阅读理解。 I was hurrying to our basketball game one morning when Hillary Barnes,
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"No,that"s Christine.I"m Katie."I said.
We were not identical twins；we looked quite different.She could defeat Snow White in a beauty
contest!Compared to Christine,I felt like one of Cinderella"s stepsisters.
One Saturday Christine gave me a painting lesson because I was always attempting to be artistic too.
But I knocked over the vase of flowers,spilling water onto Christine"s painting.Instead of becoming angry,
though,she turned the whole mess into a dreamy masterpiece(杰作)．You could look at it five different
ways and see five different things.With this brilliant creation,she won First Prize in the art competition.I
really envied her,but I knew it wasn"t her fault and I was the one with wild,unmanageable hair and no talent.
Joining Christine"s basketball team was my latest effort to be like her.
On the way to the gym,I"d made up my mind to give my best performance in that day"s game.I made
preparations with great enthusiasm."Christine,here!"I tossed her a ball.But it was too high,she leapt for it,it slipped through her fingers and crashed into the tape recorder that was used to play the national anthem
before each game.
I muttered apologies as I picked up the broken pieces of the recorder.Coach looked at the mess and
asked,"How are we going to play the song now?"
Christine suggested,"Let Katie sing it!She"s always singing at home."
Coach asked."Would you?"I found myself nodding.
Coach announced the national anthem and everyone stood.Standing before a microphone,I looked up
to the flag.The notes seemed to flow from deep inside me,and my voice was steady and clear.When I
finished,the gym was silent Then it was filled with applause.As the game started.teammates patted my back and gave me the"thumbs up"sign.Laura Jamison said."You should try out for the school musical!"I Nodded and said that I might.
The next morning Hillary Barnes stopped me in the hallway and asked,"Are you the twin who sings?"
"Yes,that"s me,"I answered,grining(露齿笑)as I walked to class.
1．The authur uses"Snow White"and"Cinderella"s stepsisters"to show
A．how dissimilar the twins were in appearanee
B．why Christine could win the art competition
C．who was the most popular girl at school
D．what the twins characters were like
2．What can we learn from Paragraph 4?
A．Christine was unpleasant to her sister.
B．Katie showed a lot of ability in painting too.
C．The masterpiece was painted by the two sisters.
D．Katie took a reasonably balanced view of her sister.
3．Christine recommended Katie for the national anthem because _____.
A．she knew perfectly well what Katie had a gift for.
B．she wanted to repair the damage she had caused.
C．she thought Katie should be punished.
D．she would like to help the coach.
4．What is the message of the story?
A．Bad situations help become popular.
B．People are talented in different ways.
C．People should always be nice to others.
D．Unsuccessful attempts are well worth the effort.
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community.__2__ He wasn"t happy.All his life he had been pursuing happiness and striving(奋斗)for
happiness,but he had never been able to find it.
Then one day he heard about a hidden temple in Nepal that had a special room that contained the
secret of happiness.__3__ After many years of searching and countless hardships he arrived there.He was tired and penniless,but he knew that none of that mattered now because he had found the temple.He asked a wise,smiling monk(和尚)if he could enter the special room.The monk agreed and showed him the stairs
leading to the room.__4__ He stared into the room with sunlight streaming through the window and saw
what he had come so far to find.There hanging on the wall was the secret of happiness.The man gazed at
his reflection in the mirror and laughed.
__5__ Happiness is a choice that we can make.Don"t spend the rest of your life searching the world for happiness then.Just look in the mirror and laugh.Just let the happiness flow from your heart,mind,and soul
until it fills your life and the lives of all those around you.
A．He immediately sold all that he owned and set out to find this hidden temple.
B．The man found the secret of happiness at last.
C．But he knew that something was missing in his life.
D．He climbed them with legs shaking with expectation and slowly opened the door.
E．There once was a very wealthy and successful man.
F．It is time that we all realized that we were the secret of our own happiness.
G．It was difficult to find the temple in Nepal.
sports car in a dealer"s showroom, and 2 his father could well 3 it, he told him that was all he wanted.
