Edie was nine years old, and she was tinier than other children of her age. One day, she ran home crying loudly, because she was   36  by the three new girls of her school. They picked her as the object of their   37  and threatened to beat her up. Edie’s mother held her   38  and comforted (安慰)her. She 39  the next day that the girls had been troublemakers at several other schools and they were being given one more   40   at a new beginning.
Edie’s _41  said ,“Be kind to your enemies, Edie.”She _42  said, “When the girls 43   to threatened you next time ,tell them you want to be their friend.”“Are you 44 enough to do that?”Edie’s mother asked. The   45  girl answered, “Yes, Mom, I’ll try.”
Every day, the girls pushed Edie and called her names and  46  to get in a poke(戳) or two. Each time, Edie looked up at them and said, “ I’d really like to be your 47 .”But it seemed that this wasn’t working.
Then one day the following week, Edie ran home as 48   as she could , shouting ,“Mom, guess what happened today ! Just like I 49 did, I said I’d really like to be their friend, and one of the 50  said ,‘Okay, Edie, we  51  and we’ll be your friends’”A short time later, Edie sat at a table with them and  52  their tutor (私人教師).
Towards the end of the school year,   53   Edie’s parents went to school for a parent-teacher conference, the teacher told   54  ,“Because of Edie’s kindness, those girls have completed 55   and are model students in the class.”

One evening, Mr. Green was driving his car along a lonely country road. He had _36__ $10 000 from the bank in town. Suddenly a man in rags stopped him and asked for a lift. Mr Green told him to  37  and continued his way.  38  he talked to the man, he __39__ that he had just broken out of prison. Mr. Green was very afraid at the __40__ of the money. Suddenly he saw a police-car and had a __41__ idea. He put on speed and 42 as quickly as possible. Then he found the police-car running __43__ him. After a mile or so, the police-car passed him and 44 him to stop. A policeman came up. Mr. Green had hoped to tell him about the trouble but the man put a gun to Mr. Green’s ___45__.
The policeman said he wanted Mr. Green’s name and _46__ and Mr. Green obeyed. The policeman wrote it down in his notebook and put it in his _47___. “You _48__ appear at the police station”. He said. Then he talked to Mr. Green about __49  driving. Mr. Green started up his car again. He had  50  all hope of his ￡10,000, but as he reached a more lonely part, the robber said he wanted to ___51__. Mr. Green stopped and the man said. “__52__. You’ve been __53__ to me. This is what I can do in __54__.” And he handed Mr. Green the policeman’s __55__, which was stolen while the policeman was talking to Mr. Green.

My best friend is Cocoa, and I live in a senior-citizen apartment. Cocoa is a ten-year-old dog and I am a sixty-nine-year-old lady, so you can see we both qualify as   1  citizens.
He is a   2  companion. He does many amusing things that make me   3 , and when that happens, he is so delighted   4  he just keeps it up.
But one afternoon, Cocoa started acting strangely. I was sitting on the floor playing with him,   5  he started pawing and smelling at the right side of my   6 . He had never done anything like this ever before, and I told him, “No.” To Cocoa, one “no” is usually   7 , but not that day. He stopped briefly, and then   8  ran toward me, throwing his entire weight at the right side of my chest. He crashed into me and I cried in   9 , falling down to the floor. Soon after this, I felt a lump (腫塊). I went to my doctors, and after X-rays  10  and lab work were done, they told me I had cancer.
When cancer starts, a  11  of calcium (鈣) builds. Then the lump or cancer attaches itself to this wall. When Cocoa jumped on me, the force of the impact broke the lump away from the wall. This made it possible for me to  12  the lump.
I had a complete mastectomy (乳房切除術(shù)) and the cancer has not   13  to any other part of my body. The doctors told me if the cancer had gone undetected even six more months, it would have been too   14 .
Was Cocoa  15  of just what he was doing? I’ll never really know. What I do know is that Cocoa not only shares his life with me, he has also made sure that I will be around to share my life with him!

Mom, Dad, I’m going to college! Can you believe it? I never thought it could happen.  16  middle school and part of high school, I  17  to keep up. I was not a bad student，but I just didn’t understand  18  they were teaching because I have a learning  19 . I wanted to show everyone I could graduate and go to  20  . I wanted to make something of myself, and  21  I wasn’t a failure.
22 the time came to choose a college, I wasn’t sure which would be the best for me. I knew I didn’t  23  to go to a big school, which narrowed (縮小) my  24  to a small college which could be    25 for me with a learning disability. I looked in Florida and found three schools. I  26  two, but they just didn’t  27  . Then I visited Beacon College. Beacon is mainly for students who have learning disabilities and it has small classes.
The day when I was  28  by Beacon College was the happiest day of my life. I received the call from the school  29  me I was accepted just as I was sitting down for dinner. My family was so  30 , and I was ready to pack that night and move to Florida. The expectation of going to college  31  the rest of my senior year.
The closer the time came, the more nervous I became about being in a(n)  32 place. Finally my parents and I packed the car and  33  Florida. After a two-day drive, we arrived. “Welcome to Beacon College! It is so nice to see you!” I heard  34  from the teachers and students, as we were introduced. I felt so 35 to hear those cheerful voices. I knew I had found a perfect（理想的）school. I had found my home for the next four years.

