In the mid-1950s, I was a somewhat bored early-adolescent male student who belie

In the mid-1950s, I was a somewhat bored early-adolescent male student who belie

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In the mid-1950s, I was a somewhat bored early-adolescent male student who believed that doing any more than necessary was wasted effort. One day, this approach threw me into embarrassment
In Mrs. Totten’s eighth-grade math class at Central Avenue School in Anderson, Indiana, we were learning to add and subtract decimals (小数).
Our teacher typically assigned daily homework, which would be recited in class the following day. On most days, our grades were based on our oral answer to homework questions.
Mrs. Totten usually walked up and down the rows of desks requesting answers from student after student in the order the questions had appeared on our homework sheets. She would start either at the front or the back of the classroom and work toward the other end.
Since I was seated near the middle of about 35 students, it was easy to figure out which questions I might have to answer. This particular time, I had completed my usual two or three problems according to my calculations.
What I failed to expect was that several students were absent, which threw off my estimate. As Mrs. Totten made her way from the beginning of the class,I desperately tried to determine which math problem I would get. I tried to work it out before she got to me, but I had brain freeze and couldn’t function.
When Mrs. Totten reached my desk,she asked what answer I’d got for problem No. 14. “I…I didn’t get anything,”  I answered,and my face felt warm.
“Correct,” she said.
It turned out that the correct answer was zero.
What did I learn that day? First, always do all your homework. Second, in real life it isn’t always what you say but how you say it that matters. Third,I would never make it as a mathematician.
If I could choose one school day that taught me the most, it would be that one.
小题1:What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 indicate?
A. It is wise to value one’s time.
B. It is important to make an effort
C. It is right to stick to one’s belief.
D. It is enough to do the necessary.
小题2:Usually, Mrs. Totten asked her students to _______.
A. recite their homework together
B. grade their homework themselves
C. answer their homework questions orally
D. check the answers to their homework questions
小题3:The author could work out which questions to answer since the teacher always _______.
A. asked questions in a regular way
B. walked up and down when asking questions
C. chose two or three questions for the students
D. requested her students to finish their usual questions
小题4:The author failed to get the questions he had expected because _______.
A. the class didn’t begin as usual
B. several students didn’t come to school
C. he didn’t try hard to make his estimate
D. Mrs. Totten didn’t start from the back of the class
小题5:Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. An Unforgettable Teacher
B. A Future Mathematician
C. An Effective Approach
D. A Valuable Lesson

答案

小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:D
解析

试题分析:文章大意:本文是一篇记叙文。作者回忆了自己青春期早期,非常的自负。然而,在一堂数学课上所发生的一件尴尬的事情,给作者一次有价值的教训,也让作者明白了许多道理。
小题1:D考查句意理解。根据文章第一段I was a somewhat bored early-adolescent male student who believed that doing any more than necessary was wasted effort.及下文作者的讲述可知此句的含义是:做任何必要的都是白费力气。故D正确。
小题2:C考查细节理解。根据文章第三段最后一句On most days, our grades were based on our oral answer to homework questions.可知作者的数学老师要求学生口头回答家庭作业的问题。故C正确。
小题3:A考查细节理解。根据文章第五段中Since I was seated near the middle of about 35 students, it was easy to figure out which questions I might have to answer.可知作者坐中间,很容易推算出他要回答的问题。故A正确。
小题4:B考查细节理解。根据文章第六段首句What I failed to expect was that several students were absent, which threw off my estimate.可知由于几位同学缺席,导致了不能够知道他回答哪个问题。故B正确。
小题5:D考查文章标题。文章作者回忆了自己青春期早期,在一堂数学课上所发生的尴尬的事情,给作者一次有价值的教训。故D正确。
举一反三
Dale Carnegie rose from the unknown of a Missouri farm to international fame because he found a way to fill a universal human need.
It was a need that he first         back in 1906 when young Dale was a junior at State Teachers College in Warrensburg. To get an       , he was struggling against many difficulties. His family was poor. His Dad couldn’t afford the       at college, so Dale had to ride horseback 12 miles to attend classes. Study had to be done      his farm-work routines. He withdrew from many school activities       he didn’t have the time or the      . He had only one good suit. He tried       the football team, but the coach turned him down for being too       . During this period Dale was slowly       an inferiority complex (自卑感), which his mother knew could        him from achieving his real potential. She       that Dale join the debating team, believing that      in speaking could give him the confidence and recognition that he needed.
Dale took his mother’s advice, tried desperately and after several attempts       made it. This proved to be a       point in his life. Speaking before groups did help him gain the       he needed. By the time Dale was a senior, he had won every top honor in       . Now other students were coming to him for coaching and they,       , were winning contests.
Out of this early struggle to       his feelings of inferiority, Dale came to understand that the ability to      an idea to an audience builds a person’s confidence. And,       it, Dale knew he could do anything he wanted to do—and so could others.
小题1:
A.admitted B.filled C.supplied D.recognized
小题2:
A.assignmentB.education C.advantage D.instruction
小题3:
A.training B.board C.teaching D.equipment
小题4:
A.between B.during C.over D.through
小题5:
A.while B.when C.because D.though
小题6:
A.permits B.interestC.talent D.clothes
小题7:
A.on B.for C.in D.with
小题8:
A.light B.flexibleC.optimistic D.outgoing
小题9:
A.gaining B.achieving C.developing D.obtaining
小题10:
A.prevent B.protect C.save D.free
小题11:
A.suggestedB.demandedC.required D.insisted
小题12:
A.presence B.practice C.patience D.potential
小题13:
A.hopefullyB.certainly C.finally D.naturally
小题14:
A.key B.breaking C.basic D.turning
小题15:
A.progress B.experience C.competence D.confidence
小题16:
A.horse-ridingB.football C.speechD.farming
小题17:
A.in returnB.in brief C.in turn D.in fact
小题18:
A.convey B.overcomeC.understand D.build
小题19:
A.express B.stress C.contribute D.repeat
小题20:
A.besides B.beyond C.like D.with

