A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she beca
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A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiancée. The man was very poor while the girl was rich. The young man wanted to make her a present on her birthday. He wanted to buy something beautiful for her, but he had no idea how to do it, as he had very little money.
The next morning he went to a shop. There were many fine things there: gold watches, diamond… but all these things were too expensive. There was one thing he could not take his eyes off. It was a beautiful vase. That was a suitable present for his fiancée. He had been looking at the vase for half an hour when the manager of the shop noticed him. The young man looked so pale, sad and unhappy that the manager asked what had happened to him.
The young man told him everything. The manager felt sorry for him and decided to help him. A bright idea struck him. The manager pointed to the corner of the shop. To his great surprise the young man saw a vase broken into many pieces. The manager said: “When the servant enters the room, he will drop it.”
On the birthday of his fiancée the young man was very excited. Everything happened as had been planned. The servant brought in the vase, and as he entered the room, he dropped it. There was horror on everybody"s face. When the box was opened, the guests saw that each piece was packed separately(分离地).
小题1:The story took place ______.| A．France | B．England | C．Germany | D．the US |
小题2:Which of the following is true?| A．The young man"s family was poor while the beautiful girl is rich. | | B．A rich young man fell in love with a beautiful girl. | | C．The young man loved the girl but the girl didn"t love him. | | D．The young man had enough money to buy a beautiful vase. |
小题3:Why did the young man want to buy a present for the girl?| A．He wanted to give her a Christmas present. | | B．He fell in love with her. | | C．Her birthday was coming soon. | | D．They were going to get married. |
小题4:Why did the shop manager come to talk to the young man?| A．He looked very excited. | | B．He looked pale and sad. | | C．He was poorly dressed. | | D．He said he wanted to buy a beautiful vase. |
小题5:What do you think happened at the end of the story? | A．The manager had cheated the young man. | | B．His fiancee must be thankful to him for the present. | | C．The guests would be angry because the servant had broken the vase. | | D．What the careful servant had done gave the trick away. |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:D |
解析
试题分析：本文讲述的是一个商店的主人想帮助一个年轻人送礼物给女朋友的小故事。
小题1:B 细节题。根据第一段第一行A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl.说明这个故事发生在伦敦，故B正确。
小题2:A 细节题。根据第一段第二行The man was very poor while the girl was rich.说明两个人的家庭背景相差很大，A正确。
小题3:C 细节题。根据第一段The young man wanted to make her a present on her birthday.
说明女孩的生日就要到来是送礼物的主要原因。故C正确。
小题4:B 细节题。根据第二段后3行He had been looking at the vase for half an hour when the manager of the shop noticed him. The young man looked so pale, sad and unhappy that the manager asked what had happened to him.说明B项正确。
小题5:D 推理题。根据There was horror on everybody"s face. When the box was opened, the guests saw that each piece was packed separately(分离地).说明D项正确，那位佣人把事情搞砸了。故D正确。
点评：文章基本上是考查细节题，对此类题型考生可以首先从问题中找到关键词，然后以此为线索，运用略读及查阅的技巧在文中迅速寻找这一细节，找到后再把这一部分内容仔细阅读一遍，仔细比较所给选项与文中细节的细微区别，在准确理解细节的前提下，最后确定最佳答案。 |
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“Where is the bus? Why is it always late?” I asked myself. I was going to be late 21 the manager wasn’t going to be pleased. “Thank God, here it is!” The bus came round the corner and I got on. Ten minutes later I was walking into the bank 22 I work. “Twenty-five past nine. I 23 the manager doesn’t notice.” But I was not 24 .
“Smith!” shouted the manager. “Late again. What’s your 25 this time?” “I am afraid the bus was late, Mr. Brown.” “ 26 up earlier tomorrow! Anyway, go to your place at the counter（柜台）. We’ll be opening in a few minutes.”
