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Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the in

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Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the
passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.      Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart (购物手推车).
They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know-or even think
to ask-who it was that invented them.
     Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business.
Every day he would see shoppers lugging (吃力地携带) groceries around in baskets they had to carry.
     One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make
shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.
     On June 4, 1937, Goldman"s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the
morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn"t wait to see them using his invention.
     But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give
them a try.
     After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren"t using his carts. "Don"t you think this
arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?" one shopper replied.
     But Goldman wasn"t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade
people to give them a try. To end this, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and
pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony (假冒的) customers. 
     As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his
market. But not only did more people come-those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle
baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
     Today"s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman"s original model. Perhaps that"s one reason
Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937-before
the coming of the shopping cart. 1. What do the underlined words "chrome-plate contraptions" in Paragraph 1 refer to? (no more than 3 words)
    _______________________________________________________________________________________
2. What was the purpose of Goldman"s invention? (no more than 8 words) 
    _______________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? (no more than 6 words) 
    _______________________________________________________________________________________
4. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? (no more than 10 words) 
    _______________________________________________________________________________________
答案
1. Shopping carts
2. To make shopping easier and attract more business.
3. Because few customers used his carts. / Because hardly anybody tried his carts.
4. Because he wanted to persuade people to try / use his carts.
答案不唯一
举一反三
完形填空。

     It was the golden season. I could see the yellow leaves   1   on the cool   2  . In such a season, I liked walking
alone in the leaves, listening to the sound of them.
     Autumn is a   3   season and life is uninteresting. The free days always get me   4  . But one day, the sound of
a violin   5   into my ears like a stream flowing in the mountains. I was so surprised that I jumped to see what it
was. A young girl, standing in the wind, was   6   in playing her violin.
     I had   7   seen her before. The music was so attractive that I listened quietly. Lost in the music, I didn"t realize
that I had been   8   there for so long but my   9   did not seem to disturb her.
     Leaves were still falling. Every day she played the violin in the corner of the building  10  I went downstairs to
watch her performance. I was the only audience. The autumn seemed no longer lonely and life became  11 
 12  we didn"t know each other, I thought we were already good friends. I believed she also liked me.
     Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening devotedly, the sound suddenly stopped. To my  13  ,
the girl came over to me.
     "You must like violin," she said.
     "Yes. And you play very well. Why did you stop?" I asked.
     Suddenly, a  14  expression appeared on her face and I could feel something unusual.
     "I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played very badly. It was your listening
every day that  15  me." she said.
     "In fact, it was your playing  16  gave me a meaningful autumn." I answered. "Let us be friends."
     The girl smiled and I smiled.
     I never heard her play again in my life. I no longer went downstairs to listen like before. Only thick leaves
were left behind. But I will always remember the fine figure of the girl. She is like a  17 ; so short, so bright, like
a shooting star giving off so much light that it makes the autumn beautiful.
     There are many kinds of friends. Some are always  18  you, but don"t understand you. Some say only a few
words to you, but are close to you. Many people will step in your life, but only  19  friends leave footprints.
     I shall always recall the autumn and the girl with the  20 . She will always bring back the friendship between
us. I know she will always be my best friend.

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(     )1. A. shaking      
(     )2. A. wind          
(     )3. A. lively        
(     )4. A. up            
(     )5. A. flowed        
(     )6. A. lost          
(     )7. A. ever          
(     )8. A. waiting      
(     )9. A. existence    
(     )10. A. where      
(     )11. A. interesting 
(     )12. A. But        
(     )13. A. astonishment 
(     )14. A. happy      
(     )15. A. surprised  
(     )16. A. that        
(     )17. A. song        
(     )18. A. with        
(     )19. A. good        
(     )20. A. sound      
B. hanging  
B. snow      
B. lovely     
B. off      
B. grew      
B. active    
B. never      
B. stopping  
B. thought    
B. so        
B. moving    
B. However    
B. delight    
B. sad       
B. excited       
B. which      
B. dream    
B. for      
B. true      
B. song    
C. falling       
C. air           
C. harvest       
C. down         
C. entered       
C. busy         
C. often         
C. standing     
C. steps         
C. when         
C. encouraging   
C. Even         
C. pride         
C. strange       
C. encouraged    
C. it           
C. fire         
C. against     
C. new           
C. play       

D. floating       
D. rain           
D. lonely         
D. over           
D. ran           
D. interested     
D. usually         
D. hearing        
D. breath        
D. but       
D. exciting      
D. Though        
D. satisfaction              
D. surprised    
D. interested    
D. who           
D. wind            
D. to             
D. old        
D. violin        

