Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn"t thin
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Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn"t think there would be any difficulty in getting it repaired, as there are a lot of antique (古董) shops near my home. So I left home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception（接待）． I was quite wrong. The man wouldn"t even look at my chair.
The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just the same, and the third and the fourth -- so I decided that my approach must be wrong.
I entered the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper, "Would you like to buy a chair?"
He looked it over carefully and said,- "Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you want for it, sir?"
“Twenty pounds," I said.
“OK," he said, "I"ll give you twenty pounds."
“It"s got a slightly broken leg," I said.
‘"Yes, I saw that, it"s nothing."
Everything was going according to my plan and l was getting excited. "What will you do with it?" I asked.
“Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done."
“I"ll buy it," I said.
“What do you mean? You"ve just sold it to me," he said.
"Yes, I know but I"ve changed my mind. I am sorry. I"ll give you twenty-seven pounds for it."
“You must be crazy," he said. Then, suddenly the penny dropped. “I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair."
“You"re right," I said. "And what would you have done if I had walked in and said, "Would you repair this chair for me?""
“I wouldn"t have agreed to do it," he said. "We don"t do repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble. But I"II repair this for you. Shall we say for five pounds?" He was a very nice man and was greatly amused by the whole thing.
小题1:We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer_______.| A．was rather impolite | B．was warmly received | | C．asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair | D．asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair |
小题2: The underlined word "approach" in the second paragraph means_______.| A．plan for dealing with things | B．way of doing things | | C．idea of repairing things | D．decision to sell things |
小题3:The expression "the penny dropped" in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper_______.| A．changed his mind | B．accepted the offer | | C．saw the writer"s purpose | D．decided to help the writer |
小题4:How much did the writer pay?小题5:From the text, we can learn that the writer was_______.| A．honest | B．careful | C．smart | D．funny |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:C |
解析
试题分析：本文叙述了作者想要古董店修一下椅子腿，结果连续四家店都不修理。因此到第五家店时，作者想了一个巧妙地方法，他先向店主卖椅子，然后看他们是否修理椅子腿，结果店主说能修理，于是作者又想买回椅子。最后，作者花了5美元修理了椅子腿。
小题1:细节理解题。根据So I left home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception（接待）可知，作者带着坏了腿的椅子到第一家店，希望让店主修理他的椅子。故选D。
小题2:词义猜测题。根据I entered the fifth shop with a plan in my mind.可知此处我要改变做事的方法，有一个新的计划，故选B。
小题3:词义猜测题。根据I know what you want.可知第五家店的店主知道作者想要什么，也就是知道作者的目的了。故选C。
小题4:细节理解题。根据But I"II repair this for you. Shall we say for five pounds?可知作者修椅子腿花了5美元。故选A。
小题5:推理判断题。根据文中作者想了一个巧妙的方法，通过想卖椅子来试探他们是否会修椅子，最终椅子修好了，因此推断作者是一个聪明的人。故选C。 |
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John has a pet dog named Sunlight. He loves him very much. He ever told others that Sunlight was one of his family members.
One midnight, John’s house was on fire suddenly. John was sleeping and didn’t know what was happening. At that time, Sunlight noticed the fire and woke up John. John called the police. Soon the fire was put out by the police.
Now John often says to others, “ The dog is really my good friend. In the thick smoke and big fire, he could have run out of the house first, but he didn’t. No matter how dangerous it is, he first thinks of his owner.”
Today more and more dogs are wandering ( 流浪 ) in the street. Many people don’t want to keep their dogs because they move to another place. Even some people say that they can’t stand the dogs’ dirtiness. Animals are one part of our society. Maybe our pets will give us a hand like Sunlight someday.
小题1:We knew Sunlight is John’s son from the passage.
小题2:The police put out the fire that night.
小题3:Sunlight ran away because he was afraid of the fire.
小题4:Some people don’t want to keep dogs because they move to another place.
小题5:The passage mainly told us when something is on fire, you must call the police first. |
While Nick was on the bus reading his newspaper, the man sitting next to him suddenly pushed a large envelope（信封）into his hands. "Here, take this!" the man said, stood up and got off the bus before Nick could say a word.
Nick sat there, holding the envelope. It felt heavy. There was paper inside, or money perhaps. "I"d better hand it over to the police," he thought. There was a police station close to his office. But, as he got off the bus, a man came to him. He seemed to be waiting for something. "He wants the envelope," Nick thought. Nick began to walk quickly, and the man hurried after him. Nick managed to lose the man in the crowd（人群）．When he entered the police station, the man was no longer in sight.
Inside the police station, Nick handed over the envelope to the policeman who was on duty. The man opened it. The envelope was full of money, false（假的）money.“Clearly the man made a mistake," the policeman said. "He thought you were one of the gang（团伙）!”
“However," the policeman went on. "I"m afraid I must ask you to keep quiet about all this. We are trying to catch some very clever thieves, and we don"t want them to know that we have some of the money. So you mustn"t say a word to anyone-not even to your boss!"
小题1: The man who suddenly gave Nick an envelope was most probably_______.| A．Nick"s friend | B．the bus driver | C．a thief | D．a postman |
小题2: As Nick got off the bus, a man came to him because_______.| A．he wanted to catch Nick | | B．he thought Nick was a policeman | | C．he wanted to give Nick some money | | D．he thought Nick was one of their gang |
小题3: By the last few sentences of the passage, we can infer that_______.| A．Nick let everyone know his wonderful story | | B．Nick"s boss was the last to know Nick"s story | | C．Nick would keep silent about what happened for some time | | D．the gang already knew the police got some of the false money |
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Peter Qwen has been making wigs (假发)since the 1980s . He has made wigs for the stars of more than seventy movies ,including Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow and Nicole Kidman in The Others. One of his biggest jobs so far has designed the hair and makeup for the three Lord o f the Ring movies . He had just six weeks to design and make more than a hundred wigs, each one a different style, color, shape and length.
