I knew I could sing but I had to prove it. I don’t care what life gives me; I’ll it. It was my ninth time in front of a music executive to try to get a record deal. The first eight interviews had cold refusals.
When I found out the was at 6 a.m., I went a little crazy, for I had to get up very early in order to get to the audition (试唱) room on time. This audition was at the office of Sony Music’s president, John Grady. to sing songs for a man behind a desk, I was . It’s very hard to let someone whether you’re worthy of a commercial career in 10 minutes. But, in this business, it was something I had to do.
I grew up in a rural area. farming, there wasn’t much of a local economy. If one wanted new horizons, he had to learn a(n) that could take him out of there. That’s how I my singing. I took up singing at an early age. When I was 15, I made money from singing. That was a huge for me.
It was in the middle of my singing that John Grady didn’t appear at all. About halfway through, I saw him write something down. From where I stood, I could see him write the letter 'n’, by the letter 'o’. I guessed he didn’t me.
As we said good-bye, Grady gave me a . Though my hands were , I found the to read the note. It didn’t say, "No." It said, "Now." Just then, I knew that my of becoming a professional musician was starting to come true.
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解析试题分析：文章讲述作者为了从贫穷落后的地方走出来，从小开始学习唱歌，努力成为一个专业的歌手，虽然失败了8次，还是不懈努力，最后在索尼总裁的办公室试唱，并取得成功，向梦想迈进了一步。
【小题1】考查动词辨析：A. handle处理，B. operate操作，经营，C. encounter 偶遇，邂逅，D. recall回想，从前面的句子：I don’t care what life gives me;可知我不在乎生活给我什么，我会处理它们，选A
【小题2】考查动词辨析：A. recognizing认出，识别，B. accessing评价，评估，C. appearing似乎，D. Approaching靠近，这是我第九次站在音乐主管前面试图得到一个录音的机会。选C
【小题3】考查动词短语辨析：A. resulted from源于，B. ended with以…结束，C. turned down拒绝，D. made up组成，化妆，合好，前面八次都是以冷淡的拒绝结束，选B
【小题4】考查名词辨析：A. appointment约会，任命，B. information信息，C. reply回答，D. competition竞争，当我知道约会是6点，我要发疯了，选A
【小题5】考查形容词辨析：A. particular 特别的，B. simple简单的，C. regretful 后悔的，D. amusing令人高兴的，这次特殊的试唱是在索尼总裁的办公室。选A
【小题6】考查动词辨析：A. Permitting允许，B. Failing失败，C. Welcoming欢迎，D. Waiting等待，等待为桌子后面的这个人唱歌，我很紧张，选D
【小题7】考查形容词辨析：A. excited令人兴奋的，B. nervous紧张的，C. hopeful有希望的，D. helpless无助的，从下文的：It’s very hard to let someone 38 whether you’re worthy of a commercial career in 10 minutes.可知作者很紧张，选B
【小题8】考查动词辨析：A. finish完成，B. judge判断，C. solve解决，D. persuade说服，你很难在10分钟内让一个人判断你是否值得这个职业，选B
【小题9】考查短语辨析：A. Apart from除了，B. Free from免于，摆脱，C. Absent from缺席，D. Far from远非，我正在农村长大，除了农业，没有什么当地的经济。选A
【小题10】考查名词辨析：A. experience经历，经验，B. profession专业，C. skill 技能，D. trick技巧，如果一个人有新的视野，他需要学习新的技能将他带出来，选C
【小题11】考查动词辨析：A. viewed观看，B. questioned询问，C. required要求，D. practiced练习，这就是我看待唱歌的方式，选A
【小题12】考查名词辨析： A. progress进步，B. process过程，C. stop 停止，D. step踱步，步骤，我15岁的时候，通过唱歌挣了钱，这对我是一大步。选D
【小题13】考查形容词辨析：A. interested感兴趣的，B. embarrassed尴尬的，C. amazed惊讶的，D. puzzled困惑的，在我唱歌的中间，John Grady似乎不感兴趣，选A
【小题14】考查副词辨析： A. angrily生气地，B. clearly清楚地，C. straightly径直地，D. hardly几乎不，从我站的地方，我可以清楚的看见他写的字母“n”，选B
【小题15】考查动词辨析： A. proved证明，B. supported支持，C. hidden躲藏，D. followed跟踪，跟随，接下来写了“o”，选D
【小题16】考查动词辨析：A. appreciate欣赏，B. understand理解，C. trust信任，D. refuse拒绝，我猜想他不欣赏我，选A
【小题17】考查名词辨析：A. record记录，B. note注意，便条，C. chance机会，D. promise答应，从下文的：I found the 49 to read the note. It didn’t say, "No."可知我们再见的时候，Grady给了我一个便条。选B
【小题18】考查动词辨析： A. waving挥手，B. removing清楚， C. shaking摇晃，颤抖，D. Moving移动，虽然我的手在颤抖，选C
【小题19】考查名词辨析：A. courage勇气，B. patience练习，C. imagination想象，D. determination决心，我找到勇气读这个便条。选A
【小题20】考查名词辨析： A. plan计划，B. dream梦想，C. preference偏爱，D. tendency趋势，我知道我成为专业歌手的梦想要实现了。选B
