阅读理解（20小题，每小题2分，共40分）
One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town announcing that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole town. A large crowd gathered, and they all thought it was perfect. There was not a flaw（瑕疵）in it.
Suddenly, an old man said, “Your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine.” The crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s heart. It was full of scars（伤疤）. The young man laughed. “Comparing your heart with mine, mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars.”
“Yes,” said the old man, “You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love. I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart that fits into the empty place in my heart. Though it has some scars, I cherish（珍惜）. Because they remind me of the love we shared. Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn’t returned a piece of his or her heart to me. These are the empty gouges（豁口）. Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for those people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?”
The young man ripped a piece out of his perfect heart and offered it to the old man. The old man placed it in his heart, then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man’s heart.
The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man’s heart flowed into his. They embraced（拥抱）and walked away side by side.
根据短文内容选择最佳答案，将其标号填入题前括号内。
1.The young man thought _______ at first.
A. his heart was painful
B. the old man’s hear was perfect
C. his own heart was perfect
D. he himself was the most beautiful
2.The old man’s heart _______.
A. is not nearly as beautiful as the young man’s
B. has been given to a person who needed it
C. is a mess of scars
D. is perfect
3.The scares can _______.
A. recover by themselves
B. be filled as well as before
C. represent how hard the old man has lived
D. represent that the old man has given love to many people
4.What does the word “wound” in the passage mean?
A. 伤口 B. 胸腔 C. 疤痕 D. 心房
5.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. A flaw in the heart
B. the most beautiful heart
C. Beautiful scars in heart
D. offering your heart to others
完形填空（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become nervous unless things went a certain way. Happiness was “____ the cookie”. If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn’t have the cookie, life wasn’t worth ___. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. Sometimes it was money, sometimes power, sometimes a new car. A year and a half ___ he had a cancer, he sits shaking his head, “It’s like I stopped learning ____ to live after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is ____. But he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It’s taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long. The ____ you have the cookie, you start to worry about it. You know, you have to ____ a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from breaking and be sure that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it ___ you are so busy just trying not to lose it. Having the cookie is not what life is about.”
My patient ____ and says cancer has changed him. For the first time he is happy. No matter if his business is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. “Two years ago, cancer asked me, ‘Okay, what’s important? What is really important?’ Well, ____ is important. Life any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to do with the cookie; it has to do with being alive. Before, who made the time?” He pauses(停顿) thoughtfully. “Damn(该死), I guess life is the cookie.
1.A. cooking B. buying C. making D. having
2.A. everything B. anything C. nothing D. something
3.A. before B. after C. when D. since
4.A. how B. where C. which D. when
5.A. excited B. bored C. surprised D. unhappy
6.A. place B. way C. minute D. reason
7.A. look up B. send up C. give up D. set up
8.A. because B. so C. and D. but
9.A. cries B. laughs C. worries D. shouts
10.A. life B. cookie C. cancer D. time
—Did your mother say _____?
—Yes. By 10:00am.
A. when you should be back B. what you should remember
C. where would you visit D. how would you go there
—Is there anything new in today’s newspaper?
—Yes, A library with five thousand books _______ to Hope School as a gift yesterday.
A. is offered B. was offered
C. are offered D. had offered
—Let’s go to the movie tonight, Jim!
—_____ we are not allowed to do it on school days.
A. Or B. And C. So D. But
—Dear, I have an important meeting tomorrow.
—It doesn’t matter. If you _______ go to the movie tomorrow, I _______ my friend to go with me.
A. don’t; will ask B. won’t; will ask
C. don’t; ask D. won’t; ask
