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I tend to accept any idea put forward by experts on TV. One day, a sociologist(社

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I tend to accept any idea put forward by experts on TV. One day, a sociologist(社会学家) proposed that the   36  society has been consuming modern humans little by little. For fear that I would become a victim of the consumer society, I   37  hurried to a bicycle shop in my neighborhood.   38  the shopkeeper Mr. Johnson was selling me the bicycle, he said, “This is the best thing you   39  have done. Life has become hopelessly   40 . A bicycle is simple, and it brings to you   41  things: fresh air, sunshine and exercise.” I agreed. Happy as a child, I got on the bicycle and headed out onto the streets. After some time, I   42  at the other end of the town. I was   43  that this simple vehicle could let me   44  long distances in a fairly short time. But how   45  did I really go?
Since I hated to be   46 , I went back to Mr. Johnson and asked him to   47  an odometer (里程表) on my bicycle. He agreed, but   48 , “An odometer without a speedometer (速度计) is like a   49  without a knife.” I admitted he was right and in a few minutes, the two devices (装置) were   50  to the handlebars of my bicycle. “What about a horn?” he then asked. “Look, this horn is no larger than a matchbox and has many   51 .” Attracted by these functions, I bought the horn.
“You can’t leave the back part   52 ,” noted Mr. Johnson. He fixed a metal box with buttons   53  the seat, and said, “Is there anything better than this oven(烤箱) when you feel   54  on your way? I can give you a special discount.” I was not strong enough to   55  the offer.
“I congratulate you once more; this is the best thing you could have done,” said Mr. Johnson in the end.
小题1:
A．adultB．humanC．consumer D．bachelor
小题2:
A．eventuallyB．immediatelyC．reluctantlyD．gratefully
小题3:
A．AlthoughB．BecauseC．AsD．Unless
小题4:
A．wouldB．shouldC．mustD．could
小题5:
A．boringB．complicatedC．stressfulD．tough
小题6:
A．naturalB．mysteriousC．complexD．unique
小题7:
A．gave upB．broke downC．calmed downD．ended up
小题8:
A．amazedB．amusedC．confusedD．concerned
小题9:
A．marchB．driveC．coverD．measure
小题10:
A．farB．longC．fastD．deep
小题11:
A．unreliableB．impracticalC．unpreparedD．inaccurate
小题12:
A．fixB．checkC．repairD．lay
小题13:
A．sworeB．addedC．repliedD．concluded
小题14:
A．pencilB．forkC．boxD．cake
小题15:
A．distributedB．convertedC．appliedD．attached
小题16:
A．shapesB．sizesC．functionsD．models
小题17:
A．looseB．blankC．bareD．incomplete
小题18:         
A．besideB．beforeC．belowD．behind
小题19:
A．sickB．hungryC．hotD．thirsty
小题20:
A．considerB．withdrawC．makeD．resist

