閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出適合填入對(duì)應(yīng)空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該選項(xiàng)涂黑。、
When I was in primary school, I got into a major argument with a boy named Tom in my class. I can’t remember what it was about,  21  I have never forgotten the  22  I learned that day.
I was  23  that I was right and he was wrong--and he was sure that I was wrong and he was right. The  24  decided to teach us a very important lesson. My English teacher, Ms Green  25  both of us up to the 26  of the class and  27  him on one side of her desk and me on  28 . In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could  29 see that it was black. She asked the boy what  30  the object was. “White,” he answered.
I couldn’t believe he said the object was white,  31  it was obviously black! Another  32  started between my classmate and me, this time about the  33  of the object.
The teacher told me to go stand where the boy was standing and told him to come stand where I had been. We changed  34  and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I  35  answer, “White.” It was an object with two  36  colored sides, and from his side it was white.  37  from my side was it black.
My teacher taught me a very important lesson that day: You must  38  in the other person’s shoes and look at the  39  through their eyes in order to  40  understand their view.

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。
A young man was getting ready to graduate from college, for many months he had  36  a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and  37  his father could well  38  it, he told him that was all he wanted.  
On the morning of his graduation day his father called him into his own study and told him how  39  he was to have such a fine son. He handed his son a beautiful gift box.  40  but slightly disappointed, the young man 41  the box and found a lovely book.   42 , he raised his voice at his father and said, “ 43  all your money you give me a book?” And rushed out of the house  44  the book in the study.
He did not contact（聯(lián)系）his father for a whole year 45  one day he saw in the street an old man who looked like his father. He 46    he had to go back home and see his father.
When he arrived at his father's house, he was told that his father had been in hospital for a week. The moment he was about to   47   the hospital, he saw on the desk the   48   new book, just as he had left it one  49   ago. He opened it and began to  50   the pages. Suddenly, a car key  51   from an envelope taped behind the book. It had a lag (標(biāo)簽) with dealer’s name, the 52  dealer who had the sports car he had   53 . On the tag was the  54  of his graduation. and the 55  PAID IN FULL.

December 24 arrived along with a heavy snow. It was my first Christmas Eve without my mother, and the day’s usual  36  had disappeared.
The telephone rang. I  37  it and went to my bedroom to bury the continuous 38 , knowing it must be my friend Rebecca calling. How could I be  39 ? I wanted to be left  40 .
My heart felt as  41  as the falling snow.  42  can I stop missing my mother?
I  43  the window. Seeing Rebecca’s car parked out front, I went back to my bed and drew the covers over my head.
“Lucy!” she shouted. “I know you’re in there. Answer the door!”
“Leave me alone!” I  44  back. I heard paper rustling(沙沙作響) as she slid  45  under the door.
“Merry Christmas, ” she called out.
Not answering the  46  made me even 47. It wasn’t fair to my best friend. Her father and sister  48  in a car accident when she was eight years old.  49 , her mother had to return to  50 , and Rebecca was left to look after herself.
When she left, I carried the small package, sat down and  51  it. Inside was a golden pen and a journal. When I opened the journal’s front cover, out fell a bookmark with a(n)   52  written on it:
Dear Lucy,  
My words won’t heal（治愈）the 53  . But your own words can.
Love,
Rebecca
As I stared at the journal’s blank pages, a single tear fell on the page which quickly absorbed it.
That night, I  54  the phone and dialed her number.
“Looks like the snow is melting(融化), ” I said. “Spring was just ___55____the corner.”

When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My parents took me by train or by car to a hotel by the   26  . All day, I seem to remember, I played on the sands with strange   27  children. We made houses and gardens, and   28  the tide destroy them. When the tide went out, we climbed over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.
In those days the sun seemed to shine always   29  and the water was always warm. Sometimes we left beach and walked in the country,   30  ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were sweets in one’s pockets or good places where one could   31  ice creams. Each day seemed a life-time.
 32 I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good  holiday is much the same as it was.  I   33   like the sun and warm sand and the sound of   34  beating (拍打) the rocks. I no longer wish to   35   any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets.   36  , I still love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.
Sometimes I  37  what my ideal(理想的) holiday will be like when I am  old .  38  I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about  39  who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves  40 on too many ices creams.