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Have you ever gone hungry? I did after a day of hard work. When I woke next morning, I was dying of ___. I seemed to have a hole instead of a ___. I dressed quickly and hurried down to the dinning-room. It was a big room with six tall windows and the ugliest wallpaper I had ever seen! __, I had been told the hotel was not beautiful but that you were better ____ there than in any other hotel; and that was ___ I wanted just then.
The waiter came hurrying up. Before I came downstairs I had prepared carefully for what I must . I had looked three times in my dictionary to make sure ____the English for “breakfast”. I had tried to get the right and I had stood in the front of a mirror and twisted my mouth until it ached.
The waiter asked me I could not understand, but I spoke only my one prepared word “breakfast”. He looked at me in a way. So I repeated it. Still he did not understand. It was that English people didn’t understand their language. The waiter his head and went away, but he came back in a minute and brought a tray with tea, bread and butter--- enough to feed a small army--- and went away. But I was hungry, and I left . When the waiter came back I thought his face showed a little , but you can never what a waiter’s face really shows. In another minute he brought___ tray with some bacon and some eggs. He__ have misunderstood me, but I thought it was no use explaining to people who don’t understand their own language , so I just set to work on the bacon and eggs, wondering whether I could possibly clear that plate.
Well, I finished the bacon and eggs. I got up and made my way back slowly - at least five pounds . I never believed until then that any meal could me, but on that day I met my Waterloo(滑铁卢).
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I noticed a man coming toward me carrying two light bags. He stopped right next to me to his family.
First he moved to his youngest son as he laid down his bags. They gave each other a long, loving hug. they separated, I heard the father say, “It’s so good to see you, son. I missed you so much!” His son smiled somewhat shyly and replied softly, “Me, too, Dad!”
Then the man stood up, gazed in the of his oldest son and said, “You’re already quite the young man. I love you very much, Zach!” They too hugged a most loving, tender hug.
After several , he turned to his wife and declared, “I’ve saved the best for last!” and to give his wife the longest, most passionate kiss I remember seeing.
For an instant they me of newlyweds(新婚夫妇), but I knew by the age of their kids that they couldn’t possibly be. I puzzled about it for a moment and gathered my courage to ask, “Wow! How long have you been married?”
“Almost twelve years.” he replied, breaking his gaze from his lovely wife’s face. “Well then, how long have you been away?” I asked. The man turned and looked at me,. “Two whole days”
Two days? I was . By the intensity of the greeting, I had he’d been gone for at least several weeks — if not months. I know my expression me. Hoping to stop our conversation politely and continue with my for my friend, I said almost immediately, “I hope my is still that passionate after twelve years!”
The man suddenly smiling. He looked me straight in the eye, and with power that burned right into my soul, he told me something that left me a person. He told me, “Don’t , friend …decide!” Then with wonderful smile, he and his family turned and left together.
I was still watching that special family walk just out of sight when my friend to me and asked, “What are you looking at?” Without , and with a curious sense of certainty, I replied, “ My future!”
