—______ all the group members are here.
She said she was passing through Paris and would like to me.
People who have seen Trisha Seifried Woodall with her cats say that she has a magic touch. Most people don't know anyone who can order a cat to jump on a table, sit for two minutes, and then jump to the floor and walk backward.
Ms. Seifried Woodall has taught her cats to do all these tricks -- and many more. At her training center. Got Pet-ential, cats learn tricks for TV and magazine ads. Some of her cats have appeared on bags of cat food.
When Ms. Seifried Woodall gets a cat, she first learns what that cat likes and doesn't like. "Some cats like to stay close to the ground, so I'll teach them how to stand behind me, and walk with me," she says. "Other cats, like high places, so they'll learn how to jump on my bent knee and then safely leap to my shoulder."
Ms. Seifried Woodall grew up in a family with many pets, and she was first paid to work with animals when she was 18. At a summer job at an amusement park, she learned how to train a few of the animals for performances. She continued to train and learn about animals for 20 years before starting her own animal-training center.
Ms. Seifried Woodall is proud of the skills her cats have learned, but she is also proud that her center's cats are healthy and social. She believes her cats enjoy learning new tricks.
In Ms. Seifried Woodall's experience, no breed (品种) of cat is easier to train than others. All of her cats came from shelters. They have become pets in her home.
Like most animal trainers, Ms. Seifried Woodall uses a reward system. Cats that are successful during training get food or a new toy. A cat that doesn't enjoy eating or playing will probably not be interested in being trained. She never scolds (责骂) them. "Cats need a lot of encouragement when they are performing, she says." I say good job or that s right several times during a single minute."
Tell mommy I love her
John had been on the road visiting customers for more than three weeks. It was coming up on Mother's Day. He said to himself, "I'll 1 Mom some roses."
He went into the small shop and saw a boy 2 to the clerk. "How many roses can I get for six dollars, ma'am?" the boy asked. The clerk was trying to 3 that roses were expensive. 4 the young man would be happy with carnations (康乃馨).
"No. I 5 have roses," he said, "My Mom was sick so much last year and I didn't get to spend much time with her. I want to get something 6. It has to red roses, because that's her favorite."
The clerk 7 John and was just shaking her head. Something inside John was 8 by the boy's voice. He looked at the clerk and 9 mouthed that he would pay for the boy's roses.
The clerk looked at the young man and said, "Okay, I will give you a dozen red roses 10 your six dollars." The young man 11 jumped into the air. He took the flowers and ran from the store.
John 12 his own flowers and had the clerk be 13 that delivery would include a note telling his mother how much he loved her. 14 he drove away from the shop, he saw the young boy walking down the sidewalk. He 15 him cross the street and enter a cemetery (墓地). The young man stopped by a small monument and went on his knees. He 16 laid the roses on the grave and began to sob. John heard the young man speak, "Mommy, oh Mommy, 17 didn't I tell you how much I love you? Jesus, please, find my Mommy. 18 my Mommy I love her."
John 19, tears in his eyes, and walked back to his car. He drove quickly to the florist and told her he would take the flowers 20.
A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.
Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding—undoubtedly first-rate photo journalism—if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck(海难), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.
The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled(雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.
As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott's last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.
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Many years ago，my dad was facing a serious heart condition.He was unable to do a steady job.He fell suddenly ill and had to be admitted to the hospital.
He wanted to do something to keep himself busy, so he decided to volunteer at the local children's hospital.My dad loved kids.It was the perfect job for him.He ended up working with the seriously ill children.He would talk，play, and do arts with them.
One of his kids was a girl with a rare disease that paralyzed(瘫痪)her from the neck down.She couldn't do anything，and she was very depressed.My dad decided to try to help her.He started visiting her in her room，bringing paints，brushes and paper.He stood the paper up，put the paintbrush in his mouth and began to paint.He didn't use his hands at all.All the while he would tell her, “See，you can do anything you set your mind to.''
At the end of the day, she began to paint using her mouth，and she and my dad became friends.Soon after, the little girl was sent home because the doctors felt there was nothing else they could do for her.My dad also left the children's hospital for a little while because he became ill.Some time later after my dad had recovered and returned to work，in came the little girl who had been paralyzed and only this time she was walking.She ran straight over to my dad and hugged him really tight.She gave him a picture she had done using her hands.At the bottom it read：”Thank you for helping me walk.''
My dad would cry every time he told US this story and so would we.He would say sometimes love is more powerful than doctor, and my dad—who died just a few months after the little girl gave the picture—loved every single child in that hospital.
I hear they’ve promoted Tom, but he didn’t mention _____ when we talked on the phone.
A. to promote B. having been promoted
C. having promoted D. to be promoted
We live in a fast-paced and anxiety-filled world that oftentimes seems to shift beneath our feet. Thus we are sometimes affected by fears or anxiety impacting our life. For as long as I could remember I had struggled with anxiety. After I left university, I made friends with a Moroccan woman at work. One day she invited me to 21 her and her family back home. I wanted to, but I would have to travel there 22 and I knew we would be in a very rural area. How would I cope with my 23 ?