答案

小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:D
小题5:B
小题6:A
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:C
小题10:A
小题11:D
小题12:A
小题13:B
小题14:B
小题15:D
小题16:C
小题17:C
小题18:D
小题19:B
小题20:D
解析
本文为记叙文，讲述了我接受了社会学家在电视节目中提出的消费观点，担心成为现代消费社会的受害者，便去邻家商店买了自行车。老板推荐了自行车上的多种装置，甚至烤炉，我无法拒绝，一一购买。实际上我仍然是现代消费社会的受害者。
小题1:C【命题立意】考查名词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据本句中的“consuming”和下句中的“consumer society”可知，答案为C。“consumer society”意为“消费社会”。A项意为“成人”，B项意为“人类”，D项意为“单身”，都与语境和文章主题不符。
小题2:B【命题立意】考查副词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据本句中的“hurried”，结合语境可知，我立即赶到邻家的自行车商店，B项意为“立即”，符合语境；A项意为“最后，终于”，C项意为“不情愿地”，D项意为“感激地”，都与语境不符。
小题3:C【命题立意】考查连词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据语境可知，当老板在卖自行车给我的时候说……，C项意为“当……时候”，符合句意，故C项正确。A项意为“尽管”，B项意为“因为”，D项意为“除非”，都与句意不符。
小题4:D【命题立意】考查情态动词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据语境可知，该句意为：这是你所能做到的最好的事。could have done意为“能够做到的……”，与语境相符，故D项正确。A项意为“愿意”，B项意为“应当”，C项意为“必须”，都与语境不符。
小题5:B【命题立意】考查形容词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据下句中的“A bicycle is simple…”，结合语境可知，该句意在表达：生活是很复杂的，而自行车是简单的。B项意为“复杂的”，符合句意；A项意为“令人厌烦的”，C项意为“有压力的”，D项意为“艰苦的”，都与语境不符。
小题6:A【命题立意】考查形容词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据本句中的“fresh air, sunshine and exercise”可知，这些都是“自然的”，A项意为“自然的”，符合句意；B项意为“神秘的”，C项意为“复杂的”，D项意为“独一无二的”，都与语境不符。
小题7:D【命题立意】考查动词短语辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】该句意为：一段时间之后，我抵达小镇的另一头。D项意为“以……而告终，结束”，符合句意。A项意为“放弃”，B项意为“抛锚”，C项意为“平静下来”，都与语意不符。
小题8:A【命题立意】考查形容词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据语境可知，对于这中简单工具的作用，我感到很惊奇。A项意为“惊奇的”，B项意为“愉快的”，C项意为“困惑的，不解的”，D项意为“关注的”，都与语意不符。
小题9:C【命题立意】考查动词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据语境可知，该句意为：……这种简单的工具在如此之短的时间内能够让我经过如此长的路程……，cover long distances 意为“经过漫长的路程”，故C项正确。A项意为“行军”，B项意为“驾驶”，D项意为“测量”，都与语境不符。
小题10:A【命题立意】考查形容词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据第二段第一句中“ an odometer”可知，我安装了里程表，是想知道我实际上行了多远，A项意为“远的”，符合句意，故A项正确。B项意为“长的”，C项意为“快的”，D项意为“深的”，都与语意不符。
小题11:D【命题立意】考查形容词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据语境可知，我在自行车上装里程表，是因为我想知道精确的里程。D项意为“不准确的”，与hated连用，符合语意，故D项正确；A项意为“不可靠的”，B项意为“不适用的”，C项意为“没有准备的”，都与语意不符。
小题12:A【命题立意】考查动词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据语境可知，该句意为：我回去找Johnson先生在自行车上安装了一个里程表。A项意为“安装”，符合句意。B项意为“检查”，C项意为“修理”，D项意为“放置”，都与语意不符。
小题13:B【命题立意】考查动词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据该句中的“but”结合语境可知，他有补充说了些话，B项意为“补充，增加”，符合语意；A项意为“发誓”，C项意为“回答”，D项意为“总结”，都与语意不符。
小题14:B【命题立意】考查名词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】该句意为：有里程表没有速度计，就如有刀却无叉。B项意为“叉”，符合句意。
小题15:D【命题立意】考查动词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据语境可知，这两种装置被绑在手把上，D项意为“绑上，系上”，符合句意。A项意为“贡献”，B项意为“转换”，C项意为“申请”，都与语意不符。
小题16:C【命题立意】考查名词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据下句中的“attracted by these functions”可知，这种喇叭小功能却多。C项意为“功能”，符合句意。
小题17:C【命题立意】考查形容词词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据语境可知，该句意为：你不能让后座部位空着。C项意为“空的，无遮蔽的”，符合语意。A项意为“松散的”，B项意为“空白的”，D项意为“未完成的”，都与语境不符。
小题18:D【命题立意】考查介词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据常理可知，自行车的后座当然在自行车座位的后面。D项意为“在……后面”，故D项正确。
小题19:B【命题立意】考查形容词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据本句中的“oven”可知，老板意在推销烤箱，理由是在回家的路上可能饥饿。B项意为“饥饿的”，符合句意。
小题20:D【命题立意】考查动词辨析。难度中等。
【解题思路】根据最后一段可知，老板推销成功，故我无法拒绝他的推销。D项意为“抵抗，拒绝”，符合语意。A项意为“考虑”，B项意为“收回”，C项意为“使……”，都与语意不符。
举一反三
I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was ____36____ and when I was 14 years old, he predicted, “You are never to be ____37____ but a failure.”
After 5 years of poor jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best thing ____38____ could have happened to me. I ____39____ I should do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove ___40___ her that what people said about me had gone ___41___, especially her mother, who once said to me, “Let’s ____42____ it. You’ve failed every thing you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my ____43____ and went to ____44____. My first novel ____45____ while I was still a college student.
After college, I taught during the day in high schools and attended ____46____ classes at London University, where I ____47____ a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of ____48____ that job to write full time when I was ____49____ a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself---here was a working-class boy who’d ___50___ school early, now teaching at the university.
My writing career ____51____ when I discovered my own writing ____52____. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. _____53____ what does it mean? I just wish that all those people who have ____54____ me down had just said, “I believe in you and you will be ____55____.”
小题1:
A．naughtyB．lazyC．uselessD．raggy
小题2:A. nothing         B. something        C everything        D. anything
小题3:
A．whenB．thatC．whichD．as
小题4:
A．thoughtB．promisedC．decidedD．expected
小题5:
A．toB．for C．withD．at
小题6:
A．ridiculousB．acceptableC．believableD．wrong
小题7:
A．seeB．faceC．treatD．react
小题8:
A．writingB．experimentC．practiceD．composition
小题9:
A．schoolB．collegeC．clubD．company
小题10:
A．went acrossB．put asideC．came outD．set off
小题11:
A．lectureB．writingC．teachingD．evening
小题12:
A．receivedB．acceptedC．gaveD．offered
小题13:
A．giving upB．paying forC．signing upD．ridding of
小题14:
A．paidB．madeC．offeredD．tried
小题15:
A．finishedB．goneC．delayedD．left
小题16:
A．made offB．took offC．gave offD．moved off
小题17:
A．styleB．habitC．ideaD．skill
小题18:
A．ThereforeB．ButC．ThoughD．For
小题19:
A．writtenB．turnedC．tornD．put
小题20:
A．cheerfulB．enjoyableC．successfulD．forgettable

