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One day a few years ago we had an uninvited guest—a sparrow. the little bird had flown into our open garage. Then I the bird before I saw it.
“What’s that?”I asked when I first heard the sound.
“It’s coming from the .”my wife, Anita, said. “Maybe it’s one of the little .”
I looked into the garage. No children at all. But there was that sound again, coming from right up there. And that’s I saw the sparrow. It was flying just inches below the ceiling. It was clearly to get out, but couldn’t see the way out was not up, but and and out through the garage door. So the bird continued flapping its wings and bumping its little head the ceiling.
I tried to terrify it out, but only succeeded in driving it into the open space between the door and the ceiling. Then I tried to show the bird how to fly down a few feet it could get outside, but that only seemed to it more.
“Why don’t we just leave for a few minutes,” Anita .“I’m sure he’ll figure it out eventually.”
We went back into the house, where we to hear the ongoing struggle between the sparrow and the ceiling. Then suddenly, it was and our uninvited guest was gone.
I’ve that little sparrow through the years, and I’ve decided that birds are not different much from people. We think we were to fly ever upward, and we don’t even consider the that something good might happen if we just fly down a little bit. Once we figure out that we can make without banging（碰）our heads against ceilings, we can usually save ourselves much .
| 小题1: | | A．Still | B．Somehow | C．Instead | D．Perhaps |
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| 小题2: | | A．heard | B．caught | C．searched | D．observed |
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| 小题3: | | A．house | B．backyard | C．garage | D．basement |
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| 小题4: | | A．birds | B．guests | C．cats | D．kids |
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| 小题5: | | A．when | B．how | C．why | D．whether |
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| 小题6: | | A．quickly | B．anxiously | C．cautiously | D．slowly |
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| 小题7: | | A．deciding | B．hesitating | C．trying | D．choosing |
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| 小题8: | | A．up | B．backward | C．forward | D．down |
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| 小题9: | | A．against | B．off | C．along | D．into |
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| 小题10: | | A．free | B．small | C．wide | D．dark |
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| 小题11: | | A．in case | B．even if | C．as though | D．so that |
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| 小题12: | | A．puzzle | B．confuse | C．frighten | D．disturb |
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| 小题13: | | A．suggested | B．explained | C．insisted | D．demanded |
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| 小题14: | | A．attempted | B．continued | C．refused | D．failed |
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| 小题15: | | A．fierce | B．empty | C．safe | D．silent |
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| 小题16: | | A．looked after | B．worried about | C．thought about | D．brought up |
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| 小题17: | | A．forced | B．determined | C．born | D．urged |
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| 小题18: | | A．idea | B．possibility | C．challenge | D．problem |
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| 小题19: | | A．progress | B．peace | C．decisions | D．efforts |
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| 小题20: | | A．panic | B．pressure | C．loss | D．trouble |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:B
小题7:C
小题8:D
小题9:A
小题10:B
小题11:D
小题12:C
小题13:A
小题14:B
小题15:D
小题16:C
小题17:C
小题18:B
小题19:A
小题20:D |
解析
小题1:不知怎么的，这只小鸟飞进了我们开着的车库。B.不知怎么的。
小题2:根据下文when I first heard the sound， 可知本句的意思是“未见其鸟，先闻其鸣”。
小题3:根据所在的句子可知， 小鸟进入了garage,所以声音应该从garage传来。
小题4:根据下文no children at all.可知, 作者的妻子认为是期中一个孩子
小题5:when引导表语从句。“就在那时我看到了那只麻雀。”
小题6:anxiously不安的，焦虑的。因为被困，所以很焦虑。
小题7:try to get out努力要出去。
小题8:但是它看不到出去的路不在上方，而在下方。
小题9:bump its little head against the ceiling 小脑袋撞击天花板
小题10:门和天花板之间的空间很小。
小题11:so that 引导目的状语从句。
小题12:但是这样似乎使它更害怕。Frighten sb使某人害怕， 吓唬某人
小题13:why don’t sb do 是表示建议的用语。 所以选择A。
小题14:continue to do sth继续干某事
小题15:根据下文our uninvited guest was gone， 所以没有声音了，很安静
小题16:Ａ．照看 Ｂ．担心 Ｃ．思考 Ｄ． 提出。下文题到“鸟和人没有什么不同”，所以作者是在思考。
小题17:be born to do 天生就是干某事的。 “我们认为我们天生就是往上飞的”
小题18:我们甚至没有考虑这种可能性，如果我们飞的低一些，好事也可能会发生。
小题19:make progress取得进步
小题20:save some trouble 省去很多麻烦。 |
举一反三
The Little Angel
Sally jumped up the moment she saw the surgeon(外科医生） come out of the operating room. She asked, “How is my little boy?”
