I am a mother of three and have recently comp...

I am a mother of three and have recently completed my college degree. My teacher’s last 26  of the term was called “ Smile”. I am a very friendly person and always  27  at everyone. So I thought this would be very  28.

Soon after we were given the project, my  29  went out to McDonald’s. We were waiting to be  30, when all of a sudden everyone around us began to  31 , and even my husband did. There standing behind me were two homeless men  32 .

As I looked down at the short gentleman with 33  eyes, he said, “Good day.” The second man stood behind his friend. I  34  the second man was mentally challenged(智障) and the blue-eyed gentleman was his helper.

The young  35  at the counter asked him what they wanted.

He said, “Coffee is all, Miss.” Because that was all they could 36 .

I smiled and asked the young lady to give me two more breakfast meals on a 37  tray(托盘). I then said to the men, “ I did not do this for you. God is here  38  me to give you hope.”

When I joined my husband, he smiled at me, saying, “That is 39  God gave you to me, Honey, to give me hope.”

I returned to 40  with this story in hand. I 41  “my project” and the teacher read it. Then she looked up at me and said, “Can I  42  this with the class?”

I slowly  43  and she began to read and that was when I knew that we, as human beings, share this to help people and to be 44 .

In my own way I had  45  the people at McDonald’s, my husband, sons, teacher, and every person that shared the classroom on the last night I spent as a college student.

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I am a mother of three children and have recently completed my college degree. The last class I had to take was social study. The last project of the term was called “Smile”. The last class was asked to go out and smile at three people and document their reactions.

Soon after we were given the project, my husband, my youngest son, and I went out to McDonald’s one cold March morning. It was just our way of sharing special playtime with our son.

We were standing in line, waiting to be served, when all of a sudden everyone around us began to back way. I turned around and found there standing behind me were two poor homeless men with a horrible “dirty body” smell. The short gentleman, close to me, was “smiling”. His beautiful sky blue eyes were full of light as he searched for acceptance. The second man played with his hands uneasily as he stood behind his friend. I realized the second man was mentally challenged and the blue-eyed gentleman was his salvation (救赎). The short man just asked for a coffee because that was all they could afford.

I smiled and asked the young lady behind the counter to give me two more breakfast meals on a separate tray. I then walked around the corner to the men’s table. I put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the blue-eyed gentleman’s cold hand. He looked up at me with tears in his eyes and said “Thank you”.

I started to cry as I walked away to join my husband and son. When I sat down my husband smiled at me and said, “That’s why God gave you to me, Honey. To give me hope.”

On the last evening of class, I turned in “my project” and the instructor read it. Then she looked up at me and said, “Can I share this?” I slowly nodded as she got the attention of the class. She began to read and we all knew that we need to heal people and to be healed.

I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn: UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE. “LOVE PEOPLE AND USE THINGS---NOT LOVE THINGS AND USE PEOPLE.”

1. Why did the people around the author back away?

A. Because both men were poorly dressed and mentally ill.

B. Because the short gentleman was smiling to everyone around.

C. Because two homeless men were also waiting in line, with a bad smell.

D. Because the second man stood playing with his hands.

2.After the author handed the meals to the homeless men, she _________.

A. talked with them for a while.        B. went back to her husband and son

C. turned in her project               D. regretted and cried

3. What kind of woman do you think the author is?

A. Over-curious       B. Caring           C. Mature        D. Lovely

4. What does the author try to tell us with the last sentence?

A. Giving is a gesture of love, which people will understand and appreciate.

B. If you need help from others, you’d better present them with gifts.

C. If you want to get something from somebody, you should please him with gifts.

D. Don’t be greedy with money or ask people to do things for you.

5. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. The author’s husband was very proud of her.

B. What the author did to the men touched many people.

C. Poor as the homeless men were, they had their dignity.

D. The author felt we should know how to heal people.

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I am a single working mother and going to college for a better life for my three-year-old child and myself. I am taking a nurse course called “Urban Community（社区）”. We were asked to do a major project on problems in urban communities. I chose the topic “Homeless”.

Each day I would walk down the streets of the homeless and offer them something to drink and to eat. I know it’s tough to survive on the streets. Last night I ran into a group of 30 kids who were living on the streets in New York. My heart went out to them and I just wanted to cry. But I had to be strong.

