Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our washing room, holding Brett"s jeans and shirt full of burn holes.
Tired and defeated, I 1 to the floor. The clothes were just one more thing Brett had 2 . He often got
almost everything in the house out of 3 . Many windows in our house needed repairing due to his breaking
4 to steal money when he chose to live on the street. Yet none of this could compare to the emotional 5
Brett had done to our once quiet home.
Brett came to live with us when he was 12 years old. During the next few years I had dealt with Brett as
6 as possible, but inside I was shouting, "I don"t want him in my house another day, Lord! I just can"t 7
him!" Having wiped my tears, I continued 8 him as before.
When Brett was nearly 18, he landed again in Juvenile Hall (少管所). After that, my husband and I had to
send Brett to a boarding school for helping 9 teens (少年).
At the 10 ceremony, each graduate held a white rose to give to the person who had 11 the most to him
or her.
Brett spoke 12 to his parents and then spoke to me, "You did so much. You were always there, no matter
13 . My mom and dad, I am their kid. But you, 14 troubled enough by me, always 15 me such love. And I
want you to know I love you for it."
16 , I stood as Brett placed the white rose in my hand and hugged me 17 . At that moment, tears 18 in my
eyes again, this time not for disappointment but for 19 . Although I had struggled with silent 20 toward my
stepson (继子), Brett had seen only my actions. Love is action. We may not always have positive feelings about
certain people in our life, but we can love them. |
( )1. A. sat
( )2. A. lost
( )3. A. order
( )4. A. off
( )5. A. pain
( )6. A. patiently
( )7. A. forgive
( )8. A. feeding
( )9. A. lazy
( )10. A. opening
( )11. A. afforded
( )12. A. sadly
( )13. A. where
( )14. A. although
( )15. A. cost
( )16. A. Astonished
( )17. A. surely
( )18. A. fell
( )19. A. pity
( )20. A. love | B. bent
B. ruined
B. place
B. in
B. injury
B. willingly
B. stand
B. pardoning
B. disappointing
B. official
B. meant
B. lovingly
B. how
B. unless
B. lent
B. Puzzled
B. tightly
B. flowed
B. luck
B. anxiety | C. sank
C. torn
C. trouble
C. up
C. harm
C. strictly
C. educate
C. comforting
C. troublesome
C. graduation
C. supplied
C. proudly
C. who
C. because
C. showed
C. Encouraged
C. roughly
C. moved
C. happiness
C. care | D. dropped
D. broken
D. danger
D. away
D. damage
D. rudely
D. control
D. parenting
D. careless
D. victory
D. owed
D. nervously
D. what
D. when
D. taught
D. Interested
D. fiercely
D. gathered
D. success
D. anger | | 阅读理解。 | Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and
refused to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement. As
they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger
angel asked why, the older angel replied, "Things aren"t always what they seem."
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable (好客的) farmer and
his wife. After sharing what little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could
have a good night"s rest. When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife in
tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their only income, lay dead in the field.
The younger angel was very angry and asked the older angel, "How could this happen? Why did you not
watch out for the cow? The first man had everything, yet you watched over his house," she accused, "The
second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you did not help."
"Things aren"t always what they seem," the older angel replied. "When we stayed in the basement, I noticed
there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so greedy and unwilling to share his good
fortune, I asked God if I could seal the wall so he couldn"t find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer"s
bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I ask God if the angel could take the cow instead. Things aren"t
always what they seem." | | 1. Why did the older angel repair the hole for the rich family? | | [ ] | A. Because she didn"t like the greedy owner.
B. Because she wanted to save the gold for the poor.
C. Because the basement was too cold to stay in.
D. Because she believed that one should always be ready to offer help. | | 2. In Paragraph two,"the pair" refers to _____. | | [ ] | A. the poor couple
B. the rich couple
C. the guests
D. the angels | | 3. The youngest angel was very angry because _____. | | [ ] | A. the old angel killed the farmer"s cow
B. the old angel treated the two families differently
C. the wealthy man gave them a bad place to live
D. the angel of death took the cow away | | 4. Why did the older angel let the farmer"s cow die? | | [ ] | A. Because God wanted the older angel to take the cow.
