Forty years ago Sadie left her drunk and violent husband. Needing shelter（住所）for
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Forty years ago Sadie left her drunk and violent husband. Needing shelter（住所）for herself and her young son, she took a job as a doorkeeper in a housing project for ___36___people. It meant she could live “on site” in one of the ___37___.
Eventually, she got to know the residents（居民）. One resident, Archie, didn"t have a family of his own, ___38___his nephew’s wife and her naughty kids would drop in from time to time. They were there to help the old guy.
Sadie helped care for Archie as he ___39___illness and it was she who called the ___40___who diagnosed（诊断） his deadly cancer.
___41___time passing, Sadie’s son ___42___up, got married and settled several hundred miles away. Sadie ___43___and moved into a nice little house of her own. To ___44___the loneliness, she took in a series of ___45___over the years.
A heavy fall of snow came a year and a half ago. She was pleased when a neighbor ___46___to walk her current dog, Muffin, until the weather improved. Each day he would ___47___a while talking to her, making sure she was okay, and ___48___if she needed anything.
Although she had known him for a long time, Sadie ___49___thought to wonder what his last name was. This morning she asked. His surname was the same ___50___old Archie’s. It brought back a memory and she talked about the ___51___. She told him about working at the old residents’ flats and was ___52___to discover the man who had been “caring” for her for the past year and a half had been one of the little kids who used to run ___53___on his way to visit “Uncle Archie”.
She had cared for his family, now he was caring for her. ___54___of them knew it until that moment but they were living proof of the old saying, “What goes around comes around, ” and the ___55___of kindness will not be broken.
| 小题1: | | A．poor | B．senior | C．disabled | D．unfortunate |
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| 小题2: | | A．groceries | B．stadiums | C．flats | D．cages |
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| 小题3: | | A．otherwise | B．but | C．though | D．because |
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| 小题4: | | A．battled | B．banned | C．cured | D．beat |
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| 小题5: | | A．servant | B．master | C．neighbor | D．doctor |
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| 小题8: | | A．complained | B．retired | C．fired | D．hesitated |
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| 小题9: | | A．refuse | B．reduce | C．stop | D．escape |
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| 小题10: | | A．programs | B．projects | C．birds | D．dogs |
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| 小题11: | | A．attempted | B．declared | C．offered | D．wished |
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| 小题12: | | A．spend | B．cost | C．take | D．spare |
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| 小题13: | | A．observing | B．requiring | C．indicating | D．checking |
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| 小题14: | | A．often | B．never | C．sometimes | D．once |
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| 小题16: | | A．coincidence | B．comprehension | C．tradition | D．statement |
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| 小题17: | | A．puzzled | B．frightened | C．concerned | D．surprised |
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| 小题18: | | A．calling | B．screaming | C．barking | D．whispering |
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| 小题19: | | A．All | B．None | C．Neither | D．Both |
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| 小题20: | | A．custom | B．glory | C．pattern | D．circle |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:A
小题5:D
小题6:C
小题7:A
小题8:B
小题9:B
小题10:D
小题11:C
小题12:A
小题13:D
小题14:B
小题15:C
小题16:A
小题17:D
小题18:B
小题19:C
小题20:D |
解析
小题1:B考查形容词。结合下文的working at the old residents’ flats 可知Sadie 是在老人公寓里照顾老人。senior年长的。
小题2:C考查名词。见36解析。flat公寓。
小题3:B考查副词。前后是转折关系故用but。“Archie没有自己的家庭，但他侄子的妻子和她调皮的孩子们不是的来看他。”
小题4:A考查动词。battle illness跟疾病斗争。
