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On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of a New York subway st

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On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of a New York subway station, playing his violin. Many of passers-by slowed down their paces and put some money into the hat of the young man.
　　The next day, at the same place, he put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different than the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground and put some stones on it. Then he adjusted the violin and began playing. It seemed more pleasant to listen to.
　The words read, “Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat mistakenly. Please come to claim it soon.”
　　Seeing this, people wondered what it could be. After about half an hour, a middle-aged man ran there hurriedly and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed his shoulders and said, “Yes, it’s you. You did come here. I knew that you’re an honest man and would certainly come here.”
　　“Are you Mr. George Sang”? asked the young violinist.
The man nodded.   “Did you lose something?”　“Lottery. It’s lottery.” “Is it?” The violinist took out a lottery ticket and asked.
　　George nodded promptly and seized the lottery ticket and kissed it, then he danced with the violinist.
　　The story turned out to be this: George Sang bought a lottery ticket, winning a prize of $500,000. After work, he passed the station and felt the music was so wonderful that he took out 50 dollars and put it in the hat. However, the lottery ticket was also thrown in. The violinist was a student at an Arts College and had planned to attend further study in Vienna. He had booked the ticket and would fly that morning. However when he was cleaning up he found the lottery ticket. Thinking that the owner would return to look for it, he cancelled the flight and came back to where he was given the lottery ticket.
When asked why he didn’t take the lottery ticket for himself, the violinist said, “Although I don’t have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty I won’t be happy forever.”
小题1: What is the sequence(顺序) of the story?
a. The violinist tried to look for the ticket-owner            
b. George Sang won a lottery  
c. George Sang threw $50 and his ticket in the hat of a violinist’s 
d. The violinist found the owner of the lottery ticket
e. A young student played the violinist near a subway station.
A．c, d, e, a, eB．b, c, e, d, aC．b, e, c, a, dD．c, a, d, b, e
小题2: George Sang was so ______that he kissed the lost ticket and danced with the violinist.
A．movedB．disappointedC．madD．pleased
小题3:By telling the story, the writer intends to tell us that__________.
A．getting rich overnight is important
B．showing sympathy for others is important
C．being honest is of great importance
D．school fees are high at the present time
小题4:We can infer from the passage that______.
A．The Arts College the young violinist was going to attend is not in New York.
B．Many people usually put their money in their hat in the distant past.
C．George Sang may give some money to the young violinist as a reward.
D．all the people who win lotteries are generous and easy-going.

