I just finished the household chores for the night and was preparing to go to be
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I just finished the household chores for the night and was preparing to go to bed, when I heard a noise in the front of the house. I opened the door to the front room and to my surprise, Santa himself stepped out from behind the Christmas tree.
He placed his finger over his mouth so I would not cry out. “What are you doing?” I started to ask. The words choked up in my throat, and I saw he had tears in his eyes. His usual jolly manner was gone. Gone was the eager, boisterous soul we all know.
He then answered me with a simple statement“TEACH THE CHILDREN！”
I was puzzled; what did he mean?
Santa then reached in his bag and pulled out a FIR(杉木) TREE .“Teach the children that the pure green color of the stately fir tree remains green all year round，describing the everlasting hope of mankind，all the needles point heavenward, making it a symbol of man"s thoughts turning toward heaven.”
He again reached into his bag and pulled out a brilliant STAR. “Teach the children that the star was the heavenly sign of promises long ago. God promised a savior(救世主) for the world, and the star was the sign of fulfillment of his promise.”
He then reached into his bag and pulled out a CANDLE. “Teach the children that the candle symbolizes that Christ is the light of the world, and when we see this great light we are reminded of he who displaces(取代) the darkness.”
Suddenly I heard a soft twinkling sound, and from his bag he pulled out a BELL. “Teach the children that as the lost sheep are found by the sound of the bell, it should ring mankind to the fold. The bell symbolizes guidance and return.”
Santa looked back and was pleased. I saw that the twinkle was back in his eyes. He said, “Remember, teach the children the true meaning of Christmas and do not put me in the center, for I am but an humble servant of the one that is, and I bow down to worship HIM, our LORD, our GOD.”
小题1:Author opened the door when he was going to sleep because________.| A．he heard something unusual | | B．he was not sleeping at the moment | | C．he saw the Santa at the moment | | D．he wanted to step out of the room |
小题2:According to Santa, the star was ________.| A．a symbol of man"s thoughts turning towards heaven | | B．the sigh of fulfillment of the Santa"s promise | | C．the symbol of the light of the world | | D．the sound of the bell which ring mankind to the fold |
小题3:What does the underlined word “twinkle” refer to?| A．Tears. | B．Smiles. | C．Glasses. | D．Eyes. |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:A |
解析
试题分析：文章讲述了一件发生在作者和儿子之间的事情。Santa让作者“教育孩子们”，这让作者感到困惑。Santa分别拿杉树、星星、蜡烛和铃来作比喻，表达了对上天的感激之情。
小题1:根据第一段“was preparing to go to bed, when I heard a noise in the front of the house”可知，作者准备睡觉时，听到有响动，故选A。
小题2:根据““Teach the children that the star was the heavenly sign of promises long ago...and the star was the sign of fulfillment of his promise.””可知，星星是承诺的标志，是承诺兑现的标志，故选B。
小题3:I saw that the twinkle was back in his eyes作者在他的眼睛里再次看到了泪光，A眼泪；B微笑；C眼镜；D眼睛。故选A。 |
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Carly Zalenski’s eyes were filled with tears as the dusty bus ran down a dirt road in southern Vietnam. She and her parents had travelled to Ho Chi Minh City by plane from Canton, Ohio of the USA. As they became to the village, hundreds of cheering stood in lines at the to the Hoa Lac School, a two-story building that Carly had money for.
Carly started helping when she was eight. She often walked about to send Thanksgiving baskets at church to families in need. When she saw one girl very little in a snowy day and others didn’t have warm , she went door-to-door asking for coats, hats, gloves, and scarves, then handed them to the poor families with the baskets.
However, Carly wanted to do more—she wanted to “change these children’s with her efforts”. She remembered that her grandmother’s Rotary club had collected money to build a in Vietnam a few years ago. She wanted to build a school, .
She put together a short show on the people and culture of Vietnam to his audience. her new braces(脚支架) made it to make the speech, she was full of enthusiasm, “I want to give them a place to their lives better.”
That summer, Carly with her family across Ohio, visiting three or four Rotary clubs a week. “We travelled like people to all these meetings,” said her mother. In two years, Carly had raised $50,000. At the donation in Hoa Lac, the school principal was deeply by the little girl. “How wonderful it is,” he said, “that a girl at her age wants to do something for kids so far away.”
