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。A wealthy man and his
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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。
A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had a large , from Picasso to Van Gogh. They would often sit together and the paintings of great artists. When the Vietnam conflict , the son went to war. he died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was in deep .
A month later, a young man came with a large in his hands. He said, “Sir, I am the soldier for whom your son his life. He often talked about your love for . So please accept it as a gift.” The father opened the package and saw a of his son. The father was so drawn to the picture that his eyes welled up with tears.
A few months later, the wealthy man died. There was to be a great auction (拍卖) of his
. Many people gathered, over having an opportunity to one painting. The auctioneer said, “We will start the bidding (竞拍) with this picture of the son. Who will bid for it?” There was . Then a voice shouted, “We want to see the famous paintings. Just
it.” “The son! Who’ll take the son?” the auctioneer continued.
Finally, a came from the very back. It was the gardener of the old man. “I’m poor and can only $10 for that.” The auctioneer asked the crowd to bid more. , they still kept silent. So he pounded the gavel (小锤). “SOLD for $10!” A man shouted, “Go on with the collection!” The auctioneer said, “I’m sorry, the auction is . According to will, only the picture of the son would be auctioned. Whoever bought that picture would be with all of the possessions, including the paintings.”
| 小题1: | | A．library | B．collection | C．house | D．garden |
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| 小题2: | | A．admire | B．process | C．sell | D．arrange |
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| 小题3: | | A．broke away | B．broke up | C．broke out | D．broke off |
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| 小题4: | | A．Unwillingly | B．Surprisingly | C．Generally | D．Unfortunately |
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| 小题5: | | A．mood | B．sorrow | C．pressure | D．nerve |
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| 小题6: | | A．package | B．book | C．box | D．case |
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| 小题7: | | A．cost | B．gave | C．assessed | D．concluded |
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| 小题8: | | A．music | B．smoking | C．clothes | D．art |
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| 小题9: | | A．watch | B．picture | C．gift | D．letter |
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| 小题10: | | A．house | B．garden | C．paintings | D．son |
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| 小题11: | | A．disappointed | B．excited | C．puzzled | D．stressed |
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| 小题12: | | A．buy | B．search | C．steal | D．adopt |
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| 小题13: | | A．noise | B．shout | C．delight | D．silence |
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| 小题14: | | A．ignore | B．defeat | C．divide | D．tolerate |
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| 小题15: | | A．seller | B．painter | C．voice | D．scream |
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| 小题16: | | A．spend | B．sponsor | C．contribute | D．afford |
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| 小题17: | | A．Thus | B．However | C．Therefore | D．Besides |
