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One morning, Ann’s neighbor Tracy found a lost dog wandering around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if she could keep an eye on the dog. Ann said that she could watch it only for the day.
Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers（传单）, and put them in mailboxes. Meanwhile, Ann went to the dollar store and bought some pet supplies, warning her two sons not to fall in love with the dog. At the time, Ann’s son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was recovering from a heart operation, was 21 years old.
Four days later Ann was still looking after the dog, whom they had started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog threw itself against the screen door and barked madly at her. As soon as she opened the door, Riley dashed into the boys’ room where Ann found Jack suffering from a heart attack. Riley ran over to Jack, but as soon as Ann bent over to help him the dog went silent.
“If it hadn’t come to get me, the doctor said Jack would have died,” Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to claim the dog, so Ann decided to keep it.
The next morning Tracy got a call. A man named Peter recognized his lost dog and called the number on the flier. Tracy started crying, and told him, “That dog saved my friend’s son.”
Peter drove to Ann’s house to pick up his dog, and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After a few moments Peter said, “Maybe Odie was supposed to find you, maybe you should keep it.”
小题1:What did Tracy do after finding the dog? | A．She looked for its owner | | B．She gave it to Ann as a gift. | | C．She sold it to the dollar store. | | D．She bought some food for it. |
小题2:How did the dog help save Jack? | A．By breaking the door for Ann. | | B．By leading Ann to Jack’s room. | | C．By dragging Jack out of the room. | | D．By attending Jack when Ann was out. |
小题3:What was Ann’s attitude to the dog according to Paragraph 4? | A．Sympathetic | B．Doubtful | C．Tolerant | D．Grateful |
小题4:For what purpose did Peter call Tracy? | A．To help her friend’s son. | B．To interview Tracy | | C．To take back his dog. | D．To return the flier to her. |
小题5:What can we infer about the dog from the last paragraph? | A．It would be given to Odie. | | B．It would be kept by Ann’ family. | | C．It would be returned to Peter. | | D．It would be taken away by Tracy. |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:B |
解析
【文章大意】这是一篇记叙文。一天，Tracy在当地学校附近捡到一只流浪狗，把它交代给邻居Ann照顾，自己去找狗的主人。Ann答应只照顾这只狗一天。结果在没找到狗主人之前Ann和她的两个儿子一直照顾这只狗而且很快喜欢上了它。Ann的大儿子有心脏病，多亏了这只狗帮Ann及时救了她儿子，所以当狗主人来认领狗时全家人都舍不得它走。最终，狗留在了Ann家里，成为家庭一员。
小题1:A考查细节理解。根据第二段开头句子“Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers…”可知，Tracy照了狗的照片，印了400张传单。这都是为了找到狗的主人。故选A。
小题2:B考查判断推理。根据第三段句子“When she arrived home…where Ann found Jack…”可以推断，狗Riley是通过向Ann狂叫并领Ann进入Jack的房间让Ann发现Jack犯了心脏病从而及时救了Jack的。故选B。
小题3:D考查判断推理。根据第四段Ann跟报社说的话，“If it hadn’t …”,如果不是狗领着Ann找到Jack，Jack可能就死了。也就是狗救了Jack的命，所以可以推断Ann对狗很感激，感激它救了她儿子的命。故选D。
小题4:C考查细节理解。根据第五段句子“A man named Peter recognized his lost dog…”可知，Peter给Tracy打电话的目的是为了领回他丢失的狗。故选C。
小题5:B考查判断推理。根据最后一段Peter去Ann家里领回他的狗时看到的场景“saw Thomas and Jack crying…”及他说说的话“Maybe … you should keep it.”可以推断，狗最终是留着了Ann家里。故选B。 |
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It was one of those terribly hot days in Baltimore. Needless to say, it was too hot to do anything outside. But it was also scorching in our apartment. This was 1962, and I would not live in a place with an air conditioner for another ten years. So my brother and I decided to leave the apartment to find someplace indoors. He suggested we could see a movie. It was a brilliant plan.
Movie theaters were one of the few places you could sit all day and—most important —sit in air conditioning. In those days, you could buy one ticket and sit through two movies. Then, the theater would show the same two movies again. If you wanted to, you could sit through them twice. Most people did not do that, but the manager at our theater. Mr. Bellow did not mind if you did.
That particular day, my brother and I sat through both movies twice, trying to escape the heat. We bought three bags of popcorn and three sodas each. Then, we sat and watched The Music Man followed by The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. We’d already seen the second movie once before. It had been at the theater since January, because Mr. Bellow loved anything with John Wayne in it.
