Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing 41 was som

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Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing   41 was something she picked up by herself. After her first   42  , teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM.   43 , writing stories was simply a   44 interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher(出版商).     45 , they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long   46 and paid Tracy a $50,000 in advance. “A pretty money,” said the publisher, “for   47 writer.”
  48 Tracy’s characters (人物) are interesting, her stories sometimes   49  readers uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could   50  the afterlife world,” she told a close friend. “She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago.”
“Can I? I don’t think I can,” Tracy said with a laugh. “But I do have   51 when things come to me  52 .” Once, she was wondering how to complete a    53  set in ancient (古代的) China.   54 the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese 55 . It came without her having    56 it.
Though she has published 10 books, Tracy has remained   57  by her fame. She lives in the same   58  she lived 27 years ago — although in a more comfortable home. There’s more room for   59 in her life----and it wasn’t just   60 .

小题1:

A．method

B．experience

C．practice

D．skill

小题2:

A．job

B．effort

C．duty

D．task

小题3:

A．Instead

B．Then

C．Certainly

D．Normally

小题4:

A．general

B．deep

C．personal

D．lively

小题5:

A．Interested

B．Anxiously

C．Seriously

D．Encouraged

小题6:

A．film

B．story

C．program

D．article

小题7:

A．a foreign

B．a popular

C．an unusual

D．an unknown

小题8:

A．Even though

B．Now that

C．Just because

D．Except that

小题9:

A．find

B．turn

C．leave

D．hold

小题10:

A．make up

B．connect with

C．control

D．explain

小题11:

A．events

B．chances

C．feelings

D．moments

小题12:

A．for no reason

B．from a distance

C．by accident

D．as gifts

小题13:

A．description

B．pointing

C．scene

D．talk

小题14:

A．Surprisingly

B．Suddenly

C．Expectedly

D．Fortunately

小题15:

A．cooking

B．history

C．play

D．medicine

小题16:

A．known

B．sent

C．realized

D．ordered

小题17:

A．unchanged

B．excited

C．determined

D．unmoved

小题18:

A．life

B．city

C．house

D．way

小题19:

A．success

B．work

C．joy

D．variety

小题20:

A．luck

B．reporting

C．writing

D．fun

答案

小题19:C 前后照应逻辑推理注意与后句的比较。作者不仅仅只是单一的写作了，作者的生活中有了更多的机会或空间来享受生活的多样化(variety)。网上下载，此题原为C(joy欢乐)，笔者认为有所不妥，joy缺少比较前提，前文并没有作任何铺垫。joy与success和work一样与后句的it wasn"t just writing不形成对立关系。
小题20:C 前后照应不仅仅只是写作(writing)。注意与文章前面her writing skill，a part-time writer for IBM，writing stories was simply a personal interest的相一致。reporting，luck和fun与文意不符。

