Night after night, she came to wrap me in, even long after my childhood years. Following her longstanding
custom, she"d lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then 1 my forehead.
I don"t remember when it first started 2 me-her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me, for
they felt work-worn and rough 3 my young skin. Finally, one night, I 4 her, "Don"t do that anymore -your
hands are rough!" She didn"t say 5 in reply. But 6 again did my mother close out my day with that familiar
7 of her love.
Time after time, with the passing years, my 8 returned to that night. By then I missed my mother"s hands; 9 her goodnight kiss on my forehead. Sometimes the incident seemed very 10 ,sometimes far away. But
always it hid, in the back of my mind.
Well, the years have passed, and I"m not a little girl anymore. Mom is in her mid seventies, and those 11 I
once thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family. She"s been our doctor, 12 a medicine
box to calm a young girl"s stomach. She cooks the best fried chicken in the world...gets 13 out of blue jeans
that I never could wash out...
Now, my own children are grown and gone. 14 , in my memory, for the thousandth time,I 15 the night
when my young voice complained, "Don"t do that any more-your hands are rough!" Catching Mom"s hand in
hand, I blurted out (冲口而出) how 16 I was for that night. I thought she"d remember, 17 I did. But Mom
didn"t know what I was talking about. She had forgotten-and 18 long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new appreciation for my 19 mother and her caring hands. And the 20 that
I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found. |
( )1. A. kiss
( )2. A. comforting
( )3. A. through
( )4. A. glared at
( )5. A. something
( )6. A. ever
( )7. A. expression
( )8. A. idea
( )9. A. remembered
( )10. A.distant
( )11. A.hands
( )12. A.getting into
( )13. A.colors
( )14. A.Moreover
( )15. A.recalled
( )16. A.happy
( )17. A.when
( )18. A.left
( )19. A.gentle
( )20. A.happiness | B. put
B. encouraging
B. against
B. stared at
B. anything
B. seldom
B. feeling
B. anger
B. missed
B. tight
B. words
B. looking into
B. spots
B. Therefore
B. thought
B. interested
B. as
B. understood
B. strict
B. sense | C. touch
C. annoying
C. about
C. laughed at
C. nothing
C. often
C. way
C. thoughts
C. escaped
C. serious
C. actions
C. breaking into
C. mud
C. However
C. stuck
C. upset
C. so
C. forgiven
C. forgetful
C. sorrow | D. feel
D. educating
D. in
D. shouted at
D. everything
D. never
D. meaning
D. words
D. faced
D. close
D. behaviors
D reaching into
D. pictures
D. Thus
D. forgot
D. sorry
D. that
D. followed
D. lovely
D. guilt |
答案
| 1-5: ACBDB 6-10: DACBD 11-15: ADBCA 16-20: DBCAD |
举一反三
| 阅读理解。 | A mouse looked through a hole in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food
could it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!
Running to the farmyard, the mouse shouted, warning everyone, "There is a mouse trap in the house,
there is a mouse trap in the house." The chicken, with her head high, glared at the mouse and said, "Shut up.
Little Ugly. This is a great concern to you, but it has nothing to do with me:I can"t be troubled by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him."There is a mouse trap in the house." "I am so sorry, Mr
Mouse," said the pig sympathetically, "but there is nothing I can do about it but pray；you are always in my
prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow, who said,"A mouse trap, am I in great danger, huh?"
Now the mouse had to face the farmer"s mouse trap alone.
That very night a sound was heard through the house, like that of a mouse trap catching its prey. The
farmer" wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a big poisonous snake
whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer"s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She
rerturned home with a fever. It is said that drinking fresh chicken soup will help treat fever, so the farmer took
his sharp knife to the farmyard for the soup"s main ingredient. His wife"s sickness continued, so friends and
neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer killed the pig. The farmer"s wife did
not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow killed to
provide for all of them to eat.
So next time when someone is facing a problem, don"t say that it has nothing to do with you. | | 1. We could see from the passage that the mouse was _____. | A. good at cheating others
B. dishonest
C. kind and warm-hearted
D. foolish | | 2. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage? | A. The others help the farmer kill the cow.
B. The mouse trap was very practical.
C. The pig is more friendly than the other animals.
D. The farmer"s family had no friends at all. | | 3. The passage is most probably a _____. | A. fable (寓言)
B. science fiction
C. fairy tale (神话)
D. humorous story | | 4. What can we learn from the story? | A. Traps can always cause chain reactions.
B. It is better to be safe than to be sorry.
C. Sometimes when the least of us is threatened, we all might be at risk.
D. To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us al. | | 完形填空。 | A few weeks ago, I followed a friend into an art supply store. I found him picking out tubes of
water-color paint, which 1 me because he"s not an artist "I
2 up for a water-color class, and it starts next week," he said."I really don"t have 3 for it,
but it was on my list of 50 things to do before I die, so I 4 it. Every few months 1 look at the list
arid decide what to focus on next. 5 I had the list, I complained a lot about what I was 6 in my
life. Now 1 just bury myself in doing these things. Write your own list. and you"ll 7 what I mean."
