Having said good-bye to his parents, Alvin, with his wife and one-year-old son,

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Having said good-bye to his parents, Alvin, with his wife and one-year-old son, set off back home. Still    , Alvin and Clare talked and laughed happily. And even little Alex    from time to time. The family were     their trip.
But about three hours later things began to    . It was starting to snow. Alvin      up the car, hoping to arrive home before dark. But it was too dangerous to drive fast now, because it was snowing more and more heavily. So Alvin had to    down. The snow on the     was getting deeper and deeper until it was hard to     on it. Their car slipped (滑落) off the way and got stuck in the deep snow and the engine     to start again.
“The snow doesn’t seem to    . Shall we stay in the car waiting to be frozen to death or walk ahead through the snow?” Alvin asked. Clare said she     to walk. So they got out of the car with their son and began walking. But     was to come. Soon they lost their way and had to walk     on and on.
Night came. They were not afraid of the dark. But they     that poor Alex would die of cold. However, their faith to keep Alex     filled them with courage, warmth and strength. They __   and rested in turn and then continued their walk. They had     falls but each time true love encouraged them to rise to their feet again.
One, two, three … seven days passed. On the eighth day, help at last from Alvin’s    , the police and local people. But the young    had to have their feet cut off because of the bad frostbite (冻伤).      , there was nothing serious wrong with little Alex!

小题1:

A．worried

B．sorry

C．excited

D．anxious

小题2:

A．cried

B．laughed

C．smiled

D．coughed

小题3:

A．enjoying

B．having

C．taking

D．starting

小题4:

A．happen

B．change

C．come

D．finish

小题5:

A．climbed

B．turned

C．took

D．sped

小题6:

A．get

B．look

C．go

D．slow

小题7:

A．land

B．highway

C．fields

D．car

小题8:

A．walk

B．stay

C．wait

D．depend

小题9:

A．set

B．allowed

C．refused

D．prepared

小题10:

A．end

B．fall

C．continue

D．melt (融化)

小题11:

A．liked

B．preferred

C．decided

D．wished

小题12:

A．better

B．something

C．worse

D．nothing

小题13:

A．aimlessly

B．lonely

C．hopelessly

D．pleasantly

小题14:

A．thought

B．feared

C．wanted

D．supposed

小题15:

A．happy

B．silent

C．alive

D．dead

小题16:

A．ate

B．worked

C．watched

D．slept

小题17:

A．few

B．several

C．countless

D．some

小题18:

A．parents

B．friends

C．teachers

D．neighbours

小题19:

A．husband

B．wife

C．baby

D．couple

小题20:

A．Then

B．Finally

C．Fortunately

D．Therefore

答案

小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:D
小题6:D
小题7:B
小题8:B
小题9:C
小题10:A
小题11:B
小题12:C
小题13:A
小题14:B
小题15:C
小题16:D
小题17:C
小题18:A
小题19:D
小题20:C

