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　　It is not always easy to discover yourself. From a young age. I had a strong sense of who I would become, but an (1)       changed everything.
　　To me, skating was more important than anything else in the world. Nothing else filled my heart with so much joy. I spent 24 hours a week (2)       my skills. I had no social life or interests other than skating. But I was (3)       with first place medals in nearly every competition.
　　Unfortunately, during one competition. I fell and was badly injured. The doctor told me that I couldn't skate anymore. The pain in my back was hard to bear and even (4)       daily tasks became difficult.

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　　My passion (激情) had been (1)      . I lost heart and had no idea what I would become. After eight months of suffering, something had to change. Instead of sitting around and (2)       my days. I began to work with local community service projects. By volunteering as a swimming teacher and summer reading assistant or kids. I got an idea of who I wanted to become. After a few months. I found a new interest. Little by little, I stepped out of the shadow and (3)       my confidence.
　　Sometimes, challenges in life will get in our way. We can choose to stay behind or try to get past these challenges. My suffering was a challenge that (4)      to stop me from reaching success. Today, I'm a very confident and optimistic (乐观的) person.

37．　　Many children like reading detective stories. They enjoy going behind the scenes with the main character:a detective. Here are three of the most popular.
　　Best Detective Stories for Teenagers
　　Nate the Great (Book 1 of 26)
　　Nate the Great has a new case!His friend Annie has lost an expensive picture. She wants Nate to help her find it. Nate must get all the facts, ask the right questions and narrow the list of suspects. Join the great detective as he solves the mystery, will you?
　　Paperback:＄5. 39 >> Buy it on Amazon
　　Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (Book 1 of 28)
　　Encyclopedia Brown is a ten-year-old boy genius who puts his talents to work fighting crime in the small town of Idaville. He solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids. His dad is the chief of the Idvaille Police Department. Every night, Encyclopedia helps him solve his most difficult cases. There are ten cases in each book. Not only does Encyclopedia have a chance to solve them, but the reader is also given all the clues.
　　Paperback: ＄4. 99 >> Buy it on Amazon
　　The 100-Year-Old Secret:The Sherlock Files (Book 1 of 4)
　　Xena and Xander Holmes have just found they're the great — grandchildren of Sherlock Holmes. They are given Sherlock's unsolved casebook. The two set out to solve the cases. Can two 21st-century kids succeed where Sherlock could not?
　　Paperback:＄7. 79 >> Buy it on Amazon

38．　　Books have magical power. They contain knowledge and knowledge makes our human become wiser and stronger. Between their pages, readers can be transported to anywhere imaginable and become just about anyone …or anytime. (1)       , many children all over the world don't have access to books.
　　For several years now, Maria Keller, a teenager from Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been trying to change that fact.
　　When she was 8 years old, Maria already loved reading. She also noticed that some of her classmates didn't read as much as she did. When she asked her mother why that was, her mother said that they might not be able to (2)       books. Maria had never thought of this. She couldn't believe that some children didn't have bedtime stories read to them, and she became (3)      to change this.
　　With her mother's help. Maria created a non﹣profit organization which is dedicated (致力于)to collecting and distributing books to children (4)      .
　　During the early stages of Read Indeed, Maria set the goal of collecting and distributing 1 million books by the time she was 18.
　　It didn't take long to reach that goal. Up till now, she has collected over 2. 4 million books and has shipped them to many states and countries around the world.
　　She said, "I cannot live without books. As I continue my mission (使命). I have learned that the number of kids who have no books is in the hundreds of millions. So I just can't (5)      . even after reaching my original goal of 1 million books. "
　　She recently set a new goal:to distribute donations to kids in need in every state in the US, and every country in the world. She keeps records of her (6)       on a large map at the warehouse (仓库) where her books are stored and sorted.

39．　　Do you remember when you wrote a letter last time? If the answer is "not recently", don't worry. You are not a(1)      .
　　A survey of 1, 000 teenagers around the world done by a French company BIC found that a third of today's teenagers had never written a letter, half had not written a thank-you letter, and a quarter had not even written a birthday or Christmas card. In fact, 58 percent of teenagers c(2)       that handwriting was "too slow" and 17 percent believed it was "outdated".
　　These results have caused w(3)      that the art of handwriting may one day die out.
　　 "Hand-writing" is one of the most c(4)      art forms we have and should be given the same importance as other art form such as painting, or photography, " Jonathan Skyrme, general manager at BIC UK & Ireland, told the Daily Mail.
　　The New York Times once explained that a handwritten letter sends a message in a way that o(5)      messages can never do. "When you get an email, you can never be sure that you are the o(6)       person to have received it — or even that it was written by the person who sent it," said the newspaper.
　　As US author Simon Garfield once wrote, "Emails are a poke (蜻蜓点水), but letters are a loving touch." So imagine the powerful message you send when you actually write out your thought by hand, buy a stamp, take it to a mailbox, and wait days for your special s(7)       to receive it.

40．　　Do you think you're a lucky person?Let's see what Professor Richard Wise-man, a famous psychologist (心理学家), has discovered about luck:
　　Ten years ago, I set out a research on luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others always experience ill luck.
　　Many people volunteered for my research. Over the years I interviewed them, watched their lives and had them take part in my experiment.
　　I carried out a simple experiment to discover why there were differences in their ability to find opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper and asked them to look through it an tell me how many photographs were in side.
　　I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying. "Tell the researcher you have seen this and win ＄50."
　　This message took up half of the page and was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but unlucky people tended to (倾向于) miss it and lucky people tended to spot it.
　　Unlucky people are just more nervous than lucky people. They are busy looking only for what they need and this stops them from noticing the unexpected. As a result, they miss out on opportunities.
　　Lucky people tend to be more relaxed and open. They can see everything that is in front of them, rather than just what they are looking for.
　　My research shows that lucky people live by several principles (原则). Here are some of these principles:
1. Opportunities are always given to those who are prepared.
2. Be open to new experiences and break your normal thought patterns (模式).
3. Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well.
4. See yourself being lucky before an important meeting or phone call.

41．Write at least 60 words on the topic "_____ help(s) me grow" (以"_______ 助我成长"为题, 写一篇不少 于60 个词的短文, 标点符号不占格).
生活中的很多事或人能帮助我们成长. 理想、品格、老师、亲人、朋友……都为我们的成长助力, 请选取一个方面, 结合发生在你自己身上的经历, 来写一写他(它)是如何助力你成长的.
(注意:短文中不得出现任何人名、校名及其他相关信息, 否则不予评分)
The following is for reference only(以下表达仅供参考)
encourage sb. to do …
do sb. a favour
with the help of …
make great progress
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