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| 完形填空。 |
It"s a small gas station that has snacks, drinks, cigarettes, and candies. The young man behind the
counter knows his 1 by name and what they normally want to buy. He treats children and adults with
equal 2 . He reads science fiction behind the counter when business is 3 .
One day, three people rushed in and grabbed food off the shelves as fast as they could, 4 not
intending to pay for it. He hit the "panic button" , then went over the counter and 5 the front door. It
was obvious that they were homeless, and equally obvious that they weren"t going 6 with their
illgotten gains. They 7 the food and simply crowded together in panic-knowing the police were 8
the way.
Imagine what they must have felt like when they were told they didn"t have to steal if they were that 9 . "We have food in the back, expired (到期) but still 10 to eat. If you need food, you 11
have some."
They were told to 12 what they had dropped and put it back, and then asked to straighten out the
mess. They were doing just that 13 the police arrived. The officers were told the situation was under
control and the police were no longer 14 .
This wasn"t what they had 15 . They were being treated as human beings who could right the wrong
they"d done. Shocked, they quickly followed orders to take turns and use the restroom to clean up.
Soon three 16 people walked out with all the 17 their arms could hold. They were 18 that, if
they needed to come back again, they were to ask and not just grab.
And then the young man went back to read until the next customer came in. He would be the 19
person in the world to claim he was a hero. But he gave three people something they were in desperate
need of-a 20 amount of selfrespect and a little bit of hope. |
( )1. A. friends
( )2. A. respect
( )3. A. slow
( )4. A. bravely
( )5. A. opened
( )6. A. nowhere
( )7. A. hid
( )8. A. in
( )9. A. anxious
( )10. A. safe
( )11. A. must
( )12. A. hold up
( )13. A. when
( )14. A. popular
( )15. A. wanted
( )16. A. dirtier
( )17. A. money
( )18. A. reminded
( )19. A. first
( )20. A. large | B. neighbors
B. pride
B. busy
B. reasonably
B. locked
B. somewhere
B. lifted
B. on
B. cautious
B. easy
B. can
B. hand out
B. after
B. necessary
B. desired
B. cleaner
B. cigarettes
B. warned
B. last
B. fair | C. customers
C. wisdom
C. heavy
C. hardly
C. closed
C. anywhere
C. swallowed
C. off
C. courageous
C. sweet
C. should
C. pick up
C. before
C. reliable
C. expected
C. cleverer
C. drinks
C. ordered
C. best
C. small | D. passengers
D. privilege
D. swift
D. obviously
D. broke
D. everywhere
D. dropped
D. by
D. hungry
D. unique
D. need
D. hand in
D. since
D. important
D. admired
D. quicker
D. food
D. persuaded
D. worst
D. full |
答案
| 1-5: CAADB 6-10: CDBDA 11-15: BCABC 16-20: BDABC |
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| 阅读理解。 |
Recently, one of my best friends, whom I"ve shared just about everything with since the first day of
kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago,we"ve both
always looked forward to the few times a year when we can see each other.
Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people
she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he
experimented with drugs and was into other selfdestructive behaviour. I was blown away! She told me
how she had been lying to her parents about where she was going and even stealing out to see this guy
because they didn"t want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better,
she didn"t believe me. Her selfrespect seemed to have disappeared.
I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was
getting nowhere. I just couldn"t believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang out with a bunch
of losers, especially her boyfriend.
By the time she left, I was really worried about her and exhausted by the experience. It had been so
frustrating, I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just
grown too far apart to continue our friendship, but I didn"t. I put the power of friendship to the final test.
We"d been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she valued me enough to know that I was trying to
save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.
A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our conversation, and
then she told me that she had broken up with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone
with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly rewarding moments in my life. Never had
I been so proud of a friend. |
| 1. In the writer"s opinion, her friend ________. |
A. was a girl with no selfrespect
B. could find a better boyfriend
C. was brave enough to stick to her own choice
D. didn"t value the writer"s suggestion |
| 2. What did the writer worry about? |
A. She would lose the friendship with her.
B. Her friend"s parents would be worried about their daughter.
C. Her friend would get into great trouble with the boy.
D. Her friend"s boyfriend would be in great trouble. |
| 3. We may learn from Paragraph 3 that the writer________. |
A. didn"t want to go anywhere else
B. understood her friend"s hanging with her boyfriend
C. couldn"t believe that her friend"s choice was acceptable
D. doubted that she could in any way help her friend |
| 4. What can be concluded from the passage? |
A. Friendship starting from childhood is not reliable.
B. Friendship is a cure for any injury in life.
C. Friendship should be everlasting once begun.
D. Friendship can have magical power in life. |
| 阅读理解。 |
I fell in love with the minister"s son the winter I turned fourteen. He was not Chinese. For Christmas I prayed for the boy, Robert. When I found out that my parents had invited the minister"s family over
for Christmas Eve dinner, I cried in panic. What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas?
