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It was Mother’s Day morning last year and I was doing my shopping at our local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were leaving, we found that only minutes earlier an elderly woman had fallen over at the entrance and had hit her head on the concrete. Her husband was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock.
Walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very upset about what had happened to the couple. He said to me, “Mum, it’s not much fun falling over in front of everyone.”
At the front of the supermarket a charity(慈善) group had set up a stand selling cooked sausages and flowers to raise funds. Tenyson suggested that we should buy the lady a flower. “It will make her feel better,” he said. I was amazed that he’d come up with such a sweet idea. So we went over to the flower seller and asked her if we could buy a flower for the lady to cheer her up. “Just take it,” she replied. “I can’t take your money for such a wonderful gesture.”
By now paramedics（救援人员）had arrived, and were attending the injured woman. As we walked up to her, my son became intimidated by all the blood and medical equipment. He said he was just too scared to go up to her.
Instead I gave the flower to the woman’s husband and told him, “ My son was very upset for your wife and wanted to give her this flower to make her feel better.”
At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you so much, you have a wonderful son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”
The man then bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from. Though badly hurt and shaken, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with love in her eyes and gave him a little smile.
小题1:What dose the author intend to tell us?| A．One can never be too careful. | | B．Actions speak louder than words. | | C．Love begins with a little smile. | | D．A small act of kindness brings a great joy. |
小题2:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．The elderly woman was knocked down by Tenyson. | | B．Tenyson’s idea of buying a flower gained his father’s support. | | C．Tenyson’s care for the elderly woman puzzled the flower seller. | | D．The elderly woman was moved to tears by Tenyson’s gesture. |
小题3:The underlined word “intimidated” in the fourth paragraph probably means “___________”.| A．astonished | B．struck | C．frightened | D．excited |
小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Flower Power | | B．Mother’s Day | | C．An Accidental Injury | | D．An Embarrassing Moment |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A |
解析
试题分析：这是一篇记叙文。这篇文章讲了一个母亲节，作者和儿子在商场购物，发现了一位摔倒受伤的老人，作者的儿子坚持要给老人买束花。尽管老人受伤严重，但是仍然向作者的儿子露出了微笑。由此可见一个小小的善举都可能带来快乐。
小题1:D. 推测题：这篇文章讲了一个母亲节，作者和儿子在商场购物，发现了一位摔倒受伤的老人，作者的儿子坚持要给老人买束花。尽管老人受伤严重，但是仍然向作者的儿子露出了微笑。由此可见一个小小的善举都可能带来快乐。故选D。
小题2:B. 细节题：根据第三段中so we went over to the flower seller and asked her if we could buy a flower for the lady to cheer her up.可知对Tenyson的主意获得了他的母亲的支持，故选B。
小题3:C. 猜词题：根据he said he was just too scared to go up to her可猜出 “intimidated”意思是害怕。故选C。
小题4:A. 主旨题：这篇文章讲了一个母亲节，作者和儿子在商场购物，发现了一位摔倒受伤的老人，作者的儿子坚持要给老人买束花。尽管老人受伤严重，但是仍然向作者的儿子露出了微笑。所以最好的题目应该是鲜花的力量，故选A。 |
举一反三
Samuel Osmond is a 19-year-old law student from Cornwall, England. He never studied the piano. However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven just a few minutes after he hears them. He learns a piece of music by listening to it in parts. Then he thinks about the notes in his head. Two years ago, he played his first piece Moonlight Sonata（奏鸣曲）by Beethoven. He surprised everyone around him.
Amazed that he remembered this long and difficult piece of music and played it perfectly, his teachers say Samuel is unbelievable .They say his ability is very rare, but Samuel doesn’t even realize that what he can do is special. Samuel wanted to become a lawyer as it was the wish of his parents, but music teachers told him he should study music instead. Now, he studies law and music.
Samuel can’t understand why everyone is so surprised. “I grew up with music. My mother played the piano and my father played the guitar. About two years ago, I suddenly decided to start playing the piano, without being able to read music and without having any lessons. It comes easily to me ---I hear the notes and can bear them in mind---each and every note,” says Samuel.
Recently, Samuel performed a piece during a special event at his college. The piece had more than a thousand notes. The audience was impressed by his amazing performance. He is now learning a piece that is so difficult that many professional pianists can’t play it. Samuel says confidently,” It’s all about super memory---I guess I have that gift.”
