Children all around the world are familiar with fairy tales ,such as “The Little
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Children all around the world are familiar with fairy tales ,such as “The Little Mermaid”, “The Princess and the Pea” and “The Emperor’s new clothes”. The colourful characters from the stories made us laugh and throughout our childhood.
The stories are the of Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson. He was born into a poor family in Odense, Denmark, on April 2, 1805. His early life was not . His father was a shoemaker and his mother a washerwoman. He very little education. As a child he was very emotional(情绪化) and was at for being feminine(女性化) and tall.
In 1816 his father died and Anderson was forced to go out to work, first in a tailor’s shop and then at a tobacco factory. At the age of 14 Anderson moved to Copenhagen to start a as a singer and actor. He struggled for three years he had to leave the theater when his voice broke in 1822.
, Anderson went to a grammar school. Having done well, he was allowed to go to Copenhagen University in 1828. He began to publish his fairy tales in1835.They in small volumes（量）until his death.
Anderson lived a hard life, but he tried to make people laugh in all his stories. He wrote because he didn’t want children to have a sad childhood as he did. The works Anderson famous all over the world , but he was still a lonely man. He never married and his friends were the people who paid for his work. Anderson passed away on August 4, 1875 at the age of 70. His home in Odense is now a museum and thousands of people visit it every year.
| 小题1: | | A．tell | B．speak | C．smile | D．cry |
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| 小题2: | | A．discoveries | B．inventions | C．creations | D．feelings |
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| 小题3: | | A．hard | B．easy | C．excited | D．bad |
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| 小题4: | | A．bought | B．found | C．received | D．lost |
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| 小题5: | | A．spoken | B．talked | C．smiled | D．laughed |
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| 小题6: | | A．career | B．hobby | C．performance | D．trip |
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| 小题7: | | A．since | B．after | C．until | D．still |
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| 小题8: | | A．Even so | B．Afterwards | C．Since then | D．Otherwise |
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| 小题9: | | A．turned out | B．sold out | C．came out | D．went out |
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| 小题10: | | A．found | B．brought | C．made | D．let |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:D
小题6:A
小题7:C
小题8:B
小题9:C
小题10:C |
解析
试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了童话故事作家安徒生的出生、家庭情况、人生经历和生活状况。
小题1:考查动词及语境的理解。根据阅读常识，安徒生的童话故事人物总是让孩子们又哭又笑。故选D，cry：哭泣。
小题2:考查名词及语境的理解。根据语境，这里指的是这些故事是由丹麦作家安徒生创作的。故选C，creations：创作。
小题3:考查形容词及语境的理解。联系上下文可知，他出生于一个穷人家庭，父亲是个鞋匠，母亲是个洗洁工，可见生活不容易。故选B。
小题4:考查动词及语境的理解。bought：买 ，found：发现， received：接受， lost：丢失。根据语境，这里指的是他几乎没有接受教育。故选C。
小题5:考查动词及语境的理解。根据下文for being feminine(女性化) and tall的描述可知，由于他的女性化和个子高而被嘲笑。故选D，laugh at：嘲笑。
小题6:考查名词及语境的理解。career：职业，hobby：爱好， performance：表演， trip：旅游。联系上下文，由于他早年丧父，14岁就开始了他作为歌手和演员的职业生涯。故选A。
小题7:考查连词及语境的理解。根据语境，这里指的是“他拼搏了3年直到他的嗓子坏了不得不离开剧院。故选C。
小题8:考查连词及语境的理解。Even so：即使这样， Afterwards ：之后， Since then：从那时起，Otherwise：否则、然而。根据语境，这里指的是“之后安徒生去了一所语法学校”，故选B。
小题9:考查动词短语及语境的理解。turned out ：证明为， sold out：买完， came out：出版、发行，went out：出去。根据语境，这里指的是小量发行。故选C。
小题10:考查动词及语境的理解。 根据语境，这里指的是安徒生的作品让他世界闻名，故选C，“make +宾语+形容词”表示“使……保持某种状态”。 |
举一反三
I grew up in a small town. My father raised chickens and ran a construction company. I was only 10 years old when my dad gave me the responsibility of feeding the chickens and cleaning up the stable. He believed it was important for me to have those jobs to learn responsibility. Then, when I was 22, I found a job in Natchbill at a country music club called the Natchbill Palace, I washed dishes and cooked from 4:00 p.m to 9:00 p.m and then went on stage and sang until 2:00 in the morning. It wasn’t long before I became known as a singing cook. I had been rejected(拒绝) so many times by record companies that it was hard not to be discouraged. One night, a woman executive(董事) from a company named Warner Brothers Records came to hear me sing. When the show was over, we sat down and talked and after she left, I said to myself it was one more rejection. A few weeks later, my manager received a phone call—Waner Brothers wanted to sign me to a record deal. Soon after, I release(发行) my first record in June 1986. It sold over 2 million copies. My best efforts had gone into every job I’ve ever held. It was the sense of responsibility that made me feel like a man. Knowing that I had done my best filled me with pride. I still feel that way today, even though I have become a well-known singer.
