阅读理解 Much as Robby tried,he lacked the sense of tone and basic rhythm (节奏)．
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But he seemed hopeless,with no born ability.A real bad advertisement for my teaching!I was so happy when one day he stopped coming.
Several weeks later my students were to have a recital (演奏会)．To my surprise,Robby came,asking to play in the recital.
"But,it is for current pupils,you dropped."
"My mom was sick.But I have been practicing.I"ve just got to play!"
I didn"t know what led me to agree,maybe...
The recital came.I_put_Robby_up_last_to_play_before_my_"curtain_closer",by which,I could save the recital if...
The recital went off well.Robby came up on stage,clothes wrinkled and his hair looked like he"d run an eggbeater through it."How could his mom...?"
Robby pulled out the piano bench and began.It was Mozart"s work!I was not prepared for what I
heard next.Like in a dream,I was then woken up by the wild applause-everybody was on their feet!
"I"ve never heard you play like that,Robby!How"d you do it?"
Through the microphone Robby explained:"Well,Miss Hondorf,remember I told you my mom was
sick?Actually she had cancer and died this morning.She was born deaf,and tonight was the first time she
ever heard me play.I wanted to make it special."
My eyes were wet.He was not a student of mine,but a teacher!
B. thought that Robby would make the recital special
C. thought that Robby wouldn"t play at the recital
D. had no confidence in Robby at all for the recital
B. Music
al talent.C. The writer"s help.
D. Regular practice.
B. That he loved his mother more than she did.
C. That he never gave up.
D. That,the audience gave him more applause than her.
B. Robby"s performance.
C. Robby and his mom"s story.
D. The audience"s applause.
答案
举一反三
ready for new 1__ in high school.
__2__ ,high school was different. In the first week,Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛) for
cheerleaders(拉拉队队长). She was competing against
very talented girls, and sheknew it would be 3_ for her to be selected. Two hours later,
the _4 _ read a list of the girls for a second try-out. Her heart__5__as the list ended without
her name. Feeling__6__ ,she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now
she was__7__. She moved on to English and history, and was__8__ to find that she didn"t have
any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to__9__math for the time being.
The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school__10__. Mrs. Biden
wasn"t as__11__as Jenna. "I"m sorry, but we have enough__12__for the
newspaper already. Come back next year and we"ll talk then. "Jenna smiled__13__and left.
"Why is high school so__14__?" she sighed.
Later in 15 class, Jenna devoted herself to figu-ring out the problems that had given her
so much 16 . By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her
books, Jenna decided she"d continue to try to 17 at her new school. She wasn"t sure if
she "d succeed .but she knew she had to 18 . High school was just as her mom had said :
"You will feel like a small fish in a big pond 19 a big fish in a small pond . The challenge
is to become the_20__fish you can be. "
( )2.A.Therefor
( )3.A.difficult
( )4.A.editor
( )5.A.jumped
( )6.A.strange
( )7.A.struggling
( )8.A.ashamed
( )9.A.putup
( )10.A.committee
( )11.A.enthusiastic
( )12.A.speakers
( )13.A.widely
( )14.A.similar
( )15.A.physics
( )16.A.pleasure
( )17.A.fitin
( )18.A.swim
( )19.A.inreturnfor
( )20.A.slimmest
B.However
B.boss
B.sank
B.happy
B.improving
B.Disappointed
B.preparefor
B.newspaper
B.artistic
B.readers
B.weakly
B.ordinary
B.history
B.hope
B.lookout
B.try
B.incaseof
B.smallest
C.Otherwise
C.candidate
C.stopped
C.awful
C.working
C.shocked
C.worryabout
C.radio
C.sympathetic
C.cheerleaders
C.excitedly
C.different
C.English
C.trouble
C.stayup
C.ask
C.intermsof
C.best
D.Besides
D.judge
D.raced
D.lonely
D.complaining
D.relieved
D.giveup
D.team
D.realistic
D.writers
D.brightly
D.familiar
D.math
D.sorrow
D.getaround
D.escape
D.insteadof
D.gentlest
office, I had to work. The only thing that 1 my day was the beautifully decorated Christmas tree in
our waiting room and a 2 sent to me by a fellow I was dating - a dozen long-stemmed red roses.