解析

Tracy Wong是一位著名的美籍华人作家。他的写作技巧怎样，他的作品有什么特点，他为什么会这样？文章会告诉你。
小题1:D 词义比较前后照应 Tracy Wong是一位著名的美籍华人作家。其写作技能(skill)是自学的。后文大部分谈到了她的技能与技巧。skill技能，技巧；experience经验, 体验, 经历, 阅历；practice实践，实习；method方法。
小题2:A前后照应词义比较从后文作同位语的teaching disabled children和对立项a part-time writer for IBM，这里指的不是义务(duty)，努力(effort)，任务(task)，而是工作、职业(job)。
小题3:B 词义比较逻辑推理指Tracy Wong所处的时期(then)。instead代替，表示对立意义；normally正常地, 通常地；certainly的确，表示对情况或事情的肯定。
小题4:C 前后照应词义比较当时，写作是个人的兴趣爱好。后句sent three of her stories to a publisher 有所暗示。A. general普通的，一般的；deep深奥的, 难懂的；personal私人的, 个人的；lively活泼的, 活跃的。
小题5:A 词义比较句法功能词汇用法出版商对她的作品感兴趣(interested)，随即向她提出建议。Interested="As" they were interested；Encouraged的逻辑主语应是Tracy，而不是出版商；anxiously(忧虑地, 不安地)和seriously(认真地, 真诚地)通常不作句子性副词用，故不能出现在这个位置上。
小题6:B 前后照应词义比较出版商加以她把三个故事合起来成为一篇长故事(story)。film，program和article没有存在的前提。
小题7:D 逻辑推理词义比较对于Tracy这样一个尚不受大众欢迎的(popular)，普通的(unusual)，外国的(foreign)，没有名气的(unknown)小作家，这是不小的一笔钱。
小题8:A 语句连贯前后照应虽然她的故事人物令人感兴趣，但……。注意前后句之间的转折关系。now that既然，表示原因关系；；even though即使，即便，表示转折关系；just because就是因为，表示因果关系；except that 除了……之外, 只可惜，表示排除意义。
小题9:C 词义辨析她的那些关于超自然故事有时让/使(leave)读者感到不自在，心神不安。find发现，找到；turn转动，变成；leave使某人处于某种状态，置某人于某种状态；hold把握，保持。
小题10:B 前后照应逻辑推理作者的母亲认为作者能够沟通来世阴间。后句"She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago."有所暗示。make up弥补, 虚构, 缝制, 整理；connect with连接, 联络；control控制；explain 解释, 说明。
小题11:D 逻辑推理语法规则但是作者也确实有这样的感觉(feelings)，机会(chances)，事件(events)，或时刻(moments)。因为紧接在后面的when引导的表示时间的定语从句，修饰前面的moments，故选D。
小题12:A 词义比较前后照应有时某些事情无缘无故(for no reason)地，而非碰巧(by accident)，从远处(from a distance)，作为礼物式(as gifts)地发生在作者身上。由后文中的Once, she was wondering how to…有所暗示。
小题13:C 逻辑推理，前后照应，词义比较作者一直在纳闷如何完成一个以古代中国为背景的布景场景(scene)的故事，而非描写(description)，指示(pointing)或谈话(talk)。
小题14:B 词义比较逻辑推理突然（suddenly），门铃响了。surprisingly令人惊讶地；suddenly突然地，表示突发性行为；expectedly不出预料地；fortunately 幸运地。
小题15:B 逻辑推理气候照应邮递员手里拿着有关中国历史(history)，而非烹调(cooking)，医学(medicine)，戏剧(play)方面的书。前面ancient China有所提示。
小题16:D 逻辑推理常识运用词义比较书来得很是蹊跷，作者先前知道(know)、意识到会(realize)有这样的书，但没有送(send)出去过，更没有预定过(order)。按常识道理，没有预定，邮递员不会送东西到家来，更何况是自己想弄的东西。
小题17:A 逻辑推理，词义比较，前后照应虽然作者已经出版了45本书，可仍然没有由于名誉而有丝毫改变(unchanged)。由后文although in a more comfortable home 说明unmoved不妥。Excited和determined与文意不符。
小题18:D 逻辑推理常识运用作者也许在原先的城市(city)，原先的房子(house)居住，但不能是原先的生活(life)，而是以与27年前同样的生活方式(way)生活着。

举一反三

Last year was the first year when I taught the fifth grade. Recently, I’ve been 1 by a “graduated ”student for the first time. I was really surprised when he walked into my home.
He hasn’t physically changed much since 2 my class last year and if I had had to guess who would come to visit me first. I wouldn’t have thought of him. Carlos was a student who had a hard time sitting   3  in the beginning of last year. He would often   4 to go to the bathroom, and he’d talk or look like he was falling asleep because of little sleep. He often needed   5  in doing anything that other students could do well on their own.
I found out that the reason for his behavior in my classroom was that he had been 6 nightmares(噩梦)about his border-crossing experience. He was 7 that the immigration office would take him or his parents to prison or back to their   8 . And here he was in my class trying to learn a(n) 9 language, which he had never touched before.
When he was in my class, one thing that stood out was that he had a(n) 10 time speaking English. But when he walked in my room yesterday, all of that was missing. In walked a calm, 11  boy who spoke and understood English far better than when he left me in June. He even 12 to speak to my class in the sixth grade in English. He told me he remembered doing sign language and the video I made to help him 13 his English.
His visit 14 a lot to me not only because he has made great progress, but also because it reminded me what it means to be a teacher ----- to have a lasting influence on 15 .

小题1:

A．treated

B．recognized

C．visited

D．invited

小题2:

A．leaving

B．attending

C．teaching

D．organizing

小题3:A. fast B. beautifully C. still D actively

小题4:

A．promise

B．ask

C．continue

D．plan

小题5:

A．notice

B．help

C．time

D．work

小题6:

A．suffering

B．making

C．receiving

D．destroying

小题7:

A．angry

B．sorry

C．afraid

D．disappointed

小题8:

A．boss

B．school

C．street

D．country

小题9:

A．interesting

B．new

C．easy

D．useless

小题10:

A．unforgettable

B．enjoyable

C．difficult

D．funny

小题11:

A．hard-working

B．naughty

C．rich

D．confident

小题12:

A．pretended

B．offered

C．refused

D．feared

小题13:

A．improve

B．copy

C．examine

D．find

小题14:14.

