My husband and I insisted that our children were old enough to clean their rooms and make their beds. But they thought   11 . My complaints, even self-justified（自有道理）  12 , were always landing on   13  ears. Very often a whole hour’s scolding would end up with their   14  into tears. I felt very frustrated. I realized I needed to   15  my method of “mothering”.
One day when they were at school, I spent some time tidying their rooms. On their desks, in plain  16 , I left the cards: “Dear Bill(the other card was   17  to Sarah), your room was messy this morning and I’m sure you like it clean. Love, the Room Fairy.”  18  arriving back, the children were   19  excited to receive the little note from the Room Fairy. The next day, their rooms were fairly tidy. Sure enough, there was another note from the Room Fairy   20  
for them, thanking them for their nice “gift” of a clean room and   21  asking them to play a certain violin  22 . Each day, thank-you notes would be written differently to keep the ideas   23 ．
Sometimes the Room Fairy would propose a little   24 : “If you can finish your homework and go over your lessons before dinner, I’d like to watch a particular television program with you tonight.” Sometimes some colored markers or other little items would be left in   25  of well-done jobs the day   26 .
  27  I can’t remember how long “the Room Fairy” continued leaving her love notes. When they were age appropriate, we used various versions of Post-Its （贴条）. The bathroom mirror became the   28  centre of our home. Appointments, notices about visiting relatives, lesson schedules, and changes in plans could be   29 .
We all benefited from and  30  the idea of sharing reminders and daily details of life through notes. I believe the true advantage of the Room Fairy notes survives in our frequent and enjoyable communication．

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出合适填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在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 26 got into a game.I went to all the 27   and showed up even when itwas so 28 that your ‘breath froze’ and whenplayers    had decided to stay home. I feltI had   29   enough and thought of quitting”
I finally decided to  30 the news to my mom that I was leaving the team. My mom may have looked like a tiny and quiet lady but on  31 my words, she said, “Remember, ‘A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.’ Your mother didn’t raise  32 , so think about yourself in a  33 way and see yourself as a winner!” So I worked harder than ever at getting in better shape,  34 my shot accuracy and changing my  35 .
Once in a match, we  36 our first game badly. What’s worse, one of our best players got hurt. I was sitting at my  37 place, at the end of the bench, when the coach came over and told me I was going  38 . 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  39 .  But my mom’s words   40 out in my head like a church bell. Instead of being afraid, I was “pumped” and I very quickly found that all my  41 work was paying off.  I was as fast a skater as anyone else on the ice, and I seemed to get the   42  to score. The crowd went quiet.  All the time I spent on the ice when everyone had gone home had 43 me for this moment.
Won! I won!
The lesson I learned from my mom’s  44 has stayed with me over the years. I hear them whenever I am faced with a challenge, or whenever I  45 myself.  

One day, a farmer’s donkey fell into a dried up well. The animal cried  16 for hours as the farmer tried to  17  what to do. Finally, he decided that the animal was  18 , the well needed to be covered up, and  19  the donkey just wasn’t worth the  20 , so he invited his neighbors to  21  and help him bury the donkey in the well. They all held shovels (铲) and begin to shovel  22   into the well. At first, the donkey  23   what was happing and  24   cried pitifully. Then, to everyone’s 25  , he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked  26  into the well and was  27  at what he saw.  28  each shovel load of dirt that hit his back, the donkey  29  something surprising. He shook it off and took a step up! As the farmer’s neighbors 30  to shovel dirt  31  the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. The donkey stepped  32  over the edge of the well! As with the donkey,  33  is going to shovel dirt  34  you, all kinds of dirt. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, by never giving 35  .

