School was over and I was both mentally and physically tired. I sat at the very front of the bus because of my 1 to get home. Sitting at the front makes you 2 out like a shiny coin in a pile of dull pennies.
Janie, the driver, tries to break the 3 atmosphere by striking the match of 4 . I try to mind my manners and 5 listen, but usually I am too busy thinking about my day. On this day, 6 , her conversation was worth listening to.
"My father"s sick," she said to no one in 7 . I could see the anxiety and fear in her eyes. With a sudden change of attitude and interest, I asked, "What"s wrong with him?" With her eyes wet and her voice tight from 8 the tears, she responded, "Heart trouble." Her eyes lowered as she 9 . "I"ve already lost my mum, so I don"t think I can stand losing him."
I couldn"t respond. I was 10 . My heart ached for her. I sat on the old, smelly seat thinking of the great 11 my own mother was thrown into when her father died. I saw how hard it was, 12 still is, for her. I wouldn"t like anyone to go 13 that.
Suddenly I realized Janie wasn"t only a bus driver. That was 14 her job. She had a whole world of family and concerns, too. I had never thought of her as 15 but a driver.
I suddenly felt very 16 . I realized I had only thought of people as 17 as what their purposes were in my life. I paid no attention to Janie because she was a bus driver. I had judged her by her job and brushed her off as 18 .
For all I know, I"m just another person in 19 else"s world, and may not even be important. I 20 not have been so selfish and self-centred. Everyone has places to go, people to see and appointments (约会) to keep. Understanding people is an art. |
( )1. A. anxiety
( )2. A. find
( )3. A. unpopular
( )4. A. fire
( )5. A. politely
( )6. A. however
( )7. A. surprise
( )8. A. fighting
( )9. A. told
( )10. A. for sure
( )11. A. mercy
( )12. A. but
( )13. A. over
( )14. A. almost
( )15. A. something
( )16. A. sad
( )17. A. far
( )18. A. unfit
( )19. A. everyone
( )20. A. must | B. determination
B. make
B. uncomfortable
B. topic
B. devotedly
B. therefore
B. common
B. avoiding
B. lasted
B. at ease
B. pain
B. yet
B. round
B. nearly
B. anything
B. embarrassed
B. long
B. unselfish
B. someone
B. may | C. decision
C. think
C. unusual
C. conversation
C. carelessly
C. thus
C. silence
C. clearing
C. repeated
C. in shock
C. pity
C. and
C. through
C. ever
C. nothing
C. selfish
C. much
C. unnecessary
C. anyone
C. can | D. attempt
D. stand
D. unforgettable
D. discussion
D. sincerely
D. otherwise
D. particular
D. keeping
D. continued
D. in despair
D. disappointment
D. or
D. without
D. just
D. everything
D. worried
D. well
D. unimportant
D. no one
D. should | | 阅读理解。 | "I swear, I didn"t steal anything!" I shouted over the alarm. Obviously the security guard didn"t believe me
because he seized the shopping bag right out of my hand.
"Do you have a receipt of this?" he asked doubtfully, putting any new back-to-school outfit (全套设备)
onto the dusty floor near the mall entrance.
"Of course I do," I replied, fishing my wallet out of my coat pocket. Elsie and Monica, my two best friends,
stood beside me. They were laughing their heads off!
I almost tore my wallet apart for the receipt, but it had disappeared. "Let me look again," I said nervously.
Then I looked again, and again, and again! My face was getting hotter by the minute, and my heart was beating
like a racehorse.
Finally, I looked back at the guard and whispered, "It"s not here." The guard picked up my clothes and said,
"You"ll have to come with me, Miss."
When he opened the office door, I saw a man sitting behind a big metal desk. It was the manager. Then I
had an idea.
"May I say something?" I asked. "I can prove I didn"t steal this thing." "Then I explained all about the cashier
(出纳员). She said that she had bought the exact same outfit as a birthday present for her little sister." "We"ll
just see about that," the manager said and went off to find her. Ten minutes later, I was free!
It was terrible to be unfairly accused of something! Then I remembered shouting at my sister that very
morning for taking my new hair clips.
Had she really taken them? I made a promise that day never to accuse someone of something without
proof, and I haven"t. At last, something good came out of my terrible experience. | | 1. Why didn"t the security guard believe the author? | | [ ] | A. Because she looked nervous at that time.
