A man and his girlfriend got married. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.
A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, "I read in a magazine about how we can   36  our marriage. Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit   37  with the other. Then, we can talk about how we can   38  them together and make our lives happier together."
The husband   39 . So each of them went to a(n)   40  room and thought about the things that annoyed them about the other for the rest of the day.
The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their   41 .
"I'll start," offered the wife. She   42  her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill 3 pages. After the wife had read all three pages to her husband,   43  the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the   44  that you are. I don't want you to   45  anything for me."
The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his   46  of her, turned her head and wept.
In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go   47  for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time seeking the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wonderful things before us?

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

I was on a long drive last weekend and stopped for a rest．At that moment,I noticed a man in a wheelchair   31   by the stop sign．He held a sign in hand，  32   “Trying to make it home for the holidays”．I   33   looked away from it,because I had no   34   to give him．I watched as people drove by,and either ignored him or stared at him   35   he was a curiosity（怪人）of sorts．I felt really   36   for the poor man．

I know some people wouldn’t like to have the thought of   37   money to such strangers in the street,because they thought these people may use that money for drugs,alcohol,or some other undesirable（不良的）  38   ．I started to drive my car away but soon   39   ．Since I don’t usually have much cash on me,I   40   it would be a good idea to offer some food   41   ．So I asked him if he was   42   ．Hearing my words,he seemed shocked that someone   43   his well-being,but he happily   44   it．He said he would like a sandwich and a can of soda．

Inside the store,I bought a sandwich,soda,some water and chips．I   45   them to the new friend who was quite   46   to receive so many delicious foods．  47   the meal time ,I asked his name．He said he was called Chewie,and he was thankful for my help．I   48   him a Smile Card．He read it with a big smile and said,“I always   49   random（偶然）acts of kindness．”

As I drove away,I said a silent prayer（祈祷）that Chewie makes it home for the holidays,or at least he spends them somewhere safe and   50   ．

31．A．jumping                 B．sitting                    C．running                 D．climbing

32．A．asking                   B．copying                 C．showing                D．reading

33．A．quickly                  B．happily                  C．actively                 D．finally

34．A．money                  B．gift                         C．time                       D．sign

35．A．as long as                    B．in case                  C．even though         D．as if

36．A．proud                    B．happy                    C．sorry                            D．strange

37．A．lending                 B．giving                    C．wasting                 D．throwing

38．A．purposes                     B．interests                C．views                     D．roles

39．A．took off                 B．gave up                 C．turned around              D．picked up

40．A．doubted                B．refused                 C．listed                            D．thought

41．A．besides                 B．yet                         C．instead                  D．though

42．A．happy                   B．sleepy                   C．tired                      D．hungry

43．A．brought about              B．talked about          C．cared about          D．thought about

44．A．bought                  B．accepted               C．paid                      D．ate

45．A．dropped                B．donated                C．offered                  D．supported

46．A．glad                      B．stressful                C．uneasy                  D．formal

47．A．Before                  B．Above                   C．For                        D．During

48．A．handed                 B．ordered                 C．borrowed                     D．sold

49．A．cut in                           B．believe in                     C．take in                   D．give in

50．A．cold                      B．upset                            C．warm                            D．afraid

 (07·浙江A篇)

If you were to walk up to Arthur Bonner and say, “ Hey, Butterfly Man,” his face would break into a smile. The title suits him. And he loves it.

Arthur Bonner works with the Palos Verdes blue butterfly(蝴蝶), once thought to have died out. Today the butterfly is coming back — thanks to him. But years ago if you’d told him this was what he’d be doing someday, he would have laughed, “ You’re crazy.” As a boy, he used to be “ a little tough guy on the streets”.  At age thirteen, he was caught by police stealing. At eighteen, he landed in prison for shooting a man.

“ I knew it had hury my mom,” Bonner said after he got out of prison. “ So I told myself I would not put my mom through that pain again.”

