The Fitting-in of Suzy Khan The first time I saw Suzy Khan, I knew I had to help
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The Fitting-in of Suzy Khan
The first time I saw Suzy Khan, I knew I had to help her. She was really small for her age of 12. The boy in my class often about her and laughed their heads off. She would open a book, pretending to read, with tears dropping on the open page.
All I knew was that she was an orphan (孤儿) from Africa. She had just been adopted by a family in town who that the best way for her to learn American ways of life was to be with american kids. I looked down at this girl and promised myself that somehow I would help her.
But how could I help her in with us? There had to be a .
One day, when I went into the classroom, I saw that Suzy had her geography book to a picture of a train, and in her notebook, she had made a(n) copy.
I was surprised and thought that she could do something in the coming show. So, I took her to see the art teacher, Miss Parker, and showed her what Suzy had . “why, it’s wonderful,” said Miss Parker, who then showed us a poster she had painted the talent show. “I need more of these, but I just don’t have enough . Could you help me, Suzy?”
On the day of the talent show, Suzy’s were everywhere ---- all over the hall and all over the school, each one different.
“And finally,” said Mr Brown, the schoolmaster, at the end of the show, “we have a (n) award. I’m sure you’ve all noticed the wonderful posters.” Everyone nodded. “One of our own students them.”
I could hear everyone whispering. “Who in our school could draw well?”
Mr. Brown waited a while before saying, “ this student worked so hard on the posters, she deserves a ,too. Our mystery(神秘) artist is our new student ---- Suzy Khan!”
Mr. Brown thanked her for all the wonderful posters and gave her a professional artist’s set. “Thank you,” she cried.
I , at that time when I was looking at her excited face, she’d probably never anything in her whole life.
Everyone started to their hands. Suzy Khan gave them a shy smile and the applause was defening. I knew then Suzy was going to ne all right.
| 小题1: | | A．joked | B．cared | C．trains | D．worried |
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| 小题2: | | A．reported | B．decided | C．complained | D．questioned |
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| 小题3: | | A．rich | B．proud | C．tiny | D．popular |
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| 小题5: | | A．manner | B．pattern | C．choice | D．way |
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| 小题6: | | A．read | B．taken | C．opened | D．put |
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| 小题7: | | A．free | B．perfect | C．final | D．extra |
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| 小题8: | | A．are | B．talk | C．quiz | D．talent |
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| 小题9: | | A．colored | B．written | C．carved | D．drawn |
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| 小题11: | | A．room | B．time | C．paper | D．interest |
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| 小题12: | | A．gifts | B．books | C．photos | D．posters |
