having lights. It’s biking on pavements (and so threatening to injure a load of innocent walkers in the process) and biking down one-way streets the wrong way.

I admit that I do bike the wrong way down a one-way street sometimes. My feeble(软弱无力) defense is that I try always to do it as if I know I was doing wrong. That is slowly, with an apologetic look on the face, and ready to get off at any minute. I can’t bear the guys(一伙人) (usually, but not always it is guys) who do it as if they owned the place, and at high speed.

So cyclists are not entirely innocent. But they are among the disadvantaged groups, because the bottom line is that a car or a lorry can kill a cyclist and not the other way around.

1.When did the writer realize the danger for late night cyclists without lights?

A. Not until she became a driver herself.

B. Not until she had driven a car for 20 years.

C. After she was shouted at by a motorist.

D. After she was once knocked down by a group of guys.

2.When the writer biked the wrong way down a one way street, she felt_________.

A. angry            B. guilty   C. innocent                    D. proud

3.Which group is most likely to face danger according to the writer?

A. walkers         B. passers-by     C. cyclists          D. motorists

4.What can we learn about the writer?

A. She often took a cab with her husband.

B. She has been a motorist for over 20 years.

C. She used to ride a bike without lights at night.

D. She often biked the wrong way down a one way street.

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As I wash dishes at the kitchen sink, my husband, Scott, paces behind me, annoyed. “Have you seen my keys?” he asks. In the past I would have turned off the tap and joined the hunt while trying to comfort my husband. But that only made him angrier. Now, I focus on the wet dish in my hands. I don’t turn around. I don’t say a word. I’m using a technique I learned from a dolphin trainer.

For a book I was writing about animal trainers’ school, I started spending my days watching professional trainers do the seemingly impossible: teaching dogs to dance on command and chimps to skateboard. Eventually it hit me that the same techniques might work on that stubborn but lovable species, the American husband. The central lesson I learned is that I should reward behaviour I like and ignore behaviour I don’t. After all, you don’t get a sea lion to balance a ball on the end of its nose by talking. The same goes for the American husband.

I began thanking Scott if he threw one dirty shirt into the laundry basket. If he threw in two, I’d kiss him. I was using what trainers call “approximations”, rewarding the small steps toward learning a whole new behaviour. With Scott the husband, I began to praise every small act every time: if he drove just a mile an hour slower, or was on time for anything.

I followed the students to Sea World San Diego, where a dolphin trainer introduced me to Least Reinforcing Scenario (L. R. S.). When a dolphin does something wrong, the trainer doesn’t respond in any way. The idea is that any response, positive or negative, fuels a behaviour. If a behaviour causes no response, it typically dies away. It was only a matter of time before he was again searching for his keys, at which point I said nothing and kept at what I was doing. It took a lot of discipline to maintain my calm, but results were immediate. I felt as if I should throw him a small fish.

1.What can we infer about the writer?

A. She treats her husband like animals.

B. She often quarrels with her husband.

C. She behaves differently to her husband.

D. She’s determined to learn from the dolphin.

2.How did the writer get the idea of treating her husband?

A. By rewarding her husband.

B. By writing a book on animals.

C. By watching professional training.

D. By focusing on washing the dishes.

3.What will happen if the trainer doesn’t respond to the dolphin’s mistake?

A. It will feel embarrassed.

B. It will forget the mistake.

C. It will remember its mistake.

D. It will repeat the wrong action.

4.What is the tone of the text?

A. Humorous.　　 B. Serious.　　 C. Aggressive.　　 D. Doubtful.

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I turned to the beggar-looking man ________ next to me, only________that he was my ex-husband.

A. seating, to find      B. being sitting, finding

C. to sit, finding D. seated, to find

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27. When he heard the news, his heart ______ very fast.

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— Goodbye! I’m glad ____ you.

— ____, too.

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— Goodbye! I'm glad ____ you.

— ____， too.

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After a number of mini-strokes, the likelihood of a patient ________ by a larger one is very high.

A.struck B.being struck

C.having struck D.to be struck

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