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| 小题18: | | A．over | B．on | C．apart | D．alongside |
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| 小题19: | | A．the gardener’s | B．the son’s | C．the young man’s | D．the old man’s |
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| 小题20: | | A．supplied | B．appointed | C．presented | D．equipped |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:D
小题5:B
小题6:A
小题7:B
小题8:D
小题9:B
小题10:C
小题11:B
小题12:A
小题13:D
小题14:A
小题15:C
小题16:D
小题17:B
小题18:A
小题19:D
小题20:C |
解析
试题分析：本文简述了一个有钱的人的他的儿子喜欢收藏稀有的艺术作品。他们经常在一起欣赏名画。但是战争爆发，儿子救了战友而自己却牺牲了。那位士兵把儿子的画像带回老人的身边。不久富人死了，在他家门前进行财产拍卖。很多人想得到一幅名画，但只有儿子的画像拍卖，没有人愿意买。最后，富人家的园丁以10美元的价格买下了儿子这幅画。附赠富人的所有财产。包括那些名画。
小题1:考查动词辨析。从后面可知，他们有一个丰富的收藏集。library图书馆；collection收集；house房子；garden花园。根据前面的collect判断，选B。
小题2:考查动词辨析。他们经常坐在一起欣赏大艺术家的画。 admire欣赏；process加工；sell卖；arrange安排。选A。
小题3:考查动词辨析。当越南战争爆发时，儿子去打仗了。broke away摆脱；broke up打碎；broke out爆发；broke off打断。选C。
小题4:考查动词辨析。不幸的是，儿子在救另一名士兵时死了。Unwillingly不愿意；Surprisingly吃惊地；Generally一般；Unfortunately不幸地。选D。
小题5:考查名词辨析。儿子战死，这位父亲陷入深深的悲痛中。mood情绪；sorrow悲伤； pressure压力；nerve神经。选B。
小题6:考查名词辨析。一个月后，一个年轻人手里拿着一个很大的包裹。package包裹；book书；box箱子；case手提箱。下文出现了package一词。选A。
小题7:考查动词辨析。我就是你儿子付出生命救下来的那个士兵。cost花费；gave给；assessed评价；concluded得结论。选B。
小题8:考查动词辨析。根据前文可知，他经常谈论你对艺术的热爱。music音乐；smoking烟；clothes衣服；art艺术。选D。
小题9:考查动词辨析。父亲打开包裹看到了他儿子的画像。watch手表；picture画；gift礼物；letter信。后面有picture出现。选B。
小题10:考查动词辨析。他的画有一个大拍卖。house房子；garden花园； paintings画；son儿子。故选C。
小题11:考查动词辨析。许多人聚在那里，很激动因为有机会买他的一幅画。disappointed失望；excited激动；puzzled迷惑；stressed有压力的。选B。
小题12:考查动词辨析。很激动有机会买他的一幅画。前文提到拍卖。所以人们是去买画。buy买；search搜寻；steal偷；adopt采用。选A。
小题13:考查动词辨析。从儿子的画像开始拍卖。一阵沉默。 noise噪音；shout喊叫 ；delight高兴；silence沉默。后面有silence出现。选D。
小题14:考查动词辨析。 有个声音说，别管这幅画，我们想看名画。ignore；忽视；defeat打败；divide分开；tolerate容忍。选A。
小题15:考查动词辨析。 一个声音从很后面传来。seller卖主；painter画家；voice（人的）声音；scream尖叫声。选C。
小题16:考查动词辨析。我很穷，只能支付10美元。spend花费；sponsor做…的保人，担保；contribute贡献；afford支付。选D。
小题17:考查动词辨析。拍卖商问人群有没有人出高价，但是他们依然沉默。Thus 因此；However可是，然而；Therefore因此，所以；Besides而且；另外选B。
小题18:考查动词辨析。对不起，拍卖结束了。over（用作表语[述语]〕完了，结束了；on〔多用作表语〕在进行；在发生；在活动；apart (与众)不同的；alongside在…的侧面；与…并排。 选A。
小题19:考查动词辨析。. 根据老人的意愿，只有儿子这幅画拍卖。the gardener’s园丁的； the son’s儿子的；the young man’s年轻人的；the old man’s老人的。选D。
小题20:考查动词辨析。谁买了这幅画，谁就将被赠送给他老人的所有财产，包括那些画。supplied供给、配给；appointed指定，约定；presented赠送，给予；equipped配备，装备。结合上下文可知，选C。 |
举一反三
When Regina Mary" parents refused to let her get a horse ,the smart 15-year-olddidn’t sit in her room and complain. Instead she turned to a cow called Luna to make her riding dreams come true.
Hours of training ,and tons of treats later, the results are impressive: not only do the two regularly go on long rides through the southern German countryside, they can even do some difficult jumps successfully. Regina joked while sitting on her brown-and-white companion: “It’s unbelievable really , She thinks she’s a horse.”
The pairs unlikely friendship started about two years ago, shortly after Luna was born on the Mayer’s farm. They
started off with walks in the woods. Then Mayer slowly got her cow more adapted to human contact and riding equipment.
About six months later, it was time to see how Luna would respond to a rider on her back in a competition for horses. Mayer sat in the saddle(马鞍),and all went as planned. “She was really well behaved and walked normally, but after a couple of meters, she wanted to get me off her back! You could see that she got a bit peeved.” said Mayer.
Luna and Mayer are now soul mates, spending most afternoons together once the teen—who dreams of becoming a nurse one day—come home from school.