I asked about their families and if they contacted them to let them know they were alive. Most of them said, “NO!” They all looked like a happy family and they took care of one another. I tried to persuade them to get help and to contact their families but they did not want to. I did not want to make them to do it as they had their own reasons.

All these kids were very respectful. None of them was high on drugs nor were they drinking. Some of them enjoyed reading and writing. Some of them enjoyed skateboarding, dancing and playing music.

One girl asked me if I could give her a hug and I did so. She started to cry and said, “Thank you for not treating us as freaks（怪人）like everyone else does. People don’t realize that we all have our own problems and some are worse than others.” She told me that her stepfather （继父） was extremely mean to her and her mother did not believe her. She ran away. Her street name was Little Mary.

They were good kids just trying to make ends meet. I told them that I didn’t have much to offer because I was a single mother just making ends meet. I had offered them sandwiches and drinks. They were so happy to have something to eat and told me that I couldn’t change the world but at least there was someone who really cared.

1.The author is _______.

A. a homeless mother with a three-year-old kid

B. a single mother who attends college in New York

C. a teacher who teaches the “Urban Community” course

D. a full-time housewife with a three-year-old kid

2.What does “My heart went out to them” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. My heart was taken away by them.

B. I wanted to hug them

C. I felt sympathy for them

D. I fell in love with them

3.What kind of feeling did the author show when she failed to persuade the children to contact their families?

A. Sorrow　 B. Anxiety　　 C. Anger　　 D. Understanding

4.Little Mary left home and became a wanderer because ________.

A. her stepfather didn’t want to live with her

B. her stepfather treated her so badly that she was injured

C. her mother treated her so badly that she felt hurt

D. her mother didn’t believe her and her stepfather treated her badly.

5.What’s the best title for this passage?

A. A Story of a Single Mother

B. Care for the Homeless Kids

C. An Urban Community

D. How to Survive on the Streets

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I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends. And they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an email. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I could choose, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination, I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face, Learn to be happy, and think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.

1.The best title of this passage probably is “________”.

A. Love your friends                        B. Live a real life

C. Don’t waste time                        D. Be a good mother and wife

2.How did the author form her view of life?

A. Through social experience.

B. By learning from her friends.

C. Through an unfortunate experience.

D. From her children and husband.

3.By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the author really means that people tend to ________.

A. make a living rather than live a real life

B. work rather than enjoy life

C. waste a lot in life

D. forget the most important lessons in life

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I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here's what I wanted to tell you today: get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love，and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure(休闲) but work. Pick up the phone. Send an e­mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives，our days，our hours，and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of living. I learned to live many years ago. Something really，really bad happened to me，something that changed my life. If I had my choice，it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what，today，seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey，not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and tried to give some of it back because I believed in it，completely and totally. And I tried to do that，in part，by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this：read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness，because if you do，you will live with joy and passion(激情) as it ought to be lived.

1.How did the author form her view of life?

A．Through social experience.        　　　　

B．By learning from her friends.

C．Through an unfortunate experience.    　　　　

D.　 From her children and husband.

2.By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of living.” in the fifth paragraph，the author really means that people tend to________.

A．make a living rather than live a real life　　

B．work rather than enjoy life

C．waste a lot in life　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

D．forget the most important lesson in life

3.What’s the author’s attitude toward work?

A．Do it well to serve others.　　　　　　　　　　　

B．Earn enough money to make life better.

C．Try your best to get higher position and pay.　

D．Don’t let it affect your real life.

4.It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A．the author is a success in personal life

B．the author doesn’t try her best to work well

C．the author spends all her time caring for her children

D．the author likes traveling very much

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I am the youngest of three children and have two older brothers. My family was always fortunate and we had a very _______ life in Shanghai. My _______ were focused on our education, but also on giving us more control over our own life so that we could move ahead _______. To use a car analogy (类比), I was the _______, but they were _______ in the passenger seat in case I needed support. So they didn’t _______ my homework but, whenever I had a question, I could _______ to them. I remember _______ my mom telling neighbors, “My daughter is very smart. She knows how to play _______.” The fact that my mother thought I was smart because I could play a sport, and not just because I was good at school work, was a huge ________. I grew up feeling ________ and had a “can do” attitude.

