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On last Christmas Day, our parents’ home was full of joys of a close family relationship but this year things are . Our father had gone on November 26, and this was our Christmas without him. Mother was doing her best to be good, but I could tell this was especially for her. I’m not sure I should give her my planned Christmas gift.
A few months earlier I had painted two pictures of my parents. I’d planned to give them as gifts.
While painting one day, I was surprised by the doorbell ringing. I opened the . My father came. I showed the paintings. Finally, with tears running down his face, he said, “I don’t believe it. Look, how beautiful your mother is. Will you let me decorate them with frames(边框)?” I offered to send them to the frame shop the next day.
Several had passed after my dad died. It seemed all was taken away from my mother and me. I finally remembered to call about the paintings and was glad that my father had got a chance to see the pictures he died. I was surprised when the shopkeeper told me my father had visited the shop, the frames and had them wrapped.
As I my mother’s sad eyes and unsmiling face, I to give her Daddy’s and my gift.
After looking at the paintings and the card, with tear-filled eyes and a wide smile, she said, “ I knew Daddy would be us on Christmas Day!”
I looked at the gift card with my father’s handwriting. “ Mother: Our daughter reminded me why I am so lucky. I’ll be looking at you always. Daddy.”
| 小题1: | | A．usual | B．same | C．different | D．beautiful |
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| 小题2: | | A．first | B．second | C．third | D．last |
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| 小题3: | | A．interesting | B．hard | C．easy | D．proud |
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| 小题5: | | A．Mother’s Day | B．birthday | C．New Year | D．Christmas |
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| 小题6: | | A．door | B．window | C．box | D．present |
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| 小题8: | | A．happily | B．sadly | C．surprisely | D．loudly |
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| 小题9: | | A．minutes | B．hours | C．weeks | D．years |
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| 小题10: | | A．character | B．luck | C．advice | D．happiness |
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| 小题11: | | A．after | B．until | C．before | D．when |
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| 小题12: | | A．heard of | B．paid for | C．shouted at | D．gave up |
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| 小题13: | | A．looked at | B．looked after | C．looked for | D．looked around |
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| 小题14: | | A．happened | B．forgot | C．promised | D．decided |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:D
小题6:A
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:C
小题10:D
小题11:C
小题12:B
小题13:A
小题14:D
小题15:B |
解析
试题解析：本文大意：去年圣诞节，我父母的家充满了亲密家庭关系的欢乐，但今年事情不同了。我们的爸爸在11月26日去世了，这是我们第一个没有他的圣诞节。几个月前我计划画妈妈和爸爸作为送给他们的礼物，爸爸看到后很激动，希望能装在相框里。后来他去相框店付款并包了起来。最初我不确定是否给妈妈这个礼物，但当看到妈妈悲伤的眼睛和面无笑容的面容时，我决定给她爸爸和我的礼物。妈妈看到后眼含着眼泪笑着说，就知道爸爸会和我们在一起的。
小题1:考查形容词。句意：去年圣诞节，我父母的家充满了亲密家庭关系的欢乐，但今年事情不同了。 usual平常的，same一样的，different不同的，beautiful美丽的。根据On last Christmas Day去年圣诞节，but this year 但今年，可知是不同的，故选C
小题2:考查数词。句意：我们的爸爸在11月26日去世了，这是我们第一个没有他的圣诞节。first第一，second第二，third第三，last最后的。爸爸刚去世，可知是第一个没有爸爸的圣诞节，故选A
小题3:考查形容词。句意：妈妈尽最大努力表现的好，但我知道这对她来说尤其不容易。 interesting有趣的，hard努力的，easy 容易的， proud自豪的。爸爸去世了，最难过的是妈妈，可知选B
小题4:考查连词。句意：我不确定是否我应该给她我计划好的圣诞礼物。 why为什么，if是否， because 因为，so所以。I’m not sure后接宾语从句，根据语境不知是妈妈礼物是对还是错，故选B
小题5:考查名词。句意：我已经计划给他们做圣诞礼物。Mother’s Day 母亲节，birthday 生日，New Year新年， Christmas 圣诞节。根据this was our first Christmas without him.这是我们第一个没有他的圣诞节,可知选D
小题6:考查名词。句意：我打开门。 door门， window窗户，box 盒子，present礼物。根据by the doorbell ringin被门铃声，可知选A
小题7:考查代词。句意：我给他看画。选 it它，her她、她的，them 他们，him 他。根据My father came. 我爸爸进来了，可知选D
小题8:考查副词。句意：我开心地答应第二天把画送到相框店去。happily开心地，sadly 难过地，surprisely吃惊地，loudly大声地。爸爸喜欢这个礼物，作者当然是开心，可知选A
小题9:考查名词。句意：爸爸去世后过了几星期。minutes 分钟，hours小时，weeks周，years年。亲人去世的最初几个星期是最难熬的，可知选C
小题10:考查名词。句意：妈妈和我的所有快乐似乎都补带走了。character性格，luck运气，advice
建议，happiness幸福。 爸爸去世了，仿佛我们的快乐也跟他一起走了，可知选D
小题11:考查介词。句意：我终于想起了画，很高兴在他去世前有机会看到画。 after在……之后，until直到，before以前，之前，when当。根据I showed him the paintings.我给他看画,可知在去世前，故选C