| 小题1: | | A．farther | B．closer | C．higher | D．faster |
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| 小题2: | | A．adults | B．farmers | C．workers | D．children |
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| 小题3: | | A．entrance | B．centre | C．top | D．exit |
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| 小题4: | | A．collected | B．borrow | C．saved | D．earned |
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| 小题5: | | A．another | B．the others | C．others | D．the other |
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| 小题6: | | A．wearing | B．putting on | C．dressing | D．taking off |
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| 小题7: | | A．houses | B．beds | C．clothes | D．food |
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| 小题8: | | A．new | B．beautiful | C．used | D．broken |
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| 小题10: | | A．anything | B．something | C．everything | D．nothing |
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| 小题11: | | A．moods | B．works | C．studies | D．lives |
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| 小题12: | | A．church | B．village | C．library | D．school |
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| 小题13: | | A．either | B．also | C．too | D．neither |
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| 小题14: | | A．Because | B．Unless | C．Although | D．When |
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| 小题15: | | A．hard | B．funny | C．easy | D．happy |
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| 小题16: | | A．remain | B．make | C．turn | D．allow |
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| 小题17: | | A．set off | B．take off | C．turn off | D．pay off |
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| 小题18: | | A．sick | B．disabled | C．crazy | D．friendly |
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| 小题19: | | A．ceremony | B．tradition | C．currency | D．condition |
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| 小题20: | | A．surprised | B．pleased | C．excited | D．touched |
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Nearly a quarter-century after a German boy threw a message in a bottle off a ship in the Baltic Sea, he’s received an answer.
A 13-year-old Russian, Daniil Korotkikh, was walking with his parents on a beach when he saw something lying in the sand.
“I saw that bottle and it looked interesting,” Korotkikh told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “it looked like a German beer bottle and there was a message inside. ”
It said, “My name is Frank, and I’m five years old. My dad and I are traveling on a ship to Denmark. If you find this letter, please write back to me, and I will write back to you.” The letter, dated 1987, included an address in the town of Coesfeld.
The boy in the letter, Frank Uesbeck, is now 29. His parents still live at the letter’s address.
The Russian boy and the German man met each other earlier this month through an internet video link. The Russian boy said he did not believe that the bottle actually spent 24 years in the sea. He believed it had been hidden under the sand where he found it for a long time.
Uesbeck was especially happy that he was able to have a positive effect on a life of a young person far away from Germany. “It‘s really a wonderful story,” he said. “And who knows? Perhaps one day we will actually be able to arrange a meeting in person. ”
小题1:What is this passage mainly about?| A．Traveling on a ship. | B．A beautiful beer bottle. | | C．Message in a bottle. | D．Meeting an old friend. |
小题2:When the German boy threw the bottle into the sea, ________________.| A．he was going back home. | | B．he was traveling to Denmark by ship with his dad. | | C．he was walking with his parents on a beach. | | D．he was already 29 years old. |
小题3:According to the text, which of the following statements is TRUE?| A．Korotkikh’s parents still live in the town of Coesfeld. | | B．The German boy did not believe that the bottle actually spent 24 years in the sea. | | C．Frank Uesbeck and Daniil Korotkikh have met each other in person. | | D．Daniil Korotkikh and Frank Uesbeck have got in touch with each other. |
小题4:Why was Uesbeck very happy when he got the information of the 24 years’ beer bottle?| A．Because he could have a new friend. | | B．Because the two boys could surf the internet together. | | C．Because he could have a positive influence on a life of a young person. | | D．Because he finally got what he had lost. |
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I spend a lot of time backpacking and hiking the outdoors and there are two pieces of equipment that are with me on each trip: an Adventure Medical Kits Weekender and an Adventure Medical Kits Suture Syringe Kit. Both proved very helpful on my most recent adventures to the Wrangell in Alaska.
On that day, we were “blessed” with rain, making our water crossing on the Dixie Pass very difficult. Our party of 12 had almost reached our destination when I slipped, severely gashing(划伤) my knee open in the process. While I could not see the wound at first because of the rain pants I was wearing, I knew it was severe.
Blood was running freely and I made those standing nearby aware of the damage. They quickly came over to assist, pulled my pack off and removed the Weekender First Aid Kit and Suture Kit from it. Fortunately, one of my partners is a doctor called William, who has often performed this type of work in the operating room, not out in the wild.
I seriously think he was more nervous about all this than me! I, of course, was more than happy that I did not have to stitch(缝合) myself up. As a marine, I’ve had to do it before. Fortunately, the sky had cleared up about two hours before, so we had great sunlight to work with. The doctor worked quickly with the assistance of another fellow camper acting as a nurse and placed seven stitches into my knee once the wound had been cleaned up.
Later that evening we used a syringe(注射器) we set aside loaded with Iodine(抗炎药) to clean the wound and then bandaged it again. The doctor was very impressed with the kits contents!
I’ve already ordered another Suture Syringe Kit. I have to say the kits are worth their weight in gold! Thanks for the contents in the kits!
小题1:What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 probably refer to?| A．the wound | B．the rain | C．the kit | D．the knee |
小题2:Why did the author think that William was more nervous while performing the first aid than himself?| A．Because William didn’t know how to use the kits. | | B．Because the author didn’t trust William. | | C．Because the author hurt himself severely. | | D．Because William had no experience of doing it in the wild. |
小题3:From the passage, we can infer that the kits are__________.| A．useless | B．extremely useful | C．troublesome | D．not essential |
小题4:What is mainly discussed in the passage?| A．How first aid kits saved a backpacker in Alaska. | | B．How a doctor did the operation in the wild. | | C．How the author with 12 fellow campers hike the outdoors. | | D．How the author hurt himself. |
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Instead of a normal court hearing, the trial on Wednesday appeared more like a prepared drama. Hundreds of reporters waited outside the court, in the hope of learning “shocking” information about the case, which includes well-known military singer Li Shuangjiang’s son, who gang-raped a woman with another four men on February.
