Steve Nash enjoys team success far more than personal success, and always wants
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Steve Nash enjoys team success far more than personal success, and always wants to share the glory and the joy with teammates.
He is a self-effacing (不爱出风头的) Canadian, who grew up in hockey country. Today Steve Nash has to stand alone even if he doesn’t enjoy it. The Phoenix Sun’s point guard has to take ownership of a set of skills that sets him apart from every bigger, faster basketball player. He is considered the best basketball player in the game.
31-year old Nash was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the NBA on May 8, 2005. “It’s unbelievable,” he said. “It’s been a long road for me and I really enjoy playing as a team, just trying to be a good teammate. That is the only way for me to highlight what I do as a basketball player.”
It is the first time a Canadian has won any individual NBA honor. Of the 50 winners of the MVP award, only six have been guards: Steve Nash, Magic Johnson, Oscar Robertson, Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson, and Bob Cousy. “I’m happy for him getting the MVP, which makes us feel like we all got the MVP,” said Phoenix forward Shawn Marion.
He may be the only one who truly believes he can reach this level. “I always try to set goals for myself and have my own time frame to accomplish them and I never give up on anything,” he said. It is not as if Nash arrived at this point without countless hours of hard work.
His interests go far beyond sports and the NBA. His social conscience is such that he wore a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan at the NBA all-star weekend festivities in Philadelphia in 2002.
“A lot of great moments are when you win games with your teammates. There’s nothing like sharing something with someone else,” he said. “There is a pinnacle (顶点) of a player’s career individually. In many ways, the pinnacle of a player’s career really is defined by team wins.”
小题1:What does Steve Nash mean by saying the last two sentences?| A．A player’s success is decided by his / her individual efforts. | | B．A player won’t succeed without a team’s support. | | C．A player will succeed sooner or later. | | D．A team always decides a player’s success. |
小题2:Steve Nash feels happiest _______.| A．when he is named the Most Valuable Player of the NBA | | B．when he is 30 years old | | C．when he plays at the NBA all-star weekend festivities | | D．when his team wins a game |
小题3:Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?| A．Nash is an American basketball player. | | B．Nash is better at basketball than Magic Johnson. | | C．Nash is the first Canadian winner of the MVP award. | | D．Michael Jordan is the best of the six guards. |
小题4: Which of the following is the main message that the passage wants to express?
A. Nash prefers team honor to personal honor.
B. Hard work will lead to the honor of the MVP of the NBA.
C. A Canadian can be an MVP of the NBA.
D. Setting goals is of importance to success. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:A |
解析
试题分析：这篇文章介绍加拿大球员Steve Nash，因为杰出的表现，他被评选为2005年最有价值球员，而且他还非常关心社会，个人荣誉相比，Steve Nash更喜欢集体的荣誉。
小题1:句意理解题：从最后一段的句子：“There is a pinnacle (顶点) of a player’s career individually. In many ways, the pinnacle of a player’s career really is defined by team wins.” 运动员的生涯会有一个顶点，很多时候，运动员的顶点就是团队的顶点，可知Steve Nash 认为没有团队的支持没有人会赢，选B
小题2:细节题：从第一段的句子：Steve Nash enjoys team success far more than personal success, and always wants to share the glory and the joy with teammates.可知Steve Nash觉得团队赢的时候是最快乐的，选D.
小题3:细节题：从第四段的句子：It is the first time a Canadian has won any individual NBA honor.可知 Steve Nash是第一个获得最有价值球员称号的加拿大人，选C
小题4:主旨题：从第一段的句子：Steve Nash enjoys team success far more than personal success, and always wants to share the glory and the joy with teammates. 和最后一段的句子：A lot of great moments are when you win games with your teammates. There’s nothing like sharing something with someone else, 可知这篇文章讲的是和个人荣誉相比，Steve Nash更喜欢集体的荣誉，选A |
举一反三
Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business. He enjoyed his and traveling.
Then, after returning to the United States from a trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), Mr. Cousins got sick. Because he had pushed his body to the of its strength on the trip, a change began to take place him. The material between his bones became .
In less than one week after his return, he could not . Every move that he was painful. He was not able to sleep at night. The doctors told him that they did not know how to cure Mr. Cousins’ problem and he might never over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up . Mr. Cousins thought that thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He did not want to take medicine to cure himself. , he felt that happy thoughts or might cure his illness.
