To finish the task on time, I think we should _______ and cooperate.

A. join together                   B. connect                  C. join hand                D. join forces

Don't waste our energies. Lets ________ in the business.

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A．join together　　　　B．connect

C．join hand　　　　　D．join hands

Don't waste our energies. Lets ________ in the business.

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A．join together　　　　B．connect

C．join hand　　　　　D．join hands

We have completed our first month of preschool. Matthew seems to 26  it. He is catching on to the routine quite nicely. I didn’t leave him there 27  much the first couple weeks. I am finding if I’m not there he behaves much better.

   In this class a little German boy, who does not speak  28 ，cried all the time at first and now cries occasionally.

   The Monday of the second week the little fellow just cried and cried. He was sitting  29  Matthew. I thought Matthew was going to start  30  and join in. I stood by and watched, ready for the rescue. Matthew kept turning around and  31  the boy. Then he reached his hand back and  32  him on the leg. He was comforting the boy! Later Matthew was playing with a  33  and the boy with blocks. Actually he was just standing by and crying. Matthew drove his truck over to the blocks,  34  it, picked up a few of the blocks and started handing them to  35 . They then together started 36  towers on the table and the little boy  37  crying．It seemed  38  Matthew knew what the little guy needed．Here was the little guy，who can’t speak English，and Matthew，who  39  playing together，like they were best  40 .

   One of the days when I stayed，they were at lunch and Matthew was  41  at the table. I pulled up a chair to sit next to him．He smiled，then grabbed his book bag and took off running  42  the cafeteria．I took off after him．When we reached the wall he just giggled (咯咯笑)，turned around and looked at me． I bent  43  to blame him for leaving his seat and running. He suddenly  44  a big wet kiss right on my cheek and smiled at me．All I could do was to take his hand and  45  him back to his seat．Then I turned my back and couldn’t help laughing.

1. A．escape      B．hate         C．enjoy        D．avoid

2.A．out         B．in          C．off          D．alone

3.A．Spanish     B．English      C．Chinese      D．Japanese

4.A．behind      B．beside       C．in front of    D．far from

5.A．over again   B．any moment  C．even harder   D．loudly

6.A．beating      B．shouting at    C．1ooking at    D．1earning from7. A．helped      B．hit          C．held         D．patted

8. A．toy         B．doll         C．truck        D．train

9.A．parked      B．repaired      C．broke        D．threw

10.A．me         B．the teacher    C．himself      D．the little boy

11.A．adding      B．climbing      C．building     D．putting

12.A．continued   B．enjoyed       C．began       D．stopped

13.A．where      B．as            C．when       D．as if

14.A．signs       B．starts         C．teaches      D．1earns

15.A．brothers    B．children       C．friends      D．people

16.A．standing    B．running       C．sitting       D．jumping

17.A．across      B．into          C．out of       D．through

18.A．up         B．down        C．in           D．towards

19.A．left        B．received      C．shouted      D．showed

20.A．force       B．walk         C．push        D．drive

My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking.

Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.

We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.

For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability无能无力 to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.

We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly( 笨拙地) from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.

Over dinner; we learned the situation of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately不顾一切地, she explained.

“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”

The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

1.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

2.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

3.The underlined word “establish” in the fourth passage probably has the same meaning as _____.

4.The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.