I grew up in a tiny Baltimore row house in a faraway mountain area. My parents the necessities of life they couldn’t give much more. If I asked my father a pair of jeans, he would say, “If you want them, make the money and buy them .” He wasn’t being mean; he just couldn’t them. From age 12 on, I did part-time jobs after school.
When I from high school, I joined the navy. Soon I was in a boot camp(新兵训练营) at Parris Island, S. C., where I learned that life in the navy centered around completing daily . These could be anything from cleaning the camp to conducting mock(模拟的) battles. Completing these tasks successfully discipline, team-work and responsibility. It didn’t whether you were black, white or Asian; everyone worked together for the of the company.
I went to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy and later became an officer in the navy. The part of my job I most was the consulting(咨询) meetings I with the family members of the men and women in my , trying to help them deal with the long periods of . These proved popular and word of them spread. I was being asked to give encouraging to business groups, educators and kids across the country.
But I consider the boot camp my first real , and my life is still guided by the lessons I learned there. It taught me discipline, friendship and the pride related to setting a task every day and working hard to it.
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解析试题分析：本文讲述了一个贫穷的小男孩成长为海军军官的故事，表达了他对军营的热爱，因为军营教会他纪律、友谊设定目标努力完成的骄傲。
【小题1】考查动词辨析。A. provided提供，B. got得到，C. made制作，使得，D. bought买，根据下文中的“they couldn’t give much more”可判断出作者的父母亲提供生活必需品。选A。
【小题2】考查连词辨析： A. while然而，当…时候，B. but但是，C. so所以，D. or或者，but用于构成并列句，意为“但是”，根据“My parents provided the necessities of life”与“they couldn’t give much more”的意思可判断出它们是转折关系。while表示对比，指“尽管” “虽然”，但程度不如still强烈，所引导的从句多位于主句之前，表示并列关系，指“而”“当……却……”，所引导的分句多位于句末，偶尔位于句首。but表示转折，指和上一分句所述情况相反，上下分句形成对比，一般不用在句首，更不用在句末，后面一般也不加逗号。选B。
【小题3】考查介词辨析：A. about关于，B. with和..一起，C. for为了，D. of..的，：ask...for意为“向……请求，要求”。根据下文中的if you want them可判断出表示“如果我向父亲要一条牛仔裤”。ask...about意为“向……问关于……”。ask of后接表示“人”的名词或代词，意为“要求，期望”。选C。
【小题4】考查反身代词：A. themselves他们自己，B. ourselves我们自己，C. yourself 你自己，D. myself我自己，make the money and buy them是祈使句，其逻辑主语是you，所以要用反身代词yourself，表示“你自己”。选C。
【小题5】考查动词辨析。A. pay 付钱，B. find发现，C. produce制造，D. afford负担，afford指时间或经济能力可以“花费得起，经受得住”，须与情态动词can，could或be able to搭配。根据上文中的“they couldn’t give much more”可判断出“买不起”。选D。
【小题6】考查动词辨析。A. came来，B. returned回到，C. escaped逃跑，D. graduated毕业，，根据下文中的from high school可判断出当作者在高中毕业时，参加了海军。选D。
【小题7】考查名词辨析： A. drills“操练，演习；(严格而有系统的)盘练，训练”；B. tasks “任务”，一般指分派的工作任务，也指自己要求做的工作，可指体力劳动或脑力劳动，多含困难和辛苦的意味。C. exercises “演习，操练,训练；〔常 pl.〕运动，体操”；D. reports“告知，报告，汇报；报导(新闻、调查结果等)；发表，公布，发表公报”。根据下文中的“These could be anything from cleaning the camp to conducting mock battles.”可判断出在海军的生活,集中在完成日常工作中。选B。
【小题8】考查动词辨析。A. included包括，B. asked 问，C. required要求，D. met遇到，根据部队的实际情况和其宾语可判断出，完成这些任务需要纪律。选C。
【小题9】考查动词辨析：A. matter重要，B. mean意味着，C. exist 存在，D. work工作，根据下文中的“everyone worked together”可判断出无论你是黑人、白人或亚洲人都没有关系。选A。
【小题10】考查形容词辨析：A. good“利益，好处，用处”， B. boss老板，C. rest休息，D. right权利，根据上文的内容可判断出大家在一起为整个团体的利益而工作。选A。
