During the years of depression(萧条), food and money were very hard to find and pe
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During the years of depression(萧条), food and money were very hard to find and people had to trade things with each other.
One day I was 36 some potatoes from Mr Miller. I noticed a small poor boy hungrily 37 a full basket of 38 green peas. Then I was 39 to see that Mr Miller sold the boy a bag of peas for just a marble (弹球).
Mrs Miller, who had been standing nearby, 40 and told me that Mr Miller loved to trade with the three boys in the village for peas, tomatoes, and other things 41 he didn’t really need any marbles. I left the stand, smiling to myself, 42 by this man.
Several years went by. One day I learned that Mr Miller had died. I took part in the funeral(葬礼), 43 three young men . They came over to Mrs Miller, hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke with her and moved on, 44 their eyes.
Our 45 came to meet Mrs Miller. I mentioned 46 she had told me about the 47 . She told me,“Those three young men above were the boys I told you about. They just told me 48 they appreciated the things Jim‘traded’with them. Now, at last, they came to pay their debt.”
“We’ve 49 had a great deal of the wealth in this world,” she added, “but right now, Jim would consider himself to be the 50 man.”
Then she gently lifted the 51 fingers of her husband. Resting underneath were three red marbles.
At that time I realized that we would not be 52 by our words, but by our kind 53 . It is said that it takes a minute to find a 54 person, an hour to appreciate him, a day to love him, but an entire life to 55 him.
James Barry
36.A.buying B. selling C.borrowing D. hunting
37.A.glaring at B. glanced at C. staring at D.watched at
38. A. picking fresh B.freshly picked C. picked freshly D.fresh dried
39. A. astonished B. amazed C. annoyed D.worried
40.A.turned over B.going over C. came over D.coming over
41.A.but B. otherwise C. or D. although
42.A.suspected B.impressed C.regreted D.embarrassed
43.A.saw B.discovering C.finding D.seeing
44.A.closing B.wiped C.cleaning D.wiping
45.A. time B. chance C. turn D. decision
46.A. the story B. the proverb C. the legend D. the joke
47.A. marbles B. men C. debt D. life
48.A.why B. how C. when D. what
49.A. ever B. always C. never D.seldom
50.A. honest B. happiest C. coldest D. richest
51.A. lifeless B. regretless C. useless D. hopeless
52.A. thought B. touched C. remembered D. affected
53.A.deeds B. things C. remarks D.rewards
54.A. strict B. honest C. special D. learned
55.A.ignore B. forget C. recognize D.remind |
答案
36---55 ACBAC DBDDC AABCD ACACB |
解析
36．A。作者去商店当然是去买东西，buy sth. from…。
37．C。此处表示饥饿的孩子眼巴巴叮着….。stare at“凝视，注视”He stared at the word trying to remember what it meant. 他盯着这个单词，努力想记起它的意思；glance at“瞥见，匆匆看一下，看一下”（常与down, up, over连用），如；She glanced along the road to see if he was coming. 她沿路扫视着，看他是否要来了。再如：He glanced at his watch and then looked at the sky. “他看了看手表,然后又看了看天空。”；glare at“对...怒目而视，瞪眼, 怒目而视(at, on, upon)”如：They stood -ring at each other.他们站着互相怒目而视。再如：The old gentleman just stood there glaring at the pickpocket and did not say a word. “这位老先生只是站在那里对那个扒手怒目而视,一句话也没有说。”；watch“观看”，及物动词，后面不加介词。
38．B。freshly是副词，在此修饰picked（形容词）。单个副词修饰形容词应放在形容词的前面。本题学生易误选C,错把freshly当成形容词，未注意后面的中心名词。
39．A。看到Mr. Miller居然让这个孩子用一个弹球“换”换一袋．．．作者当然感到震惊。Amaze“使惊奇；使吃惊” amaze强调“使惊异, 困惑”间或还有“惊叹, 佩服”的意思, 是意义很强的词, 如:
We were amazed at the ingenuity with which they solved their difficulties. 他们在解决困难中所表现的智慧使我们惊叹[佩服]。astonish表示“使人大吃一惊”、“几乎无法使人相信”, 但没有“惊叹”的意思, 如: I was astonished at his rudeness. 他的粗野使我大吃一惊。；annoy“使生气, 使不高兴, 使烦恼”；worry“使烦恼, 使焦虑, 使苦恼”
40．C。come over“走过来”；turn over“翻转，反过来”。注意空前的逗号，逗号后应用现在分词。本题学生易误选A。
41．D。此处是个让步状语从句。句意为“尽管他不是真的需要（什么）弹球….”，根据上下文不难看出答案。本题学生易误选A。
42．B。作者通过这件事，很受感动，所以印象深刻。be impressed by [at, with] 被深深打动[感动]；suspect“怀疑”；regret“遗憾，后悔”；embarrass“使困窘, 使局促不安”如：He was embarrassed by debts. 他因债务而局促不安。
43．D。注意空前的逗号，此处是作状语。（="…and" saw…）。本题学生易误选A，没有注意到空前的逗号。
44．D。注意空前的逗号，此处表伴随。wipe“擦, 揩, 擦去”， wipe (away) one’s tears擦掉眼泪；wipe one’s eyes with a handkerchief用手帕擦眼睛。其他不符合句意且形式也不对。
45．C。turn“时机；机会”强调顺序。如：It’s your turn to clean the blackboard.再如：You have missed your turn.你错过了机会。Chance“机会, 可能性, 偶然性, 运气”；time“时间”；decision“决定”均不符合题意。本题学生易误选B。
46．A。story“事情”；proverb“谚语”；legend“传说”；joke“笑话”，根据语境，只有A合适。本题学生易误选B。