My first customer was a pretty girl wearing a red dress. 27 her was a young man of about 25. He seemed very 28 , and every few seconds he looked towards the main entrance. The girl drew some money and asked about opening a（an） 29 . I gave her necessary 30 and she went out. Then, I noticed a tall man by the door, carrying something 31 with brown paper. Turning to my 32 customer, I was frightened to see a gun 33 out of his coat. The next moment a loud noise 34 my ears. Everything went black. I was falling… It seemed to be a long time 35 I opened my eyes and I found myself in bed! 36 shaking from the memory of this terrible dream, I got dressed and ran out of the house. 37 , the bus wasn’t on time, and I got to the bank at 9:25.
“Smith!” the manager cried out in a voice like thunder. “ 38 of your excuses! Start work at once!” To my 39 , the first customer was a girl in a red dress and behind her stood a man carrying something wrapped in brown paper. The 40 ! Sometimes life is full of coincidences（巧合）!
| 小题3: | | A．believe | B．think | C．guess | D．hope |
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| 小题4: | | A．lucky | B．happy | C．sorry | D．angry |
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| 小题5: | | A．answer | B．idea | C．cause | D．excuse |
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| 小题7: | | A．Before | B．Behind | C．Beyond | D．Against |
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| 小题8: | | A．nervous | B．shy | C．calm | D．angry |
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| 小题9: | | A．bank | B．counter | C．account | D．company |
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| 小题10: | | A．information | B．offer | C．introduction | D．support |
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| 小题11: | | A．filled | B．hidden | C．decorated | D．covered |
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| 小题12: | | A．first | B．late | C．last | D．next |
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| 小题13: | | A．stuck | B．sticking | C．appearing | D．appeared |
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| 小题14: | | A．took | B．closed | C．filled | D．came |
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| 小题15: | | A．before | B．after | C．when | D．that |
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| 小题16: | | A．Even | B．Still | C．Just | D．Ever |
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| 小题17: | | A．As usual | B．For one thing | C．In fact | D．In general |
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| 小题18: | | A．Less | B．Plenty | C．More | D．None |
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| 小题19: | | A．pleasure | B．surprise | C．joy | D．regret |
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| 小题20: | | A．accident | B．story | C．dream | D．incident |
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I cheated on a unit test in math class this morning during second period with Mr. Burke. Afterward, I was too sick to eat lunch just thinking about it.
I came straight home from school, went to my room, and lay on the floor trying to decide whether it would be better to run away from home now or after supper. Mostly I wished I was dead. It wasn"t even an accident that I cheated.
Yesterday Mr. Burke announced there"d be a unit test and anyone who didn"t pass would have to come to school on Saturday, most particularly me, since I didn"t pass the last unit test. I did plan to study just to prove to him that I"m plenty smart—which I am mostly—except in math.
Anyway, I got my desk ready to study on . Just when I was ready to work, Nicho came into my room with our new rabbit and it jumped on my desk and knocked the flashcards all over the floor. What a mess! Nicho and I finally took the rabbit outside but then Philip came to my room and also Marty from next door and before long it was dinner.
After dinner my father said I could watch a special on television if I"d done all my homework. Of course I said I had. That was the beginning. I felt terrible telling my father a lie about the homework.
It was nine o"clock when I got up to my room and that was too late to study for the unit test so I lay in my bed with the light off and decided what I would do the next day when I was in Mr. Burke"s math class not knowing the 8- and 9-times tables. So, you see, the cheating was planned after all.
The next day, I"d go into class as usual, acting like things were going just great. I"d sit down next to Stanley Plummer—he is so smart in math it makes you sick—and from time to time, I"d glance over at his paper to copy the answers.
Lying on the floor of my room, I begin to think that probably I"ve been bad all along. It just took this math test to clinch it. I"ll probably never tell the truth again. I tell my mother I"m sick when she calls me to come down for dinner. She doesn"t believe me, but puts me to bed anyhow. I lie there in the early winter darkness wondering what terrible thing I"ll be doing next when my father comes in and sits down on my bed.
"What"s the matter?" he asks. "I"ve got a stomachache," I say. Luckily, it"s too dark to see his face. "Is that all?" "Yeah." "Mommy says you"ve been in your room since school." "I was sick there too," I say. "She thinks something happened today and you"re upset." That"s the thing that really drives me crazy about my mother. She knows things sitting inside my head the same as if I was turned inside out.