However, Samuel’s ability to remember things doesn’t stop with music. His family says that even when he was a young boy, Samuel heard someone read a story, and then he could retell the story word for word.
Samuel is still only a teenager. He doesn’t know what he wants to do in the future. For now, he is just happy to play beautiful music and continue his studies.
小题1:What is special about Samuel Osmond? | A．He has a gift for writing music. | | B．He can write down the note he hears. | | C．He is a top student at the law school. | | D．He can play the musical piece he hears. |
小题2:What can we learn from Paragraph 2?| A．Samuel chose law against the wish of his parents. | | B．Samuel planned to be a lawyer rather than a musician. | | C．Samuel thinks of himself as a man of great musical ability. | | D．Samuel studies law and music on the advice of his teachers. |
小题3:Everyone around Samuel was surprised because he _________.| A．received a good early education in music | | B．played the guitar and the piano perfectly | | C．could play the piano without reading music | | D．could play the guitar better than his father |
小题4:What can we infer about Samuel in Paragraph 4?| A．He became famous during a special event at his college. | | B．He is proud of his ability to remember things accurately. | | C．He plays the piano better than many professional pianists. | | D．He impressed the audience by playing all the musical pieces. |
小题5:Which of the following is the best title of the passage?| A．The Qualities of a Musician | | B．The Story of a Musical Talent | | C．The Importance of Early Education | | D．The Relationship between Memory and Music. |
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Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree, with honors, in English literature had not really prepared me for anything practical. I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s when I learned about the Lighthouse Project.
I started my journey as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous volunteers. I knew it would be a lot of hard work, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time. In short, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly. Neither did my family.
Eventually, however, I won the support of my family, and I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to stand out among the candidates and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me to report for the duty. I would be going to a small village near Abuja, Nigeria. Where? What? Nigeria? I had no idea. But I was about to find out.
After completing my training, I was sent to the village that was small and desperately in need of proper accommodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I taught in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes think I learned more from my students than they did from me.
Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local language, and returned to the United States a different man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever.
小题1:What do we know about the author? | A．His university education focused on the theoretical knowledge. | | B．His dream at university was to become a volunteer. | | C．He took pride in having contributed to the world. | | D．He felt honored to study English literature. |
小题2:According to the Paragraph 2, it is most likely that the author | A．discussed his decision with his family. | | B．asked previous volunteers about voluntary work | | C．attended special training to perform difficult tasks | | D．felt sad about having to leave his family and friends |
小题3:In his application for the volunteer job, the author | A．participated in many discussions | | B．went through challenging survival tests | | C．wrote quite a few paper on voluntary work | | D．faced strong competition from other candidates |
小题4:On arrival at the village, the author was | A．asked to lead a farming team | | B．sent to teach in a schoolhouse | | C．received warmly by local villagers | | D．arranged to live in a separate house. |
小题5:What can we infer from the author’s experiences in Nigeria? | A．He found some difficulty adapting to the local culture | | B．He had learned to communicate in the local language. | | C．He had overcome all his weaknesses before he left for home. | | D．He was chosen as the most respectable teacher by his students. |
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Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people to climb the West Face of the Siula Grande in the Andes mountains. They reached the top _______, but on their way back conditions were very _______. Joe fell and broke his leg. They both knew that if Simon _______ alone, he would probably get back _______. But Simon decided to risk his _______ and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope（绳）.
As they _______ down, the weather got worse. Then another _______ occurred. They couldn’t see or hear each other and, _______, Simon lowered his friend over the edge of a precipice（峭壁）. It was _______ for Joe to climb back or for Simon to pull him up. Joe’s _______ was pulling Simon slowly towards the precipice. _______, after more than an hour in the dark and the icy cold, Simon had to _______. In tears, he cut the rope. Joe _______ into a large crevasse（裂缝）in the ice below. He had no food or water and he was in terrible pain. He couldn’t walk, but he _______ to get out of the crevasse and started to _______ towards their camp, nearly ten kilometers _______.
