One day a few years ago we had a guest of the uninvited variety. In fact, this uninvited guest was a
bird- a(n) 1 , to be more precise(精确地).
"What"s that?" I asked when I first heard the thump(重击声). "It sounds like Joe is outside playing
basketball," my wife, Anita, said. She paused and 2 more devotedly. "It"s coming from the 3 ." she
said. "Maybe it"s one of the little 4 ".
We rushed out the door. Jonathan, our youngest, was easy to make 5 . "If he"s making holes in the
wall again…" I said as I searched there. No children at all. But there was that 6 again, coming from
right up there.
And that"s when I 7 the sparrow. It was flying 8 just inches below the ceiling. It was clearly
trying to 9 , but couldn"t see that the way out wasn"t up, but down and out through the open 10 .
So the bird continued beating its wings and hitting its head against the 11 .
"Poor thing," Anita said. "It must be 12 ."
"Well, maybe it"s because of me," I said as I moved toward it. I tried to show the bird how to glide
(滑翔) down a few feet so it could get outside, 13 that only seemed to frighten it more.
"Why don"t we just 14 ?" Anita suggested. "I"m sure he"ll 15 eventually."
So we went back into the house, where we continued to hear the ongoing struggle. Then suddenly, it
was 16 . We looked into the garage, and our uninvited guest was 17 .
"See?" Anita said. "I told you he would make it."
"Yeah," I said. "But how many knocks on the head did it 18 him?"
I"ve thought about that little sparrow through the years. Just like that sparrow, we often meet
situations we don"t know how to 19 . Born to go upward, we don"t 20 consider the possibility that
something good might happen if we stop flapping(拍打) around and just glide down a little bit. |
( ) 1. A. swallow
( ) 2. A. searched
( ) 3. A. basement
( ) 4. A. kids
( ) 5. A. trouble
( ) 6. A. cry
( ) 7. A. recalled
( ) 8. A. bravely
( ) 9. A. come up
( )10. A. car
( )11. A. wall
( )12. A. terrified
( )13. A. since
( )14. A. leave
( )15. A. attempt
( )16. A. strange
( )17. A. injured
( )18. A. cost
( )19. A. stand
( )20. A. still
| B. eagle
B. listened
B. kitchen
B. cats
B. fun
B. attack
B. realized
B. anxiously
B. come down
B. hole
B. floor
B. tired
B. if
B. wait
B. recognize
B. silent
B. awesome
B. offer
B. deal with
B. ever
| C. sparrow
C. studied
C. garage
C. birds
C. sense
C. knock
C. spotted
C. patiently
C. get in
C. door
C. window
C. stupid
C. but
C. flee
C. understand
C. busy
C. gone
C. earn
C. comfort
C. also
| D. pigeon
D. thought
D. yard
D. dogs
D. effort
D. sound
D. caught
D. happily
D. get out
D. roof
D. ceiling
D. mad
D. so
D. escape
D. succeed
D. noisy
D. dead
D. owe
D. face
D. even
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| 完形填空。 | Do you know insurance(保险)? Buying insurance is a 1 by which people can protect themselves
2 large losses. Protection against fire is one kind of insurance. Large number of people pay 3 sums
of money to an insurance company. Although thousands of people have paid for fire insurance, only 4
will lose their homes by fire. The insurance company will pay for these homes out or the sums of money it has 5 .
The first modern fire insurance company was 6 in London, England, in 1666. A great fire had just
7 most of the city, and people wanted protection against 8 losses. The first company 9 rapidly.
Soon other companies were founded in other areas.
Benjamin Franklin helped form the first fire insurance company in America in 1752. he also 10 a
new kind of insurance for 11 . the new insurance would off protection against the loss of crops 12
storms.
In 1795, Benjamin Franklin helped start 13 new insurance company in America. This company, 14
offered life insurance, collected some money15 from many different men.16 a man died, his family was
given a large sum of money. Today, this company is 17 in business.
Over the years, people have 18 from many new kinds of insurance when they have suffered from
19 accidents as car and plane crashes.20 , almost everyone has some kind of insurance. | 1. A. way
2. A. from
3. A. small
4. A. many
5. A. stole
6. A. built
7. A. destroyed
8. A. farther
9. A. risen
10. A. suggested
11. A. farmers
12. A. with
13. A. other
14. A. where
15. A. commonly
16. A. If
17. A. always
18. A. paid
19. A. many
20. A. Today | B. firm
B. against
B. huge
B. quite a few
B. collected
B. found
B. hurt
B. further
B. rised
B. determined
B. workers
B. by
B. certain
B. which
B. usually
B. Although
B. still
B. offered
B. so
B. Generally | C. consideration
C. with
C. much
C. few
C. lent
C. formed
C. harmed
C. wider
C. grew
C. asked
C. waiters
C. from
C. another
C. whom
C. regularly
C. Unless
C. hardly
C. bought
C. su ch
C. Lately | D. means
D. beyond
D. little
D. a few
D. brought
D. organized
D. wounded
D. longer
D. turned
D. demanded
D. doctors
D. for
D. some
D. that
D. ordinarily
D. Because
D. seldom
D. benefited
D. that
D. Tomorrow | | 完形填空。 | Michel is a young girl who works for the police as a handwriting expert. She has helped 1 many
criminals 2 using her special talents.
When she was fourteen, Michel was already so interested in the 3 in her friends" handwriting 4
she would spend hours 5 them.. after 6 college she went to France for a special two-year class
in 7 at the School of Police Science.
Michel says that it is 8 for people to hide their handwriting. She can discover 9 of what she
needs to know simply by looking at the writing with her own 10 , but she also has machines 11 help
her 12 different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often 13 great help to the 14 .
