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My husband, a simple man, has a favorite saying: “A bargain is really a bargain when you don’t buy it”. 36 he sets aside his simple ways when we dine out. Unlike his relatives who enter a restaurant armed with calculators to make sure they never 37 , my husband 38 his own tip 5 percent each time the accepted standard increases. He hasn’t analyzed why he tips so generously, but I think the habit 39 from his high school years, when he worked as a busboy(饭店打杂工) and got tips from people he served.
Over the years, our growing boys would suggest that Dad let them 40 dessert rather than tip so much. He stood firm 41 their strong demands. Our sons and I have 42 to accept his habit. We recently 43 our son’s girlfriend to seafood. We chose a restaurant near Cocoa Beach. Our server, a grandmotherly woman 44 at the art of service, flew around the restaurant serving dishes and drinks 45 treating customers enthusiastically. She remembered their special 46 , likes and dislikes. She didn’t serve us 47 food. She served us the best food. She made sure the kitchen gave her fresh produce. At the end of the meal, our waitress 48 the bill, then went to 49 to the growing crowd of other diners. My husband paid with a credit card and added her tip. When we left, “Mr. Goldsmith!” she called waving a receipt (发票) at him, “Thank you.”
“What did you give her?” I asked, wondering if he had done something 50 or made a calculation error. “She gave us great service. I just thought she deserved a big 51 in tips.” It wasn’t until later when I overheard our son retelling the story of the grateful waitress that I realized she had given my family something 52 a thank you. She showed our son the 53 of recognizing hard work. Her show of gratitude (感激之情) helped a dad earn a bit more 54 from a loving son. And it reminded me just why I married this 55 , caring man.
36. A. Therefore B. Yet C. Instead D. Besides
37. A. overtip B. overspend C. overcharge D. overwaste 38. A. adds B. supplies C. refuses D. provides 39. A. developed B. resulted C. appeared D. changed 40. A. order B. choose C. book D. ask 41. A. for B. to C. against D. with 42. A. decided B. agreed C. come D. happened 43. A. helped B. requested
C. treated D. cooked
44. A. quick B. familiar C. weak D. skilled 45. A. so that B. after C. with D. while 46. A. characters B. features C. tastes D. favorites 47. A. cheap B. special C. average D. delicious 48. A. presented B. took C. delivered D. settled 49. A. turn B. talk C. wait D. attend 50. A. demanding B. ashamed C. unreasonable D. puzzling 51. A. rise B. reward
C. pay D. prize
52. A. little more than B. more than C. rather than D. other than 53. A. importance B. situation C. meaning
D. effort
54. A. attention B. care C. praise D. respect 55. A. easy-going B. thoughtful C. tough D. serious 2.
Most mornings, Marcus Jackson is up by 6:15. A fourteen-year old in Harry Potter-style glasses, he wastes little 36 before rushing down the stairs of his home. As Mom 37 breakfast, he heads straight for a kitchen drawer and 38 out a Pingpong paddle and ball. For the next five minutes, Marcus practices serves off the refrigerator.
“ I can hit the ball really 39 so that the other person hardly even sees it fly 40 the table,” he says. He’s so good at his game that he holds the number-one ranking in table tennis for boys under 15 in 41 .
He 42 his success to a set of practice that goes 43 morning contests with his parents’ Kenmore refrigerator. Since he was six-and-a-half years old, Marcus has spent two hours a day, six days a week, 44 with his dad, Morris, who won the national table-tennis 45 in 1988. He also receives lessons from Cheng Yinghua and Jack Huang, two former Chinese National Team members.
When Marcus was eight, he 46 himself to be a force in the sport by winning the United States Table Tennis Association National Championships (Under-ten). Since then, his talent has led him all over the country for competitions. Along the way, he has learned how to deal with 47 as well. “ I know when to step back if I get 48 ,” Marcus says. He’s also 49 a bit of the true spirit of sports. During a match last year, when he was up 8 to 0, his dad flashed him a 50 ---- a quick move of his thumb over the shoulder----to let Marcus know he 51 allow his opponent(对手) to score 52 once. At 10 to 0, Marcus finally gave 53 a score. He took the next point, for an 11-to-1 victory.
