On Mother’s Day, Trevor Wallace woke up early and hand-scrubbed(擦洗) a fountain. It wasn’t just any fountain, _________ it was one that had a special _________ to his family.
15 minutes away from Trevor’s campus site De Anza Community College where his beloved _________, Marilyn Rosenthal, had worked for decades. Her co-workers at the school _________ a large fountain in her honor with a plaque（匾）that says Heart’s Garden: In _________ of Marilyn Rosenthal.
The fountain was _________ to Trevor’s mom, Sarene, who was only 36 years old when her mom died. Although she _________ it, she didn’t have the opportunity to _________ it. As time went on, the fountain, which is hidden under trees, _________ disrepair.
Trevor called Sarene that day to __________ her a happy Mother’s Day and told her to expect a(n) __________. Then he drove to De Anza Community College with his __________, and two sponges（海绵）.
When he arrived at the fountain, it was covered with leaves and __________ with dirt. He started to scrub. As he cleaned, he __________ another problem: the fountain’s water was turned off. Without water, the site wouldn’t be __________. Therefore, Trevor purchased a bottle and was pouring water on an __________ fountain. Completing all these things, he took a before and after __________, and sent his mom two __________ emails.
The subject line of the first email was, “Gift One: Open the first!” It was the before photo of the fountain. The subject line of the second email __________, “Gift One: Part 2”. It was the after photo of the fountain. “When I opened the photos, I __________ into tears,” Sarene says. “He not only honored me, but also honored my mom.”
1.A. yet B. but C. and D. otherwise
2.A. gift B. significance C. history D. explanation
3.A. friend B. colleague C. grandmother D. mother
4.A. established B. gathered C. donated D. measured
5.A. memory B. place C. charge D. support
6.A. special B. delicate C. valueless D. private
7.A. cherished B. shared C. hid D. reserved
8.A. spread B. march C. play D. visit
9.A. turned in B. brought in C. looked into D. fell into
10.A. celebrate B. wish C. desire D. congratulate
11.A. email B. fountain C. card D. surprise
12.A. present B. fortune C. trick D. camera
13.A. provided B. caked C. decorated D. mixed
14.A. crashed into B. gave out C. met with D. came up with
15.A. shiny B. fragrant C. precise D. transparent
16.A. polished B. abandoned C. furnished D. transformed
17.A. look B. expression C. shot D. performance
18.A. practical B. separate C. reliable D. outstanding
19.A. read B. wrote C. looked D. directed
20.A. moved B. burst C. broke D. wept
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On Mother’s Day, Trevor Wallace woke up early and hand-scrubbed(擦洗) a fountain. It wasn’t just any fountain, _________ it was one that had a special _________ to his family.
15 minutes away from Trevor’s campus site De Anza Community College where his beloved _________, Marilyn Rosenthal, had worked for decades. Her co-workers at the school _________ a large fountain in her honor with a plaque（匾）that says Heart’s Garden: In _________ of Marilyn Rosenthal.
The fountain was _________ to Trevor’s mom, Sarene, who was only 36 years old when her mom died. Although she _________ it, she didn’t have the opportunity to _________ it. As time went on, the fountain, which is hidden under trees, _________ disrepair.
Trevor called Sarene that day to __________ her a happy Mother’s Day and told her to expect a(n) __________. Then he drove to De Anza Community College with his __________, and two sponges（海绵）.
When he arrived at the fountain, it was covered with leaves and __________ with dirt. He started to scrub. As he cleaned, he __________ another problem: the fountain’s water was turned off. Without water, the site wouldn’t be __________. Therefore, Trevor purchased a bottle and was pouring water on an __________ fountain. Completing all these things, he took a before and after __________, and sent his mom two __________ emails.
The subject line of the first email was, “Gift One: Open the first!” It was the before photo of the fountain. The subject line of the second email __________, “Gift One: Part 2”. It was the after photo of the fountain. “When I opened the photos, I __________ into tears,” Sarene says. “He not only honored me, but also honored my mom.”
