完形填空      Once there was a group of men-a young hotblooded man and a big number

完形填空      Once there was a group of men-a young hotblooded man and a big number

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完形填空      Once there was a group of men-a young hotblooded man and a big number of old folks, doing a
timber(木料) job in a jungle.
      This young man was very  1  .He always continued to work through his break time and   2   that
those old folks were wasting time, having to  3   several times a day  to drink and chat.As time went by,
this young man noticed that even though he worked through break time and hardly took a  4  , those old
folks were chopping the same   5   of trees as he did and sometimes did more.It was as if they worked
through the break time as he did.So he   6   to work harder the next day.Unfortunately the results were
even worse.
     One day,  one of the old folks   7   him for a drink during their break time.That young man refused
and said that he had no   8   time! Then the old man smiled and said, "It is just a waste of effort to   9   
chopping trees without resharpening your axe(斧子).Sooner or later you will   10   or be so tired as you
have spent too much energy."
     Suddenly the young man   11   that actually during break times while those old folks were having a
chat,  they were  12   resharpening their axes at the same time!And that"s how they could   13  faster than
him, yet spending less time!
     What we   14   is efficiency by making use of our skill and ability 15  .Only then can we have more
time to do other things.Otherwise we will always keep saying...I have no time!
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(     )1. A. weak    
(     )2. A. admired  
(     )3. A. plan  
(     )4. A. photo  
(     )5. A. weight  
(     )6. A. failed  
(     )7. A. invited
(     )8. A. wrong  
(     )9. A. mind  
(     )10. A. speed up
(     )11. A. warned  
(     )12. A. also  
(     )13. A. talk  
(     )14. A. abandon  
(     )15. A. quickly
B. clever        
B. complained    
B. appear        
B. rest          
B. height        
B. pretended      
B. blamed        
B. valuable      
B. avoid          
B. give up        
B. expected      
B. hardly        
B. chop          
B. introduce      
B. curiously      
C. hard-working  
C. reminded
C. work  
C. step  
C. amount  
C. agreed  
C. thanked  
C. extra
C. practice  
C. watch out  
C. realized  
C. seldom  
C. walk
C. need  
C. seriously  
D. good-looking    
D. predicted      
D. break          
D. bath            
D. price          
D. decided        
D. forgave        
D. exact          
D. keep            
D. turn out        
D. announced      
D. never          
D. climb          
D. teach          
D. intelligently  
1-5: CBDBC  6-10: DACDB  11-15: CABCD
阅读理解
     On the day of a big event, many people came to Big Bend Mountain to watch.John Henry and the
salesman stood side by side.Even early in the day, the sun was burning hot.
      The competition began.John Henry kissed his hammer and started working.At first, the
steampowered drill worked two times faster than he did.Then, he started working with a hammer in
each hand.He worked faster and faster.In the mountain, the heat and dust were so thick that most men
would have had trouble breathing.The crowd shouted as clouds of dust came from inside the mountain.
      The salesman was afraid when he heard what sounded like the mountain breaking.However, it was
only the sound of John Henry at work.Polly Ann and her son cheered when the machine was pulled
from the tunnel of the mountain.It had broken down.Polly Ann urged John Henry to come out.But he
kept working, faster and faster.He dug deep into the darkness, hitting the steel so hard that his body
began to fail him.He became weak, and his heart burst.
     John Henry fell to the ground.There was a terrible silence.Polly Ann did not move because she knew
what had happened.John Henry"s blood spilled over the ground.But he still held one of the hammers."I
beat them, " he said.His wife cried out, "Don"t go, John Henry." "Bring me a cool drink of water, " he
said.Then he took his last breath.
      His friends carried his body from the mountain.They buried him near the house where he was born.
Crowds went there after they heard about John Henry"s death.
      Soon, the steam drill and other machines replaced the steeldrivers.Many laborers left their families to
look for work.They took the only jobs they could find.As they worked, some sang about John Henry.

1. What does the big event mentioned in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. John Henry"s work on a machine.
B. A competition between John Henry and a salesman.
C. John Henry"s work with his hammer and the steel.
D. A competition between John Henry and a drill.

2.The underlined word "tunnel" in Paragraph 3 probably  means"   __".
A. flat ground          
B. big rock
C. underground passage  
D. hard metal

3.What happened to John Henry when he fell to the  ground?
A. He was tired and had to have a rest.
B. He had heart trouble and was dying.
C. He was thirsty and wanted to drink some water.
D. He was injured slightly and was bleeding.

4.What do we know about John Henry?
A. He won the competition finally.
B. He was buried under the mountain.
C. He loved his work very much.
D. He said nothing before his death.

