阅读理解。 Rem Koolhaas founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture ( OMA) i - 高中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解。     Rem Koolhaas founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture ( OMA) in 1975 together with three other
people. Koolhaas graduated from the Architectural Association in London. He worked as a joumalist before
becoming an architect (建筑师). In 1978 he finished Delirious New York. In 1995,his book S,M,L,XL
presented the work of OMA and established connections between modem society and architecture.
     Koolhaas is a professor at Harvard University, where he carries out the Project on the City, a research
program examining the changing city conditions around the world. Recently,OMA has completed several
famous buildings, among which the Seattle Library was chosen by TIME as The Best Architecture for 2004.
     In April,2005,the Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto was completed and was already voted as one of the
most important concert halls in the world by The New York Times.
     The same year Koolhaas received the Mies van der Robe Award for the Netherlands Embassy,Berlin.
OMA"s design was selected for its very unusual relationship established with its surroundings. In Asia,work
finished on CCTV in 2008-a 575,000 m2 headquarters (总部), studio, and cultural center. CCTV is OMA"s
largest building till now. In October,he was invited to help design the future European Union ( EU).
     Koolhaas is seen as one of the most important thinkers of the last ten years. Nicolai Ouroussoff, critic (评
论家) for Los Angeles Times, proves his importance by:"There is little question that Rem Koolhaas is one of
the most influential architects of the last twenty years. His approach to design has informed the profession that
his fingerprints can be found on the work of almost any young architect today."
     The work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA has been celebrated as well by several international awards.1. Which is the correct order of the events happened to Rem Koolhaas?
a. He was invited to design the EU.
b. He worked as a journalist.
c. He and his partners founded the OMA.
d. He showed the work of OMA in his book.A. a,b,c,d
B. a,c,d,b
C. b,c,d,a
D. b,d,c,a 2. Why was Koolhaas given the Mies van der Robe Award? A. Because he thought of the surroundings in his design.
B. Because he is one of the most influential architects.
C. Because his design was particular.
D. Because his design was modern. 3. The underlined sentence in the passage probably means Koolhaas _____.A. put his fingerprints on young architects" works
B. has a great effect on young architects
C. is the most important thinker
D. has achieved a lot 4. When talking about Koolhaas"s achievements, the author _____.A. is doubtful
B. is surprised
C. is rather moved
D. thinks highly of him

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完形填空。     It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him
saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for all appointment (约会) at 9:30.
     The nurse had him take a   1   in the waiting area,   2   him it would be at least 40 minutes   3 someone
would be able to see him. I saw him   4 his watch and decided, since I was   5   busy-my patient didn"t   6
at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had
another doctor"s appointment.
     The gentleman said no and told me that he   7   to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his   8 . He
told me that she had been   9 for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be  10  if he
was a bit late. He replied that she  11  knew who he was, that she had not been able to  12  him for five years
now. I was  13 , and asked him, "And you  14  go every morning, even though she doesn"t know who you
are?"
     He smiled and said, "She doesn"t know me, but I know who she is." I had to hold back  15  as he left.
     Now I  16  that in marriages, true love is  17  of all that is. The happiest people don"t  18  have the best of
everything; they just  19  the best of everything they have.  20  isn"t about how to live through the storm, but
how to dance in the rain.

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(     )1. A. breath
(     )2. A. persuading
(     )3. A. if
(     )4. A. taking off
(     )5. A. very
(     )6. A. turn up
(     )7. A. needed
(     )8. A. daughter
(     )9. A. late
(     )10. A. lonely
(     )11. A. so far
(     )12. A. recognize
(     )13. A. moved
(     )14. A. only
(     )15. A. curiosity
(     )16. A. realize
(     )17. A. agreement
(     )18. A. necessarily
(     )19. A. learn
(     )20. A. Adventure

B. test
B. promising
B. before
B. fixing
B. also
B. show off
B. forgot
B. wife
B. well
B. worried
B. neither
B. answer
B. disappointed
B. then
B. tears
B. suggest
B. expression
B. completely
B. make
B. Beauty

C. seat
C. understanding
C. since
C. looking at
C. seldom
C. come on
C. agreed
C. mother
C. around
C. doubtful
C. no longer
C. believe
C. surprised
C. thus
C. words
C. hope
C. acceptance
C. naturally
C. favor
C. Trust

D. break
D. telling
D. after
D. winding
D. not
D. go away
D. happened
D. sister
D. there
D. hungry
D. already
D. expect
D. satisfied
D. still
D. judgment
D. prove
D. exhibition
D. frequently
D. try
D. Life

