Our neighbour"s son was getting married at an out-of-town church, and my husband

Our neighbour"s son was getting married at an out-of-town church, and my husband

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Our neighbour"s son was getting married at an out-of-town church, and my husband and I were invited. We immediately rushed out to a store, and I bought a nice pink dress with a jacket. The dress was a little tight, but I had a month to go before the June 30 wedding and I would lose a few pounds.
June 29 came and, of course, I hadn"t lost a single pound; in fact I had gained two. But I figured a nice new girdle (紧身内衣)would cure everything. So on our way out of the city we stopped once again at the store. I ran in and told the clerk I needed a large-size girdle. The shop assistant found the box with the described girdle marked "LG", and asked if I would like to try it on. “Oh, no, a large will fit just right. I needn"t try it on.”
The next morning was rather hot, so I waited to get dressed until about 45 minutes before time to go. I opened the box only to find a new girdle in a small size. Since it was too late to find another one and the dress wouldn"t fit right without a girdle, a fight broke out in the hotel room between me and the girdle. Have you ever tried to shake 20 pounds of potatoes into a five-pound bag? That"s it. Finally my husband, laughing like crazy, got hold of each side and shook me down into it. At once I put on the pink dress, which didn"t match my red face well, and was ready to go.
Finally we got to the church. I heard one of the people say that they were having a High Mass. I turned to my husband and asked, "What is a High Mass?" He shrugged his shoulders.
Unfortunately, I learned that this particular mass would last one hour, twenty-two minutes and eight and one half seconds—the priest (神父) was going to bless everything except my girdle.
小题1: The author most probably bought a nice pink dress with a jacket ______.
A.4 weeks laterB.4 weeks agoC.a fortnight ago D.a fortnight later
小题2: What had the author wanted to do with the tight dress?
A.To make herself thinner. B.To buy a large-size girdle.
C.To put on some weight. D.To shake herself into it.
小题3:Which of the following statements about the author is TRUE according to the story?
A.She was very lucky to buy a girdle to go with her dress.
B.She had no choice but to put on the dress without a girdle.
C.She complained to the shop assistant about her carelessness.
D.She managed to put on the girdle with her husband’s help.
小题4:The purpose of this passage is ______.
A.to show a husband’s selfless loveB.to share an interesting experience
C.to describe a changeable girdleD.to tell us how to keep calm in trouble
小题5: What would be the best title for the passage?
A.A Funny WeddingB.A Wise DecisionC.A Tight SituationD.A Fierce Fight

答案

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:C
解析

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Hans Christian Andersen was a poor boy who lived in Denmark. His father, a shoemaker, had died, and his mother had married again.
Andersen’s father liked to read better than to make shoes. In the evenings, he had read aloud from The Arabian Nights. His wife understood very little of the book, but the boy, pretending to sleep, understood every word.
By day Hans Christian Anderson went to a house where old women worked as weavers. There he listened to the tales that the women told. In those days, there were almost as many tales in Denmark as there were people to tell them.
Among the tales told in the town of Odense, where Andersen was born in 1805, was one about a fairy who brought death to those who danced with her. To this tale, Hans Christian later added a story from his own life.
Once, when his father was still alive, a young lady ordered a pair of red shoes. When she refused to pay for them, unhappiness filled the poor shoemaker’s house. From that small tragedy and the story of the dancing fairy, the shoemaker’s son years later wrote the story that millions of people now know as The Red Shoes.
As a little girl, Hans Christian’s mother was sent out on the streets to beg. She did not want to beg, so she hid under one of the city bridges. She warmed her cold feet in her hands, for she had no shoes. She was afraid to go home. Years later, her son, in his pity for her and his anger at the world, wrote the angry story She’s No Good and the famous tale The Little Match Girl.
Through his genius, he changed every early experience, even his father’s death, into a fairy tale. One cold day his father showed him a white, woman-like figure among the frost patterns. “That is the snow queen,” said the shoemaker. “Soon she will be coming for me.” A few months later he died. And years later, Andersen turned that sad experience into a fairy tale, The Snow Queen.
小题1:Which of the following is TRUE about Anderson when he was a boy?
A.His father had remarried before he died.
B.His mother was struck by The Arabian Night.
C.He enjoyed listening to stories very much.
D.He would help old weavers with their work.
小题2:What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 imply?
A.Almost all tales from around the world once had their origin in Denmark.
B.The people in Denmark were very enthusiastic about telling tales.
C.The number of tales in Denmark was exactly equal to that of the people living there.
D.The people in Denmark loved doing nothing but tell stories to each other.
小题3:How many of Anderson’s fairy tales are mentioned in the passage?
A.5. B.6. C.3. D.4.
小题4:It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A.The Red Shoes was based on a tragedy of Anderson’s family
B.Andersen’s genius as well as his early experience made him successful
C.Andersen was educated at home by his parents because of poverty
D.Anderson wrote The Snow Queen in memory of his parents
小题5:Which is the best title of the passage?
A.Hans Christian Andersen’s Own Fairy Tales.
B.Hans Christian Andersen’s Family.
C.Hans Christian Andersen’s Bitter Experiences.
D.Hans Christian Andersen’s Considerate Parents.

