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I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be  1 Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d  2  ?” Just when I started to  3  that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women  4  at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of  5  that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t  6  . Somebody had thought enough of me to bring me a gift. 
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my  7  Christmas there special and memorable, I  8  remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of  9  for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I  10 a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤兒) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies,  11 with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were special. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I   12 them that they couldn’t open their presents until every child had come forward. Finally the   13 they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles   14 up the room. The   15  in the room was obvious, and it wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling –the feeling I knew from that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter. 

I lived in Dallas, Texas nearly all my life with my mom, dad and older sister. We were           41    to respect others, value education, and get all that we could out of life. My parents always say, “   42  hard and the world is yours.” They are never without a   43  word of advice or a bit of encouragement when life gets tough.
My parents always   44   me to go to college. However, when I    45  at 16 years old that I’d rather get married to a man than go to college, they    46   stopped telling me they loved me and I could anything I wanted to.   47  , they persuaded me. I graduated from high school and currently   48  the University of Oklahoma studying medicine. I want to make the   49  a better place to live in.
Every time I call home to tell them about a   50  I received in Chemistry Lab or Microeconomics or whichever    51  it is that I’m working hardest for at the moment, they tell me how   52  of me they are. I know there are college kids out there that have no one to call home when they an “A” on a project and I feel incredibly   53  to have my parents.
Don’t get me wrong: We’ve had our share of    54  . I was the angry teenager and they were the awful    55   that wouldn’t let me stay out all night or let me get my tongue pierced（扎洞）.But somehow, we   56 to work through those issues. They never   57  loving in me or believing in me.
I   58 everything I am to my parents. Without their   59 love and encouragement, I wouldn’t believe I can change the world. My parents taught me to always   60  for what I believe in. So I’m working toward something really great and can only hope I continue to make them proud.

Once a man came to a wise man’s house and said, “I have many bad habits. Which one of them should I give up first?” The wise man said, “Never tell lies and always speak the truth.” The man   36  to do so and went home.
At night, the man was about to go out to steal. Before  37 , he  38  for a moment about the promise he made to the wise man. “If he asks me where I have been, what shall I say? Shall I say I went out stealing? No, I can’t say that. But nor can I lie. If I tell the truth, everyone will start   39   me and call me a thief. I would be   40  for stealing.” So the man decided not to steal that night, and gave up this bad habit.
Next day, he wanted to drink wine. He was   41  to do so when an idea stopped him. “What shall I say to the wise man if he asks me what I did during the day? I can’t tell a lie.” And so he dropped the idea of drinking wine.
  42 , whenever the man thought of doing something bad, he remembered his promise to tell the truth   43  . One by one, he gave up all his bad habits and became a very good person.
Telling the truth is a very good habit. If you always speak the truth, you can   44  yourself from a lot of trouble and become a person everyone likes and favors.
Make a promise: I    45   always speak the truth.

I grew up poor---living in the housing projects (住房) with six brothers, three sisters, a varying assortment (各式各樣?xùn)|西的混合) of foster kids (養(yǎng)子), my father, and a wonderful mother, Scarlette Hunley. We had little money and few worldly goods, but plenty of love and attention. I was  36  and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still  37  a dream.
My dream was  38 . By the time I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, and hit anything that moved on the baseball field. I was also  39 : My high school coach Jarvis, who not only believed in me, but taught me how to believe in myself. He  40  me the difference between having a dream and showing conviction (信念). One particular incident with Coach Jarvis changed my life forever.
It was the summer between my junior and senior years, and a friend  41  me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket—cash for dates with girls, certainly, money for a new bike and new clothes, and the start of savings for a  42  for my mother. The prospect of a summer job was attractive and interesting, and I wanted to jump at the opportunity. Then I realized I would have to  43  summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn’t be playing.
When I told Coach Jarvis, he was  44  as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work，” he said. “Your  45  days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.”
I stood before him with my head hanging, trying to think of the words that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his  46  to me.
“How much are you going to make at this job, son?” He demanded. “3.5 dollars an hour.” I replied. “Well,” he asked, “Is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”
That question, the plainness of it, laid bare for me the difference between wanting something right now and having a goal. I dedicated myself to sports that summer and with the year I was hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was  47  a $20,000 contract. I signed with the Denver Broncos in 1998 for $1.7 million, and bought my mother the house of my dreams.

