( )1. A. challenged
( )2. A. unforgettable
( )3. A. physical
( )4. A. advantage
( )5. A. awake
( )6. A. tolerating
( )7. A. emotions
( )8. A. after
( )9. A. boring
( )10. A. settled
( )11. A. fled
( )12. A. surprise
( )13. A. protector
( )14. A. resist
( )15. A. educating
( )16. A. exploding
( )17. A. surprised
( )18. A. urge
( )19. A. admiration
( )20. A. family | B. cheated
B. uncontrollable
B. mental
B. agenda
B. call
B. observing
B. pets
B. as
B. fantastic
B. punished
B. stormed
B. delight
B. trainer
B. describe
B. envying
B. reading
B. disappointed
B. shorten
B. curiosity
B. teaching | C. benefited
C. unconscious
C. academic
C. reason
C. visit
C. relieving
C. botany
C. when
C. busy
C. treated
C. jogged
C. shame
C. friend
C. reduce
C. comforting
C. arguing
C. amused
C. transform
C. anxiety
C. housework | D. betrayed
D. unfortunate
D. authentic
D. way
D. sign
D. ignoring
D. diet
D. before
D. rough
D. excited
D. floated
D. fear
D. owner
D. forget
D. quieting
D. apologizing
D. confused
D. expand
D. love
D. performance |
答案
| 1-5: ABCDB 6-10: CBCDA 11-15: BACAD 16-20: BACDB |
举一反三
| 阅读理解。 | The thing is, my luck"s always been ruined. Just look at my name: Jean. Not Jean Marie, or Jeanine, or
Jeanette, or even Jeanne. Just Jean. Did you know in France, they name boys Jean? It"s French for John.
And okay, I don"t live in France. But still, I"m basically a girl named John, If I lived in France, anyway.
This is the kind of luck I"ve had since before Mom even filled out my birth certificate. So it wasn"t any
big surprise to me when the cab driver didn"t help me with my suitcase. I"d already had to tolerate arriving
at the airport to find no one there to greet me, and then got no answer to my many phone calls, asking
where my aunt and uncle were. Did they not want me after all? Had they changed their minds? Had they
heard about my bad luck-all the way from Iowa-and decided they didn"t want any of it to rub off on them?
So when the cab driver, instead of getting out and helping me with my bags, just pushed a little button
so that the trunk (汽车后备箱) popped open a few inches, it wasn"t the worst thing that had ever happened
to me. It wasn"t even the worst thing that had happened to me that day.
According to my mom, most brownstones in New York City were originally single-family homes when
they were built way back in the 1800s. But now they"ve been divided up into apartments, so that there"s
one-or sometimes even two or more families-per floor.
Not Mom"s sister Evelyn"s brownstone, though. Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted Gardiner own all four floors
of their brownstone. That"s practically one floor per person, since Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted only have three
kids, my cousins Tory, Teddy, and Alice.
Back home, we just have two floors, but there are seven people living on them. And only one bathroom.
Not that I"m complaining. Still, ever since my sister Courtney discovered blow-outs, it"s been pretty frightful
at home.
But as tall as my aunt and uncle"s house was, it was really narrow-just three windows across. Still, it was
a very pretty townhouse, painted gray. The door was a bright, cheerful yellow. There were yellow flower
boxes along the base of each window, flower boxes from which bright red-and obviously newly planted,
since it was only the middle of April, and not quite warm enough for them.
It was nice to know that, even in a sophisticated (世故的) city like New York, people still realized how
homey and welcoming a box of flowers could be. The sight of those flowers cheered me up a little.
Like maybe Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted just forgot I was arriving today, and hadn"t deliberately failed to
meet me at the airport because they"d changed their minds about letting me come to stay.
Like everything was going to be all right, after all.
Yeah. With my luck, probably not.
I started up the steps to the front door of 326 East Sixty-Ninth Street, then realized I couldn"t make it
with both bags and my violin. Leaving one bag on the sidewalk, I dragged the other up the steps with me.
Maybe I took the steps a little too fast, since I nearly tripped and fell flat on my face on the sidewalk. I
managed to catch myself at the last moment by grabbing some of the fence the gardeners had put up. | | 1. Why did the author go to New York? | | [ ] | A. She intended to go sightseeing there.
B. She meant to stay with her aunt"s family.
C. She was homeless and adopted by her aunt.
D. She wanted to try her luck and find a job there. | | 2. According to the author, some facts account for her bad luck EXCEPT that _____. | | [ ] | A. she was given a boy"s name in French
B. the cab driver didn"t help her with her bags
C. her sister Courtney discovered blow-outs
D. nobody had come to meet her at the airport | | 3. The underlined phrase "rub off on" in Paragraph 3 probably means _____. | | [ ] | A. have an effect on
B. play tricks on
C. put pressure on
D. throw doubt on | | 4. From the passage, we can know that _____. | | [ ] | A. the author left home without informing her mother
B. the author arrived in New York in a very warm season
C. her aunt"s family lived a much better life than her own
D. her aunt and uncle were likely to forget about her arrival | | 完形填空。 | Once there was a king who liked pictures very much. One day, he 1 a prize to the artist who would paint
the best picture of peace. Many artists 2 . The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he 3
liked, and he had to choose between them.
