On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley saved me.The previous afternoon, I played with
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On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley saved me.
The previous afternoon, I played with my six-year-old peers in Heather Peters’ backyard. I was enjoying my cake, when Heather asked me where my sleeping bag was. Only then did I know this party was a sleepover. The word “sleep-over” to a six-year-old bed-wetter is like what “cancer” means to an adult. But what if I told them I was a bed-wetter? At least with cancer, people gather at your bedside instead of running from it.
I thought of a way to escape. I would explain that I needed my mother’s permission to spend the nights. But as I called my Mom, Heather stood beside me to listen. She granted permission! Then I would be sleeping in the same living room as the other girls. I didn"t bring my own nightdress, so Mrs. Peters offered me Heather"s nightdress.
As the other girls drifted into their sweet dreams, I tried to stay awake. “Do I need to go again? I’ll stay up to go one more time...”. Of course, I finally fell asleep.
The next morning, I was the first to wake up. I was warm! I lay in panic for what seemed like hours before the other girls started to wake up. I did the only thing I could do—I pretended that the bed-wetting didn"t happen. I got up, took off Heather"s nightdress and changed into my clothes like the other girls.
Mrs. Peters walked into the room, and before she could say anything, she stepped right onto the pile of my wet nightdress. My heart stopped as I watched her face burn red. “WHO DID THIS?” She screamed, with a look so scary. Should I answer? And that was when it happened—Mr. Peters came in and grabbed his wife, “Elvis Presley died!”
The news of the King’s death overtook Mrs. Peters, and I was narrowly excused. Then, we left Peters’ together but without the other girls knowing what had happened.
小题1:The author had to spend the night at Peters’ because ________.| A．they had fun together and played too late | | B．she was offered the nightdress | | C．the famous singer Elvis Presley died that night | | D．she and her friends were having a sleepover party |
小题2:Mrs. Peters got angry because ________.| A．she found the nightdress wet | | B．Elvis Presley died that morning | | C．her husband grabbed her | | D．not all the girls behaved themselves |
小题3:From the story, we know Mrs. Peters was ________.| A．a crazy and strict woman | | B．a devoted fan of Elvis Presley | | C．a woman for perfection | | D．a woman with a strong fear of getting dirty |
小题4:What is the main idea of the passage?| A．How I escaped Mrs. Peters’ punishment. | | B．How Elvis Presley saved my life. | | C．An embarrassing escape in my life. | | D．An unforgettable party in my memory. |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:A |
解析
试题分析：文章大意：文章主要讲述作者小时候在外过夜尿床使得Mrs. Peters很生气，幸亏突然其来猫王去世的消息转移了Mrs. Peters的注意力，从而逃脱了惩罚。
小题1:D细节理解题。根据文章第二段Only then did I know this party was a sleepover.可知她和她的朋友举行的是一个过夜派对。故D正确。
小题2:A推理判断题。根据文章倒数第二段大意可知Mrs. Peters生气的原因的是，她发现睡衣湿了。故A正确。
小题3:B推理判断题。根据文章倒数第二段及文章最后一段可知Mrs. Peters是猫王的忠实粉丝，从而可以得出答案。故B正确。
小题4:A主旨大意题。文章主要讲述作者小时候在外过夜尿床使得Mrs. Peters很生气，幸亏突然其来猫王去世的消息转移了Mrs. Peters的注意力，从而逃脱了惩罚。故A正确。 |
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In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory____course about 20 years ago.
The professor ____the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans（豆）, and invited the students to _ _how many beans the jar contained. After ____shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the ____ answer, and went on saying,” You have just ___an important lesson about science. That is Never____ your own senses.”
Twenty years later, the ___could guess what the professor had in mind. He ____himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting____into an unknown world
Invisible（无形的）to the ,which can be discovered only through scientific .But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even the invitation. She was just to understand the world. And she that her firsthand experience could be the .The professor, however, said that it was .he was taking away her only for knowing and was providing her with no substitute. “I remember feeling small and ,”the women says, “and I did the only thing I could do. I the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.”
