Many Tuesday mornings, I have coffee with my father. Although my father is a man
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Many Tuesday mornings, I have coffee with my father. Although my father is a man of few words, I really ____ the time along with him. One recent Tuesday, I found it a bit ___ when I rang the doorbell, no one seemed to be home. I climbed in through the window, noticing the lights that shone from the kitchen, and ____ that my dad must be there, but he wasn"t. I ____ through his home, checking every room. I tried not to ____.Yet, upstairs, downstairs, no Dad anywhere. I was worried. ____, my father was seventyone years old. Anything could have happened to him. Then, I got in my car and drove to my mother"s aerobics(有氧运动)class. On the drive, I thought a lot about my father and our ____ together. Suddenly, I was three years old and he was ____ me up to the living room window to see the Christmas lights. In his ____, I was safe and secure. At age ten, he used to wake me up with warm breakfast in bed. Then I was twelve and my dad was ____ all the kids at my birthday party with his magic tricks. I was so ____ of my father for being so ____ and talented. He"d made my party a ____. As I entered my mother"s class. I was nervous. My mom looked at me in ____. “Mom, where"s Dad?” I asked, “He"s working in the ____ on the side of the house!” she answered. And I hurried to my car and ____ back to the yard.“Hey, Dad!” I yelled out and told him about my fears of the last half hour. My dad ____ laughing his typical laugh that was always ___. I was so thankful that I still had my daddy. And so, as I ___ the door to my father"s house, we went inside for our usual cup of coffee. Thanks, Daddy, for all the ____ and more importantly, for all your love.
小题1: | A.dislike | B.share | C.get | D.enjoy |
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小题2: | A.dangerous | B.unusual | C.joyful | D.relaxing |
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小题3: | A.decided | B.hoped | C.expected | D.wondered |
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小题4: | A.lived | B.pulled | C.hurried | D.came |
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小题5: | A.cry | B.panic | C.believe | D.confirm |
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小题6: | A.Above all | B.In all | C.After all | D.For all |
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小题7: | A.journey | B.family | C.interest | D.history |
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小题8: | A.holding | B.picking | C.calling | D.bringing |
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小题9: | A.heart | B.chest | C.eyes | D.arms |
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小题10: | A.amazing | B.cheating | C.inviting | D.providing |
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小题11: | A.sure | B.aware | C.proud | D.afraid |
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小题12: | A.honest | B.special | C.lucky | D.practical |
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小题13: | A.feast | B.prize | C.secret | D.success |
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小题14: | A.anger | B.worry | C.sorrow | D.surprise |
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小题15: | A.yard | B.kitchen | C.room | D.home |
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小题16: | A.fought | B.raced | C.looked | D.fled |
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小题17: | A.kept | B.remembered | C.began | D.stopped |
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小题18: | A.bitter | B.simple | C.familiar | D.tight |
| 小题19:.A.closed | B.unlocked | C.kicked | D.knocked |
小题20: | A.memories | B.chances | C.assistance | D.advice |
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小题1:D 小题2:B 小题3:A 小题4:C 小题5:B 小题6:C 小题7:D 小题8:A 小题9:D 小题10:A 小题11:C 小题12:B 小题13:D 小题14:D 小题15:A 小题16:B 小题17:C 小题18:C 小题19:B 小题20:A |
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文章大意:深深父爱情,拳拳儿女心。 小题1:答案:D 虽然父亲说话不多,但是我仍然很“喜欢”和他待在一起喝咖啡。 小题2:答案:B 最近一个周二,我按门铃却无人开门,我觉得有一点“不正常”。 小题3:答案:A 我从窗户爬进去,发现有灯光从厨房传出来,因此“断定”父亲在厨房里,但他却不在。 小题4:答案:C 我“匆忙”在家里穿梭,检查每一个房间。 小题5:答案:B 我努力不“惊慌”。 小题6:答案:C 我有点担心。“毕竟”父亲已经71岁了。after all“毕竟”;above all“最重要的是”;in all“总和是”;for all“为了全体”。 小题7:答案:D 在路上,我想了很多和父亲在一起的“经历”。history“历史,经历”。 小题8:答案:A 我三岁时,他把我“举起”到起居室的窗户上看圣诞节的灯光。hold up“举起”。 小题9:答案:D 在他的“怀里”,我觉得很舒服很安全。 小题10:答案:A 我12岁时,他用他的神奇的小把戏“让所有参加我的生日晚会的孩子们吃惊”。amaze“使……惊讶”。 小题11:答案:C be proud of“以……为傲”;be sure of“确信”;be aware of“知道,了解”;be afraid of“害怕”。 小题12:答案:B 父亲很“特别”很有才,我“以他为傲”。 小题13:答案:D 他使我的那次生日晚会成为了“很成功的一次晚会”。a success“一件成功的事”;a feast“一顿大餐”;a prize“奖金”;a secret“一个秘密”。 小题14:答案:D 进入母亲家,我很紧张。母亲很“吃惊”地看着我。in surprise“吃惊地”;in anger“生气地”;in worry“担忧地”;in sorrow“悲伤地”。 小题15:答案:A 父亲在“后院”忙。此处与16空后的yard对应。 小题16:答案:B 此处用race“全速前进”与前面的hurried对应。 小题17:答案:C 父亲“开始”笑了起来。 小题18:答案:C 我对他的笑声很“熟悉”。 小题19:答案:B 我“打开”门,向父亲房间走去,然后我们一起喝咖啡。 小题20:答案:A 感谢父亲,因为他给了我很多“回忆”,更重要的是他给我的“爱”。 |