One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect 4 for peaceful towering mountains all around
it. 5 was a blue sky with fluffy (蓬松的) white clouds. All who saw this 6 thought that it was a perfect
picture of peace.
7 picture had mountains, too. But these were large, rough and 8 . Above was an angry sky, from which
rain fell and in which lightning 9 . Down the side of the mountain 10 a foaming (起泡沫的) waterfall. This
did not look 11 at all.
But when the king looked 12 , he saw behind the waterfall a tiny 13 growing in a crack in the rock. In the
bush a mother bird had built her 14 . There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her
nest- 15 perfect peace.
Which picture do you think won the prize? The king 16 the second picture. Do you know why?
"Because," 17 the king, "peace does not mean to be in a place 18 there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.
Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and 19 be calm in your heart. That is the real 20 of peace." | ( )1. A. afforded
( )2. A. collected
( )3. A. hardly
( )4. A. bowl
( )5. A. Outward
( )6. A. prize
( )7. A. The one
( )8. A. bare
( )9. A. played
( )10. A. connected
( )11. A. hopeful
( )12. A. regularly
( )13. A. flower
( )14. A. house
( )15. A. of
( )16. A. protect
( )17. A. explained
( )18. A. which
( )19. A. thus
( )20. A. story | B. offered
B. planned
B. slightly
B. mirror
B. Indoors
B. result
B. Another
B. fresh
B. screamed
B. floated
B. peaceful
B. suddenly
B. ground
B. business
B. in
B. forced
B. described
B. where
B. even
B. meaning | C. accepted
C. tried
C. really
C. plate
C. Overhead
C. artist
C. Other
C. green
C. wandered
C. fell
C. successful
C. closely
C. tree
C. nest
C. by
C. depended
C. reminded
C. whose
C. also
C. source | D. canceled
D. directed
D. generally
D. cover
D. Downhill
D. picture
D. The other
D. distant
D. cheered
D. rose
D. careful
D. casually
D. bush
D. relationship
D. for
D. chose
D. persuaded
D. that
D. still
D. history | | 完形填空。 | Several years ago, while attending a communication course, I experienced a most unusual process. The
instructor asked us to list 1 in our past that we felt 2 of, regretted, or incomplete about and read our lists
aloud.
This seemed like a very 3 process, but there" s always some 4 soul in the crowd who will volunteer.
The instructor then 5 that we find ways to 6 people, or take some action to right any wrongdoings. I was
seriously wondering how this could ever 7 my communication.
Then the man next to me raised his hand and volunteered this story. Making my 8 , I remembered an
incident from high school. I grew up in a small town. There was a Sheriff 9 of us kids liked. One night, my
two friends and I decided to play a 10 on him.
After drinking a few beers, we climbed the tall water tank in the middle of the town, and wrote on the tank
in bright red paint: Sheriff Brown is an s.o.b. The next day, almost the whole town saw our glorious 11 .
Within two hours, Sheriff Brown had us in his office. My friends told the truth but I lied. No one 12 found
out.
Nearly 20 years later, Sheriff Brown"s name 13 on my list. I didn"t even know if he was still 14 . Last
weekend, I dialed the information in my hometown and found there was a Roger Brown still listed. I tried his
number. After a few 15 , I heard, "Hello?" I said, "Sheriff Brown?" Paused. "Yes." "Well, this is Jimmy
Calkins."
"And I want you to know that I did it!" Paused. "I knew it!" he yelled back. We had a good laugh and a 16
discussion. His closing words were: "Jimmy, I always felt bad for you 17 your friends got it off their chest,
but you were carrying it 18 all these years. I want to thank you for calling me…for your sake."
Jimmy inspired me to 19 all 101 items on my list within two years, and I always remember what I learned
from the course: It" s never too late to 20 the past wrongdoings. | ( )1. A. something
( )2. A. ashamed
( )3. A. private
( )4. A. foolish
( )5. A. expected
( )6. A. connect with
( )7. A. improve
( )8. A. notes
( )9. A. any
( )10. A. part
( )11. A. view
( )12. A. also
( )13. A. appears
( )14. A. angry
( )15. A. words
( )16. A. cold
( )17. A. in case
( )18. A. around
( )19 A. build up
( )20. A. regret | B. anything
B. afraid
B. secret
B. polite
B. suggested
B. depend on
B. continue
B. list
B. most
B. game
B. sign
B. even
B. considers
B. happy
B. rings
B. plain
B. so long as
B. out
B. make up
B. forgive | C. somebody
C. sure
C. interesting
C. simple
C. ordered
C. make apologies to
C. realize
C. plan
C. none
C. trick
C. attention
C. still
C. presents
C. doubtful
C. repeats
C. nervous
C. unless
C. up
C. clear up
C. right | D. anybody
D. proud
D. funny
D. brave
D. demanded
D. get along with
D. keep
D. stories
D. all
D. record
D. remark
D. ever
D. remembers
D. alive
D. calls
D. lively
D. because
D. away
D. give up
D. punish | | 阅读理解。 | Joanne was stuck in a traffic jam in central Birmingham at 5:30, and at 6:30 she was expected to be
chairing a meeting of the tennis club. At last, the traffic was moving. She swung quickly racing to her
house. As she opened the door, she nearly tripped over Sheba.
