Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia was delivered to my house. No card or note came with it. Calls to the flower shop were always useless - it was a cash 1 . After a while I stopped trying to 2 who the sender was and just delighted in the beautiful and perfume of the white flower. But I never 3 imagining who the sender might be. Some of my 4 moments were spent daydreaming about it. My mother asked me whether there was someone for whom I had done a(an) 5 kindness who might be showing 6 . Perhaps the neighbor I helped when she was 7 a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man across the street whose mail I helped to get during the 8 so he wouldn"t have to venture down his icy step. As a teenager, though I had more fun guessing that it might be a 9 who had noticede even though I didn"t know him. One month before my high school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. He was missing some of the most important events in my life. I became completely 10 in my upcoming graduation and the dance. When my father died, I 11 the dance and the dress for it. The day before the dance, I found a dress on the sofa. I didn"t 12 if I had a new dress or not, but my mother did. She wanted her children to feel 13 and lovable, imaginative, believing that there was a 14 in the world and beauty in the face of hard times. Actually mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia -lovely, 15 and perfect. The gardenia stopped coming when my mother died. |
( )1. A. service ( )2. A. recognize ( )3. A. failed ( )4. A. saddest ( )5. A. special ( )6. A. concern ( )7. A. repairing ( )8. A. spring ( )9. A. friend ( )10. A. disappointed ( )11. A. forgot ( )12. A. wonder ( )13. A. contented ( )14. A. trouble ( )15. A. strong | B. deal B. imagine B. stopped B. painful B. common B. attitude B. washing B. summer B. superman B. uninterested B. lost B. believe B. respected B. magic B. beautiful | C. bargain C. wonder C. succeeded C. happiest C. valuable C. interest C. unloading C. autumn C. teacher C. discouraged C. hated C. care C. thanked C. tragedy C. smelly | D. offer D. discover D. enjoyed D. loneliest D. important D. appreciation D. starting D. winter D. boy D. concentrated D. expected D. know D. loved D. comedy D. lucky | 阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填人一个适当的 词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。 | This happened in a third-grade classroom. Jim sat 1 his desk and all of a sudden, there was a puddle(一滩水) between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet. He felt his heart was going to stop. He knew 2 would happen when his classmates found out. He looked up and there came the teacher with 3 look in her eyes that said he 4 (discover). As the teacher was walking towards 5 , a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water to her desk. Suddenly, Susie tripped (绊倒) and, 6 (strange), dumped the whole bowl of water in Jim"s lap. He pretended to be angry, but all the while he was saying deep in his heart, "Thank you!" Jim became the object of sympathy instead of ridicule (嘲笑). The teacher brought him gym shorts to put on. All the others crawled(爬) on their hands and knees, 7 (clean) up around his desk. But 8 life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred (转移) to Susie. She tried to help, 9 they told her to leave the room 10 school was over, Jim walked over to Susie and whispered, "You did that on purpose, didn"t you?" Susie whispered back, "I wet my trousers once, too!" | 阅读理解。 | Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are much larger and heavier than the devices themselves. University of Missouri(MU) researchers are developing a nuclear energy source that is smaller, lighter and more efficient. "To provide enough power, we need certain methods with high energy density",said Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MU. "The radioisotope (放射性同位素) battery can provide power density that is much higher than chemical batteries." Kwon and his research team have been working on building a small nuclear battery, presently the size and thickness of a penny, intended to power various micro / nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS). Although nuclear batteries can cause concerns, Kwon said they are safe. "People hear the word "nuclear" and think of something very dangerous," he said, "However, nuclear power sources have already been safely powering a variety of devices, such as pace-makers, space satellites and underwater systems." His new idea is not only in the battery"s size, but also in its semiconductor(半导体). Kwon"s battery uses a liquid semiconductor rather than a solid semiconductor. "The key part of using a radioactive battery is that when you harvest the energy, part of the radiation energy can damage the lattice structure of the solid semiconductor," Kwon said, "By using a liquid semiconductor, we believe we can minimize that problem." Together with J. David Robertson, chemistry professor and associate director of the MU Research Reactor, Kwon is working to build and test the battery. In the future, they hope to increase the battery"s power, shrink its size and try with various other materials. Kwon said that battery could be thinner than the thickness of human hair. | 1. Which of the following is true of Jae Kwon? | A. He teaches chemistry at MU. B. He developed a chemical battery. C. He is working on a nuclear energy source. D. He made a breakthrough in computer engineering. | 2. Jae Kwon gave examples in Paragraph 4_________. | A. to show chemical batteries are widely applied. B. to introduce nuclear batteries can be safely used. C. to describe a nuclear-powered system. D. to introduce various energy sources. | 3. Liquid semiconductor is used to _________. | A. get rid of the radioactive waste B. test the power of nuclear batteries. C. decrease the size of nuclear batteries D. reduce the damage to lattice structure. | 4. According to Jae Kwon, his nuclear battery _______. | A. uses a solid semiconductor B. will soon replace the present ones. C. could be extremely thin D. has passed the final test. | 5. The text is most probably a ________. | A. science news report B. book review C. newspaper ad D. science fiction story | 完形填空。 | When I opened my E-mail the other day, a pretty woman named Rachel appeared on my computer screen. She greeted me by name and 1 talking with great enthusiasm. 2 she stopped to smile at me or blow a kiss. She was reading 3 me an E-mail from my brother, and a lot of it was about his _4 the phone company to give him a high speed Internet connection. It was 5 . Rachel was there 6 a new technology called Facemail. It lets you send an E-mail that gets ready to the receiver by a(n) 7 male or female form or by a clown. The software, which is free, can be 8 at www.facemail.com. Facemail faces are 9 , and they simulate (模拟) emotions 10 those you put in your text. 11 , type in X, and Rachel blows a kiss. The company that develops the Facemail is sure there are broad 12 uses. The reason E-business is not popular, the company says, is 13 buying over the Internet lacks the human touch. But 14 you went to the Nike website and Michael Jordan greeted you by name, 15 on you and personally closed the sale? And it is talking with Whirlpool (惠普公司) about using the technology in a computer screen on a fridge. Then if Mom can"t be home 16 the kids get back from school, she can leave a(n) 17 with a voice and image telling them what there is to eat. Facemail could get hot fast. 18 , I"m a fan. But Facemail should be used with 19 . The clown looks lively and funny at first. But if you select the clown, put a few 20 words in an E-mail and add some angry emotions, you"ve got a Psycho mail (疯人型电子邮件). | ( ) 1. A. enjoyed ( ) 2. A. For some time ( ) 3. A. to ( ) 4. A. hoping ( ) 5. A. cool ( ) 6. A. in place of ( ) 7. A. ugly ( ) 8. A. downloaded ( ) 9. A. alive ( ) 10. A. taken on ( ) 11. A. Such as ( ) 12. A. education ( ) 13. A. why ( ) 14. A. even if ( ) 15. A. waited ( ) 16. A. before ( ) 17. A. news ( ) 18. A. Firstly ( ) 19. A. interest ( ) 20. A. rude | B. started B. As usual B. about B. making B. cold B. in honor of B. familiar B. sold B. valuable B. based on B. In that case B. technology B. how B. what if B. worked B. while B. information B. Directly B. care B. polite | C. appreciated C. Now and then C. at C. letting C. mad C. thanks to C. possible C. seen C. lifelike C. put on C. For example C. art C. that C. as if C. carried C. once C. supper C. Personally C. attention C. happy | D. loved D. At a time D. with D. getting D. strange D. in spite of D. attractive D. made D. priceless D. looked on D. On top of that D. business D. what D. then if D. dropped D. when D. note D. Fortunately D. fun D. true | 阅读理解。 | In Cardiff I was put to work in furniture department at one of the local stores. It was large, fairly out of date, run , like its parent company in London, by a group of relatives. Being only a member of the store for a short time, I was in a very fortunate position. The others, particularly the older members of the store, were naturally asked to produce good sales figures. I was more of an observer. If I made a sale, I was pleased, but if I didn"t, I would not be blamed. I was really there to observe and learn, and as I had no interest in making a position in the furniture business, I wasn"t too diligent about that either. One salesman in late middle age once expressed his insecurity by scolding me of trying to steal one of his customers. Nothing could have been further from the truth, but he demanded that I go to the stockroom with him to settle the matter. He was very small and thin, but to my surprise he started dancing about among the carpets and closets working his arms wildly and calling on me to "put them up". I couldn"t put anything up-I was too busy rolling on a four-foot six-inch spring mattress (弹簧垫子) , helpless with laughter. Finally he saw the joke too, and we went off to the members" store for a conciliatory (和解) cup of tea. Several days later, I finally left the store. Thank God! | 1. The furniture department was run by _____. | A. the author"s parents B. the author"s relatives C. some members of a big family D. the local government | 2. The shop in Cardiff ______. | A. was big and very modern B. was old but beautiful C. didn"t sell furniture only D. was famous in London | 3. The author was lucky because ________. | A. sales figures were not important for him B. he was younger than the others C. he produced good sales figures D. his pay was higher | 4. One salesman thought that ______ . | A. the author was more of an observer than a real member of the store B. what the author had said was far from the truth C. the author tried to get a person to buy the furniture dishonestly D. the writer destroyed a four-foot six-inch spring mattress |
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