Elizabeth Clay decided to go home and spend the holiday with her parents. The ne
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Elizabeth Clay decided to go home and spend the holiday with her parents. The next day she drove her old car home along the road. ___36___ she found she got a flat. The 22-year-old student ___37___to stop her car by the side of the road in the winter night and opened the trunk. no ___38___ tire. At this time, a car ___39___. Paul and Diane told Clay to ___40___ them to a service station near their ___41___. They arrived to see that it had no suitable tires to ___42___ with her car. “Follow us home,” said Paul. The couple called around to find a tire. No___43___. They decided to let her use their own car. “Here,” Paul said, handing Clay a ___44___ of keys, “Take our car. We ___45___ be using it over the holiday. ” Clay was ___46. “But I’m going all the way to South Carolina, and I’ll be gone for two weeks,” she ___47___ them. “We know,” Paul said. “We’ll be ___48___ when you get back. Here’s our number if you need to ___49___ us. ” Unable to believe her eyes, Clay watched as the ___50___ put her luggage into their car and then ___51___ her off. Two weeks later she ___52___ to find her old car cleaned inside and out with three new tires and the radio ___53___. “Thank you so much,” she said. “How much do I ___54___ you?” “Oh, no,” Paul said, we don’t want any money. It’s our ___55___. ” Clay realized that while it might have been their pleasure, it was now her duty to pass on their “do unto others” spirit. 36. A. Suddenly B. Finally C. Immediately D. Fortunately 37. A. afforded B. wanted C. allowed D. managed 38. A. spare B. free C. full D. empty 39. A. passed B. stopped C. paused D. started 40. A. help B. push C. take D. follow 41. A. garage B. house C. shop D. hotel 42. A. agree B. match C. go D. deal 43. A. way B. message C. success D. luck 44. A. set B. number C. pair D. chain 45. A. can’t B. shouldn’t C. mustn’t D. won’t 46. A. satisfied B. worried C. astonished D. disturbed 47. A. persuaded B. advised C. reminded D. promised 48. A. happy B. here C. away D. busy 49. A. get in touch with B. keep in touch with C. be in touch with D. put in touch with 50. A. repairmen B. cleaners C. friends D. couple 51. A. sent B. shook C. watched D. drove 52. A. shocked B. happened C. returned D. came 53. A. loaded B. fixed C. tied D. rebuilt 54. A. owe B. lend C. give D. offer 55. A. wish B. job C. duty D. pleasure |
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36---55 ADABD BCDAD CCBAD ACBAD |
解析
36. A。get a flat 指车胎撒气了,在行驶过程中应当是突发性事件,故选suddenly。 37. D。manage含有经过努力而完成某件事的意义,侧重结果,在车胎爆了之后将车停到路边并非一件易事。 38. A。spare意为“备用的”,tire指的是轮胎,故选A。 39. B。stop指停车,根据下文可知Paul和Diane是停下车来帮助Clay。 40. D。根据文意Paul和Diane是要Clay跟着他们去,follow意为“跟随”。 41. B。找轮胎要去一个熟悉的地方,而人们通常对自己家周围的情况最清楚。 42. C。agree with意为“同意”,match为及物动词,go with意为“与……相配”,deal with意为“处理、对付”,此处指没有与Clay汽车相配的轮胎。 43. D。no luck意为“运气不好”,从下文看他们始终没有找到合适的轮胎,可知是指运气不好。 44. A。a number of 和a chain of 都给人以有“许多”钥匙的感觉,不合理,故排除;a pair of意为“一双、一对”,通常指相同的两件东西,也排除;a set of keys意为“一套钥匙”。 45. D。won’t用于将来时态,原文仅是表达将来动作。 46. C。Clay与这对夫妇并不认识,对于他们借她用车肯定是感到吃惊,astonished意为“惊讶”。 47. C。根据上文,可知Clay在这里并不是去说服、建议对方或向对方承诺什么,从而排除A、B、D项。 48. B。Paul是在向Clay说明在她回来时他们会在现在说话的地方。 49. A。B、C项指保持或处于联络的状态中,故排除,且无D项这种搭配,get in touch with意为“与……取得联系”。 50. D。通读全文可知主要人物为Clay与Paul夫妇,故此处选D。 51. A。sent sb off意为“给某人送行”,Paul夫妇帮Clay把行李放进他们的车里,然后给她送行。 52. C。从上文看,Clay是要开走他们的车两周,由tow weeks later可知她是返回来了,come应后接back,表示“回来”。 53. B。fix意为“修理”,这里指修理收音机,其他三项均不符合文意。 54. A。Paul夫妇不仅帮Clay换了三个新轮胎,还修了收音机,按理Clay是要付钱的,owe意为“欠债”。 55. D。从上句话看,Paul夫妇所做的并是为了钱,而是他们认为帮助他人是一件快乐的事。 |