| 小题1: | | A．art | B．history | C．science | D．math |
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| 小题2: | | A．searched for | B．looked at | C．got through | D．marched into |
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| 小题3: | | A．count | B．guess | C．report | D．watch |
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| 小题4: | | A．warning | B．giving | C．turning away | D．listening to |
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| 小题5: | | A．ready | B．possible | C．correct | D．difficult |
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| 小题6: | | A．learned | B．prepared | C．taught | D．taken |
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| 小题7: | | A．lose | B．trust | C．sharpen | D．show |
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| 小题8: | | A．lecturer | B．scientist | C．speaker | D．woman |
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| 小题9: | | A．described | B．respected | C．saw | D．served |
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| 小题10: | | A．voyage | B．movement | C．change | D．rush |
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| 小题11: | | A．professor | B．eye | C．knowledge | D．light |
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| 小题12: | | A．model | B．senses | C．spirit | D．methods |
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| 小题13: | | A．hear | B．make | C．present | D．refuse |
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| 小题14: | | A．suggesting | B．beginning | C．pretending | D．waiting |
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| 小题15: | | A．believed | B．doubted | C．proved | D．explained |
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| 小题16: | | A．growth | B．strength | C．faith | D．truth |
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| 小题17: | | A．firm | B．interesting | C．wrong | D．acceptable |
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| 小题18: | | A．task | B．tool | C．success | D．connection |
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| 小题19: | | A．cruel | B．proud | C．frightened | D．brave |
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| 小题20: | | A．dropped | B．started | C．passed | D．missed |
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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of _____ and what color red is. It would be _____ to see again, but a (n) ____ can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would ____ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had ____.
My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a ____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with ___.
The ____ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of ____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I _____ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being ____, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things. _____ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was ____. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words _____ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could ____ where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ___ before; playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I ___ a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my ___. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was ____ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, _____ on the average I made progress.
| 小题1: | | A．sky | B．cloud | C．sunshine | D．mist |
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| 小题2: | | A．helpful | B．wonderful | C．hopeful | D．successful |
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| 小题3: | | A．disaster | B．environment | C．incident | D．wonder |
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| 小题4: | | A．manage | B．try | C．want | D．prefer |
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| 小题5: | | A．lost | B．left | C．used | D．cared |
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| 小题6: | | A．purpose | B．potential | C．pressure | D．preparation |
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| 小题7: | | A．energy | B．happiness | C．luck | D．blindness |
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| 小题8: | | A．hardest | B．dullest | C．simplest | D．easiest |
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| 小题9: | | A．self-respect | B．self-control | C．self-confidence | D．self-defence |
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| 小题10: | | A．think | B．consider | C．guess | D．mean |
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| 小题11: | | A．imperfect | B．perfect | C．unfair | D．fair |
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| 小题12: | | A．Later | B．Soon | C．Once | D．Then |
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| 小题13: | | A．worried | B．encouraged | C．shocked | D．hurt |
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| 小题14: | | A．stuck | B．impressed | C．occupied | D．held |
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| 小题15: | | A．see | B．hear | C．notice | D．observe |
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| 小题16: | | A．important | B．unimportant | C．possible | D．impossible |
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| 小题17: | | A．invented | B．discovered | C．instructed | D．directed |
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| 小题18: | | A．experience | B．advantages | C．knowledge | D．limitation |
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| 小题19: | | A．hardly | B．wildly | C．highly | D．deeply |
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It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plan for the future. “I"m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it,” Deluca recalls saying, “Buck said, ‘you should open a sandwich shop.’”
That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1,000. Deluca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn"t cover their startup costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000.
But business didn"t go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, “After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn"t know how badly, because we didn"t have any financial controls.” All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.
Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They"d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. “We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, ‘We are so successful; we are opening a second store.’” And they did—in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error.
But the partners" learnasyougo approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca would drive around and handdeliver the checks to pay their supplies. “It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn"t necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out,” Deluca says.
And having a goal was also important. “There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal,” Deluca adds.
Deluca ended up founding Subways Sandwich, the multimilliondollar restaurant chain.
小题1:Which of the following is true of Buck? | A．He put money into the sandwich business. | | B．He was a professor of business administration. | | C．He was studying at the University of Bridgeport. | | D．He rented a storefront for Deluca. |
小题2:What can we learn about their first shop? | A．It stood at an unfavorable place. | | B．It lowered the prices to poor management. | | C．It made no profits due to poor management. | | D．It lacked control over the quality of sandwich. |
小题3:They decided to open a second store because they ________. | A．had enough money to do it | | B．had succeeded in their business | | C．wished to meet the increasing demand of customers | | D．wanted to make believe that they were successful |
小题4:What contributes most to their success according to the author? | A．Learning by trial and error. | | B．Making friends with supplies. | | C．Finding a good partner. | | D．Opening chain stores. |
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My father was a St. Bernard (圣伯纳犬), and my mother was a collie (科利牧羊犬). This was what my mother had told me. I did not know these nice differences myself. My mother like to say them and see other dogs look surprised and jealous(嫉妒的), wondering how she got so much education. But, indeed, it was not real education.
