I met Mrs. Neidl in the ninth grade on a stage-design team for a play and she was one of the directors. Almost instantly I loved her. She had an unpleasant voice and a direct way of speaking, 1 she was encouraging and inspiring. For some reason, she was impressed with my work and me. Mrs. Neidl would ask me for my 2 . She wanted to know how I thought we should 3 things. At first I had no idea how to answer because I knew 4 about stage design! But I slowly began to respond to her 5 . It was cause and effect: She believed I had opinions, so I began to 6 them. She trusted me to complete things, so I completed them perfectly. She loved how 7 I was, so I began to show up to paint more and more. She believed in me, so I began to believe in myself. Mrs. Neidl"s 8 that year was, "Try it. We can always paint over it 9 !" I began to take 10 . I had been so afraid of failing but suddenly there was no failing-only things to be 11 upon. I learned to dip my brush into the paint and 12 create something. The shy, quiet freshman achieved success that year. I was 13 in the program as "Student Art Assistant" because of the time and effort I"d put in. It was that year that I 14 I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing stage design. Being on that stage-design team 15 Mrs. Neidl changed me completely. Not only was I stronger and more competent than I had thought, but I also 16 a strong interest and a world I hadn"t known existed. She taught me not to 17 what people think I should do: She taught me to take chances and not be 18 . Mrs. Neidl was my comforter when I was upset. Her 19 in me has inspired me to do things that I never imagined 20 . |
( )1. A. and ( )2. A. opinion ( )3. A. make ( )4. A. anything ( )5. A. questions ( )6. A. hold ( )7. A. happy ( )8. A. message ( )9. A. again ( )10. A. steps ( )11. A. improved ( )12. A. easily ( )13. A. introduced ( )14. A. confirmed ( )15. A. with ( )16. A. developed ( )17. A. accept ( )18. A. bored ( )19. A. trust ( )20. A. accessible | B. yet B. impression B. keep B. something B. comments B. follow B. lively B. motto B. more B. control B. acted B. carefully B. recognized B. decided B. below B. discovered B. care B. lazy B. patience B. enjoyable | C. so C. information C. handle C. everything C. explanations C. evaluate C. reliable C. saying C. instead C. charge C. looked C. confidently C. identified C. realized C. of C. took C. judge C. sad C. curiosity C. possible | D. for D. intention D. change D. nothing D. remarks D. form D. punctual D. suggestion D. later D. risks D. reflected D. proudly D. considered D. acknowledged D. by D. fostered D. wonder D. afraid D. interest D. favorable | 阅读理解。 | Goldie"s Secret She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. "We"re moving house." "No space for her any more with the baby coming." "We never really wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present." People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen. I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner"s. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire. That"s why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldn"t hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could. By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. "We didn"t know what had happened to her," said the woman at the door. "I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies were born, and she just disappeared." "She must have tried to come back to them and got lost," added a boy from behind her. I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I"ve got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And I"ve learnt a good lesson: not to judge people. | 1. How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house? | [ ] | A. Shocked. B. Sympathetic. C. Annoyed. D. Upset. | 2. In her first few days at the author"s house, Goldie _____. | [ ] | A. felt worried B. was angry C. ate a little D. sat by the fire | 3. Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she _____. | [ ] | A. saw her puppies B. heard familiar barkings C. wanted to leave the author D. found her way to her old home | 4. The passage is organized in order of _____. | [ ] | A. time B. effectiveness C. importance D. complexity | 完形填空。 | Robert Moody, 52, is an experienced police officer. Much of his work involves dealing with 1 an gang (团 伙) problems in the schools of his community. Knowing that many kids often 2 trouble, he decided to do something about it. So in 1991 he began to invite small groups of kids to go fishing with him on his day 3 . Those fun trips had a(n) 4 impact. A chance encounter in 2000 proved that. One day, 5 working security at a school basketball game, Moody noticed two young guys 6 . He sensed trouble between them. 7 one of them headed toward Moody and gave him a hug. "I 8 you. You took me 9 when I was in fifth grade. That was one of the 10 days of my life." Deeply touched by the boy"s word, Moody decided to create a foundation (基金会) that 11 teenagers to the basics of fishing in camping programs. "As a policeman, I saw 12 there was violence, drugs were always behind it. They have a damaging 13 on the kids," says Moody. By turning kids on to fishing, he 14 to present an alternative way of life, "When you"re sitting there waiting for a 15 ," he says, "you can"t help but talk to each other, and such 16 can be pretty deep." "Talking about drugs helped prepare me for the peer (同龄人) pressures in high school," says Michelle, who 17 the first program. "And I was able to help my little brother 18 drugs." Moody faces 19 in three years, when he hopes to run the foundation