小题1:Why was the writer once known as the singing cook?| A．Because he was a cook at a country –music club. | | B．Because he sang for guests while he worked as a cook. | | C．Because he often sang while cooking. | | D．Because he liked singing better than cooking. |
小题2:Who first recognized his talents and helped make his career successful?| A．Warner Brothers | B．His manager | | C．His father | D．A business woman |
小题3:What made the writer proud of himself?| A．His ability to live independently. | | B．His sense of responsibility in whatever he did. | | C．His courage in the face of rejections. | | D．His hard work in his early days. |
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My name is Sam. I joined a club called “passing help” last month . Now let me tell you why I joined it.
One evening this May, on my way home my old car broken down(出故障). It was 25 miles from my home. I wanted to get a ride(搭便车), but there was no car . It was also hard to take a taxi. I decided to take a bus home .I went to a bus stop nearby.
After a while, a bus came, but it did not go to my town .the bus driver was a young woman. She was kind and she told me which bus I should take. I waited there for about thirty minutes, but no bus came. At last a car came to me and a woman came out of the car .She was just the bus driver.
“When I reached the bus station, I got to that the bus to your town couldn"t come, so I returned here. I just can"t leave you here,” she said, “ Get in my car and I will take you back to your home .”
“It is a long way.” I said.
“Come on, sir, ” she said ,“ Let’s go.”
On the way she told me a story. A few days ago, there wasn"t gas(汽油）in her car . An old man drove her up to a gas station and then back to her car.
When we got to my home, I wanted to give her some money to thank her, but she didn"t accept it. “I only want to help others and do something nice for somebody. Pass it along. ” She said.
小题1:What happened to Sam one evening this May?| A．He lost his way. | | B．His car broken down. | | C．He was hurt in an accident. | | D．He couldn"t reach the gas station. |
小题2:From the passage , we know that the young woman was _________.| A．a club boss. | B．a taxi driver | | C．a bus driver. | D．a gas station worker. |
小题3: The young woman wanted Sam to _________.| A．give her some money. | B．get on her bus. | | C．take her to her house. | D．help others just as she did. |
小题4:The best title of the passage is ________ .| A．A kind old man. | B．Getting a ride. | | C．Passing help. | D．A broken car. |
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Lemuel Gulliver enjoyed travelling. He was a ship’s doctor. On May 4, 1699, they were going to the Far East in the ship called the Antelope. One night, his ship crashed against the rocks, Gulliver was washed to the land. He found himself a prisoner（囚犯）of tiny people. They were less than 6 inches tall and lived in the island country of Lilliput. After he promised to behave well, they set him free and he could visit the city. The people of Blefuscu wanted to attack Lilliput. The king of Lilliput turned to Gulliver. He stopped Blefuscu attacking Lilliput by pulling its ships to Lilliput. The king was happy. He wanted to make the people of Blefuscu his slaves(奴隶), so he asked Gulliver to bring some more ships. Gulliver did not like this plan. The king got angry. Some bad men in Lilliput wanted to kill Gulliver. Gulliver had to run away from Lilliput to Blefuscu.