He began to on himself while still in the hospital by watching funny shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that 10 minutes of real laughter during the gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night. the doctors could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into (登记住宿) a hotel room where he could his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping __ he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for . After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work. He had laughed himself back to .
| 小题1: | | A．time | B．holiday | C．sleep | D．work |
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| 小题2: | | A．boring | B．tiring | C．dangerous | D．pleasant |
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| 小题3: | | A．top | B．degree | C．problem | D．limit |
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| 小题4: | | A．from | B．around | C．inside | D．beside |
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| 小题5: | | A．weak | B．ill | C．false | D．strong |
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| 小题6: | | A．speak | B．breathe | C．stand | D．see |
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| 小题9: | | A．effort | B．hope | C．treatment | D．arrangement |
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| 小题10: | | A．foolish | B．unusual | C．funny | D．unhappy |
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| 小题11: | | A．Instead | B．However | C．Therefore | D．Otherwise |
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| 小题12: | | A．sleep | B．travel | C．laughter | D．television |
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| 小题13: | | A．beat | B．operate | C．try | D．experiment |
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| 小题14: | | A．day | B．week | C．month | D．year |
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| 小题15: | | A．Promising | B．Telling | C．Imagining | D．Guessing |
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| 小题16: | | A．invent | B．begin | C．continue | D．prove |
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| 小题17: | | A．until | B．whenever | C．unless | D．so that |
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| 小题18: | | A．soon | B．very | C．slowly | D．enough |
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| 小题19: | | A．exercise | B．illness | C．rest | D．pleasure |
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| 小题20: | | A．power | B．sense | C．health | D．happiness |
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Davey wanted to play baseball. But fifty years ago, in his small town, he couldn’t find enough players for two full teams or an empty lot big enough for a field. And when he played ball in his back yard, he just broke windows and got into trouble. So Davey began playing with a plastic golf ball and a broom handle for a bat.
When his dad, David Mullaney, a former semi-pro baseball pitcher(投手), realized his son was hurting his arm trying to throw curves with the little plastic ball, he decided to find a better solution. Mullaney got a bunch of hollow plastic spheres from a local factory, sat down at his kitchen table and began cutting different size holes in the balls with a razor knife. He thought maybe the holes would alter the ball’s flight and help his son throw curves and sliders without hurting his arm.
All the balls failed—except the one with the eight oblong(长椭圆形的) holes cut into one of the hemispheres. This ball curved naturally and sharply without a violent snap of the wrist. In fact, Davey was now striking out so many batters; he called his new ball a “wiffle ball”. A year later, Mullaney borrowed $20,000 from family and friends and started producing Wiffle Balls in his little suburban town of Shelton, Connecticut.
“I didn’t want investors.” He said, “I wanted to control my own company.” This was the beginning of one of the hottest fads(时尚) of the fifties and a perennial(长久的) best seller well known all around the world. Since then millions of boys and girls have enjoyed countless hours of safe, wholesome fun playing with a Wiffle ball and bat. Esquire Magazine has even called the Wiffle Ball “a national treasure”. By producing a high quality product at an affordable price, three generations of Mullany’s have enjoyed the satisfaction and benefits of running a successful and profitable family business.
Over the years, they’ve had plenty of offers to buy them out, but they’re still working out of a small factory in Shelton, making a new Wiffle Ball every couple of seconds. Creativity and persistence are two of the important sources for wealth. If he gave up his attempts at trying new things, Mullany would not have invented the wiffle ball, nor would he have made such a big fortune.
小题1:From the passage we can know that . | A．Mullaney made the invention of Wiffle ball with the help of his son | | B．fifty years ago people didn’t like playing baseball very much | | C．Mullaney’s attempts to help Davey better enjoy ball-playing led to the invention of Wiffle ball | | D．playing balls would hurt one’s arm before the Wiffle ball’s appearance |
小题2:All the following are true EXCEPT .| A．Davey was a good ballplayer after the Wiffle ball came into existence | | B．David Mullaney wanted to run the family business on his own | | C．Mullaney’s family made a big fortune through the production of Wiffle balls | | D．Mullaney’s business was nearly bought out but they worked hard to keep it |
小题3:The underlined word “spheres” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to .| A．balls | B．bottles | C．bags | D．boxes |
小题4:The two important factors for Mullaney’s successful family business are .| A．time and fortune | B．persistence and creativity | | C．quality and fame | D．cooperation and efforts |
小题5:The passage mainly tells us something about . | A．Davey, a famous baseball player | B．a popular ball game in the 1950’s | | C．the birth of Wiffle ball | D．the success of a family business |
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Tess was a precocious(早熟) eight-year-old girl when she heard her Mom and Dad taling about her little brother,Andrew.____ __she knw was that he was very sick and they were completely _____money. They were moving to an apartment complex next month because Daddy didn’t have the money for the doctor’s bills and their house .Only a(n) _____could save him now.
