Mickey was a nice, cheerful, optimistic boy. No one could remember ever having seen him
36;it seemed he didn’t
37 whatever people said to him. Even his teachers admired his good
38. It was so unusual that a story was going around that Mickey’s
39 must be due to some special secret. They asked Mickey so much that, one afternoon, he
40 his favorite teacher, Mr. Anthony, to tea. When they had finished, Mickey
41 Mr. Anthony around the house. When Mickey opened his bedroom door, the teacher
42 . The huge wall was a unique collage (拼貼畫) of thousands of colors and shapes! It was the loveliest
43 Mr. Anthony had ever seen.
“Some people at school think I
44 think badly of anyone,” Mickey started to explain, “and that
45 at all bothers me, but that’s not true at all. I’m just like anyone else. I used to get angrier than all the other kids.
46 years ago, with the help of my parents, I started a small collage. With every little piece I stuck on I added some bad thought or act.”
It was
47. The teacher looked closely at the wall. In each one of the small
48 he could read, “fool”, “silly”, “pain”, “bore”, and a thousand other
49 things.
“This is how I started
50 all my bad times into an opportunity to
51 to my collage. Now I like the collage so much that, each time someone makes me angry, I couldn’t be
52 . They’ve given me a new piece for my work of
53 .”
That day, the teacher was impressed by Mickey’s secret to having an optimistic character. Without telling anyone, on that very day, Mr. Anthony
54 his own collage. He would often
55 it to his students. Years later, each house contained its own beautiful works of art, made by those cheerful and optimistic children.
| 小題1: | | A．a(chǎn)ngry | B．lonely | C．excited | D．calm |
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| 小題2: | | A．understand | B．a(chǎn)ccept | C．forget | D．mind |
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| 小題3: | | A．character | B．decision | C．method | D．dream |
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| 小題4: | | A．cleverness | B．goodness | C．a(chǎn)nxiety | D．worry |
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| 小題5: | | A．introduced | B．helped | C．invited | D．followed |
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| 小題6: | | A．promised | B．drove | C．moved | D．showed |
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| 小題7: | | A．relaxed | B．a(chǎn)ppeared | C．froze | D．escaped |
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| 小題8: | | A．photo | B．decoration | C．door | D．color |
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| 小題9: | | A．never | B．often | C．ever | D．a(chǎn)lmost |
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| 小題10: | | A．something | B．nothing | C．everything | D．a(chǎn)nything |
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| 小題11: | | A．As | B．But | C．Because | D．Though |
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| 小題12: | | A．reasonable | B．crazy | C．true | D．difficult |
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| 小題13: | | A．books | B．walls | C．boxes | D．pieces |
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| 小題14: | | A．negative | B．strange | C．clever | D．small |
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| 小題15: | | A．turning | B．throwing | C．cutting | D．packing |
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| 小題16: | | A．belong | B．get | C．a(chǎn)dd | D．lead |
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| 小題17: | | A．quicker | B．happier | C．more careful | D．more friendly |
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| 小題18: | | A．literature | B．movie | C．science | D．a(chǎn)rt |
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| 小題19: | | A．left | B．began | C．missed | D．bought |
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| 小題20: | | A．limit | B．lend | C．send | D．recommend |
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