A little part of me thought about going to another checkout line．This one had the shortest    ，there was only one guy in it，but he was in a     and there seemed to be some difficulties     ．

    We stepped in behind him．At first, he       to be having difficulty getting his groceries onto the counter．But after a while，I realized that what he was actually doing was      it into two parts．

     I offered to help，but he and the checkout lady had it under     ．He asked Julie if she would mind putting his      basket away．Then he       for his wallet which was in a bag on one side of his chair．The      he was positioned and the fact he only had one usable arm      this troublesome for him，so I helped there．

The checkout operator came around and gave him his      and the goods he needed to have to hand．She      one bag of groceries over a handle at the back of his chair．

    I offered to get the other bigger bag and he said，“No．     you could do me a favor．Take that bag along to the entrance and give it to Angela．"

    Angela，it    ，was collecting food for people who might      go hungry! I hadn’t even     her before.

This guy，in spite of the limitations，had bought more than twice as     shopping as he needed—and given the bigger bag away to help     people!

He didn’t let the fact that he needed help      him from being a help．He may have been limited    ，but his heart was more than able to overcome all that．

1.A．queue        B．space        C．figure         D．time

2.A．supermarket  B．wheelchair    C．helmet        D．uniform

3.A．going on      B．holding on    C．paying off     D．setting down

4.A．happened     B．seemed       C．used          D．pretended

5.A．selecting      B．wrapping     C．handing       D．separating

6.A．charge       B．control       C．improvement   D．settlement

7.A．empty        B．heavy        C．large          D．broken

8.A．felt          B．searched      C．reached        D．seized

9.A．spot         B．direction      C．distance        D．way

10.A．caught       B．carried       C．made          D．solved

11.A．basket       B．bag           C．wallet         D．change

12.A．arranged     B．hung         C．loaded         D．connected

13.A．And         B．But           C．So            D．Or

14.A．turned out   B．found out      C．pointed out    D．put out

15.A．already      B．always        C．otherwise      D．fairly

16.A．noticed      B．known        C．understood     D．greeted

17.A．many        B．much         C．few           D．little

18.A．wealthy      B．ordinary      C．other          D．normal

19.A．stop         B．require        C．lead           D．persuade

20.A．financially    B．morally       C．mentally       D．physically

A Magical Experience
One hot August afternoon, Deena Hoagland and her son Joe sat on a floating platform at Dolphins Plus, a marine（海洋）center near their home in Florida. Nearby, a large, powerful, six-hundred-pound dolphin circled to study the mother and her child. Suddenly, it splashed the Hoaglands with water. That is when something amazing happened. Three-year-old Joe Hoagland smiled. Sitting with Joe on her lap, Deena smiled, too, as her heart leapt with joy. It was the first sign of hope she had seen in Joe since his stroke（中风）six weeks earlier.
Joe Hoagland was born with a rare heart condition that had forced him to spend much of his first three years of life in hospitals. After a series of open-heart surgeries, Joe seemed to be doing better, but the last surgery on his heart resulted in a stroke, which left him unable to move one side and to see out of one eye.
Worse still, the spirit of the child, who had bravely battled his illness until then was seemingly broken. Afraid of his doctors and unwilling to participate in efforts at physical therapy（治疗）, Joe grew listless, losing interest even in his favorite toys.
Having heard of a new therapeutic approach termed “dolphin-assisted therapy,” Deena phoned Dolphins Plus and asked permission to bring her son along. There Joe met Fonzie, the playful dolphin. With each passing visit, Joe seemed to make more progress. Before long, he was regaining some movement on his left side. Dolphins Plus trainers urged Joe to get into the water and swim with his new friend. Joe, however, was reluctant. Gradually, though, Joe became more comfortable with the large dolphin, and by mid-September, Joe was swimming with his friends.
Over the next two years, Joe fully recovered from the paralysis and partial blindness that his doctors thought irreversible. Now a healthy, active teenager, Joe lives a life similar to any of his friends. He visits and swims frequently with his friend Fonzie and helps his parent with Island Dolphin Care. Deena started Island Dolphin Care to work with Dolphins Plus to share the benefits of dolphin therapy with other special-needs children and their parents.