Tess went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly(果冻) jar from its hiding place. She poured all the out on the floor and counted carefully. Three times,even.The total had to be absolutely exact. No here for mistakes. After carefully placing the coins back in the jar, she slipped out of the back door, and her way six blocks to a chemist’s.
She waited patiently for the pharmacist (药剂师) to give her some ,but he was too busy at this moment. Tess twisted her feet to make a noise. Nothing. She cleared her with the most awful sound she could muster. No good.
Finally the pharmacist asked in an tone of voice, “What do you want? I’m talking to my brother from Chicago I haven’t seen in ages,” he said without waiting for a reply to his question.
“Well, I want to talk to you about my brother,” Tess answered back in the same annoyed tone. “His name is Andrew and he has something bad inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?”
“We don’t sell miracles here, little girl. I’m sorry, I can’t help you,” the pharmacist said, his voice a little.
There was a man there whose clothes were admirable. He asked the little girl, “What kind of a miracle does your brother need?”
“I don’t know” Tess replied with tears in her eyes. “I just know he"s sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy can’t pay it, so I want to use my money.”
“How much do you have?” asked the man. “One dollar and eleven cents,” Tess answered.
“A dollar and eleven cents ― the price of a miracle for your little brother,” smiled the man, “Take me to you live. Let’s see if I have the kind of miracle you need.”
That well-dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon, specializing in neurosurgery (神经外科). The operation was completely charge and it wasn’t long before Andrew was home again and did well.
Mom and Dad were happy but they wonder how much the operation would have . Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost…one dollar and eleven cents…plus the of a little child.
| 小题1: | | A．As | B．All | C．All what | D．That |
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| 小题2: | | A．in need | B．in short | C．out of | D．sort of |
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| 小题3: | | A．miracle | B．doctor | C．God | D．operation |
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| 小题4: | | A．change | B．jellies | C．candies | D．cookies |
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| 小题5: | | A．way | B．doubt | C．chance | D．wonder |
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| 小题6: | | A．drove | B．fought | C．made | D．struggled |
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| 小题7: | | A．pills | B．attention | C．medicine | D．tablets |
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| 小题8: | | A．mouth | B．eyes | C．ears | D．throat |
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| 小题9: | | A．anxious | B．exciting | C．annoyed | D．tired |
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| 小题10: | | A．who | B．where | C．because | D．which |
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| 小题11: | | A．finding | B．planting | C．showing | D．growing |
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| 小题13: | | A．soft | B．soften | C．softened | D．softening |
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| 小题14: | | A．really | B．real | C．firm | D．firmly |
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| 小题16: | | A．actual | B．exact | C．average | D．true |
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| 小题17: | | A．the place | B．the apartment | C．the complex | D．where |
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| 小题18: | | A．free | B．free of | C．not | D．no |
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| 小题19: | | A．spent | B．paid | C．cost | D．took |
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| 小题20: | | A．thought | B．value | C．patience | D．faith |
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Twelve years ago, when I was 50,I wondered what 60 or 70 would be like? I looked around and saw only one style of living. It’s not fair, I thought. Young people have so many styles to choose from, but older people have just one choice. So I decide to do something about it , something practical.
I worked on my fitness by joining exercise classes in town. A few years later, my husband and I moved to a retirement community, and I wanted to teach aerobic（有氧运动的）classes. The community center wouldn’t give me a room to teach in, so I had to walk around and find any available empty room.
