“Angel Falls”. New York Times Bestseller，written by Kristin Hannah，tells the following story. To save his  1  life，an ordinary man must risk losing her forever.

Living in a small town of Washington State，Liam and Mikaela have a  2  marriage and family. While Liam enjoys being a doctor，Mikaela  3  their children.

One day Mikaela falls off a horse,  4  her head and sinks into a coma（昏迷）. Liam has been told not to expect a recovery.  5 ，he doesn’t give it up. He hopes that love can  6  what medical science can not. To  7  her out，Liam sits at her bedside and speaks to her. He talks about their   8  together. He tries various ways to   9  her. He brings her favourite music and place across her  10  body with sweaters that smell like home.  11   tries to keep life as normal as possible for their kids. One day,  12  through Mikaela’s closet to find a dress，he happens to find some souvenirs（纪念品）of her first marriage and a picture of her former husband—Julian True. The discovery makes him  13  the foundations of their marriage. Mikaela has a secret past and had a marriage before. Liam has known the   14   that he was not the love of her life. But she is the love of his.  15  still in a coma, Mikaela responds to the stories between Julian and her. Risking losing his wife forever，Liam decides to find Julian to save her.

With Julian’s help, Mikaela   16  awakens. But she has to make a hard choice between the two men. She apologizes to Liam for not telling him her past and says  17  to Julian. She has discovered that it’s Liam who stays with her  18  years of decorating the Christmas   tree，who defines what love really is.

“Angel Falls” is named as the best  19  of the year by “Publishers Weekly” in the US. As a result，Kristin Hannah’s books have  20  many awards.

1. A．sister’s             B．daughter’s            C．horse’s                  D．wife’s

2. A．painful             B．poor                    C．perfect                   D．bad

3. A．looks after        B．is fond of             C．picks up                 D．thinks about

4. A．destroys           B．hits                      C．beats                     D．strikes

5. A．So                   B．Finally                 C．Besides                   D．However

6. A．abandon           B．access                 C．achieve                  D．abuse

7. A．pull                  B．wake                   C．pick                       D．help

8. A．house               B．1ife                     C．pets                       D．work

9. A．awaken            B．trouble                 C．surprise                 D．call

10. A．dead               B．hot                      C．unmoving               D．helpless

11. A．Kristin            B．Julian                   C．Mikaela                  D．Liam

12. A．Getting           B．Going                  C．Doing                    D．Making

13. A．question         B．investigate            C．found                    D．believe

14. A．reason            B．cause                   C．fact                       D．news

15. A．Why              B．Though                C．Where                   D．As

16. A．still                B．also                     C．yet                        D．finally

17. A．good-bye        B．love                     C．hello                       D．yes

18. A．on                  B．with                    C．through                  D．by

19. A．book              B．movie                  C．magazine                D．couple

20. A．sold               B．received               C．given                     D．provided

It is  1  secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents（养父母）than with the parents that nature dealt them. It is especially  2  of children who remain in homes where they’re badly treated because the law blindly(盲目地) favors biological parents(亲生父母). It is also true of children who stay for years in foster（寄养）homes  3  biological parents who can’t or won’t care for them but  4  to give up custody（监护）rights.

       Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays  5  neither description, but her recent court victory could  6  children who have this kind of experience. Kimberly has been the object of an angry custody battle between the man who  7  her and her biological parents, with whom she has never  8  . A Florida judge decided that the teenager can  9  with the only father she has ever known and that her biological parents have no legal right on her.

       Shortly after  10  in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were  11  switched（调换）and sent home with the   12  parents. Kimberly’s biological parents received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical test  13  that the child wasn’t their own daughter,  14  Kim was, thus leading to a custody battle with Robert Mays.

       In 1989, the two families  15  that Robert Mays would continue to have custody right with the biological parents getting  16  rights. Those right were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being  17  .

