Complete the passage by choosing the proper words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. reward       B. ignore      C. unique        D. completed    E. persevering F. solution      G. ride          H. recovery        I. brush         J. challenging

What is your dream? What is the goal that you have set for yourself and are working to achieve? Realizing your dreams is not an easy ___1___.

Last fall I decided to write a new book for my publisher. Writing a book is a __2___ goal, which got off to a terrific start last October. The writing is flowing well. Then I got sick. In fact, I got ill that I needed surgery and the ___3___ was long and exhausting. I did not work from the first week of November until the second week of January. By then I was nervous about meeting the April deadline for submitting the new manuscript to my publisher.

Worried, I asked my author friends for some help, and they gave me this key piece of advice, “Let’s start writing!" they all said. So I did. It was not an immediate ___4___ to my depression, but after a few weeks of ___5___, I got back to normal. Several people in my circle of supporters helped me make some good connections and I got the book ___6___, and to the publisher on time. It was an exciting goal for me to reach, so I took my family to Hawaii as my ___7___.

Sometimes you ___8___ your own dreams because of self-doubt, fear, or external complications. You can think of many different excuses to        ___9___ those dreams aside, but, if you go after your dreams, your world will become more exciting and you will begin to live a more passionate and meaningful life.

So, now, take a minute to write down three goals you want to accomplish this year.

 

There is a _________ of 1000 dollars for the return

A. reward       B. prize        C. thank          D. praise

One day, when I was in high school, I saw a kid named Kyle walking home from school with all his books, I thought to myself, “   11   would anyone bring home all his books for the weekend? He must really be   12  .” As I was walking, I saw several kids running toward him. They ran at him,   13   all his books out of his arms and he fell down in the dirt. His glasses went   14   and landed in the grass.

My heart went out to him. So, I ran over to him.  15   I handed him his glasses, he looked at me and said, “Hey, thanks!”

I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. As it   16   , he lived near me. We talked all the way home. Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends.

Kyle was the   17  student of our class, one of those guys that really found  themselves during high school. Therefore he had the   18   to prepare a graduation speech. On the graduation day, I could see that he was   19  . So, I patted him on the back and said, “Hey, big guy, you’ll be great!” He looked at me and smiled.

He cleared his throat, and began. “Graduation is a time to   20   those who helped you make it through those   21   years. Your parents, your teachers… but mostly your friends, I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best  22   you can give him.”

I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to   23   himself over the weekend and was carrying his books home. “Thankfully, nothing happened. My friend   24   me from doing the unspeakable.”

Not until that moment did I realize that you should never underestimate(低估) the  25   of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person’s life. For better or for worse.

A. How         B. When        C. Why            D. Where

A. stupid        B. clever        C. wonderful        D. anxious

A. throwing      B. knocking     C. taking           D. snatching

A. lost          B. sending       C. broken          D. flying

A. While        B. As           C. Because         D. Once

A. passed by     B. came up       C. went on         D. turned out

A. top          B. hardest        C. favorite         D. luckiest

A. pride         B. honor         C. pleasure        D. chance

A. excited       B. nervous        C. proud          D. crazy

A. reward      B. remember      C. thank           D. congratulate

A. happy       B. exciting        C. old            D. tough

A. chance      B. gift            C. help           D. favor

A. kill         B. enjoy          C. test            D. hurt

A. protected    B. freed           C. warned         D. saved

A. price       B. use             C. power          D. meaning

The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, US. “     station? A train for Santa Fe collided (相撞) a    at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please come here at once. With an ambulance, too. A man is badly wounded,” said an anxious voice of a young woman.

  “OK. We’ll come soon. Please stay there and wait.” Replied the policeman.

  Within a minute, a police car and an ambulance     off. Soon they got to the crossing, but only to find everything was fine. No collision, no wounded man.

  “What a dirty     !” said the policeman angrily. “ We must find out that woman and…”

  They had not been able to say anything about a      when they heard the whistle of a train was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came     towards them, too. When it was passing the crossing, it suddenly     to move on. Right then and there, before the eyes of all the people present, the train collided with the truck heavily and struck it dozens of metres away.

  When Randolph Bruce, the driver, was helped out of the damaged truck, he was badly wounded just as the young woman had predicted on the phone. As he was taken to hospital in time, he was     at last. Later the police did whatever they could to     the woman who had      them, but failed.

  It is really     that a prediction should agree with the fact so     .

1.A. Weather    B. Railway C. Fire       D. Police

2.A. bus    B. truck     C. taxi        D. train     

3.A. turned        B. took      C. set         D. walked

4.A. call     B. signal    C. trick      D. arrangement        

5.A. reward       B. praise   C. thanks   D. punishment 

6.A. turning       B. running          C. starting D. passing

7.A. continued  B. refused          C. began   D. stopped        

8.A. saved          B. dead     C. awake   D. alive     

9.A. find    B. attack    C. award   D. thank   

10.A. laughed   B. visited   C. repeated       D. telephoned 

11.A. exciting    B. pleasing         C. surprising      D. interesting   

12.A. equally     B. truly              C. exactly               D. carefully      

 

One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods from door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to __36__ for a meal at the next house.

   However, he lost his nerve(勇气) __37__ a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked__38__ so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, “How much do I __39__ you?”

   “You don’t owe me anything,” she _40_, “mother has taught me never to accept pay for a __41__.” He said, “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger _42__, but it also increased his faith in God and human race. He was about to give up and quit before this point.

   Years later the young woman became critically(紧急的) ill. The local doctors were baffled(感到困惑). They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called __43__ to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now __44__, was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light__45__his eyes. Immediately, he __46__and went down through the hospital hall into her room.

   __47__in his doctor’s grown he went in to see her, he __48__her at once. He went back to the consultation room and __49__to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave__50__ attention to her face.

  After a long__51__the battle was won. Dr. Kelly __52__ the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because it was__53__ that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her__54__. She read these words：

“Paid in full with a glass of milk.”

(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she__55__silently. “Thank you, God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands.”

1. A. call           B. make       C. beg          D. prepare

2.A. while          B. when       C. though        D. unless

3.A. thirsty         B. lazy        C. tired         D. hungry

4. A. owe          B. pay         C. offer         D. own

5.A. announced     B. shook       C. replied       D. doubted

6.A. reward        B. kindness     C. hand         D. value

7.A. physically     B. mentally      C. normally     D. properly

8. A. up           B. for           C. on          D. in

9.A. rich          B. famous       C. careful       D. vivid

10.A. fixed         B. consulted     C. filled         D. concentrated

11.A. rose          B. raised        C. got          D. left

12.A. Worn         B. Having       C. Putting       D. Dressed

13.A. recognized     B. knew        C. spared        D. regained

14. A. desired        B. declared      C. determined    D. declined

15.A. special        B. ordinary      C. normal        D. no

16.A. decision       B. preparation    C. struggle       D. debate

17. A. ordered        B. requested     C. confused      D. forced

18.A. negative       B. uncertain      C. positive      D. obvious

19.A. presentation    B. preference     C. attention      D. arrangement

20.A. praised        B. pretended     C. pressed       D. prayed