阅读理解. One day, my friend Jimmy told me a story. Farmer Joe was in his cart w
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by a truck．He decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take the
trucking
company (which caused the accident)to court. In court the trucking company"slawyer was questioning Farmer Joe. "Didn"t you say, at the same scene of the accident,
"I"m fine"?" said the lawyer．
Farmer Joe responded, "Well, I will tell you what happened. I had just loaded my
favorite mule(骡子) Bessie into the ．．．" "I didn"t ask for any details," the lawyer
interrupted, "Just answer the question．Did you not say, at the scene of the accident,
"I"m fine? ""
Farmer Joe said, "Well, I had just got Bessie into the cart and I was driving down
the road．．．"
The lawyer interrupted again and said, "Judge, I am trying to make clear the fact that,
at the scene of the accident, this man told the police on the scene that he was just fine．
Now several weeks after the accident he is trying to cover the fact．I believe he is telling
lies．Please tell him to simply answer the question."
By this time the Judge was fairly interested in Farmer Joe"s answer and said to the lawyer,
"I"d like to hear what he has to say about his favorite mule Bessie."
Joe thanked the Judge and went on, "Well, as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie,
my favorite mule, into the cart and was driving her down the road when this huge truck
ran into the stop sign and pushed my cart right in the side．I was thrown into one side
and Bessie was thrown into the other."
"I was hurt so badly that I didn"t want to move．However, I could hear old Bessie
breathing loudly and groaning (***)．I knew she was in great pain．Shortly after the
accident a traffic policeman came to the scene．He could hear Bessie groaning so he
went over to her．After he looked at her, he took out his gun and shot her between
the eyes．Then the patrolman came across the road with his gun and looked at me．
He said, "Your mule was in such pain that I had to shoot her. How are you feeling?"
B. just on their way when the truck hit a sign on the roadside and then hit them
C. going to stop by the road when they were hit by the truck
D. going so fast that they ran into a truck
B. so as to prove that Farmer Joe was a man who could not tell right from wrong
C. because he believed Farmer Joe could not remember what he had said at the scene
D. because he believed the answer should be in his favor
B. couldn"t have said "I"m fine." at the scene of the accident
C. could not remember whether he had said "I"m fine." at the scene of the accident
D. tried to cover the fact in the court but no one would believe him
B. As the mule"s
groan was too loud C. Thinking it was the best way to stop the mule from suffering
D. To make Farmer Joe feel better
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pieces of me all over the tidy floor. He kept talking, telling me why he was leaving,___1__it
was for the best, I could do better, it was his __2__and not mine. I had heard it before many
times and yet somehow was still hurt; perhaps one cannot __3__such pain.
He left and I tried to __4__my life. I filled the kettle (水壶), put it on to boil, took out my
old red cup and __5__the coffee powder fall
ing into the bone china. Somehow when the kettlepiped its finishing warning, I __6__not to hear it. That"s what Mike"s leaving had been like,
sudden and with a(n) __7__end. I would rather just __8__in uncertainty than have things
finished. I laughed at myself. Just about a cup of coffee, I must be getting __9__.
And yet it was a young woman who __10__back at me from the mirror, a young woman
full of __11__and hope, a young woman with bright eyes just waiting to see the world.__12__,
there are more important things. More important than __13__, I insist to myself firmly. The lid
goes back on the coffee just like closing on the whole Mike experience.
He didn"t __14__my dreams as I feared that night. __15__, I am flying far across fields
and woods, __16__on those below me. I fly free until I meet another bird who flies with me
in perfect harmony. I realize with some __17__that there is a bird out there for me, there is
another person, not necessarily a lover perhaps just a __18__, but there is someone out
there who is my soul mate. I think about being a broken __19__again and realize that I have
gathered myself back together, what Mike has is __20__a little part of my time in earth, a
little understanding of my physical being. He has merely, a little piece of me.
