It was her giggling that drew my attention.Note taking really wasn"t all that funny.
Walking over to the offender, I asked for the_1_.Frozen, she refused to give it to me.I waited, all
attention in the classroom on the quiet 2 between teacher and student.When she finally 3 it over
she whispered, "Okay, but I didn"t draw it."
It was a handdrawn 4 of me, teeth blackened and the words "I"m stupid" coming out of my mouth.
I managed to fold it up calmly.My mind, 5 , was working angrily as I struggled not to 6 . I figured
I knew the two most likely candidates for drawing the picture.It would do them some 7 to teach them
a lesson, and maybe it was high time that I did it!
Thankfully, I was able to keep myself 8 .
When there were about six minutes remaining, I showed the class the picture.They were all silent as I
told them how 9 this was for me.I told them there must be a reason 10 and now was their chance to
write down anything they needed to tell me.Then I let them write silently while I sniffed in the back of the
classroom.
As I 11 the notes later, many of them said something like, "I"ve got nothing against you," or "I"m
sorry you were hurt." Some kids said, "We"re 12 of you." But two notes, from the girls who I 13
were behind the picture, had a list of issues.I was too 14 , too strict…
Reading those notes, I realized that over the course of this year, instead of 15 my students, I had
begun commanding them to 16 .Where I thought I was driving them to success I was 17 driving them
away.
I had some apologizing to do.But the next day in the classroom, one boy and one girl each handed me
a card.The one 18 by all the boys expressed sincere regret for the ugly joke.The one from the girls
asked for 19 .
This was a lesson for both the kids and me.Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge
the 20 . |
( )1. A. note
( )2. A. battle
( )3. A. took
( )4. A. statue
( )5. A. otherwise
( )6. A. leave
( )7. A. good
( )8. A. amused
( )9. A. meaningful
( )10. A. aside
( )11. A. wrote
( )12. A. proud
( )13. A. figured
( )14. A. talkative
( )15. A. forcing
( )16. A. appreciate
( )17. A. actually
( )18. A. decorated
( )19. A. thankfulness
( )20. A. friendship | B. advice
B. competition
B. thought
B. graph
B. however
B. cry
B. harm
B. controlled
B. forgetful
B. above
B. finished
B. fond
B. promised
B. mean
B. encouraging
B. apologize
B. normally
B. offered
B. forgiveness
B. education | C. reason
C. argument
C. turned
C. picture
C. therefore
C. explain
C. favor
C. uninterested
C. regretful
C. beneath
C. read
C. afraid
C. concluded
C. clumsy
C. comforting
C. compromise
C. immediately
C. signed
C. compensation
C. knowledge | D. help
D. conversation
D. handed
D. poster
D. besides
D. argue
D. punishment
D. relaxed
D. hurtful
D. behind
D. collected
D. ashamed
D. confirmed
D. considerate
D. teaching
D. achieve
D. generally
D. bought
D. communication
D. future |
答案
| 1-5: AADCB 6-10: BABDD 11-15: CCAB B 16-20: DACBD |
举一反三
| 完形填空 | My daughter had signed an organ donor card, but my husband and I did not know it. We learned
about our daughter"s decision after she was __1__ injured in a car crash. Doctors __2__ on her for 20
hours and couldn"t save her life. Finally, the doctor in charge told us our daughter was brain dead. Did
we want to __3__ organ donation?
I was already in shock. The __4__ of donating my daughter"s organs was another shock and I was
__5__ about my 15yearold twin grandsons. They had just lost their mother and we had lost our daughter. The doctor __6__ the organ harvesting procedure, but I did not want to hear it.
We __7__ to organ donation and signed the legal papers. The twins said their last goodbye to their
mother and the images of their sorrow are __8__ in my mind until now. Two days later we received a
__9__ from the organ donor organization. Our daughter"s organs had __10__ three lives. Thanks to her
generosity, two strangers now see.
Weeks later, we received a certificate from the organ donor organization in __11__ of our daughter.
The twins received individual certificates and hardly glanced at them. I fully understood their __12__.
They did not want any certificates, they wanted their mother __13__ and we wanted our daughter.
The sadness associated with organ donation is a __14__ thing. First, it makes the ending of death all
too clear. Secondly, I find a measure of comfort in the __15__ that my daughter was an organ donor.
My daughter cared about others and this caring continued after her death.
