I was a single parent of four small children, working at a low paid job. Money was always tight, but we had a (1) over our heads, food on the table, clothes on our backs, and if not a lot, always (2) . Not knowing we were poor, my kids just thought I was (3) . I’ve always been glad about that.
It was Christmas time, and although there wasn’t (4) for a lot of gifts, we planned to celebrate with a family party. But the big (5) for the kids was the fun of Christmas (6) .
They planned weeks ahead of time, asking (7) what they wanted for Christmas. Fortunately, I had saved MYM120 for (8) to share by all five of us.
The big (9) arrived. I gave each kid a twenty-dollar bill and (10) them to look for gifts of about four dollars each. Then everyone scattered. We had two hours to shop; then we would (11) back at the "Santa’s Workshop"
Driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits, (12) my younger daughter, Ginger, who was unusually (13) She had only one small, flat bag with a few candies—fiftycent candies I was so angry, but I didn’t say anything (14) we got home. I called her into my bedroom and closed the door, (15) to be angry again. This is what she told me.
"I was looking (16) thinking of what to buy, and I (17) to read the little cards on the ’Giving Trees’. One was for a little girl, four years old, and all she (18) for Christmas was a doll. So I took the card off the tree and (19) the doll for her. We have so much and she doesn’t have anything. "
I never felt so (20) as I did that day.
二、完形填空

A:angry B:rich C:patient D:bitter

We used to think that the left brain controlled your thinking and that the right brain controlled your heart. But neuroscientists have learned that it’s a lot more complicated.
In 2007, an influential paper in the journal Behavioral and Brain Functions found that while most of us process emotions through the right hemisphere of the brain, about 35 % of people—especially victims of trauma—process their hurt and anger through their left brain, where logic and language sit. That may be because they had worked so hard to explain, logically, why they were suffering. But pushing emotions through the left brain taxed it: these people performed significantly worse on memory tests.
Now a new paper—out in the September issue of The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease—further complicates the picture with a surprising finding: whether you are right-handed, left-handed or ambidextrous (which the authors call, rather delightfully, " inconsistently handed") seems to be an important clue in understanding how you use your brain to process emotions.
It’s been known for some time that lefties and the ambidextrous are more prone to negative emotions. The new study shows that they also have a greater imbalance in activity between the left and right brains when they process emotions. Of course, you can’t be sure which comes first: maybe angry people are more out of balance, or maybe the inability to find equilibrium makes you angry. As for the left-handed: maybe they’re more angry because the world is designed for the right-handed majority.
The study also used an interesting method to find that angry people are, literally, hot-headed: the authors of the paper—led by Ruth Propper, a psychology professor at Merrimack College in Massachusetts- measured brain-hemisphere activation with a relatively old method called tympanic membrane temperature, which is essentially how hot it is in your inner ear. If you get angry a lot, your head tends to be warmer.
One problem is that the study was small —just 55 undergraduates participated (they were paid $20 each for having to endure ear-temperature tests and psychological questioning). Also, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, while peer-reviewed, is one of less-respected psychology journals. Still, I like the study just because it explains that when you get hot under the collar, you are actually hot under the collar.
According to the text, which one the author holds is true

A:Angry people are more out of balance. B:Righties are less prone to negative emotions. C:The inability to find equilibrium makes people angry. D:When people get angry, their heads tend to be bigger.

The author suggests that if you feel angry at something offensive, you should ______.

A:take it as normal reaction B:cover up your feelings C:try to control your anger D:not worry about what has made you angry

Direction: There are ____20____ blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was ____21____ and he became upset when the child tried to ____22____ a box to put under the Christmas tree. ____23____ , the little girl brought the ____24____ to her father the next morning and said, "This is the gift for you, Daddy. " The man was ____25____ by his earlier overreaction, but he ____26____ angry again when he found out the box was ____27____ He yelled at her, adding, " Don’t you know,when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be ____28____ inside" The little girl ____29____ at him with tears in ____30____ eyes and cried," Oh, Daddy, it’s not empty at all. I blew ____31____ into the box. They’ar all for you, Daddy. " The father was ____32____ He put his arms around his little girl, and he ____33____ for her forgiveness. Only a short time ____34____ , an accident took the life of the child. It is also told that ever since then her father kept that ____35____ box by his bed for many years and, ____36____ he was discouraged, he would take out a (n) ____37____ kiss and remember the ____38____ of the child who had put it there. In a very real sense, each one of us, as human beings, has been given a gold ____39____ filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family members, friends, and God. There is ____40____ no possession, anyone could hold, more precious than this.

A:delighted B:angry C:ashamed D:happy

Direction: There are ____20____ blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was ____21____ and he became upset when the child tried to ____22____ a box to put under the Christmas tree. ____23____ , the little girl brought the ____24____ to her father the next morning and said, "This is the gift for you, Daddy. " The man was ____25____ by his earlier overreaction, but he ____26____ angry again when he found out the box was ____27____ He yelled at her, adding, " Don’t you know,when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be ____28____ inside" The little girl ____29____ at him with tears in ____30____ eyes and cried," Oh, Daddy, it’s not empty at all. I blew ____31____ into the box. They’ar all for you, Daddy. " The father was ____32____ He put his arms around his little girl, and he ____33____ for her forgiveness. Only a short time ____34____ , an accident took the life of the child. It is also told that ever since then her father kept that ____35____ box by his bed for many years and, ____36____ he was discouraged, he would take out a (n) ____37____ kiss and remember the ____38____ of the child who had put it there. In a very real sense, each one of us, as human beings, has been given a gold ____39____ filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family members, friends, and God. There is ____40____ no possession, anyone could hold, more precious than this.

A:delighted B:angry C:ashamed D:happy

Direction: There are ____20____ blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was ____21____ and he became upset when the child tried to ____22____ a box to put under the Christmas tree. ____23____ , the little girl brought the ____24____ to her father the next morning and said, "This is the gift for you, Daddy. " The man was ____25____ by his earlier overreaction, but he ____26____ angry again when he found out the box was ____27____ He yelled at her, adding, " Don’t you know,when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be ____28____ inside" The little girl ____29____ at him with tears in ____30____ eyes and cried," Oh, Daddy, it’s not empty at all. I blew ____31____ into the box. They’ar all for you, Daddy. " The father was ____32____ He put his arms around his little girl, and he ____33____ for her forgiveness. Only a short time ____34____ , an accident took the life of the child. It is also told that ever since then her father kept that ____35____ box by his bed for many years and, ____36____ he was discouraged, he would take out a (n) ____37____ kiss and remember the ____38____ of the child who had put it there. In a very real sense, each one of us, as human beings, has been given a gold ____39____ filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family members, friends, and God. There is ____40____ no possession, anyone could hold, more precious than this.

A:delighted B:angry C:ashamed D:happy