小题5:D考查名词。结合后面的定语从句ho diagnosed（诊断） his deadly cancer可知是给医生打的电话。
小题6:C考查介词。with time passing随着时间的流逝。此处需要的是介词，而ABD项都属连词。
小题7:A考查动词。Sadie的儿子长大，结婚并在几百英里外定居。
小题8:B考查动词。Sadie退休了，搬到了她自己的一个漂亮的小房里子。
小题9:B考查动词。为了消除寂寞，过去的几年里她收养了狗。reduce减少。
小题10:D考查名词。结合下文walk her current dog 可知答案。
小题11:C考查动词。她为有位邻居主动offer在下雪天帮她遛狗而高兴。
小题12:A考查动词。spend time （in）doing sth花费时间做某事。
小题13:D考查动词。花些时间同Sadie，以确保她一切安好，并确定她是否需要什么东西。check 检查，核对。
小题14:B考查副词。结合下文的This morning she asked 可知以前她没有问过，故此处需要否定词。
小题15:C考查介词。the same as 和……一样。
小题16:A考查名词。这位邻居的名字和Archie 的名词一样，Sadie认为这是个巧合。
小题17:D考查形容词。发现这位邻居是Archie侄媳的一个儿子并去过老人公寓时，Sadie很惊讶。
小题18:B考查动词。此处所选之词描述人，不可用C；小时候随妈妈去看亲戚，对小孩来说是高兴的事，孩子们会高兴的“尖叫scream”。
小题19:C考查代词。此处指代Sadie和他的邻居。
小题20:D考查名词。善有善报。友善之圈是不会打破的。 |
举一反三
It’s parents’ worst nightmare. Their child doesn’t come home one evening and is missing for several days.
When a 14-year-old boy from Atlanta, Georgia disappeared earlier this year, his mother turned to her Smartphone for clues using an app（应用程序） called Family Tracker that helped track his location.
“You can see where your loved ones are without having to call or bother them. ”said Roberto Franceschetti of LogSat, the creators of the Family Tracker, which has more than 100,000 users and is available worldwide.
Parents can track the location of their child on a map, send messages, and even sound an alarm on the phone in a long distance.
“We have an option for the sender to make a very unpleasant, noisy sound. It’s a loud alarm and we repeat that sound every two minutes until the person picks it up, ”he said.
Parents don’t need to own a Smartphone to track their children. The service is also accessible through the web, as long as the phone that is being tracked is running the app.
Family Tracker has an additional service that keeps records of all data from the app for a two-week period, which the company calls GPS breadcrumbs.
“With a subscription（预定）, we keep all the locations where people have been on our servers. You can see where your kid has been for the past two weeks. You can find out where someone was at a certain time or when that person was at a specific place, ”Franceschetti explained.
“When somebody gets abducted（劫持）, usually whoever does this throws the phone away or takes the battery out. We were hoping that our app would at least provide information on where the person was abducted or where they had been in the past. ”
But will these types of apps let out personal secrets?
“The advantages are huge compared to the disadvantages. Let’s not forget that the person always has to give initial permission—no one can be tracked unless they allow someone to do it. ”said Franceschetti.
小题1:According to the passage, all of the following about “Family Tracker” are true EXCEPT that __________.| A．it can help parents know where their children are | | B．all parents don’t need to own a Smartphone to track children | | C．parents can use all the services of the app for free | | D．it has little to do with letting out personal secrets |
小题2:What can we infer from the passage?| A．The app will enjoy a great popularity in the future. | | B．The loss of children won’t be a nightmare for parents any more. | | C．The app will repeat the loud alarm continuously whenever parents track children. | | D．The app can keep records of information for more than half a month. |
小题3:Which belong to the functions of the new app?
a. track location b. detect criminals c. send messages
d. protect privacy e. send remote alarm f. record information| A．a, b, c, e | B．a, c, e, f | C．a, c, d, e | D．a, d, e, f |
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One cold rainy evening last October, as a medical student, I was in a hospital, gathering data
for my graduation paper.
Holding a patient questionnaire 34 some simple yes-or-no questions, I walked towards a 43-year-old patient who lay in bed alone. I was worried whether she would approve of my demands at such a late hour. 35 , she treated it with consideration. Soon I finished and prepared to leave. 36 I could stand up, she spoke up in a weak voice asking where I was from and why I was working so late in the evening.