A．threw

B．pulled

C．took

D．meant

小题15:

A．audience

B．parents

C．students

D．speakers

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Millions of girls grow up with the hope of becoming a famous singer. Some even win local talent competitions as children, but only a few such early successes and dreams turn into reality. Jessica Andrews is one of the few whose dreams have come true.
Andrews, first taste of success came at the age of 10. She won a talent competition in her home town of Huntingdon, Tennessee, singing I Will Always Love You, originally sung by Whitney Houston. Houston"s version of the song appeared on The Bodyguard sound track, which happened to be the first album Andrews ever bought.
Within two years, talk of Andrews had spread to Nashville and caught the attention of producer Byron Gallimore, whose credits include work with Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and Jo Dee Messina. With Gallimore signed on to produce, Andrews soon had a recording contract (合同)with Dream Works" Nashville label.
Andrews" professional career was launched with 1999"s Heart Shaped World, recorded when she was 14 years old. The album included the country hit I Will Be There For You, which also appeared on The Prince Of Egypt . She followed up the release of the album by touring as a support act for such country superstars as Faith Hill and Trisha Yearwood.
With the release of 2001’s， Who I Am, Andrews became a star in her own right. The album was certified (证明）gold for sales of 500,000 copies. Andrews returned in April 2003 with Now，an album that she promised would show a new side of the young artist. "This album has a very different feeling for me," she said. "It"s a lot more personal and there"s a confidence that wasn"t quite there on the first two. I feel especially connected to this group of songs."
小题1:According to the passage, who mostly helped Andrews to achieve success ?

A．Tim McGraw

B．Whitney Houston

C．Faith Hill

D．Byron Gallimore

小题2:What"s the meaning of the underlined word “launched，，in the fourth paragraph?

A．Started.

B．Sent.

C．Aimed.

D．Set.

小题3:Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?

A．The Bodyguard was the first album Andrews ever bought.

B．After Andrews sang Who I Am，she became a star in her own right.

C．I Will Always Love You was originally sung by Whitney Houston.

D．Now expresses a new feeling of Andrews.

小题4:Which of the following may NOT be Andrews" album?

A．Now.

B．Heart Shaped World.

C．The Prince of Egypt.

D．Who IAm

小题5:Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A．Jessica Andrews" Life	B．Jessica Andrews" Dream
C．Jessica Andrews" Songs	D．Jessica Andrews" Success as a Singer

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Mrs. Evens was home from work. She had just gone into the kitchen to make the afternoon tea _36_ she saw a mouse running around on the kitchen floor. She 37 and jumped up on the table. As soon as the mouse had disappeared, she jumped off from the 38 , rushed out of the kitchen, _39 her coat, ran out of the house and got on a bus 40 was going into the town. There she hurried into a shop and 41 a large mouse-trap（捕鼠夹）. She wanted to put 42 to this mouse as quickly as 43 .
When she got home 44 the trap, she realized that she had forgotten 45 any cheese （奶酪）to put in it. She searched everywhere 46 there was 47 in the house. It was too late to buy any because now all the shops were 48 . She wondered what to do. In the end she 49 a clever idea. She took a pair of scissors and cut a picture of a piece of cheese 50 a magazine. Then she put the picture in the trap 51 a piece of cheese.
The next 52 Mrs. Evans came down to the 53 and went straight away to the place 54 she had put the trap. She wanted to see if her plan had 55 . The picture of the cheese had gone and in its place was a picture of a mouse.

