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One Tuesday evening in the beginning of the fall 1996 semester at Shippensburg University, sirens
(警笛) sounded.These sirens were not in celebration; they were a cry to the university that something
was wrong. A house, only one block away, was on fire.Nine of the university"s students lived there.
From the minute the word got out that help was needed, it seemed like everyone showed up.The victims
of the fire were offered endless invitations for housing for the night.The very next day, everyone got into
gear to do their part in helping them.Flyers (小传单) were posted with items that were immediatelyneeded, just to get these students through this next couple of days.Boxes for donations and money jarswere
placed in every residence hall(学生宿舍).
As a residence director,I went before the students in my hall to ask them to do what they could.I
knew that college students don"t have much, but I asked them to clo their best: "Every little bit will help."
I really didn"t think they could do much.l.was proved wrong.
At the hall council meeting the night after the fire, my residents decided to have a wing competition,
where each wing of the building would team up to see who could bring in the most donations.l announced.
that the wing who won would receive a free pizza party.
Thursday evening we announced over the PA system that we were beginning the wing competition.
Within minutes, the place exploded.The single large box that I had placed in the lobby (太厅) was
over-flowing.We quickly grabbed more boxes, and we watched in amazement as they, too, filled to the
brim.Members of the resident assistant staff and I began t.o count the items.l was astonished by what I
saw, andI was inspired by these kids.
When we came to the final tally(得分), the winners tumed to me and announced that they would like
to donate their winnings as well.They wanted the victims of the fire to have their pizza party.
Tears welled up in my eyes.I had watched these students jump to action, work tirelessly and donateall
that they could.And then, as if that were not enough, they handed over their reward.l was touchedand so
very proud of them. |
| 1.The writer mainly wanted to by the story. |
A. tell us the suffering of nine of the college students from a fire
B. praise the college students helping the victims selflessly
C. tell us how successful the wing competition was
D. show he was deeply moved by the college students" action |
| 2. The phrase "get into gear" in the second paragraph means . |
A. be eager
B. take action
C. be prepared
D. start working |
| 3. At first, the residence director thought . |
A. it was impossible to expect the college students to donate anything
B. it was easy to collect a lot of donations from the college students
C. the college students would donate not much
D. the college students would donate all the items they had |
| 4. The wing competition was held . |
A. on Tuesday evening
B. on Thursday
C. on Wednesday evening
D. the very next day |
| 5. How did the resi ence director feel when he saw the brimful boxes? |
A. Terrible.
B. Funny.
C. Surprised.
D. Serious |
答案
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Once President Roosevelt"s house was broken into and lots of things were stolen. Hearing this, one
of Roosevelt"s friends wrote to him and advised him not to take it to his 1 so much. President
Roosevelt wrote back immediately, saying," Dear friend, thank you for your letter to 2 me. I"m all right
now. I think I should thank God. This is because of the following three reasons: firstly, the thief only stole
things from me but did not 3 me at all; secondly, the thief has stolen some of my things 4 all my things;
thirdly, most luckily for me, it was the man 5 me who became a thief…"
It was quite unlucky for anyone to be stolen from…. However, President Roosevelt had such three
reasons to be so 6 . This story tells us how we can learn to be grateful in our life.
Being grateful is an important philosophy of life and a great wisdom…. It is impossible for anyone to
be lucky and successful all the time 7 he lives in the world. We should learn how to face failure or
misfortune bravely and 8 and to try to deal with it. If so, should we complain about our life and
become 9 and disappointed ever since then or should we be grateful for our life, 10 again ourselves
after a fall? William Thackeray, a famous British writer, said, "Life is a mirror. When you smile in front of
it, it will also smile and 11 will it when you cry to it." If you are grateful to life, it will bring you shining
sunlight. If you always complain about everything, you may own 12 in the end. When we are successful, we can 13 have many reasons for being grateful, but we have only one excuse to show ungratefulness
if we fail.
