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The story happened years ago,when my daughter was still little. I was driving across the country with my daughter to 1 my husband. Since I intended to get to my destination before supper time, I drove 2 for a long time without a stop. Then after driving for many miles, I became tired and needed to stop for a break to get 3 . I found a rest area. It was mostly deserted, in a quiet area of the highway. I parked the car and carried my 4 into the restroom. When I came out I saw a middle-aged 5 wandering around. Feeling 6 about that, I asked the lady. What 7 me was: they were waiting for us! The lady told me that she and her husband wanted to see us safely back into our 8 . She explained that sometimes rest areas could be a 9 place for a young lady like me. She told me that she had a daughter almost my age, so they wanted to make sure that I got safely back on my way. I was very touched by their 10 . Being young, and probably naive to the potential 11 of rest areas, it had never occurred to me that there was any possibility of something going wrong. I 12 them for their kindness. My daughter and I continued our journey and 13 our destination safely. I never got their names but years have passed and their kindness is still not 14 . Sometimes angels come in make-up and just because you can’t see their 15 it doesn’t mean they aren’t angels.
小题1: | A.desert | B.stop | C.join | D.save |
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小题2: | A.slowly | B.quickly | C.safely | D.quietly |
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小题3: | A.excited | B.bored | C.interested | D.refreshed |
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小题4: | A.daughter | B.luggage | C.license | D.car |
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小题5: | A.lady | B.man | C.couple | D.angel |
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小题6: | A.angry | B.curious | C.jealous | D.terrible |
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小题7: | A.surprised | B.worried | C.annoyed | D.upset |
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小题9: | A.quiet | B.noisy | C.dangerous | D.safe |
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小题10: | A.devotion | B.honesty | C.potential | D.consideration |
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小题11: | A.stops | B.dangers | C.mistakes | D.changes |
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小题12: | A.forgave | B.asked | C.thanked | D.blamed |
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小题13: | A.reached | B.left | C.missed | D.passed |
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小题14: | A.seen | B.forgotten | C.deserted | D.recognized |
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小题15: | A.kindness | B.safety | C.faces | D.wings |
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小题1:C 小题2:B 小题3:D 小题4:A 小题5:C 小题6:B 小题7:A 小题8:B 小题9:C 小题10:D 小题11:B 小题12:C 小题13:A 小题14:B 小题15:D |
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本文讲述了作者在驾驶过程中感到疲劳,便在休息区稍作休息,而此时一对素未谋面的老夫妇却在旁边保护着她们。这让作者非常的感动。 小题1:C 考查名词辨析。join sb.加入某人,和某人在一起 desert sb.抛弃某人 stop sb.阻止某人 save sb.挽救某人 根据句意,本文指的是作者驾车带着女儿去和丈夫在一起。 小题2:B考查副词辨析。因为打算在晚饭之前到达目的地,我开的很快,很久没有停车休息了。 小题3:D考查形容词辨析。我感到很累需要停下来休息一会儿以便提一下神。get refreshed 恢复精神 小题4:A考查名词辨析。我停车后,抱着女儿进入休息室。 小题5:C上下文串联。从下文they were waiting for us.可知,应该不只是一个人,所以应用couple。 小题6:B考查形容词辨析。对于这对夫妇在休息室外徘徊我感到好奇,所以上前询问。 小题7:A考查形容词辨析。他们竟然在等我,这个事实让我惊讶。 小题8:B考查名词辨析。我们是从汽车出来的,所以他们希望看到我们安全的回到汽车。 小题9:C考查形容词辨析。他们保护我们,就是因为他们认为休息区有时并不是很安全的。故选dangerous。 小题10:D考查名词辨析。consideration 体贴;考虑。我被他们的体贴深深打动了。 小题11:B考查名词辨析。根据上面的dangerous 可知,此处应是danger。我对潜在的危险一无所知。 小题12:C考查动词辨析。此处当然是感谢他们的好意。 小题13:A考查动词辨析。到我和女儿继续上路,安全的到达了达目的地。 小题14:B考查动词辨析。许多年过去了,我仍然没有忘记他们的善意。 小题15:D语义场关联。wings(翅膀)是天使的标志,此处作者把这对中年夫妻比喻成没有翅膀的天使。我们看不到他们的翅膀,不代表他们就不是天使。 |
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What on earth does happiness mean? I can’t give you its exact definition, but I’m sure if you love and help 16. , you’ll get it. I’ll never forget an old lady. She lives in 17. small house alone. It is said that her husband and her son 18. (die)in a road accident years ago. Her life is bitter, but she often helps others 19 . a smile. Whenever it snows, she is always the first to clean the paths. She looks after several children living nearby. I am one of them. I often remember the stories she told us and her kind smile. Perhaps she is unlucky, but I think she is a happy person. Her life is full of 20. (laugh)and love. But I’m sad to see some people getting their happiness in bad ways. They talk 21. (noisy)in cinemas and meeting rooms; they destroy trees to enjoy themselves and they laugh at others’ shortcomings. Perhaps they feel happy at that time, 22. they will never get true happiness because they 23. (lose)their personality already. Now I know what happiness is. 24. means kindness, love and unselfishness. Above all, I have come to understand that 25. (bring)happiness to others is getting ourselves happiness. |
