Maricel Apatan，22，stands in the kitchen of the Edsa Shangri—La Hotel in Manila，preparing to decorate a cheesecake. It would seem to be  a（n）____ task for a pastry(糕點) chef，but Maricel is no ____ chef－she has no hands．
“When I first saw Maricel, I was worried she might ____ herself when using a chef’s knife ____ that has never been a problem, ” says Maricel’s manager. “She doesn’t get ____ treatment and works just as hard as the rest of the chefs.”
Despite financial ____ from Archbishop Ledesma, a distant relative, Maricel ____ to deal with her disability. “I was ____ dependent on my mother and couldn’t do anything,” she recalls.
In 2004, Archbishop Ledesma ____ for Maricel to live in the House with No Steps, a training centre for people with disabilities. She ____ how to write and do regular tasks and, more importantly, ____ her disability. She became more determined to ____ hard to live a normal life.
Maricel ____ graduated from high school and enrolled(注冊) in a two-year Hotel and Restaurant Management course in Cagayan de Oro City. I have really enjoyed ____ since I was seven years old,” she says.
After Maricel moved back to Manila to continue her studies, the media started reporting ____ this determined young woman. She didn't shy away from the ____.“I wanted others living with disabilities to believe it's ____ to live a normal life,” Maricel says.
Later, Maricel's three younger brothers and sisters moved to Manila．She ____ the rent of their small apartment, ____ their parents look after the family farm in Mindanao．“It is difficult to make ends meet but I don't lose ____. I believe anything is possible if you dream, and work hard．”
小題1:
A．impossibleB． simpleC． practicalD． important
小題2:
A．ordinaryB． admirableC． talentedD． gentle
小題3:
A．a(chǎn)bsorbB． expressC． hurtD． forgive
小題4:
A．forB． orC． butD． and
小題5:
A．specialB． equalC． officialD． effective
小題6:
A．a(chǎn)dviceB． controlC． informationD． help
小題7:
A．hesitatedB． disagreedC． struggledD． pretended
小題8:
A．graduallyB． hardlyC． increasinglyD． totally
小題9:
A．searchedB． arrangedC． appliedD． begged
小題10:
A．explainedB． realizedC． wonderedD．learned
小題11:
A．a(chǎn)cceptedB． blessedC． curedD． forgot
小題12:
A．thinkB． tryC． listenD． relax
小題13:
A．partlyB． firstlyC． eventuallyD． immediately
小題14:
A．readingB． cookingC． writingD． drawing
小題15:
A．beyondB． byC． againstD． on
小題16:
A．a(chǎn)ttentionB． descriptionC． decorationD． connection
小題17:
A．successfulB． difficultC． possibleD． certain
小題18:
A．raisesB． paysC． collectsD． receives
小題19:
A．unlessB． onceC． thoughD． while
小題20:
A．memoryB． weightC． hopeD． patience

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:C
小題4:C
小題5:A
小題6:D
小題7:C
小題8:D
小題9:B
小題10:D
小題11:A
小題12:B
小題13:C
小題14:B
小題15:D
小題16:A
小題17:C
小題18:B
小題19:D
小題20:C