B. Because she wanted to teach the younger angel a lesson.
C. Because she wanted to save the farmer"s wife.
D. Because she was sympathetic to the rich. | | 完形填空。 | Bill White"s father is a lawyer. In his 1 time, he likes to get out in the country and take some 2 of
animals.
For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his father on one of his 3 . But his father didn"t take Bill along
with him 4 he was fifteen.
He and Bill drove to the farm which 5 to his uncle in the afternoon. They 6 the night there, so that they
could 7 out early the next morning. Uncle Steve and his son Larry, who was sixteen, were going to go out
with them.
It was still dark when Bill heard the alarm 9 the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early.
He couldn"t remember 9 he was. He turned over 10 and looked at the clock. It was 5 o"clock. Then he 11
that he was at the 12 and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got
13 quickly.
He ran downstairs. The others were already in the 14 . Uncle Steve was cooking bacon and eggs. There was
a pot of coffee on the stove. It 15 good.
They ate breakfast quickly. They didn"t talk 16 , because they didn"t want to 17 up the other people in the
house. They filled a thermos bottle 18 hot coffee and took some sandwiches 19 Aunt Grace, Uncle Steve"s
wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera 20 and started out. | ( )1.A. busy
( )2.A. foods
( )3.A. trips
( )4.A. after
( )5.A. led
( )6.A. cost
( )7.A. start
( )8.A. telephone
( )9.A. where
( )10.A. quickly
( )11.A. imagined
( )12.A. mountain
( )13.A. dressed
( )14.A. bathroom
( )15.A. seemed
( )16.A. many
( )17.A. wake
( )18.A. of
( )19.A. that
( )20.A. cover | B. spare
B. drawings
B. buses
B. when
B. stuck
B. spent
B. begin
B. machine
B. how
B. sleepily
B. pronounced
B. town
B. ordered
B. kitchen
B. felt
B. soundly
B. go
B. with
B. what
B. supply | C. enough
C. paintings
C. holidays
C. until
C. got
C. slept
C. walk
C. bell
C. who
C. quietly
C. forgot
C. farm
C. eaten
C. dining-room
C. tasted
C. much
C. put
C. in
C. after
C. operator | D. limited
D. pictures
D. mountains
D. unless
D. belonged
D. took
D. step
D. clock
D. what
D. suddenly
D. remembered
D. station
D. prepared
D. sitting-room
D. smelled
D. highly
D. come
D. by
D. before
D. equipment | | 阅读理解。 | One bitterly cold day, a snowstorm blew into our area. Needing firewood, I quickly set out with my best
friend, Bruce, to took for a tree to cut down. I was glad to have Bruce along with. Cutting down a tree in a
snowstorm can be dangerous. So it was important to have a friend who could warn me of danger.
When I chose a big 23-meter-tall tree and prepared to cut it down,my best friend suddenly warned me,
"Don"t cut down that tree! It"s too close to the power line!" I wasn"t sure about it. So I decided to disregard
his warning. I wanted to finish the job quickly and go home. So I began cutting down the tree. When the tree
fell, there was no longer any doubt whether my friend was right.
The tree caught the power line, bringing it to the ground. I considered cutting the tree off the line. After
all, electricity can"t travel through wood, so I could safely remove the tree. As I reached out my finger to touch
the tree, pain ran up my arm and through my head. I was shocked!
After I returned home and told my mother what had happened, she quickly called the power company.
Workers from the power company soon arrived on the scene. One of them asked if 1 had touched the tree,
and when I told him I had, his face turned pale.
"You should have been killed," he said.
So why am I still alive? It was my boots that saved my life.
Within two hours, the workers removed the tree. Soon the snowstorm calmed down-but not my mother.
Even though she was glad I wasn"t hurt, my mother was still serious about me. After all, I shouldn"t have
brushed off my friend"s warning.
Through this experience,I learned it"s important to listen to people who offer a different perspective. Taking
the time to listen might actually save a lot of time and trouble. It certainly would have kept me from getting the
"shock of my life". | | 1. The underlined word "disregard" in the second paragraph means "_____". | | [ ] | A. pay no attention to
B. take notice of
C. consider
D. follow | | 2. In spite of Bruce"s warning,the author still cut down the tree because _____. | | [ ] | A. he was sure there would he nothing to happen
B. he wasn"t sure if Bruce was right and was anxious to go home
C. he didn"t hear his friend"s warning at all because of the blowing wind
D. he knew electricity can"t travel through wood | | 3. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? | | [ ] | A. But for his boots, the author would have died.
