完形填空。 About one year ago, a couple with three children moved into the apartm

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完形填空。     About one year ago, a couple with three children moved into the apartment next door to me. I never heard
any noise from the children. Instead, I often heard the parents yelling   1  at the kids, not in a nice tone, but in a   2 one.
     We often   3 in the hallway. I always greeted them, but the only   4 I ever got was a"hello" from the
eight-year-old girl. I usually   5 to see my doctor and one day when I returned they were just   6   their
apartment and the little girl was   7 the outside door open for the others. I   8 in the car doing   9 things
because I wasn"t eager to be snubbed (冷落) again. Finally, I got out of my car and walked towards the door.
The parents were telling their daughter to hurry and get into the car,  10  the little girl was still holding the door,
  11  me! I hurried although I was still in pain from my injury. I forgot to tell her how 12   I was for her
kindness. I wrote a note saying how much her act of kindness had  13  an old man"s heart.
     The next day there was a   14   on my door and it was the little girl and her father. She was quite   15 of
her behavior and thanked me. Then I noticed her mother standing there too. Her parents   16   me. From then
on when we met in the hallway we always greeted each other,in a friendly  17 .
     Last night there was a heavy snow. I looked out at my car and  18  how I was going to keep my doctor"s
19 because I could only walk for a short time. This morning when I opened the front door, all the snow was
removed.
     Isn"t it   20 that the small kind act of an 8-year-old girl can change so many things for the better? It is said
that good things come from small acts.

答案

举一反三

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(     )1. A. quietly
(     )2. A. frightening
(     )3. A. quarreled
(     )4. A. present
(     )5. A. went out
(     )6. A. decorating
(     )7. A. breaking
(     )8. A. kept
(     )9. A. favorite
(     )10. A. but
(     )11. A. hunting for
(     )12. A. useful
(     )13. A. strengthened
(     )14. A. note
(     )15. A. proud
(     )16. A. questioned
(     )17. A. manner
(     )18. A. found
(     )19. A. promise
(     )30. A. amazing

B. strangely
B. exciting
B. met
B. result
B. set out
B. cleaning
B. operating
B. remained
B. helpful
B. and
B. asking for
B. influential
B. broken
B. knock
B. aware
B. recognized
B. appearance
B. ignored
B. appointment
B. confusing

C. quickly
C. sincere
C. chatted
C. reply
C. took out
C. returning
C. holding
C. insisted
C. unnecessary
C. so
C. waiting for
C. anxious
C. touched
C. invitation
C. afraid
C. praised
C. sound
C. remembered
C. suggestion
C. scaring

D. angrily
D. kind
D. argued
D. return
D. gave out
D. leaving
D. unlocking
D. continued
D. curious
D. then
D. calling for
D. grateful
D. saved
D. picture
D. sure
D. thanked
D. announcement
D. wondered
D. attention
D. challenging

1-5: DABCA 6-10: DCBCA 11-15: CDCBA 16-20: DADBA

阅读理解。

     "Mum, what does it mean when someone tells you that they have a skeleton (骨骼) in the closet (衣橱)?"
Jessica asked. "A skeleton in the closet?" her mother paused thoughtfully. "Well, it"s something that you would
rather not have anyone else know about. For example, if in the past, someone in Dad"s family had been arrested
for stealing a horse, it would be a skeleton in his family"s closet. He really wouldn"t want any neighbor to know
about it."
     "Why pick on my family?" Jessica"s father said with anger. "Your family history isn"t so good, you know.
Wasn"t your great-great-grandfather a prisoner who was transported to Australia for his crimes?" "Yes, but
people these days say that you are not a real Australian unless your ancestors arrived as prisoners." "Gosh, sorry
I asked. I think I understand now," Jessica cut iin before things grew worse.
     After dinner, the house was very quiet. Jessica"s parents were still quite angry with each other. Her mother
was ironing clothes and every now and then she glared at her husband, who hid behind his newspaper pretending
to read. When she finished, she gathered the freshly pressed clothes in her arms and walked to Jessica"s closet.
Just as she opened the door and reached in to hang a skirt, a bony arm stuck out from the dark depths and a
bundle of white bones fell to the floor. Jessica"s mother sank in a faint (晕倒), waking only when Jessica put a
cold, wet cloth on her forehead. She looked up to see the worried faces of her husband and daughter.
     "What happened? Where am I?" she asked. "You just destroyed the school"s skeleton, Mum," explained
Jessica. "I brought it home to help me with my health project. I meant to tell you, but it seemed that as soon as
I mentioned skeletons and closets, it caused a problem between you and Dad." Jessica looked in amazement as
her parents began to laugh madly. "They"re both crazy," she thought.

