"I’ve changed my mind. I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my dad back.
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"I’ve changed my mind. I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my dad back." Lucien Lawence’s letter to Father Christmas written after his father had been knifed to death outside his school gate, must have touched every heart. Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldn’t see the stars in the sky. When those whom we love depart from us, we cannot see the stars for a while.
But Lucien, the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone, you will see them again. And, in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father is there too, in your mind and in your heart. I find that my parents, long dead now, still figure in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive. I still live to please them and I’m still surprised by their reactions. I remember that when I became a professor, I was so proud, or rather so pleased with myself, that I couldn’t wait to cable my parents. The reply was a long time in coming, but when it did, all mother said was, "I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children.” I haven’t forgotten. The values of my parents still live on.
It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care. Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence have been to face the aggressors (挑衅者),and to lay down my life for those in my care? How many people would want me back for Christmas? It’s a serious thought, one to give me pause.
I pray silently, sometimes, in the dead of night, that ancient cry of a poet "Deliver my soul from the sword, and my darling from the power of the dog." Yet I know the death comes to us all, and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan to live forever, but live as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure. If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today.
小题1:according to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph ________.| A．puts forward the subject of the text | | B．shows the author’s pity on the kid | | C．acts as an introduction to the discussion | | D．makes a clear statement of the author’s views |
小题2:In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us ________.| A．how much he misses his parents now | | B．why his parents often appear in his dreams | | C．when Lucien will get over all his sadness | | D．how proud he was when he succeeded in life |
小题3: What feeling did the author’s mother express in her reply?| A．Proud. | B．Happy. | C．Disappointed. | D．Worried. |
小题4: In the author’s opinion, the value of a person’s life is ________.| A．to leave behind a precious memory to the people related | | B．to have a high sense of duty to the whole society | | C．to care what others will remember and treasure | | D．to share happiness and sadness with his family |
小题5: What does the writer mean by the sentence taken from an old poem?| A．Call on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns. | | B．Advise parents stay with their children safely at home. | | C．Spend every day meaningfully in memory of the death. | | D．Try to keep violence and murder far away from society. |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:D |
解析
本文以幼小的Lucien Lawence在父亲被害后写给圣诞老人的信中的“I’ve changed my mind. 1 wanted to have a telescope，but now l want my dad back. ”为引子,讲述了We live on，in the lives of those we loved，and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure. ”这一人生价值观。
小题1:推断题。根据第一段的最后一句与第二段第一句可知，第一段为后面的议论提供了引子，因此选C。
小题2:推断题。第二段the stars are still there…you’ll see them again是安慰Lucien的；I find that my parents，long dead now，still figure in many of my dreams... 后面都是围绕这一句展开来说明其原因的。
小题3:推断题。由第三段可知，母亲对此事并不是失望，而是因为只顾自己的工作和事业而没有顾及孩子表示一种担心或焦虑，因此选D。
小题4:推断题。由第三段第一句及第四段倒数第二句可知，作者认为：一个人的价值观是给相关的人留下珍贵下的记忆，故选A。 |
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Recently I was invited to a friend’s house for supper—and had a meal I have never had before.
All the friends invited were a little surprised. It’s not that Ben is unsociable, or a bad cook, but it’s just that he never 21more than he has to. So how come he was inviting us round for a meal? Had he bought something 22for his friends? He greeted us at the door and showed us into his dining room where a 23_ -table was waiting for us.“Nothing but the best for my friends!”said Ben. We all sat down and looked 24 at each other—what was he up to?
Ben returned with four bowls of hot soup.“It’s a mixture of carrots, potatoes and tomatoes,”said Ben. The next 25was also a little strange in that we didn’t quite know what it was again. It’s just another mixture of vegetable.
As we ate we chatted and finally the 26 turned back to what we were eating.“Was there a recipe(食谱) for this,”asked Marina,“or did you 27 it up?”Ben put his fork down.“What I cooked depended on what I could find.”Marina was surprised.“But you can find anything in supermarkets these days.”“But there’s 28 choice in what you can find outside supermarkets,”he replied.
Seeing that we had all finished the food, Ben decided to tell the truth. He had read recently that supermarkets usually throw away 5 percent of their food every day. So Ben decided to look inside his local supermarket bins. There he found food that was slightly out of __29, boxes of throw-away vegetables and fruit.
So Ben had successfully provided a decent(体面的) meal for his friends, and made us aware of the fact that there are many poor people who need the food, but the amount of food thrown away is enough to 30 millions of people.