When I was a teenager I volunteered to work at the water station at a 10,000m race. My job was to   34   water to the runners. I remember being so 35   to see all the different kinds of people who passed by and grabbed a cup of water. Some ran past, some walked past and a few wheeled past. I saw so many types of people doing it. I thought maybe I could do it too! So the next year I 36  up for the race.
That first 10,000m race was quite an experience. I jogged, I walked, I jogged and I walked 37 , I didn’t know if I could finish. Then came a defining (決定性) 38  .
At one point near the end, a 70-year-old man ran past me, very, very fast, and I felt 39  because I was 50 years younger than he but I couldn’t even keep up with him. I felt 40  for a second.
But then I realized something. He was running his race and I was running mine. He had 41   abilities, experience, training and goals for himself. I had mine. Remember my 42  was only to finish.
After a minute, it 43  me that this was a lesson I could draw from. I learned something about myself in that moment. I turned my embarrassment into 44   .
I decided that I would not give up on running races. In fact, I would run even more races and I would learn how to train and prepare  45 and one day I would be one of those 70-year-old persons who were still running. As I crossed the finish line, I was proud of my accomplishment. In life we all have those moments where we 46  ourselves to others. It’s only natural . Don’t allow those moments to  47  you. Turn them into motivation and let them inspire you. With the proper preparation and training, you can improve your result to 48 anything you want in life.

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從1—15各題所給的A、B、C和D項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。
Once, there lived a young short monk in a temple on top of a hill, caring for his vegetable garden. He had one daily task of carryingtwo   1   of water up the hill from a cold stream. Rain or shine, he never     2   a day carrying water up the mountain to the temple. One day, a thin and tall    3   monk passed the temple and the young monk invited him to     4   . Since they would share the water, they went down the mountain together to fetch water. But the carrying pole is only     5   enough for one bucket. The two monks were unable to     6    the shared load on their carrying pole without shaking the contents of the two buckets all over the short monk. They     7  to retain（保留） only a small     8   of water that the young monk would have carried on his own, not mentioning to    9   the garden. When the young monk began to see his guest as     10  , the other monk began to see his host as unreasonable. Then a     11   monk came. The     12   of the third monk urged everyone to expect that someone else would take on the chore. As a result, no one fetched water though everybody was     13   . One night, a rat jumped and knocked the candleholder（燭臺(tái)）, leading to a devastating(毀壞性的)    14    in the temple. The three monks finally united together to put out the fire. Since then they understood the old saying "unity is strength" and begin to live a     15       life. The temple never lacks water again.

Someone said that encouragement is simply reminding a person of the “shoulders” he’s standing on, the heritage he’s been given. That’s what happened   36   a young man, the son of a(n)   37   baseball player, was chosen by one of the minor league teams. Hard as he tried, his first season was   38   , and by midseason he expected to be removed   39   day. The coaches were    40   by his failure because he possessed all the characteristics of a superb athlete, but he seemed to have become   41   from his potential.
His   42   seemed darkest one day when he had already struck out his first time at bat. Then he stepped up to the batter’s box again and quickly ran up two strikes. The catcher called a   43   and ran for a conference to discuss strategies. While they were busy, the   44  , standing behind him, spoke casually to the boy.
Then play   45  , the next pitch was thrown and the young man knocked it out of the park. That was the turning   46  . From then on, he played the game with a new confidence and power that quickly   47   the attention of the parent team, and he was called   48   to the majors.
On the day he was leaving for the city, one of his coaches asked him what had caused such a turnaround. The young man replied it was the   49   remark the judge had   50   that day when his baseball career had seemed   51  .
“He told me I reminded him of all the times he had stood   52   my dad in the batter’s box,” the boy explained. “He said I was holding the bat just the way Dad had held it.   53   he told me, ‘I can see his genes in you; you have your father’s   54   .’ After that, whenever I swung the bat, I just   55   I was using Dad’s arms instead of my own.”

