I was driving around downtown one afternoon in the winter. I 1 a red light an
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I was driving around downtown one afternoon in the winter. I 1 a red light and stopped. As I was 2 , I saw a young guy standing on my left. He was 3 in the face and holding a cardboard sign with some 4 on it. When you’re in the heart of downtown, it’s pretty 5 to see homeless people asking for 6 . Generally, I would pass them, but this time when I glanced over the sign, I 7 .
I can’t remember what the sign said exactly, but it was something like: “ 8 money / food, have stomach cancer, homeless, anything helps.”
I didn’t know why, but for some 9 this particular sign struck me. The 10 had just turned green, and there was a line of lunch rush hour traffic behind me. I went back and forth in my 11 a hundred times in that next 12 about whether I should do something. “Should I help? 13 on? Should I do something?”
I didn’t. I did nothing.
The traffic moved 14 , and I went with it. About a block（街区）or two away, my heart had sunk simply for this guy. I felt so 15 for him. So, I decided to go back and ask him 16 I could buy him lunch and hear his story.
It took me about five minutes to 17 and back on to the same street where I had seen him. It was just five minutes — but he was 18 .
“Where did he go so fast?” I wondered. So, there was 19 left to do except drive on.
If you get a special nudge（想做的事）from inside you, 20 consider acting on it. Don’t miss out — for yourself and for that other person.
| 小题1: | | A．came up to | B．came from | C．came up with | D．came in |
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| 小题2: | | A．talking | B．walking | C．waiting | D．resting |
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| 小题3: | | A．proud | B．pale | C．happy | D．dirty |
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| 小题4: | | A．painting | B．saying | C．feeling | D．writing |
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| 小题5: | | A．common | B．rude | C．special | D．unlucky |
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| 小题6: | | A．respect | B．advice | C．money | D．equipment |
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| 小题7: | | A．stopped | B．returned | C．continued | D．laughed |
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| 小题8: | | A．Collect | B．Need | C．Keep | D．Devote |
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| 小题9: | | A．condition | B．purpose | C．goal | D．reason |
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| 小题11: | | A．mind | B．pocket | C．stomach | D．body |
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| 小题12: | | A．week | B．second | C．day | D．hour |
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| 小题13: | | A．Hold | B．Work | C．Come | D．Drive |
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| 小题14: | | A．backward | B．upward | C．forward | D．outside |
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| 小题15: | | A．important | B．upset | C．easy | D．wonderful |
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| 小题17: | | A．go out | B．turn around | C．go away | D．turn up |
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| 小题18: | | A．blind | B．caught | C．dead | D．gone |
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| 小题19: | | A．everything | B．something | C．nothing | D．anything |
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| 小题20: | | A．jokingly | B．recently | C．usually | D．seriously |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:C
小题7:A
小题8:B
小题9:D
小题10:C
小题11:A
小题12:B
小题13:D
小题14:C
小题15:B
小题16:A
小题17:B
小题18:D
小题19:C
小题20:D |
解析
试题分析：本文的主要内容是，这是一篇记叙文。主要讲了作者在等红灯时，遇到一个需要帮助的人，作者犹豫再三，开车而过，但作者心里很不安，于是回去找那个人，但那个人已经走了。通过这个故事作者告诉我们遇到自己想做的事时，一定要认真按照自己的想法及时去做，不要错过了，徒留后悔在心头。
小题1:这里想说我走到了红灯前并且停下来，came up to走上前来 came from来自于 came up with提出came in进来，故选A。
小题2:这里想说当我正在等的时候，waiting等待，故选C。
小题3:根据下文have stomach cancer,可知这里想说他的脸很苍白，pale苍白的，故选B。
小题4:根据I can’t remember what the sign said exactly, but it was something like: “Need money / food, have stomach cancer, homeless, anything helps.”可知这里想说纸板上写了一些字，故选D。
小题5:根据Generally, I would pass them,故选A，common普通的。
小题6:这里想说当你走到市中心，看到一些无家可归的人向你要钱是很常见的，故选C。
小题7:根据Generally, I would pass them, but this time when I glanced over the sign，故选A，stopped停下来。
小题8:根据money / food, have stomach cancer, homeless, anything helps.故选B，Need需要。
小题9:这里想表达因为某些特殊的原因，我被这个特殊的告示打动了，故选D，reason原因。
小题10:根据 I came up to a red light and stopped.故选C。
小题11:根据a hundred times in that next second about whether I should do something.可知这里想说我脑海中来来回回的想，mind头脑中，故选A。
