Susan had long blonde hair and big blue eyes.So did most of the other1in her school class，which troubled her a lot.“I look like everyone else！I'm not special！I'm bored！”Susan2to her mother.
She decided to try to make herself look3She painted big pink spots on her neck and when she didn't get attention，she stuck a long plastic nose on top of her real nose.Nobody noticed that，4.She took ink(墨水)and poured it all over her5.She wore clown(小丑)clothes to school and stuck leaves in her ears.6no matter what she did，she still didn't get any7and nobody thought she was special.
One morning her8went to wake her up and told her to get ready for school.She made Susan9the ink out of her hair and clean her neck.“I'm not going to school10！I'm bored！”She buried(埋葬)her head11the quilt and cried.
“Susan，”her mother said，“you are different.You are unique(独一无二)and special.12in the world looks just like you.Some people have blonde hair like you and some have blue eyes like you，but none of them has your smile or the twinkle in your eyes or your pink face.Nobody laughs like you，either.Now13and get ready for school.”
Susan went to school that day and looked at all the other kids in her class.“Mom was14.Nobody looks just like me.”Susan said.“I am special.I am unique and I am not15！”
My mother only had one eye. And because of this, I never wished her to show up in my 1 , being afraid that my classmates would find out I had an ugly mother.
One day during elementary school, I was terribly ill. My mother came. "Your mom only has one eye?!" asked some of my classmates. I was so 2 . I wished my mother would just disappear from this world. "If you make me teased(嘲笑)，why don't you just die?" I shouted at her, taking no notice of the sad look on her face. My mother just handed me some 3and left without saying 4 . At that time, I felt 5 to say what I always wanted to say, and I didn't think I had hurt her feelings very much. That night I saw my mom 6 in her room, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might 7 me. Even so, I hated her tears from one eye. I made a 8 : I must study hard and leave my mother. Years later my dream came true. I was quite successful and lived 9 . I never thought of going back to see my "ugly" mother 10 one day I got a letter, which said, "My son... I'm sorry I only have one eye. When you were little, you got into a(n) 11 and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn't 12 watching you live with only one eye. 13 I gave you mine. I was never 14 with you and I never regretted(后悔) what I did because I 15 you…" I cried out aloud. Only then did I realize how beautiful my mother was!
What do you think of stress? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Most of the students think 1 can do harm to(伤害) them in some ways. There's a story about a teenager in a middle school. He even 2 his study because of the stress from school and family. We also usually 3 that someone turns to psychological(心理的) doctors because of 4working stress. There is no doubt(无疑地) that some people think stress is a dangerous wolf.
On the other hand, other people 5that stress is not a bad thing. They believe stress can produce momentum(动力) 6 . For them, right attitude and action can reduce(减少) stress and make it 7 . When I was a child, my mom always pushed me to study hard. She wished I could go to an ideal(理想的) 8 for further education. I experienced stress for the first time. Born in a poor family, I deeply knew life was not easy for us, and 9 my mom did to me was just to hope I could live a 10 life in the future. As the saying11 , "No pains, no gains." So I did what my mom expected because I didn't want to 12 . At last, I did measure up(达到标准) to my mom's expectation and go to college successfully. Thanks to my mom's 13 ! Thanks to the stress! 14 , I don't think stress is a bad thing.
Overall, stress is not a bad thing in itself. The key is 15 we deal with it.
David grew up poor. He started working in the 7th grade, and when he was in high school he was only going to school half days, 1 at 11 am to go to work.
Lack of money meant lack of educational chances, but he had a hunger to learn. In his 2 time he read books that he thought it would 3 him succeed somewhere down the road.
He worked very hard, and he tried his best to provide for his family, 4factory life had a bad effect on his body and spirit, he had an unhappy life. It was, in his mind, killing him like a slow poison.
In 1995 he bought his first computer, and a few months later, he discovered the Internet. He wanted to be a part of it, and worked 48 or 5 hours a week in the factory, and 6 another 40 or more hours a week teaching 7 computer skills. He worked harder than he 8 had in his life, surfing the Internet over 100 hours a week.
