Children find meanings in their old family tales.
When Stephen Guyer’s three children were growing up, he told them stories about how his grandfather, a banker, all in the 1930s, but did not lose sight of what he valued most. In one of the darkest times when his strong-minded grandfather was nearly , he loaded his family into the car and them to see family members in Canada with a , “There are more important things in life than money.”
The took on a new meaning recently when Mr. Guyer downsized to a house from a more expensive and comfortable one. He was that his children, a daughter, 15, and twins, 22, would be upset. To his surprise, they weren’t. Instead, their reaction echoed (重复) their great-grandfather’s. What they about was how warm the people were in the house and how much of their heart was accessible.
Many parents are finding family stories have surprising power to help children through times. Storytelling experts say the phenomenon (现象) reflects a growing in telling tales, evidenced (证明) by a rise in storytelling events and festivals.
A university of 65 families with children aged from 14 to 16 found kids’ ability to parents’ stories was linked to a lower rate of anger and anxiety.
The is telling the stories in a way children can hear. We’re not talking here about the kind of story that , “When I was a kid, I walked to school every day uphill both ways, barefoot in the snow.” Instead, we should choose a story suited (适合) to the child’s , and make eye contact to create “a personal experience”. We don’t have to tell children what they should take from the story and what the moral is.
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【小题12】B
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解析试题分析：本文通过Stephen Guyer给他三个孩子讲述他祖父艰苦创业的故事而引起孩子的共鸣，这样有助于他们渡过难关，也可以缓解他们的精神压力，消除生气和焦虑。
【小题1】考查动词辨析：A. missed错过，B. lost失去，C. forgot忘记，D. ignored忽视，他给他们讲述了他爷爷----一个银行家，在20世纪30年代失去了一切，但没有忘记他最重视的东西。本句中的but后面的lose sight of已经暗示应该填入lost.故选项B正确。
【小题2】考查形容词辨析：A. friendless没有朋友的，B. worthless一文不值的，C. penniless身无分文的，D. homeless无家可归的，根据上文 ________ (lost) all in 1930s,…可知此空格应填入penniless(身无分文).选C。
【小题3】考查动词辨析：此句应理解为爷爷用车把全家人带到加拿大。选项A意为“去取”；选项B意为“允许”；选项C意为“期望”；选项D意为“带走”。故选项D正确。
【小题4】考查名词辨析：A. hope希望，B. promise许诺，C. suggestion建议，D. belief信念，空后的句子为“there are more important things in life than money”.此句应为设空处的同位语。改句不是爷爷的一种“希望”、“诺言”或“建议”，而是爷爷的一种“信念”。故答案为选项D.
【小题5】考查名词辨析：A. tale故事，B. agreement 协议，C. arrangement安排，D. report报告，根据首段最后一词Children find meanings in their old family tales.以及第二段整段内容可知，选项A为最佳选项。
【小题6】考查形容词辨析：A. large大的，B. small 小的，C. new新的，D. grand伟大的，本句可改为Mr. Guyer downsized from a more expensive and comfortable one to…house.改后可知Mr. Guyer原来所住的房子价格不菲，而且住起来非常舒适，而现在却住在一个小房间里。故答案为B.
【小题7】考查形容词辨析：由于居住条件变得很差，所以Mr. Guyer担心孩子们会感到不舒服。选项A意为“感到吃惊的”；选项B意为“感到烦恼的”；选项C意为“感到失望的”；选项D意为“担心的”。故选项D正确。
【小题8】考查动词辨析：从上下文可知，孩子们并没有因为居住条件变得糟糕而感到不舒服，他们关心的是这所房子里的一家人有多温暖、他们的心有多么贴近。选项A意为“谈论”；选项B意为“关心”；选项C意为“写关于……的内容”；选项D意为“听说”。故B正确。
【小题9】考查形容词辨析：A. good好的，B. hard困难的，C. old旧的，D. modern现代的， through hard times意为“度过艰难时期”。选B。
【小题10】考查名词辨析：讲故事的专家说，这种现象反映了人们对讲故事越来越感兴趣，这一点从不断增加对各种事件以及节日故事的讲述中得到印证。选项A意为“争辩”；选项B意为“技巧；技能”；选项C意为“兴趣”；选项D意为“焦虑；担忧”。故选项C正确。
【小题11】考查名词辨析：根据句义可知，此处是指一项对65个家庭所做的研究。选项A意为“研究”；选项B意为“设计”；选项C意为“委员会”；选项D意为“全体职工”。故选项A正确。
【小题12】考查动词辨析：A. provide提供，B. retell复述，C. support支持，D. refuse拒绝， 通过全文可知通过父母给孩子讲故事再让孩子复述故事这一过程，孩子们减少了生气和焦虑。故B正确。
【小题13】考查名词辨析：A. trouble困难，B. gift礼物，C. fact事实，D. trick诡计，诀窍，此句意为:讲故事的诀窍使用孩子能够倾听故事的方式来讲(故事)。Trick意为“诀窍”。故D正确。
【小题14】考查动词辨析：A. means意味着，B. ends结束，C. begins开始，D. proves证明，…that begins意为“是这样开始的”。此题从后面的叙述提示可以知道答案。故选C.
