John，an academically excellent young man，went to apply for a management position in a big company．The director did the last  36 ．
The director asked，“Who paid for your school fees?” John answered．“My  37 did．When I was young，my father  38 ．”Then he continued．“  39 was your mother?” John answered，“My mother worked as a  40 cleaner．”Hearing this, the director asked John to  41  his hands．John reached out his hands that were  42 and perfect．The director said，“I have a  43 ．when you go home，clean your mother’s hands and see me tomorrow．”
John felt  44 but did it．His tears fell  45 he cleaned his mother’s hands．He noticed  for the first time that her hands were so  46 ．Also John  47 that it was this pair of hands  that washed clothes every day to  48 him．After cleaning his mother’s hands，John  49 washed all the remaining clothes for her．
Next day，John went to the director’s office. Tears in eyes，John was asked to  50 his  feelings．“Now I know what is  51 ．Without my mother，there wouldn’t be the  52 me today．By helping my mother，I see how  53 it is to get something done．I have also come to know the value of family relationship．”
The director smiled，This is what I am  54 ．I want a person who can appreciate the help of others，a person who knows the sufferings of others and a person who  55 put money as his only goal in life．You are hired．”

Andy was still travelling in Spain when he realized he had to eonfirm(確認(rèn)) his flight home with the airline company. He was visiting Spain in order to   36  his Spanish. When he was speaking to people   37  he had no   38  understanding what they said.   39  , when he was speaking on the phone, he   40  had a problem. Andy   41  the airline. And the clerk confirmed that his plane was leaving at nine o’clock three days from that day. She   42 told Andy to be at the airport two hours   43  in order to check in his luggage and get a set.
Since he was   44  in three days, Andy didn’t   45 any time. He visited as many places as he could. He thought that it would probably be a while before he had enough money again.  He wished he could   46  and spend a year in Spain.
Too   47   , the final day arrived. Andy left early for the airport to arrive two hours before takeoff. He hated to  48 . He went to the clerk to    49  his ticket. The clerk looked at the ticket with   50 . “Why, sir, but your flight was at nine o’clock in the morning, and   51  it is eight in the evening. ”“But I confirmed my flight. ”  52  Andy. “Will I have to pay for another ticket?”
“No, sir. However, the next flight out will be three days from now. ”
Andy’s  53 of shock turned to one of  54   as he realized that now he could continue his   55  .

That holiday morning I didn’t have to attend school. Usually, on holidays, Mother   36  me to sleep in. And I would certainly take full advantage of it. On this particular morning,  ___37___,I felt like getting up early.
I stood by my window overlooking the ___38___, having nothing better to do. But as it turned out, I was soon to learn about something ___39___ in life.
As I watched several people go by, get into their cars and go off, I ___40___ an old man on a bicycle with a bucket on its ___41___ and a basket rags and bottles on its back-carriage. He ___42___ from one car to another, washing and cleaning them. From the water on the ground, it seemed that he had already ___43___ washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars. He must have begun to work quite early in the morning.
Several thoughts ___44___my mind as I watched him work. He wasn’t well-dressed. He had on a pair of shorts and a(n) ___45___ T-shirt. The bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern ___46___would want to be seen riding on. But he seemed___47___ with life. There he was, working hard at his small business, ___48___ at passers-by and stopping to chat now and then ___49___ elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby.
There was a noticeable touch of___50___ in the way he seemed to be doing things— ___51___the windscreen (擋風(fēng)玻璃), then standing back to admire it; scrubbing (擦凈) the wheels and ___52___, standing back to see what they look like after the scrub.
It was a ___53___ to learn, I felt. At no age need one have to beg for a ___54___if one has good health and is willing to work hard. For a while I felt ___55__ of myself. Young as I am—just sixteen, and there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged perhaps before the sun appeared above the horizon.

