阅读理解。 In our home it was natural to fear our father . Even our mother was af

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阅读理解。     In our home it was natural to fear our father . Even our mother was afraid of him. As children, my
sister and I thought every family was like that. Every family had an unpredictable dad who was impossible
to please and a praying mom who was there to protect the children.
     We were good children. Mom was always telling us we were, even if Daddy couldn"t see it . part of
this was because we didn"t dare to do anything.
     Then came the day we found something new and fun to do. We worked at drawing with chalk on our wooden front door and making lots of pretty pictures all over it. We had a great time. We thought Mom
would love it and praise us.
     The praise we expected did not come. Instead, Mom was mad. We did not understand why, but we
knew we were in big trouble!
     Off we ran to find a place to hid. In our wooded yard it was not hard for two small children to find
safety. Together, we hid behind a tree and did not move. Soon we heard the frightened voices of Mom
and our neighbors calling out to us.
     The sun set and it began to get dark. Those around us became more anxious, and we became more
frightened. However, we still didn"t move.
     As we clung (紧紧拥抱) together in the dark, we became aware of yet another voice, one we
recognized with great fear: our daddy. But there was something strangely different about it. In it we heard
something we had never heard before: fear, agony (痛苦) and despair. Then came his prayers in tearful
voice. Our daddy was promising God that he would give his life to him if he would safely return his girls.
     Nothing in our lives had prepared us for this kind of shock. Neither of us remembers making a
decision to come out. We were drawn to him like a magnet (磁铁), our fears disappearing into the forest. We didn"t know yet if we actually took steps or if God somehow moved us out and into Daddy"s arms.
What we do remember were those strong, loving arms holding us and crying, hugging us like we were
precious.
     Things were different after that. We had a new daddy. Our whole family was changed by a piece of
chalk.1. From the first two paragraphs, we can learn _____.A. the author was very naughty when young
B. the children were proud of their mother
C. the author"s father was difficult to please
D. the author"s father was afraid of her mother 2. The children"s drawing on the door _____.A. brought them great trouble
B. gained their mother"s praise
C. made their father very angry
D. failed to meet their mother"s demands3. Which shows the children"s emotional change when they heard their father"s voice?A. Anxious→content →miserable
B. Frightened→happy→depressed
C. Excited→fearful→desperate
D. Scared→shocked→moved4. The underlined sentence"We had a new daddy"implies that _____.A. the relationship between the family members changed
B. the author"s father developed an interest in drawing
C. the author"s mother found a new husband
D. the children were afraid of their new father 5. What"s the best title of the passage?A. The belief in God
B. A piece of chalk
C. The big trouble of my mother
D. A painful memory of my childhood.

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完形填空。    Jack Baines is a self-made millionaire, but his beginnings
were very lowly.  He was the youngest of eight children.  His father
had a   1   in a cotton mill(纱厂),but he was often     2   to
work because of poor health. The family couldn"t      3    to pay the
rent or bills, and the children often went    4  . After leaving
school at the age of 14, Jack was   5   what to do when Mr
Walker, his old teacher, offered to lend him ~ 100 to start his
own    6   .
      It was just after the war. Raw materials were not enough, and
Jack saw a   7   in scrap metal (废弃金属). He bought bits of
metal and stored it in an old garage.  When he had built up a large
amount, he sold it and     8    plenty of money.
     Jack    9   working hard. After one year he succeeded in
10    the ~ 100.
     By the time Jack was 30 years old he had    11    his first
million, and he wanted to    12    this achievement by doing
something "    13   ". With all his money it was   14    to build
a beautiful home for himself and his parents.  In 1959,  " Baines
Castle" was built in the   15   of the Lancashire countryside.  It
was one of the finest buildings in the country.
      Jack has recently sold "Baines Castle" for ~ 500 million,
16   Jack still can"t get used to  17   the good life. He can
often    18    drinking with the locals at the local pub(酒吧). "I
remember being very  19   as a child, but never   20    as a
child,"says Jack,"and I will never forget where I came from and
who I am. "(     )1. A. job
(     )2. A. able
(     )3. A. offer
(     )4. A. wrong
(     )5. A. seeing
(     )6. A. school
(     )7. A. problem
(     )8. A. spent
(     )9. A. enjoyed
(     )10. A. developing
(     )11. A. given
(     )12. A. remember
(     )13. A. common
(     )14. A. impossible
(     )15. A. ground
(     )16. A. so
(     )17. A. using
(     )18. A. be found
(     )19. A. rich
(     )20. A. proud       B. work
B. glad
B. like
B. hungry
B. wondering
B. farm
B. purpose
B. borrowed
B. preferred
B. saving
B. made
B. honour
B. simple
B. possible
B. front
B. and
B. sparing
B. find
B. poor
B. satisfiedC. company
C. unable
C. expect
C. ill
C. doubting
C. business
C. future
C. wasted
C. ptomised
C. repaying
C. taken
C. celebrate
C. interestin
C. obvious
C. spot
C. or
C. living
C. look for
C. healthy
C. unhappy    D. house
D. eager
D. afford
D. bad
D. preparing
D. store
D. principle
D. earned
D. hated
D. paying
D. lost
D. recognize
D. grand
D. basic
D. heart
D. but
D. keeping
D. be looked for
D. well
D. happy

