Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family.
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Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the guestroom. Instead the angels were given some space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, "Things aren"t always what they seem."
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable (好客的) farmer. After sharing a little food they had, the farmer and his wife let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night"s rest. When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their only income, lay dead in the field.
The younger angel was very angry and asked the older angel, "How could this happen?" "Why didn"t you watch out for the cow? The first family had everything, yet you watched over his house," she accused (谴责). "The second family had little but was willing to share everything, you didn"t help."
"Things aren"t always what they seem," the angel replied. "When we stayed in the basement, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so greedy and unwilling to share his good fortune, I asked God if I could seal the wall so he wouldn"t find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer"s bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I asked God if the angel could take the cow instead. So things aren"t always what they seem."
小题1: The older angel repaired the hole for the rich family because _____________________.| A．she wanted to punish the greedy owner | | B．the basement was too cold to stay in | | C．she wanted to save the gold for the poor. | | D．she believed that one should always be ready to offer help |
小题2: The younger angel was very angry because _______________________________.| A．the older angel killed the farmer"s cow | | B．the wealthy man gave them a bad place to live in | | C．the older angel treated the two families unfairly | | D．the angel of death took the cow away instead of the farmer’s wife |
小题3: Why did the older angel let the farmer"s cow die?______________________.| A．Because she was sympathetic to the rich | | B．Because she wanted to save the farmer"s wife. | | C．Because God wanted the older angel to take the cow. | | D．Because she wanted to teach the younger angel a lesson. |
小题4:The first “they” in line 7 refers to ________while the second “they” in line 8 refers to _______in the second paragraph.| A．two travelling angels; the couple | | B．two travelling angels; the wealthy family | | C．the couple; two travelling angels | | D．the couple; the angel of death and the God |
小题5:The story tries to tell the readers that _________________________.| A．angels are always ready to help the poor | | B．angels are always ready to help the rich | | C．the young should always learn from the cold | | D．sometimes things are not always what they seem |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:D |
解析
试题分析：这篇短文讲述的是两个天使来到人间，他们先到了一个富人的家里，富人待他们很不好，让他们睡在地下室里。其中一个天使看到墙上有个洞，他帮这个富人把洞补好。第二天两个天使又来到了一个穷人的家里，穷人夫妇对他们很热情，第二天穷人家的牛死了，天使没有帮忙。更年轻一点的天使觉得很不可理解。老一点的天使说，事情并不是像你看到的那样的。我帮助穷人补洞是因为在那个地下室里有金子，这样富人就发现不了了；而昨天晚上死神天使来拿穷人妻子的性命，我让他用牛的命替换了他妻子的命。
小题1:细节理解题。根据文章的最后一段when we stayed in the basement, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so greedy and unwilling to share his good fortune, I asked God if I could seal the wall so he wouldn"t find it.可知，这个天使给富人补洞是因为，他在地下室里发现了金子，因为富人很贪婪，所以他把洞补上是为了不让富人发现里面的金子，给那个富人以惩罚。故选A。
小题2:细节理解题。根据文章的第三段可知，年轻的天使对老天使的做法很生气，是因为富人对他们不好，他反而帮富人修补墙上的洞，而穷人对他们很好，在他们的牛生病时，天使却不帮忙。所以他觉得老天使对待这两个家庭不公平。故选C。
小题3:细节理解题。根据文章最后一段中 last night as we slept in the farmer"s bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I asked God if the angel could take the cow instead可知，原本死神天使是来去穷人妻子的命的，但是天使帮忙请求上帝用牛的性命来代替，故而救了穷人妻子的命。故选B。
小题4:词义猜测题。根据文章第二段After sharing a little food they had, the farmer and his wife let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night"s rest.，在分享了他们所有的食物之后，农夫和他的妻子让天使睡在他们的床上，这样他们能睡个好觉。第一个他们指的是农夫和妻子，第二个他们指的是两个天使，故选C。
小题5:主旨大意题。这篇短文通过这样一个故事想要告诉我们，有时候事情并不总是表面看起来的那个样子的，即So things aren"t always what they seem。故选D。 |
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Hello, Do you know ? My name Cindy Brown. Cindy is my name and Brown is my family name. I am a . I am nine years old. My is 667-1298. There are（有） people in my family---my parents, my brother and I. We all like fruit and vegetables.
My name is Sonia Hall. I am an girl. I am 13. There are four people in my family. They are parents, my brother and I. I also have a cousin. She is my uncle’s .We are good . I have a bedroom（卧室）. A computer and a CD player are on a desk . The bookcase is near the door and my books are on it. I like sports very much, so（所以） the books are about（关于）sports. I like football and baseball
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| 小题4: | | A．boy | B．girl | C．daughter | D．cousin |
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| 小题5: | | A．ID card number | B．watch | C．answer | D．telephone number |
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| 小题7: | | A．English | B．great | C．good | D．nice |
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| 小题9: | | A．son | B．aunt | C．daughter | D．grandmother |
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| 小题10: | | A．brothers | B．grandfathers | C．friends | D．boys |
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A small boy at summer camp received a bag of cookies in the mail from his mother. He ate a few, and then put the rest under his bed. The next day, after lunch, he went to his tent to get a cookie. The box was gone.
That afternoon a camp leader saw another boy sitting behind a tree. He was eating the stolen cookies! “That young man,” he said to himself, “must be taught not to steal.”
He returned to the group and found the boy whose cookies had been stolen. “Billy,” he said, “I know who stole your cookies. Will you help me teach him a lesson?”
“Well, yes. But aren’t you going to punish him?” asked the puzzled boy.
“No, that would only make him hate you.” the leader explained. “I want you to call your mother. Ask her to send you another box of cookies.”
