“You are my best friend.” It’s the nicest thing you can    36    to someone. It’s also the nicest thing you can    37   someone.
Good friendships begin in middle school. It’s the    38   you begin to develop your own personality. Your parents aren’t around so you    39   lots of time every day sharing your life with your classmates. You talk with them, you work with them and you become friends with them. But    40   them will become your “best” friend.
Best friends are the people who like you and    41    you the most. They are the    42   who are easy to work with and easy to have fun with.
Sometimes it’s    43   to find a best friend. And sometimes you can     44   a little lonely. But just because you don’t have best friend now, it doesn’t mean you    45    one in the future. Best friends seem to find each other as if by magic. And when you find your best friend, the magic will last forever.

Dear friends,
Do you remember your first day at a new school or in a new area? How about the  31   when your family    32   to a new state? Ugh! What about the feelings of being a stranger?
Then, with time, you find someone who likes  33  you like.  Friends are great gifts in life. I have good friends too,  but not because they are completely(完全的)   34 .Sometimes they talk too much; sometimes they need me a lot. I know I ask too much of them. I hope my friends, like my father,   35  about me a lot.
I once told my friends to give me all their love and be generous and gentle. I told my friends, in other words, to love me    36  I loved them.
They didn’t   37  me at first, but then they became kinder. My love for them slowly made them learn to  38  friends. They learned to love others and   39   the idea that LOVE is part of life.
If we listen to and try to understand each other, love    40   .We should work on it, even if it’s hard at first. A true friend loves US at all times.
Your friend,
Jesus

When I was young，my father told me that little acts of kindness may give one great happiness. Since then I have always tried to help people in   16  .
One hot summer afternoon, I was  17  down the highway to New York when another car suddenly   18  into my lane(車道). My car was in the far right lane，so it ran onto the roadside. As a(n)   19   driver，I moved my car quickly and skillfully back onto the highway without causing any accident.
I was   20  with that driver，but I thought that he just did not pay attention to the lane change, and he   2l  did not do that on purpose(故意).The car ran away   22  after cutting me off. Very soon it disappeared from sight. After a while，I came around a curve(彎道) and found the  23   car. The driver was walking along the roadside. He was an elderly man and looked  24  . With no telephone nearby and the nearest services twenty miles away. I decided to    25   and see what the problem was.
The man’s car had a flat tire(癟胎). Although he had a spare tire，he had nothing to work with. I decided to  26  him. I changed the tire for him and allowed him to sit in my Air-conditioned car while I did it. Fifteen minutes later，I  27  the work. I was hot and tired，but I really felt  28  after an act of kindness to the man who had earlier  29  my car ran off the road.
You can really enjoy great  30  from kindness acts, so always lend your hands to others in trouble.

My young daughter and I were flying to Miami for holiday. The plane was totally    36  . We couldn’t get seats together and were separated by the aisle. I asked two men if they would like to change 37  with us, so that we could be together. They 38   .
At the same time, a mother 39    three children also had the same problem as us. The mother 40    her baby, but her young son and his older brother were separated from her. She was very concerned about the boys sitting with 41  . She was very worried, but 42   helped her. Suddenly a man said, “I think we can help you.” Then he and his group managed to make enough space for the 43    .
My young daughter, however, was afraid of not being next to a window or her mom. I told her I couldn’t do anything; we had to sit 44   we were. Amazingly, the man sitting next to me turned to me and said he really liked the seat near the aisle, so we changed seats and continued our trip 45   .
Would that man give us his seat if the others hadn’t done so for the mom and her children? I don’t know. Perhaps kindness is contagious.

Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.
My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very   36  life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would   37  my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”
At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never   38  again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I could walk again if I didn’t want to be bad enough. She   39  that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school-walking on my own!
When the Great Depression（大蕭條）  40 , my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support（支撐） both of us. At that moment, I decided never to be   41  again.
Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real   42  point happened on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1916. I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels for families and was angry that they charged（收費(fèi)）an extra $2 for each child. That was too   43  for most American families. I told my wife that I was going to open a hotel for families that would never charge extra for   44 . There were plenty of doubters at that time.
Not   45 , mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of hard time. But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my heart, I   46  doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest hotel system in the world­ - Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $1 billion a year.
You may not have started out life in the best situations. But if you can find a   47  in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.

Failure is part of life .No matter what we do, there are always two results： 61  and failure .All of us  62 to be successful, but we can’t always keep ourselves away from failure.
People have different opinions  63  failure. Some people think failure is a  64  thing. They hope they could always do everything  65 . If they fail in something, they will lose 66 confidence. Other people think failure is just a chance to learn. If they fail in something, they will do it  67 . They know that complaining won’t help .
As an old saying goes,“Failure is the  68  of success.”  69  we work hard, we will succeed one day. In my opinion, failure is not bad and it’s not good,  70  .What’s your opinion about failure?

