The mom had died when the rescuers found her after the terrible earthquake.She was
covered by a destroyed house.Through gaps (缝隙) of those ruins,the rescuers could see
her last posture (姿势).It was something like an ancient person who was kowtowing
(叩头),but it just looked strange because she was out of shape by pressure.
The rescuers confirmed her death by touching her through the gaps of the ruins.They
shouted at the ruins again and again,knocked the bricks using various tools,but no reply
inside.
Then the rescuing team went to the next building.Suddenly the leader ran back,calling
"Come here." He came to the body,put his hands under the woman,feeling and touching,t
hen shoutedloudly and gladly,"There is someone,a baby,still living."
Through some efforts,rescuers cleaned up the ruins which blocked her.Under her body
lay her baby,who was covered by a small red quilt (棉被).He was about 3 or 4 months"
old.Since well protected by his mother"s body,he was safe.He was in a deep sleep when
the rescuer carried him out,and his lovely and peaceful face warmed everyone around him.
The doctor,along with the rescuing team,took the baby out of the quilt to check if the baby
was all right,and he found there was a mobile phone inthe quilt.The doctor looked at the
screen; a writtenmessage was already there:"My dear baby if you couldlive,don"t forget how
much I love you." As a doctor,he experienced much of this type of separation;but at this
moment,he cried.The mobile phone was passed,and every person who saw this message
shed (流出) tears.
( )1. A. reliable ( )2. A. admired ( )3. A. decision ( )4. A. stared ( )5. A. enjoyed ( )6. A. anxiously ( )7. A. climb ( )8. A. seem ( )9. A. Though ( )10. A. abrupt ( )11. A. plan ( )12. A. agenda ( )13. A. sales ( )14. A. wise ( )15. A. explicit ( )16. A. changed ( )17. A. hopeful ( )18. A. son"s ( )19. A. supposed ( )20. A. Good luck | B. enjoyable B. interviewed B. record B. shouted B. shared B. nervously B. jump B. fail B. Unless B. simple B. idea B. exercise B. skills B. kind B. helpful B. added B. amazing B. wife"s B. expected B. Best regards | C. valuable C. watched C. level C. glared C. discussed C. cheerfully C. drive C. expect C. Because C. positive C. ability C. work C. experiences C. mean C. enough C. devoted C. funny C. friend"s C. encouraged C. Thanks | D. unbelievable D. trained D. goal D. pointed D. reviewed D. impatiently D. step D. compete D. When D. considerate D. behaviour D. life D. experiments D. bad D. practical D. contributed D. disappointing D. customer"s D. determined D. Congratulations |
阅读理解 | |||
All over my garden I"ve planted nothing but roses, because I especially love the flower. A close friend came for a visit the other day. I told her that she should pick a bunch of roses to beautify her bedroom. I promised that the smell of the roses would be wafted far, far away. That girl friend of mine, walking into the garden in high spirits, smelt here and there, but in the end she didn"t pick a single rose. I said that she could pick many flowers; I told her that I was not a flower farmer and didn"t make a living out of them. Saying so, I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the flowers, but she stopped me, crying no, no, no! To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one, she said. With her hands seizing at my sleeves, she told me that by no means should they be cut. Roses are the smiling face of the earth, and who could be so ironhearted as to destroy such a charming smile? My mind was shocked: the ugly earth, the tough earth, the plain earth-it is for the reason of that smile that it wins the care and pity of people. | |||
1. The writer plants nothing but roses in her garden probably because ________. | |||
A. she can make money out of them B. her friends like them C. she enjoys the roses very much D. the roses sell well | |||
2. The underlined word "wafted" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to "________". | |||
A. given off B. lost C. destroyed D. thrown away | |||
3. Why did the writer"s close friend refuse to pick a single rose? | |||
A. Because the roses were not beautiful. B. Because she loved the roses very much. C. Because she did not like this kind of roses. D. Because the writer did not want to give her any. | |||
4. What is the best title for the passage? | |||
A. The Pity of People to the Roses B. A Lover of Flowers C. A Lovely Rose Garden D. The Smiling Face of the Earth | |||
阅读理解。 | |||
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn"t know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, "Hi, girl! My name is Rose. I"m 87 years old. Can I give you a hug?" I laughed and enthusiastically(热情地)responded, "Of course you may!" and she gave me a giant squeeze. "Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked. She jokingly replied, "I"m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel!" "No seriously," I said. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I"m getting one!" she told me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I"ll never forget what she taught us. "We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only two secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You"ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die!" she said. "There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don"t do one productive thing, you will turn 20 years old. If I am 87 years old, and stay in bed for a year, and never do anything, I will turn 88. Anybody can grow older. But every minute counts for young men," she added. "The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change.Have no regrets. The elderly usually don"t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.The only people who fear death are those with regrets." She concluded her speech by courageously singing The Song of Rose.She challenged each of us to study the lyrics(歌词)and live them out in our daily lives. At the year"s end, Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago.One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. | |||
