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B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage. (选择最恰当的单词或词组完成短文): (共12分)
I was cute, active, happy…until that day when I was 15 months old. I had a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit and it cut my eye badly enough to blind it. The doctor said if the eye was taken out, my face would become out of ___80__, so my scarred(有疤痕的),blind and grey eye lived on with me.
People often asked uncomfortable questions about my eye or ___81___ played jokes on me. When the kids played games, I was always the “bad guy”. I grew up imagining that everyone looked down on me.
Yet every time Mom noticed I was unhappy, she would say to me, “Hold your head up high and face the world.” It helped me move on in life.
As a child, I told myself, “Be careful or I will fall down or knock into something because I am not looking.” As a teenager, I always looked down to hide my shame, but I found that people liked me when sometimes I held my head up high.
In high school I was even made monitor, but outside I still felt like a freak(怪物). All I really wanted was to look like ___82___. When things got really bad, I would cry to my mom and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the love that is inside.” That is ___83___ Mom taught me pride.
Mom’s love and encouragement gave me the confidence to remove my own doubt. ___84___ I was able to look people in the eye. I learned not only to appreciate(欣赏) myself but to have love for others.
“Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. Each of my children has felt its ___85___. The gift she gave me lives on in my children.
( ) 80. A) fashion B) order C) shape D) date
( ) 81. A) still B) even C) almost D) hardly
( ) 82. A) something special B) something new
C) someone strange D) everyone else
( ) 83. A) when B) why C) how D) where
( ) 84. A) Especially B) Immediately C) Finally D) Suddenly
( ) 85. A) power B) promise C) energy D) secret
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. (在短文的空格内填入适当的词,使其内容通顺,首字母已给,每格限填一词): (共14分)
When I came out of my office, it was dark. In order to get home as soon as possible, I took a taxi. The car was flying along the road, but later it was in a traffic jam in darkness. I b___86___ the silence for fear that the driver might be too tired to drive. “When do you go back home in the evenings?”
“Nine o’clock. I’ll go home after this t___87_____.”
“Then when do you come out in the mornings?”I threw out another question.
“Nine o’clock, too. And I go home for lunch and dinner, just as if I worked at an office.”His words s____88____ me, because every time I ride in a taxi, what I hear from the driver is only complaints. They complain that they have to work from morning till night, that it is hard to earn money, that they are bullied(欺负)by the police, or that the leaders enjoy the fruits of their work. It s___89__ they are not satisfied with everything. But this driver told me, “I find it tiring to be a section chief as I was before. I don’t like management work. I like driving, just out of pleasure. It’s lucky that I s___90____ drive without a passenger. So I can earn three or four thousand yuan a month easily. Any trick? Yes, I never follow an e___91____taxi. If it goes southward, I go northward. If it goes along the highway, I turn into a narrow street. In this way I always get customers.”
His words showed his satisfaction with his life and the pride he took in his job. Such feelings are so rare among people nowadays just as oxygen in high mountains. How many people nowadays can show high ideals(理想;完美) by s____92____ living and go with a calm mind? I couldn’t help feeling moved when I found such a state of mind in a stranger on a cold winter night.
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