As I held my father's hands one night,I couldn't help but notice their calluses(老茧) and roughness.His hands tell the story of his life as a ___,including all his struggles.
One summer,I remember,a drought(旱灾)hit Ontario,turning it into a____desert.On one of those hot mornings I was picking sweet corn with my dad to fill the last ___from the grocery store.Fifty dozen was all we needed,which____took twenty minutes. That morning,however,the process didn't____ quickly.After forty minutes of aimlessly walking in the field,we____ needed twenty dozen.I was completely frustrated and ____.Dropping the basket heavily,I declared,“If the store wants its last twenty dozen,they can pick it themselves!”Dad____,“Just think,my little girl,only ten dozen left for each of us and then we're____.”Such is Dad—whatever problem he ____,he never gives up.
____,the disastrous effects of the drought were felt all over our country.It was a challenging time for everyone,____Dad remained optimistic.He____to be grateful for other things like good health and food on our plates.Only then did I truly begin to____Dad and his faith that guided us through the hard times.
Dad is also a living example of real____.From dawn to dusk,he works countless hours to ___our family.He always puts our happiness ____his own,and never fails to cheer me on at my sports games___his exhaustion after long days.His loving and selfless nature has inspired me to become more sympathetic and____,putting others first.
Dad,the life____I have learned from you will stay with me forever.You are my father,teacher,friend and,most importantly,my hero.
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解析【小题1】根据下文叙述的旱灾及在田间散步等信息可确定答案。
答案 C
【小题2】上文提到旱灾,炎热的夏天,可判断选burning“炙热的”。
答案 D
【小题3】作者与爸爸一起摘sweet corn送到the grocery store,说明是蔬菜瓜果商店预定的,所以是完成最后的订单。
答案 A
【小题4】正常情况下采摘600个需要20分钟。repeatedly“反复地”;normally“正常地”;finally“最终”;really“其实”。
答案 B
【小题5】句意:然而那天上午这一进程没能顺利完成。go“进展”;begin“开始”;occur“突然想到”;change“改变”。
答案 A
【小题6】 句意:在田间漫无目标地走了40分钟以后,我们仍然需要240个。yet可用在句首,同时一般用于否定句中;still“仍然”;even“甚至”,表递进关系;nearly“几乎”。
答案 B
【小题7】根据下文作者把篮子重重地摔在地上可知是绝望和愤怒,故选angry。
答案 C
【小题8】根据下文爸爸劝慰女儿可判断选laughed。
答案 D
【小题9】done在此表示完成。be lost“迷路,陷入”;be gone“没了,走了”;be touched“被感动”。
答案 B
【小题10】句意:爸爸就是这样,无论他遇到什么困难,他永远也不放弃。meet with意为“遇到”,符合题意。
答案 A
【小题11】概括全国都感到旱灾的影响可判断用unfortunately“不幸地”。thankfully“感激地”;hopefully“有希望地”;strangely“奇怪地”。
答案 C
【小题12】根据上下文可知应是转折关系,所以选but。
答案 D
【小题13】上句说爸爸仍然保持乐观,可判断选continue。
答案 C
【小题14】句意:只有那时我才真正开始感激爸爸和他的信仰,那引导我们渡过难关。face“面对”;appreciate“感激,欣赏”;examine“检查”;question“提问,质问”。
答案 B
【小题15】根据下文内容可知选love。
答案 A
【小题16】句意:从早到晚,他无休止地工作来养家糊口。support our family意为“养家”。
答案 A
【小题17】put our happiness before his own意为“把我们的快乐放在他自己的快乐前”。
答案 B
【小题18】根据空格前后的让步关系可判断用in spite of。
答案 A
【小题19】根据putting others first可判断为“更加有同情心,考虑周到”。considerate意为“善解人意的,考虑周到的”。
答案 C
【小题20】根据learned from you可判断选lessons。
答案 D
科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
My teenage son Karl refused to communicate with others after his father died. As a parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card during his junior year, it said that he had been 95 times from classes and had six grades for the year. At this rate he never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even him. Nothing worked.
One night I felt so that I got down on my knees and prayed for help. “Please God, I can’t do anything for my son. I'm at the end of my rope. I'm giving the whole thing up to you.”