1.A. yet B. but C. and D. otherwise
2.A. gift B. significance C. history D. explanation
3.A. friend B. colleague C. grandmother D. mother
4.A. established B. gathered C. donated D. measured
5.A. memory B. place C. charge D. support
6.A. special B. delicate C. valueless D. private
7.A. cherished B. shared C. hid D. reserved
8.A. spread B. march C. play D. visit
9.A. turned in B. brought in C. looked into D. fell into
10.A. celebrate B. wish C. desire D. congratulate
11.A. email B. fountain C. card D. surprise
12.A. present B. fortune C. trick D. camera
13.A. provided B. caked C. decorated D. mixed
14.A. crashed into B. gave out C. met with D. came up with
15.A. shiny B. fragrant C. precise D. transparent
16.A. polished B. abandoned C. furnished D. transformed
17.A. look B. expression C. shot D. performance
18.A. practical B. separate C. reliable D. outstanding
19.A. read B. wrote C. looked D. directed
20.A. moved B. burst C. broke D. wept
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One day in early December, we woke up to discover a heavy fall of snow. “Mom, can we go _______ after breakfast?” my eleven-year-old daughter Erica begged. I didn’t want to _______ her request, so we headed towards the only _______ in our town.
When we arrived, the hill was crowded with people. We found an open spot next to a thin man and his three-year-old son. The boy was already lying in the sled, _______ to be launched. “Come on, Daddy!” he called.
The man looked over at me. “Okay if we go _______?” he asked.
“Sure. Looks like your son is ready to go,” I said. With that, he gave the boy a huge _______, and off he flew! And the father ran after his son at full speed.
“He must be afraid that his son is going to _______ somebody,” I said to Erica. “We’d better be _______, too.”
Then we also skied down the hill at a great speed. As we returned to the top, I noticed that the man was _______ his son, who was still lying in the sled, back up to the summit. When we reached the top, the boy was ready to play again. Again, the father ________ him down the hill, and then pulled both the boy and the sled back up. The little boy was terribly spoilt by his father, I thought. ________ he was small, the child could pull his own sled up the hill once in a while. This ________ went on for more than an hour, but the man never ________ , and he was very happy instead. Finally, I could ________ it no longer. I called to him, “You have tremendous ________ !”
The man smiled and said, “He has cerebral palsy (脑瘫). He can’t walk. ”
I was dumbstruck (惊呆的). It had all seemed so happy, so ________ , that it never occurred to me that the child might be ________ . Although I didn’t know the man’s name, I told the ________ in my newspaper column. Either he or someone he knew must have recognized him, ________ shortly afterward, I received this letter:
Dear Mrs. Silverman,
The energy I expended on the hill that day is ________ compared to what my son does every day. To me, he is a true hero.
1.A.camping B.hiking C.shopping D.skiing
2.A.answer B.refuse C.allow D.accept
3.A.hill B.lake C.market D.gym
4.A.promising B.advising C.waiting D.warning
5.A.too B.second C.last D.first
6.A.wave B.ability C.push D.touch
7.A.look at B.run into C.come across D.call on
8.A.natural B.honest C.careful D.special
9.A.attracting B.following C.pulling D.forbidding
10.A.found B.chased C.drove D.noticed
11.A.As if B.Even though C.Now that D.Ever since
12.A.accident B.signal C.pattern D.adventure
13.A.doubted B.laughed C.tired D.cried
14.A.interrupt B.stand C.change D.demand
15.A.energy B.value C.skills D.attitude
16.A.fair B.frightening C.normal D.unlucky
17.A.homeless B.disabled C.technical D.creative
18.A.joke B.story C.meeting D.news
19.A.because B.unless C.if D.although
20.A.all B.everything C.something D.nothing
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Paul couldn’t sleep last night. He woke up early and sat up, and then he lay down again. He felt terrible. “I must be sick,” he thought. “but I must study for that test.”
He got up and looked for his history notebook. He finally found it under a pile of clothes on a chair. He went over his history notes, but he couldn’t remember any of the facts in the notes. “What shall I do?” he thought. He felt terrible.
Just then Paul’s telephone rang. He put down his notebook and picked up the telephone.
“Good morning,” Jack’s voice said, “You must be wrong about that test.”
“What do you mean?” Paul asked weakly.
“We’re not going to have the test today.” Jack said. “I wrote down the date in my notebook. The test will be next Wednesday; it isn’t today. How do you feel this morning?”
“Fine,” said Paul. “Just fine!” Suddenly he really felt fine.
1.Paul felt uneasy because he
A. was seriously ill. B. was too tired.
C. was worried about the coming test. D. couldn’t find his history notebook.
2.It seemed that Paul __________
A. was good at history. B. liked to study history.
C. lost interest in history. D. was ready for the history test.
3.What made Paul feel fine at once?
