I was bleeding now. My ears were red, my nose was broken, and the pain of failure was beginning. I had lost. It was over. The match was stopped. The world seemed to stand still for a moment as I looked at who had beaten me. “I’ve lost,” I said in m mind. “The last chance to win and I had lost.” It was the final round of wrestling. It was my last year at camp and I wanted to have an undefeated season. But now, I had lost in the tournament（锦标赛）.

    My coach came over to help me up. He saw that my nose was broken and realized that the match had to be stopped. He helped me up and I got small applause from my teammates. People on the other team just stared. Coach walked me over to the locker room to work on my nose.

    “I’ll stop the bleeding,” Coach Matt said. His voice was cold and empty. He had expected me to win—he knew I could have won—but now he saw it was over. I had lost.

    “Hey, Steve. You did good, man, He, well, he just…” my friend Paul couldn’t find what to say.

    “Forget it, man.” I said, my nose still bleeding.

    “Don’t talk or it won’t stop bleeding. Just relax and breath through your mouth.” Coach Matt’s voice was still cold, but warming slowly. He was like a father to me. He had been there through all my years of wrestling, all my wins and losess , all my hopes and dreams—and now he was there, fixing my smashed nose.

    “This must have happened during that last throw. You fell too much on your face. You should’ve turned and tried to escape. You gotta think more.” Coach Matt began, his voice now warm like an old friend trying to give good advice.

    “I wanted this so badly.” I said.

    “Maybe we can get another contest because of the nose. You can still go undefeated! You can still do it…” Paul continued.

    No, I lost. Nothing was left for me to do this year. This was supposed to be the year—no loses.” I said, cutting him off before he finished.

    “Steve, you did your best. Come on. Let’s go and get your medal,” Coach said. He looked at me right in the eyes. “You gave it your all. You deserved that trophy(战利品), not the silver medal. You deserve it, but he is getting it. You really won and the whole team is proud.”

    I walked up to get my medal, my head held high. I shook the hands of the judges and my opponent, took m medal and saw that, in the eyes of everyone, I had really won. No matter what trophy or medal my opponent took home, no matter what. He may have had my trophy, but he could never have my will.

    1. The word “applause” in the second paragraph means _____.

    A. cheers and hand—clapping                                   B. shouts and crying

    C. screaming and laughing                                      D. noises and whistling

    2. “You gave it your all.” means that _____.

    A. you tried to win but you failed                    B. you have done your best to do it

    C. you never gave up doing it                         D. you succeeded in everything

    3. The hero lost his match. Both his coach and friends thought that _____.

    A. he really showed his strength in it

    B. he shouldn’t be encouraged and thought highly of

    C. he could not match his opponent

    D. he had lost heart at the end of the competition

4. According to the hero, at the end of the passage, we can suppose that____.

    A. he had made up his mind to win all the matches the next season

    B. he looked down upon his opponent and though nothing of it

    C. he had strong will to become the best wrestler in the world

    D. he wanted to end his career as a professional wrestler

Bob，my younger brother, stays happy at home all day, staring at television．Because he has been brain-damaged from birth，he cannot  1  , hear and can see poorly through his remaining eye．

    On a hot summer morning，Mum had written“VISIT GRANDMA”for Bob in large letters  2  we left for the nursing home．No one expected Bob to  3  the fact that this would probably be our  4  visit to my grandma．

    We stepped into my grandma’s nursing room after getting off the car．The strokes（中风）had left Grandma trembling and she couldn’t  5  to anything around her-her mouth opened，her wide eyes shut and opened quickly and stared but   6  she didn’t see us at all．

    We stood round the bed，smiling  7  ，and comforting her that everything would go 8 ．This is tile first time that I had had   9   to say all I wanted．but I could think of  10  to say to her．“We love you，Grandma．”I said finally,  11   if I was reaching her．

Bob was standing quietly next to the window with his face brilliant red and tears rolling  12 his face．Just a few moments later, he  13  the group and made his  14  to Grandma’s bed．He leaned over her withered（萎缩）body and took her cheeks  15  in his hands．He stood there silently with his head bowed，and his cheeks wet with tears．

    Those of us with  16  ears were deaf to the volumes being spoken between Grandma and Bob in that wonderful．wordless  17  ．

I felt a flood of warmth rushing deep inside me．How  18  had been about Bob these years! Far better than the rest of us，he knew the true  19  of our visit．He knew it perfectly because he grasped it with his heart  20  with his hands．He had tile freedom，courage and honesty to reach out in pain to Grandma．

1．A．behave      B．think                    C．speak                         D．communicate

   2．A．before       B．after                    C．since                     D．until

   3．A．confuse    B．understand           C．imagine                  D．overcome

   4．A．first          B．second                 C．next                       D．1ast

   5．A．respond    B．listen                   C．reply                      D．relate

   6．A．even if      B．as if                     C．now that                D．so that

   7．A．happily      B．cheerfully             C．excitedly                D．uncomfortably

   8．A．right                B．wrong                 C．OK                        D．reasonable

   9．A．confidence        B．freedom               C．wisdom                 D．decision

  10．A．everything          B．anything               C．something              D．nothing

  11．A．wondering                B．doubting              C．considering            D．expecting

  12．A．along               B．up                       C．around                   D．down

13．A．looked through     B．pulled through      C．pushed through       D．lived through

  14．A．decision           B．way                     C．promise                 D．experiment

15．A．gently              B．angrily                  C．hardly                    D．impolitely

16．A．dibbled             B．ordinary               C．healthy                   D．sad

17．A．return              B．exchange             C．opinion                  D．environment

18．A．friendly            B．understandable      C．wrong                   D．familiar

19．A．meaning           B．relation                C．purpose                 D．arm

20．A．less than           B．more than            C．other than              D．rather than

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　　When we want to tell other people what we think or what we want, we can do it not only with the help of words, but also in many other ways. For example, we sometimes move our 1 up and down when we want to say“ 2 ”, and we move our heads from side to side when we want to say “ 3 ”. People who can neither hear nor 4 to each other can communicate with the help of their 5 . People who don't understand each other's 6 have to do the same. The following story shows 7 they sometimes do it.

　　An Englishman who couldn't speak Italian was once 8 in Italy. One day he entered a 9 and sat at a table. When the waiter came, the Englishman opened his mouth, put his 10 in it, took them out again and moved his 11 .In this way he want to say, “Bring me something to 12 .”The waiter soon brought him a cup of 13 . The Englishman shook his head and the waiter 14 that he didn't want tea, so he took 15 away and brought him some coffee. The Englishman was very 16 at this time and looked very 17 . He was just going to leave their restaurant when another 18 came in. When this man saw the 19 he put it hands on his 20 . That was enough. After a few minutes there was a large plate of bread and meat on the table for him.

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