I think we should even be grateful to life 14 we are unsuccessful or unlucky. Only by doing this can
we find our weakness and shortcomings when we fail. We can also get 15 and warmth when we are
unlucky. This can help us find our courage to overcome the difficulties we may face, and receive great
impetus (动力) to 16 . We should treat our frustration and misfortune in our life 17 just as President
Roosevelt did. We should be grateful all the time and keep having a healthy 18 to our life forever,
keep having perfect characters and enterprising spirit. Being grateful is not only a kind of comfort, not
19 from life and nor thinking of winning in spirit like Ah Q. Being grateful is a way to sing for our life
which comes just from our love and 20 . |
( )1. A. mind
( )2. A. consider
( )3. A. hurt
( )4. A. in spite of
( )5. A. rather than
( )6. A. comfortable
( )7. A. so long as
( )8. A. successfully
( )9. A. frustrated
( )10. A. arise
( )11. A. such
( )12. A. something
( )13. A. hardly
( )14. A. however
( )15. A. relief
( )16. A. get on
( )17. A. in no way
( )18. A. attitude
( )19. A. an expectation
( )20. A. experience | B. heart
B. persuade
B. rob
B. regardless of
B. other than
B. happy
B. because
B. gratefully
B. surprised
B. hold
B. nor
B. none
B. surely
B. whenever
B. faith
B. work on
B. in the other way
B. way
B. an appreciation
B. failure | C. head
C. blame
C. kill
C. instead of
C. no other than
C. lucky
C. even though
C. sincerely
C. shocked
C. rise
C. so
C. nothing
C. impossibly
C. wherever
C. confidence
C. take on
C. in a good way
C. belief
C. a complaint
C. hope | D. nerve
D. comfort
D. notice
D. in need of
D. not more than
D. grateful
D. if only
D. generously
D. frightened
D. understand
D. either
D. anything
D. clearly
D. whether
D. inspiration
D. move on
D. by the way
D. thought
D. an escape
D. thought |
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Last January I was given a chance to work in another country. At first, I lived a 1 life, but soon I
met a group of new friends and they were really nice.
Then something 2 happened. One of our friends suffered from kidney stones (肾结石), which had
to be 3 surgically as soon as possible. But it was not as 4 as that! Our friend could not 5 the
operation, which put him into deep 6 . I didn"t know how to help him because I didn"t have any money
either. 7 , I never lost hope. Instead I tried to think of other 8 and told him not to worry because
everything would be all right.
Before I left the hospital, I talked to the surgeon and asked him to do the surgery, saying I would pay
the expenses the next day 9 I had that kind of money. Well, I must have been 10 because the
surgeon agreed to do it! But how was I going to get that much money?
All I knew was that I needed to help my friend! Although it could be 11 to deal with this kind of
situation, I decided to make some efforts. I tried to borrow money but failed. I tried 12 my things but
no one wanted them. Then I had the idea of talking to my 13 . I asked him if I could have my next two
months" salary in advance-without even thinking on how I would 14 for two months with no money.
He was surprised and asked me the reason. I told him that I had a friend who was really in need. 15
I convinced him too and then he gave my two months" salary without any 16 !
Upon getting the money, I ran to the hospital and paid all the bills. My friend didn"t know how to
thank me. I just said, "Come on! Give me a 17 !"
Friendship may not only be found at the happy moment but sometimes you can find it on the 18
time in your life! I"ve done a good thing by being a (an) 19 friend and I think it is well worth the 20 . |
( )1. A. private
( )2. A. strange
( )3. A. removed
( )4. A. terrible
( )5. A. stand
( )6. A. anxiety
( )7. A. Thus
( )8. A. reasons
( )9. A. even if
( )10. A. encouraging
( )11. A. challenging
( )12. A. saving
( )13. A. colleague
( )14. A. adapt
( )15. A. Luckily
( )16. A. analysis
( )17. A. favo
( )18. A. best
( )19. A. supportive
( )20. A. tolerance | B. lonely
B. wrong
B. reduced
B. painful
B. consider
B. confusion
B. Otherwise
B. options
B. as if
B. annoying
B. disturbing
B. handling
B. relative
B. survive
B. Slightly
B. dignity
B. hug
B. longest
B. sensitive
B. sympathy | C. colorful
C. unexpected
C. examined
C. simple
C. perform
C. embarrassment
C. However
C. symptoms
C. so that
C. astonishing
C. amazing
C. donating
C. boss
C. continue
C. Constantly
C. hesitation
C. promise
C. strangest
C. aggressive
C. pressure | D. normal
D. unfair
D. lifted
D. special
D. afford
D. dissatisfaction
D. Therefore
D. expectations
D. in case
D. convincing
D. scaring
D. selling
D. surgeon
D. wander
D. Occasionally
D. remark
D. reply
D. toughest
D. attentive
D. effort |
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The story happened in Japan _1 a house was redecorated and the wall inside a room was removed.
The inside of the wall was hollow. When the owner of the house removed the wall, he saw a gecko (壁
虎) inside the wall. Its tail was pinned by a nail _2 (come) through the wall from outside.
