It’s about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Iowa to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting. Ehlers _______about the small dog he had seen _______ alongside the road. He had _______ to coax(哄) the dog to him but, frightened, it had _______.
Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that _______ dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove _______. After a long and careful _______, Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving _______ away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with _______. It just started licking(舔) Ehlers’ face.
A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one ________ as lost in the local paper. The ad had a ________ number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers ________ the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had ________ their dog.
Jeff had ________ in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched ________ for Rosie in the next four days.
Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. “It’s good to know there’s still someone out there who ________ enough to go to that kind of ________,”says Lisa of Ehlers’ rescue ________.
“I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as ________ to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would be ________ to go that extra mile.”
1.A.read B.forgot C.thought D.heard
2.A.fighting B.trembling C.eating D.sleeping
3.A.tried B.agreed C.promised D.regretted
4.A.calmed down B.stood up C.rolled over D.run off
5.A.injured B.stolen C.lost D.rescued
6.A.home B.past C.back D.on
7.A.preparation B.explanation C.test D.search
8.A.cautiously B.casually C.skillfully D.angrily
9.A.surprise B.joy C.hesitation D.anxiety
10.A.predicted B.advertised C.believed D.recorded
11.A.house B.phone C.street D.car
12.A.called B.copied C.counted D.remembered
13.A.fed B.adopted C.found D.cured
14.A.hunted B.skied C.lived D.worked
15.A.on purpose B.on time C.in turn D.in vain
16.A.cares B.sees C.suffers D.learns
17.A.place B.trouble C.waste D.extreme
18.A.service B.plan C.effort D.team
19.A.equal B.allergic C.grateful D.close
20.A.suitable B.proud C.wise D.willing
Where do you go when you want to learn something？
School？ A friend？ A tutor？These are all _________ places of learning. But it may well be that the learning you really want _________ somewhere else instead. I had the _________ of seeing this first hand on a _________．
My daughter plays on a recreational soccer team. They did very well this season and so _________ a tournament, which normally was only for more skilled club teams. This led to some _________ experiences on Saturday as they played against teams _________ trained. Through the first two games, her _________ did not get one serious shot on goal. As a parent, I _________ seeing my daughter playing her best，____________ still defeated.
It seemed that something clicked with the ____________ between Saturday and Sunday. When they ____________ for their Sunday game, they were ____________ different. They had begun to integrate (融合) the kinds of play and teamwork they had ____________ the day before into their ____________．They played aggressively and ____________ scored a goal.
It ____________ me that playing against the other team was a great ____________ moment for all the girls on the team.I think it is a general principle.____________ is the best teacher.The lessons they learned may not be ____________ what they would have gotten in school，but are certainly more personal and meaningful，because they had to work them out on their own.
1.A.public B.traditional C.official D.special
2.A.passes B.works C.lies D.ends
3.A.dream B.idea C.habit D.chance
4.A.trip B.holiday C.weekend D.square
5.A.won B.entered C.organized D.watched
6.A.painful B.strange C.common D.practical
7.A.less B.poorly C.newly D.better
8.A.fans B.tutors C.class D.team
9.A.imagined B.hated C.avoided D.missed
10.A.if B.or C.but D.as
11.A.girls B.parents C.coaches D.viewers
12.A.dressed B.showed up C.made up D.planned
13.A.slightly B.hardly C.basically D.completely
14.A.seen B.known C.heard D.read
15.A.styles B.training C.game D.rules
16.A.even B.still C.seldom D.again
17.A.confused B.struck C.reminded D.warned
18.A.touching B.thinking C.encouraging D.learning
19.A.Experience B.Independence C.Curiosity D.Interest
20.A.harmful to B.mixed with C.different from D.applied to
It was a rainy morning and the children, mainly boys with various learning difficulties, refused to settle for the start of the lesson. As an inexperienced teacher, I tried every means to get them to be______, but in vain. My panic was rising and I could feel my heart beating wildly. This was the______of my job as a music teacher, I thought -- teaching was not for me. Then I had an idea. Hoping that no one would notice that I was______inside, I threw my voice as far as it would reach: "Put your heads on the desks and close your______ ! We are going on a journey."