On a cold winter day, I waited in line to see my hero, Jack Canfield, the author of The Success Principles, who was going to deliver a speech on his new book.
During his talk, Jack   41  his wallet, pulled out a hundred-dollar bill, and said, ‘‘Who wants this?”   42  shot up in the audience; people leaned forward to see whom Jack would   43 . But I jumped up, ran up the   44  to the stage, and grabbed the bill. As I was launching myself in the air,   45 raced through my mind — was I about to be humiliated(羞辱) in front of 800 people? Would they   46  security guards and take me from the stage?    47  my desire for bold （大胆的）action was louder than any   48 voice. As I got the bill from his hand, he said, “That’s it! We can’t wait for the   49  to come to us. We must take    50   to create what we want!’’
After his talk, I   51  to formally meet Jack and boldly asked for his personal e-mail address. Over the next months, I sent him emails   52  my points of view and dreams with him. He kindly e-mailed back lots of encouragement. But my life got busy   53 other things. I stopped e-mailing Jack.
A year later, my dreams had worn away. I thought Jack would inspire me into action, like a giant arrow that would show me the way.
I e-mailed him, and then again — but got no   54 . As I sat down at my computer to 55  my e-mails, I  56  woke up. What was I doing? I was waiting! Now I remembered the crowd, most likely   57  that hundred-dollar bill, while they sat glued to their chairs.
Usually we all have a “Jack” for whom we wait — whether it’s a person, a place or a thing. We   58  believe the gifts of life are just around the corner, and that everything will come in a(n)   59  way. So we don’t try. We  60 . But as Wayne Gretzky said，“You’ll always miss 100% of the opportunities you don’t take!” So I stopped waiting and started my writing career.
Now what are you waiting for?

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My husband and I arrived in a new country just a month ago. We were sort of    about what was waiting for us. However, when we   at the airport, a tall man with smiling eyes greeted us. The days and months were   made easy for us by this kind man.
He greeted us every day with his smiling face. He   us in going to the bank, in buying our groceries, in telling us   to buy almost everything. He told us he is our big brother.
   , we watched the match in a coffee shop. During the first get-together, he   us that we’re lucky—my husband and I are   in this foreign land. He said he has been   for eight years now because he rarely sees his family,   they are in his home country.
During the second get-together, he   told us that we are his family. He said that he loves us and that he will   us because he has been given a   of 45 days to go back to his home country. That night, he spoke these words which   a great impact in my life:“You changed my life…”
That night deep in our hearts we were   by our friend’s words. We texted him upon reaching home,   him for being a Big Brother to us in the foreign land. We told him   that we feel safe in going out when we are with him, to which he   , “You are my family here.”
On the first week of October, we’re going to   him back from his vacation. We’ll watch the football match again in that   shop that holds dear memories.

阅读下面的短文，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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A teacher teaching maths to seven-year-old Laiq asked him, “If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”
Within a few seconds, Laiq      confidently, “Four!”
The confused teacher was expecting a(n)       correct answer, three. She was disappointed. “Maybe the child did not listen      ” she thought. She     “Laiq, listen carefully. If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”
Laiq had seen the      on his teacher’s face. He     again on his fingers. But within him he was also      the answer that would make the teacher happy. This time hesitatingly he replied, “Four.”
The disappointment stayed on the teacher’s face. Suddenly she    that Laiq liked strawberries. She thought maybe he didn’t like apples and that was why he couldn’t answer the question. This time with an excitement in her     she asked, “If I give you one strawberry and one strawberry and one strawberry, then how many you will have?”
Seeing the teacher   , young Laiq calculated on his fingers again. There was no pressure on him. But a little on the teacher. She wanted her new    to succeed.   a hesitating smile young Laiq replied, “Three?”
The teacher now had a      smile. Her approach had succeeded. She wanted to      herself. But one last thing remained.      she asked him, “Now if I give you one apple and one apple and one more apple how many will you have?”
Confidently Laiq answered, “Four!” The teacher was     , “How Laiq, how?” she demanded in a little impatient voice.
In a voice that was      and hesitating young Laiq replied, “Because I already have one     in my bag.”
The story tells us:      someone gives you an answer that is      from what you expect, don’t think they are wrong. There shall be an angle that you may not have thought about yet.

One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant , waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive . Suddenly I         that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing(瞥) in my direction（方向） ,       he knew me . The man had a newspaper         in front of him ,    he was pretending(假装) to read , but I could         that he was keeping an eye on me .When the waiter brought my         the man was clearly puzzled (困惑) by the        way in which the waiter and I         each other . He seemed even more puzzled as         went on and it became         that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me . Finally he got up and went into the         . When he came out , he paid his bill and         without another glance in my direction .
I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had         . “Well,” he said , “that man was a detective (侦探) . He         you here because he thought you were the man he         .” “What ?” I said , showing my         . The owner continued , “He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I         say he looked very much like you ! Of course , since we know you , we told him that he had made a         .” “Well , it’s really         that I came to a          where I’m known ,” I said . “otherwise(否则), I might have been in trouble .”

