Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Paris. That"s

Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Paris. That"s

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Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Paris. That"s where the similarities ended.
I was tall and she was small. My thick, black hair had been recently cut short. Her natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great. I was awkward and shy. She wasn"t. I couldn"t stand her. I considered her my enemy. She liked me. She wanted to be friends.
One day, she invited me over and I said yes — I was too shocked to answer any other way. No one had invited me over to play. But this girl who wore the latest fashions wanted me to go home with her after school.
I got very surprised when she led me into an apartment building. She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister.
When we got to the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies — which was my next surprise. I would have thought she"d outgrown them. I had never played with them. But we sat on the floor of a walk-in closet, laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. That"s when we found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older and we both had wild imaginations.
We had a great day that afternoon. Our jaws ached from smiling so much. She showed me her wardrobe, which had mostly come from a designer clothing store down the block. The woman who owned it used her as a model sometimes for her newspaper ads and gave her clothes in exchange.
Paris had the whole neighborhood charmed. The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines, the movie theater gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free slices. Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each other"s houses, spent every free moment together. My dark hair grew out and I learned to love being tall.
Paris, my first real friend since childhood, taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: that your worst enemy can turn out to be your best friend.
小题1:The writer and Paris were similar in that     .
A.they were both new students
B.both of them were friendly
C.both of them were tall
D.they were both the youngest in class
小题2:In the article the writer described Paris as a girl who was     .
A.awkward and shyB.fashionable and proud
C.quiet and lonelyD.friendly and lovely
小题3:What did the writer learn from Paris?
A.How to make best use of her neighborhood.
B.How to dress and look fashionable.
C.How to become a good writer
D.How to make friends.
小题4:From the article, we can see that through her friendship with Paris, the writer     .
A.found she and Paris had more similarities than differences
B.was able to fit in at her new school with Paris’ help
C.was not so awkward or shy as before
D.learned more about fashion herself

答案

小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:D
小题4:C
解析

试题分析:文章介绍帕瑞斯,我儿时的第一个真正朋友,帮我度过了我青涩岁月的最初几年,并且在交友这件事上,教我懂得了一件令人奇妙而惊异的事情:那个看似最坏的敌人可能却会是你最好的朋友。
小题1:细节题:从第一段的句子:Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Paris. That"s where the similarities ended.可知作者和Paris相似的是两个人都是新来的,选A
小题2:细节题:从第二段的句子:Her natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great. She liked me. She wanted to be friends.可知作者描写Paris是可爱的,友好的,选D
小题3:细节题:从最后一段的句子:Paris, my first real friend since childhood, taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: that your worst enemy can turn out to be your best friend.可知Paris教会了作者怎么交朋友,选D
小题4:推理题;从倒数第二段的句子:My dark hair grew out and I learned to love being tall.可知作者和Paris交朋友后,不再象以前一样窘迫害羞了,选C
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My husband and I insisted that our children were old enough to clean their rooms and make their beds. But they thought   11 . My complaints, even self-justified(自有道理)  12 , were always landing on   13  ears. Very often a whole hour’s scolding would end up with their   14  into tears. I felt very frustrated. I realized I needed to   15  my method of “mothering”.
One day when they were at school, I spent some time tidying their rooms. On their desks, in plain  16 , I left the cards: “Dear Bill(the other card was   17  to Sarah), your room was messy this morning and I’m sure you like it clean. Love, the Room Fairy.”  18  arriving back, the children were   19  excited to receive the little note from the Room Fairy. The next day, their rooms were fairly tidy. Sure enough, there was another note from the Room Fairy   20  
for them, thanking them for their nice “gift” of a clean room and   21  asking them to play a certain violin  22 . Each day, thank-you notes would be written differently to keep the ideas   23 
Sometimes the Room Fairy would propose a little   24 : “If you can finish your homework and go over your lessons before dinner, I’d like to watch a particular television program with you tonight.” Sometimes some colored markers or other little items would be left in   25  of well-done jobs the day   26 .
  27  I can’t remember how long “the Room Fairy” continued leaving her love notes. When they were age appropriate, we used various versions of Post-Its (贴条). The bathroom mirror became the   28  centre of our home. Appointments, notices about visiting relatives, lesson schedules, and changes in plans could be   29 .
We all benefited from and  30  the idea of sharing reminders and daily details of life through notes. I believe the true advantage of the Room Fairy notes survives in our frequent and enjoyable communication.
小题1:
A.differentlyB.positiveC.negativeD.same
小题2:
A.shoutingB.cryingC.persuadingD.beating
小题3:
A.sideB.neitherC.deafD.either
小题4:
A.crying B.bringingC.dropingD.bursting
小题5:
A.addictB.adoptC.access D.adjust
小题6:
A.sentenceB.wordsC.speechD.sight
小题7:
A.sentB.addressedC.delivered D.read
小题8:
A.AsB.OnC.In D.At
小题9:
A.more thanB.rather thanC.less thanD.other than
小题10:
A.askingB.prayingC.waitingD.expecting
小题11:
A.gentlyB.friendlyC.politelyD.toughly
小题12:
A.musicB.pieceC.songD.tone
小题13:
A.respectableB.uninteresting C.incredibleD.fresh
小题14:
A.suggestionB.question C.challenge D.advice
小题15:
A.response B.answerC.praise D.honor
小题16:
A.aheadB.beforeC.over D.ago
小题17:
A.thoughB.Even soC.Even if D.Actually
小题18:
A.memoryB.main C.lifeD.reminder
小题19:
A.sent B.postedC.struck D.hanged
小题20:
A.appreciatedB.learnedC.sharedD.thanked

