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　　Doing community service work, I spent three or four hours handing out warm dinner to the homeless out in the streets. After that I went to a

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　　shelter not far from the Bay Bridge.

　　I was in high school and at the time my sister was too young to

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　　. She wanted to help,

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　　she made four or five dozen chocolate chip cookies for me to

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　　and hand out to people. When getting to the homeless shelter I passed out the remaining meals. I had the containers with my

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　　cookies in them and began to

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　　, offering them to anyone near me.

　　I

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　　an old gentleman and said, “Sir, would you like a cookie?” He stopped and turned around, looked at me

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　　in the eye and said, “What did you say? Did you call me sir?” I told him I had, and his eyes

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　　a little bit and he said, “No one has

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　　called me sir.” He was completely taken aback.

　　It struck me.

　　I explained I had been raised that

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　　color and social status, everyone deserved

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　　. It made me

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　　to think that just because he was homeless, no one

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　　him the honor. It broke my

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　　, and I couldn’t help

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　　cry. I just didn’t understand

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　　no one ever called him sir? I had never thought that anyone was below me because I wasn’t raised that way. Every

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　　person deserves to be treated with dignity. Years later, I still carry that memory and the

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　　it taught me. Sometimes, what we take for granted can

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　　make a difference in someone’s life.

　　How have you made a difference to others? How have others made a difference to you?

　　1．A. useless

　　B. careless

　　C. homeless

　　D. hopeless

　　2．A. participate

　　B. involve

　　C. choose

　　D. go

　　3．A. however

　　B. but

　　C. yet

　　D. so

　　4．A. bring

　　B. fetch

　　C. collect

　　D. take

　　5．A. classmate’s

　　B. schoolmate’s

　　C. sister’s

　　D. family’s

　　6．A. walk around

　　B. knock around

　　C. come around

　　D. stand around

　　7．A. went

　　B. came

　　C. approached

　　D. met

　　8．A. right

　　B. even

　　C. still

　　D. just

　　9．A. watered

　　B. cried

　　C. tore

　　D. dropped

　　10．A. already

　　B. ever

　　C. still

　　D. yet

　　11．A. in spite

　　B. regardless of

　　C. concerned about

　　D. for fear of

　　12．A. happiness

　　B. truth

　　C. respect

　　D. help

　　13．A. strong-minded

　　B. sad

　　C. frightened

　　D. pleased

　　14．A. handed

　　B. afforded

　　C. provided

　　D. supplied

　　15．A. eyes

　　B. mind

　　C. opinions

　　D. heart

　　16．A. but

　　B. and

　　C. until

　　D. or

　　17．A. what

　　B. when

　　C. whether

　　D. why

　　18．A. single

　　B. poor

　　C. ordinary

　　D. normal

　　19．A. stories

　　B. lessons

　　C. experiences

　　D. tears

　　20．A. equally

　　B. hardly

　　C. really

　　D. finally

　　【答案】

　　1．Ｃ

　　2．Ａ

　　3．Ｄ

　　4．Ｄ

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　　6．Ａ

　　7．Ｃ

　　8．Ａ

　　9．Ａ

　　10．Ｂ　

　　11．Ｂ

　　12．Ｃ

　　13．Ｂ

　　14．Ｂ

　　15．Ｄ　

　　16．Ａ

　　17．Ｄ

　　18．Ａ

　　19．Ｂ

　　20．Ｃ

　　【解析】

　　1．C.上下文串聯。 下文39和40之間有提示。

　　A. 動詞辨析。妹妹年幼無法參加服務工作。

　　D. 上下文串聯。因此她做了餅干讓我帶著。

　　D. 動詞辨析。同上。

　　C. 上下文串聯。容器里裝著妹妹做的餅干。

　　A. 詞義辨析。四處走發給周圍的人餅干。

　　C. 動詞辨析。走近一位老人。

　　A. 副詞辨析。他直視我的眼睛。

　　A. 動詞辨析。老人因激動而流淚。

　　B. 副詞辨析。曾經。

　　B. 詞義辨析。不受……的影響。

　　C. 名詞辨析。稱呼老人“先生”是一種尊重，沒有種族和社會地位的區分。

　　B. 形容詞辨析。老人無家可歸又受人歧視使我感到傷心。

　　B. 動詞辨析。afford 此處意為“給予”。

　　D. 名詞辨析。想到老人的境遇，我很傷心。

　　A. 固定詞組。can’t help but do 為固定搭配。

　　D. 詞義辨析。我不理解為什么沒有人稱他先生。

　　A. 形容詞辨析。每一個人。

　　B. 得到的教訓, teache sb. a lesson.

　　C. 副詞辨析。真正起作用。

　　I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes people who show up and love you when no one else will.

　　In May 1977, I was living in a Howard Johnson’s motel off Interstate 10 in Houston. My dad and I

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　　a room with two double beds and a bathroom was too

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　　for a 15-year-old girl and her father. Dad’s second marriage was

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　　and my stepmother had

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　　us both out of the house the previous week. Dad had no

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　　what to do with me. And that’s when my other family

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　　.

　　Barbara and Roland Beach took me into their home

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　　their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to. I

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　　with them for the next seven years.

　　Barb washed my skirts the same as Su’s. She

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　　I had lunch money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework and nightly hugs. Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I were being cheerleaders.

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　　I could tell, for the Beaches there was no

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　　between Su and me; I was their daughter, too.

　　When Su and I

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　　college they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school. Recently, Barb presented me with an insurance policy they bought when I first moved in with them and had continued to pay on for 23 years.

　　The Beaches knew

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　　about me when they took me in – they had heard the whole story from Su. When I was seven, my mother died and from then on my father relied on other people to _54

　　his kids. Before I went to live with the Beaches I had believed that life was entirely

　　55__ and that love was shaky and untrustworthy. I had believed that the only person who would take care of me was me.