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The dream of flying like Buzz Lightyear never dies. For years, space-age inventors have tested one wearable jet pack after another. And time after time, the designs have been grounded by dangerous fuels, excessive weight, or very loud noise levels. Now a Canadian inventor has sidestepped those weaknesses with an aquatic jet pack. Designed for travel over lakes or oceans, it’s driven by pressurized water, not burning rocket fuel.

When Raymond Li first told the idea for the aquatic jet pack to his friends, they said he must be nuts. How could a jet pack carry that much water? Its thrust-to-weight rate would be so low and it would never become airborne. Thrust-to-weight rate is a measure of the forward force produced compared with the weight of the vehicle. A vehicle with a low thrust-to-weight rate is relatively heavy for the amount of force it generates.
Li"s genius idea was to place the jet pack’s engine and its water pump in a separate boat. The pump would draw water from the lake the boat was floating on. It would then force the water under pressure through a hose connected to the jet pack. The hose would be long enough to let the pack go up as high as 8.5 meters (28 feet) in the air.
Today, Li"s invention, the Jetlev-Flyer, is ready to go into production. The pack itself, complete with jet nozzles (管嘴) and handlebars, weighs just 14 kilograms. The boat is a floating pod. To take off, the operator hits a trigger on a handlebar, which starts the pump, and then turns the throttle. Two streams of high-velocity water shoot through the hose and out the nozzles, lifting the operator into the air. The operator hovers there or pushes down on the handlebars, zooming forward at speeds of up to 64 kilometers per hour, pulling the pod behind.
小题1:All the following factors contribute to the failure of inventing a wearable jet pack EXCEPT ______.
A.excessive waterB.unbearable noiseC.unsafe fuelsD.too much weight
小题2:The underlined word “sidestepped” in Para. 1 most probably means ________.
A.improvedB.reducedC.avoidedD.solved
小题3: Raymond Li’s friends found his idea for the aquatic jet pack was ________.
A.excitingB.crazyC.realisticD.creative
小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.His friends encouraged him to do the invention.
B.He put the engine and its water pump in the same boat.
C.The success of his invention lies in his bravery.
D.His invention finally succeeded and will go into production.
小题5:Which is the right order to make the Jetlev-Flyer take off?
a. The throttle is turned.                  b. The operator is lifted into the air.
c. A trigger is hit.                       d. Two streams of water shoot out.
The pump is started.
A.c, e, a, d, bB.c, e, a, b, dC.e, c, d, b, aD.e, a, c, d, b