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| 小题13: | | A．special | B．academic | C．national | D．rayal |
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| 小题14: | | A．painted | B．found | C．printed | D．collected |
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| 小题16: | | A．If | B．Though | C．Unless | D．Since |
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| 小题17: | | A．prize | B．rank | C．rest | D．place |
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| 小题18: | | A．replied | B．realized | C．remembered | D．regretted |
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| 小题19: | | A．offered | B．valued | C．owned | D．controlled |
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| 小题20: | | A．clap | B．wave | C．raise | D．shake |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:C
小题5:D
小题6:C
小题7:B
小题8:D
小题9:D
小题10:C
小题11:B
小题12:D
小题13:A
小题14:A
小题15:B
小题16:D
小题17:A
小题18:B
小题19:C
小题20:A |
解析
【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文。本文讲了一个非洲来的儿童Suzy被美国家庭收养，为让孩子了解美国生活，他们把孩子送进学校和美国孩子一起学习。但那些美国孩子却经常嘲笑她。一次偶然的机会，“我”发现了她的绘画才能，并把她介绍给艺术老师。艺术老师也认同她的绘画才能，让她帮自己制作才艺秀的海报。在才艺秀结束的时候，校长颁发给Suzy一个特殊的奖项，同学们也认可和接纳了她。
小题1:A 考查动词词义辨析及语境理解。根据语境，这里是说“班里的男孩子会拿她开玩笑，然后就是哄堂大笑。而她也只好眼含泪水地假装看书。”joke about 拿…开玩笑，care about介意，在乎，forget about忘记，worry about为…担忧。
小题2:B 考查动词词义辨析及语境理解。这个非洲孤儿被美国家庭收养，美国家庭决定（认定）和美国孩子在一起才能让她学会美国生活方式。decide这里是认定、断定的意思，report报告、报道，complain抱怨，投诉，question质疑，提问。
小题3:C 考查形容词词义辨析。根据上文叙述，这个女孩比同龄12岁的孩子都要瘦小，所以“我低头看着这个小小的女孩子，下决心无论如何都要帮助她”。rich富有的，proud骄傲的，popular流行的，受欢迎的。显然都不符合语境。tiny ="very" small。
小题4:C 考查动词词义辨析和上下文语境。我打算帮助这个女孩与大家融洽相处。文章标题已给出提示。fit in with适合，与…一致。
小题5:D 考查名词词义辨析。根据上文决定帮助小女孩与大家一致，必须寻找一个办法/方法。manner做事或行为方式,多指行动的特殊方式或独特的方法，pattern指模式、花样、图案等，choice指选择，way指方式、方法、手段等，可指一般的方法，有时也指个人的方法或方式。因为这里没有谈到什么方法，所以只能用笼统的方法way。
小题6:C 考查动词词义辨析和语境。Suzy把书打开到火车图片那里。open…to把…翻到，to是介词，表达“到…地方”。其他均不合适。
小题7:B 考查形容词词义辨析和上下文语境。她对火车图的复制，效果怎样要看文中第44题后的陈述，“why, it’s wonderful”可知，非常好，与此题选项中的perfect相近。
小题8:D 考查名词词义辨析和上下文语境。根据后文第45题后的陈述“the talent show”我们知道这是一个才艺秀。
小题9:D 考查动词词义辨析和语境。根据上文陈述，Suzy在画火车，所以这里应该是“我”把她画的东西展示给艺术老师看。color意思为涂色和染色, write书写，carve雕刻，draw画。
小题10:C 考查介词。根据文章内容，这里是老师拿出一张“为才艺秀”做的海报。for意为“为…”。
小题11:B 考查名词词义辨析和语境。由该空前面“more”和空后的”help”两个词可知，老师还需要更多的海报，但老师“没有足够的时间”，所以才请Suzy帮忙制作。
小题12:D 考查名词词义辨析和上下文语境。上文已谈到，艺术老师想让Suzy帮忙制作一些海报，所以，才艺秀当天应该到处都能看到Suzy制作的海报。
小题13:A 考查形容词词义辨析。才艺秀当天大家都表演了，还要颁发一个特殊的奖项给制作海报的人，因为制作海报原本不是才艺秀的内容。
小题14:A 考查动词词义辨析和上下文。文中这句话的意思说“我们一个学生画了这些海报”，除了draw以外，我们还可以使用paint一词，表示绘画。
小题15:B 考查副词词义。修饰形容词或副词，表示那么，那样，我们一般用so，也可以用that，二者意思相近。that well="so" well。
小题16:D 考查状语从句的连接词和上下文语境。“因为这位同学如此努力地画了这些海报”，所以值得奖励。since="now" that/because。
小题17:A 考查名词词义辨析和语境。因为努力画了这些海报，这位同学值得奖励。prize奖励， rank等级，秩序，rest休息，place地点，位置。
小题18:B 考查动词词义辨析。该空描写作者的思想活动，是意识到她从来没有拥有过什么，这些成就和别人的承认第一次让她意识到自己的能力和重要。Reply回答，realize意识到，remember回忆，regret后悔，遗憾。
小题19:C 考查动词词义辨析。因为是外来的移民，没有融入大家的生活中，这次活动让大家看到了她拥有的东西。
小题20:A 考查动词词义辨析。因为她画得好，得到校长表扬，才能得到大家认可，所以大家为她鼓掌。clap one’s hands鼓掌。 |
举一反三
The Brown Bear
My wife Laura and I were on the beach, with three of our children, taking pictures of shore birds near our home in Alaska when we spotted a bear. The bear was thin and small, moving aimlessly.
