My day began on a definitely sour note when I saw my six-year-old wrestling with

My day began on a definitely sour note when I saw my six-year-old wrestling with

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My day began on a definitely sour note when I saw my six-year-old wrestling with a limb of my azalea(杜鹃花)bush. By the time I got outside, he’d broken it. “Can I take this to school today?” he asked. With a wave of my hand, I sent him off. I turned my back so he wouldn’t see the tears gathering in my eyes.
The washing machine had leaked on my brand-new linoleum. If only my husband had just taken the time to fix it the night before when I asked him instead of playing checkers with Jonathan.
It was days like this that made me want to quit. I just wanted to drive up to the mountains, hide in a cave, and never come out.
Somehow I spent most of the day washing and drying clothes and thinking how love had disappeared from my life. As I finished hanging up the last of my husband’s shirts, I looked at the clock. 2:30. I was late. Jonathan’s class let out at 2:15 and I hurriedly drove to the school.
I was out of breath by the time I knocked on the teacher’s door and peered through the glass. She rustled through the door and took me aside. “I want to talk to you about Jonathan,” she said.
I prepared myself for the worst. Nothing would have surprised me. “Did you know Jonathan brought flowers to school today?” she asked. I nodded, thinking about my favorite bush and trying to hide the hurt in my eyes. “Let me tell you about yesterday,” the teacher insisted. “See that little girl?” I watched the bright-eyed child laugh and point to a colorful picture taped to the wall. I nodded.
“Well, yesterday she was almost hysterical. Her mother and father are going through a nasty divorce. She told me she didn’t want to live, she wished she could die. I watched that little girl bury her face in her hands and say loud enough for the class to hear, ‘Nobody loves me.’ I did all I could to comfort her, but it only seemed to make matters worse.” “I thought you wanted to talk to me about Jonathan,” I said.
“I do,” she said, touching the sleeve of my blouse. “Today your son walked straight over to that child. I watched him hand her some pretty pink flowers and whisper, ‘I love you.’“
I felt my heart swell with pride for what my son had done. I smiled at the teacher. “Thank you,” I said, reaching for Jonathan’s hand, “you’ve made my day.”
Later that evening, I began pulling weeds from around my azalea bush. As my mind wandered back to the love Jonathan showed the little girl, a biblical verse came to me: “...these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” While my son had put love into practice, I had only felt anger.
I heard the familiar squeak of my husband’s brakes as he pulled into the drive. I snapped a small limb bristling with hot pink azaleas off the bush. I felt the seed of love that God planted in my family beginning to bloom once again in me. My husband’s eyes widened in surprise as I handed him the flowers. “I love you,” I said.
小题1:Why did the woman cry when seeing her son had broken the azalea bush?
A.Because she could not tolerate the harm to it.
B.Because it made her bad mood even worse.
C.Because her son did not ask her for permission.
D.Because she wanted to hand it to her husband.
小题2:The writer wanted to hide in the mountain cave probably for the reason of         .
A.feeling fed up with her endless daily housework
B.her husband’s failing to fix the machine in time
C.boring daily routine with a feeling of lack of love
D.her hoping to seek happiness in a brand new place
小题3:We can infer from the passage that the writer expressed love to her husband in that         .
A.she was inspired by her son that love was supposed to be felt and practiced
B.she felt guilty that she misunderstood her husband and wanted to apologize
C.she felt it necessary to have a complete family for the happiness of herself
D.she wanted to prove her love and expected the same words from her husband

答案

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
解析

试题分析: 文章介绍作者因为每天的日常琐事和缺乏爱,对生活失去信心,甚至想躲到山上去,但是儿子的一个做法,让作者受到感染和激发,决心让爱重新出现在她的家。
小题1:细节题:从第一段的句子:My day began on a definitely sour note when I saw my six-year-old wrestling with a limb of my azalea(杜鹃花)bush. 可知作者这一天开始就很糟,儿子又将她的杜鹃花破坏了,所以她难过的哭了,选B
小题2:推理题:从第四段的句子:Somehow I spent most of the day washing and drying clothes and thinking how love had disappeared from my life. 可知作者想躲到山洞里,因为每天的日常琐事和缺乏爱,选C
小题3:推理题:从最后一段的句子:I felt the seed of love that God planted in my family beginning to bloom once again in me. My husband’s eyes widened in surprise as I handed him the flowers. “I love you,” I said.可知作者受到儿子做法的启发,知道爱应该被感受到和实践,选A 。
举一反三
Last weekend  I was out walking with my dog. She loves wandering around and seeing          we meet, so it becomes a social walk rather than an exercise.
Then we     0ur neighbour who was preparing to sell her house.  She was busy getting ready for her open house(看房时间)that afternoon . After talking a little we went our separate ways .I could tell it was a(n)      day for her.
After I got home, I quickly      some of the wonderful  lavender(薰衣草) in my garden
Wonderful! They smelled good and  the purple            were so pretty. I wrapped some packing paper around the bunch and          it to my neighbor for her open house. I loved her expression          she saw me there with a bunch of lavender!  It            made me happy. It made her stop and take a deep      and maybe reduced her stress for a second
The next day I had a note in my mailbox from my neighbor thanking me for my        . She said everybody commented on how wonderful her house smelled She said the       0f kindness I showed helped          some of the stress she was feeling. Her note was like a big hug to me.
Never        that it"s the gift from the heart that is the most       .I think sometimes we hesitate(犹豫) to do the        acts of kindness because we may think  they aren"t anything but actually they are probably the  best gift
小题1:
A.dogsB.peopleC.scenesD.food
小题2:
A.came acrossB.came upC. came toD. came into
小题3:
A. excitingB.naturalC. activeD. difficult
小题4:
A.boughtB.cutC.raisedD.buried
小题5:
A.leavesB.grassC.flowersD.roots
小题6:
A.tookB.postedC.placedD.moved
小题7:
A.becauseB.whenC.untilD.if
小题8:
A.hardlyB.probablyC.merelyD.completely
小题9:
A.breath .B.sighC.lookD.step
小题10:
A.ideaB.kindnessC.activityD.matter
小题11:
A.formB.desireC.actD.service
小题12:
A.LoseB.realizeC.warnD.remove
小题13:
A.forgetB.considerC.changeD.mention
小题14:
A.honestB.friendlyC.valuableD.expensive
小题15:
A.totalB.trueC.easyD.simple

