Joy in the journey
If you have ever been discouraged because of failure, please read on. For often, achieving what you set out to do is not the important thing. Let me explain.
Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped by to . “What are you doing?” asked one of the visitors. “We plan to dig a hole all the way through the !” one of the brothers volunteered .
The older boys began to , telling the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth was . After a long silence, one of the picked up a jar full of spiders, worms and many other kinds of insects. He the lid and showed the wonderful to the scoffing（嘲笑的）visitors. Then he said quietly and , “Even if we don’t dig all the way through the earth, look at what we have found the way!”
Their goal was far too ambitious, but it did cause them to dig. And that is a goal is for — to cause us to move in the we have chosen, in other words, to keep us ! But not every goal will be fully . Not every job will end . Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. Not every dream will be . But when you fall of your aim, perhaps you can say, “Yes, but look at what I found along the way! Look at the wonderful things my life because I tried to do something!” It is in the digging life is lived. And I believe it is the joy in the journey, in the end, that truly .
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解析试题分析：本文告诉我们要享受成功过程中的快乐，要享受奋斗的过程，人生重要的也许不是最后的结果，而是在奋斗的过程中，我们遇见的人或事。
【小题1】C 动词辨析。A休息B工作C注视D嘲笑；两兄弟正在房子后面挖坑，一些人停下了看他们在做什么。
【小题2】.B 上下文串联。根据下文40空前面的through the earth可知两兄弟想挖穿地球。故B正确。
【小题3】.C 副词辨析。A镇定地B耐心地C兴奋地D步耐烦地；看到别人在问问题，有一个兄弟很兴奋地告诉别人，他们想挖穿地球。
【小题4】A 动词辨析。A嘲笑B思考C盯着看D微笑；看到这个两个小男孩在做如此愚蠢的事情，那些年长的孩子都嘲笑他们，告诉他们挖穿地球是不可能的。
【小题5】C 形容词辨析。A重要的B困难的C不可能D有趣的；看到这个两个小男孩在做如此愚蠢的事情，那些年长的孩子都嘲笑他们，告诉他们挖穿地球是不可能的。
【小题6】D 上下文串联。A过路人B观察者C游客D挖掘者根据上文可知两个兄弟正在挖，说明他们是diggers，挖东西的人。
【小题7】B 动词辨析。A移动B清除C打破D推；他把罐子的盖子去掉，让给他们看这个罐子。
【小题8】A 名词辨析。A内容B风景C图片D罐子；他把罐子的盖子去掉，让给他们看这个罐子。
【小题9】B 副词辨析。A恰当地B自信地C细心地D开心地；他静静并且自信地说：尽管我们可能不能挖穿地球，但是看看我们在挖的过程中看见的东西，我们就满足了。
【小题10】B 上下文串联。根据下文51空下一行along the way可知在我们的人生道路上，在追求梦想的路上所看到的风景也很漂亮。
【小题11】A 考察语法。本题中的what引导的是一个表语从句，what引导起这个表语从句，并在句中做介词for的宾语。
【小题12】B 名词辨析。A道路B方向C生活D风景，视力；导致我们朝着我们所选择的方向前进。
【小题13】.C 上下文串联。根据本文前一半可知这两个兄弟在挖。本句是指正是有目标才让我们不停地在挖。
【小题14】D 动词辨析。A生产B准备C踢D实现；固定搭配achieve one’s goal实现某人的目标；
【小题15】D 副词辨析。A绝望地B令人开心地C令人惊讶地D成功地；不是每个工作最后都会成功地。
【小题16】B 固定搭配。Realize one’s dream实现某人的梦想；不是每个梦想都会实现。
【小题17】A 固定搭配fall short of达不到，实现不了；当你没有实现你的目标的时候，也许你会说：虽然我没有实现我的目的，但是看看我这一路上锁看到的风景，也是值得的。
【小题18】C 短语辨析。A闯入B转向C进入D坚持；因为我们努力做了某件事情，看看这些进入我们生活的东西。也就是在通往成功的道路上我们遇见的一切。
【小题19】D 语法分析。本题是一个强调句型，强调的是介词短语in the digging。生活就是在不停地挖掘的过程。
【小题20】A 动词辨析。A重要，有关系；B发生C出现D存在；最后重要的是旅行中的快乐。
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I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a person.
I think my started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really . It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So tried a(n) . I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I to help. That was really a big for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of are still my best friends today.
A bigger cause of my new , however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my . Every time I came into her room, she was so because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never her, so I took her place. She let me that making others feel good made me feel good, too, when she died, I was , but I was very grateful to her.
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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In the middle of a beautiful day, I was feeling lost, as if the world was crashing on me. didn't know which way to go, except to head out to the countryside. I went to the spot where I used to take my kids-when I still had kids. Now they had and were leaving.
I was sitting alone in my car when I saw a man in his seventies, whose problem appeared bigger than mine. He stood near the edge of the road, a kite spindle(风筝线锭) in his hands. Apparently, lost in thought, he stared skyward. I my neck to see how successful he had been in the clouds. Following his string with my eyes, I almost lost 0f the other end. Finally, the kite rested on what seemed to be the highest branch of the tree in the park. Obviously, that was his grandson's kite! The kite was a replica (复制品) of a beautiful bald eagle, and its wings spread 0pen. Grandpa had only one to his problem: cut the string.
