I am my mother’s third child. When I was born, her doctor gently explained to my
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My mother had to work to support our family. There were five girls in our family and we all had to 45 . Once when I was about seven, I came out of the 46 , “Mom, I can’t peel (削皮) potatoes. I only have one hand.”
“You get back to peel those potatoes, and don’t ever use that as a(n) 47 for anything again!”
Of course I could peel potatoes with my good hand while holding them down with my other arm. There was always a 48 , and Mom knew it. “If you try hard 49 ,” she’d say, “You can do anything.”
Once in the second grade, our teacher had each of us race across the monkey bars (高低杠). When it was my turn, I 50 my head. Some kids 51 . I went home crying.
After work the next afternoon, Mom took me to the school play-ground.
“Now, pull up with your right arm,” she advised. She stood by as I practiced, and she 52 me when I made progress.
I’ll never forget the 53 time I was crossing the bars. The kids were standing there with their mouths open.
It was the way with everything. When I 54 I can’t handle (处理) things, I see Mom’s smile again. She had the heart to 55 anything. And she taught me I could, too.
41. A. missing B. broken C. diseased D. short
42. A. warning B. medicine C. help D. advice
43. A. badly B. differently C. well D. normally
44. A. did B. refused C. cried D. was
45. A. find out B. work out C. carry out D. help out
46. A. kitchen B. bedroom C. house D. school
47. A. idea B. change C. excuse D. tool
48. A. chance B. way C. time D. success
49. A. enough B. too C. again D. often
50. A. hurt B. nodded C. shook D. turned
51. A. cheered B. whispered C. joked D. laughed
52. A. helped B. raised C. praised D. protected
53. A. first B. last C. wondered D. next
54. A. admit B. fear C. find D. realize
55. A. face B. teach C. learn D. solve
答案
53. D. 54. B. 55. A.
解析
42. D. 解析：从空后的句子我们得知，这是医生给她母亲的建议。
43. B. 解析：从下句demand more我们可以得知，医生要她母亲不要因为她残疾就把她和其他的孩子区别对待。
44. A. 解析：did在此相当于demanded more，其它答案不合题意。
45. D. 解析：从下文削土豆皮的经历得知她们姐妹几个都帮母亲的忙。
46. A. 解析：从空后的“Mom, I can not peel potatoes”看，她从厨房走出来。
47. C. 解析：母亲认为那是借口，事实也是如此。
48. B. 解析：从下文的“If you can try hard enough, you can do anything”得知，办法总是有的。
49. A. 解析：enough 在这里表示程度。
50. C. 解析：从下文得知，这次她没有做，所以选 “shook” 表示摇头拒绝。
51. D. 解析：A, C有较大的干扰性，cheer多表达因为成功、喜悦而欢呼庆祝；joke指开玩笑，在这里作者是说有几个孩子在嘲笑她。
52. C. 解析：因为有进步, 所以目前就该是表扬她。
53. D. 解析: 针对没有成功的那一次而言的第二次。
54. B. 解析：因为是怕不能处理的事情，所以就担心。
55. A. 解析：母亲用心去面对一切事情。从空前的heart我们得知，母亲从心理上能勇敢面对一切困难。
举一反三
One of the things that makes When Smoke Ran Like Water, her book on the battle against pollution, so powerful is that she hasn’t just only studied the statistics (数字统计), but she’s lived them. As a child in the Monongahela River town, she survived the 1948 smog (烟雾) pollution that was reported to have killed 20 people. She writes, “The 50 people who died in the month following decade are nowhere counted. And there is no counting of the thousands called the non-killed － all those who went on to suffer in various poorly understood ways.”
For Davis, counting counts. She focuses on epidemiology, the science which is rooted in numbers. Her book is a series of related stories, which uses a convincing (具有说服力的) method to support her conclusions. For anyone interested in the future of human health, When Smoke Ran Like Water also provides a valuable basis for understanding and action.
67. We can learn from the text that Davis cares most about_____.
A. the measures taken by governments to fight environmental pollution
B. the lasting damage to health caused by environmental pollution
C. the number of people died in environmental pollution
D. the environmental pollution caused by the smog in 1948
68.The author thinks that When Smoke Ran Like Water is a powerful book because_______.
A. Davis was an expert in the study of pollution
B. Davis used real numbers to study pollution
C. Davis was good at writing interesting stories
D. Davis put her real-life experience into the book
69. What kind of method is used by Davis to support the conclusion?
A. The reasoning method B. The storytelling method
C. The statistic method D. The experiment method
70. The purpose of the text is to________.
A. show the damage caused by pollution
B. explain why When Smoke Ran Like Water is popular
C. introduce When Smoke Ran Like Water to readers
D. tell the life of the American writer Devra Davis
I"1l always remember my last day at school. My best friend, Jenny, had organized a party in the Sixth
Form Common Room;
Jenny asked me to go to the supermarket with her to buy all the snacks. "I"m really looking forward to this party, Stingy," she said. Everyone called me Stingy instead of Debbie because they thought I didn"t like to spend money. Actually, it was true.
