Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.
I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father_____me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is___ for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no ___ than tomorrow morning.”
My stepmother walked over to me, ___my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are ___ .This is not the worst boy at all, __ the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet（释放的途径）for his enthusiasm.”
That statement began a(n) ___ between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my ___ as a bad boy . My stepmother changed all that.
She changed many things. She ___ my father to go to a dental(牙科) school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county seat, where my father’s career could be more ___and my brother and I could be better_ .
When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand___ and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, I______it had already improved our lives. I accepted her __ and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of__that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the __ beneficiary (受益者). My father became the __ man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.
What power __has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is _____strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible（不可抗拒的）force which poverty and temporary defeat can never ___ .
You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.
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解析试题分析：文章赞美了热情、信任的作用。作者的继母对作者的肯定，激发了孩子心中对成功的渴望；继母心中的热情促使作者最终获得了成功。
【小题1】根据I would like you to meet the fellow可知，作者的父亲向作者的继母介绍作者。A冲，匆忙；B送；C携带；D介绍。故选D。
【小题2】for being the worst boy in this county作者的父亲向作者的继母介绍时，说作者是出了名的坏孩子。A知道；B支持；C误解；D奖励。be known for众所周知。故选A。
【小题3】will probably start throwing rocks at you no ___ than tomorrow morning最迟将会在明天早上，向你扔石头。no sooner than一......就；no later than不迟于。介绍的时候还没有扔，选A不合适。故选B。
【小题4】___ my head slightly upward继母走过来把作者的头微微向上提了一下，A拖拽；B摇晃；C提高；D弯下。故选C。
【小题5】根据This is not the worst boy at all可知，继母不认为作者是坏孩子，因此，她说作者的爸爸错了。A完美的；B对的；C错的；D无礼的。故选C。
【小题6】__ the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet（释放的途径）for his enthusiasm而是一个还没有找到释放热情的途径的小孩。not ...but不是......，而是......。故选A。
【小题7】That statement began a(n) ___ between us继母的一番话打动了作者，使作者和继母建立起了友谊。A协议；B友谊；C代沟；D关系。故选B。
【小题8】had built me up in my ___ as a bad boy 作者的家人和邻居使作者深信自己是个坏孩子。A观点；B图像，形象；C期望；D大脑。故选D。
【小题9】根据he graduated with honors可知，是继母说服作者的爸爸去上牙医学校。A乞求；B说服；C命令；D邀请。故选B。
【小题10】A成功的；B有意义的；C有帮助的；D有用的。形容career，应该用successful，使爸爸的事业更加成功。故选A。
【小题11】换一个新环境，有利于作者和弟弟的教育和成长。A对待；B娱乐，消遣；C教育；D尊敬。故选C。
【小题12】更加become a writer可知，继母相信作者能成为一名作家，A相机；B收音机；C自行车；D打印机。与作家有关的是typewriter。故选D。
【小题13】继母送给作者礼物，作者很感激她。A认为；B怀疑；C忽视；D感激。故选D。
【小题14】根据she believed that I could become a writer可知，作者这里的意思是，作者相信继母的看法，belief与believe对应。A相信；B要求；C批评；描述D。故选A。
【小题15】began to write for local newspapers作者开始为当地的报纸写稿，到作者去采访卡耐基的时候，仍然在作者相同的事情--写作。A教学；B写作；C学习；D看书。故选B。
【小题16】根据“My father became the...My brother and stepbrothers became...”可知，作者不是唯一的受益者。A下一个；B同样的；C仅有的；D真实的。故选C。
【小题17】My father became the __ man in town.作者的爸爸成为镇里最富有的人，A最聪明的；B最富有的；C最强壮的；D最健康的。故选B。
【小题18】根据第一段“Another person’s enthusiasm was what...”可知，文章主要讲的是热情的作用。A热情；B同情心；C运气；D自信心。故选A。
【小题19】is _____strengthened by faith不断地被信任加强。A故意地，有计划地；B开心地；C传统地；D不断地。故选D。
【小题20】poverty and temporary defeat can never ___ 贫困和暂时的失败医院不能相比。A获胜；B匹配；C到达；D怀疑。故选B。
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
A strange thing happened to me last Sunday．It was such a beautiful day that I drove to go for a look in the country．?
On the way back , my car stopped．It was gas on a lonely road far from a town．I decided to walk I found someone who could ome gas．
I had walked almost a mile I finally found a house near the road．I was glad to see it, it was getting dark．?
I knocked at the door and a little old lady long white hair answered．She said,
“I waiting for you for a long time．Come in． is almost ready．”“But I only come some gas,”I answered．I couldn’t imagine she was talking about．“Oh, Alfred! Gas? You used to like tea．”?
I quickly explained that my car was out of gas, she didn’t seem to hear me．She just calling me Alfred and talking about how long since she had seen me．She was acting very strangely and I was anxious to ． she went to get tea, I went out of the house as fast as I could．?