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We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly disappears. ___36___, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I ___37___ to see--or look at--on my way to work each morning. For three years, no matter ___38___ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On ___39___days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Sometimes ___40___out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. ___41___, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I ___42___ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how ___43___ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I ___44___ her. “Did she have an accident? Something ___45___?” I thought to myself about her ___46___. Now that she was gone, I felt I had ___47___ her. I began to realize that part of our ___48___ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar ___49___: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who ___50___walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are ___51___markers in our lives. They add weight to our ___52___ of place and belonging. Think about it. ___53___, while walking to work, we mark where we are by ___54___ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though ___55___ person? 36. A. Make B. Take C. Give D. Have 37. A. happened B. wanted C. used D. tried 38. A. what B. how C. which D. when 39. A. sunny B. rainy C. cloudy D. snowy 40. A. took B. brought C. carried D. turned 41. A. Clearly B. Particularly C. Luckily D. Especially 42. A. believed B. expressed C. remembered D. wondered 43. A. long B. often C. soon D. much 44. A. respected B. missed C. praised D. admired 45. A. better B. worse C. more D. less 46. A. disappearance B. appearance C. misfortune D. fortune 47. A. forgotten B. lost C. known D. hurt 48. A. happy B. enjoyable C. frequent D. daily 49. A. friends B. strangers C. tourists D. guests 50. A. regularly B. actually C. hardly D. probably 51. A. common B. pleasant C. important D. faithful 52. A. choice B. knowledge C. decision D. sense 53. A. Because B. If C. Although D. However 54. A. keeping B. changing C. passing D. mentioning 55. A. unnamed B. unforgettable C. unbelievable D. unreal |
“It was all his own idea,” says Pat, the wife of California high school football coach Bob Peters. Bob had ___36___ made a “motherhood contract(合同)”—declaring that for 70 days this summer he would ___37___ the care of their four children and all the housework. ___38___ he didn’t even know how to make coffee when he sighed, he was very confident. After40 of the 70 days, he was ready to ___39___. “ I was beaten down, “ admits Bob. “Not only is motherhood a ___40___ task, it is an impossible job for any normal human being. ” Bob and Pat were married in 1991. After the married, Pat ___41___ a secretary to help put him through university. ___42___ Bob has been the football coach while Pat raised the kids. ___43___ two years ago Pat went back to work. “ I had been ___44___ children so much,” she ___45___, “I couldn’t talk to a grown-up. ” She continued to run the household, ___46___ -- until Bob sighed the contract. Bob tried hard to learn cooking, but the meals he prepared were ___47___. For the last three weeks, the family ___48___ a lot--- sometimes having MacDonald’s hamburgers for lunch and dinner. ___49___ housekeeping, a home economics teacher had told Bob that a room always looks clean ___50___ the bed is made. “ I found ___51___ –I shut the doors,” he says. Soon the kids were wearing their shirts inside out. “When we went to ___52___ Pat at work, I made them wear their shirts 53 side out so they would look clean. ” Now that Bob has publicly ___54___ he was wrong, he is ___55___ the child-raising and household tasks with Pat. 36. A. only B. just C. nearly D. ever 37. A. stick to B. set about C. think about D. takeover 38. A. If B. As C. Since D. Although 39. A. carry on B. give up C. break down D. find out 40. A. strange B. pleasant C. difficult D. serious 41. A. sent B. employed C. learned from D. worked as 42. A. In time B. Before long C. Since then D. Later on 43. A. Then B. Thus C. So D. Still 44. A. near B. after C. about D. around 45. A. insists B. sighs C. jokes D. apologizes 46. A. besides B. therefore C. however D. otherwise 47. A. terrible B. tasty C. expensive D. special 48. A. starved B. traveled C. worked out D. ate out 49. A. Due to B. As for C. Along with D. Except for 50. A. until B. before C. if D. unless 51. A. an easier way B. a cheaper way C. a cleaner way D. a harder way 52. A. receive B. welcome C. greet D. fetch 53. A. good B. wrong C. right D. opposite 54. A. admitted B. suggested C. agreed D. explained 55. A. operating B. realizing C. sharing D. performing |