Shanghai is different from the rest of China as it has a more westernized environment. So, in the late 70s, when my family moved to San Francisco to ________ my grandparents, from a lifestyle point of view it was not much different. What was really ________ was my English. I love to ________ with people but I could ________ say in English, “How do you do?” “Thank you.” and “Don’t mention it.” When we arrived, my grandfather said, “Oh, Weili, living here is going to be wonderful ________ you don’t speak much of the language, because Americans are very friendly.” My parents taught us to be ________and when I went to school or the supermarket, I would say, “Thank you.” ________ the expected reply, “Don’t mention it,” ________ said, “You’re welcome.” So one day, I told my grandfather, “You were ________— people here always say I am welcome here.”

1.A.difficult B.comfortable C.busy D.sad

2.A.grandparents B.neighbors C.brothers D.parents

3.A.lightly B.slowly C.confidently D.cautiously

4.A.passenger B.owner C.conductor D.driver

5.A.sitting B.sleeping C.waiting D.resting

6.A.hand in B.help with C.learn from D.ask for

7.A.turn B.respond C.explain D.lie

8.A.stopping B.imagining C.hearing D.minding

9.A.basketball B.tricks C.roles D.music

10.A.achievement B.encouragement C.movement D.argument

11.A.burdened B.frightened C.valued D.excited

12.A.invite B.leave C.love D.join

13.A.confusing B.challenging C.tiring D.inspiring

14.A.quarrel B.live C.communicate D.compete

15.A.hardly B.firmly C.slowly D.only

16.A.even though B.in that C.in case D.ever since

17.A.careful B.patient C.polite D.modest

18.A.Instead of B.By means of C.In spite of D.due to

19.A.nobody B.somebody C.anybody D.everybody

20.A.wrong B.right C.nice D.funny

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（2010•江苏模拟）

I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I wanted to tell you today：Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger pay-check…

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, and something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this：Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.

1. It can be inferred from the passage that_____.

A. the author is a success in personal life

B. the author didn’t try her best to work well

C. the author spent all her time caring for her children

D. the author likes traveling very much

2.How did the author form her view of life?

A. Through social experience.           B. By learning from her friends

C. Through an unfortunate experience     D. From her children and husband.

3. By the underlined sentence “ It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the author really means that people tend to_____.

A. make a living rather than live a real life

B. work rather than enjoy life

C. waste a lot in life

D. forget the most important lessons in life

4. What’s the author’s attitude towards work?

A. Do it well to serve others.

B. Earn enough money to make life better.

C. Try your best to get higher position and pay.

D. Don’t let it affect your real life.

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I have a painfully vivid memory of my first homecoming from college, in December 1983. After three whole months away, I was back home with my brand new opinions, attitudes and tastes. How could they watch such terrible television programs? I, the English Literature major with Shakespeare and Milton and James Joyce, could hardly bear to sleep under the roof of a house whose few bookshelves held thrillers and bound editions of the Reader’s Digest. I’m sure my family was glad to see the back of me when, at the end of the holiday, I packed up my books and headed back up to university in the north of England.

But the next year must have been even more painful to my parents: I didn’t show up at all. Now, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with young people spending a little time away from their families and with their friends.  It’s part of growing up, something you need to do if you are to become properly independent. However, if you’re not going to be home for the festival, you should at least have the decency to telephone and say you’re not coming.

In English we have an expression, “wet behind the ears.” A person who is wet behind the ears is so immature, that they don’t know how to dry the back of their head after a bath. Just before the following year’s holiday I fell ill, quite seriously so. I’m sure my own behavior contributed to my getting sick: staying out too late, not eating properly—perhaps you know someone like the person I was then. I lay in bed with a fever, feeling very sorry for myself.

I’m sure you can guess who came to my rescue. My long-suffering parents got in their car and sped up the motorway to rescue their son from the consequences of his own irresponsibility.

I hope I’m a better son now; if not, it’s getting a little late in the day if I want to change. I’ve worked in China for nearly 10 years and so I don’t get to see them as often as I like, but my parents are online all the time so we talk many times each week. And this Spring Festival I will be flying back to England for a visit.

I’m really looking forward to it.

1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A. The author liked reading thrillers and the Reading Digest.

