My little angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is!
My wife called, "How long will you be with that 1 ? Will you come here and make your darling
daughter eat her food?" I threw the paper away and 2 to the place. My daughter, Sindu, sat there,
tears welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a big bowl of rice.
I 3 the bowl and persuaded: "Sindu, why not take a few mouthfuls of this rice?"
"Ok, Dad. I will eat - not just a few mouthfuls, 4 the whole lot of this. But…" Sindu hesitated.
"Dad, if I eat this entire rice, will you give me 5 I ask for?"
"Promise." I 6 .
After eating the rice painfully, Sindu came to me, her eyes wide with 7 . Now I became a bit 8 .
"Dear, you shouldn"t insist on 9 a computer or any such 10 things. Dad does not have that kind of
money right now." 11 , "I want to have my head shaved off(剃掉), this Sunday!" was her demand
(要求), which was far 12 my belief.
On Monday morning, I 13 Sindu at her school and watched her walking towards her classroom.
She turned around and 14 . I waved back with a smile. Just then, a boy, who just got out of a car,
shouted, "Sindu, please wait for me!" What 15 me was the hairless head of that boy.
"Sir, your daughter is 16 indeed!" Without introducing herself, a lady standing beside me continued, "That boy is my son, who lost all his 17 because of a disease. He 18 to come back to school
fearing the unintentional(无意的)but 19 teasing(取笑)of the schoolmates. Sindu visited him last week,
and promised him that she would take care of the teasing issue. But, I 20 imagined she would sacrifice
her lovely hair for my son!" |
( )1. A. bowl
( )2. A. rushed
( )3. A. took out
( )4. A. and
( )5. A. what
( )6. A. moved
( )7. A. expectation
( )8. A. nervous
( )9. A. making
( )10. A. valuable
( )11. A. Therefore
( )12. A. to
( )13. A. met
( )14. A. shouted
( )15. A. interested
( )16. A. careful
( )17. A. friends
( )18. A. refused
( )19. A. kind
( )20. A. usually | B. newspaper
B. pulled
B. picked up
B. so
B. where
B. doubted
B. confidence
B. bored
B. selling
B. useful
B. However
B. beyond
B. helped
B. smiled
B. frightened
B. hard-working
B. hair
B. wished
B. hurtful
B. ever | C. book
C. jumped
C. broke down
C. or
C. which
C. agreed
C. worry
C. excited
C. getting
C. wonderful
C. Besides
C. of
C. dropped
C. waved
C. pleased
C. graceful
C. hope
C. dreamed
C. harmless
C. never | D. food
D. shouted
D. gave out
D. but
D. how
D. disbelieved
D. attraction
D. relaxed
D. studying
D. expensive
D. Anyway
D. within
D. collected
D. stared
D. surprised
D. great
D. face
D. decided
D. funny
D. nearly |
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| 1-5: BABDA 6-10: CAACD 11-15: BBCCD 16-20: DBABC |
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| 阅读理解 | Robby was 11 when his mother dropped him off for his first piano lesson. I prefer students to begin
at an earlier age. Robby said that it had always been his mother"s dream to hear him play the piano, so
I took him on as a student.
Robby tried and tried while I listened and encouraged him and gave him more instructions. But he
just did not have any inborn ability.
I only saw his mother from a distance. She always waved and smiled but never came in. Then one
day Robby stopped coming to our lessons. I thought about calling him but I guessed he had decided to
try something else.
I was also glad that he stopped coming for the sake of my career. However, several weeks before
the recital (演奏会) of my students, Robby came,telling me that he never stopped practicing and begged
me to allow him to take part in it. I agreed, but I made him perform last in the program, so I could save
his poor performance through my "curtain closer".
I was surprised when he announced that he had chosen one piece of Mozart"s. However, never had
I heard a piece of Mozart"s played so well by someone at his age.
I ran up and put my arms around Robby in joy. "I"ve never heard you play like that, Robby! How
could you do it?"
"Well, Miss Hondorf. Do you remember I told you my mom was sick? Actually she died this
morning. She was born deaf, so tonight was the first time she could hear me play. I wanted to make it
special. I knew I could." | | 1. Why might Robby have stopped coming to piano lessons suddenly? | A. He lost heart and believed that he would never make it.
B. His mother might have been seriously ill.
C. He thought that his teacher disliked him.
D. His mother died and he didn"t need to play any longer. | | 2. We can know from the passage that _________. | A. the writer thought students shouldn"t begin playing the piano too early
B. the writer thought that Robby had given up his piano lessons
C. only by practicing at home did Robby learn to play well
D. no one else could play the piece of Mozart"s as well as Robby | | 3. From the underlined sentence, we can infer that _________. | A. the writer looked down upon Robby and disliked him
B. the writer thought Robby was a bad advertisement for her teaching
C. with Robby in the recital, the other children couldn"t play well
D. the writer couldn"t teach so many students at a time | | 4. The writer made Robby perform last because _________. | A. the one who performs last always performs very well
B. Robby asked the writer to do so
C. she wanted to do something to save a poor performance
D. Robby thought his mother would come at last | | 完形填空。 | 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 | 最新试题
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