That morning, I got the train as always. I was a publishing director and was loo
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I said to my assistant. The colleague contacted my wife, Beth, and she drove me straight to hospital. There, confirmation came that I"d had a stroke in the part of my brain that communication. I was now in a condition that means it"s difficult or to receive and produce language. It was the only time I .
I was back at home a week later, and my goal was to get better and work in a couple of months. The way to my language ability was rough. I"d look at simple pictures and try to describe them as my mind round and round in the darkness, looking for words．
As the months passed, it became that I wasn"t going to be able to go back to my old job. For 25 years, I had myself as a publisher. I was used to a busy day of meetings. I enjoyed colleagues and the I"d had. I didn’t feel ready to say goodbye to my old self. There were times when I felt incredibly .
In the darkest months, I devoted myself to . I couldn"t manage novels or newspapers, I tried reading poetry, and found the shorter lines less overwhelming(势不可挡的). My speech came back, and I learned how to read again, though much more slowly. I also learned the to keep up. I allowed myself to slow down, and started to enjoy it．
, I get rid of my old skin. I grieved(感到悲痛) the past, its passing and its absence, and started to it. Now, 10 years later, I look after my grandson a day a week, and my relationship with my family is deeper than ever. If you"d asked me 15 years ago to the importance of the things in my life I might have said work, but now I"m no longer a high-achieving publisher or someone who reads 10 books a week. I"m a man, and if I read 10 books a year, that’s pretty good.
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小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:C
小题6:B
小题7:C
小题8:B
小题9:C
小题10:D
小题11:D
小题12:D
小题13:A
小题14:B
小题15:C
小题16:B
小题17:A
小题18:B
小题19:C
小题20:D
解析
试题分析：文章讲述了一名出版总监患了失语症，但通过自己的努力逐渐恢复，并发现人生有比工作更重要的事情--家庭。
小题1:考查词组：A． wear off磨掉B． make any sense有意义C． count up加起来D． pay off还清，有回报，但那天的情况一点也不合乎常理。选B
小题2:考查副词：A． temporarily暂时的B． scarcely几乎不C． incredibly 难以置信的，D． savagely野蛮地，难以置信的缓慢和艰难。选C。
小题3:考查形容词：A． curious 好奇的B． reserved 保留的C． serious严肃的 D． concerned关心的，担心我的同事联系了我妻子，选D
小题4:考查词组：A． calls for需要，照顾B． deals with处理 C． suffers from 遭遇D． responds to回应，证实了我大脑中负责语言沟通的那一部分中风了。选B。
小题5:考查形容词：A． practical实用的，B． absurd荒唐的；可笑的C． impossible 不可能的，D． innocent天真的，无辜的，这种情况意味着我会难以或者几乎无法接收或说出任何语言，选C
小题6:考查动词：A． prayed祈祷B． cried 哭C． failed失败 D． withdrew撤回，这是我唯一一次哭的时候。选B。
小题7:考查词组：A． contribute to 有助于B． agree to同意C． return to回到D． appeal to吸引，我的目标是好起来，回去上班。选C。
小题8:考查动词：A． obtaining获得B． rebuilding重建C． revealing揭示D． improving改善，重建语言能力的过程很难。选B
小题9:考查动词：A． slipped滑倒B． doubted怀疑C． wandered 徘徊，走神D．fled逃走，测算，估计，我的思想会走神。选C
小题10:考查形容词：A． messy混乱B． flexible灵活的C． straightforward 直率的 D．self-evident 不言而喻的，几个月过去了，很明显我不能回去上班了。选D
小题11:考查动词：A． informed 通知B． estimated估计C． reflected反映D． defined定义，我把自己定义为出版总监，选D
小题12:考查名词：A． extinction熄灭B． reward回报C． agenda 日程安排D． status地位，身份，我喜欢同事和自己的身份。选D
小题13:考查形容词：A． angry 生气的B. cautious谨慎的，C. awesome令人讨厌的，D. merciless毫不怜悯的，有很多次我感到非常生气。选A
小题14:考查动词：A． speaking说话B． trying 尝试C． writing写D． managing管理，我尽量地努力。选B
小题15:考查连词：A． since自从B． until直到C． SO因此D． as因为，当…,我不能看小说和报纸，因此我尝试看诗歌，选C
小题16:考查名词：A． favor恩惠B． patience 耐心C． coincidence巧合；一致D． comfort安慰，我学会了坚持的耐心。选B
小题17:考查副词：A． Gradually逐渐的B．Hopefully有希望的C． Narrowly勉强的，D． Annually一年一度的，逐渐的，我褪去以前的身份。选A
小题18:考查词组：A． keep up with 跟上B．come to terms with和…一致C．get around to 四处走动D． live up to符合，达到，我开始和它保持一致。选B
小题19:考查动词：A． arrange安排B． compare 比较C． rank 排名D． declare宣布，如果15年前让我排列一生中最重要的东西，选C
小题20:考查名词：A． genius天才B． community社区C． dignity尊严D． family家庭，现在我是家庭妇男。选D
举一反三
When David steps out of the front door he is blinded for a moment by the white, strong sunlight and reaches for his dad’s hand automatically. It’s the first really warm day of the year, an unexpected heat that bridges the gap between spring and summer. Father and son are on their way to the barbershop, something they have always done together.
