In the Tang Dynasty (朝代), there was a famous poet 1 name was Li Bai. He was born in a poor
family. And he died 2 1762 AD. When he was young, he didn"t like reading.
Once, he saw an old woman 3 an iron pestle (杵) when he was 4 from the school. Li Bai was
very 5 . He asked 6 that for?
The old woman said she would grind the iron pestle into a needle (针). Li Bai 7 , "The pestle is so
thick, and when can it be ground down to a needle?" The old woman smiled , "My boy, where there is will,
there is a way!" The pestle is thick, but if I grind it every day, it can be ground down into a needle 8 .
Am I right?"
Li Bai thought to him self, "what she said is right. Nothing in the world is 9 if I set my mind in it.
It is all the same to the study. If I put my heart into it, can"t I study well?"
Li Bai understand the truth. After that, he studied diligently (勤奋). At last he became a famous poet,
and 10 a good name for more than a thousand years. |
( )1. A.who
( )2. A.in
( )3. A.grind
( )4. A.on his way home
( )5. A.surprise
( )6. A.what she was doing
( )7. A.stopped
( )8. A.in the end
( )9. A.easy to
( )10. A.left | B.whose
B.on
B.ground
B.on his way to home
B.surprised
B.why she was doing
B.wondered
B.at the end of
B.hard to me
B.gave | C.that
C.at
C.drinding
C. in his way to home
C.surprising
C.what was she doing
C.liked
C.by the end
C.easy for me
C.showed | D.which
D.of
D.grinds
D.in his way home
D.surprises
D.why was she doing
D.played
D.to the end
D.hard for me
D.put | | 完形填空。 | Bertha Ingram had been collecting them for more than 40 years. Every once in a while she would
bring home a new book She"d sit with it on her leg, looking at the meaningless black marks without
moving the eyes and cry.
She was not stupid. She simply had not had the 1 to learn to read. Her parents were sharecroppers
in Florida in the 1920s. Sharecroppers did not own the 2 they farmed. Instead, they gave a part of
their crops (plants grown on farms for food) to the owner. It was quite a hard way to 3 , and both
of Bertha"s parents worked hard in the fields. Often Bertha had to leave school to help. Before she was a
teenager, Bertha"s schooling was 4 .
Bertha Ingram didn"t learn to read 5 her early married life, either. She wanted to, but she was
always too busy. She worked all day.
Bertha Ingram"s mind was sharp (敏锐的). As a housekeeper for other people, she had to memorize
telephone messages. She became a good cook too, but she had to 6 everything she did because there
was no cookbook she could read, and she couldn"t write down what she had done.
In 1978 Bertha Ingram became very ill with a stroke (中风). This illness 7 her to lose the use of
one arm and both legs. It also weakened her ability to speak. 8 she began to get better, she had a
9 thought - for the first time in her life. Because she couldn"t work, she had the time to learn to read.
In her town there was a special program that taught adults to read, but Bertha Ingram was quite
nervous. Would people laugh at her? Would they 10 to teach her? It didn"t happen that way. She
had a teacher who worked very hard with her. After the first day Ingram could 11 wait to get to
the library.
As she learned to read, Ingram got more and more confidence (信心) in herself. She became a
reader at religious (宗教的) services, joined neighborhood groups, and 12 at meetings in the city
hall. Finally she wrote a book telling about her life. At age 63, Bertha Ingram proved that learning never
comes too late. | ( )1. A.idea
( )2. A.ground
( )3. A.make money
( )4. A.over
( )5. A.during
( )6. A.write
( )7. A.brought
( )8. A.If
( )9. A.fair
( )10. A.like
( )11. A.hardly
( )12. A.arrived | B.reason
B.garden
B.earn their living
B.on
B.until
B.remember
B.made
B.As
B.right
B.refuse
B.never
B.rested | C.chance
C.farm
C.turn over
C.dropped
C.from
C.know
C.caused
C.Before
C.magic
C.agree
C.just
C.appeared | D.choice
D.land
D.get them in
D.needed
D.for
D.tell
D.asked
D.Till
D.wonderful
D.stop
D.only
D.looked | | 阅读理解。 | When Webster was young, he was a teacher. But he quickly became tired of the books he used in
classes. They were all about the English people and places. Since he wanted books that would be
interesting to American children, he wrote three books with many American examples.
Webster worked industriously (勤奋地) to change the spelling of American English. He wanted
words to be spelled in the same way they were pronounced (发音). For example, he thought the word
"laugh" should be spelled "1af".
