I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 1
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I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to E1 Capitan, a ___16___ rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew ___17___ I wanted to climb it. That has been my life’s passion (钟爱) ever since--- ___18___ the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my ___19___.
About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of ___20___, like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It’s ___21___ me why visitors started respecting the place ___22___ and treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.
I tried ___23___ trash(垃圾)myself, but the job was too big. I would ___24___an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so ___25__ it that I decided something had to change.
As a rock-climbing guide, I knew ___26___about organizing any big event. But in 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a ___27___. On that day, more than 300 people ___28___. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was amazing how much we were able to ___29___. I couldn’t believe the ___30___ we made ---the park looked clean!
Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash and ___31___ 132 miles of roadway.
I often hear people ___32___ about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by ___33___ rather than complaining. We need to teach by ___34___. You can’t blame others ___35___ you start with yourself.
| 小题1: | | A．distant | B．huge | C．narrow | D．loose |
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| 小题2: | | A．immediately | B．finally | C．gradually | D．recently |
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| 小题3: | | A．imagining | B．painting | C．describing | D．climbing |
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| 小题4: | | A．garden | B．home | C．lab | D．palace |
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| 小题5: | | A．material | B．resources | C．waste | D．goods |
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| 小题6: | | A．beyond | B．against | C．over | D．within |
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| 小题7: | | A．more | B．most | C．less | D．least |
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| 小题8: | | A．throwing away | B．picking up | C．breaking down | D．digging out |
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| 小题9: | | A．kill | B．save | C．wait | D．spend |
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| 小题10: | | A．satisfied with | B．delighted in | C．tired of | D．used to |
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| 小题11: | | A．something | B．anything | C．everything | D．nothing |
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| 小题12: | | A．cleanup | B．party | C．picnic | D．concert |
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| 小题13: | | A．dropped out | B．showed up | C．looked around | D．called back |
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| 小题14: | | A．demand | B．receive | C．accomplish | D．overcome |
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| 小题15: | | A．plan | B．visit | C．contact | D．difference |
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| 小题16: | | A．crossed | B．measured | C．covered | D．designed |
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| 小题17: | | A．talk | B．complain | C．argue | D．quarrel |
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| 小题18: | | A．doing | B．thinking | C．questioning | D．watching |
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| 小题19: | | A．method | B．explanation | C．example | D．research |
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| 小题20: | | A．although | B．if | C．when | D．useless |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:C
小题6:A
小题7:C
小题8:B
小题9:D
小题10:C
小题11:D
小题12:A
小题13:B
小题14:C
小题15:D
小题16:C
小题17:B
小题18:A
小题19:C
小题20:D |
解析
作者把“优胜美地国家公园（美国加州最着名的旅游景点）”当做自己家一样爱上了它。当作者看到公园里面有大量垃圾时，开始是自己去捡，后来组织大家去捡。由此作者明白了这样的道理：改变事情的方法是动手去做，而不是抱怨。
小题1:根据3300 feet 和 giant得知巨大的rock，所以选择huge。
小题2:根据句意“我触摸到那块巨石时，立刻知道我要攀登上去”选A项“立刻”
小题3:根据上文的climb选择答案。
小题4:根据下文第二段的尾句“treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.”中的home。
小题5:根据like toilet paper，beer cans，empty boxes，知道是垃圾（废弃物），选择waste。
小题6:超越了我的理解，只有beyond可以表示这个含义。句意：我不能理解游客为什么不爱护这个地方……。
小题7:根据上文得知，人们很少关心环境。
