When I was in the ninth grade, my parents started fighting. I could hear them   36  at each other at night. It always seemed like they were fighting about me. I started to   37  and couldn’t fall asleep. Some nights I didn’t feel like I   38  at all. My grades really started to   39  too. It was hard to pay attention during class because I felt so   40  all the time.
My mom had to take me to see a therapist(治疗专家). On the way, I   41  to worry even more. What would my friends   42  me if they knew I was going to see a therapist? What if the therapist couldn’t   43   me?
It was not that   44 . My therapist asked me a lot of questions and then we talked about how my life might   45  if I was able to get more sleep.   46  I understood how the future could be better, I felt really   47  to try new things. At the end of the session, I was sent home with a piece of paper called a sleep diary. When I woke up each morning, I had to answer all these questions about my sleep.
  48 , she gave me homework related to my sleep. I wasn’t   49  to text or be on my computer after 8 pm. If I couldn’t fall asleep after about ten minutes, she wanted me to get up and do something in another room that would help me to   50  and feel sleepy.
During the therapy sessions, she was a cheerleader for my life and kept   51  out all the things I was doing right. With her help, it was so much easier to notice the   52  things that were happening all around me.
After about two months of seeing my therapist, I was sleeping at least eight hours a night, sometimes even nine! I felt happier. I could   53 . My grades got better. Basically, I felt like myself! It was so much better to admit that something was   54  and to do something to fix it   55  just watch my whole life get worse and worse.

A poor traveler stopped under the tree to eat the boiled rice and vegetable which he had brought with him.A few meters away,there was a small shop by the side of the road where a woman was frying fish and selling it to travelers.The woman watched the poor traveler carefully,and when he finished his food and began to go,she shouted rudely,“You haven’t paid me for the fried fish!”

“But I have not had any fried fish!” he said.

“But everyone can see that you enjoyed the smell of my fried fish with your rice and vegetables,” said the woman.“If you had not smelled the fish,your meal would not have been so pleasant!”

Soon a crowd collected,and although they supported the poor traveler,they had to admit that wind was blowing from the shop to the place where he had eaten,and that it had carried the smell of the fried fish to him.

Finally,the woman took the poor traveler to a judge,who said,“The woman says that the traveler ate his meal with the smell of her fried fish.The traveler agrees that the wind was blowing from the woman’s shop to the place where he ate his rice and vegetables and that it carried the smell of her fried fish to his nose while he was eating,so he must pay for it.What does your fried fish cost?” he asked the woman.

“Twenty-five cents a plate,” she answered,delighted.

“Then go outside together,”said the judge.There the traveler must hold up a twenty-five-cent piece so that its shadow falls on the woman’s hand.The price of the smell of a plate of fried fish is the shadow of twenty-five cents.

1.Why did the traveler refuse to pay the woman for the fried fish?Because _____.

A.he was poor

B.he was rude

C.he was supported by a crowd

D.he hadn’t eaten her fried fish at all

2.When the judge asked the woman a question,she felt _____.

A.excited

B.anxious

C.glad

D.angry

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.The traveler bought the boiled rice and vegetables and ate them by the side of the road.

B.The judge had no idea what the woman meant.

C.In the fifth paragraph,the first “it” has the same meaning as the second “it”.

D.The woman got nothing but the shadow of twenty-five cents in the end.

4.What do you think of the judge after reading the passage?

A.He was foolish.

B.He was clever.

C.He was neither foolish nor clever.

D.He was kind enough to give the woman twenty-five cents.

“Linda, if beating yourself up were an Olympic sport, you’d win a gold medal!”
Annabel, my close friend, stunned（使…震惊）me with that frank observation after I told her how I had mishandled a situation with a student in a third-grade class where I was substituting（代替）. “I should never have let him go to the boy’s room without a pass! It was my fault he got into trouble with the hall monitor! I’m so stupid!”
My friend burst out laughing, and then made her “Olympic” comment. After a brief period of reflection I had to admit that she was right. I did put myself down an awful lot. Why, just during the previous day I had called myself “a slob” for having some papers spread out on my desk, “ugly” when I left the house without makeup and “an idiot” when I left the house for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan.
In a more reflective tone, Annabel said, “I once took a workshop at church where the woman in charge had us list all the mean things we say about ourselves.”
“How many did you have on your list?” I asked.
“Fifteen,” she confessed. “But then the teacher said, ‘Now turn to the person next to you and say all the items on your list as if you were speaking to that person!’ ”
My jaw dropped，“What did you do?”
“Nothing. Nobody did. We all just sat there, until I said, ‘I could never say these things to anyone else!’ ”
“And our teacher replied, ‘Well, if you can’t say them to anyone else, then don’t ever say them to yourself!’ ”
My friend had a point. I would never insult a child of God---and I’m God’s child, too!
God, today let me be as kind to myself as I would be to another of Your children.
【小题1】What does Annabel mean by the first sentence of the passage?

