When I was young I loved taking part in high school musicals．I loved to   36   in front of hundreds of people．In one production, I auditioned（试音）like  37   else. My music teacher was   38  that I would get a particular part in the music drama. The part I thought I had was a   39 lead who sang some of the most beautiful love songs.

But one day the show director pulled me aside. I was   40 to be offered the leading role. To my disappointment, he said, “Bob, I found a boy with an excellent voice. I need to give the   41 to him.”

From that moment on I began hating music class. I  42 that I didn’t like what we were singing. My music teacher didn’t know why. She   43 me in front of the class and told me I had changed. She didn’t know what I had been told. But when they  44 the finalists, I was given a   45 role. For some time my pride was  46 with having to do something I didn’t think I should be doing. But I did it. The minor role I had   47 to be much more fun than I had expected. My performance even   48 my brother who was also in the audience.

Life is really like a   49 and although we do not audition for the role, each of us is   50 by the director to play a certain part in it. The  51 is that we sometimes don’t like the part we are given. Like me in high school I became   52  -–if I couldn’t be the lead, I wouldn’t show up for rehearsal（彩排）.

Then we wonder why we feel so   53 . Sometimes we don’t even feel like we are a part of the “Big Show. ” Everyone does indeed have a role. Some are in front of the curtain, some are behind, but all are  54 for the show to go on. All   55 to success no matter how minor the part is.

1.                A．debate         B．broadcast       C．sing  D．show

 

2.                A．someone       B．everyone       C．anyone   D．no one

 

3.                A．prejudiced      B．concerned      C．unexpected   D．convinced

 

4.                A．romantic        B．ridiculous       C．mysterious    D．sensitive

 

5.                A．attempting      B．expecting       C．volunteering   D．pretending

 

6.                A．part           B．deal           C．favor D．item

 

7.                A．assessed        B．advocated       C．concluded D．complained

 

8.                A．warned         B．scolded         C．informed D．suspected

 

9.                A．presented      B．identified       C．announced    D．delivered

 

10.               A．specific        B．super          C．slight D．small

 

11.               A．struggling       B．competing      C．swinging   D．changing

 

12.               A．happened      B．proved         C．expanded  D．switched

 

13.               A．terrified:       B．disappointed    C．surprised  D．embarrassed

 

14.               A．joke           B．journey        C．stage D．play

 

15.               A．appointed      B．attached        C．employed  D．instructed

 

16.               A．reason         B．problem        C．balance   D．focus

 

17.               A．curious         B．helpless        C．angry D．positive

 

18.               A．exhausted      B．lost            C．delighted  D．thrilled

 

19.               A．necessary       B．dependent      C．natural    D．perfect

 

20.               A．react          B．adjust          C．refer D．contribute

 

 

Once there was a young woman who didn’t like her job. Everyday when she came home from work, she told her husband how terrible her day had been, how tiring the work and how unreasonable her boss. “Leave that job,” her husband told her.

“Oh, I will,” she said. “But not yet. I have too many friends there for me to leave.” And so she remained unhappy at work until the years became decades and her children had children. “Leave that job,” her grandchildren told her. “Oh, I will,” she said. “But not yet. There are only seven more years until I reach thirty years of service and can retire. So I can’t just yet.”

I know this woman. And her story reminds me of an old dog half asleep on the porch of a general store, moaning and groaning in the sun. “Why is your dog acting that way?” a customer asked the store owner. “Oh,” answered the man. “He’s lying on a nail.” “Well, why doesn’t he move?” “Because it’s not hurting him bad enough.”

That’s true for people, too. We convince ourselves the pain is not bad enough to leave the workplace we know. But we’re wrong. Prolonged work pain is continuing. Some work pain damages our self-esteem, kills our passion or destroys our dreams.

Wilbur Wright once commented, “We could hardly wait to get up in the morning. I know that exhilarating feeling of being so passionate about something I was working on that I couldn’t wait to get back to work. And people who are winning at working know that kind of passion, too.”

They get excited about work. They offer their unique gifts and talents eagerly. And when things don’t change as they sometimes will, they refuse to let environment hijack(劫持) their self-esteem, passion or dreams.

1.The woman complained to her husband every day because   .

A．she didn’t have enough money to support her family

B．her boss criticized her for what she had done

C．she was not satisfied with her job at all

D．her work was difficult and her boss was cruel

2.From the second paragraph we can know that the woman   .