1.Rose made herself known to the author in a________ manner. | |||
A.serious B.cold C.humorous D.crazy | |||
2.From the information provided in the passage, we know ________. | |||
A.Rose finished the college degree within a year B.Rose did realize her dream of meeting a rich husband and getting married through college education C.Rose enjoyed her campus life very much D.Rose grew so old that she stopped playing | |||
3.Rose delivered the speech________. | |||
A.at the graduation B.which she prepared carefully C.ended with The Song of Rose D.to challenge all the other speakers | |||
4.According to her speech, ________. | |||
A.even you have a dream, you won"t succeed B.all people don"t grow up while growing older C.Rose usually regretted having done something D.a nineyearold is as old as an 87yearold if he doesn"t do anything | |||
完形填空 | |||
John and Mary had a nice home and two lovely children, a boy and a girl. John had a good __1__ and had just been asked to go on a business trip to another city and it was __2__ that Mary needed an outing and would go along too. They __3__ a reliable woman to care for the children and made the __4__, returning home a little earlier than they had planned. __5__ they drove into their home town, they found a home in flames. Mary said, "Oh well, it isn"t our fire; let"s go home." __6__ John drove closer and exclaimed (惊叫), "That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn"t be __7__ work yet. Maybe there is something we could do." John drove up and they were both __8__ to see the whole house in flames. A woman on the lawn was in hysterics __9__, "The children! Get the children! They are in the basement." __10__ Mary"s protests (反对), John grabbed the water hose and soaked (浸湿)his clothes, put his wet handkerchief on his head and __11__ for the basement which was full of __12__. He found two nearly suffocated (窒息的)children and after carrying them to safety, he asked how many more children were __13__ there. They told him two more and Mary __14__ his arm and screamed, "John! Don"t go back! It"s __15__! That house will cave in any second!" But he shook her off and went back by __16__ his way down the smokefilled hallway and into the room. It __17__ a long time before he found both children and started back and at last when they came out into the__18__ and fresh air, he found that he had just __19__ his own children. It turned out that the babysitter had __20__ them at this home while she did some shopping. | |||
( )1. A.job ( )2. A.known ( )3. A.asked ( )4. A.preparations ( )5. A.Before ( )6. A.And ( )7. A.off ( )8. A.heart-broken ( )9. A.coughing ( )10. A.Apart from ( )11. A.reached ( )12. A.smoke ( )13. A.up ( )14. A.pulled ( )15. A.dangerous ( )16. A.pushing ( )17. A.meant ( )18. A.shade ( )19. A.helped ( )20. A.left | B. family B. believed B. hired B. promise B. As B. So B. on B. conscience-stricken B. screaming B. In case of B. searched B. darkness B. away B. took B. useless B. feeling B. spared B. sunlight B. found B. charged | B. family B. believed B. hired B. promise B. As B. So B. on B. conscience-stricken B. screaming B. In case of B. searched B. darkness B. away B. took B. useless B. feeling B. spared B. sunlight B. found B. charged | D. boss D. hoped D. reminded D. trip D. Since D. But D. at D. poverty-stricken D. weeping D. In spite of D. sent D. danger D. down D. held D. stupid D. moving D. seemed D. crowd D. rescued D. forgotten |
完形填空。 | |||
I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree kid until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit, __1__ cut my eye badly enough to blind it. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched (缝上) the eyeball together where it was cut, __2__ a big ugly scar in the middle of my eye. And as I grew, this __3__ eye in so many ways controlled me. I walked with my face looking at the __4__ so people would not see the ugly me. Sometimes people, even strangers, asked me__5__questions or made hurtful remarks. When the kids played games, I was always the " __6__". Yet Mama would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world. If you hold your head up high, people will see your beautiful __7__." Those words have meant __8__ things to me over the years. As a little child, I thought Mama meant, "Be careful, or you will fall down or __9__ something because you are not looking." As an adolescent, I found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people __10__ me, they liked me. My mama"s words helped me begin to __11__ that by letting people look at my face, I let them recognize the intelligence and beauty __12__ both eyes. In high school I was__13__both academically and socially. I was even elected class president, __14__, all I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would __15__ to my mama and she would look at me with __16__ eyes and say, "Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is inside." When I met the man who became my __17__ for life, we looked each other straight in the eye, and he told me I was beautiful inside and out. He __18__ it. My mama"s love and __19__ were the spark that gave me the confidence to __20__ my own doubt. | |||
( )1.A.that ( )2.A.achieving ( )3.A.sightless ( )4.A.sky ( )5.A.outstanding ( )6.A.monster ( )7.A.face ( )8.A.different ( )9.A.look into ( )10.A.recognize ( )11.A.spot ( )12.A.behind ( )13.A.awful ( )14.A.therefore ( )15.A.smile ( )16.A.terrible ( )17.A.partner ( )18.A.loved ( )19.A.statement ( )20.A.increase | B.which B.beginning B.careless B.rabbit B.inspiring B.angel B.eyes B.strange B.bump into B.find B.imagine B.on B.successful B.however B.laugh B.awkward B.colleague B.got B.encouragement B.emphasize | C.who C.surviving C.stainless C.floor C.astonishing C.acquaintance C.head C.stupid C.burst into C.identify C.realize C.beneath C.cheerful C.besides C.cry C.skeptical C.leader C.meant C.treatment C.plant | D.where D.leaving D.tasteless D.scar D.embarrassing D.stranger D.soul D.common D.get into D.know D.comment D.beside D.grateful D.and D.scold D.loving D.master D.hated D.comment D.overcome |