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A group of frogs were traveling through the forests, but unluckily two of them fell into a hole. The other frogs tried to help them. When they saw how 51 the hole was, they cried to the two frogs that they could not be saved. The two frogs didn’t 52 and tried their best to jump up out of the hole. The other frogs 53 saying that they were sure to die. 54, one of the two frogs, who heard what the other frogs were saying, 55 . Then he fell down and died.
The other frog, however, 56 to jump as hard as he could, and at last made it out. When he 57 , the other frogs asked, "Didn’t you hear us?" The frog, who had a poor 58, explained, "I thought you were encouraging me all the timid."
The story teaches us a 59 : There is power(力量) of life and death in the tongue. An 60 word to those who are down can help them out while a discouraging word can kill them.

小题1:

A．small

B．deep

C．big

D．wide

小题2:

A．care

B．refuse

C．insist

D．think

小题3:

A．kept

B．finished

C．practiced

D．stopped

小题4:

A．Luckily

B．Finally

C．Suddenly

D．Happily

小题5:

A．went on

B．ran away

C．jumped out

D．gave up

小题6:

A．happened

B．continued

C．planned

D．wanted

小题7:

A．got out

B．ran away

C．got off

D．woke up

小题8:

A．smelling

B．eyesight

C．hearing

D．looking

小题9:

A．way

B．skill

C．sentence

D．lesson

小题10:

A．interesting

B．exciting

C．excellent

D．encouraging

答案

小题1:B
小题1:A
小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:A
小题1:C
小题1:D
小题1:D

解析

主旨大意:本篇短文是一则寓言故事，两只掉在深洞里的青蛙，一只听说了根本出不来，一时失望掉在里面摔死了，而另一只呢？却吧别人的话语当成了鼓励与鞭策，坚持不懈地努力，最终取得了胜利，这就教育我们：同样是别人的语言，你当成鼓励可以帮助你，否则完全也可以害死你。
小题1: B 通读全文，尤其后面的"不能挽救"和jump up以及掉下去就摔死，更能体现是太"深"了。
小题1: A 这里构成not care不介意。
小题1: A 构成keep doing sth坚持；继续做某事。
小题1: B 最后；终于有一个听见了，而不是幸运地或突然地。
小题1: D 听到其他青蛙的话，即了解了事实，自然就"放弃"。
小题1: B 然而，为听到的青蛙是"继续"努力。
小题1: A 上句说到它成功了，也就是从里面"出来"get out.
小题1: C 由上文的没听见也可以知道是它的"听力"hearing差。
小题1: D 考查词组teach sb a lesson"给某人以教训"。
小题1: D 和后面的discouraging相并列，所以这里是：鼓励的话语可以使人脱离困难。

举一反三

Once there was a piano player in a bar(酒吧). People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song.
"I don’t sing," said the man.
But the lady told the waiter, "I’m tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing!
The waiter shouted across the room, "Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song!’
So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!
He had talent(天赋) he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.
You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think. With hard work, most skills can be improved. Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent.
小题1: The lady asked the player to sing a song because _____.

A．she had paid him for this	B．she knew him very well
C．she wanted to have a change	D．she enjoyed his singing

小题2: Nat King Cole succeeded because _____.

A．the lady helped him a lot	B．he caught the chance
C．he continued to play in the bar	D．he stopped playing the piano

小题3:The words "sit on" in the passage probably mean"

A．fail to realize	B．forget to use
C．try to develop	D．manage to show

小题4:From the story we know if you have some talent, you should _____.

A．hide it and wait	B．ask others for help
C．pay no attention to it	D．work hard to improve yourself

小题5: Which could be the best title (标题) for the passage?

A．Sing in the Bar	B．Achieve Success in Life
C．Never Lose Heart	D．Find Your Hidden Talent

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Doctor Seuss was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of the best-loved and most successful children’s book writers in the world. His books are very popular with young readers. They enjoy the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants.

In 1954, life magazine published(刊登) a report about school children who could not read. The report said many children’s books were not interesting. Doctor Seuss strongly hoped to help children and decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read. He used words with the same ending sound, like fish and wish. He did not receive training in art. Yet, he drew the pictures for most of his books.
In 1957, Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and even a six-year-old should be able to read it. It was a fun story and easy to read. Children loved it. Their parents loved it, too. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat made him want to write more books for children. In 1960, he wrote a book using less than fifty words. The book is called Green Eggs and Ham.
In 1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize (普利策奖). He was honored for the education and enjoyment his books provided American children and their parents.
He died at the age of 87, but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold worldwide. People say his books helped change the way American children learned to read. Yet, his books are loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said, "I do not write for children. I write for people.
小题1: Doctor Seuss learned from the magazine that _______.

A．some school children could not read

B．many children’s books were interesting

C．children wanted to learn to read

D．a writer for children was wanted

小题2:People like his books because the books ______.

A．are cheap and easy to get

B．were written in different languages

C．are easy and interesting to read

D．were written with invented words

小题3:He wrote the book The Cat in the Hat at the age of _____.

A．50

B．53

C．56

D．87

小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Doctor Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham with over 230 words.

B．Doctor Seuss wrote books only for children in the United States.

C．The Cat in the Hat was written only for six-year-old children.

D．His books provided education and enjoyment for Americans.

小题5:From the text we know that Doctor Seuss __________.

