It was a cold winter. The day my husband fell to his death, it started to snow,
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It was a cold winter. The day my husband fell to his death, it started to snow, just 36 any November day. His 37 , when I found it, was lightly covered with snow. It snowed almost every day for the next four months, while I sat on the couch and watched it 38 . One morning, I walked slowly 39 and was surprised to see a snow remover clearing my driveway and the bent back of a woman clearing my walk. I dropped to my knees and crawled back upstairs, 40 those good people would not see me. I was 41 . My first thought was, how would I ever 42 them? I didn’t have the 43 to brush my hair, 44 clear someone’s walk.
Before Jon’s death, I felt proud that I 45 asked for favors. I identified myself by my competence（能力） and 46 . So who was I if I was no longer capable? How could I 47 myself if I just sat on the couch every day and watched the snow fall?
Learning to receive the love and 48 from others wasn’t easy. Friends cooked for me and I cried. Finally, my friend Kathy said, “Mary, cooking for you isn’t a 49 for me; it makes me feel good to be able to do something for you.”
Over and over, I heard 50 words from the people who supported me during those 51 days. One wise man told me, “You aren’t doing nothing because being fully open to your 52 may be the hardest work you will ever do.”
I am not the person I 53 was, but in many ways I have changed for the 54 . I’ve been surprised to learn that there is incredible freedom coming from 55 one’s worst fear and walking away whole. I believe there is strength, for sure, in accepting a dark period of our life.
| 小题2: | | A．body | B．soul | C．shoe | D．footprint |
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| 小题3: | | A．sweep up | B．drop off | C．fall down | D．pile up |
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| 小题4: | | A．upstairs | B．downstairs | C．indoors | D．outdoors |
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| 小题6: | | A．delighted | B．disappointed | C．annoyed | D．ashamed |
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| 小题7: | | A．pay | B．award | C．reward | D．treat |
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| 小题8: | | A．courage | B．strength | C．spirit | D．power |
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| 小题9: | | A．stand alone | B．leave alone | C．sit alone | D．let alone |
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| 小题10: | | A．frequently | B．gradually | C．hardly | D．uncertainly |
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| 小题11: | | A．intelligence | B．independence | C．excellence | D．qualification |
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| 小题12: | | A．achieve | B．praise | C．respect | D．promote |
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| 小题13: | | A．supply | B．support | C．contribution | D．similar |
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| 小题14: | | A．burden | B．job | C．business | D．sorrow |
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| 小题15: | | A．sensitive | B．same | C．considerate | D．similar |
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| 小题16: | | A．blue | B．rainy | C．bright | D．snowy |
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| 小题17: | | A．despair | B．difficulty | C．pain | D．regret |
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| 小题18: | | A．still | B．once | C．even | D．never |
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| 小题19: | | A．worse | B．less | C．more | D．better |
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| 小题20: | | A．facing | B．noticing | C．managing | D．expressing |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:A
小题6:D
小题7:C
小题8:B
小题9:D
小题10:C
小题11:B
小题12:C
小题13:B
小题14:A
小题15:D
小题16:A
小题17:C
小题18:B
小题19:D
小题20:A |
解析
试题分析：
小题1:C 介词辨析。A在…上B在...里C像…一样D为了；句意：就像11月的天一样。
小题2:A 名词辨析。A尸体B灵魂C鞋子D脚印；当我发现的时候，他的尸体被雪覆盖着。
小题3:D 短语辨析。A清扫B减少C跌落D堆积；我坐在沙发上看着雪堆积起来。
小题4:B 上下文串联。根据40空前crawled back upstairs可知我下楼才发现有人帮我扫雪。
小题5:A 上下文串联。我爬山了楼，所以那些人就看不见我了。
小题6:D 形容词辨析。A高兴B失望C恼怒D羞愧；我为自己感到羞愧，因为要别人来帮我。
小题7:C 动词辨析。A付钱B奖励C回报D对待；别人帮助了我，我又该怎么回报他人呢？
小题8:B 名词辨析。A勇气B力气C精神D权力；我甚至连梳头的力气都没有了。
小题9:D 短语辨析。A突出B不理，不管C独自坐着D更不要说；句意：我练梳头的力气都没有了，更不要说是清扫我家路上的雪了。
小题10:C 副词辨析。A频繁地B逐渐地C几乎不D不确定地；丈夫去世前，我几乎不求助别人。
小题11:B 名词辨析。A智力B独立C优秀D资格；我认为自己是一个有能力且独立的人。
小题12:C 词义辨析。A实现B表扬C尊敬D提拔；如果我整天坐在沙发上，又怎么能尊重自己？
小题13:B 名词辨析。A供应B支持C贡献D相似；学会接受别人的爱和支持是不容易的。
小题14:A 名词辨析。A负担B工作C生意D悲哀；朋友说为我做饭对她来说不是负担。
小题15:D 形容词辨析。A敏感的B同样的C体贴的D相同的；我经常从帮助我的人那里听到相同的话，这些人在那段忧郁的日子里总是在帮助我。
小题16:A 形容词辨析。A忧郁B有雨的C聪明的D下雪的；句意同上句解释。
小题17:C 名词辨析。A绝望B困难C痛苦D遗憾；对自己的痛苦完全放开是很困难的事情。
小题18:B 副词辨析。A仍然B曾经C甚至D从未；我已经不再是曾经的那个我了。
小题19:D 上下文串联。在某种程度上我在变得更好。
小题20:A 句意分析。我惊讶地发现有难以置信的自由来自于我有能力来面对人生中最大的恐惧。
点评：本文是一篇夹叙夹议的短文，介绍了我在丈夫去世以后所经历的一段痛苦的人生，但是有很多的好心人一直在帮助我，让我摆脱了那段忧郁的日子。从选项中可以看出，本大题主要还是考查了词汇的辨析与运用，但更加注重综合语言能力的运用，需要根据故事情节，了解词汇用法的同时，结合语境，做出准确的判断。 |
举一反三
If you are lost in the mountains, stay calm in the face of darkness, loneliness, and the unknown. It will greatly increase your chances of survival. Many people think that preparing necessary equipment and knowing how to use it are very important, but in fact eighty percent of mountain survival is your reaction(反应) to fear.