Michel believes that handwriting is a good sign of 15 kind of person the writer 16 ."I wouldn"t
go out with a fellow 17 I didn"t like his handwriting," she says. But she ad ds she 18 in love with he r
future husband, a young policeman 19 she studied his handwriting. It is later proved to be all right, 20 . | ( )1. A. search
( )2. A. with
( )3. A. differences
( )4. A. that
( )5. A. writing
( )6. A. finishing
( )7. A. books
( )8. A. possible
( )9. A. most
( )10. A. hands
( )11. A. they
( )12. A. carry out
( )13. A. of
( )14. A. teachers
( )15. A. what
( )16. A. is
( )17. A. whether
( )18. A. felt
( )19. A. after
( )20. A. however | B. follow
B. as
B. same
B. as
B. setting
B. attending
B. handwriting
B. safe
B. all
B.. mind
B. those
B. give out
B. to
B. people
B. all
B. becomes
B. if
B. dropped
B. when
B. but | C. catch
C. like
C. way
C. as to
C. uncovering
C. starting
C. tongues
C. easy
C. nothing
C. head
C. that
C. look out
C. with
C. police
C. which
C. belongs
C. after
C. caught
C. because
C. too | D. judge
D. by
D. method
D. so that
D. studying
D. finished
D. letter
D. impossible
D. little
D. eyes
D. with which
D. make out
D. for
D. students
D. to which
D. changes
D. unless
D. fell
D. before
D. either | | 阅读理解。 | A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same
words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairly stories as formal texts. It is always much
better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation
of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad
thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have
read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, in
think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises
from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear
into the pleasure of a fear faces and mastered.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true,
that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that , instead of being
fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I
find such people, I must say so peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were
sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick
or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever
believed that it was | | 1. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is_______ | A. repeated without any change
B. treated as a joke
C. make some changes by the parents
D. set in the present | | 2. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _____. | A. in a realistic setting
B. heard for the first time
C. repeated too often
D. told in a different way | | 3. The advantage claimed (提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it ______. | A. makes them less fearful
B. develops their power of memory
C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of
D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs | | 4. The author"s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _______. | A. fairy stories are still being made up
B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales
C. people try to modernize old fairy stories
D. there is more concern for children"s fears nowadays | | 5. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that ______. | A. they are full of imagination
B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth
C. they are not interesting
D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach | | 完形填空。 | In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things have come to
represent, in fact, what I call 1 and love.
I don"t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool . But he did 2 the water. Any kind
of 3 ride seemed to give pleasure. 4 he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water the way my father did. I liked being 5 the water, moving
through it, 6 it all around me. I was not a strong 7 , or one who learned to swim early, for I had
my 8  . but I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father"s office and 9 those summer
days with my father, who 10 come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father
would stand there in his suit, the 11 person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go 12 his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk,
where he let me 13 anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk
14 he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn"t be
playing with his 15 . but my father always 16 and said easily, "Oh, no, it"s 17 ." Sometimes he
handed me coins and told me to get 18 an ice cream… | ( )1. A. desire
( )2. A. avoid
( )3. boat
( )4. A, But
( )5. A. On
( )6. A. having
( )7. A. swimmer
( )8. A. hopes
( )9. A. spending
( )10. A. should
( )11. A. next
( )12. A. away from
( )13. A. put up
( )14. A. the moment
( )15. A. fishing net
( )16. A. stood up
( )17. A. fine
( )18. A. the student
( )19. A. memory
( )20. A. which | B. joy
B. refuse
B. bus
B. Then
B. off
B. leaving
B. rider
B. faiths
B. saving
B. would
B. only
B. out of
B. break down
B. the first time
B. office things
B. set out
B. strange
B. the assistant
B. wealth
B. who | C. anger
C. praise
C. train
C. And
C. by
C. making
C. walker
C. rights
C. wasting
C. had to
C. other
C. by
C. play with
C. while
C. wooden chair
C. showed up
C. terrible
C. myself
C. experience
C. what | D. worry
D. love
D. bike
D. Still
D. in
D. getting
D. runner
D. fears
D. ruining
D. ought to
D. last
D. inside
D. work out
D. before
D. lab equipment
D. lab equipment
D. funny
D. himself
D. practice
D. whose | | 阅读理解。 | "It hurts me more than you", and "This is for your own good" -these are the statements my mother
used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right
not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy for
us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our
children do homework. We gave them calculat ors, turned on the te levision, left the teaching to the
teachers and went on vacation.
Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years,
are realizing we"ve made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Clomps who says of her
students-"so passive" -and wonders what has happened. Nothing is demanded  of them, she believes.
Television, says Clomps, contributes to children"s passivity. "We"re talking about a generation of kids
who" vet never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them, instead of
saying "go and look it up", you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid."
Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It"s time for parents to end their vacation and come
back to work. It" s time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them
but it" s for their own good. It"s s time to start telling them no again. | | 1. Children are becoming more inactive in study because _______. | A. they watch TV too often
B. they have done too much homework
C. they have to fulfill too many duties
D. teachers are too strict with them | | 2. We learn from the passage that the author"s mother used to lay emphasis on _______. | A. learning Latin
B. discipline
C. natural development
D. education at school | | 3. By "permissive period in education" (L.1, Para.2) the author means a time _______. | A. when children are allowed to do what they wish to
B. when everything can be taught at school
C. when every child can be educated
D. when child ren are permitted to receive education | | 4. The main idea of the passage is that _______. | A. parents should leave their children alone
B. kids should have more activities at school
C. it"s time to be more strict with our kids
D. parents should always set a good example to their kids | 最新试题
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