Always, the routine is the same. “It’s about time we got that mop of yours cut,” David’s dad will say, pointing at him with two fingers, a cigarette caught between them. “Perhaps I should do it. Where are those scissors, Janet?” Sometimes his dad runs after him round the living room, pretending to cut off his ears. When he was young, David used to get too excited and start crying, scared that maybe he really would lose his ears, but he has long since grown out of that.
Mr Samuels’ barbershop is in a long room above the chip shop, reached by a steep and worn flight of stairs. David follows his father. He loves the barbershop — it’s like nowhere else he goes. It smells of cigarettes and men and hair oil. Sometimes the smell of chips will climb the stairs along with a customer and when the door opens the waiting men lift their noses together. Black and white photographs of men with various out-of-fashion hairstyles hang above a picture rail at the end of the room, where two barber’s chairs are fixed to the floor. They are heavy, old-fashioned chairs with foot pumps that screams as Mr Samuels adjusts the height of the seat. In front of the chairs are deep sinks with a showerhead and long metal pipe attached to the taps, not that anyone seems to use them. Behind the sinks are mirrors and on either side of these, shelves overflowing with all types of plastic combs, shaving mugs, scissors, cut throat razors, hair brushes and, 10 bright red bottles of Brylcreem(男士发油), piled neatly in a pyramid. At the back of the room sit the customers, silent for most of the time, except when Mr Samuels breaks off from cutting and smoke his cigarette, sending a stream of grey-blue smoke like the tail of kite twisting into the air.
When it is David’s turn for a cut, Mr Samuels places a wooden board covered with a piece of red leather across the arms of the chair, so that the barber doesn’t have to bend to cut the boy’s hair. David scrambles up onto the bench.
“Hey, young man, you’re shooting up, you won’t need this soon, you’ll be able to sit in the chair,” the barber says.
“Wow,” says David, turning round to look at his dad, forgetting that he can see him through the mirror. “Dad, Mr Samuels said I could be sitting in the chair soon, not just on the board!”
“So I hear,” his father replies, not looking up from the paper. “I expect Mr Samuels will start charging me more for your hair then.”
“At least double the price,” said Mr Samuels, winking at David.
Finally David’s dad looks up from his newspaper and glances into the mirror, seeing his son looking back at him. He smiles.
“Wasn’t so long ago when I had to lift you onto that board because you couldn’t climb up there yourself,” he says.
“They don’t stay young for long do they, kids”, Mr Samuels declares. All the men in the shop nod in agreement. David nods too.
In the mirror he sees a little head sticking out of a long nylon cape. Occasionally he steals glances at the barber as he works. He smells a mixture of smelly sweat and aftershave as the barber moves around him, combing and cutting, combing and cutting.
David feels like he is in another world, noiseless except for the sound of the barber’s shoes rubbing on the plastic carpet and the click of his scissors. In the reflection from the window he could see through the window, a few small clouds moved slowly through the frame, moving to the sound of the scissors’ click.
Sleepily, his eyes dropping to the front of the cape where his hair falls softly as snow and he imagines sitting in the chair just like the men and older boys, the special bench left leaning against the wall in the corner. He thinks about the picture book of Bible stories his aunt gave him for Christmas, the one of Samson having his hair cut by Delilah. David wonders if his strength will go like Samson’s.
