Peter and Paul had a permission from their parents to camp in a field close to

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Peter and Paul had a permission from their parents to camp in a field close to their farm. But, being adventurous boys, they knew it would be more      to camp in the woods that lay beyond the river. Excitedly, the boys went away with their tent and food.
Carrying their heavy load, the two brothers walked along the riverbank,      noticing the distance or the sun beating down. They were eager to reach their destination before lunchtime. As they entered the cool, shadowy woods, they began to search for a suitable camping spot. Peter wanted to      close to the river at the edge of the woods, but Paul, who was older, insisted that they camp further away.      Peter followed his brother deeper into the woods. “This really is a wonderful setting!” said Paul in excitement. They      the tent, and settled down to eat the sandwiches they had made, then decided to find their way      to the river to catch some fish.
“Are you sure that this is the right way ?” whispered Peter shakily. “I’m sure we passed that hollow tree just a while ago. ” Paul walked         silently. “Look, there it is again. We’re lost, aren’t we?” complained Peter. Paul had to admit that he didn’t know where they were.       , they were a long distance from where they were supposed to be. They were not even sure of where they had set up their camp. They set in         for a few minutes until Peter had a bright idea. “Why don’t we look for clues（线索） the way trackers do in the movies? We weren’t careful about how we walked, so I’m sure we would have left behindsome broken tree branches and leaves. ”
Carefully, the boys followed the marks that they had left, until finally they found their campsite. Hurriedly, they packed their belongings and set off       the direction of the river.
What would their parents think of their adventure?
小题1:

A．surprising

B．exciting

C．annoying

D．frightening

小题2:

A．hardly

B．quickly

C．really

D．properly

小题3:

A．live

B．lie

C．wait

D．stay

小题4:

A．unfriendly

B．unluckily

C．unwillingly

D．uninterestingly

小题5:

A．put off

B．put on

C．put down

D．put up

小题6:

A．forward

B．near

C．back

D．further

小题7:

A．alone

B．about

C．in

D．on

小题8:

A．Afterall

B．Atlast

C．Aboveall

D．Atfirst

小题9:

A．enjoyment

B．satisfaction

C．disappointment

D．imagination

小题10:

A．for

B．to

C．at

D．in

答案

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:D
小题6:C
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:C
小题10:D

解析

试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了皮特和保罗兄弟两个一起去树林度假，他们走进了深林深处迷路了，但是最终他们还是找到回家的路。
小题1:考查形容词及语境的理解。A. surprising吃惊的； B. exciting令人兴奋的； C. annoying生气的D. frightening害怕的；由上下文可知但是他们认为在湖边的树林里去野营更令人兴奋。故选B
小题2:考查副词及语境的理解。A. hardly几乎不； B. quickly   快速地； C. really 真地； D. properly适当的；结合上下文可知这两个男孩沿着河岸走去，几乎没有注意到距离，太阳渐渐落山了。结合语境故选A
小题3:考查动词及语境的理解。A. live 住在； B. lie位于； C. wait 等待； D. stay呆在；根据句意皮特想呆在深林边缘靠近河边，结合语境故选D
小题4:考查副词及语境的理解。A. unfriendly不友好地； B. unluckily不幸运地； C. unwillingly不乐意地； D. uninterestingly不感兴趣地；结合文章可知，不情愿的弟弟跟着哥哥走进了深林。结合语境故选C.
小题5:考查动词词组及语境的理解。A. put off推迟； B. put on穿上； C. put down放下； D. put up张贴。句意：他们搭起帐篷然后吃他们做的三明治。结合语境故选D
小题6:考查副词及语境的理解。A. forward  期待； B. near在….附近；   C. back返回； D. further更远；结合下文可知，他们决定找到返回的路去捉一些鱼。结合语境可知选C
小题7:考查副词及语境的理解。A. alone单独； B. about 关于； C. in   在； D. on继续；walk on 继续走；句意：保罗沉默地继续走。结合语境故选D
小题8:考查短语及语境的理解。After all毕竟； B. At last 最后； C. Above all以上； D. At firs首先；。毕竟，他们走了离他们本应该去的地方很远了。故选A
小题9:考查动词及语境的理解。A. enjoyment高兴； B. satisfaction满意； C. disappointment 失望；D. imagination想象。他们失望的坐了很久，知道皮特想到了一个好主意，故选C.
小题10:考查介词及语境的理解。Set off in the direction of the river向河边的方向出发。赶紧，他们收拾他们的财物，并设置了24个方向的河流，故选D

