It was my first year teaching in a special needs class, and I wasn’t sure what to expect at our yearly. Special Olympics sports meeting. My   1  had some challenges, from learning disabilities to cerebral palsy（大腦性麻痹）.
Mark was one with the latter. Restricted to a   2 , he had to fight his spasms （抽筋） just to control his movements.   3 , he always had a positive attitude and greeted everyone with a huge smile.
His classmates   4  him and always took the time to make sure he was included in group activities, especially Mike, Andy and Lucas, three boys who were good at   5 . Obviously, Mark wanted to be like them, unrestricted by the limitation of his   6  and watching them moving on the playing field seemed to fill him with   7  .
When the day came, Mike, Andy and Lucas   8  well in their sports events, and gave the normally calm audience something to cheer about. Mark sat in his wheelchair on the sidelines,  9   them on.
The final event of the day was the 400 meter race.   10  was invited to either walk or run, according to their ability, around the   11  length of the track.
When Mike, Andy and Lucas reached the finish line, they   12   and turned to look behind them. At the   13   of the crowd, determined not to be left behind, was Mark. All his classmates had   14   him. He was alone on the track with over half the distance left to   15 .
Mike, Andy and Lucas looked at each other, and a silent   16  passed between them. Slowly, they jogged   17  towards their friend, cheering him on   18  he had done for them moments before.
The progress was   19 , but in the end the three star runners and Mark crossed the finish line together to the enthusiastic cries of their teachers and classmates. Seeing the look on Mark’s face as he crossed the finish line, hands upraised and laughing, I came to understand what   20  the Special Olympics, and the determined athletes who compete, so extraordinary.
Years later, I’m still cheering them on.

An old man lay in a hospital bed, heavily sedated（給……服鎮(zhèn)靜劑）to ease the pain  from his heart attack.. The nurse arrived and said, "Your   36   is here," repeating the  words several times before the   37   conscious man opened his eyes. His son was a   38   who had come back from service to    39    to his beloved father.
The elderly man 40  out to touch his son's hand and held it gently.  All through  the   41   ,the young soldier sat in the ward（病房）offering words of   42    to his dying dad, who said   43   but kept a weak grip of his child.   44    of the noise of the oxygen tank and the moans（呻吟聲）of the other patients, the soldier remained   45    by  the old man-s side.
Several times in the course of that long night, the nurse returned and suggested that  the soldier leave to   4 6   for a while, But each time he would   4 7    As dawn approached the elderly man   48   His loving son rested the old man's  lifeless hand on the bed and left to find the   49   .  The young man waited while the  nurse carried his father's body away and when she returned, offering words of   50     the soldier interrupted her.
"Who was the man?"-he asked.
 51   ,the nurse replied, "He was your father."
“No, he wasn't," the young man said, 6'I've never seen him before in my life.”
"Then  52  didn't you say something'?"
“When I arrived at the ward,I knew right away there had been a(n)  53 ,”the young man explained. "But I also knew that man needed his son, and he wasn't here.I could tell he was too一54 to know who sat beside him but he needed someone there, soI just decided t0  55  him. 

When I was six, my mother placed me in a 36.________ school. For the next nine years, I 37.______ slept in a room that 38.______ less than 30 other kids in it. So, when I was promoted to senior at the high school for my39.___ year there, I had the greatest 40._____ of rooming with just one other classmate, and the added feature of a semi-private bathroom.
We seniors also had the feature of walking around the 41._____ in special hats, we called senior bonnets, so all the other kids would know we were the 42._____ in the high school. As seniors, we frequently went on field 43._____ outside the campus, including city museums, city hall , colleges and theatres. The highlight was a senior class trip to Washington, D.C., 44.______ we sat in on a session of Congress, 45.______ the monument and many other government sites around the city.
Another 46.____ of being seniors was that many of us on athletic and other extra-curricular teams were elected to high ranking for the year. I had the honor and pleasure of47._____ captain of our state championship swim team, while my roommate was voted48.______ of the drama club.
49.______ services were on a sunny day in June. Each of us had looked forward to this moment for ten years. Now we were going out on our own to complete freedom, and we should have been flooded with joy.50.________, to my surprise, I found myself 51._____, something I hadn’t done for years. I noticed many of my 52.______, usually proud of their macho attitudes, were also wiping away tears. We knew we would never be together again as we were on that graduation day. Our senior year 53.______deep feelings of sadness for our54.______, as well as joy for our emerging into a new world 55.____the school campus.

