It was only a few weeks after my surgery, and I went to Dr. Belt"s office for a
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It was only a few weeks after my surgery, and I went to Dr. Belt"s office for a checkup. It was just after my first chemotherapy（化学疗法） treatment.
My scar was still very tender. My arm was numb underneath. As usual, I was taken to an examination room to have my blood drawn, again —a terrifying process for me, since I"m so frightened of needles.
I lay down on the examining table. Ramona entered the room. Her warm smile was familiar, and stood out in contrast to my fears. She knew about my fear of needles, and she kindly hid the equipment under a magazine. As we opened the blouse, the fresh scar on my chest could be seen.
She said, “How is your scar healing?”
I said, “I think pretty well. I wash around it gently each day.” The memory of the shower water hitting my numb chest flashed across my face.
She gently reached over and ran her hand across the scar, examining the smoothness of the healing skin and looking for any irregularities. I began to cry gently and quietly. She brought her warm eyes to mine and said, “You haven"t touched it yet, have you?” And I said, “No.”
So this wonderful, warm woman laid the hand on my chest and she gently held it there. For a long time, I continued to cry quietly. In soft tones she said, “This is part of your body. This is you. It"s okay to touch it.” But I couldn"t. So she touched it for me. The scar. The healing wound. And beneath it, she touched my heart. Then Ramona said, “I"ll hold your hand while you touch it.” So she placed her hand next to mine, and we both were quiet. That was the gift that Ramona gave me.
小题1:After I got my first chemotherapy treatment, _________.| A．I began to feel better | B．my scar was still painful | | C．I could hardly stretch my arm | D．I got tired of operation |
小题2:Ramona hid the equipment under a magazine to _________.| A．cheer me up | B．rid my fear | | C．make me amused | D．tease me |
小题3: When Ramona examined my healing skin, __________.| A．she was careless | B．she hurt me | | C．I started to cry | D．she was in tears |
小题4:I began to have the courage to touch the scar _________.| A．because of Ramona’s encouragement | | B．because I could face the fact | | C．because of Ramona’s gentleness | | D．because Ramona and I became friends |
小题5:What is the author’s attitude towards Ramona?| A．Objective | B．Grateful | C．Doubtful | D．Helpless |
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小题1:B
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:B |
解析
试题分析：文章讲述作者在第一次化疗后，身体和心里的伤口还埋怨愈合，Ramona注意作者的感受，帮助作者面对自己的伤口，作者对她很感激。
小题1:细节题：从文章第二段的句子;My scar was still very tender. My arm was numb underneath. 可知作者在第一次化疗后，伤口还是很疼，选B
小题2:细节题：从文章第三段的句子; She knew about my fear of needles, and she kindly hid the equipment under a magazine.可知Ramona将仪器藏在杂志下面是为了消除我的恐惧，选 B
小题3:细节题：从文章第五段的句子; . She gently reached over and ran her hand across the scar, examining the smoothness of the healing skin and looking for any irregularities. I began to cry gently and quietly.可知Ramona 在检查我愈合的皮肤的时候，我开始哭了，选C
小题4:细节题：从文章第六段的句子; Then Ramona said, “I"ll hold your hand while you touch it.” So she placed her hand next to mine, and we both were quiet. That was the gift that Ramona gave me.
可知在Ramona的鼓励下，我开始有勇气触摸伤口，选A
小题5:推理题：从文章的内容可知Ramona对作者很温柔，注意作者的感受，帮助作者面对自己的伤口，所以作者对她是很感激的，选B。 |
举一反三
Matt Haimovitz is 42 and a renowned cellist (大提琴手) in the world. He rushed into the classical music scene at the age of 12 after Itzhak Perlman, the famed violinist, heard him play.
But nothing in his family history explains where Haimovitz got his extraordinary talent. And that’s typical, Ellen Winner, a professor says.
“People are fascinated by these children because they don’t understand where their talent came from. You will see parents who say, ‘I wasn’t like this, and my husband wasn’t like this.’ It seems to sometimes just come out of the blue,” Winner says.
It’s not clear whether a prodigy’s （天才）brain is any different from the brains of other children, in part because there have been no study comparing the brains of prodigies to those of average people.
