BALTIMORE. MARYLAND—An old postcard changed the lives of an eleven-year-old boy
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BALTIMORE. MARYLAND—An old postcard changed the lives of an eleven-year-old boy and a very sick woman. The postcard had a picture of the steamship Titanic. The Titanic was the largest ocean ship in the world. It hit an iceberg（冰山）and sank on April 14. 1912. More than 1,500 of the 2,200 people on the ship were killed.
The postcard was passed from one person to another for more than 80 years. Then it appeared at a card show for people who liked to collect postcards. An eleven-year-old boy, Joey Russell, came to the show with his grandfather. His grandfather knew everything about the Titanic and its trip from England to New York. “Let’s buy that postcard.” he told Joey. “It will be important someday.”
Two years later, Joey’s grandfather took him on a special trip. They went on a trip to the North Atlantic ocean to watch as workers pulled the Titanic up from the bottom of the ocean. Joey put his special postcard in his bag for the trip. On the ship, Joey met Edith Haisman. This woman was on the Titanic when it sank. She was one of the people who were rescued. Joey pulled the postcard out of his pocket. “Please sign this, Mrs. Haisman.” he said. She was happy to write her name on the back of the postcard.
When Joey got home, he put the postcard away and forgot about it, Then Kate Shelley, one of Joey’s friends, told him that her mother was very sick. She needed an operation, but there was a problem. The operation was very expensive, and the family needed $80, 000 to pay for it. Friends and relatives tried to help. But where could they get so much money?
Then when Joey went to see the new movie “Titanic”, he had an idea. “Millions of people are seeing this movie and reading about the Titanic.” Joey thought. He remembered the old postcard with Edith Haisman’s signature on it. “Maybe I can sell it for some money. Then I can help Kate’s mom.”
Joey told his mother and father about his idea to help Mrs. Shelley. His parents helped him try to sell the postcard to the person who would pay the most money for it. Joey’s story was on television and in newspapers. Joey and Kate even went to New York to be on a national TV show. After the show, many people called in to offer money for the Titanic card. Someone bought it for $60. 000.
Joey’s kind heart and the old Titanic postcard worked together to save a woman’s life.
小题1:Which of the following is NOT true about the old postcard?| A．The Titanic was the largest steamship in the world in 1912. | | B．The steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank about a hundred years ago | | C．Over two thousand passengers were killed in the ocean accident. | | D．More than eighty years had passed before the postcard belonged to Joey. |
小题2:Joey Russell _________.| A．decided to buy the postcard at a shop | | B．showed great interest in collecting postcards | | C．took the postcard with him to see Mrs. Shelley | | D．asked Mrs. Haisman to sign her name on his postcard |
小题3:What does the underlined word “rescued” mean in the sentence?| A．Be made safe from danger. | | B．Be on an ocean trip. | | C．Be working on board. | | D．Be asked to sell the postcard. |
小题4:When did Joey Russell have the idea of selling his old postcard for money?| A．When Kate Shelley told him of her mother’s sickness. | | B．When he went to see the new movie “Titanic”. | | C．When he was reading the new book of Titanic. | | D．When he remembered Mrs. Haisman’s signature on his card. |
小题5:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．The Titanic arrived in New York at the end of April, 1912. | | B．At the age of 13, Joey Russell got Mrs. Haisman’s signature. | | C．Joey Russell sold out his postcards on a national TV show. | | D．The Titanic card was sold to many people for $60, 000. |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:A
小题5:B |
解析
小题1:根据文章内容大意可知答案为C
小题2:根据文章内容大意可知答案为D
小题3:根据单词的意思可知答案为A
小题4:根据文章内容When Joey got home, he put the postcard away and forgot about it, Then Kate Shelley, one of Joey’s friends, told him that her mother was very sick.可知答案为A
小题5:根据文章内容大意可知答案为B |
举一反三
Mark was walking home from school one day when he saw a boy in front of him. He had dropped all of the books he was 16 , along with two sweaters, a basketball and a walkman (随身听).
