阅读理解。 I grew up in a small town. My father raised chickens and ran a constru
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I grew up in a small town. My father raised chickens and ran a construction company. I was barely
10 years old when my dad gave me the responsibility (责任) of feeding the chickens and cleaning up the
stable. He believed it was important for me to have those jobs to learn responsibility. Then, when I was
22, I found a job in Natchbill at a country music club called the Natchbill Palace, I washed dishes and
cooked from 4: 00 pm to 9: 00 pm and then went on stage and sang until 2:00 in the morning. It wasn"t
long before I became known as a singing cook. I had been rejected so many times by record companies
that it was hard not to be discouraged. One night, a woman executive (懂事) from a company named
Warner Brothers Records came to hear me sing. When the show was over, we sat down and talked
and after she left, I said to myself it was one more rejection. A few weeks later, my manager received
a phone call - Warner Brothers wanted to sign me to a record deal. Soon after, I released my first record
in June 1986. It sold o
ver 2 million copies. My best efforts had gone into every job I"ve ever held. It was
the sense of responsibility that made me feel like a man. Knowing that I had done my best filled me with
pride. I still feel that way today, even though I have become a well-known singer.
B. Because he sang for guests while he worked as a cook.
C. Because he often sang while cooking.
D. Because he liked singing better than cooking.
B. His manager.
C. His father.
D. A businesswoman.
B. His sense of responsibility in whatever he did.
C. His courage in the face of rejections.
D. His hard work in his early days.
答案
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a slight 1 .
I worked in a 2 doctor"s office and this was one of those days when the unexpected happened,
making the schedule run 3 than usual. It seem
ed I was going to be late 4 home and my husband, being the 5 person, would be ready to pronounce me late once again. Maybe 6 I hurried, I could
still make it home.
I was heading inside to 7 for my gas when I noticed an older couple at the counter. I
heard themasking for 8 to the local hospital. It was the same hospital that I had just 9 a few minutes ago.
The young man at the counter was trying to be 10 in explaining how to get there, with two other
people making 11 . One of them was 12 trying to give them a whole different route back. It was
then that I walked over to the couple and said, "Would you like to follow me to the 13 ?"
A look of 14 crossed the woman"s face.
"I"m going right by there," I said, which wasn"t a(an) 15 since I had just made up my mind to do
16 that.
I got in my car and began the journey back. I was trying to watch to be sure they were right 17 me.
It took only fifteen minutes to get there as rush hour traffi
c was beginning to 18 . I felt better than I had all day and my headache was nearly gone.
Later, as I arrived home, my husband 19 , "So you aren"t ever late any more."
I said, "Sometimes it"s 20 to be late."
| ( )1. A. break ( )2. A. foreign ( )3. A. earlier ( )4. A. getting ( )5. A. tough ( )6. A. as ( )7. A. pay ( )8. A. opinions ( )9. A. reached ( )10. A. skilled ( )11. A. comments ( )12. A. only ( )13. A. station ( )14. A. panic ( )15. A. duty ( )16. A. partly ( )17. A. across ( )18. A. go up ( )19. A. teased ( )20. A. possible | B. fever B. common B. later B. cooking B. punctual B. since B. change B. trouble B. visited B. helpful B. promises B. still B. office B. relief B. fact B. properly B. before B. die down B. shouted B. special | C. cold C. busy C. easier C. calling C. generous C. while C. wait C. directions C. called C. experienced C. jokes C. even C. hospital C. sadness C. reason C. exactly C. beside C. speed up C. burst C. good | D. headache D. noisy D. simpler D. working D. careful D. if D. search D. money D. left D. active D. offers D. ever D. hotel D. peace D. lie D. perfectly D. behind D. turn down D. laughed D. safe |
| 阅读理解 | |||
| He"s an old cobbler (修鞋匠) with a shop in the Marais, a historic area in Paris. When I took him my shoes, he at first told me: "I haven"t time. Take them to the other fellow on the main street; he"ll fix them for you right away. " But I"d had my eye on his shop for a long time. Just looking at his bench loaded with tools and pieces of leather, I knew he was a skilled craftsman (手艺人). "No," I replied, "The other fellow can"t do it well." "The other fellow" was one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make keys "while-U-wait" -without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys. They work carelessly, and when they have finished sewing back a sandal strap (鞋带) ,you might as well just throw away the pair. My man saw I wouldn"t give in, and he smiled. He wiped his hands on his blue apron (围裙), looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said, "Come back in a week." I was about to leave when he took a pair of soft leather boot off a shelf. "See what I can do " he said with pride. "Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work." When I got back out into the street, the world seemed brand-new to me. He was something out of an ancient legend, an old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his pride in his craft. These are times whe  n nothing is important but the bottom line, when you can do things any old way aslong as it "pays", when, in short, people look on work as a path to ever-increasing consumption (消费) rather than a way to realize their own abilities. In such a period,it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done. | |||
| 1. Which of the following is true about the old cobbler? | |||
| A. He was equipped with the best repairing tools. B. He was the only cobbler in the Marais. C. He was proud of his skills. D. He was a native Parisian. | |||
| 2. The sentence "He was something out of an ancient legend." ( paragraph 7 ) implies that _____. | |||
