阅读理解。 Perhaps every old generation since ancient times has complained about
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| 阅读理解。 |
Perhaps every old generation since ancient times has complained about young people, and today is no different. Isn"t it clear that compared with our glorious selves, kids these days are self-absorbed social
network addicts?
However, this summer, my impression of today"s kids has been restored by the story of Rachel
Beckwith. She could teach my generation a great deal about maturity and unselfishness - even though
she"s just 9 years old, or was when she died on July 23.
At age 5, Rachel had her long hair shorn off and sent to Locks of Love, which uses hair donations to
make artificial hair for children who have lost their own hair because of cancer or other diseases. After
that, Rachel announced that she would grow her hair long again and donate it again. And that"s what she
did.
Then when she was 8 years old, her church began raising money to build wells in Africa through an
organization called charity: water. Rachel was astonished when she learned that other children had no
clean water, so she skipped her ninth birthday party. Rachel set up a birthday page on the charity: water
website with a target of $300. Instead of presents, she asked her friends to donate $9 each to charity:
water. Finally Rachel raised only $220 - which had left her just a bit disappointed.
Then, on July 20, a serious traffic accident left Rachel critically injured. Church members and friends,
seeking some way of showing support, began donating on Rachel"s birthday page - charitywater
.org/Rachel - and donations reached her $300 goal, and kept rising.
But Rachel couldn"t hear that she had raised beyond the $47,544 that the singer Justin Bieber had
raised for charity: water on his 17th birthday. "I think Rachel would have been overjoyed for she secretly
had a crush on (迷恋) him," Rachel"s mom said.
When it was clear that Rachel would never regain consciousness, the family decided to remove the life
support system. Her parents donated her hair for the final time to Locks of Love, and her organs to other
children.
Word about Rachel"s last fund-raising spread. Contributions poured in, often in $9 each. The total
donations soon topped $100,000, then $300,000.
This is a story not just of one girl, but of a young generation of outstanding problem-solvers working
creatively. |
| 1. What does the author think of today"s kids after he knew the story of Rachel Beckwith? |
A. They are good at social network.
B. They have narrow minds and care about nothing.
C. They are unselfish as grown-ups.
D. They can get problems settled effectively. |
| 2. When was it that Rachel"s hair was donated for the final time to Locks of Love? |
A. At her age of 5.
B. Before her ninth birthday.
C. Right after the traffic accident.
D. After her death. |
| 3. Why did each of Rachel"s friends donate $9 to charity: water? |
A. Because she died at the age of 9 and they wanted to honor her.
B. Because she had asked them to do that.
C. Because she set up her birthday page on June 9th.
D. Because she began to raise money from her ninth birthday. |
| 4. The singer Justin Bieber was mentioned in the text, mainly because ______. |
A. Rachel collected more than him who she admired
B. he had donated on Rachel"s page on his 17th birthday
C. Rachel would have been overjoyed for his donation
D. Rachel"s mom said she secretly had a crush on him |
| 5. What does the text mainly talk about? |
A. The author"s impression of today"s kids.
B. Rachel"s hair donations.
C. A nine-year-old girl Rachel.
D. A lesson from Rachel. |
答案
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Some time ago, a man punished his 5 year old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping
paper. Money was _1_ and he became more upset when the child pasted the gold paper so as to_2_ a
box to put under a Christmas tree.
_3_, the little girl brought the gift box to her father next morning and said " This is for you daddy. "
The father was_4 _by his earlier _5_, but his_6_ flared again when he found the box empty . He
spoke to her in a harsh _7_, " Don"t you know young lady , _8_ you give someone a present there"s _9_
to be _10_ inside the package
The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said " Oh Daddy , it is not 11 . I 12 kisses
into it until it was full." The father was crushed. He 13 on his knees and put his arms around his little
girl and he begged her to 14 his unnecessary anger.
