My father woke me up early one summer morning announcing, "Get up. You"re going with me to cut
grass." The idea 1 my father actually thought I was big enough to help him in his 2 made me feel
proud and 3 . From sunup to sundown my father, my younger brother and I 4 in the large yards in a
rich part of Atlanta, Georgia. By the end of the day I was tired out, but felt good. I had 5 a hard day"s
labour and had earned $6.
One day my father found some leaves I"d 6 and pulled me aside. "Clear away these leaves," he said
7 ,"and don"t make me have to tell you to do it again." The 8 was clear. Today I value the importance
of doing a job 9 the first time. It will never 10 to impress the person you are working for.
After two years my father told me and my brother that he felt we were 11 enough to do lawns (草
坪) on our own. Every Saturday, we 12 out early in the morning with the same desire and drive we had
gained while working 13 our father.
Taking care of lawns was not exciting 14 high-paying, but that didn"t matter. It taught me that any job
is a good job and that 15 I was paid was more than I had before.
A newspaper reporter once asked me how someone 16 possible live on a forty-hour- a -week minimum
(最低的) pay."My father never worked just forty hours a 17 , and neither have I." I replied. "If you"re only
working forty hours, you probably don"t want to do 18 better than you"re doing."
In every job I"ve 19 -from doing lawns to washing dishes-I have learned something that helped me in
my next job. If you 20 hard enough, you can learn from any job you do. |
( )1. A. what
( )2. A. farm
( )3. A. excited
( )4. A. played
( )5.A. put out
( )6. A. collected
( )7. A. finally
( )8. A. news
( )9. A. right
( )10. A. happen
( )11. A. strong
( )12. A. worked
( )13. A. beyond
( )14. A. and
( )15. A. no matter how
( )16. A. must
( )17. A. day
( )18. A. some
( )19. A. found
( )20. A. see | B. that
B. family
B. tired
B. excised
B. put down
B. cleaned
B. usually
B. message
B. quickly
B. seem
B. old
B. set
B. without
B. and yet
B. whatever
B. should
B. year
B. any
B. lost
B. work | C. which
C. business
C. troubled
C. worked
C. put away
C. missed
C. unexpectedly
C. information
C. fast
C. fail
C. clever
C. turned
C. under
C. but
C. no matter what
C. may
C. week
C. little
C. held
C. try | D. why
D. company
D. unpleasant
D. struggled
D. put in
D. noticed
D. firmly
D. word
D. wrong
D. begin
D. skilled
D. figured
D. like
D. or
D. however
D. could
D. month
D. very
D. helped
D. enjoy | | 完形填空。 | Life happens whether we are ready for it or not, and in May 2005, my mom passed away after an extended
illness. I"m not sure we are ever really 1 to lose a parent, especially Mom. I had more things I needed to 2
with her about, and I know I wasn"t ready to let her 3 . Less than one month later, my 4 fell from a ladder,
suffered a head injury, and died a week later.
My husband was not only my life partner but my business 5 , and there I was left to 6 our business
and my life alone. After 7 the initial shock of losing the two people who had the greatest 8 on my life, I
started to pick up the pieces with the 9 and strength provided by family, friends, and business associates.
I quickly 10 that asking for help was the only way I would 11 the sadness and keep my business and
my home intact (完好无损的). I"d often 12 myself looking around in a daze, feeling overwhelmed (难以抵
抗的) because my challenges seemed so 13 . Learning to 14 for the help I needed was a huge
accomplishment. I discovered that people 15 wanted to help, but they didn"t know how. My 16 opened the
door for them to give the support they wanted to share.
