话题1 人际交际

Passage 1It was really hard that day. Everyone that came into my view was asking me for help. I felt awful 1. ________ I was getting ready to give birth to a lovely baby in a week. After a long day at work, I just wanted to go home and hit the bed. My husband had 2. ________ equally tiresome day. We both wanted to drink a cup of tea, so I made tea 3. ________ for both of us, headed straight into the bedroom with a book in my hand. My husband was asking instructions for washing the 4. ________ as the laundry bag was full. He washed the clothes and wrung(拧) it and put it for drying, too. Meanwhile, I dozed off on the 5. ________ with a book in my hand.At around 9:30 pm, he came inside the room and 6. ________ kissed my forehead. I was just vexed(恼怒) at the thought that he might be 7. ________ and I had to prepare dinner. I was sleepy and couldn’t 8. ________ my eyes fully. He had turned off the lights. I didn’t know when it was. 9. ________ slowly lifted me up and said in my ears, “Please don’t sleep without eating. I have made maggi（一种方便面）.” He doesn’t know how to 10. ________ much. He had made whatever he could manage without disturbing me.That moment, I felt happy and loved! With such a man beside me, I was a lucky dog.Passage 2A man came home from work late, tired and irritated（恼怒的）, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.“Daddy, how much do 1. ________ make an hour?”“If you must know, I make ＄20 an hour.”“Oh,” the little boy replied, 2. ________ his head down. Looking up, he said, “D addy, may I borrow ＄10?”The father was furious（暴怒的）, “If the only reason you asked that is you can borrow some money to buy 3. ________ silly toy or some other useless things, then you go back to your 4. ________ and go to bed. I don’t know why you are be ing so selfish. I work hard every day for such childish behavior.” The little boy quietly 5. ________ to his room and shut the door. After an hour or so, the man had calmed 6. ________, and started to think，“Maybe there was something he really needed to b uy with that ＄10 and he really didn’t ask for money very often.” The man went to the door of the little boy’s room and opened the door. Then he 7. ________ his son ＄10. The little boy sat straight up, smiling. He slowly counted his money before 8. ________ at his father.“Now I have enough 9. ________ to buy an hour of your time. Please come home 10. ________ tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.”Passage 3“Why isn’t Kurt helping?” Chris thought. “It’s his party. Why am I doing all the work when he’s out with his friends?”The phone 1. ________ and Mom ran to answer it.“Chris!” Dad shouted. “I need a hand 2. ________ this tent.”“Coming!” Chris ran out and saw Kurt. Mom came out, “We need to set up 3. ________ gift table. Chris, could you get me the table?”“After he helps me with this tent,” Dad said.“I’m going to take a shower,” Kurt said.Chris 4. ________ loudly, “What? I’m doing all the work and you’re going to take a shower? That’s 5. ________. This is your party. People are going to give you 6. ________. What do I get? Nothing. I did everything, 7. but you hung out with your friends.”“You thought I was hanging out with 8. ________ friends?”“Weren’t you?”“No. I was mopping（用拖把拖）the floor in the supermarket. I got a 9. ________ to help pay for school fees.”“Oh, hurry up! There is 10. ________ an hour before the party starts. You should take a shower and relax. Happy birthday!”Passage 4Peter wondered why he didn’t have friends. The reason was that he was always 1. ________, but never giving.One day, Peter told Bill, “I’d like to hold a party on Saturday. I’d like you to come and bring Martha, too.” “Thanks, Peter. We would be 2. ________ to come.” “You c an bring your violin. You and Martha sing 3. ________ together. I’m sure everyone will want you to sing for us.” That was how Peter 4. ________ to plan his party. Next he asked another friend, Betty, to bring a cake. “You make 5. ________ most delicious ca ke in the world, Betty. And I’d like to eat 6. ________ cake rather than have one from the bakery.”Peter invited a few other 7. ________ to his party. He didn’t forget to ask something 8. ________ each one of them. He even asked Jim and Mary Jackson to let him have the party at their house. They 9. ________.The party was a big success. However, 10. ________ the guests were leaving, they said “Thank you” to Bill and Martha for the music, Betty for the cake, and the Jacksons for the use of the house. To Pet er, they just said, “Thanks for your invitation.”Passage 5One day, my grandpa went fishing and let me come with him. He handed me the rod (鱼竿), held my arms and 1. ________ me how to throw my line into the water. The sun was very warm. We sat and talked.“I remember when I could sit here and watch the fish 2. ________ in the water,” he said. “Sometimes, they’d jump out and land beside 3. ________. I didn’t even need a fishing rod then.”“We have to be patient,” he continued. “The fish may come 4. ________ they may not. It doesn’t matter. We’re warmer 5. ________ the sunshine than them in the water. It’s a beautiful day. If it rained, we couldn’t be here. We’re 6. ________ to have the warmth of the sun.”I watched our bobbers (浮子). No fish pulled them under the water that day. It didn’t matter. I was with grandpa. I felt I had grown up. Just being with him 7. ________special.In the short time we were together, he taught me many 8. ________ — how to fish, the value of humor, the value of a good friend, respect my elders and 9. ________ importance of working hard and loving harder.He was well liked. He had worked 10. ________ all his life for what little he had, but he could still find time to laugh. I want to be like him when I grow up.Passage 6I found it hard to communicate with my mother. Relations 1. ________ us became difficult.One day, I ran away from home and stayed away for many hours. When I 2. ________ back home at night, I saw all the pain, anger and disappointment on my mother’s 3. ________. We agreed to have breakfast together the next morning.We decided to go to 4. ________ restaurant. On our way to the restaurant I noticed my mother had two notebooks. I asked her what they were for. She explained to me that sometimes it was 5. ________ to write down our feelings rather than talk about them. We would write down our feelings in the form of a letter. It could be as long or short as we wanted.Our first topic was “Why I’m so angry?” I wrote a ha lf page, and my mom filled up nearly three pages. I noticed tears run down her face as she 6. ________. I never realized anyone could hide so much anger. 7. ________ we finished writing, we exchanged our notebooks. As soon as I started reading my mother’s words, I began to cry and so did she. When we finished 8. ________, we discussed our feelings. Our talk helped me realize so many things I had never thought of before, not only about my mother but 9. ________ about other people.We know that no matter how 10. ________ feel about each other, our notebooks are the safe places to express our feelings. We have come to an agreement that at the end of each letter we write, “I love you.”详解详析Passage 1【主旨大意】本文是一篇记叙文。