阅读理解。 A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration.
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All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake(分享,参与)
of the festivities and celebrations. All had a wonderful time.
The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his
black tuxedo(礼服). Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.
A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, "I read in a magazine, a
while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage," she offered. "Each of us will write a list
of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we
can fix them together and make our lives happier together."
The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of
the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the
day and wrote down what they came up with. The next morning, at the breakfast table, they
decided that they would go over their lists.
"I"ll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill three
pages. In fact, as she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were
starting to appear in her husband"s eyes.
"What"s wrong?" she asked. "Nothing," the husband replied, "keep reading your list."
The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly
placed her list on the table and folded her hands over the top of it.
"Now, you read your list and then we"ll talk about the things on both of our lists," she said
happily.
Quietly the husband stated, "I don"t have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the
way that you are. I don"t want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful
and I wouldn"t want to try and change anything about you." The wife, touched by his honesty
and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.
In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We
don"t really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light
and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when
we can look around us, and see the wondrous(奇妙的) things before us?
B. their friends and family had a good time
C.the wedding ceremony was large
D. the bride was charming in white wedding gown
B. Her relatives advise her to do so.
C. her husband does have some shortcomings.
D. She wants to strengthen the marriage.
B. Good-hearted.
C. Unselfish.
D. Broken-hearted.
B. the husband did not agree to write down the list
C. the bride ignored the feeling of the husband on purpose
D. they didn"t love each other as we could see
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He was able to se11 millions of models because be could produce them in large numbers
at a time；that is，he made a great many cars of exactly the same kind．Ford’s father
hoped that his son would be come a farmer，but the young man did not like the idea and
he went to Detroit（底特律）where he worked as a mechanic（机械师）．By the
age of 29，in 1892，he had built his first car．However，the car made in this way，
the famous “Model T” did not appear until 1908-five years after Ford bad started his
great motor car factory．This car showed to be well-known that it remained unchanged
for twenty year．Since Ford’s time，this way of producing cars in large numbers has be
come common in industry and has reduced the price of many goods which would otherwise
be very expensive．
B．cheap and long
C．fast and expensive
D．strong and slow
B．his cars are many
C．he made lots of cars of the same kind
D．both A and B
B．which was against his own will
C．which was against his father’s will
D．which was the will of both
B．between 1982 and 1908
C．before 1892
D．after 1908
B．in 1908
C．in 1913
D．in 1897
passing day everyone became more 1 , waiting for the final school bell. Upon its 2 , everyone would run
for their coats and go home except David.
David was a small boy in ragged (破旧的)clothes. I had often 3 what kind of home life David had,
and what kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so 4 for the cold winter months, without
a coat, boots or gloves. But something made David 5 . I can still remember he was always 6 a smile
and willing to help. He always 7 after school to straighten chairs and sweep the floor. We never talked
much. He 8 just simply smile and ask what else he could do, then thank me for letting him stay and
slowly 9 home.
Weeks passed and the 10 over the coming Christmas grew into restlessness(***动不安)until the
last day of 11 before the holiday break. I smiled in relief as the last of them 12 out of the door. Turning
around, I saw David 13 standing by my desk.
"I have something for you," he said and 14 from behind his back a small box. 15 it to me, he said
anxiously, "Open it." I took it over from him, thanked him and slowly unwrapped it. I lifted the lid and to
my 16 saw nothing. I looked at David"s smiling face and back into the box and said, "The box is nice,
David, but it"s 17 ."
"Oh no, it isn"t," said David, "It"s full of love. My mum told me before she died that love is something
you can"t see or touch unless you know it"s there."
Tears filled my eyes 18 I looked at the proud dirty face that I had 19 paid attention to. I never
forget the meaning 20 the little empty box set on my desk. After that Christmas, David and I became
good friends.
