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Learning to accept
I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. ____, he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was ____ and ill.
My father was _____ a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness ____ all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit in a chair all day. Even talking is _____. One night, I went to visit him with my sisters, we started _____ about life, and I told them about one of my ______. I said that we must always give things up _______ we grow---our youth, our beauty, our friends--- but it always ____ that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father _____ up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up _____! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say. _____, he answered his own question, “ I ______ the love of my family.” I looked at my sisters, and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
I was also _____ by his words. After that, when I began to fell irritated (愤怒的) at someone, I _____ remember his words and become ______. If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of live for others, then I should be _____ to give up my small irritations. In this ______, I learned the power of acceptance from my father.
Sometimes I ____ what other things I could learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one _____.
21. A. Afterwards B. Therefore C. However D. Meanwhile
22. A. tired
B. weak
C. poor D. slow
23. A. already B. still C. only D. once
24. A. took B. threw C. sent D. put
25. A. impossible B. difficult C. stressful D. hopeless
26. A. worrying
B. caring
C. talking
D. asking
27. A. worrying B. caring C. talking D. asking
28. A. as B. since C. before D. till
29. A. suggests B. promises C. seems D. requires
30. A. spoke B. turned C. summed D. opened
31. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything
32. A. surprisingly B. Immediately C. Naturally D. Certainly
33. A. had
B. accepted C. gained D. enjoyed
34. A. touched B. astonished C. attracted D. warned
35. A. should B. could C. would D. might
36. A. quiet B. calm C. relaxed D. happy
37. A. ready B. likely C. free D. able
38. A. case B. form C. method D. way
39. A. doubt B. wonder C. know D. guess
40 .A. award
B. gift
C. lesson
D. word
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A proud father has named his son after a computer software term. Jon Blake Cusack, from Michigan, told local newspapers the US traditional way of adding “Junior” after a boy’s name was too
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.
So, when his son was born last week, he decided on the name Jon Blake Cusack 2.0, as if he were a __22__ upgrade. Mr. Cusack admitted that it took months to
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his wife, Jamie, to accept the idea. Mrs. Cusack said she asked several friends whether they can accept this name or not. All the men, she said, felt the name was __24
. However, her women friends did not think so. “I think the women ___25__ like it,” she said.
Mr. Cusack told the local newspaper he got the
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from a film called The Legend of l900, in which an abandoned baby is given the name 1900 to remember the year of its
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. “I thought if they could do this. Why can’t we?” After little Jon 2.0 was born, Mr. Cusack even sent a celebratory e-mail to the family and friends designed to look as if he and his wife had
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a new software.
“I wrote things like there are a lot of new features from Version 1.0 with
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features from Jamie”, he said. And he is already planning for his son’s future. “If he has a
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, he could name it 3.0,” he said.
21. A. ordinary
B. usual
C. normal
D. common
22. A. software
B. program
C. machine
D. computer
23. A. advise
B. suggest
C. persuade
D. ask
24. A. cool
B. bad
C. out-of-date
D. strange
25. A. take up
B. add up
C. end up
D. get up
26. A. plan
B. opinion
C. thought
D. idea
27. A. growth
B. birth
C. name
D. time
28. A. created
B. founded
C. discovered
D. found
29. A. newer
B. common
C. additional
D. scarce
30. A. son
B. child
C. friend
D. daughter
I would like to suggest that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening all television broadcasting in the United States be forbidden by law. Let us take a
, reasonable look at what the results might be if such a（an）
were accepted.
Families might use the time for a real family hour. Without the distraction（分散注意力） of TV, they might
together after dinner and actually talk to one another. It is well known that many of our
----everything in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of
illness ----are caused at least in part by
to communicate. By using the quiet family hour to
our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better. On evenings when such talk is
, families could discover more active pastimes(娱乐). Freed from TV and forced to find their own activities, they might take a
together to watch the sunset
they might take a walk together.
free time and no TV, children and adults might discover reading. There is more entertainment in
than in a TV program.
report that the generation growing up with television can hardly write an English sentence,
at the college level.
is often learned from reading. A more literate new generation could be a product of the quiet hour. A different form of reading might also be done
it was in the past: reading aloud. The quiet hour could become the story hour. When the
ends, the TV networks might be forced to
with better shows in order to get us back from our newly- discovered activities.
At first glance, this idea seems radical(激进的).
will we spend the time then? The fact is: it has been only twenty-five years since television came to control American free time. Those of us thirty-five and older can
childhoods without television. It wasn't that difficult.
