I grew up poor－living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still to have a dream.
My dream was . By the time I was sixteen, I had started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and anything that moved on the football field. I was also : My high school coach was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me to believe in myself. He me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular _ with Coach John changed my life forever.
A friend recommended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket-money for a new bike, new clothes and the of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.
When I told John, he was as as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” He said. “Your days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.” I stood before him with my head , trying to think of the to explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his in me.
“How much are you going to make at this job?” He asked. “3.5 dollars an hour,” I replied.
“Well,” he asked, “is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”
That simple question made for me the difference between something right now and having a . I devoted myself to sports that summer and the year I was chosen by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was a $20,000 contract. My baseball scholarship got me through university and in 1984 I signed with Denver Broncos for $1.7 million and bought my mother the house of her dreams.
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解析试题分析：文章讲述一位棒球运动员的故事，告诉我们追求梦想和面对现实之间的区别。
【小题1】考查形容词：A. happy快乐，B. polite礼貌，C. shy害羞，D. honest诚实，由上文plenty of love and attention 可以看出作者的生活是幸福的。选A
【小题2】考查动词：A. live生活，B. afford负担得起，C. make制作，D. need需要，此处可理解为“有能力拥有”。选B
【小题3】考查名词：A. athletics运动员，B. music音乐，C. business生意，D. money钱，由下文打棒球可知。athletics “体育;运动”。选A。
【小题4】考查动词： A. throw扔，B. play玩，比赛，C. pass通过，D. hit击打，本句意思是“我能投出每小时90 英里时速的快球，并能击中球场上的任何东西”。选D
【小题5】考查形容词：A. right正确的，B. popular 受欢迎的，C. lucky幸运的，D. wrong错误的，由下文可知，没有这位教练，我就不能实现梦想。所以作者认为自己是幸运的。选C。
【小题6】考查疑问词：A. how怎么，B. why 为什么，C. when什么D. whether是否，教练不但信任我，还教我怎么信任自己。选A。
【小题7】. 考查动词：A. gave 给，B. taught教，C. brought 买，D. asked问，他教会我拥有梦想和实现梦想的区别。选B。
【小题8】考查名词：A. accident事件，B. matter事情，麻烦，C. problem 问题，D. experience经验，经历，指与这位教练的一次特殊的经历。选D。
【小题9】考查名词：A. aim目标，B. idea主意，C. start开始，D. purpose目的，买房子要花费许多钱，需要一段时间的积蓄。作者想把这次暑假打工作为积蓄的开始。选C。
【小题10】考查动词：A. keep保持，B. end 结束，C. give 给，D. pick挑选，keep up 振作起来; end up 结束，终止; pick up 捡起。Give up放弃，指我不得不放弃夏季训练。选C。
【小题11】考查形容词：A. mad疯狂的，生气的，B. puzzled困惑的，C. frightened感到害怕的，D. shameful可耻的，教练对他要放弃夏季棒球训练感到生气。选A。
【小题12】考查动词：A. living生活，B. playing玩，打球，C. working工作，D. learning学习，本句意思:你打棒球的时间是有限的。选B。
【小题13】考查动词：A. moving移动，B. nodding点头，C. shaking摇晃，D. hanging悬挂，with one’s head hanging 是习惯用法，表示“低下头;垂着头”。选D。
【小题14】考查名词：A. answers回答，B. excuses借口，C. words话语，D. ways方法，words 表示“话语;言语”。 指我要想一些话来向他解释。选C。
【小题15】考查名词：A. sadness悲伤，B. regret遗憾，C. hopelessness无望，D. disappointment失望，作者认为因挣钱而面对教练对他的失望是值得的。选D。
【小题16】考查形容词：A. direct直接的，B. clear清楚的，C. straight直接的，D. bare秃的，make sth.clear“弄清楚”。这个简单的问题让我明白…，选B。
【小题17】考查动词：A. wanting想要，B. changing改变，C. dreaming梦想，D. living生活，指现在想要得到的东西和追求梦想的区别。选A。
【小题18】考查名词：A. wish希望，B. dream梦想，C. score得分，D. desire愿望，指现在想要得到的东西和追求梦想的区别。选B。
【小题19】考查介词：A. by通过，B. for 为了，C. over越过，D. within在…里面，这里指：在一年之内我被Pittsburgh Pirates选中，为这支球队打球。选D。
【小题20】考查动词：A. paid付钱，B. got得到，C. offered提供，D. presented呈现，递交，本句意思:球队给我提供了一份价值20 000 美元的合同。钱数后面有contract，不能用paid。选C。
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The following story took place long ago in Israel．One day when government officials were rebuilding barn(粮仓)，they found a mouse hole in a corner and used to force the mice inside the hole to come out．A while later they indeed saw mice running out，one after another．
