原创精练一
It is a very common thing for a person to have a good friend. My good friend is Diana. She is
a rich and proud girl. She often t_____1____ that she is too good for anyone, so n_____2____
wants to be her friend.
One day after school, I was waiting for Diana when Vivien came up to me. She gave me a
biscuit. I accepted it. We talked and joked, and from then on, I began to spend more time with
Vivien than with Diana. I felt a l_____3____ uneasy.
After a few days, I went to see Diana for some snacks when Vivien came and sat with me.
She offered me a sandwich. She a_____4____ offered one to Diana, but Diana refused it. She
walked away. I was angry with Diana f_____5____ being so rude and thoughtless.
"Never mind," Vivien said, "I'm u_____6____ to it."
After school, I tried to catch up With Diana. While walking home, I tried to correct her
attitude, b_____7____ she would not listen to me. She said, "Go and join your 'dear' Vivien. I
know you make new friends and forget the old o_____8____."
For the next few weeks, we did not talk to each other. Then, one day, Diana came to Vivien
and me, saying, "I'm really sorry about what I did. I'm a spoiled (宠坏的) girl, but I also need
good friends j_____9____ like you. Would you please forgive (原谅) me?" Vivien and I looked at
each other and smiled. From then on, Diana, Vivien and I have been b_____10____ friends.
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练二
These days, more and more students in the UK are taking a “gap year” between their
graduation from school and their university studies. This means that they take a year off to do
something else, before they s _____1____ their studies.
For most students, spending time in ____2____ countries is the favourite activity—and
Australia is the favourite place to go.
Many parents, teachers and business people _____3____ that traveling can teach important
values.
“After a year of traveling, I felt I'd grown up. I had learned the i_____4____ of relationships
with people, on all sorts of levels.”
There are many companies a_____5____ the world that welcome these students on their projects
—helping people in poorer countries, o ____6____ in your home country. Although you don't Get
paid for your work, this kind of work can teach important s____7___—decisionmaking and
finding answers to problems, for example—that will help a student in a job o_____8____ day.
Finally, getting some knowledge and experience in an area you hope to study or work in one
day will always be very u_____9____．
If several university graduates are asking for the same job, gap year work experience allows
you to say, “I've already had some e ____10_____ of this kind of work.” And that can get you the
job!
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________原创精练三
A young woman in her twenties was sitting on the train, next to her mother. They both looked
tired but excited.
The young woman was looking out f___1____ the train’s window. Suddenly, she shouted,
“Mom, look, the trees are behind us!” Her voice was so l____2____ that everyone on the train
heard.
Mom smiled. B____3____ a young couple who were sitting nearby looked at the young
woman’s childish(孩子气的) behavior with pity. “Poor girl. There must be something wrong with
her(74) m____4_____ .” they thought.
A few minutes later, the young woman shouted a____5____. “Mom, look! The clouds are
running with us!” Mom smiled again. And she seemed very happy with her daughter’s w
___6____ that she said just now.
Finally, the couple couldn’t help asking the old woman, “Sorry if we offend（冒犯）you. But
why don’t you t_____7____ your daughter to a good doctor?”
The old woman smiled and said, “Actually, we have just come from a hospital.”
“Then you should go to a b___8____ one. Because it seems that your daughter’s situation (状
况) hasn’t improved.” said one of them. They felt so bad for the old woman.
“No, in fact I’m very happy with the treatment(治疗).” said the mother, “My daughter was
blind from birth. Today, she is seeing the world for the f____9___ time.”
Every single person has a story. Don’t judge（判断）people before you know t____10____
well. The truth might surprise you.
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练四
A man had two sons. They were twins. They were b__1__ at almost the same time and
looked quite alike. But in one important way, they were very d__2___.
One of them was an optimist(乐观主义者), while the o__3___ was a pessimist(悲观主义者).
The man was worried about his sons. There are good and bad things in one's life. He didn't want
his sons to be too pessimistic or too optimistic. He told his best friend Johnson about this
p__4____.
Johnson was a man of many ideas. Then he asked, “W__5___ is their next birthday?"
The father replied,” It’s on Wednesday. They will be twelve years old.” “Excellent,” Johnson
said. "Here's what you should do. Give your pessimistic son a really w__6___ present. Give your
optimistic son a really poor present. That will work!"
The father did as his friend told him. On Wednesday morning, the two boys got their birthday
p__7___. The pessimist looked at his first. It was a very expensive gold watch, but he was not
pleased with it. He said, "I don't l__8___ this very much. I am sure it won't keep good time. It will
always be fast or s__9___ and it will probably break easily. Then I have to s__10___ lots of
money getting it repaired. "Then the optimist looked at his present. He was really pleased. “Look!