Teary Joe was a boy with a special ability: he could cry in less than a second．If he  36 something or things became difficult, Joe would  37 a pitiful face．In this way he got everything he wanted,  38     no one could resist（抗拒） his sad face．
But one day, Joe met Pipo．Pipo was begging in the street for some  39 ．Pipo was very poor, but he always had the biggest_ 40 on his face．
Joe decided to help Pipo make some money．He went over to Pipo, took off his hat, and started crying with the most pitiful_  41 ．
In a few minutes, Joe's hat was full of coins, but when Joe offered all these to Pipo, Pipo  42      him down．
"I prefer  43 what I receive," answered Pipo with his usual smile．"It's much more fun making a（n）44 to get things．Today I've washed a dog,  45 a blind old lady to the park and helped a stranger to mind his bag．Maybe I haven't gotten what I've wanted, but I've done many  46 things．"
Joe walked  47 away．He had gotten everything he wanted, but he'd done  48  nothing of interest．He hadn't even  49  himself spending almost all his time crying．
That evening, Joe_  50 a delicious cake for his supper．When his mother  51 , Joe tried to cry, but_ 52 how joyful Pipo was, Joe couldn't do it．Instead, he had an idea．He tried to get the cake in another way． Joe spent the whole evening helping his mother water the Plants and   53 the rooms．
In the end there was no  54 ．But that wasn't so bad, because Joe  55 it had been much more fun doing all those than just crying to get a piece of cake．

In front of the big Shibuya train station in Tokyo, there is a life-size bronze (青銅) statue of a dog. Even though the statue is very small when compared to the huge neon (霓虹燈) signs flashing, it isn’t   21  to find. It has been used as   22  since 1934 and today you will find hundreds of people waiting there for their friends to   23 —just look for the crowds（人群）.
Hachiko, an Akita dog, was born in 1923 and brought to Tokyo in 1924. His owner, Professor Eisaburo Uyeno and he were close friends that cannot be   24  right from the start. Each day Hachiko would go with his owner, a professor at the Imperial University, to Shibuya train station when he left for work. When he came back, the professor would always find the dog   25  waiting for him.   26 , the professor died suddenly at work in 1925 before he could return home.
  27  Hachiko was still a young dog, the bond between him and his owner was very strong and he   28  to wait at the station every day. Sometimes, he would stay there for days at a time, though some believe that he kept returning because of the food he was given by street vendors. Over time he became a   29  sight to people going to and from work every day. In 1934, a statue of him was put   30  the station. In 1935, Hachiko died at the place he last saw his friend alive.

Filled with sorrow, I didn’t notice the hardness of the chair I was sitting on. I was at the funeral of my  21  . The sadness was so great that I found it hard to  22  _ at times.
Suddenly, I heard a  23  open and shut at the back of the church. Quick  24  hurried along the floor. A young man looked around in a  25  and then sat next to me. His eyes were full of tears.
“I’m    26 ,” he explained, though no explanation was   27  . After several eulogies (悼文), he leaned over and commented, “ Why do they keep   28   Mary by the name of ‘Margaret’?” “Because that was her name, Margaret. Never Mary,” I  29  . “No, that isn’t correct,” he insisted. “Her name is Mary, Mary Peters.” “That isn’t    30   this is,” I replied. “Isn’t this the Lutheran church?” “No, the Lutheran church is across the street. I believe you’re at the   31   funeral, sir.”
The solemnness (莊嚴(yán)) of the occasion    32  with the realization of the man’s mistake amused me and I could not help    33  . I looked at the man seated beside me. He was laughing，  34   . I imagined Mother laughing. At the  35  “Amen”, we ran out of the door and into the parking lot.
“I do believe we’ll be the   36  of the town,” he smiled. He said his name was Rick and that   37   he had missed his aunt’s funeral, he asked me out for a cup of coffee. That afternoon began a lifelong    38  for me with this man who attended the wrong funeral. A year after our meeting, we were   39  at a country church. This time we both arrived at the same church, right on time.
Whenever anyone asks us how we   40  , Rick tells them, “Her mother and my aunt Mary introduced us.”
【小題1】       B.neighbor        C. mother     D.  aunt                    

A gentle wind blew through Jennifer’s hair. The golden red sun was  36  . She was on the beach， looking up at the ball. She was amazed by its   37  ， deep red in the middle，  38  fading into yellow. She could hear nothing but the  39  and the seagulls flying up above in the sky.
The atmosphere  40  her. After all she had been through， this is what she   41  . “It’s getting late，”she thought，“I must go home， my parents will be    42  where I am.”She wondered how her parents would react， when she got home after the three days she was  43  .
The sun had set by now and it was getting  44 . She tried to imagine having her favorite  45 on until she saw her front door. It seemed different.   46  had taken care of the outside garden for days. She was   47  : her father was usually so strict about keeping everything clean and tidy， and  now… It all seemed    48  . She couldn’t understand what was going on.She entered the   49 . First，she went into the kitchen where she saw a（n）  50  written by her father. It said：“Dear Ellen，there is some coffee ready，I went   51  .” Ellen was her mother but-where was she? On the right side of the hallway was her    52   room. She went in. Then she saw her mother，lying on the bed sleeping. Her
 53  looked so tired，as if she hadn’t   54   for days. She was really pale. Jenny just fell asleep beside her. When Jennifer woke up she found something  55  . She was in her cozy bed in her nightclothes.
It felt so good being back home. Suddenly she heard a voice.“Are you feeling better now， dear? You know you got us very， very scared.”