Then，everyone thought that all the mice had ．But just as they were about to clean up，they saw two mice squeezing out at the of the hole．After some the mice finally got out． ，they did not run away immediately．Instead，one chased after the other．It seemed that one was trying to the tail of the other．
Everyone was ，so they stepped closer to take a look．They that one of the mice was blind，and the other one was trying to the blind mouse to bite on his tail so he could the blind one with him to escape．
After what happened，everyone was lost in thought．One serious Rome official said："I think the relationship between those two mice was that of emperor and ．" The others thought for a while and said：“That was why！”
A smart Israeli said："I think the relationship was husband and wife．"Again the others thought for a while，and all felt it made ；so they agreed．Therefore，the Israeli’s expression showed ．
A Chinese，who was accustomed to the firm tradition of to parents，said："I think their relationship was that of mother and ．"Once again the others thought for a while，and felt this was more reasonable．So they agreed yet another time．Therefore，the face of the Chinese professional modesty．
At that moment，one pureminded Samaritan looked at other people，and asked："Why did those two mice have to have a certain relationship？"
Suddenly，the atmosphere ．The group looked back at the Samaritan and remained speechless．The Rome official，the Israeli and the Chinese who had spoken earlier all lowered their heads in ．
In fact，the true love is not on benefit，friendship and loyalty or blood relationship．Instead，it is based on no relationship．
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Whenever we do something wrong, Jesus Christ sees it. He loves us and doesn’t say it. Perhaps he’s wondering how long we’ll keep our mind suffering. A little boy named Johnny was visiting his grandparents on their farm and he was given a slingshot(弹弓) to play with out in the woods. He for some time but he could never hit the target he had set for himself. Getting a little , he walked back to the farmhouse for dinner. As he was _ back, he saw Grandpa’s pet duck. Just out of , he let the slingshot fly , hitting it in the head ,and killed it. In a panic, he the dead duck in the woodpile, only to see his sister Sally be watching him. Sally had seen all this, but she said _ _ . After lunch that day Grandma said, “Sally, it’s your turn to wash the dishes.” But Sally said, “Grandma, Johnny told me he wanted to help in the kitchen.” And then she spoke _ to him, “Remember the duck？” So Johnny did the dishes. Later that day, Grandpa asked if wanted to go fishing, but Grandma said, “I’m sorry but I need Sally to help me make supper.” But Sally just smiled and said, “Well, that’s all right because Johnny told me he was too to help you. And she whispered again, “Remember the duck?” So Sally went fishing and Johnny to help make supper. After several days of doing both his and Sally’s, Johnny finally couldn’t it any longer. He came to his Grandma and told her that he had killed the duck .Grandma smiled and gave him a big __ . “Sweetheart, I know. You see, I was watering the flowers at the window I saw you shoot my duck with the slingshot, and I saw the whole thing. But because I love you, I you. I was just wondering how long you would let Sally _ of you.”
In reality, no matter how __ or how uncomfortable it is to admit our wrongdoing, we should always choose to it and work it through instead of running away from it. Hard as it is, it us and makes us who we are.
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I am a social worker. I wanted to tell everyone about my very dear friend who passed away a few months ago.