David wanted to begin jobs in the Internet and computer fields. He was refused many times, but he never 9 . He had a goal and kept after it10 he didn't like it at all, because 11 else seemed so hopeless. Soon he got a fast return. David left the 12 and took a job in the computing field.
This is a true story about believing in yourself; a story about finding 13 you love to do and following your dreams.
My hope in writing this story is that, if you have a dream, you'll be 14 enough to see it through. It's up to you to make it. Remember that even the farthest 15 always starts with the first step.
When I was about 12 years old, I really wanted a new bike! I 1 my parents my birthday wish, but I knew there was little hope because my family could 2 have that money.
On my birthday my parents told me they had my 3 outside in the back yard. At once I 4 out to the yard. There was my bike, 5 it wasn't the bike that I thought it would be. This one was pink, old and worn with age. It was so 6 ! I thought I 7 my parents' feelings because I could see the disappointment 8 their faces and I was sure they could see it on mine. I 9 the old bike and rode it, feeling 10 that I had made my parents feel this way. So I put on a smile, rode as fast as I could and didn't 11 .
As time went by, I began to understand my parents gave me 12 much more than just a rusty（生锈的）old bike. They gave me a life lesson about 13. When you give something out of love, it doesn't matter what it is in fact. What matters is the love that is in it. I like to remember this 14 because giving a gift is not about money. It's about how much love you can feel from it. Do remember, a gift that 15two dollars isn't any less valuable（有价值的） than one that costs one hundred dollars, or even more.
I was the tallest girl in my class when I started school. It made me feel 1and I believed that I looked very fat and ugly. The small girls were seen as smarter, so they were more popular and got more2 from teachers. I began to hate myself 3 not being small when I was seven years old, and by adulthood, I felt sad about my appearance.
I didn't dare to look into the mirror 4 one day my friend pulled me to the mirror to let me see that I had a good figure. It's true that I was in good shape. Then I did something kind for 5—I bought a beautiful dress for myself. I felt very happy! Happiness wasn't a part of my life as I was too busy6 others. I always thought following others could make me more popular. But it's hard to be happy when you don't see your own 7 .
Each small kindness to me made me 8 myself more. I'd do something loving and feel happier, which made me want to do 9 . That focus on myself 10 deep self-love.
Today my self-love is very 11 .It has helped me develop self-confidence and led me to 12 myself from an unhappy school teacher to a popular writer. Now I see myself 13 a very beautiful woman. I have a wonderful body without 14 .
Please join me in taking steps to develop self-love. Every little loving act you do for yourself helps you build 15.
I had made up my mind a long time ago that I would not give homeless people money, because I could never be sure what that money would be used for. 1 , I decided, I would buy them a sandwich, a cold drink on a hot day, a cup of coffee, 2 I could manage.
I was on my way home from work on a 3 city street full of busy people. That's when I saw a homeless man outside a Starbucks. He was moving back and forth 4 warm, and gently asking for 5. He spoke so quietly that I could hardly hear him. The idea that I would buy this man a sandwich and coffee flashed(闪过) 6 my mind, which made me 7 , turn around and walk into the Starbucks.
Just as I was leaving the store, two policemen were walking towards the man. 8 the shop owners had complained about the man and the police were there to draw him away from the storefronts. Without thinking twice, I ran towards them, asking one of the officers whether I 9 give the man something before he went. I was not sure why I asked the permission(允许) but the policeman said sure. I just handed the bag of food to the surprised man and 10 home.
On the way home I couldn't help thinking, "I hope people 11 that". Then I had to seriously ask myself why I hoped people had seen me give the man a sandwich from Starbucks. Was it 12 I wanted people to think, "She's such a 13 person"? I continued to wonder this all evening.
The next morning it came to me. I wanted people to have seen that small act of kindness not so that I would receive praise but so that they might be14 to do the same. Thus the whole spirit of giving would be 15 . Only in this way can the kindness be passed on and the world will be a more wonderful place to live in.