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     During my second year of college, I was looking around for a place to live. One Sunday after church, the
pastor (牧师) told me to stay in his daughter"s room because his daughter was studying abroad for one year.
     To be   1 , I really didn"t want to stay with"the pastor"s family". He told me how much the   2 would
be-a very low figure that   3 one home-cooked meal a day. I thought about the   4 and decided to move in.
     At the end of the term I had planned to find   5 living place, since the daughter was to   6 home. To my
delight, they   7 that I share a room with their son. I seemed to have been adopted into their   8   -their people
became my people. I   9 accepted the offer.
     As I emptied the daughter"s bedroom, I thought it might be   10 to have a little sister to look after. But
when I later met my new sister, I   11 that she was more independent than I first   12 .
     We finally fell in love,  13  , and have looked after each other for many years. There have been times that
life turned out more  14  than either of us could have known. But we have al- ways been able to go   15
largely because we knew that we are deeply  16 .
     It isn"t about marriage-lt"s about   17 . It"s about mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and special
friends who are as   18 as family. It"s about anybody who can say, "I"ll be   19 - you can count on me. I"ll
try to look after you and sometimes I will need you to look after me.
     Is there somebody you can depend on? And are others count ing on you? We travel the path of life best
when there is   20 to look after, and when someone is looking after us.

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(      )1. A. honest
(      )2. A. price
(      )3. A. had
(      )4. A. idea
(      )5. A. same
(      )6. A. return
(      )7. A. ordered
(      )8. A. house
(      )9. A. happily
(      )10. A. bad
(      )11. A. realized
(      )12. A. saw
(      )13. A. separated
(      )14. A. smooth
(      )15. A. backward
(      )16. A. hated
(      )17. A. friendship
(      )18. A. close
(      )19. A. away
(      )20. A. nobody

B. surprised
B. rent
B. included
B. plan
B. different
B. go
B. agreed
B. family
B. sorrowfully
B. exciting
B. thought
B. told
B. parted
B. challenging
B. eastward
B. cared
B. relation
B. good
B. out
B. somebody

C. friendly
C. money
C. made
C. service
C. another
C. get
C. arranged
C. group
C. evidently
C. nice
C. knew
C. imagined
C. left
C. exciting
C. forward
C. felt
C. love
C. far
C. in
C. anybody

D. pleased
D. pay
D. contained
D. offer
D. extra
D. leave
D. suggested
D. friend
D. efficiently
D. strange
D. doubted
D. believed
D. married
D. different
D. westward
D. liked
D. family
D. long
D. around
D. everybody

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                                                                  James"s New Bicycle
     James shook his money box again. Nothing! He carefully   1   the coins that lay on the bed. $24.52 was all
that he had. The bicycle he wanted was at least $90!   2   on earth was he going to get the   3   of the money?
     He knew that his friends all had bicycles. It was   4   to hang around with people when you were the only
one without wheels. He thought about what he could do. There was no   5   asking his parents, for he knew
they had no money to   6 .
     There was only one way to get money, and that was to   7   it. He would have to find a job.   8   who would
hire him and what could he do? He decided to ask Mr. Clay for advice, who usually had   9   on most things.
     "Well, you can start right here," said Mr. Clay. "My windows need cleaning and my car needs washing."
     That was the  10  of James"s odd-job (零工) business. For three months he worked every day after finishing
his homework. He was amazed by the  11  of jobs that people found for him to do. He took dogs and babies for
walks, cleared out cupboards, and mended books. He lost count of the  12  of cars he washed and windows he
cleaned, but the  13  increased and he knew that he would soon have  14  for the bicycle he longed for.
     The day  15  came when James counted his money and found $94.32. He  16  no time and went down to the
shop to pick up the bicycle he wanted. He rode  17  home, looking forward to showing his new bicycle to his
friends. It had been hard  18  for the money, but James knew that he valued his bicycle far more  19  he had
bought it with his own money. He had  20  what he thought was impossible, and that was worth even more than
the bicycle.

