I was fifteen when I walked into Black Stump Bookstore in Liverpool. As I was looking at on the shelves, the shop owner asked if I’d like . I needed to start for college, so I said yes. I worked after school and during summers for the lowest wages, and the job helped my first year of college. I had worked in many other jobs: I made coffee in the Students’ Union during college, I was a hotel maid and I make maps for the Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most .
One day a woman asked me for books on women’s diseases. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost everything we had at that time and found other books we could order. She left the store less . I’ve always remembered the felt in having helped her.
Years later, as a in London, I heard about a black child born his fingers connected. His family could not a corrective operation, and the boy lived in hiding his hand in pocket. I my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the for free. I visited the boy in the room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his hand and say “ Thank you.” I felt a sense of .
In the past I was at Black Stump Bookstore, I always sensed I was working for the customers, not the store. Today, it’s the same. BBC News pays my , but I feel as if I work for the viewers, helping them understand the world.
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解析试题分析：文章介绍作者在上大学期间做过很多兼职工作，为自己付学费，期间他努力工作，让顾客满意，自己也很自豪，工作后，做为电视台的记者，作者总是将观众放在心上。
【小题1】考查名词：A. maps 地图，B. titles标题，C. articles文章，D. reports报告，因为是书店，所以书架上是书名，选B
【小题2】考查名词：A. a book一本书，B. any help任何帮助，C. any suggestions 任何建议，D. a job 一个工作，从后面的句子;and the job helped 24 my first year of college.可知店主问作者需不需要一个工作为大学做准备，选D
【小题3】考查动词： A. planning 计划，B. leaving离开，C. preparing准备，D. studying学习，从下文：I worked after school and during summers for the lowest wages, and the job helped 24 my first year of college.可知作者是为上大学做好准备，选C
【小题4】考查动词短语：A. pay for付钱，B. fit for适合，C. run for参加竞选， D. enter for参加，工作为我的第一年的大学做好准备，选A
【小题5】考查连词：A. so 因此，B. never 从不，C. even甚至，D. still仍然，我做过旅店服务员，甚至做过地图，选C
【小题6】考查形容词：A boring令人厌烦的， B. exciting令人兴奋的，C. satisfying令人满意的， D. disappointing 令人失望的，根据下文，尤其是 I felt in having helped her 这句话可以猜出答案。可知作者对卖书的工作最感兴趣，选C
【小题7】考查介词短语：A in need需要，B. in all总共，C in order秩序井然，D. in store储存，根据下文和本句中的副词 almost(我几乎把书店里储存的所有的书都给她看了)可得出答案。选D
【小题8】考查形容词：A. worried担心的，B. surprised惊讶的，C. doubted怀疑的，D puzzled困惑的，那位妇女走时是带着“不太担心的”心情离开的。选A
【小题9】考查名词：A. pride骄傲，B. failure失败，C. regret遗憾，后悔，D. wonder奇迹，从上文的叙述和下文的 I felt in having helped her 可知作者因帮助了这样一位妇女而感到很“自豪”。选A
【小题10】考查名词：A. doctor 医生，B. store owner 商店主人，C. bookseller书商，D. TV reporter电视台记者，根据下文的 NBC News 得出答案是电视台记者。选D
【小题11】考查介词短语：A. in在…里面，B. with和…一起，C. by 通过，D. for为了，我听说一个男孩天生手指就是相连的，这里是with复合结构，选B
【小题12】考查动词：A. pay付钱，B. offer 提供，C. afford负担，D. spend花费，因为是移民，因此判断他家里“付不起”矫正的手术费。选C
【小题13】考查名词：A. peace宁静，B. honor荣誉，C. horror 恐惧， D. danger危险，因为手是残疾，再根据后面“把手藏在口袋里”判断答案为“害怕”。选C
【小题14】考查动词：A. chose选择，B. forced 强迫，C. persuaded 说服，D. permitted允许，根据下文“我写的故事被播出了”可知我“说服”了老板让我写这个故事。选C
【小题15】考查名词：A. action行动，B. program 课程，C. treatment对待，D. operation手术，从上文提到“矫正手术”得出答案，选D
【小题16】考查动词：A. waiting 等待，B. recovery恢复，C. reading读，D. guest客人，手术后不久我就在康复室见到这个男孩，选B
【小题17】考查动词：A. repaired修理，B. connected连接，C. injured受伤，D. improved提高，从上文，手术后在医院康复期间，作者看望了那个小孩，他做的第一件事就是举起他那动手术“修复过”的手。选A
【小题18】考查名词：A. pleasure快乐，B. sadness悲伤，C. humor 幽默，D. responsibility责任，看到那个小孩举起他的手，我有一种“高兴”的感觉。选A
【小题19】考查连词：A. if 如果，B. though虽然，C. until 直到，D. while然而，从句子的前后意思可知表示转折关系。选D
【小题20】考查名词：A. prize奖品，B. salary 薪水，C. cost成本，D. bill账单，BBC新闻付我的工资，但是我觉得自己是为观众做事的。选B
考点：考查故事类完型填空
科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
I have a friend who had a stammer (口吃) in his childhood, but he dreamed of becoming a missionary(传教士). When he told his own desire to his friends and relatives, some of whom laughed at him, and some even held down his enthusiasm .
