Terry was a middle-aged leather trader whose repeated failure in career made him a depressed man,
often 1 that he had been cheated by others. One day he told his wife he was so 2 with the city that
he had to leave.
So his family moved to another city. It was the evening of a weekend. When Terry and his wife were
busily 3 up their new home, the light suddenly went out. Terry was regretful to have forgotten bringing
along candles and had to wait 4 in a low mood. Just then he heard light, hesitant (犹豫的) knocks on his
door that were clearly audible (听到) in the 5 night.
"Who"s it?" he wondered, since Terry was a 6 to this city. And this was the moment he especially
hated to be 7 , so he went to the door and opened it 8 . At the door was a little girl, shyly asking, "Sir,
do you have candles? I"m your neighbor." "No," answered Terry in anger and shut the door violently. "What
a nuisance (讨厌)!" he complained over it with his wife. "No sooner had we settled down than the neighbor
came to 9 things."
After a while, the door was knocked again. He opened it and found the same girl outside. 10 this time
she was holding two candles, saying, "My grandma told me the new neighbor downstairs might need candles.
She 11 me here to give you these." Terry was very 12 by what he saw.
At that moment he suddenly realized what caused his 13 in life. It was his 14 and harshness (刻薄) with
other people. The person who had cheated him in life was 15 nobody else but himself, for his eyes had been
blurred (蒙蔽) by his unsympathetic mind. |
( )1.A.complaining
( )2.A.inspired
( )3.A.looking
( )4.A.happily
( )5.A.dark
( )6.A.newcomer
( )7.A.called
( )8.A.surprisedly
( )9.A.lend
( )10.A.And
( )11.A.suggested
( )12.A.frightened
( )13.A.failure
( )14.A.warmth
( )15.A.doubtfully | B.reflecting
B.disappointed
B.turning
B.patiently
B.quiet
B.stranger
B.disturbed
B.delightedly
B.sell
B.But
B.forbade
B.pleased
B.success
B.coldness
B.hardly | C.praying
C.thrilled
C.coming
C.hopefully
C.noisy
C.guest
C.watched
C.impatiently
C.purchase
C.So
C.sent
C.puzzled
C.dissatisfaction
C.kindness
C.really | D.pretending
D.encouraged
D.tidying
D.helplessly
D.crowded
D.settler
D.offered
D.willingly
D.borrow
D.For
D.forced
D.surprised
D.determination
D.sympathy
D.probably | | 阅读下面的短文，然后以约30个词概括故事的主要情节。 | An old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year-old grandson. The family ate together
at the table, but his shaky hands and failing sight made eating difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor.
When he grasped the glass, milk spilled on the tablecloth. The son and daughter-in-law became angry with the
mess. So they set a small table in the corner. There Grandfather ate alone while they enjoyed dinner.
Since Grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl. Still, the only words
the couple had for him were sharp when he dropped a fork or spilled food. The grandson watched silently.
One evening, the father noticed the son playing with wood scraps (:small piece) and asked the child sweetly,
"What are you making?" The boy responded, "Oh, I am making a bowl for you and mum to eat your food in
when I grow up."
The words struck the parents so hard that they were speechless. Then tears started to stream down their
cheeks. The son took gently and led Grandfather back to their table. From then on, he ate every meal with them.
Neither of them seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk spilled, or the tablecloth soiled. | _______________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________ | | 完形填空。 | There is a wonderful fable about a young orphan girl who had no family and no one to love her. One day,
feeling particularly 1 , she was walking through a meadow 2 she noticed a small butterfly 3 in a thorn
bush. The more the butterfly 4 to free itself, the 5 the thorns cut into its body. The young orphan girl
carefully 6 the butterfly from its captivity (围困). 7 flying away, the little butterfly changed into a beautiful
fairy. The young girl rubbed her eyes in 8 .
"For your 9 kindness," the good fairy said to the girl, "I will grant (给予) you any 10 you would like."
The little girl thought for a moment and then replied, "I want to be 11 !" The fairy said, "Very well," and
leaned toward her, 12 in her ear. Then the good fairy disappeared. 13 the little girl grew up, there was no
one in the land as happy as she. Everyone asked her the 14 of her happiness. She would only answer, "It is
that I 15 a good fairy when I was a little girl."
When she was very old and on her deathbed, the neighbors all gathered around her, 16 that her fabulous
secret of happiness would die with her. "Tell us, please," they 17 , "Tell us what the good fairy said."