Then she started talking about herself as well as her 37 , "My husband died about a year ago, 38 me the only breadwinner of my family. My pay as a cleaner is 39 enough for me and my three kids. I don"t know what my children would be if something bad happened to me."
I didn"t know what to say. I desperately tried to remember the lessons from a communication skills class I had taken years earlier, but my mind was 40.
Without realizing it, I had begun 41 her hand. Now that I didn"t have anything to say, I just sat quietly while she talked. That"s when it occurred to me that she was not expecting any 42 from me. She 43 wanted me to listen. All 1 did was nod my head as a way of showing my 44.
The conversation went on for about 20 minutes. Finally, she stopped talking. "I"m very sorry for keeping you here to listen to my problems, but I feel 45 now. I had no one to 46 out my problems to. Thank you so much, doctor."
Sometimes patients do not need expensive medicine or advanced technology. 47 , they just need someone with the 48 to lend an ear and spare a little of their time. For me, that is one of the best things a doctor can do for a patient, doesn"t it?
| 小题1: | | A．made up of | B．fed up with | C．put up with | D．come up with |
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| 小题2: | | A．Calmly | B．Excitedly | C．Gladly | D．Eagerly |
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| 小题3: | | A．When | B．Before | C．As | D．After |
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| 小题4: | | A．job | B．illness | C．family | D．children |
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| 小题5: | | A．causing | B．getting | C．forcing | D．leaving |
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| 小题6: | | A．extremely | B．exactly | C．especially | D．absolutely |
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| 小题7: | | A．casual | B．clear | C．steady | D．blank |
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| 小题8: | | A．holding | B．shaking | C．carrying | D．treating |
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| 小题9: | | A．thanks | B．praise | C．warmth | D．reply |
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| 小题10: | | A．even | B．ever | C．just | D．still |
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| 小题11: | | A．sympathy | B．support | C．sorrow | D．respect |
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| 小题12: | | A．relaxed | B．awkward | C．fragile | D．satisfied |
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| 小题14: | | A．However | B．Otherwise | C．Instead | D．Besides |
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| 小题15: | | A．emotion | B．patience | C．experience | D．preference |
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I had the meanest mother in the world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast，I had to have cereal，eggs and toast. Others had cokes and candy for lunch，while we had to eat a sandwich. As you can guess，my supper was different than the other kids’. But at least I was not alone in my suffering. My sister and two brothers had the same mean mother as I did.
My mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times. She had to know who our friends were and what we were doing. We had to wear clean clothes every day. Other kids always wore their clothes for days. We reached the height of disgrace because she made our clothes herself，just to save money.
The worst is yet to come. We had to be in bed by 9:00 each night and up at 7:45 the next morning. So while my friends slept，my mother actually had the courage to break Child Labor Law. She made us work. I believed she lay awake all night thinking up mean things to do to us. Through the years，our friends’ report cards had beautiful colors on them, black for passing，red for failing. My mother, however，would merely be content with black marks. None of us was allowed the pleasure of being a dropout.
She forced us to grow up into educated and honest adults. Using this as a background，I’m now trying to bring up my three children. I’m filled with pride when my children think I am mean because now I thank God every day for giving me the meanest mother in the world.