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Vivi Mac, an amazing artist from France, can use nearly any kind of food to create detailed celebrity portraits(名人肖像).Although she has yet to display her short-lived work of arts in a proper art gallery, Vivi Mac has already made a name for herself online.
We"ve seen some amazing food artists in the past, but none are quite like this one .Karen Eland is a master coffee painter, Elisabetta Rogai uses wine as her medium(媒介),Kelly McCollam uses food colouring(食用色素)to recreat classic paintings, but the self-taught Vivi Mac can take anything from chewing gum to milk and turn it into a fantastic portrait  When working with liquids, Mac uses a simple plastic straw and her hands to guide the unusual .mediums around a plastic plate which acts as a painting. Just how she manages to capture the finest facial features  is still a mistery  to me, and I"ve seen videos of her doing it many times,
Vivi Mac has never attended art school. She only used online resources like blogs and facebook to learn the basics of drawing and painting. She started out working with pens and paper, but soon realized drawing wasn"t just creative enough for her. She got into speed  painting and body painting, posting videos of her works on You Tube, but it wasn"t until she began experimenting with different kinds of foods that her art got serious coverage. Photos and videos of her eatable celebrity portraits, like Bruce Lee in milk  Ice Cube in crushed ice or Amy Winehouse in wine, became popular on the French inter-webs and changed Vivi Mac into an online celebrity.
小题1:What does the underlined word "display" in the first paragraph mean?
A.Exhibit.B.Create.C.Produce.D.Store.
小题2:What is the difference between Vivi Mac and other food artists?
A.She Uses wine as her medium.
B.She is famous for her food website.
C.She turns any kind of food into a portrait
D.She uses spices to recreate classic paintings.
小题3:In which section of a website are we most likely to find the passage?
A.FoodB.ScienceC.ArtD.Health

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That morning, I stepped into the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with seventy-five students who would be my English Literature class. Having taught in     for seventeen years, I had no    about my ability to hold their attention and toimpress on them my    for the literature of my mother tongue.
As I entered the room, I was     when the monitor shouted: “Stand up!” The entire class rose, and I was somewhat    about how to get them to sit down again. Once that awkwardness was over, I quickly     my calmness and began what I thought was an informed lecture, sure to gain their respect — perhaps    their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a sense of achievement.
I asked my students to keep     as homework. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually    by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today.    her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a     theme. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework of Western thought and laid the historical    for all the works we’ll study in class,” I complained. “How    they say I didn’t teach them anything?”
It was a long term, and it    became clear that my ideas about     were not the same as those of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise    questions and provide enough background so that students could    their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide    information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!
   , I benefited a lot, for my experience with my Chinese students has made me a    American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
小题1:
A.England B.AmericaC.China D.Australia
小题2:
A.worry B.idea C.doubt D.skill
小题3:
A.professionB.admiration C.explanationD.expression
小题4:
A.attracted B.embarrassedC.amused D.shocked
小题5:
A.puzzled B.sure C.worriedD.curious
小题6:
A.reminded B.returned C.regained D.recovered
小题7:
A.moreB.even C.yetD.still
小题8:
A.discussions B.notesC.compositions D.diaries
小题9:
A.replaced B.frightened C.troubled D.moved
小题10:
A.LaterB.PerhapsC.SomehowD.Indeed
小题11:
A.common B.strong C.similarD.strange
小题12:
A.happenings B.characters C.developmentD.background
小题13:
A.should B.need C.will D.must
小题14:
A.immediately B.certainly C.simply D.gradually
小题15:
A.admiration B.questionC.education D.conclusion
小题16:
A.difficultB.interestingC.essentialD.general
小题17:
A.draw B.find C.search D.offer
小题18:
A.special B.standard C.exact D.serious
小题19:
A.ThereforeB.HoweverC.Then D.Though
小题20:
A.richerB.happierC.friendlier D.better