Dad has given me shoelaces(鞋带),” he said. He held up the shoelaces and said, "I can use it when
I have new shoes.”
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练五
When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd
ever known. He never i_____1____ us to play in his yard, but he was a very kind person.When Dr. Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. He owned a large field and
wanted to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new
trees. Once I asked w_____2____. He said that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you
watered them, each baby tree would grow weaker and weaker, so you had to make things
d_____3____ for them and pick out the weaker trees early on.
He talked about how watering trees made for shallow （浅的） roots, and how trees that
weren't watered had to grow deep roots in search of water under the earth by t_____4____. Deep
roots were very important.
So he never watered his trees. He'd planted an oak and, i_____5____ of watering it every
morning, he'd beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I a_____6____ him why he did that, and he said
it was to get the tree's attention.
Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked b_____7____
his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about twenty-five years ago. They're
very big and s_____8____ now. I planted some trees a few years back and carried water to them
for a whole summer. After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blows in, they
shake a lot.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I pray (祈祷) that their lives
will be easy. But lately I've been thinking that it's time to change my prayer. I know my children
are going to f_____9____ difficulties. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere, so what
we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the brave heart, s_____10____ when the
rains fall and the winds blow, we could face it strongly and won't be beaten down.
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练六
Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next door was only a few feet
away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had n_____1____ met, yet I could
see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.
After several months had gone by, I began to n_____2____ that her window was dirty.
Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself, "I wonder w_____3____
that woman doesn't wash her window. It r_____4____ looks terrible."
One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.
L_____5____ in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a
cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was
clearly visible(可看见的). Her window was c_____6____!
Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was
watching hers through my o_____7____ dirty window.
That was q_____8____ an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized
others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings(缺点 短处)?
Since then, whenever I w_____9____ to judge (评判) someone, I asked myself first, "Am I
looking at him through my own dirty window?"
Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me morec_____10____.
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练七
One day when some government officials were rebuilding a house， they found a
mouse hole in a corner and used smoke to m_____1____ the mice inside the hole come
out. A while later they saw mice running out one after another，but they saw two mice
didn’t run away i_____2____. It seemed that one was trying to bite(咬) the tail of the
other.
Everyone was puzzled， s_____3____ they came nearer to take a look. They
realized that one of the two mice was blind， and the other was t_____4____ to allow
the blind mouse to bite his tail in order to pull the blind one with him to run away.
During the meal t_____5____， they started to talk about the two mice. One serious
American said， “I think the relationship between those two mice was that of king
and guard.”
A s_____6____ Frenchman said， “I think the relationship between them was that
of husband and wife.”
A Japanese said， “I think the relationship between them was that of mother and
son.”
At that moment， one Chinese asked， “W_____7____ did those two mice have a
certain relationship?”
Suddenly， they looked b_____8____ at the Chinese. The American， the
Frenchman and the Japanese who had spoken earlier a_____9____ lowered (低下) their
heads in shame， and didn’t answer.
In fact， the great love is not built on friendship or blood relationship.
I_____10____， it is based on no relationship.
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练八
Almost all cultures celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another in some way.
Different cultures celebrate the beginning of a new year in different ways, and at different
t_____1____ on the calendar.
In Western countries, people usually celebrate New Year at midnight on December 31st-
January 1st. People may go to parties, sometimes dressed in formal（正式的）clothes, and the may
drink champagne（香槟）at midnight. D_____2____ the first minutes of the new year, people
cheer and wish each other happiness for the year ahead. But some cultures prefer to celebrate the
new year b_____3____ waking up early to watch the sun rise. They welcome the new year with
the f_____4____ light of the sunrise.
Many cultures also do special things to get rid o（f 摆脱）bad l_____5____ at the beginning of
a new year. For example, in Ecuador, families make a big doll from old clothes. The doll is filled
with old newspapers and firecrackers. At midnight, these dolls are burned to show the bad thingsfrom the past year are gone a_____6____ the new year can start afresh（重新）. Other common
traditions to keep away bad luck in a new year include throwing things i_____7____ rivers or the
ocean, or saying special things on the first day of the new year.
Other New Year traditions are followed to b_____8____ good luck in the new year. One
widespread Spanish tradition for good luck is to eat grapes on New Year’s Day. The more grapes a
person eats, the more good luck the person will have in the year. In France, people eat pancakes
f_____9____ good luck at New Year. In the United States, some people eat black-eyed peans for
good luck-but to get good luck for a w_____1____ year you have to eat 365 of them!
