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Well, it 41 being a cowboy or some super hero. Later it was a fireman, policeman, lawyer ... As I grew older my dreams of the future 42 . When, at last, I was in college, I made up my 43 to become a preacher(牧师) as my father. 44 I studied and prepared for that life. I reached 45 in the end and I was preaching nearly fulltime for much of my adult life.
However, for many, there is a “thief” which goes around stealing our 46 . Sometimes, the thief will come as a parent, a relative, or a friend, but the 47 thief is, so many times, just 48 .
We find ourselves just about reaching the top, and this “small” 49 inside says, “You will never make 50 .” “You can’t possibly do this.” And on and on the “small” voice 51 some kind of failure. Failure, though, is exactly how dreams are 52 . It is one of the most important tools we have, because it teaches us invaluable 53 . And, when we learn these lessons well, we are ready 54 success.
The message I always gave my children was that you 55 do anything your heart desires. Remember the saying, “Nothing is 56 to a willing heart.” There are 57 “overnight” successes, but with determination, it will come. Imagine yourself in the life you dream of 58 . Then in your heart, believe it 59 happen for you. Then work, work, work. You get the picture.
So, be true to your dream, and don’t let anyone 60 it from you—especially yourself.
| 小题1: | | A．insisted on | B．felt like | C．kept on | D．started out |
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| 小题2: | | A．changed | B．meant | C．planned | D．left |
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| 小题3: | | A．goal | B．mind | C．interest | D．experience |
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| 小题5: | | A．agreement | B．conclusion | C．success | D．position |
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| 小题6: | | A．money | B．children | C．friends | D．dreams |
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| 小题7: | | A．greatest | B．tallest | C．poorest | D．oldest |
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| 小题8: | | A．themselves | B．yourselves | C．ourselves | D．itself |
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| 小题9: | | A．sound | B．voice | C．noise | D．speech |
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| 小题11: | | A．expects | B．predicts | C．answers | D．suffers |
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| 小题12: | | A．met | B．defended | C．understood | D．realized |
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| 小题13: | | A．stages | B．suggestions | C．lessons | D．choices |
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| 小题15: | | A．are able to | B．used to | C．have to | D．ought to |
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| 小题16: | | A．interesting | B．important | C．necessary | D．impossible |
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| 小题18: | | A．spending | B．living | C．planning | D．changing |
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| 小题19: | | A．will | B．might | C．could | D．does |
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| 小题20: | | A．buy | B．fool | C．steal | D．borrow |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:C
小题6:D
小题7:A
小题8:C
小题9:B
小题10:A
小题11:B
小题12:D
小题13:C
小题14:B
小题15:A
小题16:D
小题17:D
小题18:B
小题19:A
小题20:C |
解析
试题分析：本文叙述了我们从小到大对于未来梦想的改变。如何不让自己的梦想被别人偷走， 尤其是自己。 阻碍我们梦想实 现的最大敌人其实就是我们自己。不要怀疑自己的能力，要相信自己，只要这样就没有实现不了的愿望，没有干不成功的事情。
小题1:考查动词词组和上下文的呼应。A. insisted on 坚持，强调；B. felt like感觉像；C. kept on 继续进行；D. started out出发，开始时打算。根据下一句的“Later”，可知开始我们打算成为牛仔或英雄。故选D。
小题2:考查动词的用法和上下文的呼应。A. changed 改变；B. meant 意味，打算； C. planned计划；D. left离开。根据上下文说一开始想成为牛仔或英雄，后来想成为消防员，警察和律师，以及最后想成为牧师，可知我们的梦想改变了。故答案选A。
小题3:考查固定搭配和上下文的呼应。根据“I studied and prepared for that life.”我下定了决心去作牧师。Make up one’s mind 表示“下决心”。故选B。
小题4:考查连词的用法和上下文的呼应。这句话和上一句是顺承关系。A. But 但是；B. So 因此；C. Or 或者；D. Yes是的。故选B。