"There"s lots of money in the kitty(零星凑起的一笔钱）. Let"s go crazy!" Going crazy meant buying enough snacks to feed an army. It came to ￡ 19.90,which was a lot of money in 1982.
Jenny gave me a guilty( 内疚的) look. "I"ve left-the kitty money in the common room. Can you pay and I"ll give you back the money?"
"Sure," I replied, trying to look relaxed. " Neither a lender or a borrower be" was my motto but I didn"t want to look stingy(小气). I gave ￡20 to the impatient shop assistant.
Well, the Party was a great success. So great that I completely forgot about my loan until I was flying to America the next day. I was going to live with my uncle"s family until I started university.
I tried to get in touch with Jenny but her family had moved. My ￡20 was lost. Until...
I"d heard about a website called Friends Reunited which helped people contact old school friends. My husband helped me log on and find my school. There she was,Jenny Frost.
I"m now married with a beautiful daughter called Debbie. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Debbie "Stingy" Jones? I still owe her ￡20!
We met two months later and the ￡20 was returned, plus interest(利息)of course. After all, I"m a bank manager now, so loans are my business.
小题1:Why did Jenny spend a lot of money on the snacks?
| A．Debbie had money. | B．There was money she could use. |
| C．She wanted Debbie to stop being stingy. | D．She wanted to be crazy. |
| A．Her husband found Jenny. | B．Jenny had a website on the Internet. |
| C．Debbie met Jenny. | D．Debbie put a message on the Friends Reunited website. |
| A．liked parties at school and felt guilty about borrowing money |
| B．had fun at school but soon forgot about her school friends |
| C．forgot her best friend at school until she saw the Friends Reunited website |
| D．was forgetful about the money |
Thus taking the play and the author together, it is mow fairly conventional to regard the former as a kind of ultimate point in the secularization of the medieval drama. Hence much emphasis on it as depicting realistically humble manners and pastoral life in the bleak hills of the West Riding of Yorkshire on a typically cold bight of December 24th. After what are often regarded as almost “documentaries” given in the three successive monologues of the three shepherds, critics go on to affirm that the realism is then intensified into a burlesque mock-treatment of the Nativity. Finally as a sort of epilogue or after-thought in deference to the Biblical origins of the materials, the play slides back into an atavistic mood of early innocent reverence. Actually, as we shall see, the final scene is not only the culminating scene but perhaps the raison d’etre of introductory “realism.”
There is much on the surface of the present play to support the conventional view of its mood of secular realism. All the same, the “realism” of the Wakefield Master is of a paradoxical turn. His wide knowledge of people, as well as books indicates no cloistered contemplative but one in close relation to his times. Still, that life was after all a predominantly religious one, a time which never neglected the belief that man was a rebellious and sinful creature in need of redemption, So deeply (one can hardly say “naively” of so sophisticated a writer) and implicitly religious is the Master that he is less able (or less willing) to present actual history realistically than is the author of the Brome “Abraham and Isaac”. His historical sense is even less realistic than that of Chaucer who just a few years before had done for his own time costume romances, such as The Knight’s Tale, Troilus and Cressida, etc. Moreover Chaucer had the excuse of highly romantic materials for taking liberties with history.
小题1:Which of the following statements about the Wakefield Master is NOT True?
[A]. He was Chaucer’s contemporary.
[B]. He is remembered as the author of five or six realistic plays.
[C]. He write like John Steinbeck.
[D]. HE was an accomplished artist.
小题2: By “patristic”, the author means
[A]. realistic. [B]. patriotic
[C]. superstitious. [C]. pertaining to the Christian Fathers.
小题3: The statement about the “secularization of the medieval drama” refers to the
[A]. introduction of mundane matters in religious plays.
[B]. presentation of erudite material.
[C]. use of contemporary introduction of religious themes in the early days.
小题4: In subsequent paragraphs, we may expect the writer of this passage to
[A]. justify his comparison with Steinbeck.
[B]. present a point of view which attack the thought of the second paragraph.
[C]. point out the anachronisms in the play.
[D]. discuss the works of Chaucer.
The 47-year-old singer talks about the new album Symphony that came out of a “very dark time”, including her decision to give up trying to have children. “People have suggested I could adopt,” Brightman says. “But work is central to my life now. And so I am going to put it to one side. After a while not having children becomes the norm and perhaps that might sound alarming, to parents especially, but I have never known anything different. I’m not hurt by not having children. My life and career are incredibly rich.”
Talking about growing up in a large family in Berkhamsted (father a property developer who later committed suicide), she says: “I was gifted as a child, and very musical. I seemed to be good at anything to do with the arts. At 5 I understood the music I was dancing to and had an eye for costume.” She first appeared in a West End musical at 11 and hated boarding school.