       The decision to leave Kimberly  18  Mr. Mays caused a heated discussion. But the judge made it clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue（起诉）on her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she was  19  a personal possession of her parents. Biological parents does not mean a complete  20  that cancels（取消）all the rights of the children.

1．A．not                       B．no                       C．a                        D．the

2．A．terrible                  B．true                     C．sad                     D．natural

3．A．for                       B．because               C．because of           D．as

4．A．have                     B．stick                   C．want                   D．refuse

2,4,6

5．A．fits                       B．knows                 C．likes                    D．supports

6．A．save                     B．help                    C．trouble                D．surprise

7．A．bore                     B．protected             C．grew                   D．raised

8．A．played                   B．thought               C．lived                   D．met

9．A．remain                  B．leave                  C．share                  D．talk

10．A．birth                   B．operation             C．treatment             D．illness

11．A．mistakenly           B．purposefully         C．hopefully             D．additionally

12．A．own                    B．wrong                 C．bad                     D．other

13．A．explained             B．said                     C．showed               D．announced

14．A．therefore             B．but                      C．or                       D．so

15．A．quarreled             B．thought               C．prepared              D．agreed

16．A．visiting                B．equal                   C．watching             D．biological

17．A．wounded            B．hidden                 C．forbidden            D．hurt

18．A．with                    B．on                       C．by                      D．in

19．A．more than            B．just                     C．no more than       D．rather than

20．A．control              B．order                   C．belong               D．ownership

There is an old story about an army of frogs that went jumping through the forest one day when two of them suddenly fell into a deep   1 . All of the other frogs gathered around to look  2 at their two fallen friends. They all began to   3  shake their heads and croak out warnings. “It­­­’s too deep!”said one frog. Another said that there was no   4  they would ever be able to get out   5 .

The two fallen frogs began to continuously jump as they   6  to get out, but the frogs that were   7  kept croaking louder at them that they might as well stop   8  they were as good as dead and just   9  their time. One of the two frogs finally gave up,  10  their advice and died.

The other frog just kept on jumping harder than ever   11  all the loud croaks of disapproval from the frogs around the top of the hole. They kept croaking at him to   12  jumping and save himself from all the   13  and suffering as he jumped and fell back down to the bottom   14 .

Finally, to the   15  of all the other frogs, he jumped right out of the deep hole. The other frogs asked him, “Why did you keep jumping   16   we yelled and croaked at you to stop?” The frog explained to them he was   17  at that time and that he had thought they were cheering for him and yelling words of   18  to him the entire time!

A little encouragement can go a long way. We don’t often think about the   19   that our words have upon others. Our words do have the power to hurt or to   20 .

1.                A．hole           B．river           C．well D．valley

 

2.                A．up            B．down          C．over D．around

 

3.                A．violently        B．gently          C．sadly D．doubtfully

 

4.                A．wonder        B．doubt          C．Problem  D．way

 

5.                A．alone          B．alive           C．aware    D．awake

 

6.                A．attempted      B．chose          C．preferred D．failed

 

7.                A．helping         B．jumping         C．watching  D．cheering

 

8.                A．if             B．because        C．though   D．until

 

9.                A．saving          B．spending        C．killing    D．wasting

 

10.               A．ignored        B．offered         C．followed   D．rejected

 

11.               A．in spite of       B．as a result of     C．in terms of D．instead of

 

12.               A．try            B．practise        C．imagine   D．quit

 

13.               A．stress          B．pain           C．panic D．trouble

 

14.               A．here and there   B．now and then    C．over and over  D．neck and neck

 

15.               A．delight         B．disappointment  C．embarrassment D．surprise

 

16.               A．even though     B．now that        C．as though  D．in case

 

17.               A．blind          B．deaf           C．numb D．clumsy

 

18.               A．warning        B．trust           C．wisdom   D．encouragement

 

19.               A．pressure       B．magic          C．effect D．force

 

20.               A．help           B．protect         C．prevent   D．create