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阅读理解。                                                                 The Pillow
     At the age of sixteen, I joined a volunteer group with my dad. I went on my First volunteer project in
West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovcrcd that "our family" was living in a trailer (拖车) that
was in poor condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one
problem, another surfaced.
     We decided the only reasonable solution was to build a new house-something unusual but necessary
under these circumstances. The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet
with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen.
     On Tuesday of that week, while we ate lunch together, I asked the family"s three boys, Josh, Eric and
Ryan, "What do you want for your new room?" Expecting toys and other gadgets that children usually ask
for, we were astonished when Josh respondcd, "I just want a bed."
     The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we had a meeting
and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night.a few adults in our group drove to the
nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.
     When we saw the delivery truck coming, we told the family about the surprise. We could hardly contain
ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning.
     That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds together, Eric ran into the house to watch us. Too
dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm from the doorway.
     As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, "What is that?"
     "A pillow," he replied.
     "What do you do with it?" Eric continued to ask. "When you go to sleep, you put your head on it, "I
answered softly. Tears came to my eyes as my father handed Eric the pillow.
     "Oh-that"s soft," he said, hugging it tightly.
     Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent, my dad gently asks, "Do you
have a pillow?" We know exactly what he means. 1. The writer"s first volunteer project was _____. [     ]
A. working on a poor trailer
B. helping a poor family
C. donating beds and bedding
D. dealing with a housing problem 2. On hearing Josh"s answer, the writer was shocked because _____. [     ]
A. the family lived in a trailer
B. he expected to get some toys
C. he didn"t know what a bed was
D.the boys had no bed to sleep in 3. From the passage, we can learn that Eric had never seen _____ before. [     ]
A. a trailer
B. a truck
C. a pillow
D. a house 4. By saying "Do you have a pillow?", the writer"s father means that _____. [     ]
A. what they want to get may be unnecessary
B. they should not waste money on small things
C. they should do more volunteer work for the poor
D. what he will buy is not what they want but a pillow

1-4: BDCA

完形填空。     Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Schwartz. Whenever he
smiles, it"s as if you"d just been told the funniest joke on earth. Almost all his students are his friends, and
almost all his students know his life story.
     When James was a teenager, his father   1   him to a fur factory where he worked. This was during the
Great Depression. The   2   was to get James a job.
     He entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the   3   had closed in around him. The room was dark
and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the   4   were packed tightly together, running like trains. The
fur hairs were flying,   5   a thickened air, and the workers,   6   the pieces of fur together, were bent over
their needles   7   the boss marched up and down the rows, searching for them to go faster. James could
hardly   8 . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn"t   9   at him, too.
     During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him,  10  if there was
any work for his son. But  11  there was barely enough  12  for the adult labours, for no one would give it
up once he takes a job.
     Thus, for James, it was a  13 . He hated the place. He made a  14  that he kept to the end of his life: he
would never do any work that brought  15  to someone else, and he would never allow himself to  16  money
off the sweat of others.
     "What will you do?" his mother, Eva, would ask him.
     "I don"t know," he  17  say. He ruled out law, because he didn"t like  18 , and he ruled out medicine, because
he couldn"t take the  19  of blood.
     "What will you do?"
       20 , my best professor I ever had became a teacher because he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.

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(     )1.A.sent
(     )2.A.situation
(     )3.A.lights
(     )4.A.goods
(     )5.A.creating
(     )6.A.collecting
(     )7.A.as
(     )8.A.breathe
(     )9.A.attack
(     )10.A.doubting
(     )11.A.also
(     )12.A.time
(     )13.A.comforting
(     )14.A.request
(     )15.A.harm
(     )16.A.pay
(     )17.A.should
(     )18.A.police
(     )19.A.sight
(     )20.A.Generally

B.took
B.condition
B.doors
B.workers
B.sending
B.pulling
B.after
B.see
B.scold
B.questioning
B.still
B.work
B.regretting
B.promise
B.injury
B.save
B.would
B.lawyers
B.feel
B.Luckily

