阅读理解。 My wife passed away a few years ago, and I went through the worst time

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阅读理解。     My wife passed away a few years ago, and I went through the worst time in my life. I even wanted to
kill myself. Just for kids, I had to continue to live and work as small-town doctor at my medical clinic in
Hawaii. My kids had gone to live on the mainland, and I was alone. Then they asked me to have a family trip.
     On our trip, we turned on the TV at the motel and saw the second plane crash into the World Trade
Center. Seeing it falling down, I said to my kids:"I"m going to Afghanistan". And a few weeks later,
international Medical Corps sent me to set up 20 clinics in provinces where people had no health care.
     In these field clinics surrounded by frightening shoots or deadly bombs, we were eventually serving
27,000 patients a month in a very busy schedule. Tired and nervous, I gradually had a sense of achievement,
a sense of purpose, and my depression went away. In the years to follow, I went to Indonesia after the
tsunami, Pakistan after the earthquakes, Sudan after the civil warm and Iraq after more and more bombs.
Each time after disasters one after another, hundreds of people were killed, wounded and many more had to
flee. We once set up movable clinics in an area with 19,000 refugees, and it was supposed to hold 13,000
originally. Flu broke out, one of the biggest killers of kids in refugee camps, and it spread like wildfire. Water
and food were also serious problems."Adventures or not?" I often asked myself.
     When my wife passed away, I thought my life was done. But in reality, it was just getting started. At the
end of her life, she went unconscious. I held her head in my hands and told her of all the places we would
visit and the exciting adventures we would have.
     I think about the moment many times during my "adventures". I didn"t know how predictive those words
would be. But I know that she is still with me. 1. Where has the doctor been in the past few years? A. Some countries where he could set up clinics.
B. Some African countries where flu broke out.
C. The places where the earthquakes happened.
D. The places that the horrible disasters struck.2. How would the doctor describe his life after he had worked in Afghanistan? A. Tired and troublesome.
B. Busy and risky.
C. Meaningful and helpful
D. Frightening and depressing. 3. The underlined word "refugees" means people ______. A. who are robbed, killed, or wounded
B. who suffer from flu in movable clinics
C. who like to take adventures
D. who have lost homes because of disasters. 4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. the doctor"s wife encouraged him to work in foreign countries.
B. What the doctor said to his wife before her death became reality.
C. The doctor"s adventures made him understand the love of his wife.
D. With the true love of his wife, the doctor started to change his life.

答案

1-4: DCDB

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阅读理解。     A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and loved the boy
very much. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open.
He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and put it back into the cupboard in the bathroom.
However, his wife, busy in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.
     The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened
to contain a kind of medicine for adults with poisonous and side effects. When the child broke down, the
mother hurried him to the hospital. But he finally died. The mother was shocked. She was terrified how she
was going to face her husband.
     When the desperate father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and voiced
just five words. The husband just said "I am with you, Darling". The husband"s totally unexpected reaction is
a positive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault
with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened.
No one is to be blamed. she had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was comfort and
sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.
     If evervone can look at life with this kind of viewpoint, there would be much fewer problems in the world.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are actually
not as difficult as you think. Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether
in a relationshlp, in a job or with the people we know. By this way we miss out some warmth in human
relationship. 1. The uncapped medical bottle was not put back into the cupboard because _____.

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A. the husband was careless
B. the husband was busy
C. the wife wasn"t infomed of the matter
D. the wife ignored the matter 2. What do we know about the bottle? _____.

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A. It contained poison only for adults
B. It appeared like a nice drink
C. It was broken by the child
D. It was kept in the kitchen 3. The husband"s attitude towards his wife can be described as _____.

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A. optimistic
B. confident
C. considerate
D. generous 4. What did the writer intend to tell us about life? _____.

