Now you’re a fool for helping. “I don’t want to get involved” seems to have beco
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Now you’re a fool for helping. “I don’t want to get involved” seems to have become a national motto. One summer I was driving from my hometown of Tahoe City, California to New Orleans, Louisiana. In the middle of the desert, I passed a young man standing by the roadside. He had his out and held a gas can in his other hand. I drove right by him. There was a time you’d be called a jerk (混蛋) for passing by somebody .
Several days later I was still about the hitchhiker (搭便车的人), about how I didn’t even lift my foot the accelerator (加速踏板) for him. “Does anyone stop any more?” I wondered. I recalled Blanche DuBois’s famous line—”I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Was that these days? One way to test this would be for a person to journey the US without any money, just on the good will of others. What would happen? Would he find food, shelter and support?
The idea intrigued (激起兴趣) me.
The week I 37, I realized that I had never done something truly crazy. I decided to really do it: travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic without a penny. I would only accept of rides, food and places to sleep. For six weeks I hitched 82 rides and covered 4,223 miles across 14 states. I was treated kindly I went. I was by people’s readiness to help a stranger.
In Oregon, a house painter named Mike the cold weather and asked if I had a coat. I didn’t, so he gave me a big green army-style jacket. A lumber-mill worker in Michigan named Tim invited me to a dinner with his family in their shabby house. Then he offered me a tent. I refused, but Tim insisted, packing it into my bag himself. I found people were generally compassionate. Hearing I had no money and would take none, people bought me food or with them whatever they happened to have. Those who had the to give often gave the most.
I’m to all the people I met for their rides, their food, their shelter and their gifts. My faith in ordinary folks was . I was proud to live in a country where people were still willing to help. In spite of everything, you can still depend on the of strangers.
| 小题1: | | A．thumb | B．finger | C．foot | D．hand |
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| 小题2: | | A．that | B．where | C．which | D．when |
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| 小题3: | | A．in danger | B．in need | C．in trouble | D．in favor |
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| 小题4: | | A．worrying | B．considering | C．bringing | D．thinking |
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| 小题6: | | A．interesting | B．possible | C．necessary | D．important |
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| 小题7: | | A．across | B．through | C．in | D．over |
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| 小题8: | | A．basing | B．relying | C．insisting | D．relating |
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| 小题9: | | A．seemed | B．got | C．became | D．turned |
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| 小题11: | | A．jobs | B．supplies | C．helps | D．offers |
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| 小题12: | | A．nowhere | B．everywhere | C．anywhere | D．somewhere |
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| 小题13: | | A．frightened | B．annoyed | C．disappointed | D．amazed |
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| 小题14: | | A．noted | B．saw | C．felt | D．sensed |
