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预测卷四教师用 一、语篇语法填空： A、I used to believe in the American Dream, which meant a job, a mortgage (按揭), credit cards, success. I wanted it and worked toward it like everyone else, all of us separately chasing the same thing.（跟其他所有人一样我想实现美国梦并且为此努力工作，我们所有人各自奋斗，目标相同。） One year, through a series of unhappy events, it all fell apart. （梦想破碎了）I found myself homeless and alone. I had my truck and $56. I searched the countryside for some place I could rent for the cheapest (cheap) possible amount.（穷困潦倒，我只好到乡村去找我只能以尽可能便宜的价格租下住所） I came upon a shabby house in West Virginia.（我偶遇到了一座破旧的可以租赁的房子，）It was abandoned, full of broken glass and rubbish. I found the owner ,rented it. The locals knew nothing about me, but slowly, they started teaching me the art of being a neighbor（他们开始教我与邻居们相处的艺术）. They dropped off落下；送下车blankets, candles, and tools, and began sticking (stick) around to chat.（开始在此逗留与我聊天sticking around逗留） They started to teach me a belief in a different American Dream他们开始教我信仰一个不同的美国梦—not the one of individual achievement but of neighborliness.而是友善、睦邻友好的梦想） What I had believed (believe) in, all those things I thought were necessary for a civilized life,（我原来认为这些东西是文明生活所必需的） were nonexistent (exist) in this place.（而这些东西在这个地方是不存在的） Up on the mountain,（在这座山上） my most valuable possessions were my appointments with my neighbors.（我最珍贵的财产是我和邻居们的关系） Four years later, I moved back into town. I saw many people were having a really (real) hard time,（我看到很多人正过着相当艰难的生活） losing (lose) their jobs and homes.（失去了工作和家） I managed to rent a big enough house to take in a han