We are going on a long train journey. Out of the windows, we can see cars running on nearby highways, children waving at a crossing, cattle grazing（吃草） on a distant hillside, smoke pouring from factories, village houses and city skylines.
But   36  in our minds is the final destination（目的地）. On a certain day at a certain hour, we will  37  into the station. Bands will be playing and flags   38  . Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will   39  and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a(n)   40   jigsaw（拼图） puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles（过道）, damning（诅咒） the minutes for waiting, waiting for the station.
“When we reach the  41  , that will be it!” We cry “When I am 18.” “When I  42  a new 450SL Mercedes Benz!” “When I put the   43  kid through college.” “When I have   44  off the debts!” “When I get a promotion（提升）.” “When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live   45  ever after!”
  46  , we come to realize that there is no such station as we arrive at once and for all. The  47  joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It   48  leaves us behind.
“Cherish（珍视） the moment” is a good   49  . It is the burdens（负担） of today that drive us to keep on   50  . And it is the regrets over yesterday that motivate（激发） us to overcome the   51  and look forward to the future.
So   52  pacing the aisles and counting the miles.   53  , climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot（赤脚） more   54  , swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived   55  we go along. The station will come soon enough.
【小题1】A hidden      B faint      C deep      D buried
【小题2】A pull      B get      C approach      D arrive
【小题3】 A floating      B waving      C raising      D shaking
【小题4】A come up      B come around      C come out      D come true
【小题5】A divided      B separated      C completed      D united
【小题6】A station     B age      C target      D point
【小题7】A borrow      B buy      C order      D rent
【小题8】A first      B best      C last      D eldest
【小题9】A cut      B left      C taken      D paid
【小题10】A happily      B fully      C anxiously      D freely
【小题11】A Believe it or not      B Sooner or later      C Once again      D All at once
【小题12】A simple      B basic      C true      D final
【小题13】A eventually（最后）      B accidentally      C instantly      D constantly
【小题14】A motto（箴言）      B sentence      C concept     D slogan（标语）
【小题15】A pushing      B trying      C working      D sticking
【小题16】A effort      B mistake      C challenge      D fault
【小题17】A consider      B stop      C go on      D plan on
【小题18】A Besides      B Thus      C However      D Instead
【小题19】A often      B gently      C quickly      D slowly
【小题20】A if      B unless      C as      D once

We are going on a long train journey. Out of the windows, we can see cars running on nearby highways, children waving at a crossing, cattle grazing（吃草） on a distant hillside, smoke pouring from factories, village houses and city skylines.

But   36   in our minds is the final destination（目的地）. On a certain day at a certain hour, we will   37   into the station. Bands will be playing and flags   38   . Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will   39   and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a(n)   40   jigsaw（拼图） puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles（过道）, damning（诅咒） the minutes for waiting, waiting for the station.

“When we reach the   41   , that will be it!” We cry “When I am 18.” “When I   42   a new 450SL Mercedes Benz!” “When I put the   43   kid through college.” “When I have   44   off the debts!” “When I get a promotion（提升）.” “When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live   45   ever after!”

   46   , we come to realize that there is no such station as we arrive at once and for all. The   47   joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It   48   leaves us behind.

“Cherish（珍视） the moment” is a good   49   . It is the burdens（负担） of today that drive us to keep on   50   . And it is the regrets over yesterday that motivate（激发） us to overcome the   51   and look forward to the future.

So   52   pacing the aisles and counting the miles.   53   , climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot（赤脚） more   54   , swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived   55   we go along. The station will come soon enough.

1.A hidden      B faint      C deep      D buried

2.A pull      B get      C approach      D arrive

3. A floating      B waving      C raising      D shaking

4.A come up      B come around      C come out      D come true

5.A divided      B separated      C completed      D united

6.A station      B age      C target      D point

7.A borrow      B buy      C order      D rent

8.A first      B best      C last      D eldest

9.A cut      B left      C taken      D paid

10.A happily      B fully      C anxiously      D freely

11.A Believe it or not      B Sooner or later      C Once again      D All at once

