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Adrian’s “Amazing Race” started early when his parents realized that he, as a baby, couldn’t hear a thing, not even loud noises. In a special school for the hearing-impaired (听觉受损的)，he learned sign language and got to mix with other disabled children. However, the sight of all the disabled children communicating with one another upset his mother. She wanted him to lead a normal life. So after speaking to an advisor, she sent him to private classes where he learned to read lips and pronounce words.
Later on, Adrian’s parents decided to send him to a regular school. But the headmaster tried to prevent them from doing so, saying regular school couldn’t take care of a special needs students. His parents were determined to take the risk and push him hard to go through his work everyday because they wanted to prove that, given the opportunity, he could do anything. Adrian made the grade and got accepted. It was a big challenge. The pace （节奏）was faster so he had to sit at the front of the class and really pay attention to the teacher, which wasn’t always easy. But he stuck to it and did a lot of extra work after school.
The efforts made by Adrian and his parents paid off. Adrian graduated with good grades and got into a top high school. He also achieved a lot in life outside school. He developed a love for the outdoors and went to Nepal to climb mountains. He even entered the World Yacht Race 05/06--- being the first hearing-impaired Asian to do so.
But none of these achievements would have been possible without one of the most important lessons from his mother.” “If you believe in yourself and work hard, you can achieve great results.” She often said.
小题1:How did Adrian communicate with other children in the special school?| A．By speaking. | B．By using sign language | | C．By reading lips | D．By making loud noises |
小题2:Adrian’s parents decided to send him to a regular school because .| A．they wanted him to live a normal life | | B．they wanted to prove the headmaster wrong | | C．he wouldn’t mix with other disabled children | | D．he wasn’t taken good care of in the special school |
小题3:How did Adrian finally succeed in his study? | A．He did a lot of outdoor activities. | | B．He was pushed hard to study every day. | | C．He attended private classes after school. | | D．He worked very hard both in and after class |
小题4:Why is Adrian’s life described as an “Amazing Race”?| A．He did very well in his study | | B．He succeeded in entering a regular school | | C．He reached his goals in spite of his disability | | D．He took part in the World Yacht Race 05/06 |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:C |
解析
这是一篇关于一位听障青年（ a hearing-impaired young man）自强不息的励志故事,其中包括了母亲的呕心沥血，永不言弃的决心。本文呼吁家庭和社会应对残疾人有关爱之心，同时也在无形当中起到了鼓励青少年永不言败，自强不息。
小题1:此题考查文章的细节。根据文章的第一段的第二句话可得出答案。
小题2:此题属于推理判断题。C选项具有一定的迷惑性，父母亲并不是因为校长的话而把儿子送往学校的，所以他不是母亲作出此决定的原因。C与D明显错误。无论把儿子送往“private classes”还是“ a regular school”都是想让儿子过上正常的生活。
小题3:此题也属于推理判断题。做对本题的关键是要看清题目中的“in his study”,否则就容易误选。在根据第二段的最后一句话“But he stuck to it and did a lot of extra work after school.”可推断出答案。
小题4:此题考查对文章的深层理解。A、B、C涉及到的都是表层上的内容。 |
举一反三
The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”
“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”
“I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”
I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do?”
“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”
“So when it goes down, you go down with it.”
“That’s good, sir.”
“How long will the computer be down?” I wanted to know.
“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us.”
After the girl told me they had no backup(备用) computer, I said. “Let’s forget the computer. What about your planes? They’re still flying, aren’t they?”
“I couldn’t tell without asking the computer.”
“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington, ” I suggested.
“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket.”
“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”
“I wouldn’t know, ” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only ‘IT’ knows. ‘It’ can’t tell me.”
By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.
小题1:The best title for the article is _______.| A．When the Computer Is Down | B．The Most Frightening Words | | C．The Computer of the Airport | D．Asking the Computer |
小题2:What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?| A．She could sell a ticket. | | B．She could write out a ticket. | | C．She could answer the passengers’ questions. | | D．She could do nothing. |
小题3:Why do you think they had not a backup computer?| A．Because it was easy down | | B．Because it was very expensive. | | C．Because it was not advanced enough. | | D．Because it was not as big as the main computer. |
小题4:The last paragraph suggests that _______.| A．a modern computer won’t be down. | | B．computers can take the place of humans | | C．sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people | | D．there will be great changes in computers |
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Jack used to curse(咒骂) the front yard as if it were a living thing. He was the man who lived with my grandmother for thirty years. He was not my grandfather, but an Italian who came down the road one day, selling fruit in Florida.
Jack stopped at my grandmother’s house to sell her some oranges just a stone’s throw from downtown Miami, and he was delivering her whiskey a week later. He stayed for thirty years. Jack hated the front yard because he thought it was against him. There had been a beautiful lawn(草坪) there when Jack came along, but he let it wander off into nothing. He refused to water it or take care of it in any way.
Now the ground was so hard that it gave his car flat tires(轮胎) in the summer. The yard was always finding a nail to put in one of his tires or the car as always sinking out of sight in the winter when the rains came on. The lawn had belonged to my grandfather, who lived out the end of his life in an insane hospital. It had been his pride and joy and was said to be the place where his powers came.