Mark stopped and helped the boy pick the things up. 17 they were going the same way, he helped to carry some of his things. As they walked, Mark 18 that the boy’s name was Bill. He loved computer games, basketball, music and history, 19 he was having trouble with some of his 20 in school.
They arrived at Bill’s home first and Mark was 21 in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed 22 with a few laughs and some small talk, then Mark went home.
They continued to 23 each other at school, had lunch together once or twice a week, and then they 24 finished middle school. Three weeks before they left school, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.
Bill reminded Mark of the day years ago when they had first 25 . “Did you ever wonder 26 I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill.
“You see, I cleaned out my locker (锁柜) because I didn’t want to leave 27 for anyone else. I was going home to kill myself. But after we 28 some time together talking and laughing, I 29 that if I killed myself, I would have missed many good times. So you see, Mark, when you 30 those books that day, you actually saved my life.”
| 小题1: | | A．reading | B．buying | C．carrying | D．writing |
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| 小题2: | | A．Since | B．When | C．While | D．Before |
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| 小题3: | | A．asked | B．learned | C．believed | D．answered |
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| 小题5: | | A．books | B．teachers | C．subjects | D．games |
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| 小题6: | | A．introduced | B．invited | C．noticed | D．pushed |
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| 小题7: | | A．happily | B．slowly | C．quietly | D．easily |
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| 小题8: | | A．help | B．accept | C．see | D．change |
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| 小题9: | | A．all | B．each | C．either | D．both |
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| 小题10: | | A．met | B．worked | C．appeared | D．arrived |
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| 小题12: | | A．something | B．anything | C．everything | D．nothing |
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| 小题13: | | A．took | B．wasted | C．spent | D．found |
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| 小题14: | | A．remembered | B．wondered | C．checked | D．realized |
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| 小题15: | | A．threw away | B．picked up | C．gave out | D．looked for |
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请认真阅读下面短文，并根据短文内容回答问题。
On December 23, 2008, Niu Niu held a piano concert at the national Grand Theater (国家大剧院). As an eleven-year-old boy, he became the youngest pianist ever to perform a concert at the theater.
Never too young to learn
Niu Niu was born into a musical family in Xiamen. His father Zhang was a piano teacher. Niu Niu grew up listening to his father’s students playing the piano. At just three years old, Niu Niu asked his father to teach him to play, too.
“I gave Niu Niu some sheet music and helped him find the eight notes when he first played the piano. To my surprise, he played nearly 80 percent correct,” said the father. He used to think that three years old is too young an age to learn piano, but Niu Niu changed his mind. He continued to allow Niu Niu to watch his teaching of other students and gave him more sheet music to play.
Playing for fun
Zhang started teaching Niu Niu standard piano lessons when he was four. Unlike many other piano teachers, Zhang didn’t insist that Niu Niu play strictly with the correct finger positioning (位置). He said that the strict finger positioning would rob some kids of fun of playing. So Niu Niu could play in his own way. He could play the tone successfully. But Niu Niu was required to play the music without looking at the sheet music. Now he can remember about 80 pages.
Rising to fame
In 2003, at the age of 6, Niu Niu successfully held a sole concert in his hometown Xiamen. At the age of 8, he gave a performance at the International Piano Festival in France. At the age of 10, Niu Niu played in London and his performance was praised by Prince Charles. Last year, this young pianist published his first album “Niu Niu Plays Mozart” and over 10,000 copies have been sold in the world.
We are very glad to see a young Chinese pianist rising in the music world.
小题1:How old was Niu Niu when he performed a concert at the National Grand Theater?
小题2:What was Niu Niu’s father?
小题3:What did Niu Niu’s father feel when Niu Niu played nearly 80 percent of the sheet music correct?
小题4:What did Niu Niu’s father say about the strict finger positioning?