I am now a good student in my class．But you don’t know that   16    I started senior English
in the beginning，I found ___17_____ difficult and quite different from what we had learned in junior school．Now I still remember a teacher who taught me at that time. ___18__ teacher is a good teacher because she always tries her best to be the one _19___ classes are more active and lively with some stories and examples.
__20_  the help of my teacher, I realized the  21 (important) of English，so I was  22  （determine) to learn English well. My teacher suggested that we __23_____(read) more if we want to improve our English, so every day I would do some English reading. She also  24      (tell) us lessons learned in classes could help us deal with exams, but even more valuable were the lessons learned in extra-curricular activities in school. I like my English teacher very much．
Now I have made  25  great progress in my English study that I am more interested in learning it than before．

A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting( attracting) apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The  boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater, __36_ a bar of chocolate if given the choice, 37, as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the __38__ he felt and the more he wanted that apple.
He stood on tiptoe, _39_as high as he could, but even at his tallest __40__he was unable to touch it. He began to __41__ up and down, as high as he could, at the _42 of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple. Still it remained out of _43_.
Not giving up, he thought, if only he had something to 44 on. His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to 45 the things inside, like his lunch box, pencil box, pencil case, and Gameboy. Looking 46 , he hoped he might find an old box, a rock, or,  47 luck, even a ladder, but it was a tidy neighbourhood and there was nothing he could use.
He had tried everything he could think to do. 48 seeing any other choices, he gave up and started to walk 49 . At first, he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his 50 , and how he really wanted that apple. The more he 51 like this, the more unhappy he became.
52 , the boy of our story was a pretty smart guy, even if he couldn’t get what he wanted. He started to say to himself, “ This isn’t 53 . I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling sad as well. There is 54 more I can do to get the apple— that is unchangeable —but we are supposed to be able to  55 our feelings. If that is the case, what can I do to feel better.

Like most English children, I learned foreign languages at 36. When I made my first visit 37 the Unites States, I was 38 I could have a nice easy holiday without any 39 problem. But how 40 I was!
At the American airport, I was looking for a public telephone to 41 my friend Jenny I had 41 . A worker asked if he could 43 me. “Yes,” I said. “I want to give my friend a ring.” “Well, that’s nice. Are you getting married?” he asked. “No,” I answered. “I just want to tell her 44 the phone I have arrived.” “Oh,” he said, “there is a 45 downstairs on the first floor.” “But we’re on the first floor now,” I said. “Well, I don’t know what you are 46 about. Maybe you aren’t feeling too well after your 47,” he said. “You just go and wash up, and you will feel a lot better.” And he went 48 , 49 me wondering where on earth I was: at home we wash up after a 50 to get the cups and plates clean. How can I wash up at an airport?
At last we did 51. She 52 the misunderstanding(誤會): American say “to give someone a 53 ”, but we English say “ to give someone a ring”. When we say “to wash your hands”, they say “to wash 54”. And Englishmen start numbering from the floor, so the 55 floor is the second for Americans.

One night recently, I was driving down a highway at about 60 miles an hour. A car came from the _21_ direction at about the same speed. As we _22_ each other, I looked into the driver’s eyes for a second. I  23  whether he might be thinking, as I was, how  24  we were on each other at that moment. I was relying on him not to fall  25  , not to cross over into my lane (車道) and bring my  26  to a sudden end. He relied on me in just the same way without doubt.
I believe that is the way the world _27 . At some level, we all depend upon one another. Sometimes that dependence requires us simply not to cross over the double yellow line. Sometimes it requires us to _28  cooperatively, with friends or even  29 .
_30 technology makes our world smaller, the need increases for cooperation. In 2003, doctors in five nations were encouraged to find the causes of SARS, saving thousands of lives. The  31 of international terrorism has shown itself to be a similar problem, one requiring the            32  across the world. We must  33  that our future is not controlled by ourselves alone.
I’ve come to believe that one must rely upon the good faith and judgment of others. So, while  34  alone down a dark road, we must know the coming light may not be a danger, but a         35  moment of trust.