One day he met Professor Mattoni, who was working to rebuild the habitat(栖息地) for an endangered butterfly called El Segundo blue.

“ I saw the sign ‘ Butterfly Habitat’ and asked, ‘ How can you have a habitat when the butterflies can just fly away?’” Bonner recalls. “ Dr. Mattoni laughed and handed me a magnifying glass(放大镜) , ‘Look at the leaves.’ I could see all these caterpillars(蝴蝶的幼虫) on the plant. Dr Mattoni explained, ‘ Without the plant, there are no butterflies.’”

Weeks later, Bonner received a call from Dr. Mattoni, who told him there was a butterfly needed help. That was how he met the Palos Verdes blue. Since then he’s been working for four years to help bring the butterfly back. He grows astragalus, the only plant the butterfly eats. He collects butterflies and brings them into a lab to lay eggs. Then he puts new butterflies into the habitat.

The butterfly’s population, once almost zero, is now up to 900. For their work, Bonner and Dr. Mattoni receiced lots of awards. But for Bonner, he earned something more: he turned his life around.

For six years now Bonner has kept his promise to stay out of prison. While he’s bringing back the Palos Verdes blue, the butterfly has helped bring him back, too.

41. When he was young, Arthur Bonner _______.

   A. broke the law and ended up in prison

   B. was fond of shooting and hurt his mom

   C. often laughed at people on the streeets

   D. often caught butterflies and took them home

42. Bonner came to know the Palos Verdes blue after he _______.

   A. found the butterfly had died out              

B. won many prizes from his professor

   C. met Dr. Mattoni, a professor of biology        

D. collected butterflies and put them into a lab

43. From the last sentence of the text, we learn that raising butterflies has _________.

   A. made Bonner famous                     B. changed Bonner’s life

   C. brought Bonner wealth                    D. enriched Bonner’s knowledge

44. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

   A. A Promise to Mom                       B. A Man Saved by Butterflies

   C. A Story of Butterflies                     D. A Job Offered by Dr. Mattoni

I worked for a short time as a cashier(出纳员) at a restaurant a few months ago. I also helped to clean up the tables when it was very busy. One night, just before  Christmas, I found a large black wallet on the floor near one of the tables. I guessed I should check it to find out who was the owner, but I was very busy at the time. And I imagined that if there was something valuable(有价值的) in the wallet, the   owner would be back. Sure enough, an hour later a man came up to the counter   and asked if anyone had found a wallet. I asked him to describe the lost wallet, and after he described it exactly, I gave him the wallet. He expressed his thanks when I handed it to him. He asked me if I had opened it, and when I told him “no”. At  once he opened it and showed that it had nearly $ 800 in cash(现金). He took out a twenty-dollar bill and handed it to me and I was amazed at this. “A reward(酬劳) for your honesty,” he said and then turned and walked away.
Thinking about it later, I began wondering whether I would have been honest if I had known what was in the wallet! I thought that if I had no way to find the   owner and no one returned to get it, I might keep it. But it also came into my    mind that I actually saved someone’s Christmas plans by finding and returning the wallet. The good feeling it gave me was worth more than anything could buy.

1. 1.

   Which of the following is true?

   1. A.
      The owner of the wallet found a twenty-dollar bill gone.
   2. B.
      The writer wasn’t surprised when the man gave her a reward.
   3. C.
      Nothing in the wallet was missing.
   4. D.
      The man was very, very excited when he got his wallet back.
2. 2.

   The writer returned the wallet to the owner because _______.

   1. A.
      she thought Christmas was coming
   2. B.
      the owner came back too soon
   3. C.
      she didn’t know there was so much money in it
   4. D.
      as an honest person, she didn’t care much about money
3. 3.

   Which of the following is NOT true?

   1. A.
      The writer accepted a reward of $ 20.
   2. B.
      The writer regretted (后悔) that she had returned the wallet.
   3. C.
      The writer didn’t return the wallet until the owner came back.
   4. D.
      The writer fell very happy after she returned the wallet.