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    Maricel Apatan，22，stands in the kitchen of the Edsa Shangri—La Hotel in Manila，preparing to decorate a cheesecake. It would seem to be  a（n）____ task for a pastry(糕点) chef，but Maricel is no ____ chef－she has no hands．
    “When I first saw Maricel, I was worried she might ____ herself when using a chef’s knife ____ that has never been a problem, ” says Maricel’s manager. “She doesn’t get ____ treatment and works just as hard as the rest of the chefs.”
    Despite financial ____ from Archbishop Ledesma, a distant relative, Maricel ____ to deal with her disability. “I was ____ dependent on my mother and couldn’t do anything,” she recalls.
    In 2004, Archbishop Ledesma ____ for Maricel to live in the House with No Steps, a training centre for people with disabilities. She ____ how to write and do regular tasks and, more importantly, ____ her disability. She became more determined to ____ hard to live a normal life.
    Maricel ____ graduated from high school and enrolled(注册) in a two-year Hotel and Restaurant Management course in Cagayan de Oro City. I have really enjoyed ____ since I was seven years old,” she says.
    After Maricel moved back to Manila to continue her studies, the media started reporting ____ this determined young woman. She didn't shy away from the ____.“I wanted others living with disabilities to believe it's ____ to live a normal life,” Maricel says.
    Later, Maricel's three younger brothers and sisters moved to Manila．She ____ the rent of their small apartment, ____ their parents look after the family farm in Mindanao．“It is difficult to make ends meet but I don't lose ____. I believe anything is possible if you dream, and work hard．”
    小题1:
    A．impossibleB． simpleC． practicalD． important
    小题2:
    A．ordinaryB． admirableC． talentedD． gentle
    小题3:
    A．absorbB． expressC． hurtD． forgive
    小题4:
    A．forB． orC． butD． and
    小题5:
    A．specialB． equalC． officialD． effective
    小题6:
    A．adviceB． controlC． informationD． help
    小题7:
    A．hesitatedB． disagreedC． struggledD． pretended
    小题8:
    A．graduallyB． hardlyC． increasinglyD． totally
    小题9:
    A．searchedB． arrangedC． appliedD． begged
    小题10:
    A．explainedB． realizedC． wonderedD．learned
    小题11:
    A．acceptedB． blessedC． curedD． forgot
    小题12:
    A．thinkB． tryC． listenD． relax
    小题13:
    A．partlyB． firstlyC． eventuallyD． immediately
    小题14:
    A．readingB． cookingC． writingD． drawing
    小题15:
    A．beyondB． byC． againstD． on
    小题16:
    A．attentionB． descriptionC． decorationD． connection
    小题17:
    A．successfulB． difficultC． possibleD． certain
    小题18:
    A．raisesB． paysC． collectsD． receives
    小题19:
    A．unlessB． onceC． thoughD． while
    小题20:
    A．memoryB． weightC． hopeD． patience

    小题1:B
    小题2:A
    小题3:C
    小题4:C
    小题5:A
    小题6:D
    小题7:C
    小题8:D
    小题9:B
    小题10:D
    小题11:A
    小题12:B
    小题13:C
    小题14:B
    小题15:D
    小题16:A
    小题17:C
    小题18:B
    小题19:D
    小题20:C

