The dirty, homeless man sat on the pavement, staring at the atones. He thought b

The dirty, homeless man sat on the pavement, staring at the atones. He thought b

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The dirty, homeless man sat on the pavement, staring at the atones. He thought back more than twenty years to when he was a boy living in a small red brick house on this very street. He recalled the flower garden, the swing his dad made, and the bike he had saved up for months to buy.
The man shrugged impatiently, for the brightness of those pictures hurt him, and his memory travelled on another ten years. He had a job by then, plenty of friends and started to come home less. He did not really want to remember those years, nor the day when, because o’ debts, he had gone home planning to ask for money. He felt embarrassed, but he knew exactly where his dad kept the money. When his parents stepped out of the room, he took what he wanted and left.
That was the last time he had seen them. Ashamed, he went abroad, and his parents knew nothing about the years of wandering or time in prison. But locked in his cell he often thought of home. Once free, he would love to see his parents again, if they were still alive, and still wanted to see him.
When his prison time was up, he found -a job, but couldn’t settle. Something was drawing him home. He did not want to arrive penniless, so he hitchhiked most of the long journey back. But less than a mile from his destination he started to feel sick with doubt. Could they ever accept this man who had so bitterly disappointed them?
He spent most of that day sitting under a tree. That evening he posted a letter which, although short, had taken him hours to write. It ended with:
I know it is unreasonable of me to suppose you want to see me ... so it’s up to you. I’ll come early Thursday morning. If you want me home, hang a white handkerchief in the window of my old bedroom. If it’s there, I’ll come in; if not, I’ll wave good-bye and go.
And now it was Thursday morning and he was sitting on the pavement at the end of the street. Finally he got up and walked slowly toward the old house. He drew a long breath and looked.
His parents were taking no risks. ________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
The man threw his head back, gave a cry of relief and ran straight through the open front door.
小题1: Why did the man shrug impatiently (paragraph 2) while he was thinking of his childhood?
A.The thoughts made him angry.
B.He felt he had wasted time.
C.He was anxious to go home.
D.The sweet memory caused him much pain.
小题2:Why did it take him hours to write the letter?
A.He doubted if his parents still lived in that house.
B.He had much news to tell his parents.
C.He felt ashamed to ask for forgiveness.
D.He was longing to return home and felt excited.
小题3: In what order did the following events take place?
a. He took the money from his parents.
b. He bought a bicycle with his savings.
c. He was sentenced to prison.
d. He wrote the letter home.
e. He sat on the pavement.
f. He hitchhiked back home.
A.b, a, c, d, e, f B.b, a, c, f, d, e
C.a, c, b, d, f, a D.a, d, b, c, e, f
小题4:Which of the following best fits into paragraph 8 ?
A.Every inch of the house was covered in white. Sheets, pillowcases and table clothes had been placed on every window and door, making it look like a snow house.
B.The house before him was just as he remembered: the red bricks, the brown door and nothing else.
C.A colourful blanket was over the front door. On it, in large letters, was written, "Welcome home, son
D.A police car was parked in the drive way, and two officers stood at the front door.
小题5:The best title of the passage is _______.
A.Sweet Memory B.White Handkerchief
C.Abandoned Son D.Leaving Home

答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:A
小题5:B
解析

小题1:细节题:从第二段的内容:for the brightness of those pictures hurt him,表示他shrug impatiently的原因,因为甜蜜的回忆让他感到痛苦。选D。
小题2:推理判断题:根据第四段的:But less than a mile from his destination he started to feel sick with doubt. Could they ever accept this man who had so bitterly disappointed them?说明他羞于请求原谅。选C项。
小题3:排序题:分析选项可知,首先要判断a、b那个先发生,从前面两段的内容判断出b项发生在前面,只能在A、B项之间选择,有因f项发生在d项前面,所以选B。
小题4:根据信中的内容,If you want me home, hang a white handkerchief in the window of my old bedroom. 和文章最后的The man threw his head back, gave a cry of relief and ran straight through the open front door.说明父母原谅了他,家里的房子都用白色的物品装饰。选A。
小题5:主旨题,这道题的主旨应该是它的象征意义,文中白手帕象征父母的谅解,也是本文的精髓所在。选B。
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Dr Asim Syed, 32, has performed more than 100 operations at London’s Hammersmith Hospital in the country’s busiest transplant unit, but never imagined that he would one day become a donor himself.
He stepped forward when was told his 64-year-old mother might be dead within months unless she got a new kidney (肾). The worried surgeon brought her to London to be cared for at his hospital. However, it was not all plain sailing. Tests showed Dr Syed was the wrong blood group, so the only way was to go through a special blood-washing process. He consulted colleagues about that, but they didn’t agree, because the risk of rejection is still too high. Dr Syed and his mother were then advised to consider a new way of donating and receiving, called an organ-paired. That is, Dr Syed donated his kidney to an unknown person and another donor in the chain was a successful match for his mother. The chain of three transplants took place at the same time on July 31 with Dr Syed’s kidney going to a recipient in the Midlands and Mrs. Syed receiving her kidney from a person in the south of England.
Just hours after donating his own kidney, Dr Syed found himself recovering in bed next to his mother. Mrs Syed said, “When I came round from my operation Asim was in the next bed and the first thing he said was, ‘Mum now all your worries are over.’ Tears fell down.”
Now mother and son are recovering well with Dr Syed already back at work. Mrs. Syed is staying with him for several months while the hospital monitors her progress.
He said, “I did what anyone would do when they see a relative suffering disease. Although I wasn’t able to help mum directly, by agreeing to be part of a chain, I was also very happy.”
小题1: Why isn’t it a plain sailing?
A.No one can treat his mother well.
B.Dr Syed was the wrong blood group.
C.They didn’t have money to be in hospital.
D.Mrs. Syed was unwilling to receive the operation.
小题2:Why didn’t his colleagues agree to the method of blood-washing?
A.It is very dangerous.B.It costs too much.
C.They didn’t know how to do it at all. D.They didn’t have the relative equipment.
小题3: What can we learn about Mrs. Syed?
A.She was touched by his son’s deed.
B.She has already recovered completely.
C.After operation, she went her own home.
D.She was in hospital in London for many years.
小题4:What can be inferred from the text?
A.The hospital still needs improving.
B.Dr Syed has love and devotion to his parents.
C.The expense in the hospital is too high to afford.
D.Dr Syed donated his kidney to his mother directly.

