take off ,    on time ,    take place ,    turn off ,    thanks to ,    rather than
【小题1】             my teacher's help, I worked out the problem at last.
【小题2】We should think about others first,            ourselves.
【小题3】Can you            the radio？ I'm writing my homework.
【小题4】Great changes have           since I left my hometown 10 years ago.
【小题5】I hope you can come to the meeting            tomorrow.

I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago. Her husband died because of traffic accident. About a week after his death, she shared some of her insights with us.

The class was clearly over. She said,＂Before class is over, I would like to share with all of you an important thought.”  “Each of us is on Earth to learn, share, love and *appreciate. We must *cherish every single day.”

Her eyes beginning to water, she went on, “So I would like you to make me a *promise. From now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful. It could be a *scent----perhaps of freshly baked bread, or it could be the sound of the *breeze slightly *rustling the leaves in the trees.”

“Please look for these things, and cherish them. For, although it may sound * trite, these things are the *stuff of life. They are the little things on Earth to enjoy. They are the things we often take for *granted. We must try to notice them because it can be easily taken away at any time.”

 The class was completely quiet. We picked up our books and went out of the room silently. That afternoon I noticed more things on my way from school than I had that whole semester.

  I often think of that teacher and try to appreciate all off those things that sometimes we *overlook.

 Take notice of something special you see on your lunch time today. Walk *barefoot along the beach at *sunset. For as we get older, it is not the things we did that we regret, but the things we didn’t do.

1.In the writer’s eyes , the high school teacher was ________________________.

A. weak     B. happy       C. strict        D. special

2.The words “insight” in the first paragraph means_____________________.

A. promise     B. thought       C. love       D. thing

3.From the underlined sentence in the third paragraph we know the writer’s teacher suggests ____________.

A. cherishing every single day    

B. finding something beautiful       

C. cherishing even very little things     

D. taking for granted

4.The best title for the passage may be __________________________.

A. My high school days               B. Making a promise     

C. My teacher’s insights               D. Little things in life

完形填空：从每小题A、B、C三个选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。
Life is not easy, so I'd like to say “When anything happens, believe in yourself.”
When I was a young boy, I  1  very shy（害羞的）. My classmates often laughed(笑) at me. I was unhappy but could do  2 . Later, something happened and it changed my life. It was an English speech(演讲) competition. My English teacher asked me  3  part in it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak  4  all the teachers and students of my school!
“ 5 , boy. Believe in yourself. You are sure to win. ” Then my teacher and I  6
about many different topics. Finally I chose the topic “Believe in yourself”. I did my best to remember all the speech and practiced it over 100 times. With my teacher's great love, I did  7 in the competition. I won the first place. I could hardly(几乎不) believe my  8
when the news came. I  9  the cheers from the teachers and students.
Since then, everything has changed for me. When I do anything, I try to tell  10 to be sure and I will find myself.
【小题1】A. will be                 B. was                  C. am
【小题2】A. something               B. anything             C. nothing
【小题3】A. take                    B. taking               C. to take
【小题4】A. after                   B. before               C. with
【小题5】A. Come on                 B. Go on                C. Turn on
【小题6】A. told                   B. talked               C. said
【小题7】A. good                    B. well                 C. interested
【小题8】A. ears                    B. eyes                 C. story
【小题9】A. listened                B. heard                C. sounded
【小题10】A. I                      B. my                   C. myself