A. nowadays you can hardly find anyone like him B.it was difficult to communicate with this manC. the man was very strange D. the man was too old | |||
| 3. According to the author, many people work just to_____ . | |||
| A. realize their abilities B. gain happiness C. make money D. gain respect | |||
| 4. This story wants to tell us that_____ . | |||
| A. craftsmen make a lot of money B. whatever you do, do it well C. craftsmen need self-respect D. people are born equal | |||
| 阅读理解 | |||
A few years ago, when I was still in high school, I met a wonderful and warm teacher. At that time | |||
1. The writer and her elder brother ch ose to live with their father simply because _________. | |||
A. their mother was expecting to have  another babyB.they didn"t have to move out of their house C. they h  ated their mother remarriedD. they had a closer relationship with their father | |||
| 2. How did the writer get along with her studies before she met her English teacher? | |||
| A. She was hopeless and had given up her studies. B.She was getting along well with her studies. C. She had some trouble with her studies. D. She lacked interest in creativity. | |||
| 3. The writer behaved herself like a boy because ________. | |||
| A. she needed the love of mother B.she wanted to learn from her father and brother C. she lived with only men all the time D. her English teacher didn"t care about her | |||
| 4. What was the writer"s attitude to the watch given by the teacher? | |||
| A. She considered it to be very useful. B.She valued it very much. C. She kept it very well. D. She wanted to do something later in return for it. | |||
| 完形填空。 | |||
| "Are you too stupid to do anything right?" These words-said by a woman to a little boy who was obviously her son-were 1 because he had walked away from her. The boy returned, his eyes downcast (沮丧的). Not a 2 moment, perhaps. 3 small moments sometimes last a very long time. And a few words -though they mean 4 at the time to the people who say them-can have great 5 . I recently heard a story from a man named Malcolm Dalkoff. For the last 24 years he has been a professional 6 . Here is what he told me: As a boy in Rock Island, Dalkoff was terribly 7 . He had few 8 and no self-confidence (自信心). One day, his English teacher, Ruth Brauch, gave the class an assignment(作业). The students had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Now they were to write their own chapter that would 9 the last chapter of the novel. Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it 10 . Today he can not recall(回忆起) anything 26about the chapter he wrote, or what 11 Mrs. Branch gave him. What he does remember is the four words Mrs. Brauch wrote in the margin (空白处) of the paper: "This is 12 writing." Four words. They 13 his life. " 14 I read those words, I had no idea of who I was or 15 I was going to be," he said. "After reading her note, I went home and wrote a short story, something I had always been 16 of doing but never believed I could do."Over the rest of that year in school, he wrote many short stories and always brought them to school for Mrs. Brauch to evaluate (评价). She was 17 , tough and honest. "She was just what I 18 ," Dalkoff said. His confidence 19 . Dalkoff believes that none of this would have happened, had that woman not written those four words in the margin of his paper. | |||
| ( )1. A. talked ( )2. A. wonderful ( )3. A. Yet ( )4. A. much ( )5. A. meaning ( )6. A. writer ( )7. A. sorry ( )8. A. books ( )9. A. follow ( )10. A. on ( )11. A. common ( )12. A. signs ( )13. A. poor ( )14. A. changed ( )15. A. Unless ( )16. A. what ( )17. A. tired ( )18. A. strict ( )19. A. feared ( )20. A. grew | B. thought B. difficult B. Although B. little B. power B. player B. proud B. ideas B. match B. in B. stupid B. remark B. serious B. damaged B. Until B. how B. fond B. kind B. needed B. lifted | C. spoken C. funny C. For C. more C. force C. poet C. sick C. friends C. decide C. out C. special C. prize C. good C. affected C. When C. where C. proud C. encouraging C. expected C. appeared | D. expressed D. big D. Therefore D. most D. sense D. singer D. shy D. chances D. improve D. down D. different D. grades D. silly D. improved D. While D. which D. dreaming D. praising D. loved D. returned |
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| This economy has really got a lot of people moving and not always by a choice they wanted to make. My wife and I now find ourselves among those unfortunates feeling that 1 . At the end of last year, our customers just 2 . We had to make the painful decision to 3 our office and put our house up for 4 . We haven"t lived in it for two years yet and expected it would be the 5 one for a long time. How 6 this world economic mess is changing our lives! As I get older, I find moving less adventurous and more 7 . This time, we"re in the process of moving without knowing where we"ll 8 next. Job searching has been thrown into the quagmire(困境) of an unsettled life. Both my wife and I had been feeling pretty 9 from all this. I"ve been challenged to find the positive in all this down that"s 10 us. But then it happened while I watched my wife 11 things up. She"s an absolute whiz(能手) when it comes to packing. I took delight in watching her 12 just the right boxes for 13 in front of her and filling in the 14 with pillows and towels. I began feeling something like a wind lift me up and sail me through my own 15 of the packing and loading. Some friends will be helping us with the 16 . I"ve told them that they"re not 17 friends but gaining some new vacation spots. I have 18 that we"ll get through this transition finally. We all will always have work to do, by choice or 19 , and we can also consciously make the effort to create a sense of 20 in a new place. | |||
my elder brother and I had chosen to stay with my dad. Due to the fact that he was keeping 
time, my teacher took a special interest in me. Being my English teacher, she encouraged