A．won a Pulitzer Prize soon after his death

B．sold millions of his books himself worldwide

C．changed American children’s way of reading

D．wrote the largest number of books in the world

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A 14-year-old boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday after he saved the life of a woman in another country．
Dean Bluey from Dallas，Texas，was a school boy who has much 31 in computer．One day，he 32 an email to a friend on the Internet．Suddenly he received a message saying “Help! Pain! Help!”．"The message was from Finland， 33 kilometers away from America．
“I didn’t know 34  I should do，”Dean said to a reporter afterwards．“It was really difficult to tell if the message was real．”So Dean did nothing at first． 35   the message kept coming．
“By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble,” Dean explained. He   36 and discovered that the sender was a student called Tarja, who was alone in a university library. She was ill. What was 37 , there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the world was by email. Dean got in touch  38   the police immediately. And they realized that the situation was quite serious. They called the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the library.   39 , she was still alive and was sent to the hospital quickly.
“I’m glad she’s OK,” Dean said. “It’s hard to believe, but   40   saved her life.”

小题1:

A．interest

B．interested

C．interesting

D．interests

小题2:

A．sent

B．sends

C．was sending

D．is sending

小题3:

A．thousand

B．thousand of

C．thousands

D．thousands of

小题4:

A．how

B．what

C．where

D．when

小题5:

A．So

B．And

C．But

D．As

小题6:

A．telephoned

B．replied

C．found

D．talked

小题7:

A．better

B．worse

C．harder

D．easier

小题8:

A．with

B．on

C．to

D．at

小题9:

A．Hardly

B．Happily

C．Luckily

D．Carefully

小题10:

A．a boy

B．doctors

C．the police

D．email

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When we talk about stars, especially women stars，it seems that they are always young，pretty and own charming body shapes．But recently a Britain’s Got Talent（英国达人）star Susan Boyle has changed our views absolutely．
Simon Cowell，one of the judges of the talent show spoke of his shock over Ms Boyb’s voice．”This lady came up，and I’m thinking, ‘This will take five seconds and I can go to have a cup of tea.’ That changed when she began to sing I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables. She knew we were going to have that reaction and just to see that look of satisfaction on her face midway through —it was one of my favorite moments,” Cowell said.
The performance was posted On line and before long，the 47-year-old Scottish woman has been famous all over the world．
Speaking from her home in Scotland．Ms. Boyle said that she hadn’t thought of changing her appearance．She said that her friend helped her with make-up．“I mean，that’s hardly a makeover．”she added．
Ms. Boyle also spoke of the reason she first began to explore her vocal talents．”I was kind of slow at school, so getting something like singing was a good way of hiding behind that and thus it built my confidence．’’
小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:C
小题5:Susan Boyle is __________．

A．a judge	B．a reporter
C．a beautiful lady	D．a Scottish woman

小题6:Susan Boyle had a look of satisfaction on her face when she was singing
because _________.

A．she was confident of her singing

B．she was satisfied with the judges

C．she was pretty and in good shape

D．she sang the song，I Dreamed a Dream from Lea Miserables

小题7:According to the passage，which is NOT true?

A．It was the vocal talents that built Susan’s confidence．

B．Susan Boyle was not good at her lessons when at school．

C．Susan Boyle became famous because of her appearance．

D．Simon Cowell didn’t think Susan Boyle a good singer at the time sight．

小题8:What can we learn from Susan Boyle’s success?

A．It’s never too old to learn．

B．It’s easier to succeed at the age of 47．

C．If you have a dream，try to make it come true!

D．If you are not able to study well，to be a singer instead．

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When I was a foreign teacher in China，every day I taught English to my students and they taught me about China．One day the topic mined to saying “I love you”．I was shocked to learn that not one of my students had said this to their mothers，nor had their mothers said it to them．“Does your mom love you?” “Of course，”they answered．
“How do you know?” was my logical question．They responded that their moms cooked and Always told them what they were doing wrong to show their earning．I was strummed. So mom’s cooking and criticizing read our as “I love you”．”Then how do you say ‘I love you to her?” They agreed that getting good grades, followed by good jobs would be how they showed their love.
I come from a culture where most people are expressive enough，so I repeated these queries in clauses over time．Gradually，I began to get different responses．Some of them had exchanged those sentiments with their moms．
One of my favorite stories of change came from a girl．When she came home from university，her mother met her at the door and hugged（拥抱）her．This had never happened before，but her mom said，“Now that you have gone I have more time to myself．I noticed that in some places mothers and children hug each other and I decided it was a good idea and that I would begin hugging you．”
In my family we all say “I love you” a lot．While it is true that we often say the words without having great depth of feelings at that moment，it is almost like a blessing we give each other. Those three little words carry a world of meaning，even when said as a greeting, but most especially if they are the lax words we say to or hear from those we love．
小题1:The foreign teacher _________．

A．comes from America	B．is a young woman
C．is expressive enough	D．knows much about China

小题2:Chinese people prefer to show love by __________．

A．saying “I love you”	B．cooking
C．getting good grades	D．doing something helpful

小题3:In paragraph 4, what’s the real meaning of the mom’s hugging?

A．She is meeting her daughter at the dour．

B．She loves her daughter and misses her．

C．She is glad that she has more time to herself．

D．She finds it interesting to hug her daughter．

小题4:What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Say “I love you” more to your family．

B．Say “I love you” a lot to Chinese people．

C．Say “I love you” as a greeting to others．

D．Say “I love you” without great depth of feelings．

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