A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.

    The conversation soon turned into complaints about  (1)   in work and life. To offer his  (2)   coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and  (3)   with a large pot of coffee and a  (4)   of cups—porcelain(瓷), plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful—telling them to  (5)   themselves to the coffee.

    When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “if you have  (6)  , all the nice-looking expensive cups have been taken up,  (7)   the plain and cheap ones. While it is  (8)   for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the  (9)   of your problems and stress.”

  “Be assured(确信) that the cup itself  (10)   no quality to the coffee.  (11)   it is just more expensive and in some cases  (12)   hides what we drink.”

  “  (13)   all of you really want is the coffee, not the cup,  (14)   you consciously (有意识的,自觉的)went for the best cups… And then you began  (15)   each other’s cups.”

    Now consider this:  (16)   is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and  (17)   life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the  (18)   of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we  (19)   to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don’t let the cups  (20)   you… enjoy the coffee instead.

Starting from my early young age，I was a happy child．However，at age twelve，my life had a huge   (1)   ．I developed obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD) (强迫症)．I started to wash my hands ten times an hour to   (2)   germs and I frequently checked my kitchen oven to make sure that it was   (3)  ．This way of life continued for four   (4)   years，and by then，my OCD had led to   (5)  ．I was no longer the happy little girl I had been．I told my mother that I was suffering from depression．So mum took me for a   (6)  ．The medicine didn’t help me very much．I was still   (7)   sad，believing that my life no longer  (8)  ．

One autumn evening two years ago，I   (9)   rock bottom．I even thought suicide(自杀)was the only   (10)   to my depression problem，so I wrote a suicide   (11)  to my family．As I was folding the note，my   (12)   fell on a photograph. It was a picture of a lovely little girl with dark—blue eyes  (13)  of adventure and curiosity．It took me a few minutes to   (14)   that the smiling girl in the photo was me．The photo had been taken at one weekend at my uncle’s house when I was seven．Suddenly I felt a chill and it was like my younger self had sent me a  (15)  ．Once I had been a   (16)  little girl，and I had to become strong like that again．

I tore up my suicide note and swore that l would have to  (17)  the depression with my mind，too．I could make myself happy again．It has been two years   (18)   I “rediscovered” myself．I am OCD-and depression-free．I am prepared for whatever   (19)  life may bring．My hero is a seven-year-old girl，

  (20)  back at me from a photo on my desk．

       Even though it was only October, my students were already talking about Christmas plans. With each passing day everyone became more   (1)   waiting for the final school bell. Upon its   (2)   everyone would run for their coats and go home, everyone except David.

      David was a small boy in ragged clothes. I had often   (3)   what kind of home life David had, and what kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so   (4)   for the cold winter months without a coat, boots, or gloves. But something made David   (5)  . I can still remember he was always   (6)   a smile and willing to help. He always   (7)   after school to straighten chairs and mop the floor. We never talked much. He   (8)   just simply smile and ask what else he could do, then thank me for letting him stay and slowly   (9)   for home.

      Weeks passed and the   (10)   over the coming Christmas grew into restlessness until the last day of   (11)   before the holiday break. I smiled   (12)   as the last of them hurried out of the door. Turning around I saw David   (13)   standing by my desk.

     “I have something for you,” he said and   (14)   from behind his back a small box.   (15)   it to me, he said anxiously, “Open it.” I took the box from him, thanked him and slowly unwrapped it. I lifted the lid and to my   (16)   I saw nothing. I looked at David’s smiling face and back into the box and said, “The box is nice, David, but it’s   (17)  .”

    “Oh, no. It isn’t.” said David.” It’s full of love. My mum told me before she died that love was something you couldn’t see or touch unless you know it’s there.”

       Tears filled my eyes   (18)   I looked at the proud dirty face that I had rarely given   (19)  to. After that Christmas, David and I became good friends and I never forgot the meaning   (20)   the little empty box set on my desk.

     Normally in a parent-child(单亲) relationship,the responsibility(责任) for care falls on the parent.But when   (1)   circumstances(情况) hit, the roles can quickly be   (2)  .This was the case for Dan Steinberg ,who was along with his sister,Molly.

     When Peg Steinbeig ,Dan’s mother,was 36,she was   (3)   with breast cancer. Ten and a half years   (4)  ,it had reappeared in her skin,but she   (5)   in getting through it.

   “Twelve years ago,I was examined with cancer,” Peg says,”But I now feel   (6)   good ,and so far, the cancer is not there.”