One day he walked into a print shop and gave the boy there a piece of paper. "Young man," he said,
"when you print any please don"t spell as English people do. For example when you print these words
"theatre, centre, colour, and labour (劳动)", please always print them as "theater, center, color,
and labor"." The boy studied it and answered, "OK, but I must ask my boss first."
With the money he made from his books, Webster could start his work, which took him more
than twenty years to finish. In 1828, the first American English dictionary was born. And today,
Webster"s dictionary is thought to be the most important American dictionary in the whole world. | | 1. What kind of books did he use when Webster was young? | [ ] | A. Books about Great Britain.
B. Books about the USA.
C. Books about both Great Britain and the USA.
D. Books that were very interesting. | | 2. Webster decided to change the spelling of American English because _____. | [ ] | A. he was born in America
B. there were too many mistakes in them
C. American children were not interested in them
D. they were not spelled in the same way they were pronounced | | 3. On the paper Webster gave the boy were the words _____. | [ ] | A. easy to say
B. that didn"t sound well
C. whose pronunciations he wanted to change
D. whose spellings he wanted to change | | 4. Webster began to write the first American English dictionary before the year _____. | [ ] | A. 1808
B. 1820
C. 1828
D. 1858 | | 根据下面短文的内容判断下列句子的正误，正确的用“A”表示，错误 的用“B”表示。 | Pearl S．Buck (赛珍珠·巴克) was a very popular American writer of her day. She was famous
for her books about China. Pearl S.Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (诺贝尔文学奖)
in 1938. The writer was born in West Virginia, America. She spent almost half of her long life in China.
Her youth was spent in Jiangsu Province, China. She learned to speak Chinese before she could speak
English. Her mother had traveled widely in her youth and liked literature very much. After being educated
by her mother and by a Chinese teacher, Pearl S. Buck went to school in Shanghai at the age of fifteen.
She continued her education in the United States at a Woman"s College to study psychology (心理学).
After graduating in 1914, she returned to China as a teacher. In the 1920s her family moved to Nanjing.
There she taught English and American literature at a university. As a writer, Buck"s book, The Good Earth,
appeared in 1931 and sold quite well in its first year. It has been translated into over thirty languages.
In 1938 she became the third American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. By the time of her death,
Pearl had published (出版) more than seventy books. Pearl S.Buck died in March, 1973, just two months
before her 81st birthday.
( )1. Before she went to school in Shanghai, Pearl S.Buck studied all by herself.
( )2. Pearl S.Buck was known to many people for her books about China．
( )3. In 1914, Pearl S.Buck worked as a literature teacher at.a university in Nanjing.
( )4. Pearl S.Buck went to study literature at a Woman"s College in America.
( )5. Pearl S.Buck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938 and published over seventy books in her life. | | 阅读下列短文，从每个小题所给的选项中选出最佳答案。 | One of the most famous scientists to study adaptations (适应能力) was Charles Darwin (达尔文).
He was born in England in 1809. He wasn"t the best student in his school, but when he was 16,his father
sent him to a medical school. Charles liked spending time outdoors observing (观察) nature more than
attending medical classes. He dropped out without graduating.
Next, Charles" father sent him to school to become a minister (牧师). This time he made it to graduation.
But he didn"t want to do the work of a minister. His friends encouraged him to follow his interest in science.
After graduation, Charles was invited to sail on the Beagle as an unpaid scientist. He wasn"t the first
choice but he was the lucky one to go. The Beagle was to travel to South America and then around the world.
The crew"s task was to make maps of the places they visited.
On December 27th,1831, Charles Darwin sailed from England on the Beagle. The trip was planned to
last two years. In fact, it lasted five. During this time, he saw many amazing things. He collected lots of
plants and animals and took them back to England to study.
Twenty-three years later, Darwin published a scientific paper with another man named Wallace. Darwin
described how some animals have adaptations that help them survive. They are passed on to offspring (后代). | | 1. Darwin was very interested in _____. | | [ ] | A. attending medical classes
B. the work of a minister
C. sailing around the world
D. science | | 2.The Beagle was a(an) _____. | | [ ] | A. ship
B. plane
C. plant
D. animal | | 3. When D.arwin published the scientific paper, he was _____ years old. | | [ ] | A. twenty-three
B. twenty-two
C. forty-five
D. fifty | | 4. The underlined word "they" in the last paragraph refers to (指的是) _____. | | [ ] | A. adaptations
B. Darwin and Wallace
C. animals
D. DarWin"s ideas | | 5. Which of the following is true? | | [ ] | A. Darwin graduated from a medical school.
B. Some animals have adaptations so that they can survive.
C. Darwin published a scientific paper with his own name.
D. Darwin was first chosen to sail on the Beagle. | 最新试题
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