(2013·高考辽宁卷)The accident caused some ________to my car,but it’s nothing serious.
A.harm B.injury
C.ruindamage
(2013·高考浙江卷)As the world’s population continues to grow,the ________ of food becomes more and more of a concern.
A.worth B.supply
C.package D.list
(2013·高考天津卷)While she was in Paris,she developed a ________ for fine art.
A.way B.relation
C.taste D.habit
For many times in the past years I went to the hospital for some minor __1.__(treat) during my travel in other cities. It was the _2.__(sad) moment of my life, I think,because nobody would come to the hospital to visit me. _3.__ patients had family or friends to visit them during the visiting hours. I felt really alone. __4.__ is it possible that out of a whole world full of people,__5._ would come to visit me for just an hour? The answer in my case was simple. With a bit of medication (药物治疗), I was back in the stream of life again. But I_6.__(leave) with a deep thought for all the people and the elderly. __7._ knows how many others that lie in the hospital with nobody _8.__(visit) them or give a kind word of comfort? I had this wonderful idea of forming _9._ organization in cities around the world,getting to hospitals to visit the patients who never get a visit and someone local could drop _10.__ with a smile and a kind word. Wouldn’t it be nice and relatively easy to do?
Long before, there was a large mountainside, where rested an eagle's nest with four large eagle eggs. One day 1. earthquake rocked the mountain, causing one of the eggs to roll down the mountain to a chicken farm 2. (locate) in the valley below. The chickens were kind enough to care for the eagle's egg, and an old hen volunteered to nurture (哺育) and raise the large egg.
One day, the egg hatched and a beautiful eagle was born. Sadly, 3. , the eagle was raised to be a chicken. Soon, the eagle believed he was nothing more 4. a chicken. The eagle loved his present family, but his spirit cried out 5. more. While playing on the farm one day, the eagle happened to notice a group of mighty eagles soaring in the skies. "Oh," the eagle cried, "I wish I could soar like those birds."
The chickens roared with 6. (laugh), “You cannot soar with those birds. You are a chicken and chickens do not soar."
The eagle continued staring at his real family up above, 7. (dream) that he could be with them. Each time the eagle would let his dreams 8. (know), he was told it couldn't be done. That is 9. the eagle learned to believe. The eagle, after time, stopped dreaming and continued to live like a chicken. Finally, after a long life as a chicken, the eagle passed away.
You become what you believe you are. So, if you ever dream of becoming an eagle, follow 10. dreams... not the words of a chicken.
At one point along an open highway,I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but _1.__ I drove up to the light,it turned red,and I braked to a halt. I looked left, right,and behind me. Nothing,_2.__a car,no suggestion of headlights, but there I sat,_3._(wait) the light to change,the only human being for at least a mile in any direction.
I started wondering _4._I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of __5._(catch) by the police, because there was obviously no cop anywhere around and _6. certainly would have been no danger in going __7._ it.
Much later that night,the __8._ question of why I’d stopped for that light came back to me. I think I stopped because it’s part of a contract(合同) we all have with each other. It’s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have,and we trust each other to honor _9.__:We don’t go through red lights. Like most of us, I’m more ready to be stopped from doing something bad by the social agreement that disapproves of it __10._ by any law against it.