小题1:The underlined word “peeved” in paragraph 4 probably means ________.| A．excited | B．sorry | C．angry | D．puzzled |
小题2: Regina’s plan is to be ________ in the future. | A．an animal trainer | B．a horse rider | C．a farmer | D．a nurse |
小题3: The passage mainly talks about ________.| A．a cow performing in a horse competition | | B．a German girl training a cow successfully | | C．the way of gaining friendship from a cow | | D．the efforts of a cow to adapt to riding equipment |
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling, who enjoyed early success with his poems, was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, India. Some of Kipling’s earliest and fondest memories are of his and sister Alice’s trips to the fruit market with their woman servant, or walking with his parents alongside the sea at night.
The beautiful days were to end when in 1871 Rudyard and Alice were sent to school in Southsea, England, to live with Captain Holloway and his wife. She ruled the boarding house with punishment and Kipling was often beaten by her and her son. “Then the old Captain died, and I was sorry, for he was the only person in that house as far as I can remember who ever threw me a kind word.” So he wrote in his later books. Kipling soon learned to read and found comfort in literature and poetry.
Freedom from the Holloway household was gained when he spent one month a year in London with his mother’s kind sister Aunt Georgie and her husband, pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne Jones and their children. Those months of December were a really paradise to Kipling.
In 1877 Kipling’s mother returned to England and collected him so that he could attend the United Services College in Devon. Now he was able to settle into the life of a student and in his second year started writing his own Schoolboy Lyric poems printed by his parents. In 1878 his father took him to the Paris Exhibition where he was allowed to wander freely and gained much appreciation for French culture which he wrote about in “Souvenirs of France”.
小题1: Kipling first left his parents in __________.小题2: Kipling fell in love with literature and poetry __________.| A．before the old Holloway died | | B．when he was a little boy with his parents | | C．when he attended the United Services College | | D．when he was in school, living with the Holloways |
小题3: From the underlined sentence in paragraph 3 we learn that __________.| A．he felt free and happy with his aunt’s family | | B．he felt terrible when he stayed with the old Captain | | C．the death of the old captain influenced him a lot | | D．the days at his aunt’s helped him become a successful poet |
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Michel is a young girl who works for the police a handwriting expert (专家). She has helped many criminals (罪犯) by using her special talents (天才).
When she was fourteen, Michel was already interested in the differences in her friends" that she would spend hours them. After college she went to France for a two-year class in handwriting at the School of Police Science.
Michel says that it is for people to hide their handwriting. She can of what she needs to know simply looking at the writing with her own eyes, she also has machines help her make different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often great help to the police.
Michel believes that handwriting is a good of what kind of person the is. "I wouldn"t go out with a fellow I didn"t like his handwriting.” She says. But she she fell in love with her future husband, a young policeman she studied his handwriting. It is later proved to be , however.
| 小题2: | | A．search | B．follow | C．catch | D．judge |
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| 小题4: | | A．books | B．letter | C．tongues | D．handwriting |
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| 小题5: | | A．writing | B．studying | C．settling | D．uncovering |
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| 小题6: | | A．attending | B．finishing | C．starting | D．stepping into |
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| 小题7: | | A．powerful | B．natural | C．special | D．common |
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| 小题8: | | A．main | B．safe | C．easy | D．impossible |
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| 小题9: | | A．most | B．nothing | C．little | D．sight |
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| 小题12: | | A．they | B．in which | C．that | D．those |
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| 小题15: | | A．test | B．sign | C．means | D．habit |
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| 小题16: | | A．thief | B．criminal | C．writer | D．policeman |
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| 小题17: | | A．whether | B．unless | C．if | D．after |
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| 小题18: | | A．adds | B．tells | C．repeats | D．cries |
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| 小题19: | | A．before | B．after | C．so | D．and |
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| 小题20: | | A．necessary | B．all right | C．important | D．quite easy |
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Everyone wants some degree of success. Many people believe that they deserve success simply because they believe that they deserve success.
But there is a widespread belief that people who get on in life may be successful not because they deserve it, but because of influential (有影响的) friends or the right background. Sometimes it may just be a comforting and harmless belief, while at the other extreme it can be very destructive. I once met a brilliant young engineer who worked in a chemical plant. Because of her knowledge and experience, she should have been promoted to Production Manager. Instead, the job went to a man who was totally unsuited for the post. Everyone knew that he only got it because he was politically acceptable to his superiors (上司). This injustice discouraged the young engineer and many of her colleagues. It also meant that the factory was much less efficient than it could have been.