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
There was once a boy who was very rich and clever but nothing could make him feel happy. He had almost everything a boy could ever want, so he was only ____ in the rarest objects. One day his parents bought him a very strange _____ .When the boy went to see his reflection (映像) in it, he looked very ____. He tried smiling, ____ his reflection continued with its sad expression.
____ , the boy went off to buy sweets and lots of toys. He came home as happy as he could be, but he _____ looked sad in that mirror.
“What a(n) _____ mirror! It’s the first time I’ve seen a mirror that didn’t _____ properly!”
That afternoon he went out to buy some toys and on his way he saw a little girl who was ______.The boy went over to see what had____ to her. The little girl said that she couldn’t find her parents.
Together the two children set off _____ them. As the little girl wouldn’t stop crying, the boy spent all of his money buying her sweets to _____ her up. After much walking, they _____ her parents who were looking for her, very worried.
Then the boy said ____ to the family. When seeing the time, he ____ to head for home, without toys and without____. In his room, to his great surprise, he found a(n) ______ face in the mirror. And so he understood the ____ of that mirror. The mirror could only reflect the _____ feelings of its owner. He felt really happy at having _____ that little girl.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
When Joe was about to start school, all signs pointed to success. Yet things turned out to be quite . The fourth grade even found him at the of the class. Joe struggled day and night, but it did not until one stormy afternoon.
On that afternoon, the math teacher started to introduce difficult concepts, dark clouds covered the sky, and the storm set in. Hard though she tried to make the kid , the thunder won the battle for their attention. No one the concepts, except for Joe. He understood them and answered all the questions correctly. The teacher patted him on the back, and told him to go around to the others and explain how he had managed it. by his newfound success, Joe moved quickly throughout the room. Soon math time was followed by the time for . All children naturally drew pictures on such a day. Except for Joe.
Since then, Joe started . Though he never made it to the top, his math teacher was always and curious about the change: Why had that stormy day changed Joe? On the day Joe graduated, he presented the teacher with his most possession—the picture of a bright yellow sun. On the picture Joe had written: This is the day I my brightness.
It is easy to overlook the role that your body plays in influencing your mood(情绪). When you are , you may find yourself blaming work pressures or an unknown future. However, it could just be that you've been sitting behind your desk too long.
One way to improve your mood is . Psychologically, it provides you with a break from the stresses in your life. Also, in the process, you may aim for goals, like a new personal running record or a better body shape. The achievement of a particular goal makes you feel good and contributes to your . That is why exercise has been shown to your self-respect.
You do not have to train yourself to feel the psychological benefits of exercise. What really matters is , not intensity(强度) of your exercise. You can try walking for 30 minutes five times per week or simply gardening on weekends.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
“Look，it's Baldy！”A boy shouted in my direction across the playground.Even though I was used to regular insults(侮辱)because of the____on my head，it was____ horrible to hear.I sighed as I headed back to the class.
When I was just 20 months old，I suffered serious____ after a bowl full of hot oil fell on my head.I was____ to hospital and had to stay there for weeks，while the doctors___ to save my life.“Holly's very____to be alive，” they told Mum and Dad.“But she'll be____ with scars on her head，and of course her hair won't grow there.”
As a child，I cared much about my scars ，so I____wore a scarf to cover them up when I left home.____I didn't，people would call me horrible names like Baldy.Although my friends were always comforting me， they never____understood how it felt.
Then through the hospital I was____ to a children's burns camp，where children like me can get any help.There，I____14－year－old Stephanie，whose burns are a lot more serious than mine.But she is so __ that she never lets anyone put her down.“You shouldn't____what people say about what you look like because we're not different from anyone else，Holly，”she____me.“And you don't need to wear a scarf because you look great ____ it！”For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who'd been through something____.So weeks later，at my 13th birthday party，____by her bravery，I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars.It felt amazing not having to____away behind my scarf.
Now，I am____ of what I look like and much happier，because I have realized it is your personality(个性)that decides who you truly are.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Travis laughed as he tore at the wrapping (包装) paper on his birthday present. He was so ! Finally, he would have the coolest pair of name-brand basketball shoes.