A. The telephone call
B. the coming test.
C. Jack’s notebook
D. The fact that the test was not to be given that day.
4.“How do you feel this morning?” From this question we can see Jack________
A. knew Paul. B. knew Paul very well.
C. wanted to help Paul with his history. D. would lend Paul his notebook..
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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。
Tina woke up early and immediately her thought turned to what happened yesterday. Her boss told her that she would be getting a _1.___(promote). He explained that her extraordinary enthusiasm__2._ tireless effort had made her just the type of person he needed.
Tina smiled__3.____(remember) his words and she felt proud of herself. She got up, smiled in the mirror and practically danced to the train station. __4.___the way people noticed her mood and smiled at __5.___. Some wished her a good day. At the tram everybody around her suddenly felt the urge__6.___(smile).
Strangers on the train started conversations with each other. Tina was___7.___ (surprise). Were all these people feeling her happiness? On her way to the office she_8.___ (see) herself in a store window. Her whole face was glowing(发光). ___9.___ (sudden) she realized that her smiling face might have been responsible for all the joy. This thought made Tina even__10.___(happy). She was ready to face the first day of her new position in the company and she brought with her the memory of the impact she had on all those “strangers on a train”.
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A 34-year-old mother has spoken of how she woke up thinking she was 15 years old and living in 1992.
Naomi Jacobs, from Manchester, was convinced she was still a teenager. In her mind, John Major was Prime Minister and George Bush Sr. was running the White House. She also showed how she screamed when a boy appeared and called her “Mum”. Mobile phones and e-mails were puzzling and Google, Facebook and YouTube sounded like made-up words, she said.
Ms. Jacobs, who had no memory of the years, was told by doctors that she had Transient Global Amnesia (TGA). She has now written a book about the experience which happened in 2008.
“I fell asleep in 1992 as a brave, very confident know-it-all-15-year-old, and woke up as a 32-year-old single mum living in a rented house,” Ms. Jacobs said. “The last thing I remember was falling asleep in my bed, dreaming about a boy in my class. When I woke up, I looked in the mirror and had the fright of my life when I saw an old woman with wrinkles staring back at me. Then a little boy appeared and started calling me Mum. That’s when I started to scream. I didn’t know who he was. I didn’t think he was much younger than I was, and I certainly didn’t remember giving birth to him. I began sobbing uncontrollably. I just wanted my mum. I couldn’t get my head around going to bed one night and waking up in a different century.”
TGA is a rare type of amnesia which can occur suddenly, affecting around three people per 100,000 each year. Fortunately, permanent memory loss is rare. Ms. Jacobs’ memory started to return after eight weeks.
Some people who often suffer from migraines (偏头痛) also appear to be more likely to have TGA. The cause of TGA is unknown. Some think that it may be caused by a temporary cut of blood flow to parts of the brain involved in memory.
1. When a little boy came to call her “Mum”, Naomi Jacobs was _____.
A. excited B. frightened C. worried D. embarrassed
2.What was the last thing Naomi Jacobs could remember?
A. She was a brave and confident girl.
B. She met an old woman with wrinkles.
C. George Bush Sr. was elected President.
D. She fell asleep dreaming of a boy in her class.
3.According to the text, TGA _____.
A. is quite common
B. is caused by brain injuries
C. results in permanent memory loss
D. causes people to lose part of their memory
4.What’s the main idea of the text?
A. Naomi Jacobs has a poor memory.
B. Naomi Jacobs gets an amazing career after TGA.
C. Naomi Jacobs wakes up with the memory of her youth.
D. Naomi Jacobs succeeds in overcoming the disease.
5.According to the passage, we know _______.
A. Ms. Jacobs’ memory returned to normal now
B. Ms. Jacobs often doesn’t remember things
C. Ms. Jacobs has not got married yet
D. Ms. Jacobs is very young now in deed
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A 34-year-old mother has spoken of how she woke up thinking she was 15 years old and living in 1992.
Naomi Jacobs, from Manchester, was convinced she was still a teenager. In her mind, John Major was Prime Minister and George Bush Sr. was running the White House. She also showed how she screamed when a boy appeared and called her “Mum”. Mobile phones and e-mails were puzzling and Google, Facebook and YouTube sounded like made-up words, she said.
Ms. Jacobs, who had no memory of the years, was told by doctors that she had Transient Global Amnesia (TGA). She has now written a book about the experience which happened in 2008.