The hair and makeup in a movie are just as important as the costumes or the sets. Over the years, Peter has made actors look older, younger, healthy and sick. For one movie he even made a female actor look like a man! "What people don"t realize about wigs is that we are not always making people more beautiful," he says. "Often we are covering up beauty and making them look ordinary."
All Peter"s wigs are handmade using human hair, so they look as real as possible. This also makes them very expensive -between US $ 4,500 and US $12,500 each! He knows he"s done a good job when people don"t realize the star of the movie is wearing a wig. So he was pleased when one newspaper said that Nicole Kidman had dyed her hair dark brown for a movie. "It was a wig and no one knew that9" he said.
小题1:What"s the best title for this article?| A．How Peter Qwen"s wigs change people | | B．Peter Qwen: A wigmaker to the stars | | C．Peter Qwen: Making real and expensive wigs | | D．Peter Qwen"s wigs are important in a movie |
小题2:What special feature about wigs does Peter mention?| A．They can make people more beautiful. | | B．They can change people"s hair styles. | | C．They can cover up beauty and make people look ordinary. | | D．They can make people look younger. |
小题3:Why are Peter"s wigs so expensive?| A．They are made in foreign countries. | | B．Peter makes the best wigs. | | C．They are only made for rich film makers. | | D．They are handmade using human hair. |
小题4:Which statement is NOT true about Peter?| A．Peter Owen has made wigs for lots of movies. | | B．Designing and making the wigs for The Lord of the Rings was a huge job. | | C．Peter can make actors look quite different from their real looks. | | D．lf people know the star is wearing a wig, Peter will be happy. |
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A young man was getting ready to graduate（毕业）from college. For many months he had admired（欣赏，羡慕） a beautiful sports car in a seller"s showroom, and knowing his father could it, he told him that was all he wanted.
On the morning of his graduation day his father called him into his own study and told him how he was to have such a fine son. He handed his son a beautiful gift box. but slightly（轻微地） disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely book. ,he raised his voice at his father and said, "With all your money you only give me a book?" Then he rushed out of the house, the book in the study.
He didn"t contact（联系） his father for a whole year one day he saw an old man who looked like his father in the street. He realized he had to go back home and see his father.
When he arrived at his father"s house, he was told his father had been in hospital for a week. When he was going to the hospital, he saw the new book still on the desk, just as he had left it one before. He opened it and began to turn the pages. Suddenly, a car key _____ from an envelope(信封) behind the book. It had a tag（标签）.On the tag was the of his graduation, and the words PAID IN FULL.
| 小题1: | | A．sell | B．afford | C．keep | D．like |
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| 小题2: | | A．comfortable | B．encouraged | C．proud | D．moved |
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| 小题3: | | A．Careful | B．Serious | C．Nervous | D．Curious（好奇的） |
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| 小题4: | | A．Angrily | B．Happily | C．Calmly | D．Quietly |
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| 小题5: | | A．putting | B．taking | C．leaving | D．forgetting |
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| 小题6: | | A．until | B．as | C．before | D．unless |
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| 小题7: | | A．get to | B．leave for | C．turn to | D．arrive |
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| 小题9: | | A．lost | B．came | C．appeared | D．dropped |
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| 小题10: | | A．met | B．place | C．date | D．picture |
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It was near Christmas during my first term teaching at a new school. I loved my small special class more than any group I had taught in the past. They were hungry for knowledge and I was enjoying teaching.
Other teachers had told me that our children were from poor families and not to expect any child to bring a Christmas gift. In fact, I wasn’t expecting any gifts.
Imagine my surprise when every child brought me a gift on the day before our holiday break. First, I got a much-loved toy monkey from a shy girl. I was told, “He is my favorite, but I love you and I want him to be with you, Miss Taylor.” How thrilled I was!
Next came a new set of Christmas tree lights that was “missing” from a mother’s cupboard(碗橱).
Finally, I came to one little boy’s gift which I had never received. It was an old, dirty and broken Christmas storybook. Just when I wanted to show my happiness, I was interrupted(打断) by the giver, “And see, it is new! It still has the price tag（标签）.”
When other children laughed at him, I stopped them and said, “Oh, books are good in that way. The story is always new if you have not read it before. Now, Let’s read one together.” Everyone listened quietly as I read the most wonderful Christmas story of my life.
I still keep those Christmas gifts. They always remind me of my lovely kids.
小题1:Miss Taylor loved her small special class so much because______________. | A．this was her first term teaching at a new school | | B．these little kids were from rich families | | C．the students studied very hard and she enjoyed teaching them | | D．she didn’t get any Christmas gifts |
小题2: ____________ brought Miss Taylor a Christmas gift. | A．Every child | B．Most of the children | C．Only three children | D．No one |
小题3:Miss Taylor felt __________ when she got the gifts from the children. | A．sad | B．scared | C．thrilled | D．tired |
小题4:Many gifts were mentioned (被提及) in the article except____________. | A．a toy monkey | B．an old storybook | | C．a set of Christmas tree lights | D．a Christmas card |
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