Not too long ago, an incident that happened at Walt Disney touched me greatly. A guest___36___ out of our Polynesian Village resort(度假胜地)at Walt Disney was asked how she ___37___ her visit. She told the front-desk clerk she had had a (n) ___38___ vacation, but was heartbroken about ___39___ several rolls of Kodak color film she had not yet ___40___. At that moment she was particularly ___41___ over the loss of the pictures she had shot at our Polynesian Luau, 42___ this was a memory she especially treasured. Now, please understand that we have no written service rules___43___ lost photos in the park. 44___, the clerk at the front desk___45___ Disney’s idea of caring for our ___46___. She asked the woman to leave her a couple rolls of ___47___ film, promising she would take care of the rest of our show at Polynesian Luau. Two weeks later the guest received a ___48___at her home. In it were photos of all the actors of our show, 49___ signed by each performer. There were also ___50___ of the public procession(游行队伍)and fireworks in the park, taken by the front-desk clerk in her own ___51___ after work. I happened to know this ___52___ because this guest wrote us a letter. She said that ___53___ in her life had she received such good service from any business. Excellent ___54___ does not come from policy (政策性的)handbooks. It comes from people who ___55___ —and from a culture that encourages and models that attitude. 36. A. working B. checking C. trying D. staying 37. A. expected B. realized C. paid D. enjoyed 38. A. disappointing B. wonderful C. uncomfortable D. important 39. A. taking B. dropping C. losing D. breaking 40. A. developed B. taken C. washed D. loaded 41. A. silly B. nervous C. calm D. sad 42. A. when B. where C. as D. which 43. A. covering B. finding C. making D. keeping 44. A. Excitedly B. Fortunately C. Therefore D. Quietly 45. A. understood B. reminded C. trusted D. discovered 46. A. workers B. guests C. managers D. clerks 47. A. printed B. shot C. unused D. recorded 48. A. film B. card C. camera D. packet 49. A. frequently B. personally C. alone D. actually 50. A. rules B. pictures C. handbooks D. performances 51. A. case B. work C. time D. position 52. A. story B. place C. photo D. show 53. A. only B. almost C. never D. nearly 54. A. advice B. experience C. quality D. service 55. A. care B. serve C. like D. know |
You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells are exploding; people are shooting from a house behind you. What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier. You aren’t ___36___carrying a gun. You’re standing in front of a ___37___and you’re telling the TV ___38___what is happening. It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter, and it can be very ___39___. In the first two years of the ___40___ in former Yugoslavia(前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were ___41___. What kind of people put themselves in danger to ___42___ pictures to our TV screens and ___43___ to our newspapers? Why do they do it? “I think it’s every young journalist’s ___44___to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s ___45___ you find the excitement. So when the first opportunity comes, you take it ___46___ it is a war.” But there are moments of ___47___. Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes, when you’re lying on the ground and bullet(子弹) are flying ___48___ your ears, you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling ___49___ after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be ___50___.” “None of us believes that we’re going to ___51___,” adds Michael. But he always ___52___ a lucky charm(护身符) with him. It was given to him by his wife for his first war. It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh, ___53___, and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this, I ___54___ I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God ___55___, because you know he doesn’t believe you.” 36. A. simply B. really C. merely D. even 37. A. crowd B. house C. battlefield D. camera 38. A. producers B. viewers C. directors D. actors 39. A. dangerous B. exciting C. normal D. disappointing 40. A. stay B. fight C. war D. life 41. A. injured B. buried C. defeated D. saved 42. A. bring B. show C. take D. make 43. A. scenes B. passages C. stories D. contents 44. A. belief B. dream C. duty D. faith 45. A. why B. what C. how D. where 46. A. even so B. ever since C. as if D. even if 47. A. fear B. surprise C. shame D. sadness 48. A. into B. around C. past D. through 49. A. returns B. goes C. continues D. occurs 50. A. there B. away C. out D. home 51. A. leave B. escape C. die D. remain 52. A. hangs B. wears C. holds D. carries 53. A. never B. many times C. some time D. seldom 54. A. consider B. accept C. promise D. guess 55. A. whispering B. laughing C. screaming D. crying |
When I was thirteen, my family moved from Boston to Tucson, Arizona. ___36___ the move, my father ___37___ us in the living-room on a freezing January night. My sisters and I sat around the fire, not ___38___ that the universe would suddenly change its course. “In May, we’re ___39___to Arizona.” The words, so small, didn’t seem ___40___ enough to hold my new life. But the world changed and I awoke on a tram moving across the country. I watched the ___41___ change from green trees to flat dusty plains to high mountains as I saw strange new plants that ___42___ mysteries(奥秘) yet to come. Finally, we arrived and ___43___ into own new home. ___44___ my older sisters were sad at the loss of friends, I ___45___ explored(探索) our new surroundings. One afternoon, I was out exploring ___46___ and saw a new kind of cactus(仙人掌). I crouched (蹲) down for a closer look. “You’d better not ___47___ that.” I turned around to see an old woman. “Are you new lo this neighborhood?” I explained that I was, ___48___, new to the entire state. “My name is Ina Thorne. Have you got used to life in the ___49___? It must be quite a ___50___ after living in Boston.” How could I explain how I ___51___ the desert? I couldn’t seem to find the right words. “It’s vastness,” she offered. “That vastness ___52___ you stand on the mountains overlooking the desert — you can ___53___ how little you are in comparison with the world. ___54___, you feel that the possibilities are limitless.” That was it. That was the feeling I’d bad ever since I’d first seen the mountains of my new home. Again, my ___55___ would change with just a few simple words. “Would you like to come to my home tomorrow? Someone should teach you which plant you should and shouldn’t touch.” 36. A. During B. Until C. Upon D. Before 37. A. gathered B. warned C. organized D. comforted 38. A. hoping B. admitting C. realizing D. believing 39. A. going B. moving C. driving D. flying 40. A. good B. simple C. big D. proper 41. A. picture B. ground C. sense D. area 42. A. suggested B. solved C. discovered D. explained 43. A. settled B. walked C. hurried D. stepped 44. A. If B. After C. once D. While 45. A. bitterly B. easily C. proudly D. eagerly 46. A as well B. as usual C. fight away D. on time 47. A. move B. dig C. pull D. touch 48. A. of course B. in fact C. after all D. at least 49. A. desert B. city C. state D. country 50. A. luck B. doubt C. shock D. danger 51. A. found B. examined C. watched D. reached 52. A. why B. when C. how D. where 53. A. prove B. guess C. sense D. expect 54. A. However B. Otherwise C. Therefore D. Meanwhile 55. A. idea B. life C. home D. family |
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