小题8:根据上文对游客丢垃圾的不解，于是自己尽力去捡垃圾。pick up表示捡起，throw away表示扔掉，break down表示损坏，dig out表示挖掘
小题9:捡垃圾的工作量很大，作者往往要花费一两个小时去做。
小题10:根据上文“only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later.结果发现几个星期后这个地区又是满地垃圾”和下文“I decided something had to change.（我决定改变一些方法）”推断作者对自己一个人捡垃圾已经感到力不从心即疲惫了。tired of表示对……厌烦，satisfied with表示对……感到满意，delighted in表示以……为快乐，used to表示过去常常
小题11:后文but说明前后是转折关系，后面说作者举办的活动很成功，那么前面应选择“nothing”说明作者不知道如何组织大型活动。
小题12:根据下文“Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere.”中的“cleanup”可以知道是“清扫”工作。
小题13:根据下一句“Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash.三天时间我们清理了6,000磅的垃圾”可以知道“那天有300多人参加（出席）了这次活动”。 show up表示出席，drop out表示离开，look around表示四下观望，call back表示回电话
小题14:“我们”能做完这么多工作真是令人惊讶。A要求；B收到；C完成；D战胜。
小题15:根据破折号后面的“the park looked clean!”可知，我们把公园里的垃圾捡完了，公园干净了，变得跟以前不一样了，作者难以置信。make difference造成差别。
小题16:cover表示覆盖了132英里的路程。A穿过；B测量；D设计。句意：就2007年一年，2,945 人捡起了42,330磅的垃圾，覆盖了132英里的路程。
小题17:根据33空后的“complaining”可知答案。句意：我常常听到人们抱怨他们周围的环境。
小题18:改变事情的唯一方法是动手去做，而不是抱怨。
小题19:by example通过榜样。
小题20:你不要责备别人，除非你以身作则，选择unless。 |
举一反三
Barditch High School decided to an All-School Reunion. Over 450 people came to the event. There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers were on hand to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for fifty years, was wheeled to the Park.
Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans(嘟囔声)when Ms.Yates was about to speak. Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers combined.
Then Ms. Yates started to speak:
“I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here. I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven’t appeared in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the birth your children, in my imagination.”
Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:
“It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful in you chosen path.”
“There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.”
There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. Tee clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar(呼喊). Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.
小题1:What activity was organized for the school reunion?| A．Sightseeing in the park. | | B．A picnic on the school playground. | | C．Telling stories about past events. | | D．Graduates’ reports in the old building. |
小题2:What can be inferred from Paragraph 2? | A．Some graduates were too busy to listen to Ms. Yates’ speech. | | B．Many graduates disliked Ms. Yates’ ways of teaching. | | C．Some people got tired from the reunion activities. | | D．Most people had little interest in the reunion. |
小题3:We can learn from Ms. Yates’ speech that she _____________.| A．kept track of her students’ progress | | B．gave her students advice on their careers | | C．attended her students’ college graduations | | D．went to her students’ wedding ceremonies |
小题4:What was Ms.Yates’ belief in teaching teenagers?| A．Teachers’ knowledge is the key to students’ achievements. | | B．Pressure on students from teachers should be reduced. | | C．Hard-pushed students are more likely to succeed. | | D．Students’ respect is the best reward for teachers. |
小题5:Which of the following can best describe Ms. Yates?| A．Reliable and devoted. | B．Tough and generous. | | C．Proud but patient. | D．Strict but caring. |
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One summer evening I was sitting by the open window, reading a good but rather frightening mystery story. After a time it was too dark for me to read easily, so I put my book down and turned on the light.
I was just about to draw the 36 as well when I heard a loud cry “Help! Help! ” It 37 to come from the trees at the end of the garden. I looked out but it was too 38 to see anything clearly. So I decided to go out and have a look in the garden, just 39 someone was in 40 . I took the torch and picked up a strong walking stick, 41 that this might come to be useful, too. 42 with these, I went out into the garden. 43 I heard the cry. There was no 44 that it came from the trees at the end of the garden.
“Who’s there?” I 45 as I walked, rather 46 , down the path that 47 to the trees. But there was no 48 . With the help of my torch I 49 the whole of that part of the garden and the lower 50 of the trees. There was no sign of anybody or anything. I came to the ___51___ that someone was playing a rather silly joke on me.