試題分析：本文主要講述了一個殘疾的女孩子通過自己的努力和奮斗，過上了正常人的生活。作者用這個故事告訴我們：只要你不失去希望，只要你有夢想，只要你努力，任何事情都是可能的。
小題1:B 形容詞辨析。A不可能；B簡單的；C實用的；D重要的；一位廚師要做奶油蛋糕，這本來是一件很簡單的事情，但是對于Maricel來說卻可能是一件很危險的事情，也因為她沒有手。
小題2:A 形容詞辨析。A普通的；B令人欽佩的；C有才干的；D溫柔的；Maricel不是一個普通的廚師，她和別的廚師很不一樣，因為她沒有手。
小題3:C 動詞辨析。A吸收；B表達；C傷害；D原諒；經(jīng)理說當(dāng)他看見她使用刀的時候很擔(dān)心她是否會傷到自己，因為她沒有手，不能像普通人那樣控制好刀。
小題4:C 詞義辨析。A因為，為了（介詞）；B或者，否則；C但是；D和；雖然經(jīng)理一直很擔(dān)心她會傷到自己，但是這從來就不是一個問題，她的水平很好。
小題5:A 形容詞辨析。A特別的；B公平的；C正式的；D有效的；經(jīng)理說：她不需要特別對待，而且她和別的廚師一樣努力工作。
小題6:D 名詞辨析。A建議；B控制；C信息；D幫助；雖然有來自遠房親戚Archbishop Ledesma的幫助，但是她還是很努力地和自己的殘疾做斗爭，從來不依賴別人。
小題7:C 動詞辨析。A猶豫；B不同意；C努力；D假裝；雖然有來自遠房親戚Archbishop Ledesma的幫助，但是她還是很努力地和自己的殘疾做斗爭，從來不依賴別人。說明她很獨立。
小題8:D 副詞辨析。A逐漸地；B幾乎不；C越來與多地；D完全地；根據(jù)后半句中的couldn’t do anything可知她之前完全是依靠自己的母親，什么也做不了。但是后來有了徹底的改變。
小題9:B 動詞辨析。A尋找；B安排；C申請；D祈求；在2004年她的親戚Archbishop Ledesma安排她生活在一個專門為殘疾人建設(shè)的無障礙的房子里。在這里她學(xué)會了很多的事情。
小題10:.D 動詞辨析。A解釋；B意識到；C想知道；D學(xué)會；在那里她學(xué)會了書寫，學(xué)會了做一些基本的事情。最重要的是，她終于接受了自己殘疾的這個現(xiàn)實。
小題11:A 動詞詞義辨析。A接受；B祈禱；C治愈；D忘記；在那里她學(xué)會了書寫，學(xué)會了做一些基本的事情。最重要的是，她終于接受了自己殘疾的這個現(xiàn)實。
小題12:B 動詞辨析。A思考；B努力；C聽；D放松；try hard to do sth努力做某事；她更加堅定地要努力地過正常人的生活。
小題13:C 副詞辨析。A部分地；B首先；C最后；D立刻，馬上；她最終高中畢業(yè)，參加了一個賓館和餐廳管理的2年的學(xué)習(xí)課程，學(xué)習(xí)相關(guān)內(nèi)容。
小題14:B 動名詞辨析。A閱讀；B烹飪；C寫作；D畫畫；她告訴我們自從7歲她就一直很喜歡烹飪。所以在這個課程里她主要學(xué)習(xí)的也是烹飪，后來成為了廚師。
小題15:D 介詞辨析。A超過；在…另外一邊；B通過；C違背，逆著，頂著；D關(guān)于…；report on….就…展開報道；當(dāng)?shù)氐拿襟w開始報道這個意志堅定的女孩子的故事。
小題16:A 注意力；關(guān)注；B描述；C裝飾；D聯(lián)系；對于媒體的關(guān)注她一點也不害羞。主要是因為她想讓其他一些有殘疾的人知道經(jīng)過努力，他們也可以過正常人的生活。
小題17:C 形容詞辨析。A成功的；B困難的；C可能的；D確定，一定；她想讓其他的殘疾人知道經(jīng)過自己的努力，他們完全有可能過上正常人的生活。
小題18:D 動詞辨析。A提高，籌集；B付錢；C收集；D收到；她的三個弟弟妹妹也來到了馬尼拉，當(dāng)他們的父母親在老家的時候，由她掙錢來付他們的房租。
小題19:D 連詞辨析。A除非；B一旦；C盡管；D當(dāng)…時；當(dāng)他們的父母親在老家的時候，由她掙錢來付他們的房租。
小題20:C 詞義辨析。A記憶，回憶；B重量；C希望；D耐心；她說要想讓收支平衡很困難，但是只要你不失去希望，只要你有夢想，只要你努力，任何事情都是可能的。
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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：完形填空

