阅读理解                                                        Crossing the Rubicon

阅读理解                                                        Crossing the Rubicon

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阅读理解                                                        Crossing the Rubicon
     The march to Italy was began.The soldiers were even more enthusiastic than Caesar (恺撒) himself.
They climbed mountains,  waded rivers,  endured tiredness,  and faced all kinds of danger for the sake
of their great leader.
     At last they came to a little river called the Rubicon (卢比孔河). It was the boundary line of Caesar"s
Province of Gaul;  on the other side of it was Italy.Caesar paused a moment on the bank.He knew that
to cross it would be to declare war against Pompey and the Roman Senate;  it would involve all Rome in
a fearful battle,  the end of which no man could foresee.
     But he did not hesitate long.He gave the word,  and rode boldly across the shallow stream.
     "We have crossed the Rubicon,  " he cried as he reached the farther shore."There is now no turning
back." Soon the news was carried to Rome "Caesar has crossed the Rubicon" and there was great fear
among those who had planned to destroy him.Pompey"s soldiers deserted him and hurried to join
themselves to Caesar"s army.The Rome senators and their friends made ready to escape from the city.
     "Caesar has crossed the Rubicon!" was shouted along the roads and byways leading to Rome;  and
the country people turned out to meet and hail with joy the conquering hero.
     The word was carried a second time to the city "Caesar has crossed the Rubicon" and the wild fight
began.Senators and public officers left everything behind and hurried away to seek safety with Pompey.
On foot,  on horseback,  in litters,  in carriages,  they fled for their lives-all because Caesar had crossed
the Rubicon.Pompey was unable to protect them.He hurried to the seacoast,  and,  with all who were
able to accompany him,  sailed away to Greece.
     Caesar was the master of Rome.
1. Which of the following can NOT be used to describe Caesar"s army?

A. Enthusiastic in the march.
B. Not afraid of tiredness.
C. Brave in the march.
D. Eager to be great leaders.

2.  According to the passage,  crossing the Rubicon meant all of the following EXCEPT that______.

A. Caesar declared war against Pompey and the Roman Senate
B. Caesar would involve all Rome in the battle
C. Caesar would be defeated in the war
D. Caesar was determined to carry out the battle

3. What happened when the news was first carried to Rome that Caesar had crossed the Rubicon?

A. The people who had been against Caesar felt very frightened.
B. The people who had turned traitor to Caesar were wild with joy.
C. The public officers and soldiers fought bravely against Caesar.
D. The Rome senators and their friends had already escaped.