1. 1.

   Deena Hoagland smiled when Fonzie splashed Joe with water because             .

   1. A.
      the dolphin’s action is amazing            
   2. B.
      Joe’s reaction brought her hope
   3. C.
      she was affected by Joe’s joy              
   4. D.
      she realized Joe recovered
2. 2.

   Paragraph 2-4 are written to           .

   1. A.
      expose the dangers of strokes
   2. B.
      identify the problems Joe faced
   3. C.
      describe Joe’s recovery from beginning to end
   4. D.
      show readers the process of “dolphin-assisted therapy”
3. 3.

   What does the underlined word mean in paragraph 3?

   1. A.
      angry and inflexible                       
   2. B.
      more mature and silent
   3. C.
      lacking energy and concern                 
   4. D.
      cautious and shy
4. 4.

   Which statement about Joe is Not True?

   1. A.
      Joe received several surgeries on the heart when he was a little child.
   2. B.
      Joe was the first one to receive dolphin-assisted therapy.
   3. C.
      Doctors used to think that Joe could not recover.
   4. D.
      Now Joe worked with his parents in the Island Dolphin Care.
5. 5.

   We may conclude from the passage that            .

   1. A.
      dolphin therapy has helped many children to improve their lives
   2. B.
      Joe recovered faster because of his desire to live with Fonzie
   3. C.
      doctors’ mistake during his surgeries brought Joe great pain
   4. D.
      his mother’s company contributes greatly to Joe’s recovery

My father was a highly educate, intelligent gentleman. He could debate or discuss for hours on almost any topic and hold your   1   in the process. I thought there was nothing be wasn’t   2  to do.

      A few days before my younger brother’s 7^th birthday, Dad planned to assemble(装配) a new   3   as a special birthday surprise. After nearly an hour of  4   the instructions, Dan was still unable to   5  the new bike together. Later he  6  the paper of instructions,   7  up his tool box, and decided to take the bike back to the local toy store and pay extra   8  to have it correctly assembled there.   9  an idea came to him, as he called out to Lovett, the quiet little man who cut our grassland.

       “Lovett, have you ever assembled a boy’s bicycle?”

       As Lovett walked towards the bike, Dad handed him the  10  . Lovett handed it back to him, saying, “No, thanks. I can’t road. When you can’t read, you have to  11  .” Less than 15 minutes later, the new bicycle was   12   assembled, with no  13   parts remaining. Dad shook Lovett’s hand, patted him on the back, thanked him, and hid the bike.

       On the night after my brother received his shiny new gift, Dad announced at the family dinner table what had happened several days earlier. He took great 14   in telling it over and over again-be used it as an example of thinking.    

       He did not prefer to illiteracy（文盲） , but strongly taught us to use our  15  , The joke was on my father,   16  he was able to turn it into a learning tool, and I liked him even more after that incident. I also gained a new   17   for Lovett. To me he had   18  been the old yard man who didn’t   19   much, but after that day, he seemed to smile broader, even walk taller, It’s amazing what a real nod of   20   can do to lift people up.

1．A．attention                B．belief                   C．view                   D．breath

2．A．willing                  B．lucky                  C．able                    D．sure

3．A．toy                       B．bicycle                C．computer            D．boat

4．A．reading                 B．reviewing            C．examining            D．searching

5．A．bring                    B．get                      C．put．                  D．/

6．A．folded up              B．looked through    C．turned to             D．devoted to

7．A．brought                 B．added                  C．set                      D．picked

8．A．money                  B．effort                  C．service                D．tax

9．A．Thus                    B．Then                   C．Since                  D．Though

10．A．tools                   B．rotes                   C．orders                 D．instructions

11．A．exchange             B．admit                  C．learn                   D．think

12．A．Partly                  B．fully                    C．hardly                 D．largely

13．A．separate              B．different              C．major                  D．spare

14．A．delight                 B．action                  C．care                    D．risk

15．A．resources            B．knowledge           C．heads                  D．hands

16．A．so                       B．or                       C．but                     D．and

17．A．reward                B．regard                 C．relief                   D．respect

18．A．never                  B．regard                 C．ever                    D．often

19．A．show                  B．say                     C．care                    D．earn

20．A．approval            B．agreement            C．affection         D．altitude

       Jules Verne was a Frenchman who was born in 1828 and died in 1905. He read a great many scientific books and wrote a number of exciting books about the things which he thought that scientists and inventors would one day be able to do. Years later, many of the things really happened. At that time, however, his stories seemed like fairy tales.

