Long ago there was a poor farmer in Russia. He had been very       with everything he had. However, when he found his elder brother was        than him, he felt disappointed. So he       hard about how he could also be richer. Finally he got an idea. He started to spend less money on food and clothes to       some money to buy more land. Once he had enough money, he started       for land.
He       that on the neighboring land, there were some nomads (游牧民) living there. He bought some gifts and went to      their head. He presented the gifts to the head and told him the       of his visit. The head welcomed him, accepted the gifts and agreed to his       to get the land. The head told him that he could have the land       giving him anything. He can take as much land as he could       by walking through the land before sunset (日落). He should start in the morning and whatever distance he could travel during the      , he could have it.
The farmer became very       when he heard this offer. Now he could have lots of       without paying anything. He came       the next morning and started running, not walking,       he could cover the largest area. To reach his goal, he neither ate food, nor drank water, nor had any rest. He just continued      . Without eating, or drinking, or resting he just got very      . When he came back to the head in the evening, he       right on the spot. Sadly his son buried him in a piece of land about 6 x 4 feet.
Don’t be greedy (貪婪的) or you will       everything finally.

A year ago, August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeteria, but it was         for Dave to find work, and the price of everything was rising. The Fusses were at the risk of joining the millions of Americans who have        their homes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely        —$7,000, a legacy(遺產(chǎn)) from their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in an accident. “It really made a difference when we were meeting difficulty.” says Dave.
But the Fusses weren’t the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to        unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families were     by what the Hatches had done. In some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in       , it was more than $100,000.
It        nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than $3 million—they were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on what was left of the family farm.
Children of the Great Depression, Ish and Arlene were known for their habit of     . They preferred comparison shopping and would go from store to store, checking prices before making a new purchase.
Through the years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camps when their parents couldn’t        it. “Ish and Arlene never asked if you        anything,” says their friend Sandy Van Weelden, “They could see things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.”
Even more extraordinary was that the Hatches        their farmland. It was the Hatches’ wish that their legacy—a legacy of kindness as much as one of dollars and cents—should        the whole community and last for generations to come.
Neighbors helping neighbors—that was Ish and Arlene Hatch’s story.

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、Ｂ、Ｃ和Ｄ）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該選項(xiàng)涂黑。
I still remember my first job in the city center. The        was large, dark and old        the physics lecture room was on the second floor.        , it wasn’t a lecture room at all, it was an ordinary room, but it had “LECTURE ROOM’ on the       . The students were sixteen or seventeen years old,        several years younger than me.       , some of them looked and acted       older than me sometimes.
The room was directly       the street, and had the window looking out over the street and many houses. One day, I was       some words on the blackboard when I heard a sudden change in the noise behind me. There was a man standing in the room with       an apple in his hand. He looked      .
“Who threw this?” he asked, looking round the class.
“I beg your pardon? What is the matter?” I said. “     threw this apple out of the window,” he said. “It       on my car.”
“Who threw an apple out of the window?” I       to the class. There was no answer.
“I       the fellow who threw this.” said the man. “I will be       outside for you.” And then he left, closing the door behind him.
     was silence and I continued with the lesson. At the end of every lesson, usually the class were all       before the bell finished ringing, leaving me saying “That’s all for today” to an empty    .  This time, when the bell went for the end of the lesson, no one      .  “That’s all for today,” I said. “You go first, sir,” said one of the boys. It made a nice change, I being out first.