We left the theater around 8, just before the evening shows began. But we returned the next day and saw the same two movies again, twice more. And we did it the next day too. Finally, on the fourth day, the heat wave broke.
Still, to this day I can sing half the songs in The Music Man and recite half of John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart’s dialogue from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! Those memories are some of the few I have of the heat wave of 1962. They’re really memories of the screen, not memories of my life.
小题1:In which year did the author first live in a place with an air conditioner? 小题2:What does the underlined word”It” in Paragraph 3 refer to? | A．The heat | | B．The theater. | | C．The Music Man | | D．The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
小题3:What do we know about Mr. Bellow? | A．He loved children very much. | | B．He was a fan of John Wayne. | | C．He sold air conditioners. | | D．He was a movie star. |
小题4:Why did the author and his/her brother see the same movies several times? | A．The two movies were really wonderful. | | B．They wanted to avoid the heat outside. | | C．The manager of the theater was friendly. | | D．They liked the popcorn and the soda at the theater. |
小题5:What can we learn from the last paragraph? | A．The author turned out to be a great singer. | | B．The author enjoyed the heat wave of 1962. | | C．The author’s life has been changed by the two movies. | | D．The author considers the experience at the theater unforgettable. |
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Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slaveholders. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett.”
For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s wife tried to strike Mumbet’s sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.
While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.
Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants(后裔). One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founder of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.
Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part: “She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.”
小题1:What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1? | A．She was born a slave | | B．She was a slaveholder | | C．She had a famous sister | | D．She was born into a rich family |
小题2:Why did Mumbet run away from the Ashleys? | A．She found an employer | | B．She wanted to be a lawyer | | C．She was hit and got angry | | D．She had to take care of her sister |
小题3:What did Mumbet learn from discussions about the new consititution? | A．She should always obey her owners’ orders | | B．She should be as free and equal as whites | | C．How to be a good servant | | D．How to apply for a job |
小题4:What did Mumbet do after the trial? | A．She chose to work for a lawyer | | B．She found the NAACP | | C．She continued to serve the Ashleys | | D．She went to live with her grandchildren |
小题5:What is the test mainly about? | A．A story of a famous writer and spokesperson | | B．The friendship between a lawyer and a slave | | C．The life of a brave African American woman | | D．A trial that shocked the whole world |
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My husband, Tom, has always been good with animals, but I was still amazed when he befriended a female grouse (松鸡). It"s for a grouse to have any contact (接触) with people. In fact, they"re hard to spot, they usually fly off when they hear humans approaching.
This grouse came into our lives in Tom was working out in the field when he her walking around at the edge of the field. She was unafraid and seemed to be about what he was doing.
Tom saw the bird several times, and she got more comfortable around him. We quickly grew of the bird and decided to call her Mildred.
One day, as Tom was working, Mildred came within a few feet of him to watch. Tom he didn"t see her and kept working to see what she would do next.
Apparently, she didn"t like to be . She"d run up and peck (啄) at Tom"s hands, then off to see what he would do. This went on for about 20 minutes, until Mildred became tired of the and left.
As spring went and summer came, Mildred started to more and more often. Mildred felt comfortable enough to jump up on Tom"s leg and stay long enough for me to get a of the two of them together. This friendly grouse soon felt not just with our family, but with anybody who walked or drove by.
When hunting season opened, we put a at the end of our driveway asking not to shoot our pet grouse. My father, who lived down the road, warned people not to shoot her. . hunters would stop and take pictures, because they had never seen anything like her.
| 小题1: | | A．interesting | B．reasonable | C．impossible | D．unusual |
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| 小题2: | | A．though | B．because | C．unless | D．until |
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| 小题3: | | A．spring | B．summer | C．autumn | D．winter |
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| 小题4: | | A．got | B．kept | C．noticed | D．imagined |
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| 小题5: | | A．naturally | B．certainly | C．normally | D．surprisingly |
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| 小题6: | | A．crazy | B．curious | C．concerned | D．cautious |
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| 小题7: | | A．shy | B．awkward | C．friendly | D．elegant |
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| 小题8: | | A．careful | B．tired | C．fond | D．sick |
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| 小题9: | | A．supposed | B．realized | C．hoped | D．pretended |
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| 小题10: | | A．ignored | B．observed | C．amazed | D．disturbed |
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| 小题13: | | A．give up | B．come out | C．turn over | D．fly by |
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| 小题14: | | A．Eventually | B．Suddenly | C．Constantly | D．Presently |
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| 小题15: | | A．chance | B．dream | C．picture | D．sense |
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| 小题16: | | A．comfortable | B．guilty | C．anxious | D．familiar |
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| 小题17: | | A．lantern | B．sign | C．gun | D．loudspeaker |
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| 小题18: | | A．drivers | B．farmers | C．hunters | D．tourists |
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| 小题20: | | A．In fact | B．For long | C．On the contrary | D．By the way |
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In 1943, when I was 4, my parents moved from Coeur d"Alene, Idaho, to Fairbanks, Alaska, where adventure was never very far away.