       Jules Verne’s most famous book is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.（A league is an old word meaning a distance of about three miles）. In those days submarines had not been invented but he described an underwater ship very like a modern one.

       Many of the things Jules wrote about in his books more than a hundred years ago to look into the future, however, were surprisingly exact. In his book From the Earth to the Moon he wrote at the age of about forty, three men and a dog made a journey around the moon in a hollow ship fired from a gun. After going around the moon, they returned to the earth and splashed down into the sea not far from where the first real moon traveler landed in July, 1969.

68. Jules wrote a lot of exciting books partly because he _______.

     A. liked to do much reading on science    

     B. liked reading fairy tales

     C. was a great inventor

     D. was a famous scientist

69. Some of what Jules described in his books _______.

     A. is almost the same as what happened years later

     B. is quite different from what happened years later

     C. never comes true

     D. seems impossible to the people today

70. Many of the things really happened _______.

     A. as soon as Jules’ books were published

     B. some years after his books were published

     C. at that time

     D. when Jules was in his forties

71. The thing Jules described in his book From the Earth to the Moon is _______.

     A. as large as the spaceship today

     B. similar to the spaceship today

     C. a gun used to send up a ship

     D. an underwater ship

Eleven-year-old Angela had something wrong with her nervous system（神经系统）.She was

unable to      36     .In fact, she could hardly make any     37     .Although she believed that she had a        38      chance of recovering, the doctors said that      39     ,if any, could come back to normal after getting this disease. Having heard this, the little girl was not         40        .There, lying in her hospital bed, she           41           that no matter what the doctors said, her going back to school was

     42    .

She was moved to a specialized health center, and whatever method could be tried was used. Still she would not       43      . It seemed that she was      44     .The doctors were all fond of her and

taught her about      45     that she could make it . Every day Angela would lie there,      46     doing

her mental exercise.

One day,     47    she was imagining  her legs moving again, it seemed as though a miracle（奇迹）happened: The bed began to    48    ! “Look what I’m doing! Look! I can do it! I moved!

I moved! ”she         49         .

Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was      50        .More importantly, they were running     51       safely.

People were crying, and equipment was       52         .You see, it was an earthquake. But don’t

53    that to Angela. She has     54       that she did it, just as she had never doubted that she would recover. And now only a few years later, She’s back in school. You see, to such a person who can       55          the earth, such a disease is a small  problem, isn’t it?

 36．A．see                    B．hear                    C．talk                     D．walk

37．A．progress              B．difference            C．movement           D．achievement

38．A．poor                   B．good                   C．little                    D．special

39．A．few                    B．all                       C．some                  D．most

40．A．satisfied              B．delighted              C．surprised             D．discouraged

41．A．insisted               B．sighed                 C．feared                 D．promised

42．A．true                    B．doubtful              C．certain                D．impossible

43．A．get up                 B．give up                C．turn up                D．stand up

44．A．disappointed        B．proud                  C．troubled              D．undefeatable

45．A．thinking               B．expecting             C．pretending           D．imagining

46．A．sadly                   B．madly                  C．carefully              D．faithfully

47．A．as                       B．since                   C．after                   D．before

48．A．fly                      B．move                  C．roll                     D．speak

49．A．jumped                B．wondered            C．screamed            D．recovered

50．A．frightened            B．pleased                C．touched               D．encouraged

51．A．in                       B．by                       C．for                      D．with

52．A．rising                  B．falling                  C．missing               D．gathering

53．A．tell                      B．do                       C．give                    D．show

54．A．noticed                B．supposed             C．believed               D．discovered

55．A．push                   B．shock                  C．shake                  D．save