The owner was very curious why the gecko was still alive. Then the nail caught his eye. Goodness! It
is the nail that was driven here ten years ago when the house was built! How amazing it is _3 the gecko
to have lived in the wall in complete_4 (dark) for ten years!
But on second thought, the curious house owner wondered how this gecko could live through 10
years with its tail _5 (nail) down and being unable to go anywhere? So he tried to find out how this small
creature could be fed. After a little while, there appeared another gecko with food in _6 mouth! What a
shocking scene! For ten years, this little gecko had never failed to feed the trapped one.
The story touched me so 7 (deep) that it is useless to find out _8 relationships they had between them. Parent _9 child ? Friends? Lovers? Brothers or sisters? 10 last thing we should do is to abandon your
beloved in hardship. |
| 阅读理解。 |
When I was six years old, my mom told me that I could find anyone"s number in the phone book. I
used to look through the phone book for hours trying to find Michael Jordan"s phone number. When I
couldn"t find it, I just dialed seven numbers. When someone answered, I"d ask, "Is that Michael Jordan?" Obviously, I always had the wrong number.
A year later I started playing basketball at my local recreation center. It was very big. I never thought
in my wildest dreams that a basketball court could be inside a building. The recreation center had a
special smell in it, sort of like hot rubber. I guessed it was from the shoes hitting the floor so fast and hard. The atmosphere on the court was carefree. Our biggest excitement of the day was when we actually
made a shot. We celebrated wins over ice cream at a fast food restaurant.
I got good at it, and my confidence grew. I played it all the time until the sixth grade. As soon as
junior high school came, I stopped playing basketball and focused on school. When senior high school
started, I tried out for the school team and made it. We worked hard. Every week we did 300 push-ups
and 300 sit-ups on our own. Our coach encouraged the sit-ups to keep stomach power, because it gave
us so much control when we were playing basketball. If we didn"t want to do the sit-ups and push-ups,
we could practice dribbling (运球) and shooting more. It"s just us, the ball, the court and the net. But
don"t take my word for it. See for yourself. After all, I"m just one kid playing the game. |
| 1. From Paragraph 1 we know that ____. |
A. the author"s mother gave him some wrong phone numbers
B. the phone book contained everyone"s phone number except Michael Jordan"s
C. the author wanted to contact Michael Jordan very much
D. the author didn"t know how to use a phone at that time |
| 2. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about? |
A. The days of the author playing basketball at a recreation center.
B. The author"s excitement of making shots when playing basketball.
C. The days before the author went to senior high school.
D. The author"s happy childhood with his teammates. |
| 3. What surprised the author most at the recreation center? |
A. That it was very near to his home.
B. That there was a basketball court inside the building.
C. That there was a special smell in it.
D. That there was a fast food restaurant in it. |
| 4. The author"s coach encouraged them to do sit-ups because ____. |
A. it is the basic preparation to play basketball
B. it is more useful than dribbling and shooting
C. it is the only way to make people stronger
D. it helps keep stomach power |
| 5. What"s the author"s purpose in writing this passage? |
A. To introduce some skills in playing basketball.
B. To tell us about his dream of becoming a basketball star.
C. To introduce his own experience of playing basketball.
D. To tell us how to balance playing basketball and studying. |
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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. |
( )1. A. pressure
( )2. A. stayed up
( )3. A. open
( )4. A. help
( )5. A. last
( )6. A. little
( )7. A. dangerous
( )8. A. return
( )9. A. relaxed
( )10. A. improving
( )11. A. packing
( )12. A. bring u p
( )13. A. others
( )14. A. cars
( )15. A. boat
( )16. A. settling
( )17. A. valuing
( )18. A. idea
( )19. A. otherwise | B. pleasure
B. turned up
B. close
B. comparison
B. next
B. quickly
B. common
B. arrive
B. excited
B. encouraging
B. washing
B. keep up
B. nothing
B. gaps
B. share
B. cooking
B. losing
B. faith
B. indeed | C. heat
C. dried up
C. visit
C. decoration
C. only
C. frequently
C. stressful
C. study
C. ashamed
C. beating
C. pulling
C. size up
C. another
C. tanks
C. wish
C. cleaning
C. inviting
C. feeling
C. worse | D. chance
D. came up
D. paint
D. sale
D. special
D. well
D. interesting
D. prepare
D. depressed
D. killing
D. dividing
D. set up
D. everything
D holes
D. promise
D. moving
D. making
D. opinion
D. rather |
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