One afternoon I toured an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting. I was looking forward to a quiet   21  of the splendid artwork.
A young   22  viewing the paintings ahead of me   23  nonstop between themselves. I watched them a moment and decided the lady was doing all the talking. I admired the man’s   24  for putting up with her   25  stream of words.   26  by their noise, I moved on.
I met them several times as I moved   27  the various rooms of art. Each time I heard her continuous flow of words, I moved away   28 .
I was standing at the counter of the museum gift shop making a   29  when the couple approached the   30 . Before they left, the man   31  into his pocket and pulled out a white object. He   32  it into a long stick and then   33  his way into the coatroom to get his wife’s jacket.
“He’s a   34  man,” the clerk at the counter said. “Most of us would give up if we were blinded at such a young age. During his recovery, he made a promise his life wouldn’t change. So, as before, he and his wife come in   35  there is a new art show.”
“But what does he get out of the art?” I asked. “He can’t see.”
“Can’t see! You’re   36 . He sees a lot. More than you and I do,” the clerk said. “His wife   37  each painting so he can see it in his head.”
I learned something about patience,   38  and love that day. I saw the patience of a young wife describing paintings to a person without   39  and the courage of a husband who would not   40  blindness to change his life. And I saw the love shared by two people as I watched this couple walk away, their arms intertwined.

Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we 26 realize that those challenges are the very things that  27  us and make us who we are, it is the same with the challenges that come with  28 .                                                   
When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two  29 : we can try to  30  it off, or we can decide that the thing presenting the challenge isn’t worth the  31  and call it quits. Although there are  32  times when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most  33  all that is needed is commitment and  34 .
When we are devoted to  35 , it means that no matter how  36  or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to  37  it instead of running away from it. Communication is making a  38  for discussion and talking about how you feel instead of just saying what the other person did wrong.  39  you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt.”  40  “You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.
In dealing with many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for  41  they are: small hurdles（障礙） you need to jump or  42  on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is impossible to get over, and hurt only  43  to make us stronger. It’s all part of growing up, it happens to everyone, and some day you will  44 on all of this and say, “ 45  as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing.”

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A．pass by B．come across C．get through D．run over[來源:Z,xx,k.Com]

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A young man was ready to graduate from college. For months he had  16 a sports car in a  17   showroom, and knowing his father  18 afford it, he told him that was  19 he wanted.  20 Graduation Day approached, he waited for the news    21 that his father had bought the car. On the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his   22  study. He handed him a beautiful box.   23  , but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened it  24  found a lovely Bible, with the young man’s name on it.  25 , he shouted to his father and said, “ With all your  26 you give me a Bible?” He then stormed out of the house, leaving the  27  ,
Many years passed. The young man was successful in both business and his family, but  28  his father was old, he intended to go back see him. He  29  him since that graduation day.  30 he could make the arrangements, he received a telegram telling his father had passed away, and he needed to take  31 possessions from his father. When he arrived at his father’s house, sudden sadness and  32 filled his heart. He saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag（標簽）with the dealer’s name,  33  dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the  34 “PAID IN FULL.”
How many time do we miss blessing because they are not packaged as we  35 ?  Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.     

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Jame’s New Bicycle
James shook his money box again. Nothing! He carefully   21  the coins that lay on the bed . $24. 52 was all that he had. The bicycle he wanted was at least $90!   22  on earth was he going to get the   23  of the money?
He knew that his friends all had bicycles. It was   24   to hang around with people when you were the only one without wheels. He thought about what he could do. There was no   25  asking his parents, for he knew they had no money to   26 .
There was only one way to get money, and that was to   27  it. He would have to find a job.   28  who would hire him and what could he do? He decided to ask Mr. Clay for advice ,who usually had   29  on most things.
“Well, you can start right here, ”said Mr. Clay. “My windows need cleaning and my car needs washing. ”
That was the   30 of  James’ s odd-job（零工） business. For three months he worked every day after finishing his homework. He was amazed by the   31   of jobs that people found for him to do.  He took dogs and babies for walks, cleared out cupboards, and mended books. He lost count of the   32   of cars he washed and windows he cleaned, but the  33   increased and he knew that he would soon have   34  for the bicycle he longed for.
The day   35  came when James counted his money and found $94.32. He   36   no time and went down to the shop to pick up the bicycle he wanted. He rode   37   home, looking forward to showing his new bicycle to his friends. It had been hard   38   for the money, but James knew that he valued his bicycle far more   39  he had bought it with his own money. He had   40   what he thought was impossible, and that was worth even than the bicycle.