    试题分析：本文主要讲述了一个残疾的女孩子通过自己的努力和奋斗，过上了正常人的生活。作者用这个故事告诉我们：只要你不失去希望，只要你有梦想，只要你努力，任何事情都是可能的。
    小题1:B 形容词辨析。A不可能；B简单的；C实用的；D重要的；一位厨师要做奶油蛋糕，这本来是一件很简单的事情，但是对于Maricel来说却可能是一件很危险的事情，也因为她没有手。
    小题2:A 形容词辨析。A普通的；B令人钦佩的；C有才干的；D温柔的；Maricel不是一个普通的厨师，她和别的厨师很不一样，因为她没有手。
    小题3:C 动词辨析。A吸收；B表达；C伤害；D原谅；经理说当他看见她使用刀的时候很担心她是否会伤到自己，因为她没有手，不能像普通人那样控制好刀。
    小题4:C 词义辨析。A因为，为了（介词）；B或者，否则；C但是；D和；虽然经理一直很担心她会伤到自己，但是这从来就不是一个问题，她的水平很好。
    小题5:A 形容词辨析。A特别的；B公平的；C正式的；D有效的；经理说：她不需要特别对待，而且她和别的厨师一样努力工作。
    小题6:D 名词辨析。A建议；B控制；C信息；D帮助；虽然有来自远房亲戚Archbishop Ledesma的帮助，但是她还是很努力地和自己的残疾做斗争，从来不依赖别人。
    小题7:C 动词辨析。A犹豫；B不同意；C努力；D假装；虽然有来自远房亲戚Archbishop Ledesma的帮助，但是她还是很努力地和自己的残疾做斗争，从来不依赖别人。说明她很独立。
    小题8:D 副词辨析。A逐渐地；B几乎不；C越来与多地；D完全地；根据后半句中的couldn’t do anything可知她之前完全是依靠自己的母亲，什么也做不了。但是后来有了彻底的改变。
    小题9:B 动词辨析。A寻找；B安排；C申请；D祈求；在2004年她的亲戚Archbishop Ledesma安排她生活在一个专门为残疾人建设的无障碍的房子里。在这里她学会了很多的事情。
    小题10:.D 动词辨析。A解释；B意识到；C想知道；D学会；在那里她学会了书写，学会了做一些基本的事情。最重要的是，她终于接受了自己残疾的这个现实。
    小题11:A 动词词义辨析。A接受；B祈祷；C治愈；D忘记；在那里她学会了书写，学会了做一些基本的事情。最重要的是，她终于接受了自己残疾的这个现实。
    小题12:B 动词辨析。A思考；B努力；C听；D放松；try hard to do sth努力做某事；她更加坚定地要努力地过正常人的生活。
    小题13:C 副词辨析。A部分地；B首先；C最后；D立刻，马上；她最终高中毕业，参加了一个宾馆和餐厅管理的2年的学习课程，学习相关内容。
    小题14:B 动名词辨析。A阅读；B烹饪；C写作；D画画；她告诉我们自从7岁她就一直很喜欢烹饪。所以在这个课程里她主要学习的也是烹饪，后来成为了厨师。
    小题15:D 介词辨析。A超过；在…另外一边；B通过；C违背，逆着，顶着；D关于…；report on….就…展开报道；当地的媒体开始报道这个意志坚定的女孩子的故事。
    小题16:A 注意力；关注；B描述；C装饰；D联系；对于媒体的关注她一点也不害羞。主要是因为她想让其他一些有残疾的人知道经过努力，他们也可以过正常人的生活。
    小题17:C 形容词辨析。A成功的；B困难的；C可能的；D确定，一定；她想让其他的残疾人知道经过自己的努力，他们完全有可能过上正常人的生活。
    小题18:D 动词辨析。A提高，筹集；B付钱；C收集；D收到；她的三个弟弟妹妹也来到了马尼拉，当他们的父母亲在老家的时候，由她挣钱来付他们的房租。
    小题19:D 连词辨析。A除非；B一旦；C尽管；D当…时；当他们的父母亲在老家的时候，由她挣钱来付他们的房租。
    小题20:C 词义辨析。A记忆，回忆；B重量；C希望；D耐心；她说要想让收支平衡很困难，但是只要你不失去希望，只要你有梦想，只要你努力，任何事情都是可能的。
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    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：完形填空

    I was doing a big clean-up and my kids were helping. One of my sons came across a handkerchief of mine with a coin inside. I took one look and was immediately   to another time．
    In 1991，I had spent five months in Viger(尼日尔)，a hot African country. There were many things I found      about this place—the climate and beggars who      shouted “Cadeau! Cadeau!” It means gift．
    One      was a lot worse．One day，a friend and I headed for neighboring Burkina Faso to work in a health clinic．However，a motorbike with two men      slowly．Without warning，one of the men     my backpack as the motorbike swept close by．The bag had my passport，money，an airline ticket and other things precious to me．I was in deep      ．In the weeks that followed I looked at all   with suspicion.
    All I wanted was to leave this place．One day，I was stopped by an old woman “Cadeau!” she cried. I’d had enough! I was sick and tired of the country．I told her firmly，“A thief stole all my money and now I can’t get off your country.” The beggar woman listened carefully and     my words．
    “Then I will give you a cadeau,” she announced．Kindly，she placed an old brown coin in my palm. I looked at it   ．Living in poverty，she gave me something priceless! I saw then the     beauty of the people of Burkina Faso and    deeply the quiet dignity of the small coin；she turned my perceptions upside down．
    小题1:
    A．welcomedB．transportedC．exchangedD．expected
    小题2:
    A．difficultB．easyC．curiousD．adequate
    小题3:
    A．annoyinglyB．carefullyC．politelyD．calmly
    小题4:
    A．clinicB．presentC．opportunityD．incident
    小题5:
    A．continuedB．failedC．approachedD．dropped
    小题6:
    A．grabbedB．brokeC．borrowedD．fixed
    小题7:
    A．debtB．snowC．troubleD．thought
    小题8:
    A．platsB．friendsC．menD．locals
    小题9:
    A．deniedB．usedC．consideredD．changed
    小题10:
    A．in horrorB．in shockC．in returnD．in addition
    小题11:
    A．uncertainB．unfortunateC．unnecessaryD．unexpected
    小题12:
    A．thankedB．regrettedC．appreciatedD．pitied