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完型填空。从题后所给的A.B.C.D四个选项中选出符合题意的最佳选项。
Long ago there was a poor farmer in Russia. He had been very 1__ with everything he had. However, when he found his elder brother was __2__ than him, he felt disappointed. So he 3__ hard about how he could also be richer. Finally he got an idea. He started to spend less money on food and clothes to __4___ some money to buy more land. Once he had enough money, he started __5_for land.
He6__ that on the neighboring land, there were some nomads living there. He bought some gifts and went to ___7_ their head. He presented the gifts to the head and told him the 8__ of his visit. The head welcomed him, accepted the gifts and agreed to his 9_ to get the land. The head told him that he could have the land _10__ giving him anything. He can take as much land as he could _11 by walking through the land before sunset. He should start in the morning and whatever distance he could travel during the 12_____, he could have it.
The farmer became very 13___when he heard this offer. Now he could have lots of _14__ without paying anything. He came __15 the next morning and started running, not walking, 16_ he could cover the largest area. To reach his goal, he neither ate food, nor drank water, nor had any rest. He just continued___17_. Without eating, or drinking, or resting he just got very 18__.When he came back to the head in the evening, he 19__ right on the spot. Sadly his son buried him in a piece of land about 6×4feet.
Don’t be greedy or you will __20 everything finally.
小题1:
A.carefulB.pleasedC.boredD.busy
小题2:
A.healthierB.strongerC.richerD.cleverer
小题3:
A.thoughtB.learnedC.triedD.worked
小题4:
A.borrowB.spendC.makeD.save
小题5:
A.waitingB.lookingC.preparingD.caring
小题6:
A.explainedB.hopedC.noticedD.guessed
小题7:
A.seeB.followC.helpD.cheat
小题8:
A.chanceB.resultC.conditionD.purpose
小题9:
A.promiseB.requestC.suggestionD.order
小题10:
A.forB.byC.withoutD.before
小题11:
A.coverB.farmC.buyD.have
小题12:
A.yearB.monthC.weekD.day
小题13:
A.interestedB.sadC.happyD.calm
小题14:
A.landB.cropC.experienceD.knowledge
小题15:
A.quietlyB.earlyC.finallyD.suddenly
小题16:
A.so thatB.even ifC.becauseD.whether
小题17:
A.dreamingB.walkingC.speakingD.running
小题18:
A.nervousB.excitedC.tiredD.worried
小题19:
A.refusedB.diedC.appearedD.rested
小题20:
A.loseB.faceC.changeD.defeat
小题21:
A.everB.onlyC.stillD.just

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One day I took several pairs of shoes to the shoemaker to be mended. After a week I went to take them back. Four months later, my husband and I were invited to dinner. I took out a pair of shoes. I hadn"t worn them since they were mended. I put one shoe on my right foot, and then I put the other on my left. But I felt that the other one was on the wrong foot. I took both shoes off for a closer look. They were nearly the same style (式样), color and size, but each was for the right foot. Then I thought of the shoemaker. Though I was sure he wouldn"t remember me after such a long time, I called him.  "Thank goodness you called me at last!"  He said happily.  "An angry woman has been troubling me for months!"
小题1:How many pairs of shoes did the woman take to the shoemaker to be mended?
A.One shoe.B.Two pairs of shoes.
C.Only three shoes.D.Some pairs of shoes.
小题2:The shoemaker ___________.
A.was very careful with his work
B.mistook one of the woman" s shoes for the other woman" s
C.forgot the woman because it happened a long time ago
D.was troubled by two men
小题3:Did the woman look at the shoes carefully after they were taken back?
A.Yes, she did.B.The story didn"t tell us.
C.No, but her husband did.D.No, she didn"t.
小题4:The shoemaker felt very            when the woman rang him.
A.sadB.angryC.gladD.worried