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Many people of my generation(代，一代) say that there is no hope for the future because of the way that 11  people behave today.
Their first argument（論點） is that when we were young we used to look after the  12  people in our community and help them. They also say that young people today don’t  13  about anything or anyone. However, I think the reason why we looked after older people was that we had no 14  . People had to live with their  15  and grandparents because they had no money. Young people today earn more and have more  16   to live where they want.
Their second argument is that in our day we didn’t expect （盼望，期待）to be given jobs -----and that young people now don’t look for jobs, but just complain（抱怨） about  17   . On the other hand, things were easier in the past and it was always easy to get a job if you had friends and contacts（關(guān)系）. It is really   18 today.
In conclusion I think there is hope for the  19  . This generation, like generations before them, has new  20  as well as old problems. If they learn from our mistakes the world will be a better place in future.

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For years we have been told that encouraging a child’s self-respect is important to his or her success in life.__41__ child experts are now learning that __42__ praise can lead to the opposite effect. Praise-aholic(受表揚上癮的) kids who __43__ it at every turn may become teens who try to get the same kind of __44__ from friends when asked if they want to go in the backseat of the car. ks5*u
The meaning of saying “You are the __45__ girl in class,” or talking about the goals she scored but not her general __46__, is that you love her __47__ when she looks the best, scores the highest, achieves the most. And this __48__ over to the classroom.
Social psychologist Carrol Dweck, PhD, tested the effects of overpraise on 400 fifth graders __49__ she was at Columbia University. She found that the kids who were __50__ for “trying hard” did better on tests and were more likely to take on difficult tasks than __51__ praised for being “smart”.
“Praising qualities or abilities leads to a false __52__ that success will come to you because you __53__ that quality, and it devalues(貶值) effort. __54__, children are afraid to take on challenges, ” says Dweck, now at Stanford University, “They think they’d better __55__while they’re ahead.”
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A man was driving at 70 miles in a 40-mile zone（區(qū)域）, when a    1   came behind him.  2  the man started thinking of excuses to give.
As the policeman came to him, he said, “Hi, officer, I guess you   3   me a little bit over the speed limit. I was in a rush to get   4  , to be with my wife and kids. You know my younger son wasn’t feeling too  5   when I left home this morning. I’m afraid he’s ill.”
The policeman said, “Well, I guess so,” and started   6   something in his notebook. As minutes went by, he could see from the side view mirror, the policeman was  7   writing. When the man was wondering why he hadn’t asked for his driving   8   so far, the policeman came to his window,  9   him a piece of paper, and returned to his car without saying a single word. The man wondered: how much was this   10  going to be? However, the man was  11   it was not a ticket（罰單）at all and he began to   12  :
“I had a daughter who was  13   by a speeding car at the age of six by a speeding driver. He got a fine, a few months in  14  , and then was free, free to hug his two daughters. I only had one, and now I have to   15   until I get to heaven before I can hug her again. I have tried to    16  that man a thousand times, and I thought I had. Maybe I really did forgive（原諒） him. So pray（祈禱）for me, and be   17   when you drive again. My son is all I have been left with.”
The man was completely   18   and could not move for the next few minutes. When finally he did, he drove  19  , even a few miles   20   the speed limit, praying for forgiveness.

