“Yes, that’s fine.” But what if it isn’t? What if the minute you said those words, you started to feel
This happens to a lot of us. Maybe we were
But saying no does not make you a(n)
If you find yourself agreeing almost against your
Sometimes people advise you not to give any reasons for a(n)
Remember that you are probably
| A．guilty | B．painful | C．comfortable | D．confident |
| A．picked up | B．held up | C．linked up | D．brought up |
| A．asks | B．hears | C．speaks | D．thinks |
| A．cheat | B．forget | C．reject | D．replace |
| A．social | B．parental | C．informal | D．professional |
| A．rude | B．stupid | C．shy | D．impatient |
| A．In case of | B．In honor of | C．In terms of | D．In search of |
| A．happen | B．agree | C．learn | D．hesitate |
| A．will | B．duty | C．nature | D．plan |
| A．expect | B．argue | C．declare | D．consider |
| A．confusing | B．frightening | C．upsetting | D．relieving |
| A．mistakes | B．wishes | C．fears | D．diseases |
| A．risk | B．point | C．skill | D．purpose |
| A．promise | B．opinion | C．failure | D．refusal |
| A．However | B．Finally | C．Otherwise | D．Therefore |
| A．so that | B．if | C．unless | D．whether |
| A．exercise | B．research | C．trick | D．favor |
| A．nowhere | B．somewhere | C．anywhere | D．everywhere |
| A．relaxed | B．inspired | C．needed | D．satisfied |
| A．doubting | B．preparing | C．overloading | D．recovering |
Andrew Kirby, is 16 years old, He is now a student of Boiling Springs Senior Middle School. Since the first day he went to school, Andrew Kirby normally ate alone at school and it made his mother, Kay Kirby, heartbreak. She was always worried about his being left alone when eating.
But on Aug. 20, the first day when he went to junior school, as soon as he got in the car after school, he said to his mom, “Mom, I didn’t cat alone! Some student council members asked me and 3 others eating alone to cone sit with them, and said we could eat with them again tomorrow too!” Kay Kirby was so excited that her eyes were wet. After arriving home, she shared a photo of Andrew and gave thanks to the student council at his high school for asking him to join their lunch table.
Kay Kirby is a mom of four, She and her husband Tyler Kirby adopted Andrew when they were fostering him as a baby. Andrew was born with a drug addiction and has a kind of rare disease, which is a genetic condition that causes tumors (肿瘤) to form in the brain, and nerves. He has had major back and neck operations.
Andrew is a shy kid, and he had often sat by himself at lunch since he went to school. He’s more of a loner. In his mother’s eyes, he is a good kid, but he’s just different. It doesn’t make him strange or bad. He’s very loyal and everybody that meets him, loves him.
In previous school years, Kay would text Andrew to ask if he was having lunch with any-one at school. When he said ‘No’, the mother would have to turn her head a lot of time and try not to cry. Andrew would send comforting message: “Mom, it doesn’t matter. I am OK”. However, the mother would still worry about him.
But when Andrew got into his mom’s car after the first day of his junior year, he was rather excited.
Kay shared the story on Facebook where it gained more than 14, 000 likes and even more comments.
At first, Michael Surrell didn’t see the black smoke or flames shooting from the windows of his neighbors’ home. He and his wife had just parked around the corner from their own house in Allentown, Pennsylvania, when they got a call from one of his daughters, “The house next door is on fire!” He went to investigate. That’s when he saw two women and a girl hysterical (歇斯底里的) on their porch.
“The baby’s in there!” one of the women cried. Though the fire department had been called, Surrell, then 64, instinctively ran inside. The baby was 8-year-old Tiara Roberts, the woman’s granddaughter and a playmate of Surrell’s three youngest kids, then 8, 10, and 12. The other two on the porch were Tiara’s aunt and cousin.
Entering the burning house was like “running into a bucket of black paint” Surrell says. The thick smoke caused him to stumble blindly around, burned his eyes, and made it impossible to breathe. The conditions would have been hazardous for anyone, but for Surrell, who has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (慢性阻塞性肺疾病), they were life-threatening. He was the last person who should have run into a burning building—he has lung disease. But that didn’t stop him.
