It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first hou

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It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first hou

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It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first house. Children were upstairs unpacking , and I was looking out of the window at my father moving around mysteriously on the front lawn. My parents lived nearby ,and Dad had visited us several times already. “What are you doing out there?” I called to him .He looked up, smiling. “I’m making you a surprise.” Knowing my father, I thought it could be just about anything. A self-employed jobber, he was always building things out of odds and ends. When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us.
Today, however, Dad would say no more, and caught ups in the busyness of our new life, I eventually forgot about his surprise. Until one gloomy day the following March when I glanced out of the window. Any yet… I saw a dot of blue across the yard. I headed outside for a closer look. They were crocuses (番红花), throughout the front lawn. Lavender, blue, yellow and my favorite pink ---- little faces moved up and down in the cold wind.
Dad! I smiled, remembering the things he had secretly planted last autumn. He knew how the darkness and dullness of winter always got me down. What could have been more perfectly timely to my needs?
My father’s crocuses bloomed each spring for the next four or five seasons, bringing the same assurance every time they arrived: hard times was almost over. Hold on, keep going, light is coming soon.
Then a spring came with only half the usual blooms. The next spring there were none. I missed the crocuses. I would ask Dad to come over and plant new bulbs. But I never did.
He died suddenly one October day. My family was in deep sorrow, leaning on our faith. I missed him terribly.
Four years passed, and on a dismal spring afternoon I was driving back when I found myself feeling depressed. “You’ve got the winter depression again and you get them every year.” I told myself.
It was Dad’s birthday, and I found myself thinking about him. This was not unusual --- my family often talked about him, remembering how he lived his faith. Once I saw him give his coat to a homeless man.
Suddenly I slowed as I turned into our driveway. I stopped and stared at the lawn. And there on the muddy grass and small gray piles of melting snow, bravely waving in the wind, was one pink crocus.
How could a flower bloom from a bulb more than 18 years old, one that had not blossomed in over a decade? But there was the crocus. Tears filled my eyes as I realized its significance.
Hold on, keep going, light is coming soon. The pink crocus bloomed for only a day. But it built my faith for a lifetime.
小题1:According to the first three paragraphs, we learn that _________.
A．the writer was unpacking when her father was making the surprise
B．the writer knew what the surprise was because she knew her father
C．it was not the first time that the writer’s father had made a surprise
D．it kept bothering the writer not knowing what the surprise was
小题2:Which of the following would most probably be the worst time of the year as seen by the writer?
A．Spring.B．Summer.C．Autumn.D．Winter.
小题3:Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?
A．The writer’s father planted the crocus to lift her low spirit.
B．The crocuses bloomed each spring before the writer’s father died.
C．The writer often thought about her father since her father died.
D．The writer’s father died some years after he planted the crocus.
小题4:The writer’s father should be best described as_________.
A．a full-time gardener with skillful hands
B．a part-time jobber who loved flowers
C．a kind-hearted man who lived with faith
D．an ordinary man with doubts in his life
小题5:Crocus was viewed as the symbol of _________ by the writer.
A．faithB．familyC．loveD．friendship

