Alexis was hot and tired. With rage (愤怒) in her voice she shouted,“Pull me up! I
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Alexis was hot and tired. With rage (愤怒) in her voice she shouted,“Pull me up! I give up. I hate this. This is stupid!” It was at that moment when Jason, the adviser on the trip, looked at me and said,“Ed, I"m going to go down and talk with her.”I then shouted down to Alexis,“ Hold on! You can do this. We know you can!”
Jason grasped another rope, put this climbing harness (系带) on and began to move down the cliff. Within moments Jason was beside Alexis. She had her cheek directly against the face of the rock with her feet barely resting on a small piece of the cliff that jetted (急突) outward. Jason said to Alexis,“I know that you have been on this cliff now for what seems like a long time. Your feet and fingers are cramping (痉挛) up and your forearms feel as though they are on fire. But, Alexis, you are strong. Look how far up you are already. You have taken one of the more difficult parts up the cliff. Alexis, look at the path you have taken.”At that moment, Alexis moved her cheek away from the rock face and looked down. The bright white chalk she used in her hands to give her a better hold, showed the path where her tired hands had moved her upward on the cliff. Jason was right. Alexis had taken the hardest way up the cliff. Jason then looked straight into Alexis" eyes and in a calm voice he said,“You are not alone out here. There are people who care about you, who want to help you and see you succeed. We are going to do this together. Are you ready?” Slowly she nodded and took a deep breath.
小题1:Jason went down the cliff because _______.| A．Alexis took a wrong path | | B．Alexis was trapped in rocks | | C．Alexis didn"t believe in herself | | D．Alexis" forearms were badly hurt |
小题2: We can infer from the passage that _______.| A．Alexis was finally pulled up by Ed | | B．Alexis regretted having taken the wrong path up the cliff | | C．Alexis was immediately sent to hospital after she was pulled up | | D．Alexis successfully rock-climbed |
小题3:The underlined word “hot” in the story means_______.| A．disappointed | B．angry | | C．uncomfortable | D．running a high body temperature |
小题4:Alexis would probably become _______.| A．more strongminded | B．easier to give up | | C．poorer in health | D．less interested in rock climbing |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:A |
解析
小题1:推理判断题。根据文章第一节的内容,特别是第一节最后一句“I then shouted down to Alexis,‘Hold on! You can do this. We know you can!’”可知此时Alexis快要失去了信心。故C选项正确。
小题2:推理判断题。根据文章第二、三两节可得出答案。其他三个选项都不符合文意。小题3:词义猜测题。根据和“hot ”并列的 tired 以及后面的 rage“愤怒”一词可知,“hot ”在此处的意思应是和rage“愤怒”同义的词。
小题4: 推理判断题。根据文章最后一句“Slowly she nodded and took a deep breath.”可推测出答案为A项。 |
举一反三
根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Ann: Well, Bob, what a surprise! It"s nice to see you again!
Bob: Hello, Ann! 61 Wasn"t it a year ago Christmas, the last time we saw you?
Ann: You know, I think you"re right．How are your wife and the children?
Bob: Oh, they"re fine．Billy fell down and broke his leg a few months ago． 62
Ann: Wasn"t Joey learning to play the violin? Seems to me I remember something about that．
Bob: 63 He"s all excited about sports now．
Ann: And you wife, what is she doing these days?
Bob:? She"s going to a night school on Mondays and Thursdays．She"s studying French now．But last year she studied typing and sewing． 64 Next it’ll probably be cooking．
Ann: How nice for her! 65 But say hello to Mrs James for me, will you?
Bob:?Sure I will, and remember me to your husband．Goodbye．| A．Oh, he"s given that up． | | B．Oh, I"m sorry．I"ve got to rush． | | C．She"s made great progress in that． | | D．How long has it been? |
E．I think she just enjoys going to school．
F．Joey"s getting on well with her．
G．But other than that, there"s been nothing special. |
A man who served 11 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife was officially cleared yesterday, walking free from Jingshan County People"s Court—the same body that sentenced him to a 15year jail term in 1998—as over 2000 local residents cheered.
“Police and other law enforcers made the errors,”39yearold She Xianglin told China Daily, “I believe the law will punish them and give me a just result.”
The original conviction came based on a confession which She said was extracted under police torture and the misidentification of a still-unknown woman"s body.
“The provincial Hubei government has sent a team of police, procurators and high people"s court officials to investigate the case,” a spokesperson for the Jingmen government, which administrates Jingshan County, said yesterday.
The miscarriage of justice only came to light when Shen"s wife, Zhang Zaiyu, resurfaced late last month after being thought missing for 11 years.
This was despite at least five letters from Zhang to her brother over the last two years, which he said he didn"t report to police because he thought they were a hoax.
Zhang disappeared in January 1994 from Yanmenkou Township, and 3 months later a body was found in a pond that her relatives positively identified.
Local police arrested Shen for murder in April 1994,although questions had been raised about discrepancies between the features and clothes of the body and Zhang. Confirmation through DNA testing had not been attempted.
Zhang Chengmao, Shen"s lawyer, said yesterday he would seek State compensation “but we have not reached a figure yet”.
When asked about compensation, Shen said, “My mother, who died from the stress of continually appealing, cannot be bought. Eleven years of freedom cannot be bought. Schooling of my daughter that was stopped because of poverty cannot be bought.”
As for his wife, the man said he did not hate her at all. “If she had not reappeared, maybe I would have been wronged for life,” he said.
He also said he did not plan to sue Zhang for bigamy, though she had remarried in Shandong Province without divorcing him.