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| 小题15: | | A．simple | B．rich | C．delicious | D．interesting |
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| 小题16: | | A．supplied | B．offered | C．shared | D．provided |
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| 小题17: | | A．fewest | B．most | C．least | D．best |
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| 小题18: | | A．careful | B．grateful | C．hopeful | D．helpful |
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| 小题19: | | A．created | B．reminded | C．renewed | D．returned |
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| 小题20: | | A．kindness | B．happiness | C．fairness | D．brightness |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:B
小题7:A
小题8:B
小题9:D
小题10:B
小题11:D
小题12:B
小题13:D
小题14:A
小题15:A
小题16:C
小题17:C
小题18:B
小题19:C
小题20:A |
解析
试题分析：本文主要讲述的是作者怀疑人与人之间是否存在这善良，为了检测这一点，作者不带一分钱环游美国，主要就是依靠别人提供的帮助。以此来证明人与人之间的确存在善良，我们仍然可以依靠他人。
小题1:固定搭配。Hold one’s thumb out请求搭便车；本句表示作者在沙漠里遇见一个要搭便车的人，但是作者没有停下了帮助对方，事后感觉很后悔。引起了人性中是否还有善良的思考。
小题2:D 语法分析。本题是一个定语从句，先行词是a time，后面定语从句结构很完整，所以使用关系副词来引导这个定语从句。有一段时间你会被那些需要帮助的人称为混蛋。
小题3:B 介词辨析。A处于危险中；B需要帮助；C处于困境；D赞成；本句是指那些需要帮助的人会咒骂那些不愿意提供帮助的人。
小题4:D 动词辨析。A担忧；B考虑；C带来；D思考；几天以后我仍然在思考那个搭便车的人，在想自己为什么没有停车去帮助他。
小题5:A 介词辨析。Off离开，lift off离开，表示作者一直都没有把脚从加速踏板上拿掉，说明作者没有停车。
小题6:B形容词辨析。A有趣的；B可能的；C必要的；D重要的；以前的人们总是会相互帮助。现在这一切还有可能吗？作者对于人与人之间相互帮助的可能性提出了疑问，并决定对此进行检测。
小题7:A介词辨析。A横过；B穿过；C在…内；D越过；为了测试人与人之间是否存在这善良，最好的方法就是不带钱尝试着横穿整个美国。
小题8:B 动词辨析。Base on以…为基础；rely on依靠；insist on坚持；turn on打开；最好的测试人们之间是否有善良最好的方法就是不带钱横穿美国，完全依靠别人的好意。
小题9:D 系动词辨析。本句考察的是系动词turn的用法，turn接数字表示年龄的变化。这个星期我37岁了，因为一直没有做真正疯狂的事情，所以决定去尝试这样的事情。
小题10:B 连词辨析。因我一直都没有做一件真正疯狂的事情，所以我决定这次要这样做，上下文存在因果关系。
小题11:D 名词辨析。A工作；B供应；C帮助；D提供的东西；本句是指我一分钱都没有带，只是接受别人给我
的各种各样的提供的东西来完成本次旅行。
小题12:B 副词辨析。A没有地方；B所有地方；C任何地方；D某地；在我去的所有地方，我都被很好的接待了。
小题13:D 形容词辨析。A害怕的；B恼怒的；C失望的；D惊讶的；对于人们帮助别人的善良，我感觉很惊讶。因为之前我曾经认为这个世界上已经没有善良了。
小题14:A 动词辨析。A注意到；B看见；C感到；D感觉；在俄勒冈有一个人注意到天气很冷，就问我是否有外套。他就给了我一件军用的夹克衫。
小题15:A 形容词辨析。A简单的；B丰富的；C美味的；D有趣的；根据本句最后in their shabby house可知他的家庭情况并不好，所以饭菜应该是很简单的。
小题16:C 动词辨析。A/B提供；C分享；D提供；听说我没有钱，人们给我买了食物并和我分享身边所拥有的一切东西。说明人们还是很善良的。
小题17:C 词义辨析。A最少的；B最多的；C最少的；D最好的；A项通常修饰可数名词，本句强调的是可数名词。指那些拥有的东西最少的人往往是给我最多东西的人。
小题18:B 形容词辨析。A细心的；B感激的；C有希望的；D有帮助的；对于在旅行中我所遇见的所有人我都心怀感激，感激他们给我提供的一切。
小题19:C 动词辨析。A创造；B提醒；C更新；D归还，返回；我对于普通人身上的信念被更新了，我很自豪生活在这样的一个人们愿意提供帮助的国家里。
小题20:A 名词辨析。A善良；B幸福，开心；C公平；D光明；虽然有很多不好的事情，但是你仍然可以相信那些陌生人的善良。 |
举一反三
One of the greatest sources of unhappiness，in my experience，is the difficulty we have in accepting things as they are．
When we see something we don’t like，we wish it could be different．We cry out for something better．That may be human nature，or perhaps it’s something ingrained(根深蒂固的) in our culture．The root of the unhappiness isn’t necessarily that we want things to be different．However, it’s that we decided we didn’t like it in the first place．We’ve judged it as bad，rather than saying, “It"s not bad or good，and it just is it．”
In one of my books，I said“You should expect people to mess up and expect things to go differently than you planned”．Some readers said it"s too sorrowful to expect things to go wrong．However, it’s only negative if you see it as negative and judge it as bad．Instead，you could accept it as the way the world works and try to understand why that is．
This can be applied to whatever you do：how other people act at work，how politics works and how depressing the news media can be．Accept these things as they are，and try to understand why they’re that way．It will save you a lot of sadness，because you’ll no longer say,“Oh．1 wish bad things didn’t happen!’’