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　　the Beaches, I would have become a bitter, cynical (憤世嫉俗的) woman. They gave me a(n)

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　　that allowed me to grow and change. They kept me from being paralyzed by my _58

　　, and they gave me the confidence to open my heart.

　　I

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　　family. For me, it wasn’t the family that was there on the day I was

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　　, but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson’s on Interstate 10.

　　【小題1】A. lived

　　B. shared

　　C. possessed

　　D. bought

　　【小題2】A. cheap

　　B. noisy

　　C. small

　　D. limited

　　【小題3】A. in trouble

　　B. in sight

　　C. in place

　　D. in parts

　　【小題4】A. struck

　　B. removed C. kicked

　　D. knocked

　　【小題5】A. plan

　　B. choice

　　C. chance

　　D. idea

　　【小題6】A. looked after

　　B. showed up

　　C. turned over

　　D. came across

　　【小題7】A. so

　　B. because

　　C. until

　　D. while

　　【小題8】A. worked

　　B. traveled

　　C. lived

　　D. learned

　　【小題9】A. worked out

　　B. called up

　　C. watched out

　　D. made sure

　　【小題10】A. As long as

　　B. As far as C. As soon as

　　D. As many as

　　【小題11】A. change

　　B. problem

　　C. conflict

　　D. difference

　　【小題12】A. set off

　　B. left for C. entered into

　　D. admitted into

　　【小題13】A. all

　　B. little

　　C. something

　　D. nothing

　　【小題14】A. supply B. teach

　　C. encourage

　　D. raise

　　【小題15】A. different

　　B. unfair

　　C. easy

　　D. hopeful

　　【小題16】A. Thanks to

　　B. In spite of

　　C. Except for

　　D. But for

　　【小題17】A. home

　　B. house

　　C. ability

　　D. lesson

　　【小題18】A. choice

　　B. failure

　　C. past

　　D. present

　　【小題19】A. doubt about

　　B. call on

　　C. center on

　　D. believe in

　　【小題20】A. born

　　B. accepted

　　C. educated

　　D. deserted

　　【答案】

　　【小題1】B

　　【小題2】C

　　【小題3】A

　　【小題4】C

　　【小題5】D

　　【小題6】B

　　【小題7】B

　　【小題8】C

　　【小題9】D

　　【小題10】B

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　　【小題11】D

　　【小題12】B

　　【小題13】A

　　【小題14】D

　　【小題15】B

　　【小題16】D

　　【小題17】A

　　【小題18】C

　　【小題19】D

　　【小題20】A

　　【解析】家人不僅僅是血親。有的時候，有人會在無人愿意伸出援手的時候出現在你的身邊，讓你感受到愛，那也是家人。

　　我跟我爸爸共用一個有兩張雙人床和一個洗手間的房間

　　【小題2】C考查形容詞辨析。這間對于一個15歲女孩子和她爸爸來說實在是太小了。

　　時，我爸爸的第二次婚姻了

　　【小題4】C考查動詞辨析。之前一周，我后母把我們父女倆趕了出來。

　　爸不知道該拿我如何是好。

　　【小題6】B考查動詞短語。正在這個時候，我的另一個家庭出現了。

　　芭芭拉·比奇和羅蘭·比奇夫婦兩人把我接到他們家里，而這僅僅是我最要好的朋友——他們唯一的女兒蘇的請求。

　　從此，我與他們一起生活了達七年之久。

　　她讓我每天都有吃午飯的錢

　　【小題10】B考查短語辨析。在我看來(as far as I can tell)，比奇夫婦對待我跟蘇一視同仁：我也是他們的女兒。

　　【小題12】B考查短語辨析。后來，我和蘇離開家，上了大學。

　　【小題13】A考查代詞辨析。比奇夫婦在接收我的時候，就了解我的一切。

　　從那個時候起，我的爸爸就靠其他人幫他撫養孩子。

　　我開始與比奇這一家人住的時候，我相信生活根本就是不公平的

　　【小題16】D考查短語辨析。要不是比奇這一家人，我就會變成一個滿腹牢騷、憤世嫉俗的女人。

　　但他們給了我一個讓我可以成長、可以改變自己的家

　　【小題18】C考查名詞辨析。們沒有讓我的過去成為我生活的障礙

　　【小題19】D考查短語辨析。我相信家庭。對我來說，家人并不是我出生的那天在等著我的人，而是在我住在十號州際公路旁的豪生汽車旅館時，向我敞開胸懷的那個“安樂窩”

　　22．Vincent van Gogh was not always an artist. In fact, he wanted to be a(n) __21

　　and was even sent to the Belgian __22

　　community of Borinage. He discovered that the miners there __23

　　deplorable(悲慘的) working conditions and poverty-level wages. Their families

　　__24__

　　simply to survive. He felt concerned that the small amount of money he received from the church __25

　　him a moderate life-style, which, __26

　　, seemed to him unfair.

　　One cold February evening, while he watched the miners trudging(步履艱難)home, he __27

　　an old man staggering(蹣跚)toward him across the fields, __28

　　in a burlap sack for warmth. Van Gogh laid his own clothing out on the bed, __29

　　enough for one change, and decided to give__30

　　away. He gave the old man a suit of clothes and gave his overcoat to a pregnant woman whose __31

　　had been killed in a cave-in.

　　He lived on starvation rations and spent his money on __32

　　for the miners. When children in one family had fever, though __33

　　himself, he packed up his bed and took it to them.

　　A (an) __34

　　family in the community offered him free room and board. Van Gogh __35__

　　the offer, stating that it was the final temptation he must reject if he was to __36