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练九
I never saw my father home from work late or ill, nor did I ever see my father take a “night
out with the boys”. He had n_____1____ bobbies but just took care of his family.
For 22 years, since I left home for college, my father called me every Sunday at 9:00 am. He
was a_____2____ interested in my life-how my family was doing. The calls even came when he
and my mother were in Australia, England or Florida.
Nine years ago when I bought me first house, my father, 67 years old, spent eight hours a day
for three days, painting my house. He would not allow me to pay someone to have it done. All he
asked, was a glass of iced tea, and that I hold a paintbrush for him and talk to him. But I was too
b_____3____, for I had a law practice to run, and I could not take the time to hold the paintbrush,
or talk to my father.
Five years ago, my 71-year-old father s_____4____ five hours putting together a swing set
（秋千）for my daughter. Again, all he asked was that I get him a glass of iced tea, and talk to him,
But again, I had laundry to do, and the house to clean.
The morning on Sunday, January 16, 1995, my father telephoned me as u_____5____, this
time he had seemed to have forgotten some things we had discussed the week before. I had to get
to church, and I cut the conversation short..
The call came at 4:40 am. That day my father was s_____6____ to hospital in Florida. I got
on a plane immediately, a_____7____ I vowed（发誓）that when I arrived, I would make up for
the l_____8____ time, and have a nice long talk with him and really get to konow him.
I arrived in Florida at 1:00 am, but my father had passed away at 9:12 pm. This time it was he
who did not have time to talk, or time to w_____19____ for me.
In the years since his death I have learnt much about my father, and e_____10____ more
about every single day.
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练十
Trees are useful to men in three important ways: They p 1 them with wood and other
products, they give them shade, and they help to p 2 drought and floods.Unfortunately（不幸运地）, in many p 3 of the world, men don’t know that the third of these
is the most important. In their eagerness（渴望） of making m 4 from trees, some people cut
trees down in large n 5 . And besides, they are usually too c 6 to plant and look after new trees,
so the forests slowly b 7 smaller and smaller.
This does not only mean that men will have fewer trees. The results are e 8 more serious:
For where there are trees, their roots(根) prevent the rain from washing away the soil, but there are
no trees, the rain falls on hard g 9 and flows away, causing f 10 and carrying away the rich top-
soil（地表土）. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing remains（剩下） but death.
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练十一
In many big cities in the world, the overuse of cars is thought to be one of the major (主要的)
causes of air pollution. What will cars be l___1___ in the future?
Some experts think that today’s cars are in trouble b___2___ they use too much petrol(汽油).
They say the car of the future will be much, much smaller. The car of tomorrow will be m___3___
without a motor(马达) or air condition. It will have no radios or lights. Tomorrow’s car will be an
o__4___ air car with no doors or windows. It needn’t have a pollution control system (控制系统)
because it w___5___ use petrol. In fact, this new car will be pushed by the driver’s feet. Very few
people will be killed in car a____6____, because the top speed will be five miles per hour.
However, we are also warned not to ask for pretty c___7___, because the cars will come in grey
only.
Other car experts do not hold the same idea. They are s____8____ that the future will be
happier. They think that all our problems will soon be solved by car companies with the
production (生产) of the Supercar. Tomorrow’s car will be bigger, faster, and more comfortable
than b___9___. The Supercar will have four rooms, TVs, running water, heat, air conditioning,
and maybe a swimming pool. Large families will travel on long trips c___10_____, they won’t
feel sick any more. If petrol is in short supply, the Supercar will run on water.
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练十二
Not long ago, I made up my mind to read a lot of books to get more knowledge. So I went to
the library and r__1___ happily with several books. But after a few days, I felt impatient (不耐烦).
The idea of finishing reading all of them s 2 impossible, because I always found it h__3 to
calm d___4___ to read a whole book. I didn't know what to do with it. Then suddenly one day I
thought of "Why not make reading f 5 ?" It gave me hope again. Reading is a journey of spirit
(精神). Every time we read a book, we are actually talking with the w__6 . I tried to put all my
effort (努力) into his or her books, so I could f__7__ all of his or her happiness and suffering (痛
苦). Now books have become a part of my life.
See? Attitude (态度) can make a great d__8 . Someone once said, "Even though the situation
is bad, people still have one freedom to show their attitude.” So, don't complain (抱怨) about
study o__9___ work. It helps nothing. Try to see things from a different way. Believe me; this will
c___10____ the situation and help you a lot.原创精练十三
Once upon a time there was a rich man. He had a lot of money, but he felt u___1___ all the
times.one day he went to see an old man to ask about happiness. The old man had a look at him, shook
his head and said nothing. Finally, the rich man left home to look for happiness. He v___2___ many
places and met many rich men. All of them said they were not happy, either. On his way home, the rich
man saw a farmer w___3___ in the field. He went up to the farmer and asked, “Could you tell me
i___4___you felt happy?” “Yes, I’m q___5___ happy. I always feel satisfied about everything in
my l___6___,” the farmer answered. “Please tell me how you f ___7___happiness,” asked the rich
man. The farmer answered with s___8___ on his face. “It’s very easy for me to answer the question.