“But I believe that anything that shows up so early, without training, has got to be either a genetic or some other biological basis,” Winner says. “If a child suddenly at the age of 3 goes to the piano and picks out a tune and does it beautifully, that has to be because that child has a different brain.”
Children who are extremely gifted tend to be socially different, too, Winner says. “They feel like they can’t find other kids like themselves, so they feel strange, maybe even like a freak, and feel like they don’t have anybody to connect with. On the other hand, they also long to connect with other kids, and they can’t find other kids like themselves.”
As Haimovitz got older, he became frustrated. He wanted to play other kinds of music but felt constricted by the image and the expectations of the boy prodigy who played classical music and filled concert halls.
“When you start that early, you suddenly start to grow up in public, and I wanted to experiment,” Haimovitz says.
So he took his cello into punk rock clubs and coffee houses. He played Bach, Haydn and Hendrix. “My teacher was Leonard Rose, and we never played any 20th-century music. He didn’t like it. But once I was exposed to James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix, Miles Dewey Davis El and others, I couldn’t really turn back. I wanted to know more,” he says.
小题1:According to some parents, prodigies’ extraordinary talent . | A．comes unexpectedly | B．is inherited from parents | | C．results from hard work | D．is trained in early times |
小题2:Winner seems to agree to the fact that ____. | A．average people have their particular brains | | B．biology is the base of a different brain | | C．a prodigy’s brain is superior to those of others | | D．genes play an important role in a prodigy |
小题3:According to the text, gifted children are .| A．lonely | B．easy-going | C．innocent | D．social |
小题4:The last paragraph is mainly about how Haimovitz was trying to .| A．build up his friendship | B．play different kinds of music | | C．set up the image of a prodigy | D．perform classical music creatively |
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Most of us know about the Nobel Prize, especially the Nobel Peace Prize, but few of us know anything about the man who set them up. His name was Alfred Nobel. He was a great scientist and inventor himself. Besides, he had a big business. His business may surprise you. He made and sold explosives(炸药). His companies even made and sold weapons. Isn’t this something that surprises you? The man who made money from weapons should set up the Peace Prize?
Though Alfred Nobel had a lot of money from weapons, he hated war. He hoped that there would be no war in the world. He was one of the richest in Europe. When he died in 1896, he left behind him a lot of money and his famous will. According to his will, most of his money was placed in a fund(基金). He wanted the interest(利润) from the fund to be used as prizes every year. We know them as the Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prizes are international. Alfred Nobel wanted the winners to be chosen for their work, not the country they came from.
Alfred Nobel had given his whole life to his studies and work and to the benefits of mankind. He made money all by his own efforts, but he left the world share his wealth. His inventions and wealth stay with the world for ever.
小题1:Alfred Nobel did the following EXCEPT ______________| A．choosing the winners of Nobel Prize | | B．making and selling weapons | | C．setting up the Nobel Prize | | D．making and selling explosives |
小题2:Nobel wanted to set up the Nobel Peace Prize because _____.| A．he made enough money | | B．he hated war | | C．he wanted to get more interest from the fund | | D．he liked to live in a peaceful world |
小题3:Nobel Prizes come from _____.| A．all Nobel’s money in the fund | | B．all Nobel’s money in his company | | C．all the interest from the fund | | D．some of the interest in the fund |
小题4:Nobel was a (an) _____ person in the world.| A．interesting | B．unselfish | C．cold-hearted | D．richest |
小题5:Which statement of the following is Right according to the passage? | A．Nobel set up his company to sell clothes. | | B．Most of Nobel’s money was used for the world Wars. | | C．Nobel Prizes are only for some people from some special countries. | | D．Nobel worked hard in his life and saved lots of money for the world to share. |
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Don’t Wait Until Flowers Fade
Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches (路沟) along the highway I travel daily to work.
There is one blue flower that has always my eye. I’ve noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, and the afternoon sun is too warm it. Every day for approximately two weeks, I see those beautiful .
This spring, I started a wildflower garden in our yard. I can look out of the window while doing the dishes and see the flowers. I’ve often thought that those lovely blue flowers from the ditch would look in that bed alongside wildflowers.