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| 阅读理解。 | |||
| The city of Venice，in Italy，is one of a kind．It is built on more than 120 islands，just off arrival．After explaining where my new house was，I told him that I had left the key under the doormat．Since I knew it would be quite late before I could get back，I suggested that be make himself at home and help himself to anything that was kept in the refrigerator（冰箱）． Two hours later my friend phoned me from the house．At the moment，he said，he was listening to some of my records after having had a nice meal．He had found the pan and meat in the refrigerator．Now，he was drinking a cup of tea and hoped that I would join him soon． When I asked him if he bad any difficulty finding the house，he answered that the only problem was that he had not been able to find the key under the doormat，but luckily，the living room window by the apple tree had been left open and he had climbed in through the window．I listened to all this in great surprise．There is no apple tree outside my window，but there is one by the living room window of my next-door neighbor’s house！ | |||
| 1．When my friend arrived，I could not go to meet him because________． | |||
| A．we were not good friends ]B．I was busy at work C．he had not told me that he would come D．I did not want to see him | |||
| 2．A doormat is a mat______ | |||
| A．used as a door B．for cleaning the bottom of shoes C. put up on a door as an ornament（装饰物） D．near a door under which people put their keys | |||
| 3．I listened to my friend’s phone call in great surprise because____． | |||
| A．he had not waited for me to eat together B．he had eaten too much of the food C．he mistook my neighbor’s house for mine D．he had left the house with the window open | |||
| 4．At last my friend______． | |||
| A．did not enter my house B．entered my house after he opened the door C．entered my house by climbing through the window D．entered my house with the help of my neighbor | |||
| 5．The writer left the key under the doormat so that______． | |||
| A．nobody would find it B．he might not lose it C．his family could use the same key D．his friend could easily get it | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| An old woman had two large pots (罐), one on each end of a pole (扁担). She carried the pole with the pots across her neck. One of the pots had a crack (裂缝) in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered (递 送) a full pot of water. At the end of the long walk from the well to the house, the crackedpot arrived only half-full. For two years this happened daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection. One day, the cracked pot spoke to the woman by the well: "I am ashamed of myself because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house." The old woman smiled: "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot"s side? That"s because I have always known about your crack, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path. And every day while we walk back, you water them." "For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate (装饰) the table. Without you being just the way you are, I would not have this beauty." Each of us has our own cracks. But it"s these cracks that make our lives together so interesting and meaningful.  | |||
| 1. How did the cracked pot feel about itself at first? | |||
| A. Proud. B. Happy. C. Excited. D. Ashamed. | |||
| 2. Where were the flowers growing? | |||
| A. On both sides of the path. B. In the woman"s house. C. On the perfect pot"s side. D. On the cracked pot"s side. | |||
| 3. Which is the correct order of the following events? ① The woman picked the flowers and decorated the table. ② The woman told the truth to the cracked pot. ③ The cracked pot talked to the woman about its crack. ④ The woman found a crack on one pot. ⑤ The woman planted some flower seeds. | |||
| A. ④⑤①③② B. ⑤④③②① C. ④③①②⑤ D. ④⑤③①② | |||
| 4. What does the passage mainly want to tell us? | |||
| A. Never laugh at old women. B. Try your best to be perfect in life. C. Imperfection makes life meaningful. D. Don"t use a cracked pot to carry water. | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| Driving to a friend"s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend"s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors. My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life. I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires(篝火) outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply. Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers. Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon. | |||
| 1. The best title for the passage would be______. | |||
| A. Touched by the moon B. The pleasures of modern life C. A bottomless well of silence D. Break away from modern life | |||
| 2. The writer felt sorry for himself because________. | |||
| A. there was too much pollution B. he seldom enjoyed the fullest moon outsides C. he didn"t adapt to modern inventions D. there were too many accidents on the road | |||
| 3. What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India? | |||
| A. No modern equipment B. Complete silence. C. The nice moonlight D. The high mountains | |||
| 4. Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to______. | |||
| A. show that the writer likes city life very much B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life C. explain that people have fewer chances to enjoy nature D. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them |