答案

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:A
解析

试题分析：文章讲述了一个感人的故事，父亲在庭院种下番红花，每年春天美丽的番红花就会迎风摇曳，仿佛在说：艰难的时期就会过去，坚持！光明即将到来。每当作者看到绽放的番红花时，都会想起慈爱的父亲，想起父亲一直坚持的并且通过番红花告诉她的信念：坚持！光明即将到来。
小题1:C细节理解题。第一段末句When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us.当我们是孩子的时候，他总是给我们制作一些让我们惊喜的东西，由此可知C选项正确。
小题2:D细节理解题。文章第四段He knew how the darkness and dullness of winter always got me down.他知道冬天的黑暗和色彩的沉闷总会让我情绪失落。由此判断D选项正确。
小题3:B细节理解题。根据文章第五段Then a spring came with only half the usual blooms. The next spring there were none. I missed the crocuses.可知父亲在世时番红花并不是每年都开花，所以判断B选项正确。
小题4:C推理判断题。从文章内容我们可知父亲知道女儿冬天容易情绪低沉，所以种了番红花，让它在春天到来时点缀女儿的心情，提醒她要相信美好时光即将到来，由此可知父亲是个kind-heartedman，而且文中也提到my family often talked about him, remembering how he lived his faith，由此判断A选项正确。
小题5:A推理判断题。文中My father’s crocuses bloomed…, bringing the same assurance every time they arrived: hard times was almost over. Hold on, keep going, light is coming soon.逆境总会过去，坚持住，光明很快就会到来。而且文章最后再次点明主题Hold on, keep going, light is coming soon. The pink crocus bloomed for only a day. But it built my faith for a lifetime.由此推断番红花的花语是坚贞，快乐，是信念信仰的象征。所以A选项正确。
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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is .It would be wonderful to see again , but a calamity (灾难)can do strange things to people .It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind . I believe in life now.I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply , otherwise. I don’t mean that would prefer to go without my eyes . I simply mean that Atlantic the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left .
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me--a potential to live, you might call it--which I didn"t see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn"t been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. "I can"t use this." I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." The words stuck in my head. "Roll it around! "By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia"s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
小题1:We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______
A．the author lost his sight because of a car crash.
B．the author wouldn"t love life if the disaster didn"t happen.
C．the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.
D．the disaster strengthened the author"s desire to see.
小题2:What"s the most difficult thing for the author?
A．How to adjust himself to reality.
B．Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.
C．Learning to manage his life alone.
D．How to invent a successful variation of baseball.
小题3:According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author __________
A．would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.
B．would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair.
C．would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.
D．would sit in a chair and stay at home.
小题4:According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man _____
A．hurt the author"s feeling.
B．gave the author a deep impression.
C．directly led to the invention of ground ball.
D．inspired the author.
小题5:What is the best title for the passage?
A．A Miserable Life
B．Struggle Against Difficulties
C．A Disaster Makes a Strong Person
D．An Unforgettable Experience

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As Rosalie Warren stood at the mailbox in the lobby of her apartment building in May 1980, she shared the anxiety of many other college seniors. In her hand was an envelope containing her final grades. As she nervously opened it, Warren wondered whether her hundreds of hours of studying had paid off.
They had.
“I got five ‘A’s,” she still recalls with elation. “I almost fell on the floor!”
Warren would graduate from Suffolk University with a bachelor of science degree in philosophy and history at age 80.Three years later, at age 83, she would receive her second degree from Suffolk, a master’s in education.
Now, with both diplomas proudly displayed in her apartment, Warren is not finished with learning. Now 93,she continues for her 18th year at Suffolk under a program that allows persons 65 and over to attend classes tuition free. “It’s my life to go to school, to enjoy being in an academic atmosphere,” she says. “That’s what I love.”
Warren was born Rosalie Levey on Aug.29, 1900. Two years after she entered high school, her father died. Warren had to leave school for factory work to help support her family’s 10 children. Warren describes herself as a “person who always liked school,” and she says the move “broke my heart completely because I couldn’t finish high school.”
In the end, however, “I went to school nights,” she recalls. “Any place I could find an outlet of learning and teaching, I was there.”
A short time later, her mother became ill, and Warren had to care for her, once again putting her education on hold.
Finally, in 1921, her mother, now recovered, drew from her saving to send Warren to Boston University for two years to study typing, stenography, and office procedures.
Those courses helped Warren gain several long-term office positions over the next 60 years, but her great desire “to be in the academic field” continued.
In 1924, she married Eugene Warren, and seven years later, her daughter, Corinne, was born. In 1955, by then a widow and a grandmother, Warren took a bus tour across the United States that was to last nine months. She said she wanted to see “things you never see in the West End.”
When she returned home, she took a bookkeeping position and also enrolled in courses in philosophy, sociology
And Chinese history. free program for senior citizens.” I was at the registrar’s  office the very next day.”she recalls. At first ,she took one or two courses at a time , but encouraged by her professors , she enrolled as a
In 1975, when she was 75, Warren learned from a neighbor about Suffolk University’s tuition- degree candidate.
“I had not studied for so many years,” she says, “but I was determined.” For the next four years, Warren, who calls herself a “student of philosophy,” worked toward her degree.
Nancy Stoll, dean of students at Suffolk, says Warren is “an interesting role model for our younger students---that learning is a lifetime activity….She is genuinely enthusiastic about being here, and that permeates (散发) her activities and is contagious (传染的) to students and faculty.”
小题1:What does the word elation mean in the sentence “I got fives ‘A’s”, she still recalls with elation”?
A．Great happinessB．Great surpriseC．Great prideD．Great honor
小题2:How old was Warren when she got her first college degree?
A．She was 79B．She was 23C．She was 80D．She was 75
小题3:What kind of work did she do for 60 years?
A．StudyingB．Factory workC．TypingD．Office work
小题4:Which statement can be inferred from the underlined sentences?
A．Because Warren needn’t pay her tuition, she went to study at Suffolk University
B．At first Warren had to pay for her courses at Suffolk University
C．Most of the students at Suffolk University are older than 65
D．Suffolk University encourages older people to take courses
小题5:It can be inferred from this passage that Rosalie Warren _______.
A．came from a wealthy familyB．didn’t like working in an office
C．put her family before her educationD．didn’t like her family very much
小题6:What is the main topic of this passage?
A．Rosalie Warren’s family
B．Rosalie Warren’s life
C．Rosalie Warren’s education
D．Rosalie Warren’s studying at Suffolk University