Everyday I drove the flowers thinking, “I’ll stop on my way home and dig them.” “Gee, I don’t want to get my good clothes ...” Whatever the reason, I never stopped to dig them. My husband gave me a folding shovel(铁锹) one year to be used for that purpose.
One day on my way home from work, I was to see that the highway department had moved the ditches and the pretty blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, “Way to go, you too long. You it when you first saw them blooming this spring.”
A week ago we were shocked and saddened to learn that my oldest sister-in-law has a terminal brain tumor(脑瘤晚期). She is 20 years older than my husband and , because of age and distance, we haven’t been as as we all would have liked.
I couldn’t help but see the between the pretty blue flowers and the between my husband’s sister and us. I do believe that God has given us some time left to plant some valuable that will bloom every year for us.
And yes, if I see the blue flowers again, you can bet I"ll stop and them to my wildflower garden
| 小题1: | | A．sweet | B．interesting | C．different | D．particular |
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| 小题2: | | A．fascinated | B．struck | C．caught | D．charm |
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| 小题4: | | A．plants | B．flowers | C．ones | D．wilds |
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| 小题5: | | A．open | B．main hall | C．front | D．kitchen |
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| 小题6: | | A．great | B．well | C．horrible | D．ugly |
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| 小题7: | | A．many | B．various | C．other | D．colorful |
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| 小题8: | | A．passed | B．past | C．pass | D．pasted |
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| 小题9: | | A．damaged | B．ready | C．dirty | D．smelly |
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| 小题10: | | A．ever | B．once | C．never | D．even |
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| 小题11: | | A．expressed | B．temporary | C．unfinished | D．permanent |
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| 小题12: | | A．annoying | B．saddened | C．interested | D．helpless |
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| 小题13: | | A．wasted | B．ignored | C．thought | D．waited |
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| 小题14: | | A．would have done | B．need have done | C．should have done | D．muse have done |
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| 小题15: | | A．unconsciously | B．fortunately | C．unfortunately | D．consciously |
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| 小题16: | | A．close | B．closely | C．closed | D．near |
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| 小题17: | | A．connection | B．difference | C．meaning | D．significance |
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| 小题18: | | A．friendship | B．relationship | C．support | D．relative |
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| 小题19: | | A．trees | B．memories | C．species | D．roses |
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| 小题20: | | A．dig | B．rescue | C．transmit | D．transplant |
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While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I noticed a man coming toward me carrying two light bags. He stopped right next to me to his family.
First he moved to his youngest son as he laid down his bags. They gave each other a long, loving hug. they separated, I heard the father say, “It’s so good to see you, son. I missed you so much!” His son smiled somewhat shyly and replied softly, “Me, too, Dad!”
Then the man stood up, gazed in the of his oldest son and said, “You’re already quite the young man. I love you very much, Zach!” They too hugged a most loving, tender hug.
After several , he turned to his wife and declared, “I’ve saved the best for last!” and to give his wife the longest, most passionate kiss I remember seeing.
For an instant they me of newlyweds(新婚夫妇), but I knew by the age of their kids that they couldn’t possibly be. I puzzled about it for a moment and gathered my courage to ask, “Wow! How long have you been married?”
“Almost twelve years.” he replied, breaking his gaze from his lovely wife’s face. “Well then, how long have you been away?” I asked. The man turned and looked at me,. “Two whole days”
Two days? I was . By the intensity of the greeting, I had he’d been gone for at least several weeks — if not months. I know my expression me. Hoping to stop our conversation politely and continue with my for my friend, I said almost immediately, “I hope my is still that passionate after twelve years!”
The man suddenly smiling. He looked me straight in the eye, and with power that burned right into my soul, he told me something that left me a person. He told me, “Don’t , friend …decide!” Then with wonderful smile, he and his family turned and left together.