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I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise. At the end I said, “Son, remember: Be slow and steady, and that will win the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”
Sonny opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy, Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”
I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t wish that the hare would fall asleep!”
“He must wish that already,” Sonny said, “Otherwise how could he be so foolish as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”
“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted. “He won the race by pushing on steadily.”
Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare didn’t happen to fall asleep, the tortoise would never win the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never win the race. That’s for sure.”
I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They’re just hopeless.

小题1:The writer argued with his son because ______________.

A．he liked tortoises while his son liked hares

B．they disagreed about whether the tortoise was foolish

C．he tried to teach his son a lesson but the son had totally different opinion

D．he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t.

小题2:Sonny believed that the tortoise ______________.

A．won the race by his own hard working

B．took a risk by agreeing to run a race

C．was not given a fair chance in the race

D．in fact did win the race luckily

小题3:Billy, Tony and Sandy must be_______________.

A．boys who were unknown to Sonny’s father

B．boys who Sonny has run races with before

C．boys who Sonny has never raced with before

D．boys who Sonny did not hope to race with again

小题4:According to the passage, who do you think learnt a lesson? ______________.

A．The tortoise	B．Sonny
C．The hare	D．Sonny’s father

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Mark Twain is someone Americans are taught to love. Older relatives, English teachers and the media always praise (表扬) him. But when you actually take the time to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, you find that his work is more wonderful than you could ever imagine.
The novel describes a young boy named Tom Sawyer growing up in a small town along the Mississippi River. He explores the countryside on a riverboat with his friends, falls in love with girls, starts secret clubs and searches for treasure. Twain’s idea of childhood is magical – a time of imagination, wonder and, of course, adventure.
More importantly, through the eyes of Tom Sawyer, Twain cleverly makes fun of US culture. For example, Tom hates going to church, and Twain uses scenes of Tom there to mock religion and its old traditions.
Twain’s writing is full of these kinds of critical (批判的) points about culture and politics. That’s why he is so loved in the US – he wasn’t afraid to state his opinions, and he did so clearly.
He also believed strongly in women’s right to vote in elections and gave a famous speech on the subject, called “Votes for Women”, in 1901.
“Tom was a great hero once more – the pet of the old, the envy of the young,” Twain writes in Tom Sawyer. But he could just as well be describing himself.

小题1:According to the writer, after reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, you are likely to think__________.

A．it’s not worth all the praise

B．it’s as wonderful as you imagined

C．it’s better to read it with teachers

D．it’s even better than you imagined

小题2:What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．A brief description of the novel.

B．Where Twain’s idea of childhood comes from.

C．How naughty and adventurous Tom Sawyer is.

D．What makes Tom Sawyer’s adventures so wonderful.

小题3:What does the underlined word “mock” mean?

A．make changes to	B．make fun of
C．give reasons for	D．give examples of

小题4:Why is Twain so loved in the US according to the article?

A．He supported women’s right to vote.

B．He wrote bad things about US wars abroad.

C．He criticized American culture and society clearly and cleverly.

D．He showed readers a magical childhood that everyone would love.

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In 1816, there were no schools for the deaf in America. Several people started a few schools, but in the end all of the schools closed. There were too many problems. The first people to succeed were Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. They opened their school in 1817, and the school did not close. At that time it was the only school for deaf children in America!
Clerc and Gallaudet did not know what would happen after they opened their school. They worked very hard. The school grew, and many more students went to this school. These new students were from all over the country. People thought the school would be big enough for all of the deaf children in America. The school is still open today, but the name was changed. Today it is called the American School for the Deaf. It is in West Hartford, Connecticut.
After Clerc and Gallaudet established their school, many other schools for the deaf were opened as well. Before Gallaudet’s death in 1851, 15 other schools for deaf children were built! Many of the teachers at those 15 schools used Gallaudet’s teaching methods. Many had even studied with Gallaudet and were deaf themselves!
小题1:Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet were the first people who .