小题5:考查名词的用法和上下文的呼应。本句意为“我最终获得了成功，我几乎专职地……”? A. agreement同意，协议；B. conclusion结论；C. success成功；D. position位置，职位，姿态，方位。故选C。
小题6:考查名词的用法和上下文的呼应。由上文谈论梦想可知，此处应为“偷走我们的梦想”。故选D。
小题7:考查形容词最高级和上下文的呼应。but 表语义转折，告诉我们此处应为 greatest，即“最大的敌人是我们自己” 。故选A。
小题8:考查反身代词和上下文的呼应。根据上下文可知，人最大的敌人是自己，而且文章用的是第一人称，故选C。
小题9:考查近义词的辨析形容词最高级和上下文的呼应。noise 嘈杂声，喧闹声，或令人厌烦的声音；sound 指一切能听到的声音；voice 指说话的声音；speech 指演讲、讲话。由下文 And on and on the “small” voice 这一语境可知此处应为 voice。故选B。
小题10:考查固定搭配和上下文的呼应。make it 是固定搭配，意思为“获得成功”，故选A。
小题11:考查动词的用法和上下文的呼应。A. expects期待，盼望；B. predicts预测，预言；C. answers回答；D. suffers遭受，忍受。由句意可知此处应为可“预测，预见”某种失败。故选B。
小题12:考查被动语态和上下文的呼应。A. met见面；B. defended辩护，保卫；C. understood理解；D. realized实现。此句意思为“然而，失败往往是实现梦想的必经之路” 。realize one’s dream，此处表示被动。故选D。
小题13:考查固定搭配和上下文的呼应。teach sb. ...lessons 给某人以……的教训。故选C。
小题14:考查介词的用法和上下文的呼应。be ready to+动词原形；be ready for+名词；此处是名词success，所以用be ready for success为成功作好了准备。故选B。
小题15:考查固定词组和上下文的呼应。A. are able to 能够；B. used to过去经常；C. have to 必须，不得不；D. ought to应该。本句的意思为“你们能做好你们内心希望做的任何事情” 。故选A。
小题16:考查形容词的用法和上下文的呼应。A. interesting有趣的；B. important重要的；C. necessary必要的，必需的；D. impossible不可能的。本句意为“对于一个有意志力的人来说，任何事情都是有可能的” 。故选D。
小题17:考查形容词的用法和上下文的呼应。本句意为“没有一夜之间获得成功的，但只要有决心，就能成功” 。故选D。
小题18:考查非谓语动词和上下文的呼应。living 这一答案的选取与前面的 the life 有关， live ... life, the life 后面是一个定语从句。故选B。
小题19:考查情态动词和上下文的呼应。A. will 将会；B. might可能，也许；C. could 能够，可以； D. does是助动词。本句意为“在你的内心，坚信将来这会发生” 。故选A。
小题20:考查形容词最高级和上下文的呼应。根据第三段“there is a “thief” which goes around stealing our dreams.”可知本句要表达的意思是“坚守你的梦想，不要让别人，尤其是你自己，把梦想偷走”。A. buy 买；B. fool欺骗，愚弄；C. steal偷；D. borrow借用。故选C。
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Tre’S mom，Christina Thompson, cannot believe how much her son already learned this year in his full-day, free pre-school class in Oklahoma City. “Since he’s been in school his vocabulary has increased surprisingly,” Thompson says. “The other day he came home and said, ‘You know what ，mom? You are being ridiculous，” Thompson laughs quietly. “And then he asked, ‘Do you know what ‘ridiculous’ means, mom?’” Tre knows the entire alphabet, his numbers to 100，and he’s starting to read. And letters and numbers aside, Thompson is most struck by how fast Tre is absorbing vocabulary and language.
Of course, not all pre-school is created equal. High quality pre-schools have well-trained, well-educated teachers in the classroom (much like Tre Thompson’s teacher Mrs. Wallace, who uses play-based learning to teach both academics and social skills and can rattle off (飞快说出） a battery of data on how well her students are progressing towards their year-end goals). Texas can also offer a model for educator development: its Texas School Ready! Campaign has proven to increase the quality of participating pre-schools by providing early childhood teachers with coaching, professional development, research-based curriculum (课程)，and progress monitoring. States and districts should also combine pre-school with the K-12 system, as Oklahoma does ，so that children enter kindergarten smoothly.
Oklahoma is one of the leading states in providing students like Tre with free ，full-day pre-school. And the results are already paying off: According to a 2012 study, Oklahoma kids that went through pre-school showed vocabulary gains 28% higher than those of children without pre-school, and math gains 44% higher than non-pre-school kids. And we know that high-quality pre-school doesn’t just mean higher scores in elementary school. They were more likely to have graduated from high school and less likely to have committed a violent crime. They also earned more money and were more likely to be employed.
We know pre-school works, so let’s stop talking and start building a system where all children have access to excellent early childhood education. As any well-educated four year old could tell us, not doing so would be ridiculous.
