Two men travelling through a forest together promised to help each other whatever danger threated them. They had not gone far ___【小題1】___ a bear rushed at them from some bushes. One man was a good ___【小題2】___(climb), and quickly climbed a nearby tree, but the other, ___【小題3】____(see) that he had no chance alone against the bear, fell flat on his back and pretended to be dead.
The Bear came up to him, sniffed at him.The Bear thought the man was dead,so he went off into the wood again ___【小題4】____ hurting him.When he had gone, the other traveler came down from his tree, and __【小題5】____(smile) asked his companion what the Bear ___【小題6】___(say) to him. "For I could see," he said, " that he put his mouth close to your ear."
"He told me to tell __【小題7】____," replied the other, "that you were __【小題8】____great coward(懦夫), and that in future I should not trust those ___【小題9】__make fine promises, but will not stand by their friends in danger."
Don't trust fine promises __【小題10】___ you are sure of the person who makes them.

It was the middle of my third grade, and I always lied for no reason about many things. Later, I realized that I was labeled(標簽為) a liar, and my parents did not_____ me. Therefore, I promised to_____telling lies.
A few days later, my sister and I were invited to spend the weekend with my aunt. On that day, someone took one of Aunt Kim’s erasers and_____it across the top of the TV. The eraser ruined the shiny_____of the TV. When Aunt Kim discovered the destrction, all three of us were called into the TV room and asked to tell the____. Nobody did! The next thing I knew was that she was on the phone with my parents and they were on their way to____ me up.
It must be me! I was the_____. I was taken home and sent to my room. I begged them to believe that I was innocent, but no one______.
I stayed in my room the rest of that day. My parents_____let me out for dinner. And then there was a knock at the front door. Aunt Kim was standing there. It turned out that my younger sister finally felt_____! She_____that she was the one who rubbed the eraser on the TV. Aunt Kim had come to get me. I was invited back!
I don’t even remember being_____at my sister. I learned a valuable lesson about lying. A liar is not believed when he tells the truth.No matter how big or_____your lie is, once you are labeled a liar, _____trust takes a lot of work and time. I promised myself right then_____to lie again.

In 2002, when my father was transferred(調(diào)動)to the US to work there for seven months,
I had to attend school there, so I was upset. How would I, an eight-year-old girl from India, make
Friends in America?
On my first day at Anna Silver Public School, I      Miss Alice McNally, my class teacher, who couldn’t get my name      --- although she tried hard, she usually called me Diya or Diva instead of Divya. But she      to speak to me in a way that was easy for me---slowly,       words clearly---to get me used to the American   . When discovering that I enjoyed     , she took me to meet the art teacher. Miss McNally made sure that I was in perfect harmony with her class, and I had as much      as any schoolgirl could have from school.
When my father was transferred back to India, I had to    Anna Silver Public School. I was going to leave before a scheduled fishing trip, and I’d      the class photo session(集會) too. Therefore, with a heavy heart, I left my school and the US. Back in Kerala, I received a        
Surprise one day---a package in which Miss McNally and my twenty-four former classmates had written me a letter each,      me about the fishing trip and interesting things that happened while taking the class photo. Miss McNally added, “Keep up with your drawing, since you love it so much.” Miss McNally not only made a     little girl feel at home in a faraway country, but also taught me and the others, at an early age, the importance of being kind to others.