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Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia, on August 27th, 1910. She attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen. At that time, some doctors and nurses from Yugoslavia were working in India, and they often wrote to the school about their work. She decided to join them one day.
When she finished school, she went first to Britain. Then a year later she went to India, where she began to train to be a teacher. After training, she was sent to Calcutta, where she taught geography at a school and soon after became headmistress(女校长).
However, although she loved teaching, in 1946 Mother Teresa left the school and went to work in the poor parts of Calcutta. Later she trained to be a nurse in Panta, and then began her work helping the poor and comforting the dying in the streets of the city. Slowly, others came to help her, and her work spread to other parts of India.
Mother Teresa is now a well-known person. Many photos have been taken of her, as she travels the world to open new schools and hospitals in poor countries. In 1979, she was given the Nobel Peace Prize for the lifetime of love and service she has given to the poor.
小题1:What first inspired Mother Teresa to work in India?
A．Her visit to the poor parts of Calcutta.
B．Her visit to Britain after she left school.
C．The medical worker’s letters to her school.
D．The work of the nurse in the city of Panta.
小题2:In which order did Mother Teresa do the following things?
a. Trained to be a nurse                        
b. Went to India.
c. Helped the dying.                          
d. Studied to be a teacher.
e. Went to Britain.                            
f. Worked as a headmaster.
A．b, a, c, e, d, fB．b, f, a, d, e, c
C．e, b, d, f, a, cD．e, a, b, c, d, f
小题3:Mother Teresa gave up teaching because she wanted to ___________.
A．look after the poor.
B．travel to poor countries
C．build hospitals for the poor
D．train nurse to care for the poor
小题4:Mother Teresa is now a famous person because she has ___________.
A．saved many poor people in India
B．helped to bring about world peace
C．helped to make India a more peaceful place
D．taken care of many poor people in the world

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Johann Gutenberg, who worked as a goldsmith(金匠)，took what has already been discovered, and created a small invention that changed history. He created a machine that allowed him to move small blocks of letters in such a way that written material could be printed and mass-produced. Few people could read before Johann Gutenberg made the invention, but once books became less expensive, more Europeans could read and write.
Block printing existed long before Gutenberg. The Chinese had been using wood blocks to print books as early as 868, but a new set of woodcuts(木刻印版) had to be made for each book. Producing one book was not easy; producing all kinds of books was more difficult.
Writing ink dates from about 2500 BC in Egypt and China. Johann Gutenberg use an oil-base printing ink that would last longer than other inks used in his time. We don’t know much about Gutenberg because he was not famous during his lifetime. He was born in Germany about 1400. In 1448, Gutenberg developed signatures for each number, letter, and punctuation mark(标点符号). He then built the molds (模型) to hold the signatures in place. Johann Gutenberg published the first mass-produced book: a 1,282 page Bible. To this day, more copies of the Bible have been printed the any other book.
Copies of Gutenberg’s invention spread throughout Europe, but the German goldsmith did not get rich from his invention. Some officials denounced the invention of printing because they feared that it would spread bad ideas. By 1500 there 1,700 printing presses in Europe. The presses had already produced about 20 million volumes of 40,000 different books.
小题1:What happened after Johann Gutenberg’s invention?
A．People could afford to read books.
B．People became interested in inventing.
C．It was still difficult to print all kinds of books.
D．Punctuation mark began to be used in printing.
小题2:Compared with block printing in China, Johann Gutenberg’s method __________.
A．was difficult to run.B．needed harder paper
C．used a new kind of inkD．was put into use earlier
小题3:The underlined word “denounced” in the paragraph means __________.
A．fought againstB．acceptedC．laughed atD．supported
小题4:What is the best title for the passage?
A．A famous 1,282 page Bible
B．The life of a famous inventor
C．An invention that changed history
D．The development of printing