When my mom came home from the hospital with twins, I was excited at the very beginning. I couldn’t __ to play with them and be the best big sister ever.
Everyone was coming over to our house to hold the babies and _ _ presents to the babies and talk how ____ the babies were. Then they’d pull out their cameras, and just ____ I was about to say “cheese”, they’d run over to my perfect little brothers and take _____ of them. At that time I was thinking, “Why can’t I be little again so I can be the one getting all the _____?”
When my aunt Camille got _____, my mom spent forever finding the perfect clothes for them. On the day of the _____, my twin brothers had the cutest and prettiest clothes. And then there was me, just sitting and watching in my _____ dress.
After the ceremony, all I ____ was how sweet and lovely the twins were.
I ____that they were wonderful, but I couldn’t help feeling ____. There was a big ____ after the wedding. Aunt Camille and her nice new ____ had the first dance, and then everyone started _____like crazy including me. I ____ my uncomfortable dress shoes, and I danced and danced and dances! It ____ one of the most fun times I’ve had in my whole life.
The very __ __ part was when my aunt and I took my twin brothers by the hands and ____ them some dance moves. Teaching them was such a cool thing. I ____then what a huge waste of time feeling jealous is when you can kick off your shoes and enjoy life!

At the age of three, I wasdiscovered to be totally deaf. Having consulted many specialists, my parents made a(n)      that would forever alter my future.      sending me to a special education school for the deaf, they chose an ordinary one for me. All of my schoolmates and teachers there would have      hearing.
I experienced great      throughout my primary school because, in addition to the problems of      with the other students, I also      with most of my school work. I seemed to spend every spare moment doing homework just so I could     .
    for me, Mrs. Jordan, my 5th grade teacher, changed all of that with a simple three-word phrase.
One morning, she asked the class a question. I      her lips and immediately raised my hand. Here was an opportunity to impress the powerful teacher and even my classmates. Although a little afraid when I heard my named called, I felt unusually      because I was sure I had the right answer. I took a deep breath and      answered Mrs. Jordan's question.
Her response      all of us. Mrs. Jordan enthusiastically      her right foot on the floor and turned her right hand around in a full circle      it pointed directly at me. With shining eyes she cried, "THAT'S RIGHT, STEPHEN!"
For the first time in my young life, I was an instant star. My heart burst with     .  Smiling widely, I sat a little taller in my chair. My confidence      like never before. I decided right then and there that I would make a(n)      in this world. No matter how many      I might come across in life, I knew I could overcome them.
The very three-word phrase entirely      my young life. From that day on, my grades and speech improved greatly, my      among my classmates increased, and my viewpoint on life did a complete turnabout.

Coin confusion
Rachel looked through troubled eyes at his sister and said, “1 wouldn't have thought Eric would be a thief. His sister Sarah replied, “Whoa, that's a   accusation to make against your best friend!”
Rachel remembered two days ago when he had brought out his coin collection for Eric to   .At the end of that day, Rachel's mother had asked him to do her a favor，so he had asked his friend,“1s it okay if I leave you for a few minutes?" Eric had said, "Go ahead. I'll clean up here,"      at the piles of coins on the floor.
When Rachel had returned, it never occurred to him to   his coins until two days later that he realized some quarters were     .
Sarah said, “Why don't you just ask him?”
“Ask him what? Hey, Best Friend, did you     my coin collection?” Rachel thought for a moment,    if that would be a good idea. The theft of his collection left him with a feeling of    .“How could I have misjudged my friend's    ?"
The next day Rachel went over to  Eric's house. Eric was acting funny sort of nervous, like he couldn't be   . In fact, Rachel thought Eric acted like someone with a secret. Anger blossomed （产生）as  Rachel watched Eric pretend to be kind,     Eric had obviously stolen from him. Rachel finally could not stand it anymore and stood up. Suddenly, Eric   ,“I can't stand it anymore!” Rachel was astonished at hearing his own      burst forth from his friend! Only, instead of sounding     , Eric sounded excited. He pulled something from underneath the chair.
"Go to open it! I was going to wait until your birthday, but I can't wait1” Slowly, Rachel lifted the top of the     . Laid out in front of him were all of the quarters from his coin collection. Each quarter was in its own    in a new collection case.  Each quarter shone like it was new.
Rachel felt     rush over his neck and ears. He   said, “Thank you this means...a great deal to me.” He was grateful that Eric had cut him     before he said something he would     . Eric was exactly the type of person he wanted as a friend !