小题1:The case of Tre in the first paragraph serves as the evidence of______.| A．children’s disrespect towards parents | | B．the bad performance of students at school | | C．the positive effect of pre-school on children | | D．Thompson’s doubt about her son’s education |
小题2:At high quality pre-schools, children may learn by______| A．playing | B．modelling | C．researching | D．monitoring |
小题3:It can be inferred that______.| A．children can not enter kindergarten without pre-school | | B．Oklahoma is the best state offering full-day pre-school | | C．all pre-schools have well-trained, well-educated teachers | | D．kids with pre-school may be better equipped for their future |
小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Not all pre-school works | | B．All pre-school is created equal | | C．We owe our kids universal pre-school | | D．Pre-school goes well with K-12 system |
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Every time you go to the supermarket, you come away with your purchases in plastic bags. But wouldn’t it be kinder to the environment if you asked for paper bags instead?
The answer is not the easy as it might seem. Environmentalists say there are drawbacks to using both plastic bags and paper bags.
According to the American Plastics Council 80 percent of groceries in the US are packed in plastic bags.
“The numbers are becoming huge,” said Vincent Cobb, a businessman from Chicago who set up “reusable bags. com” on the Internet. He notes that consumers use between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags per year worldwide.
Some experts believe that all these bags harm the environment. Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down and, as it does so, poisonous materials are released into the water and soil.
Further damage is caused if plastic bags enter the sea. For example, endangered sea turtles cannot tell the bags from jellyfish(水母), their main source of food, and often choke on them.
Floating plastic bags have been spotted as far north as the Arctic Ocean and as far south as the southern end of South America. One expert predicts that, within ten years, plastic bags will wash up in Antarctica!
However, this kind of bag does have its advantages.
“Plastic grocery bags are some of the most reused things around the house,” explained Laurie Kusek of the American Plastics Council.
According to the Film and Bag Federation, a trade group in the US plastics industry, paper bags use more energy and create more waste than plastic bags. Plastic bags require 40 per cent less energy to produce and cause 70 per cent less air pollution, the group explained. They also release as much as 94 percent less waste into the water than paper ones.
But paper bags do break down more quickly than plastic bags. They don’t endanger wildlife, either.
So what should we do? One possible solution would be to use biodegradable(能被生物分解的)plastic bags. But until biodegradable technology improves, it might be easier to pack things you buy in reusable cloth bags.
小题1:The best title of the passage is _____.| A．Paper Causes Less Pollution | | B．Plastic Causes Less Pollution | | C．Paper and Plastics Cause Pollution | | D．Paper Bags Break Down More Quickly |
小题2:The underlined word “drawbacks” might mean “_____”.| A．Advantages | B．disadvantages | C．air pollution | D．waste |
小题3:According to the passage, which of the following in NOT true? | A．Plastic takes longer to break down than paper. | | B．Sea turtles usually mistake the plastic bags for jellyfish. | | C．Paper bags require less energy than plastic bags. | | D．You’d better pack things in reusable cloth bags. |
小题4:Which of the following shows that paper bags are better than plastic ones?| A．Paper bags take less time to rot. | | B．Paper bags cause less air pollution. | | C．Paper bags are more reusable. | | D．Paper bags cause less water pollution. |
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A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full 36 of the facts he observes. He doesn’t accept ideas which are not 37 on obvious facts, and therefore refuses to accept authority as the only 38 for truth. He always 39 ideas carefully and makes experiments to prove them.
The rise of 40 science may perhaps be considered to 41 as far back as the 42 of Roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford, who live 43 the years 1214 and 1292. He was probably the first in the Middle 44 to suggest that we must learn science 45 observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself 46 many important discoveries.
Galileo, however, who lived more than 300 years later (1564-1642), was the greatest of several great men, 47 in Italy, France, Germany, or England, began by 48 to show how many important 49 could be discovered by observation. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more 50 towards the earth than small ones, 51 Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the 52 of the leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two 53 stones and proved Aristotle was wrong. It was Galileo’s 54 of going direct to Nature, and proving our 55 and theories by experiment, that has led to all the discoveries of modern science.
