阅读理解。 Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a seemingly ancient wo
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| 阅读理解。 |
Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a seemingly ancient woman waited beside
the door with her hand outstretched. Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met. She never
failed to return my smile, my grasp, and my greeting.
On the last day of our visit, I found myself alone on a busy corner across the street from our
hotel. Bicycles and motorbikes rushed in front of me. As I hesitated on the sidewalk, I felt a hand
on my elbow and looked down to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me. She
nodded her head toward the street, indicating that she would take me across. Together, we moved
slowly into the chaos.
Then we moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on
both cheeks, and then left, still smiling and waving back to me.
Traveling in poorer nations, I have witnessed a variety of ways to deal with beggars. The most
common response of tourists faced with the poverty-stricken is to ignore them and focus their eyes
elsewhere. I have seen people push away an outstretched hand in angry annoyance. A few may drop
a few coins into the hand in a hurry, hoping that other ragged pursuers won"t immediately appear on
the scene.
For many reasons, giving money is not the best response to an outstretched hand. Many world
travelers have discovered that the greatest gift they can give is their time and respect. Everyone needs
recognition, to be seen as worthy of being known, to feel appreciated and loved. And I believe that
everyone is worthy and worth knowing. |
| 1. The woman beggars helped the author go across the busy street because __________. |
A. the author gave her material assistance
B. the author treated her kindly and friendly
C. the author would help her as a reward
D. the author was a foreigner |
| 2. From the story, what position of the beggars in the author"s mind might be? |
A. equal
B. superior
C. lower
D. valuable |
| 3. In common cases, people will do the following things to the beggars EXCEPT for ________. |
A. pretending to see nothing
B. handing out some money
C. refusing them angrily
D. greeting them normally |
| 4. According to the author, the most important things beggars really need are _________. |
A. mercy and pity
B. money and food
C. smile and greeting
D. attention and respect |
| 5. The purpose of the passage is to _________. |
A. show how poor the beggars are in Vietnam
B. offer some advice on dealing with begging
C. express what we should offer the beggars
D. describe an experience with a beggar |
答案
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举一反三
| 完型填空。 |
I dropped my 5-year-old daughter off at the day care centre yesterday. There we saw one of her
friends sitting at a table __1__, crying. She sometimes gets __2__ when her mom leaves. My daughter
often __3__ with her, and they"re good friends. When we saw the little girl__4__, I asked my daughter if
she wanted to go and __5__ with her. She said, "Yes, I don"t want her to be__6__,"and then took her
breakfast to sit beside her friend. I watched her __7__ her food and talk to the little girl.
Walking back to my car I was very __8__ to know that my little girl had a kind __9__. When I got
home last night, I asked her __10__ her day had been. She said that her __11__ wasn"t sad any more.
She was proud to have shared (分享) her __12__ with her and played with her __13__. I praised my
daughter for __14__ such a caring friend and __15__ her that I was very proud of her. She __16__, and
told me that she didn"t like to see people sad.
I hugged her and told her what a / an __17__ girl she was. __18__, she said "I"m Daddy"s little girl!" I
couldn"t help but smile, and was proud to be her dad. My little girl has__19__ me a lot. Because of her I
do my best to make people that __20__ be sad smile. |
( )1. A. alone
( )2. A. bored
( )3. A. agrees
( )4. A. singing
( )5. A. sit
( )6. A. frightened
( )7. A. make
( )8. A. happy
( )9. A. mind
( )10. A. how
( )11. A. daughter
( )12. A. feeling
( )13. A. day and night
( )14. A. having
( )15. A. taught
( )16. A. cried
( )17. A. wonderful
( )18. A. Quickly
( )19. A. encouraged
( )20. A. should | B. alike
B. surprised
B. plays
B. talking
B. wait
B. nervous
B. eat
B. disappointed
B. heart
B. what
B. teacher
B. drink
B. day and day
B. making
B. wrote
B. smiled
B. interesting
B. Luckily
B. suggested
B. will | C. likely
C. excited
C. fights
C. crying
C. pass
C. afraid
C. enjoy
C. helpful
C. feeling
C. when
C. toy
C. food
C. all night
C. acting
C. told
C. shouted
C. fearless
C. Proudly
C. taught
C. need | D. lonely
D. worried
D. argues
D. dancing
D. drop
D. sad
D. share
D. great
D. idea
D. why
D. friend
D. dream
D. all day
D. being
D. asked
D. disagreed
D. brave
D. Rudely
D. told
D. may |
| 阅读理解。 |
As I grew older, Dad was to build all sorts of things for me as I explored a variety of interests:
magic tricks, a toy circus, neighborhood shows and science projects.
From as early as I can remember to the time I left home for college, I continued to come to him
with a design or an idea, and he would figure out how to build it.