I was at work when I got a phone call. A man himself as the headmaster. “I want to talk to you about Karl’s absences.” he could say another word, I choked up and all my disappointment and sadness over Karl came out into the ears of this stranger. “I love my son but I just don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has . It’ s out of my hands.” For a moment there was on the other end of the line. The headmaster said, “Thank you for your time, ” and hung up.
Karl’s next report card showed a marked in his grades. Finally, he even made the honor roll. In his fourth year, I a parent-teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, “Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?” I . “That was me. I thought I’d play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really me how much I was hurting you. That's I knew I had to make you proud.”
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Michel is a young girl who works for the police a handwriting expert (专家). She has helped many criminals (罪犯) by using her special talents (天才).
When she was fourteen, Michel was already interested in the differences in her friends' that she would spend hours them. After college she went to France for a two-year class in handwriting at the School of Police Science.
Michel says that it is for people at hide their handwriting. She can discover of what she needs to know simply looking at the writing with her own eyes, she also has machines.
help her make different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often great help to the police.
Michel believes that handwriting is a good of what kind of person the is. "I wouldn't go out with a fellow I didn't like his handwriting. " She says. But she she fell in love with her future husband, a young policeman she studied his handwriting. It is later proved to be , however.
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We come by business naturally in our family.Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father’s store.As we worked and watched,we ____ that work was about more than ____ and making a sale.
One lesson stands out in my mind.It was shortly before Christmas.I was in eighth grade and was working evenings,straightening the toy section.A little boy,five or six years old,came in.He was wearing a brown torn coat with ____ sleeves.His shoes were scuffed(磨损) and his one shoelace was torn.The little boy looked poor to me—too poor to ____ to buy anything.He looked around the toy section,picked up this item and that,and ____ put them back in their place.
Dad came down the stairs and walked over to the boy.His steel blue eyes ____ and the dimple(酒窝) in his cheek stood out as he ____ the boy what he could do for him.The boy said he was looking for a Christmas ___ for his brother.I was impressed that Dad treated him with the same ____ as any adult.Dad told him to take his ___ and look around.He did.
After about 20 minutes,the little boy picked up a toy plane,walked up to my dad and said, “How much for this,Mister?”
“How much you ____?” Dad asked.
The little boy held out his hand and ___ it.His hand was creased(起皱) with ____ lines of dirt from holding his ____ too tightly.In his hand lay only 27 cents.The ____ on the toy plane he’d ____ was $3.98.
“That’ll just ___ it,” Dad said as he made the sale.Dad’s reply still ____ in my ears.When the little boy walked out of the store,I didn’t notice the worn coat or the ____ torn shoelace.What I saw was a happy child with a ____.
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One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime (一角硬币) left. He was hungry so he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.
However, when a lovely woman opened the door, he asked for a drink of water. She brought him a large glass of . He drank it slowly, and then asked, “How much do I you?”
“You don’t owe me anything,” she . “Mother has taught me never to accept pay for .” He said, “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt physically, but it also increased his faith in God and the human race. He was about to and quit before this point.
Years later the woman became seriously ill. The doctors could do nothing. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be gathered to study her disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now famous, was for the consultation (会诊). When he heard the name of the town she came from, a light filled his eyes. Immediately, he rose and went down the hospital hall into her room.
Dressed in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He her at once. He went back to the consultation room and to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave special to her ease.
After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was to open it because she was sure that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words:
“Paid in full with a glass of milk.”
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly
Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she prayed silently: “Thank you, God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands.”
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One day I was doing a big cleanup when I ____ a knotted handkerchief with an old dark brown coin inside.I took one look and immediately ___ a forgettable time.
In 1991,I had spent five months in Niger,with sandstorms and great heat.Its ____ and beggars were my biggest and most constant complaint.Street beggars would continually reached out their hands,shouting “Gift!Gift!”
One day,I ___ for neighboring Burkina to work in a health clinic.
Arriving by taxi at our destination in Burkina,we began to ____.Out of the darkness,a motorbike with two men approached slowly.Without ____,one of the men grabbed my daypack as the motorbike swept close by.Within seconds,the two were out of sight,____ up by the night.
The bag had my passport,money,traveler’s cheques,camera,an airline ticket and other things ___ to me.I was in deep trouble.
In the weeks that followed,I ____guarded the rest of my valuables and regarded all ____ with suspicion.All I wanted was to leave this place.