小题1:From the passage we can learn that the writer’s mother was __________.| A．not generous at all | | B．very strict with her children | | C．very mean with money matters | | D．very cruel to her children |
小题2:Which of the following things did the writer hate to do most? | A．Eating differently from other kids. | | B．Wearing clean clothes made by mother. | | C．Going to bed early and getting up early. | | D．Letting mother know where they were. |
小题3:It can be inferred from the passage that____________.| A．the writer worked hard and usually got good grades in studies | | B．mother was punished for breaking the Labor Law | | C．all the other kids studied better than the writer | | D．the writer"s family lived a miserable life |
小题4:Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?| A．Mother practised economy in running her home. | | B．The writer is very thankful to her mother. | | C．The writer is severe with her children when bringing them up. | | D．The wrier has a deep hatred for her mother. |
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I got my first driver"s license(执照)in 1953 by taking driver education in my first year at Central High School in Charlotte，North Carolina. Four years later when it was time to renew my license I was a married woman. Henry and I were living in Baltimore，Maryland. Two weeks before my 20th birthday，Henry drove me to the motor vehicle office on a hot July afternoon. When I got to the office and showed to the man behind the counter my North Carolina driver’ s license，ready to renew，the man told me that I was under age by Maryland law since I was not yet 21.“Mr.Henry Smith，your husband，will have to sign for you，”he said.
I argued，pointing to a very large belly(肚子)of mine，“I am married. I am having a baby. Why should I have to have someone sign for me to drive？”He answered coldly，“It’s the law，madam.”
Henry encouraged me to calm down，just go ahead and get the license and be done with it. “No，” I said. I refused to have him sign for me. So I left without a Maryland license.
I called the North Carolina Motor Vehicle Office and renewed my NC license by mail—using my name Susan Brown. And thus it was for the next twelve years. Since Henry was in the army I could drive under my home state license. By the time Henry left the army we were once again living in Maryland，and I had to take the Maryland driver’ s exam. Since then I just go in and renew every four years—sign the name Susan Brown，have my new picture taken，and walk out with a license to drive.
小题1:Susan got her first driver’ s license________.| A．before she got married to Henry | | B．when she was twenty years old | | C．after she finished high school | | D．when she just moved to Maryland |
小题2:Susan failed to renew her license the first time in Maryland because________.| A．she was forbidden to drive by Maryland law | | B．she lacked driving experience in Maryland | | C．she was to give birth to a baby soon | | D．she insisted on signing for herself |
小题3:We can infer from the text that in the U.S.________.| A．American males should serve in the army | | B．different states may have different laws | | C．people have to renew their licenses in their home states | | D．women should adopt their husbands’ family names after marriage |
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When Mrs．Joseph Groeger died recently in Vienna，Austria，people asked the obvious question,“Why did she live to be 107?” .Answers were provided by a survey conducted among 148 Viennese men and women who had reached the age of 100．Somewhat surprising was the fact that the majority had lived most of their lives in cities．In spite of the city’s image as an unhealthy place，city living often provides benefits that country living can lack．One factor seems to be important to the longevity(长寿)of those interviewed．
This factor is exercise．In the cities it is often faster to walk short distances than to wait for a bus．Even taking public transportation often requires some walking．Smaller apartment houses have no elevators(电梯)，and so people must climb stairs．City people can usually walk to local supermarkets. Since parking spaces are hard to find，there is often no alternative to walking．
On the other hand，those who live in the country and suburbs do not have to walk every day．In fact，the opposite is often true．To go to school，work，or almost anywhere else，they must ride in cars．
小题1:The Vienna survey may help to explain _____| A．the complaints of people in apartment houses | | B．the cause of Mrs Groeger’s death | | C．the longevity of people like Mrs．Groeger | | D．the image of cities in general |
小题2:The purpose of the second paragraph is to list some _____| A．benefits of walking | | B．occasions for walking in city life | | C．comments made by city people | | D．problems of city living |
小题3:To reach the third floor of a building, it would probably be most healthful __| A．to take the elevator | | B．to walk up the stairs | | C．to ride in a car | | D．to find an alternative to walking |
小题4:People who live in the country probably do more driving than walking because __| A．they don’t live near business areas | | B．they don’t need the exercise | | C．they never have parking problems | | D．they can’t afford to take the bus |
小题5:A conclusion that can be drawn from this passage is that__________ | A．air pollution is not serious | | B．anyone can live to be 107 | | C．country people should move to the city | | D．walking is a healthful exercise |
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