If you work h___9___ ,have three meals a day and go to bed early without w___10___, you’ll be
the happiest man in the world.”
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练十四
A survey(调查) has been published which shows that British people don’t like their
neighbors very much.80% of the people who took part in the survey feel that their neighbors
h___1___ pay attention to others’ feelings.25% don’t talk to the people who live next door and
10% don’t even know their names. In fact, one million people in Britain would like to move
b___2___ they don’t get along well with their neighbors.
According to the survey, the b___3___ problem is noise. Many of the complaints about
noise came from people who live in flats and old houses. These places often have thin walls which
can’t s___4___the noise from next door.
The other main problems are disagreements a___5___ car parking spaces, and old people
complaining about the young. Some disagreements last a l___6___ time. In one case, people who
live in the s___7___ building haven’t talked to each other for fifteen years. Sometimes the
disagreements end in violence(暴力). In one of the worst cases, a man killed a neighbor because
he kept larking in “his space.’
Another survey shows that 90% of the neighbors never share a meal,80% have never had a
drink t___8___ and 20% have never even spoken .However, when neighbors become each
other’s friends, they are often ready to offer help, as we can see in many p___9___ of the world.
One solution to such problems is to talk about them with a professional organization and, if
necessary, to sign a written agreement. Now people can g___10___ this service in more and
more towns.
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练十五
Once upon a time, there was a rich man. Each morning, the rich man found a poor man
s___1___on a bench in the park. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich
man lived. One day, the rich man g___2___out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me. I want to
know w___3___ you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.” “Sir ,” said the poor man, “I am a
failure. I have no m___4___ no family and no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream thatone day I will sleep in that hotel.” The rich man said, “Tonight your dream will come true. I’ll p___5___
for the best room in that hotel for you a whole month.”
A few days later, the rich man went into the poor man’s room to a___6___ him how he was feeling in it.
To his s___7___, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel back to his bench. When the rich man
asked why, he said, “You see, w___8___ I am sleeping on my bench, I dream I am there in the big hotel.
It’s a wonderful dream. B___9___ while i was there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a t
___10___ dream , and I couldn’t get any sleep at all.”
1.__________ 2.__________ 3.__________ 4.__________ 5.__________
6.__________ 7.__________ 8.__________ 9.__________ 10.__________
原创精练答案
精练一1.thinks 2.nobody 3.little 4.also 5.for 6.used 7.but 8.ones 9.just 10.best
精练二1. start 2. foreign 3. agree 4. importance 5. around 6. or 7. skills 8. one 9.
useful 10. experience
精练三1. from 2. loud 3. But 4. mind 5. again 6. words 7. take 8. better 9. first 10. them
精练四1.born 2.different 3.other 4.problem 5.when 6.wonderful 7.present 8.like 9.slow 10.spend
精练五1. invited 2.why 3.difficult 4.themselves 5.instead 6.asked 7.by 8.strong 9.face 10.so
精练六1.never 2.notice 3.why 4.really 5.late 6.clean 7.own 8.quite 9.wanted 10.clearly
精练七1.make 2.immediately 3.so 4.trying 5.time 6.smart 7.why 8.back 9.all 10.instead
精练八1.times 2.During 3.by 4.first 5.luck 6.and 7.into 8.bring 9.for 10.whole
精练九1.no 2.always 3.busy 4.spent 5.usual 6.sent 7.and 8.lost 9.wait 10.even
精练十 1.provide 2.prevent 3.part 4.money 5. numbers 6.careless 7.become 8.even 9.ground
10.floods
精练十一 1.like 2.because 3.made 4.open 5.won’t 6.accident. 7.colours 8.sure 9.before
10.comfotably.
精练十二1.read 2.seemed 3.hard 4.down 5.fun 6.witer 7.feel 8.difference 9.or 10.change.
精练十三1.unhappy 2.visited 3.working 4.if 5.quite 6.life 7.find 8.smile 9.hard 10.worries
精练十四1.hardly 2.because 3.biggest 5.about 4.stop 6.long 7.same 8.together 9.parts 10.get
精练十五1.sitting 2.got 3.why 4.money 5.pay 6.ask 7.surprise 8.while 9.But 10.terrible