Then I was told a lady 3 needed to speak with me. As I stepped out, I noticed a young,
tired-looking woman with a 4 in her arms. Nervously, she 5 that her husband - a prisoner in a
nearby prison-was my 6 patient. She told me she wasn"t 7 to visit her husband in prison and
that he had never seen his 8 . Her request was for me to let the boy"s father sit in the waiting room
with her as 9 as possible before I called him for his appointment. I agreed. 10 , it was Christmas
Eve.
Her husband arrived-with chains on his feet and hands, and two armed guards. The woman"s tired
face 11 like our Christmas 12 when her husband took a seat beside her. After almost an hour, I
called the 13 to my office.
At the end of the 14 , I wished him a Merry Christmas - a(n) 15 thing to say to a man headed
back to prison. He 16 and thanked me. He also said he felt 17 by the fact he hadn"t been able to
get his wife anything for Christmas. On 18 this, I was inspired with a wonderful idea.
I"ll never forget the look on both their faces as the prisoner gave his wife the beautiful 19 . I"m not
sure who experienced the most joy - the husband in giving, the wife in 20 , or myself in having the
opportunity to share in this special moment.
| ( ) 1. A. darkened ( ) 2. A. report ( ) 3. A. urgently ( ) 4. A. dog ( ) 5. A. explained ( ) 6. A. first ( ) 7. A. shown ( ) 8. A. wife ( ) 9. A. soon ( )10. A. After all ( )11. A. went red ( )12. A. day ( )13. A. prisoner ( )14. A. preparation ( )15. A. rude ( )16. A. cried ( )17. A. amused ( )18. A. hearing ( )19. A. clothes ( )20. A. winning | B. brightened B. patient B. strangely B. box B. learned B. last B. allowed B. doctor B. close B. Above all B. lit up B. cake B. woman B. celebration B. difficult B. shouted B. frightened B. seeing B. roses B. meeting | C. shortened C. gift C. regularly C. quilt C. realized C. best C. persuaded C. son C. long C. In addition C. clouded over C. party C. guard C. appointment C. proper C. disagreed C. saddened C. realizing C. pictures C. borrowing | D. worsened D. message D. unreasonably D. baby D. insisted D. next D. forbidden D. victim D. quietly D. Sure enough D. turned aside D. tree D. others D. punishment D. easy D. smiled D. encouraged D. considering D. decorations D. receiving | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| When I arrived in Hamburg Germany, my colleague who worked there arranged a welcome party for me in a 1 . We noticed a few customers including several old ladies, were having their meal. When a dish is 2 , the waiter would distribute the food for them, and they would 3 every bit of the food on their plates. As I was hungry, my local colleague 4 much food for me. Since there were other things to do, we did not 5 much time dining. When we planned to leave, there was still about one third of 6 food left. When we were leaving the restaurant, we 7 someone calling us. When the old ladies spoke to us in English, we understood that they were 8 about us wasting so much food. "We 9 for our food; it is none of your 10 how much food we left behind", my colleague told the old ladies. They got angry, and one of them 11 made a call to someone. After a while, an officer in 12 arrived. Upon knowing what had happened, he issued us a 50-euro 13 . The officer told us in a stern (严厉的)voice: "order 14 you can consume. Money is yours, 15 the resources belong to the society. You have no 16 for wasting them." Our face turned red. We all agreed with him in our 17 . My colleague took out a 50-euro note and repeatedly 18 to the officer. My colleague copied the fine ticket and gave a copy to each of us as a souvenir. We all 19 it to remind us that we should never be 20 . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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