47．A。根据上文。
48．B。他们告诉我他们上多么地感激….。根据语境B最合适。本题学生易误选D。
49．C。49和50个空应联系起来看，不难看出答案。注意搭配和句意。本题学生易误选A和D。没有注意前后意思。
50．D。
51．A。lifeless“无生命的, 无生气的”；regretless“无悔的, 不后悔的, 没有遗憾的”。
52．C。此处是说“被人记住”之意。affect“影响, 感动”，根据下文可以看出意思。人并不是因语言而被（别人）记住，别人记住你是因为你的good deeds。本题学生易误选B和D。
53．A。deed“行为，行动”；thing“事情”；remark“评论，意见，话”如：rude remarks粗鲁的话；再如：a theme of general remark议论纷纷的话题；make a few remarks说几句话；作短评；We saw nothing worthy of remark我们看不到值得注意的东西。Reward“报酬, 奖金”，不符合题意。本题学生易误选D。
54．C。special“特别的，特别亲密的”，根据下文可以判断出答案。其它选项不合句意。本题学生易误选B。
55．B。本句意思是层层递进，根据前后意思，不难判断。本题学生易误选D。 |
举一反三
A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work.
He may have the belief that he is not capable (有能力的) of it. A child may think he is __1__ because he doesn’t understand how to make the __2__ of his mental faculties (才能). Older people may be mistaken that they are incapable of learning things new because of their __ 3__.
A person who believe that he is incapable will not make a real __4__ because he feels that it would be useless. He won’t go at a job with confidence necessary for __5__ , and he won’t work his hardest way, even though he may think he is doing so. He is __6__ likely to fail, and the failure will __7__ his belief in his competence (才能) .
Alfred Alder, a famous doctor, had __8__ like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor __9__ in maths. His teacher told his parents he had no ability in maths in order that they would not __10__ too much of him. In this way, they two __11__ the idea. He accepted __12__ mistaken thinking of his ability, felt that it was useless to __13__ and was very poor at maths, __14__ as they expected.
One day he worked at a problem which __15__ of the other students had been able to solve.
Alder __16__ in solving the problem. This gave him confidence (信心). He now __17__ with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became especially good at __18__. He not only proved that he could learn maths well, but luckily he learned __19__ in his life from his own experience that if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may __20__ himself as well as others by his ability.
1. A. clever B. shy C. useless D. stupid
2. A. biggest B. most C. highest D. deepest
3. A. ability B. age C. brain D. knowledge
4. A. decision B. success C. effort D. trouble
5. A. work B. study C. improvement D. success
6. A. truly B. really C. however D. therefore
7. A. lead to B. strengthen C. increase D. add to
8. A. an experience B. an example C. a thought D. a story
9. A. state B. mind C. start D. ending
10. A. blame B. expect C. get D. win
11. A. developed B. organized C. discovered D. found
12. A. his B. her C. its D. their
13. A. manage B. succeed C. try D. act
14. A. only B. almost C. just D. then
15. A. none B. no C. no one D. nobody
16. A. gave B. succeeded C. failed D. believed
17. A. lived B. worked C. played D. graduated
18. A. lessons B. medicine C. subjects D. maths
19. A. early B. deeply C. late D. simply
20. A. encourage B. love C. astonish D. disappoint |
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant , and ancient for a sportsman, Fifty is a nice number for the states in the US or for a national speed limit but it is not a number that I was prepared to have hung on me. Fifty is supposed to be my father’s age. but now I am stuck with this number and everything it means.
A few days ago, a friend tried to cheer me up by saying, “ Fifty is what forty used to be . ”He had made an inspirational point, Am I over the hill ?People keep telling me that the hill has been moved, and I keep telling them that he high-jump bar has dropped from the six feet I once easily cleared to the four feet that is impossible for me now.
“ Your are not getting older, you are getting better . ” says Dr. Joyce Brothers . This, however, is the kind of doctor who inspires a second opinion.
And so. as I approach the day when I cannot even jump over the tennis net. I am moves to share some thoughts on aging with you. I am moved to show how aging feels to me physically and mentally. Getting older. of course, is obviously a better change than the one that brings you eulogies(悼词). In fact , a poet named Robert Browning considered it the best change of all :
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to me.
