Mama"s voice floated through the apartment as she sang a Mexican folk song that I had heard all my life. "Hola," she greeted me when she came out of the bedroom. "Please speak to me in 1 ," I interrupted. She paid no attention and 2 speaking in Spanish. The words _3_ me of my grandparents and birthday parties in Mexico, but I knew my mother"s life would be 4 if she learned to speak English. We had lived in the United States for three years, and she still had difficulty 5 to store owners and my teachers. I was determined that she should try. "Why won"t you speak English?" I 6 . "Don"t you want to be 7 to talk to people here?" "Isabel," she whispered. Mama always whispered when she was upset with me. "What?" I was not 8 with her, either. She 9 for the English words. "Come with me to the, uh - how do you say it? Meeting." "What kind of meeting? Where is it?" I 10 her, but now she refused to answer. In 11 , we drove across town to the college, where she pulled into a brightly lit parking lot. I was 12 . I had expected a meeting at someone"s 13 - a garden club or a parents" group. Then I 14 a sign on a door. My mother was 15 night classes to learn English! "I don"t understand. 16 you"re learning English, why won"t you speak English at home?" I asked. "You"ll learn faster if you 17 with me." "I speak English here," she said in her thick accent. She hesitated, putting the words together, and then went on, "I speak Spanish at home 18 you." I 19 understood - she spoke Spanish at home so that I wouldn"t forget the words, songs, and 20 of Mexico. I said, "O. K., Mama, estabien." |
( )1. A. Spanish ( )2. A. remembered ( )3. A. reminded ( )4. A. brighter ( )5. A. explaining ( )6. A. repeated ( )7. A. kind ( )8. A. friendly ( )9. A. searched ( )10. A. begged ( )11. A. turn ( )12. A. shocked ( )13. A. college ( )14. A. spotted ( )15. A. grasping ( )16. A. If ( )17. A. train ( )18. A. to ( )19. A. suddenly ( )20. A. situations | B. Indian B. considered B. informed B. fresher B. gesturing B. insisted B. able B. happy B. accounted B. examined B. action B. puzzled B. house B. witnessed B. enjoying B. Once B. play B. with B. fortunately B. effect | C. English C. avoided C. warned C. busier C. agreeing C. stated C. equal C. bothered C. called C. blamed C. silence C. frightened C. office C. watched C. taking C. Because C. perform C. for C. easily C. memories | D. Russian D. continued D. accused D. easier D. speaking D. requested D. worried D. annoyed D. cared D. questioned D. order D. embarrassed D. company D. scanned D. preparing D. Unless D. practice D. at D. partly D. language | 阅读理解。 | We have met the enemy and he is ours. We bought him at a pet shop. When monkey-pox, a disease usually found in the African rain forest suddenly turns up in children in the American Midwest, it"s hard not to wonder of the disease that comes from foreign animals is homing in on human beings. "Most of the infections (感染) we think of as human infections started in other animals," says Stephen Morse, director of the Center for Public Health Preparedness at Columbia University. It"s not just that we"re going to where the animals are; we"re also bringing them closer to us. Popular foreign pets have brought a whole new disease to this country. A strange illness killed Isaksen"s pets and she now thinks that keeping foreign pets is a bad idea, "I don"t think it"s fair to have them as pets when we have such a limited knowledge of them." says Isaksen. "Laws allowing these animals to be brought in from deep forest areas without stricter control need changing." says Peter Schantz. Monkey-pox may be the wake-up call. Researchers believe infected animals may infect their owners. We know very little about these new diseases. A new bug (病毒) may be kind at first. But it may develop into something harmful. Monkey-pox doesn"t look a major infectious disease. But it is not impossible to pass the disease from person to person. | 1. We learn from Paragraph 1 that the pet sold at the shop may ________. | A. come from Columbia B. prevent us from being infected C. enjoy being with children D. suffer from monkey-pox | 2. Why did Isaksen advise people not to have foreign pets? | A. Because they attack human beings. B. Because we need to study native animals. C. Because they can"t live out of the rain forest. D. Because we do not know much about them yet. | 3. What does the phrase "the wake-up call" in Paragraph 3 most probably mean? | A. A new disease. B. A clear warning. C. A dangerous animal. D. A morning call. | 完形填空。 | It was a Friday morning and two lovers were going through a heart-searing breakup. As he was being 1 away from his lover,he banged on the fence 2 them. She was 3 desperate, and with all her 4 squeezed through the fence and rushed to him. A sweet kiss followed. No,this was not a passionate Romeo-and-Juliet love 5 .The couple is not_6 human. He is a ram, and she a doe. They have been living together in the Yunnan Wild Animal Park and have been in love since last year. In a fenced area the amorous ram, 7 Long Hair,has fascinated the doe,Chunzi. Liu Gencheng,has been 8 the couple for more than a year. "The two have 9 a lot of time together since they were little." The pair became famous after the local TV channel reported their relationship. Thousands, 10 some celebrities,left their 11. Many gave their blessings but some, 12 animal experts,left doubts. Cai Yue,is one of the fanatic web followers of the unusual love affair. "I first thought this might be a joke,but when I saw these photos,the love in their eyes 13 my heart. " The zoo manager vowed not to separate them. But after Long Hair fathered a baby lamb with the only female sheep in the zoo last month,the manager 14 . "The baby sheep needs care from both parents,"he said. " 15 the sheep and the deer are not able to have kids,we decided to separate them." The zoo"s plan was to form a "normal family" for Long Hair,letting him live with the female sheep and his baby 16 staying with Chunzi all the time. 17 ,the separation,was like a dramatic scene from a love story. "Long Hair even hurt his baby and the female sheep with his horns. It 18 us,"Li said. "And Chunzi has been trying to lick Long Hair 19 the fence." The zoo promised to let them "live happily ever after". "We 20 do anything to separate them." Li said.