An accident 15 the life of the child only a short time later and it is told that the father 16 the gold
box by his bed for all the years of his life and whenever he was 17 or faced difficult problems, he would open the box and take out a(n) 18 kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
In a very real 19 , each of us as human beings have been given a golden box filled with unconditional
love and kisses from our children , family friends and God .There is no more precious 20 anyone can
hold . |
( )1. A. tight
( )2. A. fill
( )3. A. Therefore
( )4. A. excited
( )5. A. action
( )6. A. disappointment
( )7. A. manner
( )8. A. when
( )9. A. thought
( )10. A. everything
( )11. A. old
( )12. A. put
( )13. A. dropped
( )14. A. remind
( )15. A. carried
( )16. A. held
( )17. A. hesitated
( )18. A. real
( )19. A. view
( )20. A. possession | B. enough
B. design
B. Nevertheless
B. uncertain
B. reaction
B. excitement
B. behaviour
B. before
B. found
B. nothing
B. empty
B. push
B. struggled
B. forgive
B. lost
B. remained
B. tired
B. imaginary
B. point
B. kindness | C. tough
C. decorate
C. Otherwise
C. embarrassed
C. conversation
C. astonishment
C. means
C. after
C. supposed
C. anything
C. broken
C. blew
C. stood
C. explain
C. brought
C. had
C. discouraged
C. visible
C. sense
C. care | D. little
D. make
D. But
D. surprised
D. contact
D. anger
D. approach
D. until
D. believed
D. something
D. full
D. pull
D. fell
D. ignore
D. took
D. kept
D. shocked
D. unforgettable
D. meaning
D. treasure |
| 阅读理解。 |
My newly-rented small apartment was far away from the centre of London and it was becoming
essential for me to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name
down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the underground. They were looking for
guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn"t drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train,
and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been
doctors. T.S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I"d be a
subway guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I"d be
overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges-those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre.
The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. I must have
done all right because after about half an hour"s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The interviewer sat at a desk. Candidates were signaled
forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater
or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. Some of the interviews
were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.
I can remember the questions now: "Why did you leave your last job?" "Why did you leave your job
before that?" "And the one before that?" I can"t recall my answers, except that they were short at first
and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed a lack of sensitivity which
helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway. "You"ve
failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position."
Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually,
such jobs - being a postman is another one I still desire - demand exactly the sort of elementary yet
responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I was still far short of full
self-understanding. I was also short of cash. |
| 1.The writer applied for the job chiefly because ________. |
A. he wanted to work in the centre of London
B. he could no longer afford to live without one
C. he was not interested in any other available job
D. he had received some suitable training |
| 2. The writer thought he was overqualified for the job because ________. |
A. he often traveled underground
B. he had written many poems
C. he could deal with difficult situations
D. he had worked in a compa |
| 3. The length of his interview meant that _________. |
A. he was not going to be offered the job
B. he had not done well in the intelligence test
C. he did not like the interviewer at all
D. he had little work experience to talk about |
| 4. What does the writer realize now that he did not realize then? |
A. How unpleasant ordinary jobs can be.
B. How difficult it is to be a poet.
C. How unsuitable he was for the job.
D. How badly he did in the interview. |
| 5. What"s the writer"s opinion of the psychologist? |
A. He was very aggressive(有进取心的).
B. He was unhappy with his job.
C. He was quite inefficient.
D. He was rather unsympathetic. |
| 阅读理解。 |
For eighty four days old Santiago had not caught a single fish. At first a young boy, Manolin, had
shared his bad fortune, but after the fortieth luckless day the boy"s father told his son to go in another
boat. From that time on, Santiago worked alone. The boy loved the old fisherman and always helped
him with money and food. Usually, they would talk about the fish they had taken in luckier times or
about American baseball after supper, while at night, alone in his cottage, Santiago dreamed of lions on
the beaches of Africa, where he had gone years before. He no longer dreamed of his dead wife.
On the eighty-fifth day, Santiago set off to fish before dawn. Two of his baits (饵) were fresh tunas (金
枪鱼) the boy had given him, as well as sardines (沙丁鱼) to cover his hooks. Then he set his lines
which went straight down into deep dark water.
As the sun rose he saw other boats in toward shore. A bird showed him where dolphin were chasing
some flying fish. This time Santiago saw tuna jumping in the sunlight. A small one took the hook on his
line. Pulling the fish aboard, the old man thought it a good fortune.