I was still watching that special family walk just out of sight when my friend to me and asked, “What are you looking at?” Without , and with a curious sense of certainty, I replied, “ My future!”
| 小题1: | | A．greet | B．hug | C．comfort | D．appreciate |
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| 小题2: | | A．As | B．Before | C．Because | D．Since |
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| 小题3: | | A．mind | B．eyes | C．heart | D．head |
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| 小题4: | | A．months | B．hours | C．moments | D．weeks |
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| 小题5: | | A．proceeded | B．managed | C．pretended | D．promised |
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| 小题6: | | A．never | B．already | C．ever | D．almost |
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| 小题7: | | A．remembered | B．reminded | C．warned | D．informed |
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| 小题8: | | A．nervously | B．strangely | C．casually | D．excitedly |
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| 小题10: | | A．directly | B．finally | C．cautiously | D．deliberately |
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| 小题11: | | A．shocked | B．frightened | C．delighted | D．discouraged |
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| 小题12: | | A．assumed | B．planned | C．realized | D．decided |
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| 小题13: | | A．discovered | B．overlooked | C．betrayed | D．withdrew |
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| 小题14: | | A．research | B．control | C．search | D．reach |
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| 小题15: | | A．marriage | B．relatives | C．family | D．friends |
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| 小题16: | | A．continued | B．kept | C．stopped | D．tried |
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| 小题17: | | A．different | B．reliable | C．wonderful | D．perfect |
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| 小题18: | | A．remark | B．imagine | C．hope | D．quit |
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| 小题19: | | A．called on | B．dropped in | C．came up | D．waved at |
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| 小题20: | | A．hesitation | B．decision | C．difficulty | D．intention |
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My tire was flat. And I was on a country road. When I with the tire, a car pulled off the road behind me. I saw a male and said, “Hey, do you need any help?”
I literally was . This young guy was dressed in black. Nearly everything imaginable was tattooed(纹身). When he asked to give me a , I someone sitting in his car. That me. Thoughts of robberies flashed through my mind.
Then, it began to . It hit like a waterfall and made it to finish the tire change. With the car jacked(千斤顶托起) up, I was to get in my car. “Get in my car” he insisted, “We’ll wait with you until the rain stops.” “No. I don’t need your help.” I said. “Come on. Get in.” he said as he my arm and pulled me toward his car. “Oh, God, protect me!” I to myself.
As I settled into the back seat, suddenly a delicate came from the front seat of the car. “Are you all right?” “Yes, I am,” I replied with much seeing an old woman there. “My name is Beatrice and this is my neighbor John. John takes me to visit my husband in a nursing home every day. He is a really nice guy.”
“John, I had thought you were, well, ah, you know I…” Embarrassment my words. John laughed, “I often experienced reaction. I actually thought about changing the way I look. then I saw it as an opportunity to see others.”
He was right. What he wore outside was just a of the world as he saw it, but what he wore was the spirit of giving and caring the world he wanted to see. I never believed that I should people by the way they dressed. I was with myself for what I did.
The rain stopped and John and I changed the tire. As we shook hands I apologized for my stupidity.
| 小题1: | | A．waited | B． repaired | C． struggled | D． continued |
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| 小题2: | | A．turned | B． approached | C． boarded | D．[ stopped |
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| 小题3: | | A．delighted | B． calm | C． frightened | D． excited |
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| 小题4: | | A．look | B． aid | C． fine | D． hand |
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| 小题5: | | A．recognized | B． met | C． noticed | D． watched |
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| 小题6: | | A．amazed | B． attracted | C． confused | D． concerned |
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| 小题7: | | A．pour | B． start | C． fall | D． break |
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| 小题8: | | A．possible | B． necessary | C． unnecessary | D． impossible |
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| 小题9: | | A．ready | B． eager | C． unable | D． unsuitable |
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| 小题10: | | A． touched | B． grasped | C． placed | D． controlled |
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| 小题11: | | A． thought | B． expected | C． replied | D． cried |
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| 小题12: | | A． tone | B． voice | C． sound | D． alarm |
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| 小题13: | | A． relief | B． shock | C． ease | D． sorrow |
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| 小题14: | | A． blocked | B． stuck | C． choked | D． struck |
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| 小题15: | | A． helpful | B． shameful | C． abnormal | D． unfriendly |
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| 小题17: | | A． reflection | B． conclusion | C． concern | D． meaning |
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| 小题18: | | A． around | B． along | C． through | D． inside |
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| 小题19: | | A． decide | B． appreciate | C． judge | D． sniff |
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| 小题20: | | A． angry | B． grateful | C． strict | D． content |
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