21.A.takes B. spends C. uses D. does
22.A.cheap B. special C. practical D. usual
23.A.new B. separate C. booked D. laid
24.A.nervously B. carefully C. sadly D. happily
25.A.course B. food C. soup D. salad
26.A.dinner B. idea C. food D. subject
27.A.pick B. look C. make D. take
28.A.less B. more C. some D. any
29.A.order B. place C. season D. date
30.A.enrich B. please C. affect D. feed |
Can you imagine being savagely attacked by a dog? What if the attack was so severe that your nose, lips and chin were completely destroyed? How would you feel about yourself? Would you be able to look at yourself in the mirror? And how do you think other people would treat you?
Isabelle Dinoire is someone who can answer all of these questions honestly and openly.
Last November Isabelle was attacked and mauled by her own dog. The attack was so severe that her lower face was damaged; it seemed, almost beyond repair. She was rushed to hospital and became the first person ever to have a face transplant.
With such severe injuries doctors offered Isabelle little hope that they would be able to repair the damage to her face using conventional surgery.
Shortly after being admitted, she came to the attention of Dr Bernard Devauchelle who, unlike other surgeons, believed there was an alternative: "We found ourselves saying, yes, it"s clear this woman needs a transplant," he said.
Two days after the operation she saw her face in the mirror for the first time. She said "I was scared to look at myself, but when I did it was already marvelous and I couldn"t believe it. I thought it would be blue and swollen but it was already beautiful."
Now, less than a year after her 15 hour operation, she’s trying to rebuild her life and there is no doubt how she feels about her new face: "I have been saved. Lots of people write saying that I need to go on, that it"s wonderful. It"s a miracle somehow."
Although there were ethical questions raised about their decision to carry out the procedure, the doctors who operated on Isabelle are quick to defend their decision.
One of them said "Was it possible for her to live without a face? It"s easy to say we shouldn"t have done the operation, but her life has changed, she goes shopping, goes on holiday, she lives again."
小题1: What would be the best title of the passage?| A．The first face transplant | B．A successful face operation | | C．The most severe damaged face | D．The breakthrough of surgery |
小题2: The writer uses the five questions at the beginning of the passage to ___________________.| A．tell the story about Isabelle Dinoire | B．show a severe face damage event | | C．draw the readers’ attention to the topic | D．invite the readers to answer them |
小题3: It can be concluded from Isabelle Dinoire’s remarks that___________________.| A．she was too shocked to see herself in the mirror | | B．she was satisfied with the result of the operation | | C．she thought her damaged face couldn’t be repaired | | D．she looked more beautiful than before |
小题4: According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?| A．It seemed that it was impossible to recover Isabelle’s face using face transplant | | B．After operation Isabelle thought she looked beautiful and rebuilt her life again | | C．Some doctors had no better idea to repair the damage to Isabelle’s face | | D．It was Dr Bernard Devauchelle who came up with the idea of face transplant |
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Special trees that grow faster, fight pollution, produce better wood, and even sense chemical attacks are being planted by scientists in the US.
When 40 per cent of Hawaii"s US$14 million-a-year papaya (木瓜)industry was destroyed by a virus five years ago, work began on creating genetically engineered(转基因的) trees.
Researchers successfully introduced seeds that were designed to resist the virus. Since then, more and more people have been testing genetically engineered trees.
Some researchers put special bacteria into trees to help them grow faster and produce better wood. Others are trying to create trees that can clean polluted soil.
Meanwhile fruit farmers are looking for trees that are strong enough to resist worms, and paper companies want trees that produce more wood and therefore more paper.
The Pentagon (五角大楼) even gave the researchers US$500,000 this year after they developed a pine tree that changes its colours if it senses a chemical attack..
So far, the poplar, eucalyptus (杨树与桉树), apple and coffee trees are among those being engineered. All this can be done today because we have a better understanding of tree genomes(基因组).
However, some people fear that the genetically engineered trees will cause dangerous results. They are worried that the new trees will breed with natural species and change the balance of the forest environment.
"It could be destructive," said Jim Diamond, an environmentalist. "Trees are what is left of our natural environment and home to many endangered species."
But researchers insist that science could give nature a fighting chance against both natural and man-made dangers.
They hope to answer the critics by stopping the new trees from breeding, so their effect on the environment can be controlled.