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    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：阅读理解

    I lost my sight when I was four by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City. Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a disaster can do strange things to people. I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.
    Life, I believe, asks constant adjustments to reality. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—a potential to live, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
    The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself, I mean: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
    It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words stuck in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a new kind of baseball. We called it ground ball.
    All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was out of reach. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
    小题1:We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______
    A．the author lost his sight because of a car crash.
    B．the author wouldn’t love life if the disaster didn’t happen.
    C．the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.
    D．the disaster strengthened the author’s desire to see.
    小题2:What’s the most difficult thing for the author?
    A．How to adjust himself to reality.
    B．Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.
    C．Learning to manage his life alone.
    D．How to invent a new kind of baseball.
    小题3:According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author _________.
    A．would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.
    B．would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair.
    C．would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.
    D．would sit in a chair and stay at home.
    小题4:What is the best title for the passage?
    A．A Miserable LifeB．Struggle Against Difficulties
    C．A Disaster Makes a Strong PersonD．An Unforgettable Experience

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    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：完形填空

    Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, was born in Kingfish, Oklahoma on March 29, 1918. He was raised in Missouri where he worked in his father’s store while attending school. This was his first retailing (零售业) experience and he really enjoyed it. After graduation, he began his own career as a retail merchant.
    He soon opened his first Wal-Mart store in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas. Wal-Mart specialized in name brands at low prices and Sam Walton was surprised at the success. Soon a chain of Wal-Mart stores sprang up across rural America.
    Walton's management style was popular with employees and he founded some of the basic concepts of management that are still in use today.
    After taking the company public in 1970, Walton introduced his “profit sharing plan”. The profit sharing plan was a plan for Wal-Mart employees to improve their income dependent on the profits of the store. Sam Walton believed that “individuals don't win, teams do”. Employees at Wal-Mart stores were offered stock options (认股权) and store discounts. These benefits are commonplace today, but Walton was among the first to implement (实现) them. Walton believed that a happy employee meant happy customers and more sales. He also believed that by giving employees a part of the company and making their success dependent on the company’s success, they would care about the company.
    By the 1980s, Wal-Mart had sales of over one billion dollars and over three hundred stores across North America. Wal-Mart’s unique decentralized (分散的) distribution system, also Walton’s idea, created the edge needed to further encourage growth in the 1980s during growing complaints that the “superstore” was stopping smaller and traditional stores from developing. By 1991, Wal-Mart was the largest US retailer with 1,700 stores. Walton remained active in managing the company, as president and CEO until 1988 and chairman until his death. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom shortly before his death.
    小题1: Sam Walton first made a hit in retailing when __________.
    A．he worked in his father’s store
    B．he created Walton's management style
    C．a chain of Wal-Mart stores sprang up across rural America
    D．he specialized in name brands at low prices
    小题2:What is the purpose of Walton’s carrying out “profit sharing plan”?
    A．To make sure all the employees had their own shares.
    B．To encourage the employees to work hard and make joint efforts.
    C．To select excellent employees for his stores.
    D．To make more profit for himself.
    小题3:Which of the statements is TRUE?
    A．With Walton’s management style, employees treated the stores as their own.
    B．Walton wasn’t one of the merchants who first implemented stock options.
    C．The smaller and traditional stores were well affected by Walton’s stores.
    D．In his old age, Walton gave all the management to his men.
    小题4:What does the underlined word “edge” in the last paragraph mean here?
    A．Danger.B．Disadvantage.C．Advantage.D．System.

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