When I was in the ninth grade, my parents started fighting. I could hear them   36  at each other at night. It always seemed like they were fighting about me. I started to   37  and couldn’t fall asleep. Some nights I didn’t feel like I   38  at all. My grades really started to   39  too. It was hard to pay attention during class because I felt so   40  all the time.

My mom had to take me to see a therapist(治疗专家). On the way, I   41  to worry even more. What would my friends   42  me if they knew I was going to see a therapist? What if the therapist couldn’t   43   me?

It was not that   44 . My therapist asked me a lot of questions and then we talked about how my life might   45  if I was able to get more sleep.   46  I understood how the future could be better, I felt really   47  to try new things. At the end of the session, I was sent home with a piece of paper called a sleep diary. When I woke up each morning, I had to answer all these questions about my sleep.

  48 , she gave me homework related to my sleep. I wasn’t   49  to text or be on my computer after 8 pm. If I couldn’t fall asleep after about ten minutes, she wanted me to get up and do something in another room that would help me to   50  and feel sleepy.

During the therapy sessions, she was a cheerleader for my life and kept   51  out all the things I was doing right. With her help, it was so much easier to notice the   52  things that were happening all around me.

After about two months of seeing my therapist, I was sleeping at least eight hours a night, sometimes even nine! I felt happier. I could   53 . My grades got better. Basically, I felt like myself! It was so much better to admit that something was   54  and to do something to fix it   55  just watch my whole life get worse and worse.

1.                A．laughing        B．shooting        C．knocking  D．screaming

2.                A．doubt          B．worry          C．protest   D．quarrel

3.                A．slept           B．ate            C．spoke    D．dreamed

4.                A．reduce         B．change         C．drop D．influence

5.                A．bored          B．tired           C．upset D．shy

6.                A．refused        B．happened       C．ended    D．started

7.                A．think about      B．worry about     C．get on with    D．agree with

8.                A．teach          B．fix             C．answer   D．recognize

9.                A．helpful         B．interesting      C．awful D．practical

10.               A．improve        B．develop        C．benefit    D．adjust

11.               A．If             B．Unless         C．Though    D．Once

12.               A．nervous        B．surprised       C．excited    D．calm

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

14.               A．allowed        B．reminded       C．asked D．persuaded

15.               A．study          B．relax           C．respond   D．recover

16.               A．picking         B．trying          C．leaving    D．pointing

17.               A．tiny           B．exciting        C．positive   D．important

18.               A．forgive         B．concentrate     C．appreciate D．understand

19.               A．wrong         B．significant       C．acceptable D．realistic

20.               A．instead of       B．as well as       C．rather than D．other than

“Linda, if beating yourself up were an Olympic sport, you’d win a gold medal!”

Annabel, my close friend, stunned（使…震惊）me with that frank observation after I told her how I had mishandled a situation with a student in a third-grade class where I was substituting（代替）. “I should never have let him go to the boy’s room without a pass! It was my fault he got into trouble with the hall monitor! I’m so stupid!”

My friend burst out laughing, and then made her “Olympic” comment. After a brief period of reflection I had to admit that she was right. I did put myself down an awful lot. Why, just during the previous day I had called myself “a slob” for having some papers spread out on my desk, “ugly” when I left the house without makeup and “an idiot” when I left the house for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan.

In a more reflective tone, Annabel said, “I once took a workshop at church where the woman in charge had us list all the mean things we say about ourselves.”

“How many did you have on your list?” I asked.

“Fifteen,” she confessed. “But then the teacher said, ‘Now turn to the person next to you and say all the items on your list as if you were speaking to that person!’ ”

My jaw dropped，“What did you do?”

“Nothing. Nobody did. We all just sat there, until I said, ‘I could never say these things to anyone else!’ ”

“And our teacher replied, ‘Well, if you can’t say them to anyone else, then don’t ever say them to yourself!’ ”

My friend had a point. I would never insult a child of God---and I’m God’s child, too!

God, today let me be as kind to myself as I would be to another of Your children.

1.What does Annabel mean by the first sentence of the passage?

A．The writer is a good athlete.

B．The writer scolds herself too much.

C．She is encouraging the writer

D．A gold medal is not a big deal.

2.What does the writer intends to tell us through the second and third paragraphs?

A．She has low self-esteem over some small things.

B．She often makes serious mistakes in daily life.

C．She is a third-grade teacher.

D．She cares too much about her appearance.

3.We can infer that the underlined word “slob” might be _____.

A．something untidy   B．someone dangerous C．something dirty     D．someone lazy

4.What can we learn about Annabel?

A．She used to put herself down a lot.

B．She often goes to church.

C．She was in charge of a workshop.

D．She used to be too shy to talk to others.

5.What does the writer mean by the last sentence of the passage?

A．She is ready to turn to God for help.

B．She will be kind to all children.

C．She won’t insult(侮辱) herself as well as others.

D．She is willing to be a child of God.