In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the
first meeting of an introductory 1 course about 20 years ago.
The professor 2 the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans (豆), and invited
the students to 3 how many beans the jar contained. After 4 shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor
smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the 5 answer, and went on saying, "You have just 6 an important lesson
about science. That is Never 7 your own senses."
Twenty years later, the 8 could guess what the professor had in mind. He 9 himself, perhaps, as inviting
his students to start an exciting 10 into an unknown world.
Invisible (无形的) to the 11 , which can be discovered only through scientific 12 . But the seventeen-year-old
girl could not accept or even 13 the invitation. She was just 14 to understand the world. And she 15 that her
firsthand experience could be ture 16 . The professor, however, said that it was 17 . He was taking away her
only 18 for knowing and was providing her with no substitute. "I remember feeling small and 19 ," the women
says, "and I did the only thing I could do. I 20 the course that afternoon, and I haven"t gone near science since." |
( )1.A. art
( )2.A. searched for
( )3.A. count
( )4.A. warning
( )5.A. ready
( )6.A. learned
( )7.A. lose
( )8.A. lecturer
( )9.A. described
( )10.A. voyage
( )11.A. professor
( )12.A. model
( )13.A. hear
( )14.A. suggesting
( )15.A. believed
( )16.A. growth
( )17.A. firm
( )18.A. task
( )19.A. cruel
( )20.A. dropped | B. history
B. looked at
B. guess
B. giving
B. possible
B. prepared
B. trust
B. scientist
B. respected
B. movement
B. eye
B. senses
B. make
B. beginning
B. doubted
B. strength
B. interesting
B. tool
B. proud
B. started | C. science
C. got through
C. report
C. turning away
C. correct
C. taught
C. sharpen
C. speaker
C. saw
C. change
C. knowledge
C. sprint
C. present
C. pretending
C. proved
C. faith
C. wrong
C. success
C. frightened
C. passed | D. math
D. marched into
D. watch
D. listening to
D. difficult
D. taken
D. show
D. woman
D. served
D. rush
D. light
D. methods
D. refuse
D. waiting
D. explained
D. truth
D. acceptable
D. connection
D. brave
D. missed | | 阅读理解。 | When milk arrived on the doorstep
When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our
doorstep. His name was Mr. Basil. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I
couldn"t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and
gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.
Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change
our order, my mother would pen a note-"Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery"-and place it in the
box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.
All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and
their milkmen. Mr. Basil even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we
put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn"t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basil from time to time taking
a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.
There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus
making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have
been practical to have a delivery service.
Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home
and planted it on the back porch (门廊). Every so often my son"s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling
stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk. | | 1. Mr. Basil gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer ____. | A. to show his magical power.
B. to pay for the delivery
C. to satisfy his curiosity.
D. to please his mother. | | 2. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy"s house? | A. He wanted to have tea there.
B. He was a respectable person.
C. He was treated as a family member.
D. He was fully trusted by the family. | | 3. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist? | A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now.
B. It has been driven out of the market.
C. Its service is getting poor.
D. It is forbidden by law. | | 4. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box? | A. He missed the good old days.
B. He wanted to tell interesting stories.
C. He missed it for his milk bottles.
D. He planted flowers in it. | | 完形填空。 | Although I love my life, it hasn"t been a lot of fun as I"ve been ill for 28 years.
Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my 1 was more manageable, I 2 ten
years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs. 3 that was years ago and times
have changed. 4 I live with mother on a country farm.
Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to 5 my disability pension
(残疾抚恤金). 6 I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited in my 7 . I decided that I would consider
8 to singing in restaurants.
My family are all musicians, so I was 9 when I went into our local music store. I explained that I wanted
to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn"t have
a lot of 10 to get started. And 11 you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can 12 use.
When I told the owner of the shop about my 13 ; he gave me a long thoughtful 14 . "This means a lot to
you, doesn"t it?" he said. "Come with me."
He led me 15 the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his
large hand 16 on his treasure and said, "I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your 17 and I"ll record
them for you. That should get you started."
I 18 . Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose 19 that I could sing. I
have come full circle with his help.
His 20 still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance. | ( )1. A. loneliness
( )2. A. set
( )3. A. Gladly
( )4. A. Now
( )5. A. add up to
( )6. A. If
( )7. A. movement
( )8. A. reaching out
( )9. A. recognized
( )10. A. money
( )11. A. thus
( )12. A. actually
( )13. A. job
( )14. A. face
( )15. A. over
( )16. A. unhappily
( )17. A. pick
( )18. A. had to cry
( )19. A. more
( )20. A. courage | B. sadness
B. enjoyed
B. Eventually
B. Then
B. make up for
B. As
B. condition
B. living up
B. interviewed
B. time
B. once
B. hardly
B. family
B. view
B. along
B. lovingly
B. turn
B. ought to cry
B. the ones
B. devotion | C. tiredness
C. kept
C. Unfortunately
C. Sometime
C. get rid of
C. Though
C. choices
C. getting on
C. found
C. energy
C. seldom
C. nearly
C. idea
C. look
C. towards
C. pitifully
C. role
C. should have cried
C. few
C. kindness | D. sickness
D. shared
D. Surprisingly
D. Meanwhile
D. take advantage of
D. Before
D. positions
D. going back
D. invited
D. knowledge
D. often
D. formerly
D. offer
D. sight
D. through
D. gratefully
D. step
D. could have cried
D. the rest
D. trust | | 阅读理解。 | It was Saturday. As always, it was a busy one, for "Six days shall you labor and all your work" was taken
seriously back then. Outside, Father and Mr. Patrick next door were busy chopping firewood. Inside their own
houses, Mother and Mrs. Patrick were engaged in spring cleaning.
Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. Now, even at the risk of having Brother
caught to beat carpets, they had sent him to the kitchen for more string (线). It seemed there was no limit to
the heights to which kites would fly today.
My mother looked at the sitting room, its furniture disordered for a thorough sweeping. Again she cast a
look toward the window. "Come on, girls! Let"s take string to the boys and watch them fly the kites a minute."
On the way we met Mrs. Patric, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong, together with her
girls.
There never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our fresh string into the boys" kites and they
went up higher and higher. We could hardly distinguish the orange-colored spots of the kites. Now and then
we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down in the wind, and finally bringing it down to
earth, just for the joy of sending it up again.
Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us. Our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls.
I think we were all beside ourselves. Parents forgot their duty and their dignity; children forgot their everyday
fights and little jealousies. "Perhaps it"s like this in the kingdom of heaven," I thought confusedly.
It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to the housed. I suppose we had some sort of
supper. I suppose there must have been surface tidying-up, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly
enough. The strange thing was, we didn"t mention that day afterward. I felt a little embarrassed. Surely none
of the others had been as excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep "the
things that cannot be and yet they are."
The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some
work out of the way while my three-year-old insistently cried her desire to "go park, see duck."
"I can"t go!" I said. "I have this and this to do, and when I"m through I"ll be too tired to walk that far."
My mother, who was visiting us, looked up from the peas she was shelling. "It"s a wonderful day," she
offered,"really warm, yet there"s a fine breeze. Do you remember that day we flew kites?"
I stopped in my dash between stove and sink. The locked door flew open and with it a rush of memories.
"Come on," I told my little girl. "You"re right, it"s too good a day to miss."
Another decade passed. We were in the aftermath (余波) of a great war. All evening we had been asking
our returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy, about his experiences as a prisoner of war. He had talked freely,
but now for a long time he had been silent. What was he thinking of-what dark and horrible things?
"Say!" A smile sipped out from his lips. "Do you remember-no, of course you wouldn"t. It probably didn"t
make the impression on you as it did on me."
I hardly dared speak. "Remember what?"
"I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp (战俘营), when things weren"t too good. Do you remember
the day we flew the kites?" | | 1. Mrs. Patrick was laughing guiltily because she thought _____. | A. she was too old to fly kites
B. her husband would make fun of her
C. she should have been doing her how
D. supposed to the don"t game | | 2. By "we were all beside ourselves" writer means that they all _____. | A. felt confused
B. went wild with joy
C. looked on
D. forgot their fights | | 3. What did they think after the kite-flying? | A. The boys must have had more fun than the girls.
B. They should have finished their work before playing.
C. Her parents should spend more time with them.
D. All the others must have forgotten that day. | | 4. Why did the writer finally agree to take her little girl for an outing? | A. She suddenly remembered her duty as a mother.
B. She was reminded of the day they flew kites.
C. She had finished her work in the kitchen.
D. She thought it was a great day to play outside. | | 5. The youngest Patrick boy is mentioned to show that _____. | A. the writer was not alone in treasuring her fond memories
B. his experience in POW camp threw a shadow over his life
C. childhood friendship means so much to the writer
D. people like him really changed a lot after the war | | 完形填空。 | My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go
sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at 1 . As for me, I 2 both before twelve because
of living close to Lake Ontario.
The last time Dad and I set sail together is really 3 . It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from
university. I came home and 4 Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the 5 lake. Dad hadn"t sailed for
years, but everything 6 well with the tiller (舵柄) in his hands.
When we were in the middle of the lake, a 7 wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit 8 . Dad
was always at his best in any 9 , but at this moment he 10 .
"John! 11 !" he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.
In my memory he could fix any 12 . He was the one I always 13 for strength and security. Before I
could respond, a 14 of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller 15 it was too late. Another huge wall
of water 16 the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At
that moment, I felt fiercely 17 of him.
I swam to Dad 18 and assisted him in climbing onto the hull (船壳) of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull,
Dad was a little awkward about his flash of 19 . "It"s all right, Dad. We are safe now," I comforted him.
That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it
was my turn to start 20 for my father. | ( )1. A. boating
( )2. A. enjoyed
( )3. A. unforgivable
( )4. A. sent
( )5. A. calm
( )6. A. finished
( )7. A. strong
( )8. A. repeatedly
( )9. A. danger
( )10. A. suffered
( )11. A. look
( )12. A. problem
( )13. A. turned to
( )14. A. fountain
( )15. A. if
( )16. A. got through
( )17. A. ashamed
( )18. A. hopelessly
( )19. A. pain
( )20. A. making up | B. running
B. desired
B. unforgettable
B. ordered
B. icy
B. went
B. gentle
B. lightly
B. place
B. fell
B. Help
B. relationship
B. lived with
B. stream
B. for
B. poured into
B. protective
B. quickly
B. anger
B. getting ready | C. swimming
C. hated
C. cheerful
C. invited
C. stormy
C. seemed
C. cold
C. hardly
C. sport
C. froze
C. Run
C. machine
C. argued with
C. shower
C. after
C. turned over
C. tired
C. slowly
C. fear
C. paying off | D. teaching
D. learned
D. regretful
D. allowed
D. thundery
D. sounded
D. hot
D. violently
D. job
D. withdrew
D. Jump
D. boat
D. objected to
D. wave
D. but
D. lifted up
D. afraid
D. helplessly
D. shame
D. looking out |
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