Brightman led the saucy dance troupe（辣妹三人舞） Hot Gossip and had her first hit with I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper in 1978. At 18 she married a music manager called Andrew Graham Stewart. “I was probably in love but I can’t remember. Girls change such a lot between 18 and 22. It didn’t really work out.” In 1981 she was spotted by Lloyd Webber. She became his leading lady in Song and Dance, Requiem and Phantom of the Opera. They married in 1984.
Brightman says she felt hostility(敌意) “from the beginning. I haven’t tried to understand it. I’ve done very well everywhere else, especially the US, where I now live, I just accept it for what it is. The more you are away from Britain, the more you appreciate it. But I don’t miss it, although I miss my family. Our profession can be uncomfortable but I enjoy what I do. I get on with it.”
小题1:The first paragraph tells us that _____.
| A．Brightman is very popular around the world except in America |
| B．Brightman’s musical style is a mixture of opera, pop and jazz |
| C．the British people don’t like her for her style of music |
| D．Brightman is much older than Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| A．she could adopt one | B．her life and career were unbelievably rich without children |
| C．she felt it normal not to have children | D．she was too busy |
| A．Brightman first appeared in a West End musical at 5 |
| B．Brightman disliked life on the campus |
| C．Brightman was very gifted when she was young |
| D．The saucy dance troupe made Brightman famous |
| A．located | B．admired | C．followed | D．found |
| A．Brightman has to accept the fact that she is liked in Britain |
| B．Brightman lives in America but she loves her own country |
| C．The British coldness towards Brightman led to her hatred to her homeland |
| D．Brightman was at a loss why she was not welcome in Britain |
下面是几篇有关英国博物馆的信息, 请阅读下列资料和相关信息, 并按照要求匹配信息。首先, 请阅读下列资料介绍:
a. Explore the natural history of the planet Earth from the prehistoric era to the present day at one of London’s most visited museums. In 1881, the Natural History Museum moved to its present venue. Designed by Alfred Waterhouse, this building is now one of London’s most beautiful and most recognised. These hallowed halls now house more than 300 years’ worth of collections, with over 68 million specimens. Broadly divided into Life and Earth galleries.
b. The British Museum is one of London’s top tourist attraction as well as being a major scholarly resource and Royal history. Its collection was bequeathed to the nation in 1753 and the Museum’s distinctive Greek revivalist structure was built during the 19th Century. The collection expanded massively during the hey-day of the British Empire. And if you haven’t got time for a proper visit, drop in for a coffee at the lovely Court Restaurant. Admission: free.
c. This magnificent Georgian edifice, found on the northern side of Trafalgar Square, houses a massive collection of Western European art. Designer Marc Newson presents two new blockbuster exhibitions to his gallery. The National Gallery, which showcased recent retrospectives. This exhibition traces the rise of the Italian Renaissance artist, and gather more than 100 pieces of his collection.
d. There are mausoleums, catacombs and ornate crumbling tombs of eminent writers, politicians and artists in the rambling, overgrown west section of this woodland graveyard. Celebrity corpses include Karl Marx, Michael Faraday and Christina Rossetti. Be aware that you must purchase a photography license in order to take photographs within the cemetery. Take advantage of the special guided tours.
e. The Science Museum’s seven floors offer opportunities to explore the history of technology as well as to glimpse the future. Setting off from Launchpad, where you can get to grips with the laws of science, you can move on to a vast array of interactive galleries which demand audience participation—whether it be of the hands- on or brain—stimulating kind. From medical history to nuclear physics, it’s all covered. Challenging the perception amongst many children that science is boring, the multitude of things to press, touch, watch and think about make this museum a firm favourite with the kids.
f. Predominantly a decorative arts museum, the V&A is a comprehensive collection of everything from sculpture to photographs, from Chinese art to art deco. Among others, the V&A houses the recently refurbished Raphael Gallery, home to seven tapestry cartoons by Raphael that are among Britain’s greatest art treasures and part of the Royal Collection. There is a lot to see from the Becket Casket to the Canon photography.
请阅读以下参观者的信息, 然后匹配参观者和他/ 她拟要参观的博物馆:
1. Tedy, a young official who is quite interested in photo- taking and sculpture. He spends all his spare time doing his favorite things.
2. Rusial, a beautiful lady with a fair hair, who gives painting lectures to the students in a college. She herself is a super fan of such artists as Da Vinci, Micheangelo, Raphael.
3. Mr. Green, a free careerist, makes a living by writing short plays which mostly tell the history of Great Britain. Besides, he is also a heavy coffee drinker.
4. Tim, 18 years old, a pre- engineering boy student, full of energy and rich in imagination.
5. Ms Denis, a widelife lover. She takes an active part in protecting the earth and enjoy herself by doing sports.
参观者博物馆
1. Tedy
| A．the Natural History Museum 2. Rusial | B．The British Museum 3. Mr. Green | C．The National Gallery 4. Tim | D．Highgate cemetery |
F. Victoria and Albert Museum
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