In fifth grade, a schoolmate and I wrote a puppet(木偶) show that we wanted to perform for
our class. I made the puppet heads myself, and I made the costumes and curtains with Mon-who
was as expert designing and sewing with cloth as my father was designing and working with wood
and metal. With Dad I made the puppet stage, in our own invented style between kid and adult
with me saying something like, " It has to be this high, and it needs to come apart and fold up so it
can fit in the backseat of the car, and it needs to set up fast, and it needs to have different colored
lights on top with switches you can reach to control them and a curtain you can pull from under it,
even if you still have a puppet on your hand." Dad figured out how to make it all work, making plans
as we went along. Then with the tools in his shop he built it, and I helped.
Dad also spent a lot of time out in the garage or in the driveway working on the family car. I don"t
remember that he ever took it to a professional auto-repair shop. Maybe to save money, but also
because he could usually figure out what needed fixing, just by taking it apart and looking. Though
not trained as an auto mechanic, he could look under the engine cover and take parts and pieces out,
spread them on a tarp (油布) to catch the oil and figure out what was supposed to happen to the
machine and then figure out what wasn"t happening and then replace the worn-out part or whatever
and then put everything back together again. |
| 1. If you are the writer, you are supposed to write about ________ahead of the first paragraph. |
A. father"s achievement in mechanics
B. father"s love and skills in mechanics
C. father"s experience at repairing cars
D. father"s inventions in mechanics |
| 2. Who helped the writer to make the puppet? |
A. The writer himself.
B. His classmate.
C. His teacher.
D. His parents. |
| 3. Before the writer went to college, he always turned to his father for _____________. |
A. designing a machine
B. building his design or idea
C. making a puppet show
D. building a show stage |
| 4. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE? |
A.T he writer"s car is always breaking down.
B. Father works in a car repairing shop.
C. Repairing in a shop can save much money.
D. Father was good at mending his car. |
| 5. The purpose of the writer"s writing the passage is ______________. |
A. to tell how his father made a puppet for him
B. in memory of his parents
C. to describe to the readers his memories about his father
D. to argue that parents should help children to explore the world and make inventions |
| 阅读理解。 |
Kenyon Scudder once told me a story about his friend, Michael. Michael happened to be on a train
sitting next to a young man who seemed worried. Finally the young man told the friend that he was a
convict (罪犯) returning home from a prison far away. What he did had brought shame (羞耻) on his
family, and they had neither visited him nor written to him. He hoped, however, that this was only because
they were too poor to travel and too busy to write.
When he was set free he had written to tell them he wanted to go home. To make matters easy for
them, however, he had asked them to put up a signal (信号) for him when the train passed their little farm. If the family had forgiven (原谅) him, they were to put up a white ribbon (丝带) in the big apple tree near
the railway. If they didn"t want him back, they were to do nothing, and he would stay on the train, and go
far away.
As the train neared his hometown his suspense became so great that he was afraid to look out of the
window. He asked Michael to watch for the big apple tree. They changed seats. In a minute, Michael put
his hand on the young convict"s shoulder. "There it is," he said, his eyes filled with sudden tears. "It"s all
right. The whole tree is white with ribbons." |
| 1. For which of the following reasons might the young man be worried? |
A. His family might not allow him to go home.
B. His family would not remember him.
C. His family hadn"t written to him frequently.
D. His family hadn"t visited him for a long time. |
| 2. The word "suspense" underlined in the last paragraph can best be replaced by _____. |
A. pain
B. interest
C. worry
D. happiness |
| 3. Why did Michael cry at the end of the story? |
A. The young man couldn"t live with his family.
B. There were many white ribbons on the apple tree.
C. He was moved by the young man.
D. The young man was very sad. |
| 完形填空。 |
Learn and Earn
Charlie and Jackie joined a wholesale company together just after graduation. They both worked
very hard. After several years, the boss made Jackie sales manager but Charlie __1__ a salesman.
One day Charlie could not __2__ it any more. He handed in his resignation letter (辞职信) to the
boss and complained that the boss did not __3__ hard-working employees, but only raised those
who tried to please him. He thought that it was really _4__.
The boss knew that Charlie had spared no __5__ for the company all these years, but in order
to help Charlie to realize the __6__ between him and Jackie, the boss asked Charlie to do the
following. "Go and __7__ if there is anyone selling watermelons in the market." Charlie went, returned
and __8__ said, "Yes." The boss asked, "How much per kilogram?" Charlie went back to the market
to ask and returnd to __9__, "$ 12 per kg."
The boss told Charlie that he would ask Jackie the __10__ question. Jackie went, returned and
said, "Boss, only one person selling watermelons. $ 12 per kg, $ 100 for 10 kg. He has a _11_of 340
melons.
On the table are 58 melons, and every melon weighs about 15 kg, _12_ from the South two days
ago.
They are fresh, red, and of good __13__."
Charlie was __14___ and he realized the difference between himself and Jackie. He decided
not to __15__ but to learn from Jackie.