B. The author regretted having brushed off his friend"s warning.
C. The author knew nothing about electricity.
D. When the tree was cut down,the author realized his friend was right. | | 4. The author wrote the passage mainly to _____. | | [ ] | A. give an account of one of his terrible experiences
B. make us know it"s important to listen to people who offer a different perspective through his experience
C. tell us not to cut trees down any more
D. remind us to be careful while working | | 阅读理解。 | A few days ago I asked my sons" governess (家庭女教师) Julia to come into my study. "Be seated, Julia,"
I said, "Let"s settle our accounts. I guess you most likely need some money, but maybe you"re too polite to
mention it. Now then, we agreed on thirty dollars a month..."
"Forty."
"No, thirty. I made a note of it. I always pay our governess thirty. Well, um, you"ve been here for two
months, so..."
"Two months and five days." Exactly two months. I made a special note of it. That means you have sixty
dollars coming to you. Take nine Sundays off... you know you didn"t work with Tom on Sundays, you only
took walks. And three holidays..." Julia was biting her fingernail nervously, her face red, but, not a word.
"Three holidays, therefore take twelve dollars off your pay. Four days Tom was sick and there were no
lessons, as you were occupied only with Dick. Three days you had a toothache and my wife gave you
permission not to work after lunch. Twelve and seven makes nineteen. Take nineteen off... that 1eaves, hmm...
forty-one dollars. Correct?"
Julia"s left eye reddened with tears welling up. Her chin trembled, and she coughed nervously and blew her
nose, but still not a word.
"Around New Year"s Day you broke a teacup and a saucer; take two dollars off your pay. The cup cost
more, because it was a treasure of the family, but forget it. When didn"t I take a loss! Then, due to your
neglect (疏忽), Tom climbed a tree and tore his jacket; take away ten. Also due to your carelessness the maid
stole Dick"s shoes. You ought to watch everything! You get paid for it. So, that means five more dollars off.
The tenth of January I gave you ten dollars".
"You didn"t." sobbed Julia.
"But I made a note of it."
"Well... if you say so."
"Take twenty-seven from forty-one, and that leaves fourteen."
Both her eyes were filled with tears. Beads of sweat stood on the thin pretty little nose. Poor girl!
"Only once was I given any money," she whispered, her voice trembling, "and that was by your wife.
Three dollars, nothing more."
"Real1y? You see now, and I didn"t know that! Take three from fourteen and it leaves eleven. Here"s your
money, my dear. Three, three, three, one and one. Here it is!"
I handed her eleven dollars. She took them and pocketed them.
"Merci (Thanks)," she whispered.
I jumped to my feet and started pacing the floor. I was overcome with anger. "For what, this merci"? I
asked.
"For the money".
"But you know I"ve cheated you-robbed you! I have actually stolen from you! Why this "merci"?"
"In my other places they didn"t give me anything at all."
"They didn"t give you anything? No wonder! I played a little joke on you, a cruel lesson, just to teach you…I"m going to give you all the eighty dollars! Here they are in the envelope all ready for you…Is it really possible
to be so spineless (懦弱)? Why didn"t you protest? Why were you silent? Is it possible in this world to be
without teeth and laws (爪)-to be such a fool?"
Embarrassed, she smiled. And I could read her expression, "It is possible".
I asked her pardon for the cruel lesson and, to her great surprise, gave her the eighty dollars. She
murmured her little "merci" several times and went out. I looked at her and thought, "How easy it is to crush
the weak in this World!" | | 1. While talking to Julia, the writer expected _____ from her. | | [ ] | A. a protest
B. gratitude
C. obedience
D. an explanation | | 2. What shocked the writer was Julia"s _____. | | [ ] | A. nervousness in front of her boss
B. acceptance of injustice
C. shyness when talking about money
D. reluctance to express herself | 3. The writer said, "Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws (爪)一to be such a fool?" He was
actually telling the governess _____. | | [ ] | A. to be more aggressive
B. to be more careful in her work
C. to protect her right
D. to live independently | | 4. From the story, we can know that Julia"s employer was _____. | | [ ] | A. greedy but honest
B. ill tempered but warm-hearted
C. strict but forgiving
D. none of the above | 最新试题
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