“I fell asleep in 1992 as a brave, very confident know-it-all-15-year-old, and woke up as a 32-year-old single mum living in a rented house,” Ms. Jacobs said. “The last thing I remember was falling asleep in my bed, dreaming about a boy in my class. When I woke up, I looked in the mirror and had the fright of my life when I saw an old woman with wrinkles staring back at me. Then a little boy appeared and started calling me Mum. That’s when I started to scream. I didn’t know who he was. I didn’t think he was much younger than I was, and I certainly didn’t remember giving birth to him. I began sobbing uncontrollably. I just wanted my mum. I couldn’t get my head around going to bed one night and waking up in a different century.”
TGA is a rare type of amnesia which can occur suddenly, affecting around three people per 100,000 each year. Fortunately, permanent memory loss is rare. Ms. Jacobs’ memory started to return after eight weeks.
Some people who often suffer from migraines (偏头痛) also appear to be more likely to have TGA. The cause of TGA is unknown. Some think that it may be caused by a temporary cut of blood flow to parts of the brain involved in memory.
1.When a little boy came to call her “Mum”, Naomi Jacobs was _____.
A．excited B．frightened C．worried D．embarrassed
2.What was the last thing Naomi Jacobs could remember?
A．She was a brave and confident girl.
B．She met an old woman with wrinkles.
C．George Bush Sr. was elected President.
D．She fell asleep dreaming of a boy in her class.
3.According to the text, TGA _____.
A．is quite common B．is caused by brain injuries
C．results in permanent memory loss D．causes people to lose part of their memory
4.What’s the main idea of the text?
A. Naomi Jacobs has a poor memory.
B. Naomi Jacobs gets an amazing career after TGA.
C. Naomi Jacobs wakes up with the memory of her youth.
D. Naomi Jacobs succeeds in overcoming the disease.
5.According to the passage, we know _______.
A．Ms. Jacobs’ memory returned to normal now
B．Ms. Jacobs often doesn’t remember things
C．Ms. Jacobs has not got married yet
D．Ms. Jacobs is very young now in deed
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One day I was sleeping in my chair when I woke up to the sound of a car crash. I sat up and looked _______ out my window. Across the street, a car had just backed into a chain-link fence. The car must have been moving fast, _______it was in bad shape. The fence was bent out exactly the _______of the car’s back end.
I watched the driver get out of the car. After a few seconds of _______the damage, the man tried to put the fence back into the place. His first attempt failed and he tried a little harder. He grabbed its vertical support pole and pulled against it with his full _______. The pole suddenly _______ and the man fell hard onto the ground. The entire fence fell on top of him, and one of his shoes _______ and landed 10 feet away on the sidewalk.
I laughed out loud. The man's failure was _______my whole day. He climbed out from under the_______fence and went back to the apartment building.
That, I thought, would be the ________of it. The man was going to leave all the chaos behind for someone else to ________. However, the man__________a few minutes later with some tools. For the next hour, I ________out my window as he doggedly fixed the fence and even improved it. Now the fence would be extra secure, stronger than before.
This man was actually a hero and I was embarrassed by my ________judgments. Years later, I still look out my window at that fence almost every day. It makes me ________what else that man has improved, and how I can make myself more like him.
1.A.gradually B.especially C.immediately D.generally
2.A.until B.because C.if D.although
3.A.beginning B.direction C.center D.shape
4.A.assessing B.mentioning C.limiting D.avoiding
5.A.equipment B.sight C.wisdom D.weight
6.A.broke B.burnt C.lightened D.rose
7.A.moved on B.passed by C.flew off D.turned up
8.A.wasting B.brightening C.completing D.controlling
9.A.fallen B.hidden C.locked D.related
10.A.plan B.form C.cause D.end
11.A.give away B.clean up C.learn from D.refer to
12.A.quit B.hesitated C.approved D.appeared
13.A.worked B.counted C.watched D.guessed
14.A.unbalanced B.uncertain C.unfair D.unhurried
15.A.wonder B.observe C.explain D.challenge
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On a recent Wednesday morning, I woke up like a little kid on Christmas morning, filled with joy and excitement for the day ahead. The reason why I was so happy was that my 15-year-old daughter was coming home from overnight camp that day after being gone for four weeks.
That afternoon, as I watched her drop off the bus and run into my arms，my emotions took over and I started crying. As we hugged each other, I thought, “I'm never sending her back there again. This is just too much.” But who am I kidding? Not only is she planning on going back next year, she wants to go for eight weeks.