On the morning of his gradation day his father called him into his own study and told him how 4
he was to have such a fine son. He handed his son a beautiful gift box. 5 but slightly disappointed,
the young man 6 the box and found a lovely book, 7 , he raised his voice at his father and said. " With
all your money you give me a book?" And rushed out of the house 8 the book in the study
He did not contact(联系)his father for a whole year until one day he saw in the strict an old man who
looked like his father. He 9 he bad to go back home and see his father.
When he arrived at his father"s house, he was told that his father had been in hospital for a week.
The moment he was about to 10 the hospital. he saw on the desk the still new book ,just as he had left
it one year ago. he opened it and began to 11 the pages. suddenly, a car key 12 from an envelope
taped behind the book ,it bad a lag(标签)with dealer"s name, the 13 dealer who had the sports car he
bad 19 on the tag was the 20 of his graduation. and the word PAID IN FULL
| ( )1. A. expected. ( )2. A. finding ( )3. A. afford. ( )4. A. encouraged. ( )5. A. Nervous ( )6. A. packed. ( )7. A. Angrily ( )8. A. toasting ( )9. A. learned . ( )10. A. get to ( )11. A. clean ( )12. A. lost ( )13. A. old. ( )14. A. remembered ( )15. A. Picture | B. enjoyed. B. proving B. offer B. comfortable B. Serious B. opened. B. Eagerly B. putting B. realized. B. search for B. read. B. came B. same B. desired. B. place | C. admired. C. deciding C. keep C. proud. C. Careful C. picked up C. Calmly C. forgetting C. recognized. C. turn to C. turn C. appeared. C. special C. found. C. date | D. owned D. knowing D. like D. moved D. Curious D. put aside D. Anxiously D. leaving D. admitted D. leave for D. count D. dropped D. new D. met D. met | |||
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| The Man of Many Secrets - Harry Houdini - was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes - from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his "magic" tricks. Of course, his secret was not magic, or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted. Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch. It was the publicity(宣传) that came from this that started Harry Houdini"s success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck - and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his. Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? World-wild fame, and a name remembered today. 1. What did Houdini depends on when his success in prison escaped ? A. his special tricks and supernatural powers B. his magic tricks and unhuman powers C. his unusual ability and a skeleton key D. his wisdom and magic tricks 2. In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word "this" refers to _______. A. the year 1898 B. his first prison escape C. his failure escape D. Harry Houdini"s success 3. It can be inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous _______. A. in 1898 C. at the age of 23 B. before he died D. when he was about 24 4. Which of the following statement is right? A. Someone gave him a key that fits many locks. B. He made a key that could open every door. C. Everyone hated him very much. D. He was trained to escape again. 5. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A. How to escape from the prison. B. A Man of Many Secrets C. World-wild Fame D. Great Escape | ||||||
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| My mother used to ask me what the most important part of the body was. Through the years I would take a 1 at what I thought was the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought 2 was very important to us as humans, so I said, "My ears, Mommy." She said, "No. Many people are 3 . Keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon." Several years passed before she asked me again. Since making my first 4 , I had often thought over the question. So this time I told her, "Mommy, sight is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes." She looked at me and told me, "You are 5 fast, but the answer is not correct because there are many people who are blind." 6 the years, Mother asked me a couple more 7 and always her answer was, "No, but you are getting 8 every year, my child." Last year, my Grandpa 9 . Everybody was heart-broken. Everybody was crying. My Mom looked at me when it was our 10 to say our final good-bye to Grandpa. She asked me, "Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?" I was 11 when she asked me this now. I always thought this was a 12 between her and me. She saw the 13 on my face and told me, "The question is very important. It shows that you have really 14 your life." I saw her eyes wet up with tears. She said, "My dear, the most important body part is your 15 ." I asked, "Is it because they hold up your head?" She replied, "No, it is 16 on them a crying friend or loved one can rest their heads. I only hope that you have enough 17 and friends that you will have a shoulder to cry 18 when you need it." Then and there I knew the most important body part is not a 19 one. It is sympathetic to the pain of 20 . | ||||||
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success.
ind us to set a goal for our life