One day, a man found the cocoon (茧) of a butterfly and he brought it home.A few
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One day, a man found the cocoon (茧) of a butterfly and he brought it home.
A few days later, the man saw a small hole in the cocoon. He sat and watched for several hours as a butterfly struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it stopped.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a knife and cut a bigger hole in the cocoon. The butterfly came out of the cocoon but it had a weak body and small, thin wings. The butterfly didn’t start to fly.
In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling(爬行) around with a weak body and thin wings. It was never able to fly.
The man acted with kindness but he didn’t understand that he had done something wrong. When a butterfly crawls out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of getting out of the cocoon forces the fluid(液体) from the butterfly’s body into wings. It helps the butterfly be ready to fly. If the butterfly never has to force itself out of the cocoon, its wings never get the fluid and it can never fly.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be as strong as we could have been and we would never fly.
So, the next time you are faced with a challenge or a problem, remember the butterfly.
Struggle a little – then fly!
小题1:Why did the man cut a bigger hole in the cocoon?| A．To catch the butterfly easily. | | B．To play with the butterfly. | | C．To help the butterfly come out. | | D．To make the butterfly stronger. |
小题2:What happened after the butterfly got out of the cocoon?| A．It died soon. | | B．It had a strong body and wings. | | C．It could fly after a few days. | | D．It couldn’t fly during the rest of its life. |
小题3:Why couldn’t the butterfly fly? Because ___________ . | A．it got out of its cocoon without struggle | | B．nobody had taught it to fly | | C．all newborn butterflies could not fly | | D．the man broke its wings |
小题4:What does the writer want to tell us?| A．Kindness in our lives can help us grow. | | B．Try to be ready to help others. | | C．Without other’s help we can still succeed. | | D．Hard work leads to success. |
小题5:Which is the best title for the passage?| A．The Old Man and the Butterfly | B．Life Struggle | | C．How To Help a Butterfly Fly | D．Kindness and Rush |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:B |
解析
小题1:根据文章内容“So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a knife and cut a bigger hole in the cocoon.”可知答案为C
小题2:根据文章内容“The butterfly came out of the cocoon but it had a weak body and small, thin wings. The butterfly didn’t start to fly.”可知答案为D
小题3:根据文章内容“When a butterfly crawls out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of getting out of the cocoon forces the fluid(液体) from the butterfly’s body into wings.”可知答案为A
小题4:根据文章内容“Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be as strong as we could have been and we would never fly.”可知答案为D
小题5:根据文章内容可知答案B。 |
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When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never invited us to play in his yard, but he was a very kind person.
When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. He owned a large field and wanted to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you watered them, each baby tree would grow weaker and weaker, so you had to make things difficult for them and pick out the weaker trees early on.
He talked about how watering trees made for shallow（浅的）roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important.
So he never watered his trees. He’d planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about twenty-five years ago. They’re very big and strong now. I planted some trees a few years back and carried water to them for whole summer.
After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blows in, they shake a lot.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I pray（祈祷）that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to face difficulties. There’s always cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the brave heart, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we could face it strongly and won’t be beaten down.
小题1:We know from the passage the doctor .| A．didn’t know how to plant trees at all | | B．wasn’t good at his own medical job | | C．had his own ways of planting trees | | D．had nothing to do but plant trees |
小题2:When Dr. Gibbs said “…pick out the weaker trees early on.”, he meant that .| A．some weak trees would be easily found out at the beginning | | B．he would choose the weak trees to water earlier | | C．the weak trees would be sent to his patients later | | D．he would not plant weak trees so early anymore |
小题3:The passage tells us that the writer .| A．should beat his trees with a rolled-up newspaper | | B．didn’t often water his trees | | C．didn’t have a large field | | D．took too much care of his trees |
小题4:Which can be the best title of the passage?| A．Watering trees | | B．Growing roots | | C．Doctor and his neighbor | | D．Father and his children |
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A little girl thought she was not as beautiful _31_other girls,and nobody liked her. So she was always 32__ and didn’t like to talk to others. 33 _ ,one day,her mother gave her a beatiful hair clip. When she wore it,she looked 34__ than before. She decided 35 it to school.
On her way to school, she found that everyone she saw smiled at her. Most of them said “Hello” to her, but this 36___ happened before. She thought that beautiful hair clip brought them all. She was so happy about all of the great things. Although she didn"t 37 her classmates about her beautiful hair clip, they want to know what happened to her.
38 she went back home, her mother asked her, “Did you know you 39 your hair clip? I found it at the door this morning.”
She understood that she didn’t wear the hair to school at all.
