College was the best of times and the worst of times for me. I met the best friends of my life, had
21 experiences, but I also folded under more
22 than I ever had to deal with before.
23 bad grades, I ended up being asked to take a semester off at the end of the first semester of my senior year.
So I went back home to
24 with my father and stepmother. To their credit, they understood me and were very cool about my coming back. I felt their
25 from the moment I walked in the door. They
26 to let me feel like a failure.
One morning not long after I had come home, my father woke me up saying that my stepmother
27 on the kitchen floor. I went downstairs trying to perform CPR on her
28 it was too late. She was already dead of a massive heart attack.
I’ll never
29 the look on my father’s face when he was given the official news of her passing. I knew at that moment that I had to be
30 because he needed someone to lean on. It was as if our roles had
31 and I was being the protective parent while he took the time to
32 .
I guess the lesson I took from it is that even in our
33 moments we can still be of help to someone who is
34 something much harder. It’s so easy to close ourselves off to the things going on around us, and
35 feel that we are the only ones
36 . Helping someone else could actually help us
37 ourselves.
Needlessly to say I went back to college the next semester, and I studied harder and got my
38 . My father and I developed a bond that was
39 closer than it already was, and I have a much better ability to keep
40 times in perspective.（适当地）
| 小题1: | | A．hopeful | B．careful | C．difficult | D．enjoyable |
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| 小题2: | | A．chance | B．stress | C．doubt | D．pleasure |
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| 小题3: | | A．Because of | B．In spite of | C．Instead of | D．For fear of |
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| 小题4: | | A．talk | B．share | C．live | D．help |
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| 小题5: | | A．despair | B．panic | C．support | D．hope |
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| 小题6: | | A．expected | B．attempted | C．pretended | D．refused |
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| 小题7: | | A．fell over | B．passed out | C．turned over | D．broke out |
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| 小题9: | | A．forget | B．repeat | C．imagine | D．recognize |
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| 小题10: | | A．selfless | B．wealthy | C．healthy | D．strong |
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| 小题11: | | A．shaken | B．exchanged | C．begun | D．strengthened |
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| 小题12: | | A．react | B．relieve | C．change | D．improve |
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| 小题13: | | A．special | B．last | C．darkest | D．busiest |
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| 小题14: | | A．going through | B．searching for | C．looking through | D．preparing for |
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| 小题15: | | A．probably | B．eagerly | C．strangely | D．naturally |
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| 小题16: | | A．falling | B．hurting | C．working | D．thinking |
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| 小题17: | | A．teach | B．enjoy | C．fool | D．heal |
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| 小题18: | | A．degree | B．lesson | C．job | D．prize |
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| 小题19: | | A．enough | B．ever | C．even | D．still |
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| 小题20: | | A．bad | B．free | C．poor | D．modern |
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