下面文章中有5處需要添加小標(biāo)題。請(qǐng)從以下選項(xiàng)（A、B、C、 D、E 和 F）中選出符合各段意思的小標(biāo)題，并在答題紙上將相應(yīng)選項(xiàng)的標(biāo)號(hào)涂黑。選項(xiàng)中有一項(xiàng)是多余選項(xiàng)。
A. Lack of stone images also reflects religious belief.
B. Art is a good means to know about people’s faith.
C. Artists express their feelings and opinions in their works.
D. People know more about our culture through learning art history.
E. Art is by all means relevant to history.
F. Art history provides information of different places and people.
【小題1】____________________________
A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than it is possible to learn in general history classes. Most typical history courses concentrate on politics, economics and war. But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the political values of a people, but also religious beliefs, emotions, and psychology.
【小題2】____________________________
In addition, information about the daily activities of our ancestors---or of people very different from our own---can be provided by art. In short, art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than what can be found in most history books.
【小題3】____________________________
In history books, objective information about the political life of a country is presented; that is, facts about politics are given, but opinions are not expressed. Art, on the other hand, is subjective: it reflects subjective emotions and opinions. The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya was perhaps the first truly “political” artist. In his well-known painting The Third of May 1808, he criticized the Spanish government for its misuse of power over people. Over a hundred years later, symbolic images were used in Pablo Picasso’s Guernica to express the horror of war. Meanwhile, on another continent, the powerful paintings of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros---as well as the works of Alfredo Ramos Martins---depicted（描述）these Mexican artists’ deep anger and sadness about social problems.
【小題4】____________________________
In the same way, art can reflect a culture’s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religious art was almost the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that depicted people and stories from the Bible. Although most people couldn’t read, they could still understand biblical（圣經(jīng)的）stories in the pictures on church walls.
【小題5】____________________________
By contrast, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its absence of human and animal images. This shows the Islamic belief that statues are unholy. Something else can be more religiously symbolic in history.

When I had something difficult to do， I used to ask my mother for help. But she always said， “Do it yourself，dear.” I was not     1    at all. I thought she was the 2    mother in the world!
For example，one day， I decided to     3   some friends to my home. My bedroom was not in order. Books were everywhere. And I didn’t make the bed. I asked my      4   to help me clean it，   5      she still said，“Do it yourself，girl.”
Because of my “l(fā)azy mother”，I have to     6    my clothes and clean my room. I have to help my parents      7    I even have to go to the dentist by myself. It is really hard for me to do everything well，but I have learned     8   .
As time goes by， I understand my mother. She makes me clever and diligent (勤奮的)    9   a great mother! A     10  mother is worth（等值于） one hundred teachers! Don’t you think so?
【小題1】A. old             B. glad             C. thin
【小題2】A. tallest           B. most foolish      C. laziest
【小題3】A. leave            B. invite           C. visit
【小題4】A. mother          B. father           C. brother
【小題5】A. or              B. when           C. but
【小題6】A. wash           B. lead            C. knoc
【小題7】A. do housework    B. go swimming     C. go camping
【小題8】A. on show         B. by mistake       C. a lot
【小題9】A. Which          B. What            C. Who
【小題10】A. young         B. good             C. happy

The lady with the white fence（籬笆）taught me to leave the gale to life open.. .
My husband died in an accident and I became very angry. I hated being alone. One day, as I was   43   down a busy street, I suddenly noticed a new fence around a house. I pulled off to really watch it. It was such a good   44   that I was deeply touched. I could not send   45 away. The fence still smelled of fresh paint.
“Hello!" I came up and said to a lady in the back garden, “I came to see the fence. It's so beautiful!"
“Oh! The fence is not there for me," the lady explained to me in a calm voice, “I live alone. _ 46_so many people pass by every day, and I think they may be pleased to see something really attractive.     47   stop like you and come up to have a chat. "
"But weren't you sad when they expanded (拓寬) the road and everything changed so much?"
"Change is part of life and takes part in    48   us who we are. When something we do not
like happens to us, we have two choices—to become a    49   person or to become a better person."
Her reply changed my life. I carefully left the gate open and drove on   50   a new feeling inside me. I could not tell  51  it was, but I could feel the thick stone wall around my angry heart breaking off. And  52   a pretty white fence was built. I decided that I would keep the gate open for everything and everyone that came my way.

Books are our greatest friends. They 31 us stories of every country in the world. They give us all kinds of  32 .
Life is short. One can not know and see 33 in the world. 34- the help of books, one is able to know what happened thousands of years ago and 35 is happening in every part of the world now. Books give us not only knowledge   36  pleasure. Reading good booksis the best way of_37    our free time. And many beautiful stories for children are 38and full of wisdom(智慧).
All the great men 39 books. Knowledge from books helps them to succeed, because books are the source(源泉)of knowledge and knowledge is the source of  40 .
【小題1】A. say  B. talk  C. Tell
【小題2】A. knowledge  B. food  C. exercise
【小題3】A. nothing  B. everything  C. something
【小題4】A. With  B. Under  C. At
【小題5】A. how  B. when  C. what
【小題6】A. and  B. but also  C. as well as
【小題7】A. spending  B. taking  C. costing
【小題8】A. interest  B. interested  C. interesting
【小題9】A. love  B. hate  C. dislike
【小題10】A. friendship  B. success  C. Failure