( )1. A. wear ( )2. A. believe ( )3. A. handsome ( )4. A. throw away ( )5. A. suitable ( )6. A. continued ( )7. A. driving ( )8. A. helping ( )9. A. praise ( )10. A. wonderful ( )11. A. habit ( )12. A. sadly | B. repair B. afford B. young B. hand out B. expensive B. forgot B. showing B. saving B. move B. cheap B. end B. hardly | C. appreciate C. see C. poor C. add up C. useful C. had C. turning C. troubling C. call C. strange C. eyes C. secretly | D. check D. spare D. healthy D. pick out D. dangerous D. decided D. sending D. guiding D. thank D. foreign D. corners D. really |
Reading comprehension. | |||
I"ve loved my mother"s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world. Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother. "But the desk," she said again, "is for Elizabeth." I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter. They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was "too emotional (易动感情的)". But she lived "on the surface". As years passed and I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me. I posted the letter and waited for her answer, none came. My hope turned to disappointment, then little interest and, finally, peace. It seemed that nothing happened. I couldn"t be sure that the letter had even got to Mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not. Now the present of her desk told me that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work though she"d never been able to. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside-a photo of my father and a one- page letter, folded (折叠) and refolded many times. Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose, Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words. | |||
1. The writer began to love her mother"s desk _____. | |||
A. after Mother died B. before she became a writer C. when she was a child D. when mother gave it to her | |||
2. The passage shows that _____. | |||
A. Mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter B. Mother was too serious about everything her daughter had done C. Mother cared much about her daughter in words D. Mother wrote to her daughter in careful words. | |||
3. The world "gulf" in the passage means _____. | |||
A. deep understanding between the old and the young B. different ideas between the mother and the daughter C. free talks between mother and daughter D. part of the sea going far in land | |||
4. What did Mother do with her daughter"s letter asking for forgiveness? | |||
A. She had never received the letter. B. For years, she often talked about the letter. C. She didn"t forgive her daughter at all in all her life. D. She read the letter again and again till she died. | |||
5. What"s the best title of the passage? | |||
A. My letter to Mother B. Mother and Children C. My Mother"s Desk D. Talks between Mother and me | |||
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) _______________________________________________________________________________________ | |||
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It was the golden season. I could see the yellow leaves 1 on the cool 2 . In such a season, I liked walking | |||