So that night. I did just that, and he was right. The list revealed (显露出) a whole lot about what
was 8 to me. It also revealed how 9 behind I am at getting to the things I really want.
I filled up the first twenty 10 quickly, but then began to think carefully.
Eventually I 11 , items I"ve thought about for years, and 12 I"ve carried with me since I was
young. When I 13 he list later, some entries surprised me.
First, I want to 14 much more, particularly now that my children are 15 arid can go with me-to
see the world. I would like to take them to bike through Denmark and camp in the Canadian Rockies.
I"m also surprised to 16 some things on the list that need to be done soon. If I"m going to learn to
roller-blade (轮滑), 17 , I"d better start before I turn 50.
Like my friend, I now have an alternative to 18 .When I"m bored with life, I take out my list.
My friend told me the 19 was preparing the ground so that life could- work in mysterious ways."If
you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock (码头)," he said. Thanks to my 20 , I"m working
on some big docks. | ( )1. A. surprised
( )2. A. made
( )3. A. interest
( )4. A. went for
( )5. A. Because
( )6. A. doing
( )7. A. admire
( )8. A. important
( )9. A. slightly
( )10. A. thoughts
( )11. A. studied
( )12. A. burdens
( )13. A. reviewed
( )14. A. play
( )15. A. wealthier
( )16. A. write
( )17. A. such as
( )18. A. complaining
( )19. A. problem
( )20. A. hobbies | B. moved
B. took
B. concern
B. called for
B. After
B. missing
B. abolish
B. strange
B. slowly
B. lists
B. added
B. challenges
B. discovered
B. relax
B. cleverer
B. put
B. for instance
B. relaxing
B. key
B. optimism | C. pleased
C. signed
C. time
C. accounted for
C. Before
C. pushed
C. spot
C. beneficial
C. possibly
C. ideas
C. dropped
C. dreams
C. wrote
C. travel
C. healthier
C. find
C. in fact
C. objecting
C. answer
C. list | D. excited
D. gave
D. emotion
D. cared for
D. Although
D. engaged
D. see
D. special
D. hopelessly
D. blanks
D. obtained
D. responsibilities
D. appreciated
D. hike.
D. older
D. leave
D. in particular
D. adjusting
D. question
D. Wishes | | 阅读理解。 | A nine-year-old kid was sitting at his desk when suddenly there was a puddle (/JC^C)between his feet
and the front of his trousers was wet. He thought his heart was going to stop because he couldn"t possibly
imagine how this had happened. It had never happened before, and he knew that when the boys found out
he would never hear the end of it. When the girls found out, they would never speak to him again as long as
he lived.
He prayed this prayer, "Dear God, I need help now! Five minutes from now I"m dead meat!" He looked
up from his prayer and here came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he had been discovered. As
the teacher was walking toward him, a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water.
Susie tripped (绊倒) in front of the teacher and dumped (倒) the bowl of water in the boy"s lap. The boy
pretended to be angry, but all the while was saying to himself, "Thank you. Lord!"
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy was the object of sympathy. The
teacher rushed him downstairs and gave him gym shorts to put on while his trousers dried out. All the other
children were on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy was wonderful. But as
life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred (转移) to someone else+-Susie.
She tried to help, but they told her to get out.
When school was over, the boy walked over to Susie and whispered,"You did that on purpose, didn"t you?"
Susie whispered back,"I wet my trousers once, too!" | | 1. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means ______ . | A. the boys would never play with him
B. the boys would treat him as usual
C. he would hardly hear any praise from the boys
D. he would be laughed at by the. boys endlessly | | 2. After Susie dumped water in his lap, the boy was in a state of _____. | A. excitement
B. relief
C. anxiety
D. anger | | 3. What did the other kids do after the incident? | A. They offered him dry clothes.
B. They laughed at the boy rudely,
C. They helped the boy do the cleaning.
D. They urged the boy to get out angrily. | | 4. Why did Susie dump water in the boy"s lap? | A. The boy asked her to do so.
B. She just did it by accident.
C. The teacher tripped her on purpose.
D. She knew the boy"s embarrassment. | | 完形填空。 | I"ve often puzzled over something that happened to me one winter when I was eight. Over the years I
had been wondering if my 1 was nothing more than a kid"s imagination.