3．A. valuable
B. pleasant
C. serious
D. quick
4．A. suggestion
B. advice
C. opinion
D. offer
5．A. get around
B. sit around
C. meet with
D. stand stiff
6．A. misfortunes
B. troubles
C. affairs
D. problems
7．A. physical
B. mental
C. common
D. familiar
8．A. failure
B. attempt
C. ability
D. permission
9．A. comment
B. talk
C. discuss
D. remark
10．A. impossible
B. unpleasant
C. funny
D. unnecessary
11．A. ride
B. look
C. walk
D. rest
12．A. And
B. But
C. Or
D. While
13．A. At
B. With
C. For
D. In
14．A. a good book B. a fine poem
C. a quiet hour
D. a composition
15．A. Professors
B. Scientists
C. Educators
D. Parents
16．A. yet
B. still
C. just
D. even
17．A. Skill
B. Writing
C. Speaking
D. Listening
18．A. before
B. as
C. after
D. when
19．A. talk
B. programme
C. performance
D. quiet-hour
20．A. come across
B. come about
C. come out
D. come up
21．A. How
B. Whether
C. What
D. If
22．A. remind
B. recognize
C. remember D. know
Our three-year-old daughter Becky wanted a dog. But we were too busy to buy one. One day, Becky ran in, shouting, “Mom! Come to see my dog!” Her face was red with
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.
I followed her to the bush and found a
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! He was hurt. Seeing me, he stood up
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! I could see his teeth! God! My mouth felt dry. “Don’t be afraid. That’s Mom. She
39 you, too.” Becky said. Then he became friendly. It was
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!
I
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to find my husband and told him about the wolf. We should have 42
the wolf, but Becky loved him. Besides, he was gentle(温柔的) to Becky. So we called the vet finally.
Becky named the wolf (狼) Ralph ,
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she carried food to him every day. Later, Ralph got well. They played together in the daytime. At night, Ralph would return to the mountains. Sometimes he
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but came back several days later.
On Becky’s first day of school, we could see Ralph’s
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. After the school bus left, Ralph lay by the side of the road and
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. When Becky returned, he got happy again. This
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throughout Becky’s school years.
Twelve
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passed.
One day we heard that a she-wolf was killed. The other wolf was hurt and ran away. We were
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about Ralph. That night, Ralph returned with a wound (伤). Fifteen-year-old Becky held his head and
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him. We hope he could come through. However, he
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.
Becky cried. I noticed something strange in the bush — two little yellow eyes! Ralph’s
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! Before he died, Ralph
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his child to us! He knew he would be
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here, as he had been. Ralph, Ralph... I was
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.
“Don’t be afraid, little ... Ralphie. That’s Mom. She loves you, too.”
23．A. encouragement
B. entertainment
C. agreement
D. excitement
24．A. dog
B. fox
C. wolf
D. tiger
25．A. lovely
B. finally
C. suddenly
D. patiently
26．A. hurts
B. loves
C. kills
D. hates
27．A. wonderful
B. unhappy
C. unbelievable
D. normal
28．A. prepared
B. rushed
C. pretended
D. wanted
29．A. loved
B. found
C. damaged
D. killed
30．A. and
B. but
C. so
D. or
31．A. disappeared
B. turned
C. passed
D. came
32．A. sadness
B. dream
C. understanding
D. anger
33．A. slept
B. left
C. sang
D. waited
34．A. stopped
B. joined
C. lived
D. continued
35．A. days
B. weeks
C. months
D. years
36．A. surprised
B. puzzled
C. worried
D. careful
37．A. comforted
B. beat
C. washed
D. amused
38．A. succeeded
B. died
C. cried
D. woke
39．A. mother
B. father
C. wife
D. child
40．A. posted
B. brought
C. sold
D. threw
41．A. safe
B. happy
C. warm
D. friendly
42．A. confused
B. disappointed C. moved
D. frightened
参考答案
1． CBDAB
CDACA
DACDC
BDDBB
【解析】
2．
DACAC
DBACB
【解析】
3．C
4．A
5．B
6．D
7．B
8．A
9．C
10．D
11．A
12．C
13．B
14．A
15．C
16．D
17．B
18．B
19．D
20．D
21．A
22．C
【解析】
试题分析：作者建议美国每天晚上在法律上禁止60-90分钟的电视转播，而这些时间应当用于家人之间的交流及阅读书籍。
3．C上下文连串。作者在第一段提出了自己的建议。下面解释自己的理由。首先作者建议用认真理性的态度考虑这个建议被接受后的结果。根据reasonable的含义也可判断出
4．A名词辨析。从空白前的不定冠词可以排除advice。从文章第一句作者就表明自己要提出建议，因此选suggestion。
5．B 短语辨析。sit around固定短语，一般指坐着没事干。这里指吃过饭，全家人坐在餐桌旁交流。