"Well," my father says. I can tell he doesn"t believe me. "My stomach is feeling sort of upset." I hedge. "Okay," he says and he pats my leg and gets up.
Just as he shuts the door to my room I call out to him in a voice I don"t even recognize as my own. "How come?" he calls back not surprised or anything. So I tell him I cheated on this math test. To tell the truth, I"m pretty much surprised at myself. I didn"t plan to tell him anything.
He doesn"t say anything at first and that just about kills me. I"d be fine if he"d spank me or something. And then he says I"ll have to call Mr. Burke. It"s not what I had in mind. "Now?" I ask surprised. "Now," he says. He turns on the light and pulls off my covers. "I"m not going to," I say.
But I do it. I call Mr. Burke, and I tell him exactly what happened, even that I decided to cheat the night before the test. He says I"ll come on Saturday to take another test, which is okay with me, and I thank him a whole lot for being understanding and all.
"Today I thought I was turning into a criminal," I tell my father when he turns out my light. Sometimes my father kisses me good night and sometimes he doesn"t. I never know. But tonight he does.
小题1:After the author cheated on the math test, he felt ____________.| A．frightened because he might be caught | | B．excited that he had succeeded | | C．pleased that nobody knew it | | D．unhappy because he had done something wrong |
小题2:By “It wasn"t even an accident that I cheated”, the author means that ________.| A．he had planned not to study before the test | | B．he decided to cheat when he knew there was going to be a test | | C．he decided to cheat after he had wasted the whole evening | | D．he had planned to cheat with Plummer before the test |
小题3:The author’ mother often drives him crazy because _____-.| A．She really knows what he is thinking | | B．she was very strict with him | | C．she doesn’t believe him | | D．she asks him to come down for dinner |
小题4:After he was informed of what he had done, the father _______.| A．scolded the author severely | | B．didn’t say anything and left | | C．called Mr. Burke immediately | | D．let the author make a call to Mr. Burke |
小题5:The author’s father kissed the author good night because ________-.| A．he had done something unusual | | B．he promised to study math harder | | C．he was willing to take a make-up test | | D．he realized his mistake and had the courage to admit it |
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Once there was a piano player in a bar. People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song.
"I don"t sing." said the man.
But the lady told the waiter, "I"m tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing!"
The waiter shouted across the room, " Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song!"
So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!
He had talent (天赋）he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.
You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think. With hard work, most skills skills can be improved. Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent.
小题1:The lady asked the player to sing a song because .| A．she had paid him for this | B．she knew him very well | | C．she wanted to have a change | D．she enjoyed his singsing |
小题2:Nat King Cole successed because .| A．the lady helped him a lot | B．he caught the chance | | C．he continued to play in the bar | D．he stopped playing the piano |
小题3:From the story we know if you have some talent, you should .| A．hide it and wait | B．ask others or help | | C．pay no attention to it | D．work hard to improve yourself |
小题4:Which could be the best title for the passage? | A．Sing in the Bar | B．Achieve Success in Life | | C．Never Lose Heart | D．Find Your Hidden Talent |
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The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during the break .She seemed so small as she pushed her way __36__ the crowd of boys on the playground . She___37__ from them all.
I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing __38__.She would practice dribbling（运球）and shooting over and over again, sometimes until __39__. One day I asked her __40__ she practiced so much. She looked __41__in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want to go to college. The only way I can __42__ is that if I get a scholarship, I am going to play college basketball. I want to be __43__. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don"t count."
Well, I had to give it in to her--- she was __44__.One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head __45_ in her arms. I walked toward her and quietly asked what was _46___. "Oh, nothing," came a soft reply. "I"m just too short." The coach told her that at her height she would probably __47__get to play for a top ranked team,__48__offered a scholarship. So she _49___stop dreaming about college.