____ , the children fell silent. "Now what should I do?" I thought to myself. Reaching over to my collection of CDs, I blindly ______ , put it in the machine and played it.
Obediently (顺从地), my class lay their heads on their desk, closed their eyes and ______. When the music started, the room as filled with the most beautiful tones and musical colors I could have ever imagined. All the children were ______ . When the music finished, I asked them all to raise their ______slowly so that we could share our musical journey.
At this point, when all the children were willing to share their experiences, I began to learn how to ______ . The music allow me to learn that teaching is about sharing and respect, tears and smiles, the knowing and the _____ and most of all, an understanding of each other. This was the power that ______in the classroom could have.
1.A. glad B. safe C. kind D. quiet
2.A. end B. aim C. rule D. plan
3.A. guessing B. shaking C. responding D. laughing
4.A. eyes B. mouths C. books D. doors
5.A. Punctually B. Importantly C. Amazingly D. Obviously
6.A. passed one on B. gave one back C. turned one in D. took one out
7.A. slept B. nodded C. waited D. continued
8.A. talking B. singing C. dancing D. listening
9.A. legs B. heads C. arms D. shoulders
10.A. teach B. imagine C. play D. understand
11.A. unprepared B. unspoken C. unknown D. unforgotten
12.A. games B. music C. tears D. knowledge
In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one. The ___ is that countries around the world have growing mountains of ___ because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.
How did we ___ a throwaway society? First of all, it is now easier to ___ an object than to spend time and money to repair it. ___ modern manufacturing(制造业)and technology, companies are able to produce products quickly and inexpensively. Products are plentiful and ___.
Another cause is our ___of disposable(一次性的)products. As ___ people, we are always looking for ___ to save time and make our lives easier. Companies ____ thousands of different kinds of disposable products:paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.
Our appetite for new products also ____ to the problem. We are ____ buying new things. Advertisements persuade us that ____ is better and that we will be happier with the latest products. The result is that we ____ useful possessions to make room for new ones.
All around the world, we can see the ____ of this throwaway lifestyle. Mountains of rubbish just keep getting bigger. To ____ the amount of rubbish and to protect the ____, more governments are requiring people to recycle materials. ____, this is not enough to solve(解决)our problem.
Maybe there is another way out. We need to repair our possessions ____ throwing them away. We also need to rethink our attitudes about ____. Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.
1.A. key B. reason C. project D. problem
2.A. gifts B. rubbish C. debt D. products
3.A. face B. become C. observe D. change
4.A. hide B. control C. replace D. withdraw
5.A. Thanks to B. As to C. Except for D. Regardless of
6.A. safe B. funny C. cheap D. powerful
7.A. love B. lack C. prevention D. division
8.A. sensitive B. kind C. brave D. busy
9.A. ways B. places C. jobs D. friends
10.A. donate B. receive C. produce D. preserve
11.A. adapts B. returns C. responds D. contributes
12.A. tired of B. addicted to C. worried about D. ashamed for
13.A. newer B. stronger C. higher D. larger
14.A. pick up B. pay for C. hold onto D. throw away
15.A. advantages B. purposes C. functions D. consequences
16.A. show B. record C. decrease D. measure
17.A. technology B. environment C. consumers D. brands
18.A. However B. Otherwise C. Therefore D. Meanwhile
19.A. by B. in favour of C. after D. instead of
20.A. spending B. collecting C. repairing D. advertising
Since finishing my studies at Harvard and Oxford, I’ve watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying Wall Street jobs. As executives (高级管理人员) with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now ____ on their way to impressive careers. By society’s ____, they seem to have it made.
On the surface, these people seem to be very lucky in life. As they left student life behind, many had a ____ drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and ____ out of small apartments into high buildings. They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine ____ a college year’s monthly rent. They replaced their beloved old cars with expensive new sports cars.