答案

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:A
解析

试题分析：本文叙述了一位年轻的艺术家在求学时，因为没有钱交学费去火车站附近拉琴卖艺，有一次有个人丢了一张彩票，这位艺术家第二天来到原来的地方寻求失主，他说人的诚信是非常重要的。
小题1:文章倒数第二段的内容：The story turned out to be this: 讲述了故事发展的经过： b. George Sang 的彩票中奖，e. 一个年轻的钢琴家在地铁站表演， c. George Sang在钢琴家的帽子里面扔了50美元和彩票，a. 钢琴家找彩票的主人， d. 钢琴家找到彩票的主人，选C
小题2:推理题：从倒数第三段的句子：George nodded promptly and seized the lottery ticket and kissed it, then he danced with the violinist.可知George Sang 亲吻彩票和钢琴家跳舞都是高兴的表示，选D
小题3:细节理解题。根据But if I lose honesty I won’t be happy forever.” Through our lives, we can gain a lot and lose so much. But being honest should always be with us. 可知这篇文章讲的是诚实的重要性，故选C
小题4:推理题：从倒数第二段的句子：The violinist was a student at an Arts College and had planned to attend further study in Vienna. He had booked the ticket and would fly that morning. 可知这个钢琴家上的艺术学校不在纽约，选A
举一反三
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I have a friend who had a stammer (口吃) in his childhood, but he dreamed of becoming a missionary(传教士). When he told his own desire to his friends and relatives, some of them laughed at him, and some even held down his enthusiasm      .
"I must change it." said the boy angrily, “I believe I can speak very    , I will do!"
When it was possible, he would spend an hour     to chickens. He viewed the chickens as living persons,     himself to be the person in the speech.
"In the beginning, the chickens looked so        , then they watched me curiously, putting down the food in the mouths and listening to my words. It seemed as if they had been        by my powerful and effective language. Sometimes they seemed to be listening to me       . Gradually, the effect of this practice became more and more   and I had a better understanding of the exact      of my stammer, so I found the ability to speak more."
"You may not know that my father was always tyrannical(专横的). He        believed in the old saying: "Young man should be more knowledgeable, but should not      much." During the whole childhood,   I spoke or commented, he criticized me seriously, which    my shy personality. I used to worry about being  at, so I became a stammerer. From then on, I kept     in front of everyone because they didn"t want to see my embarrassment. But later I found myself talking in front of chickens, stammers disappeared      , therefore I regained my   ."
Now, the previous boy is the best at speaking and one of the most   missionaries. You can hardly imagine he used to have a serious language    . So when you come across disadvantages, you should believe you can     them by yourself.
小题1:
A．sincerely B．impolitely C．strangelyD．privately
小题2:
A．frequentlyB．fluently C．obviouslyD．completely
小题3:
A．contributing B．seeingC．turningD．speaking
小题4:
A．imaginingB．consideringC．declaringD．finding
小题5:
A．satisfiedB．pleasedC．frightenedD．surprised
小题6:
A．attractedB．beatenC．botheredD．influenced
小题7:
A．casuallyB．carefullyC．luckilyD．cautiously
小题8:
A．obviousB．slightC．crucialD．common
小题9:
A．effectB．benefitC．causeD．harm
小题10:
A．originallyB．personallyC．doubtfullyD．stubbornly
小题11:
A．think B．listen C．playD．talk
小题12:
A．sinceB．beforeC．wheneverD．unless
小题13:
A．applied toB．led toC．referred toD．owed to
小题14:
A．amazedB．studiedC．laughedD．looked
小题15:
A．silent B．activeC．noisyD．upset
小题16:
A．logicallyB．typicallyC．equallyD．naturally
小题17:
A．strengthB．dreamC．confidenceD．freedom
小题18:
A．successfulB．intelligent C．modestD．responsible
小题19:
A．giftB．barrierC．abilityD．study
小题20:
A．arrangeB．exchangeC．reduceD．change

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Fannie Cratty wasn’t really my aunt. I only referred to her as “My Aunt Fannie” because the name always made my father laugh and gave my mother cause to look angrily at both of us---at me for being disrespectful of my elder and at my father for encouraging my bad behavior.
As a young woman, my mother had worked in the kitchen of a large Victorian farmhouse owned by Fannie Cratty. During those years my mother helped Aunt Fannie make the best blueberry jam ever tasted by anyone in Glenfield. Aunt Fannie was well known for her jam and for never sharing the recipe with another living soul. Even though my mother knew the recipe by heart, as long as Aunt Fannie was alive (and she lived to be ninety-six!), she never made the jam without Ms. Cratty in our kitchen to direct the process and preserve the secret. 
Each August, when blueberry season would roll around, my mother would prepare me for Aunt Fannie’s visit. It was vital that I should be on my best behavior. After all, the woman was old, wealthy, very strict with children. Whenever she was at the house, I didn’t need to be reminded to guard my thoughts and watch my tongue. 
One year, after I had been particularly helpful with the jam process, Aunt Fannie gave me a quarter(25分硬币) and then made me promise that I would never spend it. “Hold onto this quarter,” she said, “and someday you will be rich. I still have my very first quarter, given to me by my grandfather.” It had obviously worked for her. So, I kept the 1938-quarter into a small box, put it in my dresser drawer, and waited to become rich. 
I now have the blueberry jam recipe and the quarter from Aunt Fannie. In people’s eye Aunt Fannie’s success was due to that secret recipe. But to me, it was just a common recipe. Neither has significantly contributed to my wealth, but I keep them as reminders to hold onto the valuable things in life. Money can make you feel rich for a while, but it is the relationships and the memories of time spent with friends and family that truly leave you wealthy. And that is a fortune that anyone can build.
小题1:Paragraph 2 implies that my mother    .
A．used to forget the secret blueberry jam recipe
B．wanted to show off her excellent cooking skills
C．was unable to make the jam without Aunt Fannie’s direction
D．tried to convince Aunt Fannie that she would keep the secret
小题2:According to Paragraph 4, the author believed that Aunt Fanni was rich because    .
A．she had kept her first quarter
B．she had never wasted money
C．she had worked very hard
D．she had kept her promise
小题3:The author thinks that we can feel wealthy if we    .
A．share our wealth with others
B．have good fortune and money
C．know the secret of a jam recipe
D．own lasting love and friendship
小题4:Which would be the best title for this passage？
A．An old quarterB．Valuable Things
C．Blueberry Jam RecipeD．Memories of old time