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The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the WinD.first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in AtlantA. GeorgiA.can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life
Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer"s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she~a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young~tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains; "Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’And today it"d be‘Would you marry one who doesn"t?”
The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms Mitchell lived with her husbanD. John Marsh.They trade fun of the small apartment by calling it "The Dump".
Around 1926,Margaret Mitchell had stopped working”a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it~time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
小题1:The book Gone with the Wind was___.
A.first published in a newspaperB.awarded ten Academy Awards
C.written in "The Dump"D.adapted from a movie
小题2:The underlined phrase "tower over" in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to“___”.
A.be very pleased withB.show great respect for
C.be much taller thanD.show little interest in
小题3:Why did Ms Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?
A.Because she was rich enough.
B.Because she was injured then.
C.Because her husband didn"t like it
D.Because she wanted to write books.
小题4:Which is the best title for the passage?
A.A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell
B.Gone with the Wind:A Huge Success
C.An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House
D.Margaret Mitchell:A Great Female Writer

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Robeson was born in a very poor family. At seven, he had to pick coal in a deserted mine near his home, then he sold   1  he had picked and earned a few coins to help his parents. He had   2  schooling, for being so poor, how could they   3  school fees?
When he was fifteen, he worked   4  a servant in a school. Looking at other children studying  in the classroom, he felt   5  for himself. How he  6  to have the same chance! He decided to study by  .  In the daytime, after the sweeping and cleaning was over, he   8  stand by the window outside the classroom trying to catch what the teacher said. At night, he tried his best to remember what he  9   during the day. He worked  10  hard at his lessons that he sometimes had just three or four hours to sleep. The more he learned, the greater   11  he showed in his lessons. A maths teacher discovered him and came to like this diligent boy and  12  him to sit at the back of the class. In one exam, he was the   13   one in the whole school who reached the highest grade. He would have been given the scholarship if he   14   a regular student of the school.
Robeson   15  through six long years with his study of maths and wrote several articles which captured the   16  of some university professors. They admired his talent   17  his diligence. To give him a good chance, they hired him as a librarian and   18   him free guidance. Robeson felt   19  , for he was sure that before him there was a broad road  20  success.
小题1:
A.whether B.whichC.thatD.what
小题2:
A.manyB.fewC.littleD.much
小题3:
A.buy B.affordC.sendD.read
小题4:
A.asB.likeC.forD.by
小题5:
A.angryB.ashamedC.proudD.sorry
小题6:
A.hatedB.decidedC.wished D.regretted
小题7:
A.the teacherB.himselfC.his parentsD.his schoolmates
小题8:
A.couldB.ought toC.shouldD.would
小题9:
A.had learnedB.has been taughtC.has heard D.had been written down
小题10:
A.veryB.soC.tooD.quite
小题11:
A.joyB.interestC.time D.taste
小题12:
A.allowedB.agreedC.letD.refused
小题13:
A.worstB.onlyC.lastD.laziest
小题14:
A.had beenB.has beenC.isD.was
小题15:
A.learnedB.listenedC.mastered D.struggled
小题16:
A.noticeB.influenceC.eyesD.attention
小题17:
A.except forB.according toC.as well asD.in spite of
小题18:
A.taught B.offeredC.lent D.sent
小题19:
A.sadB.angryC.happyD.disappointed
小题20:
A.leading toB.coming fromC.made ofD.covered with

