Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a deep breath and began to 1 . Now she was Portia,
a strong-willed 2 in Shakespeare"s The Merchant of Venice. The theater was filled with people.
She was speaking with a power she had never before experienced, the words flowing 3 form her
4 , Roberta had never acted in her life before the audition (选拔试演). She 5 being in
front of other people. She was very 6 at school. She had never thought she was good enough at
anything to 7 much attention. She stayed mostly to herself, making 8 friends. She had
excellent grades, 9 she always thought that something was missing.
Two weeks before the audition, Robertsa"s mother had heard about it and 10 her to join in.
"I can"t think of anyone else better suited to 11 the part. Remember all the plays you used to act
our for us?”
Her mother wouldn"t let the 12 drop. “You"re just a little scared (害怕). Everyone gets scared.
You know you 13 do it. The trick is to look past the 14 to find the love of what you"re doing.”
So Roberta had made an appointment (预约) with the head of the Drama Club. She had read the play
and found herself excited by the 15 of speaking such rich words. In secret she practiced Portia"s
part, 16 the lines by repeating them over and over. It wasn"t hard; she 17 every minute of it.
Every time she spoke the words, she had a new 18 of the lines, as if Shakespeare had written Portia
on many levels.
On the day of the audition, she 19 two of Portia"s famous speeches for the auditors. When she
had finished, the head of the Drama Club announced the 20 was hers. |
( )1. A. sing
( )2. A. member
( )3. A. weakly
( )4. A. At first
( )5. A. hated
( )6. A. honest
( )7. A. avoid
( )8. A. few
( )9. A. or
( )10. A. forced
( )11. A. accept
( )12. A. role
( )13. A. can
( )14. A. anger
( )15. A. purpose
( )16. A. memorizing
( )17. A. disliked
( )18. A. consideration
( )19. A. practiced
( )20. A. part | B. dance
B. actress
B. rapidly
B. In fact
B. enjoyed
B. shy
B. focus
B. a few
B. so
B. requested
B. play
B. matter
B. must
B. pain
B. way
B. organizing
B. loved
B. description
B. planned
B. play | C. speak
C. player
C. smoothly
C. After all
C. appreciated
C. polite
C. pay
C. several
C. for
C. encouraged
C. offer
C. interest
C. may
C. sadness
C. idea
C. checking
C. expected
C. selection
C. performed
C. speech | D. report
D. character
D. slowly
D. In all
D. regretted
D. patient
D. attract
D. many
D. but
D. reminded
D. learn
D. grade
D. should
D. fear
D. importance
D. improving
D. bore
D. understanding
D. delivered
D. position | | 完形填空。 | It was the district sports meet. My foot still hadn"t healed (痊愈) from a(n) 1 injury. I had 2 whether
or not I should attend the meet. But there I was, 3 for the 3,000-meter run.
" Ready … set …" The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed 4 me. I felt 5 as I fell
farther and farther behind.
" Hooray!" shouted the crowd. It was the loudest 6 I had ever heard at a meet. The first-place runner
was two laps (圈) ahead of me when she crossed the finish line.
" Maybe I should 7 ," I thought as I moved on. 8 , I decided to keep going. During the last two laps, I
ran 9 and decided not to 10 in track next year. It wouldn"t be worth it, 11 my foot did heal.
When I finished, I heard a cheer- 12 than the one I"d heard earlier. I turned around and 13 , the boys were
preparing for their race." They must be cheering for the boys." I was leaving 14 several girls came up to me.
" Wow, you"ve got courage!" one of them told me.
" Courage? I just 15 a race!" I thought. " I would have given up on the first lap," said another girl." We
were cheering for you. Did you hear us?"
Suddenly I regained 16 . I decided to 17 track next year. I realized strength and courage aren"t always 18
in medals and victories, but in the 19 we overcome (战胜). The strongest people are not always the people
who win, 20 the people who don"t give up when they lose. | ( )1. A. slighter
( )2. A. expected
( )3. A. late
( )4. A. from behind
( )5. A. ashamed
( )6. A. cheer
( )7. A. slow down
( )8. A. Therefore
( )9. A. with delight
( )10. A. play
( )11. A. even if
( )12. A. weaker
( )13. A. well enough
( )14. A. while
( )15. A. finished
( )16. A. cheer
( )17. A. hold on
( )18. A. measured
( )19. A. sadness
( )20. A. or | B. worse
B. supposed
B. eager
B. ahead of
B. astonished
B. shout
B. drop out
B. Otherwise
B. with fear
B. arrive
B. only if
B. longer
B. sure enough
B. when
B. won
B. hope
B. turn to
B. praised
B. struggles
B. nor | C. earlier
C. imagined
C. ready
C. next to
C. excited
C. cry
C. go on
C. Besides
C. in pain
C. race
C. unless
C. lower
C. surprisingly enough
C. as
C. passed
C. interest
C. begin with
C. tested
C. diseases
C. and | D. heavier
D. doubted
D. thirsty
D. close to
D. frightened
D. noise
D. speed up
D. However
D. in advance
D. attend
D. until
D. louder
D. strangely enough
D. since
D. lost
D. experience
D. stick with
D. increased
D. tiredness
D. but | | 完形填空。 | Twice-crowned beauty queen Michele Reis is 18 years old. But she is still mummy"s little girl. Mrs. Reis
described her 1 feeling the night her daughter 2 the Miss Hong Kong Beauty Pageant, "I felt 3 I suffered
the loss of something important when they crowned her, not because I was not happy for her, 4 because I
knew my daughter no longer belonged to me alone and I would have to share her 5 everyone else."