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Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers advised," Barbara, be enthusiastic (热情的) ! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience. "How right they were!
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It isthe paste that helps you hang on there, then the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" When others shout, "No, you can"t!" It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted, yet she didn"t stop working on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, Cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. An author and poet Samuel Ulman once wrote," Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. "
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. Patricia Mellrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, "I never made a dime until I stopped working for money." "
If we can"t do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had troubled her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to call Layton a genius. "
We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses--finding pleasure in the sweet smell of a back-yard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, the beauty of a rainbow.
72. Which of the following would be the best title for the test?
A. Enthusiastic people will never get old.
B. Enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life.
C. Enthusiasm is more important than experience.
D. Enthusiasm can give people more success and fame.
73. Which of the following can best explain the underlined sentence in the second paragraph?
A. Enthusiasm can give you courage and strength in difficult times.
B. If you don"t have enthusiasm, you can achieve nothing.
C. Enthusiastic people never consider money and fame.
D. Enthusiastic people can gain great fame and honour.
74. The author mentions Cellist Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show that _______.
A. music can arouse people’s enthusiasm
B. enthusiasm can give people needed inspiration to succeed
C. enthusiasm can make people feel young
D. enthusiasm can keep people healthy
75. How many examples are given in the passage to show the importance of enthusiasm?
A. Three.           B. Two.              C. Four.             D. Five.
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第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
With golden sunshine and a gentle breeze, autumn is the most beautiful season in the year.This is a great time to go outside and have  36 .Go to a valley to see red maple trees, go and pick fruit in an orchard (果园) or find an open field to fly your kite in.
37  , for many high school students, these great activities may be just a/an  38 .With plenty of work to do, they spend all their hours indoors,  39 for a high mark in their exams.
40  , study is one of the most important things for teenagers. 41  life is definitely much more than that.
Sometimes we may be so  42  with studying that we forget how to make  43  wonderful.In doing so, we lose the  44  purpose of life—to be a valuable and happy person.
To  45  just how great it is to be alive, we have to  46  our books and pens and look around us.Students, take some exercise to  47  your health, take with your parents and friends for understanding and walk around outside your house to refresh your body and mind.
Going out and enjoying the beautiful countryside often helps our creativity in our work.Chinese craftsman Lu Ban created a saw to help woodworkers.But  48  he hadn’t walked  49  , he would not have been  50  by a kind of toothed grass.We could also suppose if Newton hadn’t rested under that apple tree, then he wouldn’t have been  51  by an apple, and his great theories would not have come out.
Going out is not only a/an  52  from hard work, but a chance to  53  to life experience.
So  54 , give your brain a good rest.Step out of the books and get our bag ready for an autumn outing.We are sure you will get much more than  55  from the exciting journey.
36.A.food             B.sunlight            C.fun               D.air
37.A.Also             B.Besides            C.However          D.Therefore
38.A.aim              B.dream            C.chance            D.effort
39.A.asking            B.putting            C.calling             D.struggling
40.A.In fact             B.As a result             C.In turn             D.Of course
41.A.So               B.But              C.Because           D.And
42.A.covered           B.reached            C.occupied           D.buried
43.A.clothes            B.heart              C.face              D.life
44.A.practical            B.foolish             C.real               D.idle
45.A.possess            B.enjoy             C.exploit             D.discover
46.A.take up            B.burn out           C.put down          D.sell out
47.A.raise              B.increase            C.improve           D.recover
48.A.whether           B.if                C.since              D.until
49.A.inside             B.home            C.outside            D.backward
50.A.touched           B.invited             C.inspired            D.suggested
51.A.met              B.hit                C.admitted           D.claimed
52.A.break             B.absence            C.movement        D.dedication
53.A.refer              B.turn              C.stick              D.add
54.A.come on          B.go on             C.step on            D.walk on
55.A.awareness          B.evidence           C.courage           D.knowledge
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When my father was getting ready for work, our house was ruled by knocks and words.He used to come downstairs to breakfast.The morning paper lay beside his plate.He always read the “Deaths” first, and then he knocked once on the table.One of my sisters brought his bread, already buttered for him.Usually he said nothing, but once I heard him say, “I love you very much, Edith.I would love more if you buttered my bread on both sides.” He read the paper all through breakfast.Two knocks on the table meant “I am ready for my tea.” If a single knock followed that meant, “More bread, please.”
After breakfast he said, “Boots.” The paper was spread(展开) for him over the back of an arm-chair.Yesterday’s paper was put on the chair for his feet, and his boots were brought to him, freshly cleaned.He read standing at the same time putting on his boots.With one boot finished he said, “Bus.” At that point one of the girls went outside to the garden gate and waited there.Her job was to stop a bus when it came.It came early sometimes and it had to wait for my father.“Overcoat, hat.” One of my sisters had already brushed his overcoat.Now she held it open for him.Another girl came with his hat, nicely brushed.“Handkerchief, pipe(烟斗).” They were brought and put, with his tobacco(烟草), into his pocket.He looked out of the window and said either “Walking stick” or “Umbrella”.It was handed to him.Ready now, he was still reading the paper.He didn’t put it down until he heard the shout “Bus coming!” Then he kissed my mother and went out.The girls breathed freely.
How lucky a man was to have a wife and five daughters at home!
68.When the father made the first knock, he meant _______.
A.he had begun to read the morning newspaper
B.he was made to feel sad by the” Deaths” news
C.he would start to read the other parts of the paper
D.his breakfast should begin
69.What does “Edith” mean?
A.A kind of bread.          B.One of the writer’s sisters.
C.The writer.           D.The writer’s mother.
70.All the daughters were quite busy in the morning because _______.
A.their father never helped them
B.their father always gave different instructions at the same time
C.each of them had to start and finish her job just on time
D.they were not clever or quick enough to do their jobs
71.What was the father’s favorite?
A.Reading newspaper.     B.Having bread buttered on both sides.
C.Giving instructions.      D.Being clean and tidy.
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