It was so cold that I couldn’t feel my legs. There was going to be a racing contest that night so I was 36 my horse, Skippy, up. I was simply running laps(跑道的圈) around the ring. The  37  cold air had been blowing past me, freezing my limbs, but every second I  38 it. You could hear the faint  39  of the people up at the clubhouse eating their dinner. My parents were also there, not knowing that my little sister had slowly wandered her way down to the ring. It was  40 because there was no moon or stars. Nobody else was in the ring at the time. I was really enjoying the  41  and I was able to  42  what Skippy was doing. As I took my last lap it  43 . Everything rapidly slowed down as I saw my little sister step 44   the ring. I saw true fear on her face because she knew she wouldn’t be  45  to move out of the way fast enough. She knew that she was going to get hit. She tried to  46 but nothing came out of her fear-dried throat. When my horse got to her, he was still in a full out run.  47  , miraculously(奇跡般地), he slid so hard on his back feet that he  48 . It really made the  49  seem absolutely unreal. I thought that maybe I was 50 . I had  51  in my mind that I wasn’t seeing what was happening. I knew I had hit my sister. There was no way I could have  52  her. My horse was rising straight up and while he was in the air I couldn’t breathe. It’s like I forgot  53 . As all of this happened I watched my sister’s face transform (變形) through many different  54 : terror, confusion, curiosity, and then a sort of relief. Then she was laughing.
As I held my sister into my arms, Skippy stood right behind me knowing that I actually owed him my life  55 he saved my sister’s.

【小題7】

A．rely on B．focus on C．insist on D．put on

You Are Going Places
One day I came home from school, changed my clothes and got ready for work．I work at a local restaurant in town as a cashier, seater and waiter．
I went to work feeling  31  . And to make matters worse, I was busy that evening．It' s the same thing over and over again． 32 with customers who complain about their food and where they are  33  is too big or too small．Little things like that tend to  34 a lot of us  35 but we manage to deal with it．
Three elderly ladies walked in and sat by the windows．It happened to be the very  36 near where I keep the dirty  37 in the boxes．Trying to keep up with all the dirty tables, customers leaving and coming in and  38 running all over the house, it was crazy． 39 these elderly women were watching  40 I was working to make sure every table was clean and ready for the next customers．
When they  41 their meals, I took their plates back to the kitchen．They talked to me for a while about school, how I was doing, what  42 I was in and what I planned to do in the future．
43 they were leaving, they walked past me and one of them said to me in a  44 and gentle voice, "You are going places．And that was it．They left the  45 and I had tears in my eyes, because they gave me  46 to believe in myself．They  47 my spirit from being down and gave me a  48 to keep on working hard．
People used to tell me that I could not have a career in  49 until I had a degree．I'm now a co-anchor （聯(lián)合主持人）of a student-produced television  50  . And the best thing is: I'm only 17 years old and I am a senior in high school．

One summer several years ago, my family was enjoying a barbecue on the beach. After the barbecue, my father-in-law invited me to go fishing.  Fishing was his hobby, but I   36  went fishing. We walked a little way along the beach and reached a rock by the shore, and I    37   the hook into the sea from there.  Frankly speaking, I am a (n)   38  person, and although I had not felt a tug (猛拽) on the line, I reeled up the hook after five minutes or so. I had caught    39 . It was a starfish. It trembled uneasily when I   40  the hook from its ugly mouth. I threw the starfish back into the sea. After another five minutes I caught another starfish and I threw it back again.
After a while, I caught yet another starfish. That was  41  time, and this time I really got angry. I hit the starfish on the rock   42  throwing it into the sea. I was not in the   43  to continue fishing any more.
When I was   44  the fishing tools, I noticed a little girl looking at the starfish on the rock. We   45  looks with each other. The little girl spoke to me in a   46  voice. “Sir, would you mind if I   47  the starfish back into the sea?”“Not at all,” I replied. “"But you know, there are too many starfish in the sea, and they eat many shellfish.   48 , they look so ugly. I don't like them.”
“I understand,” said the little girl. “But if the starfish cannot get back to the sea, it will be   49  by the sun and die. My dead grandfather once told me that there are no living creatures that have no right to exist in the world. God   50  every creature because it was needed by nature. Poisonous snakes, spiders, and starfish were born into this world with a certain   51  for their existence.”
“All right, dear, please throw the starfish back into the sea,” I said to the little girl, feeling   52 . The girl picked up the starfish and gently put it into the sea, and she  53  at me and said, “Thank you, sir.”
Many people like "cute" creatures such as dogs, cats, and rabbits, while they tend to dislike “ugly” creatures such as snakes, spiders, and starfish.  However, the “cuteness” and “ugliness” of things are decided   54  only on one’s personal opinions. There are no living creatures that have no  55  in the world-- this is what I learned from the little girl.

