阅读选练五.doc

阅读选练五(新高一) 一.完型 Learning to Accept I learned how to accept life as it is from my father.?______1______?, he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was?______2______?and ill. My father was?______3______ a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness_______4_____?all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is ______5_______?. One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started?______6______about life, and I told them about one of my______7______?. I said that we must very often give things up?______8______we grow—our youth, our beauty, our friends—but it always_______9_____that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father?______10______up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up?_____11_______?! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say. _____12_______, he answered his own question: “I?_____13_______the love of my family.” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness. I was also_______14_____?by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated(恼怒的) at someone, I?remember his words and become?______16______?. If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be?______17______?to give up my small irritations. In this?_____18_______, I learned the power of acceptance from my father. Sometimes I?______19______what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one?______20______?. 1. A. Afterwards B. Therefore C. However D. Meanwhile 2. A. tired B. weak C. poor D. slow 3. A. already B. still C. only D. once 4. A. took B. threw C. sent D. put 5. A. impossible B. di