When Mr Samuels has finished, David hops down from the seat, rubbing the itchy hair from his face. Looking down he sees his own thick, blonde hair mixed among the browns, greys and blacks of the men who have sat in the chair before him. For a moment he wants to reach down and gather up the broken blonde hair, to separate them from the others, but he does not have time.
They reach the pavement outside the shop. “I tell you what, boy, let’s get some fish and chips to take home, save your mum from cooking tea,” says David’s dad and turns up the street.
The youngster is excited and catches his dad’s hand. The thick-skinned fingers close gently around his and David is surprised to find, warming in his father’s palm, a handful of his own hair.
小题1:How old is David most probably age according to the context?
| A．2 | B．4 | C．10 | D．17 |
| A．Because David is not familiar with this place and tries to remember it. |
| B．Because David develops great friendfish with the shop owner. |
| C．Because the barbershop is a place that attracts him greatly. |
| D．Because the barbershop is very traditional and David can see one nowhere else. |
| A．showing his proudness of his son’s growth |
| B．complaining about the price of the haircut |
| C．expressing his thanks to the shopowner’s kindness |
| D．counting his expense on his son’s haircut |
| A．looks down upon those old, grey-haired men |
| B．feels extremely excited about becoming a bigger boy |
| C．thinks blond hair is much more precious than other color |
| D．is quite curious about his broken blonde hair |
| A．Dad runs after his son round the living room. |
| B．Dad buys his son some fish and chips. |
| C．Dad sees his son through the mirror. |
| D．Dad holds some of his son’s hair in his palm. |
| A．serious | B．light-hearted | C．critical | D．persuasive |
With his heart full of , the man ran to the crossroads only to three rather uninteresting shops. One shop was selling pieces of metal, another sold , and thin wires were for sale in the third. Nothing and no one there seemed to much to do with the revelation of truth.
Depressed and , the seeker returned to the well to demand an , but he was told only: “You will discover in the future.” With years by, the memory of his experience at the well gradually until one night. While he was walking, the sound of sitar (西塔琴) music his attention. It was wonderful and it wasplayed with great skill and .
and moved deeply, the truth seeker felt drawn towards the . He looked at the fingers dancing over the strings. And then suddenly he let out a cry of joyful : the sitar was made out of wires and pieces of metal and wood just like he had once seen in the three stores.
Eventually he understood the of the well: we have already been given everything we need; our is to gather and use them in the proper way. Nothing is so long as we recognize only fragments (碎片). But as soon as the pieces are put together, something new appears, whose nature we could not have by considering the fragments alone.
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For the next week, every time I was in the ____, I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept _____. Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and ____ 12 frozen peas hidden underneath.
At the time I found those few remaining ____, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful ____ I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded ____ those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my ____ had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble___ his new surroundings and the ____ of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered.
When life gets you ____, when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never ____, remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be ___, and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas ___, including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them ___, you’ll start to feel whole again.
The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to ____, and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, __will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?
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I ran into a stranger as he passed by. “I’m so sorry!” was my . Then he said, “Excuse me too ... I didn’t even you.” We were very , the stranger and I. Then we went on our ways after saying .
But at home, a different is told. How we treat our ones, the young and the old. Later, in the kitchen, as I cooked our supper, my entered, very still. When I turned, I nearly knocked her down. “Get out of the way!” I at her. She left, with her little heart broken. I didn’t how hard I’d spoken.
That , as I lay awake in bed, God’s quiet voice to me and said, “While with strangers, you are polite, with those you love, you didn’t do it properly. Go and look right now on the floor, you’ll find some flowers there by the door. Those are the flowers she __ for you. She picked them herself—pink, yellow and blue.”
By this time, I felt and small and now my own fell. I quietly went to her bed, “ up, my dear daughter.” I said. “Are these the flowers you picked for me?” She smiled, “I found them on the tree. I knew you’d like them, the blue.” I said, “I’m so __ that I missed them today ... And I shouldn’t have shouted at you that way.” She whispered(低声说), “Mommy, that’s okay. I still you anyway.” I hugged her and said, “I love you too and love your flowers, especially the blue.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary: “My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quickly brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
小题1:How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?
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a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
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| A．had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama. |
| B．was well educated and well off before he served in the army |
| C．would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down |
| D．helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital |
| A．Zelda’s personal life |
| B．Zelda’s illness and treatment |
| C．Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham |
| D．Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world |
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