full-time. "I"m living a happy life and I have a responsibility to my 20 to give back," Moody says. "If I teach a kid to fish today, he can teach his brother to fish tomorrow." | ( )1. A. drinking ( )2. A. ran into ( )3. A. ahead ( )4. A. immediate ( )5. A. once ( )6. A. quarreling ( )7. A. Slowly ( )8. A. understand ( )9. A. fishing ( )10. A. quietest ( )11. A. connects ( )12. A. where ( )13. A. impression ( )14. A. asked ( )15. A. solution ( )16. A. concerns ( )17. A. participated in ( )18. A. misuse ( )19. A. unemployment ( )20. A. team | B. drug B. got over B. away B. damaging B. while B. complaining B. Suddenly B. hear B. sailing B. longest B. introduces B. unless B. burden B. intended B. change B. interests B. worked out B. avoid B. challenge B. school | C. security C. left behind C. off C. limited C. since C. talking C. Finally C. see C. boating C. best C. reduces C. as C. decision C. pretended C. bite C. conversations C. approved of C. tolerate C. competition C. family | D. smoking D. looked into D. out D. lasting D. until D. cheering D. Secretly D. remember D. swimming D. busiest D. commits D. whether D. impact D. agreed D. surprise D. emotions D. made up D. test D. retirement D. community | 阅读理解。 | In the kitchen of my mother"s houses there has always been a wooden stand (木架) with a small notepad (记事本) and a hole for a pencil. I"m looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can"t be the same pencil? The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one. "I"m just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these year." I say to her, walking bank into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. "You still use a pencil. Can"t you afford a pen?" My mother replies a little sharply. "It works perfectly well. I"ve always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in these days." Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, "One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on." This story-which happened before I was born-reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is, as a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible (看不到的) exhibits at every meal. | 1. Why has the author"s mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen? | [ ] | A. To leave messages. B. To list her everyday tasks. C. To note down maths problems. D. To write down a flash of inspiration. | 2. What is the author"s original opinion about the wooden stand? | [ ] | A. It has great value for the family. B. It needs to be replaced by a better one. C. It brings her back to her lonely childhood. D. It should be passed on to the next generation. | 3. The author feels embarrassed for _____. | [ ] | A. blaming her mother wrongly B. giving her mother a lot of trouble C. not making good use of time as her mother did D. not making any breakthrough in her field | 4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? | [ ] | A.The mother is successful in her career. B. The family members like traveling. C. The author had little time to play when young. D. The marks on the breadboard have disappeared. | 5. In the author"s mind,her mother is _____. | [ ] | A. strange in behavior B. keen on her research C. fond of collecting old things D. careless about her appearance | 阅读下面短文,并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。 | When Dan Shaw gets up from the sofa in his home, Cuddles is never far away. When he wants to go outside, he doesn"t take Cuddles out for walk-Cuddles takes him for a walk. Cuddles is clearly no ordinary family pet. It is a two-foot-high miniature horse and serves as the guiding eyes of Shaw, who is blind. When Shaw lost his sight, his wife suggested he apply for a guide dog. Shaw, an animal lover, said he couldn"t bear to part with a dog (which usually lives about eight to ten years) and get used to a new one, perhaps several times in his life. Then Shaw heard of a program about the tiny guide horses. He learned that the horse possess many qualities that that make them an excellent choice for guiding people. They are clean friendly, smart and have great memories. They can be trained to remain calm in noisy and crowded places. Best of all, they live for 25-25years, which would enable Shaw to have the same guide companion for most or all of his life. Shaw immediately applied to be and was accepted as the first person to receive a guide horse. The instant he met Cuddles, he knew he was making the right choice. Then he began his training. Through training,Shaw and Cuddles learned to find way on busy streets, step over curbs (便道沿儿) and find elevator buttons. Cuddles even demonstrated (显示) its ability to step in front of Shaw and block him, to prevent him from walking into a dangerous situation. The little horse also expertly led Shaw through busy shopping malls. They got along without any difficulties. Now Shaw is confident that Cuddles will change his life for the better. | 1. What"s the meaning of the underlined word "miniature" in Paragraph 1? (No more than 2 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why didn"t Shaw want to choose a dog as his guide? (No more than 15 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What does Paragraph 3 mainly tell us? (No more than 10 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. How does Shaw feel about his future life with the help of Cuddles? (No more than 10 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 5. In your opinion, what is the ideal relationship between man and animals? (No more than 20 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ |
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