I met him many years ago while doing my internship （实习）in the county prison. He was __ a program he had designed to help prisoners with drug and alcohol problems. He was always new ways to bring hope and help to these men and their .
One of his favorite was the Toy Drive he would run every Christmas for the children of the prisoners. He did this for twenty years his sudden death. As last Christmas , I decided that this tradition had to be , for the children as well as the of my friend.
But the file where he kept the names of the people who had helped him over the years had gone . I had to start anew（重新）and with very little ! I started making phones calls, explaining about the project and my . I prayed every night that the event would, , be worthy of my friend.
To my great , individuals, churches and businesses began to come on board and, __ , I had enough toys to give to all the children of the prisoners with some left over for the local community !
When Christmas Eve finally arrived, I felt very happy, thinking I had done all I could do and reflecting on what a（n） it had been for me. I was bagging up the remaining toys if there was anyone left who might like them. Then my phone rang.
It was my daughter. She to explain about a woman she knew in Kentucky who had five children, one seriously ill, no husband, no heating in the home, no toys!
Ohh--how could we not?
My daughter and I drove all night, from New York to Kentucky, and those children woke up in a nice warm house with plenty of !
My friend’s of kindness lived on that year, reaching all the way to Kentucky!
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A few days ago, my sister Liz and I talked about Dad, and we decided to get him a little something for Father's Day. We talked about the times when we were up and how Mom and Dad used to play the ‘good cop, bad cop’ thing on us. Dad has been a person of few words since we were . He raised us more by than anything else. When he spoke, though we listened, he was always mysterious and difficult to understand. There was always a(n) meaning that I never got, but Liz always to decipher(破解) him. By the time I got to high school, I had wanted a skateboard and I I was too old to ask money from my parents, so I worked at a burger joint (美式汉堡店). One day, I was really angry about annoying burgers. I came home huffing and puffing(气喘吁吁). Dad saw me and asked me what was the . I told him that I was fed up with annoying burgers. He said that we all have to start somewhere, that we may not know it now, but the skills we learn even in a burger joint might come in handy ______in life, ‘Who knows, you might end up having to run a or even own one when you grow up,’ said Dad. He me down and I kept what he said in mind, even though I really didn’t agree with it.
A couple of years later, when I got to college, I worked in a restaurant. During one of the really days that we had, we were short on kitchen staff. Our customers were getting impatient and the were getting delayed. We were sure any minute something terrible would out. I couldn’t stand the any more, so I rolled up my sleeves, got myself a hair net and helped out in the hot kitchen. We caught up with the orders . The owner saw what I did and called me over around time. He said that he was very . He raised my salary and made me the assistant manager even though I could only go part-time. That was I realized that what my dad said to me all those years before was absolutely true.
I’ve never forgotten what my dad said that day. And whenever I have to do something that requires new skills, no matter how insignificant or it seems, I have a new perspective(看法) that it might really help me later on or even right now and I just don’t know it. Experience is everything and it a lot when you take lessons from it. That’s my life’s philosophy.
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I arrived at my mother's home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt (被子) after quilt from the boxes, showing their beauties. She was for a quilt show at the Wooden Church. When we began to fold and put them into the boxes, my attention was by something at the bottom of one box. I it out. “What is it?” I asked.
“Oh?” Mom said, “that's Mama's quilt.”
I the quilt. It looked a group of school children had it together: irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked on the right.
“Grandmother made this?” I said, . My grandmother was a at making quilts. This didn't certainly look like any of the quilts she had made.
“Yes, right before she died. I brought it home last year and made some ,” she said. “I’m still working on it. See, this is I’ve done so far.”
I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had stitched a piece of cloth those words: “My mother made many quilts. She didn't get all line . But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt.”
“Oh, this is so nice, mom,” I said. It to me that by completing my grandmother’s quilt, my mother was her own mother. I realized I held in my hands a family . It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another, two generations.
