The first event of my life to be printed into my memory occurred when I was three. My mother stands, working in the 1 and then glances at me with a 2 smile. Two feet down the table, I knock on a chair with a bowl and a spoon, 3 my own invisible (无形的) powder. We wear 4 dresses, mine the leftover 5 from hers, sky blue-mommy"s favorite color. I am her shadow. However, by 14 I could not 6 my mother. All that I heard every day was no.I wanted to dye my hair and she said no. I wanted to 7 late with my friends and she said no. I didn"t understand why she said no. She was trying to 8 me from aches and pains and mistakes 9 in her teens. Several years later, I finally understood her, but it was too late. She became ill. I cried and 10 ,"Don"t take her, God, please! She is my mother, my mommy , the woman who gave me life. All my years, 11 the bad times and the good, she has been there, 12 to me forever by an invisible umbilical cord (脐带) that lasts longer after birth." But this cord, this love could do nothing to stop the cancer from 13 . A few years later 14 I myself lay in the hospital bed, my newly born daughter was 15 in my arms. cried and smiled and prayed. Please help me to 16 her into a wonderful girl. And looking down 17 her eyes, I could see the message they held, "Your 18 would be proud." I stand in the kitchen now, and these thoughts flashed through my mind. I glance at my young daughter. A 19 feeling rushes through my soul as I take in the familiar 20 . I am my mother"s shadow. |
( ) 1. A. kitchen ( ) 2. A. lovely ( ) 3. A. preparing ( ) 4. A. same ( ) 5. A. material ( ) 6. A. stand ( ) 7. A. keep up ( ) 8. A. save ( ) 9. A. watched ( )10. A. screamed ( )11. A. through ( )12. A. connected ( )13. A. spreading ( )14. A. when ( )15. A. placed ( )16. A. change ( )17. A. for ( )18. A. daughter ( )19. A. warm ( )20. A. saying | B. dining room B. lively B. mixed B. similar B. clothes B. agree B. keep on B. warn B. liked B. said B. in B. shared B. growing B. before B. given B. support B. through B. mother B. strange B. scene | C. sitting room C. loving C. mixing C. different C. dress C. know C. stay up C. help C. heard C. shouted C. on C. concerned C. escaping C. since C. thrown C. bring C. up C. children C. painful C. drawing | D. garden D. horrible D. prepared D. matching D. clothing D. realize D. stay out D. stop D. experienced D. prayed D. within D. joined D. moving D. then D. taken D. raise D. into D. friends D. exciting D. paint | 阅读下面短文,并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。 | Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart(购物手推车).They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know-or even think to ask-who it was that invented them. Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging (吃力地携带) groceries around in baskets they had to carry. One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business. On June 4,1937,Coldman"s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn"t wait to see them using his invention. But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the cart a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try. After a while, Coldman decided to ask customers why they weren"t using his carts." Don"t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?"one shopper replied. But Coldman wasn"t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony (假冒的) customers. As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come-those Who came bought more. With larger, easier-to- handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before. Today"s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman"s original model. Perhaps that"s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937-before the coming of the shopping cart. | 1. The underlined words"chrome-plated contraptions" in Paragraph 1 refer to ____, ( no more than 3 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What was the purpose of Goldman"s invention? ( no more than 10 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? ( no more than 10 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? ( no more than 10 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 5.What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. ( no more than 20 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ | 完形填空。 | The yearly Marathon in my town usually happened during a heat wave. My job was to follow behind the runners in an ambulance 1 any of them needed medical attention. "We" re supposed to stay behind the 2 runner, so take it slowly," I said to the driver, Doug, as the race started. The front-runners started to 3 and then my eyes were 4 to the woman in blue silk running shorts and a loose white T-shirt. We knew we were already watching our"last runner". Her 5 were so crippled (残疾的) that it seemed almost impossible for her to be able to walk, 6 alone run a marathon. Doug and I 7 in silence as she slowly moved forward. 