解析

试题分析：文章讲述了一对年轻夫妇带着自己年幼的儿子旅行，却不幸天降大雪。夫妻俩虽然在大雪中迷路，他们不得不漫无目的地走来走去，但是他们想让自己儿子活着的信念，使得他们的心里充满勇气，温暖和力量，积极等待救援。获救后，这对年轻的夫妇由于冻伤，不得不切除他们的脚，而他们的儿子却安然无恙。
小题1:考查形容词。根据Alvin and Clare talked and laughed happily.可知仍然很激动。Worried担心 sorry抱歉 excited激动 anxious焦急的，故选C。
小题2:考查动词。根据Having said good-bye to his parents, Alvin, with his wife and one-year-old son, set off back home.可知这里想说甚至小Alex也是不时的微笑。故选C。
小题3:考查动词。根据Still    , Alvin and Clare talked and laughed happily. And even little Alex    from time to time.可知这里想说这家人正在享受他们的旅程，故选A。
小题4:考查动词。根据下文内容，可知这里想说但是两个小时后，事情开始改变，happen发生change改变 come来 finish结束，故选B。
小题5:考查动词。hoping to arrive home before dark.可知这里想说Alvin汽车加速，speed up是固定用法，意思是使加速，故选D。
小题6:考查动词。根据But it was too dangerous to drive fast now, because it was snowing more and more heavily.可知这里想说所以Alvin不得不减速 slow down是固定用法，意思是减速，故选D。
小题7:考查名词。这里想说公路上的雪越来越深。Land陆地 highway公路 fields田 car汽车。故选B。
小题8:考查动词。根据Their car slipped (滑落) off the way and got stuck in the deep snow and the engine     to start again. 可知这里想说雪越来越厚，汽车很难停留在上面。Walk走 stay停留 wait等 depend依靠，故选B。
小题9:考查动词。根据Shall we stay in the car waiting to be frozen to death or walk ahead through the snow?” Alvin asked.可知这里想说引擎拒绝重新发动。Set放置 allowed允许 refused拒绝 prepared，故选C。
小题10:考查动词。根据Shall we stay in the car waiting to be frozen to death or walk ahead through the snow?” Alvin asked.可知这里想说雪看起来不会结束。故选A。
小题11:考查动词。根据So they got out of the car with their son and began walking.可知这里想说Clare说她更喜欢步行，prefer to do意思是更喜欢做某事，故选B。
小题12:考查名词。根据Soon they lost their way and had to walk     on and on. 可知这里想说更糟糕的事来了，故选C。
小题13:考查副词。根据Soon they lost their way，可知这里想说他们不得不漫无目的地走来走去。Aimlessly漫无目的地 lonely孤独地 hopelessly绝望地 pleasantly愉快地，故选A。
小题14:考查动词。根据Night came. They were not afraid of the dark. But they     that poor Alex would die of cold.可知这里想说但是他们害怕可怜的Alex死于寒冷。故选B。
小题15:考查形容词。根据However, their faith to keep Alex     filled them with courage, warmth and strength.可知这里想说他们想让Alex活着的信念，使得他们的心里充满勇气，温暖和力量。Happy高兴故选C。
小题16:考查动词。根据They __   and rested in turn and then continued their walk.可知这里想说他们轮流睡觉和休息。故选D。
小题17:考查形容词。根据but each time true love encouraged them to rise to their feet again.
可知这里想说，他们无数次的摔倒。Countless无数的，故选C。
小题18:考查名词。这里想说在第八天，来自于Alvin的父母，警察和当地人的帮助，故选A。
小题19:考查名词。根据there was nothing serious wrong with little Alex可知，这对年轻的夫妇由于冻伤，不得不切除他们的脚。Couple夫妇，故选D。
小题20:考查副词。根据there was nothing serious wrong with little Alex!可知这是幸运的事。故选C。

举一反三

"Hey, don"t read in the hallway. Your eyesight will be damaged." You must have heard such warnings many times. “Don’t read in poor light!” This is one of the common beliefs that are supposed to help us live a healthy life. Such beliefs are, however, without scientific basis(根据), according to a paper published recently in the British Medical Journal.
Do you believe in the following sayings?
Reading in poor light ruins your eyesight.
In poor light, you might blink (眨眼) more, suffer from drying and have trouble focusing. But most of eye experts believe it is unlikely to do any damage forever.
We must drink at least eight glasses of water a day.
In 1945, the Nutrition Council in US suggested that people need to drink 2.5 litres of water a day. But the water contained in food, particularly fruit and vegetables, as well as in milk, juice and soft drinks, also counts towards the total.
We only use 10 percent of our brains.
This idea appears as early as 1907. People have long argued about our power of self-improvement and our brains’ possible abilities. But X-rays show that no area of the brain is silent or inactive.
Shaving your legs causes hair to grow black faster and thicker.
This theory is also illusion. Studies say that shaving has no effect on the thickness or rate of hair growth. Just over time, the edge of hair gets worn away and thus the edge of long hair becomes finer (更细).
小题1:What does the paper say about some common beliefs?

A．They are useful knowledge in life.

B．They help us live in healthy ways.

C．They are well-known theories.

D．They do not have scientific basis.

小题2:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage ?

A．People use 90 percent of their brains.

B．Shaving your legs will give you thicker hair.

C．Reading in poor light does harm to people’s eyes.

D．People need not less than eight glasses of water a day.

小题3:The underlined word “illusion” in the last paragraph probably means “_________”.

A．a wrong idea	B．a powerful evidence
C．an interesting story	D．a clear instruction

小题4:This passage is most likely to be found in __________ .

A．a newspaper	B．a guide book
C．a history textbook	D．an advertisement

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In 1980，Candy Lightner’s 13-year-old daughter Cad was killed by a drunk driver as she walked down a suburban street in California. “I promised myself on the day of my daughter’s death that I would fight to make this needless accident count for something positive in the years ahead,” Candy Lightener later wrote.
The drunk driver received a two-year prison sentence. However, he avoided prison by serving time in a work camp and a halfway house. Ms. Lightner was very angry about that and so organized Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD), which later changed to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The aim of her organization was to raise public awareness of the serious nature of drunk driving and to promote tough legislation against the crime.
Before Ms. Lightner’s MADD, intoxication (醉酒), including drunk driving, was not taken seriously. Intoxication was often used as an excuse for otherwise unacceptable behavior: “I didn’t know what I was doing—I was drunk.”
Candy Lightner appeared on major television shows, spoke before the US Congress, addressed professional and business, groups, and worked tirelessly for years to change public attitudes, change judicial(审判的) behaviour, and promote tough new legislation. Ms. Lightner left MADD because the organization that she herself created is changing its focus. “I didn’t start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.”
The President of the United States awarded her the President’s Volunteer Action Award and she was the subject of the movie “Mothers Against Drunk Drivers: the Candy Lightner Story”.
小题1:One of the purposes of MADD was to______ .