小题12:这里想说下一秒我会想我是否应该做些什么，second秒，故选B。
小题13:这里想说我应该帮助他，还是驱车而过呢？drive on继续开车，故选D。
小题14:这里想说车流在向前走，forward向前的，故选C。
小题15:根据So, I decided to go back and ask him if I could buy him lunch and hear his story.可知这里想说我感觉很不安，upset不安的，故选B。
小题16:这里想表达我决定返回去，问他我能否给他买午餐并且听他的故事，故选A。
小题17:根据and back on to the same street where I had seen him. turn around转身回去，故选B。
小题18:根据“Where did he go so fast?” I wondered. Gone走了 ，故选D。
小题19:这里想说除了开车，没有任何事可做，nothing没有事情，故选C。
小题20:这里想说认真地考虑去行动，seriously认真地，故选D。
点评：答题前一定要略读全文，把握文章要表达的主题，注意前后句与句，段落与段落之间的关系。答题中，一定要认真分析，注意选项与上下文的关系，与前后单词的关系。对于一时没有太大的把握的题可以放到最后再来完成，因为有时答案可以从下文内容体现出来。答完后再通读一遍文章，看看所选选项能不能是语句通顺，语意连贯。 |
举一反三
Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new 1 in high school.
2 , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛)for cheerleaders(啦啦队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be 3 for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 4 read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart 5 as the list ended without her name. Feeling 6 , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was 7 . She moved on to English and history, and was8 to find that she didn’t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to 9 math for the time being.
The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school 10 . Mrs. Biden wasn’t as 11 as Jenna. “I’m sorry, but we have enough 12 for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll talk then.” Jenna smiled 13 and left. “Why is high school so 14 ?” she sighed.
Later in 15 class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much 16 . By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d continue to try to 17 at her new school. She wasn’t sure if she’d succeed, but she knew she had to 18 . High school was just as her mom had said: “You will feel like a small fish in a big pond 19 a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the 20 fish you can be.”
| 小题1: | | A．processes | B．exercises | C．challenges | D．decision |
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| 小题2: | | A．Therefore | B．Besides | C．Otherwise | D．However |
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| 小题3: | | A．difficult | B．interesting | C．boring | D．easy |
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| 小题4: | | A．editor | B．judge | C．candidate | D．boss |
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| 小题5: | | A．jumped | B．raced | C．stopped | D．sank |
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| 小题6: | | A．strange | B．lonely | C．awful | D．happy |
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| 小题7: | | A．struggling | B．complaining | C．working | D．improving |
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| 小题8: | | A．ashamed | B．relieved | C．shocked | D．disappointed |
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| 小题9: | | A．put up | B．give up | C．worry about | D．prepare for |
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| 小题10: | | A．committee | B．team | C．radio | D．newspaper |
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| 小题11: | | A．enthusiastic | B．realistic | C．sympathetic | D．artistic |
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| 小题12: | | A．speakers | B．writers | C．cheerleaders | D．readers |
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| 小题13: | | A．widely | B．brightly | C．excitedly | D．weakly |
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| 小题14: | | A．similar | B．familiar | C．different | D．ordinary |
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| 小题15: | | A．physics | B．math | C．English | D．history |
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| 小题16: | | A．pleasure | B．sorrow | C．trouble | D．hope |
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| 小题17: | | A．fit in | B．get around | C．stay up | D．look out |
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| 小题19: | | A．in return for | B．instead of | C．in terms of | D．in case of |
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| 小题20: | | A．slimmest | B．gentlest | C．best | D．smallest |
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When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, "Be sure and take a typing course（课程） so when this show business thing doesn"t work out, you"ll have something to rely on." Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, "the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course," she recalls.
The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring her mom," I don"t know how to use a computer," she admits.