8 , she was the only runner left in sight. Tears streamed down my face when I watched with respect 9 she pushed forward with great 10 through the last miles. When the finish line came into sight, rubbish lay everywhere and the 11 crowds had long gone home. 12 ,standing straight and ever so proud 13 a lone man. He was 14 one end of a ribbon (缎带) of crepe paper (彩色皱纹纸) 15 to a post. She slowly crossed through, leaving both ends of the paper fluttering behind her. I do not know this woman"s name, but that day she became part of my 16 -a part I often depend on. For her, it wasn"t about 17 the other runners or winning a prize, but about 18 what she had set out to do, no matter 19 .When I think things are too difficult or i get those" I-just-can"t-do-it", I think of the last runner. Then I realize how 20 the task before me really is. | ( )1. A. so that ( )2. A. first ( )3. A.run ( )4. A. drawn ( )5. A.hands ( )6. A.let ( )7. A. watched ( )8. A. Quickly ( )9. A. since ( )10. A. pain ( )11. A. tired ( )12. A. Besides ( )13. A. stood ( )14. A. helping ( )15. A. kept ( )16. A.dream ( )17. A.following ( )18. A.finishing ( )19. A.where ( )20. A.difficult | B. in case B. best B. separate B. thrown B. legs B. leave B. drove B. Unluckily B. before B. determination B. waiting B. Therefore B. waited B. catching B. tied B. feeling B. hoping B. realizing B. how B. interesting | C. even though C. only C. disappear C. fixed C. arms C. speak C. observed C. Naturally C. as C. strength C. cheering C. Yet C. came C. holding C. connected C. idea C. encouraging C. starting C. when C. easy | D. only if D. last D. appear D. caught D. body D. take D. stared D. Finally D. until D. desire D. impatient D. Fortunately D. had D. tying D. led D. life D. beating D. winning D. what D. hopeful | 信息匹配。 阅读应用文和相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。 | Two men on a touring holiday in Britain were injured by an explosion (爆炸) in their motor truck in the center of Norwich yesterday. 1 Several people rushed to give help and helped to put out the fire inside the truck. A light American bus rushed to save drivers before Norwich firemen arrived. The men-American Mr Gary House, aged 25,of Ohio, who was Driving,and his passenger Mr Charles Lynn,23,of Vancouver were taken to Norfolk and Norwich Hospital with minor(轻微的)burns. 2 "I heard this explosion. It was pretty loud. I thought it could have been a bomb." said Mr Leslie Webster, manager of the market, who was working in his office in Red Lion Street."I looked out of the window and saw this man jump from the truck and roll on the ground. Then another man came out of the truck. 3 "I came downstairs to get a fire extinguisher (灭火器),but by the time I got outside, someone who came from the bank. was in the truck with an extinguisher." 4 One was taken into the market office to await treatment. "The second man insisted on going back into the truck to see if everything was all right, and five minutes later he came out with a drawer that was burning," he added. The explosion was also heard inside the bank. Office workers provided afire extinguisher and telephoned for medical help. Although a window was blown out, damage inside the truck was mainly superficial (表面的). The two men spent the last six months touring the Continent and had traveled to Norwich from Shettertor. 5 | A. They were allowed to leave after treatment. B. Mr Webster, who lives at 71,Trinity Street, Norwich, said both the two injured were shocked. C. At the time of the accident their wives were shopping in the city. D. Shoppers and businessman in Red Lion Street were shocked by a loud bang (突然巨响), and seconds later the two men jumped over from the truck, which had stopped outside Barelays bank. E. Their wives were traveling with them but they remained unburned. F. He seemed to be in a worse state, parts of his trousers were hanging below his knees. | 阅读理解。 | It was early afternoon and the harbor (海港) was quiet. Mr Bates, the keeper of the lighthouse (灯塔), went to the village. He left his daughters Rebecca and Abigail to look after the lighthouse. As Rebecca was about to prepare some water for the evening meal, she noticed a strange ship coming to the harbor. It stopped and lowered two little boats, which turned and started toward land: At that time people feared every ship they did not know, for the year was 1814 and America and Britain were at war. Rebecca and Abigail held their breath to see what these two boats would do. Closer and closer they came, until finally they entered the harbor. They were full of British soldiers! No help was to be seen. What could they do? How could they warn the town soldiers? They had no boat, and there would be no time to run to the village. Rebecca thought fast and then she had an idea. Calling to Abigail to follow, she ran to the room where the guns were stored. But instead of reaching for the guns, she took hold of the fife (军笛 ) and the drum(战鼓 ). Then the two young women ran along the wooded path to the shore (海岸). Hiding behind tall trees, they started to play the fife and the drum. Abigail beat out Roll Call. Rebecca joined in with Yankee Doodle. Soon Rebecca saw the boats had stopped! The girls went on playing. A moment later, a flag was raised on the warship-the signal for the boats to return. Once everyone was on board, the enemy ship set sail for the open sea. The British were fooled, and the" American Army of Two" won the day. | 1. Why did Rebecca take the fife and the drum instead of the guns? | A. She would leave the guns for the soldiers. B. She would welcome the British soldiers. C. She loved to play the fife and the drum. D. She wanted to frighten the British soldiers away. | 2. The underlined part " American Army of Two" in the last paragraph probably refers to____. | A. Rebecca and Abigail B. the two British boats C. the fife and the drum D. the two town soldiers | 3. The British ship left the harbor because____. | A. the British found the weather was too bad B. a lot of American ships came to stop the British C. the British thought the American soldiers were coming D. some of the British soldiers were killed by the American | 4. Which of the following words could NOT be used to describe Rebecca and Abigail"s action?____ | A. Brave. B. Honest. C. Clever. D. Great. |
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