C.carried
C.idea
C.chances
C.machines
C.taking
C.drawing
C.if
C.walk
C.rush
C.asking
C.yet
C.office
C.blessing
C.plan
C.damage
C.make
C.could
C.judges
C.sense
C.Eventually

D.admitted
D.way
D.walls
D.vehicles
D.disturbing
D.sewing
D.though
D.hear
D.scream
D.demanding
D.even
D.occupation
D.forgiving
D.arrangement
D.inconvenience
D.let
D.might
D.government
D.scenery
D.Basically

阅读理解。

     Eddie"s father used to say he"d spent so many years by the ocean, breathing seawater. Now, away from
that ocean, in the hospital bed, his body began to look like a beached fish. His condition went from fair to
stable and from stable to serious. Friends went from saying, "He"ll be home in a day," to "He"ll be home in
a week" In his father"s absence, Eddie helped out at the pier (码头), working evenings after his taxi job.
     When Eddie was a teenager, if he ever complained or seemed bored with the pier, his father would shout,
"What? This isn"t good enough for you?" And later, when he"d suggested Eddie take a job there after high
school, Eddie almost laughed, and his father again said, "What? This isn"t good enough for you?" And before
Eddie went to war, when he"d talked of marrying Marguerite and becoming an engineer, his father said,
"What? This isn"t good enough for you?"
     And now, regardless of all that, here he was, at the pier, doing his father"s labor.
     Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on They move away. It is
not until much later, as the heart weakens, that children understand: their stories, and all their accomplishments,
sit on top of the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
     Finally, one night, at his mother"s urging, Eddie visited the hospital. He entered the room slowly. His father,
who for years had refused to speak to Eddie, now lacked the strength to even try.
     "Don"t sweat it, kid," the other workers told him "Your old man will pull through. He"s the toughest man
we"ve ever seen."
     When the news came that his father had died, Eddie felt the emptiest kind of anger, the kind that circles
in its cage.
     In the weeks that followed, Eddie"s mother lived in a confused state. She spoke to her husband as if he
were still there. She yelled at him to turn down the radio. She cooked enough food for two. One night, when
Eddie offered to help with"the dishes, she said, "Your father will put them away." Eddie put a hand on her
shoulder. "Ma," he said, softly, "Dad"s gone."
     "Gone where?"

1. In Paragraph 4, the writer indicates that _____.

[ ]

A. Children like moving away from their parents
B. Children often feel regretful because they leave their parents
C. Children wouldn"t have achieved so much without their parents" support
D. Children can never understand how much their parents have devoted to them

2. The underlined sentence probably means "_____".

[ ]

A. Don"t give it up
B. Don"t worry about it
C. Don"t let him down
D. Don"t touch it

3. Which of the following shows the right order of the story?
    a. Eddie"s father died.
    b. Eddie worked as a taxi driver.
    c. Eddie married Marguerite.
    d. Eddie was bored with his father"s job.

[ ]

A. bacd
B. dcab
C. bcda
D. dcba

4. From the last part of the passage, we learn that _____.

[ ]

A. Eddie"s mother liked to listen to the radio
B. Eddie often helped his mother wash the dishes
C. Eddie and his wife lived in his mother"s apartment
D. Eddie"s mother missed her husband so much that she was at a loss

完形填空。

     It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite
shirt on.
     A   1   came, "Nice shirt," I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, "That shirt belonged to
my dad. Greg"s mother works for my family. We were going to   2   that shirt away, but gave it to her
   3  ." I was speechless. I wanted to hide.
     I   4   the shirt in the back of the closet and told my mum what had happened. She then dialed her   5 ,
"I will no longer work for your family," she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn"t clean
anymore; she knew her life"s   6   was something greater.
     The next morning she   7   with the personal manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without
a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to   8   a university.
     After the first year in college, she went back to the personal manager. He said, "You are   9  , aren"t
you? I think I have a  10  for you as a teacher"s assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are
mentally challenged with little or no chance of  11 ." Mom accepted the opportunity very  12 .
     For almost five years, as a teacher"s assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and
quit, feeling  13 . Then one day, the personal manager and the principal  14  in her classroom. The principal
said, "We have watched how you  15  the children and how they communicate with you and admire your
hard-working  16  over the last five years. We are all in agreement that you  17  be the teacher of this class."
     My mom spent more than 20 years there.  18  her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this
came about because of the  19  comment made in the classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle
20  situations and never give up.

