When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A student, I believed I
could 1 tough subjects and really learn something. One such course was World Literature given by
Professor Jayne. I was extremely interested in the ideas he 2 in class.
When I took the first exam, I was 3 to find a 77, C-plus, on my test paper, 4 English was my best
subject. I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained 5 .
I decided to try harder, although I didn"t know what that 6 because school had always been easy for
me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. Again, I 7 with Professor Jayne. Again, he
listened patiently but wouldn"t change his 8 .
One more test before the final exam. One more 9 to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts and,
for the first time, 10 the meaning of the word "thorough". But my 11 did no good and everything 12 as
before.
The last hurdle was the final. No matter what 13 I got, it wouldn"t cancel three C-pluses. I might as well
kiss the 14 goodbye.
I stopped working hard. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the
final, I even 15 myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I"d have 16 with a test.
A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into Professor Jayne"s office. He 17 to be
expecting me, "If I gave you the A as you 18 , you wouldn"t continue to work as hard."
I stared at him, 19 that his analysis and strategy were correct, I had worked my head 20 , as I had
never done before.
I was speechless, when my course grade arrived: A-plus. It was the only A-plus given. The next year I
received my scholarship. I"ve always remembered Professor Jayne"s lesson: You alone must set your own
standard of excellence. |
( )1. A. take
( )2. A. sought
( )3. A. shocked
( )4. A. but
( )5. A. unchanged
( )6. A. reflected
( )7. A. quarreled
( )8. A. attitude
( )9. A. choice
( )10. A. memorized
( )11. A. ambition
( )12. A. stayed
( )13. A. grade
( )14. A. scholarship
( )15. A. helped
( )16. A. fun
( )17. A. happened
( )18. A. valued
( )19. A. remembering
( )20. A. out | B. discuss
B. presented
B. worried
B. so
B. unpleasant
B. meant
B. reasoned
B. mind
B. step
B. considered
B. confidence
B. went
B. answer
B. course
B. favored
B. luck
B. proved
B. imagined
B. guessing
B. over | C. cover
C. exchanged
C. scared
C. for
C. unfriendly
C. improved
C. bargained
C. plan
C. chance
C. accepted
C. effort
C. worked
C. lesson
C. degree
C. treated
C. problems
C. pretended
C. expected
C. supposing
C. on | D. get
D. obtained
D. anxious
D. or
D. unmoved
D. affected
D. chatted
D. view
D. measure
D. learned
D. method
D. changed
D. comment
D. subject
D. relaxed
D. tricks
D. seemed
D. welcomed
D. realizing
D. off | | 阅读理解。 | After spending three days in a wheelchair, I was ready to quit. Not only did I have to battle cracked
and uneven pavements, I had to deal with the bad attitude of pedestrians and a cold rain. But I didn"t give
up because of people like Tiffany Payne.
Payne, who has been using a wheelchair for 18 years, laughed at me,
"Imagine trying to get around town in the winter," she said.
I could see her point: You"re battling to get to a doctor"s appointment, but no one has shoveled after a
big snowfall. Your choices: Move out and risk getting stuck, or reschedule the appointment.
Those of us fortunate enough to get around on our own two legs don"t give a second thought to the
person in a wheelchair next to us at a crosswalk. That would require us to look down.
So I decided to try using a wheelchair to get a sample of what their lives are like. It wasn"t long before
I saw that people who use wheelchairs are forced to deal with a lot of trouble.
During my experiment, I was ignored by store staff while shopping and bumped into by inattentive
walkers without so much as an apology. Some people even gave me angry looks as if I were the one at
fault.
Once in a store, a woman bumped into me trying to get to the new iPad. She didn"t say, "Excuse me."
When salespeople did offer assistance, they talked to people who were with me, instead of me. I
wanted to yell, "Hey, I"m down here!"
Some salespeople talked to me as though I were a child or acted like they didn"t want to be bothered
with me.