What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners?
On Christmas Eve, my mother created abundant Chinese food. And then they arrived-the minister"s
family and all my relatives. Robert greeted hello, and I pretended he was not worthy of existence.
Dinner threw me deeper into disappointment. My relatives licked (舔) the ends of their chopsticks
and reached across the table. Robert and his family waited patiently for a large plate to be passed to
them. My relatives murmured with pleasure when my mother brought out the whole steamed fish. Robert
made a face. Then my father reached his chopsticks just below the fish eye and picked out the soft
meat. "Amy, your favorite." he said, offering me the tender fish cheek. I wanted to disappear.
At the end of the meal, my father leaned back and burped(打嗝) loudly, thanking my mother for her
fine cooking. "It"s a polite Chinese custom to show you are satisfied." explained my father to our
astonished guests. Robert was looking down at his plate with a reddish face. The minister managed to
bring up a quiet burp. I was shocked into silence for the rest of the night.
After everyone had gone, my mother said to me ,"You want to be the same as American girls on the
outside." She handed me an early gift.It was a miniskirt ."But inside you must always be Chinese. You
must be proud that you are different. Your only shame is to have shame."
It was not until years later that I was able to fully appreciate her lesson and the purpose behind her
particular menu. For Christmas Eve that year, she had chosen excellent Chinese food. |
1. When the writer found out the minister"s family would come for Christmas Eve dinner, she
cried mainly because ________. |
A. she worried about their shabby Chinese Christmas
B. she worried about their Chinese relatives lacking American manners
C. she worried about meeting the minister"s family
D. she worried about being laughed at |
| 2. What does "he was not worthy of existence" probably mean? It means________. |
A. the writer was not interested in his existence
B. he was worthless
C. he should not exist
D. the writer expected his coming |
| 3. The dinner threw the writer deeper into disappointment mainly because________. |
A. her relatives licked the ends of their chopsticks
B. her father reached his chopsticks to pick fish for her
C. her father leaned back and burped loudly
D. she childishly expected all of them to act in the same way as Americans at table |
| 4. We can infer from the passage that ________. |
A. the writer appreciated her mother"s lesson years later
B. the writer must be proud that she is different
C. the mother prepared to show Chinese different food culture
D. the minister"s family really enjoyed the food |
| 阅读理解。 |
A traveller was staying in an Egyptian village. One day, she held up her camera to take pictures of the
children. Suddenly the young ones began to shout at her. The traveller"s face turned red and she
apologized to the head for what she was doing, and told him she had forgotten that people in some places believed a person would lose his soul (灵魂) if his picture was taken. She explained to him the operation
of a camera for a long time. Several times the head tried to say something, but he couldn"t. When she
believed that the head didn"t fear any longer, the traveller then let him speak. With a smile, he said, "The
children were trying to tell you that you forgot to take off the lens (镜头) cap!" |
| 1. The children shouted when the traveller was taking pictures of them because _______. |
A. they didn"t want to stop playing
B. the traveller forgot to take off the cap on her head
C. they didn"t want to have their pictures taken
D. the traveller was not doing well with her camera |
| 2. The traveller made an apology to (向……道歉) the head because _______. |
A. she thought it was not right to take people"s pictures without telling them beforehand(事先)
B. the children would lose their souls
C. she had stayed in the village too long
D. she didn"t take a picture of the head first |
| 3. The traveller explained how to use a camera to the head because _______. |
A. the head was very interested in her camera
B. the head wanted to learn to take pictures
C. she was afraid of the head
D. she wanted the head not to worry about what she was doing |
| 4. When the head smiled, it"s clear that _______ . |
A. the children wanted to play with her
B. the traveller didn"t know what the children meant
C. he wanted the traveller to tell him something else
D. the traveller didn"t let him speak |
| 5. Which of the following is NOT right? |
A. The traveller knew something about people in some countries.
B. The children wouldn"t mind if the traveller took pictures of them.
C. The head was afraid that the traveller"s camera would hurt the children.
D. The traveller didn"t understand why the children shouted. |
| 阅读理解。 |
When you are little, the whole world feels like a big playground. I was living in Conyers, Georgia the
summer it all happened. I was a second grader, but my best friend Stephanie was only in the first grade.
Both of our parents were at work and most of the time they let us go our own way.
It was a hot afternoon and we decided to have an adventure in Stephanie"s basement. As I opened
the basement door, before us lay the biggest room, full of amazing things like guns, dolls, and old clothes.