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A. Let go the negative side and we can enjoy life
B. It is always useless finding who is responsible
C. Think of nothing and life will be easy
D. Life should give way to responsibility

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阅读理解。    Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday
when it la nded upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape route-through the boot
(行李箱).
    Mr. Johnson"s car had finished up in a ditch (沟渠) at Romney Marsin, Kent after skidding on ice and hitting
a bank. "Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly," Mr.Johnson said. "I couldn"t force the doors
because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew
water would come flooding in."
    Mr.Johnson, a sweet salesman of Sitting Home, Kent, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists
by sounding the horn and hammering on the roof and boot.Then he began his struggle to escape.
     Later he said, "It was really a half penny that saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and
I used it to unscrew the back seat to get into the boot.I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make
someone hear, but no help came."
     It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from the
boot.Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench and began to work on the boot lock.Fifteen minutes passed by. "It
was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in.
I forced the lid down into the mud and scrambled clear as the car filled up."
     His hands and arms cut and bruised (擦伤), Mr.Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby, where he was looked
after by the farmer"s wife, Mrs. Lucy Bates. Huddled in a blanket, he said, "That thirty minutes seemed like
hours." Only the tips of the car wheels were visible, police said last night.The vehicle had sunk into two feet
of mud at the bottom of the ditch. 1. What is the best title for this newspaper article? A. The Story of Mr.Johnson, A Sweet Salesman
B. Car Boot Can Serve As The Best Escape Route
C. Driver Escapes Through Car Boot
D. The Driver Survived A Terrible Car Accident2. Which of the following objects is the most important to Mr. Johnson? A. The hammer.
B. The coin.
C. The screw.
D. The horn. 3. Which statement is true according to the passage? A. Mr. Johnson"s car stood on its boot as it fell down.
B. Mr. Johnson could not escape from the door because it was full of sweet jam.
C. Mr. Johnson"s car accident was partly due to the slippery road.
D. Mr. Johnson struggled in the pouring mud as he unscrewed the back seat4. "Finally it gave" (Paragraph 5) means that _____. A. Luckily the door was torn away in the end
B. At last the wrench went broken
C. The lock came open after all his efforts
D. The chance was lost at the last minute 5. It may be inferred from the passage that _____. A. the ditch was along a quiet country road
B. the accident happened on a clear warm day
C. the police helped Mr.Johnson get out of the ditch
D. Mr.Johnson had a tender wife and was well attended

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选做题：根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。                                                            Linguistic (语言学的) Puzzles
     How did language begin? What was the world"s first language? Do all languages come from one, original
language? 1_____.
     In the 4th century BC, the Creek historian Herodotus wrote this account: Psamtik I an Egyptian King,
wanted to find out what the oldest language in the world was. 2_____. He told his servant to find two newborn
babies. When the servant had found them, the king gave them to a shepherd (牧羊人) and said, "Keep these
babies with the goats. Take care of them, but do not talk to them. Listen for any words that they say." The king
wanted to find out what 1anguage the children would speak if they were left alone. He said, "The first words
they speak will come from the original language of the world."
     3_____. He told the king, who asked his scholars about this word. They told him that the Phiygians, who
lived in an area which is now Turkey, called bread "becos." The king said, "Then Phiygian is the oldest
language."Today we know that the king"s conclusion was wrong. We don"t know why the children said "becos".
     4_____. Scholars discovered that many European and southern Asian languages belonged to the same"family"
and that they star- ted from the same parent language, Proto-Indo-European. Linguists think that it had split into
several different languages, including Greek and Sanskrit, between 2,000 and 1,000 BC. Other languages, such
as English and Spanish, developed from later splits.
     5_____. Two questions that interest linguists are: How does language change? Why does language. change?
If you like solving mysteries, historical linguistics may be the job for you. A. Nowadays, we study the origin of language more scientifically
B. He was talking about this problem with his scholars when he had an idea
C. The king was very kind to his servant and his servant remained royal to him
D. Linguists are the scholars who are very interested in categorizing the language families
E. People have been trying to find the answers to these questions for more than 2,000 years
F. One day, while the babies were babbling to each other, the shepherd heard them say "becos"
G. Linguists have classified many language families, and they are still trying to categorize others