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When Marilynne Robinson published her first novel, Housekeeping, in 1980, she was unknown in the literary world. But an early review in The New York Times ensured that the book would be noticed. “It’s as if, in writing it, she broke through the ordinary human condition with all its dissatisfactions, and achieved a kind of transfiguration（美化）,” wrote Anatole Broyard, with an enthusiasm and amazement that was shared by many critics and readers. The book became a classic, and Robinson was recognized as one of the outstanding American writers of our time. Yet it would be more than twenty years before she wrote another novel. 
During the period, Robinson devoted herself to writing nonfiction. Her essays and book reviews appeared in Harper’s and The New York Times Book Review, and in 1989 she published Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution, criticizing severely the environmental and public health dangers caused by the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in England—and the political and moral corruption(腐败). In 1998, Robinson published a collection of her critical and theological writings, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, which featured reassessments of such figures as Charles Darwin, John Calvin, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Aside from a single short story—“Connie Bronson,” published in The Paris Review in 1986—it wasn’t until 2004 that she returned to fiction with the novel Gilead, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, Home, came out this fall.
Her novels could be described as celebrations of the human—the characters in them are unforgettable creations. Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her sister Lucille, who are cared for by their eccentric（古怪的）Aunt Sylvie after their mother commits suicide. Robinson writes a lot about how each of the three is changed by their new life together. Gilead is an even more close exploration of personality: the book centres on John Ames, a seventy-seven-year-old pastor(牧师) who is writing an account of his life and his family history to leave to his young son after he dies. Home borrows characters from Gilead but centers on Ames’s friend Reverend Robert Boughton and his troubled son Jack. Robinson returned to the same territory as Gilead because, she said, “after I write a novel or a story, I miss the characters—I feel like losing some close friends.”
小题1:Robinson’s second novel came out ____.
A．in 1980B．in 1986 C．in 1998D．in 2004
小题2:What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A．Robinson’s achievements in fiction.
B．Robinson’s achievements in nonfiction.
C．Robinson’s influence on the literary world.
D．Robinson’s contributions to the environment.
小题3:According to Paragraph 3, who is John Ames?
A．He is Robinson’s close friend.
B．He is a character in Gilead.
C．He is a figure in The Death of Adam.
D．He is a historian writing family stories.
小题4:From which section of a newspaper can you read this passage?
A．Career.B．Lifestyle.　C．Music.D．Culture.

