During my school days, I was one of those shy and distant kids who would just sit in a corner for an entire day. For me, my books were my only world. Even during breaks, I used to just sit in a corner of the __________ and see others play games. It was not as if I wasn’t interested in __________ others or making new friends. But I always felt lacking in __________ when compared with my peers. I always had an opinion that my advances towards new friendships would be limited.
And I just didn’t want to __________ a rejection(拒绝).
Once during my English class, my teacher shared a(n)_________with us. It was about King Bruce and a spider. It revolved around a lost battle and talked about how King Bruce, despite losing the battle, won in the end. He was _________ by a little spider. The little movements of the spider and the way it was taking rejections __________ me a lot. I was so surprised that I myself started __________ the movements of spiders at home. Once, a spider took around an hour to reach the top of a wall and I __________ knocked it down. To my__________, within seconds it started making its __________ up again.
For me, this incident was a game changer. I realized that rejections are never a __________. The world may mistreat me, but I can __________ and start working again. There would be time when people would like and appreciate me. At present, I __________ mixing with people, learning new things and making new friends. I think, there are just no such things as rejections or __________ as everything can change at any moment.
1.A. office B. station C. playground D. street
2.A. beating B. watching C. filming D. joining
3.A. money B. energy C. tense D. knowledge
4.A. avoid B. suffer C. cause D. overlook
5.A. story B. task C. experience D. song
6.A. confused B. killed C. damaged D. inspired
7.A. ensured B. suited C. impressed D. reminded
8.A. adjusting B. observing C. showing D. guiding
9.A. cruelly B. angrily C. normally D. bravely
10.A. delight B. surprise C. amusement D. disappointment
11.A. progress B. way C. web D. mistake
12.A. failure B. trend C. wonder D. adventure
13.A. feel free B. be aware C. stand up D. give up
14.A. enjoy B. refuse C. imagine D. risk
15.A. approaches B. values C. failures D. reasons
假设你是李华，你从市校园网上得知，今年暑假，市一所小学将聘请澳大利亚的一些教师来给学校的学生培训口语，计划招10名助教。请根据以下要点，写封邮件提出申请。
1. 口语能力；
2. 组织能力；
3. 沟通能力。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节使行文连贯。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last October, while tending her garden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small carrots and was about to throw it away. At that moment, a shiny object catch her attention. Surprisingly, she saw her long-lost wedding ring beneath the leafy top of one tiny carrot.
One day sixteen years early, Pahlsson removed diamond ring to cook a meal. When she wanted to put the rings back on later, it was gone. She thought that whether one of her three daughters —then ten, eight, and six— had picked it up, but the girls said they hadn’t. Pahlsson and her husband searched the kitchen, check every corner, but for vain. “I gave up hope of finding my ring,” she said. She never replaced it.
Pahlsson and her husband now think the ring probable got swept into a pile of kitchen rubbish and was spread over the garden, which it remained until the carrot’s leafy top accidentally sprouted (生长) through it. For Pahlsson, its return was a wonder.
阅读下面材料，根据上下文在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Long ago in a small, faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors.
A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit it. When he arrived, he climbed1.(happy) up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears 2.(lift) high and his tail wagging as fast as it could.3. his great surprise, he found himself staring at 10004.happy little dogs wagging their tails just as fast. He smiled a great smile, and5.(answer) with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the house, he thought to6.(he), “This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often.”
In the same village, another little dog,7.was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and8.(hang) his head low as he looked into the door.
When he saw the 10009.(friendly) looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought, “That is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again.”
All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kind of10.(reflect) do you see in the faces of the people you meet?
“My wallet! Where is it? ” were my first words when I found out my wallet was lost. I searched my memory for a few good seconds, and then________that I had left my precious wallet in the library. To be________, it was in the public toilet of the library!
_____the library was then closed, I had to wait until the next morning to begin my________. When I got there early the next day, all I found was a______bathroom.
At that time, all I could________was that the person who cleaned the restroom had________my wallet. So I________approached an old lady at the front desk. “Excuse me, is there a wallet found in the restroom yesterday? ” She walked through a door and________for a moment. Then she came back to the desk. “No, ” she said. I quickly thanked her and walked off,________.
Finally, I painfully________the fact that my wallet had gone.
A week later, I received a mysterious________in the mail. Sure enough, it was my________! And most surprisingly,________in it was missing! And there was a little yellow piece of paper folded up inside. I slowly unfolded it and a little medal of Christ fell off. The paper________like this:
Always________this medal with you, whatever your religion is, so the angel that was watching over you last________will always be close.
This person didn’t even leave a return________, so I couldn’t thank whoever it was.
From that day on, I promised myself to follow this example when I was in a________situation. I will make others as________as I was when I opened that package!
1.A. predicted B. realized C. explained D. imagined
2.A. obvious B. honest C. exact D. clear
3.A. Because B. Although C. Unless D. Even
4.A. work B. reading C. research D. search
5.A. crowded B. noisy C. clean D. deserted
6.A. run after B. hope for C. remember D. declare
7.A. hidden B. picked C. ignored D. found
8.A. secretly B. aimlessly C. politely D. angrily
9.A. disappeared B. hesitated C. rested D. escaped
10.A. surprised B. disappointed C. satisfied D. ashamed
11.A. accepted B. considered C. changed D. covered
12.A. present B. invitation C. notice D. package
13.A. wallet B. book C. reward D. treasure
14.A. something B. nothing C. everything D. anything
15.A. exposed B. described C. read D. announced
16.A. keep B. equip C. compare D. connect
17.A. month B. fortnight C. week D. year
18.A. reminder B. date C. message D. address
19.A. disappointing B. similar C. different D. difficult
20.A. annoyed B. puzzled C. crazy D. happy
Chuck was in my high-school English class.1.So, when he told me he had been accepted into the journalism program at the University of Missouri, I wasn’t surprised.
During the first year at college, Chuck stopped by school a few times. We talked about our work together several years before. We had raised money together for twenty-three sick and abandoned babies.2.. It was an activity that in some ways changed our formal relationship into a friendship.
In his second year in college, it was discovered that Chuck had lung cancer and had only a short while to live. So he left school and came home to be near to his loved ones.
About six weeks later, Chuck died.3.The youngest of nine children, Chuck was talented and full of promise. More importantly, he was a good person, a just man.
When I went to his funeral, his father asked to speak with me. He told me that before Chuck’s death, he chose six items to bury with him.4.He told me that Chuck had always kept the piece because he liked the message I had written to him at the bottom of the last page. In that little note, I affirmed his talent as a writer and I encouraged him to be responsible for the gift.
5.His taking my note with him forever offered me a great opportunity for influencing students’ lives. I felt inspired with a sense of purpose that was greater than ever: teachers have the power to affect hearts and minds for a long time.
A. It was a great loss for everyone, especially for his family.
B. Chuck helped to raise several thousand dollars.
C. Whenever I forget my purpose, I think of Chuck.
D. He was a writer of great promise.
E. My spirits were lifted up as Chuck was filled with the joy of life.
F. One of them was an essay he had written in my class some years before.
G. I was touched and grateful to Chuck who gave me a special gift that would change my life.
