A well-known speaker started his speech by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “What is this piece of   1  and is it worth anything?”

Hands started going up. “It is a $20 bill, encashable(可兑现的) in international and national   2  .”replied one of the   3  who raised their hands.

The speaker continued, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first, let me do this.” He continued to crumple the 20 dollar bill using both his hands. He then               4  it and asked, “Who still wants it?” Still the hands were up in the air.

“Well,” he said, “what if I do this?” He dropped it on the  5  and started to step on it. He picked up the crumpled and   6  bill and said, “Now, who still wants it?”  

7  went back into the air. “I think this bill is still   8  its value”, said a young man in an unsure  9 . “We can still use the bill to   10  goods worth 20 dollars,” said the other people.

“My friends, you have all learned a very   11  lesson in this exercise that we are just through with. You’ve   12  that I can crumple the $20 bill during the process as the effects can be seen clearly.   13 , no matter what I did to the piece of paper, you were   14  in your mind that my actions did not actually decrease its   15 . It was still worth $20.”

“Many times in our lives, we feel like as if we are   16 , crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are   17 ; but no matter what happened or what will happen, please   18 , you will never lose your value.” Values that you keep in your heart will always   19  you from a difficult situation.

Dirty or clean, crumpled or not, you are still priceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who we know, but by ...WHO WE ARE.” “You are   20 — don’t ever forget it.”

1.                A．paper          B．advice          C．information    D．luck

 

2.                A．organizations    B．flights          C．markets  D．conferences

 

3.                A．family          B．teachers        C．speakers  D．audience

 

4.                A．hid            B．bought         C．carried   D．unfolded

 

5.                A．square         B．beach          C．ground   D．playground

 

6.                A．thin           B．dirty           C．new D．clear

 

7.                A．Hands          B．Books          C．Heads    D．Smoke

 

8.                A．losing          B．reducing        C．increasing     D．holding

 

9.                A．sound          B．voice           C．noise D．shout

 

10.               A．deliver         B．buy            C．sell   D．produce

 

11.               A．boring         B．difficult         C．valuable   D．painful

 

12.               A．heard          B．seen           C．forgotten  D．doubted

 

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

 

14.               A．sure           B．curious         C．proud D．sad

 

15.               A．price          B．growth         C．value D．size

 

16.               A．dropped        B．turned         C．looked    D．talked

 

17.               A．important       B．confident       C．selfish D．useless

 

18.               A．accept         B．argue          C．remember D．decide

 

19.               A．leave          B．search         C．save  D．beat

 

20.               A．especial        B．normal         C．ordinary   D．special

 

 

 

    阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合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 arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English Literature class．Having taught in  1for 17 years, I had no  2about my ability to hold their attention and to  3on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue．

    I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “  4!”

    The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat  5about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness was over, I quickly  6my calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect --- perhaps  7their admiration．I went back to my office with the rosy glow which comes from a sense of achievement．

    My students  8diaries．However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually  9by a strong sense of sadness．The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today． 10her next lecture will be better．” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a  11theme．“Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework of Western thought and laid the historical  12for all the works we will study in class,” I complained．“How  13they say I didn’t teach them anything?”

    It was a long term, and it  14became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as  15of my students．I thought a teacher’s job was to raise     16questions and provide enough background so that students could  17their own conclusions．My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide  18information as directly and clearly as possible．What a difference!

19, I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a  20American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture．

1.A．the UK           B．the US        C．China          D．Australia

2.A．worry            B．idea          C．doubt          D．experience

3.A．impress          B．put           C．leave         D．fix

4.A．Attention        B．Look out      C．At ease        D．Stand up

5.A．puzzled          B．sure           C．depressed      D．worried

6.A．found            B．returned      C．regained       D．followed

7.A．more             B．even           C．yet            D．still

8.A．passed           B．borrowed       C．kept           D．read

9.A．replaced         B．taken         C．caught         D．moved

10.A．Naturally       B．Perhaps       C．Fortunately    D．Reasonably

11.A．different       B．strong        C．similar        D．usual

12.A．happenings      B．characters    C．development    D．background

13.A．should          B．need           C．will           D．must

14.A．immediately     B．certainly     C．simply         D．gradually

15.A．that            B．what          C．those          D．ones

16.A．difficult       B．interesting   C．ordinary       D．unusual

17.A．draw            B．get            C．decide         D．give

18.A．strange         B．standard      C．exact          D．serious

19.A．Therefore       B．However        C．But            D．Though

20.A．normal          B．happy          C．good           D．better