4. What did Pompey do after Caesar crossed the Rubicon?

A. He rode to the bank of the Rubicon hurriedly.
B. He fled to Greece by sea with all his companions.
C. He had all his relatives and soldiers stay with him.
D. He kept calm and stayed in Rome,  defeating his enemies.
答案
1-4: DCAB
举一反三
完形填空      Once there was a very brilliant, creative and educated man.He gained much __1__ while traveling
throughout the world.Unfortunately he lost his legs and left arm in a tragic accident, leaving only a finger
and thumb on his right hand.He became so __2__ that he was afraid he would spend his life __3__ and
would no longer be able to use his life in a(n)__4__ way.
     One day, he remembered how he had always loved getting __5__.He realized that he still had partial
__6__ of his right hand and could write with __7__.Then, he had an idea, "Why not write to other people who need encouragement?"
      He __8__ where he could find those who could be encouraged if they read his letters.He thought of
people in __9__.Many of them had hope of regaining their __10__.Others would keep feeling depressed
and remain put away for the rest of their lives.He decided that he must try to __11__ them.So he wrote
to a prison ministry about sending letters to the prisoners.The prison minister replied that writing to the
prisoners would be __12__.However, it would be against prison rules for the prisoners to write back.
     __13__ with the intention, the man began sending __14__ messages of God"s love, hope, strength,
and encouragement.He wrote twice a week, testing his strength and ability to the __15__.He poured his
heart and soul into his words, __16__ his experience, sense of humor, optimism, and faith.
     It was difficult to write those letters, especially without hope of any __17__.Frequently, he felt
discouraged, wondering if anyone __18__ read his letters.However, this was his __19__ chance, so he
determined to continue.
     At last, he received a letter from the prison officer, which said, "Please write on the best paper you
can afford.Your letters are passed from cell (小牢房)to cell until they almost fall to __20__!"
We all have unique experiences, abilities and talents.We can discover ways to reach others in need of
encouragement and strength.
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(     )1. A. wealth  
(     )2. A. depressed  
(     )3. A. writing    
(     )4. A. abnormal    
(     )5. A. presents    
(     )6. A. sense      
(     )7. A. affection    
(     )8. A. estimated  
(     )9. A. hospitals    
(     )10. A. families    
(     )11. A. release    
(     )12. A. acceptable  
(     )13. A. Faced      
(     )14. A. holy        
(     )15. A. point      
(     )16. A. sharing    
(     )17. A. success    
(     )18. A. curiously  
(     )19. A. only        
(     )20. A. ruin        
B. faith      
B. embarrassed
B. suffering  
B. regular    
B. e-mails    
B. strength    
B. caution    
B. doubted    
B. churches    
B. letters    
B. reach      
B. reasonable  
B. Filled      
B. daily      
B. worst      
B. learning    
B. reply      
B. patiently  
B. better      
B. pieces      
C. experience  
C. ashamed    
C. weeping      
C. comfortable  
C. letters      
C. shape        
C. difficulty  
C. assumed      
C. prisons      
C. freedom      
C. defend      
C. prohibited  
C. Satisfied    
C. one-way      
C. degree      
C. gaining      
C. help        
C. carefully    
C. extra        
C. the ground  
D. confidence      
D. thrilled        
D. wandering      
D. meaningful      
D. prizes          
D. function        
D. confidence      
D. wondered        
D. charities      
D. conscience      
D. know            
D. considered      
D. Impressed      
D. round-way      
D. limit          
D. enriching      
D. progress        
D. actually        
D. lost            
D. the bottom      
完形填空
                                                           The Pecan Thief