At the same time, we should not be pessimistic (悲观的). More and more the modern world depends on having people who are in the job because they are good enough, not just because their faces fit. There is a story of a factory owner who sent for an engineer to see to a machine which would not go. He examined it, then took out a hammer and tapped, once. The machine started up immediately. When he presented his bill, the owner protested, "This can"t be right! $ 100 just for tapping a machine with a hammer?" The engineer wrote out a new bill: "For tapping a machine, $1; for knowing where to tap. $99."
小题1:The engineer at the chemical plant was not promoted because _____.| A．it was politically less good for the boss to accept her than the man | | B．her boss did not think she had the fight qualifications for the job | | C．the man who got the promotion was more experienced than she was | | D．it is more difficult for a woman to get a promotion than for her male colleague |
小题2:The engineer who repaired the machine was right in charging $ 100 because____. | A．he hit the machine to get it started again | | B．the factory owner could not have repaired it himself | | C．he was charging for his knowledge and expert skills | | D．he was the only person who could find out what was wrong with it |
小题3:What can we learn about the author"s attitude toward the widespread belief that "people get on in life may be successful not because they deserve it"?| A．He quite agrees with it. | | B．He doesn"t express his opinion his opinion at it. | | C．He completely disagrees with it. | | D．He doesn"t quite agree with it. |
小题4:According to the text, which of the following is NOT true?| A．Having influential friends or right background seems helpful sometimes. | | B．The engineer had good reason to overcharge the factory owner. | | C．Not all those who are good in their jobs have the chance to be promoted. | | D．Those who are good in their jobs are still largely needed by the modern society. |
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A lesson of life
" Everything happens for the best, " my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can carry on, one day something will happen. And you"ll that it wouldn"t have happened if not for that previous disappointment. "
After graduating from college, I that mother was right. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sports announcer. I travelled to Chicago by getting rides from drivers of passing cars and knocked on the door of every station-and got turned every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn"t hiring inexperienced person-"Go out in the countryside and find a small station that"ll give you a , " she said.
I returned home to Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I . The job sounded just for me. But I wasn"t .
My must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom me. Dad me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, I felt extremely .I asked , " How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can"t get a job in a radio station?"
I was waiting for the elevator I heard MacArthur calling, " What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?" Then he stood me a microphone (麦克风) and asked me to broadcast an game.
On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother"s words: " Keep on trying until some day you succeed. Something wouldn"t have happened if not for that previous failure. " I often wonder what my life might have taken if I"d got the job at Montgomery
| 小题1: | | A．good | B．bad | C．interesting | D．important |
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| 小题2: | | A．hope | B．declare | C．realize | D．explain |
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| 小题3: | | A．announced | B．discovered | C．suggested | D．expected |
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| 小题4: | | A．smooth | B．short | C．comfortable | D．free |
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| 小题6: | | A．advise | B．mind | C．risk | D．practise |
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| 小题7: | | A．choice | B．promise | C．result | D．chance |
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| 小题8: | | A．professional | B．natural | C．local | D．top |
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| 小题9: | | A．volunteered | B．responded | C．registered | D．applied |
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| 小题10: | | A．right | B．special | C．difficult | D．correct |
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| 小题11: | | A．fired | B．identified | C．hired | D．interviewed |
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| 小题12: | | A．astonishment | B．disappointment | C．ambition | D．appreciation |
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| 小题13: | | A．admired | B．undersood | C．blamed | D．reminded |
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| 小题14: | | A．offered | B．made | C．showed | D．returned |
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| 小题15: | | A．discouraged | B．delighted | C．embarrassed | D．frightened |
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| 小题16: | | A．anxiously | B．aloud | C．carefully | D．politely |
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| 小题19: | | A．imaginary | B．interesting | C．important | D．intemational |
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| 小题20: | | A．effect | B．direction | C．aim | D．pleasure |
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