The case was not a public hearing because it includes teenagers, whose privacy must be protected under law, but many details had been exposed by the lawyers before the trial.
Lawyers of all five suspects and the woman’s lawyer made a lot of debate on the Internet before the trial, making the case more confused.
Wu Ming’an, a law professor from the China University of Political Science and Law, said it was a pity to see such a “performance” by the lawyers.
“It can be understood that the two parties freely spoke their opinions, but it’s not professional or wise to see lawyers do the same,” Wu said. “Instead, the lawyers should guide and persuade their clients(当事人) to calm down, especially for such a non-public and sensitive case.”
China has no clear rule to manage lawyers’ behavior before trials, “but it should be general knowledge that the lawyers of the two sides cannot leak too many details, particularly in a case that includes teenagers”, Wu added.
Yi Shenghua, a lawyer who has been following the case, said it does more harm than good to both parties for such detailed information to be exposed before the trial.
“It’s OK for lawyers to speak, but what is said must be reasonable and legal. Although judgments should not be affected by public opinion, it’s hard for them not to be,” he said, suggesting judicial authorities should speak out if the case goes wrongly.
Trials must be conducted based on evidence, while lawyers should protect their clients’ rights instead of adding fuel to the flames, Yi said.
In my eyes, the most important aspect of the case, lies in how to make lawyers do their work more professionally and reasonably.
小题1:Why was the case not a public hearing?| A．Because it included the well-known military singer Li Shuangjiang’s son. | | B．Because the victim was a woman. | | C．Because teenagers’ privacy must be protected under law. | | D．Because many details had already been exposed before the trial. |
小题2:What is Wu ming’an’s attitude towards the lawyers’ behavior of making a lot of debate on the internet before the trial?| A．approval | B．critical | C．neutral | D．indifferent |
小题3:The underlined part “leak” in para. 6 refers to_________.| A．give away | B．squeeze out | C．break down | D．sweep up |
小题4:From Yi Shenghua, we know that _______________.| A．The lawyers’ behavior before trials hasn’t been ruled. | | B．It doesn’t matter whether the detailed information is exposed before the trial. | | C．What lawyers say must be reasonable and legal. | | D．It is hard for judgments to be affected by public opinion. |
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请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
On a Friday , a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin.The music was , and many people and put some money into the of the young man.
The next night, the young artist took out a large piece of and laid it on the ground. Then he began . The music sounded more pleasant. Some people gathered and they found the on that paper. “Last night, a gentleman put a(n)
thing into my hat. Please come to get it back.” When the people saw that, they felt very curious and began to what it could be. After about half an hour, a man there in a hurry and said, “It can’t be true！You ...you ...”
The young violinist asked, “Did you something?”
“Lottery (彩票).”the man answered .
The violinist took out a lottery ticket. “Is it？”he asked.
The man was too to say a word ...George Sang a lottery ticket a few days ago. The awards(奖)opened yesterday and he won $500,000. So lucky and excited did he feel that he 50 dollars and put it in the hat when hearing the music. However, the lottery ticket was also thrown into the hat without being noticed. The violinist found the lottery ticket. Thinking that the owner would to look for it, he came back to where he was given the lottery ticket.
Someone asked the violinist he returned the lottery ticket to the man. He said, “ I don’t have much , I live happily; but if I lose I won’t be happy forever.”
| 小题1: | | A．morning | B．afternoon | C．noon | D．night |
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| 小题2: | | A．quiet | B．beautiful | C．familiar | D．exciting |
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| 小题3: | | A．slowed down | B．speeded up | C．passed by | D．went away |
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| 小题5: | | A．paper | B．glass | C．plastic | D．cloth |
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| 小题6: | | A．working | B．waiting | C．singing | D．playing |
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| 小题7: | | A．poems | B．articles | C．words | D．texts |
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| 小题8: | | A．important | B．fantastic | C．dangerous | D．interesting |
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| 小题9: | | A．argue | B．care | C．expect | D．guess |
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| 小题10: | | A．came | B．rushed | C．walked | D．left |
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| 小题11: | | A．get | B．find | C．forget | D．lose |
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| 小题12: | | A．quickly | B．anxiously | C．seriously | D．carefully |
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| 小题13: | | A．confused | B．anxiously | C．excited | D．surprised |
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| 小题14: | | A．bought | B．made | C．found | D．sold |
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| 小题15: | | A．handed out | B．took out | C．hunted for | D．picked up |
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| 小题16: | | A．forget | B．remember | C．return | D．picked up |
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| 小题18: | | A．If | B．While | C．Because | D．Although |
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| 小题19: | | A．money | B．food | C．time | D．luck |
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| 小题20: | | A．friendship | B．hope | C．love | D．honesty |
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