Just a few minutes later, I heard my daughter shouting, “Dad! The bear is right behind us!” An agreesive bear will usually rush forward to frighten away its enemy but would suddenly stop at the last minute. This one was silent and its ears pinned back---- the sign (迹象) of an animal that is going in for the kill. And it was a cold April day. The bear behaved abnormally, probably because of hunger.
I held my camera tripod (三脚架) in both hands to form a barrier as the bear rushed into me. Its huge head was level with my chest and shoulders, and the tripod stuck across its mouth. It bit down and I found myself supporting its weight. I knew I would not be able to hold it for long.
Even so, this was a fight I had to win: I was all that stood between the bear and my family, who would stand little chance of running faster than a brown bear.
The bear hit at the camera, cutting it off the tripod. I raised my left arm to protect my face; the beast held tightly on the tripod and pressed it into my side. My arm could not move, and I sensed that my bones were going to break.
Drawing back my free hand, I struck the bear as hard as I could for five to six times. The bear opened its mouth and I grasped its fur, trying to push it away. I was actually wrestling (扭打) with the bear at this point. Then, as suddenly as it had begun, the fight ended. The bear moved back toward the forest, before returning for another attack----- The first time I felf panic.
Apparently satisfied that we caused no further threat, the bear moved off, destroying a fence as it went. My arm was injured, but the outcome for us could hardly have been better. I’m proud that my family reminded clear-headed when panic could have led to a very different outcome.
小题1:The brown bear approached the family in order to _______.| A．catch shore birds | B．start an attack | | C．protect the children | D．set up a barrier for itself |
小题2:The bear finally went away after it _______.| A．felt safe | B．got injured | | C．found some food | D．took away the camera |
小题3:The writer and his family survived mainly due to their ______ .| A．pride | B．patience | | C．calmness | D．cautiousness |
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From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏演唱会). A recital _____I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I _____ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he would shake his head, muttering(嘀咕) _________about build self-confidence and working toward a ________.
So it was with really great______that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and ______my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt ______rising to play the piano in his very first recital.
My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t _________lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, _______too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t ________there. When he retired three years ago, he _____ his church music director to take him as a student.
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he ______stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the ______? I worried, remembering those split seconds______ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would _______. But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the _____fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I______he had been doing what music teachers always stress:___ _____the music and pretend the others aren’t there.
“I’m ________of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff.
“Yeah, and doing it so______,” Jeff added.
With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.
| 小题1: | | A．reflected | B．explained | C．meant | D．proved |
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| 小题2: | | A．would | B．could | C．might | D．should |
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| 小题3: | | A．nothing | B．everything | C．anything | D．something |
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| 小题4: | | A．goal | B．stage | C．journey | D．chance |
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| 小题5: | | A．trouble | B．satisfaction | C．strength | D．disappointment |
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| 小题6: | | A．kept | B．sent | C．watched | D．felt |
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| 小题7: | | A．through | B．from | C．against | D．before |
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| 小题8: | | A．miss | B．afford | C．select | D．understand |
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| 小题10: | | A．educated | B．protected | C．stuck | D．spoilt |
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| 小题11: | | A．allowed | B．invited | C．inspired | D．persuaded |
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| 小题12: | | A．roughly | B．simply | C．merrily | D．curiously |
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| 小题13: | | A．words | B．videos | C．notes | D．lessons |
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| 小题14: | | A．decades | B．weeks | C．hours | D．moments |
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| 小题15: | | A．play | B．freeze | C．click | D．adjust |
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| 小题16: | | A．same | B．warm | C．different | D．dirty |
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| 小题17: | | A．predicted | B．realized | C．imagined | D．insisted |
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| 小题18: | | A．pass over | B．turn up | C．bring in | D．concentrate on |
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| 小题19: | | A．ashamed | B．aware | C．tired | D．proud |
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| 小题20: | | A．casually | B．anxiously | C．nicely | D．frequently |
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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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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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