After a few minutes in the smoke filled house, he retreated outside to catch his breath. “Where is Tiara?” he asked desperately. “The second floor.” her aunt shouted back.
Surrell knew he couldn’t hold his breath for long. So he uttered a little prayer, “Well, Lord, this is it. You gotta help me, because I’m not coming out without that little girl.” Taking a deep breath, he went in a second time.
The darkness was overwhelming. Yet because the house had a similar layout to his, he found the stairs and made it to the second floor. He turned to the right and was met by intense heat. He was already out of breath.
“Baby girl, where are you?” His throat and lungs burned as if he’d breathed in fire instead of the smoke and soot (烟灰) in the air. All he could hear was the crackling and popping of burning wood. Then a weak but distinct voice emerged. Still unable to see, Surrell fell to his knees on the hot wood floor. He crawled toward the sound, feeling around for any sign of the girl. An ominous thought crossed his mind: I’m probably gonna die up here.
Finally he touched something.
A voice told him, “You have to breathe for her.”
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
| A．entering; looked | B．enter; looked | C．entering; looking | D．enter; looking |
Sincerely,
Li Hua
The Graduation Party for the Exchange Students
From Tiger to Goldfish
Josh is my 10-year- old grandson. I love him so much that I find it very difficult to refuse any one of his requirements. Besides, he is good at persuading me. So, it’s really a big challenge to take him out sometimes. But now, I consider myself to be quite courageous. Perhaps that’s why I recently decided to take him to a fair.
At the first ringtoss booth, Josh was absolutely certain that he could win that five foot-tall tiger because he told me he was a real expert at tossing rings. They had such kind of game played at school and he practiced a lot at school. He told me that he was often the winner of the ringtoss. The guy in the booth said, “You could buy one ring for 50 cents, or three for $ 1. But if you wanted a real bargain, you could get 20 rings for $ 5.”
Of course, Josh said, “We should go for the bargain.” I thought about arguing with him by saying that an expert ringtosser like him would need only one ring. But I knew this was not an argument I was going to win. So I pulled out the $ 5 bill and placed it on the counter. Twenty rings later, he still didn’t have the tiger. “But now I see how to do this," Josh said. “Let’s buy another 20 rings, and I’ll get it this time.”
Well, he never did get the tiger, but there were plenty more places where we could spend our money. Josh was equally unsuccessful at the next several booths. My wallet was getting thinner. And then we spotted the booth that Josh positively could not miss: the goldfish booth, All you had to do was toss a ping- pong ball into just one of the many fishbowls, and you could go home with your very own goldfish.
As we got down to the last ball, I was secretly relieved that the goldfish would be staying at the fair.
The look of pure happiness on Josh’s face made the entire fair experience one to treasure.
Only Love Lasts Forever
Yesterday after telling my brother, Rhys, and me to stop playing like wild animals in the house for what she said was the thousandth time, Mom went to take a bath. That’s when it happened. We were playing around, bopping each other with pillows, when one slipped from my brother’s grasp and smashed the glass dome (圆顶) on the coffee table, shattering it into a zillion pieces!
With her supersonic hearing, my mom heard the big crash and then the sound of glass hitting the floor. Wasting no time, she came flying into the room to find out what had happened. I was sure my brother and I were dead meat and she was going to start yelling at us, but instead she just knelt by the pieces and began to cry.
This made Rhys and me feel pretty awful----We went over and put our arms around her, and she explained to us why she was so upset. Under the shattered glass dome was a white porcelain (瓷的) rose. Dad had given it to her on their first wedding anniversary. He had said that if he ever forgot to bring flowers for an anniversary in the future, Mom was to look at that one. It was like their love—it would last a lifetime.
Now it lay chipped on the floor, one petal (花瓣) gone. We began crying too and offered to glue it for her. She said that wouldn’t really fix it. Now that it had been broken, the value of the “limited edition” had lessened. We got our piggy banks out to pay for it, but Mom replied that to her the rose represented Dad’s love and could never truly be restored.
As Mom slowly began to pick up the mess, we tried everything we could think of to cheer her up, but even our best funny faces didn’t work. Mom just looked away. The tears kept coming down her cheeks.
After everything was picked up and Mom was on her way back to the bath, I stopped her.
Mom hugged me very tightly then and finally smiled.
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