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A shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness. The boy wandered through the wilds for many days. He ____ reached a beautiful castle, where a wise man lived. Entering the ____, the boy saw the wise man talking with some people listening ____. It was two hours before it was his ____. The boy explained why he had come. The wise man suggested that the boy ____ and return in two hours. “Meanwhile, I want you to do something”, said the wise man, handing the boy a spoon that held two drops of ____. “As you walk around, carry this spoon without allowing the oil to spill (溢出).” The boy began ___ up and down many stairs, keeping his eyes fixed on the ____. After two hours, he returned to the room where the wise man was. The wise man asked, “Did you see the Persian tapestries (壁毯) ____ in my dining hall? Did you see the ____ that took a master gardener ten years to build?” The boy was ___, and admitted that he had observed nothing. His only ____ was not to spill the oil he was given. “Go back and observe the marvels of my world”, said the wise man. “You cannot ____ a man if you know nothing about his house.” Relieved, the boy picked up the spoon and ____ his exploration again. This time he observed all the ____ of art on the ceilings and the walls. Upon returning, he related ____ everything he had seen. “But where are the drops of oil I had given to you?” asked the wise man. Looking down at the spoon he ____, the boy saw that the oil was ____. “Well, there is only one piece of ____ I can give you”, said the wise man. “The secret of happiness is to ____ all the marvels of the world and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”
小题1: | A.suddenly | B.happily | C.finally | D.accidentally |
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小题2: | A.castle | B.palace | C.cottage | D.kitchen |
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小题3: | A.eagerly | B.attentively | C.seriously | D.quietly |
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小题4: | A.conversation | B.report | C.chance | D.turn |
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小题5: | A.look around | B.look back | C.set down | D.set out |
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小题6: | A.milk | B.water | C.oil | D.coffee |
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小题7: | A.sweeping | B.climbing | C.running | D.jumping |
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小题8: | A.man | B.castle | C.way | D.spoon |
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小题9: | A.hanging | B.knitting | C.storing | D.flying |
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小题10: | A.house | B.farm | C.garden | D.lake |
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小题11: | A.disappointed | B.embarrassed | C.surprised | D.confused |
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小题12: | A.worry | B.plan | C.energy | D.concern |
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小题13: | A.trust | B.suggest | C.accept | D.thank |
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小题14: | A.sought | B.continued | C.began | D.stopped |
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小题15: | A.treasures | B.works | C.designs | D.exhibits |
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小题16: | A.in detail | B.in common | C.in general | D.in particular |
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小题17: | A.contained | B.needed | C.bought | D.held |
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小题18: | A.stolen | B.gone | C.dry | D.ready |
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小题19: | A.discover | B.keep | C.own | D.see |
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小题20: | A.information | B.clothing | C.advice | D.equipment |
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Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you"re unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires—not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don"t have enough tastes. Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities (能力) to enjoy life. Most people are already swamped(淹没) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much. They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut. Your house of life ought to be a mansion (豪宅) , a royal palace. Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room. Here are several rooms your house of life should have. Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when you"re hungry. Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library. Music like Mozart"s and Bach"s shouldn"t be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when you"ve brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills. Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the had days, if you could, and did, play a bit. Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding. 小题1:The author intends to tell us that____________.A.true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair means | B.big houses are people"s most valued possessions | C.big houses can in a sense bring richness of life | D.true happiness comes from spiritual riches | 小题2:The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that__________.A.however materially rich, they never seem to be satisfied | B.however materially rich, they remain spiritually poor | C.though their house is big, they prefer a simple life | D.though their house is big, it seems to be a cage | 小题3:It can be learned from the passage that __________.A.more money brings more happiness | B.art is needed to make your house beautiful | C.literature can enrich your spiritual life | D.sports contribute mainly to your physical fitness | 小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?A.House of Life | B.Secret of Wealth | C.Rest and Refreshment | D.Interest and Enthusiasm |