1. According to Jessica"s mother, "a skeleton in the close" means _____.

A. a family honor
B. a family secret
C. a family story
D. a family treasure

2. What can we learn about some Australians" ancestors form Paragraph 2?

A. They were brought to Australia as prisoners.
B. They were the earliest people living in Australia.
C. They were involved in some crimes in Australia.
D. They were not regarded as criminals in their days.

3. Why did Jessica bring a skeleton home?

A. She was curious about it.
B. She planned to keep it for fun.
C. She needed it for her school task.
D. She intended to scare her parents.

4. Jessica"s parents laughed madly at the end of the story probably because _____.

A. they were crazy
B. they were over excited
C. they realized their misunderstanding
D. they both thought they had won the quarrel

完形填空。

     Gabriel Oak was a sensible man of good character who had been brought up by his father as a shepherd
(牧羊人). He became a   1 like his father after growing up and was then managing to save enough money to
   2   his own farm on Norcombe Hill in Dorset. He was twenty-eight, a tall, handsome  3   man, who didn"t
seem to think his appearance was very important. One   4 morning he was in one of his fields on the side of
Norcombe Hill.
       5 over his gate, Gabriel could see a yellow cart loaded with furniture and   6 , coming up the road. Right
on top of the pile sat a handsome   7 . As Gabriel was watching, the cart stopped at the top of the   8  , and the
driver climbed   9   to go back and   10 something that had fallen off.
     The woman sat  11  in the sunshine for a few minutes. Then she picked up a parcel(包袱)  12  next to her,
and she looked  13  to see if the driver was coming back. There was no sign of him. She unwrapped(解开)the
parcel and took out the  14 it contained. The sun shone on her   15 face and hair.   16 it was December, she
looked almost summery, sitting there in her bright red jacket with the  17  green plants around her. She looked
at  18   in the mirror and smiled, thinking that only the birds could see her.  19  behind the gate Gabriel Oak was
  20 too.

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(     )1. A. worker
(     )2. A. produce
(     )3. A. well-built
(     )4. A. summer
(     )5. A. Looking
(     )6. A. grass
(     )7. A. lady
(     )8. A. farm
(     )9. A. away
(     )10. A. fetch
(     )11. A. angrily
(     )12. A. laid
(     )13. A. forward
(     )14. A. mirror
(     )15. A. ugly
(     )16. A. Yet
(     )17. A. fresh
(     )18. A. driver
(     )19. A. And
(     )20. A. laughing

B. businessman
B. make
B. well-educated
B. winter
B. Watching
B. leaves
B. man
B. hill
B. up
B. take
B. hopelessly
B. laying
B. up
B. purse
B. friendly
B. Although
B. smelly
B. man
B. However
B. working

C. farmer
C. keep
C. well-dressed
C. spring
C. Seeing
C. plants
C. gentleman
C. fields
C. down
C. bring
C. quietly
C. lain
C. toward
C. letter
C. lovely
C. But
C. salty
C. herself
C. Although
C. watching

D. driver
D. buy
D. well-arranged
D. autumn
D. Noticing
D. flowers
D. woman
D. road
D. around
D. pick
D. impatiently
D. lying
D. round
D. jacket
D. lonely
D. And
D. sweet
D. him
D. But
D. thinking

完形填空。

     Our school has a weekly "Parents View" program. Around four years ago, I   1 a call from the headmaster
to come to the"Parents View" talk the next morning. After the call I became very nervous and anxious. Many
  2 thoughts were coming. One of them was to call the headmaster with   3 and tell him that I could not come.
  4 , I gathered some courage. I thought,   5 I missed this opportunity, surely the school would never   6 me
again to any of their programs. So, I   7   to go and speak.
     When my turn came and I started speaking, my heartbeat increased and my mouth went   8 . I wasn"t even
able to read the written speech   9 . I was not   10 of where I was standing and what I was reading.
     After my speech, I met with the headmaster and   11   what happened to me. He told me that this happened
to everyone. Even great   12 faced the same things when they started. He   13 that I come again.
     I prepared a topic of talk for the next occasion. This time I was somehow comfortable but not very confident. Afterwards, I met with the headmaster again and told him about the  14   I felt I had made. He was   15 enough
to invite me again, but this time to give a  16  to the teachers.
     I prepared and practiced day and night. With the blessing of God, this went very well and was   17 by the
headmaster as well as the teachers because they knew where I started from. They encouraged and praised my
18  .
     After delivering this presentation successfully, I became  19   . I learned that everything is possible if we
have   20 to take the first step.