.小题12:考查动词短语。句意：我爸爸为相框付了款，把它们包起来了。heard of听说，paid for 为……付款，shouted at 冲……大喊，gave up放弃。根据 Daddy’s and my gift.，可知是我画画爸爸买相框，成为我们共同的礼物，故选B
小题13:考查动词短语。句意：当我看着妈妈悲伤的眼睛和面无笑容的面容时，我决定给她爸爸和我的礼物。 looked at 看，looked after照顾，looked for寻找，looked around环顾四周。根据eyes眼睛，可知选A
小题14:考查动词。句意：见【13】。 happened发生，forgot忘记，promised允许，decided 决定。根据I’m not sure if I should give her my planned Christmas gift.我不确定是否我应该给她我计划好的圣诞礼物,可知决定给妈妈礼物，故选D
小题15:考查介词。句意：我就知道圣诞节爸爸会和我们在一起的。for为，with和……一起，on在, at在。根据this was our first Christmas without him.这是我们第一个没有他的圣诞节, 可知我和爸爸的礼物让妈妈感觉爸爸还和我们在一起，故选B |
举一反三
Monty Robert’s father was a horse trainer. As a child, Monty often went from one farm to another with his father. Sometimes they didn’t have money to pay for food, but Monty still kept hoping to own a horse farm.
When he was in school, his teacher asked him to write a paper about his dream. He wrote a seven-page（页）paper. He wanted to have a horse farm one day. He even drew a picture of a horse farm in the paper.
The next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later, he got his paper back. On the front page was a large red “F” with the words “See me after class”. So the boy did and asked his teacher, “Why did I get an F?” The teacher said, “This dream will not come true for a young boy like you. You need a lot of money to own a horse farm. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for a lot of things. There is no way you could ever do it.” Then the teacher added, “If you write this paper again with a simpler dream, I will give you a good grade.”
After school he thought hard about it. At last, he decided to hand in the same paper, making no changes at all. He said to the teacher, “You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream.”
Many years later, Monty had his own large horse farm. His dream came true.
So don’t let anyone take away your dreams. Follow your dreams, no matter what they are.
小题1:From Paragraph 1, we learn that _________.| A．Monty’s family was poor | | B．Monty’s father didn’t support him | | C．Monty hoped to be a horse trainer | | D．Monty changed his mind all the time |
小题2:What was Monty’s attitude towards his paper?| A．Careless. | B．Serious. | C．Joking. | D．Funny. |
小题3:Monty’s teacher gave him a red “F” because he thought _________.| A．Monty’s handwriting was too bad | | B．Monty copied from another student | | C．Monty’s dream was too hard for him to achieve | | D．Monty was not working hard to realize his dream |
小题4:What does the story want to tell us?| A．Don’t take away others’ dreams. | | B．Follow a realistic dream. | | C．Never give up your dream. | | D．Anyone with a dream will succeed. |
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Felix, a little mouse, looked outside through the window of a farmhouse. Still nobody came. Maybe today, he thought hopefully. It was only a few days before Christmas and he was watching for a miracle（奇迹）.
This farmhouse had been empty too long. It needed a family. Felix’s stomach made a noise. He realized that he had eaten nothing since yesterday. He took a bag from his home, and went next door to Farmer Mike’s.
Farmer Mike’s house had been a great place for Felix until the farmer married a wife who had a cat. Felix felt scared when he thought of it. He looked around cautiously as he moved quietly into the room and was quite nervous when he filled his bag with rice. He was turning to leave when suddenly he felt something unusual. The cat? Without thinking he started to run and luckily escaped the cat’s paws（爪子）.
The next afternoon Felix heard some good news: a new family would move into the farmhouse soon. Felix was happy and hoped that the family would come before Christmas. Before long, a car came up to the house, with sandwiches, cheese and chocolate.
Felix’s Christmas miracle did arrive!
The house came alive the next few days. Felix enjoyed every hour of them. However, the day before Christmas when he was drinking hot chocolate with a big smile, he heard about the gift that the children of the family might get for Christmas. What? A cat? The smile froze（冻结）on his face; his mouth fell wide open. After a long moment, he at last found his voice: “Hey! Whose Christmas miracle is this?”