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As a solo artist,Brightman has sold 26 million albums and two million DVDs in 34 countries. Her musical styles put opera, pop and jazz together. She is popular in the States but not here(Britain)—the image of her and her second husband, Andrew Lloyd Webber(he much older, she his muse) seems for ever frozen.
The 47-year-old singer talks about the new album Symphony that came out of a “very dark time”, including her decision to give up trying to have children. “People have suggested I could adopt,” Brightman says. “But work is central to my life now. And so I am going to put it to one side. After a while not having children becomes the normal and perhaps that might sound alarming, to parents especially, but I have never known anything different. I’m not hurt by not having children. My life and career are incredibly rich.”
Talking about growing up in a large family in Berkhamsted (father a property developer who later committed suicide), she says: “I was gifted as a child, and very musical. I seemed to be good at anything to do with the arts. At 5 I understood the music I was dancing to and had an eye for costume.” She first appeared in a West End musical at 11 and hated boarding school.
Brightman led the saucy dance troupe(辣妹三人舞)Hot Gossip and had her first hit with I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper in 1978. At 18 she married a music manager called Andrew Graham Stewart. “I was probably in love but I can’t remember. Girls change such a lot between 18 and 22. It didn’t really work out.” In 1981 she was spotted by Lloyd Webber. She became his leading lady in Song and Dance, Requiem and Phantom of the Opera. They married in 1984.
Brightman says she felt hostility(敌意) “from the beginning. I haven’t tried to understand it. I’ve done very well everywhere else, especially the UK, where I now live. I just accept it for what it is. The more you are away from Britain, the more you appreciate it. But I don’t miss it, although I miss my family. Our profession can be uncomfortable but I enjoy what I do. I get on with it.”
小题1:The first paragraph tells us that ______.
A.Brightman is very popular around the world except in America
B.Brightman’s musical style is a mixture of opera, pop and jazz
C.the British people don’t like her for her style of music
D.Brightman is much older than Andrew Lloyd Webber
小题2:Brightman decided to give up having children because ______.
A.she could adopt one
B.her life and career were unbelievably rich without children
C.she felt it normal not to have children
D.she was too busy
小题3:The following statements are true except ______.
A.Brightman first appeared in a West End musical at 5
B.Brightman disliked life on campus
C.Brightman was very gifted when she was young
D.the saucy dance troupe made Brightman famous
小题4: The underlined word in the fourth paragraph probably means ______.
A.located B.admiredC.followedD.found
小题5:What does the author try to say in the last paragraph by quoting Brightman’s words?
A.Brightman has to accept the fact that she isn’t liked in Britain
B.Brightman lives in America but she loves her own country
C.The British coldness towards Brightman led to her hatred to her homeland
D.Brightman was at a loss why she was not welcome in Britain

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In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue(烤肉)restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new idea: quick service,no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.
Their hamburgers were sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity(一致性), for the brothers had developed a strict routine(程序)for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks’ sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became surprisingly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundred during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.
Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954 when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the special attraction of the brothers’ fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise(特许经营)other copies of their restaurants. The agreement included the right to duplicate(复制) the menu, the equipment, even their red and white buildings the golden arches(拱门).
Today McDonald’s is really a household name. In 1976, McDonald’s had over$1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most surprising successes in modern American business history.
小题1:This passage mainly talks about ___.
A.the development of fast food services
B.how McDonald’s became a billion-dollar business
C.the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald
D.Ray Kroc’s business talent
小题2:Mac and Dick managed all of the following business except ___.
A.a drive-inB.a theater
C.a cinemaD.a barbecue restaurant
小题3: We may infer from this passage that ___.
A.Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy, for they sold their ideas to Kroc
B.the place the McDonald brothers chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-in
C.forty years ago there were lots of fast-food restaurants
D.Ray Kroc was a good businessman
小题4:The passage suggests that ___.
A.creativity is an important element of business success
B.Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothers
C.Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray Kroc
D.California is the best place to go into business
小题5:Which of the following statement is NOT true?
A.Today McDonald’s is very popular in the world.
B.The first twenty-two years of McDonald’s is the most surprising success in American business history.
C.Mac and Dick McDonald were content with their business at first.
D.It is convenient to eat in a drive-in.

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