| ( )1. A. stairs ( )2. A. red ( )3. A. piling ( )4. A. wish ( )5. A. cut ( )6. A. cold ( )7. A. choice ( )8. A. dreaming ( )9. A. hardworking ( )10. A. remain ( )11. A. However ( )12. A. neighbours ( )13. A. occurred ( )14. A. running ( )15. A. curiously ( )16. A. afraid ( )17. A. down ( )18. A. box ( )19. A. excited ( )20. A. place | B. garden B. black B. packing B. dream B. burned B. wet B. way B. thinking B. clever B. cry B. Besides B. strangers B. traveled B. laughing B. strangely B. angry B. off B. dog B. eager B. school | C. sidewalk C. white C. collecting C. thought C. shot C. broken C. solution C. staring C. happy C. suffer C. Therefore C. visitors C. danced C. talking C. carefully C. sad C. on C. bag C. empty C. home | D. driveway D. blown D. locking D. worry D. made D. messy D. means D. crying D. honest D. move D. Yet D. elders D. flowed D. whispering D. helplessly D. lonely D. up D. hand D. angry D. world | |||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||
| Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents" home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station (加油站) about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register (收款台), I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas. I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend"s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card. I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful. Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I"d left the lights on all day, and the battery (电池) was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership－a shop selling cars－was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom. "Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?" I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said. "Thank you"－two powerful words. They"re easy to say and mean so much. | ||||||||||||||
| 1. The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. to visit a friend B. to see his parents C. to pay or the cash register D. to have more gas for his car | ||||||||||||||
| 2. What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car? | ||||||||||||||
| A. He had it pulled back to the gas station. B. The couple sent him a business card. C. The couple offered to help him. D. He called his friend for help. | ||||||||||||||
| 3. The battery of the author"s car was dead because _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. something went wrong with the lights B. the meeting lasted a whole day C. he forgot to turn off the lights D. he drove too long a distance | ||||||||||||||
| 4. By telling his own experiences, the author tries to show _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. how to write a thank-you letter B. how to deal with car problems C. the kind-heartedness of older people D. the importance of expressing thanks | ||||||||||||||
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| 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 weeks to support his young family. And the bike was also used to get groceries (食品杂货), 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 (人性) as a whole. And it has influenced (影响) 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. The man"s job was bike racing. B. It was their only possession. C. It was a nice Kona 18 speed. D. They used it for work and daily life. | ||||||||||||||
| 2. 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 | ||||||||||||||
| 3. How did people get to know the couple"s problem? | ||||||||||||||
| A. From radio broadcasts. B. From a newspaper. C. From TV news. D. From a stranger. | ||||||||||||||
| 4. 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. | ||||||||||||||
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| My mother seemed to be able to make dolls (洋娃娃) out of anything. She made some dolls for me and my two elder sisters. I 1 playing with them, but still, secretly, I hoped for a store-bought 2 like the one our rich cousin had. Her doll 3 open and close its blue glass eyes and even say "Mamma". I 4 stopped admiring it and hoping to have one. However, my dream 5 came true when I was six. One day my father came back from his business trip with three 6 dolls! They were much smaller than our cousin"s doll and their eyes were just painted ones, but I did not 7 such differences. They were 8 "store-bought" dolls. We each chose one and I named 9 Misako. Soon my sisters and I became 10 . Our"children" kept us 11 all day. We gave them a bath, 12 them, brushed their hair, took them out for a walk and put them to bed. Several months later, they got more like real children-their 13 and bodies became dirtier; their dresses got stained; their hair less smooth. But, by then, 14 interests seemed to have moved into 15 toys. Their dolls were abandoned (被抛弃) and in bad condition. One had 16 one of her arms, and 17 was one-legged."You can 18 them if you want," my sisters said to me. Thus, I had 19 dolls. They were more or less handicapped (残疾) and they often looked at me as if they needed me to 20 them. I enjoyed this feeling of being needed-being the only one in the world who could protect them with a lot of love. Indeed, they made the rest of my childhood days very happy. | ||||||||||||||
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