阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55题中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案，使短文句意通顺，符合逻辑，并把答案填在在答题卡内。Once there were two
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阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55题中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案，使短文句意通顺，符合逻辑，并把答案填在在答题卡内。
Once there were two men, who lived in the same hospital room. One man’s bed was next to the room"s only window. _____ , the other man, since his illness was more _____, had to spend all his time in bed. When the man in the bed by the window could _____ up, he would tell his roommate all the things he could see _____ the window. He said the window ______ a park with a lovely _____. Ducks played on the _____ while children sailed their model boats. Old trees grew and beautiful flowers were in bloom. What a fine _____! The man in the other bed would be _____ by the beautiful colors of the world outside.
Days and weeks passed.
One morning, the nurse found the man by the window had _____ peacefully in his sleep. She called the hospital attendants to take the body _____. As everything was done, the other man asked if he could be _____ next to the window. The nurse said OK and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him _____ .
Slowly and painfully, he tried to take his __ ___ look at the world outside. He thought he would be _____ to see it by himself. But to his surprise, he saw nothing but a white _____. The man asked the nurse ____his roommate _____ to him and said there were wonderful things outside this window. The nurse told him his roommate was blind and could not even _____ the wall.
She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to _____ you. He only hoped you could live in a colorful world and got better quickly. "
| 小题1: | | A．Angrily | B．Happily | C．Surprisingly | D．Unluckily |
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| 小题2: | | A．common | B．serious | C．occasional | D．light |
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| 小题3: | | A．stand | B．sit | C．jump | D．wake |
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| 小题4: | | A．across | B．outside | C．behind | D．above |
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| 小题5: | | A．built | B．stood | C．faced | D．placed |
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| 小题6: | | A．lake | B．hill | C．house | D．tower |
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| 小题7: | | A．sand | B．grass | C．water | D．tree |
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| 小题8: | | A．look | B．sight | C．form | D．view |
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| 小题9: | | A．impressed | B．moved | C．reminded | D．disappointed |
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| 小题10: | | A．missed | B．come | C．died | D．passed |
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| 小题12: | | A．lifted | B．forced | C．brought | D．moved |
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| 小题13: | | A．alike | B．alone | C．aloud | D．alive |
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| 小题14: | | A．single | B．last | C．first | D．only |
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| 小题15: | | A．pleased | B．sad | C．crazy | D．excited |
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| 小题16: | | A．picture | B．wall | C．river | D．window |
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| 小题19: | | A．hear | B．touch | C．see | D．describe |
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| 小题20: | | A．surprise | B．control | C．encourage | D．advice |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:C
小题6:A
小题7:C
小题8:D
小题9:A
小题10:C
小题11:B
小题12:D
小题13:B
小题14:C
小题15:D
小题16:B
小题17:B
小题18:C
小题19:C
小题20:C |
解析
试题分析：本文主要讲述了两位病情严重病人在病房里，其中一位病人为鼓舞另外一位病人，描述着他通过窗户看到外界的精彩世界。而这位病人去世之后，身体恢复的病人起床向窗外看，结果看到的只是一堵墙。
小题1:考查副词。A. Angrily生气地；B. Happily快乐地；C. Surprisingly令人惊讶地；D. Unluckily不幸地。语境：不幸的是，另一个人病更重，不得不整天呆在床上。根据句意故选D。
小题2:考查形容词。A. common普通的；B. serious严重的； C. occasional偶然的；D. light轻的。从下文信息：...had to spend all his time in bed.可知此人病情更加严重。根据句意故选B。
小题3:考查动词。come up出现；sit up坐起来；jump up跳起来；wake up醒来。此处指“坐起来从窗口向外看”。根据句意故选B.
小题4:考查介词。“outside the window”指“窗外”。他把他窗外所能看到的使用东西都将告诉他的舍友。根据句意故选B。
小题5:考查动词。根据其后文的描述，我们可知窗子正对着花园。“face”指“面临，面对”。根据句意故选C.