【小题11】考查动词短语辨析：根据上文中的“When I graduated from high school,I joined the navy.”可判断出作者继续学习， go on意为“继续”。 go out意为“出去,熄灭,过时,罢工,向往,辞职,倒塌”；go away意为“走开”；go off意为“离开,去世,消失,睡去,爆炸,被发射,进行,变质”。B。
【小题12】考查动词辨析。A. took拿走，带走，花费，B. hated 讨厌，C. enjoyed 喜欢，享受，D. did做，根据下文中的“These prove popular and word of them spread.”可判断出作者最喜欢做咨询工作，因为只有喜欢才能把工作做好。选C。
【小题13】考查动词辨析。A. ended结束，B. began开始，C. continued 继续，D. held举行，“I held with the family members of the men and women...”是定语从句，作meeting的定语，表示与男女家庭成员在一起举行的咨询会。选D。
【小题14】考查名词辨析：A. charge 要价，负责，B. situation形势，C. position位置，D. choice选择，in my charge意为“归我负责，主管”，表示由作者负责的男女家庭成员。选A。
【小题15】考查名词辨析：A. lessons功课，B. meetings会议，C. training训练，D. separation分离，根据上文的内容可判断出作者帮助那些长期分离的夫妻。选D。
【小题16】考查词组辨析：A. Long before之前很久，B. Before long不久以后，C. As usual象平常一样，D. Once again再一次，根据上文中的“These proved popular and word of them spread.”可判断出由于作者的工作突出，不久就要求给全国的商业团体、教育工作者和年轻人作鼓励他们的演讲。选B。
【小题17】考查名词辨析：A. performances表演，表现，B. descriptions描述，C. speeches演讲，D. gifts礼物，根据上文中的“...meeting I held with the family members of men and women in my charge”可判断出作者给全国的商业团体、教育工作者和年轻人作鼓励他们的演讲。选C。
【小题18】考查名词辨析：A. vacation 假期，B. place地方，C. job工作，D. travel旅行，根据上文的内容可判断出作者把预定野营作为自己的真正的工作。选C。
【小题19】考查形容词辨析：A. important 重要的，B. bitter痛苦的，C. normal正常的，D. difficult困难的，根据上文的内容可判断出作者先是在海军服役，后又做咨询工作，这些工作给作者重要的教育。选A。
【小题20】考查动词辨析。A. gain“增加，获得”，指经过付出巨大努力之后为自己获得或赢得有一定价值的东西，强调所得之物能够造成的优势，还可跟双宾语，有时可用作不及物动词。B. achieve，意为“完成，做到，获得(胜利等)，达到(目的)，实现”，指克服困难之后取得成功、成就或实现预期的目的，强调结果。C. show展示，D. match匹配，根据句意：努力工作完成任务。选B
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同步练习强化拓展系列答案科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
“Look，it's Baldy！”A boy shouted in my direction across the playground.Even though I was used to regular insults(侮辱)because of the____on my head，it was____ horrible to hear.I sighed as I headed back to the class.
When I was just 20 months old，I suffered serious____ after a bowl full of hot oil fell on my head.I was____ to hospital and had to stay there for weeks，while the doctors___ to save my life.“Holly's very____to be alive，” they told Mum and Dad.“But she'll be____ with scars on her head，and of course her hair won't grow there.”
As a child，I cared much about my scars ，so I____wore a scarf to cover them up when I left home.____I didn't，people would call me horrible names like Baldy.Although my friends were always comforting me， they never____understood how it felt.
Then through the hospital I was____ to a children's burns camp，where children like me can get any help.There，I____14－year－old Stephanie，whose burns are a lot more serious than mine.But she is so __ that she never lets anyone put her down.“You shouldn't____what people say about what you look like because we're not different from anyone else，Holly，”she____me.“And you don't need to wear a scarf because you look great ____ it！”For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who'd been through something____.So weeks later，at my 13th birthday party，____by her bravery，I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars.It felt amazing not having to____away behind my scarf.