The boy did so and soon received another box of cookies. “Now,” said the leader, “the boy who stole your cookies is down by the lake. Go and share your cookies with him.”
“But he’s the thief!”
“I know, but try it—see what will happen.”
Half an hour later, the camp leader saw the two come up the hill, hand in hand. The boy who had stolen the cookies was trying to get the other to accept his toy knife. The other boy was just refusing the gift from his new friend. He said that a few cookies weren’t that important anyway.
小题1:When Billy first got cookies from his mother, __________.| A．he ate some of them himself | | B．he gave some to the camp leader | | C．he shared them with another boy | | D．he hid them away quickly |
小题2:Which of the following is NOT the camp leader’s intension (意图)？| A．To teach the boy not to steal. | | B．To punish the boy for stealing. | | C．To teach Billy to forgive others. | | D．To teach Billy to share with others. |
小题3:After that, the boy who stole the cookies might _________.| A．steal again | B．hate Billy | | C．make friends with Billy | D．give Billy a bag of cookies, too |
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Lang Lang is a world-class young pianist who grew up in Shenyang. He went to a piano school in Beijing when he was just eight, "You need fortune(运气)，" his father said. "But you work hard, no fortune will come."
What made him was that his piano teacher in Beijing didn"t like him. "You have no talent(天赋).You will never be a pianist." As an eight-year-old boy, Lang Lang was badly . He decided that he didn"t want to be a pianist any more. For the next two weeks, he didn"t touch the piano. Wisely(明智的)his father didn"t ,but wait.
Luckily the day came when his teacher asked him to play some holiday songs. He didn"t want to, but as he placed his fingers on the piano keys, he he could show other people that he had ability to do it well. That day he told his father that he wanted to with a new teacher. From that point on, everything turned around.
He started competitions. In the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition when it was announced that Lang Lang had won, he was too to hold back his tears. Soon it was clear that he couldn"t stay in China forever-he had to play on the world"s big stages. In 1997 Lang Lang again, this time to Philadelphia, US. There he spent two years practicing and by 1999 he had worked hard enough for fortune to take over．After his performance at Chicago"s Raviniu Festival, gigs（演奏会）in Lincoln Center and Camegie Hall started pouring in. Lang Lang finally worked to reach the place where fortune spots(找到)him, and lets him shine.
| 小题1: | | A．if | B．unless | C．when | D．since |
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| 小题2: | | A．energetic | B．happy | C．lucky | D．sad |
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| 小题3: | | A．hurt | B．ill | C．broken | D．scared |
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| 小题5: | | A．realized | B．explained | C．forgot | D．noticed |
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| 小题6: | | A．argur | B．dance | C．study | D．interview |
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| 小题7: | | A．winning | B．beating | C．watching | D．refusing |
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| 小题8: | | A．annoyed | B．mad | C．tired | D．excited |
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| 小题9: | | A．started | B．left | C．moved | D．performed |
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| 小题10: | | A．helpful | B．meaningful | C．successful | D．useful |
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During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I traveled across to the other side of the island, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.”
So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe (独木舟). Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How silly I was! Why didn’t I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn’t move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn’t move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.
That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive. A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.
My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.
I kept food and tools at both my houses, and also wild goats. There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goats’ milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn fields. And so many years went by.
小题1:The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.| A．escape in it | | B．get to the other side of the island | | C．use it for food | | D．go around the island |
小题2:To survive, the writer _____________.| A．kept goats for milk | | B．made clothes from animal skins | | C．worked in the cornfields | | D．did all the above |
小题3:Why didn’t the writer use his first canoe?| A．Because it was too small for a long journey. | | B．Because it was too heavy to get down to the sea. | | C．Because there was something wrong with it. | | D．Because the writer was busy building a second house. |
小题4:From the story, we can learn that _____________.| A．the writer tried to make his stay comfortable on the island | | B．the writer had nothing to do on the wild island | | C．the writer tried to escape in the second canoe, but failed | | D．the writer was in prison on the island, losing his freedom |
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Birthday：February 26, 1982
Birthplace：Wuhan, Hubei
Height：172cm
Weight：65kg
“My dream has come true. I have always wanted to be a Grand Slam(大满贯) champion. ” These are the words of Chinese tennis player Li Na after she became the first Asian woman to win a Grand Slam final in the French Open on June4, 2011.
“People were saying I’m getting old. So this is a great success for such an old woman,” the 29-year-old girl joked.
Miss Li has a tattoo(纹身). She has dyed her hair many different colors. And, at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she told her fans to “shut up” when they got too noisy in their support.
Li Na was born in Wuhan, she started to play tennis at the age of 6. She once recalled:“As a child, I felt sad because every day I had to wake up early to practice. After school I had to practice more. I didn’t have time to play. ”
Luckily, the strong girl didn’t give up, thus making history for Chinese tennis time after time.
Now the new champion is already thinking about winning another Grand Slam title. “when you have one title, surely you will think about another,” she says, not hiding her ambition(雄心)。
“Chinese people are so lacking(缺乏) in confidence on the tennis court. If there is a person like me who can prove we Chinese can do it, the other young players in China will feel the same,” she said.
小题1:Li Na was born in the year of . 小题2:The underlined word “dyed” here means “ ” in Chinese. 小题3:When she began to play tennis, Li Na was _________.| A．happy | B．sad | C．excited | D．bored |
小题4:Which of the following is WRONG about Li Na？| A．Li Na took part in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. | | B．Li Na has already won a Grand Slam champion. | | C．Li Na had to wake up early to practice playing tennis. | | D．Li Na said she lacked confidence on the tennis court. |
小题5:The passage mainly tell us .
A something about the tennis B. something about how to play tennis
C the Chinese people and the tennis D. the Grand Slam champion—Li Na |
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