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阅读理解。     Mark Twain was a great writer. He was born in 1835 in the
USA. He was also a famous speaker. He was famous for his sense
of humour. Many people liked to listen to his talk because he liked
to tell some interesting stories to make people laugh all the time.
     One day,Mark Twain was going to a small town because of
his writing. Before he was going to leave, one of his friends said to
him that there were always a lot of mosquitoes in the town and told
him that he"d better not go there. Mark Twain waved his hands and
said, "It doesn"t matter. The mosquitoes are no relatives of mine. I
don"t think they will come to visit me. "
     After he arrived at the town,Mark Twain stayed in a small
hotel near the station. He went into his room,but when he was just
about to have a rest,  quite a few mosquitoes flew around him. The
waiters felt very sorry about that. "I"m very sorry, Mr Mark Twain.
There are too many mosquitoes in our town," one of them said
to him.
     Mark Twain, however, made a joke, saying to the waiter,
"The mosquitoes are very clever. They know my room number.
They didn"t come into the wrong room. " What he said made all the
people present laugh heartily.
     But that night Mark Twain slept well. Do you know why?
That was because all the waiters in the hotel were driving the
mosquitoes away for him during the whole night.1. Why did many people like to listen to Mark Twain"s talk?  A. Because he a great writer.
B. Because he liked to anyone.
C. Because of his sense of humour.
D. Because he wrote good novels.2. That day Mark Twain went to the town _____.   A. to see one of his friends
B. because he wanted to do something there for his writing
C. because he was told there were a lot of mosquitoes there
D. to see one of his relatives3. The waiters felt sorry because _____.       A. they did something wrong to Mark Twain
B. their hotel was too small
C. the room was not very clean
D. there were quite a few mosquitoes in Mark Twain"s room4. All the people present laughed heartily because ____.  A. the mosquitoes were very clever and they didn"t come into the wrong room
B. the mosquitoes knew Mark Twain"s room number
C. Mark Twain gave the waiters some nice presents
D. Mark Twain made a joke.5. From the story we know _____  .A. no mosquitoes troubled Mark Twain in the night
B. the owner of the hotel told the waiters to look after MarkTwain well at night
C. Mark Twain didn"t have a good rest that night
D. there were not mosquitoes in the hotel any longer

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阅读理解。     Richard Gray was a famous explorer (勘探者). He was also a
millionaire. He had visited every country in the world. He had
crossed Antarctica, flown across the Atlantic by balloon, and
climbed Mount Everest. Last year he decided to walk across Death
Valley, the hottest place on Earth. He walked for days over the hot
desert sand. One night he found the camp (宿营地) where he had
been the night before. Cray had walked in a circle. He was lost.
     Two days later he had drunk all his water.  He couldn"t walk.
He crawled to the top of a sand dune (沙丘) , and there he saw a
man. The man was wearing smart, clean trousers, a white shirt
and a tie. Gray crawled over to him.
     " Water...water..." he said.
     " I"m terribly sorry ,  old boy , " replied the man, " but I haven"t
got any water with me. "
     " Help me ! " shouted  Gray , " I"m a rich  man...a  millionaire...
I"ll give you anything. "
      "That"s very nice of you, old boy," said the man, " Look,I
can"t give you any water, but would you like to buy my tie?"
       "A tie?  Of course not ! " screamed Gray, and crawled away.
He crawled slowly up the next sand dune. His mouth was full of
sand. His lips were cracked(破裂) and dry. He couldn"t breathe.
He reached the top of the dune and there he saw a huge good
hotel.Girls were swimming in the large swimming pool. Beautiful
fountains were all around the hotel.
       "Is it a mirage(幻景) ?" he thought," Am I dying?" He stood
up and staggered(蹒跚) down the dune.
      A waiter in a shining white uniform came out of the door.
       " Water...water...a bath !  Food ! " screamed Gray.
      "I"m sorry, you can"t come into this hotel,"said the waiter.
       " Why not?  I"ve got plenty of money...I"m a millionaire. "
       " Ah, " replied the waiter, " but you aren"t wearing a tie ! "1. The famous explorer____.  A. had crossed Antarctica and the Atlantic by balloon
B. had traveled all over the world
C. had walked across Death Valley
D. had ever been a millionaire2. Death Valley is  _____  .    A. a valley where people may die from loss of water
B. a dead place where people dare not go
C. a terribly hot valley where people may die of heat
D. a place"s name3. Two days later Richard Gray_____.A. was lost in a circle
B. was drunk
C. began to search for water in the desert
D. crawled to the top of a dune to see a man4. Gray saw _____ from the top of the next dune.   A. a large good hotel
B. many swimming girls
C. a lot of drinking water
D. a beautiful mirage5. At last Richard Gray____.A. got some water to drink
B. was not permitted to enter the hotel
C. was very sorry for the waiter
D.was dying