Unlike her 1995 autobiography（自传）, After All, her second book is less about life as an award-winning actress and more about living with diabetes (糖尿病). All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), an organization she serves as international chairman. "I felt there was a need for a book like this," she says." I didn"t want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we"re self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease."
But she hasn"t always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts (甜甜圈). Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up —again—and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.
Although her disease has affected her eyesight, she refuses to fall into self-pity. "Everybody on earth can ask, "why me?" about something or other," she insists. "It doesn"t do any good. No one is immune (免疫的) to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I"ve come to realize the importance of that as I"ve grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be."
小题1:Why did Mary feel regretful?| A．She didn"t achieve her ambition. | B．She didn"t take care of her mother. | | C．She didn"t complete her high school. | D．She didn"t follow her mother"s advice. |
小题2:We can know that before 1995 Mary| A．had two books published | B．received many career awards | | C．knew how to use a computer | D．supported the JDRF by writing |
小题3:Mary"s second book Growing Up Again is mainly about her| A．living with diabetes | B．successful show business | | C．service for an organization | D．remembrance of her mother |
小题4:When Mary received the life-changing news, she| A．lost control of herself | B．began a balanced diet | | C．tried to get a treatment | D．behaved in an adult way |
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It was New Year’s Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. Then he cast them on the earth, where few more hopeless people than himself now moved towards their certain goal --- the tomb. He had already passed sixty of the stages leading to it, and he had brought from his journey nothing but errors and remorse. Now his health was poor, his mind vacant, his heart sorrowful, and his old age short of comforts.
The days of his youth appeared like dreams before him, and he recalled the serious moment when his father placed him at the entrance of the two roads --- one leading to a peaceful, sunny place, covered with flowers, fruits and filled with soft, sweet songs; the other leading to a deep, dark cave, which was endless, where poison flowed instead of water and where devils and poisonous snakes hissed and crawled.
He looked towards the sky and cried painfully, “O youth, return! O my father, place me once more at the entrance to life, and I’ll choose the better way!” But both his father and the days of his youth had passed away.
He saw the lights flowing away in the darkness. These were the days of his wasted life; he saw a star fall down from the sky and disappeared, and this was the symbol of himself. His regret, which was like a sharp arrow, struck deeply into his heart. Then he remembered his friends in his childhood, who entered on life together with him. But they had made their way to success and were now honored and happy on this New Year’s Night.
The clock in the high church tower struck and the sound made him remember his parents’ early love for him. They had taught him and prayed to God for his good. But he chose the wrong way. With shame and grief he dared no longer look towards that heaven where his father lived. His darkened eyes were full of tears, and with a despairing effort, he burst out a cry: “Come back, my early days! Come back!”
And his youth did return, for all this was only a dream which he had on New Year’s Night. He was still young though his faults were real; he had not yet entered the deep, dark cave, and he was still free to walk on the road which leads to the peaceful and sunny land.
Those who still wander on the entrance of life, hesitating to choose the bright road, remember that when years are passed and your feet stumble on the dark mountains, you will cry bitterly, but in vain: “O youth, return! Oh give me back my early days!”
小题1:We can learn from the passage that ____.| A．the man returned from a long journey and regretted what he had done | | B．the man didn’t enter the deep, dark cave when he was young | | C．the man was deserted by his parents when he was only a child | | D．the man found it no use crying over the spilt milk |
小题2:Why does the author set his story on New Year’s Night?| A．He wants to tell people it’s time to recall the past | | B．he suggests the aged man will have a bright future | | C．He tries to stress the man’s sad feeling | | D．He expects people to share the man’s emotion |
小题3:The aged man in the passage can be described as ________.| A．sorrowful, fearful and regretful | B．hopeful, cheerful and peaceful | | C．regretful, painful and disappointed | D．disappointed, regretful and hopeful |
小题4:The author writes the passage mainly to ________.| A．encourage young people to take the right road | B．help the old man to pick up his confidence | | C．describe the old man’s unsuccessful experience | D．show his compassion for the aged man |
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I remember vividly that first English class in the last term of high school. We boys (there were no girls in the school) were 16 expectantly for the new teacher to appear. Before long, through the door came a tall ordinary-looking man 17 about 40. He said shyly, “Good afternoon, gentlemen.” His 18 had a surprising tone (语气) of respect, almost 19 he were addressing （向---讲话）the Supreme Court (最高法院)20 a group of youngsters. He wrote his 21 on the blackboard---Wilmer T. Stone-- ,and 22 sat on the front of his desk.. “Gentlemen,” he began, “We are now this 23 ---your last---to continue your study of 24 . I know we shall 25 learning with and from one another. We are going to learn 26 about journalism and how to write your weekly school paper. And 27 we are going to try to 28 the joy of good literature (文学). Maybe some of us will be really 29 in reading and writing. A man who reads 30 a happy life. A man who doesn’t read 31 on the earth with a blindfold(眼罩). If I have to put all my 32 into a single word, it would be: ‘browse(广泛浏览)’”. Mr. Stone went on like that, 33 in a friendly and understanding tone. The 34 of the class came much too soon. And we boys had to 35 the classroom with an unexpected feeling of excitement.