In 1970, at the age of 35, my father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. There was not much     done at that time and my father had to rely on the medication and treatment that were     at that time. But one thing was     , my father was not a quitter. He was a teacher who      children with special educational needs in Chicago Public High School. Every day we would hear     about “his kids”. These “kids” did not usually     my sister and I.
One day, my father arrived at his school and walked up the    for his first period. He was having a very      day because the disease was really taking everything out of him. He      once and bruised (擦傷) his knee but he still kept going.       did he know that someone was watching.
As the day     his steps began to get a little lighter. At the end of the day, he was about to leave     a young girl entered his office. He had met her in the hallway but she was not one of his     . He asked what he could do for her and she said, “I just wanted to thank you for    my life.”
He looked at her and couldn’t      what he had done. She then went on     . “When I got up this morning, I felt as if I was at the end of my     and ready to kill myself. But when I saw you trying to go up the stairs and then you fell, I felt   and the feeling of sadness just kept getting    . And now you are walking as     as ever. It’s really true that everything will get better as the days go on.”

As the plane circled over the airport, everyone guessed that something was wrong. The plane was moving unsteadily (不穩(wěn)定地) through the        , and the passengers were suddenly threw forward. At that moment, the air hostess (空姐) appeared.
She looked very pale（蒼白的）, but was quite        . Speaking quickly but almost in a whisper, she told everyone that the pilot was badly ill and asked if any of the passengers knew       about machines or at least knew how to drive a car. After a moment          a man got up and followed the hostess into the pilot’s room. Moving the pilot aside, the man          his seat and listen carefully to the orders        were being sent by radio from the airport below. The plane was now dangerously         to the ground, but it soon began to climb. The man had to circle the airport several times in order to become familiar      _ the controls. But the danger had not yet passed. The terrible moment came when he had to        . Following orders, the man controlled the plane to the airfield. It shook greatly as it touched the ground and then moved rapidly          the field, but after a long run it stopped safely. Outside a lot of people, who had been watching anxiously, ran forward to congratulate the “pilot” on an excellent landing.

I'd been travelling for long hours on a lonely country road when I had a flat tire. So I had to stop and get the tools to       the problem. It certainly wasn’t       doing this with a white shirt and suit on.
Nightfall was approaching. Suddenly a car pulled       from behind me. A man got out and offered to         me. Seeing his unpleasant appearance and tattoos(紋身)on his arm, I became        as thoughts of robberies flashed through my mind. But       I could say anything he had already begun to take the tools to change the       . While watching him I happened to look back at his car and noticed someone sitting in the passenger seat. This had        me. 
Then, without       , it began to rain. He suggested that I wait in his car because my car was unsafe. As the rain increased, getting us wet within seconds, I        agreed. When I settle into the back seat, a woman’s voice came from the front seat. “Are you all right?” She turned around to me. “Yes, I am.’’ I replied with much        when seeing an old woman there. It must be his Mom, I thought. To my      , the old woman was a neighbor of the man who was helping me. “Jeff insisted on stopping when he saw you      with the tire. ”“I am grateful for his help, ” I said. “Me, too!” she said with a smile. He helped drive her to see her husband twice a week in a nursing home. She also said that he       at the church and tutored disadvantaged students. 
The rain stopped and Jeff and I changed the tire. I tried to offer him money and of course he     it. It was shameful that I judged people by the way they       . As we shook hands I began to apologize for my     . He said, ‘‘I experience that same        often. People who look like me don’t do nice things. I        thought about changing the way. But then I saw this as a chance to make a       . So I’ll leave you with the same question I ask everyone who takes time to know me. If Jesus returned tomorrow and walked among us again, would you recognize Him by what He wore or by what He did?’’