People who use wheelchairs want to be treated like everyone else. They also comprehend, so you
don"t have to speak to them in a childlike, sing-song voice. It"s not very appealing, especially when the
person is an adult. And most importantly, remember they have feelings that can be hurt just like yours.
Spending three days in a wheelchair made me look differently at those who have to use one. I hope
you do the same. | | 1. The author writes the story to . | A. help those in wheelchairs gain self-confidence
B. share his experience of acting as a wheelchair user
C. ask people to show sympathy for those in wheelchairs
D. call on people to respect and help those in wheelchairs | | 2. During his three days in a wheelchair, the author met all of the following difficulties EXCEPT . | A. bad road conditions
B. poor attitudes of ordinary people
C. terrible medical service
D. bad weather | | 3. What can we conclude from the article? | A. A wheelchair user may feel offended when you do not address him or her directly.
B. Assistants in big stores are usually kind to people in wheelchairs.
C. People in wheelchairs should fight for fair treatment.
D. People in wheelchairs are usually hard to get along with. | | 4. Which of the following statements would the author agree to? | A. Look down on a person in a wheelchair.
B. Speak to a person in a wheelchair in a sing-song voice.
C. Treat a person in a wheelchair as you would treat any other person.
D. Offer assistance to a person in a wheelchair without asking for permission. | | 完形填空。 | By my third day in the hospital, I realized Tom didn"t visit. I couldn"t understand 1 my best friend
wouldn"t come to see me. Struggling against the 2 , I phoned his 3 . His mother answered, and when
I asked for Tom, she got 4 . "He"s not here right now," she said. I thought it was 5 that she didn"t tell
me where he was or 6 to have him call me. But I was so weak, I just let it 7 .I found out later that
Tom"s mother called my parents right after we rang 8 . My phone call really made her 9 , and she
10 they talk to me. Later that night, my mom 11 . Did I remember drinking? Did I remember in a
car?I had 12 what she was talking about, so she finally told me the news: I"d hit a tree. Tom, in the
13 seat, was thrown from the car and killed instantly. The only reason I"d lived was because of my 14 .
My first 15 was of shock.. I"d been drink-driving? Hit a tree? Killed Tom? I felt like the 16 person
in the world. Even after I was able to 17 several weeks later, I didn"t want to eat, I didn"t want to talk. I
just 18 at the wall in my 19 and cried. The only person I wanted to see was Tom. I didn"t feel like
20 with any of my old friends. | ( )1. A. if
( )2. A. pain
( )3. A. company
( )4. A. sad
( )5. A. unfair
( )6. A. offer
( )7. A. down
( )8. A. off
( )9. A. disappointed
( )10. A. hoped
( )11. A. went by
( )12. A. understood
( )13. A. passenger
( )14. A. doctor
( )15. A. view
( )16. A. luckiest
( )17. A. stand up
( )18. A. looked
( )19. A. sickroom
( )20. A. drying out | B. whether
B. doctor
B. office
B. quiet
B. wrong
B. allow
B. alone
B. up
B. shocked
B. wished
B. came by
B. doubted
B. drive
B. friend
B. reaction
B. happiest
B. get over
B. stared
B. office
B. taking out | C. how
C. nurse
C. school
C calm
C. strange
C. permit
C. be
C. out
C. anxious
C. insisted
C. called back
C. no idea
C. front
C. luck
C. action
C. worst
C. go home
C. glanced
C. dormitory
C. setting out | D. why
D. wound
D. house
D. surprised
D. unnecessary
D. refuse
D. go
D. back
D. excited
D. ordered
D. sent for
D. wondered
D. spare
D. seat-belt
D. idea
D. most lonely
D. eat out
D. glared
D. bedroom
D. hanging out | | 阅读理解。 | As one approaches some crossroads, one comes to a sign which says that drivers have to stop when
they come to the main road ahead. At other crossroads, drivers have to go slow, but they do not actually
have to stop (unless, of course, there is something coming along the main road); and at still others, they do not have either to stop or to go slow, because they are themselves on the main road.
