I truly feel that my mother led me here, to Morzaine, and to my future as happy wife and business woman.
When Mum 1 in October 2007, I was a cook. In December that year, while I was working for a wedding,
a pearl necklace Mum had left me 2 . I was distraught (忧心如焚的). Some days later, I was 3 that a guy
who was working with us that day, "could probably have made a fortune 4 the necklace he found." 5 , he
returned it. Hearing he I"d 6 Mum for six months before her death, he said, "Christmas is going to be 7 -
why not go out to the Alps for a couple of weeks?"
I come to Morzaine, a small, friendly village in the Alps and 8 fell in love with it. What was 9 to be a
stopgap (权宜之计) trip turned into a new life. I kept travelling between London and here and felt 10 than I
had in months. In December 2008, I was 11 as a hotel manager and moved here full time.
A month later, I met Paul, who was traveling here. We fell in love. In the beginning, I didn"t want to discuss
12 , because the sadness of losing Mum 13 felt great. Paul understood that and sever 14 me. But, by
summer, we got married. A year later, we used his saving, and the money from the sale of Mom"s house, to
build our own 15 .
We want to give our guests a 16 feel, so each room is themed (以……为题) around memories from our
lives. There are also styles to remind me of Mom-a tiny chair which 17 be in her bedroom is set in one room.
We are having a wonderful life Mum 18 naturally part of it, 19 there"s no way we would be here if it
wasn"t for the 20 she gave me. I know she"s here in spirit, keeping an eye on us. |
( )1.A. died
( )2.A. burned
( )3.A. shown
( )4.A. hi ding
( )5.A. Luckily
( )6.A. nursed
( )7.A. long
( )8.A. suddenly
( )9.A. said
( )10.A. smarter
( )11.A. honoured
( )12.A. travel
( )13.A. recently
( )14.A. left
( )15.A. hotel
( )16.A. homely
( )17.A. ought to
( )18.A. takes
( )19.A. unless
( )20.A. money | B. came
B. disappeared
B. comforted
B. stealing
B. Naturally
B. cured
B. hard
B. finally
B. proved
B. higher
B. hired
B. business
B. once
B. pushed
B. restaurant
B. lively
B. used to
B. keeps
B. while
B. chair | C. returned
C. broke
C. persuaded
C. selling
C. Surely
C. missed
C. merry
C. nearly
C. supposed
C. firmer
C. regarded
C. children
C. still
C. surprised
C. home
C. motherly
C. might
C. looks
C. because
C. house | D. visited
D. dropped
D. told
D. wearing
D. Hopefully
D. guarded
D. free
D. immediately
D. judged
D. lighter
D. trained
D. marriage
D. first
D. interrupted
D. shop
D. friendly
D. could
D. feels
D. though
D. necklace |
答案
| 1-5 ABDCA 6-10 ABDCD 11-15 BDCBA 16-20 ABDCD |
举一反三
| 阅读理解。 | In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and
dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am later I am still a bright-
eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family
to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw
from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological
children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic and very emotional. A year later
came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No.3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 81. Our home was a
complete zoo-a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up
on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant talking as few as one class each semester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to
stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, But I knew I should set an example for
them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college
degree!
I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you"re looking at a big challenge from
the outside it looks huge, but when you"re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won"t
arrive in your life on one day. It"s a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams. | | 1. When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be _____. | A. a writer
B. a teacher
C. a judge
D. a doctor | | 2. Why did the author quit school in her second year of college? | A. She wanted to study by herself.
B. She fell in love and got married.
C. She suffered from a serious illness.
D. She decided to look after her grandma. | | 3. What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5? | A. She was buy yet happy with her family life.
B. She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons.
C. She wanted to remain a full-time housewife.
D. She was too confused to make a correct choice. | | 4. What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph? | A. Failure is the mother of success.
B. Little by little, one goes far.
C. Every coin has two sides.
D. Well begun, half done. | | 5. Which of the following can best describe the author? | A. Caring and determined.
B. Honest and responsible.
C. Ambitious and sensitive.
D. Innocent and single-minded. | | 完形填空。 | 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 | 最新试题
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