My friend Michelle is blind, but you'd never know it. She makes such good use of her other ____, including her "sixth Sense", that she rarely gives the impression she's ________ anything.
Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us, ________ that she doesn't push too hard on them, ________ really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude. She knows when to clean the house, she moves around so fast that often ________ don't realize she's blind.
I ________ this the first time after my six-year-old daughter, Kayla, went to play there. When Kayla came home, she was very ________ about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was ________ excited about her finger-painting project.
"Mom, guess what?" said Kayla, all smiles "I learned how to ________ colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle ________ with us."
To my great ________, my child had learnt about color from a blind friend!
Then Kayla continued. "Michelle told me my ________ showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really ________ what I was doing!" Kayla said she had never felt how good finger paints felt ________ Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.
I realized Kayla didn't know that Michelle was blind. It had just never ________ in conversation.
When I told her, she was ________ for a moment. At first, she didn't believe me. "But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly what was in my picture!" Kayla _______. And I knew my child was ________ because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her artwork. Michelle had also heard Kayla's ________ in her work,
We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, "You know, Mommy, Michelle really did 'see' my picture. She just used my ________."
Indeed, she uses a special type of "vision" that all mothers have.

Mary was seven years old. Her parents recently moved to a new town, and so Mary was going to a   school, which was a few kilometers from the house they lived in now. A school bus going around picked up      every morning and brought them back to their     every afternoon, and as both of Mary’s parents    to go to work, she always went on this bus.
Mary’s parents always   their alarm clock for seven o’clock so that none of them would be    . But one morning the alarm     to go off, and it was not until a quarter past eight that Mary’s mother suddenly      , looked at the clock and said, “What’s ever happened to that clock?” and then       into Mary’s room to wake her up.
“I’m sorry, dear,” she said, “       you’ll have to wash and dress very quickly, have an even   break-fast and then I’ll       you to school on my way to the office.”
“But how can you find the    , Mum?” Mary said, “You’ve been to school only once.”
“Yes,” her mother answered, “but you’ve done the    several times now on the bus, so you can be my guide to get there, can’t you?”
“Oh, yes,” said Mary, “I suppose so.” She washed, and      and had a quick breakfast, and then they set off. Mary told her mother to turn each time they came to a place she       . In this way she made her mother drive round most of the town    they got to her school. When they arrived, her mother saw that it was not really very far from her house.
“Why ever did you make me go such a long way round, Mary, instead of the most       way?” her mother asked her.
“Well, Mum,” answered Mary, “it was because I didn’t know     else to get here. That’s the way our bus always goes to      the other children to school.

It was the last day of the final examination in a large eastern university. On the steps of one building, a group of engineering seniors gathered, discussing the exam due to begin in a few    . On their faces was confidence（自信）. This was their last exam—then on to    and jobs.
Some talked of jobs they already had; others talked of jobs they    get. With the certainty of four years of college, they felt ready and able to take    of  the world.
The coming exam, they knew, would be a(n)             task. The professor had said they could bring          books or notes they wanted, requesting only that they did not         each other during the test.
they entered the classroom. The professor passed out the papers. And smiles      on the students’ faces as they noted there were only five essay-type questions.
Three hours had passed        the professor began to collect the papers. The students no longer looked confident. On their faces was a frightened expression. Papers in hand, no one spoke as the professor faced the class.
He looked at the        faces before him, and then asked, “How many completed all five questions?”        a hand was raised.
“How many answered four?” Still no hands.
“Three? Two?” The students moved restlessly in their seats.
“One, then? Certainly somebody finished       .” But the class remained silent.
The professor put down the papers. “That is exactly what I       ,” He said. “I just want to impress upon you that        you have completed four years of engineering, there are still many things about the          you don’t know. These questions you couldn’t answer are relatively         in everyday practice.” Then smiling, he added, “You will all       this course, but remember—even though you are now college graduates, your education has just       .”
Over years they have        the name of  his professor, but not the lesson he taught.

