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2014 is the year of horse in China. Do you know anything about the horse?
The horse is strong and runs very fast. He’s a useful and hard-working animal. The horse learns to know his master（主人） soon. He loves his master, even after his master has died. Here’s a story about such a horse. In a war, the master was killed, and fell from his horse. When his body was found some days later, the horse was still standing beside it. During that long time, the horse didn’t leave the body of his master, without food or water, in the coldest weather, driving away the birds that might eat it. Wasn’t be a great animal?
小题1:The horse is a _________ animal to man.

A．strange

B．lazy

C．useful

D．small

小题2:When the body of the master was found, the horse was _________.

A．going away	B．eating grass beside it
C．drinking water	D．still standing beside it

小题3:The story probably took place in _________.

A．spring

B．summer

C．autumn

D．winter

答案

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:D

解析

试题分析：短文大意：这篇短文主要讲述了马是一种有用的动物，并讲述了一个关于马的故事。在战场上，主人战死，但是他的马多日过去了，不吃不喝的站在主人的身边，守护主人的身体不被伤害。
小题1:细节理解题。根据The horse is strong and runs very fast. He’s a useful and hard-working animal. 描述，可知马对于人类来说是一种有用的动物。故选C。
小题2:细节理解题。根据When his body was found some days later, the horse was still standing beside it.描述，可知这匹马仍旧站在他的主人的身边。故选D。
小题3:推理判断题。根据in the coldest weather, 描述，可知这个故事可能发生在冬季。故选D。

举一反三

A big umbrella
Nancy: I saw seven girls in one umbrella and none of them got wet.
Taney: Oh, that must be a very big umbrella.
Nancy: No, it wasn’t raining. [
A good boy
Little Robert asked his mother for two cents（美分）.
“What did you do with the money I gave you yesterday?”
“I gave it to a poor old woman,” he answered.
“You’re a good boy,” said the mother proudly. “Here are two more cents. But why are you so interested in the old woman?”
“She is the one who sells candies. ”
Break a mirror
“What are you so happy about, Jason?” Lisa asked the 98-year-old man.
“I broke a mirror,” he replied.
“But that means seven years of bad luck. ”
“I know,” he said happily. “Isn’t it wonderful? I can live for another seven years. ”
小题1:The three passages above are all ________.

A．jokes

B．notices

C．news

D．letters

小题2:The seven girls didn’t get wet because _________.

A．the umbrella was big enough	B．the seven girls wore raincoats
C．it wasn’t raining at all	D．it wasn’t a heavy rain

小题3:Little Robert spent the money ________.

A．helping the poor old lady	B．buying candies for himself
C．helping his mom	D．buying gifts for his mom

小题4:_________ broke the mirror.

A．Nancy

B．Lisa

C．Robert

D．Jason

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Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May,1907. Her mother, Maria Carson, had been a schoolteacher. She also loved nature. She showed Rachel the beauty of nature. She also taught Rachel a deep love for books. As a quiet child, Rachel liked to read and write stories. At a very early age, she decided she wanted to be a writer some day. Her story first appeared in a children’s magazine when she was ten years old.
Her first books, Under the Sea Wind came out in 1941. In 1948, Miss Carson began working on another book, The Sea Around Us. She always remembered carefully when she wrote. She collected information from more than one thousand places to write The Sea Around Us. When the book came out in 1951, it won the National Book Award. It was No. 1 on the best-seller list for more than a year. The Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous.
Rachel Carson’s most famous book, Silent Spring came out in 1962. In this book, she pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides(***虫剂) like DDT would cause the number of birds to decline because it would kill them as well. Finally, in November 1969, the United Sates government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years.
Rachel Carson has been regarded as a great environmentalist(环保主义者) and writer. She will be remembered by the world.
小题1:Rachel Carson had a deep love for nature and books because of ____________.

A．her father

B．her mother

C．her schoolteacher

D．her brother

小题2:Rachel decided that she wanted to be a writer when ___________.

A．she was very young	B．she was in college
C．she became a teacher	D．she became famous

小题3:The Chinese meaning of the word ”decline” in this passage is probably “___________”.

A．增加

B．减少

C．维持

D．翻番

小题4:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Rachel Carson was a careful and serious writer.

B．The Sea Around Us won the National Book Award.

C．In Silent Spring Rachel said some pesticides were bad for the environment.

D．The use of DDT was stopped as soon as the book Silent Spring came out.