小题1:Why did She Xianglin served 11 years in prison?| A．Because She Xianglin was convicted of murdering his wife. | | B．Because the Police and other law enforcers made the errors. | | C．Because through DNA testing the dead woman was his wife. | | D．Because her wife was missing. |
小题2:Which of the following is NOT true?| A．The miscarriage of justice only came to light when Shen"s wife reappeared. | | B．The man said he did not hate her at all. | | C．Zhang Zaiyu wrote at least five letters to her brother over the last two years to hoax him. | | D．She Xianglin"s mother died from the stress of continually appealing. |
小题3:We can infer from the passage _______.| A．She Xianglin will get State compensation | | B．She Xianglin"s daughter dropped out of school because of poverty | | C．She Xianglin stayed in prison for 11 years | | D．who murdered the woman is known to all |
小题4:The underlined word “cleared” in the first paragraph means _______. |
Visitors from space may have landed on our planet from time to time, maybe hundreds of times during the long, empty ages while Man was still a dream of the far future. Indeed, they could have landed on 90% of the earth as recently as two or three hundreds years ago, and we could never have heard of it. If one searches through old newspapers and records from some certain places, one can find many reports of strange events that could be some explanations about visiting from outer space. A writer, Charles Fort, has made a collection of UFO sightings in his book Lo! One is tempted(引诱) to believe them more than any modern reports, for the simple reason that they happened long before anyone had ever thought of space travel. Yet at the same time, one cannot take them too seriously, for before education on science was popular, even sightings of meteors(流星) and comets(彗星) made people believe the most unbelievable stories, as they still do today.
56.小题1:According to the passage, visitors from outer space may have landed on the earth .| A．long before man had dreamed of it | B．long before there were human beings | | C．in the last few hundred years | D．after the space travel began |
57.小题2:Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?| A．Charles Fort sighted a lot of UFOs himself. | B．All sightings of UFOs are believable. | | C．There may be living things on other planets. | D．People have seen visitors from other planets everywhere. |
58.小题3:According to the passage, .| A．UFOs are only seen in recent years | B．UFOs sightings are not new | | C．UFOs are just meteors and comets | D．UFOs are invented by people |
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President Clinton was born in the little southern town of Hope, Arkansas, on August 19,1946. But his name was not Bill Clinton. It was William Jefferson Blythe. His mother named his for his father, who had been killed in a car accident a few months before he was born. When Bill was four years old, his mother married Roger Clinton who then legally became Bill’s father. Roger Clinton and Bill’s mother had a son, Roger Jr.
Bill Clinton studies international affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. He won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University in Britain. There, he met other students with whom he has continued life-long friendships. One of them is Robert Reich, who was just nominated to be Secretary of Labor. After Oxford, Bill Clinton earned a law degree at Yale University.
In 1973, Bill Clinton became a law professor at the University of Arkansas, but he was too interested in politics to stay at the university. He campaigned for the House of Representatives but was defeated. In 1976, he was elected General for the state of Arkansas, the state government’s chief lawyer.
Two years later, Bill Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas. He was defeated for re-election after his first two-year term. But he was elected Governor again in 1982. He has been re-elected to that office every two years since then.
Bill Clinton married lawyer Hillary Rodham Rodham in 1975. She kept Rodham as her last name until it became an issue during her husband’s 1980 campaign for governor. Since then, she has been known as Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Clintons have a daughter, Chelsea.
70.小题1:We learn that Bill Clinton’s father ________.| A．died before Bill Clinton was born | | B．died when Bill Clinton was a few months old | | C．left his wife after Bill Clinton was born | | D．was his mother’s second husband |
71.小题2:Bill Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in ________.72.小题3:Hillary Rodham did not change her last name until ________.| A．she married Clinton | | B．she gave birth to their daughter | | C．Clinton campaigned for President | | D．Clinton was defeated in his campaign for governor |
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There are two basic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process. People have generally viewed personal growth as an external (外在的) result or a product that can easily be identified and measured. The worker who gets a rise, the student whose grades improve, and the foreigner who learns a new language—all these examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts.
By contrast (对照), the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way. The process is not the road itself, but rather the attitudes and feelings people have, their caution or courage, as they meet with new experiences and unexpected difficulties. In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.
In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to face the unknown, and to accept the possibility that they may “fail” at first. How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is essential to our ability to grow. Do we see ourselves as quick and curious? If so, then we tend to take more changes and to be more open to unfamiliar experiences. Do we think we’re shy and indecisive? Then our sense of fear can cause us to hesitate, to move slowly, and not to take a step until we know the ground is safe. Do we think we’re slow to adapt to change or that we’re not smart enough to deal with a new challenge? Then we are likely to take a more passive role or not try at all.
These feelings of insecurity and self-doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and grow. If we do not face and overcome these internal fears and doubts, if we protect ourselves too much, then we stop growing. We become trapped inside a shell of our own making.
小题1:In the author’s eyes, one who views personal growth as a process would __________.| A．succeed in climbing up the social ladder | | B．judge his ability to grow from his own achievements | | C．face difficulties and take up challenges | | D．aim high and reach his goal each time |
小题2:Which of the following can be viewed as the process of personal growth?| A．Our manager was always willing to accept new challenges. | | B．Little Tom won the first prize in the Speech Contest. | | C．Max picked up French while he was in Paris. | | D．Daddy’s salary rose from $3,000 to $3,800. |
小题3:The best title for this passage should be _________.| A．Facing new challenges | | B．Growth ―product or process | | C．Unavoidable feeling of self-doubt | | D．Overcoming internal fears |
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