All the guys on his team were wearing the name-brand shoes of a popular basketball , Chuck Hart. Hart was criticized for his poor sportsmanship and infamous he was a great player. In fact, Travis wasn’t thinking about Hart’s behavior; he had only expected to see Hart’s on the side of the box. He realized that something was as he tore away the last piece of paper. Not Hart’s. The new shoes were the name-brand of another player, Robert Ryann, who was for his amazing work in the community.
Travis’s hands ; his heart stopped. It wasn’t that the Ryann shoes weren’t nice, but what would his friends think?
They were the wrong shoes and Travis would be by the other players. When he looked up into his dad’s eyes, however, Travis knew he tell him. “Thanks, Dad. I was really hoping for shoes,” Travis said as he pulled the shoes out of the box.
Next morning his dad drove him to school. When they in front of his destination, Travis slowly opened the car door. Just then, his dad stopped him.
“Hey, Travis, wait a minute…” his dad said “Travis, I know those aren’t the shoes you had hoped for, but I saw the names of the two guys and made a(n) . The guy whose name is on those shoes,” he said, pointing down at Travis’s feet, “is someone I . Do you know how often Ryann has found himself in ? “
“ No,” Travis said.
“ Never. He’s never talked back to his coach or started a fight, and he’s a team player. You could have acted like a(n) when you didn’t get the shoes you wanted, Travis, you were polite and made the best of it. You have honor, like the guy whose name is on these shoes. I am hoping that someday, your will be on the coolest pair of shoes I’ll ever see.”
When Travis looked down at his feet, he saw the shoes . His dad had used his mind and heart to give the son a thoughtful .
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, impolite waiter, rude boss, or an insensitive employee your day?
One day I was in a taxi and we headed the airport. We were driving in the right lane suddenly a black car drove out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, slide sideways, and at the very last moment our car stopped and narrowly the other car by just inches！The driver of the other car looked around and started at us.
My taxi driver just and waved at the guy. And I mean he was really . So I asked, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital！”This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call “The Law of the Garbage Truck”.
He that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of , full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage up, they need a place to dump (倒) it and sometimes they’ll dump it on . Don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.
Believe me. You’ll be more . Don’t take their garbage and it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets, Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with . The mark of your success is how quickly you can refocus on what’s in your life. Roy Baumeister, a psychology researcher from Florida State University, found in his extensive research that you bad things more often than good things in your life. You store the bad memories rather easily, and you them more frequently.
So...Love the people who treat you right. Ignore the ones who don’t. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you it!
When you follow “The Law of the Garbage Truck”, you take back control of your life. You make room for the good by go of the bad. Have a Garbage Free Day！Have a marvelous, garbage-free day！The seeds you plant today the harvest you reap tomorrow.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
While I lived in Ireland, part of my college course was to work in the area of children with special needs. I was selected to ____ in a school with children with ____. I had numerous rooms to ____ from. I chose to work in the ____ that was apart from the school. Children ___ 5—16 with severe disabilities. They had no speech and most were in a wheelchair.
The ____ of that room asked if I would work with one girl who had ____ of epilepsy(癫痫症), autism(自闭症), and other brain development disabilities. She was 15 years old. At her school they would think that just being able to zip up(拉上拉链) her own coat was a(n) ____ . I saw more in her. She always wanted to put ____ through the shaped blocks to make a necklace. For the 5 years she was in the school, the teachers always tried to ____ her do all the work. I knew this smart girl could do ____ and so I encouraged her. She had a thumb which she could not move but I ____ her so much to try. She got very ____ most days and sometimes I wanted to quit. ____ after a week, this young girl was able to do ____ she had been wanting to do by herself for so many years. Her teacher cried when she saw what this ____ was able to do with just some encouragement.
People with disabilities should never be ____ that they can't. We are all human and with just some encouragement we can do it. The ____ on that girl's face when she was able to do it herself ___ the world to me. I wish everyone would encourage people rather than telling them they can't ____ doing it for them.
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