Wishing to encourage her young son’s progress on the piano, a mother took her bo
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Wishing to encourage her young son’s progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a Paderewski concert. After they were , the mother spotted a friend in the audience and walked down the passage to greet her.
Seizing the to explore the wonders of the concert hall, the little boy rose and explored his way through a door marked “NO ADMITTANCE.” When the house lights dimmed and the concert was about to begin, the mother returned to her seat and that the child was missing.
Suddenly, the curtains parted and spotlights focused on the impressive Steinway on stage. In , the mother saw her little boy sitting at the key-board, picking out Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
At that moment, the great piano master made his , quickly moved to the piano, and in the boy’s ear, “Don’t quit. Keep playing.”
Then over, Paderewski reached down with his left hand and began filling in a bass part. Soon his right arm reached around to the other side of the child and he added a running obbligato (伴奏). Together, the old master and the young novice (beginner) transformed a frightening situation into a wonderfully experience. The audience was strongly .
That’s the way it is in life. What we can accomplish (实现) on our own is hardly . We try our best, but the aren’t exactly graceful flowing music. But when we trust in the hands of a Greater Power, our life’s work can be beautiful.
Next time you set out to great achievements, listen carefully. You can hear the voice of the Master, whispering in your ear, “Don’t quit. Keep playing.”
| 小题1: | | A．seated | B．sat | C．dressed | D．rested |
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| 小题2: | | A．fact | B．difficulty | C．opportunity | D．risk |
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| 小题3: | | A．actually | B．occasionally | C．fortunately | D．eventually |
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| 小题4: | | A．discovered | B．told | C．accepted | D．offered |
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| 小题5: | | A．joy | B．trust | C．horror | D．pleasure |
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| 小题6: | | A．quickly | B．personally | C．generally | D．innocently (纯洁地) |
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| 小题7: | | A．entrance | B．disappearance | C．arrangement | D．opening |
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| 小题8: | | A．shouted | B．repeated | C．promised | D．whispered |
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| 小题9: | | A．turning | B．bending | C．rising | D．handing |
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| 小题10: | | A．creative | B．effective | C．annoying | D．fearing |
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| 小题11: | | A．addicted(入了迷的) | B．invited | C．attacked | D．attracted |
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| 小题12: | | A．abnormal (反常的) | B．remarkable (卓越的) | C．unimportant | D．ordinary |
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| 小题13: | | A．goals | B．intentions | C．results | D．purposes |
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| 小题14: | | A．luckily | B．truly | C．slightly | D．fortunately |
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| 小题15: | | A．overcome | B．enjoy | C．accomplish | D．become |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:C
小题6:D
小题7:A
小题8:D
小题9:B
小题10:A
小题11:D
小题12:B
小题13:C
小题14:B
小题15:C |
解析
试题分析：一个人的力量是有限的，借助于他人的力量会使事情有一个圆满的结局。我们靠自己的努力得来的一切也许并不引人注意。我们拼尽全力，却弹不出最和谐的音符。但是，大师用他的双手使我们生命的作品变得更加生动完美。
小题1:考查动词辨析。A坐着的；B坐下；C穿着；D休息。根据the mother spotted a friend in the audience可知，男孩的妈妈在观众里看到一个朋友，be seated就座，故选A。
小题2:考查名词辨析。A事实；B困难；C机会；D风险。根据下一句“and the concert was about to begin”可知，音乐会尚未开始，男孩抓住妈妈不在的这个机会在音乐会厅里转了起来，故选C。
小题3:考查副词辨析。A实际上；B偶尔；C幸运地；D最后，终于。男孩在音乐厅转到最后，推开了一扇门，走了进去，故选D。
小题4:考查动词辨析。A发现；B告诉；C接受；D提供。the mother returned to her seat and that the child was missing妈妈回到座位上发现儿子不见了，故选A。
小题5:考查名词辨析。A欢乐；B信任；C恐怖，不愉快的经历；D愉快。In , the mother saw her little boy sitting at the key-board妈妈惊恐地发现儿子坐在钢琴前，in horror惊恐地，故选C。
小题6:考查副词辨析。A迅速地；B亲自，个人而言；C一般地；D纯洁地。 picking out Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.男孩坐在钢琴前谈着那首幼稚的儿歌“一闪一闪亮晶晶，满眼都是小星星”，故选D。
小题7:考查名词辨析。A入口；B消失；C安排；D开幕式。the great piano master made his ,那位伟大的钢琴家走上舞台，make one"s entrance某人登场，故选A。
小题8:考查动词辨析。A叫喊；B重复，复述；C答应，承诺；D低语。根据“in the boy’s ear”可知，是小声说话，故选D。
小题9:考查动词辨析。A转向，成为；B弯曲；C上升；D递，交。钢琴家弯下腰，伸出左手，为他伴奏低音部分。故选B。
小题10:考查形容词辨析。A有创造力的；B有效的；C烦人的；D害怕的。大师和年幼的新手把这危险的情况变成了一段精彩的、有创造性的经历，故选A。
小题11:考查动词辨析。A使沉溺；B邀请；C袭击；D吸引。The audience was strongly .观众被深深地吸引住了，故选D。
小题12:考查形容词辨析。A反常的；B卓越的；C不重要的；D普通的。What we can accomplish (实现) on our own is hardly .生活就是这样，通过自己的努力得来的东西不会引人瞩目，故选B。