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(     )1. A. received
(     )2. A. serious
(     )3. A. fear
(     )4. A. Fortunately
(     )5. A. though
(     )6. A. invite
(     )7. A. refused
(     )8. A. hot
(     )9. A. properly
(     )10. A. sick
(     )11. A. argued
(     )12. A. speakers
(     )13. A. commanded
(     )14. A. story
(     )15. A. kind
(     )16. A. message
(     )17. A. scolded
(     )18. A. faith
(     )19. A. popular
(     )20. A. aims

B. made
B. negative
B. excitement
B. Finally
B. until
B. take
B. offered
B. dry
B. carefully
B. afraid
B. proved
B. teachers
B. suggested
B. mistake
B. honest
B. suggestion
B. appreciated
B. choice
B. special
B. luck

C. accepted
C. deep
C. regret
C. Actually
C. because
C. bring
C. decided
C. open
C. cheerfully
C. fond
C. explained
C. parents
C. requested
C. trouble
C. stubborn
C. presentation
C. instructed
C. results
C. confident
C. chances

D. gave
D. sudden
D. delight
D. Obviously
D. if
D. send
D. pretended
D. full
D. actively
D. aware
D. concluded
D. students
D. demanded
D. progress
D. eager
D. comment
D. corrected
D. efforts
D. famous
D. courage

阅读理解。

     Almost 20 years ago, a few days before Christmas, Roni Austin"s 6-year-old daughter, Lauren, went to a
Jack in the Box in Carlsbad and ate a hamburger. She got sick, was rushed to a hospital and never came home.
Lauren was the first to die in a multi-state E. coli outbreak that killed three other children and sickened 700
people.
     Like many people, Austin had never heard of E. coli before. At first bewildered, and then angry, Austin
soon became the face of food-safety reform in California and beyond. She co-founded a nonprofit group, Safe
Tables Our Priority (STOP), and pushed successfully for legislation (立法) requiring E. coli to be a reportable
illness, so outbreaks could be followed and stopped sooner.
     Nervous initially to be in the spotlight, she learned not to fear politicians for the beef and fast-food industries. She was in the Oval Office when President Clinton signed the most sweeping changes to federal food-inspection law in the 1990s. She was in Sacramento when a state measure named after her daughter passed, indicating
minimum cooking temperatures in restaurants.
     Austin, 64, is not sure she has much choice. Every time she thinks she"s handed off the baton (指挥棒) to
others, though, something brings her back. A phone call from a parent who has lost a child to a food-borne
illness. A news story about another outbreak. An event at La Costa Heights Elementary School, where
redheaded Lauren was in first grade and where a memorial garden was planted in her honor.
     Fixing food safety meant putting her career as a fashion designer on hold and flying 10 times to Washington DC to testify. It meant going to Sacramento to speak a half-dozen times. She"s not fond of the legislative
process. Asked what she"s proudest of in making her way through all that, she said,"That I didn"t give up."

1. What does the underlined word "E. coli" in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A. A fast-food restaurant.
B. A special person.
C. A reportable illness.
D. A state of America.

2. The third paragraph is mainly about ______.

A. the great changes in food inspection
B. Austin"s efforts to achieve food safety
C. the standards and practices of safe food
D. the federal plan to monitor food production

3. It can be inferred from Paragraph 4 that _______.

A. food safety problems are very serious
B. Roni Austin was forced to do the job
C. more people are concerned about food safety
D. Roni Austin donated to a memorial garden

4. Which of the following is true of Roni Austin?

A. She regretted for what she had done.
B. She used to be a fashion teacher.
C. She founded the organization STOP on her own.
D. She is the representative of food-safety reform.

5. What can be the best title for the text?

A. Mother"s Way of Making Food Safe.
B. Painful Reminders, Constant Efforts.
C. Mother"s Pride in Public Services.
D. Handling Sorry, Celebrating Life.

完形填空。

     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.

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