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A black car rushed around the busy street corner, towards the courthouse. The dark       window rolled down and a semi-automatic       stuck out.
Pauly Gillespie, a government protected witness (目击者), stood      , seeing death walking toward him. Pauly’s FBI bodyguards       themselves on top of him, but two     were fired and Pauly was hit       the shoulder.
The car       across two lanes (车道) of traffic. Then it turned left down a path and got __   behind a large truck. The two men in the car       out and raced away ---      into the arms of four policemen.
Special agent (特工) Brown was new to the police unit and was told to    __ the car out of the path so that the traffic could return to      . Brown changed the position of the rearview (后视) mirror     _ and drove it around to    __ his boss was questioning the two men.
Brown stood and watched. One of the men was tall and thin, and     _ was five inches shorter, about Brown’s      .
Agent Fordney asked the two men who had done the shooting. They    __ to tell him. Then Brown smiled and said, “I know who the shooter was.” His boss was surprised. How could Brown know that without getting any answer from the two men?
When Brown got into the car, he had to adjust the rearview mirror. That meant the previous driver had been of a       height. Since the shorter man was close to Brown’s height, he knew the taller man must have been the     _. Therefore, the shorter man had done the      .
小题1:
A.driver-sideB.passenger-sideC.right-hand sideD.left-hand side
小题2:
A.handB.cameraC.handgunD.knife
小题3:
A.frozenB.calmC.quietD.still
小题4:
A.putB.rushedC.jumpedD.threw
小题5:
A.bulletsB.shotsC.gunsD.shoots
小题6:
A.onB.atC.overD.in
小题7:
A.spedB.rolledC.movedD.went
小题8:
A.damagedB.destroyedC.stuckD.injured
小题9:
A.cameB.hurriedC.walkedD.crawled
小题10:
A.suddenlyB.rightC.quicklyD.immediately
小题11:
A.clearB.rideC.carryD.push
小题12:
A.commonB.ordinaryC.usualD.normal
小题13:
A.upB.downC.inD.out
小题14:
A.whereB.thereC.whichD.what
小题15:
A.anotherB.otherC.the otherD.one
小题16:
A.sizeB.lengthC.ageD.height
小题17:
A.decidedB.refusedC.hadD.pretended
小题18:
A.sameB.largeC.differentD.small
小题19:
A.murdererB.shooterC.driverD.killer
小题20:
A.killingB.shootingC.drivingD.murdering

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Sometimes your biggest weakness can become your biggest strength.      the story of this boy for example.He decided to study judo(柔道)      he had lost his left      in a car accident.
The boy began lessons       an old Japanese judo master.The boy was doing well,     he couldn’t understand why,after three months of training,the master had     him only one move.
“Sensei,”the boy      said to his master,“shouldn’t I be learning more moves?”
“This is the only move you’11 ever     to know,”the sensei replied.
Not quite understanding,but believing in his teacher,the boy      training.
Several months later,the sensei       the boy to his first tournament.
To his     ,  the boy easily won his first two matches. The third match proved to be more        ,but after some time,his opponent(对手)became impatient and charged;the boy skillfully      his one move to win the match.Still amazed by his      ,the boy was now in the finals.
This time,his opponent was bigger,stronger,and more      .For a while,the boy appeared to be defeated.      that the boy might get      ,the referee called a timeout(暂停).He was about to stop the match when the sensei      ,saying,“No,let him continue.”
Soon after the match began again,his opponent made a big      :he dropped his guard.The boy won the tournament.
When asked,“how did I win with only one move ? ”,the sensei answered, “First,you’ve  almost     one of the most difficult throws in all of judo.Second,the only known defense for that move is for your opponent to grasp your left arm.”
小题1:
A.TakeB.GiveC.TellD.Make
小题2:
A.becauseB.thoughC.beforeD.until
小题3:
A.1egB.eyeC.armD.hand
小题4:
A.withB.asC.beneathD.1ike
小题5:
A.forB.sinceC.soD.or
小题6:
A.promisedB.taughtC.allowedD.delivered
小题7:
A.honestlyB.finallyC.impatientlyD.rapidly
小题8:
A.needB.failC.agreeD.demand
小题9:
A.avoidedB.stoppedC.keptD.regretted
小题10:
A.appliedB.keptC.carriedD.took
小题11:
A.embarrassmentB.encouragementC.disappointmentD.astonishment
小题12:
A.difficultB.awkwardC.frighteningD.unique
小题13:
A.sacrificedB.suggestedC.quittedD.used
小题14:
A.competitorB.masterC.successD.challenge
小题15:
A.responsibleB.experiencedC.casualD.stressed
小题16:
A.ConcernedB.ThreatenedC.DisappointedD.Delighted
小题17:
A.tiredB.defeatedC.hurtD.fined
小题18:
A.sighedB.addedC.approvedD.interrupted
小题19:
A.discoveryB.differenceC.mistakeD.decision
小题20:
A.createdB.masteredC.exposedD.watched

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