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My husband, Micheal, and I were at a restaurant with his boss, a rather stern(严厉的) elderly man. When Micheal began a story I was sure he had told before, I gave him a kick under the table. There was no response, so I gave him another kick. Still the story went on. Suddenly he stopped and said with a smile, “Oh, but I’ve told you this one before, haven’t I ?” We all chuckled and changed the subject.
Later, on the dance floor, I asked my husband why it had taken him so long to get my message. “What do you mean?” he replied. “I cut off the story as soon as you kicked me.”
“But I kicked you twice, and it still took you a while to stop!”
Suddenly we realized what had happened and returned to our table. The boss smiled and said, “Don’t worry. After the second one I thought it wasn’t for me, so I passed it along!”
小题1:The writer kicked her husband because __________.
A．she didn’t like him
B．she didn’t like stories
C．he was telling a story he had told before
D．the story he told was not interesting
小题2:What can be inferred from the text?
A．Micheal was kicked three times.
B．Micheal kicked the boss.
C．The boss was kicked twice
D．The boss kicked the author.
小题3:They all chuckled because __________.
A．they kicked each other
B．they changed the subject in the end
C．they were all satisfied with the dinner
D．they all thought each of them had done something interesting
小题4:It took Micheal so long to stop his story because __________.
A．he wanted to finish the whole story
B．he got a kick only after a long while
C．he didn’t understand at once why he was kicked
D．the two kicks given were not heavy enough

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A year ago I paid no attention to English idioms,  21  my teacher said again and again that it was important．
One day, I happened to __ 22 _ an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to  __23  ．As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner shook his head, saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!”  I was  24 ___ , I thought, perhaps this is not a __ 25 __ topic．Well, I’d __ 26 change the topic．So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall?  _27 _ the way, have you ever __28__ there?” “Certainly, everyone back home will __29 __ me if I leave China without seeing __30 ．It was great．” I said, “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world． It is a place of  31 ．” Soon I was interrupted again by his words, “ __ 32  !” I couldn’t  _33 __ asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t ask you to do __34__ ”, he answered, gently surprised．
I said, “Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say’?”
Hearing this, the Englishman _ 35__  to tears．He began to __ 36___ ,“‘You don’t say actually means ‘really?’．It is an  _37__  of surprise．Perhaps you don’t pay attention __38___ English idioms．”
Then I knew I had made a fool of __39__ ．Since then I have been more  ___50__  with idioms．
小题1:
A．thoughB．whenC．if D．as
小题2:
A．look B．meet C．pick up D．find out
小题3:
A．walk B．talk C．play D．go
小题4:
A．pleased B．angry C．afraid D．surprised
小题5:
A．properB．strange C．safe D．polite
小题6:
A．to B．better C．not D．like
小题7:
A．On B．In C．All D．By
小题8:
A．gone B．visited C．seen D．been
小题9:
A．look at B．think of C．send forD．laugh at
小题10:
A．it B．them C．anything D．something
小题11:
A．interesting B．interest C．interestsD．interested
小题12:
A．Really B．Good C．You don’ t sayD．You are right
小题13:
A．be B．help C．think D．do
小题14:
A．this B．so C．anything D．me a favor
小题15:
A．laughed B．cried C．moved D．came
小题16:
A．explainB．shout C．prove D．say
小题17:
A．experienceB．expressionC．explanation D．example
小题18:
A．for B．to C．at D．in
小题19:
A．me B．myself C．him D．himself
小题20:
A．helpful B．popular C．careful D．satisfied

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