阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。
One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods   she realized that she was lost.
Sitting on a rock and   what to do, she began crying. After a while，She   to walk along a wide path lined with tall trees and thick bushes.     it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house. She opened the door and   stepped in. Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out the door and back to the   . Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a   .
The girl’s parents were out and her dog, Laddy, was at home. Laddy   that his mistress(女主人) was in danger. He jumped   a window, breaking the glass. He looked in the fields. But he couldn’t find his mistress anywhere. However, from the ground came a   scent(气味) as he lowered his head. He   the scent and walked across the grassland. Barking   into the air, the dog   through the woods until he found the   . But the girl was not there, so he headed back to the woods. Much to his   , he saw his mistress’ blue shirt in the distance. He   over some bushes and saw the little stream, where the girl was   .
When she opened her eyes and   her dog standing beside her, the girl said, “you   me, Laddy.” and she kissed him several times. Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents burst into tears of   . That night Laddy had a hero’s supper, a huge meal of steak.

My mother always says that I’m born to dance ballet. But that September when I was in a ballet class and went to do a turn, something just happened. I heard it and I surely      it. I went right to a doctor and got an X-ray examination, which      a lot of damage to my knee — a(n)      injury for a dancer. I had to have a(n)     .Everything had been going so well and now I had this huge injury. Dance was my life, but   , I wasn’t going to be able to do it for a year or      never again.
My dad was really a big inspiration for me. He was      a battle against cancer at that time. He showed me how to make it through a      situation. I thought that if he could do that, I could handle this, too.      my operation, I had great difficulty walking, but I knew that if I really worked hard, my injury would heal.
Several months later, I definitely wasn’t at my strongest, but I could      a class. The dancing I did was      at first — moves that my knee could handle.
Once we started practicing in the fall, I was beginning to feel like myself     . One day, I    the schedule and my name was next to Eliot Feld. I thought it must be a(n)    because he is very famous in the ballet world. But it wasn’t. He      me and taught me a lot of things. At l8, I had a solo performance! It was a big     . I was so excited and felt like a real ballerina. After the     , Eliot said, “You know, you have a(n)      — and you are also made of steel.” That, coming from him, was the      compliment (赞美) I have ever received. I’d like to think that      my injury made me strong.

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.

It was already late when we set out for the next town,      according to the map was about fifteen miles away on the other side of the     .
There we felt      that we would find a bed     the night. Darkness fell soon after we left the village, but luckily we met     as we drove fast along the narrow winding road that      the hills. As we climbed     , it became colder and rain began to fall,     it difficult at times to see the road. I asked John, my companion, to drive more     .
After we had traveled for about twenty miles, there was still no sign of the town which was     on the map. We were beginning to get     . Then without warning the car stopped. A quick     showed that we had run out of petrol. Although we had little food with us, we decided to     the night in the car.
Our meal was soon over. I tried to go to sleep at once,     John, who was a     sleeper, got out of the car after a few minutes and went for a walk      the hills. Soon he came back. From the top of the hill he had seen, in the valley below, the     of the town we were looking for. We at once unloaded all our luggage and with a great effort,    to push the car to the top of the hill. Then we went back to the luggage, loaded the car again and set off down the hill.      less than a quarter of an hour we were in the town, where we found a       quite easily.

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，并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
I had been playing hockey（冰球）for about 10 years. I was always the one sitting at the end of the bench, and      got into a game. I went to all the      and showed up even when it was so      that your ‘breath froze’ and when the other players had decided to stay home. I felt I had      enough and thought of quitting.
I finally decided to      the news to my mom that I was leaving the team. My mom may have looked like a tiny and quiet lady but on      my words, she said, “Remember, ‘A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.’ Your mother didn’t raise    , so think about yourself in a      way and see yourself as a winner!” So I worked harder than ever at getting in better shape,      my shot accuracy and changing my      . 
Once in a match, we     our first game badly. What’s worse, one of our best players got hurt. I was sitting at my      place, at the end of the bench, when the coach came over and told me I was going    , I was nervous, excited and terrified all at the same time.
The opposing team was fast and I had to admit I was a little     .  But my mom’s words      out in my head like a church bell. Instead of being afraid, I was “pumped” and I very quickly found that all my      work was paying off.  I was as fast a skater as anyone else on the ice, and I seemed to get the     to score. The crowd went quiet.  All the time I spent on the ice when everyone had gone home had _____ me for this moment.
Won! I won!
The lesson I learned from my mom’s      has stayed with me over the years. I hear them whenever I am faced with a challenge, or whenever I     myself.  

