A1ice, my frierld"s daughter, goes to an expensive private school where she has a friend, Jane, who is on
a full scholarship at this school. Jane has 1 economic resources-her father has been dead for years and her
mother works 2 a maid. Although her mother works very hard, she can 3 support the family. Jane is
very bright and gifted at 4 and that"s how she has got the scholarship, which included a(n) 5 for things
like lunch, school uniform and music lessons.
Alice became friends with Jane and would 6 talk to her at lunch. She did it that way in order to avoid
the other kids 7 her.
On her birthday last month, she 8 her new friend to her birthday party, but Jane said she couldn"t come.
Alice wanted her to be 9 so much that she 10 on her coming. Eventually, the girl said, "I don"t have any
11 clothes that I could wear at your birthday party." After a brief pause, the girl remembered, "I have a 12
from my piano perfomance," and asked, "Could I 13 a skirt from you?"
Alice was happy that her friend would be 14 to come and hurried home to ask her Mum 15 she could
lend her friend one of her skirts. To her surprise, her Mum said, "No." The daughter was very 16 and angrily
said to her Mum, " 17 I could, I would give my friend all my clothes." The Mother didn"t understand why her
daughter should have had such an outburst as she"s normally very well 18 .
Fimlly, Alice explained to her Mother her friend"s 19 . Her Mother immediately changed her mind and said,
"Yes." She also encouraged her daughter not to feel like she should secretly be friends with Jane but to feel
proud of her 20 with her.
So the true friendship seeks to give, not to take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered
unto. |
( )1.A. personal
( )2.A. for
( )3.A. hopefully
( )4.A. music
( )5.A. bonus
( )6.A. secretly
( )7.A. pointing at
( )8.A. took
( )9.A. happy
( )10.A. depended
( )11.A. casual
( )12.A. shirt
( )13.A. get
( )14.A. free
( )15.A. how
( )16.A. stubborn
( )17.A. If
( )18.A. treated
( )19.A. cleverness
( )20.A. study | B. extra
B. with
B. obviously
B. drawing
B. allowance
B. happily
B. shouting at
B. invited
B. independent
B. insisted
B. comfortable
B. jeans
B. copy
B. able
B. when
B. upset
B. When
B. controlled
B. character
B. friendship | C. limited
C. like
C. hardly
C. maths
C. donation
C. quietly
C. laughing at
C. accompanied
C. confident
C. focused
C. nice
C. handbag
C. order
C. glad
C. why
C. firm
C. Unless
C. educated
C. circumstances
C. sympathy | D. adequate
D. as
D. temporarily
D. biology
D. pension
D. eagerly
D. glaring at
D. sent
D. present
D. agreed
D. tight
D. necklace
D. borrow
D. willing
D. whether
D. enthusiastic
D. Though
D. behaved
D. competences
D. performance | | 阅读理解。 | Saving the Planet with Earth-Friendly Bamboo Products
Jackie Heinricher"s love affair with bamboo started in her backyard. "As a child, I remember playing
among the golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when there was a slight wind, the bamboos sounded
really musical."
A fisheries biologist, Heinricher, 47, planned to work in the salmon industry in Seattle, where she lived
with her husband, Guy Thornburgh, but she found it too competitive. Then her garden gave her the idea
for a business:She"d planted 20 bamboo forests on their seven-acre farm.
Heinricher started Boo-Shoot Gardens in 1998. She realized early on what is just now beginning to be
known to the rest of the world. It can be used to make fishing poles, skateboards, buildings, fumiture,
floors, and even clothing. An added bonus: Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group
of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen.
First she had to find a way to mass-produce the plants-a tough task, since bamboo nowers create seed
only once every 50 to 100 years. And dividing a bamboo plant frequently kills it.
Heinricher appealed to Randy Burr, a tissue culture expert, to help her. "People kept telling us we"d never
figure it out," says Heinricher. "Others had worked on it for 27 years! I believed in what we were doing,
though, so I just kept going."
