阅读理解 Ellen and Bill County are both teachers. They met in college and became - 高中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解
     Ellen and Bill County are both teachers. They met in college and became good friends because of their shared love for children. Two years after the couple got married, Ellen saw a huge change in the life of one of her students, a 9-year-old girl. Three years ago both of the little girl"s parents had died and there was no one to take care of her. She was taken away to live in a government office. But finally she was taken in and adopted by a family and became their daughter. Ellen said that she noticed the difference in the child"s life
after she was placed in a permanent home and thought that maybe she and her husband could help a child
in a similar way.
     They decided to become temporary parents and to take a child into their home on the weekends when the real parents could not take care of him or her. The pair planned to have their own children in a few
years, but decided that this would be a way to give to the community in the meantime.
     The couple quickly grew to love one of the children they looked after. When he became legally
available, Billy became the first child they took in permanently. Six months after adopting Billy, Ellen was
told by her doctor that she was unable to have children naturally. Ellen says she knew then that adoption
was the way she was meant to have a family.
     Since adopting Billy, now 17, Ellen and Bill have adopted five more children --- Rose,16； Albert,
11; Joshua, 5 and in June 2003, they added biological brother and sister Tyler and Rylee to the County
family.
     The County family has been recognized for their work on adoption, and have received many awards
for their efforts. Last June, the family was even interviewed on the television show, "Adoption Stories".
     Ellen says she would like to encourage other families to adopt children. She adds that the best part of
being a mother of six is: "Giving Josh a bath, putting a band-aid on a cut knee or just the everyday mom
things, that makes motherhood such an honor and a privilege."
1. What is the passage mainly about?
A. How a couple first met at college
B. Where you can adopt a child
C. The benefits of adoption to the community
D. How adoption created a happy family
2. Why did Ellen and Bill first decide to adopt a childe?
A. Because they had always loved children very much
B. Because they saw the benefits of adoption for a child
C. Because they were not able to have children of their own
D. Because they wanted to receive awards for their community work
3. Which of the children are related to each other by blood?
A. Rylee and Tyler
B. Billy and Tyler
C. Albert and Joshua
D. Rose and Albert
4. What can be inferred from this passage?
A. Ellen had thought of adopting a child before getting married.
B. Only kids under 16 can be adopted by a family
C. A loving family is important to a child"s happiness
D. Adopting a child always makes the family become famous

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阅读理解
     After Mom died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was frail and moved
slowly, but he always had a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with
an unsigned note reading, "Drink your juice." Such a gesture, I knew, was as far as Dad had ever been
able to go in expressing his love. In fact, I remember, as a kid I had questioned Mom "Why doesn"t Dad
love me!" Mom frowned. "Who said he doesn"t love you!" "Well, he never tells me," I complained. "He
never tells me either," she said, smiling. "But look how hard he works to take care of us, to buy us food
and clothes, and to pay for this house. That"s how your father tells us he loves us."
     I nodded slowly. I understood in my head, but not in my heart. I still wanted my father to put his arms
around me and tell me he loved me. Dad owned and operated a small scrap(片)metal business and after
school I often hung around while he worked. I always hoped he"d ask me to help and then praise me for
what I did. He never asked. His tasks were too dangerous for a young boy to attempt, and Mom was
already worried enough that he"d hurt himself. Dad hand fed scrap steel into a device that chopped it as
cleanly as a butcher chops a rack of ribs. The machine looked like a giant pair of scissors, with blades
thicker than my father"s body. If he didn"t feed those terrifying blades just right, he risked serious injury.
"Why don"t you hire someone to do that for you?" Mom asked Dad one night as she bent over him and
rubbed his aching shoulders with a strong smelling liniment. "Why don"t you hire a cook?" Dad asked,
giving her one of his rare smiles.
     Many years later, during my first daily visit, after drinking the juice my father had squeezed for me, I
walked over, hugged him and said, "I love you, Dad." From then on I did this every morning. My father
never told me how he felt about my hugs, and there was never any expression on his face when I gave
them.
1. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. I just couldn"t understand my father
B. My father never loved me
C. Silent fatherly love
D. My hard-working father
2. The author"s father always prepared a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice for him because _______.
A. that was the author"s favorite
B. he was sure the author would be thirsty
C. the author was always complaining
D. that was a gesture of love
3. When the author complained in the first paragraph, his mother __________.
A. tried to comfort him
B. told him that his father loved him with action
C. tried to defend his father
D. got a bit angry with him
4. The author"s father didn"t hire a helper because __________.
A. his job was too dangerous
B. his job required high skills
C. he wanted to save money
D. he was not good at communicating with others
5. We may infer from the passage that __________.
A. the author"s father lacked a sense of humor
B. the author quite understood his father as time went on
C. the author"s father didn"t love him very much
D. the author"s father was too strict with him