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It was a cold winter day. A woman drove up to the Rainbow Bridge tollbooth (收费站). “I’m paying for myself, and for the six cars behind me,” she said with a smile, handing over seven tickets. One after another, the next six drivers arriving at the tollbooth were informed, “Some lady up ahead already paid your fare.” It turned out that the woman, Natalie Smith, had read something on a friend’s refrigerator: “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” The phrase impressed her so much that she copied it down. Judy Foreman spotted the same phrase on a warehouse wall far away from home. When it stayed on her mind for days, she gave up and drove all the way back to copy it down. “I thought it was beautiful,” she said, explaining why she’d taken to writing it at the bottom of all her letters, “like a message from above.” Her husband, Frank, liked the phrase so much that he put it up on the classroom wall for his students, one of whom was the daughter of Alice Johnson, a local news reporter. Alice put it in the newspaper, admitting that though she liked it, she didn’t know where it came from or what it really meant. Two days later, Alice got a call from Anne Herbert, a woman living in Marin. It was in a restaurant that Anne wrote the phrase down on a piece of paper, after turning it around in her mind for days. “Here’s the idea,” Anne says. “Anything you think there should be more of, do it randomly.” Her fantasies include painting the classrooms of shabby schools, leaving hot meals on kitchen tables in the poor part of town, and giving money secretly to a proud old lady. Anne says, “Kindness can build on itself as much as violence can.” The acts of random kindness spread. If you were one of those drivers who found your fare paid, who knows what you might have been inspired to do for someone else later. Like all great events, kindness begins slowly, with every single act. Let it be yours! 小题1:Why did Natalie Smith pay for the six cars behind her?A.She knew the car drivers well. | B.She wanted to show kindness. | C.She hoped to please others. | D.She had seven tickets. | 小题2:Judy Foreman copied down the phrase because she .A.thought it was beautifully written | B.wanted to know what it really meant | C.decided to write it on a warehouse wall | D.wanted her husband to put it up in the classroom | 小题3:Who came up with the phrase according to the passage?A.Judy Foreman. | B.Natalie Smith. | C.Alice Johnson. | D.Anne Herbert. | 小题4:Which of the following statements is closest in the meaning to the underlined sentence above?A.Kindness and violence can change the world. | B.Kindness and violence can affect one’s behavior. | C.Kindness and violence can reproduce themselves. | D.Kindness and violence can shape one’s character. | 小题5:What can we infer from the last paragraph?A.People should practice random kindness to those in need. | B.People who receive kindness are likely to offer it to others. | C.People should practice random kindness to strangers they meet. | D.People who receive kindness are likely to pay it back to the giver. |
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The summer before I went off to college, Mom stood me in her usual spot behind the ironing board (烫衣板)and said, “Pay attention: I’m going to teach you to iron.” Mom clearly explained her for this lesson. I was going to be and needed to learn this vital skill. Also, I would be meeting new people, and properly ironed clothes would help me make a good . “Learn to iron a shirt,” Mom said, “and you can iron anything.” But ironing shirts was not work. It didn’t make use of long muscles we used to throw a baseball,and it wasn’t a operation like ice-skating. Ironing was like driving a car on a street that has a stop sign every 10 feet, Moreover, an iron produced steam and it carried an element of .If you touched the wrong part of it, you’d get burnt. If you forgot to turn it off when you ,you might bum down the house. As for technique, Mom me to begin with the flat spaces outward, always pushing the iron forward into wrinkled (有褶皱的)parts. Collars had to be done right. Mom said they were close to your face, where everyone would them. Over the years, I’ve learned to iron shirts skillfully, which gives me a sense of Whatever failures I suffer in my life, an ironed shirt tells me I am good at something. ,through ironing I’ve learned the method for solving even the most troublesome problems. “ wrinkles one at a time,” as Mom might have said, “and before long everything will get ironed out.”