The surgeon said, “I’m ____. We did all we could, but your boy didn’t ____ it.”
Sally ____into the chair. The surgeon asked, “Would you like some time with your son before he was transported to the ____?” Sally nodded. While saying goodbye, she ran her fingers ____ through his thick curly hair. “Would you like a lock（一撮）of his hair?” the surgeon asked. Sally nodded yes. The surgeon cut a few hairs, and handed them to Sally. The mother said, “It was Jimmy’s idea to ____ his body to the university for study. He said it might ____ somebody else. “I said no at first, ____ Jimmy said, ‘Mom, I won’t be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom.’”
“My Jimmy had a heart of ____, always thinking of someone else, always wanting to help others if he could.” she went on.
Sally walked out of the hospital. She put the bag with Jimmy’s ____ on the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was ____. It was even harder to enter the ____ house. She carried Jimmy’s belongings, and the lock of his hair to her son’s room. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room ____ where he had always kept them. She lay down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, ____ herself to sleep.
It was around midnight when Sally ____. Lying beside her on the bed was a letter. The letter said,
“Dear Mom,
I know you’re going to ____ me, and me too. I will always love you, Mom, even more ____ each passing day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to ____a little boy so you won’t be so lonely, that’s OK with me. He can have my room and old toys to play with.
Don’t be sad thinking about me. I don’t hurt any more. The cancer is all ____. I don’t have to stand that ____any more. The angels in Heaven are so tender. They say I’m a Special Angel! I love you, Mom.”
| 小题1: | | A．worried | B．sorry | C．happy | D．grateful |
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| 小题3: | | A．knocked | B．looked | C．sank | D．got |
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| 小题4: | | A．house | B．church | C．hospital | D．university |
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| 小题5: | | A．anxiously | B．lovingly | C．patiently | D．angrily |
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| 小题6: | | A．donate | B．move | C．show | D．lend |
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| 小题7: | | A．affect | B．help | C．protect | D．impress |
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| 小题9: | | A．gold | B．stone | C．wisdom | D．bravery |
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| 小题10: | | A．toys | B．clothes | C．belongings | D．letters |
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| 小题11: | | A．long | B．smooth | C．difficult | D．dangerous |
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| 小题12: | | A．empty | B．familiar | C．big | D．old |
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| 小题13: | | A．roughly | B．exactly | C．especially | D．possibly |
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| 小题14: | | A．put | B．sent | C．cried | D．buried |
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| 小题15: | | A．wrote | B．spoke | C．slept | D．awoke |
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| 小题16: | | A．understand | B．forgive | C．leave | D．miss |
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| 小题18: | | A．save | B．host | C．visit | D．adopt |
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| 小题19: | | A．lost | B．gone | C．cured | D．spotted |
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| 小题20: | | A．depression | B．sadness | C．pain | D．stress |
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Sharing Beauty
It was in October. I was aimlessly wandering down the street, heading into a most gloriously beautiful sunset. I had an urge to speak to someone on the street to share that beauty, but it seemed everyone was in a hurry.
I took the next-best action. Quickly I ducked into a department store and asked the lady behind the counter if she could come outside for just a minute. She looked at me as though I were from some other planet. She hesitated, and then seemingly against her better judgment, she moved toward the door.
When she got outside I said to her, “Just look at that sunset! Nobody out here was looking at it and I just had to share it with someone.”