( ) 1. A. dragged ( ) 2. A. surrounding ( ) 3. A. disappointedly ( ) 4. A. strength ( ) 5. A. stage ( ) 6. A. still ( ) 7. A. known as ( ) 8. A. taken care ( ) 9. A. cost ( )10. A. contain ( )11. A. comments ( )12. A. in special ( )13. A. touch ( )14. A. kept his mind ( )15. A. because ( )16. A. other than ( )17. A. Still ( )18. A. surprised ( )19. A. pass ( )20. A. can"t | B. pushed B. separating B. separately B. efforts B. scene B. yet B. considered as B. taken care of B. paid B. include B. praise B. in practical B. warm B. gave his mind B. for B. in stead B. But B. afraid B. across B. don"t | C. left C. dividing C. equally C. power C. spot C. ever C. looked as C. taking care C. took C. including C. criticize C. in rather C. move C. made his mind C. since C. instead of C. However C. scared C. though C. mustn"t | D. brought D. trapping D. surprisingly D. energy D. place D. even D. taken as D. taking care of D. spent D. containing D. words D. in especial D. leave D. changed his mind D. because of D. or rather D. Though D. astonished D. past D. won"t | 阅读理解。 | Two years ago,Wendy Hasnip,47,experienced a brain injury that left her speechless for two weeks. When she finally recovered, she found herself talking with what seemed to be a French accent. "I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the first ten minutes laughing," Hasnip said at the time, "while I have nothing against the French." Hasnip suffered from foreign accent syndrome(外国口音综合症), a rare condition in which people find themselves speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country. The condition usually occurs in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke -a sudden loss of consciousness, sensation,or movement caused by a blocked or broken blood vessel(血管)in the brain. The condition was first identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman whose head was injured during an attack by the German military. The woman recovered but was left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villagers who avoided her after that. Researchers have discovered that the combined effect of the damage to several parts of the brain makes victims lengthen certain syllable,mispronounce sounds,and change the normal pitch(音高)of their voice. Those changes in speech add up to what sounds like a foreign accent. Another researcher,a phonetician(语言学者),says victims of the syndrome don"t acquire a true foreign accent. Their strangely changed speech only resembles the foreign accent with which it has a few sounds in common. When an English woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scottish accent. However, Annie"s Scottish coworkers said she didn"t sound at all like a Scot. | 1. According to the passage,people __________ may have foreign accent syndrome. | A. whose parent has experienced a head injury B. who have lived in a foreign country for a long time C. who have lost their consciousness owing to a stroke D. who have learned foreign language from their coworkers | 2. If a person suffers foreign accent syndrome, __________. | A. his coworkers will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him B. he has more chance of suffering stroke again C. he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speakers D. his speech only has a few sounds in common with the foreign accent | 3. Writing this passage,the writer"s main purpose is to __________ . | A. introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information B. warn people not to be at the risk of experiencing a stroke C. make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured D. tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War | 阅读理解。 | I woke up one morning last week to read a story about an athlete who had seemed to have everything. US track star Marion Jones owned a trophy (奖杯) case filled with medals. She had worldwide fame. She held the high honor of being the first female track and field athlete to win five medals at an Olympics- the 2000 Sydney Games. But last Friday, the 31-year-old track star tearfully confessed that she had lied to fans, sports official and US federal agents about taking steroids. The five Olympic medals in her trophy case? Gone. Meaningless. The worldwide fame? Exchanged for infamy. The honor of being the first female track and field athlete to win five medals at an Olympics? Forgotten, wiped off the record books. "It is with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your trust." Jones confessed. She"d posed for pictures with fans. She"d attended parties and talked about her accomplishments. But for years she"d slept - or tried to sleep - knowing that much of what she had done was built on a lie. Now, finally, she"d decided to tell the truth. "If she had trusted her own natural gifts and allied them to self-sacrifice and hard work, I sincerely believe that she could have been an honest champion at the Sydney Games." IAAF President Lamine Diack said over the weekend. "Instead, Mario Jones will be remembered as one of the biggest frauds in sporting history." Sadly, she won"t be the last. There are still others lurking(潜伏) behind their trophies. They too appear to have everything. They"re superstars, the envy of every young person who has played a sport. But for how long? And at what cost? Every time they look at their trophies and medals they remember that the awards really belong to someone else. | 1. The main character in this passage is__________. | A. the writer himself B. Marion Jones C. IAAF president D. US federal agents | 2. It is still a worry that __________. | A. Marion Jones has cheated the public so long B. Marion Jones may be remembered as a fraud in sporting history C. IAAF president will not forgive Marion Jones D. cheating is still widely existing in sports competition | 3. The writer values __________ most in this passage. | A. Marion Jones" deciding to tell the truth B. the honesty and hard work in sports competition C. trophies, medals and champions D. the spirit of Olympic Games |
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