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In 1982, Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank．He got into a life boat, but his supplies were   21 ．His chances of surviving were small．  22  when three fishermen found him 76 days later, he was alive —much   23  than he was when he started, but alive．
His   24  of how he survived is fascinating．His cleverness —how he   25  to catch fish, how he evaporated（蒸发） sea water to   26  fresh water—is very interesting．
But the thing that   27  my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, and there seemed no   28  in continuing the struggle．He was starved and 29  worn-out．Giving up would have seemed the only possible choice．
When people   30  these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their minds that gives them the courage to keep going．Many people in   31  desperate circumstances 32   in or go mad．Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the courage to carry on   33  difficulties．
"I tell myself I can   34  it," wrote Callahan in his book．-Compared to what others have been through, I"m fortunate．I tell myself these things over and over,  35  up courage．．．"
I wrote that down after 1 read it．It   36  me as something important．And I"ve told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed   37  off or when my problems seemed too terrible．And every time I"ve said it, I have always come back to my   38  ．
The truth is, our circumstances are only bad   39  to something better．But others have been through the much worse, that is, in comparison with what others have been through, you"re fortunate．Tell this to yourself over and over again, and it will help you   40  through the rough situations with a little more courage．
小题1:
A．fullB．richC．fewD．enough
小题2:
A．AndB．YetC．StillD．Thus
小题3:
A．thinnerB．strongerC．worse D．healthier
小题4:
A．attitudeB．assumptionC．instructionD．account
小题5:
A．assistedB．tendedC．managedD．intended
小题6:
A．makeB．absorbC．selectD．replace
小题7:
A．attackedB．caughtC．frozeD．cheated
小题8:
A．operationB．tasteC．messageD．point
小题9:
A．firmlyB．completelyC．hardlyD．generally
小题10:
A．dealB．defendC．surviveD．observe
小题11:
A．similarlyB．differentlyC．graduallyD．commonly
小题12:
A．pullB．takeC．breakD．give
小题13:
A．for the lack ofB．in the face ofC．in exchange forD．as a result of
小题14:
A．handleB．carryC．followD．inspect
小题15:
A．rollingB．usingC．buildingD．making
小题16:
A．defeatedB．recommendedC．introducedD．struck
小题17:
A．farB．longC．everD．even
小题18:
A．feelingsB．sensesC．ideasD．influences
小题19:
A．relatedB．measuredC．contributedD．compared
小题20:
A．seeB．cutC．getD．think