For a few seconds we just looked. Then I said, “God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.” I thanked her for coming out to see it; she went back inside and I left. It felt good to share the beauty.
Four years later my situation changed greatly. I came to the end of a twenty-year marriage. I was alone and on my own for the first time in my life. I lived in a trailer park which, at the time, I considered a real come-down, and I had to do my wash in the community laundry room.
One day, while my clothes were going around, I picked up a magazine and read an article about a woman who had been in similar circumstances. She had come to the end of a marriage, moved to a strange community, and the only job she could find was one she disliked: clothing sales in a department store.
Then something that happened to her changed everything. She said a woman came into her department store and asked her to step outside to look at a sunset. The stranger had said, “God is in his heaven and all is right with the world,” and she had realized the truth in that statement. From that moment on, she turned her life around.
小题1:The author asked the woman to go outside to ______.| A．admire the sunset | B．cheer her up | C．offer some help | D．have a chat |
小题2:Four years later, the author ______.| A．found her dream job | | B．put an end to her marriage | | C．worked in a laundry room | | D．lived in the same community |
小题3:After reading the article in the magazine, the author was probably______.| A．disappointed | B．puzzled | C．inspired | D．overjoyed |
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On Saturday, Feb 12, 2000, two things happened that changed my life.
First of all, my baby sister got married. She was 26 this day, and yet to me she was still my baby sister.
I was happy, but also sad. Gone were the days of me bossing(支使) her around. My bossy behavior had once earned me the nickname Lucy. If you’re a fan of Peanuts, then you can clearly imagine my behavior as an older sister.
At one point, I left the wedding reception to get some air. I went outside and walked to a nearby playground. I’m not sure how long I sat there before my sister came and joined me. We talked about how we were both grown up. As she wiped a tear from my eye, she lovingly said, “You’ll always be Lucy to me.” We hugged.
Then, my cousin Mike walked over to tell us that it was time to cut the cake, and the second thing that changed my life that day came to pass.
“Hey, did you guys hear that Charles Schulz died today?” he said casually – as if it were no big deal. Then he took my sister’s arm and they turned to head back to the reception hall. “Coming?” they asked. “In a minute,” I replied, and I sat back down on the bench, dizzy from what Mike had just told me.
How could Charles Schulz be dead? He was my creator! He was almost like a father to me!
I had lost so many things on that day. My innocence had slipped away like a thief in the night. It was gone before I could do anything about it, taking with it all the treasures that I had held in my heart. I felt myself grow up in an instant. I saw, for the first time, what I really was – a 30-year-old woman with a husband of my own, and soon, a child of my own.
I took a deep breath and stood up from the bench. I turned and headed back to the hall, hoping I hadn’t missed the cutting of the cake. It was the day that my sister grew wings of her own and left the nest – the day that Lucy died, and I was born.
小题1:Why did the author feel sad at her sister’s wedding?| A．She was afraid of change. | | B．Her sister was getting ready to move far away from her. | | C．Her wonderful childhood with her sister had become a thing of the past. | | D．She had nobody to turn to for help with housework. |
小题2:When the author’s cousin told her that Charles Schulz had died, she __________.| A．felt a great sense of loss | | B．burst into tears | | C．thought he was joking | | D．got angry at him for his attitude |
小题3:What is implied when the author says that “Lucy died, and I was born”?| A．The author has realized how her sister must have felt about her and decided to change. | | B．Lucy no longer matters to the author. | | C．The author doesn’t like the nickname Lucy anymore. | | D．The author is no longer sad and ready to face the fact that she is an adult. |
小题4:The best title of the passage can be __________.| A．Two things changing my life | | B．My baby sister’s wedding | | C．Not Lucy anymore | | D．Not innocent anymore |
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Each morning during fifteen- minute bath, I determined to cultivate a big, happy smile. I found out it had to be an honest-to-goodness smile from down deep , an outward expression of happiness from within!