Fortunately, there was another house down the road and I was able to buy the gas I needed．When I told the man about my he said,“Oh, that’s Miss Emily．She lives herself in that big house．She’s out of her mind, but she wouldn’t hurt ．She is still waiting for the man she was supposed to marry thirty years ago．The day before their wedding he left home and came back because of the war．”
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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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
I still remember my first job in the city center. The was large, dark and old the physics lecture room was on the second floor. , it wasn’t a lecture room at all, it was an ordinary room, but it had “LECTURE ROOM’ on the . The students were sixteen or seventeen years old, several years younger than me. , some of them looked and acted older than me sometimes.
The room was directly the street, and had the window looking out over the street and many houses. One day, I was some words on the blackboard when I heard a sudden change in the noise behind me. There was a man standing in the room with an apple in his hand. He looked .
“Who threw this?” he asked, looking round the class.
“I beg your pardon? What is the matter?” I said. “ threw this apple out of the window,” he said. “It on my car.”
“Who threw an apple out of the window?” I to the class. There was no answer.
“I the fellow who threw this.” said the man. “I will be outside for you.” And then he left, closing the door behind him.
was silence and I continued with the lesson. At the end of every lesson, usually the class were all before the bell finished ringing, leaving me saying “That’s all for today” to an empty . This time, when the bell went for the end of the lesson, no one . “That’s all for today,” I said. “You go first, sir,” said one of the boys. It made a nice change, I being out first.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
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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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
On August 26, 1999, New York City experienced a torrential downpour. The rain caused the streets to ____ and the subway system almost came to a stop.
Unfortunately, this happened during the morning rush hour. Many people who were going to work were ____ to go home. Some battled to ____ a taxi or to get on a bus. Still others faced the ____ bravely, walking miles to get to work.
I ____ to be one of the people on the way to work that morning. I went from subway line to subway line only to find that most ____ had stopped. After making my way ____ crowds of people, I finally found a subway line that was ____. Unfortunately, there were so many people waiting to ____ the subway that I could not even get down the stairs to the ____. So I took the train going in the opposite direction, and then switch back to the downtown train. Finally, after what seemed like a forever, the train ____ my stop. Then I had to walk several blocks in the increasingly heavy rain. When I finally got to my office, I was ____ through, exhausted and ____.
My co-workers and I spent most of the day drying off. When it was 5:00 pm，I was ready to go home. I was about to turn off my computer ____ I received an email from Garth, my Director:
I would like to thank all of you who made the effort and __ __ reported to work. It is always reassuring(令人欣慰), at times like these, when employees so clearly show their ____ to their jobs. Thank you.
Garth’s email was short, but I learned more from that ____ message than I ever did from a textbook. The email taught me that a few words of ____ can make a big difference. The rainstorm and the traffic ____ had made me tired and upset. But Garth’s words immediately____ me and put a smile back on my face.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
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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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
A Love Note To My Mom
When I was a little girl, I would often follow you as you modeled (做模特) for fashion magazine. It was years later that I finally understood what role modeling in your life. I know little that you were every penny you earned to go to school.
I cannot thank you enough for you told me one autumn afternoon when I was nine. After finishing my homework, I wandered into the dining room where you were buried piles of law books. I was .Why were you doing what I do—memorizing textbooks and studying for ? When you said you were in law school, I was more puzzled. I didn’t know Moms be lawyers too. You smiled and said,“In life, you can do anything you want to do.”
Though I was young, your words kept in my ears. I watched as you faced the of completing your studies, starting companies with Dad, while still being a and a Mom of five kids. I was tired just watching you . With your wise words in my mind, I suddenly felt free to dream. My whole world . I set out to live my life filled with , seeing endless possibilities for personal achievements.
Your words became my motto. I found myself in the position of being either the first (woman doctor in Maryland Rotary) one of the few women (top medical reporters) in my field. I gained strength every time I said , “Yes, I’ll try that.”
Encouraged by your , I have forged ahead (毅然前行) with my life’s journey, less afraid to make mistakes, and meeting each challenge. You did it, and now I’m it. Sorry, got to run. So much to do, so many dreams to live.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Two weeks before Christmas a nine-year-old girl was walking with her friend down the street, sliding on the ice. They were talking about what they hoped to at Christmas.
They stopped to talk to an old man named Harry, who was his knees pulling weeds from around a large tree. His fingers were with cold.
As Harry responded to the girls, he told them he was getting the yard as a Christmas present to his mother, who had died several years before. His eyes filled with tears as he the tree and said, “ My mother was all I had. She loved her and her trees, so I do this for her at Christmas.” His words the girls and soon they were on their knees helping him to around the trees. It took the three of them the rest of the day to complete the . When they finished, Harry pressed a quarter into each of their hands. “I wish I could you more, but it’s all I’ve got right now,” he said.
As they walked they remembered that the house was , with no flowers, no Christmas tree or other decorations. Just the figure of Harry sitting by his curtainless window. The next day they agreed to put their in a jar marked “Harry’s Christmas Present” and then they began to seek for small jobs to more. Every nickel, dime, and quarter they earned went into the .
Two days before Christmas, they had enough money to buy new and a Christmas card. On Christmas Eve they came to Harry’s singing carols. When he opened the door, they him with the gloves wrapped in pretty paper, the card and a pumpkin pie still from the oven. With trembling hands, he the paper from the gloves, and then to their astonishment, he held them up to his face and wept.
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