Does it mean you can never change things? Not at a11．But change things not because you can’t accept things as they are，but because you enjoy the process of changing，learning and growing．
Can we make this world a better place? You can say that you’11 continue to try to do things to help others，to grow as a person，to make a difference in this world．That’s the correct path you choose to take，because you enjoy that path．Therefore，when you find yourself judging and wishing for difference，try a different approach：accept，and understand．It might lead to some interesting results．
小题1:The author believes that we feel unhappy maybe because ___________.| A．it is our natural emotion in the life | | B．culture asks us to be different from others | | C．everyone has their own opinions on things | | D．we dislike something in the beginning |
小题2:Some readers think the words in the author’s book is too ______________.| A．depressing | B．frightening | C．delighting | D．idealistic |
小题3:In Paragraph 4，the underlined word "it" refers to ____________．| A．acting well at work and in politics | | B．feeling depressed for the news media | | C．accepting and understanding what has happened | | D．saying something negative when bad things come |
小题4:In the last paragraph，you are advised _____________．| A．to help others and make a difference | | B．to enjoy what you have to do in the work | | C．to judge yourself and make a wish for you | | D．to try a new way when making the world better |
小题5:What is the main theme of the passage?| A．Expecting things to be different gives us hope． | | B．Accepting can make our life happier and better． | | C．Traditional culture becomes root of unhappiness． | | D．Judging good or bad is important for our world． |
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A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration(夸张) will do no harm when it shows the person’s unique qualities to their advantages. To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment so that the person so packaged is not a commodity, but a human being, lively and lovely.
A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted. Youth however, comes and goes in a flash. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self-confidence and work at pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your attractiveness and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life, which now arrives at a self - satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame or wealth. There is no need to make use of hair dyeing. The snow-capped mountain itself is a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the company of the elderly is like reading a thick book of good edition, which attracts one so much that one is unwilling to part with it. As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging.
小题1:The underlined word in the first paragraph is closest to the word ______ in meaning.| A．decoration | B．clarification | C．movement | D．identification |
小题2:It can be concluded from the text that ______.| A．people should be packaged at all ages | | B．people should be packaged in a special way | | C．elderly people also care about packaging | | D．proper packaging makes people attractive |
小题3:For the middle-aged, attractiveness ______ . | A．hardly exists | B．is the strongest | | C．comes from the inside | D．comes from the appearance |
小题4:According to the author, if you want to keep in harmony with nature, you should ______.| A．dye your hair | B．make up at a young age | | C．follow the ageing process | D．give up fame and wealth |
小题5:The underlined sentence means that elderly people ______.| A．are usually packaged like a finely-made book | | B．experience a lot and have rich knowledge of life | | C．do a lot of traveling and can give you much information | | D．enjoy reading thick books about beautiful nature and fairyland |
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My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation(甘蔗种植园) in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed(耕) the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox(牛), guiding him with a broomstick. For $ 1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.
It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. More important, I earned my pay; it never entered my mind to say I was sick just because I didn’t want to work.
I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $ 18 a week. Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person can have.
When I was seven, I got work at a golf course(高尔夫球场) near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dreamt of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.
The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb(番石榴树枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity. I learned working in the field — except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.
小题1:The word “tedious” in Paragraph 2 most probably means _______.| A．easy | B．boring | C．interesting | D．unusual |
小题2:The writer learned that_______ from his first job.| A．he should work for those who he liked most | | B．he should work longer than what he was expected | | C．he should never fail to say hello to his owner | | D．he should be respectful and faithful to the people he worked for |
小题3:_______ gave the writer self-esteem.| A．Having a family of eight people | | B．Owning his own golf course | | C．Bringing money back home to help the family | | D．Helping his father with the work on the plantation |
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What is intelligence anyway? When I was in the army I_____an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against _____of 100, scored 160.