       She remembers a time when Dan and his sister,Molly, went to the   (7)   when she first had her   (8)  .Dan and Molly crawled(爬) in bed with her,saying,”Mom,we were young before and you wanted to   (9)   us,but now we’re here for you,We’re   (10)   and we want to know what you’re feeling so we can help you,”Peg recalls.”And that was very   (11)  ”

    “You’re still my mother,Molly’s mother.”Dan says.”I guess what’s been hard for me is just   (12)   up to the fact,I know I have to say   (13)   to you and I hope that’s not soon.”

      Peg says that if there was anything she could change   (14)   her illness, it would have been able to give Dan more   (15)   things in life,so that he would not have had the   (16)   of losing his mother.

Dan says,”I love you and you have always been a role   (17)   of how I should beat the life,how I should   (18)   the life.”

     “I’m very   (19)   that you feel that way, and I can’t    (20)   having been through any of this without all of you,”Peg says.

People come in all shapes and sizes. They also come with different personalities. One’s personality can be summed up in a   (1)  . People might say Harry is shy and that Shannon is outgoing.   (2)  , personalities are more complex than this. A closer look at personalities will show you why they are not so   (3)  , and you will also discover that your personality can be shaped if you make the   (4)  .

Every person feels the same basic   (5)  , such as fear, happiness, anxiety and pain, yet each   (6)   them individually. When Kara’s grandmother died,   (7)  , her sorrow was expressed through tears. Another person might show the same kind of sorrow in a quiet way.   (8)  , when you hear a piece of good news, you may jump up with joy and may immediately   (9)   to throw a party for your classmates and friends to   (10)   your happiness and joy; another person may just keep the good news to himself or herself and just enjoy the happiness   (11)  . As you observe how people behave, you start to form a   (12)   of this part of their personality.

    People are also   (13)   in how they relate to others. This shows the social side of their personality. Some people prefer the   (14)   of others rather than being alone. We say they are sociable. Others are just the opposite. Most people want some combination of the two.

    Intellectual traits (智力特征) are the third part of personality. These qualities are influenced by the mind and   (15)   it works. One person may prefer spending his spare time in deep thought. Another may be more creative. Jake, for example, often has people in his class laughing. He sees humor in almost everything and is able to express it in   (16)   ways.

    The emotional, social, and intellectual traits of personality become obvious to others   (17)   behavior. Usually you need to get to know a person well enough   (18)   you can discover the full depth of that person’s personality.

    Personalities make people interesting. How   (19)   it would be if everyone had the same personality! Are you satisfied with your personality? Or is there something that you would like to   (20)  ? Most people have at least some personality adjustments they would like to make.

A Mom’s Favourite Words

    When my little boy, Skyler, was born, I longed for the day he would talk to me. And I   (1)   about the first sweet “Mamma”.

    Skyler was born with several   (2)   problems, which had delayed his development. At age three,Skyler was   (3)   autistic (自闭症患者). He couldn’t talk and wouldn’t   (4)   . I would probably never hear any   (5)   from him at all.

    I could have learned to live with his   (6)   if it hadn’t been for another characteristic of autism.Skyler didn’t want to be held, much   (7)   to lie in his bed. He wouldn’t look at me; sometimes, he even   (8)   me. At the age of three, when he returned after spending three days at a camp for disabled children, he didn’t even   (9)   me.

    I hid the pain and did the best I could for Skyler. The one dream I couldn’t let   (10)   was to have Skyler understand that I was his mom. Even   (11)   I never heard him say “Mom”, I wanted to see the recognition in his   (12)   .

    The summer of Skyler’s fourth year was the time when it started. His first words were   (13)   recognized, often out of context. Slowly, he could point to a(n)   (14)   and say a word. Then two words together as a(n)   (15)   . Each day, he added more and more   (16)   words, using them to identify pictures and ask questions. We could see his understanding increase, till his eyes would   (17)   mine, wanting to comprehend（理解）.

    One evening Skyler was   (18)   tucked (蜷缩) between my legs as I read to him from one of his   (19)   books. Skyler interrupted me, leaning back his head   (20)   he could look me in the eye.

    “Yes, Skyler?”

    And then the voice of an angel, the voice of my son:“I love you, Mom.”

  Many years ago, my dad was facing a ___41___ heart condition. He was unable to do a steady job. Sometimes he fell suddenly ill and had to be ___42___ to the hospital.

    He wanted to do something to keep himself busy, so he __43___ to volunteer at the local children’s hospital. My dad loved kids. It was the perfect __44___ for him. He ended up working with the ___45___ children. He would talk, play, and do arts with them.