She was __50___ and I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just didn"t __51__ the power of a dream. He told her __52__she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, __53___could stop her except one thing-- her own attitude. He told her again," if the dream is big enough, the facts don"t count."
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter（招聘人员）. She was indeed offered a __54__ .She was going to get the college education that she had __55___and worked toward for all those years.
| 小题1: | | A．across | B．through | C．over | D．into |
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| 小题2: | | A．brought out | B．showed out | C．stood out | D．worked out |
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| 小题3: | | A．only | B．lonely | C．simply | D．alone |
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| 小题4: | | A．dark | B．dawn | C．midnight | D．daybreak |
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| 小题5: | | A．how | B．when | C．why | D．what |
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| 小题6: | | A．worriedly | B．shyly | C．quietly | D．directly |
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| 小题7: | | A．go | B．get | C．enter | D．attend |
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| 小题8: | | A．worse | B．better | C．the best | D．the worst |
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| 小题9: | | A．encouraged | B．determined | C．fixed | D．fascinated |
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| 小题10: | | A．covered | B．enclosed | C．dropped | D．buried |
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| 小题11: | | A．the affair | B．the matter | C．matter | D．the wrong |
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| 小题12: | | A．ever | B．even | C．once | D．never |
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| 小题13: | | A．far more | B．much less | C．much fewer | D．many more |
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| 小题14: | | A．should | B．must | C．can | D．may |
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| 小题15: | | A．overjoyed | B．moved | C．embarrassed | D．heartbroken |
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| 小题16: | | A．understand | B．experience | C．learn | D．believe |
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| 小题17: | | A．even if | B．as if | C．that if | D．only if |
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| 小题18: | | A．anything | B．nothing | C．something | D．everything |
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| 小题19: | | A．prize | B．medal | C．scholarship | D．position |
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| 小题20: | | A．dreamed of | B．accepted | C．thought of | D．appreciated |
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Florence Nightingale（南丁格尔） was born in a rich family. When she was young she took lessons in music and drawing, and read great books. She also traveled a great deal with her mother and father.
As a child she felt that visiting sick people was both a duty and a pleasure. She enjoyed helping them.
At last mind was made up. “I’m going to be a nurse,” she decided.
“Nursing isn’t the right work for a lady,” her father told her.
“Then I will make it so, “she smiled. And she went to learn nursing in Germany and France. When she returned to England, Florence started a nursing home for home. During the Crimean War in 1854 she went with a group of thirty eight nurses to the front hospitals. What they saw there was terrible. Dirt and death were everywhere to be seen — and smelled. The officer there did not want any woman to tell him how to run a hospital, either. But the brave nurse went to work.
Florence used her own money and some from friends to buy clothes, beds, medicine and food for the men. Her only pay was in smiles from the lips of dying soldiers. But they were more than enough for this kind woman.
After she returned to England, she was honored for her services by Queen Victoria. But Florence said that her work had just begun. She raised money to build the Nightingale Home for Nurses in London. She also wrote a book on public health, which was printed in several countries.
Florence Nightingale died at the age of ninety, still trying to serve others through her work as a nurse. Indeed, it is because of her that we honor nurses today.
小题1:When she was a child, Florence ____ .| A．loved to travel very much | | B．knew what her duty in life was | | C．loved to help the sick people | | D．was most interested in music and drawing |
小题2:What made Florence make up her mind to become a nurse？| A．Her father’s support. | | B．Her desire to help the sick. | | C．Her education in Germany and France. | | D．Her knowledge from reading great books. |
小题3:During the Crimean War in 1854, Florence served in the front hospital where ____ .| A．she earned a little money | | B．work was very difficult | | C．few soldiers died because of her work | | D．she didn’t have enough food or clothes |
小题4:Why was Florence honored by Queen Victoria？ | A．She built the Nightingale Home for Nurses. | | B．She wrote a book on public health. | | C．She worked as a nurse all her life. | | D．She did a great deal of work during the Crimean War. |
小题5:The passage can best be described as ____ . | A．the life story of a famous woman | B．a description of the nursing work | | C．an example of successful education | D．the history of nursing in England |
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