For some time I’ve had a church member provide me with a rose to pin on my suit every Sunday. __1__ I always got a flower on Sunday morning, I really did not__2__ much of it. It was a nice gesture that became__3__. One Sunday, however, what I considered__4__ became very special.

       As I was leaving the Sunday service, a little boy__5__ and said, “Sir, what are you going to do with your flower?” “Do you__6__ this?” I said, pointing to the rose pinned to my coat.

       He said, “Yes sir. I would like it if you are__7__ going to throw it away.” The little boy said, “Sir, I’m going to give it to my granny. My mother and father got_8__ last year. I was living with my mother, but I could not__9__, so she sent me to live with my grandmother. She has been so good to me that I want to give that pretty flower to her for__10__ me.”

       When the little boy finished I could hardly__11__. My eyes filled with tears and I knew I had been touched in the__12__ of my soul. I reached up and__13__ my flower. With the flower in my hand, I looked at the boy and said, “Son, that is the__14__ thing I have ever heard, but you can’t have this flower because it’s not__15__. If you’ll look in front of the platform, you’ll see a big__16__ of flowers. Different families buy them for the__17__ each week. Please take those flowers to your granny because she__18__ the very best.”

       If I hadn’t been__19__ enough already, he made one last statement and I will always treasure it. He said, “What a__20__ day! I asked for one flower but got a beautiful bouquet.”

1. A. Because         B. Although    C. If                     D. Once

2. A. speak                   B. think          C. remind              D. care

3. A. rule                     B. practice             C. custom              D. routine

4. A. valuable        B. useless              C. ordinary            D. normal

5. A. approached         B. stopped             C. interrupted D. followed

6. A. notice                  B. see             C. like            D. mean

7. A. always          B. just            C. ever           D. already

8. A. divorced        B. lost            C. disturbed    D. troubled

9. A. stand                    B. understand  C. stay           D. help

10. A. comforting  B. adopting            C. supporting  D. loving

11. A. move          B. speak         C. breathe              D. refuse

12. A. depths         B. back          C. bottom              D. corner

13. A. uncovered           B. unloaded    C. unpinned  D. unwrapped

14. A. sweetest              B. nicest         C. saddest              D. strangest

15. A. real                    B. fresh          C. expensive   D. enough

16. A. pile                    B. bouquest    C. collection   D. chain

17. A. relatives             B. old            C. poor          D. church

18. A. deserves             B. proves        C. sounds              D. matches

19. A. challenged          B. surprised    C. touched             D. taught

20. A. sunny          B. special              C. lucky         D. wonderful

A well-known speaker started his speech by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “What is this piece of   1  and is it worth anything?”

Hands started going up. “It is a $20 bill, encashable(可兑现的) in international and national   2  .”replied one of the   3  who raised their hands.

The speaker continued, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first, let me do this.” He continued to crumple the 20 dollar bill using both his hands. He then               4  it and asked, “Who still wants it?” Still the hands were up in the air.

“Well,” he said, “what if I do this?” He dropped it on the  5  and started to step on it. He picked up the crumpled and   6  bill and said, “Now, who still wants it?”  

7  went back into the air. “I think this bill is still   8  its value”, said a young man in an unsure  9 . “We can still use the bill to   10  goods worth 20 dollars,” said the other people.

“My friends, you have all learned a very   11  lesson in this exercise that we are just through with. You’ve   12  that I can crumple the $20 bill during the process as the effects can be seen clearly.   13 , no matter what I did to the piece of paper, you were   14  in your mind that my actions did not actually decrease its   15 . It was still worth $20.”

“Many times in our lives, we feel like as if we are   16 , crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are   17 ; but no matter what happened or what will happen, please   18 , you will never lose your value.” Values that you keep in your heart will always   19  you from a difficult situation.

Dirty or clean, crumpled or not, you are still priceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who we know, but by ...WHO WE ARE.” “You are   20 — don’t ever forget it.”

1.                A．paper          B．advice          C．information    D．luck

 

2.                A．organizations    B．flights          C．markets  D．conferences

 

3.                A．family          B．teachers        C．speakers  D．audience

 

4.                A．hid            B．bought         C．carried   D．unfolded

 

5.                A．square         B．beach          C．ground   D．playground

 

6.                A．thin           B．dirty           C．new D．clear

 

7.                A．Hands          B．Books          C．Heads    D．Smoke

 

8.                A．losing          B．reducing        C．increasing     D．holding

 

9.                A．sound          B．voice           C．noise D．shout

 

10.               A．deliver         B．buy            C．sell   D．produce

 

11.               A．boring         B．difficult         C．valuable   D．painful

 

12.               A．heard          B．seen           C．forgotten  D．doubted

 

13.               A．However       B．Therefore       C．Besides   D．Otherwise

 

14.               A．sure           B．curious         C．proud D．sad

 

15.               A．price          B．growth         C．value D．size

 

16.               A．dropped        B．turned         C．looked    D．talked

 

17.               A．important       B．confident       C．selfish D．useless

 

18.               A．accept         B．argue          C．remember D．decide

 

19.               A．leave          B．search         C．save  D．beat

 

20.               A．especial        B．normal         C．ordinary   D．special