Gift IdeaThe other day I was shopping for Grandma when I realized I had no gift
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Gift Idea
The other day I was shopping for Grandma when I realized I had no gift ideas at all．It was not a birthday gift or anything like that．It was simply sort of a hello gift．That is how we do things in my family．We don"t really give gifts for special occasions．Instead, we occasionally just give presents to each other to tell other people that we are thinking about them．
That was why I wanted a gift for Grandma．But it was like my imagination had dried up． I have gone through all of the gift ideas in previous years, fruits, wines, cheeses, little handmade crafts, and anything else that you can give to a grandmother．I had even given her gift watches, and CDs．What else was there?
I have always found gift ideas for men a little bit easier than for women, because for men, you can always get the usual things, such as video games, power tools and things like that．With a woman"s gift idea, however, you have to know more about her．You cannot just get someone a book or a CD．You have to know all about her taste in movies, music, and literature．
My grandmother likes to read a lot, but what she likes is always pretty popular．I didn"t want to get her a book that she might not like, but I was running out of time．I needed a gift idea for this weekend and went to visit her．After all, I hadn"t seen her for a long time．I wanted to give her a gift so she would not feel ignored．
Finally, I came up with the perfect gift idea．I made a collection of all the stories I had written in the past year．It wasn"t a typical gift idea like a bunch of flowers, but it really worked in the situation．You see, I am a writer and my grandma has always been my fan．
Anyway, I had been learning about bookbinding recently, and had pretty much mastered the art．I figured that I would add a little bit of handmade artwork to the stories, bind it altogether, and give it to her．It took hours to complete, but it was well worth the effort．She absolutely loved it．
小题1:The writer chose a gift for Grandma to _____．| A．celebrate a special family occasion | | B．please her during a weekend visit | | C．congratulate her on her birthday | | D．beg her pardon for ignoring her |
小题2:What gift did the writer finally decide to give his grandma?| A．Gift watches． | | B．A bunch of flowers． | | C．Artwork made by hand． | | D．Stories written by himself． |
小题3:How does the writer feel about giving gifts to women?| A．Interesting． | B．Challenging． | | C．Time-wasting． | D．Popular． |
小题4:We can learn from the passage that ______．| A．the writer is a successful novelist | | B．most people are particular about gifts | | C．the writer"s grandma has a good taste in art | | D．the writer"s family will give gifts on regular days |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:D |
解析
试题分析：文章讲述作者想在周末探望奶奶的时候让她高兴，所以尽了脑汁想给她买个礼物,最后他选择将自己写的书钉在一起送给奶奶，因为这样一个特殊的礼物奶奶一定会喜欢。
小题1:细节题:根据第四段的句子：I needed a gift idea for this weekend and went to visit her．After all, I hadn"t seen her for a long time．I wanted to give her a gift so she would not feel ignored．可知作者想要给奶奶买个礼物是想在周末探望的时候让她高兴。选B。
小题2:细节题:从倒数第二段的句子:Finally, I came up with the perfect gift idea．I made a collection of all the stories I had written in the past year．可知作者最后给奶奶准备的礼物是自己写的书，选D。
小题3:推理题：从第三段的句子：With a woman"s gift idea, however, you have to know more about her．You cannot just get someone a book or a CD．You have to know all about her taste in movies, music, and literature．可知作者认为给妇女买礼物是有挑战的，选B。
小题4:推理题：从第一段的句子：Instead, we occasionally just give presents to each other to tell other people that we are thinking about them．可知作者的家人在平常的日子会给彼此礼物。选D。 |
举一反三
It’s a sad and familiar voice that we often hear in big cities: “Can you spare some change?”
Usually, when faced with that particular , I have feelings of guilt if I pass by giving a coin or two.
I had that feeling in Venice while on a tour of Italy’s famous sites in 2006. I had taken refuge from the in a quiet café. Outside, there was an old woman kneeling on the hard, ancient paving stones, .
Steady of tourists were walking past her. A young backpacker stood away from the crowd, drinking in the vistas（景观、景色）, but I noticed the young traveler was also the old woman.
A tourist group walked along the street, the woman and walked on. group of tourists arrived and walked past the old lady. The backpacker watched everybody else went on their way, focused on the around them. Then, I was preparing to leave when I caught sight of the backpacker stepping forward and some money in the woman’s cup. He did this somewhat just before the arrival of another tourist group. As I , the leader of the group stopped and put some money in the cup. Having been shown the way, other tourists followed suit and some more coins to the cup.
His work done, the young man walked over to the old beggar-woman, patted her on the shoulder and said, “I hope that a little.”
I don’t know if the woman understood his English or what had just happened, but I did.
