It was a bright Saturday morning in the late fall. I had stopped at a café to enjoy a cup of coffee and__1__ the morning newspaper. Suddenly, I__2__ a hand on the back of my jacket and heard someone say, “Hey Steve! How ya doin’?”

       __3__ up, I saw a boy wearing a mechanic’s uniform worn by employees of the gasoline station next to the café. He looked__4__, but, at first, I was unable to__5__ where we had met.

       He also held a cup of coffee, so I asked him to join me. Very soon, his__6__ and probably my coffee began to thaw(解冻) out my__7__.

       Five years earlier, he had been traveling home late on a February night. A fierce__8___ had arrived that afternoon, and by midnight, the snowdrifts were getting__9___. He recalled__10__ a drift just down the road from my house.

       He had walked to my house for__11__. I had taken my pickup and a tow-rope and__12__ his car out of the snowdrift and up to the highway where maintenance(维护) trucks had__13___ away the snow.

       This has been a__14__ occurrence here during the winter. I cannot__15__ the times someone has also pulled my car from a snowdrift.

       ___16__, it was an unforgettable experience for him, and his memory of our unexpected meeting in a snowstorm__17__ my entire day.

       Leo Buscaglia wrote, “Too often we underestimate(低估) the__18_ of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment(赞扬), or the smallest act of__19__, all of which have the potential to turn a__20__ around.”

1. A. preview  B. scan           C. order         D. buy

2. A. noticed   B. got            C. caught        D. felt

3. A. Looking B. Standing    C. Rising        D. Glaring

4. A. sensitive B. friendly             C. familiar             D. grateful

5. A. reflect    B. determine   C. regain        D. recall

6. A. story             B. experience  C. appearance D. greetings

7. A. heart             B. feeling              C. memory            D. wonder

8. A. sandstorm      B. snowstorm  C. hurricane    D. rainfall

9. A. high              B. slippery             C. thin           D. deep

10. A. blocking      B. hitting        C. knocking    D. crashing

11. A. help            B. advice        C. emergency  D. shelter

12. A. pulled  B. dragged             C. pushed              D. dug

13. A. collected      B. cleared              C. threw         D. melted

14. A. basic    B. common            C. forgettable  D. practical

15. A. count   B. keep          C. master        D. predict

16. A. Besides B. Therefore   C. However    D. Otherwise

17. A. covered       B. influenced  C. brightened  D. filled

18. A. meaning      B. relation             C. value         D. power

19. A. caring  B. offering            C. sharing              D. forgiving

20. A. course  B. fate            C. truth          D. life

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，并把答案填在题号前括号内。

You Did More Than Carry My Books

   Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed the boy ahead of him had dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with a baseball bat and several other things. Mark __16__ down and helped the boy pick up these articles. __17__they were going the same way, he helped to carry some of them for him. As they walked Mark __18_ the boy’s name was Bill, that he __19__ computer games, baseball and history, that he was having a lot of _20_ with his other subjects and that he had just broken _21__ with his girlfriend.

   They arrived at Bill’s home first and Mark was __22__in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed __23__ with a few laughs and some shared small talk, and then Mark went home. They __24__ to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, and then both ended up from the same high school. Just three weeks before __ 25_ , Bill asked Mark if they _26_ talk.

   Bill __27__ him of the day years ago when they had first met. “ Do you __28__ wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill. “ You see, I __29__ out my locker because I didn’t want to leave a mess ( 脏乱) __30__ anyone else . I had planned to run away and I was going home to __31__ my things. But after we spent some time together __32_ and laughing, I realized that __33_ I had done that , I would have _34_ a new friend and missed all the fun we would have together. So you see, Mark , when you picked up my books that day, you did a lot more . You __35__ my life.

1.A. fell                   B. sat                               C. lay                         D. knelt

2.A. Although          B. Since                   C. After                              D. Until

3.A discovered          B. realized                         C. said                       D. decided

4.A. played                            B. loved              C. tried                      D. made

5.A. questions          B. ideas                   C. trouble                            D. doubt

6.A. up                    B. out                      C. off                      D. away

7.A. called                             B. helped             C. invited                   D. invited

8.A. peacefully         B. willingly            C. freely                               D. pleasantly

9.A. continued          B. agreed                          C. forced                   D. offered

10.A. graduation       B. movement            C. separation           D. vacation

11.A. would             B. should                          C. could                     D. must

12.A. demanded       B. reminded             C. removed                         D. asked

13.A. ever                             B. usually             C. even                     D. never

14.A. checked          B. took                    C. cleaned                           D. put

15.A. over                             B. into                 C. with                      D. for

16.A. find                B. pick                    C. pack                               D. hold

17.A. talking            B. playing                          C. reading                D. watching

18.A. before             B. if                        C. while                              D. as

19.A. forgotten         B. passed                           C. left                        D. lost

20.A. helped          B. recovered C. improved   　　　D. changed 

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
God’s Coffee
A group of class friends, highly established(很有成就) in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor．Conversation soon __41__ into complaints about stress(压力) in work and life．
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the __42__ and returned with a large pot of coffee and a couple of __43__ —porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, __44__ expensive, some delicate—telling them to __45__ themselves to the coffee．
When all the students had a cup of coffee in _46__ ,the professor said：“If you noticed，all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, __47__ behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is __48__ for you to choose only the best for yourselves, that is the __49__ of your problems and stress．Be assured that the cup itself __50__ no quality to the coffee．In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink．__51__ all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously (自觉地) went __52__ the best cups．And then you began __53__ each other’s cups．Now consider this：Life is the __54__; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups．They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define(详细说明) , nor __55__the quality of life we __56__．Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we __57__ to enjoy the coffee God has __58__ for us．God brews the coffee, not the cups…Enjoy your coffee!”
The happiest people don’t have the best of everything．They just __59__ the best of everything．
Live simply．Love generously．Care deeply．Speak kindly．Leave the __60__ to God．

【小题20】

A．dignity B．argument C．rest D．thinking

My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at ___36___. As for me, I ___37___ both before twelve because of living close to Lake Ontario.

The last time Dad and I set sail together is really ___ 38___. It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from university. I came home and ___39___Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the ___40___lake. Dad hadn’t sailed for years, but everything ___41___well with the tiller（舵柄）in his hands.

When we were in the middle of the lake, a ___ 42___ wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit ___43___. Dad was always at his best in any___44___, but at this moment he___45___.

"John!___46___!" he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.

In my memory he could fix any___ 47___. He was the one I always___48___for strength and security. Before I could respond, a___ 49___ of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller ___50___it was too late. Another huge wall of water ___ 51___the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely ___52___of him.

I swam to Dad ___ 53___and assisted him in climbing onto the hull（船壳）of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, Dad was a little awkward about his flash of ___ 54___. "It's all right, Dad. We are safe now," I comforted him.

That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start___55___for my father.