My dear friends, you know, a more __16__ person is more observant, thinks more and understands
in __17__. For the same matter, he sees several years ahead, __18__ you see only tomorrow. The
difference between a year and a day is 365 times, so how could you __19__ ?
Think: how far have you seen ahead in your life? How __20__ are you? |
( )1. A. made
( )2. A. take
( )3. A. enjoy
( )4. A. unusual
( )5. A. rest
( )6. A. competition
( )7. A. find out
( )8. A. still
( )9. A. offer
( )10. A. difficult
( )11. A. total
( )12. A. taken
( )13. A. value
( )14. A. struck
( )15. A. stay
( )16. A. important
( )17. A. time
( )18. A. while
( )19. A. see
( )20. A. hopeful | B. became
B. do
B. meet
B. unfair
B. trouble
B. relationship
B. carry out
B. again
B. answer
B. familiar
B. lot
B. come
B. quality
B. moved
B. stop
B. intelligent
B. depth
B. though
B. think
B. thoughtful | C. remained
C. get
C. repay
C. careless
C. effect
C. difference
C. look out
C. even
C. remind
C. same
C. pile
C. bought
C. condition
C. puzzled
C. work
C. successful
C. need
C. unless
C. know
C. helpful | D. kept
D. put
D. value
D. selfless
D. effort
D. distance
D. pick out
D. only
D. repeat
D. simple
D. number
D. heard
D. shape
D. encouraged
D. leave
D. hardworking
D. common
D. since
D. win
D. meaningful |
| 阅读理解。 |
Ray"s wedding had gone off smoothly. Everyone seemed to have had a good time. A few people had
too good a time; they went home with designated (指派的) drivers. All evening, the gift table remained
unguarded. Who would steal anything, Ray thought. He had never heard of such a thing happening at a
wedding. But his best friend Aaron said there was a first time for everything. He strolled out regularly from the inside festivities (庆祝) to check on the gift table, making sure no one suspicious was hanging around
it.
Ray and Julia went on a 3-week honeymoon to Italy right after the wedding. When they got back, they opened all the gifts and sent out thank-you notes. But there was one problem. A married couple that used
to be good friends had apparently given nothing. This surprised Julia, because Walt and Mary said they were thrilled to be invited. And, they actually seemed to have had a great time at the wedding. Frankly, Ray
didn"t even care if they hadn"t given a gift. He just needed to know whether to send a thank-you note. Ray called Aaron. Aaron said maybe Walt had left an envelope on the gift table like Aaron had. "Yes, but we
got your envelope with the cash inside," Ray said.
"Maybe my envelope looked too thin, and some thief thought Walt"s envelope looked nice and fat."
Aaron asked Ray if he had looked everywhere for Walt"s gift. Had he called up the wedding site to see
if anything had been left behind? Ray said that he had looked everywhere and made a lot of calls that were fruitless.
Ray didn"t know what to do. If he sent Walt and Mary a thank-you note for a gift they hadn"t given, they would be insulted. If he didn"t send them a thank-you note for a gift they had given, they would get angry.
"What would you do?" Ray asked. Aaron said he would call Walt up and tell him the problem.
"You can"t go wrong with simply being honest," Aaron said.
"Oh, yes, you can," Ray contradicted(反驳)him. "Sometimes it"s best to let sleeping dogs lie." But he
thought about it, and finally decided that Aaron was right. He called Walt and told him the problem. Walt
said that yes, he had given an envelope. In fact, the envelope contained $500 cash.
"$500?!" Ray asked. "That"s a lot of cash, Walt!" Walt admitted that it was, but he had gotten a fat raise(加薪) early that year and Ray"s was the only wedding he"d been to in quite a while. Ray thanked him very much, and apologized sincerely for someone stealing Walt"s generous gift. Walt told him that it was "only
money".
When Ray told Aaron about Walt"s gift, Aaron laughed. "The only thief at the wedding was Walt! I quit playing cards with him last year because I caught him cheating. And it was only a $10 pot! I"m sure I told
you about that."
"Yes, you did tell me," Ray said. But, of course, he had to send Walt a thank-you note anyway. |
| 1. Which of the following is true according to the passage? |
A. Nobody checked on the gift table all evening.
B. Walt had surely gotten a fat raise early that year.
C. Stealing had never happened at a wedding.
D. Aaron looked on honesty as the best policy. |
| 2. The underlined word "insulted" in Paragraph 5 probably means ________. |
A. deeply impressed
B. badly hurt
C. much discouraged
D. greatly moved |
| 3. What kind of person is Ray? |
A. Considerate and polite.
B. Faithful and experienced.
C. Outgoing and determined.
D. Friendly and optimistic. |
| 4. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? |
A. A Wedding Party
B. The Theft at the Wedding
C. The Wedding Gift
D. A Secret at the Wedding |
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