      When I was six years old, I was visiting my grandfather" s farm in Kansas.Grandpa had sent me into
the   1   to gather pecans for us to enjoy later.
      Pecan picking was really   2   work and my little basket was only half full.I wasn" t about to  3 
Grandpa down.Just then something caught my  4  .A large brown squirrel was a few feet away.I watched
as he picked up a pecan, hurried to a tree and   5    in a large hole in the trunk.A moment later the squirrel    6  out and climbed down to the ground to pick up another nut.Once again, he took the pecan back to
his hiding place.
     Not so   7   anymore, I thought.I dashed over to the tree and looked into the hole.It was   8   with
pecans!Golden pecans were right there for taking.This was my  9 . Handful by handful, I scooped all of
those pecans into my basket.Now it was full! I was so_10_of myself.I couldn" t wait to show Grandpa
all the pecans.   11  , I ran back and shouted, "Look at all the pecans!" He looked into the basket and
said, "Well, well, how did you find so many?" I told him how I" d  12   the squirrel and taken the pecans
from his hiding place.
     Grandpa congratulated me on how smart I" d been in observing the squirrel and his habits.Then he did
something that__13__me.He handed the basket back to me and put his arm gently__14__my shoulders.
     "That squirrel worked very hard to gather his winter__15__of food, " he said."Now that all of his
pecans are gone, don" t you think that little squirrel will__16__the cold winter?"
     "I didn"t think about that, " I said.
     "I know, " Grandpa said."But a good man should never take__17__of someone else" s hard work."
     Suddenly I felt a bit__18__.The image of the starving squirrel wouldn"t__19__my mind.There was
only one thing I could do.I carried the basket back to the tree and poured all the nuts into the hole.
      I didn"t eat any pecans that night, but I had something much more filling-the   __20__of knowing I
had done just the right thing.
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(     )1. A. rooms        
(     )2. A. hard        
(     )3. A. let        
(     )4. A. sweater      
(     )5. A. joined        
(     )6. A. jumped        
(     )7. A. strange      
(     )8. A. covered      
(     )9. A. time        
(     )10. A. afraid      
(     )11. A. Otherwise    
(     )12. A. driven      
(     )13. A. annoyed      
(     )14. A. off        
(     )15. A. supply      
(     )16. A. escape      
(     )17. A. place        
(     )18. A. guilty      
(     )19. A. open      
(     )20. A. inspiration
B. woods      
B. dirty      
B. settle      
B. basket      
B. lived      
B. held        
B. secret      
B. filled      
B. choice      
B. ashamed      
B. However      
B. followed      
B. satisfied      
B. beside      
B. cost        
B. spend      
B. notice      
B. unconfident  
B. leave      
B. expectation  
C. holes  
C. light  
C. have    
C. eye    
C. discovered  
C. stood  
C. anxious  
C. rebuilt  
C. chance  
C. careful  
C. Besides  
C. protected  
C. surprised  
C. over    
C. support  
C. survive  
C. advantage  
C. embarrassed
C. cross  
C. impression  
D. roads            
D. easy              
D. keep              
D. hand              
D. disappeared      
D. found            
D. patient          
D. decorated        
D. achievement      
D. proud            
D. Therefore        
D. caught            
D. delighted        
D. around            
D. preparation      
D. flee              
D. charge            
D. nervous          
D. occupy            
D. satisfaction      
阅读理解
                                                          My Best Enemy
     Once again, I was in a new school.So was a girl in my class named Lisa.That"s where the similarity
ended.
     I was tall and she was small.My thick black hair had been recently cut short into an untidy style.Her
natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great.I was 12 and one of the oldest in the class while
she was 11 and the youngest.I was awkward and shy.She wasn"t.I couldn"t standher, considering her my
enemy.But she liked me and wanted to be friends with me.
      One day, she invited me over and I said yes-I was too shocked to answer any other way.My family
had moved six times in six years, and I had never managed to develop any friendships.But this girl who
wore the latest fashions wanted me to go home with her after school.
      She lived in a fun part of town that had two pizza places, an all night bookstore, a movie theater and
a park.As we walked from the school bus stop through her neighborhood, I tried to guess which house
might be hers.Was it the white one with the perfect lawn or the threestory house with a front porch?I got
very surprised when she led me into an old apartment building.She lived on the fourth floor in a tworoom
place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister.
      When we got into the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies, which was my next surprise.I had never played with them.We sat on the floor, laughing as we made up crazy stories
about the Barbies.We found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older and both had
wild imaginations.We had a great time that afternoon.
      Lisa was loved by the whole neighborhood.The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines; the
movie theater gave her free tickets...Soon I was included in her magic world.We slept over at each other"s house and spent every free moment together.
     Lisa, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through the rough years of early adolescence (青春期) and taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends:your worst enemy
can turn out to be your best friend.

