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Each time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six-year-old girl. It was a rainy Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my mom if Dad had gone to heaven. “Yes, honey. Of course.” she said.
“Can we write him a letter?”
 She paused, the longest pause of my short life, and answered, “Yes.”
My heart jumped. “How? Does the mailman go there?” I asked.
“No, but I have an idea.” Mom drove to a party store and returned with a red balloon. I asked her what it was for.
“Just wait, honey. You’ll see.” Mom told me to write my letter. Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured out my six-year-old heart in the form of blue ink. I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Mom was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read. For a few minutes it was as if Dad were still alive. I gave the letter to Mom. She read it over, and a smile crossed her face.
She made a hole in the corner of the letter where she looped (缠绕) the balloon string. We went outside and she gave me the balloon. It was still raining.
“Okay, on the count of three, let go. One, two, three.”
The balloon, carrying my letter, darted upward against the rain. We watched until it was swallowed by the mass of clouds.
Later I realized, like the balloon, that Dad had never let his sickness get him down. He was strong. No matter what he suffered, he’d persevere, dart up, and finally transcend this cold world and his sick body. He rose into sky and became something beautiful. I watched until the balloon disappeared into the gray and white and I prayed that his strength was hereditary. I prayed to be a balloon.
小题1:What does the underlined sentence imply?
A．When the girl asked if they could write to her father, her mother felt it hard to answer.
B．When the girl asked if they could write to her father, her mother thought her a creative girl.
C．When the girl asked if they could write to her father, her mother believed it easy to do so.
D．When the girl asked if they could write to her father, her mother found it easy to lie.
小题2:When the girl was told that she could send a letter to her father, she _________.
A．jumped with surpriseB．became excited
C．didn’t know how to writeD．was worried that it couldn’t be delivered
小题3:In the eyes of the author, what was the rain like?
A．An incurable disease.B．An unforgettable memory.
C．The hard time her father had.D．The failures her father experienced.
小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?
A．An unforgettable experience.B．The strong red balloon.
C．Fly to paradise.D．A great father.

答案

小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:B
解析

试题分析：本文讲述了作者小时候把给病逝的父亲的写信用气球放飞的故事，表达了对父亲的怀念和对父亲坚强精神的敬佩。
小题1:推断题：根据第一段内容可知作者的父亲已经去世了，她不知道如何完成女儿的心愿，多她来说很难。故选A。
小题2:细节题：根据“ Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured out my six-year-old heart in the form of blue ink. I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Mom was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read”我急切地拿出我最喜爱的笔，用蓝色的墨水倾诉者我六岁是的心里话。我写我一天中的事情，有我在学校学到了什么，妈妈是如何做的，甚至我读的故事里发生的事，由此可知小女孩很激动。故选B。
小题3:推断题：根据文章最后两段内容可知在父亲病重时，父亲依然很坚强，并没有被疾病打到，虽然最后他去世了，但他的精神还在，红色的气球就是父亲，而雨就是父亲度过的那段时光。故选C。
小题4:推断题：通读全文可知作者用带着信件在雨中不断上升的红气球隐射这对父亲病痛中依然保持乐观精神的敬佩和对已逝父亲的怀念。故选B。
举一反三
When I was 12, a story happening to me told me what true forgiveness meant.
One Saturday afternoon I was playing, throwing little stones, with several boys of my age when  I_____ a porch window carelessly.___ frightened me was that I would get caught by the owner, an old woman customer for whom I delivered papers every day._____, several days later, when I  made sure I hadn’t been found, I came to feel （39）_____for her loss. _____, each day she _____ me when greeting me as I delivered her papers, but I felt somehow  _____ when I faced her.
Then I made up my mind to save money to  _____ the loss. Three weeks later, I _____ to save 7 dollars and put it in an envelope with a note ____ that I was sorry for having broken her window and hoped that the seven dollars would  ____ the repairing cost. After that, I put the envelope in her letter slot that evening. In this way, I felt  _____ and I couldn’t wait for the freedom of, once again, looking straight _____ the old lady’s eyes.
On the day that followed, I delivered her paper and was able,  _____, to smile at her as she did. She thanked me for her being  _____ and then gave me  _____cookies. After eating several cookies, I felt an envelope and (52) _____ it out of the bag. I was  _____when I opened the envelope, inside which were the very 7 dollars and a short  _____ reading “I am proud of you”. I _____it was true forgiveness.
小题1:
A．openedB．brokeC．closedD．repaired
小题2:
A．TheyB．ThatC．WhatD．It
小题3:
A．HoweverB．ThereforeC．StillD．Besides
小题4:
A．ashamedB．guiltyC．innocentD．stupid
小题5:
A．In generalB．To concludeC．As usualD．For sure
小题6:
A．smiled toB．pointed toC．spoke toD．shouted to
小题7:
A．unfortunateB．unfriendlyC．uncomfortableD．unfair
小题8:
A．look for B．compensate forC．ask forD．apply for
小题9:
A．triedB．succeededC．managedD．meant
小题10:
A．speaking B．explainingC．talkingD．writing
小题11:
A．coverB．cutC．increaseD．balance
小题12:
A．free of chargeB．free of taxC．free of shameD．free of duty
小题13:
A．intoB．atC．forD．to
小题14:
A．in turnB．in returnC．on the contraryD．by contrast
小题15:
A．cheatedB．awardedC．servedD．informed
小题16:
A．a number ofB．a bag ofC．a plate ofD．a box of
小题17:
A．pushedB．pulledC．pickedD．forced
小题18:
A．pleasedB．interestedC．shockedD．terrified
小题19:
A．noteB．noticeC．mapD．picture
小题20:
A．saidB．expectedC．knewD．regretted

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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.

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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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