小题6:考查上下文连串。后文信息：Ducks played on the _____ while children sailed their model boats.可知：有一个可爱的湖。故选A。
小题7:考查名词。A. sand沙；B. grass草；C. water水；D. tree树。根据语境与常识：鸭子在湖里游泳。故选C。
小题8:考查名词。look 外表，相貌； sight景色(供人参观)； form形式；view 景色(从山上向下或从窗口向外看到的景色)。句意：多么美的景色！根据句意故选D。
小题9:考查动词。“be impressed by...”指对……留下深刻的印象；被……迷住。根据语境：另一个人被外面多姿多彩的世界迷住了。故选A。
小题10:考查上下文连串。根据从后文信息“body”指的是尸体，故可推断临近窗子的病人已经死亡。故选C。
小题11:考查动词。本题考查的是短语的固定搭配：take away... 把……带走。此处指把尸体运走。故选B。
小题12:考查上下文连串。根据后文语境：另一个人的位置挪到了窗子边。可知此时病人要求挪位置。根据句意故选D
小题13:考查形容词。固定词组：“leave...alone”让……单独呆着；听任……不管。确信他很舒服后，她让他单独呆着。根据句意故选B
小题14:考查上下文连串。根据上下文可知：这是病人第一次看窗子外面的景色。故用first look。可知应选C。
小题15:考查形容词。A. pleased满意的；B. sad难过的；C. crazy疯狂的；D. excited激动的。根据常理：第一次见到自己渴望的景色病人的情绪应该很兴奋。故选D。
小题16:考查名词。根据后文信息：The nurse told him his roommate was blind and could not even _____ the wall.可知窗子临着一面墙。根据句意故选B.
小题17:考查疑问代词。A. when什么时候；B. why为什么；C. how怎么；D. where哪里。病人看到的与朋友描述的大相径庭，不明原因，所以他在问护士原因。故选B。
小题18:考查动词。A. led导致；B. got得到； C. lied说谎；D. left离开。看到的是事实，自然听到的是谎言。根据句意故选C.
小题19:考查动词。A. hear听到；B. touch触摸；C. see看到；D. describe描述。根据句意：第一个病人是个盲人，所以甚至连墙也看不见。根据句意故选C.
小题20:考上下文连串。根据后文信息：He only hoped you could live in a colorful world and got better quickly.可知：第一个病人为了鼓励对方活下去所以向他描述了一个多彩的世界。根据句意故选C。 |
举一反三
Americans plan parties for many reasons. As in other cultures, many Americans attend parties for weddings and religious or national holidays. But some parties are especially American. For example, a group of neighbors may gather on their street to eat food, play music and visit with one another. This is called a block party. A woman might invite a group of women to a party called a baby shower for a friend who is about to give birth. Guests bring presents for the new baby.
Americans also attend tailgate parties. A tailgate is the back end of a truck or other vehicle that opens down. The tailgate parties are a big part of sports culture in the United States. Friends bring food and drink to a sports event. They eat together in the parking area of the sports stadium.
Birthday parties are also very popular. Many parents organize a party for their child around a theme. Birthday parties usually include gifts and a birthday cake with candles. In many parts of the United States, cupcakes have become a popular replacement for cakes.
Birthday parties can be low cost or very costly. Some parents take their children’s birthday parties very seriously, even when the child is too young to fully understand the celebration.
One group of parents started a website called Birthdays Without Pressure. They decided that some parents were under too much social pressure to plan costly parties for their children. The group sees this movement as an example of America’s culture of “too much stuff”. The group’s website gives suggestions on how to keep birthday celebrations simple, meaningful and fun without spending a lot of money. Their advice may be very helpful during this period of economic recession（萧条）.
