阅读理解。 Several years ago, my family gathered on Cape Cod for a weekend. My pa
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| 阅读理解。 |
Several years ago, my family gathered on Cape Cod for a weekend. My parents were there, my sister and
her daughter too, two cousins and, of course, my wife, my son and me. We ate at one of those restaurants
where the menu is written on a blackboard held by a friendly waiter and had a wonderful time. With dinner
concluded, the waiter set the check down in the middle of the table. That"s when it happened. My father did
not reach for the check.
In fact, my father did nothing. Conversation continued. Finally it dawned on me. Me! I was supposed to
pick up the check. After all these years, after hundreds of restaurant meals with my parents, after a lifetime
of thinking of my father as the one with the dollars, it had all changed. I reached for the check and pulled out
my American Express card. My view of myself was suddenly changed. With a stroke of the pen, I was
suddenly an adult.
Some people mark off their life in years, others in events. I am one of the latter, and I think of some events
as rites of passage. I did not become a young man at a particular year like 13, but when a kid strolled into the
store where I worked and called me "mister", I turned around to see whom he was calling. He repeated it
several times-"mister, mister"-looking straight at me. The realization hit like a punch: Me! He was talking to me.
I was suddenly a mister. |
| 1. My father did not reach for the check because ____. |
A. it was in the middle of the table
B. I was no longer a child
C. he had no money with him
D. he did not notice the check |
| 2. The underlined part "it dawned on me" in the second paragraph means ____. |
A. I understood
B. it was my turn
C. it surprised me
D. I felt sorry |
| 3. According to the passage, which of the following is true? |
A. None of my family was willing to pay the check.
B. I was not willing to pay the check.
C. We were happy on Cape Cod.
D. We didn"t enjoy our meal. |
| 4. From the passage, we can infer that ____ paid for restaurant meals before. |
A. I
B. my mother
C. my parents
D. my father |
答案
| 1-4 B A C D |
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| 阅读理解。 |
I really love my job because I enjoy working with small children and like the challenges and awards from
the job. I also think my work is important. There was a time when I thought I would never have that sort of
career (职业).
I wasn"t an excellent student because I didn"t do much schoolwork. In my final term I started thinking
what I might do and found I didn"t have much to offer. I just accepted that l wasn"t the type to have a career.
I then found myself a job, looking after two little girls. It wasn"t too bad at first. But the problems began
when I agreed to live in, so that I would be there if my boss had to go out for business in the evening. We
agreed that if I had to work extra hours one week, she"d give me time off the next. But unfortunately, it didn"t
often work out. I was getting extremely tired and fed up, because I had too many late nights and early mornings
with the children.
One Sunday, I was in the park with the children, and met Megan who used to go to school with me. I told
her about my situation. She suggested me that I should do a course and meet a qualification if I wanted to
work with children I didn"t think I would be accepted because I didn"t take many exams in school.
She persuaded me to phone the local college and they were really helpful. My experience counted for a lot
and I got on a part-time course. I had to leave my job with the family and got work helping out at a kindergarten.
Now I"ve got a full-time job there. I shall always be thankful to Megan. I wish I had known earlier that you
could have a career, even if you aren"t top of the class at school. |
| 1. What is the author"s present job? |
A. Working part-time in a college.
B Taking care of children for a family.
C. Helping children with their schoolwork.
D. Looking after children at a kindergarten. |
| 2. When staying with the girls" family, the author _____. |
A. was paid for extra work
B. often worked long hours
C. got much help from her boss
D. took a day off every other week |
| 3. Why did the author leave her first job? |
A. Because she found a full-time job.
B. Because she was fed up with children.
C. Because she decided to attend a part-time course.
D. Because she needed a rest after working extra hours. |
| 4. What has the author learned from her own experience? |
A. Less successful students can still have a career.
B. Qualifications are necessary for a career.
C. Hard work makes an excellent student.
D. One must choose the job she likes. |
| 阅读表达。 |
It was an exciting day as I first entered the classroom for my first lesson in the USA. My heart was beating
very hard when the professor asked everyone to introduce themselves. I was very anxious and did not hear
anyone else"s introduction. I buried myself in what I was going to say.