I placed some money in the woman’s cup and continued my travels, after witnessing such a act of kindness.
| 小题1: | | A．sound | B．question | C．excuse | D．command |
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| 小题2: | | A．beyond | B．after | C．without | D．before |
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| 小题3: | | A．many times | B．some times | C．only once | D．once again |
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| 小题4: | | A．crowds | B．families | C．streets | D．signs |
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| 小题5: | | A．singing | B．crying | C．begging | D．trembling |
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| 小题6: | | A．streams | B．packs | C．masses | D．groups |
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| 小题7: | | A．simply | B．seemingly | C．similarly | D．specially |
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| 小题8: | | A．showing | B．following | C．checking | D．observing |
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| 小题9: | | A．glanced at | B．laughed at | C．rushed at | D．stared at |
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| 小题10: | | A．One | B．More | C．Another | D．Other |
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| 小题12: | | A．stones | B．sights | C．signs | D．tourists |
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| 小题13: | | A．lending | B．borrowing | C．placing | D．taking |
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| 小题14: | | A．accidentally | B．successfully | C．purposefully | D．cheerfully |
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| 小题15: | | A．watched | B．shown | C．understood | D．walked |
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| 小题16: | | A．changed | B．charged | C．found | D．added |
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| 小题17: | | A．measures | B．helps | C．explains | D．matters |
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| 小题18: | | A．recognized | B．caught | C．realized | D．figured |
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| 小题19: | | A．pleasant | B．annoyed | C．disappointed | D．light-hearted |
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| 小题20: | | A．beautiful | B．smart | C．pure | D．happy |
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“Father, do you see Mother in your dreams?” the young girl asks. “You know sometimes I do.”
“Mother comes to see me a lot, you know. We sit and talk.” The father smiles. “How is your homework coming along?”
“Why do I have to study so hard?”
“It is what your mother would have wanted!”
She regrets speaking her mind. “I’m sorry, Father, I shouldn’t have said that.” She looks up and sees his eyes well up with tears.
“It’s okay, love,” he gets up and pours himself a drink. “I’ll just sit outside for a while. You finish up your work, okay?”
“I’m sorry, Father; Mother did love you very much. She told me all the time.”
“Homework, first, eh? Then we can chat about your mother.”
He heads off outside and sits in his usual chair, looking around the courtyard. The whole area relaxes the mind and somehow soothes the soul.
“All finished, Father. May I get a drink and sit with you? I have some questions.”
She comes with two drinks one for him and one for herself. He looks surprised. She never really liked him having a drink. Although he had cut back a lot from before he brought her here, it still seemed strange.
“Mother told me all about you. That is before she passed away. We would laugh together at your love stories.”
He listens without uttering a single sound.
“Why didn’t you come and take her away with you? She really wanted that. Did you know that?”
Her father looks at his daughter lovingly. “Circumstances were difficult back then. It was just the way things were. When it came time to…” He sighs. “To visit her it was too late.”
The girl smiles. “I hope I will have the same kind of love you and mother had.”
“Without all the heartache,” her father adds.
“She always knew you loved her. She told me every day,” the child mentions cheerfully. “I saw her crying sometimes when she read your letters.”
“Did she make you promise to look after me?” She inquires.
“She asked me to take care of you.”
“You promised her, didn’t you?”
“Yes, I did.”
“It is nice out here, isn"t it? Mother would have been very happy here.”
She talks with some authority. Her father remains silent. A smile comes to his weary brow. He nods his head.
“Mother wanted me to give you something. I think now the time is right.” She runs to her room. Upon returning she hands her father a book. “It’s mother’s diary! She wanted me to give it to you.”
He takes the book and holds it in his trembling hands, “Thank you.”
“Mother said you would understand things better.”
“Wise woman, your mother.”
He places the book on the table as he gets up. The girl gets up and wraps herself around her father.
“I love you.” she looks up at his face.
He picks her up and hugs her. “I love you, too.” His voice trembles.
“It’s okay, Father. We have each other now and mother is in both of us.”
He kisses her head.
“Time you went to bed,” her father softly says.
He puts her down and she scampers off to get washed and ready for bed.
Clearing up everything he checks on his daughter. She is in bed waiting for her good night kiss. He tucks her in and bids her goodnight.
Just as he is to leave she tells him. “Mother told me she adopted me when I was a baby.”
He stands at her bedroom door. Words fail him. Yes, he knew she was adopted.
“I am really lucky for being loved by my parents, even if I am not really theirs.”
“You trying to bring on the water works?” he tells her.
She giggles, “Goodnight, Father. I love you.”
“Love you, too.”
His face lights up as he wipes his dampened eyes.
The door closes and the child falls asleep dreaming of her mother.