"Hey, Sheba" she said, "I"ve got no time for you now, but I"ll take you out as soon as I get back from
tennis club." Then she noticed Sheba seemed to be coughing or choking. Obviously, she could hardly
breathe. Immediately Joanne realized she would have to take her to the vet (兽医). When she got there,
the vet was just about to close for the day. Seeing the state of Sheba, Dr. Sterne brought her quickly into
his office.
"Listen, doctor, I"m really in a rush to get to a meeting. Can I leave her with you, and go and get changed?
I"ll be back in ten minutes to pick her up, and then I"ll take her on to the meeting with me. Is that OK?"
"Sure." said the doctor.
Joanne made the quick trip back to her house in a couple of minutes. As she was once more entering
the hallway, the phone by the door began to ring.
"This is Dr. Sterne," said an anxious voice. "I want you to get out of that house immediately," said the
doctor"s voice. "I"m coming round soon, and the police will be there any time now. Wait outside!"
At that moment, a police car screeched to a stop outside the house. Two policemen got out and ran into
the house. Joanne was by now completely confused and very frightened. Then the doctor arrived.
"Where"s Sheba? Is she OK?" shouted Joanne.
"She"s fine, Joanne. I took out the thing which was choking her, and she"s OK now."
Just then, the two policemen reappeared from the house, half-carrying a white-faced man, who could
hardly walk. There was blood all over him.
"My God," said Joanne, "how did he get in there? And how did you know he was there?"
"I think he must be a burglar," said the doctor. "I knew he was there because when I finally removed
what was stuck in Sheba"s throat: it turned out to be three human fingers." | | 1. What was Joanne supposed to do at 6:30? | | [ ] | A. To walk her dog.
B. To see her doctor.
C. To attend a club meeting.
D. To play tennis with her friends. | | 2. Joanne wanted to get back to her home again _____. | | [ ] | A. to phone the police station
B. to dress up for the meeting
C. to catch the badly hurt burglar
D. to wait for her dog to be cured | | 3. From the passage, we can infer that _____. | | [ ] | A. Sheba fought against the burglar
B. the police found the burglar had broken in
C. Joanne had planned to take her dog to the meeting
D. the doctor performed a difficult operation on the dog | | 4. In this passage, the writer intends to tell us that the dog is _____. | | [ ] | A. clever
B. friendly
C. frightening
D. devoted | | 阅读理解。 | The sun shone in through the dining room window, lighting up the hardwood floor. We had been talking
there for nearly two hours. The phone of the "Nightline" rang yet again and Morrie asked his helper, Connie,
to get it. She had been taking down the callers" names in Morrie"s small black appointment book. It was clear
I was not the only one interested in visiting my old professor-the "Nightline" appearance had made him
something of a big figure-but I was impressed with, perhaps even a bit envious of, all the friends that Morrie
seemed to have.
"You know, Mitch, now that I"m dying, I"ve become much more interesting to people. I"m on the last great
journey here-and people want me to tell them what to pack."
The phone rang again. "Morrie, can you talk?" Connie asked.
"I"m visiting with my old friend now," he announced, "Let them call back."
I cannot tell you why he received me so warmly. I was hardly the promising student who had left him
sixteen years earlier. Had it not been for "Nightline", Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again.
What happened to me? The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat
and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing
it. Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I"d simply been on a long vacation.
"Have you found someone to share your heart with?" he asked. "Are you at peace with yourself?" "Are you
trying to be as human as you can be?"
I felt ashamed, wanting to show I had been trying hard to work out such questions. What happened to me?
I once promised myself I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, and that I would
live in beautiful, inspirational places.
Instead, I had been in Detroit for ten years, at the same workplace, using the same bank, visiting the same
barber. I was thirty-seven, more mature than in college, tied to computers and modems and cell phones. I was
no longer young, nor did I walk around in gray sweatshirts with unlit cigarettes in my mouth. I did not have
long discussions over egg salad sandwiches about the meaning of life.
My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me? | | 1. When did the author graduate from Morrie"s college? | | [ ] | A. In the eighties.
B. In the nineties.
C. When he was 16.
D. When he was 21. | | 2. What do we know about the "Nightline"? | | [ ] | A. Morrie started it by himself.
B. It helped Morrie earn a fame.
C. The author helped Morrie start it.
D. It was only operated at night. | | 3. What can we infer from the passage? | | [ ] | A. Both the author and Morrie liked travelling.
B. Morrie liked helping people pack things for their journeys.
C. The author envied Morrie"s friends the help they got from him.
D. The author earned a lot of money at the cost of his dreams. | | 4. What"s the author"s feeling when he writes this passage? | | [ ] | A. Regretful.
B. Enthusiastic.
C. Sympathetic.
D. Humorous. | 最新试题
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