小题13:考查名词辨析。A目标，分数；B目的，意图；C结果；D目的。We try our best, but the aren’t exactly graceful flowing music.我们尽力了，但是结果却不能尽如人意，故选C。
小题14:考查副词辨析。A幸运的是；B真正地；C轻微地；D幸运的是。But when we trust in the hands of a Greater Power, our life’s work can be beautiful.但是，当我们借助大师的手时，我们生命的作品才会真正变得更加完美。故选B。
小题15:考查动词辨析。A克服；B享受，喜欢；C完成；D变得。更加上一段“What we can accomplish (实现) on our own is hardly .”可知，这里指的是，下次再要完成伟大的事情时，要仔细聆听。故选C。 |
举一反三
I drove to a local supermarket the other day. My shopping list was _____ and my wallet was light. Still, I needed to get a week’s worth of groceries for my family. I parked my car, looked down at my list, and hoped I could _____it all.
As I _____ the door, I saw a man with kind eyes and a gentle ______. He said he was collecting for a local food bank that helped to__ __ the hungry in my area. He handed me a second shopping list of things they could use and asked me to ____ if I could. I smiled back, took the ____ and walked into the store. I really wanted to help, but wasn’t sure if I could this time.
I walked through the store, picking up vegetables, soup, spaghetti, bread, milk, cereal, macaroni, bananas,and a dozen other things. I slowly _____ each item off my list until I was done. When I looked down at my full cart I _____ again if I even had enough to pay for it all. Then, as I put my own list back into my pocket, I saw the food _____ list under it. I smiled and decided to trust my heart.
With the food bank in mind,I went over and ______ two of the biggest boxes of rice the store had and put them in my cart. It took____ six dollars out of my wallet to pay for them,__ __ my heart felt six times larger when I did. And when everything was ______, I had just enough to pay for it all.
It ____ so little to make our world a better place. A few dollars can help to fill a child’s ____ belly(肚子). A smile and hug can help to _____ a hurting heart. An encouraging word can inspire someone else to live and to love. A random____ of kindness can change another’s day and life. It is up to us,_____. If we can ______ a few dollars on rice , then we can share a love that will last forever.
| 小题1: | | A．short | B．long | C．frequent | D．heavy |
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| 小题2: | | A．offer | B．exchange | C．afford | D．accept |
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| 小题3: | | A．approached | B．painted | C．cleaned | D．left |
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| 小题4: | | A．attitude | B．manner | C．smile | D．anger |
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| 小题5: | | A．share | B．train | C．protect | D．feed |
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| 小题6: | | A．help | B．write | C．advertise | D．search |
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| 小题7: | | A．name | B．project | C．list | D．budget |
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| 小题8: | | A．signed | B．marked | C．rid | D．separated |
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| 小题9: | | A．wandered | B．wondered | C．fancied | D．amazed |
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| 小题10: | | A．store | B．cart | C．nutrition | D．bank |
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| 小题11: | | A．picked out | B．lifted up | C．picked up | D．folded up |
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| 小题12: | | A．other | B．others | C．more | D．another |
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| 小题14: | | A．ordered | B．totaled | C．replaced | D．packed |
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| 小题15: | | A．takes | B．spends | C．pays | D．wastes |
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| 小题16: | | A．hungry | B．adequate | C．anxious | D．full |
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| 小题17: | | A．cure | B．treat | C．heal | D．recover |
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| 小题18: | | A．ability | B．allowance | C．appreciation | D．act |
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| 小题19: | | A．although | B．though | C．yet | D．still |
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| 小题20: | | A．save | B．rescue | C．accumulate | D．reserve |
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The Christmas gift when I was seven years old has been a pleasant memory. other gifts, it came without wrap（包装）.
On September 11ththat year, Mum gave to Richard. After she brought him home from ,she put him in my lap, saying, “I you a gift, and here it is.” What a/an ! I seven amonth earlier and none of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night and told it over and over how much I loved it!
One morning, however, I found its bed empty. My doll was ! I cried for it. Mum wept（流泪）and told me that the little thing had been sent to a hospital because of a fever. For several days, I heard mum andDad whispering such as “hopeless”, “pitiful”, and “dying”, which sounded .