A．liked making friends with others

B．loved all of her children very much

C．left her tiring job at last

D．did exactly the same job all along

3.The underlined word “Prolonged” (in Paragraph 4) means   .

A．lasting

B．slight

C．serious

D．hard

4.People who are getting along well with their work     .

A．have to get up early every day

B．are not willing to go to work

C．need more unique gifts and talents

D．are likely to change with the situation

 

A strange thing happened to me last Sunday. It was such a beautiful day that I decided to go for a  11  in the country. On the way back home，my car stopped. It was out of  12  on a lonely   road far from a town. I decided to walk until I found someone who could  13  me a gallon（加仑） or two of petrol. I had  14  almost a mile before I finally found a big house near the road. I was           15  to see it because it was starting to get dark. I  16  at the door and a little old lady with long white hair answered. She said, “I have been  17  for you a long time. Come in. Tea is almost ready.”

“But I only came for some petrol.” I answered. I couldn’t  18  what she was talking about.

“Oh, Alfred! Petrol? You used to  19  tea.”

I quickly  20  that I needed some petrol, but she didn’t seem to hear me. She just kept calling me Alfred and talking about how long it had been since she had seen me. She was acting very strangely and I was  21  to leave. As soon as she went to get tea, I went out of the house as fast as I could.  22  , there was another house down the road and I was able to buy several gallons of petrol. When I told the man about my  23 . He said,“Oh, that is Miss Emily. She lives by herself in that big house. She’s  24  but she wouldn’t hurt anyone. She is still waiting for the man she was supposed to marry thirty years ago. The day before their  25  he left home and never came back because of the war.”

1.                A．walk           B．holiday         C．drive D．picnic

 

2.                A．work           B．petrol          C．order    D．sight

 

3.                A．buy            B．borrow         C．sell  D．send

 

4.                A．rested         B．stopped        C．stepped  D．walked

 

5.                A．amazed         B．pleased         C．surprised D．tired

 

6.                A．beat           B．stood          C．knocked  D．struck

 

7.                A．waiting         B．searching       C．longing   D．looking

 

8.                A．order          B．hear           C．imagine   D．remember

 

9.                A．like            B．have           C．drink D．make

 

10.               A．explained       B．realized        C．noticed   D．discovered

 

11.               A．excited         B．anxious         C．worried   D．amazed

 

12.               A．Fortunately     B．Lately          C．Immediately    D．Personally

 

13.               A．expression      B．idea           C．schedule  D．experience

 

14.               A．kind           B．funny          C．strange    D．angry

 

15.               A．marriage       B．journey        C．plan  D．wedding

 

 

She didn’t come back to her hometown for five years and ______, she had got married and had a couple of kids.

A．to be honest       B．above all          C．on the other hand   D．in the meantime

 

A traveller was staying in an Egyptian village. One day, she held up her camera to take pictures of the children. Suddenly the young ones began to shout at her. The traveller's face turned red and she apologized to the head for what she was doing, and told him she had forgotten that people in some places believed a person would lose his soul(灵魂) if his picture was taken. She explained to him the operation of a camera for a long time. Several times the head tried to say something, but he couldn't. When she believed that the head didn't fear any longer, the traveller then let him speak. With a smile, he said, "The children were trying to tell you that you forgot to take off the lens(镜头) cap!"

1.The children shouted when the traveller was taking pictures of them because ______.

A．they didn't want to stop playing

B．the traveller forgot to take off the cap on her head

C．they didn't want to have their pictures taken

D．the traveller was not doing well with her camera

2.The traveller made an apology to (向……道歉) the head because _______.

A．she thought it was not right to take people's pictures without telling them beforehand(事先)

B．the children would lose their souls

C．she had stayed in the village too long

D．she didn't take a picture of the head first

3.The traveller explained how to use a camera to the head because _______.

A．the head was very interested in her camera

B．the head wanted to learn to take pictures

C．she was afraid of the head

D．she wanted the head not to worry about what she was doing

4.When the head smiled, it's clear that _______ .

A．the children wanted to play with her

B．the traveller didn't know what the children meant

C．he wanted the traveller to tell him something else

D．the traveller didn't let him speak

5.Which of the following is NOT right?

A．The traveller knew something about people in some countries.

B．The children wouldn't mind if the traveller took pictures of them.

C．The head was afraid that the traveller's camera would hurt the children.

D．The traveller didn't understand why the children shouted.