I was diagnosed with cancer in September 2005, after discovering a small lump in my neck. All seemed well after the lump had been removed. However, a follow-up blood test revealed that the cancer had spread. I underwent chemotherapy(化疗), and within four months I lost nearly 20kg, all my hair and energy.
I got a tentative all-clear(解除警报)two days after my 28 the birthday. To me, it signaled a new start, and I couldn’t wait to get on with my life. The doctors told me that it would be months before I could get back to my old activity levels, but I just didn’t want to accept this. I wanted to be normal again –now, not in six months.
So I started by simply walking around Edinburgh. Each day I would get home four or five hours later feeling like I had run a marathon. After less than six weeks, I half-ran, half-crawled up Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh. I spent the next couple of days in bed recovering, but soon after that I was back in the gym.
My diet had never been great before I fell ill --- I was a real vegetable-phobe(厌恶蔬菜的人)， and to some extent I still am. Nowadays, though, I make myself eat more natural foods. I have discovered that a good blender and a slow-cooker help make foods I don’t like bearable.
When one suffers a physical setback, emotional support from others is important. Still, there are things only you can do for yourself; at the end of the day, you are the one going through it. I went back to work, and now have started a company to take my passion for health and fitness forward. I believe that what holds most people back is a poor mental attitude and lack of determination. You can achieve whatever you want; you just have to work hard at it.
1.What do we learn about the author from the passage?
A. He was diagnosed with cancer after a regular blood test.
B. He got back in the gym two days after his 28th birthday.
C. His doctors asked him not to do any kind of exercise for six months.
D. He wanted to recover from his illness as soon as possible.
2. How did the author change his diet?
A. He started eating more natural foods.
B. He began to like eating vegetables.
C. He learned to cook by himself.
D. He liked eating the foods he hadn’t liked before.
3. Based on the last paragraph, the author thinks that_________.
A. the help and support of others are useless to sick people
B. people can’t be mentally unprepared to decide things
C. people should do everything by themselves
D. hard-working people get what they want
4.The author thinks the main thing in life is _______.
A. optimism B. calmness
C. passion D. honesty
5.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Life Depends on Exercise
B. Perseverance Is the Key to Success
C. How I Bear Cancer
D. How to Overcome Cancer
That Christmas Eve, the streets of Boston were crowded with people dressed in wool and flannel(法兰绒). “Jingle Bells” was playing in stores. Everyone, it seemed, was _____ by someone else smiling or ____ I was alone.
The eldest of a Puerto Rican family of 11 children growing up in one of New York’s _____ apartment. I’d spent much of my life _____ solitude(独处). Now, _____, at 27, was enduring the last break-up of a seven-year relationship. Every part of me wanted to be _____, but not at Christmas.
My family had returned to Puerto Rico, and my _____ were involved in their own lives. Dusk was falling, and the unavoidable return to my ____apartment brought tears to my eyes.
I stopped at the local market, feeling even more______ when I saw all the people there filling their baskets with gifts. I _____ my family, my friends and the noisy parties at home, filled with laughter and dancing. I wanted to cry for having wanted to be alone and for having _____ it.
In front of the church down the street, a manger(马槽) had been set up, with Mary, Joseph, and the barn animals in ______ the arrival of baby Jesus. As I walked home, I _____ that the story of Joseph and Mary wandering from door to door seeking shelter was much like my own. Leaving Puerto Rico was still a _____in my soul and I was struggling with whom I had become in my 15 years in the United States. I’d mourned my losses, _____for the first time, I recognized what I’d gained. I was _____, and educated and healthy. My life was still before me, full of ______.Sometimes the best ____ is the one you give yourself. That Christmas, I gave myself credit ____ I’d accomplished so far and permission to go ______ unafraid. It was the best gift I’ve ever received, the one that I most treasure.
1.A. chosen B. botheredC. allowedD. accompanied
2.A. working B. laughing C. studying D. thinking
3.A. crowdedB. expensiveC. cheerfulD. large
4.A. looking forB. looking atC. looking throughD. looking over
5.A. finally B. easilyC. quickly D. likely
6.A. patientB. strictC. aloneD. private
7.A. friendsB. dreamsC. guestsD. customers
8.A. beautifulB. interesting C. cleanD. empty
9.A. pleasedB. upsetC. surprisedD. curious
10.A. hatedB. lovedC. missedD. forgot
11.A. achievedB. refusedC. preferredD. offered
12.A. searchB. expectationC. positionD. control
13.A. imaginedB. sighedC. realizedD. expressed
14.A. effort B. beliefC. wound D. wish
15.A. butB. so C. becauseD. though
16.A. excitedB. independentC. ordinary D. worthless
17.A. desiresB. possibilitiesC. idealsD. advantages
18.A. giftB. lessonC. purposeD. memory
19.A. on B. in C. atD. for
20.A. upward B. downC. aroundD. forward
The girl is a student at Oxford University, _____ for a degree in English literature.
A. studied B. studying
C. to have studied D. to be studying
I got the story from Tom and _____ people who had worked with him.
A. every other B. many others
C. some other D. other than
It was with great joy _____ the father received the news that his long-lost son had been found.
A. because B. while
C. since D. that
______that Marie was able to set up new branches elsewhere.
A. So successful her business was
B. So successful was her business
C. So her business was successful
D. So was her successful business