【小題3】

A． how B．that C．why D．what

【小題9】

A．plans B．decisions C．choices D．purposes

The great   46  scientist, Charles Darwin, was born on February 12, 1809. His father was a well-known doctor, and   47  that his son also would become a doctor.
As a boy, Charles liked to go for walks in the fields and   48  ,   49  nature and comparing what he saw with everything he had read in natural science books. He was fond    50   collecting animal and plant specimens   51   insects, birds, flowers and leaves.
At sixteen, Charles   52   Edinburgh University   53 . But he was interested in 54    . Then he was sent to Cambridge University,    55   he graduated in1831.
56    he heard that the ship Beagle(貝格爾號(hào)) was   57  to South America and wanted a naturalist. His biology professor advised him to go. He said the journey would be just the thing for Charles. So the Beagle left England in December 1831, Charles Darwin was   58  .
The expedition   59  almost five years. The Beagle   60   the waters near the east and west   61   of South America, and many other places. He    62  all kinds of plants and animals, which he sent home from the    63   he visited.
After returning from the expedition, Darwin continued his studies of changes in nature. Darwin understood that plants and animals do not    64   the same, that they always change.
By 1859 Darwin had finished his famous book “The Origin of Species”. It made a great noise in the word of science. Darwin was attacked by the    65   and even by some scientists. But later, more and more scientists agreed with him.
Darwin tirelessly continued his scientific studies until he died on April 19,1882.

One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered a small hotel in Philadelphia. Trying to get out of the   36 _, the couple went to the front desk hoping to  37 for the night.
“Could you   38  give us a room here?” the husband asked.
The clerk, a   39  man with a winning smile, looked at the couple and   40  that there were three conventions(大會(huì)) in town.
“All of our   41  are taken,” the clerk said. “But I can’t send a   42  couple like you 43  into the rain at 1 o’clock in the morning. Would you please be   44  to sleep in my room? It’s not exactly a suite（套房）, but it will be good enough to make you  45  for the night.”
The couple said no politely.
“Don’t   46  me. It is just fine with me,” the clerk told them.
As he paid his bill the next morning, the elderly man said to the clerk, “You are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best hotel. Maybe someday I’ll build   47  for you.” The three of them had a good   48 .
Two years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten it   49  he received a letter from the old man. It recalled(使回憶) that stormy night and contained a round-trip（雙程的）   50  to New York, asking the young man to pay them a visit. The old man met him in New York, and   51 him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34^th Street.
He then pointed to a great new   52  there,  a palace of reddish stone. “That,” said the old man, “is the hotel I have just built for you to   53_ .”
“You must be   54 ,” the young man said.
“I am sure I am not,” said the old man, the name of   55  was William Waldorf Astor, and the magnificent structure was the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young clerk, George C. Boldt became its first manager.

It’s a small gas station that has snacks,drinks,cigarettes,and candies.The young man behind the counter(柜臺(tái)) knows his    16   by name and what they normally want to buy.He treats children and adults with equal   17   .He reads science fiction behind the counter when business is   18 .
One day , three people rushed in and grabbed food off the shelves as fast as they could ,   19  not intending to pay for it . He hit the “panic button”, then went over the counter and    20  the front door . It was obvious that they were homeless, and equally obvious that they were’t going    21  with their ill-gotten gains (不義之財(cái)).They   22  the food and simply crowded together in panic-knowing the police were   23  the way.
Imagine what they must have felt like when they were told they didn’t have to steal if they were that   24 . “We have food in the back expired(到期) but still   25  to eat . If you need food , you   26  have some .”
They were told to   27  what they had dropped and put it back , and then asked to straighten out the mess. They were doing just that   28  the police arrived. The officers were told the situation was under control and the police were no longer   29  .
This wasn’t what they had   30  . They were being treated as human beings who could right the wrong they’d done. Shocked , they quickly followed orders to take turns and use the restroom to clean up.
Soon three   31  people walked out with all the   32  their arms could hold. They were   33  that , if they needed to come back again , they were to ask and not just grab. 
And then the young man went back to read until the next customer came in . He would be the 34  person in the world to claim he was a hero . But he gave three people something they were in desperate need of –a   35  amount of self-respect and a little bit of hope.
【小題1】A  frends B  neighbors    C  customers    D  passengers
【小題2】A  respect     B  pride        C  wisdom   D  right
【小題3】 A  slow   B  busy         C  heavy        D  swift
【小題4】A  bravely     B  reasonably   C  hardly       D  obviously
【小題5】A  opened B  locked       C  closed       D  broke
【小題6】A  nowhere     B  somewhere    C  anywhere     D  everywhere
【小題7】A  hid         B  lifted       C  swallowed    D  dropped
【小題8】 A  in         B  on           C  off          D  by
【小題9】A  anxious     B  cautious     C  courageous   D  hungry
【小題10】 A  safe       B  easy         C  sweet        D  unique
【小題11】A  must    B  can          C  should       D  need
【小題12】A  hold up B  hand out     C  pick up      D  hand in
【小題13】A  when    B  after            C  before       D  since
【小題14】A  popular     B  necessary    C  reliable         D  admired
【小題15】A  wanted  B  desired      C  expected     D  admired
【小題16】 A  dirtier    B  cleaner      C  cleverer     D  quicker
【小題17】 A  money B  cigarettes   C  drinks       D  food
【小題18】A  reminded B  warned      C  ordered      D  persuaded
【小題19】A  first       B  last         C  best         D  worst
【小題20】A  large   B  fair         C  small        D  full