The lovely old woman 18 and said, "She told me that everyone, no matter how 19 they seemed, no matter
how old or young, how rich or poor, had 20 of me. If I would be loved, love and be lovable." | ( )1. A. mean
( )2. A. while
( )3. A. stayed
( )4. A. expected
( )5. A. more
( )6. A. released
( )7. A. In spite of
( )8. A. despair
( )9. A. wonderful
( )10. A. promise
( )11. A. happy
( )12. A. gossiping
( )13. A. Once
( )14. A. purpose
( )15. A. listened to
( )16. A. confused
( )17. A. urged
( )18. A. relaxed
( )19. A. secure
( )20. A. memory | B. unfit
B. when
B. lying
B. struggled
B. bigger
B. approached
B. Owing to
B. relief
B. generous
B. fortune
B. famous
B. whispering
B. Before
B. incident
B. heard from
B. certain
B. begged
B. smiled
B. anxious
B. sympathy | C. comfortable
C. though
C. caught
C. hoped
C. more painful
C. helped
C. As for
C. disbelief
C. brave
C. wish
C. rich
C. telling
C. As
C. cause
C. dreamt of
C. doubtful
C. shouted
C. wept
C. unsafe
C. confidence | D. lonely
D. as
D. playing
D. managed
D. deeper
D. assisted
D. Instead of
D. admiration
D. magical
D. belief
D. powerful
D. shouting
D. Until
D. secret
D. relied on
D. afraid
D. informed
D. sighed
D. wealthy
D. need | | 完形填空。 | I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be 1
Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, "What would I say when the
other kids asked what I"d 2 ?" Just when I started to 3 that there would not be a Christmas that year,
three women 4 at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll, I felt such a sense of
5 that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn"t 6 . Somebody
had thought 7 of me to bring me a gift.
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my 8
Christmas there special and memorable, I 9 remembered the women"s visit. I decided that I wanted to
create that same feeling of 10 for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I 11 a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans
(孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and
school suppliers, 12 with a child"s name. We wanted all of them to know they were 13 . Before I called
out their names and handed them their gifts, I 14 them that they couldn"t open their presents 15 every
child had come forward. Finally the 16 they had been waiting for came as I called out, "One, two, three.
Open your presents!" As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles 17
up the room. The 18 in the room was obvious, and 19 wasn"t just about toys. It was a feeling-the feeling
I knew 20 that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn"t forgotten. Somebody
thought of me. I matter. | ( )1. A. sending
( )2. A. found
( )3. A. doubt
( )4. A. broke in
( )5. A. relief
( )6. A. blamed
( )7. A. highly
( )8. A. present
( )9. A. hardly
( )10. A. strength
( )11. A. kept up with
( )12. A. none
( )13. A. fine
( )14. A. reminded
( )15. A. after
( )16. A. chance
( )17. A. lit
( )18. A. atmosphere
( )19. A. it
( )20. A. by | B. receiving
B. prepared
B. hope
B. settled down
B. loss
B. loved
B. little
B. first
B. immediately
B. independence
B. caught up with
B. few
B. special
B. suggested
B. until
B. gift
B. took
B. sympathy (同情)
B. such
B. till | C. making
C. got
C. suggest
C. turned up
C. achievement
C. forgotten
C. poorly
C. recent
C. regularly
C. importance
C. came up with
C. some
C. helpful
C. convinced
C. when
C. moment
C. burned
C. calmness
C. something
C. for | D. exchanging
D. expected
D. accept
D. showed off
D. disappointment
D. affected
D. enough
D. previous
D. occasionally
D. safety
D. put up with
D. each
D. normal
D. prom ised
D. since
D. reward
D. cheered
D. joy
D. everybody
D. from | | 阅读理解。 | When I was growing up in America, I was ashamed of my mother"s Chinese English. Because of her
English, she was often treated unfairly. People in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take
her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not
hear her.
My mother has realized the limitations of her English as well. When I was fifteen, she used to have me
call people on phone to pretend I was she. I was forced to ask for information or even to yell at people who
had been rude to her. One time I had to call her stockbroker (股票经纪人). I said in an adolescent (青春期的)
voice that was not very convincing, "This is Mrs. Tan.."
And my mother was standing beside me, whispering loudly, "Why he don"t send me check already two
week late." And then, in perfect English I said:"I"m getting rather concerned. You agreed to send the check
two weeks ago, but it hasn"t arrived."
Then she talked more loudly. "What he want? I come to New York tell him front of his boss." And so I
turned to the stockbroker again, "I can"t tolerate any more excuse. If I don"t receive the check immediately,
I am going to have to speak to your manager when I am in New York next week." The next week we ended
up in New York. While I was sitting there red-faced, my mother, the real Mrs.Tan, was shouting to his boss
in her broken English.
When I was a teenager, my mother"s broken English embarrassed me. But now, I see it differently. To me,
my mother"s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It is my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is
vivid, direct, and full of observation and wisdom. It was the language that helped shape the way I saw things,
expressed ideas, and made sense of the world. | | 1. Why was the author"s mother poorly served? | | [ ] | A. She was unable to speak good English.
B. She was often misunderstood.
C. She was not clearly heard.
D. She was not very polite. | | 2. From Paragraph 2, we know that the author was _____. | | [ ] | A. good at pretending
B. rude to the stockbroker
C. ready to help her mother
D. unwilling to phone for her mother | | 3. After the author made the phone call, _____. | | [ ] | A. they forgave the stockbroker
B. they failed to get the check
C. they went to New York immediately
D. they spoke to their boss at once | | 4. What does the author think of her mother"s English now? | | [ ] | A. It confuses her.
B. It embarrasses her.
C. It helps her understand the world.
D. It helps her tolerate rude people. | 最新试题
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