The thing is, a number of them have ____ that despite their success, they aren’t happy. Some ____ of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight-hour workweeks devoted to tasks they ____. Some do not respect the companies they work for and talk of feeling tired and ____. However, instead of devoting themselves to their work, they find themselves working to support the ____ to which they have so quickly become ____.
People often speak of trying a more satisfying path, and ____ in the end the idea of leaving their jobs to work for something they ____ or finding a position that would give them more time with their families almost always leads them to the same conclusion: it’s ____. They have loans, bills, a mortgage (抵押贷款) to ____, retirement to save for. They recognize there’s something ____ in their lives, but it’s ____ to step off the track.
In a society that tends to ____ everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn from a young age to consider the costs of our ____ in financial terms. But what about the personal and social costs ____ in pursuing money over meaning? These are exactly the kinds of costs many of us tend to ignore — and the very ones we need to consider most.
1.A.much B.never C.seldom D.well
2.A.policies B.standards C.experiments D.regulations
3.A.last B.least C.second D.best
4.A.cycled B.moved C.slid D.looked
5.A.shared B.paid C.equaled D.collected
6.A.advertised B.witnessed C.admitted D.demanded
7.A.complain B.dream C.hear D.approve
8.A.distribute B.hate C.applaud D.neglect
9.A.calm B.guilty C.warm D.empty
10.A.family B.government C.lifestyle D.project
11.A.accustomed B.appointed C.unique D.available
12.A.yet B.also C.instead D.rather
13.A.let out B.turn in C.give up D.believe in
14.A.fundamental B.practical C.impossible D.unforgettable
15.A.take off B.drop off C.put off D.pay off
16.A.missing B.inspiring C.sinking D.shining
17.A.harmful B.hard C.useful D.normal
18.A.measure B.suffer C.digest D.deliver
19.A.disasters B.motivations C.campaigns D.decisions
20.A.assessed B.involved C.covered D.reduced
Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that little device (装置) on your desk. And they’ve never actually ____ you. Everything they know about you ____ through this device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away. ____ they feel they can know you ____ from the sound of your voice. That’s how powerful the ____ is.
Powerful, yes, but not always ____. For years I dealt with my travel agent only by phone. Rani, my faceless agent whom I’d never met ____, got me rock-bottom prices on airfares, cars, and hotels. But her cold voice really ____ me. I sometimes wished to ____ another agent.
One morning, I had to ____ an immediate flight home for a family emergency. I ran into Rani’s office ____. The woman sitting at the desk, ____ my madness, sympathetically jumped up. She gave me a ____ smile, nodded while listening patiently, and then printed out the ____ immediately. ＂What a wonderful lady! ＂ I thought.
Rushing out ____ I called out over my shoulder, ＂By the way, what’s your name?＂ ＂I’m Rani,＂ she said. I turned around and saw a ____ woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me a safe trip. I was ____! Why had I thought she was cold? Rani was, well, so ____.
Sitting back in the car on the way to the airport, I figured it all out. Rani’s ____ — her warm smile, her nods, her ‘I’m here for you’ ____ — were all silent signals that didn’t travel through wires.
1.A. accepted B. noticed C. heard D. met
2.A. came B. moved C. ran D. developed
3.A. Thus B. Yet C. Then D. Indeed
4.A. rather B. also C. just D. already
5.A. telephone B. voice C. connection D. impression
6.A. direct B. useful C. easy D. accurate
7.A. in person B. by myself C. in public D. on purpose
8.A. annoyed B. interested C. discouraged D. confused
9.A. promote B. train C. find D. know
10.A. arrange B. postpone C. confirm D. book
11.A. for the first time B. at any time C. from time to time D. in good time
12.A. expecting B. seeing C. testing D. avoiding
13.A. shy B. comforting C. familiar D. forced
14.A. bill B. form C. ticket D. list
15.A. hopefully B. disappointedly C. gratefully D. regretfully
16.A. careful B. serious C. nervous D. pleasant
17.A. amused B. worried C. helpless D. speechless
18.A. calm B. nice C. proud D. clever
19.A. forgiveness B. eagerness C. friendliness D. skillfulness
20.A. explanation B. attitude C. concept D. behavior