Sometimes, people are required to fill in personal information when they register online, which may lead to some unexpected trouble. Recently, the BBC is reporting that a 17-year-old girl in Australia posted a(n)  36  of her grandmother at home counting a large sum of cash that she   37   hidden in the house. Just eight hours later, two armed men  38  the girl’s house. They demanded to speak to her to find out where the grandmother’s house was,   39  they could get the money they had seen.    40   , the girl was not home at the time, so the robbers   41  a small amount of cash from the mother and left.
Because the  42  is still under investigation, local police aren’t saying   43  else about it. It’s not known yet whether the girl had used privacy setting on the Facebook profile page, and even whether the robbers   44   the girl in the past.
Two other   45  were at home then, a 58-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, the girl’s father and brother. Luckily, no one was   46  . The robbers left peacefully after   47  that the girl was not home and that no one else there knew anything about the  48   that had appeared in the photo.
Police in both Britain and Australia are using the case to  49   citizens of the dangers of posting personal information on social networks and to suggest users of websites  50   doing so. The police say it is  51   that the girl posted a comment in the past that gave clues to the address,    52   that the robbers knew the girl in another way.    53  , they suggest, a posting by a friend on their site could have    54  such information. To find it, the robbers would only have had to search for those posting on other pages that   55  the girl’s name.

I live in a big city. It’s noisy and dirty and I got very  36 .At the weekends I like to leave the city and get some  37  air and a good rest. A few weeks ago I decided to go to see my  38 . I was really looking forward to it.
My parents live a long way  39 . I went to see them with James, a friend, and we drove on Friday night. In the middle of the  40  it began to rain. The road became very  41  and it was difficult to drive. We arrived home just after midnight, feeling very  42 . The next  43  it was still raining. James took his  44  to a garage which was very good.
In the afternoon the  45  improved, we wanted to go for a  46 . My parents lent us their car. That was no good. Their car didn’t  47 . We rang up the garage. “Oh,” They said, “Your car  48  be ready till tomorrow.” So it wasn’t  49  to go for a drive. We decided to play a word game. When we didn’t agree  50  a word we looked for a dictionary. It wasn’t there.  51  my mother remembered, “I lent it to your sister. She took it with her when she left.” The word game wasn’t any good  52  a dictionary.
On Sunday my mother dropped a heavy box on her  53  and we had to hire a  54  to take her to hospital. When James and I drove back we got stuck in a car accident. Next time I want a rest, I’ll stay  55 .

Our three-year-old daughter Becky wanted a dog. But we were too busy to buy one. One day, Becky ran in, shouting, “Mom! Come to see my dog!” Her face was red with   36 .
　　I followed her to the bush and found a   37 ! He was hurt. Seeing me, he stood up   38 ! I could see his teeth! God! My mouth felt dry. “Don’t be afraid. That’s Mom. She  39 you, too.” Becky said. Then he became friendly. It was  40 !
　　I   41  to find my husband and told him about the wolf. We should have 42  the wolf, but Becky loved him. Besides, he was gentle(溫柔的) to Becky. So we called the vet finally.
　　Becky named the wolf (狼) Ralph ,  43  she carried food to him every day. Later, Ralph got well. They played together in the daytime. At night, Ralph would return to the mountains. Sometimes he   44  but came back several days later.
　　On Becky’s first day of school, we could see Ralph’s   45 . After the school bus left, Ralph lay by the side of the road and   46  . When Becky returned, he got happy again. This    47  throughout Becky’s school years.
　　Twelve   48  passed.
　　One day we heard that a she-wolf was killed. The other wolf was hurt and ran away. We were   49  about Ralph. That night, Ralph returned with a wound (傷). Fifteen-year-old Becky held his head and   50  him. We hope he could come through. However, he   51 .
　　Becky cried. I noticed something strange in the bush — two little yellow eyes! Ralph’s  52 ! Before he died, Ralph   53  his child to us! He knew he would be  54  here, as he had been. Ralph, Ralph... I was   55 .
“Don’t be afraid, little ... Ralphie. That’s Mom. She loves you, too.”