Then one day it 24 to me that I had a life to live. I could choose to let anxiety 25 me or I could go to Morocco and 26 something different. I was 23 years old and had never been out of the UK alone. The journey to Morocco 27 something inside me. I managed to cope with my anxiety. The sense of 28 was overwhelming and still to this day when I get afraid of going somewhere alone, I remember how 29 it felt when I arrived in Morocco.
Upon arrival I was so 30 for the generous welcome I received. My friend’s family had arranged a welcome party. The people were so loving toward me. As a moment of 31 felt in a faraway village, this reminded me that I was “good enough”, which helped to 32 my anxiety.
Waking up the next day, in the morning light, I saw the area where we were. I was 33 by how rural it was – and the realization that these people had very few 34 .
In the days afterwards, I traveled around Morocco. We went to Marrakesh and 35 the Atlas mountains. We had the most amazing food – lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.
At the end of my 36 something inside me had changed. I realized I had not felt anxious for nearly two weeks.
Experiencing a different culture far away from home helped me to realize what is important in life, what really 37 , and with that my anxiety 38 . When I returned home I was much more active in 39 my anxiety. Working with people, helping them 40 their anxiety, is how I can share the love I found in Morocco.
21. A. send B. consult C. call D. visit
22. A. alone B. soon C. free D. safe
23. A. work B. curiosity C. homesickness D. worries
24. A. appeared B. hit C. struck D. occurred
25. A. impress B. control C. reach D. persuade
26. A. enjoy B. experience C. take D. experiment
27. A. changed B. moved C. supported D. impressed
28. A. achievement B. fear C. disappointment D. embarrassment
29. A. good B. ashamed C. afraid D. proud
30. A. sorry B. confused C. confident D. thankful
31. A. doubt B. luck C. love D. surprise
32. A. improve B. hold C. protect D. reduce
33. A. inspired B. moved C. pleased D. shocked
34. A. lands B. difficulties C. resources D. friends
35. A. discovered B. explored C. examined D. recognized
36. A. opportunity B. rush C. stay D. life
37. A. rules B. exists C. matters D. hurts
38. A. disappeared B. expanded C. remained D. removed
39. A. expressing B. challenging C. forgetting D. remembering
40. A. drop B. notice C. pass D. overcome
The teacher，as well as his students，_____have a trip to the seaside next vacation.
A. are going to B. is going to C. would go D. are going
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The Value of an Hour
It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey 36 the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in 37 clothes and thin little sandals(凉鞋), staying together at the door on the top step.
“Any old 38 , lady？” asked one of them.
I was 39 . I wanted to say “no” until my eyes were 40 their sandals, which were wet with heavy snow.
“ 41 and I’ll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”
They walked 42 and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the 43 . I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight 44 the freezing cold outside. 45 I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget for Thanksgiving Day.
The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice，“Lady, are you 46 ？”
I looked at my old sofa covers（沙发套）. The girl put her cup back in its saucer(托盘) 47 and said, “Your cups match your saucers.” Her voice was 48 with a need that no amount of food could supply. They left after that， 49 their papers against the wind. They hadn’t said “Thank you.” They didn’t need to. They had 50 me that I had so much for which to be grateful. Plain blue china cups and saucers were 51 worth five pence. But they matched.
I tasted the potatoes and the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a good steady job—these 52 ，too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and 53 the living room. The muddy(沾上泥的) 54 of small sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to 55 how rich I am.
36. A. before B. while C. when D. as
37. A. old B. strange C. new D. smart
38. A. clothes B. papers C. cups D. shoes
39. A. sad B. nervous C. busy D. happy
40. A. fixed on B. came at C. went through D. got into
41. A. Stand back B. Turn around C. Get out D. Come in
42. A. over B. out C. off D. on
43. A. door B. floor C. ground D. wall
44. A. about B. against C. for D. in
45. A. Thus B. But C. Then D. So
46. A. rich B. kind C. helpful D. healthy
47. A. curiously B. hopefully C. carefully D. silently
48. A. hungry B. pleasant C. deep D. cold
49. A. turning B. delivering C. pushing D. holding
50. A. reminded B. promised C. persuaded D. told
51. A. really B. even C. well D. only
52. A. matched B. worked C. mixed D. agreed
53. A. decorated B. equipped C. emptied D. cleaned
54. A. lines B. marks C. signs D. steps
55. A. realize B. doubt C. forget D. prove
There are signs that there is a growing tendency for people to turn away from ________ western medicine to alternative methods of treatment.
A．conventional B．pessimistic C．bureaucratic D．theoretical
Thank you so much! But for your text message, I _____ home without my ID card this morning.
A. would have left B. would leave C. had left D. left