Christmas was coming. “Don’t any presents this year,” Dad said, pointing at the I hung in the living room. “ your baby brother lives, that’ll be Christmas enough.” As he spoke, his eyes filled with tears. I’d seen him cry before.
The phone rang early on Christmas morning. Dad jumped out of bed to it. From my bedroom I heard him say, “What? He’s all right?” He and shouted upstairs. “The hospital said we can bring Richard home!”
“Thank God!” I heard Mum cry.
From the upstairs window, I watched my parents rush out to the car. I had never seen them so . And I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home. I ran . My socks still hung there , but I knew they were filled with !
| 小题1: | | A．Like | B．Unlike | C．As | D．Except |
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| 小题2: | | A．life | B．treatment | C．freedom | D．birth |
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| 小题3: | | A．hospital | B．illness | C．shop | D．danger |
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| 小题4: | | A．bought | B．offered | C．promised | D．ordered |
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| 小题5: | | A．surprise | B．honor | C．wonder | D．pity |
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| 小题6: | | A．grew | B．got | C．became | D．turned |
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| 小题7: | | A．stolen | B．gone | C．broken | D．Hidden |
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| 小题8: | | A．nice | B．naughty | C．poor | D．Ugly |
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| 小题9: | | A．words | B．feelings | C．predictions | D．results |
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| 小题10: | | A．impossible | B．dangerous | C．fearful | D．difficult |
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| 小题11: | | A．think | B．expect | C．forget | D．buy |
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| 小题12: | | A．clock | B．pictures | C．socks | D．bag |
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| 小题13: | | A．Unless | B．If | C．Only | D．After |
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| 小题14: | | A．once | B．already | C．never | D．often |
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| 小题15: | | A．see | B．receive | C．hear | D．answer |
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| 小题16: | | A．hung up | B．held up | C．got up | D．stood up |
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| 小题17: | | A．anxious | B．worried | C．crazy | D．happy |
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| 小题18: | | A．downstairs | B．upstairs | C．outside | D．inside |
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| 小题19: | | A．alone | B．flat | C．high | D．untouched |
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| 小题20: | | A．dolls | B．thanks | C．kindness | D．love |
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Brenda Bongos was a happy, artistic girl. She had one big dream—to play the drums in a band. But one big problem lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived next-door to a lot of old people. Many of them are sick. She knew that the sound of beating drums would really get on their nerves. So, she had tried playing in the strangest places: a basement, a kitchen, and even in a shower. But there was always someone it would annoy.
One day, while watching a science documentary on TV, she heard that sound cannot travel in space, because there"s no air. At that moment, Brenda Bongos decided to become a sort of musical astronaut.
With the help of a lot of time, books and work, Brenda built a space bubble. This was a big glass ball connected to a machine which sucked out all the air inside. All that would be left inside was a drum kit（成套设备） and a chair. Brenda got into the space suit she had made, entered the bubble, turned on the machine, and played those drums like a wild child.
It wasn"t long before Brenda Bongos came very famous. Many people came to see her play in her space bubble. Shortly afterwards she came out of the bubble and started giving concerts. Her fame spread so much that the government suggested that she be part of a unique space journey. Finally, Brenda was a real musical astronaut, and had gone far beyond her first ambition of playing drums in a band.
Years later, when asked how she had achieved all this, she thought for a moment, and said: ""If those old people next–door hadn"t mattered so much to me, I wouldn"t have found a solution, and none of this would have ever happened.""
小题1:Why did Brenda try to play in the strangest places?| A．Because she didn"t want others to hear her play | | B．Because she didn"t mean to disturb others. | | C．Because she didn"t have her own room | | D．Because she didn’t like her neighbors. |
小题2:Brenda started to give concerts _______.| A．after she practiced in her space bubble | | B．when she became part of the unique space journey | | C．after she became a real musical astronaut | | D．when people came to see her in the space bubble |
小题3:Brenda became famous because _______.| A．she was good at music and science | | B．she became a real musical astronaut | | C．she invented a special way of practice | | D．she played well and had a talent |
小题4:It can be inferred from the text that: " _______".| A．He laughs best who laughs last | B．It"s never too old to learn | | C．Two heads are better than one | D．One good turn deserves another |
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阅读下面短文．从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
When my brother and l were growing up, we mowed(割)yards during the summer to earn pocket change．Dad traded our service to neighbors and a price they could not refuse. We got $ 10 per yard．I later found out our friends $20 or more for the same amount of work.
One day we were our next-door neighbor’s yard．She always waited until the grass was knee—high to call us over． we had an old lawn mower．This particular hot afternoon, I was finishing up and was tired .I the tall grass as a cold drink to cool down.