12.A simple      B basic      C true      D final

13.A eventually（最后）      B accidentally      C instantly      D constantly

14.A motto（箴言）      B sentence      C concept      D slogan（标语）

15.A pushing      B trying      C working      D sticking

16.A effort      B mistake      C challenge      D fault

17.A consider      B stop      C go on      D plan on

18.A Besides      B Thus      C However      D Instead

19.A often      B gently      C quickly      D slowly

20.A if      B unless      C as      D once

Every morning a woman baked Chapati, an Indian cake, for her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She would place the extra cake on the ___(21)___ for someone to take it.
She noticed a hunchback (驼背) came every day and took the extra cake. Instead of expressing ___(22)___, he would mutter (嘀咕) the following words as he went his way: “The evil you do ___(23)___ with you. The good you do, comes back to you!”
This went on day after day. The woman felt very ___(24)___. One day, she decided to ___(25)___ him. She added poison to the cake she prepared for him! As she was about to place it on the window, her hands trembled. She threw his cake into the fire ___(26)___, prepared another one and put it on the window.
As usual, the hunchback came, ___(27)___the cake and muttered the same words. The hunchback proceeded on his way, ___(28)___ nothing about the fight in the mind of the woman.
The woman had a ___(29)___ who had gone to a distant place to ___(30)___ his fortune. Every day, as the woman placed the cake on the window, she offered a ___(31)___ for him. For many months she had no news of him and she prayed for his  ___(32)___ return.
That evening, there was a knock on the door. Opening it, she was surprised to find her son standing there. His clothes and shoes were ___(33)___. He was starved and ___(34)___.
Looking at his mother he said, “Mom, it’s a(n) ___(35)___ I' m here. When 1 was but a mile away, I was so starved that I collapsed (晕倒). I would have died, but for a whole ___(36)___ an old hunchback gave me.”
As the mother heard those words, her face turned ___(37)___. She leaned against the door for ___(38)___. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have ___(39)___ her own son!
It was then that she ___(40)___ the significance of the words: “The evil you do remains with you. The good you do, comes back to you!”

A wise man was visiting the Ganges, a river which flows through northern India, to take a bath. He found a group of family members on the   26  , shouting angrily at each other. He___27    his disciples(弟子), smiled and asked, “Why do people shout in    28   at each other ?” The disciples   29    for a while and one of them said, “ Because we   30__   our calm, we shout.” “But, why should you shout    31   the other person is just next to you ? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a(n)   32   manner,” asked the wise man. Some disciples gave some other answers, but none   33   the other disciples. Finally the wise man explained, “When two people are angry at each other, there is a distance between their   ___34   . To cover that distance they must shout to be able to  35   each other. The angrier they are, the louder they will have to shout to __36    that great distance. What   37__    when two people fall in love ? They don’t shout at each other but talk softly, because their hearts are very  38   . The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small.”
The wise man  39    , “When they love each other even more, they do not   __40   , but only whisper and they get even closer to each other. Finally they   41 need not whisper. They only look at each other and that’s   42  . That’s how close people are when they love each other.”
He looked at his disciples and said, “So, when you   43  , do not let your hearts get distant. Do not say words that distance each other more.   44   there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to  45  . You may end up becoming enemies, for instance.”

I learned about life from an ant farm. When I was seven years old, my family tried to __1__ an ant farm at home. First, we put clean sand in a thin glass box, and then we brought some ants from the backyard and placed them into the __2__ home.

Shortly after the new __3__ were dropped into the glass structure, they got to work making tunnels. I was amazed that each one knew __4__ what to do. After hours of staring, I realized that the ants had particular given jobs. With my mom’s help, I kept a journal of what happened each day and __5__ the ants. My favorite was the biggest, Cinderella. I drew a picture of her in my journal, which I still have.

On day five a disaster __6__ the ant farm. While I was __7__ the ants, I had put my face so close to the structure that I accidentally tipped it over, __8__ in all the tunnels. Although the ants __9__ their earthquake, one by one they began to die. I was __10__ as I watched them give up their tunnel-building to carry the bodies to a corner of the farm. My mother reported that the ants were dying of “frustration”—feeling annoyed and impatient as they couldn’t control the situation. They simply could not __11__ the reality that their tunnels had been destroyed. Cinderella was the last to die; she did so while carrying a dead ant on her back.

Although much time has passed, I still think of that ant farm. Mom had hoped it would teach me about the natural world, __12__ it taught me much more. __13__ the years, I came to realize the ants were a study in the benefits of __14__. Working together, they were able to create a(n) __15__ world for themselves. I also learned that they should be __16__ for their hard work. Day in and day out, each labored at their task. The ant farm demonstrated that teamwork and perseverance are indeed two key __17__ to success. But there was an even larger lesson that I did not __18__ until recently: Disaster is a natural part of life, and must be __19__. Unlike the ants, humans cannot give up when they face __20__. Unlike the ants, we have to realize that if a tunnel caves in, we just have to build another.

1.                A．get            B．buy            C．run  D．find

2.                A．empty          B．new           C．strange   D．distant

3.                A．guests          B．settlers         C．friends   D．members

4.                A．probably        B．roughly         C．exactly   D．normally

5.                A．named         B．trained         C．compared     D．measured

6.                A．affected        B．struck          C．kicked    D．beat

7.                A．removing       B．teaching        C．observing D．collecting

8.                A．turning         B．rushing         C．filling D．caving

9.                A．experienced     B．predicted       C．faced D．survived

10.               A．annoyed        B．horrified        C．moved    D．thrilled

11.               A．reflect         B．ignore         C．confirm   D．stand

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

13.               A．In             B．For            C．From D．Over

14.               A．teamwork       B．devotion        C．responsibility   D．organization

15.               A．relaxing        B．amusing        C．moving    D．amazing

16.               A．supported      B．inspired        C．admired   D．admitted

17.               A．certificates      B．approaches     C．ingredients D．circumstances

18.               A．give           B．realize         C．take  D．adopt

19.               A．accepted       B．suffered        C．achieved D．managed

20.               A．challenges      B．barriers        C．pressure  D．disappointment