阅读理解 Thanks a Million,
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I was born disabled. A difficult birth, feet first, my head stuck. By my first birthday, I couldn"t stand
or walk.
When I was three, the doctor told dad I had cerebral palsy (脑瘫). A loss of oxygen to my brain had
destroyed brain signals to the right side of my body.
But no son of my dad" s was going to be disabled. Every morning before breakfast and every evening
before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floor to exercise my right leg. The muscles were shrunk
and twisted together. Back and forth up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles into shape.
But my dad" s exercise of passion didn"t stop there. For my 13th birthday, he threw me a special
party. When everybody was gone, he brought me to open a large box, it was a-set of boxing gloves. We
put them on. My dad kept on beating me mercilessly. Each time I tried to get up, leather kissed my nose,
eyes and jaw. I "begged him to stop. He said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world.
That same year, I was the only kid in my neighborhood that wasn"t picked for Little League. Two
weeks later. Dad started the Shedd Park Minor League, and every kid played. Dad coached us and
made me a pitcher (棒球投手).
The power of my dad" s love guaranteed I walked and more. In high school, I became a football star.
In 1997, a brain surgeon in San Jose told me I didn"t t have cerebral palsy after all. He explained how
and where the doctor" s forceps (镊子) at birth had damaged my brain.
My dad never knew the whole truth since he passed away years ago. But all that counts is the bottom
line. After all his madness, on this Father" s Day, like every Father" s Day, I" m no longer disabled.
1. What caused the author" s disability?
A. A failed operation.
B. The doctor"s forceps.
C. An accident in a game.
D. Shrunken and twisted muscles.
2. What do we learn from the passage?
A. The author has a talent for boxing.
B. The author achieved a lot thanks to his father" s love.
C. The author became a baseball star with the help of his father.
D. The author doesn"t think his father should be so strict with him.
3. Paragraph 3 suggests that the author" s father____.
A. wouldn"t give up hope easily
B. believed his son was a normal child
C. blamed the doctors for his son" s disability
D. couldn"t accept the truth that his son was disabled
4. The author wrote the passage to ____.
A. remember his father
B. encourage disabled children
C. show the difficulty the disabled face
D. give advice to the parents of disabled children
答案
举一反三
grass." The idea 1 my father actually thought I was big enough to he
lp him in his 2 made me feel proud and 3 . From sunup to sundown my father, my younger brother and I 4 in the large yards in a
rich part of Atlanta, Georgia. By the end of the day I was tired out, but felt good. I had 5 a hard day"s
labour and had earned $6.
One day my father found some leaves I"d 6 and pulled me aside. "Clear away these leaves," he
said 7 , "and don"t make me have to tell you to do it again." The 8 was clear. Today I value the
importance of doing a job 9 the first time. It will never 10 to impress the person you are working for.
After two years my father told me and my brother that he felt we were 11 enough to do lawns(草坪)
on our own. Every Saturday , we 12 out early in the morning with the same desire and drive we had
gained while working 13 our father.
Taking care of lawns was not exciting 14 high-paying, but that didn"t matter. It taught me that any
job is a good job and that 15 I was paid was more than I had before.
A newspaper reporter once asked me how someone 16 possible live on a forty-hour- a -week
minimum(最低的) pay. "My father never worked just forty hours a 17 , and neither have I." I replied.
"If you"re only working forty hours, you probably don"t want to do 18 better than you"re doing."
In every job I"ve 19 -from doing lawns to washing dishes-I have learned something that helped me
in my next job. If you 20 hard enough, you can learn from any job you do.
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| I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes-anything to enrich my thought and make  me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class thata person could not have a "complicated idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony(嘲讽)or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times.(How, after all, could one read a book more than once?)And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length.(Could anything shorter be a book?) There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the "hundred most important books of Western Civilization." "More than anything else in my life," the professor told the reporter with finality (firmly), "these books have made me all that I am." That was the kind of words I couldn"t ignore. I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato"s The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition(迷信)of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by the time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list 1. On hearing the teacher"s suggestion of reading, the writer thought _______. A. one must read as many books as possible B. a student shoul  d not have a complicated ideaC. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books D. students ought to make a list of the b  ooks they had read2. While at high school, the writer _______. A. had plans for reading B. learned to educate himself C. only read books over 100 pages D. read only one book several times 3. The writer"s purpose in mentioning The Republic is to _______. A. explain why it was included in the list B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at  every word4. The writer provides two book lists to _______. A. show how he developed his point of view B. tell his reading experience at high school C. introduce the two persons" reading methods D. explain that he read many books at high school | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| A loving person lives in a loving world.A hostile (敌意的) person lives in a hostile world.Everyone you meet is your mirror. Mirrors have a very particular__1__.They reflect the image in front of them.Just as a__2__mirror works as the vehicle to reflection,__3__do all of the people in our lives. When we see something beautiful such as a flower garden,that garden__4__a reflection.When we love someone,it"s a(n)__5__of loving ourselves.We have often heard things like "I love how I am when I"m with that person". That simply__6__into "I"m able to love me when I love that other person". __7__, when we meet someone new,we feel as though we "click". Sometimes it"s as if we"ve__8__each other for a long time. That feeling can come from__9__similarities. Just as the "mirror" or other people can be a positive reflection,it is more likely that we"ll__10__it when it has a negative connotation (内涵). __11__,it"s easy to remember the times when we have met someone we"re not particularly__12__about.We may have some criticism (批评) in our mind about the __13__.This is especially true when we get to know someone with whom we would rather spend__14__ time. Oftentimes,when we__15__qualities in other people,ironically (讽刺地),it"s usually the mirror that"s __16__to us. At times we meet someone__17__and feel distant,disconnected,or disgusted.__18__we don"t want to believe it,and it"s not easy or__19__to look further,it can be a great learning lesson to__20__what part of the person is being reflected in you.It"s simply just another way to create more selfawareness. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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it to his wife. "Look at this, dear. What do you think it means?"