【小題19】

A．begun B．completed C．failed D．succeeded

In 1982, Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank．He got into a life boat, but his supplies were      ．His chances of surviving were small．   when three fishermen found him 76 days later, he was alive —much    than he was when he started, but alive．
His     of how he survived is fascinating．His cleverness —how he    to catch fish, how he evaporated（蒸發(fā)） sea water to     fresh water—is very interesting．
But the thing that    my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, and there seemed no    in continuing the struggle .He was starved and9 worn-out．Giving up would have seemed the only possible choice．
When people    these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their minds that gives them the courage to keep going．Many people in     desperate circumstances  in or go mad．Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the courage to carry on    difficulties．
"I tell myself I can       it," wrote Callahan in his book．-Compared to what others have been through, I'm fortunate．I tell myself these things over and over,       up courage．．．"
I wrote that down after 1 read it．It       me as something important．And I've told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed       off or when my problems seemed too terrible．And every time I've said it, I have always come back to my     ．
The truth is, our circumstances are only bad    to something better．But others have been through the much worse, that is, in comparison with what others have been through, you're fortunate．Tell this to yourself over and over again, and it will help you     through the rough situations with a little more courage．

Ten years ago, I moved to Chicago. As I was new to the area, I had      friends and rarely went out to parties. But a month later, I was invited to a party and there I      an elderly couple.
The wife and I    for a long time. She told me how      she was about her husband who was      a heart operation. At that time I was working as a researcher in the same    where the husband would be going for his operation,      I told her to set down my phone number and      me to let me know when he was there. She phoned a few weeks later as      and told me that her husband was admitted to the hospital and      waiting. I told her that I would go and cheek on him every day when I was at     . I thought that if it was my dad, I would do the same, so I was determined to keep      with them. Weeks turned into months and it just became my      to see them and keep track of how things were going before, during and after the heart operation.
Sometimes I’d bring a      for him to read, or some food that we would      together. As time went by, it seemed like I became part of the     . Even after the husband returned from the hospital, we still often     each other on holidays. Now, ten years later, I have my own     .
Since our parents don’t      close by, this couple has become my son’s “l(fā)ocal” grandparents. My wife and I often feel truly      to have this couple as our “l(fā)ocal” parents! Sometimes family comes out of the most unexpected place.

Lilly was a French Canadian girl who grew up in the farming community. When she was 16, her father         her to drop out of school to contribute to the family income. With English as her second language and         education, the future didn't look bright for Lilly.
Lilly's father was a stubborn man who         took “no” for an answer. He told Lilly to find a job. With small hope of gaining        , each day, she would just ride to the city, walk         around and at dusk return home.
On one of her trips, Lilly saw a sign at a big company.       she knocked on her very first door. In her         English, Lilly told the office manager she was interested in the position of being a secretary. The manager         to give the girl a chance. He directed her to type a single letter, and then       . Lilly looked at the clock and saw it was 11：40 a．m. She thought everyone would be leaving for lunch at noon, when she could              away in the crowd. But she knew she should          the letter.
On her first try, Lilly got through one line of five words and made four mistakes. On her second attempt, she completed a full paragraph, but still made many mistakes. She looked at the clock: 11：55—five minutes to        . Just then, the manager walked in. He came directly over to Lilly, read the letter and said, “Lilly, you're doing        work !”
With those simple words of encouragement, her desire to escape disappeared and her         began to grow. Lilly thought，“Well, if he thinks it's good, then it must be good. I think I'll stay！” Lilly did stay—all because someone gave a        and uncertain girl the gift of self---confidence when she knocked on the door.

Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were final     . All the kids had been working hard for some time, review their     . If they didn’t pass the exams, they would have to     them in September. There were usually a few who     , but Jane didn’t want to be one of them. She had worked hard all year. She worked so hard that her mother       her. Jane went bed late. The night before the big day, her mother      that she should have an early night and take a sleeping pill. She promised to      her up in the morning.
Jane was too           to fall asleep. Her mind kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, the      did work. In no time she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the paper, but she couldn’t answer     of the questions. Everyone       her was writing pages and pages.      she thought hard, she couldn’t find anything to write about. From time to time, she looked at her      . Time was running      . There was only an hour      . She started one question, wrote two sentences,       and tried another. With only an hour left, she wrote       two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started      . Her whole body shook. It shook so much that she woke up. She was still in bed and it had all been a terrible              . A minute later,         called her name.