Sending my kid to a Wisconsin town five hours away and having no communication with her other than a few handwritten letters (no cell phones are allowed at camp) still freaks me out. But I have to say overnight camp was one of the best parenting decisions I’ve ever made.
It all started when my daughter was in middle school and going through the typical social problem that comes up around that age. She would come home crying so often because she felt constantly left out. Concerned about her unhappiness and lack of self-confidence, I felt like I had to do something. One day, it hit me: Overnight camp.
That first year we put her on the bus was terrifying. With her cell phone in a desk drawer at home, we said goodbye knowing we would have to wonder for 28 days how she really was.
Would she miss us so much that she'd cry every night? Would she be frightened? Would the girls be mean to her? We really had no idea what to expect, but we knew that if something was really wrong, we'd get a call. It turned out that that never happened, and the letters we got from her all shined with positivity. The changes I saw in my daughter’ s personal growth were immeasurable.
1.What does the underlined part “freaks me out" in Paragraph 3 mean?
A.cheers me up. B.gets me angry.
C.tires me out. D.makes me nervous.
2.What can we infer from Paragraph 4?
A.Parents were all concerned about their children.
B.The author's daughter had a tough time at school.
C.Overnight camp was really of great value for her daughter.
D.The author sent her daughter to overnight camp for compromise.
3.What does the author's daughter think of overnight camp?
A.It has ruined her life. B.It puts her in low spirits.
C.It has benefited her a lot. D.It leaves her with little personal time.
4.What is the theme of the text?
A.To recommend overnight camp. B.To share a story of the author.
C.To show the importance of education. D.To demonstrate her love for her daughter.
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He went to bed ____, and when he woke up he found he still had his shoes on.
| A．drinking | B．drunk | C．being drunk | D．having drunk |
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I felt like a good mother on that summer morning. I’d______up early, made a picnic lunch,______my three-and five-year-old daughters into the car, drove to my friend’s house, packed her and her______into the car, and drove an hour and a half to the shore where we________ our picnic cloth on the sands by 10 a.m.
Soon the girls began running. About 50 yards from us, a man, maybe______ his late 50s, was fishing. The girls stood next to him and watched with their mouths open______he cast the lines. He smiled at them. They all ran back to us except my three-year-old Drew, who,______ , just seated herself next to the white bucket where the man was______ planning to put the fish he caught.
However, suddenly a______came to my mind. Is it dangerous for Drew to stay there with the stranger? Good moms should also teach daughters that the world is dangerous. Then, I watched them like there was a hidden______in the lifeguard chair filming the man as America’s Most Wanted. Every few minutes, I looked to my five-year-old to make sure she hadn’t been______ out to sea, then back to Drew to make sure there was no______between her and the stranger.
When I looked at Drew again, she had started______with the man. She was probably telling him where we lived and how her father was away on______. He nodded. She kept talking. He nodded again, then they laughed.
A few seconds later, she ran back to us, with a toy fish in her hand. It must have been something______he used for bait( 饵). The three other girls were______, so they didn’t try to______how eager they were to have one.
Just when I was at a loss, there he was: the man, standing right next to us. He was holding three more toy fish. He handed them to each of the girls. By their______ , I realized that he was______ a warm-hearted man, meaning no harm at all.
“Thank you”, I said, realizing that yes, there is evil in this world…but there is also good, and______in strangers, and lessons for mothers to learn that only three-year-olds could teach them.
1.A. settled B. woken C. risen D. turned
2.A. combined B. loaded C. divided D. gathered
3.A. daughters B. sons C. nieces D. nephews
4.A. expanded B. covered C. spread D. increased
5.A. in B. on C. at D. of
6.A. while B. as C. though D. if
7.A. otherwise B. therefore C. instead D. besides
8.A. reasonably B. hardly C. merely D. probably
9.A. arguing B. warning C. greeting D. saying
10.A. recorder B. radio C. camera D. computer
11.A. swept B. left C. dropped D. worn
12.A. treatment B. contact C. agreement D. link
13.A. quarreling B. arguing C. debating D. chatting
14.A. vacation B. business C. leave D. show
15.A. what B. which C. that D. where
16.A. moved B. disappointed C. frightened D. interested
17.A. hide B. tell C. express D. explain
18.A. faces B. fingers C. arms D. tongues
19.A. usually B. specially C. actually D. finally
20.A. care B. devotion C. gratitude D. kindness
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