"I must change it." said the boy angrily, “I believe I can speak very , I will do!"
When it was possible, he would spend an hour to chickens. He viewed the chickens as living persons, himself to be the person in the speech.
"In the beginning, the chickens looked so , then they watched me curiously, putting down the food in the mouths and listening to my words. It seemed as if they had been by my powerful and effective language. Sometimes they seemed to be listening to me . Gradually, the effect of this practice became more and more and I had a better understanding of the exact of my stammer, so I found the ability to speak more."
"You may not know that my father was always tyrannical(专横的). He believed in the old saying: 'Young man should be more knowledgeable, but should not much.' During the whole childhood, I spoke or commented, he criticized me seriously, which my shy personality. I used to worry about being at, so I became a stammer. From then on, I kept in front of everyone because they didn't want to see my embarrassment. But later I found myself talking in front of chickens, stammers disappeared , therefore I regained my ."
Now, the previous boy is the best at speaking and one of the most missionaries. You can hardly imagine he used to have a serious language . So when you come across disadvantages, you should believe you can them by yourself.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Joshua, my son, is fifteen years old. He was born with Down Syndrome (唐氏综合症). In the last fifteen years. I have experienced many difficult and stories. However, right now I want to just stick to the topic of . When Joshua was born, they us not to “waste our time, energy or money". They claimed that our son would never accomplish anything. They told us he would never walk, talk or learn to use the toilet. , we were not about to accept the words. However, we weren’t really sure what to expect.
Therefore, we expected him to develop at his own pace, with a lot of help and encouragement, but only to develop little. We decided that we saw progress we could never give up. Very early on, we knew in our hearts that we had to have high expectations, but how high? We could not set goals for him that he could not ever possibly reach. , if we did not have high hopes, the chances would be very slim for him to work to his potential.
When Joshua was four and a half years old, his younger sister, CJ, was three and attended the same preschool in a younger class. The school an art contest and all the children in it presented pictures. The pictures were hung on the wall and the president of the local church, who was not personally with the children, was appointed to be the .
On the day of the contest, I made my through the crowded parents to see CJ’s picture, it was likely to be hung there, but Joshua's class pictures were not yet up and I didn’t think twice about seeing his picture leaving the building. You see, I had no expectation that Joshua would win; it was for me to know that he was able to draw a picture and have it with those of the other children.
Well, when I returned to the kids, you can image my when I discovered that Joshua was the winner from his class! Proud and excited, he told everyone, “I won the contest! I it! ”
CJ kept insisting that she had won too and it was certainly a feeling to know that Joshua had achieved something that his sister had not. After that I decided to keep my expectations . It seems that most people work to whatever expectations are set for them. Why should Joshua be any ?
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
In a land far away, once upon a time there was great poverty, and only the rich could manage without great problems．It is said that one day three of those rich men and their servants were together on a road when they came to a very poor village．
The first could not stand seeing the , so he took all the gold and jewels from his wagons （四轮载重马车） and shared them out among the villagers．He wished them all the best of luck, and he left．
The second rich man, seeing the worrying situation, stopped for a short time and then decided to give the all his food and drink, since he could see that money would be of little to them．He made sure that they each their fair share and would have enough food to last for some time．Then, he left．
The third rich man, on seeing such poverty, and went straight through the poverty-stricken village without stopping．The two other rich men saw all this from a distance and commented heatedly with each other on how the third rich man lacked sympathy．It was that they themselves had been there to offer help．
However, to their great surprise, three days later, they the third rich man, who was coming in the direction．He was still traveling quickly, but his wagons, instead of the gold and valuables they had been carrying, were now completely full of farming tools and bags of ．He was rushing back to help them out of poverty．
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
One day，some of the girls in our neighborhood started acting a bit strangely towards me．They talking to me．After a day or so of this，I finally what was going on．I'd said something to a（n） girl the night before that she didn't like．I'd had a few that night, and like everyone I sometimes say things that severer than I mean them to．
Anyway，it seemed that the girl had told many of her friends，and now they were all at me．They found a great to think of all the other supposed“crimes”I'd committed over the past year． they'd all really liked me before, suddenly they I was a really bad guy．
This was a difficult problem．I to get along well with these people and I liked them all．I didn't want them to me because of something stupid I'd said when I was drunk．It didn't much whether they or I was wrong．All I wanted was things to be to normal again．
So I wrote the popular girl a note saying：“I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings．I didn't mean to”．And that was it．The problem was solved． ．the girls who were angry with me now liked me than ever．They felt I'd done something in admitting I was wrong and apologizing．
Learn how and when to ．Often，the pride and stubbornness you hold onto by refusing to back down isn't worth the of a lasting argument．An apology can for healing a difficult situation．And often, people will think better of you for it．
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so that I decided to write an article about her.
I Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career. She and told me to come to her Studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of mind. I I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.
I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…?” I soon realized that Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The was almost unbearable. I struggled for days draft（草稿）after draft. Finally I put my manuscript（手稿）into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.
It didn’t take long. My manuscript . How stupid of me! I thought. How could I in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.
Five years later, I was moving to California. While my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in :
Ms Profit,
Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to your story soon.
Shocked, it took me a long time to . Fear of rejection cost me greatly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and the chance of having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of writing. Today, I have become a full-time writer. Looking back on this , I learned a very important lesson: You can’t to doubt yourself.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Sally jumped up the moment she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She asked, “How is my little boy?”
The surgeon said, “I’m ____. We did all we could, but your boy didn’t ____ it.”
Sally ____into the chair. The surgeon asked, “Would you like some time with your son before he was transported to the ____?” Sally nodded. While saying goodbye, she ran her fingers ____ through his thick curly hair. “Would you like a lock of his hair?” the surgeon asked. Sally nodded yes. The surgeon cut a few hairs, and handed them to Sally. The mother said, “It was Jimmy’s idea to ____ his body to the university for study. He said it might ____ somebody else. “I said no at first, ____ Jimmy said, ‘Mom, I won’t be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom.’”
“My Jimmy had a heart of ____, always thinking of someone else, always wanting to help others if he could.” she went on.
Sally walked out of the hospital. She put the bag with Jimmy’s ____ on the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was ____. It was even harder to enter the ____ house. She carried Jimmy’s belongings, and the lock of his hair to her son’s room. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room ____ where he had always kept them. She lay down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, ____ herself to sleep.
It was around midnight when Sally ____. Lying beside her on the bed was a letter. The letter said,
“Dear Mom,
I know you’re going to ____ me, and me too. I will always love you, Mom, even more ____ each passing day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to ____a little boy so you won’t be so lonely, that’s OK with me. He can have my room and old toys to play with.
Don’t be sad thinking about me. I don’t hurt any more. The cancer is all ____. I don’t have to stand that ____any more. The angels in Heaven are so tender. They say I’m a Special Angel! I love you, Mom.”
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
With the help of Gloria ,his wife ,Tom Peterson worked for many years to build a solid business selling television sets, stereo systems, and home appliances. Tom developed an excellent with their full satisfaction guarantee and friendly service. He was proud of his high percentage of repeat .
About five years ago, Tom was by the owners of a competing company, Stereo Super Stores. They wanted him to them out. The price was very attractive. Everything looked good. Before making his final Tom asked Gloria what she thought about the purchase. She told him that the numbers looked good it didn't feel to her. However, Tom was so self-confident and so convinced that this was a rare , he went ahead and made the . Within months he discovered that he had made a big . He had paid too much for a company. He tried as hard as he could to make it work out, but he couldn't turn things . He was forced into bankruptcy（破产）. He was about to lose everything, including his business.
Tom was embarrassed, but he is a survivor. He looked at his situation. He decided to admit his mistake and, rather than getting stuck in lawsuits(诉讼), he would focus his on saving and rebuilding his original business. He saw also that he had made a mistake by not listening to his , and that he needed to learn from this .He dealt with the crisis in a way that delighted people, who in turn respect for him. Old customers poured into his store. He and Gloria _to changes in retailing(零售) and have built an even better business than before.
In the business world, it is natural to gain and lose, of Peterson’s experience is an example. Only those who regard their mistakes as gifts and learn from them attract endless profits.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
A few weeks ago，our dog，which we had kept for more than ten years，had to be put down.First，a tumor on her stomach got worse，and she was very ____.Then，the pain in her back got so bad that sometimes she ___ lie down in the middle of a walk and couldn't take another ____.
When I first found out，I was very sad and cried a lot.She was more like a sister to me than a ___.But I was also angry at my stepfather，Steve，who told us the ___ a week after it happened.He ____ because he didn't want to worry us，and he didn't want me to get depressed (抑郁的)and fail my exams.I just thought she was ____ at the animals' hospital.
I think you know all the ____ that went through my head：She was my dog！Why didn't he tell us earlier？I didn't even get to say goodbye.
People in my family have a ____ of keeping things from me to protect me，such as only telling me that my aunt had cancer ____ she had already improved.All I could think was：Not again!
I ____ to my mum，and she said，“I know.I'm ____，too.”I opened my mouth to shout.And then she added，“I'm so angry with Steve that he had to ____ through all this on his own.”Hearing my mum's words，I shut up my mouth.I had been so ____ on myself.I hadn't thought about ____ Steve was going through.That dog was his baby.He'd had her for longer than he'd had us—and he had to make the decision to ____ her life，and then kept in silence for an entire ____.All my anger melted away，and all I felt was ____.
It makes me realize that we focus so much on ourselves that we ____ the pain of others.At that moment，my mum's words were an incredible ____ that I'll never forget.
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