B. Because she had no money in her wallet.
C. Because she didn"t have a receipt for the outfit.
D. Because her face turned red after being caught. | | 2. That the author"s two friends laughed their heads off showed _____. | | [ ] | A. they didn"t believe the author
B. they laughed at the author who stole things
C. they expected the author to be caught
D. they played a trick on the author | | 3. We can infer the author was very _____ from the underlined part in Paragraph 4. | | [ ] | A. careful
B. nervous
C. frightened
D. excited | | 4. Who proved that the author hadn"t stolen anything? | | [ ] | A. The manager.
B. The cashier.
C. The author"s friends.
D. The security guard. | | 5. From her experience, the author learned that _____. | | [ ] | A. you should believe in yourself in face of difficulty
B. it is a terrible thing to be suspected (怀疑) by friends
C. you should ask for a receipt for whatever you buy
D. you should not doubt others if you can"t prove it | | 完形填空。 | My first performance in front an audience was coming up soon.
I tried as hard as I could to remain 1 , but my heart was racing. I stared down at my sweat-covered,
2 hands.
I looked up again at the audience, realizing that these were 3 people. They were not just my mum and
dad, who 4 say, "Good job!" even if I messed up (弄乱) the wrong notes?
As it 5 , I was never able to answer these questions because the spotlight was 6 for me. I grasped
my hands tightly together, drying off the sweat.
Slowly I walked to the mud-brown piano in the 7 of the room. It contained 88 demanding keys, which
were waiting impatiently to be played. I swallowed the gofball-sized lump (隆起部分) in my throat and sat
down. 8 , I opened the music book. Next, I rested my still shaking hands on the ivory (乳白色) keys.
As my fingers played across the keys, I was becoming more 9 of my preparation for this moment. But
the memory of my years of training came flooding back. I knew that I had 10 this piece so many times that
I could play it backwards if 11 .
Although at one point I accidentally played two keys instead of the intended one, I continued to move my
12 automatically (自动地).
My eyes burned holes into the page in front of me.
There was no 13 that I was going to lose my concentration. To keep this 14 to myself, I leaned forward
and focused carefully on the music.
15 I came to the end of the page, a warning 16 inside my heads: DON"T MAKE A MISTAKE WHEN
YOU TURN THE PAGE!
Needless to say, I 17 myself with all my heart and mind. And, proud of my "page-turning" feat (技艺) I
finished the 18 of the piece without making a single mistake.
After the final note died away, a celebration went into action 19 my head. I had finished. I had mastered
the 20 . | ( )1. A. unknown
( )2. A. shaking
( )3. A. true
( )4. A. will
( )5. A. turned out
( ) 6. A. looking
( )7. A. corner
( )8. A. mine
( )9. A. For
( )10. A. room
( )11. A. an instruction
( )12. A. put
( )13. A. working
( )14. A. on end
( )15. A hope
( )16. A. comfort
( )17. A. office
( )18. A. crazily
( )19. A. neighbors
( )20. A. followed | B. still
B. moving
B. real
B. can
B. turned up
B. searching
B. cross
B. hers
B. With
B. area
B. a result
B. wrote
B. driving
B. so long
B. know
B. help
B. flat
B. eagerly
B. friends
B. passed | C. calm
C. waving
C. young
C. could
C. turned back
C. expecting
C. center
C. itself
C. From
C. front
C. an answer
C. sent
C. returning
C. like that
C. suppose
C. forgive
C. place
C. noisily
C. drivers
C. found | D. quiet
D. old
D. old
D. would
D. turned down
D. waiting
D. back
D. ours
D. Upon
D. side
D. a chance
D. discovered
D. cooking
D. any more
D. suggest
D. please
D. garage
D. early
D. writers
D. greeted | | 完形填空。 | It was a cold winter day that Sunday. The parking lot to the church was 1 up quickly. I 2 as I got
out of my car that fellow church members were whispering among themselves as they walked to the 3 .
As I got closer I saw a man leaning 4 the wall outside the church. He was almost lying down 5 he
was asleep. He had on a long coat that was in 6 and a hat topped his head, 7 down so you couldn"t see
his face.
