阅读理解                                                          Thanks a Million,

阅读理解                                                          Thanks a Million,

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阅读理解                                                          Thanks a Million, Dad
     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
1-4: BBAA
举一反三
完形填空      My father woke me up early one summer morning announcing, "Get up. You"re going with me to cut
grass." The idea   1   my father actually thought I was big enough to help 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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(     )1. A. what      
(     )2. A. farm      
(     )3. A. excited  
(     )4. A. played    
(     )5. A. put out  
(     )6. A. collected  
(     )7. A. finally  
(     )8. A. news      
(     )9. A. right    
(     )10. A. happen  
(     )11. A. strong  
(     )12. A. worked  
(     )13. A. beyond  
(     )14. A. and      
(     )15. A. no matter how
(     )16. A. must    
(     )17. A. day      
(     )18. A. some    
(     )19. A. found    
(     )20. A. see    
B. that  
B. family
B. tired
B. excised
B. put down
B. cleaned
B. usually
B. message
B. quickly
B. seem  
B. old  
B. set  
B. without
B. and yet
B. whatever  
B. should
B. year  
B. any  
B. lost  
B. work  
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C. troubled  
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C. put away  
C. missed  
C. unexpectedly  
C. information
C. fast    
C. fail    
C. clever  
C. turned  
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C. but    
C. no matter what
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D. skilled        
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阅读理解
     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 that
a 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 should not have a complicated idea
C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books
D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read

2. 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 word

4. 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
完形填空
     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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(     )1. A. target      
(     )2. A. medical    
(     )3. A. so          
(     )4. A. focuses on  
(     )5. A. reward      
(     )6. A. grows      
(     )7. A. Obviously    
(     )8. A. known      
(     )9. A. creating      
(     )1. A. ignore    
(     )11. A. In brief    
(     )12. A. crazy      
(     )13. A. time      
(     )14. A. less      
(     )15. A. appreciate  
(     )16. A. shouting    
(     )17. A. new      
(     )18. A. If        
(     )19. A. terrible    
(     )20. A. figure out  
B. style        
B. physical    
B. then        
B. applies to  
B. evaluation  
B. translates  
B. Strangely    
B. supported    
B. lacking      
B. keep        
B. In addition  
B. anxious      
B. mirror      
B. amazing      
B. dislike      
B. shining      
B. nervous      
B. Although    
B. noble        
B. take out    
C. function      
C. chemical      
C. nor          
C. works with    
C. reflection    
C. enters        
C. Fortunately    
C. observed      
C. sharing        
C. take        
C. For example  
C. upset        
C. garden      
C. more        
C. describe      
C. speaking      
C. familiar      
C. Since        
C. reliable      
C. put out        
D. color            
D. mental            
D. neither          
D. serves as        
D. example          
D. falls            
D. Frequently        
D. recognized        
D. comparing        
D. notice            
D. As usual          
D. concerned        
D. person            
D. valuable          
D. discover          
D. pointing          
D. friendly          
D. Once              
D. desirable        
D. give out          
完形填空
     Many years ago, a salesman opened a bag of things from Scotland and found a card at the top. It   1  , "Expect a Miracle(奇迹)." "What does that mean?" he thought, and then   2   it into his pocket.
     That night he showed it to his wife. "Look at this, dear. What do you think it means?"
     "Maybe this is what we need," she said. "Our   3   are so great that they are too much for us. If we
start   4   great things instead of the worst, miracle may   5   ." They decided to try changing their thinking
for a few days, starting with their   6   problems. Then something changed. Not only did they find their
problems   7   be worked out, but they also started   8   a lot of money.
     To make miracles happen, you have to start by expecting them. That way your   9   can become
focused in positive ways. There are   10   coincidences, and all kinds of happy experiences   11   one
after another.
     One becomes hopeful and optimistic. Little problems began   12   , while the big ones become much
easier to work out. Success is not    13   you thought it was.
     A positive thinker first sets clear and proper goals. Then he goes to work, and   14  working. He
never gives up. His dreams are sure to come true, and   15   they do, a miracle happens. 
     Miracles come in all   16   : big, medium-sized, and small. Start expecting the small ones, and work
your way   17   to the big. Think positively,   18   yourself and work hard. You"ll find yourself   19   by
how meaningful and   20   your life has become.
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阅读理解
     It was a Sunday and the heavy storm had lasted all night. The morning after the storm, though, was
beautiful: blue skies, warm air and a calm, inviting sea touching the shore gently.
     My father realized it was a good day for fishing and invited my sister and me to go with him. I was
only 14 and fishing had never been my thing, but I decided to go all the same. I"m so glad I did.
     On the road to the harbor we could see the terrible destruction on the coast, but the harbor itself was
in fairly good shape. After all, it was protected by the arms of a bay that had only one tiny channel to the
sea. As we got on board, we noticed two big humps(脊背) in the distance.
     On approaching them, we saw it was a mother whale with her baby. We couldn"t believe it-there
aren"t any whales along the coast here. The storm must have driven them across the ocean in the bay, in
which the still water was so badly polluted that nothing could survive.
     The little baby whale-actually as big as our boat-was obviously stuck and could not move. The mother dived under the water and came up suddenly, making big whirlpools(漩涡) and waves. "She"s trying to
help her baby, but on the wrong side," my father said. At this point, my father moved our boat in a
semicircle to the other side and, heading the boat toward the baby whale, pushed it gently. With our
several gentle pushes the big hump turned over and disappeared under water. Then it swam up right
beside its mum. They struggled in their desperate attempts to escape but missed the exit and started
heading in the wrong direction. We hurried up to the whales and tried to lead them towards the bay
channel. Slowly, they let us lead them, sometimes rising from the water right beside us to breathe-and
to give us a trusting look with those huge eyes. Once they hit their first part of clean water flowing straight
form the sea, the mum gave us a wave with her tail and off they swam into the distance.
     In the excitement it had felt like only a few minutes, but we had been with those wonder animals for
almost an hour and a half. That was the simple and lasting beauty of the day. Nearly four decades later, I
still look back fondly to that golden day at sea.       
1. The author says "I"m so glad I did." (in Para.2) because ________________.
A. he witnessed the whole process of fishing  
B. he enjoyed the beauty of the calm sea
C. he experienced the rescue of the whales  
D. he spent the weekend with his family
2. The harbor survived the storm due to ______________.
A. the shaped of the harbor  
B. the arms of the bay
C. the still water in the channel  
D. the long coast line
3. The mother whale failed to help her baby because _______________.
A. she had stayed in the polluted water for too long
B. the whirlpools she had made were not big enough
C. she had no other whales around to turn to for help
D. the waves pushed her baby in the wrong direction
4. What is the story mainly about?
A. Saving lives brings people a sense of happiness.
B. Fishing provides excitement for children.
C. It"s necessary to live in harmony with animals.
D. It"s important to protect the environment.