Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new
1 in high school.
2 , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts (选拔赛) for cheerleaders
(拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be 3 for her to
be selected. Two hours later, the 4 read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart 5 as the list
ended without her name. Feeling 6 , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was
7 . She moved on to English and history, and was 8 to find that she didn"t have any trouble with those
subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to 9 math for the time being.
The nest day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school 10 . Mrs. Biden wasn"t as 11
as Jenna. "I"m sorry, but we have enough 12 for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we"ll
talk then." Jenna smiled 13 and left. "Why is high school so 14 ?" she sighed.
Later in 15 class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much 16 .
By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she"d
continue to try to 17 at her new school. She wasn"t sure if she"d succeed, but she knew she had to 18 .
High school was just as her mom had said: "You will feel like a small fish in a big pond 19 a big fish in a
small pond. The challenge is to become the 20 fish you can be." |
答案
( )1. A. processes
( )2. A. Therefore
( )3. A. difficult
( )4. A. editor
( )5. A. jumped
( )6. A. strange
( )7. A. struggling
( )8. A. ashamed
( )9. A. put up
( )10. A. committee
( )11. A. enthusiastic
( )12. A. speakers
( )13. A. widely
( )14. A. similar
( )15. A. physics
( )16. A. pleasure
( )17. A. fit in
( )18. A. swim
( )19. A. in return for
( )20. A. slimmest | B. decision
B. However
B. easy
B. boss
B. sank
B. happy
B. improving
B. disappointed
B. prepare for
B. newspaper
B. artistic
B. readers
B. weakly
B. ordinary
B. history
B. hope
B. look out
B. try
B. in case of
B. smallest | C. challenges
C. Otherwise
C. boring
C. candidate
C. stopped
C. awful
C. working
C. shocked
C. worry about
C. radio
C. sympathetic
C. cheerleaders
C. excitedly
C. different
C. English
C. trouble
C. stay up
C. ask
C. in terms of
C. best | D. exercises
D. Besides
D. interesting
D. judge
D. raced
D. lonely
D. complaining
D. relieved
D. give up
D. team
D. realistic
D. writers
D. brightly
D. familiar
D. math
D. sorrow
D. get around
D. escape
D. instead of
D. gentlest |
解析 | 1-5: CBADB 6-10: CADCB 11-15: ADBCD 16-20: CABDC |
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| 阅读理解。 | As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. "The woods" was our part-time address,
destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friend"s house and found him not at home, his mother might
say, "Oh, he"s out in the woods," with a tone (语气) of airy acceptance. It"s similar to the tone people
sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I"m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even"
away from his desk." For us ten-year-olds, "being out in the woods" was just an excuse to do whatever we
feel like for a while.
We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring (探索). Exploring was
a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations,
though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we
stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly
persuaded was an Italian burial mound.
Often we got "lost" and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which
someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and
we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we
visited regularly----tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.
It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has
reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence (青春期). In March, the month when we
usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and
all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that were really were rather big to be up in a tree.
Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria. | | 1. The author and his fiends were often out in the woods to _______. | A. spend their free time
B. play gold and other sports
C. avoid doing their schoolwork
D. keep away from their parents | | 2. What can we infer from Paragraph 2? | A. The activities in the woods were well planned.
B. Human history is not the result of exploration.
C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.
D. The author explored in the woods aimlessly. | | 3. The underlined word "skeptical" in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______. | A. calm
B. doubtful
C. serious
D. optimistic | | 4. How does the author feel about his childhood? | A. Happy but short.
B. Lonely but memorable.
C. Boring and meaningless.
D. Long and unforgettable. | | 完型填空。 | I was on a bus one March evening. The driver didn"t 1 to start the bus soon because it was not yet 2 .
A middle-aged woman got on. Tired and sad, she told her story 3 , not to anyone in particular. On her way
to the station, half of her 4 was stolen. The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she 5 still had
some left. A few minutes later, she stopped crying, but still looked 6 .
When all the seats were taken, the driver started the engine. The conductor began to collect fares (车费).
When she came to an old man in worn-out clothes, he 7 that he had spent all his money when he had
accidentally got on a wrong bus and now he was trying to go home. On hearing this, she ordered the old man
to 8 the bus. The old man was almost in tears as he 9 her to let him take the bus home. The driver took
the conductor"s side and repeated the conductor"s 10 .