She was right to feel a sense of urgency. Bamboo forests are being rapidly used up, and a United Nations
report showed that even though bamboo is highly renewable, as rnany as half of the world"s species are
threatened with dying out. Heinricher knew that bamboo could make a significant impact on carbon emissions
(排放) and world economies, but only if huge numbers could be pmduced. And that"s just what she and Burr
figured out after nine years of experiments-a way to grow millions of plants. By placing cuttings in test tubes
with salts, vitamins,plant hormones, and seaweed gel, they got the plants to grow and then raised them in soil
in greenhouses.
Not long after it, Burr"s lab hit financial difftculties. Heinricher had rlo experience running a tissue culture
operation, but she wasn"t prepared to quit. So she bought the lab.
Today Heinricher heads up a profitable multimillion-dollar company, working on species from all over the
world and selling them to wholesalers. "If you want to farm bamboo, it"s hard to do without the young plants,
and that"s what we have," she says proudly. | | 1. What was the main problem with planting bamboo widely? | | [ ] | A. They didn"t have enough young bamboo.
B. They were short of money and experience.
C. They didn"t have a big enough farm to do it.
D. They were not understood by other people. | | 2. What does Heinricher think of bamboo? | | [ ] | A. Fragile and affordable
B. Productive and flexible
C. Useful and earth-friendly
D. Strong and profitable | | 3. The underlined word "renewable" in Paragraph 6 probably means "_____". | | [ ] | A. able to be replaced naturally
B. able to be raised difficultly
C. able to be shaped easily
D. able to be recycled conveniently | | 4. What do you learn farm the passage? | | [ ] | A. Heinricher"s love for bamboo led to her experlments in the lab.
B. Heinricher"s detennimtion helped her to succeed in her work.
C. Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing.
D. Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream. | | 完形填空。 | I have learned to expect gifts from God in the form of people. People who I meet for a few seconds, a
few hours or even for 1 .
My wife and I 2 a short train ride on an old train. It was 3 of her birthday plan. I was expecting to
meet someone new who would 4 at our table. That was to be my 5 for that day.
We weren"t seated for two minutes 6 I heard, "Would you mind if I 7 you?" I replied, " 8 . I was
expecting you!"
He was in his early sixties and 9 introduced himself. But for the following 45 minutes, he never stopped
10 loudly. If there was a pause in the conversation, it was because 11 on the train was giving us some
backgroud information about the old train. 12 , this gentleman kept speaking to us about himself. Some things
he said were very interesting, but most was a complaint about his experience as a 13 and different types of
law. He never asked 14 of us what we did.
So, if 15 did send him, what was the message this time?
He needed 16 and I needed to be reminded how important it was to listen to pelple, 17 for a few seconds,
a few hours or for a lifetime. Perhaps I was sent to him. Maybe he was 18 to God to meet someone who 19 .
God gave us two ears and one mouth, because we need to listen 20 as much as we speak. | ( )1.A.a lifetime
( )2.A.put
( )3.A.part
( )4.A.explain
( )5.A.inspiration
( )6.A.after
( )7.A.seatcd
( )8.A.Go ahead
( )9.A.formally
( )10.A.complaining
( )11.A.a tour guide
( )12.A.However
( )13.A.supporter
( )14.A.each
( )15.A.someone
( )16.A.to improve
( )17.A.once
( )18.A.praying
( )19.A.should listen
( )20.A.much more | B.a few months
B.enjoyed
B.gift
B.glare
B.expectation
B.when
B.joined in
B.Never mind
B.politely
B.weeping
B.a conductor
B.Sometimes
B.professor
B.every
B.God
B.to talk
B.by contrast
B.talking
B.maybe listen
B.twice | C.several years
C.took
C.dream
C.come
C.gift
C.suddenly
C.talked with
C.Forget it
C.immediately
C.talking
C.a consumer
C.Moreover
C.mayor
C.either
C.my wife
C.to control
C.if only
C.desiring
C.must listen
C.with two | D.a long time
D.planned
D.intention
D.sit
D.conversation
D.before
D.joined
D.With pleasure
D.intelligently
D.laughing
D.a trairier
D.Otherwise
D.lawyer
D.one
D.the train
D.to target
D.other than
D.begging
D.would listen
D.a lot more | | 完形填空。 | Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. However, I was not thinking about the
golden chain when I had to help people who 1 their way and parked in front of my house.