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阅读下文并回答问题。
Some time ago, an old businessman had a large store in Boston. He wanted a boy to work for him, and he put an advertisement in the newspaper. The next morning, many boys came to the old man’s office, asking for the job.
There was a post（柱子）by his desk, and there was a nail（钉子）in it. He took a walking-stick and said, “Everyone has three chances. If anyone can hit the nail on the head with this stick more than once, I will give him the job. ”
The boy thought it was very easy. They all tried, but nobody could make it. So the old man said, “I’m sorry I can’t take any of you. ” And they left.
He kept the advertisement in the papers, and the next morning many more boys came, and among them he saw a thin boy who had been there the day before. The boy hit the nail successfully for three times. The old man felt surprised and asked how he did that.
“Yes,” said the boy, “I failed yesterday, but I thought that if I kept on trying a while, I could do it. So I went home and practiced hitting a nail with a stick till I could do it, and I got up very early this morning, and tried again. ”
The old man said, “You are the boy for me,” and gave him the job. Whatever the boy had to do, he tried to do his best. It was not very long before he became the best clerk in the store.
小题1:Did the thin boy get the job at last?
___________________________________________________________
小题2:What did the old man have in Boston?
___________________________________________________________
小题3:Where did the boy practice hitting a nail?
___________________________________________________________

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Tina was a seventeen-year-old girl who always wore a bright smile. She suffered from a disease and had to use a walker most of the time. People didn’t speak to her very often. Maybe it was because she looked        and people didn’t know how to come near to her. Tina usually broke the ice with people she met with a big “     .”
In one class, I gave the students an assignment (作业) to      a poem. I only made the assignment worth a very small part of their total grade since I knew most of my        would not do it anyway. In the class, one by one each student      to correctly recite (背诵) the poem. Finally, angry and half joking, I said that the next student who       recite the poem had to do three push-up (俯卧撑). To my     , Tina was next. She used her walker to move to the front of the class.      she recited, she made a mistake. Before I could say a word, she       her walker and started doing push-ups. I wanted to say, “Tina, I was just     !”But she     , continued the poem and she finished the rest perfectly.
When she finished, a student asked, “Tina, why did you do that? It’s not an important assignment!”
“Because I want to be like you guys! To be     .” Tina said.
Silence fell on the whole room when another student cried out, “Tina, we’re not normal! We are teenagers! We get in      all the time.”
“I know,” Tina said as a big       spread across her face. The rest of the students laughed, too.
Tina got only a few       that day, but she got the love and respect of her classmates. To her, that was worth a lot more than a grade.

小题1:

A．different

B．strong

C．short

D．young

小题2:

A．Sorry

B．Bye

C．Hi

D．Thanks

小题3:

A．recite

B．copy

C．find

D．read

小题4:

A．friends

B．students

C．teachers

D．parents

小题5:

A．started

B．planned

C．continued

D．failed

小题6:

A．shouldn’t

B．couldn’t

C．needn’t

D．wouldn’t

小题7:

A．surprise

B．surprised

C．excitement

D．excited

小题8:

A．Because

B．When

C．After

D．Though

小题9:

A．raised

B．changed

C．threw

D．checked

小题10:

A．wondering

B．tricking

C．doubting

D．joking

小题11:

A．woke up

B．gave up

C．stood up

D．made up

小题12:

A．happy

B．social

C．normal

D．fair

小题13:

A．attention

B．thought

C．touch

D．trouble

小题14:

A．cry

B．smile

C．sadness

D．joy

小题15:

A．points

B．chances

C．mistakes

D．successes

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It all started when I was two years old. My parents didn’t get along and got divorced（离婚）. I hated that I couldn’t see both of my parents at the same time. So my dad, my younger sister, Alexis, and I went to live with my grandma and grandpa. We lived with them for almost six years. My mom, on the other hand, lived with her boyfriend Michael in Oklahoma. My life was really good, but when my mom called to check up on my sister and me, I cried myself to sleep. I missed her so much.
My life at my grandparents’ house was really nice. And then on Friday, May 15, 2002, my grandpa died of cancer. I cried for seven days straight. My dad and his new wife were worried about me. So they took me to the doctor and they said that I was too sad and that I needed to find something happy and healthy to do during the day.
I prayed（祈祷）to God every night saying that I was sorry for getting myself sick and I also prayed for him to take care of my grandpa. I still pray to this day. And now, at my mom’s house, she has a four-year-old girl, my half-sister, Macie. And I have my step-dad（继父）, Michael, there for me. I really like Michael. He’s really good to me and my sister. And at my dad’s house, I have two little brothers, Blake and Justin. Blake is two years old and Justin is ten months old. I have so much to be thankful for, but I’m still looking for more.
小题1: The writer had to leave her ________ when she was two years old.

A．father	B．mother
C．grandpa	D．grandma

小题2:The writer cried to sleep while her mother called to check up her because she _______.

A．hated her father	B．hated her father’s new wife
C．missed her mother	D．missed her grandpa

小题3:We can infer(推断) from the story that ______

A．The writer’s father and her mother didn’t treat her very well.

B．The writer wished that she could live both her father and mother.

C．The writer’s mother didn’t love her so she left her when she was only two.

D．The writer was taken to the hospital after her grandpa died. And the doctor asked her to take much medicine.

小题4:Half-sister means the writer and Macie have the same _________.

A．father but different mothers

B．mother but different fathers

C．grandmother but different grandfathers

D．grandfather but different grandmothers

小题5:How many brothers and sisters does the writer have?

A．2	B．3
C．4	D．5

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