小题5:What do you think of Zhang’s way of teaching his son Niu Niu? （请自拟一句话作答） |
Mr. White is a farmer. Last month he 36 his truck to town and on the way his truck knocked down a 37 and hurt him. He sent the boy to a 38 at once. He paid a lot of money for that, but the boy’s 39 wanted to get more money from him. So they said their son could no longer lift his 40 arm above his head.
Mr. White’s lawyer(律师) came and asked the boy a few questions in the court(法庭). “Now, my boy,” he said, “you were hurt 41 , weren’t you?” “Yes, sir,” said the boy. “And you can’t lift your right arm now, can you?” “42 , sir.”
“Could you 43 us how you can lift your right arm?” Slowly the boy lifted his right arm before his nose. “Poor boy,” said the lawyer. “And how 44 could you lift it before the accident?” “Oh, very high,” said the boy proudly (自豪) and the arm went up right over his 45 .
| 小题1: | | A．took | B．brought | C．made | D．drove |
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| 小题2: | | A．girl | B．parent | C．boy | D．farmer |
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| 小题3: | | A．hospital | B．home | C．farm | D．court |
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| 小题4: | | A．grandfather | B．father | C．parents | D．mother |
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| 小题6: | | A．last month | B．this month | C．yesterday | D．last week |
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| 小题7: | | A．Yes | B．Of course | C．Yes, I can’t | D．No |
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| 小题10: | | A．nose | B．arm | C．head | D．right arm |
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Once there was a little girl in a village. She spent summers on her grandfather’s farm. The year she was four, she knew some ducks. The ducks were white with orange feet. They lived in a little wooden house near the road. The little girl liked these ducks very much. Every day they walked down the road to the pond（池塘）. Then the ducks went into the water and the little girl sat on the bank（岸） and saw them swimming in the pond. The little girl talked to the ducks and they quacked（嘎嘎叫）back. Then one day the ducks were gone. No one would say anything about them. The little girl was afraid to ask where they were. One night everyone sat down for dinner. The food looked a little like chicken. The girl didn’t want to eat. Can you guess why?
A. eating chicken B. sitting by the pond
C. living on a farm D. ducks and a little girl
小题1:The ducks were __________. | A．yellow and orange | B．yellow and white | | C．white with orange feet | D．white and black |
小题2:When the little girl ________ , the ducks quacked back. | A．saw them swimming | B．sat on the bank | | C．walked to the pond | D．talked to them |
小题3:At the end of the story, the ducks were probably _______. | A．under the water | B．on the plate (盘子) | | C．in the wooden house | D．swimming in the pond |
小题4:The little girl didn’t eat because _____________. | A．she wanted nice cakes | B．the food was ducks | | C．the food was too hot | D．the plate was empty |
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A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches (英尺) longer.
He went downstairs to the kitchen. His mother and two sisters were washing up the tea-things there. “The new trousers are too long,” he said. “They need shortening（缩短）by about two inches.
Could one of you do it for me, please?” His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything. But when his mother finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son’s bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.
Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’ s trousers. She was a kind girl,so she went quietly upstairs withoutsaying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches. The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came home she,too, remembered her brothers trousers. So she ran upstairs and did as her mother and sister had done. You can imagine（想象）the look on the young man’s face when he put the trousers on the next morning. .
小题1:What were the young man’s new trousers like at first? | A．They were a bit too long. | | B．They were just suitable. | | C．They were too short for him. | | D．There were about two inches shorter. |
小题2:Why didn’t the young man’s mother and sisters answer him in the kitchen? | A．Because they were very busy. | | B．Because they didn’t hear him. | | C．Because they didn’t like him. | | D．Because they couldn’t do that. |
小题3:When did his elder sister shortened the trousers? | A．In the evening. | | B．Before she finished the washing. | | C．After lunch. | | D．After she came back from the cinema. |
小题4:What did the young man find about the trousers the next morning?
He found that the trousers were ______ inches too short for him. 小题5:How did the young man feel when he put the trousers on the next morning? | A．Pleasant. | B．Thankful. | C．Surprised. | D．Bored. |
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