小题1:What can be the best title for the passage?| A．Reasons for parties | | B．Birthdays without pressure | | C．American parties | | D．Different parties in the world |
小题2:How many kinds of parties does the passage mention?小题3:Eating together in the parking area of the sports stadium belongs to _________parties.| A．block | B．baby shower | C．sports | D．tailgate |
小题4:The purpose of Birthdays Without Pressure is to advise people to _________.| A．relieve people’s pressure | | B．have meaningful birthday parties with low cost | | C．make birthday parties meaningful and costly | | D．spread America’s culture |
小题5:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?| A．Block party is especially American. | | B．Some parties in America are the same as in other countries. | | C．There’s a party for the mother before her new baby is born. | | D．Birthday parties are the most popular in America. |
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Hacking our senses to boost learning power
Some schools are pumping music, noises and pleasant smells into the classroom to see if it improves exam results. Could it work? Why do songs stick in our heads? What does your school smell like? Is it noisy or peaceful?
It might not seem important, but a growing body of research suggests that smells and sounds can have an impact on learning, performance and creativity. Indeed, some head teachers have recently taken to broadcasting noises and pumping smells into their schools to see whether it can boost grades. Is there anything in it? And if so, what are the implications for the way we work and study?
There is certainly some well-established research to suggest that some noises can have a harmful effect on learning. Numerous studies over the past 15 years have found that children attending schools under the flight paths of large airports fall behind in their exam results. Bridget Shield, a professor of acoustics (声学) at London South Bank University, and Julie Dockrell, from the Institute of Education, have been conducting studies on the effects of all sorts of noises, such as traffic and sirens (汽笛), as well as noise generated by the children themselves. When they recreated those particular sounds in an experimental setting while children completed various learning tasks, they found a significant negative effect on exam scores. “Everything points to a bad impact of the noise on children’s performance, in numeracy, in literacy, and in spelling,” says Shield. The noise seemed to have an especially harmful effect on children with special needs.
Whether background sounds are beneficial or not seems to depend on what kind of noise it is — and the volume. In a series of studies published last year, Ravi Mehta from the College of Business at Illinois and his colleagues tested people’s creativity while exposed to a soundtrack made up of background noises — such as coffee-shop chatter and construction-site drilling — at different volumes. They found that people were more creative when the background noises were played at a medium level than when volume was low. Loud background noise, however, damaged their creativity.
Many teachers all over the world already play music to students in class. Many are inspired by the belief that hearing music can boost IQ in later tasks, the so-called Mozart effect. While the evidence actually suggests it’s hard to say classical music boosts brainpower, researchers do think pleasant sounds before a task can sometimes lift your mood and help you perform well, says Perham, who has done his own studies on the phenomenon. The key appears to be that you enjoy what you’re hearing. “If you like the music or you like the sound — even listening to a Stephen King novel — then you do better. It doesn’t matter about the music,” he says.
So, it seems that schools that choose to prevent disturbing noises and create positive soundscapes could enhance the learning of their students, so long as they make careful choices. Yet this isn’t the only sense being used to affect learning. Special educational needs students at Sydenham high school in London are being encouraged to revise different subjects in the presence of different smells — grapefruit scents for maths, lavender for French and spearmint for history.
小题1:The four questions in the first paragraph are meant to ________.| A．create some sense of humour to please the readers | | B．provide the most frequently asked questions in schools nowadays | | C．hold the readers’ attention and arouse their curiosity to go on reading | | D．declare the purpose of the article: to try to offer key to those questions |
小题2:What does the conclusion of the studies of noise conducted by Bridget Shield and Julie Dockrell suggest?| A．Peaceful music plays an active role in students’ learning. | | B．Not all noises have a negative impact on children’s performance. | | C．We should create for school children a more peaceful environment. | | D．Children with special needs might be exposed to some particular sounds. |
小题3:Ravi Mehta’s experiment indicates that ________.| A．students’ creativity improves in a quiet environment | | B．we may play some Mozart music while students are learning | | C．a proper volume of background noises does improve creativity | | D．noise of coffee-shop chatter is better than that of construction-site drilling |
小题4:Towards the positive impact of appropriate background sound and smell on students’ learning and creativity, the author’s attitude is ________.| A．ambiguous | B．doubtful | C．negative | D．supportive |
小题5:Which of the following is most likely to follow up the research findings?| A．Experts’ research into other senses that can improve students’ grades. | | B．More successful examples of boosting learning power by using music. | | C．Suggestions for pumping lots of pleasant smells into school campuses. | | D．Debates on whether noises can really have positive effect on students’ performance. |
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Flight cancellations(取消) and loss of luggage can ruin even the best-planned holiday. The key to a stress-free trip is having a backup plan.