Classes went on and I noticed my American classmates were very active in class. My unwillingness to speak
during class started to worry me when I realized that I was ignored in class. But I did not give up. One simple
way I broke down this fear of speaking was to arrive 10 to 15 minutes earlier at the classroom. It gave me time
to _____ class discussions.
The person whom I feared most was the professor. So I found every chance to speak with him before and
after class. When I did not have the chance to talk with the professor in class, I wrote an e-mail or made a date
with him outside the class with questions I had. These were very effective ways to help me speak freely in
class! Since the chance of expressing myself in class was limited, I finished all of my reading and written tasks
before class. One time, the professor asked a question about the reading homework. The whole class was silent
and I suddenly raised my hand and answered it perfectly! That moment I set the world on fire.
Once I started participating in class, I realized how valuable it was. Class discussion was the best way to
learn and memorize things. It also made class a living and enjoyable experience. Participating in class is also like
climbing a ladder. I often prepared very simple questions to use at the beginning of class. Once I started to
speak, it was easier to speak up more. Classroom is the place to learn, so no one would consider you as a fool
even if you put forward simple questions in class. |
1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
______________________________________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? I was busy in preparing what I was
going to say.
______________________________________________________________________________________
3. Which word or phrase can be replaced by the underlined word "participating"? (Please answer within 5
words.)
______________________________________________________________________________________
4. Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the passage. (Please answer within 5 words.)
______________________________________________________________________________________
5. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
______________________________________________________________________________________ |
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My husband hasn"t stopped laughing about a funny thing that happened to me. It is funny now but it wasn"t
at that time.
Last Friday, after 1 all family shopping in town, I wanted a rest 2 catching the train, so I bought a piece
of newspaper and some chocolate and went into the 3 coffee shop-that cheap, self-service place with long
tables to 4 . I put my heavy bag down on the floor, put the newspaper and chocolate on the table to keep 5 ,
and went to get a cup of coffee.
When I came back with the coffee, there was someone in 6 . It was one of those wild-looking youngsters, 7 dark glasses and torn 8 , and hair colored bright red at the front. Not so unusual these days. What 9
surprise me was that he had started to eat my chocolate.
Naturally, I was annoyed. 10 , to avoid trouble-and really I was rather 11 about him, I just looked down at
the front page of the newspaper, tasted my coffee, and took a bit of chocolate. The boy looked at me closely.
Then he took 12 piece of my chocolate. I could 13 believe it. Still I didn"t dare to 14 an argument. When he
took a third piece, I felt more 15 than uneasy. I thought, "Well, I shall have the last piece." And I got it.
The boy 16 me a strange look, then stood up. As he left he shouted out, "This 17 is crazy." Everyone
stared. That was embarrassing (令人难堪的) enough, but it was 18 when I finished my coffee and got ready
to leave. My face went red-as red as 19 -when I realized I"d made a mistake. It wasn"t my chocolate that he had
been taking. There was mine, unopened, just 20 my newspaper. |
( )1. A. buying
( )2. A. after
( )3. A. airport
( )4. A. sit on
( )5. A. a place
( )6. A. the next seat
( )7. A. having
( )8. A. clothes
( )9. A. could
( )10. A. Whenever
( )11. A. difficult
( )12. A. a big
( )13. A. seldom
( )14. A. stop
( )15. A. satisfied
( )16. A. took
( )17. A. woman
( )18. A. better
( )19. A. his hair
( )20. A. in | B. making
B. on
B. park
B. seat at
B. an eye
B. my seat
B. wearing
B. cloths
B. would
B. Whatever
B. anxious
B. a second
B. nearly
B. hold
B. happy
B. had
B. man
B. worse
B. my bag
B. on | C. doing
C. before
C. station
C. sit at
C. a space
C. the opposite seat
C. dressing
C. clothing
C. did
C. However
C. uneasy
C. a half
C .almost
C. get
C. glad
C. gave
C. boy
C. all right
C. his clothes
C. under | D. taking
D. while
D. hotel
D. seat by
D. a family
D. that very seat
D. putting on
D. cloth
D. should
D. In order that
D. worried
D. a full
D. hardly
D. make
D. angry
D. brought
D. youngster
D. not matter
D. his glasses
D. by | | 阅读理解。 | Mr. and Mrs. Smith had always spent their summer holidays in New Jersey in the past, staying in a small
inn at the foot of a hill. One year, however, Mr. Smith made a lot of money in his business, so they decided
to go to London and stay at a really good hotel while they went t turning around that famous city.