Sitting outside he picks up the diary and opens it and reads the first line: “I love you, my dearest, if only things could have been different…”
小题1:Why isn’t the mother with her family?| A．She has already died. | B．She is ill in hospital. | | C．The couple is divorced. | D．She lives in another city. |
小题2:What can we know about the couple’s relationship?| A．They understood each other very well. | | B．They quarreled a lot and are separated. | | C．They used to have misunderstandings. | | D．They were quite sure of each other’s love. |
小题3:What can we learn from the story?| A．The girl was adopted because the couple couldn’t give birth. | | B．Father looks after the girl just because the girl is alone. | | C．The girl feels unfortunate that she was adopted. | | D．Father was not very close to the girl before she moved in with him. |
小题4:Why didn’t father bring mother home when she was ill? | A．Because he was too busy with his work | | B．Because he didn’t know he was wanted | | C．Because he was too poor to afford the medical fees | | D．Because he didn’t know she was in hospital |
小题5:What does the sentence “You trying to bring on the water works?” mean?| A．You want another cup of water? | | B．Are you kidding me? | | C．Are you trying to make me cry? | | D．Are you thinking about the water factory? |
小题6:Which word best describes father’s feeling at the end of the story?| A．Regretful | B．Satisfied | C．Confused | D．Doubtful |
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In a small open courtyard, outside a school building, there were flowers here and there. In the sunshine，a was lying on the grass，reading a book with concentration. Near her，another child was carefully watering the flowers, while a third was with his back against a tree and had a on his knees. He appeared to be drawing or writing something on it. He was in his task, like the first child.
the building, there were pleasant carpeted areas. Many children were busy with their tasks in a variety of while teachers wandered among them, talking to them, them, and encouraging their efforts.
I watched this scene on a morning in May years ago, it to me that a visitor here would have thought he had entered a formal school. He would have been even more if he had been told that the children he was came from different kinds of academic levels.
That has been staying with me ever since. I have been about some problems. Why in many schools are our children asked to acquire skills in a way from a real-life context（情境）? Why does a school child so often become a defeated school failure?
Developmental psychologist Margaret Donald once said, “ of the intellectual framework (知识框架) on which we our teaching is misleading.” In my opinion, a child learns everything in human situation. And if every child could learn in the same way as the children in the school I visited, they would develop better.
| 小题1: | | A．gardener | B．child | C．teacher | D．visitor |
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| 小题2: | | A．poor | B．little | C．complete | D．slight |
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| 小题3: | | A．sitting | B．standing | C．sleeping | D．listening |
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| 小题4: | | A．toy | B．pencil | C．flower | D．notebook |
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| 小题5: | | A．laid | B．set | C．defeated | D．lost |
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| 小题6: | | A．Over | B．Above | C．Inside | D．Outside |
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| 小题7: | | A．ways | B．ideas | C．opinions | D．views |
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| 小题8: | | A．referring to | B．smiling at | C．pointing to | D．staring at |
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| 小题9: | | A．Unless | B．As | C．Until | D．Before |
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| 小题10: | | A．happened | B．went | C．occurred | D．got |
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| 小题11: | | A．already | B．never | C．rather | D．ever |
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| 小题12: | | A．satisfied | B．disappointed | C．delighted | D．surprised |
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| 小题13: | | A．helping | B．teaching | C．encouraging | D．observing |
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| 小题14: | | A．scene | B．sign | C．look | D．screen |
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| 小题15: | | A．dreaming | B．regretting | C．wondering | D．joking |
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| 小题16: | | A．seldom | B．hardly | C．often | D．badly |
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| 小题17: | | A．taken | B．prevented | C．learned | D．separated |
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| 小题18: | | A．slow | B．lively | C．lucky | D．friendly |
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| 小题19: | | A．Much | B．Any | C．Little | D．None |
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36－55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
As of Monday, Amy Carrickhoff’s video “Spoiled deer getting her bottle” was viewed more than 792,000 times and shared 9,600 times. In this heartwarming video, Carrickhoff stands outside her house in Oakridge, North Carolina, ______ for a deer she has named “Little Girl.” The deer comes out of the ______ and jumps on her. It hurries up the driveway and ______ Carrickhoff into the house, where it then sucks down a baby bottle of goat’s milk. When the ______ is gone, Carrickhoff wipes its mouth with a tissue.
While some animal lovers were touched by the obvious ______ Carrickhoff had with the deer, others felt she wasn’t doing the deer any ______. They said she was allowing the deer to get too ______ around humans and it could have been hit by a car, been shot by a hunter, or hurt someone. “You just gave this animal a death ______ — you also have put all your neighbors and their children at ______ of being attacked when this deer matures, and when it doesn’t get ______, it attacks someone,” one reader wrote.