1. The writer and Lisa were similar in the way that________.

A. they were both new students
B. they had the same hairstyle
C. they were both tall
D. they were of the same age

2. One day Lisa invited the writer________.

A. to go to the movie
B. to go to her home
C. to go to walk in a park
D. to go to a pizza place

3. In the passage the writer described Lisa as a girl who was________.

A. awkward and shy
B. rich and happy
C. quiet and lonely
D. friendly and lovely

4. Which of the following did the writer learn from Lisa?

A. How to make up stories.
B. How to deal with enemies.
C. How to make friends.
D. How to live a better life.
阅读理解
     I shall never forget the night, a few years ago, when Marion J. Douglas was a student in one of my
adulteducation classes.He told us how tragedy had struck at his home, not once, but twice.The first time
he had lost his fiveyearold daughter.He and his wife thought they couldn"t bear that first loss; but, as he
said, "Ten months later, God gave us another little girl and she died in five days."
      This double bereavement was almost too much to bear."I couldn"t take it, " this father told us"I
couldn"t sleep, eat, rest or relax.My nerves were entirely shaken and my confidence gone."At last he
went to doctors; one recommended sleeping pills and another recommended a trip, but neither helped.
He said, "My body felt as if it was surrounded in a vice (大钳子), and the jaws of the vice were being
drawn tighter and tighter." The tension of grief (悲伤)-if you have ever been paralyzed (使瘫痪) by
sorrow, you know what he meant.
     "But thank God, I had one child left-a fouryearold son.He gave me the solution to my problem.One
afternoon as I sat around feeling sorry for myself, he asked, "Daddy, will you build a boat for me?" I was
in no mood to build a boat; in fact, I was in no mood to do anything.But my son is a persistent little fellow!
I had to give in.Building that toy boat took me about three hours.By the time it was finished, I realized that
those three hours spent building that boat were first hours of mental relaxation and peace that I had had in months!I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and
thinking.In my case, building the boat had knocked worry out of the ring.So I determined to keep busy."
     "The following night, I made a list of jobs that ought to be done.Scores of items needed to be repaired.  Amazingly, I had made a list of 242 items that needed attention.During the last two years I have
completed most of them.I am busy so that I have no time for worry."
     No time for worry!That is exactly what Winston Churchill said when he was working eighteen hour"s
a day at the height of the war.When he was asked if he worried about his huge responsibilities, he said, "I
am too busy.I have no time for worry."

1. The underlined word "bereavement" in the second paragraph refers to________.

A. having lost a loved one
B. having lost a valuable article
C. having lost a profitmaking business
D. having lost a wellpaid job

2. Marion felt his body as if it was caught in a vice because________.

A. he couldn"t earn enough money to support his family
B. he was suffering from sleeplessness disease
C. he couldn"t get out of mental pressure
D. he felt tired of adulteducation classes

3. Marion made a list of over 200 items that needed to be repaired because________.

A. he hadn"t been able to spare time to mend them
B. he wanted to kill his free time by repairing them
C. the items had actually been broken and needed attention
D. repairing the items helped crowd worry out of his mind

4. At the end of the passage, the author wrote about Winston Churchill in order to________.

A. prove that he followed Churchill"s example
B. support his student"s solution to his problem
C. show that he was successful in his career
D. clarify how his conclusion was reached
完形填空
     My wife and I had just finished the 150mile trip home from our daughter"s college.It was the first time
in our lives that we would __1__ for any length of time.We wondered how other people had __2__ it.
     Later in bed, I __3__ the time I started college.My father had driven me, too.My mother had to stay
home to keep the __4__from getting into the crops.I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to
__5__ college.
      The truck was slow, and I was glad.I didn"t want to get to the city __6__.I shook hands with my
father in the truck and he didn"t say a word.But I knew he was going to make a little __7__.He finally
said, "I never went to college and __8__of your brothers did.I can"t say don"t do this or that, because
everything is __9__and I don"t know what is going to come up, but I think things will __10__.When you
get a job, be sure to be honest and work hard." I knew that soon I would be __11__in the big town and
I would be __12__the life home.
      Then my father__13__the Bible (圣经) that he had read so often.I knew that he would miss it but I
must__14__it.He just said, "This can help you __15__you will let it."
     When I finished school I took the Bible __16__to my father.But he said he wanted me to __17__it.
     Now, too late, I remember.It would have been so __18__ to give it to my daughter when she got out
of the car.But I didn"t.My father could give me only a Bible, but I don"t really believe now that I gave her
half as __19__as my father gave me.So the next morning I__20__up the book and sent it to her.I wrote
a note."This can help you." I said, "if you will let it."
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