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。
A daughter        to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know whether she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was        fighting and struggling. It seemed that if one problem was solved a new one       .
Her father, a cook, took her to the       . He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a        In one he placed       , in the second eggs, and in the last ground（磨成粉的）coffee beans. He let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited,        what he was doing. In about twenty minutes he        the burners. He        the carrots and eggs out and placed them in a bowl! Then he        the coffee into a cup. Turning to her, he asked, "Darling, what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs and coffee," she replied.
He brought her closer and asked her to        the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it After pulling off the       , she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip（啜飲）the coffee. She smiled as she        its rich aroma（芳香）.
"What does it mean, Father?" she asked.
He        that each of them had        the same adversity（厄運(yùn)）, boiling water, but each reacted       . The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but after being subjected to the boiling water, it        and became weak. The egg had been       , with its thin outer shell protecting its liquid inside, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique. After they were in the boiling water, they had        the water.
"Which are you?" he asked his daughter.
When adversity knocks on your door, how do you       ? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C、D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題紙上將選項(xiàng)標(biāo)號(hào)涂黑。
On the night of my birthday, I went to the nearest drug store to buy vitamins.        it was my birthday, I was feeling        and a bit lonesome. Maybe I        my dad who had passed away four years ago. I just wanted him to be        me that day. On my way to the drug store, I was        .Once I arrived there, I cleaned my cheek up from the tears and tried to smile when I        the vitamin my mom wanted to buy. While I was waiting, I looked        the building and my eyes caught a glimpse of a(n)        next to the door. She was with her kid, a cute little boy. They were sitting on the street and that kid just wore a(n)      T-shirt. I realized it was        yet. I felt sorry for them. When I paid for my       , I glanced at them and started to have an        . “Why don’t I donate some of my        ? It’s my birthday,” I thought to myself. I had to        something with another that day. Yeah, I decided, I have to do that. I went home in a hurry. I was so        to look for some of my smaller clothes.
At home, I told my mom what I had        and told her my idea. My mom        me and helped me look for some clothes. I        returned to the drug store. There, I didn't hand the clothing over myself. I wanted it to be a        to that kid. So I asked someone to hand the clothes       , then I left that place. But once I went, I heard someone yell "thank you" and I hoped it was for me.
On the road, my heart was overwhelmed with a lot of happiness and warmth. I felt glad that I could share something on my birthday and that was a big gift for me.

It was a cold, wet day on June 6th, 2007, when 14-year-old Wasana arrived at school. Waiting outside his classroom for his classmates to         ,Wasana stared at the         ,then his eyes fell upon the 18-metre-high hill that         at the back of the classroom.
He         large amounts of rainwater flowing down the hill, and water was also bubbling at the base of a rock on the hill. For a few minutes, Wasana         the water, wondering why it looked so        . Then it hit him—the         was similar to the video he was shown during Disaster Management classes. Fearing a         disaster, he shouted         at the students waiting outside their classrooms. “Run, run, don’t stay here! The         on the hill is going to fall on us! ”
Chaos broke out as the         ran to the open area that had been appointed as an emergency gathering point. When some teachers         Wasana, he showed them the water gushing from the hill, and they started leading the students to safer ground.
Just then Principal Gurusinghe drove into the school. Wasana ran over to tell him what was happening. After         the site, Grrusinghe knew the school was in      The enormous rock at the top of the hill could come crashing down        .
       a group of teachers and older students Gurusinghe climbed the hill and tried to make the water flow away from the rock. They were too        : ten minutes later, they heard screams as the huge rock rushed down the hill. There was little Grrusinghe and his group could do as they watched the earth         their classrooms. Thanks to Wasana’s         action and careful observation,        was hurt in the accident.

A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she _____ play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill. ______ she loved her parents and her family, she desired （渴望）to live in such a house and ______ all day about how wonderful and exciting _____ must feel to live there.
At the age when she gained（獲得） some ______ skill and sensibility (識(shí)別力), she ____ her mother for a bike ride ____ the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go, ____ her keeping close to the house and not ____ too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew ____ where she was heading! ____ the hill and across the valley, she rode to the ____ of the golden house.
____ she got off her bike and put it against the gate post, she focused on the path（小路） ____ to the house and then on the house itself. She was very disappointed （失望）when she ____ that all the windows were ____ and rather dirty.
So ____ and heart-broken, she didn’t go any further. She ____ and all of a sudden she saw an amazing （令人驚奇的）____. There on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home, she ____ that she had been living in her golden house filled with love and care. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her nose!