| 小题1: | | A．use | B．time | C．speed | D．trust |
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| 小题2: | | A．worked | B．based | C．lived | D．written |
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| 小题3: | | A．reason | B．cause | C．advice | D．result |
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| 小题4: | | A．thinks | B．checks | C．has | D．learn |
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| 小题5: | | A．natural | B．physical | C．ancient | D．modern |
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| 小题7: | | A．study | B．time | C．year | D．birth |
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| 小题8: | | A．both | B．each | C．between | D．among |
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| 小题9: | | A．Schools | B．Ages | C．Days | D．Count |
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| 小题13: | | A．ways | B．degrees | C．levels | D．chance |
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| 小题14: | | A．truths | B．problems | C．people | D．subjects |
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| 小题15: | | A．slowly | B．rapidly | C．lightly | D．heavily |
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| 小题16: | | A．although | B．because | C．when | D．If |
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| 小题17: | | A．place | B．foot | C．top | D．ceiling |
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| 小题18: | | A．big | B．small | C．equal | D．unequal |
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| 小题19: | | A．spirit | B．skill | C．theory | D．discovery |
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| 小题20: | | A．plans | B．opinions | C．world | D．ability |
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However, research has proved this method inefficient and ineffective. The truth is, the human brain simply cannot consciously remember process and use hundreds of or thousands of grammar rules. Real speech is too fast.
Native speakers do not learn grammar in this way, but rather intuitively (凭直觉地) and unconsciously. They learn in a complete way, not by attempting to memorize individual grammar rules. As a result, native speakers use correct grammar fluently and easily.
Fortunately, it is possible for English learners to learn grammar this way. Language teacher Blaine Ray has developed a unique "intuitive" approach to teach English grammar. Her system uses "point of view" stories to teach the patterns of English grammar, allowing students unconsciously to acquire correct grammar without ever studying grammar rules.
In this system, the teacher first tells a simple story from one point of view. It may be told about the past, then repeated, but beginning with "since he was a child"; then repeated again, but this time about the future.
Listening to these stories allows students intuitively and effortlessly to learn English grammar and makes them be able to use it correctly when they speak.
Point of View Stories is a creative new way to study English grammar, and offers hope to millions of frustrated English learners.
小题1:Which of the following ways is approved by the author?| A．Remembering grammar rules | | B．Taking grammar tests. | | C．Analyzing grammatical structure | | D．Applying language to situations. |
小题2:What does the underlined part "this way" in the fourth paragraph refer to?| A．Talking to native speakers when learning. | | B．Learning English grammar in a complete way. | | C．Using correct English grammar. | | D．Learning English grammar 4from a teacher. |
小题3:From this passage we learn that ______.| A．native speakers learn English grammar by listening to stories | | B．Blaine Ray’s method gets students to grasp correct grammar unconsciously | | C．Blaine Ray teaches grammar rules by asking students to tell stories | | D．it’s hard for students to speak correct English in the new system |
小题4: This passage wants to ______. | A．criticize the traditional way of learning grammar | | B．introduce a new way to study English grammar | | C．ask students to learn English grammar by listening to stories | | D．tell us how the native speakers learn English grammar |
小题5:why shouldn’t the English learners use an analytical approach?| A．because the analytical approach can let them learn English grammar effortlessly | | B．because the analytical approach makes them be able to use English correctly when they speak. | | C．because the analytical approach can’t let them memorize and then apply a great number of rules. | | D．because Real speech is too fast. |
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Whatever question I asked, whatever activity I suggested, her reaction was pretty much the same — she was frozen with horror. She was sent to our private language school after having been the worst in English at her key school with a pretty strict ELT syllabus(教学大纲), with her peers teasing her for her mistakes in English. Moreover, her state school teacher called her name. To make things worse, she was under pressure from her family for getting bad marks in English. She was definitely expecting me to carry on the same way with her.
I have to admit that I had been staring at her with probably the same expression for a while before eventually she handed in an absolutely incredible composition which I had previously asked the class to write. It was written in perfect handwriting, was full of clever ideas and had correct paragraphing. The girl got her first excellent mark in English, and I praised her generously and from then on I started using her writing skills to support the others. Before doing an oral retelling of a story, she wrote it down. Before presenting her oral project, she was allowed to do the same thing. The day she first put up her hand to orally answer my question addressed to the class I was incredibly happy.
She taught me how to approach withdrawn students — find the skill which they can excel at, in her case writing, and help the student use it to develop other skills!
小题1:The writer is probably a teacher . | A．in a language training center | | B．in a private language school | | C．in a state school | | D．in a key public school |
小题2:The writer’s first impression of the little girl was that she was . | A．incredibly dull | B．hard to cope with | | C．far too lovely | D．pretty confident |
小题3:The girl came to the school because . | A．she had some special skills | | B．she was good at writing poems | | C．she felt very uncomfortable at her previous school | | D．she is poor at her pronunciation |
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