A．make the public aware of the danger of drunk driving

B．fight against the drunk hit-and-run drivers on the road

C．make new laws against crimes caused by drinking

D．warn people not to drink alcohol while driving

小题2:which way didn’t Ms. Lightner use to achieve her MADD’s goals?

A．Talking on major TV shows.

B．Giving a talk to businessmen.

C．Applying for a job with the government.

D．Giving suggestions to the US Congress.

小题3:We can learn from the passage that______.

A．the drunk driver had not been caught

B．drunk driving didn’t receive enough attention before MADD

C．Candy Lightner played a leading role in a film

D．MADD didn’t get much support from society

小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Ways to prevent drunk driving

B．Purposes of founding MADD

C．New law against drunk driving

D．Candy Lightner and her MADD

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"Gangnam Style" by singer Psy from Korea, is a popular song, but its extraordinary global success is really the result of its music video, which is a great piece of genius. On September 22nd, Guinness World Records listed "Gangnam Style" as the most-liked video in the history of YouTube. It"s been performed at West Point (West-Point Style), and Google"s CEO, has done the "Gangnam Style" horse dance at the company"s office in Seoul. Even Samsung is trying to make Psy the new model for the latest type of fridge.
The song"s global popularity is such that the vast majority of people who enjoy it don"t speak Korean, and have no idea what it is about. That"s fine --- part of what makes "Gangnam Style" so fun is, like international pop music, the difficulty in understanding it. When we sing along, "Hey, sexy lady", we don"t really know what we"re singing about.
The joy of incomprehensibleness is familiar to anyone who loves pop music from elsewhere. Anthony Lane, in his 2010 review of the Eurovision Song Contest, Only Mr. God Knows Why, used "Eurovision English" as one of its chief pleasures. It"s "a complex tongue, spoken nowhere else, which raises the heartfelt poetry (诗意) but absolute nonsense to a level of what sci-fi writers could only have dreamed. " In similar ways, "Gangnam Style" is just an over-the-top video where a fat man does a funny dance and sings repetitive words that don"t make sense to most of us.
But on the other, the magic of the song also lies in its funny dance, which reflects not just cultural morals specific to Korea, but cultural values easily recognizable to western viewers. This song"s words may be in Korean, but its scenes are in clear American. The dance moves are simple enough to copy.
Nonsense, in other words, forces us to let down our guards. It makes us relax, and asks us to let in all sorts of feelings from which, otherwise, we might distance ourselves. "Gangnam Style" happens to be so interesting because of its incomprehensibleness.
小题1:Some complex languages are used in pop music because _______.

A．singers regard it as one of the chief pleasures at the concert

B．they make the music hard to understand but poetic and attractive

C．the music can sound more pleasant and beautiful to the audience

D．people like listening to the music which makes special sense to them

小题2:What is true about the popularity of "Gangnam Style"?

A．It was considered as the most popular video on the Internet.

B．It makes people amused and removes their emotional guards.

C．Its dance only reflects cultural and morals specific to Korea.

D．Psy, its singer, has been the new model for Samsung .

小题3:What does the underlined word "incomprehensibleness" mean in Paragraph 3?

A．Being interesting to listen to.	B．Being simple enough to copy.
C．Being complex and repetitive.	D．Being difficult to understand.

小题4:The text is mainly about ________.