Now，I am____ of what I look like and much happier，because I have realized it is your personality(个性)that decides who you truly are.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
I wanted to be just like those big kids I saw wearing their medals and carrying their ribbons(绶带). So I____the crosscountry team at my school.
However, I was very slow in the team. In races, I would finish almost____. I'd always have to____in the longer races.The__ __races and at least 100 people competing in it made me really____. Every time I stopped, 10 people would__ __me. But I still couldn't push myself to keep going, even though I____watching them go by me. After every race, I'd go home and burst into tears.
Then one of my friends joined the crosscountry team, too. She never got tired and didn't get cramp(抽筋) in her legs. I just didn't understand how that was____! I'd been running much longer than she had, but she could run__ __while I had to suffer. She even came 8th in a big race with over 200 people in it! My____was lower than ever and I wanted to quit badly.
I didn't, ____. Even a whole month before a race, I'd get so nervous that I felt like I might give up. Still, I____to quit. I still had that____appearing in my mind and I hung on to it.
Finally, I realized the reason why the bigger races made me so nervous was that I was always worried that I wasn't____for them. I started to practice at home almost every day. I____a plan that had me running almost three kilometers every day, which helped me build up a steady____.
When the time came for the big race, all the practice really____. I stopped only once and my pace was much better.
I was____of myself for sticking with it even though it was really hard and I'd even wanted to quit. I showed myself that I was____enough to keep going. That was what made me feel good about myself and gave me confidence.
The next time I'm faced with a tough____, I will know that I can take it up. None of this would ever have happened if I had quitted!
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.
"Any old papers, lady?" asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say “no” __ __looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin scandals (凉鞋),wet with heavy snow.
“Come in and I'11 you a cup of hot cocoa.”
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet shoes left on the floor．I __ them cocoa and toast with jam the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget. The silence in the front door __ __me. I looked in. The girl__ the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat ," Lady ．．． are you rich?"
"Am I rich? Mercy, !" I looked at my shabby slipcover(家具套)．The girl put her cup back in its saucer（茶碟） .
“Your cups match your saucers．”
Her voice was ___ __with a need that no amount of food could supply．They left after that, holding their against the wind．They hadn't said thank you．
They didn’t to. They had done more than that. Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they __ __.
I tasted the potatoes and stirred(搅动)the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a __ over our heads, my man with a good steady job—these things matched, too．
I moved the chairs back from the fire and the living room．The muddy prints of small scandals were still on my floor. “ them be for a while,” I thought. Just I should begin to forget how I am.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
While I lived in Ireland, part of my college course was to work in the area of children with special needs. I was selected to ____ in a school with children with ____. I had numerous rooms to ____ from. I chose to work in the ____ that was apart from the school. Children ___ 5—16 with severe disabilities. They had no speech and most were in a wheelchair.
The ____ of that room asked if I would work with one girl who had ____ of epilepsy(癫痫症), autism(自闭症), and other brain development disabilities. She was 15 years old. At her school they would think that just being able to zip up(拉上拉链) her own coat was a(n) ____ . I saw more in her. She always wanted to put ____ through the shaped blocks to make a necklace. For the 5 years she was in the school, the teachers always tried to ____ her do all the work. I knew this smart girl could do ____ and so I encouraged her. She had a thumb which she could not move but I ____ her so much to try. She got very ____ most days and sometimes I wanted to quit. ____ after a week, this young girl was able to do ____ she had been wanting to do by herself for so many years. Her teacher cried when she saw what this ____ was able to do with just some encouragement.
People with disabilities should never be ____ that they can't. We are all human and with just some encouragement we can do it. The ____ on that girl's face when she was able to do it herself ___ the world to me. I wish everyone would encourage people rather than telling them they can't ____ doing it for them.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
I’m a straight-A student and have been my whole life. When you come from a family of educators, it just seems .