小题1: | A.reasons | B.rules | C.emotions | D.methods |
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小题2: | A.helpful | B.confident | C.powerful | D.independent |
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小题3: | A.conclusion | B.suggestion | C.impression | D.observation |
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小题4: | A.useful | B.easy | C.special | D.suitable |
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小题5: | A.direct | B.single | C.smooth | D.strange |
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小题6: | A.doubt | B.pressure | C.surprise | D.danger |
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小题7: | A.went away | B.fell down | C.jumped off | D.looked up |
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小题8: | A.taught | B.chose | C.forced | D.sent |
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小题9: | A.touch | B.design | C.see | D.admire |
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小题10: | A.honesty | B.freedom | C.justice | D.pride |
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小题11: | A.Instead | B.Besides | C.Otherwise | D.However |
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小题12: | A.Make up | B.Deal with | C.Ask for | D.Rely on |
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However wealthy we may be, we can never find enough hours in the day to do everything we want. Economics deals with this problem through the concept of opportunity cost, which simply refers to whether someone’s time or money could be better spent on something else. Every hour of our time has a value. For every hour we work at one job we could quite easily be doing another, or be sleeping or watching a film. Each of these options has a different opportunity cost—namely, what they cost us in missed opportunities. Say you intend to watch a football match but the tickets are expensive and it will take you a couple of hours to get to and from the stadium. Why not, you might reason, watch the game from home and use the leftover money and time to have dinner with friends? This—the alternative use of your cash and time—is the opportunity cost. For economists, every decision is made by knowledge of what one must forgo—in terms of money and enjoyment—in order to take it up. By knowing precisely what you are receiving and what you are missing out on, you ought to be able to make better-informed, more reasonable decisions. Consider that most famous economic rule of all: there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Even if someone offers to take you out to lunch for free, the time you will spend in the restaurant still costs you something in terms of forgone opportunities. Some people find the idea of opportunity cost extremely discouraging: imagine spending your entire life calculating whether your time would be better spent elsewhere doing something more profitable or enjoyable. Yet, in a sense it’s human nature to do precisely that—we assess the advantages and disadvantages of decisions all the time. In the business world, a popular phrase is “value for money.” People want their cash to go as far as possible. However, another is fast obtaining an advantage: “value for time.” The biggest restriction on our resources is the number of hours we can devote to something, so we look to maximize the return we get on our investment of time. By reading this passage you are giving over a bit of your time which could be spent doing other activities, such as sleeping and eating. In return, however, this passage will help you to think like an economist, closely considering the opportunity cost of each of your decisions. 小题1:According to the passage, the concept of “opportunity cost” is applied to ________.A.making more money | B.taking more opportunities | C.reducing missed opportunities | D.weighing the choice of opportunities | 小题2:The “leftover ... time” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to the time ________.A.spared for watching the match at home | B.taken to have dinner with friends | C.spent on the way to and from the match | D.saved from not going to watch the match | 小题3:What are forgone opportunities?A.Opportunities you forget in decision-making. | B.Opportunities you give up for better ones. | C.Opportunities you miss accidentally. | D.Opportunities you make up for. |
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