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When an official at the U. S. Open Pocket Pool(台球)Championship saw a 9-year-old girl playing at one of the tournament tables, he told her that spectators(观众)were not allowed to play. But much to his surprise, the girl was actually a competitor. That was nine years ago, and today, with five U. S. Open Women’s titles behind her and a recently won world championship, no one is likely to mistake Jean Balukas for a spectator again.
It doesn’t seem too surprising that Jean became caught up in pool——her father owns a pool hall within walking distance of the family’s home in Brooklyn. When she was just tall enough to see over the table, she fell in love with the game soon. Five years later Jean was ready to enter her first U. S. Open. She still remembers the letter the officials sent her reminding her that she wouldn’t be allowed to stand on a box to play.

As Jean improved, she found it increasingly difficult to play games at her father’s pool hall. “If I’d beat one of the guys, his friends would laugh at them about losing to me,” she says. Now Jean comes to the hall only weeks before a tournament when she plays Johnny Goon, her father’s pool manager.
That Johnny can beat her shows the gap that now exists in pool — as in other sports — between the top men and women competitors. “I’m supposedly the top woman player, but I’d have a hard time beating the number 50 man,” says Jean. “If I was a boy and played pool, I’d be a nobody.”
Jean thinks that women pool players still have a long way to go because pool has been a man’s game for so long. “When they think of pool players, people have this picture in their head of gambling(赌博) and smoke,” she says.
Jean won four of the seven games in these two years. She was as surprised as anyone else at her performance, even though she was a New York City tennis champion and center for her high-school basketball team. Jean does not take full credit for her achievements, saying, “I think what I have in sports is a gift from God, and that’s why I can get out there and do so well.”
小题1:We can learn from the first passage that Jean Balukas_____.
A.had become well-known at the age of 9
B.had achieved great fame at the age of 18
C.was often asked to play with men players
D.was refused to play in the U. S. Open for her young age
小题2:The letter Jean received before her first U. S. Open_____.
A.told her to arrive in time for the game
B.showed people’s doubt about her ability
C.told her about the basic rules of the game
D.invited her to compete in the U. S. Open
小题3:Jean Balukas believed that women pool players_____.
A.fall far behind men players
B.aren’t suitable for a man’s game
C.are impossible to beat any man player
D.have a bad reputation(名声) for gambling and smoking
小题4:By saying the underlined words in the last paragraph Jean meant that _____.
A.women players had a long way to go
B.she wouldn’t stop before her great achievement
C.she had much confidence in the game
D.she achieved her success because of her born gift

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My 8-year-old daughter is making an experiment. She has been making her own colorful smile cards and often takes them with her everywhere.
Last Sunday, I took my kid to go shopping with me. She was hoping to see John, who is an elderly man and gives out samples. We see him from time to time and he is so happy and friendly. John wasn’t at the store on Sunday, so my daughter decided that it would be a good idea to distribute her smile cards to the store’s other employees.
So she did. In the produce department, she gave a card to a young man and she hoped it would make him smile. And he smiled at her and thanked her. Then she came across an older gentleman who looked rather impatient. And she snuck a card into his cart on top of his groceries, remarking to me later that he looked at her suspiciously as if she was dumping trash in his cart. But I thought he would be happy later.
When we got back from our shopping trip, she had run out of cards. She was walking by a woman with two babies in her cart. My daughter smiled at her and the young mother smiled back. My daughter came to me and said excitedly, “Mom, I just realized something. You don’t need cards to make someone smile. All you need to do is make eye contact and smile into their eyes and they will smile back.” 
What a beautiful lesson my daughter reminded me of. You are never too young or too old to experiment with kindness and smiles.
小题1:At first, the writer’s daughter made an experiment by ______.
A.giving smile cardsB.giving samples
C.making eye contactD.giving groceries
小题2:According to the text, John was a man ______.
A.who is very young and livelyB.who may be a salesman
C.who is in trouble and needs smilesD.who is never seen to smile
小题3:The underlined word “distribute” in paragraph 2 probably means ______.
A.make upB.tear upC.give outD.sell out
小题4:From the text, we can learn that ______.
A.John got a smile card from the writer’s daughter
B.the older gentleman would smile later after he got the smile card
C.we could make others smile only by giving them what they wanted
D.the mother with two babies smiled because she got a smile card

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