Apart from table tennis, Marcus enjoys Game Boy, basketball and swimming. The straight---- A student hopes to study electrical engineering at an Ivy League colleges when he gets 54 . In the meanwhile he has two athletic goals: “ 55 in the 2008 Olympics in China and beating my dad on a regular basis.” 36. A. energy 37. A. eats 38. A. pulls 39. A. directly 40. A. on 41. A. the world 42. A. owes 43. A. beyond B. strength B. makes B. pushes B. gently B. across B. China B. regards B. for C. time C. has C. turns C. strongly C. from C. America C. compares C. over D. ability D. orders D. reaches D. hard D. through D. Europe D. treats D. after 44. A. fighting 45. A. praise 46. A. got 47. A. the match 48. A. puzzled 49. A. made up 50. A. signal 51. A. could 52. A. almost 53. A. in 54. A. taller 55. A. competing 3.
B. training B. admirer B. turned B. pressure B. sad B. turned up B. word B. need B. at least B. away B. heavier B. winning C. challenging C. title C. changed C. the ball C. nervous C. kept up C. picture C. should C. at most C. out C. smarter C. expecting D. advancing D. pride D. proved D. victory D. excited D. picked up D. pace D. would D. already D. up D. older D. attending Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each 36 to help drain the fluid(排出流质) from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time 37 on his back.
The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their families, their homes, their jobs and a whole lot of things. Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by 38 to his roommate what he could see 39 the window.
The man in the other bed began to 40 for those one-hour periods when his 41 would be broadened and brightened by all the activity and color of the world outside.
The window overlooked a 42 with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children 43 their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm among 44 of every color and a fine 45 of the city skyline could be seen in the 46 . As the man described all this, the man o
n the other side of the room would close his eyes and 47 the beautiful scene.
Days and weeks passed. One morning, the day nurse arrived to find the man by the window, had died 48 in his sleep.
Later, the other man asked 49 he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch.
Slowly, painfully, he managed to 50 and take his first look at the 51 world outside. Surprisingly, it 52 a blank wall.
The next day he learned from the nurse that the man was 53 and could not 54 see the wall. She said, “Perhaps he just wanted to 55 you.”
36. A. morning 37. A. flat
B. afternoon
B. quiet
C. evening
C. still
D. night
D. calm
D. explaining D. near
38. A. listening 39. A. beyond 40. A. look 41. A. health
B. talking
C. describing C. behind
B. outside
B. live
C. prepare
D. work
D. career
B. dream B. farm B. rowed
C. world
42. A. garden 43. A. made 44. A. trees 45. A. photo
C. mountain
C. took
D. park
D. sailed
B. flowers
B. map
C. houses
C. view C. future
D. birds D. appearance
D. sky
D. imagine
46. A. distance 47. A. enjoy
B. hospital B. experience B. painfully B. if
C. sense
48. A. peacefully 49. A. when
C. sadly
D. bravely D. why
C. how
50. A. climb up 51. A. real
B. stand up B. noisy
C. sit up
D. turn up D. new
D. faced
C. ordinary C. connected
52. A. contained 53. A. mad 54. A. yet
B. covered
B. blind
C. ill
D. dead
D. clearly
B. just C. even
55. A. support 4.
B. fool C. cure D. encourage
A student went to college to go on with his studies. There he put his name down for a course in 36 , but after the first lecture he didn't go to it 37 . The geography teacher noticed that this student was always 38 and thought that he had changed to 39 course, so he was very surprised when he saw the boy's name on the list of the students who wanted to take the geography 40 at the end of the year.
The lecturer had prepared a difficult examination 41 followed his lectures very closely, and he was 42 to see how this student answered the questions. He thought that the answers would be 43 . But when he received them soon after the exam and examined them 44 , he was able to find only one small 45 in them. As this 46 him very much, he went 47 the paper again, but was 48 not able to find more than one small mistake, so he 49 the student to question him about that.
When the student came into the room and sat down, the lecturer said to him, \"1 50 you came only to my first lecture and that you have been absent from all of the other. But now I have 51 your answer paper very carefully and I 52 to find only one mistake in it. I am 53 to know your explanation for that.\"
\" Oh, I am very 54 about this mistake, sir,\" answered the student. \"After the exam, I realized 55 I should have written. I would not have made that mistake ifI had not been confused by your first lecture.\"
36. A. physics B. geography C. chemistry D. history 37. A. in fact B. for ever C. any more D. more
38. A. late B. absent C. silent D. lonely
39. A. the other B. the others C. other D. another
40. A. explanation B. recitation C. dictation D. examination
41. A. which B. who C. whose D. what 42. A. sad B. afraid C. eager D. happy 43. A. right B. wrong C. good D. bad 44. A. surely B. certainly C. carefully D. correctly
45. A. word B. letter C. mistake D. name 46. A. worried B. surprised C. terrified D. encouraged
47. A. through B. down C. on D. with 48. A. really B. still C. even D. yet 49. A. sent B. sent up C. sent for D. sent out