Let’s see how the smile muscles me during the day. I would think of the things I had to be for, work up a big smile and then enter. It people when I passed them on the street to give them a smile. Give every living soul you meet the best smile you have smiled in your life, and see how much better you feel and look. It’s one of the best ways to worrying, and start living. When I began to do this, I found I became more welcome everywhere.
| 小题1: | | A．outside | B．upward | C．inside | D．forward |
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| 小题2: | | A．helped | B．upset | C．satisfied | D．disappointed |
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| 小题3: | | A．ready | B．eager | C．thankful | D．famous |
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| 小题4: | | A．greeted | B．pleased | C．puzzled | D．welcomed |
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| 小题5: | | A．cheerful | B．forced | C．strange | D．bitter |
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| 小题6: | | A．never | B．just | C．already | D．ever |
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| 小题7: | | A．keep | B．stop | C．hate | D．protect |
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Optimism and pessimism are both powerful forces. Each of us must choose which we want to our future and our expectations. We can choose to laugh or cry, bless or . It’s our decision: From which perspective do we want to view life? Will we look up in or down in desperation? I believe in the upward look. I choose to the positive and skip right over the negative.
An optimistic attitude is not a luxury; it’s a(n) . The way you look at life will determine how you feel, how you perform, and how well you will get along with other people. , negative thoughts, attitudes, and expectations themselves; they become a self-fulfilling prophecy (预言). Pessimism creates a dark place where no one wants to live.
Years ago, I drove into a service station to get some gas. It was a beautiful day, and I was feeling great. As I walked into the station to pay for the gas, the attendant said to me, “How do you feel?” That seemed like a(n) question, but I felt fine and told him so. “You don’t look well,” he replied. This me completely by surprise. A little confidently, I told him that I had felt better. Without hesitation, he continued to tell me how bad I looked and that my skin appeared yellow.
By the time I left the service station, I was feeling a little . About a block away, I over to the side of the road to look at my face in the mirror. How did I feel? Was I affected with jaundice(黄疸)? Was everything all right? By the time I got home, I was beginning to feel a little nauseous(恶心). Did I have a bad liver? Had I some rare disease?
On another beautiful day, when I went into that gas station, feeling again, I figured out what had happened. The place had recently been painted a bright, distasteful , and the light reflecting the walls made everyone inside look as though they had hepatitis（肝炎）! I wondered how many other folks had the way I did. I had let one short conversation with a total change my attitude for an entire day. He told me I looked sick, and before long, I was actually feeling sick. That single observation had a great effect on the way I felt and acted.
The only thing more powerful than negativism is a word of optimism and hope. When a whole culture adopts an upward look, incredible things can be accomplished.
| 小题1: | | A．shape | B．decide | C．preview | D．transform |
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| 小题2: | | A．forgive | B．curse | C．praise | D．regret |
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| 小题3: | | A．vain | B．anger | C．action | D．hope |
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| 小题4: | | A．highlight | B．analyze | C．evaluate | D．introduce |
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| 小题5: | | A．necessity | B．opportunity | C．quality | D．identity |
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| 小题6: | | A．Actually | B．Consequently | C．Accordingly | D．Contrarily |
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| 小题7: | | A．rely on | B．feed on | C．go on | D．take on |
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| 小题8: | | A．familiar | B．ordinary | C．odd | D．easy |
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| 小题9: | | A．got | B．took | C．stopped | D．made |
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| 小题11: | | A．never | B．ever | C．once | D．always |
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| 小题12: | | A．uneasy | B．unconcerned | C．unsatisfied | D．unaffected |
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| 小题13: | | A．got | B．came | C．took | D．pulled |
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| 小题14: | | A．come up | B．brought up | C．picked up | D．put up |
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| 小题15: | | A．fine | B．upset | C．sick | D．calm |
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| 小题16: | | A．gray | B．blue | C．yellow | D．red |
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| 小题18: | | A．quit | B．adapted | C．answered | D．reacted |
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| 小题19: | | A．liar | B．onlooker | C．attendant | D．stranger |
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| 小题20: | | A．positive | B．negative | C．careful | D．rigid |
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