B. The author couldn’t fall asleep in a house with few books.

C. The author thought his parents were happy to see him back.

D. The author didn’t seem to share the same tastes with his parents.

2.What can we learn from the second paragraph?

A. The next year the author’s parents were very happy to see him.

B. The author went to see his parents during the second year in college.

C. If you aren’t going to spent an important day with your family, inform them in advance.

D. To leave away from family is not a proper way if you want to gain some independency.

3. If you are a person who is wet behind the ears, you are ________.

A. old and experienced                  B. young and inexperienced

C. young and experienced                    D. mature and experienced

4.We can infer from the last two paragraphs that ________.

A. the author thinks he has become a good son

B. the author will be with his family the next Spring Festival

C. the author will not change himself to a better one because it is too late

D. the author keeps in touch with his parents through the Internet regularly

5.What would be the best title for the text?

A. Pleasant memories about Christmas

B. Horrible things happened in the past

C. Interesting memories about Christmas

D. Share with you some of my Ghosts of Christmas Past

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第四节完型填空：（共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）

Recent studies show that only one out of three people have strong and healthy self-confidence . That ____26 two out of every three people simply don’t know the ____27 they already have to be successful when it’s _____28 there in their hands!___29 if you want others to believe in yourself first. Rememer: “ No one can ask you feel inferior unless you _____30them.” A successful businessman says, “you can’t push anyone up a ladder____31 he knows he can climb himself.”

Many of us have an image____32 , the  image we have of ourselves. ___33one guy put it: “You can’t win horse race if you think you look_____34 on a horse.” To succeed, the first person you have to ____35 is yourself! So stop believing your own lies about yourself. Just ____36 your mind and you will change your life.

One of the most harmful weapons that can kill you success in life are the two little words: “____37”You know that people used to ____38 that if human being s traveled faster than 30 miles an hour it would ____39 our circulation of blood and kill us?Thank  goodness a few people didn’t believe that ___40 thinking, or we wouldn’t be riding in cars , buses, and flying in airplanes today. You’ll never know until you____41.

Roger Bannister was the first human being to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. But _____42 he did it, most people in the would didn’t think it was even _____43. Yet only weeks after Bannister did it , suddenly _____44 all over the world began running a mile in less  than 4 minutes! If we believe something can be done, we’ll _____45 do it.

26 .A. means     B. reflects   C. reads      D. explains

27. A. chance     B. strength  C. ability     D. reason

28. A. immediately B.properly   C. accurately D. right

29. A. Because   B. But      C. What     D. While

30. A.let        B. challenge  C. admit    D. make

31. A. if        B. except     C. until     D. unless

32. A.quiz      B.question    C. problem D. mystery

33. A. When    B. As        C. While   D. Since

34. A. curious   B. good –looking C.serious  D.funny

35. A. beat      B. knock      C. strike    D. defend

36. A. settle     B. bend       C. change   D. fix

37. A. I failed.   B. Not me.     C. Can I？  D. I can’t

38. A. imagine   B. think       C. suspect   D. doubt

39. A. start      B. help        C. stop     D. quit

40. A. silly      B. empty      C. reasonable D.terrible

41. A. judge     B. realize      C. understand D.try

42. A. after      B. before      C. since    D. because

43. A. likely     B.unbelievable  C. possible D. impossible

44. A.workers    B. runners     C. competitors D.players

45. A. simply    B. seldom     C. always  D. usually

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As a good mother to three children, I have tried never to let my passion stand in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows （誓言）mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure; it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It’s so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours and our minutes. It’s so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. If you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.

1.It can be inferred from the passage that______．

A．the author didn't try her best to work well

B．the author spent all her time caring for her children

C．the author is a success in personal life

D．the author likes traveling very much

2.How did the author form her view of life?

A．Through social experience．

B．By learning from her friends．

C．From her children and husband．

D．Through an unfortunate experience．

3.By the underlined sentence “It’s so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the author really means that people tend to.

A．work rather than enjoy life

B．make a living rather than live a real life

C．waste a lot in life

D．forget the most important lessons in life

4.What’s the author’s attitude toward work?

A．Don’t let it affect your real life．

B．Earn enough money to make life better．

C．Do it well to serve others．

D．Try your best to get a higher position and a pay raise.

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