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A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she 36 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. 37 she loved her parents and her family, she desired to live in such a house and 38 all day about how wonderful and exciting 39 must feel to live there.
At the age when she gained some 40 skill and sensibility(识别力), she 41 her mother for a bike
ride ___42 the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go, 43 her keeping close to the house and not 44 too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew 45 where she was heading! 46 the hill and across the valley, she rode to the 47 of the golden house.
48 she got off her bike and put it against the gate post, she focused on the path _49 _ to the house and then on the house itself. She was very disappointed when she 50 that all the windows were 51 and rather dirty.
So 52 and heart-broken, she didn’t go any further. She 53 , and all of a sudden she saw an
amazing ___54 . There on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home, she _55 __ that she had been living in her golden house filled with love and care. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her house. 36. A. might 37. A. Unless 38. A. dreamed 39. A. this
B. should
C. would D. must
C. Since C. asked C. it
D. But D. shouted D. which D. basic D. paid D. along
D. wondering about D. walking D. possibly D. Beside D. gate D. Because D. moving D. found D. wide D. sad D. dropped in
B. Although
B. worried B. that
40. A. different 41. A. begged 42. A. inside
B. scientific B. blamed B. outside
C. musical C. invited C. through
43. A. insisting on 44. A. traveling 45. A. madly 46. A. Over 47. A. windows 48. A. Until
B. relying on B. running B. rapidly B. Down B. steps B. As
C. arguing about C. riding C. exactly C. Around C. center C. While C. leading
49. A. getting 50. A. felt
B. introducing B. learned B. bright B. angry
C. concluded C. plain C. serious
51. A. transported 52. A. anxious
53. A. turned down B. cheered up C. settled down
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54. A. hill
B. valley B. decided
C. background C. realized
D. sight D. guessed
55. A. imagined
Passage 2
I went to a group activity, “Sensitivity Sunday”, which was to make us more 36 the problems faced by disabled people. We were asked to “ 37 a disability” for several hours one Sunday. Some members, 38 , chose to use wheelchairs. Others wore sound-blocking earplugs（耳塞）or blindfolds（眼罩）. Just sitting in the wheelchair was a 39 experience. I had never considered before how 40 it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down, my 41 made the chair begin to roll. Its wheels were not 42 . Then I wondered where to put my 43 . It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into 44 . I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of 45 for several hours. For disabled people, “adopting a wheelchair” is not a temporary（临时的） 46 . I tried to find a 47 position and thought it might be restful, 48 kind of nice, to be 49 around for a while. Looking around, I 50 I would have to handle the thing myself? My hands started to ache as I 51 the heavy metal wheels. I came to know that controlling the 52 of the wheelchair was not going to be a(n) 53 task.
My wheelchair experiment was soon 54 . It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of “disability” gave me only a taste of the 55 , both physical and mental, that disabled people must overcome. 36. A. curious about B. interested in 37. A. cure
C. aware of
D. careful with D. analyze D. like me D. relaxing D. exciting D. weight D. grasped D. handles D. effect D. production D. entertainment D. comfortable
B. prevent C. adopt B. strangely C. as usual B. working C. satisfying
38. A. instead 39. A. learning
40. A. convenient 41. A. height 42. A. locked 43. A. hands
B. awkward C. boring B. force C. skill
B. repaired C. powered B. feet C. keys B. action C. play B. communication C. transportation B. education C. experiment B. safe C. starting
44. A. place 45. A. operation 46. A. exploration 47. A. flexible
48. A. yet B. just C. still D. even
D. guided D. admitted D. seized
49. A. shown B. pushed C. driven 50. A. realized 51. A. lifted
B. suggested C. agreed B. turned
C. pressed
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52. A. path 53. A. easy
B. position C. direction B. heavy C. major B. repeated C. conducted B. challenges C. anxieties
D. way D. extra D. finished D. illnesses
54. A. forgotten
55. A. weaknesses
Passage 3
Michael Greenberg is a very popular New Yorker. He is not famous in sports or the arts, But people in the streets 16 him, especially those who are 17 . For those people, he is \"Gloves\" Greenberg. How did he get that 18 ?
He looks like any other businessman, wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase (公文箱). But he's 19 . His briefcase always has some gloves.
In winter, Mr. Greenberg does not 20 like other New Yorkers, who look at the sidewalk and 21 the street. He looks around at 22 .He stops when he 23 someone with no gloves. He gives them a pair and then he 24 , looking for more people with cold 25 .
On winter days, Mr.Greenberg 26 gloves. During the rest of the year, he 27 gloves. People who have heard about him 28 him gloves, and he has many in his apartment. Mr. Greenberg 29 doing this 21 years ago. Now, many poor New Yorkers know him and 30 his behavior. But people who don't know him are sometimes 31 him. They don't realize that he just wants to make them 32 .
It runs in the 33 . Michael's father always helped the poor as he believed it made everyone happier. Michael Greenberg feels the 34 . A pair of gloves may be a 35 thing, but it can make a big difference in winter. 16. A. know about 17. A. old 18. A. job 19. A. calm 20. A. act
B. learn from
C. cheer for C. kind
D. look after
B. busy B. name
B. different B. sound
D. poor
C. chance D. message C. crazy C. feel
D. curious D. dress D. keep off
21. A. cross over 22. A. cars
B. drive along B. people B .chooses
C. hurry down
C. street numbers D. traffic lights C. greets
D. sees D. turns around
23. A. helps 24. A. holds up 25. A. hands
B. hangs out B. ears
C. moves on C. faces
D. eyes
D. puts on
26. A. searches for 27. A. borrows
B. stores up B. sells
C. gives away C. returns
D. buys
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28. A. call
B. send
C. lend C. began
D. show D. enjoyed D. excuse D. surprised by
29. A. delayed B. remembered B. dislike
30. A. understand 31. A. sorry for 32. A. smart 33. A. city
C. study
C. proud of
B. satisfied with B. rich
C. special D. happy
D. company D. cold B. family B. pain C. neighborhood C. same
34. A. honor 35. A. small
B. useful
C. delightful
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D comforting
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