I have the bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book to see how it ends while I’m still in the middle of it. This habit ______ people around me. Often my ______ wouldn’t be confined(局限) just to the books I read but also to what others were ______ as well. Finally, one day my daughter told me with a little _______. “Dad, please just read a book one page at a time like everyone else!”
At times I didn’t ______ this bad habit to just reading books either. I also tried to skip ahead in my life and _____ what to do months and even years from now instead of ______ each day as it is intended. I knew that the book of my life wasn’t done yet and that I had many ______ left to go.________, that didn’t stop me from trying to write the ______ half-way through. Time and again, I would ______ jump ahead and try to solve every potential problem before it ______ so I could reach that storybook happily ever after ending. Life, however, doesn’t ______ like that. It loves to ______ us, and you never know what new problem or opportunity each new day will bring.
Life has often had to ______ me to slow down. Recently, when I found myself ______ to that bad habit of rushing ahead and living in the ______ again, I felt a special voice gently telling me, “ Live one day at a time.” Then I smiled, and turned the book of my life back to the ____ page. Each of us has to live the book of life one page and one day at a time. Each of us has to write it ______ and moment by moment. We have to trust that it will bring our ______ to its perfect end.
1.A.concerned B.annoyed C.frightened D.embarrassed
2.A.impatience B.difficulty C.influence D.effort
3.A.demanding B.carrying C.writing D.reading
4.A.interest B.excitement C.anger D.sadness
5.A.extend B.spread C.limit D.devote
6.A.bring out B.let out C.try out D.figure out
7.A.fearing B.enjoying C.doubting D.imagining
8.A.pages B.things C.reports D.novels
9.A.Indeed B.Still C.Surely D.Finally
10.A.ending B.plot C.outline D.passage
11.A.happily B.carefully C.unwillingly D.foolishly
12.A.counted B.left C.happened D.backed
13.A.start B.finish C.work D.change
14.A.touch B.amuse C.worry D.surprise
15.A.allow B.force C.remind D.encourage
16.A.admitting B.returning C.responding D.referring
17.A.present B.memory C.dream D.future
18.A.right B.first C.new D.blank
19.A.more or less B.line by line C.one by one D.now and then
20.A.story B.job C.plan D.hope
Five years ago, I took a career risk by leaving my job to work on a ship. My medical friends did their best to persuade me, saying that running away to sea would____my career. But after these years working as a junior doctor, I was willing to take the risk. ____for adventure, I boarded a ship in Singapore with 2, 000 passengers and crew. To my____，the hospital was well equipped, with an X-ray machine and a blood analyzer. That first voyage was a learning experience, a ____ schedule full of safety drills. There was so much new information to______ . Even remembering which uniform to wear each day was a_____ . Most confusing, I often forgot to ______my clock when the ship crossed time zones.
As a doctor, I was ______for the 600 crew. and I was on call for the entire ship. Far from ____ seasickness and sunburn, I had to deal with other diseases, for my patients were wide and varied. The ship’s medical center was ____ a floating emergency room, and we didn’t have a team of specialists on hand for a second _____ . With long and unpredictable hours, it required mental _____ .
As you can guess, many of the passengers were elderly. Heart attacks don’t ____ geography and emergency evacuations (疏散)were difficult to arrange. I recall one such patient, who was taken off the ship halfway through the Panama Canal .After a _____ ride in an old ambulance, I was relieved that the patient ______long enough to arrive at the hospital in Panama City. ____ , there were several unexpected benefits to the job. I regularly ______the passenger facilities (设施)and I even hosted my own table of passengers in the evenings. On rare days off, I_____ as a tour guide on trips ashore. I got to fly over Alaska in a seaplane and watched a ballet in St Petersburg.
Now, I understand being a ship doctor is not a job-it's a way of _____ .One year at sea became two. I lost my career ambitions, _____I redefined happiness in my life.
1.A.block B.build C.ruin D.improve
2.A.Hungry B.Skilful C.Suitable D.Concern
3.A.shock B.disappointment C.excitement D.relief
4.A.daily B.tight C.strict D.flexible
5.A.take in B.figure out C.search for D.pick over
6.A.training B.risk C.challenge D.choice
7.A.watch B.repair C.check D.set
8.A.powerful B.responsible C.hopeful D.helpful
9.A.treating B.suffering C.escaping D.stopping
10.A.exactly B.particularly C.certainly D.actually
11.A.examination B.consideration C.opinion D.discussion
12.A.comfort B.communication C.toughness D.pressure
13.A.care about B.refer to C.trouble with D.rely on
14.A.relaxing B.boring C.promising D.terrifying
15.A.survived B.struggled C.awoke D.stuck
16.A.Steadily B.Thankfully C.Importantly D.Generally
17.A.cleaned B.fixed C.enjoyed D.protected
18.A.returned B.travelled C.performed D.volunteered
19.A.confidence B.life C.experience D.success
20.A.though B.unless C.but D.or
Sonja Redding and her _____ were on their way home to Omaha, Nebraska after a weeklong visit to Washington D. C., with her two sons, one of whom, 5-year-old Xayvior, has autism （自闭症）.