Finding a hiding place
Unnecessary labor (劳动) will make you sweat and make you cold. Find a hiding place around you before trying to start your own construction. If you are in a snow-covered area, you may be able to dig a cave in deep snow for protection from the wind. You should try to hide yourself in the middle of the mountain if possible. Stay out of the valleys--- cold air falls, and the valley floor can be the coldest area on the mountain.
Signal(发信号) rescuers for help
The best time to signal rescuers is during the day. Signal for help from the highest point possible--- it will be easier for rescuers to see you, and any sound you make will travel farther. If you take a box of matches and a space blanket ( a special blanket for traveling ), build three smoky fires and put your blanket ---gold side facing out --- on the ground.
Do not walk away
It will make finding you more difficult , as search teams will be trying to follow your path and may miss you if you have gone off in a different direction. Searchers often end up finding a car with no one in it. If you get frostbitten(冻伤) , do not rewarm the affected area until you are out of danger.
You can walk on frostbitten(冻伤) feet, but once you warm the area and can feel the pain, you will not want to walk anywhere. Try to protect the frostbitten area and keep it dry until you are rescued.
小题1: When lost in the mountains, you can increase your chances of survival if you _____.| A．take a space blanket with you | B．do more physical labor | | C．try to find a car immediately | D．walk as far as possible |
小题2: According to the passage, people most probably fail to survive if they ______| A．do not take enough equipment | B．stay in the middle of the mountain | | C．do not keep themselves warm | D．stay in a snow-covered area |
小题3:What can we infer from the passage?| A．Don’t travel by yourself | B．Mountain traveling is dangerous | | C．Don’t get frightened in danger | D．Avoid going to unfamiliar places |
小题4: Which statement is not true according to the passage?| A．If lost in the mountains, you must try to find a way out quickly. | | B．Stay out of the valleys when looking for a hiding place | | C．The best time to signal rescuers is during the day | | D．With a space blanket, you can put it on the ground---gold side facing out |
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As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friends house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he’s out in the woods, ” with a tone(语气) of airy acceptance. It is similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I’m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk.” For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.
We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring(探索). Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Indian burial mound.
Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularly—tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.
It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us had reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence(青春期). In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that we really were rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.
小题1:The author and his friends were often out in the woods to _______.| A．spend their free time | | B．play golf and other sports | | C．avoid doing their schoolwork | | D．keep away from their parents |
小题2:What can we infer from Paragraph 2 ?| A．The activities in the woods were well planned. | | B．Human history is not the result of exploration. | | C．Exploration should be a systematic activity. | | D．The author explored in the woods aimlessly. |
小题3:The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.| A．calm | B．doubtful | C．serious | D．optimistic |
小题4:How does the author feel about his childhood?| A．Happy but short. | | B．Lonely but memorable. | | C．Boring and meaningless. | | D．Long and unforgettable. |
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Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through Europe．I had been abroad a couple of times， 36 I could hardly claim to know my way around the continent．Moreover， my 37 of foreign languages was 38 to a little college French．
I 39 ．How would I，unable to speak the language and totally 40 with local geography or transportation systems， 41 interviews and do research? It seemed 42 ，and with much regret I sat down to write a letter begging 43 ．Halfway through，a thought ran through my mind：you can’t learn if you don’t 44 ．So I accepted the assignment.
There were some bad news. But by the time I had 45 the trip I was an experienced 46 ．And ever since，I have never hesitated to 47 for even the most remote places，without guides or even 48 bookings，confident that somehow I will 49 .
The point is that the new，the 50 ，is almost by definition scary．But each time you try 51 ，you learn，and as the learning piles up，the world 52 to you.