小题1:It can be inferred that the real reason Jack had problems with the yard was that _______.| A．he didn’t like the lawn. | | B．the author’s grandfather was against Jack working on the lawn | | C．the lawn was full of living things | | D．he himself did not take care of the lawn |
小题2:We can learn from the passage that when the lawn belonged to the author’s grandfather, it had been _______.| A．beautiful | B．worn out | C．wasted | D．full of nails |
小题3:What do we know about Jack and the author’s grandfather?| A．They both hated the front lawn. | | B．Jack was jealous of the author’s grandfather. | | C．They sold fruit in Florida. | | D．They came from Italy and lived together. |
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I was 15 when I walked into McCarley’s Bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at ___1___ on the shelves, the man behind the counter, ___2___, asked if I’d like ___3___. I needed to start ___4___ for college, so I said yes. I ___5___ after school and during summers for the lowest wages and the job helped pay for my freshman year of college. I would work many other jobs; I made coffee in the Students Union during college, I was a hotel maid and even made maps for the U. S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most ___6___. One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost ___7___ we had at that time ___8___ and found other books we could order. She left the store less ___9___. I’ve always remembered the ___10___ I felt in having helped her.
Years later, as a ___11___ in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant child who was born with his fingers connected, webline. His family could not ___12___ a corrective operation, and the boy lived in ___13___, hiding his hand in his pocket.
I ___14___ my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the ___15___ for free.
I visited the boy in the recovery room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his ___16___ hand and say, “Thank you.” I felt a sense of ___17___.
In the past, while I was ___18___, I always sense I was working for the customers, not the store. Today it’s the same. NBC News pays my salary, ___19___ I feel as if I work for the ___20___, helping them make sense of the world.
1. A. maps B. titles C. articles D. reports
2. A. the reader B. the college student C. the shop owner D. the customer
3. A. a book B. a job C. some tea D. any help
4. A. planning B. saving C. preparing D. studying
5. A. read B. studied C. cooked D. worked
6. A. boring B. surprising C. satisfying D. disappointing
7. A. anything B. something C. nothing D. everything
8. A. in need B. in all C. in order D. in store
9. A. worried B. satisfied C. excited D. puzzled
10. A. pride B. failure C. regret D. surprise
11. A. doctor B. store owner C. bookseller D. TV reporter
12. A. pay B. cost C. afford D. spend
13. A. shame B. honour C. horror D. danger
14. A. advisedB. forced C. persuaded D. permitted
15. A. action B. program C. treatment D. operation
16. A. repaired B. connected C. injured D. improved
17 A. pleasureB. sadness C. interest D. disappointment
18. A. at the TV station B. in the Students Union
C. at the U. S. Forest Service D. at McCarley’s Bookstore
19. A. so B. and C. but D. because
20. A. readers B. viewers C. customers D. passengers |
My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $ 1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.
It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. More important, I earned my pay; it never entered my mind to say I was sick just because I didn’t want to work.
I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $ 18 a week. Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person can have.
When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dreamt of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.
The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb(番石榴树枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity. I learned working in the field — except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.
小题1:The writer’s first job was _______.| A．to stand down the fairway at a golf course | | B．to watch over the sugar-cane plantation | | C．to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields | | D．to spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them |
小题2:The word “tedious” in Paragraph 2 most probably means _______.| A．difficult | B．boring | C．interesting | D．unusual |
小题3:The writer learned that_______ from his first job.| A．he should work for those who he liked most | | B．he should work longer than what he was expected | | C．he should never fail to say hello to his owner | | D．he should be respectful and faithful to the people he worked for |
小题4:_______ gave the writer serf-esteem.| A．Having a family of eight people | | B．Owning his own golf course | | C．Bringing money back home to help the family | | D．Helping his father with the work on the plantation |
小题5:Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?| A．He wanted to be a successful golfer. | | B．He wanted to run a golf course near his house. | | C．He was satisfied with the job he got on a plantation. | | D．He wanted to make money by guiding oxen with a broomstick. |
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We spent a day in the country, picking wild flowers. With the car full of flowers we were going home. On our way back my wife noticed a cupboard (柜厨) outside a furniture shop. It was tall and narrow. “Buy it, ” my wife said at once. “We’ll carry it home on the roof rack. I’ve always wanted one like that.”
What could I do? Ten minutes later I was ￡20 poorer; and the cupboard was tied on the roof rack. It was six feet long and eighteen inches square, quite heavy too.
In the gathering darkness I drove slowly. Other drivers seemed unusually polite that evening. The police even stopped traffic to let us through. Carrying furniture was a good idea.
After a time my wife said, “There’s a long line of cars behind. Why don’t they overtake, I wonder?” In fact a police car did overtake. The two officers inside looked at us seriously as they passed. But then, with great kindness, they led us through the rush-hour traffic. The police car stopped at our village church. One of the officers came to me.
“Right, sir, ” he said. “Do you need any more help?”
I was a bit puzzled. “Thanks, officer, ” I said. “You have been very kind. I live just on the road.”
He was staring at our car, first at the flowers, then at the cupboard. “Well, well, ” he said, laughing. “It’s a cupboard you’ve got there! We thought it was something else.”
My wife began to laugh. The truth hit me like a stone between the eyes. I smiled at the officer. “Yes, it’s a cupboard, but thanks again.” I drove home as fast as I could.
1. In fact the husband _______ the cupboard.
A. would like very much to buy B. badly wanted
C. was glad to have bought D. would rather not buy
2. Other drivers thought they were _______.
A. carrying a cupboard to the church
B. sending flowers to the church
C. carrying nothing but a piece of furniture
D. going to attend a funeral(葬礼) at the church
3. The police will be more polite to those who are _______.
A. driving in gathering darkness B. in great sorrow (悲痛)
C. driving with wild glowers in the car D. carrying furniture
4. What did the husband think of this matter?
A. It was very strange. B. He felt ashamed of it.
C. He took great pride in it. D. He was puzzled at it. |
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