The woman was watching the incident. 11 the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man,
she interfered (干预).
"Stop 12 him! Can"t you see he"s only trying to get home?"
"He doesn"t have any money!" the driver 13 .
"Well, that"s no 14 to throw him off the bus," she insisted.
Then she reached inside her blouse, look out her 15 money, and handed it to the conductor.
"Here"s his fare and mine. Just stop giving him a 16 time."
All heads turned to the woman. "It"s only money," she shrugged.
She rode the rest of the way home 17 a happy smile, with the money she"d lost earlier 18 .
On the road of life, the help of strangers can 19 our loads and lift our spirits. How much sweeter the 20
will be when we make it a little smoother for others! | ( )1. A. try
( )2. A. empty
( )3. A. tearfully
( )4. A. fare
( )5. A. strangely
( )6. A. unsatisfied
( )7. A. explained
( )8. A. get off
( )9. A. begged
( )10. A. request
( )11. A. Unless
( )12. A. attacking
( )13. A. warned
( )14. A. problem
( )15. A. spending
( )16. A. busy
( )17. A. giving
( )18. A. forgotten
( )19. A. move
( )20. A. world | B. care
B. full
B. seriously
B. possession
B. happily
B. weak
B. declared
B. start
B. scolded
B. action
B. Although
B. bothering
B. whispered
B. need
B. collected
B. cold
B. wearing
B. used
B. increase
B. journey | C. decide
C. crowded
C. carefully
C. money
C. secretly
C. unhappy
C. admitted
C. get on
C. praised
C. suggestion
C. Until
C. blaming
C. shouted
C. matter
C. remaining
C. hard
C. taking
C. earned
C. lighten
C. smile | D. intend
D. ready
D. calmly
D. wealth
D. fortunately
D. excited
D. found
D. stop
D. thanked
D. command
D. When
D. wronging
D. repeated
D. reason
D. borrowed
D. fearful
D. forcing
D. returned
D. carry
D. friendship | | 阅读理解。 | I arrived at my mother"s home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the
kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt (被子) after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties.
She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to fold and put them back into
the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box. I pulled it out.
"What is this?" I asked.
"Oh?" Mom said, "That"s Mama"s quilt."
I spread the quilt. It looked at if a group of school children had pieced it together: irregular designs, childish
pictures, a crooked line on the right.
"Grandmother made this?" I said, surprised. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This certainly
didn"t look like any of the quilts she had made.
"Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes," she said.
"I"m still working on it. See, this is what I"ve done so far."
I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had stitched
(缝) a piece of cloth with these words:"My mother made many quilts. She didn"t get all lines straight. But I
think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt."
"Ooh, this is so nice, Mom," I said. It occurred to me that by completing my grandmother"s quilt, my
mother was honoring her own mother. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started with
the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another. | | 1. Why did the author go to mother"s home? | A. To see her mother"s quilts.
B. To help prepare for a show.
C. To get together for the family dinner.
D. To discuss her grandmother"s life. | | 2. The author was surprised because _____. | A. the quilt looked very strange.
B. her grandmother liked the quilt.
C. the quilt was the best she had seen.
D. her mother had made some changes | | 3. The underlined wood "crooked" in the passage most probably means _____. | A. unfinished
B. broken
C. bent
D. unusual | | 4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? | A. A Quilt Show
B. Mother"s Home
C. A Monday Dinner
D. Grandmother"s Quilt | | 完形填空。 | The three youths leaned over the metal rails along the sea-wall and watched a few fishermen pull in
their nets. About thirty metres away, a boat pulled alongside the slippery steps leading 1 to the sea.
"Hey, look!" exclaimed Rahim. "Those two men are 2 heavy rocks. I thought we no longer do
muscle labour in this technological 3 ."
"You do not 4 a crane to unload less than a dozen rocks, do you? " smiled Joshua.
"But those men do not 5 to have muscles at all ," said michacl,rather surprised,joshua smiled.
"They are 6 laborers who know how to spread the weight of the rocks they 7 . See how the man
positions the rock just at the slope of his 8 . Some of the rock"s weight is set 9 his head, some on the
right hand and some on the left hand. His body isn"t bent. His legs are well 10 ."