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Bum rate is the speed at which a startup business consumes money. My rate would be $ 50,000 a month when my new media company started. So, I began looking around for individuals who would be my first investors. “Angel money” it was called. But when I reviewed my list of acquaintances to find those who might be able to help, I found the number got small.
　　With no other choices, I began meeting with the venture-capital companies. But I was warned they took a huge share of your company for the money they put in. And if you struggled, they could drop you cold.
　　As I was searching for “angel money”, I started to build a team who trusted me even though I didn"t have money for paychecks yet.
　　Bill Becker was an expert in computer programming and image processing at a very famous Media Lab at M. I.T. With his arrival, my company suddenly had a major technology “guy” in-house.
　　Katherine Henderson, a filmmaker and a former real-estate dealer, joined us as our director of market research. Steve White came on as operating officer. He had worked for the developer of a home-finance software, Quicken. We grabbed him.
　　We had some really good people, but we still didn"t have enough money. One night, my neighbor, Louise Johnson, came for a visit. She and I were only nodding acquaintances, but her boys and ours were constant companions. She ran a very good business at the time.
　　Louise was brilliant and missed nothing. She had been watching my progress closely. She knew I was dying for money and I had prospects but could offer no guarantees of success.
　　She told me that her attorney had talked to mine and the terms had been agreed upon. She handed me an envelope. Inside was a check for $ 500,000.
　　I almost fell down. I heard her voice as if from heaven.
　　“I have confidence in your plan,” she said. “You" 11 do well. You"re going to work hard for it, but it" s satisfying when you build your own company.”
　　Who would have thought I"d find an angel so close to home? There were no words sufficient for the moment. We just said good night. She left and I just stood there, completely humbled and completely committed.
小题1:For a newly-established business, bum rate refers to___________.
A．the salary it pays to its staff　B．the interest it pays to the bank
C．the way in which it raises capital　D．the speed at which it spends money
小题2:By "Angel money", the author refers to__________.
A．the money borrowed from banks　B．the money spent to promote sales
C．the money raised from close friendsD．the money needed to start a business
小题3:To get help from a venture-capital company, you may have to__________.
put up with unfair terms　        　B. change your business line
C. enlarge your business scope     　　D. let them operate your business
小题4:The author easily built a team for his company because__________.
A．they were underpaid at their previous jobs
B．they were turned down by other companies
C．they were confident of the author and his business
D．they were satisfied with the salaries in his company
小题5: Louise decided to lend money to the author because__________.
A．she wanted to join his company
B．she knew he would build a team
C．she knew his plan would succeed
D．she wanted to help promote his sales

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was   1   and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   2   but a failure.” After five years of   3  jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the beatific   4   that could have happened to me. I  5  I wanted to do something positive (积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to  6  that what people said about me was   7 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s   8  it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my   9   and went to college. My first novel   10    while I was at college. After college I taught during the   11  in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a   12   in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of   13   that job to write full time   14   I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself —   15   was a working-class boy who’d   16   school early, now teaching at the university. My writing career (职业) took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and   17 , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars.   18  what does it mean? I   19  wish all the people that have put me down had   20 : “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”
小题1:
A．brightB．uselessC．simpleD．hopeful
小题2:
A．anythingB．somethingC．everythingD．nothing
小题3:
A．lowB．poorC．goodD．useful
小题4:
A．supportB．happinessC．surpriseD．thing
小题5:
A．admittedB．decidedC．plannedD．told
小题6:
A．meB．themC．herD．it
小题7:
A．wrongB．rightC．stupidD．faulty
小题8:
A．seeB．knowC．understandD．face
小题9:
A．experiment B．practiceC．writingD．composition
小题10:
A．came onB．came inC．came outD．came back
小题11:
A．dayB．nightC．monthD．year
小题12:
A．graduationB．passC．degreeD．success
小题13:
A．giving inB．giving backC．giving outD．giving up
小题14:
A．whileB．ifC．whenD．or
小题15:
A．thereB．hereC．itD．that
小题16:
A．leftB．attendedC．changedD．graduated
小题17:
A．tiredB．calmC．nervousD．famous
小题18:
A．AndB．ButC．HoweverD．Well
小题19:
A．justB．exactlyC．soD．very
小题20:
A．praisedB．saidC．answeredD．advised

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