We arrived in the summer, just in time to enjoy the midnight sun. All that sunlight was fantastic for Mom"s vegetable garden. Working in the garden at midnight tended to throw her timing off, so she didn"t care much about my bedtime.
Dad was a Railway Express agent and Mom was his clerk. That left me in a mess. I usually managed to find some trouble to get into. Once I had a little Are going in the dirt basement of a hotel. I had tried to light a barrel（桶） of paint but couldn"t really get a good fire going. The smoke got pretty bad, though, and when 1 made my exit, a crowd and the police were there to greet me. The policemen took my matches and drove me
Mom and Dad were occupied in the garden and Dad told the police to keep me, and they did! I had a tour of the prison before Mom rescued me. 1 hadn"t turned 5 yet.
As I entered kindergarten, the serious cold began to set in. Would it surprise you to know that I soon left part of my tongue on a metal handrail at school?
As for Leonhard Seppala, famous as a dog sledder (驾雪橇者), I think I knew him well because I was taken for a ride with his white dog team one Sunday. At the time I didn"t realize what a superstar he was, but I do remember the ride well. I was wrapped (包裹) heavily and well sheltered from the freezing and blowing weather.
In 1950, we moved back to Coeur d"Alene, but we got one more Alaskan adventure when Leonhard invited us eight years later by paying a visit to Idaho to attend a gathering of former neighbors of Alaska.
小题1:What can be inferred about the author"s family?| A．His father was a cruel man. | | B．His parents didn"t love him. | | C．His parents used to be very busy. | | D．His mother didn"t have any jobs. |
小题2:What happened when the author was 4?| A．He learned to smoke. | | B．He was locked in a basement. | | C．He was arrested by the police. | | D．He nearly caused a fire accident. |
小题3:Which of the following is true?| A．Leonhard was good at driving dog sleds. | | B．The author spent his whole childhood in Alaska. | | C．Leonhard often visited the author"s family after 1950. | | D．The author suffered a lot while taking the dog sled in Alaska. |
小题4:What is the author"s purpose of writing the text?| A．To look back on his childhood with adventures. | | B．To describe the extreme weather of Alaska. | | C．To express how much he misses Leonhard. | | D．To show off his pride in making trouble. |
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A schoolgirl saved her father"s life by kicking him in the chest after he suffered a serious allergic (过敏的) reaction which stopped his heart.
Izzy, nine, restarted father Colm"s heart by stamping (踩) on his chest after he fell down at home and stopped breathing.
Izzy"s mother, Debbie, immediately called 999 but Izzy knew doctors would never arrive in time to save her father, so decided to use CPR.
However, she quickly discovered her arms weren"t strong enough, so she stamped on her father"s chest .Debbie then took over with some more conventional chest compressions (按压) until the ambulance arrived .
Izzy, who has been given a bravery award by her school, said: "I just kicked him really hard. My mum taught me CPR but I knew I wasn"t strong enough to use hands. I was quite scared. The doctor said I might as well be a doctor or a nurse. My mum said that Dad was going to hospital with a big footprint on his
"She"s a little star," said Debbie, "i was really upset but Izzy just took over. I just can"t believe what she did. I really think all children should be taught first aid. Izzy did CPR then the doctor turned up. Colm had to have more treatment on the way to the hospital and we"ve got to see an expert."
Truck driver Colm, 35, suffered a mystery allergic reaction on Saturday and was taken to hospital, but was sent home only for it to happen again the next day. The second attack was so serious that his airway swelled, preventing him from breathing, his blood pressure dropped suddenly, and his heart stopped for a moment.
He has now made a full recovery from his suffering.
小题1:Izzy kicked her father in the chest ______ .| A．to express her helplessness | B．to practise CPR on him | | C．to keep him awake | D．to restart his heart |
小题2:What"s the right order of the events?
1Izzy kicked Colm.
2Debbie called 999.
3Izzy learned CPR.
4Colm"s heart stopped. 小题3:What does Paragraph 8 mainly talk about?| A．What Colm suffered. | | B．Colm"s present condition. | | C．What caused Colm"s allergy. | | D．Symptoms of Colm"s allergic reaction. |
小题4:Why does the author write the news?| A．To describe a serious accident. | | B．To prove the importance of CPR. | | C．To report a 9-year-old girl"s brave act. | | D．To call people"s attention to allergic reaction. |
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