Although all of the other _____ had gone fine, Xayvior became angry during one of the flights, and Redding couldn't _____ him.
"It felt like everyone on the plane was looking at us and got _____ with my son,” She wrote in a Facebook post after she got home. "I don't know what to do when others just don't ______ that he is not just a child with no _____, but a child with special needs who doesn't know how to _____ himself."
The day was _____ by Delta flight attendant Amanda Amburgy. She tried to help Xayvior watch a movie, but when that failed, she offered to take him on a _____ of the airplane. That worked, and soon the child was not only calm, but _______ a good time.
"When they came back, Xayvior was much calmer and happier," wrote Redding in the _______ , which now has 2,700 likes and over 500 shares. "I want to thank this Delta attendant. She didn't judge, and she just showed______We need more people like this in the world. ”
It wasn't long _____ Amburgy was told about the post. " We're ______ to help, and that's what we want to do, ” she said in an interview. " So, we always want to make anything _____ for the family as well as other ________”
She also shared what she felt when she read Redding's story. "When I read it, it _____ my heart. It's _____ I would do for anyone on the plane, because that's what I am here for. It really made a _____ in her life."
As is often the case, it is not what you say but what you do that counts when you see people in __
1.A.husband B.friends C.family D.daughters
2.A.flights B.adventures C.expeditions D.voyages
3.A.kid B.calm C.comfort D.amuse
4.A.excited B.sad C.frightened D.angry
5.A.understand B.agree C.wonder D.accept
6.A.principle B.character C.discipline D.temper
7.A.control B.operate C.direct D.instruct
8.A.survived B.cured C.saved D.rescued
9.A.trip B.tour C.stroll D.wander
10.A.enjoying B.having C.taking D.recalling
11.A.note B.letter C.message D.post
12.A.love B.passion C.enthusiasm D.attention
13.A.after B.before C.since D.as
14.A.nowhere B.where C.here D.there
15.A.easier B.lighter C.happier D.busier
16.A.parents B.children C.passengers D.attendants
17.A.touched B.hit C.struck D.moved
18.A.nothing B.everything C.something D.anything
19.A.difference B.convenience C.importance D.confidence
20.A.trouble B.dilemma C.situation D.confusion
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
There were two men living next to each other, both 1. large gardens. One of them was a retired teacher and the other was a baker. The teacher 2. (rare) cared for the plants in his garden, but the baker was very careful with his plants. Therefore, the teacher’s plants were small, while the baker’s plants were3. bigger and greener.
One night, 4. heavy storm hit the village. The next morning, both of the neighbors came out to check on their gardens. The baker saw that his plants 5. (destroy). However, the teacher’s plants were not damaged at all and stood firm.
6. (surprise), the baker asked the teacher, “We both grew the same plants and I cared for my plants better 7. you did. How are your plants still OK?”
The teacher smiled and said, “You gave your plants too much attention, so you made 8. too easy for them to grow. I gave my plants just a little bit of water, so their roots had to grow deeper 9. (find) more by themselves. That’s 10. my plants survived.”
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Look at the round cakes．They are made by Siew Boon．She is a jelly artist 1. runs her own business．She has created beautiful 3D jelly cakes by 2.（use）seaweed jelly and natural coloring．
Siew Boon 3.（begin）her business more than two years ago．In late 2017，unfortunately，doctors found a cancer on her breast．However，she was determined not to let cancer get in the way of her doing 4. she loved．On the days when she was feeling 5.（well），she spent time creating 3D jelly cakes for her team of doctors and carers．
During her fight with breast cancer，focusing on creating beautiful 3D jelly cakes helped to turn her focus away 6. the physical pain and negative thoughts．Moving forward，she hopes to find 7.（way）to make it a meaningful career．
Every piece is created upside down and takes up to 4 hours to complete．The flowers are made with special tools．It takes a lot of creativity and 8.（patient）to create every piece．
Aside from being beautiful，the cakes are special in taste．They have a 9.（vary）of unique tastes，such as flavors of apples，lemons，peaches and roses．
Siew Boon thinks the most 10.（satisfy）part of her job is to be able to bring joy to others．
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Have you ever wanted to be in a TV show or movie? There is a new app 1.lets you put yourself in your favorite shows.2. some people are worried about this app.
The app is called ZAO. A tech company3.(call) Momo released it last month. It lets users put their faces over the faces in photos and videos. Users can put themselves into popular TV shows and movies. For example, you can put your face into a scene from the movie Titanic. Your face 4.(replace) Jack’s or Rose’s. It looks very 5.(nature). Released on Aug 30, it was the most-downloaded free app in China as of Sept 10, according to App Annie, 6.website that tracks app data.
However, some people worry that the app could be abused. People can use the app to make themselves look like politicians or celebrities (名人). They could also violate (侵犯) celebrities’ right of publicity, 7. (use) their faces to make videos or8.other illegal uses.
Other people worry that they might lose their facial recognition data. 9.is possible that hackers (黑客) could steal this data from app10.(company) and use it to break into users’ phones and steal their money.