【小题15】考查名词辨析：根据上文可知，所讲的故事应该符合孩子们的“需要(needs)”,而不是“活动(activities)”、“判断(judgments)”或者“习惯(habits)”。故选A.
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I was tired and hungry after a long day of work.
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The next day I called his teacher to find out more about this “experiment” and how the other parents had ____.
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The teacher, a middle - aged man, understands how ____ it is for some of us to say the things that would be good for us to say.
When my son came to me that evening, I held on to him for ____second. And just ____ he pulled away , I said in my deepest , most manly voice , “Hey , I love you , too . ”
I don't know if saying that made either of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good. Maybe next time one of my children said “I love you”, it would not take me a whole ____to think of the right ____.
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Such unexpected ____ from a passer?by was a lovely gift to receive.As I climbed out of the car at the hospital and turned to thank her，she smiled and told me not to lose ____，for all things are possible.
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I think I am a much person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not these experiences. They have me to care about other people more than about myself. I who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.
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My daughter Julie and I went shopping this morning. A little part of me thought about going to another checkout line. This one had the shortest queue, there was only one guy in it, but he was in a ______ and there seemed to be some complications going on.
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I _____did that, leaving Julie with our shopping. Angela, it turned out, was collecting food for people who might otherwise go ___! I hadn’t even noticed her before.
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Starting a new book is a risk, just like falling in love. You have to ____ to it. You open the pages knowing a little bit about it, maybe from the back or from a blurb（宣传信息）on the front. But who ____, right? Those bits and pieces aren’t always right.
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You start off slow. The story is beginning to ____. You’re unsure. It’s a big commitment reading this tome(巨著). Maybe this book won’t be that great but you’ll feel ____ about putting it down. Maybe it’ll be so awful you’ll set it down immediately and never pick it up again. Or maybe you’ll come back to it some night, drunk or lonely—needing something to ____ the time, but it won’t be any better than it was when you first started reading it.
Maybe you’re ____. You’ve read tons of books before. Maybe you’ve taken some time off from reading because the last few books you read just weren’t ____ it. Do they even write new, great works of literature anymore? Maybe it’s a once in a lifetime feeling and you’re never going to find it again.
Or something ____ could happen. Maybe this will become your new favorite book. There’s always a possibility, right? That’s the ____ of risk. You ____ your time and your brain power in the words and what you get back is a new understanding and pure wonder.
How could someone possibly know you like this? Some stranger, some author, some character. It’s like they’re seeing inside your ____. This book existed inside some book store, on a shelf, maybe handled by other people and really it was just ____ for you to pick it up. It was waiting to speak to you. To say, “You are not ____.”
You just want more of the story. You want to keep reading, maybe everything this author has ever ____. You wish it would never end. The closer it gets to the smaller side of the pages, the ____ you read, wanting to savor(品味) it all. This book is now one of your favorites forever. You will always wish you could go back to ____ having read it and pick it up fresh again, but also you know you’re better for having this close, inside you, ____ your heart and mind.
Reading a book is just like falling in love. Once you get in deep enough, you know you could never put this book down.
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(2013·东北三省四市联合诊断考试)I had a bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book.I just wanted to see how it ended ____ I was still in the middle of it. This habit ____ first my mom，then my friends, and ____ even my own daughter. Often my ____ wouldn't be limited just to the books I read but also to what others were ____ as well.Then one day my daughter told me in anger, “Dad, please just read a book one ___ at a time like everyone else！”
At times I didn't ___ this bad habit to just books either.I also tried to skip ahead in my own life and ____ out what to do months and even years from now ____ enjoying each day at present. Although I knew that the ____ of my life wasn't done yet and that I had many pages ___ to go, I still couldn't control my burning desire to write the ____ of it halfway through.Time and again, I would ____ jump ahead and try to solve every potential problem before it happened. Life，____，doesn't work like that.It loves to ____ us，and you never know what new problems, changes, or opportunities each new day will ____.
Recently when I found myself living in the ____ again，I felt a voice that gently told me I needed to “live one day at a time”. When I heard those words, I ____，turned the book of my life back to the ____ page, and thanked God for today.
Each of us has to ____ the book of life line by line，moment by moment and trust that our story will be brought to its perfect end.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
It was a busy morning, about 8:30,when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment(约会)at 9:30.
The nurse had him take a in the waiting area, him it would be at least 40 minutes someone would be able to see him. I saw him his watch and decided, since I was busy—my patient didn’t at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound .While taking care of his wound，I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment.
The gentleman said no and told me that he to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his .He told me that she had been for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be if he was a bit late. He replied that she knew who he was，that she had not been able to him for five years now. I was , and asked him，“And you go every morning，even though she doesn’t know who you are?”
He smiled and said．“She doesn’t know me but I know who she is” I had to hold back as he left.
Now I that in marriages，true love is of all that is. The happiest people don’t have the best of everything；they just the best of everything they have. isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
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