One of his __46___ was a girl with a __47___ that paralyzed(使瘫痪) her from the neck down. She couldn’t do anything, and she was very __48____. My dad decided to try to __49___ her. He started visiting her in her room, ___50___ paints, brushes and paper. He ___51___ the paper up, put the paintbrush in his mouth and began to ___52___. He didn’t use his hands at all. All the while, he would tell her,“See, you can do anything you set your ___53___ to.”

    At the end of the day, she began to paint using her ___54___, and she and my dad became friends. Soon after, the little girl was sent __55____ because the doctors felt there was nothing else they could do for her. My dad also __56____ the children’s hospital for a little while because he became ill. Some time later, after my dad had ___57___ and returned to work, the little girl who had been paralyzed came in, but this time she was ___58___. She ran straight over to my dad and hugged him really tight. She gave him a __59____she had done using her hands. At the bottom it ___60___:“Thank you for helping me walk.”

     My dad said sometimes love is more powerful than the doctor. 

           I became lame（瘸的）in both legs in my childhood. I can't stand   (1)   the support of two sticks. Only in my wheelchair can I “   (2)   ”.

       I still remember the first day at   (3)  . When I appeared at the door,   (4)   in the classroom stared（凝视）at me in   (5)  . My face turned   (6)  . I couldn’t help  (7)  back. It was the   (8)   and sympathy（同情）in their eyes that   (9)   me doing so. I went shyly towards an unoccupied (空的) seat.

       Being lame, I didn’t dare (敢) to   (10)   in front of my classmates. I was afraid that I might be   (11)   at. In those days I was very sad to see others walking   (12)  .

        One day, a few students came up to me and asked me to go outside. I was really   (13)  . They encouraged me with a(n)   (14)   smile and   (15)   me in my wheelchair from place to place. I was   (16)   to them for giving me a chance to see the   (17)   of our lovely school with my own eyes.

      After that we often read, played and talked together. My friends are always   (18)    to help me. It made me   (19)   I am disabled (残疾的).

      Once they asked me, “What is the most beautiful thing in our school?” Without hesitation (犹豫) I said, “It is the   (20)  . ”

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。

    I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself. And 36______ otherwise assigned (指定) a seat by the teacher, I always 37_______ to sit at the back of the classroom.
      All this 38______ after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher suggested I try out for the basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy 39_______ because I didn’t have a good sense of balance, nor did I have the 40_______ to keep pace with the others on the team and they would laugh at me. If the teacher hadn’t kept insisting on my “41________ for it”, I wouldnˈt have decided to give it a try.
    Getting up the 42__________ to go to the tryouts was only the half of it! When I first started 43________ the practice sessions(训练课), I didn't even know the rules of the game, much

44_________ what I was doing. Sometimes I’d get 45_______ and take a shot at the wrong direction----which made me feel really stupid.46________, I wasn’t the only one “new” at the game, so I decided to 47________ on learning the game, do my best at each practice session, and not be too hard on myself for the things I didn’t 48________ “just yet”.
          I practiced and practiced. Soon I knew the 49________ and the “moves”. Being part of a team was fun and motivating. Very soon the competitive 50________ in me was winning over my lack of confidence. With time, I learned how to play and made friends in the 51__________

   ----friends who respected my efforts to work hard and be a team player. I never had so much fun!
       With my 52________ self-confidence comes more praise from teachers and classmates. I have gone from “53_________” in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call attention to myself, 54________ raising my hand---even when I sometimes wasnˈt 100 percent 55.________

        I had the right answer. Now I have more self-confidence in myself.

Around  twenty years ago I was living in York.   (1)   I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree, I could not find   (2)   work.

I was    (3)   a school bus to make ends meet and  (4)   with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat. I had   (5)   five interviews （面试） with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not   (6)  the job. “Why has my life become so   (7)    ?” I thought painfully.

As I pulled the bus over to   (8)   a little girl, she handed me an earring  (9)   I should keep it   (10)   somebody claimed(认领) it.

At first I got angry. Then it   (11)   me- —I had been giving all of my  (12)    to what was going wrong with my   (13)   rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a    (14)   of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to    (15)   more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for   (16)   from a lady who was a director at a large   (17)    .She asked me if I would  (18)   a one-day lecture on stress management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.

My   (19)  there went very well, and before long I got a well paid job. To this day I know that it has because I changed my way of   (20)   that I completely changed my life.