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I was on a long drive last weekend and stopped for a rest．At that moment,I noticed a man in a wheelchair by the stop sign．He held a sign in hand， “Trying to make it home for the holidays”．I looked away from it,because I had no to give him．I watched as people drove by,and either ignored him or stared at him he was a curiosity（怪人）of sorts．I felt really for the poor man．
I know some people wouldn’t like to have the thought of money to such strangers in the street,because they thought these people may use that money for drugs,alcohol,or some other undesirable（不良的） ．I started to drive my car away but soon ．Since I don’t usually have much cash on me,I it would be a good idea to offer some food ．So I asked him if he was ．Hearing my words,he seemed shocked that someone his well-being,but he happily it．He said he would like a sandwich and a can of soda．
Inside the store,I bought a sandwich,soda,some water and chips．I them to the new friend who was quite to receive so many delicious foods． the meal time ,I asked his name．He said he was called Chewie,and he was thankful for my help．I him a Smile Card．He read it with a big smile and said,“I always random（偶然）acts of kindness．”
As I drove away,I said a silent prayer（祈祷）that Chewie makes it home for the holidays,or at least he spends them somewhere safe and ．
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项填入答题卡。
A feeling of excitement overcame me as I looked around the stadium.
At 5:30 pm, two hours before game time, I walked into the locker room (更衣室）.My of school, music and what I planned to do on Saturday night were with the simple aim to beat the football team across the field from us tonight.
Approaching my locker (衣物柜），I noticed my teammates .Some rested on benches, staring up at the ceiling it were a film of the opposing team’s play. Some seemed a bit more , using the time to tell jokes. A few stared at the field, what will happen in 120 minutes.
Our coach, Tony Severino, came out of his office at 6 o’clock He told the team how this game was for the season, between two of the state’s top teams _ my school and our opposing team, Liberty High School. His words gave the team impulse (冲动）it needed to .
At 7:10 pm, warm - ups finished, we went over the game and discussed what we needed to do for the next three hours. The sound of the national anthem (国歌) that we were only minutes from the action. Our coach usually made a final . But tonight was different. On this clear night he looked around the room at all the players and shouted, “Let’s go and get them” Even the “get” came out of his mouth, we were already our way out of the door.
Outside, a few young fens reached to touch our hands, eager to be a of our school’s winning tradition. When I smiled and my hand, the young feces lit up as if they had just met Superman.
Seconds later, the team ran onto the ，moving as a mass of blue, in front of a packed stadium. We enjoyed a noisy from fens and the fight song played by our school band. Breathing in the of one of the biggest game of the year, I felt we were sure to win. I told myself, “This was what it was all about” and that it was for moments like this that I loved high school football.
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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和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。
When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write my own books. Half the students sneered（冷笑）, the nearly fell out of their chairs laughing. “Don’t be silly, only can become writers, ” the English teacher said, “And you are getting a D this term. ” I was so that I burst into tears.
That night I wrote a short poem about broken dreams and mailed it to the newspaper. To my , they published it and sent me two dollars. I was a published and writer. I showed my teacher and fellow students. They . “Just plain dumb luck. ” the teacher said. I tasted and I’d sold the first thing I’d ever written. That was more than any of them had done and if it was just dumb luck, that was with me.
During the next two years I sold dozens of , letters, jokes and recipes. By the time I from high school, with a C minus average, I had scrapbooks（剪贴簿） filled with my published works. I mentioned my writing to my teachers, friends or my family again. They were dream killers and people must choose between their friends and their dreams, they must always choose their .
I had four children at the time, and the oldest was only four. I wrote what I felt. It nine months, just like a pregnant woman. I mailed it without a self addressed stamped and without making a copy of the manuscript(原稿).
A month later I received a（n） , and a request to start working on another book. The worst year I earned two dollars. In my best year I earned 36, 000 dollars. years I earned between five thousand and ten thousand. No, it isn’t enough to live , but it’s still more than I’d make working part time. People ask what college I , what degrees I had and what qualifications I have to be a writer. The answer is： “None. ” I just write. I’m not a genius.
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