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As a young reporter, Sparky asked Lu Haoting, a business reporter from China Daily, for help on interviewing．He found that interviewing people is not as  1 as just asking questions．To his  2 , journalists also need to do a lot of homework  3  an interview．
Lu shared her  4 of a recent interview with the president of Boeing China, David Wang, with Sparky．
There are two  5 of interviews, inclusive （群訪） and exclusive （專訪）．The inclusive interview is 6 in the form of a press conference．
In a（n） 7interview, only you and the interviewee talk  8 ．You need to  9 all your questions for both types of interviews  10 ．
"  11 you don’t prepare, you will ask some silly questions and  12  your time," Lu said．
"I wanted to know Boeing’s new strategy in the Chinese market．13 I checked out over 20 reports from different newspapers about Boeing and its rival, Airbus," Lu said．She also found useful  14 about the two companies on their websites．
On many occasions, interviewees  15 journalists to provide a question list in advance of an interview．In order to  16 a proper objective story Lu also interviewed some  17 to get their comments on Boeing’s performance in China．
18 her interview with David Wang only lasted about half an hour, her  19 helped her to ask many good questions about Boeing’s development in China．
"After a successful interview, you always find all that homework was really  20 it," Lu told Sparky．

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It was Lin Tao’s first visit to England. He was looking   36  to his first journey on London’s Underground Railway. Against   37  of his friends he decided to go alone.
He   38  the station shortly after five o’clock in the afternoon. This is a   39  time to travel in London because too many people go home   40  work at this hour. He had to join a long line of people   41  were waiting for tickets. When   42  his turn came, he had some difficulty in making himself understood by the man   43  tickets. However, he got the right   44   in the end and by asking people the   45  he also found the right platform. It was crowed with people. He did not manage to get on the first train,   46  he was able to move nearer the edge of the platform so as to be in a better position to   47  the next one.
When this train came in, Lin Tao was swept forward on to the train by the rush of people from behind. The doors   48  and the train moved off. He was   49  to see the names of the stations   50  the train stopped, but he knew that the station he wanted was the sixth stop along the line. When the train reached the sixth station, Lin Tao got off,   51  glad that his journey had been so easy. But he suddenly   52  that he had come to a station he   53 ! He explained his difficulty to a man standing on the platform. With a smile   54  his face, the man told Lin Tao that he   55  a train going in the opposite direction. The train had come to a small town, the name of which sounded very strange.

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Once upon a time there was a child ready to be 【小題1】.
One day the child asked God, "They tell me you are going to send me to earth tomorrow but how am I going to live there being so small and 【小題2】 ?"
God 【小題3】, "Among the many angels, I have chosen one for you. She will be waiting for you and will 【小題4】 you."
"But", said the child, "tell me here in 【小題5】 I don’t do anything else but sing and smile. That’s what I need to be【小題6】 !"
　God said, "Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you everyday. And you will feel your angel’s love and be happy."
"And", said the child, "How am I going to be able to 【小題7】 when people talk to me, if I don’t know the language that men talk?"
"That’s easy", said God, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and 【小題8】 words you will ever hear, and with much 【小題9】 and care, your angel will teach you how to 【小題10】."
The child looked up 【小題11】 God saying, "And what am I going to do when I want to talk you?"
God smiled at the child saying, "Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to 【小題12】."
The child said, "I’ve heard on earth there are bad men. Who will 【小題13】 me?"
God put his arm around the child, saying, "Your angel will defend you - even if it means 【小題14】 life!"
The child looked sad, saying, "But I will always be【小題15】 because I will not see you anymore."
God hugged the child, "Your angel will always talk to you about me and will teach you the way to come back to me，【小題16】 I will always be next to you."
The child, in a hurry, asked softly, "Oh God, if I am about to leave now please tell me my angel’s 【小題17】 !"
God replied, "Your angel’s name is of no 【小題18】... you will 【小題19】 call her 【小題20】!"