The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life. Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ” The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump ” . Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture. 小题1:The book Gone with the Wind was _________.A.first published on a newspaper | B.awarded ten Academy Awards | C.written in “The Dump” | D.adapted from a movie | 小题2:The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_________.A.be very pleased with | B.show great respect for | C.be much taller than | D.show little interest in | 小题3:Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?A.Because she was rich enough. | B.Because she was injured then. | C.Because her husband didn’t like it. | D.Because she wanted to write books. | 小题4:We can know about Margaret Mitchell from the passage that _________.A.her height made her marriage unhappy | B.her interest in writing continued as an adult | C.writing stopped her working as a reporter | D.her life was full of hardship and sadness | 小题5:Which is the best title for the passage?A.A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell. | B. Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success. | C.An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House. | D.Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer. |
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When I was a kid, I used to spend hours listening to Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky on their Sunday night radio show Loveline. I listened so often that I began to use one of their well-known phrases—“good times”—in my daily conversations. Scientists have a name for this phenomenon: behavioral mimicry. You’ve probably experienced this before: after spending enough time with another person, you might start to pick up on his or her behavior or speech habits. You might even start to develop your friend’s habits without realizing it. There is a large body of literature concerning this sort of phenomenon, and it regularly happens for everything from body postures to accents to drink patterns. For example, one study found that young adults were more likely to drink their drink directly after their same-sex drinking partners, than for the two individuals to drink at their own paces. And the effect isn’t limited to real-life face-to-face activities. Another study found that the same you-drink-then-I-drink pattern held even when watching a movie! In other words, people were more likely to take a drink of their drinks in a theater after watching the actors on the screen enjoy a drink. At least I don’t feel so strange anymore, having picked up on Adam Carolla’s “good times”. New research published today in the journal PLOS ONE indicates that the same sort of behavioral mimicry is responsible for social eating, at least among university-age women of normal weight. That’s right: the young women were more likely to adjust their eating according to the eating pace of their same-sex dining companion. As with most experiments, these results raise a whole new set of questions. Still, the finding that behavioral mimicry may at least partly account for eating behavior is important, and has real effects on health. The researchers note that “as long as people don’t fully recognize such important influences on intake, it will be difficult to make healthy food choices and keep a healthy diet, especially when people are exposed to the eating behavior of others”. 小题1:The author takes his own example of using “good times” to _________.A.express his love for radio shows | B.prove the popularity of the show | C.show the influence of the hosts’ words | D.introduce the topic of the passage | 小题2:The underlined word “mimicry” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _________.A.copying | B.adjusting | C.recognition | D.observation | 小题3:Which of the following is NOT an example of behavioral mimicry?A.A boy eats his popcorn after watching the actor eat. | B.A boy buys a Nike shirt when he finds his desk-mate has one. | C.A girl unconsciously sits straight just as others do. | D.A girl takes on the Yorkshire accent after a month’s stay. | 小题4:It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _________.A.behavioral mimicry is beneficial to our health | B.behavioral mimicry decides our eating behavior | C.there are doubts on the research results | D.there are people always exposed to bad eating habits | 小题5:What is probably the author’s purpose of writing this passage?A.To draw readers’ attention to popular radio shows. | B.To introduce behavioral mimicry and its influence. | C.To appeal to readers not to fall into others’ habits. | D.To advocate healthy food choices among readers. |