( )2.A. business
( )3.A. pass
( )4.A. get close to
( )5.A. watched
( )6.A. announced
( )7.A. optimistic
( )8.A. wander
( )9.A. mad
( )10.A. flashed
( )11.A. promise
( )12.A. Therefore
( )13.A. friendship
( )14.A. visit
( )15.A. Deliberately
( )16.A. taking off
( )17.A. sorrow
( )18.A. friend
( )19.A. heart
( )20.A. mostly
B. fault
B. defend
B. get on with
B. made
B. decided
B. sceptical
B. move
B. old
B. swung
B. delight
B. Besides
B. life
B. have
B. Meanwhile
B. looking down
B. worry
B. bird
B. vase
B. hardly
C. luck
C. feel
C. get away with
C. let
C. pretended
C. splendid
C. keep
C. nervous
C. stared
C. dilemmas
C. Finally
C. love
C. reject
C. Thus
C. breaking away
C. relief
C. dream
C. mirror
C. usually
D. rea son
D. ease
D. get down to
D. wanted
D. concluded
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D. take
D. uncertain
D. pointed
D. conflicts
D. Constantly
D. health
D. spin
D. Instead
D. getting over
D. doubt
D. job
D. cup
D. only
with them after school. My wife,and I are __2__ he has other kids to be with and we have __3__ and
encouraged him to play with his friends. We also want Kevin to learn __4__,so we have asked him to tell
us __5_ he"s going and to come home at a specified time.
The __6__ started when Kevin didn"t come home on time. On one occasion,I asked Kevin to be back
at 6 pm. By 6:30,I needed to go __7__ him. I found him at a friend"s house,and he looked __8__ that he
couldn"t continue playing. After we came home,I sat Kevin down for a talk about the __9__ of keeping
his word. I told him I was not worried about his arriving a few __10_ late, after a half hour, he told me he
understood and I was __11_.
The next day,I came home from work at about 6:30 pm and my wife asked me to go and get Kevin
back __12_ she said he should be back home at 6. I walked to his friend"s house and a look of __13_
appeared on Kevin"s face when he came to the door.
At __14_,my wife and I spoke to Kevin about why he didn"t come home on time again. He said he just wanted to __15_ playing. This was __16_ so we decided to ground(罚不准出门)him for a week. This
__17_ no playing with his friends.
For the next week,whenever his friends came to ask for Kevin,we let him __18_ to them that he was
grounded. We felt this would help him be responsible for his __19_.
As a __20_ I believe one of the most important things we can teach our kids is self-responsibility and
that actions have consequences.
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( ) 3. A. made
( ) 4. A. amusements
( ) 5. A. when
( ) 6. A. changes
( ) 7. A. looking for
( ) 8. A. angry
( ) 9. A. quality
( )10.A. hours
( )11. A. satisfied
( )12. A. if
( )13. A. guilt
( )14. A. home
( )15. A. finish
( )16. A. impossible
( )17. A. meant
( )18. A. reply
( )19. A. decisions
( )20. A. teacher
B. lucky
B. allowed
B. communication
B. why
B. conflicts
B. picking up
B. nervous
B. importance
B. minutes
B. shocked
B. unless
B. disappointment
B. school
B. keep
B. impolite
B. suggested
B. apologize
B. words
B. parent
C．worried
C. trained
C. honesty
C. where
C. worries
C. waiting for
C. disappointed
C. stories
C. days
C. surprised
C. because
C. excitement
C. work
C. learn
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C. showed
C. tell
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C. writer
D. sure
D. forced
D. responsibility
D. whenever
D. problems
D. calling up
D. ashamed
D. ways
D. times
D. concerned
D. so
D. hatred
D. office
D. stop
D. unbelievable
D. implied
D. explain
D. friends
D. professor
was in a hurry.However, if anyone asked me how fast I was __2__, I"d say I was not overspeeding.Several times I got __3__ behind a slowmoving truck on a narrow road, and I was holding my fists tightly with
_4__.
At one point along an open highway, I __5__ a crossroad with a traffic light.I was alone on the road
by now, but as I __6__ the light, it turned red and I braked to a stop.I looked left, right and behind me.
Nothing.Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, but there I sat, waiting for the light to __7__, the only
human being for at least a mile in any __8__.
I started __9__ why I refused to run the light.I was not afraid of being __10_, because there was
obviously no policeman around, and there certainly would have been no __11__ in going through it.
Much later that night, after I __12_ a group of my friends in Lewisburg and climbed into bed near
midnight, the question of why I"d stopped for that light __13__ me, I think I stopped because it"s part of a
contract (合同) we all have with each other.It"s not only the __14__, but it"s an arrangement we have, and we trust each other to __15__ it: we don"t go through red lights.Like most of us, I"m more likely to be
__16_ from doing something bad by the social convention that __17_ it than by any law against it.
It"s amazing that we ever __18__ each other to do the right thing, isn"t it? And we do, too.Trust is our
__19__ preference.
I was so __20__ of myself for stopping for the red light that night.
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