Then,walking through Burkina’s streets,I met with an old woman.“Gift!Gift!” she cried.I’d had enough.I was ____ of the country:its poverty,its thieves,the heat,and the dust.I told her angrily,“A thief stole all my money and now I can’t ____ out of your country.I cannot give you anything.”
The beggar woman listened attentively and ___ my words.Then she reached ____ the folds of her dress.
“Then I will give you a gift,”she announced.Kindly,she placed an old,dark brown coin in my hand.I looked at it in ____.It was a very small amount of money but for this woman,the coin ___ a meal.At that moment,I felt a shame.In spite of the ____,she was able to give me something priceless.
I saw then the ____ beauty of the people of Burkina—and appreciated deeply the quiet ____ of the poor.With the old woman’s gift,I hope never to part with the coin she gave me.With one small coin,she ____ my concept completely.
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Once, long ago, there was a man who traveled from Persia to India on foot. He had been to India before. When he arrived at a village, he happened upon a fruit stand. In that village, fruit was quite because of the lack of water. The man was looking around at the fruits when he a big basket of some very red, very long fruit. It was the cheapest fruit in the shop, not expensive at all.
the man walked up to the counter (柜台) and asked: “How per kilo?” And the shopkeeper said: “Two rupees.” Two rupees in India is . The man thought to himself: “What a !” So he bought a whole kilogram of the fruit and began to it. But after he tried a few pieces, he screamed: “Oh, my God!” His eyes watered, his mouth burned, and his face turned . He coughed and choked and gasped for breath.
But despite his , he continued to stuff the fruits into his mouth! Onlookers their heads and laughed. One man yelled: “You’re , man! Those are chilies! People use them as a condiment (佐料). You don’t just eat them by the handful like that; they’re not fruit!” But the man replied: “No, I can’t ! I paid money for them, and now I’ll eat them. It’s my money!”
You probably think this man was pretty , right? Nevertheless, I bet you or someone you know makes the same on a daily basis. People invest money, time and effort into a relationship, business or job. Even when experience tells them that it’s not , and they know there’s little hope of improvement, they still because they don’t want to waste the previous investment. But this is . It is no different than being the man who continued eating chilies because he didn’t want to waste the money he’d paid for them.
Losing something is difficult, but it is important to the loss and move on. you’ll just keep burning your mouth on hot chilies.
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The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, US. “ station? A train for Santa Fe collided (相撞) a at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please come here at once. With an ambulance, too. A man is badly wounded,” said an anxious voice of a young woman.
“OK. We’ll come soon. Please stay there and wait.” Replied the policeman.
Within a minute, a police car and an ambulance off. Soon they got to the crossing, but only to find everything was fine. No collision, no wounded man.
“What a dirty !” said the policeman angrily. “ We must find out that woman and…”
They had not been able to say anything about a when they heard the whistle of a train was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came towards them, too. When it was passing the crossing, it suddenly to move on. Right then and there, before the eyes of all the people present, the train collided with the truck heavily and struck it dozens of metres away.
When Randolph Bruce, the driver, was helped out of the damaged truck, he was badly wounded just as the young woman had predicted on the phone. As he was taken to hospital in time, he was at last. Later the police did whatever they could to the woman who had them, but failed.
It is really that a prediction should agree with the fact so .
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I could have easily gone through life without getting to know one of the most romantic feelings…love for a dog. For at least ten years my had been suggesting that we get a dog.There were several reasons why the idea . We had noticed that, on our block, couples with no children as a rule one large or two small dogs. So we got one puppy we too had no children.
He flew into the house with the of a Formula 1(一级方程式赛车). In several minutes he ran over all the house, from my shoulder onto the bed, and ended up in the , where my wife washed him with motherly . From that day on, the invisible(看不见的) for the love of the new member of our household began at my home.
He seemed to that at once. Most of the meals that my wife had for him with greater care than those for me…he didn’t look at.
Every evening I went out walking with him. I could not know who was walking whom one evening, when, tired from work, I the walk. The dog was very angry and dragged me out.
Last night our dog pulled me by the ear with his teeth, me up in my dream, and dragged me into the kitchen to make me turn off the which had disturbed(干扰) his sleep. I meekly(乖乖地) that I had forgotten to switch off the light, but that was not . He looked at me like a teacher at a pupil who repeatedly makes .
Now we finally know who’s the at home, and for twenty years we had seriously argued whether it was my wife or I.
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