___52 feeling rather puzzled, I went back to the house and 53 away the torch and the stick. I had just sat down when I was startled by the cry of “ Help! Help! ”, this time from 54 my shoulder. I dropped my book and climbed up. There, sitting 55 of the mantelpiece ( 壁炉 ), was a parrot!
| 小题1: | | A．gun | B．picture | C．curtains | D．car |
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| 小题2: | | A．seemed | B．looked | C．sounded | D．proved |
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| 小题3: | | A．far | B．distant | C．dark | D．black |
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| 小题4: | | A．as if | B．even though | C．on time | D．in case |
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| 小题5: | | A．difficult | B．power | C．trouble | D．ease |
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| 小题6: | | A．thinking | B．wishing | C．demanding | D．requesting |
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| 小题7: | | A．Supplied | B．Loaded | C．Armed | D．Decorated |
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| 小题8: | | A．Again and again | B．Now and then | | C．From time to time | D．Once again |
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| 小题9: | | A．wonder | B．doubt | C．problem | D．question |
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| 小题10: | | A．spoke out | B．called out | C．got out | D．said out |
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| 小题11: | | A．seriously | B．nervously | C．curiously | D．hurriedly |
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| 小题12: | | A．led | B．went | C．passed | D．joined |
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| 小题13: | | A．person | B．body | C．answer | D．voice |
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| 小题14: | | A．studied | B．searched | C．tested | D．examined |
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| 小题15: | | A．roots | B．branches | C．leaves | D．bushes |
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| 小题16: | | A．beginning | B．end | C．conclusion | D．introduction |
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| 小题17: | | A．But | B．Yet | C．Already | D．Still |
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| 小题18: | | A．put | B．took | C．threw | D．cleared |
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| 小题19: | | A．far off | B．down below | C．left to | D．right behind |
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| 小题20: | | A．on top | B．at the foot | C．inside | D．Outside |
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American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he had lived for 44 days without food on October 19, 2003. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation experiment, which has become one of London’s main tourist attractions.
Looking thinner and darker, 30-year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames and immediately went to hospital. He was then slowly reintroduced to food, a process doctors say could be life threatening. He had been drinking only water since September 5.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Blaine first became known as a street magician in the early 1990s. He soon found himself doing magic tricks in bars for the likes of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his super model friends.
Over the last decade Blaine has become famous with a combination of breathtaking magic and clever tricks aimed at getting a lot of attention. In 1999, he was buried in a coffin (棺材) for one week and, in 2000, he spent 62 hours in a giant block of ice. Last year he stood on top of a 25-meter pillar (柱子) in the center of New York for 35 hours before jumping into a pile of boxes.
“I think a lot of people are unable to accept that they’re able to do what they can do,” he said. “They don’t realize we can survive. The human being is an amazing creation.”
But he seems to have suffered from spending so long in the glass box. He said that at times he was unable to see, had serious back pains and lost his sense of taste.