With high academic standards and a competitive , I don’t just like losing and I also can’t it. I need to beat the students, perfectly in everything. I’ve even gone so far as to define myself by my , saying how outstanding I am. If I don’t get the grade I then I am lost.
Today I was sitting in class trying to the last minutes studying for a test in which I had to get full marks. the girl behind me started talking to me, I tried to listen while still glancing at my study sheet . When I thought the conversation required it, I smiled, nodded and . And then I found myself wishing she would be so I could study. After a while, she said, “You know, you’re a really good . You’re so easy to talk to. ”I froze.
I replayed the praise in my head before smiling and accepting it . But inside, I knew it wasn’t true. She’d made every effort to have a conversation and I wasn’t even trying to .
I passed the test excellently despite my of lost study time, but the one thing I needed to learn most wasn’t on that test. I had being the best student so that I had failed at just being normal. So what to me most? What I have is all about my personal and about me being too self-centered. There can only be so many scholars, but there is enough sympathy. I want that to be what matters to me—sympathy.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
The power of encouragement is great. You may draw some inspiration from the following story.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a famous 19th-century poet and artist, was once ______ by an elderly man. The old man had some sketches (素描) and drawings that he ______ Rossetti to look at and tell him if they were any good, or if they at least showed_____ talent.
Rossetti looked them____carefully. After the first few, he knew that they were worthless, showing not the least ____of artistic talent. But Rossetti was a_____ man, and he told the elderly man as gently as possible that the pictures were of little ______ and showed little talent. He was sorry, but he could not ____ to the man.
The visitor was ____, but seemed to expect Rossetti’s ____. He then apologized for ______ Rossetti’s time, but would he just ____a few more drawings—these done by a(n) ____ art student? Rossetti looked over the____ batch (一批) of sketches and immediately became enthusiastic over the talent they_____. “These,” he said, “oh, these are good. This young student has great talent. He should be given every____and encouragement in his career as an artist. He has a____future if he will work and stick to it.”
Rossetti could see that the old man was ______ moved. “Who is this fine young artist?” he asked. “Your son?” “No.” said the old man sadly. “It was I who painted the pictures 40 years ago. ____ I had heard your praise then! For you see, I got discouraged and___ drawing—too soon.”
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
(2013·鲁西南名校联考卷)Recently divorced and unemployed，I was on my way downtown to do the rounds of the employment offices.I had no umbrella，for my old one had ____，and I could not ____ another one.
I sat down in the ____ and there against my seat was a(n) ____ silk umbrella with a silver handle.I had ____ seen anything so lovely.I examined the handle and saw a carved ___.The usual procedure would have been to ____ the umbrella to the conductor，but an idea __ to me.I decided to take it with me and find the owner myself.
I got off the bus in a downpour and ____ opened the umbrella to protect myself.Then I ____ a telephone book for the name on the umbrella.I called and a lady ____.
Yes，she said ____，that was her umbrella，which her parents，now dead，had given her as a birthday present.But，she ____，it had been stolen ____ her doorstep a month before.
She was so excited that I ____ I was looking for a job and went directly to her house.She took the umbrella，and her eyes were filled with ____.She wanted to give me a ____，but－though twenty dollars was all I had in the world－her happiness at regaining this ____ possession was beyond words and I believed accepting her money would have ____ something.We talked for a while and I left.
A week later，I got a job as a sales manager ____.It might be my kindness that paid off.But who knows?
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business. He enjoyed his and traveling.
Then, after returning to the United States from a trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), Mr. Cousins got sick. Because he had pushed his body to the of its strength on the trip, a change began to take place him. The material between his bones became .
In less than one week after his return, he could not . Every move that he was painful. He was not able to sleep at night. The doctors told him that they did not know how to cure Mr. Cousins’ problem and he might never over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up . Mr. Cousins thought that thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He did not want to take medicine to cure himself. , he felt that happy thoughts or might cure his illness.
He began to on himself while still in the hospital by watching funny shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that 10 minutes of real laughter during the gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night. the doctors could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into (登记住宿) a hotel room where he could his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping __ he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for . After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work. He had laughed himself back to .
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