Fly non-stop. The worst problems involve connections, so it is important to take non-stop flights whenever possible. If you do have to make a connection, try to route through a southern city, where snowstorms and de-icing delays will be less likely. Always allow at least two to three hours for flight connections.
Check the weather. Check the weather in your connecting city, not just the arrival and departure city. If your departure flight is cancelled because of weather, you can go home or back to your hotel. Airlines promise to get you on the next available flight, not the next flight. That could be several days later on a sold-out holiday weekend.
Go early. The earlier in the day you fly, the better your chance of getting rebooked the same day after a missed connection. It will also put you ahead of stranded(滞留的) passengers who arrive later.
Rebook immediately. As soon as your flight is delayed or cancelled, get on the phone and rebook your flight instead of waiting at the ticket counter. If your rebooking is delayed, call or ask your travel agent to find a seat on another carrier, and then ask your original carrier to endorse your ticket to the new airline. Airlines are not required to do this but often do. Learn more at www. dot. gov/ airconsumer/ fly-rights.
Ship bags. A few days before your flight, ship suitcases or holiday gifts to your destination by a documented express service. It’s preferable to losing bags because of re-routed flights and sometimes cheaper than paying airline overweight bag fees.
Know your rights. Airlines are not required to compensate passengers for delayed or cancelled flights, but it never hurts to ask for goodwill vouchers(折扣) for meals, taxis or a room.
小题1:When making a flight connection, it’s common that you’ll___________.| A．stop in the south | | B．choose a good city without snowstorm | | C．be trapped in the storm | | D．wait for two or three hours |
小题2:The suggested way for you to rebook your flight is___________.| A．through the phone | | B．by waiting at the ticket counter | | C．by changing another airline | | D．by surfing the Internet |
小题3:According to the passage, we can infer____________.| A．it will take long to rebook the tickets | | B．your luggage is easy to be lost | | C．you will pay more for your overweight luggage | | D．with the same ticket you can take the next flight |
小题4:The underlined word “compensate” in the last paragraph can be replaced by “___________”.小题5:What’s the best title of the passage?| A．The Worst Problem in the Trip. | | B．The Preparation Before the Flight Trip. | | C．How to Book the Plane Ticket. | | D．How to Plan the Holiday. |
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When I settled in Chicago, my new city seemed so big and unfriendly. Then I had a problem and had to go to hospital for a examination.
It seemed a small compared to the one I was about to face ,but things started to go right from the beginning.Not having a car or the city, I was depending on a couple of buses to get me from A to B. I’d left myself plenty of time, soon it was I was going to be late, as I had mistakenly boarded a bus that was taking me in the direction.
I the bus and stood on the pavement not knowing what to do. I looked into the eyes of a , who was trying to get past me , instead of moving on,she stopped to ask if I was . After I explained my to her, she pointed to a bus stop across the street, where a bus would take me back into the city to my . Sitting there waiting, I felt that someone had been willing to help. , hearing a horn (喇叭) nearby, I looked up to see a car with my new friend at me to get in. She had returned to offer me a to the hospital.