小题1:A waiting B. looking C. asking D. calling
| 小题3: | | A．sound | B．voice | C．appearance | D．look |
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| 小题5: | | A．beside | B．except for | C．instead | D．instead of |
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| 小题6: | | A．addres | B．telephone | C．name | D．word |
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| 小题7: | | A．then | B．but | C．so | D．suddenly |
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| 小题8: | | A．feel | B．season | C．year | D．term |
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小题9:A. math B. chemistry C English D. physics
| 小题10: | | A．begin | B．enjoy | C．practice | D．suggest |
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| 小题11: | | A．something | B．anything | C．nothing | D．all |
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| 小题12: | | A．Really | B．Especially | C．Truly | D．Possibly |
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| 小题13: | | A．feel | B．write | C．memorize | D．accept |
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| 小题14: | | A．moved | B．excited | C．interested | D．used |
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| 小题15: | | A．knows | B．says | C．has | D．lives |
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| 小题16: | | A．runs | B．visits | C．walks | D．chooses |
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| 小题17: | | A．praise | B．trust | C．advice | D．promise |
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| 小题18: | | A．speaking | B．singing | C．telling | D．shouting |
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| 小题19: | | A．beginning | B．end | C．middle | D．time |
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| 小题20: | | A．keep | B．enter | C．leave | D．reach |
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There was once a professor of medicine, who was very strict with the students. Whenever he took the chair on the exam committee（委员会）, the students would be in fear , because he was seldom pleased with the answers they gave . A student would be lucky enough if he or she could receive a good mark from him. At the end of the term, the students of medicine would take their exam again . Now a student entered the exam room and got seated before the committee. This student was a little nervous as he knew it would not be so easy to get through the exam at all.
The professor began to ask. .The student was required to describe a certain illness, his description of which turned out to be OK.
Then the professor asked about the cure（药剂,疗法）for the illness , and the student , too , answered just as right . “Good,” said the professor, “and how much will you give the patient?”
“A full spoon,” answered the student.
“Now you may go out and wait for what you can get,” said the professor. At the same time the committee discussed carefully the answers the student had given .Suddenly the student noticed that there was something wrong with his last answer. “A full spoon is too much,” he thought to himself. Anxiously he opened the door of the room and cried, “Mr. Professor, I’ve made a mistake! A full spoon is too much for the patient. He can take only five drops. ”
“I’m sorry, sir,” said the professor coldly, “but it’s too late. Your patient has died. ”
小题1:The students were afraid of the professor because _______ .| A．they often angered and disappointed him | | B．their answers often astonished him | | C．their answers seldom satisfied him | | D．he often misunderstood them and gave them bad marks |
小题2:The student’s description of the illness was ________ .| A．not correct | B．not satisfying | | C．completely discouraging | D．accepted |
小题3:Before he left the room the student was almost sure that _________ .| A．he had passed the exam, and the only thing was to wait for the mark | | B．his last answer had been wrong | | C．he had made a mistake | | D．he had not done well in the exam |
小题4:Which guess is the most reasonable from the passage?| A．The student must have passed the exam. | | B．The student may not have passed the exam. | | C．The student must have been very happy when he heard, “ Your patient has died . ” | | D．The professor must have been very pleased and given the student a good mark. |
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