"You wanted it to fly as high as it could. Bill. didn't you?" "Yes, Grandpa, wanted to keep it forever. " "There just comes a time when the only thing you can do is to cut the string and let it go. Perhaps by doing that, when it flies very high like real eagles do, it will come back to us. " Grandpa said.
I how the old man cut the string to let fly the kite. As the two walked away, looked to the . There I saw my answer, too. Today I have to cut the final strings that kept my two boys my reach. Though I want to keep them forever, I have taught them to fly like an eagle. Maybe by doing this, when it's time to soar like real eagles do. one day they would come back to me.
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There was a temple, in front of which stood an ancient banyan ( 菩提树 ). One ____
morning, a monk got up to____the courtyard and noticed the fallen leaves were everywhere. He couldn’t help worrying and stared at the tree to____. Suddenly he dropped the broom and rushed to his master’s room. He knocked at the door to request for____.
When the master caught sight of his worried____，he thought something must have taken place. He asked with ____,“Why are you in a panic？”
The young monk was full of____and questioned，“Master, you persuade us to struggle to____our moral character and grasp the truth. However, even though I learn them well, it is hard to avoid____. Till then, aren't we just like the leaves in autumn or the deadwood in winter? And we will be buried by a handful of soil？”
Having heard it, the master pointed at the ancient banyan and____to him,“There is no____to worry about it. With winds blowing hard and the snow falling down heavily，the leaves in autumn and the deadwood in winter will climb back to the trees____and become the flowers in spring and grow up into the leaves in summer.”
“Why don't I see it？”
“The____is that there isn't any view in your heart, so you can't see the bloom.”
Facing the dancing leaves and____they will be in bloom, you need to be optimistic. There are always some miseries which may____you when you are unprepared, but we don't need to worry for the____of this day.
Treat life with the attitude of optimism, because it can not only____the pain and misfortune, but also bring a kind of____mood to you. As long as the____is in the heart, the paths full of the sweet smell of flowers are____.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we realize that those challenges are the very things that us and make us who we are. It is the same with the challenges that come with .
When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two . We can try to beat it off, or we can decide that the thing the challenge isn't worth the and call it quits. Although there are certainly when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most all that is needed is and communication.
When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to it and work it through instead of running away from it. Communication is making a for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. you can say to a friend, "I got my feeling hurt," "You hurt my feelings," you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.
In dealing with the many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for they are: small hurdles you need to jump or on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is to get over, and hurt only to make us stronger. It is all part of growing up, it to everyone, and some day you will all of this and say, "Hard as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing."
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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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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Dear Seth,
You’re only three years old, and at this point in your life you can't read, much less understand what I’m going to try to tell you in this letter. But I've been thinking a lot about the life that you have ____ you, about my life so far as I ____ on what I've learned, and about my role as a dad in trying to prepare you for the ____ that you will face in the coming years.
Be thankful. You are at a wonderful ____ of life. You have still many wonderful stages of life, but they are not without their costs and ____. I hope to help you along your path by sharing some of the best of ____ I've learned. As with any advice, take it with a grain of ____. What works for me ____ not work for you.
Life can be cruel. There will be people in your life ____ won't be very nice. They'll laugh at you because you're different, or for no good ____. They might try to bully you ____ hurt you.
There's not much you can do about these people except ____ to deal with them, and learn to choose friends who are kind to you, who ____ care about you, who make you feel good about yourself. When you find friends like this, ____ them, treasure them, spend time with them, be kind to them and love them.
There will be _____ when you meet with disappointment instead of success. Life won’t always ____ the way you want. This is just another thing you’ll have to learn to deal with. But instead of letting these things get you down, push on, _____ disappointment and learn to persevere and to pursue your dreams _____ pitfalls. Learn to turn negatives into positives, and you’ll do much better in _____. You will also face heartbreak and abandonment by those you love. I hope you don’t have to face this too much, but it happens. Again there is not much you can do but to heal, and to move on with your life. Let these pains become stepping stones to better things in life, and learn to use them to make you _____.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
I was late for the school bus and rushing to get ready. My dog, Tippy, got to the front door and lay down in front of it – his way of asking to be petted. I______his begging for affection (喜爱), and ran for the waiting bus.
______, that afternoon, when I came home, Mom said to me______, “Honey, I have some______news that I need to tell you. This morning, while you were at school, Tippy was hit by a car and______. I’m so sorry.”
“No! It’s not true!” I was______. I couldn’t believe her. “Tippy, come here! Come on, boy!” I called and called for him. I waited. He didn’t come. Feeling______, I wandered into the living room. I didn’t cry that night. I still couldn’t believe that he was______.
When I got off the bus the next day, the silence at home was deafening. , my sobs (哭泣) erupted (喷发) like lava (熔岩) from a volcano. I couldn’t stop______. I hadn’t even petted him when I left.______could I have known that was my last chance? I cried until I felt empty inside.
Time passed, and against my will, I started to______some things. I realized what little control any of us have over what happens ______ a dog. We can do everything right, but______things can still happen. But good things can happen too. That’s______. The best way to deal with the hard times is to understand what you and get them through when they come, and to remember that hard times always______.
I now deeply understand the “circle of life”. Everyone is born, everyone______, and that’s the way it is. If dogs never died, there would be no______for others like Belle – my new dog.
Best of all, I realized that Tippy______all of my old memories of him. And they come to me every time I call!
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