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There was a pet store and the owner had a parrot. One day a          walked in and the parrot said to the man ,“Hey you!” The man said, “What!?” The parrot said, “Your          is really ugly.” The man got very          and went to the store owner and said, “Your bird just          my wife. It said she was ugly.”
The owner stormed over,          the bird, took it into the “black room,” shook it a bit,          out a few feathers, and said, “Don’t ever, ever say anything to         my customers again. You got that!!!”
With that          he took the bird and put it back into its cage. The old bird shook out its           and relaxed in its cage. A couple of weeks          and in walked this guy and his wife again. The parrot said, “Hey you!” The guy said, “What!?” The parrot answered, “You know that.”
小题1:
A.groupB.teamC.coupleD.crowd
小题2:
A.wife B.sisterC.mother D.daughter
小题3:
A.curiousB.nervousC.guilty D.angry
小题4:
A.greeted B.puzzled C.offendedD.scared
小题5:
A.hugged B.seized C.trained D.rescued
小题6:
A.sent B.handed C.pulled D.dug
小题7:
A.touch B.amuse C.cheat D.embarrass
小题8:
A.warning B.comment C.suggestion D.request
小题9:
A.eyes B.feathers C.fur D.skin
小题10:
A.lasted B.arrived C.appeared D.passed

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Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age five with her family. While         her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(an)          in medicine. At 18 she married and          a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a          . Her husband supported her decision.
         , Canadian medical schools did not          women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study          at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to         her medical degree.
Upon graduation, Charlotte         to Montreal and set up a private        . Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a          doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte          herself operating on damaged limbs and setting          bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.
But Charlotte had been practicing without a license. She had          a doctor’s license in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was        . The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to         her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to          her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887, she appeared to the Manitoba Legislature to         a license to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte         to practice without a license until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73.
In 1993, 77 years after her         , a medical license was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman.”
小题1:
A.raisingB.teachingC.nursingD.missing
小题2:
A.habitB.interestC.opinionD.voice
小题3:
A.inventedB.selectedC.offeredD.started
小题4:
A.doctorB.musicianC.lawyerD.physicist
小题5:
A.BesidesB.Unfortunately C.Otherwise D.Eventually
小题6:
A.hire B.entertainC.trust D.accept
小题7:
A.history B.physics C.medicine D.law
小题8:
A.improve B.save C.design D.earn
小题9:
A.returned B.escaped C.spread D.wandered
小题10:
A.school B.museumC.clinic D.lab
小题11:
A.busy B.wealthyC.greedyD.lucky
小题12:
A.helped B.found C.troubled D.imagined
小题13:
A.harmful B.tired C.broken D.weak
小题14:
A.put away B.taken over C.turned in D.applied for
小题15:
A.punished B.refusedC.blamed D.fired
小题16:
A.display B.change C.preview D.complete
小题17:
A.leave B.charge C.test D.cure
小题18:
A.sell B.donateC.issue D.show
小题19:
A.continued B.promised C.pretended D.dreamed
小题20:
A.birth B.death C.wedding D.graduation

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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.SympatheticB.DoubtfulC.TolerantD.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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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?
A.1952B.1962C.1972D.1982
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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