They flew to London and arrived at their hotel late one evening. They expected that they would have to
go bed hungry, because in that small inn in New Jersey, no meals served after seven. They were therefore
surprised when the man who received them in the hall asked whether they would take dinner there that night.
"Are you still serving dinner?" asked Mr. Smith.
"Yes,certainly, sir," answered the man. "We serve it until half past nine."
"What are the times of meals then?" asked Mr. Smith.
"Well, sir," answered the man. "We sever breakfast from seven to half past eleven in the morning, lunch
from twelve to three in the afternoon, tea from four to five, and dinner from six to half past nine."
"But that hardly leaves any time for us to see the sights of London!" said Mrs. Smith. | | 1. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had _____ in the past. | A. often stayed in a quite good hotel
B. often stayed in a small inn
C. travelled to many places
D. made a lot of money | | 2. They decided to go to a really good hotel because _____. | A. it was said to be a quite good one
B. they were tired of small inns
C. it was near many places of interest
D. they now had enough money | | 3. When they got to the hotel, _____. | A. no meals wre served after seven
B. dinner was still being severed
C. there wre no visitors
D. the waiters were asleep | | 4. Mrs. Smith _____. | A. would have lots of time to see the sights
B. was afraid that they would have no time to tour around London
C. thought the hotel wasn"t so good as they expected
D. did know why the hotel was better than the small inn | | 阅读理解。 | Sometimes you make a wish but when it comes, you decide you don"t want it after all. That"s what
happened with Mickey"s "birthday wish".
Our family tradition is that you make a wish before you blow out the birthday candle. After he blew
out the candle, Mickey told us that his wish was to win a prize in the Pine Ridge match. We quickly told
Mickey that if you tell people your wish, your wish won"t come true. So we lit the candle again, and he
made another wish.
Mickey and Paul were both supposed to start playing at 5:30.
When Mickey reported to the check-in table, the game organizers told him his opponent had phoned
and said he was coming late. The officials told Mickey he could choose not to play-and be declared the
victor of the first round of competition.
But Mickey said he didn"t want to win by not playing. He wanted the experience of playing a great
player. Finally, the beast showed up. He was tall, smiling and relaxed. His serve (发球) was like lightning.
Mickey had some good returns, but he lost quickly, 6-1, 6-0. We congratulated Mickey on having some
good returns and a few great serves. And we noted that he had won the first game.
"I didn"t win that game," Mickey said. "I think he just gave it to me at the beginning because he arrived
late."
"It was a birthday present," I said, smiling.
"No, I refused my birthday present," Mickey said. In his eyes, his "birthday present" had been the
chance to win by his opponent"s forfeit.
Mickey ended up winning the "consolation trophy"-a smaller prize we didn"t know existed until Mickey
earned it by being undefeated in the consolation bracket.
We"ll never know what Mickey"s second wish was-the wish he didn"t share with us.
It seems to me that no matter how many birthdays you celebrate, as long as you enjoy challenges, you
will never be "old". | | 1. What impressed the writer most according to the passage? | A. Mickey was defeated in the game.
B. Mickey played fairly well in the game.
C. Mickey was brave enough to face the challenge.
D. Paul"s perfect serve skill. | | 2. Why did Mickey lose the match? | A. He gave up the chance to be the victor of the first round of competition.
B. He let out his birthday wish.
C. He was too sure of his ability.
D. His opponent played much better than he did. | | 3. What did Mickey feel after the game? | A. He tried his best and that was enough.
B. He had no way to defeat his opponent.
C. He was not satisfied with himself.
D. He hated his opponent and was determined to beat him next time. | | 4. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _____. | A. one can keep young by enjoying challenges
B. you will become old as you celebrate your birthdays
C. you will stay young by continuously celebrating your birthdays
D. you will keep young without celebrating your birthdays | 最新试题
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