Toward noon a marlin, a common fish in the sea, started eating the bait which was one hundred
meters down. Gently the old man played the fish, a big one, as he knew from the weight on the line. At
last he struck to settle the hook. The fish did not come out of the surface. Instead, it began to pull the
boat to the northwest. The old man followed it. Although he was alone and no longer strong, he had his
skill and knew many tricks. He waited patiently for the fish to be tired .
It was cold after the sunset. When something took one of his remaining baits, he cut the line with his
knife. Once the marlin leaned suddenly, pulling Santiago forward on his face and cutting his cheek. By
dawn his left hand was cramped (抽筋的). The fish had headed northward; there was no land in sight.
Hungry, he cut pieces from the tuna and chewed them slowly.
That morning the fish jumped. Seeing it, Santiago knew he had hooked the biggest marlin he had
ever seen. Then the fish went down and turned toward the east. Santiago drank a little water from the
bottle during the hot afternoon.
Close to nightfall a dolphin took the small hook he had rebaited. He lifted it aboard, careful. After he
had rested, he cut meat from the dolphin and kept also the two flying fish he found in its stomach. That
night he slept. He awoke to feel the line running through his fingers as the fish jumped. Feeding line
slowly, he tried to tire the marlin. After the fish slowed its run, he washed his cut hands in sea water and
ate one of the flying fish. At sunrise the marlin began to circle. Faint, he worked to bring the big fish
nearer with each turn. Almost exhausted, he finally drew his big fish alongside and drove in the harpoon
(鱼叉). The fish was two feet longer than the boat. No fish like it had ever been seen in Havana harbor.
An hour later, he sighted the first shark, a fierce Mako, and it came in fast to chase after the dead
marlin. The old man struck the shark with his harpoon. The Mako rolled and sank, carrying the harpoon
with it and leaving the marlin bloody. He knew the smell would spread. Watching, he saw two sharks
closing in. He struck at one with his knife and watched it sliding down into deep water. The other he
killed while it tore at the flesh of the marlin. When the third appeared, he thrust (刺) it with the knife.
The other sharks came at sunset. At first he tried to beat them with the tiller (舵柄) from the boat, but
his hands were bleeding and there were too many in the sea. In the darkness, as he steered toward the
harbor of Havana, he heard them hitting the boat again and again. But the old man thought only of his
steering and his great tiredness. He had gone out too far and the sharks had beaten him. He knew they
would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of the big marlin.
All lights were out when he sailed into the little harbor and beached his boat. He could just make out
the white backbone and the upstanding tail of the fish. Once he fell under their weight and lay patiently
until he could gather his strength to go on. In his cottage he fell on his bed and went to sleep. |
| 1. The above story is adapted from __________. |
A. Treasure Island
B. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
C. The Old Man And The Sea
D. The Son Of The Sea |
| 2. Why did the man feel that he could be lucky this time? |
A. Because a small tuna took the hook on his line.
B. Because he dreamed about the American lions.
C. Because he saw many flying fish were chased by the dolphins.
D. Because a lot of sharks followed his boat. |
| 3. According to the text, which statement is NOT true about Manolin? |
A. The boy had mercy on Santiago.
B. The boy often shared his stories with Santiago.
C. The boy showed his great concerns to Santiago.
D. The boy was Santiago"s adopted son. |
| 4. Why does Santiago let the marlin lead his boat instead of pulling the big fish up? |
A. He wanted to kill the marlin first before he pulled it up to the boat.
B. He was too tired and hungry to pull the big fish up.
C. His experience told him not to do so before the fish was tired out.
D. He wanted to use the marlin as a bait to catch the sharks. |
| 5. Which sentence below can be used to best describe Santiago"s character? |
A. "He no longer dreamed of his dead wife."(Para 1)
B. "Although he was alone and no longer strong, he had his skill and knew many tricks."(Para4)
C. "Almost exhausted, he finally drew his big fish alongside and drove in the harpoon."(Para7)
D. "Once he fell under their weight and lay patiently until he could gather his strength to go on ."(Para 9) |
| 6. According to the text, what will be talked about in the next paragraph? |
A. the man"s action to realize his dream about the lions.
B. people"s reflection when they saw the giant marlin outside.
C. people"s discussion about how they ate the giant marlin.
D. a funeral held by the boy and the local people after his death. |
| 阅读理解。 |
It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas 2005. While most people were
warming up their cars, Trevor, my husband, had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away
from home to work. On arrival, he parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does. After
putting in 10 hours of labor, he returned to find his bike gone.