Whether or not Browning was right , most of my first fifty years have been golden ones, so I will settle for what is ahead being as good as what has gone by. I find myself moving toward what is ahead with a curious blend ( 混合) of both fighting and accepting my aging, hoping that the philosopher(哲学家) was right when he said . ”Old is always fifteen years from now. ”
44. The author seems to tell us in Paragraph I that
A time alone will tell B time goes by quickly
C time will show what is right D time makes one forget the past
45. When the author turned fifty , people around him
A. tried to comfort him B. got inspiration with him
C. were friendlier with him D. found him more talkative
46. The author considers his fifty years of life
A peaceful B. ordinary C. satisfactory D. regretful
47. We can infer from the passage that
A. the old should led a simple life B. the old should face the fact of aging
C. the old should take more exercise D. the old should fill themselves with curiosity |
All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain at all things clean and tidy.
You could turn your back for a moment in my mother"s house, leave a half written letter on the dining room table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had "put it back where it belonged." as she explained.
My wife, on one of her first visits to my mother"s house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the packet had been removed. Confused(疑惑的), she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits, only to return to find that her drink had disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks, so as not to make water rings on the end tables. Now she knows better.
These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family. We were all inclined to (有......的倾向) forgetfulness, and it was common for one of us, upon returning from the bathroom, to find the every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly. "Do you remember what I was doing?" was a question frequently asked, but rarely answered.
Now my sister has developed a second-hand love of clean windows, and my brother does the cleaning in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet. I try not to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.
68. Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?
A. She enjoyed removing others" drinks. B. She became more and more forgetful.
C. She preferred to do everything by herself. D. She wanted to keep her house in good order.
69. My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother"s house because _______.
A. she had already finished them B. my mother had taken them away
C. she forgot where she had left them D. someone in my family was holding them
70. The underlined part to the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister _______.
A. is happy to clean windows B. loves to clean used windows
C. is fond of clean used windows D. likes clean windows as my mother did
71. This passage mainly tells us that _______.
A. my mother often made us confused B. my family members had a poor memory
C. my mother helped us to form a good habit
D. my wife was surprised when she visited my mother |
When I learned that my 71-year-old mother was playing Scrabble – a word game – against herself, I knew I had to do something. My husband suggested we give her a computer to play against. I wasn’t sure my mother was ready for it. After all, it had taken 15 years to persuade her to buy an electric cooker. Even so, we packed up our old computer and delivered it to my parents’home. And so began my mother’s adventure in the world of computers.
It also marked the beginning of an unusual teaching task for me. I’ve taught people of all ages, but I never thought I would be teaching my mother how to do anything. She has been the one teaching me all my life: to cook and sew; to enjoy the good times and put up with the bad. Now it was my turn to give something back.
It wasn’t easy at the beginning. There was so much to explain and to introduce. Slowly but surely, my mother caught on, making notes in a little notebook. After a few months of Scrabble and other games, I decided it was time to introduce her to word processing(文字处理). This proved to be a bigger challenge(挑战) to her, so I gave her some homework I asked her to write me a letter, using different letter types, colors and spaces.
“Are you this demanding with your kindergarten pupils?” she asked.
“No, of course not,” I said. “They already know how to use a computer.”
My mother isn’t the only one experiencing a fast personal growth period. Thanks to the computer, my father has finally got over his phone allergy(过敏反应). For as long as I can remember, any time I called, my mother would answer. Dad and I have had more phone conversations in the last two months than we’ve had in the past 20 years.
49. What does the author do?
A. She is a cook. B. She is a teacher.
C. She is a housewife. D. She is a computer engineer.
50. The author decided to give her mother a computer .
A. to let her have more chances to write letters
B. to support her in doing her homework
C. to help her through the bad times D. to make her life more enjoyable
51. The author asked her mother to write her a letter .
A. because her mother had stopped using the telephone
B. because she wanted to keep in touch with her mother
C. so that her mother could practice what she had learned
D. so that mother could be free from housework
52. After the computer was brought home, the author’s father .
A. lost interest in cooking B. took more phone calls
C. played more games D. began to use it |
I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1994, but I can remember my mother"s words as if it were yesterday: “Kerrel, I don"t want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”
AIDS wasn"t something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father"s other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.
We couldn"t afford all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn"t even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher"s words muffled as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.
I did not share my burden (负担) with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was too weak to feed himself.
I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. she saved my life.
I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn"t want to call attention to AIDS. I do.
60. What does Kerrel tell us about her father?
A. He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill.
B. He depended on the nurses in his final days.
C. He worked hard to pay for his medication.
D. He told no one about his disease.
61. What can we learn from the underlined sentence?
A. Kerrel couldn"t understand her teacher.
B. Kerrel had special difficulty in hearing.
C. Kerrel was too troubled to focus on the lesson.
D. Kerrel was too tired to hear her teacher"s words.
62. Why did Kerrel keep her father"s disease a secret?
A. She was afraid of being looked down upon. B. She thought it was shameful to have AIDS.
C. She found no one willing to listen to her. D. She wanted to obey her mother.
63. Why did Kerrel write the passage?
A. To tell people about the sufferings of her father.
B. To show how little people knew about AIDS.
C. To draw people"s attention to AIDS.
D. To remember her father. |
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