He wore shoes that looked 30 years old, too small for his feet, with 8 all over them, his toes 9 out.
I assumed this man was 10 , and asleep, so I walked on by through the doors of the church.
We all 11 fellowship for a few minutes, and then someone brought up the man outside. People gossiped,
but no one 12 to ask him to come in, including me. A few moments later church 13 . We were all waiting
for the Preacher (传教士) to take his 14 , and to give us The Word, 15 the doors to the church opened.
16 came the homeless man, walking with his head down.
People whispered and made faces. He made his way and up onto the pulpit. When he took off his hat and
coat my heart 17 . There stood our preacher…he was the "homeless man."
No one said a word…the room was 18 .
Then the preacher took his Bible and laid it on the stand. "Folks, I don"t think I have to tell you 19 I"m
preaching about today." They he started singing the 20 to this song:
"If I can help somebody as I pass along, If I can cheer somebody with a word or song.
If I can show somebody that he"s traveling wrong, …" | ( )1. A. filling
( )2. A. looked
( )3. A. car
( )4. A. below
( )5. A. even if
( )6. A. rags
( )7. A. taken
( )8. A. scratches
( )9. A. stuck
( )10. A. careless
( )11. A. continued
( )12. A. bothered
( )13. A. reported
( )14. A. turn
( )15. A. when
( )16. A. Out
( )17. A. broke
( )18. A. silent
( )19. A. where
( )20. A. sentences | B. piling
B. watched
B. man
B. opposite
B. as if
B. order
B. pulled
B. water
B. left
B. stupid
B. reminded
B. pretended
B. stopped
B. power
B. before
B. Away
B. beat
B. empty
B. what
B. words | C. picking
C. observed
C. church
C. beyond
C. in case
C. pieces
C. fallen
C. holes
C. put
C. homeless
C. enjoyed
C. failed
C. performed
C. place
C. while
C. In
C. shocked
C. smooth
C. which
C. phrases | D. putting
D. noticed
D. wall
D. against
D. so that
D. trouble
D. held
D. dirt
D. run
D. lazy
D. discussed
D. happened
D. began
D. hat
D. until
D. Up
D. sank
D. calm
D. why
D. expressions | | 阅读理解。 | Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old
swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out of the back door, leaving
behind shoes, socks, and shirt as he went.
He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, a crocodile was
swimming toward him. His mother in the house was looking out of the window and saw the two. In great
fear, she ran toward the water, shouting to her son as loudly as she could. Hearing her voice, the little boy
became alarmed and made a U-turn to swim to his mother. It was too late. Just as he reached her, the
crocodile reached him. From the shore, the mother grabbed her little boy by the arms just as the crocodile
snatched his legs. That began an incredible tug-of-war between the two. The crocodile was much stronger
than the mother, but the mother was much too passionate to let go. A farmer happened to drive by, heard
their screams, raced from his truck, took aim and shot the crocodile.
Remarkably, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs were extremely
scarred by the attack of the animal. And, on his arms, were deep scratches where his mother"s fingernails
dug into his flesh in her effort to hang on to the son she loved.
The newspaper reporter, who interviewed the boy, asked if he would show him his scars. The boy lifted
his legs. And then, with obvious pride, he said to the reporter, "But look at my arms. I have great scars on
my arms, too. I have them because my Mom wouldn"t let go."
Never judge another person"s scars, because you don"t know how they were made. | | 1. Which of the following will be the best title for the text? | [ ] | A. Scars of Love
B. A Brave Mother
C. A Terrible Experience
D. Don"t Judge by Appearance | | 2. Hearing Mother"s shouts, the boy _____. | [ ] | A. remained in the middle at a loss
B. didn"t stop swimming forwards
C. swam back towards the shore
D. was ready to fight the crocodile | | 3. Which of the following statements is True according to the text? | [ ] | A. A crocodile attacked him when the boy and his mother were swimming.
B. The crocodile bit the arms of the boy when it reached him.
C. There is always an interesting story behind every scar.
D. It was the farmer who shot the crocodile. | 4. By saying "But look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too" in paragraph 4, the boy really wants
to show _____. | [ ] | A. how deep the scars were
B. what a brave boy he was
C. how great and beloved his mother was
D. how many scars and scratches he had | 最新试题
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