I was doing a big clean-up and my kids were helping. One of my sons came across a handkerchief of mine with a coin inside. I took one look and was immediately   to another time．
In 1991，I had spent five months in Viger(尼日爾)，a hot African country. There were many things I found      about this place—the climate and beggars who      shouted “Cadeau! Cadeau!” It means gift．
One      was a lot worse．One day，a friend and I headed for neighboring Burkina Faso to work in a health clinic．However，a motorbike with two men      slowly．Without warning，one of the men     my backpack as the motorbike swept close by．The bag had my passport，money，an airline ticket and other things precious to me．I was in deep      ．In the weeks that followed I looked at all   with suspicion.
All I wanted was to leave this place．One day，I was stopped by an old woman “Cadeau!” she cried. I’d had enough! I was sick and tired of the country．I told her firmly，“A thief stole all my money and now I can’t get off your country.” The beggar woman listened carefully and     my words．
“Then I will give you a cadeau,” she announced．Kindly，she placed an old brown coin in my palm. I looked at it   ．Living in poverty，she gave me something priceless! I saw then the     beauty of the people of Burkina Faso and    deeply the quiet dignity of the small coin；she turned my perceptions upside down．
小題1:
A．welcomedB．transportedC．exchangedD．expected
小題2:
A．difficultB．easyC．curiousD．a(chǎn)dequate
小題3:
A．a(chǎn)nnoyinglyB．carefullyC．politelyD．calmly
小題4:
A．clinicB．presentC．opportunityD．incident
小題5:
A．continuedB．failedC．a(chǎn)pproachedD．dropped
小題6:
A．grabbedB．brokeC．borrowedD．fixed
小題7:
A．debtB．snowC．troubleD．thought
小題8:
A．platsB．friendsC．menD．locals
小題9:
A．deniedB．usedC．consideredD．changed
小題10:
A．in horrorB．in shockC．in returnD．in addition
小題11:
A．uncertainB．unfortunateC．unnecessaryD．unexpected
小題12:
A．thankedB．regrettedC．a(chǎn)ppreciatedD．pitied

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

I lost my sight when I was four by falling off a box car in a freight（貨物）yard in Atlantic City. Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a disaster can do strange things to people. I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.
Life, I believe, asks constant adjustments to reality. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—a potential to live, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself, I mean: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the intricate（錯綜復(fù)雜的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words stuck in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a new kind of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was out of reach. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
小題1:We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______
A．the author lost his sight because of a car crash.
B．the author wouldn’t love life if the disaster didn’t happen.
C．the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.
D．the disaster strengthened the author’s desire to see.
小題2:What’s the most difficult thing for the author?
A．How to adjust himself to reality.
B．Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.
C．Learning to manage his life alone.
D．How to invent a new kind of baseball.
小題3:According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author _________.
A．would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.
B．would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair.
C．would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.
D．would sit in a chair and stay at home.
小題4:What is the best title for the passage?
A．A Miserable LifeB．Struggle Against Difficulties
C．A Disaster Makes a Strong PersonD．An Unforgettable Experience

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：完形填空

Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, was born in Kingfish, Oklahoma on March 29, 1918. He was raised in Missouri where he worked in his father’s store while attending school. This was his first retailing (零售業(yè)) experience and he really enjoyed it. After graduation, he began his own career as a retail merchant.
He soon opened his first Wal-Mart store in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas. Wal-Mart specialized in name brands at low prices and Sam Walton was surprised at the success. Soon a chain of Wal-Mart stores sprang up across rural America.
Walton's management style was popular with employees and he founded some of the basic concepts of management that are still in use today.
After taking the company public in 1970, Walton introduced his “profit sharing plan”. The profit sharing plan was a plan for Wal-Mart employees to improve their income dependent on the profits of the store. Sam Walton believed that “individuals don't win, teams do”. Employees at Wal-Mart stores were offered stock options (認股權(quán)) and store discounts. These benefits are commonplace today, but Walton was among the first to implement (實現(xiàn)) them. Walton believed that a happy employee meant happy customers and more sales. He also believed that by giving employees a part of the company and making their success dependent on the company’s success, they would care about the company.
By the 1980s, Wal-Mart had sales of over one billion dollars and over three hundred stores across North America. Wal-Mart’s unique decentralized (分散的) distribution system, also Walton’s idea, created the edge needed to further encourage growth in the 1980s during growing complaints that the “superstore” was stopping smaller and traditional stores from developing. By 1991, Wal-Mart was the largest US retailer with 1,700 stores. Walton remained active in managing the company, as president and CEO until 1988 and chairman until his death. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom shortly before his death.
小題1: Sam Walton first made a hit in retailing when __________.
A．he worked in his father’s store
B．he created Walton's management style
C．a(chǎn) chain of Wal-Mart stores sprang up across rural America
D．he specialized in name brands at low prices
小題2:What is the purpose of Walton’s carrying out “profit sharing plan”?
A．To make sure all the employees had their own shares.
B．To encourage the employees to work hard and make joint efforts.
C．To select excellent employees for his stores.
D．To make more profit for himself.
小題3:Which of the statements is TRUE?
A．With Walton’s management style, employees treated the stores as their own.
B．Walton wasn’t one of the merchants who first implemented stock options.
C．The smaller and traditional stores were well affected by Walton’s stores.
D．In his old age, Walton gave all the management to his men.
小題4:What does the underlined word “edge” in the last paragraph mean here?
A．Danger.B．Disadvantage.C．Advantage.D．System.

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