Mr. Williams, who was always a very careful driver, was driving home from work one evening when
he came to a crossroads. It had a "Slow" sign, so he slowed down when he came to the main road,
looked both ways to see that nothing was coming, and then drove across without stopping completely.
At once he heard a police whistle, so he pulled in to the side of the road and stopped. A policeman
walked over to him with a notebook and pencil in his hand and said, "You didn"t stop at the crossing."
"But the sign there doesn"t say "Stop"," answered Mr. Williams. "It just says "Slow", and I did go slow."
The policeman looked around him, and a look of surprise came over his face. Then he put his notebook
and pencil away, scratched his head and said, "Well, I"ll be scolded. I am in the wrong street!" | | 1. Which of the following statements is correct? ? | A. Stop signs can be found at every crossroads.
B. At crossroads with a "Slow" sign, drivers never have to stop.
C. At crossroads with a "Slow" sign, drivers have to stop and then go slow.
D. At some crossroads, drivers needn"t stop or go slow. | | 2. What do you think the policeman would do in the end? | A. Fine Mr. Williams.
B. Take him to the police station.
C. Apologize to Mr. Williams.
D. Give Mr. Williams his notebook and pencil. | | 3. Which might be the best title for this passage? | A. Signs at the crossroads
B. A careful driver
C. A policeman and a driver
D. Policeman in the wrong street | | 完形填空。 | Long, long ago, after a young woman finished her housework, she went to her grandmother and told
her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She didn"t know how she was going to 1 it and
wanted to give up. She was 2 fighting and struggling . It seemed as one 3 was solved, a new one
would appear.
Her grandmother took her to the 4 . She filled 3 pots with water and placed each on a high fire, and
soon the pots came to 5 . In the first pot, she placed carrots, in the second, she placed 6 , and in the
last she placed ground (被碾成粉末状的) coffee beans. She let them sit and boil. In about 20 minutes she
turned off the 7 and placed them in a separate bowl.
8 to her grandmother, she asked, "Tell me what you see."
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee." She 9 . Her grandmother brought her closer and asked her to feel the
carrots. She did and noticed that they were 10 . The grandmother then asked the granddaughter to take
an egg and 11 it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg. 12 , the grandmother
asked the granddaughter to 13 the coffee. The granddaughter smiled as she tasted its rich smell then
asked, "What does it mean, grandmother?"
Her grandmother 14 that each of these objects had faced the same adversity (逆境) , boiling water.
Each responded 15 . The carrot went in strong and hard, however, after 16 the boiling water, it
softened and became weak. The egg had been easily broken. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid
interior (内部) , 17 after sitting through the boiling water, its 18 became hardened. The ground coffee
beans were unique, 19 . After they were in the boiling 20 , they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her granddaughter. | ( )1. A. bring
( )2. A. tired of
( )3. A. question
( )4. A. bedroom
( )5. A. boil
( )6. A. coffee
( )7. A. doors
( )8. A. Driving
( )9. A. replied
( )10. A. hard
( )11. A. fry
( )12. A. Sadly
( )13. A. cool
( )14. A. explained
( )15. A. simply
( )16. A. beating
( )17. A. or
( )18. A. dish
( )19. A. still
( )20. A. water | B. pour
B. absent from
B. problem
B. study
B. stop
B. eggs
B. lights
B. Running
B. wrote
B. soft
B. eat
B. Fortunately
B. taste
B. instructed
B. slowly
B. reducing
B. so
B. part
B. however
B. oil | C. make
C. curious about
C. reality
C. restaurant
C. burn
C. peers
C. burners
C. Referring
C. found
C. fresh
C. break
C. Therefore
C. empty
C. shouted
C. similarly
C. experiencing
C. and
C. inside
C. thus
C. steel | D. help
D. exciting about
D. chance
D. kitchen
D. rise
D. bowels
D. taps(水龙头)
D. Turning
D. asked
D. pretty
D. sell
D. Finally
D. mix
D. meant
D. differently
D. supplying
D. but
D. outside
D. too
D. sand |
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