It was a cold winter day that Sunday. The parking lot to the  36  was filling up quickly. I noticed, as I got out of my car, fellow church members were  37  among themselves as they walked in the church. As I got  38 , I saw a man leaning up against the wall outside the church. He was almost lying down  39  he was asleep. His hat was  40  down so you could not see his face. He wore shoes that looked 30 years old, too  41  for his feet, with holes all over them and his toes  42 out. I guessed this man was  43 and asleep, so I walked on  44  through the doors of the church. We all talked for a few minutes, and someone  45  the man lying outside. People whispered but no one took  46  to ask him to come in,  47  me. A few moments later church began. We were all waiting for the Preacher(牧師) to take his  48  and to give us the Word,  49  the doors to the church opened. In  50  the man walking down the church with his head down. People gasped and whispered and made  51  . He made his way down the church and up onto the pulpit(講壇) where he took off his hat and coat. My heart  52  .
There stood our preacher……h(huán)e was the “homeless man”. The preacher took his Bible and 53  it on his stand.
“ 54 , I don’t think I have to tell you what I am preaching about today. If you  55  people by their appearance, you have no time to love them.”

By the third year of teaching I’d begun to expect Christmas break more for the school holiday and less for the excitement of the children. I was teaching fourth grade and my students had made me   16  . I just had to get through one of the hardest days of the school year.
　　The morning bell rang. I walked   17  through the cold into the overly heated school building. Twenty-two smiling faces  18  me at the school bus stop. I forced myself to   19  their smiles. Back into the classroom, they   20 , comparing plans for the   21  . I had to remove one student from each arm   22  I could take a seat at my desk for my morning duties. Before I could find my roll book（點(diǎn)名冊(cè)） my desk was covered with   23  and gifts followed by a   24  of “Merry Christmas” wishes.
　“Oh, thank you,” I must have  25  a million times. Each gift was truly special to me, except my   26  mood. It was kind of them to  27  me. After a while, I heard a small nervous   28  say my name. I looked up to see Brandon standing   29  by my desk, holding a small, round gift. “This is for you.”
　 “Thank you, Sweetheart.” I laid it on my desk with the others.
　“Um, could you   30  it now?”
　I gently tore at the paper and tape. “  31  ,” he said, “it’s breakable.” Slowly I opened a small, green Christmas tree ornament（裝飾物）, complete with a hook already 32 . It dawned on me what he had done. Then a nearby student said that he just pulled that off his own tree. I tried to keep my   33  back.
　Later that day, I sat   34  the ornament in my hands. Was I really so important to this child that he had searched for something to give me? Now every year as I   35  pull a green Christmas ball from my ornament box, I remember the deep influence my students have on me.
【小題1】.

A．eagerly

B．a(chǎn)imlessly

C．gently

D．heavily

 閱讀下列短文，從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)A, B, C,和D中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。
A young man, a student in one of our universities, was one day taking a walk with a professor, who was commonly called the students’ friend, for his kindness to those who waited on his instructions．
　   As they went along, they saw   21  in the path a pair of old shoes, which they supposed to belong to a poor man who was employed in a field close by, and who had   22  finished his day’s work．
　The student   23  the professor, saying, “Let’s play the man a（n）   24 : we will hide his shoes, and we stay behind those bushes, and wait to see his  25  when he cannot find them.”
　  “My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never  26  ourselves at the expense of the poor．You are   27 , and may give yourself a much greater pleasure by means of helping the poor man．Put a  28  into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how the   29  affects him.”
　  The student did so,  30  they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by．
　  The poor man soon finished his work, and came   31  the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes．While   32  his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes; but feeling something 33 , he bent down to feel what it was, and found the coin．
　  Astonishment and wonder were seen upon his face．He gazed upon the coin, turned it round, and looked at it again and again．He then looked around 34  on all sides, but no person was to be seen．He now put the money into his pocket, and went on to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was  35  on finding the other coin．
　  His feelings   36  him; he fell upon his  37 , looked up to heaven and let out a sincere thanksgiving, in which he spoke of his wife, sick and  38 , and his children without bread, whom the timely giving, from some unknown hand, would save from dying．
　  The student stood there deeply affected, his eyes filled with tears．“Now,” said the professor,
“Are you not much better pleased than if you had played your  39  trick?” The youth replied, “You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget．I feel now the  40 of those words, which I never understood before: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
【小題1】．

A．healthy

B．kind

C．mean

D．rich

A．faith

B．fact

C．truth

D．reliability