Jane’s mother worked on the farm from dawn till dark, which just could make ends meet. To make Jane live a   36 life. Mother was very careful about spending money.   37 , Jane didn’t understand her. Every day Mother was busy with her  38  while Jane was studying at school, so they had little time to enjoy themselves. 
One day, Mother realized Jane was unhappy and even 39 to her, so she decided to go   40 with Jane to make Jane happy.
On Sunday morning they went happily to the snowfield. Since they were   41 in white clothes, the manager advised them to buy ski clothes. He said   42  there was an accident, they might be easily  43  in their ski clothes. Mother couldn’t   44 them, so she refused.
Then they went skiing in their white clothes. They were skiing happily on the   45  when suddenly the snowfield began to  46 . It was the snowslide(雪崩). They ran a long way and  47  the snowslide finally, but they couldn’t find their way. Later, a helicopter was flying above,  48 people on it couldn’t see or hear them. Jane was  49  because she had hurt her head seriously and  50 dropped on the snow. Just then an idea struck Mother. She pierced (刺破) her wrist  51 and then bright red blood dropped down on the snowfield. A red SOS was on the snow. At last Jane  52 , but Mother died.
Every time I   53 the blood dropping onto the snowfield, I feel  54 . I believe anyone who hears the tragedy will  55 Mother for her selfless love to her daughter.

The young couple had another quarrel. They were sitting silently when the landlady came in and asked, “You don’t   31  the house any more?” He kept silent and she   32  shook her head.
The landlady began   33  the house. After looking around, the landlady screamed, “See how you have   34  my house? The walls are full of nails! How could I rent it to others?”
She began looking around her   35 room. Four years ago on the wedding night, he felt deeply   36  to her, saying, “I feel so sorry to you for   37  you live in this small room. In the future I will buy our own big house.”
This tiny room has two nails on the wall next to the door, one for her bag and the other   38  . At that time, she threw all her stuff such as her bag and umbrella on the   39  once she entered the room, staring at the whole   40  and feeling terribly upset. Then he began   41  more nails into the wall. There were three nails on the left, on which   42  his clothes yesterday and four on the right used to   43  their wedding photo frame.
The landlady started to pull the nails out with a tool. After the nails were   44 , the walls were left with countless holes. Suddenly, she felt heartbroken as if she were   45  nonstop through these holes.
　　She   46  to her feet and exclaimed, “Stop removing the nails! We will rent the house   47  we buy our own!” He gazed at her surprised, and then turned round, tears over his cheek.
She   48 realized that marriage was like a wall and that all   49  and “cold wars” were like the nails on the wall.  50 , when they were removed, only a wall with holes would remain. But if all the nails were still in their own places, the wall was still complete and reliable.

Anna lived on the side of a valley. One winter, there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses 36  Anna's were washed away. Anna's house was high enough to escape the flood, so when the water had disappeared and the other houses were __37  there with no roof and no walls and all covered with __38 , her house was  39  quite all right.
Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children ,  40 Anna took in one of the families that had lost  41 in the flood and she 42 her home with them until it was  43  for them to rebuild their houses.
Anna's friends were  44  when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give  45 so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to  46  .
"Well," Anna  47 her friends, "at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I 48  lived found herself very poor, because her husband  49  in the war and she had a lot of children,  50  I have now. The day before Christams, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for  51  this year, so I’m going to  52  only one present for all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back  53  a girl who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our present, ’ she said to her children. The children were  54  to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl, and she grew up as their sister.  55  was that Christmas present.