"You"re right, Josh. He may have a small build. 11 he certainly well knows his job. Dear me! And to
think we have been studying 12 !" Rahim thought about all that was happening. Suddenly, he said,
"Technology won"t 13 the human being completely, it appears."
"I don"t think it will." 14 Joshua. "You can harvest a crop of potatoes or wheat with one of those
large, multi-purpose tractors, but you 15 use that equipment to harvest lea leaves and tomatoes, will you?"
"You can get a computer to 16 multiple-choice assessments, but you cannot get the computer to
produce of assess essays, can you?" asked Michael.
"Well, the washing machine leaves my shirt collar quite as 17 as ever --- that"s domestic technology
for you!" said Rahim.
"One day, perhaps, there won"t be anybody 18 who can carry a large rock the way those men do. It"s
not going to be a very 19 world, I"m afraid." Sighed Michael.
"You"re too much of a pessimist (悲观主义者),Mike." Said Joshua." 20 will always be other things that
will make the world exciting." | ( )1. A. through
( )2. A. loading
( )3. A. way
( )4. A. ask
( )5. A. happen
( )6. A. ambitious
( )7. A. take
( )8. A. shoulder
( )9. A. on
( )10. A. supported
( )11. A. but
( )12. A. chemistry
( )13. A. control
( )14. A. agreed
( )15. A. can’t
( )16. A. point out
( )17. A. dirty
( )18. A. caught
( )19. A. exciting
( )20. A. That | B. across
B. unloading
B. revolution
B. expect
B. fail
B. experienced
B. fetch
B. back
B. against
B. grasped
B. however
B. physics
B. affect
B. proposed
B. mustn’t
B. take out
B. clean
B. arranged
B. mysterious
B. This | C. down
C. covering
C. process
C. attempt
C. have
C. potential
C. carry
C. chest
C. toward
C. placed
C. so
C. biology
C. remove
C. refused
C. won’t
C. hand out
C. old
C. left
C. technological
C. They | D. up
D. uncovering
D. era
D. hope
D. seem
D. energetic
D. bring
D. arms
D. under
D. strengthened
D. therefore
D. psychology
D. replace
D. denied
D. needn’t
D. print out
D. new
D. convinced
D. modern
D. There | | 阅读理解。 | Topping the class academically was certainly an advantage. Studying was a breeze for Nigel. The
reward was certainly incomparable to the little effort that he had to put it. It begin when he was selected
to help the teachers in the computer laboratories.
The peak of his school career came not when he topped the school but when he was selected for the
nationwide competition. Unlike everyone else, Nigel wanted to join the contest because he liked playing
with the Lego sets and making something out of them. Nigel spent the next two months rebuilding the
robot. It was during the time that Nigel found out about the prizes for the competition. Its well us auspices
competitor. Alicia, from a neighboring school. His early intentions were forgotten. Getting the
thousand-dollar prize was more important than anything else. Nigel decided to befriend Alicia. Unaware of
his intentions, she told him all about the robot that she had been building for the competition. He even helped
her to put the finishing branches to her robot. He was glad with the way things had progressed. His robot
looked even better than Alicia"s and it was able to become a ball with its arms, something Alicia had failed to
do.
On the day of the competition, he says Alicia. Everything dawned on her the minute she saw him among
the competition. She stared at him, puzzled at first, then angry and finally a look of helplessness came over
her.
The flashbulbs of the camera exploded in Nigel"s try. The robot bird performed actions so unique and
different that the specialist judgments were the same. Nigel was so personal with himself that he did not
even notice the girl standing a few feet away from him. Without her, he would never win the competition. | | 1. What reward did Nigel receive for doing well in his school work? | A. He was offered a part-time job
B. He was honored with a scholarship
C. He helped his teacher construct a robot
D. He helped in the computer laboratories | | 2. Nigel"s original intention of joining the contest was to ___. | A. be the top student of the school
B. being great honor to his school
C. constructs a robot with the Lego sets
D. wins the thousand-dollar prize | | 3. Why did Nigel help Alicia finish her robot? | A. He tried to make friends with her
B. He was fond of building robots
C. He intended to help her
D. He didn"t want her to suspect him | | 4. What is the author"s attitude towards Nigel"s actions? | A. He is mildly critical
B. He is strongly critical
C. He is in favor of them
D. His attitude is not clear | 最新试题
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