Three years have passed since that time. I sold my 17 and my house and chose to relocate back to the
state of my birth, where my family lived. I 18 to ask for help from my 19 of family, friends, and colleagues
because I am driven to a life of simplicity and joy, and I know I won"t get there alone. And that"s just 20 . | ( )1. A. afraid
( )2. A. talk
( )3. A. cry
( )4. A. child
( )5. A. partner
( )6. A. start
( )7. A. passing by
( )8. A. effort
( )9. A. care
( )10. A. learned
( )11. A. forget
( )12. A. control
( )13. A. easy
( )14. A. hope
( )15. A. really
( )16. A. order
( )17. A. garden
( )18. A. pretend
( )19. A. circle
( )20. A. fine | B. willing
B. quarrel
B. go
B. father
B. colleague
B. run
B. coming across
B. effect
B. energy
B. remembered
B. accept
B. find
B. small
B. answer
B. hardly
B. excuse
B. business
B. stop
B. record
B. possible | C. prepared
C. joke
C. pass
C. sister
C. assistant
C. sell
C. getting through
C. pressure
C. help
C. admitted
C. suffer
C. think
C. great
C. pay
C. secretly
C. request
C. belongings
C. continue
C. choice
C. necessary | D. thought
D. do
D. leave
D. husband
D. friend
D. make
D. running over
D. impression
D. advice
D. expected
D. survive
D. forgive
D. exciting
D. ask
D. proudly
D. attempt
D. wealth
D. decide
D. sense
D. important | | 完形填空。 | In the dining room of my grandfather"s house stood a massive grandfather"s clock. Meals in that dining
room were a 1 for four generations to become one. The table was always 2 with food from wonderful
family recipes(食谱) all containing 3 as the main ingredient (成分)And always that grandfather clock stood
like a trusted old family 4 , sharing our happiness
As I was a child, the old clock 5 me. I watched and listened to it during meals. 1 6 how at different
times of the day, that clock would strike with a wonderful 7 .Year after year, the clock struck a part of my
8 , a part of my heart.
Even more wonderful to me was what my grandfather did each day. He 9 wound that clock with a
special and magic key, which 10 the clock ticking and striking. He never let that clock wind down and
11 . When we grandkids got. a little older, he showed us how to 12 the clock .
Several days after my grandfather died. I entered the dining room, with tears flowing 13 .The clock
stood desertedly 14 , seeming smaller and not as magnificent as before. I couldn"t 15 to look at it.
Years later, my grandmother gave me the clock and the key. The old house was quiet. I opened the clock
door with my shaking hand. Then 16 , reverently(虔诚地) , I entered the key and wound the clock. It
sprang to 17 . Tick - tock: tick - tock, life and chimes were 18 into the dining room, into house and into
my 19 . In the movement of the hands of the clock, my grandfather 20 again. | ( )1. A. party
( )2. A. filled
( )3. A. wine
( )4. A, friend
( )5. A. disappointed
( )6. A. questioned
( )7. A. sound
( )8. A. studies
( )19. A. strangely
( )10. A. got
( )11. A. break
( )12. A. wind
( )13. A. unexpected ly
( )14. A. ticking
( )15. A. help
( )16. A. slowly
( )17. A. feet
( )18. A. breathed
( )19. A. study
( )20. A. died | B. time
B. cleared
B. surprise
B. guard
B. encouraged
B. remembered
B. hammer
B. opinions
B. carefully
B. kept
B. fall
B. repair
B. gently
B. moving
B. bear
B. quickly
B. hands
B. blown
B. bedroom
B. lived | C. place
C. spread
C. fish
C. doctor
C. interested
C. doubted
C. voice
C. memories
C. eagerly
C. prevented
C. stop
C. read
C. difficultly
C. noisy
C. hope
C. unwillingly
C. sense
C. taken
C. heart
C. smiled | D. situation
D. left:
D. love
D. lawyer
D. comforted
D. wondered
D. ring
D. brains
D. usually
D. found
D. move
D. clean
D. freely
D. quiet
D. insist
D. naturally
D. life
D. sent
D. mind
D. sang | | 完形填空。 | My father was raised in a fatherless home at a time when the family of five struggled to survive, which
caused my father to be extremely tightfisted (吝啬) with money.
When we children became 1 that other children got pocket money from their parents, we made a(n)
2 to ask our father for some. Immediately his face turned stone-cold, and he said, "If you"re old enough
to ask, you"re old enough to 3 ." And we had to seek odd jobs about the neighborhood.
He didn"t 4 his attitude as we grew into adulthood. There was a time when 5 of us had a car, so
we had to ride a 6 whenever we came home. Though the bus stopped about two miles from home. Dad
never met us, 7 in bad weather. If someone 8 (and my brothers did a lot), he"d say in his 9
father-voice, "That"s what your legs are 10 !"