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完形填空。                                                              My Father"s Son
     It"s hard being an astronaut"s son. Everybody expects you to be   1 . I"m just an average eleven-year-old
kid. My father is so good at everything. I often wonder   2   my father ever had a son like me.
    One morning my teacher announced a   3   Day essay contest (竞赛) for the whole school. What would
I   4 ? My father is an astronaut; I would start out with that. No, I decided I wouldn"t do that. The whole
country and maybe even the whole   5   saw my father as an astronaut,   6   that wasn"t the way I saw him.
     How did I   7   my father? Hmm.
     I saw him sitting with me in the dark when I was little and had a nightmare.
     I saw him teaching me how to throw a baseball.
    I remembered him hugging me for hours when my dog was killed by a car.
     And I remembered how he   8   me with a new little dog at my eighth birthday party.
     These were the things I was going to write about my dad. To me, he wasn"t   9   a world-famous astronaut.
He was my dad.
     On Thursday night the winning essays would be  10  in the hall with all the parents and students present. I
hadn"t shown Dad the essay, and now I almost  11  I wouldn"t win. When the third prize was announced and it
wasn"t me. I was  12  and disappointed at the same time. Then the second prize. It was me! I went up to the
stage and read my essay "My Father"s Son". I watched my parents as I read.
     When I finished reading, the audience applauded. I saw my father  13  his nose. Tears were running down
my mother"s face. Dad cleared his throat, and put his hand on my shoulder, "Son, this is the proudest moment
of my life."
     It was the proudest moment of my life, too. Maybe I"ll  14  be a great hero or win a Nobel Prize, but just
then, it was  15  just to be my father"s son.

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(     )1. A. perfect
(     )2. A. when
(     )3. A. Children"s
(     )4. A. write
(     )5. A. school
(     )6. A. but
(     )7. A. care
(     )8. A. frightened
(     )9. A. simply
(     )10. A. edited
(     )11. A. knew
(     )12. A. embarrassed
(     )13. A. holding
(     )14. A. ever
(     )15. A. natural

B. happy
B. how
B. Mother"s
B. take
B. family
B. and
B. see
B. confused
B. really
B. read
B. accepted
B. amazed
B. breaking
B. still
B. enough

C. tall
C. where
C. Teacher"s
C. send
C. city
C. so
C. help
C. surprised
C. certainly
C. collected
C. hoped
C. regretful
C. blowing
C. even
C. fair

D. lovely
D. whether
D. Father"s
D. make
D. world
D. for
D. ask
D. tired
D. clearly
D. published
D. guessed
D. relieved
D. picking
D. never
D. wise

完形填空。

                                                                 No More Time Out
    Shawn and Thomas had always been good friends. They lived near each other, and they both loved   1  .
They played baseball, touch football, and kickball. They   2 liked to play soccer, shoot baskets, and
skateboard.
     When they were in the fourth grade, though, Thomas broke his   3   in a soccer game. He had to be on
crutches for six weeks.
     Shawn   4   Thomas, but what was there to do? Shawn didn"t like television or computer games. Thomas
didn"t like to sit and talk. After trying three times to start a conversation, Shawn   5   up. He said, "I"m out of
here."
     For days, Shawn   6 at home, feeling guilty for not visiting Thomas again. Thomas stayed home, too,
feeling   7   because Shawn wasn"t visiting him. After a week, Shawn"s mom spoke up. "It"s time for you and
Thomas to get back into   8  ! That"s why I spoke to Ms McNulty at the library. She has the perfect volunteer
job for you both," she said.
     Shawn said nothing.
     His morn continued, "The library sells used books to raise money. People are always   9   off books in bags
and boxes. Someone has to carry the books to the storage room. Someone has to   10   them into fiction (小说)
and nonfiction. You and Thomas can be a team again."
     "No, we  11 !" said Shawn. "He and I don"t want a job." However, Shawn"s mom wouldn"t  12  no for an
answer.
     Sure enough,  13  the boys began, things changed. Shawn felt strong as he carried bags and boxes through
the library. Sorting books in the storage room, Thomas felt  14  again. In fact, one day Thomas said, "Between
you and me, Shawn, this isn"t so  15 ." Shawn smiled and agreed. They were a good team.

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