I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not ______ have scored more than 80. ____, when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him -- and he always _____ it.
Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man____questions for some intelligence tests. By every one of them I"d prove myself a _____. In a world where I have to work with my ____, I"d do poorly.
Consider my auto-repair man_____.He had a habit of telling ____. One time he said, "Doe. a deaf-and-dumb (聋哑) man______some nails. Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made ______ movements with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He ______ his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk ______ him some nails. He picked out the right size and left. Well, Doe. the______man who came in was blind. He wanted scissors. ______ do you suppose he asked for them?" I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. He burst out laughing and said, "Why, you fool, he used his ______ and asked for them. I"ve been ______ that on all my customers today, but I knew ______ I"d catch you." "Why is that?" I asked. "Because you are so goddamned educated, Dr. I knew you couldn"t be very______.
And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.
| 小题1: | | A．failed | B．wrote | C．received | D．chose |
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| 小题2: | | A．an average | B．a total | C．an exam | D．a number |
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| 小题3: | | A．always | B．possibly | C．certainly | D．frequently |
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| 小题4: | | A．Then | B．Thus | C．Therefore | D．Yet |
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| 小题5: | | A．fixed | B．checked | C．drove | D．changed |
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| 小题6: | | A．answered | B．practised | C．designed | D．tried |
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| 小题7: | | A．teacher | B．doctor | C．winner | D．fool |
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| 小题8: | | A．brains | B．effort | C．hands | D．attention |
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| 小题9: | | A．again | B．as usual | C．too | D．as well |
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| 小题10: | | A．lies | B．jokes | C．news | D．tales |
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| 小题11: | | A．bought | B．tested | C．found | D．needed |
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| 小题12: | | A．cutting | B．hammering | C．waving | D．circling |
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| 小题13: | | A．nodded | B．raised | C．shook | D．turned |
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| 小题14: | | A．brought | B．packed | C．sent | D．sold |
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| 小题15: | | A．clever | B．other | C．right | D．next |
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| 小题17: | | A．imagination | B．hand | C．voice | D．information |
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| 小题18: | | A．trying | B．proving | C．practising | D．examining |
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| 小题19: | | A．for sure | B．at once | C．in fact | D．right now |
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| 小题20: | | A．clear | B．silly | C．slow | D．smart |
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Any day we wish；we can discipline ourselves to change it a11．Any day we wish；we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge．Any day we wish；we can start a new activity．Any day we wish；we can start the process of life change．We can do it immediately，or next week，or next month，or next year．
We can also do nothing．We can pretend rather than perform．And if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable，we can remain as we are．We can choose rest over labor，entertainment over education，delusion(幻想)over truth，and doubt over confidence．The choices are ours to make．But while we complain about the effect，we continue to nourish(助长)the cause．
As Shakespeare uniquely observed，“The fault is not in the stars，but in ourselves．’’We created our circumstances by our past choices．We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today．
Those who are in search of the good life do not need more answers or more time to think things over to reach better conclusions. They need the truth .They need the whole truth .And the responsibility to nothing but the truth．
We cannot allow our errors in judgment，repeated every day，to lead us down the wrong path．
We must keep coming back to those basics that make the biggest difference in how our life works out．And then we must make the very choices that will bring life，happiness and joy into our daily lives .
And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life—If you don’t like how things are，change it !You’re not a tree．You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life — and it all begins with your very own power of choice．
小题1:The first paragraph tells us that_________.| A．no one wants to be disciplined | | B．we often need some new knowledge | | C．taking activities does good to our health | | D．we want to change all the time |
小题2:We may conclude from the second paragraph that| A．whatever happens, we have to change ourselves | | B．people tend to nourish the cause of bad results | | C．whether we change or not depends on ourselves | | D．most choices we made are not good enough |
小题3:From Shakespeare’s words，we know________.| A．it is our duty to change for the better | | B．we complain a lot about our past choices | | C．sometimes we have to face the fate | | D．we should believe in ourselves in life |
小题4:In the author’s opinion，if。you want a good life，what you need most is_______.| A．self confidence | B．good choices | C．strong wills | D．the truth |
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