One spring evening I was on the bus home from 11 . Tests and long hours in labs had 12 me
exhausted. As other students were 13 at their stops, I looked silently out of the window. Finally, the bus
came to a
14 at my destination, and I 15 , carrying my suitcase to begin the long journey home.
The row of privet hedge (树篱) came into 16 , which lined the driveway that climbed the hill to our
house. I stopped to put a book in the suitcase. When I stood up, I saw something gray 17 along the top
of the hedge toward the house.
It was the top of my father"s head, I 18 . Then, each time I came home, be would stand behind the
hedge, watching, 19 he knew I had arrived safely. I held back my tears. He did care, 20 .
Upon reaching home, I found my father sitting innocently in his chair. "So! It"s you!" he said, his face
lengthening into surprise. | ( )1. A. excited
( )2. A. suggestion
( )3. A. spend
( )4. A. change
( )5. A. neither
( )6. A. bicycle
( )7. A. especially
( )8. A. complained
( )9. A. strangest
( )10. A. for
( )11. A. work
( )12. A. made
( )13. A. treated
( )14. A. corner
( )15. A. jumped on
( )16. A. mind
( )17. A. moving
( )18. A. understood
( )19. A. until
( )20. A. in advance | B. certain
B. attempt
B. survive
B. strengthen
B. each
B. bus
B. even
B. refused
B. scariest
B. in
B. home
B. led
B. met
B. house
B. went off
B. leaf
B. flying
B. realized
B. after
B. above all | C. surprised
C. trouble
C. earn
C. take
C. none
C. train
C. only
C. cried
C. softest
C. by
C. college
C. found
C. received
C. street
C. got off
C. flower
C. falling
C. imagined
C. since
C. after all | D. aware
D. plan
D. raise
D. show
D. all
D. car
D. once
D. intended
D. lowest
D. on
D. town
D. proved
D. greeted
D. stop
D. climbed on
D. view
D. shining
D. thought
D. though
D. in total | | 阅读理解。 | There are a lot of things that happen to me in China but would certainly never happen in the US. One of
those things is being called"strong".
The first time was last December. I was walking across the high school campus in Guangzhou where I
taught when a student in a gray scarf waved hello. I smiled and waved back, but then she stopped and called
my name."You"re so strong!" She smiled and pointed at what appeared to be my right arm.
I looked down at my arms. Let"s get one thing clear: I"m a very skinny guy. Once, while rehearsing for a
high school talent show, I was told by the teacher in charge that I couldn"t participate in the men"s shirtless
dance routine because my visible rib cage (胸腔) would frighten the audience.
"I"m so what?""You"re so strong!" she repeated."Um, thanks!" I didn"t know what else to say, so we both
waved goodbye.
The next morning I stepped into my oral English classroom only to be greeted instantly by a unanimous
(异口同声的) "Waaa!" of shock and admiration."What?" I asked."You"re so strong!" shouted a boy from the
back of the class.
"Okay, will someone tell me what that means?" I was curious as to the real reason for such praise. So I
turned to the monitor, gesturing for him to speak.
"We just mean, you look very strong today," he offered earnestly.
"What?! You mean like this?" I curled (卷起) my arm like a body-builder.
"No! But it"s so cold, and you"re only wearing a short-sleeved shirt."
Oh, I got it. My"strength" had less to do with my muscle and more to do with my apparent ignorance of
the cold weather. | | 1. From the passage we can learn that the author is _______. | A. an American teacher
B. an American student
C. a Chinese teacher
D. a Chinese student | | 2. The author used the example of being refused to join in the dance routine to show that ______. | A. many people worry about his bad health
B. actually he isn"t physically strong at all
C. he is as strong as a body builder
D. being called "strong" often happens to him | | 3. The underlined word "she" in the 4th paragraph refers to ______. | A. a stranger he met on the way to work
B. the teacher in charge of the dance routine
C. the girl who joined in the rehearsing
D. the girl he met on the campus | | 4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? | A. Am I Strong or Do I Need a Sweater
B. The Chinese Culture or the Western Culture
C. How I Can Get Stronger in Winter
D. How We Can Tell Two Different Cultures Apart | 最新试题
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