But Mom should have seen it coming. With her Portuguese-Chinese heritage（血统）,Michele was quite
6 as a youngster. She 7 modeling part time as a school girl. There was something 8 about her even as
a child. People in the street always turned around to 9 her.
10 her recent fame, the beauty queen said, "Sometimes I have the feeling that I am no longer myself now. My schedule is 11 . I"m not getting enough 12 , and I am always 13 from one place to another. There are
times when I am 14 tired that I just want to sit and sleep."
Being a celebrity has another 15 . "People no longer regard me as an 16 person. It"s becoming more 17
for me to make friends, and I"ve learned to 18 old friends because they 19 treat me as Michele 20 Miss
Hong Kong." | ( )1. A. mixed
( )2. A. met
( )3. A. even though
( )4. A. and
( )5. A. to
( )6. A. good-looking
( )7. A. took down
( )8. A. bad
( )9. A. look at
( )10. A. Hating
( )11. A. empty
( )12. A. sleep
( )13. A. hurrying
( )14. A. rather
( )15. A. glory
( )16. A. honest
( )17. A. illegal
( )18. A. treasure
( )19. A. never
( )20. A. other than | B. pleased
B. got
B. even if
B. but
B. like
B. ugly
B. took up
B. wrong
B. pick out
B. Inspiring
B. full
B. money
B. walking
B. so
B. advantage
B. common
B. difficult
B. accuse
B. even
B. rather than | C. excited
C. won
C. as usual
C. or
C. in
C. traditional
C. took on
C. special
C. search for
C. Encouraging
C. filled
C. time
C. moving
C. too
C. benefit
C. ordinary
C. easy
C. misunderstand
C. still
C. more than | D. surprised
D. beat
D. as if
D. for
D. with
D. conservative
D. took off
D. new
D. look for
D. Considering
D. covered
D. space
D. sleeping
D. very
D. price
D. regular
D. dynamic
D. ignore
D. yet
D. less than | | 阅读理解。 | Our boat floated on, between walls of forest which were too thick to allow us a view of the land we were
passing through, although we knew from the map that our river must from time to time be passing through
chains of hills which crossed the jungle plains. Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed:
where the jungle did not actually spread down into the river, banks of soft mud prevented us going ashore.
In any case, what would we have gained by landing? The country was full of snakes and other dangerous
creatures and the jungle was so thick that one would be able to advance only slowly, cutting one"s way with
knives the whole way. So we stayed in the boat, hoping that when we reached the sea, a friendly fisherman
would pick us up and take us to civilization.
We lived on fish, any fruit and nuts we could pick up out of the water. As we had no fire, we had to eat
everything, including the fish, raw. I had never tasted raw fish before, and I must say I did not much enjoy
the experience: perhaps sea-fish which don"t live in the mud are less tasteless. After eating my fish, I lay back
and dreamed of such things as fried chicken and rice, and ice cream. In the never-ending heat of the jungle, ice
cream was a particularly frequent dream.
As for water, there was a choice. We could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst. We drank the
water. Men who have just escaped what had appeared to certain death lose all worries about such small things
as diseases caused by dirty water. In fact, none of us suffered from any illness as a result. One day we passed
another village, but fortunately nobody saw us. We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time:
we might not be so lucky as to escape in a stolen boat again. | | 1. The only thing that they could see in the boat was _______. | A. chains of hills
B. high walls
C. vast land
D. tall trees | | 2. They were prevented from landing because they could not _______. | A. find the place marked on the map
B. go through the thick forest
C. go across the soft mud
D. see the plains | | 3. This passage is mainly about ______. | A. the problem of landing
B. a terrible experience
C. walls of forest
D. the fishermen"s worries | | 4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? | A. The author and his partners were trapped during scientific exploration.
B. They were floating on a small boat in the jungle without help.
C. The dirty water they drank didn"t threaten their lives.
D. They had no food or drinking water prepared. | | 阅读理解。 | A man went to a barbershop to have his hair and beard cut as always. He started to have a good
conversation with the barber who attended him. They talked about so many things on various subjects.
Suddenly, they touched the subject of God. The barber said," I don"t believe that God exists as you say
so."" Why do you day that?" asked the client (顾客)." well, it"s so easy; you just have to go out in the street
to realize that God does not exist.""Oh, tell me."" If God existed, would there be so many sick people? Would
there be so many abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can"t think
of God who permits all of these things." The client stopped for a moment thinking but he didn"t want to
respond so as to prevent an argument.
The barber finished his job and the client went out of the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw
a man in the street with long hair and beard. Then the client again entered the barbershop and he said to the
barber," Knowing what? Barbers do not exist."
" How come they don"t exist?" asked the barber,"Well I am here and I am a barber.""No!" the client
exclaimed,"They don"t exist because if they did there would be no people with long hair and beard like that
man who walks in the street."
"Ah, barbers do exist, what happens is that people do not come to me." "Exactly!" affirmed the client.
"That"s the point. God does exist, what happens is that people don"t go to him for help. That"s why there"s
so much pain and suffering in the world." | | 1. The client was trying to prove that _____. | A. God exists
B. God permits suffering and pain
B. barbers do not exist
D. people have to look for God | | 2. According to the barber, if God existed, _____. | A. there would be so many sick people
B. there would be deserted children
C. there would be no suffering in the world
D. there would be no people with long hair and beard in the street | | 3. Why did the man in the street wear long hair and beard? | A. he was poor and had no money to go to the barber"s
B. he was not willing to go to the barber"s
C. it is fashionable to wear long hair and beard
D. it is not mentioned in the passage | | 4. It can be inferred from the passage that _____. | A. the barber wad talkative
B. the client was very clever
C. God does exist
D. God does not exist | 最新试题
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