Organ donation did not give me a sense of control, but it did give me a sense of giving. Nothing is
more caring than signing an organ donor card. I also know my family will find comfort in my daughter"s
generosity. | ( )1．A. partly
( )2．A. insisted
( )3．A. go on with
( )4．A. knock
( )5．A. certain
( )6．A. described
( )7．A. stuck
( )8．A. cloudy
( )9．A. call
( )10．A. created
( )11．A. danger
( )12．A. reaction
( )13．A. away
( )14．A. clumsy
( )15．A. place | B. slightly
B. turned
B. compare with
B. difficulty
B. pleased
B. learned
B. agreed
B. unknown
B. passport
B. lost
B. recognition
B. trick
B. off
B. strange
B. reason | C. severely
C. waited
C. mix with
C. response
C. worried
C. praised
C. referred
C. dark
C. handbag
C. saved
C. search
C. decision
C. back
C. popular
C. cause | D. hardly
D. operated
D. deal with
D. thought
D. excited
D. regretted
D. objected
D. clear
D. gift
D. taken
D. case
D. suggestion
D. in
D. different
D. fact | 语法填空
One day a rich man took his son on a trip to the country. He wanted to show his son how the poor
lived so he could be thankful __1_ his wealth.
They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of 2 would be considered a very poor family.
On their return the father asked his son 3 (explain) what he had learnt. The boy, who had remained
silent and deep in thought on the journey home, 4 (reply) in a way that shocked his father.
The boy said he wanted to become a farmer. He envied the farmers who had the beautiful night stars
to give them light 5 his family had only expensive lanterns. His wish was to have a farm 6 he could
go swimming in an endless river instead of the garden pool in their home. Finally he asked his father, "
What makes us safer, large walls around our house 7 friends that will protect us?"
The boy finished by saying, " 8 the trip I thought we were rich, but today I learnt who is 9 (true)
rich." With this the boy got up and walked away, leaving his father sitting on their comfortable sofa, totally 10 (speech)． | | 阅读理解 | Stubbornness can push an entrepreneur (企业家) to hold on but it can also kill a business if it gets
too extreme.
Because I"m stubborn, I realized my dream of creating a petfood company. Our foods include organic
fruits, vegetables and meats. At first we packaged our foods in transparent bags, as it was part of our
guiding philosophy.
To start the company in 2003, I visited every petfood store in Manhattan and some outside the city.
In 2007 I moved the company to Muskego, Wis., and our earnings were almost $500,000 that year. But
getting my products into stores was just the beginning. We were competing against much bigger petfood
companies whose monthly marketing budgets were more than our yearly sales. So we invested in
advertising and a website.
With more customers came more feedback, much of which I dismissed. I was also receiving
complaints about ice crystals (晶体) on the food, which form when the air temperature changes during
transport. For this reason, most frozen foods are packaged in opaque (不透明的) bags or boxes.
Studies have proved that ice crystals have little, if any, effect on either the quality or the taste of the food.
So I ignored the complaints. After all, I told myself, we were better than competitors that wouldn"t even
show their products. We didn"t hide anything.
In 2007 our sales kept growing, but not as fast as those of our competitors. We were told that new
consumers were choosing products packaged in opaque bags. When I visited the stores and forced
myself to consider my products objectively, I had to agree:The ice crystals destroyed the look I wanted.
We switched to opaque bags and tried to make the ice crystals smaller. Customers responded:In 2009
our products were sold in 2,500 stores across the country.
1. What was the author"s purpose of packaging their foods in transparent bags at first?
A. To make their foods look attractive.
B. To show their guiding philosophy to consumers.
C. To make sure that their foods could be seen clearly.
D. To show that their foods were environmentally friendly.
2. Why did the author invest in advertising and a website?
A. Because few people knew about their products.
B. Because his company faced great challenges.
C. Because he wanted to move his company to Muskego.
D. Because his company was about to close down.
3. According to the passage, ice crystals ________.
A. only appear in frozen foods
B. may make pets feel uncomfortable
C. won"t form if pet food is transported well
D. have little effect on the quality of pet food
4. The author"s company switched to opaque bags because ________.
A. consumers disliked seeing ice crystals
B. opaque bags helped reduce ice crystals
C. foods in opaque bags are easy to keep fresh
D. opaque bags are cheaper than transparent ones
5. This passage was written mainly to show that ________.
A. people shouldn"t let stubbornness stop them from taking advice
B. stubbornness can make people succeed or fail
C. the road leading to success is full of difficulties
D. stubbornness always leads to failure | | 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! | ( )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 | | 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. | 最新试题
热门考点
|
|
|