While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job wanted at a school about ten miles from where I___1___. Being very short of money and wanting to___2___ something useful I applied (申请). Fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no ___3___ of teaching my chances of getting the job were ___4___ However, three days later, a letter ___5___, calling me to Croydon for a___6___with the headmaster. It proved to be a___7___journey: a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at ___8___ a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived there, feeling___9___hot to be nervous. It was clearly the ___10___ himself that opened the door. He was___11___and round. “The school,” he said, “is made up of one___12___of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen.” I should have to___13___all the subjects except art, which he taught himself. I should have to___14___the class into three groups and teach them in turn at three different___15___, and I was disappointed at the thought of teaching maths-a___16___at which I wasn’t very good at school. Worse perhaps was the idea of___17___to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be___18___ themselves at that time. Before I had time to ask about my salary (薪水), he got up to his___19___. “Now,” he said, “you’d better meet my wife. She is the one who really 20 this school.” |
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( )1. A. lived ( )2. A. buy ( )3. A. hooks ( )4. A. great ( )5. A. arrived ( )6. A. match ( )7. A. comfortable ( )8. A. first ( )9. A. almost ( )10.A. headmaster ( )11.A. bad ( )12.A. class ( )13.A. like ( )14.A. connect ( )15.A. classes ( )16.A. book ( )17.A. forcing ( )18.A. enjoying ( )19.A. feet ( )20.A. likes
| B. played B. do B. experience B. helpful B. received B. meeting B. difficult B. last B. so B. student B. glad B. dozen B. practise B. divide B. levels B. lesson B. forgetting B. helping B. hands B. lives in
| C. studied C. teach C. material C. nice C. returned C. quarrel C. pleasant C. least C. too C. teacher C. short C. group C. study C. join C. places C. problem C. having C. studying C. letter C. runs
| D. worked D. write D. means D. tight D. written D. sight-seeing D. short D. most D. very D. wife D. smiling D. score D. teach D. tear D. subjects D. subject D. managing D. watching D. wife D. starts
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解析 1-5 AB BDA 6-10 BBCCA 11-15 CADBB 16-20 DCAAC
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阅读理解。 | Once there were two brothers who were twins. They looked the same. They both had the same dark brown hair, blue eyes and beautiful teeth. They were both 5 feet 10 inches tall and both weighed 150 pouds. They not only looked alike but also sounded alike on the telephone. Not even their family could tell the difference. They dressed alike, listened to the same music, and read the asme books. When they were twenty-tree, they both got married and a year later both had sons. The years went by and as they began to grow old, they both wore glasses and they both became. bald. Then one day, one of the brothers got sick and died. A few days later a man stopped the other twin on the street. "Excuse me for asking," he said, "but was it you or your brother who died?" | 1. It was not easy to tell the two men from each other because _____. | A. they were brothers B. they were handsome C. they were the same age D. they were twins | 2. The twin brothers _____. | A. had different coloured hair B. were not so tall as each other C. looked very much alike D. wore different clothes | 3. "They both became bald" means _____. | A. they became old B. they had sons C. they had little hair D. they got sick | 4. The only difference between the twins was _____. | A. one got sick and died first B. one was shorter than the other C. one got married and had a son D. one was bald and the other wasn"t | 5. The man stopped the other twin on the street because _____. | A. he wanted to talk with him B. he didn"t know which of them died C. he wanted to make friends with him D. he was surprised to see him on the street. | 完形填空 | When we were having an English test this morning, I felt somebody was watching me a little too closely, I turned my 1 quickly and saw Jack, who sat right behind me. My eyes caught 2 and he said very quietly, “I hope you studied for this 3 !” “What am I doing to do?” I thought to myself. I 4 cheating (作弊)in exams. Beaides, I’d studied 5 for the test. Clearly Jack hadn’t. During the exam, I tried several ways to guard my answers so that Jack wouldn’t be able to see them. When the exam 6 ,I felt I should let him know cheating was 7 . And I didn"t want to destroy(破坏)our friendship. My mind 8 the right words. “Sorry,Jack, 9 you know how I feel about cheating.” I said slowly and gently ,” May-be I could help you 10 before the next test.” “OK, Bob,” he smiled weakly. “It might not be easy ,but I’ll have a try.” | ( )1. A. head ( )2. A. hers ( )3. A. exam ( )4. A. suggest ( )5. A. slow ( )6. A. ended ( )7. A. good ( )8. A. agreed with ( )9. A. and ( )10. A. drive | B. hand B. his B. job B. like B. slowly B. began B. wrong B. searched for B. also B. move | C. eraser C. ours C. book C. hate C. hard C. went on C. easy C. took up C. so C. count | D. pencil D. yours D. chance D. finish D. hardly D. took place D. difficult D. looked at D. but D. study | 完形填空。 | Mr. Brown and his wife had a small bar near a railway station. The bar didn"t close ___1___ midnight because people came to drink while they were ___2___ for trains. So the business was good. At two o"clock one morning, a man was ___3___ sitting at the table in the bar. He was ___4___. Mr. Brown"s young wife wanted to go to ___5___. She looked ___6____ the bar several times, but the man kept sleeping. Then at last she went to her ___7___ and said to him, "You have tried to wake that man several times, and he isn"t drinking __8____. Why haven"t you sent him away? It"s too ____9___. "Oh, no, I don"t want to send him away," he answered ___10___ a smile. "You know, each time I woke him up, he gave me five pounds. Then he went to sleep again." | ( )1. A. until ( )2. A. getting ( )3. A. only ( )4. A. drinking ( )5. A. home ( )6. A. in ( )7. A. room ( )8. A. anything ( )9. A. cold ( )10. A. by | B. while B. looking B. still B. talking B. school B. at B. bed B. either B. dark B. in | C. as C. asking C. just C. sleeping C. bed C. for C. either C. everything C. late C. with | D. when D. waiting D. also D. thinking D. work D. around D. husband D. too D. early D. for | 完型填空 | Mr. and Mrs. Moore were invited to a Christmas party at a hotel one year. They 1 their car outside and went in. Mr. Moore had never got drunk (醉) before, so he was 2 not to drink too much, 3 his friends asked him to drink more 4 . During the party, Mrs.Moore found that she had 5 to bring her bag, so she asked her husband to go out to the car and 6 it for her. He 7 so, but on his way back to the hotel gate, he heard a car horn(喇叭) blowing near his own car. He thought 8 might be in need of help and went over to the car with the 9 . He found a small black bear sitting in the driving-seat and blowing the horn. When Mr. Moore 10 the party, he told several people about the bear, but of course they did not believe him and thought he was drunk. When he took them out of the hotel to 11 that his story was 12 , he found that the car with the 13 in it had gone. There were so many 14 about Mr. Moore"s black bear during the next week that he at last put an advertisement(广告)in the newspaper; "If anyone saw a black bear blowing the horn in a car outside the Century Hotel 15 the evening of Christmas Day, please tell…" Two days later 16 Mrs. Richards called him and said that she and her husband had left their pet (宠物) bear in their car outside the Century Hotel for a few minutes that evening, and that 17 he had blown the horn. Mrs. Richards did not 18 to think there was anything 19 about that. "Our bear likes blowing car horns," she said, "and we don"t 20 when we are not driving the car." | ( )1. A. pulled ( )2. A. polite ( )3. A. whether ( )4. A. all along ( )5. A. learned ( )6. A. buy ( )7. A. said ( )8. A. one ( )9. A. noise ( )10.A. was sent to ( )11.A. show ( )12.A. interesting ( )13.A. horn ( )14.A. laughs ( )15.A. for ( )16.A. the ( )17.A. quickly ( )18.A. mean ( )19.A. useful ( )20.A. agree | B. stayed B. careful B. until B. once again B. known B. get B. went B. someone B. voice B. was seated at B. notice B. correct B. bear B. shouts B. at B. a B. completely B. have B. strange B. like | C. left C. glad C. or C. just then C. remembered C. send C. did C. his wife C. cry C. got rid of C. require C. true C. bag C. smiles C. in C. / C. maybe C. know C. common C. mind | D. hid D. afraid D. though D. for ever D. forgotten D. return D. thought D. the bear D. shout D. got back to D. promise D. exciting D. driving-seat D. calls D. on D. some D. almost D. seem D. bad D. worry | 阅读理解 | Tom arrived at the bus station quite early for Paris bus. The bus for Paris would not leave until five to twelve. He saw a lot of people waiting in the station. Some were standing in line(排队), others were walking around. There was a group of schoolgirls. Their teacher was trying to keep them in line. Tom looked around but there was no place for him to sit. He walked into the station cafe(咖啡馆). he looked up at the clock there. It was only twenty to twelve. He found a seat and sat down before a large mirror(镜子) on the wall. Just then, Mike, one of Tom"s workmates came in and sat with Tom. "What time is your bus?" asked Mike. "There"s plenty of time yet," answered Tom. "Well, I"ll get you some more tea then," said Mike. They talked while drinking. Then Tom looked at the clock again. "Oh! It"s going backward(倒行)!" he cried. "A few minutes ago it was twenty to twelve and now it"s half past eleven." "You"re looking at the clock in the mirror." said Mike. Tom was so sad(难过). The next bus was not to leave for another hour. Since then Tom has never liked mirrors. | 根据以上短文内容,从下列各题所给的四个选项中选择最佳的一项 | 1. Tom went into the station cafe because ________ . | A. Mike asked him to have a cup of tea B. it was quite early and he could find a seat there C. he didn"t like to stay with the schoolgirls D. he wanted to have a drink with his workmate there | 2. What time was it in fact when Tom looked at the clock in the mirror? | A. Half past twelve B. Twenty past twelve C. Half past eleven D. Half past one | 3. From the story we know that when we look at a clock in a mirror, we will find | A. the time is right B. it"s going slower C. it"s going backward D. it"s going faster | 4. Which of the following is true? | A. Tom arrived in Paris on time B. The next bus would leave in half an hour C. After that Tom didn"t like clocks any longer D. Tom looked at the clock in the mirror only once | 5. Which of the following is the title(题目) of the story? | A. The Mirror of the Station B. Not A Careful Man C. Missing A Bus D. The Clock In The Mirror |
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