A．wanted to build a school for the deaf in the USA

B．succeeded in making the deaf speak as ordinary people

C．succeeded in opening their school for the deaf in America

D．succeeded in opening their school for the deaf all over the world

小题2:The underlined word “establish” in the passage means in Chinese.

A．出版	B．发明
C．建立	D．离开

小题3:Which of the following is TRUE about Clerc and Gallaudet’s school?
A. Its students were from all over the USA.
B. Its students were from all over the world.
C. All deaf children in America were their students.
D. Its students were only from Connecticut, the USA
小题4:What is the school known as now?

A．The passage doesn’t tell us.

B．The American School for the Deaf.

C．The Connecticut School for the Deaf.

D．The West Hartford School for the Deaf.

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Two children stood outside the door with old coats. “Any old papers, Lady?” asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say no, but I saw that their shoes were broken and wet. “Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot tea.” They came in, saying nothing. Their shoes left snow on the floor.
I gave them tea and bread to protect them against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started my housework again.
The silence in the front room surprised me. I looked in.
The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked me in a low voice, “Lady, are you rich?”
Am I rich? Oh, no! I looked at my old things in my room.
The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟) carefully. “Your cups match your saucers.”
They left then, holding their papers against the wind. They hadn’t said thank you. They didn’t need to. They had done more than that. The blue cups and saucers were simple. But they said that they matched. The potatoes and meat before me, a roof over our hands, my husband with a job—these things matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The prints of their small shoes were still wet on my floor. I let them be. I wanted them there to remind me how rich I was.
小题1:The writer let the two children in _________.

A．to offer them some warm clothes	B．to serve them tea and food
C．to sell them some old papers	D．to show them how rich she was.

小题2:We can learn from the passage that_______.

A．the writer was in fact not very rich

B．the children took away many old papers

C．the writer’s husband was out of work

D．the two children were looking for a job

小题3: It can be inferred(推断) from the passage that _______.

A．it was snowing outside when the story happened

B．the two children thanked the writer and then left

C．the two children were not polite to the writer

D．the writer had a set of new furniture in her house

小题4:The underlined sentence “I let them be” means “_________”.

A．I dislike them	B．I didn’t want to see them
C．I cleaned them	D．I left them there

小题5: What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Any Old Papers?	B．Matching Cups and Saucers
C．Are You Rich?	D．Two Poor Children

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Life is full of surprises and you never know how things will turn out. Sir John Gurdon is a good example of this. As a boy, he was told he was hopeless at science and finished bottom of his class. Now, aged 79，the very same Gurdon shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Japanese stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka.
Like so many scientists, Gurdon shows us where the power of curiosity and perseverance can lead.
When he was 15 in 1948，Gurdon ranked last out of the 250 boys at his high school in biology and every other science subject. Gurdon’s high school science teacher even said that his dream of becoming a scientist was “quite ridiculous”.
In spite of his teacher’s criticisms, Gurdon followed his curiosity and kept working hard. He went to the lab early and left later than anyone else. He experienced thousands of failures.
“My own belief is that we will, in the end，understand everything about how cells actually work，”Gurdon said.
In 1962, Gurdon took a cell from an adult frog and moved its genetic information into an egg cell. The egg cell then grew into a clone of the adult frog. This technique later helped to create Dolly the sheep in 1996，the first cloned mammal in the world.
In 2006，Gurdon’s work was developed by Yamanaka to show that a sample of a person’s skin can be used to create stem cells. Using this technique, doctors can repair a patient’s heart after a heart attack.
“Luck favors the prepared mind，”Gurdon told the Nobel Prize Organization. “Ninety percent of the time things don’t work, but when they do, you have to seize the chance. ”

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
小题1:Who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine?

A．Sir John Gurdon

B．Shinya Yamanaka.

C．Sir John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka.

D．Gurdon’s science teacher.

小题2:What does the underlined word “ridiculous” mean?

A．无知的	B．无畏的
C．荒废的	D．荒谬的

小题3:According to the passage, which statement is TRUE?

A．As a boy, he was told he was hopeful.

B．He ranked first at his high school in biology.

C．It’s impossible for the doctors to repair a patient’s heart after a heart attack.

D．In spite of his teacher’s criticisms, he kept working hard.

小题4:What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Ninety percent of the time things don’t work.

B．Luck favors the prepared mind.

C．Life is full of pleasure.

D．How to know cells actually work.

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