One day I decided to quit．I quitted my job, my relationship, my spirituality. I wanted to quit my life.
I went to the     to have one last talk with God． "Can you give me one good    not to quit?" His answer surprised me．
"Look around． Do you see the fern（蕨类植物） and the bamboo? When I planted their seeds, I took good care of them．The fern quickly grew from the earth．     nothing came from the bamboo seed． During the following three years, the fern grew more plentiful． And    , nothing came from the bamboo seed． But I did not quit on the bamboo． Then in the fifth year a      sprout（新芽） emerged from the earth． Compared to the fern it was     small and insignificant． But just 6 months later the bamboo     to over 100 feet tall． It had spent the five years growing    ． Those roots made it strong and gave it     it needed to survive．I wouldn’t give any of my creations a challenge it could not    ．”
He said to me .”All this time you have been struggling , you have ___been growing roots . I would not quit on the bamboo.____will I ever quit on you .Don’t ____yourself with others .The bamboo had a different ____from the fern .Yet they both make the forest beautiful .Your time will ___ .You will rise high!”
"How high should I rise?" I asked．
"How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked     ．
"As high as it can?" I    ．
"Yes," He said． "Give me glory     rising as high as you can．"
I left the forest and bring back this story． I hope it can help you see that God will never    on you． Never regret a day in your life． Good days give you happiness． Bad days give you   ． Both are necessary to life．

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—40题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are   , one by one. "There is my grandmother's house," I say,      across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯)      memory for me. Lise was one of the mobile children,      from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of      , and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors      for 200 years.
We soon     by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories    back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the     where I was once so gloriously a child. It still    a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk      the rooms in memory. Here, my mother      in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family      into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being      them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise       attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I     ; where I belong. "
She has      her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human     To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need      origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the        of "I". We must all go home again—in reality or memory.

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
I ran into a stranger as he passed by. “I’m so sorry!” was my     . Then he said, “Excuse me too ... I didn’t even      you.” We were very    , the stranger and I. Then we went on our ways after saying     .
But at home, a different      is told. How we treat our      ones, the young and the old. Later, in the kitchen, as I cooked our supper, my      entered, very still. When I turned, I nearly knocked her down. “Get out of the way!” I      at her. She left, with her little heart broken. I didn’t      how hard I’d spoken.
That     , as I lay awake in bed, God’s quiet voice      to me and said, “While with strangers, you are polite,      with those you love, you didn’t do it properly. Go and look right now on the      floor, you’ll find some flowers there by the door. Those are the flowers she    __  for you. She picked them herself—pink, yellow and blue.”
By this time, I felt      and small and now my own      fell. I quietly went to her bed, “     up, my dear daughter.” I said. “Are these the flowers you picked for me?” She smiled, “I found them on the tree. I knew you’d like them,      the blue.” I said, “I’m so   __  that I missed them today ... And I shouldn’t have shouted at you that way.” She whispered(低声说), “Mommy, that’s okay. I still      you anyway.” I hugged her and said, “I love you too and love your flowers, especially the blue.”

  A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a _  , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it ________from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles, _______everywhere. I tried to use a broom, ____ with each sweep they just rolled across the kitchen.
For the next week, every time I was in the ____, I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept _____. Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and ____ 12 frozen peas hidden underneath.
At the time I found those few remaining ____, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful ____ I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded ____ those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my ____ had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble___ his new surroundings and the ____ of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered.
When life gets you ____, when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never ____, remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be ___, and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas ___, including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them ___, you’ll start to feel whole again.
The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to ____, and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, __will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?