Simon had _______ the camp at the foot of the mountain. He thought that Joe must be _______, but he didn’t want to leave _______. Three days later, in the middle of the night, he heard Joe’s voice. He couldn’t _______ it. Joe was there, a few meters from their tent, still alive.
| 小题1: | | A．hurriedly | B．carefully | C．successfully | D．early |
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| 小题2: | | A．difficult | B．similar | C．special | D．normal |
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| 小题3: | | A．climbed | B．worked | C．rested | D．continued |
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| 小题4: | | A．unwillingly | B．safely | C．slowly | D．regretfully |
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| 小题5: | | A．fortune | B．time | C．health | D．life |
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| 小题6: | | A．lay | B．settled | C．went | D．looked |
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| 小题7: | | A．damage | B．storm | C．change | D．trouble |
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| 小题8: | | A．by mistake | B．by chance | C． | D． |
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| 小题9: | | A．unnecessary | B．practical | C．important | D．impossible |
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| 小题10: | | A．height | B．weight | C．strength | D．equipment |
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| 小题11: | | A．Finally | B．Patiently | C．Surely | D．Quickly |
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| 小题12: | | A．stand back | B．take a rest | C．make a decision | D．hold on |
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| 小题13: | | A．jumped | B．fell | C．escaped | D．backed |
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| 小题14: | | A．managed | B．planned | C．waited | D．hoped |
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| 小题15: | | A．run | B．skate | C．move | D．march |
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| 小题16: | | A．around | B．away | C．above | D．along |
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| 小题17: | | A．headed for | B．traveled to | C．left for | D．returned to |
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| 小题19: | | A．secretly | B．tiredly | C． immediately | D．anxiously |
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| 小题20: | | A．find | B．believe | C．make | D．accept |
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Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband ,Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.
He reported the case to the police and then sat there，lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.
Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can（垃圾桶）that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restoredour faith and trust in people.We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.
小题1:What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?| A．Go shopping | | B．Find a house | | C．Join his family | | D．Take his family |
小题2:The girl’s parents got Rashid’s phone number from_______.| A．a friend of his family | | B．a Sydney policeman | | C．a letter in his papes | | D．a stranger in Sydney |
小题3:What does the underlined word“restored”in the last paragraph mean?| A．Showed | | B．Sent out | | C．Delivered | | D．Gave back |
小题4:Which of the following can be the best title for the text?| A．From India to Australia. | | B．Living in a a New Country. | | C．Turning Trash to Treasure. | | D．In Search of New Friends. |
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Which boy hasn’t dreamed of being a cool secret agent (特工)? The wonderful fighting abilities and the world-saving adventures are much more colourful than most people’s everyday lives. Well, Cody Banks is just like any other boy，except that he is not just dreaming. He has a big secret his friends never know about. He was trained to be a spy (间谍）by a special CIA programme，which was made to look like a summer camp. He learned high-speed driving，hand-to-hand fighting and the use of high-tech tools.
After proving he could become a young hero by saving a baby from a runaway car，Banks gets his first real task. He must make friends with a popular girl at school，Natalie Connors. Then，he must spy on her father，a scientist who has developed a dangerous technology (技术).Banks must stop a group of bad people from forcing Natalie’s father into using the technology to endanger the world.
The CIA may have taught him first-class self-defence moves，but they didn’t show him how to talk to girls. Banks has zero ability when it comes to dealing with girls. How can he get around his problem and get an invitation to the girl’s upcoming birthday party? Will he finally become Natalie’s boyfriend and find out whatever he can about her father’s work?
Agent Cody Banks has everything that young people are interested in: big explosions, breath-taking performances and funny girl-dating experiences. It was listed No.2 in the American box office last week.
“This story is interesting and fun for the whole family to enjoy，and especially cool for young boys，” said Paul Perkins, a film reviewer in theUS.
小题1:What is Banks’ first real task?| A．To test a high-tech tool. | B．To save a baby from a car. | | C．To study a new technology. | D．To watch a scientist secretly. |
小题2:Banks wanted to go to Natalie’s birthday party to______ .| A．meet her father | B．know more people | | C．make friends with her | D．steal some information |
小题3:What is considered as a great danger in the text?| A．The technology developed by Natalie’s father. | | B． An explosion set off by some bad people. | | C．The CIA’s training of boys for its tasks. | | D．Secret agents’ spying on scientists. |
小题4:What is the purpose of the text?
A. Making known the work of the CIA. B.Telling the story about a cool boy.
C. Showing the dark side of science. D.Introducing a new film. |
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