The day I became a mom was not the day my daughter was born, but seven years lat
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The day I became a mom was not the day my daughter was born, but seven years later. Up until that day, I had been too busy trying to survive my abusive(辱骂的) marriage. I had spent all my energy trying to run a "perfect" home that would pass inspection each evening, and I didn"t see that my baby girl had become a toddler. I"d tried endlessly to please someone who could never be pleased and suddenly realized that the years had slipped by and could never return.
Oh, I had done the normal "motherly" things, like making sure my daughter got to ballet and gym lessons. I went to all of her recitals and school concerts, parent-teacher conferences and open houses alone. We suffered from my husband"s rages(暴怒) when something was spilled(溢出) at the dinner table, telling her, "It will be okay, Honey. Daddy"s not really mad at you." I did all I could to protect her from hearing the awful shouting and complaints after he returned from a night of drinking. Finally I did the best thing I could do for my daughter and myself: I removed us from the home that wasn"t really a home at all.
That day I became a mom was the day when my daughter and I were sitting in our new home having a calm, quiet dinner just as I had always wanted for her. We were talking about what she had done in school and suddenly her little hand knocked over the full glass of chocolate milk by her plate. As I watched the white tablecloth and freshly painted white wall become dark brown, I looked at her small face. It was filled with fear, knowing what the consequence of the event would have meant only a week before in her father"s presence. When I saw that look on her face and looked at the chocolate milk running down the wall, I simply started laughing. I am sure she thought I was crazy, but then she must have realized that I was thinking, "It"s a good thing your father isn"t here!" She started laughing with me, and we laughed until we cried. They were tears of joy and peace and were the first of many tears that we cried together. That was the day we knew that we were going to be okay.
Whenever either of us spills something, even now, seventeen years later, she says, "Remember the day I spilled the chocolate milk? I knew you had done the right thing for us." That was the day I really became a mom. I discovered that being a mom isn"t only going to ballet or gym, recitals, and attending every school concert and open house. It isn"t keeping a tidy house and preparing perfect meals. It certainly isn"t pretending things are normal when they are not. For me, being a mom started when I could laugh over spilled milk.
---- By Linda Jones from “Chicken Soup for Soul”
小题1:What does the underlined part "the right thing" refer to?| A．Becoming a single mother. | | B．Divorcing with her abusive husband. | | C．Doing all the motherly things well and running the family. | | D．Not blaming on her daughter’s spilling the chocolate milk. |
小题2:Which statement is NOT true?．| A．The author had suffered from an unfortunate marriage for a long time. | | B．All the things the author did were to protect her daughter | | C．The author hadn’t been a mother until she removed from her marriage. | | D．Both the author and her daughter were frightened at the husband and father. |
小题3:Why did the author and her daughter laugh and then cry?| A．Because it was a thorough relief after they had suffered too much. | | B．Because they were actually crazy. | | C．Because they wouldn’t see the abusive man any more. | | D．Because spilling the chocolate milk on the wall was really funny. |
小题4:What is the best title for this article?| A．How To Be a Better Mon? | B．The Day I Became a Mom | | C．A Thing Happened 17 Years Ago | D．Survive an Abusive Marriage |
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小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:B |
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试题分析：文章介绍作者一直做着一般的妈妈该做的事情，但是真正成为妈妈是在在遭受丈夫的辱骂和虐待7年后，终于下决心离开丈夫，和女儿过着放松的生活，这时作者觉得自己像个真正的妈妈。
小题1:推理题：从第二段的描述，作者多年遭受丈夫的辱骂和虐待，让自己和女儿饱受痛苦，终于下决心离开丈夫，这里女儿指的就是和丈夫离婚的事情，选B
小题2:推理题：从第一段的句子：The day I became a mom was not the day my daughter was born, but seven years later.可知虽然作者说自己不是在有了女儿后变成妈妈的，而是7年后，但是这里的妈妈是有特殊含义的，不是广义上的妈妈，第二段的句子：Oh, I had done the normal "motherly" things, like making sure my daughter got to ballet and gym lessons. I went to all of her recitals and school concerts, parent-teacher conferences and open houses alone.可以看出作者一直做着一般的妈妈该做的事情，所以C表达不对。
小题3:推理题：从第三段的句子："It"s a good thing your father isn"t here!" She started laughing with me, and we laughed until we cried. They were tears of joy and peace and were the first of many tears that we cried together. That was the day we knew that we were going to be okay.可知作者和女儿大笑知道哭了，是因为受苦多年后终于有了彻底的放松，选A
小题4:主旨题：文章多次提到That was the day I really became a mom. 可知作者想表达的是自己真正成为妈妈的日子，选B |
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| 小题1: | | A．person | B．product | C．individual | D．style |
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| 小题4: | | A．surprising | B．funny | C．impressive | D．amazing |
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| 小题5: | | A．that is | B．at the same time | C．as a result | D．on occasion |
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| 小题6: | | A．customers | B．employers | C．consumers | D．employees |
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| 小题7: | | A．expensive | B．usual | C．popular | D．meaningless |
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| 小题8: | | A．refer to | B．serve as | C．stand for | D．use as |
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| 小题9: | | A．location | B．business-hours | C．salary | D．details |
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| 小题10: | | A．unbelievably | B．consequently | C．accidentally | D．occasionally |
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| 小题11: | | A．speech | B．sport | C．debate | D．performance |
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| 小题12: | | A．For example | B．Moreover | C．However | D．To be exact |
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| 小题13: | | A．create | B．guess | C．imagine | D．think |
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| 小题14: | | A．production | B．reflection | C．consciousness | D．business |
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Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary; now, a teenager with 26 problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog（博客）．In many ways, a diary and a blog are very 27 ．But what makes blogging different from writing in a（n） 28 diary?