One day around 5:30 pm, I was going home on a bus and everybody on the bus was quiet.  People had just  36  from work, students had just finished their  37 class and everybody was a little  38 from a long day. I was just looking outside of the   39  without any specific（具體的）thought in my mind. It was the same  40  I have seen many times before, people hurrying home.
In front of me, there was a guy who didn’t look very clean.   41  he was looking out of the window, he suddenly  42  to me and pointed at something outside. “Hey, look! ”He had a big smile on his face. I turned to the   43 he was pointing in and there it was the beautiful Catalina mountains burning with a beautiful   44  . He turned to other people on the bus and told them to look at the mountains. He  45  “Wow” and “It’s so beautiful” again and again. Everybody on the bus  46  the view indeed.
The  47  view also helped me to  48  my long tiring day with a good feeling in my heart. But, more  49  , I was so inspired to see that this man wanted to  50  the beautiful view with everybody on the bus, totally strangers. His  51  act made me accidentally find something that I had lost which I didn’t even know I had lost. He made me  52  that I had lost the feelings and the   53 I used to have every day. In my daily life, many things had  54 their color and movement, but he  55 me that things are still there—they never get lost.
【小題1】A.  given up      B.  got off            C.  gone on                 D     stopped by

Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to earn money in order to pay the 16 tuition(學(xué)費(fèi)) for my brother and me. They don’t 17  in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV. My father has a bad temper（脾氣）; it’s easy for him to lose his temper.
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt(縫被子). I 18 sat down beside her and looked at her.
“Is there any 19  between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice.My mother stopped her work and raised her head with  20  in her eyes. She didn’t answer immediately. Then she bowed her head and continued to sew the quilt. 21 at last I heard my mother say the following words:“Susan,” she said 22  , “Look at this thread（線）. Sometimes it appears, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong and durable（耐用）. If life is a 23  , then love should be a thread. It can 24  be seen anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there. Love is 25.
I listened carefully but I couldn’t understand her until the next  26  . At that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. After they were 27, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father walk 28 on the country road. My father had never been so 29 . Along the country road, there were many beautiful flowers, green grass and trees. The sun gently shone through the leaves. All of these 30  the most beautiful picture in the world. The doctor had said my father would 31 in two months. But after two months he still couldn’t walk alone. We were all worried.
“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day. “Susan,” he said gently, “to tell you the truth, I just like 32  with your mom. I like this kind of life.” 33  his eyes, I knew he loved my mother deeply.
Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this  34  , I understand that love is just a  35  in the quilt of out life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

It was a cold winter’s night when I stopped for gas on my way home from work．I was tired and had a slight   36 ．
I worked in a   37  doctor’s office and this was one of those days when the unexpected happened, making the schedule run   38  than usual．It seemed I was going to be late   39  home and my husband, being the   40  person, would be ready to pronounce（宣布） me late once again．Maybe   41  I hurried, I could still make it home．
I was heading inside to   42  for my gas when I noticed an older couple at the counter．I heard them asking for   43  to the local hospital．It was the same hospital that I had just   44  a few minutes ago．
The young man at the counter was trying to be   45  in explaining how to get there, with two other people making   46 ．One of them was   47  trying to give them a whole different route back．It was then that I walked over to the couple and said, “Would you like to follow me to the   48 ?”
A look of   49  crossed the woman’s face．
“I’m going right by there,” I said, which wasn’t a（an）   50  since I had just made up my mind to do   51  that．
I got in my car and began the journey back．I was trying to watch to be sure they were right   52  me．It took only fifteen minutes to get there as rush hour traffic was beginning to   53 ．I felt better than I had all day and my headache was nearly gone．
Later, as I arrived home, my husband   54 , “So you aren’t ever late any more．”
I said, “Sometimes it’s   55  to be late．”