He was welcomed by the king of Blefuscu. They soon became good friends. Three days after that , he asked king to send him twenty of his largest ships and two thousand men to pull the boat to the shore. In this boat, he set sail for England.
On the third day he saw a big ship to the southeast. He called out to the ship. The ship was moving very slowly. They raised a flag .His heart was full of happiness when he saw the English flag .
小题1: Why did Gulliver come to Lilliput?| A．Because he enjoyed traveling in Lilliput. | | B．Because his ship brought him to Lilliput. | | C．Because the tiny people brought him to Lilliput. | | D．Because he was washed to Lilliput after a ship crash. |
小题2:How did Gulliver help the Lilliputians?| A．By fighting with them. | | B．By stealing Blefuscuians’ ships. | | C．By killing Blefuscuians. | | D．By keeping Blefuscuians prisoners. |
小题3:“He wanted to make the people of Blefuscu his slaves”. Who is he in this sentence?| A．The king of Lilliput. | B．The king of Blefuscu. | | C．Gulliver. | D．One of the bad men. |
小题4: Which of the following is NOT the reason why Gulliver ran away from Lilliput?| A．Gulliver killed some bad Lilliputians. | | B．Gulliver felt he was in danger. | | C．Gulliver didn’t agree to the king’s plan. | | D．The king of Lilliput was unhappy about him. |
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When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering(递送) milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer (自动换币器) fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a coin out of his changer.
Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese and other milk products. If we needed to change our order, my mother would write on a note-“Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery”-and put it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.
All of this was about more than convenience(方便). There was a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.
There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, as a result, making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.
Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊). Every time my son’s friends ask what it is, I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.
小题1: Why did Mr. Basille give the boy a coin out of his changer?| A．To show his magical power. | | B．To satisfy the boy’s curiosity（好奇心） | | C．To pay for the milk. | | D．To win the family’s trust (信任). |
小题2:What can be inferred (推断) from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy’s house？ | A．He wanted to have tea there. | | B．He was a powerful person. | | C．He was treated as a family member. | | D．He was fully trusted by the family. |
小题3:Why is there no home milk delivery today?| A．Nobody wants to be a milkman now. | | B．The government has stopped it by law. | | C．It has been driven out of the market. | | D．Its service is becoming worse and worse. |
小题4:Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?| A．He missed the good old days. | | B．He wanted to tell interesting stories. | | C．He missed it for his milk bottles. | | D．He used it to beautify the back porch. |
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I shook hands with my father in the truck, and for a long time he looked straight ahead and didn’t say a word. But I knew he was going to say a little to me. “I can’t tell ,” he finally said. “I never went to college, andnone of your went to college. I can’t say don’t do this and do that, everything is different. And I don’t know is going to come up. I can’t help much with money, , but I think things will work out. ”
He gave me a new check-book(支票簿). “If you are short of money, a small check. But when you write one, send me a letter and let me how much. There are some things we can always sell.” In four years all the checks I wrote were less than a thousand dollars. My part-time jobs such as to the blind student and sitting with the teachers’ kids filled in the financial gaps.
“You know what you want to be, and they’ll tell you what to take,” my father went on. “When you get a job, be sure it’s honest, and work hard.”
Then my dad reached down beside his seat and brought the old, Bible that he had read so often. He didn’t say read this every morning. He just said, “This can help you if you will let it.”
Did it help? I got through college being a burden on the family. I have been able to make money since.
| 小题1: | | A．everything | B．anything | C．nothing | D．something |
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| 小题2: | | A．sister | B．mother | C．brothers | D．father |
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| 小题4: | | A．that | B．what | C．which | D．whom |
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| 小题5: | | A．too | B．also | C．either | D．as well |
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| 小题6: | | A．write | B．borrow | C．buy | D．sell |
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| 小题7: | | A．to know | B．knew | C．knowing | D．know |
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| 小题8: | | A．read | B．reading | C．to read | D．writing |
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| 小题9: | | A．beautiful | B．fine | C．broken | D．complete |
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| 小题10: | | A．without | B．by | C．during | D．with |
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