I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. (1) , he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was (2) and ill. My father was (3) a strong man who loved being active. But a terrible illness (4) all that away. Now he can no longer walk. And he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is (5) . One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started (6) about life, and I told them about one of my (7) . I said that we must very often give things up (8) we grow: our youth, our beauty, our friends, but it always (9) that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father (10) up. He said, "But, Peter, I gave up (11) ! What did I gain" I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say. (12) , he answered his own question. "I (13) the love of my family. " I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes along with hope and thankfulness. I was also (14) by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated at someone, I (15) remember his words and become (16) . If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be (17) to give up my small irritations. In this (18) , I learned the power of acceptance from my father. Sometimes I (19) what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one (20)
A. took
B. threw
C. sent
D. put
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We spent a day in the country and (1) a lot of flowers. Our car was full of flowers inside! On the way home we had to stop at traffic lights, and there my wife saw the (2) It stood outside a (3) shop. "Buy it," she said at once. "We’ll (4) it home on the roof-rack. I’ve always wanted one like that. " What could I do Ten minutes (5) I was twenty dollars poorer, and the book shelf was tied on to the roof rack. It was tall and narrow and quite heavy too. As it was getting (6) , I drove slowly. Other drivers seemed more polite than usual that evening. The police even (7) traffic to let us through. Carrying furniture was a good (8) . After a time my wife said, "There is a long line of cars (9) . Why don’t they overtake" Just at that time a police car did overtake. The two officers looked at us seriously when they went (10) . But then (11) a kind smile they asked us to (12) their car through the busy traffic. The police car stopped at our village church. One of the (13) came to me. "Right, sir," he said. "Don’t you need any more (14) now" I didn’t quite (15) . "Thanks, officer," I said. "You’ve been very (16) . I live just down the road. " He was looking at our (17) : first at the flowers, then at the bookshelf. "Well, well," he said and laughed. "It’s a bookshelf you’ve got here! We (18) it was-er, something else. " My wife began to laugh. Suddenly I understood (19) the police drove here. I (20) at the officer, "Yes, it’s a bookshelf, but thanks again. " I drove home as fast as I could.
A. expect
B. understand
C. think
D. mean
For thousands of years, people thought of glass as something beautiful to look at. Only recently (1) come to (2) something to look through. Stores (3) their goods in large glass windows. Glass bottles and jars (4) food and drink allow us (5) the contents. Glass (6) spectacles (眼镜), microscopes, telescopes, and (7) very useful and necessary objects. (8) are used by people who cannot see (9) or by people who want to protect their eyes (10) bright light. Microscopes make tiny things larger (11) we can examine them. Telescopes (12) objects that are far away appear (13) closer to us. (14) in recent years plastics have replaced glass (15) conditions where glass might be (16) broken there are new uses (17) for glass that were never imagined in the (18) . Perhaps the greatest (19) . of glass is that its constituent (形成的) parts are inexpensive and can be found (20) over the world.
A. ancient
B. past
C. old
D. aged
Television broadcasts are (1) to an area that is within the (2) of the sending station or its relay (中转站). (3) television relays are often placed on hills and mountains so that they can (4) a wider region, they still can not cover more land than one from the hilltop (5) a clear day. However, the rays also go out into the atmosphere, (6) there is a relay station on a satellite that (7) around the earth, it can send the pictures to any point on the earth from which the satellite is (8) . Three satellites (9) turning around over the equator (赤道) send any television program to any part of the earth. (10) makes it possible for world (11) of newspapers to give the news in all countries at the same time. (12) it may be possible for a subscriber (户) to a televised newspaper to (13) a button and see a newspaper page (14) his television screen. He could also decide when he wants the page (15) , (16) , by dialing different numbers such as (17) on a telephone dial, he could choose the language or the edition of the paper he wants to read. It seems strange to think that, even today, methods of the (18) are not entirely useless. For example, sometimes (19) agencies which use radio also use pigeons to (20) messages between offices in large cities because the pigeons are not bothered by traffic problems.
A. what
B. those
C. these
D. ones
England is not a big country: from north to south and from east to west (1) is only about three hundred miles (2) . But for a small country it has a (3) range of climates. People who have (4) visited England, or who have visited only (5) of it, often (6) of thinking that it is a cold and wet country. (7) the summer months of June to September, this is probably true of the (8) of England and Midlands. In the south, however, the (9) is much pleasant. One (10) is that when people retire from a job in the south they often prefer to (11) to the milder south. Perhaps the warmest (12) of the country is the southwest, which consists of the counties of Devon and Comwall. The (13) Gulf Stream flows across the North Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Mexico and makes the coastal regions of the (14) quite warm. Palm trees, bamboo and many semi-tropical plants grow (15) in the southwest of England. Flowers and vegetables ripen (16) a month earlier than those elsewhere. Farmers in the area obtain (17) for their vegetables and flowers because they are ready earlier. In winter there (18) several feet of snow in other parts of England (19) there will probably be no snow at all in the southwest. This may be (20) the southwest is one of England’s most popular holiday areas.
A. northeast
B. south
C. north
D. southeast