The bike, a black Kona 18 speed, was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, putting in
60-hour a week to support his young family. And the bike was also used to get groceries, saving us from
having to walk long distances from where we live.
I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our
story. Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought
a bike, then called my husband to pick it up. Once again my husband had a way to get to and from his
job. It really is an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never
met before.
People say that a smile can be passed from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers
are even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it strengthened our
faith in humanity as a whole. And it has influenced us to be more mindful of ways we, too, can share with
others. No matter how big or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares. And the results
can be everlasting. |
| 1.Why was the bike so important to the couple? |
A. They used it for work and daily life.
B. It was their only possession.
C. It was a nice Kona 18 speed.
D. The man"s job was bike racing. |
| 2.What does the underlined phrase mean? |
A. go very far to see someone
B. walk out on foot to greet someone
C. help someone with one"s best
D. enjoy the moment with someone |
| 3.We can infer from the text that ________. |
A. the couple worked 60 hours a week
B. people were busy before Christmas
C. the stranger brought over the bike
D. life was hard for the young family |
| 4. How did people get to know the couple"s problem? |
A. From a stranger.
B. From a newspaper.
C. From TV news.
D. From radio broadcasts. |
| 5.What do the couple learn from their experience? |
A. Strangers are usually of little help.
B. One should take care of their bike.
C. News reports make people famous.
D. An act of kindness can mean a lot. |
| 阅读理解。 |
Honesty, my mum always used to tell me, is the best policy. Of course, this didn"t include her when
she told me that if I didn"t eat all my vegetables Father Christmas would find out and wouldn"t give me
any presents.
But when it comes to medicine, I had assumed it was important to always be honest with my patients. After all, the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust, and therefore honesty is essential, or so I
thought.
I had just started working in geriatrics (老年病科). Mr. McMahon was brought in when his baby was
found very swollen. I took a medical history from his daughter who had accompanied him in the
ambulance. She"d been his main carer for years. I stood looking at him as she gave a detailed history.
"Has he lost any weight recently?" I asked, "Well, it"s funny you should mention that, but yes. "She said
slowly. There was silence for a few moments." Why? What are you worried about?" she asked, I
hesitated. She was obviously very involved in his care and it was only fair that I told her the truth. "Well,
we need to prove it"s not cancer. " I said and talked briefly about some of the tests I was going to order.
Half an hour later, a nurse called me: "Mr. McMahon"s daughter broke down－she said you told her
he had cancer. " My heart sank. By the time I arrived at the ward, my consultant was already there,
explaining that we still had to run lots of tests and that it was by no means confirmed that he had cancer.
I stood silently at the end of the bed. My consultant was obviously angry with me and as we left Mr.
McMahon, she turned to me. "Why on earth did you do that?" she asked in disbelief. I looked at her and
bit my lip. "She asked me what I was worried about and I told her. " I said, hanging my head. "And give
her more to worry about?" replied my consultant. "You don"t say the word "cancer" until it"s confirmed.
Even if you suspect it, think very carefully before you tell people. "
As it turned out, it wasn"t cancer. But I did learn that when someone is stressed and worried about
their loved one they"re sometimes selective in what they hear－and as a doctor it"s important to be
mindful of this. In being truthful, I"d made the situation worse. |
| 1. The purpose of the first two paragraphs is to show that the author_________. |
A. misunderstood the doctor-patient relationship
B. was anxious to receive Christmas gifts
C. regarded honesty as the best policy
D. had an unhealthy eating habit |
| 2. The author"s consultant was angry with him because _________. |
A. he told the daughter what he suspected.
B. he delayed running the necessary tests.
C. he failed to confirm the parent"s disease.
D. he forgot what the consultant had advised. |
| 3. The author hung his head (the underlined part in Para. 4) because he was feeling_________. |
A. guilty
B. hurt
C. disappointed
D. helpless |
| 4.What lesson has the author learnt from his experience? |
A. Learning from parents is necessary.
B. Jumping to a conclusion is dangerous.
C. Telling the truth may not always be the best solution.
D. Selecting pleasant words may not be the perfect policy. |
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