小题1:What does the underlined word “cautiously” mean in the passage?小题2:What’s the correct order of the following sentences?
a. Felix escaped from the cat.
b. Felix went into Farmer Mike’s room.
c. Felix enjoyed his life after the new family moved in.
d. Felix filled a bag with rice.
e. Felix heard about the gift that the children might get.| A．b-d-a-c-e | B．b-d-c-e-a | C．a-b-c-e-d | D．a-b-c-d-e |
小题3:How did the little mouse feel at the end of the story? | A．Excited. | B．Hopeful. | C．Angry. | D．Upset. |
小题4:Which of the following sayings can express the main idea of the story?| A．Love me, love my dog. | | B．Where there is a will, there is a way. | | C．Life is one trouble after another. | | D．It is better to be poor than to be dishonest. |
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I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be but a failure.”
After five years of jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best thing that could have happened to me. I I wanted to do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove to her that what people said about me was . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my and went to college. My first novel _ while I was at college.
After college I taught during the __ in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of that job to write full time I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself —here was a working--class boy who’d school early, now teaching at the university.
My writing career took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. what does it mean? I just wish all the people that have put me down had : “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”
| 小题1: | | A．bright | B．useless | C．simple | D．hopeful |
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| 小题2: | | A．anything | B．something | C．everything | D．nothing |
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| 小题3: | | A．low | B．poor | C．good | D．useful |
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| 小题4: | | A．agreed | B．decided | C．planned | D．told |
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| 小题5: | | A．wrong | B．right | C．stupid | D．faulty |
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| 小题6: | | A．see | B．know | C．understand | D．face |
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| 小题7: | | A．experiment | B．practice | C．writing | D．composition |
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| 小题8: | | A．came on | B．came in | C．came out | D．came back |
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| 小题9: | | A．day | B．night | C．month | D．year |
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| 小题10: | | A．giving in | B．giving back | C．giving out | D．giving up |
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| 小题12: | | A．left | B．attended | C．changed | D．graduated |
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| 小题13: | | A．tired | B．calm | C．nervous . | D．famous |
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| 小题14: | | A．And | B．But | C．However | D．Well |
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| 小题15: | | A．praised | B．said | C．answered | D．advised |
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A beautiful and very successful actress was the star of a new musical show. Her home was in the country, but she didn’t want to have to go back there every night. So she rented an expensive flat in the centre of the city, bought some beautiful furniture and hired a man to paint the rooms in new colours.
It was very difficult to get tickets for her show, because everybody wanted to see it, so she decided to give the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him work better and more willingly for her. He took the tickets without saying anything, and she heard no more about them until the end of the month, when she got the painter’s bill. At the bottom of it were the words: “Four hours watching Miss Ball sing and dance: $3,” with this note: “After 5 p.m., I get fifteen shillings an hour instead of ten shillings.”
小题1:In this article, “Miss Ball” was the name of _______.| A．a place where people sang and danced | | B．a dance party | | C．an actress | | D．a ball |
小题2:The actress gave the painter two tickets, hoping ________.| A．he would be pleased | | B．he would ask less money for his work | | C．he would charge more money for his work | | D．he would praise her musical show |
小题3:After the painter got the tickets from the actress, he _______.| A．sold them for $3 | B．went to watch the musical show | | C．paid $3 for them | D．was very thankful to her |
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One afternoon, Tommy was on his way home from school. When he was passing by his neighbor, Mr. Adamson"s house, he found thick coming from the window of the house. He was . He thought the house must be on fire and it might be burnt down. He didn"t know whether Mr. Adamson was in the house, he knew he must put out the fire at once. So he ran to his own house, rushed into the bathroom and a big barrel（桶） with water. He was in such a hurry that he forgot to the water before he ran back to Mr. Adamson"s house. When he reached the window where the smoke was still coming out, he threw the water the house by the window without looking for where the smoke was. The smoke stopped immediately. But at the same time, there was an angry cry from inside the house. was Mr. Adamson. He was standing by the window with so big a pipe （烟斗） in his hand looking at Tommy . Tommy then understood that it must be the pipe. He stood there, and could not a word.
Tommy was very sorry for it. He helped Mr. Adamson clean the floor. However, worst was yet to come. When he went home later, he found his own was flooded （淹没）.
| 小题1: | | A．water | B．smoke | C．wind | D．fire |
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| 小题2: | | A．afraid | B．sad | C．excited | D．happy |
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| 小题3: | | A．since | B．or | C．but | D．because |
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| 小题4: | | A．filled | B．covered | C．lived | D．left |
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| 小题5: | | A．turn up | B．turn down | C．turn on | D．turn off |
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| 小题8: | | A．angrily | B．quickly | C．lazily | D．happily |
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| 小题10: | | A．school | B．window | C．car | D．house |
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