There was a 2 near our house. In winter it was the greatest 3 place in the world. One 4 all I
wanted to do was go skating. I had been waiting for weeks 5 the water was frozen solid. Mom had one
rule: "Never ice-skate alone." But I couldn"t 6 any longer that afternoon. So I 7 my skates under my
coat and ran to the pond. Several people were skating near the shore, and some kids were playing hockey.
I was not really 8 .
The hockey game had attracted 9 audience, so I skated in the other direction until their cheering 10 .
But another noise came soon. The ice was cracking beneath me. Freezing water 11 my body, and I sank like
a rock. My feet 12 the bottom. Just when I thought I wouldn"t last another 13 , I felt a tap on my
shoulder."Don"t worry," someone said. I swung my 14 around. I couldn"t see anybody. But I heard the
voice again, "Push your feet into the bottom and you"ll shoot straight up to the surface." I did as I was told
and 15 . I crawled to the shore and lay down, 16 . The next thing I knew was people were 17 around
me, covering me with coats.
When I awoke, I was home in my own bed. Mom sat next to me, 18 my hand."I saw nobody there. It
must be an angel that came to my 19 . " I said. Mom smiled,"I just thank God you"re safe."
For a long time I thought I would 20 a more realistic explanation if I just thought hard, but I never did. | ( )1. A. attention
( )2. A. river
( )3. A. skating
( )4. A. afternoon
( )5. A. after
( )6. A. go
( )7. A. found
( )8. A. lonely
( )9. A. noisy
( )10. A. changed
( )11. A. filled
( )12. A. hit
( )13. A. day
( )14. A. head
( )15. A. left
( )16. A. worried
( )17. A. lying
( )18. A. raising
( )19. A. place
( )20. A. take up | B. behavior
B. pond
B. fishing
B. morning
B. until
B. run
B. threw
B. single
B. happy
B. disappeared
B. controlled
B. dragged
B. hour
B. hand
B. succeeded
B. surprised
B. standing
B. shaking
B. mind
B. make up with | C. explanation
C. lake
C. swimming
C. evening
C. as
C. sit
C. took
C. alone
C. small
C. increased
C. covered
C. set
C. minute
C. arm
C. tried
C. excited
C. laughing
C. holding
C. defense
C. bring up | D. reason
D. dam
D. skiing
D. night
D. if
D. wait
D. hid
D. afraid
D. young
D. stopped
D. loaded
D. tapped
D. second
D. leg
D. survived
D. exhausted
D. crawling
D. washing
D. rescue
D. come up with | | 阅读理解。 | Burn rate is the speed at which a startup business consumes money. My rate was $ 75,000 a month.
Four months after my company was set up, I had only a quarter of the starting capital left in the bank.
Looking for guidance, I went to talk to my friend, Arthur Walworth about my new venture. "Times
of great change always bring out the risk-takers," he said."And they leave winners and losers. My
grandfather invested a lot of money in a project of Thomas Edison" s that ended up in failure."
I was lost in thought at the notion(an idea or belief about something) of a Thomas Edison project
ending in failure. Damn. It could happen to anybody! I must continue.
At that time CD-ROM sales had bombed, so investors were fleeing from the field. I didn"t turn away
from mine entirely, but instead linked it to the internet.
My plan was to offer consumers descriptions of home-design products by using a special software
and let them modify the designs. Then we can enable them to get online professional and constructional
help to have their houses built, decorated and furnished according to their own choice.
To realize my plan I needed investors, so I continued to meet regularly with venture capitalists. One
said I had a great idea. But I needed to test it. Get the money somewhere. To get this money from a
venture capitalist is going to cost my wife and my children! He turned down my request.
Wife? Children? I hardly remembered them.
I was working nonstop-struggling to turn the key in the lock, to find the right way ahead. The pressure
was terrible. It was just at this time that my parents and sisters stepped up. Two hundred thousand dollars.
A lot of money to them, invested in this crazy son and brother without a moment"s hesitation. Dad and
Mom had driven out from Chicago and seen the passion in my little office and the trouble at home.
With their help my company survived and has been prospering ever since. | | 1. When the author"s company started operation, he had _____. | A. $ 450,000
B. $ 400,000
C. $ 350,000
D. $ 300,000 | | 2. Arthur implies that to start a business in times of change, people have to _____. | A. rely on famous people all be time
B. invest as much money as possible
C. face the risks of possible failure
D. think about nothing but success | | 3. The author"s company was engaged in _____. | A. furniture design and production
B. online home-design service
C. traditional home designing
D. home decoration business | | 4. Faced with a very unfavorable market situation, the author decided _______ . | A. to improve his service
B. to start a new business
C. to withdraw his money
D. to reduce his investment | 最新试题
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