The biggest difference is that a blog is much more 29 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of 30 that he does not want to 31 with others.
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog 32 a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her 33 . She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. 34 I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but 35 in my dairy. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was 36 that my sister might read it.
The biggest 37 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something 38 about him in my diary, he would never know. 39 , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might 40 her blog and get angry.
There are also 41 to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “ Nobody cares about me”, because no one would 42 about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would quickly 43 and tell her how much they 44 her. Blogs help people 45 in contact with their friends and know what the people around them are doing.
| 小题1: | | A．the same | B．interesting | C．difficult | D．daily |
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| 小题3: | | A．personal l | B．ordinary | C．meaningful | D．traditional |
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| 小题4: | | A．attractive | B．public | C．exciting | D．quick |
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| 小题5: | | A．thoughts | B．puzzles | C．ideas | D．secrets |
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| 小题6: | | A．tell | B．sh4re | C．publish | D．solve |
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| 小题7: | | A．instead of | B．as well as | C．except for | D．besides |
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| 小题8: | | A．blog | B．diary | C．report | D．web |
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| 小题9: | | A．Although | B．Since | C．When | D．Because |
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| 小题10: | | A．only | B．already | C．still | D．never |
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| 小题11: | | A．angry | B．sad | C．glad | D．worried |
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| 小题12: | | A．problem | B．doubt | C．question | D．mistake |
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| 小题13: | | A．boring | B．wrong | C．mean | D．funny |
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| 小题14: | | A．So | B．However | C．Therefore | D．Then |
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| 小题15: | | A．steal | B．break | C．write | D．read |
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| 小题16: | | A．reasons | B．wishes | C．shortcomings | D．advantages |
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| 小题18: | | A．prepare | B．begin | C．respond | D．feel |
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| 小题19: | | A．like | B．miss | C．need | D．stand |
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Producing money requires both artistic and technological skills． Dollar bills are made so that they are interesting to look at but very hard to copy． In total, there are sixty-five separate steps required to make a dollar bill．
The money making process begins when． a yearly order is sent by the Federal Reserve Board． That order will then be divided in half． Half will be done here in Washington, D． C．and the other half will be done in Fort Worth, Texas． Next, the Bureau orders special paper which is actually cloth since it is 75% cotton and 25% linen．
This paper is made so that it can last a long time． And, it is made with details that make it hard to copy． For example, bills contain security threads． These narrow pieces of plastic are inside the paper and run along the width of the bill． This special paper is also made with very small blue and red fibers．
Once the money is printed, guillotine cutters separate the sheets into two notes, then into individual notes． The notes are organized in "bricks," each of which contains forty one-hundred-note packages． The bricks then go to one of twelve Federal Reserve Districts, which then give the money to local banks． Ninety-five percent of the bills printed each year are used to replace money that is in circulation, or that has already been removed from circulation．
You may know that America"s first president, George Washington, is pictured on the one- dollar bill． But do you know whose face is on the two, five, ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred-dollar bills? They are, in order． President Thomas Jefferson, President Abraham Lincoln, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, President Andrew Jackson, President Ulysses Grant and statesman Benjamin Franklin．
The average life span of a one-dollar bill is twenty-one months． But a ten-dollar bill lasts only about eighteen months． The one hundred-dollar bill lasts the longest, eighty-nine months． One popular question is about the two-dollar bill． This bill is not printed very often． This is because many Americans believe two-dollar bills are lucky, so they keep them．
小题1:During money production, we must consider all EXCEPT that it must .| A．last a long time | | B．be hard to copy | | C．be interesting to look at | | D．be done by the president"s order |
小题2:We can learn from the passage that the security threads .| A．are narrow pieces of plastic | | B．are pressed outside the bills | | C．are longer than the width of the bills | | D．are actually made of cotton and linen |
小题3:How many presidents are printed on the American money?| A．Four | B．Five | C．Six | D．Seven |
小题4:Why are the two-dollar bills not made often?| A．Because no one wants them． | | B．Because their material is a bit more expensive． | | C．Because they aren"t used in America any more． | | D．Because they aren"t damaged quickly like other bills． |
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According to sociologists, every modern industrial society has some form of social stratification（阶层）. Class, power and status are important in deciding people’s rank in society.