One day, the community center staff came to me and asked if I would help with the entertainment for a Hawaiian luau（夏威夷式宴会）they were putting on. I said yes. Then I talked five other ladies into dancing with me. We performed the hula（呼啦舞）and a war chant and brought the house down. Someone had a camera and took pictures, and then sent them to our local paper. We got requests for more engagements, which in turn led to more publicity and yet more engagements. Soon we had invitations from all over the country. The Dancing Grannies were born!
I think the real secret of the Dancing Grannies is out attitude. I was raised extremely poor ---no-food poor. If we wanted toys we had to make things up to play with ,so I learned early to be very creative. And you know,I think being poor was one of the best things that ever happened to me because I learned to look for treasures.
That’s what I’m still doing today—looking for the treasure in growing old. I’m getting better and better.
It’s true that antiques have to be treated a bit differently, with a little care, but they still have a beauty of their own.
小题1:What did the writer think of the living style of the older people when she was 50?| A．Unsatisfying | B．Favorable | C．Pleasant | D．Practical |
小题2:Why did the writer have to walk around and find an empty room? | A．Because she couldn’t offer an expensive room. | | B．Because she wasn’t given a room to teach in by the community center. | | C．Because she wanted to find a better one. | | D．Because she wanted to keep fit by walking. |
小题3:What can we infer from the writer’s performance? | A．It was just so-so. | B．It was a failure. | | C．It was average. | D．It was a success. |
小题4:What made the writer learn to look for treasures?| A．Being active | B．Being creative | | C．Being rich | D．Being poor |
小题5:What does the underlined word “antiques” (in the last paragraph) refer to? | A．Ancient treasures | B．Poor children | | C．Old people | D．The Dancing Grannies |
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入
对应空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
My job was to make classroom observations and encourage a training program that would enable students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this .
One day, I entered Donna’s classroom, took a seat in the back of the room and . All the students were working a task. The student next to me was filling her page with “I Can’ts.” “I can’t kick the soccer ball.” “I can’t get Debbie to like me.” Her page was half full and she showed no of stopping. I walked down the row and found was writing sentences, describing things they couldn’t do.
By this time the activity aroused my , so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on I noticed she too was busy writing. “I can’t get John’s mother to come for a parents’ meeting.” I felt it best not to .
After another ten minutes, the students were to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their “I Can’t” statements into an empty shoebox. Then Donna hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked it under her arm and headed out the door. Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna got a shovel from the tool house, and then marched the students to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to . The box of “I Can’ts” was placed at the of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. At this point Donna announced, “Boys and girls, please join hands and your heads.” They quickly formed a circle around the grave.
Donna delivered the eulogy (悼词). “Friends, we gathered here today to the memory of ‘I Can’t.’ He is by his brothers and sisters ‘I Can’ and ‘I Will’. May ‘I Can’t’ rest in . Amen!”
She turned the students and marched them back into the classroom. They celebrated the of “I Can’t”. Donna cut a large tombstone from paper. She wrote the words “I Can’t” at the top and the date at the bottom, then hung it in the classroom. On those rare occasions when a student and said, “I Can’t,” Donna pointed to the paper tombstone. The student then remembered that “I Can’t” was dead and chose other statement.
| 小题1: | | A．job | B．project | C．observation | D．course |
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| 小题2: | | A．checked | B．noticed | C．watched | D．waited |
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| 小题4: | | A．scenes | B．senses | C．marks | D．signs |
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| 小题5: | | A．nobody | B．somebody | C．everyone | D．anyone |
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| 小题6: | | A．curiosity | B．suspect | C．sympathy | D．worry |
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| 小题8: | | A．insert | B．interrupt | C．talk | D．request |
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| 小题9: | | A．taught | B．shown | C．forced | D．instructed |
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| 小题10: | | A．added | B．wrote | C．made | D．folded |
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| 小题12: | | A．back | B．bottom | C．top | D．edge |
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| 小题13: | | A．drop | B．raise | C．fall | D．lift |
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| 小题14: | | A．keep | B．thank | C．forgive | D．honor |
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| 小题15: | | A．remembered | B．punished | C．removed | D．replaced |
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| 小题16: | | A．silence | B．heart | C．peace | D．memory |
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| 小题18: | | A．birth | B．passing | C．loss | D．starting |
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| 小题19: | | A．awoke | B．reminded | C．forgot | D．apologized |
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| 小题20: | | A．simply | B．hardly | C．seriously | D．angrily |
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