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完形填空。     When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful.  My   1    took me by train or by
car to a hotel by the    2 . All day, I seem to remember, I    3   on the sands with strange   4   children. We made houses and gardens, and   5      the tide destroy them. When the tide went out, we   6   over
the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rockpools.
      In those days the   7   seemed to shine always brightly    8   the water was always warm.  Sometimes we left beach and walked in the country,   9   ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There
were  10  in one"s pockets or good places where one could    11    ice-creams.  Each day seemed a lifetime.
     Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good   12   is much the same as it was, I   13  like the sun and warm sand and the sound of   14   beating the rocks.  I no longer wish to  15 any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets.   16   , I love the sea and often feel sand running
through my fingers.
      Sometimes I    17    what my ideal (理想中的) holiday will be like when I am   18   . All I want to
do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about    19   who make houses and gardens with
sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves  20  on too many ice-creams....(     )1. A. teacher
(     )2. A. sea
(     )3. A. played
(     )4. A. moving
(     )5. A. made
(     )6. A. rolled
(     )7. A. light
(     )8. A. and
(     )9. A. exploring
(     )10. A. sweets
(     )11. A. make
(     )12. A. house
(     )13. A. hardly
(     )14. A. waves
(     )15. A. destroy
(     )16. A.But
(     )17. A. wonder
(     )18. A. strong
(     )19. A. children
(     )20. A. happy     B. parents
B. lake
B. slept
B. excited
B. brought
B. jumped
B. sun
B. yet
B. examining
B. sand
B. sell
B. holiday
B. almost
B. tides
B. fix
B. However
B. feel
B. weak
B. boy
B. tired    C. nurse
C. mountain
C. sat
C. anxious
C. watched
C. turned
C. moon
C. but
C. repairing
C. ice-creams
C. buy
C. garden
C. still
C. hands
C. use
C. Otherwise
C. understand
C. young
C. girls
C. sad         D. younger sister
D. river
D. stood
D. nervous
D. heard
D. climbed
D. lamp
D. or
D. measuring
D. money
D. offer
D. tide
D.perhaps
D. feet
D. build
D. Besides
D. believe
D. old
D. grown-ups
D. sick

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阅读理解。     One summer my friend and I decided to go to Italy for a
holiday and we decided to travel there without going through a
travel agency.  You know, you would be submerged (淹没) in
crowds of tourists and lose lots of opportunities to get familiar with
the country more closely. We started to think over our trip and
managed to come up with a free tour of Italy.
      The trip was not very long but it was still very impressive (印
象深刻的).  We look forward to going there again !  Of course, we
spent lots of time arranging (安排) the trip, but it was well worth
it !  Of course I was afraid that something would go wrong and I was
especially anxious about my visa, but everything went quite
smoothly in the end.
       The most difficult part was getting a visa (签证)  without an
invitation.  In the Italian consulate (领事馆) , one must hand in
some official paper proving that one has a hotel booked for oneself
in order to get the visa. Then we had to solve the ticket problem.
Airlines often sell cheap tickets and we bought ours far in
advance. The next step was to book a hotel. We finally booked a
hotel about 30km away from the heart of Rome and it was the
perfect choice for our trip.
     Every day we took a train that carried us to the heart of
Rome. Our big house, which was surrounded by the forest, was a
rare place for the fresh air and absolute silence, beautiful views,
hospitable hosts, comfortable living conditions delighting us to no
end. Besides this, we were very lucky that our mistress was a
Russian. She gave us a lot of advice that was of great use. She
told us what transport to choose and where the best places to go.
   Don"t be afraid to arrange your trip by yourself. It"s not
difficult ! The only thing I"ll say right now is that we really enjoyed
traveling by ourselves. We walked with a map and a guide-book to
wherever we wanted and we even met some of our fellow
countrymen on the way just two or three times. So, if you"re also
planning a "single" trip, don"t forget to take a Russian-Italian
phrasebook as people in Italy prefer to speak in their native
tongue.1. Why does the author want to go to Italy again?A. He had a great time there.
B. Italy has a lot of attractions.
C. His friend invited him there.
D. He didn"t stay in Italy long enough.2. What does the author think was the hardest in preparing for his Italian trip?   A. Buying cheap airline tickets to Italy before the traveling.
B. Getting a visa without an invitation from the Italian consulate.
C. Booking a comfortable hotel on his own in Rome.
D. Solving the ticket problem far in advance.3. In the fourth paragraph the author mainly explains ____ .

A. the reason why he chose to live in the center of Rome
B. the reason why the hotel he booked was the right choice
C. what transport they chose to travel in their Italian trip
D. the reason why the mistress gave them some advice

4. Which of the following questions has NOT been answered in the passage? A. Why did the author decide to go to Italy for a holiday for the first time?
B. Why did the author decide not to follow a travel agency?
C. How did the author prepare for his trip?
D. What tools did the author use for his traveling?

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