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     It was Thanksgiving morning and in the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the
traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.
     "Any old papers, lady?" asked one of them.
     I was busy. I wanted to say "no" until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals, wet with heavy snow.
     "Come in and I"ll make you a cup of hot cocoa."
     They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started
again on my household budget.
     The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking
at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, "Lady, are you rich?"
     I looked at my shabby slipcovers. The girl put her cup back in its saucer carefully and said, "Your cups match your saucers." Her voice was hungry with a need that no amount of food could supply. They left
after that, holding their bundles of papers against the wind. They hadn"t said "Thank you." They didn"t need to.They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful. Plain blue china cups and saucers
were only worth five pence. But they matched.
     I tasted the potatoes and stirred the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a good steady job-these matched, too.
     I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy prints of small sandals
were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to forget how
rich I am.
1. Two children came to the writer"s front door because __________.
A. it was Thanksgiving Day
B. they were beggars
C. they wanted old papers
D. they wanted a cup of cocoa
2. Why did the writer let the children in?
A. She showed great pity on them.
B. She had old papers to sell. 66～70 CABCD
C. She wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving feast.
D. She wanted them to see how rich she was.
3. The girl thought the writer was rich perhaps because __________.
A. she saw that the lady"s room was comfortable
B. she saw the cups matched the saucers
C. the writer"s slipcovers were very new
D. the writer was preparing a big meal while she was too hungry
4. From the passage, we can infer that whether you are rich depends on __________.
A. how much money you have had
B. how you have helped others
C. how you feel about your life
D. what job your husband is doing
5. The writer left the muddy prints of small sandals on the floor for a while to __________.
A. show her husband that someone had come
B. remind her that she had helped two children
C. remind her that she was very rich in the neighborhood
D. remind her how life should be

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完形填空
     Once there was a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived,
so he __1__his suitcase with food and water and he started his __2__.
     When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She was __3__in the park just staring at
some pigeons. The boy sat down next to her and opened his __4__. He was about to take a drink when he noticed that the old lady looked __5__so he offered her a piece of bread. She __6__accepted it and smiled at him. Her __7__was so pretty that the boy wanted to see it __8__, so he offered her some water. Once
again she smiled at him. The boy was __9__!
     They sat there all __10__eating and smiling, but they never said a word. As it grew dark, the boy
realized how __11__he was and he got up to leave, but before he had gone more than a few steps, he
__12__around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug. She gave him her the __13__smile ever.
     When the boy got home, his mother was __14__by the look of joy on his face.
     She asked him, "What did you do today that made you so happy?"
     He replied, "I had __15__with God." But before his mother could respond, he added, "You know
__16__? She"s got the most beautiful smile I"ve ever seen!"
     Meanwhile, the old woman, also radiant(容光焕发)with__17__ , returned to her home.
     Her son was shocked by the look of __18__on her face and he asked, "Mother, what did you do today that made you so happy?"
     She replied, "I __19__some food in the park with God." But before her son responded, she added,
"you know, he"s much __20__than I expected."

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(     )1. A. packed
(     )2. A. game
(     )3. A. standing
(     )4. A. suitcase
(     )5. A. worried
(     )6. A. sadly
(     )7. A. face
(     )8. A. again
(     )9. A. satisfied
(     )10. A. morning
(     )11. A. happy
(     )12. A. turned
(     )13. A. commonest
(     )14. A. surprised
(     )15. A. a talk
(     )16. A. why
(     )17. A. joy
(     )18. A. victory
(     )19. A. sold
(     )20. A. nobler

B. carried
B. journey
B. playing
B. bag
B. pale
B. joyful
B. skirt
B. often
B. delighted
B. day
B. tired
B. saw
B. biggest
B. terrified
B. a walk
B. who
B. fear
B. regret
B. back
B. taller