小题1:What trees are NOT the ones that scientists are planting in the US?| A．Trees that worms can"t hurt. | | B．Trees that can protect themselves at a chemical attack. | | C．Trees that can resist wind better. | | D．Trees that can improve soil conditions. |
小题2:What caused the American scientists to work on special trees?| A．They think science could give nature a fighting chance against both natural and man-made dangers. | | B．Great numbers of trees have been lost due to attacks by viruses. | | C．Researchers successfully introduced seeds designed to resist the virus. | | D．Tree genomes are mapped out so scientists know how to improve trees. |
小题3:Which of the following was probably the first kind of trees being engineered?| A．Papaya. | B．Pine. | C．Apple. | D．Poplar. |
小题4:The best title of the passage is .| A．The improvement of environment | | B．The side-effects of special trees | | C．The development of special trees | | D．the program of genetically engineered trees |
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To master a language one must be able to speak and understand the spoken language as well as to readand write. Lenin and his wife Krupskaya translated a long English book into Russian. But when theywent to England in 1902, English people couldn"t understand what was said to them. These days more and more foreigners are coming to China and more Chinese are going out to foreign countries to work or study. So the spoken language is becoming more and more important.
Speaking, of course, can"t go without listening. If you want to pronounce a word correctly, first you must hear it correctly. The sounds of the Chinese and English languages are not exactly the same. If you don"t listen carefully, you"ll find it difficult or even impossible to understand the native speakers.
Well, what about writing? Like speaking, it"s to exchange ideas. People generally use shorter words and shorter sentences in their writing. The important thing is to make your idea clear in your head and then to write it in clear lively language.
Chinese students read far too slowly. If you read fast, you understand better. If you read too slowly, by the time you have reached the end of a page you have forgotten what the beginning is about. When you meet with new words, don"t look them up in the dictionary. Guess the meaning from the context(上下文). You may not guess quite correctly the first time, but as new words come up again and again in different contexts, their meaning will become clearer and clearer. If you look up every word, you"ll never finish a book.
Students of a foreign language need a particular knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose language they are studying. They should study these subjects in the
foreign language, not only in translation. In this way one can kill two birds with one stone: learn a foreign language and get some knowledge of the foreign country at the same time.
小题1: In the first paragraph, the writer told us _________.| A．how to speak English well | | B．how to read and write English | | C．why spoken English is very important | | D．why English people couldn"t understand Lenin |
小题2:In order to study a foreign language, the writer thinks the best way is ______.| A．to kill two birds with one stone | | B．to learn two languages at a time | | C．to study all the subjects in a foreign language | | D．to get some knowledge of the foreign country as well as learn the language |
小题3: In the fourth paragraph the writer gave some advice on ____.| A．how to imporve reading faster | | B．how to guess the meaning from the context | | C．how to look up new words in the dictionary | | D．how to grasp the general meaning of a passage |
小题4:"To kill two birds with one stone" means ____.| A．to get some particular knowledge | | B．to get more than what one pays | | C．the stone is too big | | D．the birds are blind enough |
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When I come across a good article in reading newspapers. I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the ___1___ side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to ___2___ in good health, or a ___3___ about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to ___4___ damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text ___5___ the title. Therefore, the scissors would ___6___ before they start, ___7___ halfway done when I find out the ___8___ result.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth you ___9___. You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be ___10___ up. But you know the future is unpredictable(不可预料) — the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left ___11___. Thus you are ___12___ in a difficult position and feel sad. How ___13___ that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life ___14___ greatly on you preference of one choice to the other.
In fact that is what ___15___ is like, we are often ___16___ with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only ___17___ we get into another. The ___18___ may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I ___19___ remember a philosopher’s remarks, “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual(不经意) ___20___ may not be a bad one.
1. A. front B. same C. either D. opposite
2. A. get B. keep C. lead D. bring
3. A. advice B. news C. theory D. report
4. A. suffer B. reduce C. prevent D. cause
5. A. on B. for C. without D. off
6. A. use B. handle C. prepare D. stay
7. A. or B. but C. so D. for
8. A. satisfying B. regretful C. surprising D. impossible
9. A. courage B. strength C. attention D. patience
10. A. given B. held C. made D. picked
11. A. near B. alone C. about D. behind
12. A. filled B. attracted C. caught D. struck
13. A. dares B. comes C. deals D. does
14. A. improves B. changes C. progresses D. goes
15. A. study B. society C. natureD. life
16. A. faced B. supplied C. connected D. fixed
17. A. before B. after C. until D. as
18. A. following B. next C. above D. former
19. A. still B. also C. once D. almost
20. A. treatment B. action C. choice D. remark |
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