阅读理解。
     My family lived in Baltimore. One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door.
I opened it to see a truly terrible-looking man."Why, he"s hardly taller than my eight-year-old," I thought as I
stared at the stooped (弯腰屈背的) body.
      Yet his voice was pleasant as he said,"Good evening. I"ve come to see if you"ve a room for just one night.
I came here for a treatment this morning form the eastern shore, and there"s no bus till morning." He told me
he"d been hunting for a room since noon but with no success. No one seemed to have a room."I guess it"s my
face. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments…"
      I told him I would find him a bed. I went inside and finished getting supper. When I was ready, I asked the
old man if he would join me. "No, thank you. I have plenty." And he help up a brown paper bag.
     When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch (走廊) to talk with him for a few minutes. It didn"t
take a long time to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he
fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who lost his legs in a car
accident.
     At bedtime, I put a bed in the children"s room for him. When I got up in the morning,the bed linens (床单)
were neatly folded and the little man was out on the porch. He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his
bus, haltingly (犹豫不决地), as if asking a great favor, he said,"Could I come back and stay the next time I
have a treatment? I can sleep fine in a chair." I told him he was welcome to come again.
1. The man came to Baltimore to ______.
A. visit his son.
B. see a doctor
C. find a job
D. hunt for a room
2. Nobody would take the man in because ______.
A. he was very poor
B. he was from the eastern shore
C. he was a man of strange appearance
D. there was no extra room
3. Which of the following is TRUE about the man?
A. He was one of the author"s close friends.
B. He had trouble finding the author"s home.
C. He wore an oversized coat.
D. He was a great father.
4. From this passage we know that the author is ______.
A. brave
B. kind
C. clever
D. rich
完型填空。
     In a class I teach adults, I recently did something "unpardonable (不可饶恕的)" I gave the class homework!
The   1   was to "go to someone you love within the next week and tell them you love them". It has to be someone
you have never said those words to before or at least haven"t   2   those words with for a long time.
     Now that doesn"t sound like a very   3   assignment until you realize that most of the men were over 35 and
were   4   in the generation of men that were taught that   5   emotion is not macho (阳刚的). Showing feelings
or crying was just not done. So this was a very   6   assignment for them. 
     At the beginning of our next class, I asked if someone wanted to share   7   happened when they told someone
the loved them I   8   expected one of the women to   9  , as was usually the ease, but on this evening one of the
men raised his hand first He appeared quite  10  and a bit shaken.
     As he  11  out of his chair (all 6feet and 2 inches of him), he began by saying, "Dennis, I was quite  12  with
you last week when you gave us this assignment. I didn"t feel that I had anyone to say those words to and besides
who were you to tell me to do something  13  personal?"
     "But as I began driving home, my  14  started talking to me It was telling me that I knew  15  who I needed
to say I love you too."
     "You see, five years ago, my father and I had a severe  16  and really never solve it since that time. We  17  
seeing each other  18  we absolutely had to at Christmas or other family gatherings.  19  even then, we hardly
spoke to each other."
     "So last Tuesday by the time I got home, I had  20  myself was going to tell my father I love him."
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(     )1.A. 1esson      
(     )2.A. shared      
(     )3.A. easy        
(     )4.A. carried     
(     )5.A. valuing     
(     )6.A. boring      
(     )7.A. what        
(     )8.A. freely      
(     )9.A. attempt     
(     )10.A. afraid     
(     )11.A. jumped     
(     )12.A. satisfied  
(     )13.A. that       
(     )14.A. hear       
(     )15.A. naturally  
(     )16.A. expedience       
(     )17.A. avoided    
(     )18.A. once       
(     )19.A. And        
(     )20.A. puzzled    
B. project         
B. explained   
B. serious        
B. raised        
B. maxing       
B. amazing       
B. that           
B. fully         
B. organize       
B. moved        
B. stepped         
B. pleased      
B. such         
B. senses          
B. possibly      
B. warning      
B. stopped             
B. since         
B. But            
B. enjoyed    
C. assignment         
C. reminded       
C. curious           
C. encouraged      
C. expressing        
C. interesting        
C. which            
C. slowly             
C. volunteer      
C. confused         
C. unfolded           
C. familiar        
C. much           
C. patience           
C. exactly         
C. tongue           
C started          
C. unless           
C. Thus                
C. controlled   
D. activity         
D. imagined        
D. difficult          
D. taught         
D. getting            
D. demanding         
D. as               
D. aimlessly          
D. manage          
D. delighted        
D. walked              
D. angry           
D. too             
D. honors            
D. curiously       
D. disagreement                
D. continued       
D. if               
D. Meanwhile             
D. persuaded  
完形填空。