小题1:

A．where

B．what

C．while

D．when

小题2:

A．laughed

B．cried

C．surprised

D．pleased

小题3:

A．table

B．floor

C．house

D．kitchen

小题4:

A．put on

B．have on

C．wore

D．dressed in

小题5:

A．it

B．when

C．which

D．as

小题6:

A．asked

B．bought

C．sold

D．left

小题7:

A．a cheese

B．an end

C．a mouse

D．a picture

小题8:

A．possible

B．he could

C．possibly

D．she can

小题9:

A．for

B．out

C．with

D．without

小题10:

A．to sell

B．to eat

C．to let

D．to buy

小题11:

A．and

B．so

C．but

D．or

小题12:

A．none

B．not one

C．no

D．anything

小题13:

A．open

B．shut

C．close

D．on show

小题14:

A．had

B．brought

C．thought

D．used

小题15:

A．away

B．by

C．out of

D．on

小题16:

A．instead of

B．including

C．instead

D．with

小题17:

A．afternoon

B．hour

C．evening

D．morning

小题18:

A．cooking room

B．bathroom

C．reading room

D．sitting room

小题19:

A．that

B．what

C．which

D．where

小题20:

A．worked

B．took

C．changed

D．made

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I worked for a short time as a cashier(出纳员) at a restaurant a few months ago. I also helped to clean up the tables when it was very busy. One night, just before Christmas, I found a large black wallet on the floor near one of the tables. I guessed I should check it to find out who was the owner, but I was very busy at the time. And I imagined that if there was something valuable(有价值的) in the wallet, the owner would be back. Sure enough, an hour later a man came up to the counter and asked if anyone had found a wallet. I asked him to describe the lost wallet, and after he described it exactly, I gave him the wallet. He expressed his thanks when I handed it to him. He asked me if I had opened it, and when I told him “no”. At once he opened it and showed that it had nearly $ 800 in cash(现金). He took out a twenty-dollar bill and handed it to me and I was amazed at this. “A reward(酬劳) for your honesty,” he said and then turned and walked away.
Thinking about it later, I began wondering whether I would have been honest if I had known what was in the wallet! I thought that if I had no way to find the owner and no one returned to get it, I might keep it. But it also came into my mind that I actually saved someone’s Christmas plans by finding and returning the wallet. The good feeling it gave me was worth more than anything could buy.
小题1:Which of the following is true?

A．The owner of the wallet found a twenty-dollar bill gone.

B．The writer wasn’t surprised when the man gave her a reward.

C．Nothing in the wallet was missing.

D．The man was very, very excited when he got his wallet back.

小题2:The writer returned the wallet to the owner because _______.

A．she thought Christmas was coming

B．the owner came back too soon

C．she didn’t know there was so much money in it

D．as an honest person, she didn’t care much about money

小题3:Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The writer accepted a reward of $ 20.

B．The writer regretted (后悔) that she had returned the wallet.

C．The writer didn’t return the wallet until the owner came back.

D．The writer fell very happy after she returned the wallet.

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Christmas Eve means a warm get-together with friends, a candlelight dinner, or perhaps a celebration at a pub(酒馆) for students. But, for Cai Yingjie, the night has a different meaning: helping beggars(乞丐) and the homeless(people without homes).
Cai, who is a student in journalism at Tsinghua, could be found at Beijing’s Wudaokou Light Railway Station that special evening. When she saw an old beggar, she took the cold, rough hands of the woman with her warm, clean hands, and gave the woman some warm bread and helped her put on a pair of new gloves(手套).
The woman was surprised for a few seconds, then burst into tears, saying “for the first time I feel respected(尊重)”.
Cai said, “A beggar’s life is very hard. That’s why I want to help them.”
Cai was one of 14 Tsinghua students spending Christmas Eve among the poor. They walked in the cold wind along the streets from 4 to 7 pm on Friday, visiting 15 beggars in Beijing’s Haidian District.
They brought bread and gloves with them, and stopped to greet beggars and offer them some of the warm food. Each beggar greeted them with a look of surprise.
“I know the activity can’t help much, but it’s meant to show our respect and care for beggars and the homeless who have been neglected for so long,” said Sun, head of the group. “And Christmas is a good time for that.”
小题1:What does Christmas Eve mean to the 14 Tsinghua students?

A．Taking 15 beggars to Tsinghua.

B．Getting together with friends.

C．Showing care to the beggars and the homeless.

D．Selling bread and gloves to the beggars.

小题2:What does the beggar mean by saying “for the first time I feel respected”?

A．The beggar has been waiting for Cai for long.

B．The beggar hasn’t been shown care for so long.

C．The beggar has been respecting Cai for a long time.

D．This is the first time the beggar has seen Tsinghua students.

小题3:What did each beggar feel when they received greetings?

A．Sad.	B．Amazed.
C．Frightened.	D． Proud.

小题4: The word “neglected” in the last passage means _______.

A．protected	B．found
C．taken care of	D．given no enough care

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