小题1:It is for David Blaine to eat food after such a long starvation.| A．pleasant | B．delicious | C．dangerous | D．important |
小题2:Having spent such a long time in the glass box, he suffered the following EXCEPT that .| A．he had become blind | B．he had serious back pains | | C．he lost his sense of taste | D．he was in weak health |
小题3:Which of the following can best describe David Blaine?| A．Serious. | B．Adventurous. | C．Smart. | D．Crazy. |
小题4:Which of the following is NOT true about David Blaine?| A．Blaine immediately went to hospital after he was taken out of his box. | | B．Blaine was born and brought up in England. | | C．In Blaine’s opinion, people can create a wonder. | | D．Blaine didn’t have any food for 44 days. |
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When I was in the third grade, I was picked to be the princess in the school play. For weeks my mother had helped me practice my lines. But once on stage, every word disappeared from my head. Then my teacher told me she had written a narrator"s part for the play, and asked me to change roles. Though I didn"t tell my mother what had happened that day, she sensed my unhappiness and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the yard. It was a lovely spring day. We could see dandelions(蒲公英）popping through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our landscape with bits of gold. I watched my mother carelessly bend down by one of the bunches. "I think I am going to dig up all these weeds," she said. "From now on, we"ll have only roses in this garden." "But I like dandelions," I protested. "All flowers are beautiful-even dandelions!" My mother looked at me seriously. "Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn"t it?" she asked thoughtfully. I nodded. "And that is true of people, too," she added. When I realized that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry and told her the fact. “But you will be a beautiful narrator,” she said, reminding me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her. Over the next few weeks, with her continuous encouragement, I learned to take pride in the role. The big day finally came. A few minutes before the play, my teacher came over to me. “Your mother asked me to give this to you,” she said, handing me a dandelion. After the play, I took home the flower, laughing that I was perhaps the only person who would keep such a weed.
小题1:The girl did not play the role of the princess mainly because_____ | A．she felt nervous on the stage. | | B．she lost her interest in that role. | | C．she preferred the role of the narrator | | D．she had difficulty memorizing her words |
小题2:Why did the mother suggest a walk in the garden?| A．To remove the dandelions | | B．To enjoy the garden scene | | C．to help her daughter with the play. | | D．to have a talk with her daughter. |
小题3:What is the main idea of the story?| A．Everybody can find his or her own way to success. | | B．Everybody should learn to play different roles | | C．Everybody has his or her own value in the world. | | D．Everybody has some unforgettable memory. |
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Buster Brown was a thief and a good one too，he thought． He’d never been caught by the police because he never took chances．He was always prepared for any unforeseen event or emergency.
Confidently，he stood outside the house of his intended victim(受害者)and read the sign on the front gate of the house．“Don"t worry about the dog—be aware of the owner!” it said．Buster smiled and found his way in．
The house looked quite normal outside，but inside it was very exotic with fascinating objects on display．As he began putting them into his bag，a dog came into the room．It stopped when it saw Buster，then wagged its tail madly and went over to him，licking his outstretched hand． "Good boy，” Buster whispered． “What a great guard dog you are—trying to lick me to death.” Satisfied he"d made friends with the dog，Bluster began to wander round the house，choosing items to put in his bag．His skilled eye picked out only the best antiques(古董)：a pair of silver candleholders，a silver tea-and-coffee service，etc．．His new friend，the dog，sat and watched，as if wondering what was happening．
“Well，boy，” Buster whispered，finally．“That might do．Any more and I won"t be able to carry it!” He swung the heavy bag onto his shoulders, just as the lights came on, nearly blinding him. He shielded his eyes with his hand.
"You"re a very silly person," the figure in the doorway said, his voice dry and dust. As the man came closer, Buster could see he was well dressed. His face seemed familiar, but Buster couldn"t quite place where he had seen him before.
"You should have taken more notice of the sign outside," the man rasped. "I knew about this attempted robbery last week and I also know you will end up behind bars for 20 years. Fancy trying to rob the house of the world"s greatest fortune-teller!"
小题1:Why was Buster so confident?| A．He was not afraid of dogs. | | B．He knew the owner of the house lived alone. | | C．The house had no security alarm. | | D．He had never been caught by the police. |
小题2:Which of the definitions is closest in meaning to the word "exotic" in the third paragraph?| A．Messy and untidy. | B．Rich and expensive. | | C．Foreign and unusual. | D．Comfortable and calming. |
小题3:How did Buster decide which objects to take?| A．He took those that were easy to carry in his bag. | | B．He took only the best antiques. | | C．He took those that he knew he could sell easily. | | D．He looked for silver objects. |
小题4:What punishment waits for Buster Brown?| A．A long prison sentence. | | B．A prison sentence with hard labor. | | C．A heavy fine. | | D．Community service for 20 years. |
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