Class means a person’s economic position in society. A commonly used classification is lower class, middle class and upper class. While sociologists disagree on how these terms should be exactly defined, they do describe societies like the United States quite well. One study shows that 53% of Americans belong to the lower class, 46% the middle class, and 1% the upper class. Interestingly, a surgeon earning ＄500,000 a year and a bus driver earning ＄50,000 a year both regard themselves as the middle class!
Power refers to the amount of control a person has over other people. Obviously, people in positions of great power (such as governors) exercise（行使）big power, but people who take orders from others have less power. Power and class do not always go hand in hand, however. For example, the governor of a state has great power, but he or she may not belong to a corresponding （相应的）economic class. Generally, however, there is a relationship between power and class.
To our knowledge, there aren’t too many people who aren’t millionaires in the U.S. Senate!
Status is the honor or respect attached to a person’s position in society. It can also be affected by power and class, but not necessarily so. For example, a university professor may have a high status but not belong to a high social class or have a lot of power over others.
小题1:What can we learn about “the middle class” from Paragraph 2?| A．People earning ＄50,000 a year belong to the middle class. | | B．Nearly half Americans belong to the middle class. | | C．People generally consider bus drivers as the middle class. | | D．Sociologists have a clear definition of the middle class. |
小题2:According to the text, we know that _____.| A．power and class do not always correspond with each other | | B．status refers to a person’s economic position in society | | C．people with high status have a lot of control over others | | D．class is less important in deciding a person’s social rank |
小题3:Which of the following shows the structure of the whole text?
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There are many dimensions(维) to football"s allure（诱惑）and appeal: top-class moves, thrilling goals, majestic star players, thunderous encounters and passionate fans. Football stirs the emotions all over the globe, brings people from contrasting cultures together, and promotes solid virtues such as fairness, team spirit and tolerance. All these facts will emerge in their most intense form at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil next summer.
Millions of people will be transfixed（让…出神）by this unique festival of sport and friendship. We are thoroughly looking forward to football of the highest quality. We"re delighted to welcome the biggest names in the sport as well as those nations set to appear at the finals for the first time. And we"re looking forward to greeting fans from all over the world as they fill our cities with even more colour and life. A heartfelt welcome to everyone!
Brazil is a cosmopolitan（四海一家的）country with a passion for football. The people will devote themselves to the job of ensuring the 2014 FIFA World Cup is an unforgettable experience, a fact demonstrated by the thousands of ordinary folk who have come forward as volunteers.
Brazil is well prepared to host the FIFA World Cup. We have finished constructing our new, modern stadiums and an outstanding transportation system. The organization is in the enormously capable hands of the Organizing Committee headed by RonaldoLuiz Nazario de Lima. The slogan "A time to make friends" perfectly describes our intention to ensure everyone delighted in a secure and peaceful festival of football.
The FIFA World Cup is a unique opportunity for Brazil to present herself as a hospitable, joyful and modern nation bursting with ideas. I am convinced that the flames of passion and togetherness engendered by the FIFA World Cup in Brazil will spread to the entire world.
I"m personally looking forward to a festival of goals, excitement and fair play. We Brazilians will be right behind our national team, but our aim is to act as welcoming hosts and friends to every team and their fans. Passionate and cosmopolitan Brazil is delighted to welcome visitors to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
小题1:The charm of football includes all except .| A．thrilling goals | B．the players | | C．violence | D．the fans |
小题2:The underlined word “engendered ” (in Para. 5) is closest in meaning to ______.| A．brought about | B．handed over | | C．turned into | D．passed down |
小题3:In order to host the World Cup ,Brazil ____| A．has organized groups of passionate fans | | B．sets up a national team | | C．has constructed new , modern stadiums | | D．tries to take a friendly disguise |
小题4:This passage can be classified as ____| A．a news report | B．a feature story | | C．greeting speech | D．an advertisement |
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