It was not important what we wear or how we look. The most important thing is 40 we think of ourselves.
| 小题2: | | A．happy | B．excited | C．sad | D．outgoing |
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| 小题3: | | A．But | B．However | C．so | D．because |
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| 小题4: | | A．much beautiful | B．much more beautiful | | C．uglier | D．more ugly |
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| 小题5: | | A．to wear | B．wearing | C．wear | D．wore |
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| 小题6: | | A．always | B．often | C．sometimes | D．never |
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| 小题7: | | A．say | B．talk | C．speak | D．tell |
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| 小题8: | | A．Then | B．When | C．Before | D．Until |
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| 小题9: | | A．wore | B．brought | C．lost | D．took |
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You may know the song Happy Birthday very well. But do you know who wrote this song and for whom it was written?
Let me tell you a story.
About one hundred years ago, there was a girl in the USA. She loved children very much and wrote many songs for children. One of them was the song Good Morning To You. The song was very popular at that time among children, but not all grown-ups ( 成年人 ) knew it.
The girl was very poor. Once her friends invited her to a little child’s birthday party. She felt happy but sad because she had no money to buy a present for him. Finally she decided to sing the song Happy Birthday in the melody( 曲调 ) of Good Morning to You for the little boy.
When her friends heard the song at the party, they were very happy. “How wonderfully she is singing! We have not heard this song before. It’s a special present,” said someone. And they learned to sing it together.
Later, the song became very popular throughout the world. People like it because it’s simple and friendly.
小题1:The song Happy Birthday is a song from America.
小题2:Happy Birthday is an old song. Nobody knows who wrote the song Happy Birthday.
小题3:The girl knew the song would be popular before she came to the party. |
Once an old man was walking in a street with his horse. It was raining hard. The old man was cold because he was walking in the rain. He wanted to stay in a restaurant.
It was a quarter past three in the afternoon. The old man got to a small restaurant. A lot of people crowded in it. The old man couldn"t come near the fireplace. He thought and thought.At last he said to the waiters, “ Take some fish to my horse.” The waiter and the other people were very surprised. The waitered said, “A horse doesn"t eat fish.” The old man told the waiter, “ The horse is versatile. It can sing, dance and does all kinds of things. It can eat fish, too.” So the waiter took some fish to the horse.
All the people in the restaurant rushed out to see the horse eat fish except（除了……之外） the old man. Now the old man sat beside the fire. After a while the waiter returned and said. “Your horse didn"t eat any fish.” The old man said, “All right, take the fish back and put it on the table. I’ll eat it.”
小题1:The old man felt very cold because_______.| A．it was a cloudy and windy day. | | B．it snowed heavily for a long time | | C．he was travelling in a heavy rain | | D．he was hungry and thirsty |
小题2:The people in the restaurant all ran out because_________| A．They want to see the old man | | B．they wanted the horse eat fish | | C．the old man told them the horse came | | D．There was no fire over the stove |
小题3:The underlined word “versatile” means:小题4:All the people in the restaurant rushed out _____ except the old man.| A．to see the horse sing | | B．to watch the horse play games | | C．to look for the horse | | D．to see the horse eat fish |
小题5:Why did the old man ask the waiter to take some fish to his horse? Because ________| A．his horse like eating fish | | B．he had a special fish | | C．he wanted to sit near the fire, but wasn’t able to do so at first. | | D．he himself also liked to eat fish |
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One day the boss asks Tom to meet his friend Mr. Green in London. But it is his 1 time to come to London. He doesn’t know the 2 to Mr. Green’s home. He thinks he can ask people for help. When he 3 in London, he gets off the bus. There are 4 people in the street. He looks around and stops a 5 and tells her where he wants to go. The woman is very helpful. 6 her help, he finds Mr. Green’s home. Two weeks 7 , Tom needs to visit Mr. Green again. But he can’t 8 where his home is. He stops a person to ask the way. It’s the same woman. The woman is very 9 . She says, “Are you 10 looking for the place?”
| 小题1: | | A．last | B．first | C．second | D．third |
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| 小题3: | | A．comes | B．gets | C．arrives | D．goes |
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| 小题4: | | A．many | B．much | C．a little | D．a lot |
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| 小题6: | | A．With | B．Without | C．Under | D．By |
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| 小题7: | | A．after | B．later | C．behind | D．late |
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| 小题8: | | A．remember | B．forget | C．know | D．tell |
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| 小题9: | | A．sad | B．glad | C．surprised | D．sorry |
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| 小题10: | | A．never | B．still | C．just | D．again |
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