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阅读理解。
Eight-year-old Jesse Arbogast was playing in the sea late one evening in July 2001 when a 7-foot bull shark attacked him and tore off his arm. Jesse"s uncle jumped into the sea and dragged the boy to shore. The boy was not breathing. His aunt gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (人工呼吸) while his uncle rang the emergency services. Pretty soon, a helicopter arrived and flew the boy to hospital. It was a much quicker journey than the journey by road. Jesse"s uncle, Vance Folsenzier, ran back into the sea and found the shark that had attacked his nephew. He picked the shark up and threw it onto the beach. A coastguard shot the fish four times and although this did not kill it, the shark"s jaws relaxed so that they could open them, and reach down into its stomach, and pull out the boy"s arm. At the Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Dr Ian Rogers spent eleven hours reattaching Jesse"s arm "It was a complicated operation," he said, "but we were lucky. If the arm hadn"t been recovered in time, we wouldn"t have been able to do the operation at all. What I mean is that if they hadn"t found the shark, we wouldn"t have had a chance." According to local park ranger Jack Tomosvic, shark attacks are not that common "Jesse was just unlucky," he says, "evening is the shark"s feeding time. And Jesse was in an area without lifeguards. This would never have happened if he had been in an area where swimming is allowed." When reporters asked Jesse"s uncle how he had had the courage to fight a shark, he replied, "I was mad and you do some strange things when you"re mad."
1. What was the boy doing when the accident happened?
[ ]
A. Feeding a hungry shark. B. Jumping into the rough sea. C. Dragging a boy to the shore. D. Swimming in a dangerous area.
2. In which way did the boy"s uncle help with the operation?
[ ]
A. By finding his lost arm. B. By shooting the fish. C. By flying him to hospital. D. By blowing into his mouth.
3. How was his uncle in time of danger?
[ ]
A. Careful. B. Brave. C. Optimistic. D. Patient.
阅读理解。
The Touchstone When the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book; and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for very little money. The book wasn"t very interesting, but between its pages there was something very interesting indeed. It was a thin strip of animal skin on which was written the secret of the "Touchstone"! The touchstone was a small pebble that could turn any common metal into pure gold. The writing explained that it was lying among thousands and thousands of other pebbles that looked exactly like it. But the secret was this: The real stone would feel warm, while ordinary pebbles were cold. So the man sold his few belongings, bought some simple supplies, camped on the seashore, and began testing pebbles. He knew that if he picked up ordinary pebbles and threw them down again because they were cold, he might pick up the same pebble hundreds of times. So, when he felt one that was cold, he threw it into the sea He spent a whole day doing this but none of them was the touchstone. Yet he went on and on this way. Pick up a pebble. Cold-throw it into the sea. Pick up another. Throw it into the sea. The days continued over a long period of time. One day, however, about mid-afternoon, he picked up a pebble and it was warm. He threw itinto the sea before he realized what he had done. He had formed such a strong habit of throwing each pebble into the sea that when the one he wanted came along, he still threw it away. So it is with opportunity. Unless we are cautious, it"s easy to fail to recognize an opportunity when it is in hand and it"s just as easy to throw it away.
1. The man bought the book because _____.
[ ]
A. he wanted to read it B. it was very interesting C. there was a secret in the book D. he wanted to find the touchstone
2. We can learn from the passage that the touchstone is _____.
[ ]
A. pure B. cold C. magic D. big
3. Why did the man throw-the pebbles into the sea?
[ ]
A Because he didn"t want to get the same pebbles. B. Because he didn"t want others to pick them up. C. Because he didn"t like their ordinary looks. D. Because he didn"t like the cold feelings.
4. What does the author want to tell us in the passage?
[ ]
A. We should create opportunities in our life. B. We should seek for opportunities in the world. C. We may seize opportunities when we are watchful. D. We may discover opportunities when forming habits.