I was just about to cut off the lawn mower I saw Dad pointing to one lone piece. I thought about the change l was getting paid for cutting grass so high that it broke the mower. I ignored him and kept walking. Dad called me out,“You a piece.” I frowned, hoping he would let me go home. He kept pointing .So , 1 went back to cut that piece of grass. I said to myseIf, “That one piece doesn’t anyone .Why won’t he just let it ?”
But when I reached adulthood，I understood his : When you’re running a business, the work you do much about you If you want to be seen as a businessman with ，you must deliver a quality product .That single piece of grass meant the job was not done.
The my father taught me stayed with me：if you say you are going to a job at a certain time，keep your ．Give your customers the kind of you would llke t0 receive. It shows how sincere you are and how much you take in your work.
| 小题1: | | A．kept | B．calculated | C．lowered | D．offered |
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| 小题2: | | A．charged | B．paid | C．afforded | D．spent |
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| 小题3: | | A．cleaning | B．exploring | C．cutting | D．searching |
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| 小题4: | | A．To be honest | B．Worse still | C．Believe or not | D．Above all |
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| 小题5: | | A．picmred | B．watered | C．planted | D．enjoyed |
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| 小题6: | | A．after | B．before | C．when | D．while |
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| 小题7: | | A．total | B．exact | C．loose | D．poor |
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| 小题8: | | A．hardlv | B．almost | C．never | D．merely |
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| 小题9: | | A．lost | B．1eft | C．missed | D．forgot |
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| 小题10: | | A．angry | B．happy | C．astonished | D．stubborn |
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| 小题11: | | A．attract | B．hurt | C．attack | D．comfort |
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| 小题13: | | A．action | B．instruction | C．feeling | D．message |
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| 小题14: | | A．says | B．expresses | C．explains | D．knows |
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| 小题15: | | A．fortune | B．pleasure | C．content | D．honesty |
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| 小题16: | | A．lesson | B．experience | C．skill | D．business |
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| 小题17: | | A．quit | B．find | C．create | D．perform |
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| 小题18: | | A．word | B．secret | C．mind | D．watch |
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| 小题19: | | A．dignity | B．service | C．reward | D．praise |
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| 小题20: | | A．trouble | B．surprise | C．pride | D．responsibility |
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It was the last day of July and the long hot summer was drawing to a close As for me．1 was out of spirits，and，if the truth must be told, out of money as well，During the past year I had not managed my finances as carefully as usual；and 1 was now limited to spending the autumn economically between my mother’s cottage at Hampstead and my own in town.
My father had been dead for some years，and my sister and 1 were the sole survivors of a family of five children. My father was a drawing-master before me He had been highly successful in his profession and my mother and sister were left economically independent after his death.
The view of London below me had sunk into the black shadow of the cloudy night, when I stood before the gate of my mother’s cottage I had hardly rung the bell．When the house door was opened violently．My worthy Italian friend，Professor Pesca，appeared in the servant’s place，and rushed out joyously to receive me．
I had first become acquainted(熟悉)with my Italian friend at certain great houses，where he taught Italian and I taught drawing What I then knew of the history of his life was that he had left Italy for political reasons and that he had been respectably established for many years in London as a teacher of languages It once happened that I saved him from certain death by drowning while we
were swimming in the sea at Brighton Afterwards he overwhelmed(淹没)me with the wildest expressions of affection and exclaimed passionately, that he would hold his life at my disposal from then on, and declared that he should never be happy again until he had had the opportunity of proving his gratitude．Little did I think that the occasion to serve me was soon to come．
Pesca dragged me in by both hands into the parlor, where my mother sat by the open window, laughing and fanning herself．Pesca was one of her especial favorites，and his wildest strange acts were always pardonable in her eyes．
“Now, my good dears．”began Pesca．“listen to me The time has come I recite my good news．I speak at last…"Hear, hear!”said my mother, humoring the joke“I go back into my life，and I address myself to the noblest of men，who found me dead at the bottom of the sea，and who pulled me up to the top. What did I say when l got into my own life and my own clothes again? I said that my life belonged to my dear friend，Walter, for the rest of my days Now,”cried the enthusiastic little mall at the top of his voice．“happiness bursts out of me at every pore of my skin．For I have found a job for you”
小题1:The first two paragraphs of the passage serve as an introduction to——| A．the financial situation the writer then faced | | B．the season that the story was set in | | C．the family members of the writer | | D．the successful profession of the writer’s father |
小题2:The underlined word‘‘sole’’in the second paragraph probably means‘‘ ”| A．main | B．only | C．lucky | D．possible |
小题3:It can be learned from the passage that Pesca | A．used to be a politician | | B．was a successful drawing-master | | C．was quite close to the mother | | D．wanted to give the writer some money in return |
小题4:According to the last paragraph，Pesca was more than happy because | A．he went back into his life | | B．he met his dear friend again | | C．his friend ever saved his life | | D．he had done something good for his friend |
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