C. delivered
C. car
C. sitting
C. beer
C. hungry
C. respectfully
C. smile
C. further
C. surprised
C. night
C. bored
C. walked
C. weakest
C. injured
C. fun
C. what
C. anger
C. peace
C. drank
C. wiser

D. arranged
D. work
D. waiting
D. map
D. poor
D. gratefully
D. ring
D. soon
D. shocked
D. afternoon
D. thirsty
D. jumped
D. trickiest
D. attracted
D. lunch
D. where
D. content
D. sadness
D. had
D. younger

阅读理解
     I wasn"t interested in becoming a model at first. I worked as a receptionist in a beauty shop during high school. It was in South Dakota. A woman who had worked for Vogue-a famous fashion magazine said to me, "Why don"t you go to New York and be a model?"
     So I went to New York at eighteen. I went to the first model agency, they thought that I was too
long-waisted. It was too bad since I came from South Dakota. I looked up in the telephone book. Hunting Hartford had just bought the agency. So I went there. I was in such a hurry that I couldn"t give my name to the receptionist. About half an hour later, the man who had just taken over the agency-he had been a male model before-came in. I was just staring at this unfamiliar man when he said, "You! Come into my office!"
     How do you feel as a fashion model? Quite OK, I should say. But you stop thinking when you are
working. It takes a lot of nervous energy as well because the camera goes one, two, three very fast and
you have to move very fast. I like my job because it gives me freedom. I can have half a day off to do
things I like. I can"t do that if I do a normal job. I never like becoming a secretary. They have to sit in the
office for eight hours a day, facing the same people.
     Most models, after one or two years, can"t be still very interested in it. But I like being a model.
Maybe I was a born one, as many people say.
1. Who inspired the author"s desire to become a model?
A. A woman customer in the beauty shop.
B. Hunting Hartford.
C. The author herself.
D. The author"s father.
2. Why didn"t the author return to South Dakota when she was first refused?
A. Because she had a strong desire to become a model.
B. Because South Dakota is far away from New York.
C. Because Hunting Hartford asked her not to go back.
D. Because she liked to be a receptionist at a beauty shop.
3. Which of the following is not true?
A. Hunting Hartford had an experience as a model.
B. Hunting Hartford thought the author might be a good model.
C. Hunting Hartford had always been a model agent.
D. Hunting Hartford accepted the author as a model.
4. Why did the author like being a model?
A. Because she liked the woman customer.
B. Because she liked the freedom.
C. Because she liked to have a regular work schedule.
D. Because she liked Hunting Hartford.
5. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Perseverance leads to your success.
B. Finding a job you like to do is important.
C. Both A and B.
D. Becoming a model is quite easy.

完形填空

     I used to love to watch my high school track team train - especially the long-distance runners. But that
year, my eyes were   1 to a girl whose running style was all wrong. She ran with her arms tucked(塞进)
close to her body, bouncing(蹦) up and down in a way that must have driven her   2 crazy. My athletic
mind laughed at her strange style, and I began to think   3 her as "the Bouncer".
     In early May, my high school   4 a big sports meeting. A large group of athletes joined in the
two-mile running race - including the Bouncer. As the race progressed, she quickly fell far   5 the pack
and every runner lapped her at least once before it was over. But she just kept running,  6 up and
down - and always wearing the same smile.
     "That poor kid," I thought. "There was nothing to be  7 by finishing so far behind the pack. Why
didn"t she just  8 ?" Still, she never stopped, and her smile never changed.
     But a short while later, something   9   began to happen. As she entered the home stretch(终点直道),
a cheer began to rise, growing louder with each step the Bouncer took toward the finish line until, finally,
every person in the stands stood and cheered   10   the fate(命运) of the whole race depended on this
one lone girl, bouncing toward the finish line.
     The Bouncer just   11 to run exactly as she"d been doing from the beginning. As she crossed the
finish line, the teacher walked out onto the   12 and held her arms tightly.
     I"ve seen hundreds of races since that day, and I"ve seen thousands of runners  13 the finish line.
But I"ve never seen anything that showed the true spirit of   14 as I watched on that warm spring day
so long ago, when I saw a race won by a girl I had   15 called the Bouncer

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