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(     )1. A. cleaned
(     )2. A. How
(     )3. A. amount
(     )4. A. brave
(     )5. A. point
(     )6. A. split
(     )7. A. borrow
(     )8. A. Or
(     )9. A. decisions
(     )10. A. beginning
(     )11. A. similarity
(     )12. A. brand
(     )13. A. effort
(     )14. A. all
(     )15. A. finally
(     )16. A.gave
(     )17. A. patiently
(     )18. A. applying
(     )19. A. since
(     )20. A. deserved

B. covered
B. Why
B. part
B. hard
B. reason
B. spend
B. earn
B. So
B. experience
B. introduction
B. quality
B. number
B. pressure
B. enough
B. instantly
B. left
B. proudly
B. asking
B. if
B. benefited

C. counted
C. Who
C. sum
C. smart
C. result
C. spare
C. raise
C. For
C. opinions
C. requirement
C. suitability
C. size
C. money
C. much
C. normally
C. took
C. silently
C. looking
C. than
C. achieved

D. checked
D. What
D. rest
D. unfair
D. right
D. save
D. collect
D. But
D. knowledge
D. opening
D. variety
D. type
D. trouble
D. some
D. regularly
D. wasted
D. tiredly
D. working
D. though
D. learned

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     I met Mrs. Neidl in the ninth grade on a stage-design team for a play and she was one of the directors.
Almost instantly I loved her. She had an unpleasant voice and a direct way of speaking,   1   she was
encouraging and inspiring. For some reason, she was impressed with my work and me.
     Mrs. Neidl would ask me for my   2  . She wanted to know how I thought we should   3   things. At first
I had no idea how to answer because I knew   4   about stage design! But I slowly began to respond to her
   5  . It was cause and effect: She believed I had opinions, so I began to   6   them. She trusted me to complete
things, so I completed them perfectly. She loved how   7 I was, so I began to show up to paint more and
more. She believed in me, so I began to believe in myself.
    Mrs. Neidl"s   8   that year was, "Try it. We can always paint over it   9 !" I began to take  10 . I had been
so afraid of failing but suddenly there was no failing-only things to be  11  upon. I learned to dip my brush into
the paint and  12  create something.
     The shy, quiet freshman achieved success that year. I was  13  in the program as "Student Art Assistant"
because of the time and effort I"d put in. It was that year that I  14  I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing
stage design.
     Being on that stage-design team  15  Mrs. Neidl changed me completely. Not only was I stronger and more
competent than I had thought, but I also  16  a strong interest and a world I hadn"t known existed. She taught
me not to  17  what people think I should do: She taught me to take chances and not be  18 . Mrs. Neidl was
my comforter when I was upset. Her  19  in me has inspired me to do things that I never imagined  20 .

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(     )1. A. and
(     )2. A. opinion
(     )3. A. make
(     )4. A. anything
(     )5. A. questions
(     )6. A. hold
(     )7. A. happy
(     )8. A. message
(     )9. A. again
(     )10. A. steps
(     )11. A. improved
(     )12. A. easily
(     )13. A. introduced
(     )14. A. confirmed
(     )15. A. with
(     )16. A. developed
(     )17. A. accept
(     )18. A. bored
(     )19. A. trust
(     )20. A. accessible

B. yet
B. impression
B. keep
B. something
B. comments
B. follow
B. lively
B. motto
B. more
B. control
B. acted
B. carefully
B. recognized
B. decided
B. below
B. discovered
B. care
B. lazy
B. patience
B. enjoyable

C. so
C. information
C. handle
C. everything
C. explanations
C. evaluate
C. reliable
C. saying
C. instead
C. charge
C. looked
C. confidently
C. identified
C. realized
C. of
C. took
C. judge
C. sad
C. curiosity
C. possible

D. for
D. intention
D. change
D. nothing
D. remarks
D. form
D. punctual
D. suggestion
D. later
D. risks
D. reflected
D. proudly
D. considered
D. acknowledged
D. by
D. fostered
D. wonder
D. afraid
D. interest
D. favorable

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     Another person"s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person
was my stepmother.
     I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father   1   me to her with these
words:"I would like you to meet the fellow who is   2   for being the worst boy in this county and will probably
start throwing rocks at you no   3   than tomorrow morning."
     My stepmother walked over to me,   4   my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she
looked at my father and replied, "You are   5 . This is not the worst boy at all,   6   the smartest one who hasn"t
yet found an outlet (释放的途径) for his enthusiasm."
     That statement began a(n)   7   between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had
built me up in my   8   as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.
     She changed many things. She   9   my father to go to a dental school, from which he graduated with honors.
She moved our family into the county seat, where my father"s career could be more  10  and my brother and I
could be better  11 .
     When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand  12  and told me that she believed that I could become
a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, I  13  it had already improved our lives. I accepted her  14  and began to write
for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of  15  that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and
received the task which became my life"s work later. I wasn"t the  16  beneficiary (受益者). My father became
the  17  man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college
president.
     What power  18  has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one"s purpose and is  19
strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible (不可抗拒的) force which poverty and temporary defeat can
never  20 .
     You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do
with your enthusiasm.

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