On December 1, 1955, Rose Parks 1 work in Alabama, in America by bus as usual. She chose a seat by the window and sat down. Then more people 2 the bus and soon it was full. One man didn't have a 3 . The bus driver looked at Rosa and shouted at her: "Stand up! Give this man 4 seat!"
Rosa was tired after a long day at work. So, she 5 said:" No." This started something that changed the United States forever. 6 Rosa Parks was a 7 black woman and the man on the bus was white.
When Rosa was a young girl, she walked to school, but the white children took a bus. Rosa 8 their bus every day when it went by. "In those days," she said, "There was a white world and black world. I lived in the black world." She went to a black school and studied with black children.
When Rosa said "No", she 9 the law. The law said a black person had to 10 his or her seat to a white person. 11 came and took her to prison. Many black people in Alabama were very angry, and they 12 using the buses for a year. Then the law changed, and 13 , things started to change all over the 14 .
For the rest of her life, Rose worked to help black people in America. She died in October, 2005, 15 the age of 92.
根据短文理解，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最佳答案填空。
After their 15-year-old pet dog died, Rain and his wife, Ann, looked for months to find the right new pet. "I love dogs." said Rain, a worker at a health club in New York. "I can't 1 not having one.
"Finally, the couple found a lovely young 2 and decided to 3 him home. They named him Little Sheep. Little Sheep quickly made himself at home, sleeping on his new 4 bed at night.
With heart disease for 25 years, Rain 5 look his medicine four times a day and always had no problems. 6 on March 17, he took the wrong amount(数量) of medicine before he went to sleep. When he got out of bed to 7 the bathroom at night, suddenly, he felt his heart beating fast and later fell to the floor heavily.
"Little Sheep was usually very 8 and well-behaved," said Ann. "But when my husband hit the floor, the dog gave a loud cry like a wild animal. I was woken but didn't know what was happening. Then l saw my husband 9 on tile bathroom floor. I ran for the 10 and called a hospital at once. "Rain spent several hours in the hospital. By 6:30 a. m., he had been 11 enough to go home. "It surprises me that Little Sheep has such great 12," said his thankful owner. "He's becoming a calm little gentleman. We can walk him on our street, unleashed(未拴住的), without any problem. He's got a lot of 13 now, and everyone wants to 14 him kindly. "
"We feel the name Little Sheep is not good enough," said Rain. "So now we call him Big Hero, more 15 for an animal of his ability. "
Mr. Smith had a small supermarket in a small town. All the people who lived nearby 1to go to his supermarket and buy things there. But several years ago, a big chained store 2 in that area and it sold all kinds of things from the toothbrush to TV and, above all, the price was pretty 3. So a lot of small shops 4 except Mr. Smith's. The manager of the chained store wanted to explore 5 was hidden behind Mr. Smith's success, so he decided to drop into Mr. Smith's supermarket and he saw a lady buying things there. He stopped her 6 and asked “Madam, why don't you go to the big chained store?”
With a smile, the lady told him it was because of a pair of shoes. She told him a story. Three years ago, 7 her divorce (离婚), she worked hard to raise her family and one day when she bought things in a supermarket, Tom, one of her little children, 8 the supermarket and asked her to buy him a new pair of shoes. He cried, “Today I had a basketball match, but all the people 9 me because of the shoes.” She wanted to buy him a pair of shoes but the money in her pocket was 10 enough for a milk. “I am sorry but I 11 when we have money,” the mother said. Seeing that there was no hope, Tom ran away. The woman stood there weeping (哭泣). Later she realized that 12 was patting on her back. 13, she found it was Mr. Smith. He took a pair of shoes that the son wanted to buy.
“Take them,” he said.
“But I don't have enough money,” the woman shook her head.
“Take them, your son can't wait. You can pay me later,” Mr. Smith told her.
Now the manager of the chained store knew the14 for Mr. Smith's success. He decided that he would follow in Mr. Smith's footsteps, putting his heart into whatever he did with the hope of attracting more customers. And he did so after the years that followed, which also 15.