Carrickhoff’s comment was that if she had known the video would get so many ______ she would have changed out of her gym clothes. As for the deer, ______, the update isn’t a happy one.
Little Girl continued coming back for bottles until around January 2011, when it moved onto ______ deer food, Carrickhoff said. “She walked off into the woods and we never saw her again,” she said. “We ______ those woods … we never found anything.”
Looking back, Carrickhoff said getting to know the deer was a special ______ that she wouldn’t regret.
Friends had brought Little Girl to Carrickhoff’s home because the woods in their backyard were protected, and the deer would be ______ from hunters. School children loved visiting the gentle creature, who would ______ them with its soft tongue and didn’t mind being ______.
Carrickhoff is confident that she didn’t over-domesticate (过度驯养) the animal. Even when Little Girl was bottle-fed, she lived in the woods and did “deer things”, Carrickhoff’s daughter said. The deer gave birth to a ______ of its own the following June, and toward the end, it wouldn’t come when it was called. It was becoming ______ again.
She and her husband got so attached to Little Girl that they don’t ever want to take care of another animal. “I just watch the videos and she kind of lives on,” she said.
| 小题1: | | A．hunting | B．asking | C．calling | D．applying |
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| 小题2: | | A．house | B．woods | C．cage | D．garage |
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| 小题3: | | A．walks | B．takes | C．follows | D．watches |
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| 小题4: | | A．animal | B．milk | C．bottle | D．time |
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| 小题5: | | A．appointment | B．accommodation | C．peace | D．bond |
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| 小题6: | | A．favor | B．harm | C．service | D．business |
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| 小题7: | | A．comfortable | B．excited | C．uneasy | D．embarrassed |
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| 小题8: | | A．sentence | B．punishment | C．direction | D．prediction |
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| 小题9: | | A．sight | B．mercy | C．moment | D．risk |
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| 小题10: | | A．hunted | B．fed | C．respected | D．welcomed |
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| 小题11: | | A．copies | B．cheers | C．attacks | D．views |
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| 小题12: | | A．fortunately | B．hopefully | C．sadly | D．doubtfully |
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| 小题13: | | A．sufficient | B．rare | C．regular | D．favorite |
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| 小题14: | | A．protected | B．watched | C．entered | D．combed |
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| 小题15: | | A．event | B．experience | C．incident | D．accident |
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| 小题16: | | A．discouraged | B．safe | C．parted | D．invisible |
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| 小题17: | | A．lift | B．lick | C．touch | D．taste |
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| 小题18: | | A．cheated | B．cared | C．studied | D．petted |
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| 小题19: | | A．sister | B．brother | C．baby | D．beast |
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| 小题20: | | A．timid | B．tamed | C．wild | D．natural |
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On 23rd December, 2013, Michael Schumacher — the famous Formula-One race car driver — received serious brain injuries after hitting his head on a rock while downhill skiing with his son. The accident happened during a family holiday in the French Alps. Although he was wearing a helmet, which broke apart on impact, the F1 celebrity was moving at speeds of up to 62 mph and skiing outside the off-piste safety demarcations (滑雪场地外的安全区). Doctors reported that he would have died on impact if he hadn’t been wearing a helmet. He has been in a coma (昏迷) since arriving at a nearby hospital where he was airlifted to from the site of the accident.
Michael Schumacher grew up in frugal (简朴的) conditions and started what would become his remarkable professional career when his working class father — a bricklayer — built him a go-kart from where he started participating in competitions. He started his adult career racing for Formula Ford in 1988 and later raced for Formula One Ford, Ferrari, and Mercedes AMG. He holds numerous F1 world records including most race victories, fastest laps, and most races won in a single season. According to the Formula One website, he is “statistically the greatest driver the sport has ever seen”. Also notable are his contributions to charity, during the peak of his career he has given away more than 50 million Euros to a variety of charity organizations, most to help children around the world.
Millions of Europeans and other fans around the world are holding their breath and waiting for information about his hopeful recovery. We wish him and his family the best.
小题1:Michael Schumacher is in a coma after ________.| A．crashing in an airlift accident | | B．a Formula One Ford car crash | | C．a skiing accident during his holiday | | D．a bump onto a rock in a skiing race |
小题2:What is a go-kart most likely to be?| A．A medical instrument. | | B．A small car-racing field. | | C．A racing-car driver’s safety helmet. | | D．A small motor vehicle used for racing. |
小题3:From the passage we can learn that Michael Schumacher ________.| A．is recovering quickly at the Alpine Hospital in France | | B．gave all his money to charity during the height of his career | | C．raced for Ferrari and Mercedes before becoming a celebrity | | D．came from humble origins to become the greatest F1 driver ever |
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