50. A. hear B. realized C. wonder D. know 51. A. seen B. found C. examined D. watched
52. A. have B. have been able C. am sorry D. have got
53. A. astonished B. curious C. obvious D. disappointed
54. A. glad B. satisfied C. pleased D. sorry 55. A. what B. how C. why D. that 5.
Growing up is not always easy. When facing difficulties, courage and a spirit of independence can be more useful than crying for 36 ! That’s what Hong Zhanhui’s story of 37 boy to man with family hardships tells us.
Hong was born in 1982 in a poor family in Xihua County, Henan Provinc
e. When he was 38 11, his father became mentally ill and one day came back with an abandoned baby girl. A year later, Hong’s mother and younger brother both 39 home because of poverty and pressure from his sick father.
Their burdens fell onto the 12-year-old’s shoulders: to treat his father’s illn
ess, to 40 the adopted sister Chenchen, and to go on to study.
Hong didn’t 41 . Since a young age, he has worked in part–time jobs t
o feed his family. At the same time, he has studied at college. To take care of Chenchen, he worked hard to 42 a room near his campus for her, and send her to school.
After Hong’s story went public, people were 43 to tears by his unselfish
ness. Hard 44 his life was, Hong didn’t abandon his father and the adopted 45 , because they needed his help. With his hard-won money, he even aided other students
46 against misfortunes.
Today when many tend to worry more about their own happiness, Hong’s
deeds
47 us of what we usually neglect: love and care for others. Without these, 48 of us could survive.
Hong 49 donations from others. He said he felt encouraged by kind offe
rs, but he could 50 his own work. Short of money to buy food, the boy climbed tall trees to get birds’ eggs for his baby sister. He walked two hours at weekends to buy different things to 51 around his school to earn money. Through his hard life, the boy developed 52 against misfortune that made him a hero in people’s eyes.
Hong’s story shows that with love and willpower, no hardship can 53 a
person but himself. So when facing difficulties, don’t 54 about bad luck. Consider what more you could do for your family and society 55 you’ll find the world smiling back. 36. A. money
B. food
C. clothes
D. help
37. A. caring 38. A. only
B. growing B. already
B. went
C. moving
D. turning
C. ever
D. still
D. left D. devote to D. turn down D. paint D. made
39. A. stayed 40. A. bring up
C. sold
B. turn to C. stick to C. run out C. buy
41. A. give away 42. A. build
B. give up B. rent
43. A. encouraged B. moved 44. A. as
B. because
C. inspired
C. unless
D. while
D. uncle D. turning D. told
D. no one
45. A. brother 46. A. struggling 47. A. left
B. daughter
C. sister
B. leaning C. standing C. reminded
C. none
B. remembered
B. every one
48. A. any one
49. A. threw away B. turned out 50. A. depend on 51. A. show
C. gave off
D. turned down
D. turn to D. share
B. stick to B. eat
C. refer to C. sell
52. A. a chance 53. A. bury 54. A. worry 55. A. and 6.
B. an ability B. defeat
C. a spirit
D. a belief
D. knock D. joke D. until
C. win
B. care
C. complain C. while
B. when
The amount of usable water has always been of great interest in the world.__36__ springs and streams sometimes means control ,particularly in the __37__ areas like the desert. The control is possible even without possession of large areas of __38__ land. In the early days of the American West ,gun fights were not __39__ for the water resources, and laws had to be __40__to protect the water rights of the __41__ and the use of the water resources accordingly. __42__ is known to us all, there is not__ 43__ water in all places for everyone to use as much as he likes. Deciding on the __44__of water that will be used in any particular period __45 __careful planning ,so that people can manag
e and use water more __46__ .Farmers have to change their use of or demand for water __47__ the water supply forecast.
The __48__ water supply forecast is based more on the water from the __49 __than from the below. Interest is __50__ in the ways to increase rainfall by man-made methods, and to get water from the winter snow on mountain __51__ .With special equipment, some scientists are studying the ways in which the mountain snow can be __52__ ,and with the help of a repeater station, they send the __53 __data（数据） to the base station. The operator at the base station can get the data at any time by __54__a button. In the near future, the forecast and use of water __55__ probably depend on the advance knowledge of snow on mountains, not of water underground.
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