A．how "Gangnam Style" becomes popular among the youths

B．why "Gangnam Style" is popular even if few people understand it

C．how Psy gains worldwide success through his talent and hard work

D．what emotions and cultural morals Psy wants to convey with his song

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Americans are        about an international sporting event now taking place in the United States. It is the biggest women"s soccer       in the world, the World Cup. The game Americans call soccer, is known around the world as       . And more and more Americans are learning to     it. Only in the last 35 years, large numbers of young Americans have become      in soccer. Baseball and basketball are still popular professional sports,       American boys and girls love to play soccer.
The United States Soccer Federation is the major soccer      in the country. It says more than eighteen million people play soccer in the United States. This means that      Americans play soccer than any other sport.
      , more people in the United States are watching soccer, too. They are attending the 3rd Women"s World Cup games that are       in several American cities. 460,000       have been sold for the three-week contest that will end July tenth.
Women"s soccer teams from 16 nations are      . Americans are closely       the progress of the United States" Women"s World Cup team. And the team is already setting       . On June 19, the American team       Denmark in the opening game. Almost 79,000 people watched the game at Giant Stadium near New York City. That is a world record.
One of the most popular players       the American team is 27-year-old Mia Hamm. She became well known in 1996 when the United States women won the soccer       medal at the Olympic Games, defeating other teams. Experts say Mia Hamm can play soccer better than       woman in the world. She has scored more goals than any man or woman ever to play international soccer. Mia Hamm is a       to many young American girls. Television       say that at present thousand million people around the world are watching the game on television.

小题1:

A．careless

B．worried

C．excited

D．anxious

小题2:

A．happiness

B．event

C．team

D．incident

小题3:

A．baseball

B．football

C．volleyball

D．basketball

小题4:

A．hate

B．love

C．give up

D．played

小题5:

A．interested

B．disappointed

C．satisfied

D．surprised

小题6:

A．and

B．although

C．so

D．but

小题7:

A．player

B．event

C．game

D．organization

小题8:

A．more

B．less

C．many

D．fewer

小题9:

A．In the past

B．In the future

C．just now

D．At present

小题10:

A．played

B．to be played

C．being played

D．playing

小题11:

A．tickets

B．teams

C．records

D．players

小题12:

A．taking place

B．taking off

C．taking part

D．taking in

小题13:

A．seeing

B．watching

C．thinking

D．hoping

小题14:

A．marks

B．records

C．points

D．scores

小题15:

A．beat

B．hit

C．won

D．lose

小题16:

A．in

B．from

C．on

D．at

小题17:

A．gold

B．silver

C．copper

D．

小题18:

A．others

B．the other

C．other

D．any other

小题19:

A．player

B．writer

C．hero

D．singer

小题20:

A．broadcasters

B．directors

C．players

D．spokesman

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Motown songwriter-producer Deke Richards，who was behind songs including The Jackson 5"s first three US number one hits，has died aged 68．
Richards，who had oesophageal(食管的)cancer,died in a Washington state hospice(安养院)，Universal Music said．The musician，whose real name was Dennis Lussier,Was leader of the Motown songwriting，arranging and producing team—The Corporation．Their hits include The Jackson 5"S I Want You Back and ABC．
Richards also co-wrote Love Child for Diana Ross and The Supremes，as well as Ross’s solo track I’m Still Waiting.He produced and wrote for Martha Reeves and the Vamlellas and Bobby Darin．
The Corporation，which consisted of Motown label head Berry Gordy,Alphonzo Mizell，Freddie Perren and Richards，was set up in 1969 to create hit records for the label’s new act，The Jackson 5．
They also wrote，produced and arranged the band’s singles and Maybe Tomorrow and Mama"s Pearl．
According to Michael Jackson biographer,J．Randy Taraborrelli，Mama’s Pearl was originally called Guess Who’S Making Whoopie(With Your Girlfriend)．
But Richards had the lyrics changed to preserve the young frontman’s innocent image．
The Hollywood Reporter said Richards" "love of music” kept him involved with a variety of projects，including last year’S production of The Jackson 5"s Come and Get It：The Rare Pearls．featuring rare and unreleased(未发行的) tracks．
Richards’ final work was the mixing of eight unreleased tracks by Martha Reeves and The Vandellas for the band"s 50th anniversary box set,which is to be released on 5 April．
小题1:Deke Richard wrote songs for the following singers EXCEPT

A．Martha Reeves

B．Joan Lussier

C．Bobby Darin

D．Jackson 5’s

小题2:Which of the following is true about Richards?

A．He died at the age of68 in a Washington clinic．

B．He is a musician behind many hit songs.

C．He wrote“I’m Still Waiting”for Martha Reeves．

D．His final work is to be released in May.

小题3:What Call we learn from the passage?

A．The Corporation has a history of more than 40 years．

B．The lyrics of Mama’S Pearl turned out to be a failure．

C．The lyrics of Mama’S Pearl Was changed by J．Randy Taraborrelli．

D．Richards said his own love of music kept him involved with many projects．

小题4:It is implied in the passage that______．

A．Richards hardly co-wrote songs for singers

B．the Jackson 5"s Come and Get it Was left unfinished as Richards got i11．

C．The corporation Was set up to earn money．

D．Richards had deep love for music．

小题5:Which column can you most possibly find the passage on a website?

A．Health

B．Business

C．Technology

D．Entertainment

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