She got the words by listening in the dining room and the sitting room when there were people talking, and by going with the children to school and listening there. Whenever she heard a word showing great knowledge, she said it to herself many times so that she could keep it until there was a meeting in the neighbourhood. Then, she would show off her knowledge and surprise them all, from small-sized dogs to large-sized dogs.
If there was a stranger being doubtful and getting his breath to ask her what it meant, she always explained to him in detail. He had never expected this but thought he would make fool of her. However, in the end, he was the one who was fooled. The others knew what was going to happen, because they had experienced that. When she explained the meaning of a big world, no dogs doubted if it was right. It was natural, because, for one thing, she answered very quickly and confidently, and for another, there were no knowledgeable dogs pointing out the answer was wrong.
When I was older, she brought home the word, “unintellectual”, and worked on it very hard all the week at different meetings. It was at this time that I realized she made up a fresh meaning of the same word every time. It showed that she was more calm than knowledgeable.
(From A Dog’s Tale, by Mark Twain)
小题1:Why were other dogs jealous of “my” mother?| A．Because her child was not a dog. | | B．Because “my” mother knew everything. | | C．Because they knew nothing about “me”. | | D．Because they thought “my” mother was educated. |
小题2:Where did “my” mother learn the words?| A．She made up the words by herself. | | B．She learnt the words studying at school. | | C．She listened and memorized when others were talking. | | D．She attended meetings to learnt the words from other dogs. |
小题3:How could “my” mother always fool other dogs?| A．Other dogs all liked to be fooled. | | B．She could explain anything in detail correctly. | | C．She learnt a lot of tricks to make fool of others. | | D．Other dogs were not knowledgeable enough to find out her mistakes. |
小题4:What words can be used to describe “my” mother?| A．friendly and clever | B．calm and confident | | C．quick and experienced | D．devoted and knowledgeable |
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Nelson Mandela was a figure of international fame, and many details of his life and career were public knowledge. But here are four things you may not have known about the late South African leader.
1. He was a boxing fan.
In his youth, Nelson Mandela enjoyed boxing and long-distance running. Even during the 27 years he spent in prison, he would exercise every morning. "I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was curious by how one moved one"s body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match," he wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.
2. His original name was not Nelson.
Rolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name “Nelson” in accordance with the custom to give all school children Christian names.
3. He forgot his glasses when he was released from prison.
Mr. Mandela"s release on 11 February 1990 followed years of political pressure against apartheid(种族隔离). Mr. Mandela"s reading glasses stayed behind in prison Mr. Mandela and his then-wife Winnie were taken to the centre of Cape Town to address a huge and exciting crowd. But when he pulled out the text of his speech, he realized he had forgotten his glasses and had to borrow Winnie"s.
4. He had his own law firm, but it took him years to get a law degree.
Mr. Mandela studied law on and off for 50 years from 1939, failing about half the courses he took. A two-year diploma(学位证书) in law on top of his university degree allowed him to practice, and in August 1952, he and Oliver Tambo set up South Africa"s first black law firm, Mandela and Tambo, in Johannesburg. He kept on studying hard to finally secure a law degree while in prison in 1989.
小题1:What is the main idea of the passage?| A．Nelson Mandela’s life in the prison. | | B．The achievements of Nelson Mandela. | | C．Nelson Mandela’s hobbies and career. | | D．Unknown things about Nelson Mandela. |
小题2: Why did Nelson Mandela love boxing?| A．Because he wanted to be a boxer. | | B．Because he enjoyed the violence of boxing. | | C．Because he appreciated the strategy in boxing. | | D．Because he had nothing else to do in the prison. |
小题3:What happened to Mandela when he was about to give the speech?| A．He broke his glasses into pieces. | | B．He had to use his wife’s glasses. | | C．He left his own glasses at home. | | D．His wife wanted to borrow his glasses. |
小题4:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?| A．Nelson Mandela was not his original name. | | B．Nelson Mandela was the name given by his teacher. | | C．Nelson Mandela had been studying the law nonstop for 50 years. | | D．Nelson Mandela had started his own law firm before he got a law degree. |
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