Such unexpected from a passer-by was a lovely gift to receive. As I climbed out of the car at the hospital and turned to thank her, she smiled and told me not to lose , for all things are possible.
| 小题1: | | A．physical | B．traveling | C．social | D．housing |
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| 小题2: | | A．scientific | B．final | C．previous | D．thorough |
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| 小题3: | | A．chance | B．challenge | C．success | D．error |
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| 小题4: | | A．wrong | B．easy | C．fast | D．ahead |
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| 小题5: | | A．leaving | B．visiting | C．knowing | D．appreciating |
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| 小题6: | | A．Although | B．Since | C．Unless | D．Once |
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| 小题7: | | A．strange | B．necessary | C．obvious | D．important |
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| 小题8: | | A．same | B．right | C．general | D．opposite |
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| 小题9: | | A．looked at | B．waited for | C．got off | D．ran into |
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| 小题10: | | A．driver | B．friend | C．stranger | D．gentleman |
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| 小题11: | | A．Especially | B．Surprisingly | C．Probably | D．Normally |
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| 小题12: | | A．nervous | B．excited | C．OK | D．dangerous |
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| 小题13: | | A．idea | B．motivation | C．excuse | D．situation |
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| 小题14: | | A．appointment | B．apartment | C．direction | D．station |
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| 小题15: | | A．afraid | B．grateful | C．certain | D．disappointed |
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| 小题16: | | A．Thus | B．Then | C．Perhaps | D．Surely |
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| 小题17: | | A．staring | B．laughing | C．waving | D．shouting |
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| 小题18: | | A．lift | B．suggestion | C．bike | D．guidebook |
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| 小题19: | | A．results | B．news | C．kindness | D．appearance |
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| 小题20: | | A．power | B．faith | C．touch | D．support |
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People on a college campus were more likely to give money to the March of Dimes if they were asked for a donation by a disabled woman in a wheelchair than if asked by a nondisabled woman. In another , subway riders in New York saw a man carrying a stick stumble（绊脚） and fall to the floor. Sometimes the victim had a large red birthmark on his ; sometimes he did not. In this situation, the victim was more likely to aid if his face was spotless than if he had an unattractive birthmark. In these and other research findings, two themes are : we are more willing to help people we like for some reason and people we think assistance.
In some situations, those who are physically attractive are more likely to receive aid. , in a field study researchers placed a completed application to graduate school in a telephone box at the airport. The application was ready to be , but had apparently been "lost". The photo attached to the application was sometimes that of a very person and sometimes that of a less attractive person. The measure of helping was whether the individual who found the envelope actually mailed it or not. Results showed that people were more likely to the application if the person in the photo was physically attractive.
The degree of between the potential helper and the person in need is also important. For example, people are more likely to help a stranger who is from the same country rather than a foreigner. In one study, shoppers on a busy street in Scotland were more likely to help a person wearing a(n) T-shirt than a person wearing a T-shirt printed with offensive words.
Whether a person receives help depends in part on the "worth" of the case. For example, shoppers in a supermarket were more likely to give someone. to buy milk rather than to buy cookies, probably because milk is thought more essential for than cookies. Passengers on a New York subway were more likely to help a man who fell to the ground if he appeared to be rather than drunk.
| 小题1: | | A．study | B．way | C．word | D．college |
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| 小题3: | | A．refuse | B．beg | C．lose | D．receive |
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| 小题4: | | A．challenging | B．recording | C．understanding | D．publishing |
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| 小题5: | | A．important | B．possible | C．amusing | D．missing |
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| 小题6: | | A．seek | B．deserve | C．obtain | D．accept |
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| 小题7: | | A．At first | B．Above all | C．In addition | D．For example |
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| 小题8: | | A．printed | B．mailed | C．rewritten | D．signed |
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| 小题9: | | A．talented | B．good-looking | C．helpful | D．hard-working |
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| 小题10: | | A．send in | B．throw away | C．fill out | D．turn down |
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| 小题11: | | A．similarity | B．friendship | C．cooperation | D．contact |
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| 小题12: | | A．expensive | B．plain | C．cheap | D．strange |
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| 小题13: | | A．time | B．instructions | C．money | D．chances |
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| 小题14: | | A．shoppers | B．research | C．children | D．health |
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| 小题15: | | A．talkative | B．handsome | C．calm | D．sick |
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