     On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.
The elephant    1    distressed (痛苦的), so Peter approached it very   2   .
     He got down on one knee, examined the elephant"s    3   and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded
(刺入) in     4  . As carefully and as gently as he   5   , Peter worked the wood out with his hunting knife,    6   
which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant    7    to face the man, and with a rather curious
look on its face,    8    at him for several tense moments. Peter stood    9  , thinking of nothing else but being
killed.   10   the elephant trumpeted (高声鸣叫) loudly, turned, and walked away. Peter never forgot that
elephant or the events of that day.   
     Twenty years  11 , Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As   12   approached
the elephant enclosure (围栏), one of the creatures turned and walked over to near   13   Peter and his son
Cameron were   14  . The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the   15  , then put it down.
The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly,   16    staring at the man.
     Remembering the accidental meeting in 1986, Peter could not help  17  if this was the same elephant. Peter 
 18   his courage, climbed over the railing, and made his way into the enclosure. He walked  19   up to the
elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant   20   again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter"s legs
and threw this stupid ass hard against the railing, killing him immediately.
     Probably it wasn"t the same elephant.

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(     )1.A. appeared    
(     )2.A. quickly    
(     )3.A. foot        
(     )4.A. her        
(     )5.A. might      
(     )6.A. after      
(     )7.A. rushed         
(     )8.A. stared      
(     )9.A. quiet      
(     )10.A. Slowly    
(     )11.A. later      
(     )12.A. Peter      
(     )13.A. where      
(     )14.A. sightseeing                
(     )15.A. floor      
(     )16.A. all at once
(     )17.A. realizing  
(     )18.A. gathered    
(     )19.A. round      
(     )20.A. shouted    

B. proved        
B. carelessly     
B. body          
B. it            
B. could         
B. before        
B. turned        
B. watched                   
B. silent        
B. Highly        
B. after          
B. Cameron        
B. when           
B. visiting       
B. ground         
B. all the while  
B. feeling        
B. called        
B. direct        
B. cried        

C. seemed     
C. carefully  
C. tail       
C. them       
C. should     
C. with       
C. walked     
C. noticed     
C. frozen     
C. Lowly                       
C. ago       
C. they       
C. what       
C. walking    
C. earth     
C. all the same
C. sensing     
C. took       
C. about     
C. whispered  

D. remained        
D. pitifully       
D. head            
D. him             
D. would         
D. on              
D. stepped         
D. glanced         
D. sad             
D. Finally         
D. late                          
D. visitors        
D. that            
D. standing        
D. land            
D. all of a sudden 
D. wondering       
D. kept            
D. right           
D. trumpeted     

阅读理解。

     Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude
and refused to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold
basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it.
When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied. "Things aren"t always what they seem."   
     The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable (好客的) farmer
and his wife. After sharing the little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they
could have a good night"s rest. When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and
his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their only income, lay dead in the field. The younger
angel was very angry and asked the older angel, "How could this happen? Why did you watch out for the
cow? The first man had everything, yet you watched over his house," she accused, "The second family
had little but was willing to share everything, and you did not help."
     "Things aren"t always what they seem," the older angel replied.
     "When we stayed in the basement, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the
owner was so greedy and unwilling to share his good fortune, I asked God if I could seal the wall so that
 he wouldn"t find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer"s bed, the angel of death came for his wife.
I asked God if the angel could take the cow instead. Things aren"t always what they seem."

1. Why did the older angel repair the hole for the rich family?
A. Because she didn"t like the greedy owner.
B. Because she wanted to save the gold for the poor.
C. Because the basement was too cold to stay in.
D. Because she believed that one should always be ready to offer help.
2. The youngest angel was very angry because _____.
A. the old angel killed the farmer"s cow
B. the old angel treated the two families differently
C. the wealthy man gave them a bad place to live
D. the angel of death took the cow away
3. Why did the older angel let the farmer"s cow die?   
A. Because God wanted the older angel to take the cow.
B. Because she wanted to teach the youngest angel a lesson.   
C. Because she wanted to save the farmer"s wife.   
D. Because she thinks it is unfair to the rich
4. The story tries to tell the reader that ______.   
A. angels are always ready to help the poor   
B. what we see is not necessarily what it is   
C. angles are always to help the rich
D. the young should always learn from the old