I was growmg tired of helping so many people. Almost every 2 I was awaken during a sound night"s
sleep and had to 3 someone out. Many times I was 4 by some penniless motorists who did not even
thank me for the helps that they received and some even complained that I could have done 5 .
One day, a young man with a week-old beard climbed out of a 6 automobile. He had no money and
no food.He asked if I could give him some 7 , offer him gasoline and a meal. I told him that if he wanted
to work for me, he could cut the grass, but 8 the work wasn"t necessary.
Though sweaty and hungry, he worked hard. After working all day, he sat 9 to cool himself. I thanked
him for his work and gave him the money he 10 . I then offered him some 11 money for a task particularly
well done, but he shook his head, 12 .
I never saw him again. He probably thinks I helped him out that day, but that is not 13 it was. I didn"t
help him. He helped me to 14 people again to repay their trust in me. He helped me to once again want to do
something for those who are 15 . I wish I could thank him for 16 some of my belief in the basic 17 of
others and for giving me back a little of the 18 I had lost. Because of him, I once again felt part of a golden
chain of kindness that 19 us to others.
I may have fed his body that day, but he fed my 20 . | ( )1.A.fought
( )2.A.morning
( )3.A.bring
( )4.A.taken for granted
( )5.A.less
( )6.A.fashionable
( )7.A.money
( )8.A.actually
( )9.A.in the sun
( )10.A.asked
( )11.A.old
( )12.A.accepted
( )13.A.the situation
( )14.A.believe in
( )15.A.in trouble
( )16.A.forgetting
( )17.A.goodness
( )18.A.weakness
( )19.A.adapts
( )20.A.heart | B.found
B.afternoon
B.help
B.put up with
B.more
B.famous
B.food
B.specially
B.in the shade
B.begged
B.extra
B.received
B.the thing
B.watch over
B.in danger
B.losing
B.happiness
B.strength
B.adjusts
B.soul | C.made
C.night
C.carry
C.turned down
C.worse
C.flashy
C.help
C.particularly
C.in the field
C.needed
C.small
C.refused
C.the issue
C.look after
C.in tears
C.restoring
C.pleasure
C.optimism
C.devotes
C.head | D.lost
D.evening
D.drive
D.taken up with
D.enough
D.shabby
D.work
D.generally
D.in the car
D.charged
D.good
D.denied
D.the way
D.care about
D.in fear
D.finding
D.nature
D.pessimism
D.connects
D.mouth | | 阅读理解。 | A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and loved the boy
very much. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open.
He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and put it back into the cupboard in the bathroom.
However, his wife, busy in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.
The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened
to contain a kind of medicine for adults with poisonous and side effects. When the child broke down, the
mother hurried him to the hospital. But he finally died. The mother was shocked. She was terrified how she
was going to face her husband.
When the desperate father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and voiced
just five words. The husband just said "I am with you, Darling". The husband"s totally unexpected reaction is
a positive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault
with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened.
No one is to be blamed. she had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was comfort and
sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.
If evervone can look at life with this kind of viewpoint, there would be much fewer problems in the world.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are actually
not as difficult as you think. Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether
in a relationshlp, in a job or with the people we know. By this way we miss out some warmth in human
relationship. | | 1. The uncapped medical bottle was not put back into the cupboard because _____. | | [ ] | A. the husband was careless
B. the husband was busy
C. the wife wasn"t infomed of the matter
D. the wife ignored the matter | | 2. What do we know about the bottle? _____. | | [ ] | A. It contained poison only for adults
B. It appeared like a nice drink
C. It was broken by the child
D. It was kept in the kitchen | | 3. The husband"s attitude towards his wife can be described as _____. | | [ ] | A. optimistic
B. confident
C. considerate
D. generous | | 4. What did the writer intend to tell us about life? _____. | | [ ] | A. Let go the negative side and we can enjoy life
B. It is always useless finding who is responsible
C. Think of nothing and life will be easy
D. Life should give way to responsibility | 最新试题
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