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Emma Hart Willard (1787—1870) was an American pioneer educator. In her time, colleges and universities were open only to men, and women were not permitted to attend. Emma received advanced education at home from her father and became a school teacher at twenty. She continued to teach at school for several years after her marriage. Then began offer college lessons in her home to women students. Later she founded a school in New York State, which was the first school that offered higher education in the US for women. Emma Willard also tried to persuade New York State to pass a law to allow women to attend public colleges and universities, though that did not come about until after her death. Some years later people remembered her for her life-long efforts and elected her to the US Hall of Fame (荣誉) in 1905. 小题1:Emma received advanced education at home because _________.A.universities were only for men at that time | B.her father did not trust the schools | C.her family was poor when she was young | D.she was too shy to go to a public college | 小题2:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A.She managed to persuade her state to pass a law allowing women to go to universties. | B.She went on with her teaching after she got married. | C.She received advanced education by teaching herself. | D.She was elected to work in the US Hall of Fame. | 小题3:What do you suppose the US Hall of Fame is?A.It is a grand hall where honoured people receive prizes from the government. | B.It is a place where honoured people in the US are buried. | C.It is a building set up in memory of great American people. | D.It is a house of representatives to which respected people are elected. | 小题4:Why was Emma Willard considered an important person?A.She was the first woman to get college education. | B.She fought for equal rights for women in the US. | C.She was the first American woman to become a college teacher. | D.She was a pioneer in winning higher education for women in the US. |
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Robert Frost was one of America’s best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came late in his life. He was born in San Francisco, California in 1874. He lived in California during his early childhood. He was named after the chief Southern general in America’s Civil War. The general’s name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to honor the general. Someone once asked another American writer, Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The best thing, he said, was to have an unhappy childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost’s childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very good writer. Robert Frost’s father was a reporter who wanted to be a politician. He often drank too much wine and became angry. Robert was the victim of his anger. Robert Frost finished high school in 1891. After high school, Robert’s grandfather offered to pay his costs at Dartmouth College. But Robert left the school after a few months. He did not like it. He spent the next few years working at different jobs. At one time, he worked in a factory. Later, he repaired shoes. He was a teacher. He was a reporter. Always, he wrote poetry. Robert Frost attended Harvard University for two years. After that, he returned to the many jobs he held before. For a while, Frost tried to take care of a farm in the state of New Hampshire. He was not a successful farmer. And he continued to write poetry. He said that until 1930, he earned only about ten dollars a year from writing. In 1912, he decided to try to make a new start. He took his family to Britain. The cost of living was low. In Britain, Frost found a publisher for his first book of poems. The book was called A Boy’s Will. When it appeared in 1913, Frost received high praise from British readers. Praise was something he had not received in his own country. Ezra Pound, another American poet living in Britain, read the poems and liked them very much. He wrote a magazine article about Frost. He also helped get Frost’s second book of poems published in America. That book was called North of Boston. 小题1:The followings are writers EXCEPT __________. A.Robert Edward Lee | B.Robert Lee Frost | C.Ernest Hemingway | D.Ezra Pound | 小题2:The passage wrote about Hemingway in order to show that __________. A.he had great influence on Frost’s poetry and life | B.Frost’s poetry style was the same as Hemingway’s | C.Frost was unhappy because he was the victim of his father | D.Frost spent his childhood unhappily | 小题3:What can we learn from the passage?A.Once Frost’s first book was published he gained great praise in his country. | B.After leaving Harvard University, he began to learn to write poetry. | C.Frost was found lo have a gift in poetry while he studied in high school. | D.Robert Frost’s father was angry and drank a lot because he didn’t realize his dream. | 小题4:What’s the passage mainly about?A.Robert Frost’s unhappy childhood. | B.Robert Frost’ s first and second book. | C.Robert Frost’s family and jobs. | D.Robert Frost’s life and poetry. |
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