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I was doing a big clean-up and my kids were helping. One of my sons came across a handkerchief of mine with a coin inside. I took one look and was immediately   to another time．
In 1991，I had spent five months in Viger(尼日尔)，a hot African country. There were many things I found      about this place—the climate and beggars who      shouted “Cadeau! Cadeau!” It means gift．
One      was a lot worse．One day，a friend and I headed for neighboring Burkina Faso to work in a health clinic．However，a motorbike with two men      slowly．Without warning，one of the men     my backpack as the motorbike swept close by．The bag had my passport，money，an airline ticket and other things precious to me．I was in deep      ．In the weeks that followed I looked at all   with suspicion.
All I wanted was to leave this place．One day，I was stopped by an old woman “Cadeau!” she cried. I’d had enough! I was sick and tired of the country．I told her firmly，“A thief stole all my money and now I can’t get off your country.” The beggar woman listened carefully and     my words．
“Then I will give you a cadeau,” she announced．Kindly，she placed an old brown coin in my palm. I looked at it   ．Living in poverty，she gave me something priceless! I saw then the     beauty of the people of Burkina Faso and    deeply the quiet dignity of the small coin；she turned my perceptions upside down．
小题1:
A．welcomedB．transportedC．exchangedD．expected
小题2:
A．difficultB．easyC．curiousD．adequate
小题3:
A．annoyinglyB．carefullyC．politelyD．calmly
小题4:
A．clinicB．presentC．opportunityD．incident
小题5:
A．continuedB．failedC．approachedD．dropped
小题6:
A．grabbedB．brokeC．borrowedD．fixed
小题7:
A．debtB．snowC．troubleD．thought
小题8:
A．platsB．friendsC．menD．locals
小题9:
A．deniedB．usedC．consideredD．changed
小题10:
A．in horrorB．in shockC．in returnD．in addition
小题11:
A．uncertainB．unfortunateC．unnecessaryD．unexpected
小题12:
A．thankedB．regrettedC．appreciatedD．pitied

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In side their one-storey, metal-roofed house on Vancouver Island’s west coast，Janet Schwartz and her domesticated(驯养的) deer, Bimbo，are returning to their normal lives. The law—represented by men and women dressed in black uniforms and carrying guns — is no longer threatening to forcibly separate Schwartz and Bimbo，freeing the l0-year-old deer to the fates (命运) of the surrounding rainforest and its hungry wolves and black bears．
“We love each other，”said Schwartz who turned 70 on Saturday. “she’ll come up to me and she’ll kiss me right on the lips，1ike a man kisses a woman’’
For four days last week，Schwartz’ life turned as rocky as the rough logging road that connected her life to the outside world. Conservation officers had arrived with orders to 1oose Bimbo. Schwartz was to1d she wasn’t allowed to touch Bimbo any more It seemed somebody had complained，said  Environment Minister Terry Lake earlier in the week, noting it’s illegal to keep wild animals as pets.
During those tense days，sleepless nights were made even more restless by nightmares，said Schwartz. There were news stories and Facebook pages which supported Schwartz and by Friday，the government had changed its mind. Schwartz could keep her pet with the help of a veterinarian and conservation officers.
“It makes me feel good，”said Schwartz of the announcement．“She is my life．and I’ve had her since the day she’s been born.”
The relationship began when a friend found the orphaned fawn (幼鹿) along a nearby logging road，more than a kilometer away from her current home，said Schwartz. The friend brought the fawn over because she knew Schwartz had raised a deer before.
Schwartz named the fawn Bimbo，based on a Gene Autry song that was playing inside her home at the time，and began feeding the animal goat’s milk.
Days turned into months and years, and now Bimbo’s a part of the family.
小题1:According to Paragraph 1 , Janet Schwartz’s life is returning to normal because______.
A．no one disturbs her life again
B．she can continue to keep the deer
C．she has married again
D．Bimbo has returned to the forest
小题2:Why didn’t Schwartz want to loose the deer?
A．It was the only companion in her house
B．She wanted to study the lifestyle of the deer．
C．The deer had become part of her life．
D．She had a veterinarian to help her．
小题3: Conservation officers ordered Janet to loose Bimbo because              .
A．the deer was not properly taken care of
B．the deer brought harm to the neighborhood
C．it was against the law to keep the deer as a pet
D．the deer made too much noise
小题4: What made the government change its mind?
A．Schwartz’s love for the deer.
B．The threat to the deer in the wild.
C．The change of the law.
D．The influence from the press and the Web.
小题5:What can we conclude from the text?
A．Bimbo will continue to stay with Schwartz.
B．Bimbo will be loosed to the wild.
C．A professional worker will take over Bimbo.
D．Bimbo will stay m a nearby Zoo.

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