Mother’s Day was coming，but John had been visiting customers．He was now in a small town just outside a flower shop and he knew what to do．
He went into the shop and saw a young man  26  the clerk to sell him some roses for six dollars，but the clerk just explained that roses were  27 ．
The clerk looked up at John， 28  her head．Something inside of John was  29  by the boy’s voice．John had been  30  in his business，and he looked at the clerk and  31 mouthed that he would pay for the roses．
The clerk looked at the young man and told him to get the roses for six dollars．The young man almost jumped into the  32  and ran from the store with the  33 ．It was worth the extra dollars just to see that kind of  34 ．
John ordered his own flowers and made sure that the  35  would include a note telling his mother how much he loved her．He drove away from the shop，feeling very  36 ．He caught a light about two blocks away．As he  37  at the light，he saw the young boy walking down the sidewalk．He watched him cross the street and enter a park through two huge gates．Suddenly，he  38  that it wasn’t a park but a cemetery(公墓)．
The light  39 ，and John slowly crossed the intersection．He  40  and on an impulse(沖動(dòng))got out and began to fclllow the boy．The young man stopped by a small monument and went to his  41 ．He began to cry after he carefully  42  the roses on the grave．He stared at the little boy’s heaving(起伏的) body and listened to his crying．
John turned with  43 ，and walked back to his car．He drove  44  to the shop and told the clerk he would  45  the flowers personally．He wanted to tell his mother one more time just how much he loved her．

My parents ran a small restaurant in Seattle. It was open twenty-four hours a day, six days a week. And my first real job, when I was six years old, was   36  the diners’ shoes. My father had done it when he was young, so he taught me  37  to do it well, telling me to  38  to shine the shoes again if the customer wasn’t  39 .
I was proud of working in the restaurant   40  I was also working for the good of the family. But my father   41  said that I had to meet certain standards(標(biāo)準(zhǔn)) to be part of the team. I   42  to be on time, hard-working, and polite to the  43 . I was    44  paid for the work I did at the restaurant. One day I made the mistake of suggesting to Dad that he  45   give me $10 a week. He said, “OK. How about you paying me for three meals a day you have here? And for the times you bring in your friends  46  free soft drinks?” He   47  the amount of money I owed him, about $40 a week.
I remember returning to Seattle after being  48  in the US Army for about two years. I had just been promoted（升職） to Captain at that time. And full of pride, I walked into my parents’ restaurant, but the   49  thing Dad said was, “How about your   50  up tonight?” I couldn’t  51  my ears! I am an officer in the Army! But   52  didn’t matter. As far as Dad was concerned, I was just  53  member of the team. I reached for the mop(拖把).Working for Dad has taught me that the devotion(奉獻(xiàn)) to a  54  is above all. It has nothing to do with  55  that team is for a family restaurant or the US Army.

In a national spelling contest in America，an 11-year-old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her   36  voice the judges were not sure whether she spelled the word with the letter A or E. They talked it over and   37  decided to simply ask her what she had said. By now, the girl knew she had   38  the word. But instead of lying，she told the truth that she had said the   39  letter—so she lost the contest.
As the girl walked off the   40 ，the entire audience stood to their feet clapping to applaud her   41 . Later，dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this 11-year-old girl’s honesty，even when it   42  her the contest. But the fact is that she   43  the biggest contest that day: the contest of her   44  .
Probably the biggest test of our character and honesty is that we would do if we knew we would never get   45 . This young girl could easily have   46  and nobody would have known it but herself. But that’s just it: She would know she did wrong. It’s been said, “If you   47 , you make yourself cheap.” This young girl was strong and smart enough to prize her own   48  and character more than the prize from a spelling   49 . Her respect for herself was more important than any    50  others might give her for winning a contest. She knew she would have to live with herself and the   51  she made in that moment will have long-lasting influence.
It’s so true that the choices you make today   52  what you are tomorrow. Our children will   53  our behavior much more than our advice. So if we want them to   54  to be honest，we must show them the way by being honest ourselves. Remember，our kids are   55  what we do and how we live even when we don’t think they see or know.