5.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Humans can never beat machines.
B. John Henry was regarded as a hero.
C. Laborers hated machines very much.
D. It was easy for laborers to find work.
语法填空
      It was my first day in Hangzhou, the Chinese city famous for its natural beauty and history and I
didn"t have much time to spare.I wanted to see   1  much of the city as possible in the two days   2   I
was to return to Guangzhou.My first task was to decide where to go and   3   to get there.I took out
my guide book in which there was a lot of information about the city"s wellknown tourist   4   (attract)
and started to read.At that moment an attractive young lady   6   noticed my book, came up to me and
introduced  6  .She said her name was Miss Bai.She kindly offered to show me   7   the city.I was
delighted and was about to  accept her proposal when she suggested we first  8  (go) to the West Lake
and walk along the Broken Bridge.I quite liked the idea of visiting the West Lake but wasn"t so sure
about crossing the Broken Bridge.  9   it was broken, did she expect me to jump across?And I couldn"t
swim, so if I fell in then I would drown.That was definitely not an attractive idea so I politely declined her
invitation,   10   (close) my book and walked away.
完形填空
     Once a beautiful diamond necklace of a king was lost.The king then offered a   1   for $ 50,000 for
anybody who found it.
     One day a clerk was walking along a   2   next to an industrial area, which was completely polluted
and smelly.Suddenly, he saw something   3   in the river and when he looked carefully, he saw the
diamond necklace.He decided to try and catch it so that he could get the  4  .He put his hand in the dirty
river and grabbed at the necklace, but somehow  5   it.He then walked in the water and put his whole arm
in.But strangely, he still missed it!He came out, feeling  6  .
     Then again he saw the necklace,   7   there.This time he dived into the river.He searched everywhere
and yet he  8  .
     Just then an old man who was  9  , saw him, and asked him what was the matter.The clerk didn"t want
to share the secret with him, so he   10   to tell him anything.But the old man could see the clerk was  11   
and promised he would not tell anyone about it.The clerk then decided to put some   12   in the old man.
He talked about the necklace and how he tried to catch it, but  13   failing.The old man suggested that
perhaps he should try looking upward, toward the branches of the tree, instead of in the river.The clerk
looked up, and   14   enough, the necklace was hanging on a  15  .He had been trying to get a reflection (倒影) of the real necklace all the time.
     Material happiness is just like the polluted river, because it is a reflection of the true happiness in the
spiritual world.
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(     )1. A. competition  
(     )2. A. playground    
(     )3. A. waving        
(     )4. A. money          
(     )5. A. missed        
(     )6. A. afraid        
(     )7. A. up            
(     )8. A. waited        
(     )9. A. coming back    
(     )10. A. managed      
(     )11. A. interested  
(     )12. A. happiness  
(     )13. A. forgot
(     )14. A. straight  
(     )15. A. branch  
B. notice      
B. beach      
B. swimming    
B. power      
B. followed    
B. happy      
B. right      
B. left        
B. passing by  
B. determined  
B. surprised  
B. faith      
B. minded      
B. true        
B. house      
C. reward        
C. street        
C. shining      
C. treasure      
C. touched      
C. guilty        
C. over          
C. started      
C. getting up    
C. refused      
C. scared
C. luck
C. kept
C. far  
C. stick  
D. gift          
D. river        
D. moving        
D. pleasure      
D. caught        
D. depressed    
D. out          
D. failed        
D. sitting down  
D. offered      
D. troubled      
D. courage      
D. enjoyed      
D. near          
D. wire          
语法填空
     One evening, I came across one of son"s papers with a  failing grade.I almost started to yell his name    1   I suddenly  remembered he was in bed asleep.It was his   2    (nine)  year of school and his
academic career seemed to be in ruins, so  I was angry.But I put the paper aside and turned to the   3    
one, at the top of which were written "My dad".It was a poem   about me,   4   included the time I had to
leave work to take him to the hospital because he    5   (break) his finger.So careless was I   6   I had
forgotten all about that.He talked about how I wrestled with him in the evenings and    7   good many
other things.That paper was suddenly not nearly as  important as it had been a few minutes    8  .I don"t
know if he planted the poem next to the failing grade to    9   (soft) the blow, but it worked.Instead of a
severe lecture, I talked to him about the poem as well as the failed homework, and it began to make
sense to me that I could include praise along   10   constructive criticism.
完形填空
      On Monday at 2: 35 p.m., a bus full of passengers was going to Bungalow.It was so   1   that you
had to struggle even to get room to stand-   2   about a seat.
     At one stop, an old lady  3  the bus.She looked tired and I thought she was not  4  also.After a few
minutes, her   5   were shaking slightly.She was looking around to find a  6  .She asked a few guys to
let her sit because she had a problem of arthritis (关节炎)in her knees.  7  responded to her positively,
so she was feeling helpless.
      I noticed she was facing a lot of  8  and she was trying to hide it but did not  9  .I was thinking of
giving her my seat, but was fighting in my mind about why I should give her my seat.I  10  it myself:
Because she is old and it"s my duty to help her.But I    11   that this is Mumbai (孟买), where to help
anybody may be dangerous.I was hesitating (犹豫)about it.
     Before I asked the lady to take my seat, an old man stood and   12   her his seat.The man, who
traveled his rest journey standing, had only one leg.
      I found myself in an ocean of    13    and guilt-why didn"t I help her?My journey ended but I still
regretted that I wasted my time in thinking when it was the right thing to do.
      Now I   14   travel by bus and have decided to never waste time in thinking to help anybody
whatever it results in.I will help although it is  15  to actually do.
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