I’ve 53 to ski at 40，and flown up the Rhine River in a balloon．And I know I’ll go on doing such things．It’s not because I’m 54 or more daring than others. I’m not. But I’ll accept anxiety as another name for 55 and I believe I can accomplish wonders．
| 小题1: | | A．though | B．and | C．but | D．since |
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| 小题2: | | A．knowledge | B．view | C．target | D．experience |
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| 小题3: | | A．forced | B．limited | C．reduced | D．increased |
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| 小题4: | | A．left | B．doubted | C．paused | D．hesitated |
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小题5:A. occupied B. unfamiliar C: mixed D. popular
| 小题6: | | A．get up | B．put up | C．set up | D．cheer up |
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| 小题7: | | A．impossible | B．possible | C．easy | D．disturbing |
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| 小题9: | | A．ask | B．try | C．practice | D．accept |
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| 小题10: | | A．finished | B．started | C．reserved | D．cancelled |
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| 小题11: | | A．traveler | B．reporter | C．writer | D．thinker |
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| 小题12: | | A．take | B．head | C．make | D．change |
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| 小题13: | | A．careful | B．free | C．professional | D．advanced |
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| 小题14: | | A．lose | B．win | C．manage | D．remember |
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| 小题15: | | A．different | B．same | C．old | D．bad |
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| 小题16: | | A．nothing | B．something | C．anything | D．everything |
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| 小题17: | | A．sticks | B．comes | C．opens | D．drinks |
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| 小题18: | | A．learned | B．hoped | C．forgotten | D．attempted |
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| 小题19: | | A．weaker | B．braver | C．worse | D．luckier |
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| 小题20: | | A．trouble | B．failure | C．victory | D．challenge |
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For some minutes, all was quiet in the street. Then from across the street someone came walking.
It looked like a man of middle height, dressed in a big raincoat, a soft hat and rubber-soled boots or shoes, and making little sound while walking. No one was in sight. It was a street with two rows of about fifty small houses and there were three lamps on either side. The lamp nearest to the child’s house could be seen clearly, but the others were almost hidden by the smoky air. A car passed the end of the street and its lights showed faintly，but clearly enough to show the smooth skin of a woman’s face. The car disappeared as the woman, wrapped up in her coat, reached the doorway of the child’s house. She put a key in the lock quickly, pushed the door open and stepped inside, then closed the door without looking round. She began to breathe hard.
She leaned against the door for a moment, then straightened up as if with an effort, and walked towards the door of the front room, the passage leading to the kitchen, and the narrow staircase. She hesitated outside the door, then went up the stairs quickly but with hardly a sound. There was enough light from the narrow hall to show the four doors leading off a small landing(楼梯平台). She pushed each door open in turn and shone a torch inside, and the light fell upon beds, walls, furniture, a bathroom hand-basin, a mirror which flashed brightness back; but this was not what the woman was looking for. She turned away and went downstairs, and hesitated again at the foot of the stairs, then turned towards the kitchen. Clearly there was nothing there, or in the small washroom that she wanted. Two rooms remained; the front room and a smaller one next to it. She opened the front room door. After a moment, she saw the child’s bed and the child.
小题1:The lights of the car passing the end of the street showed that ______.| A．a woman was driving the car | | B．someone was standing by a street lamp. | | C．a man and a woman were walking up the street. | | D．a woman was walking by herself up the street. |
小题2:After the woman closed the front door, she ___________.| A．looked round quickly | B．started breathing again | | C．rested before moving | D．walked straight towards the front door |
小题3: When she was upstairs, the woman _______.| A．saw that there was a wash-basin in each room | | B．noticed a mirror which she was looking for | | C．found a torch in one of the rooms | | D．opened four different doors |
小题4: Once she was in the house, the woman behaved as if what she was looking for ____| A．might be in the kitchen | | B．was more likely to be upstairs | | C．would be easily seen by the light from the hall | | D．would look frightening to a child |
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When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings(缺点). Week by week her list grew: I was very thin, I wasn’t a good student, I talked too much, I was too proud, and so on. I tried to hear all this as long as I could. At last, I became very angry. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.
He listened to me quietly, and then he asked. “Are the things she says true or not? Janet, didn’t you ever wonder what you’re really like? Well, you now have that girl’s opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark(标记) the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.”
I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (like being very thin), but a good number I could — and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I go to fairly clear picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Daddy. He refused(拒绝) to take it. “That’s just for you,” he said. “You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt. When something said about you is true, you’ll find it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don’t shut your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.”
Daddy’s advice has returned to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice.
小题1:What does “Week by week her list grew” mean in the first paragraph?| A．As time went by, she discovered more shortcomings of mine. | | B．She made a longer list of my shortcomings the next week. | | C．She more and more disliked me as time went by. | | D．She added one more shortcoming on the list every week. |
小题2:What did the father ask her daughter to do when she complained(抱怨) about her “enemy”?| A．To pay no attention to her “enemy’s” gossiping. | | B．To keep away from her “enemy” at school. | | C．To write down what the girl said and accept the truth. | | D．To do whatever she wanted to as usual. |
小题3:Why did her father refuse to take the list her daughter made?| A．Because he wanted her daughter to perfect herself. | | B．Because what the list said were not his shortcomings. | | C．Because he thought the list didn’t belong to him. | | D．Because he believed the list could be well kept by her. |
小题4:Which do you think would be the best title for this passage?| A．Not an Enemy, But a Good Friend | B．The Best Advice I’ve Ever Had | | C．My Father and I | D．My Childhood |
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