I ran downstairs, and spotted a red steel can. It was paint. I looked beyond it and there lay even more
paint in bright colors like purple, orange, blue and green.
"Stephanie, I just found us a project for the day. Get some paintbrushes. We are fixing to paint." She
screamed with excitement as I told her of my secret plans and immediately we got to work. We gathered
all the brushes we could find and moved all of our materials to my yard. There on the road in front of my
house, we painted big stripes(条纹)of colors across the pavement (人行道). Stripe by stripe, our colors
turned into a beautiful rainbow. It was fantastic!
The sun was starting to sink. I saw a car in the distance and jumped up as I recognized the car. It
was my mother. I couldn"t wait to show her my masterpiece. The car pulled slowly into the driveway and
from the look on my mother"s face, I could tell that I was in deep trouble.
My mother shut the car door and walked towards me. Her eyes glaring, she shouted, "What in the
world were you thinking?I understood when you made castles out of leaves, and climbed the neighbors"
trees, but this!Come inside right now!"I stood there glaring back at her for a minute, angry because she
had insulted (侮辱) my art.
"Now go clean it up!"Mother and I began cleaning the road. Tears ran down my cheeks as I saw my
beautiful rainbow turn into black cement.
Though years have now passed, I still wonder where my rainbow has gone. I wonder if, maybe when
I get older, I can find my rainbow and never have to brush it away. I guess we all need some sort of
rainbow to brighten our lives from time to time and to keep our hopes and dreams colorful. |
| 1.What did the writer want to do when his mother came home? |
A. To introduce Stephanie to her.
B. To prevent her from seeing his painting.
C. To put the materials back in the yard.
D. To show his artwork to her. |
| 2. In his mother"s eyes, the writer_______. |
A. was a born artist
B. always caused trouble
C.was a problem solver
D. worked very hard |
| 3.The underlined word "rainbow" in the last paragraph refers to______. |
A. the rainbow in the sky
B. the stripes on the pavement
C. something imaginative and fun
D. important lessons learned in childhood |
| 4. It can be learned from the passage that parents should______. |
A. encourage children to paint
B. value friendship among children
C. discover the hidden talent in children
D. protect rather than destroy children"s dreams |
| 阅读理解。 |
I was in a rush as always, but this time it was for an important date I just couldn"t be late for ! I found
myself at a checkout counter behind an elderly woman seemingly in no hurry as she paid for her groceries. A PhD student with not a lot of money, I had hurried into the store to pick up some flowers. I was in a
huge rush, thinking of my upcoming evening. I did not want to be late for this date.
We were in Boston, a place not always known for small conversation between strangers. The woman
stopped unloading her basket and looked up at me. She smiled. It was a nice smile-warm and
reassuring-and I returned her gift by smiling back.
"Must be a special lady, whoever it is that will be getting those beautiful flowers," she said.
"Yes, she"s special," I said, and then to my embarrassment ,the words kept coming out. "It"s only our
second date, but somehow I am just having the feeling she"s" the one."" jokingly, I added, "The only
problem is that I can"t figure out why she"d want to date a guy like me."
"Well, I think she"s very lucky to have a boyfriend who brings her such lovely flowers and who is
obviously in love with her." the woman said. "My husband used to bring me flowers every week-even
when times were tough and we didn"t have much money. Those were incredible days; he was very
romantic and-of course-I miss him since he"s passed away."
I paid for my flowers as she was gathering up her groceries. There was no doubt in my mind as I
walked up to her. I touched her on the shoulder and said, "You were right, you know. These flowers are
indeed for a very special lady." I handed her the flowers and thanked her for such a nice conversation.
It took her a moment to realize that I was giving her the flowers I had just purchased ."You have a
wonderful evening." I said. I left her with a big smile and my heart warmed as I saw her smelling the
beautiful flowers.
I remember being slightly late for my date that night and telling my girlfriend the above story. A couple
of years later, when I finally worked up the courage to ask her to marry me, she told me that this story
had helped to seal it for her-that was the night that I won her heart. |
| 1.Why was the writer in a hurry that day? |
A. He was to meet his girlfriend.
B. He had to go back to school soon.
C. He was delayed by an elderly lady.
D. He had to pick up some groceries. |
| 2. What does the underlined phrase "her gift"(Paragraph 2 ) refer to? |
A. Her words.
B. Her smile.
C. Her flowers.
D. Her politeness. |
| 3.Why did the writer give his flowers to the elderly lady? |
A. She told him a nice story.
B. She allowed him to pay first.
C. She gave him encouragement.
D. She liked flowers very much. |
| 4. What is the message conveyed in the story? |
A. Flowers are important for a date.
B .Small talk is helpful.
C. Love and kindness are rewarding.
D. Elderly people deserve respecting. |
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