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Even though it was only October, my students were already whispering about Christmas plans．With each passing day everyone became more ____ waiting for the final school bell．Upon its ____ everyone would run for their coats and go home, everyone except David.
David was a small boy in ragged clothes．I had often ____ what kind of home life David had, and what kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so ____ for the cold winter months, without a coat, boots, or gloves．But something made David ____．I can still remember he was always ____ a smile and willing to help．He always ____ after school to straighten chairs and mop the floor．We never talked much．He ____ just simply smile and ask what else he could do, then thank me for letting him stay and slowly ____ home.
Weeks passed and the ____ over the coming Christmas grew into restlessness until the last day of ____ before the holiday break．I smiled in ___ as the last of them hurried out the door．Turning around I saw David ____ standing by my desk.
“I have something for you，” he said and ____ from behind his back a small box．____ it to me, he said anxiously, “Open it.” I took the box from him, thanked him and slowly unwrapped it．I lifted the lid and to my ____ saw nothing．I looked at David’s smiling face and back into the box and said, “The box is nice, David, but it’s ____.”
“Oh no it isn’t，” said David．“It’s full of love．My mum told me before she died that love was something you couldn’t see or touch unless you know it’s there.”
Tears filled my eyes ____ I looked at the proud dirty face that I had rarely given ____ to．After that Christmas, David and I became good friends and I never forgot the meaning ___ the little empty box set on my desk.
| 小题1: | | A．anxious | B．courageous | C．serious | D．cautious |
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| 小题2: | | A．warning | B．ringing | C．calling | D．yelling |
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| 小题3: | | A．scolded | B．wondered | C．realized | D．learned |
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| 小题4: | | A．modestly | B．naturally | C．inaccurately | D．inappropriately |
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| 小题5: | | A．popular | B．upset | C．special | D．funny |
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| 小题6: | | A．expressing | B．delivering | C．wearing | D．sharing |
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| 小题7: | | A．practiced | B．wandered | C．studied | D．stayed |
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| 小题8: | | A．would | B．should | C．might | D．could |
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| 小题9: | | A．aim at | B．turn to | C．put off | D．head for |
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| 小题10: | | A．argument | B．excitement | C．movement | D．judgment |
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| 小题11: | | A．school | B．year | C．education | D．program |
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| 小题12: | | A．relief | B．return | C．vain | D．control |
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| 小题13: | | A．weakly | B．sadly | C．quietly | D．helplessly |
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| 小题14: | | A．searched | B．found | C．raised | D．pulled |
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| 小题15: | | A．Holding | B．Handing | C．Sending | D．Leaving |
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| 小题16: | | A．delight | B．expectation | C．appreciation | D．surprise |
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| 小题17: | | A．cheap | B．empty | C．useless | D．improper |
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| 小题18: | | A．as | B．until | C．because | D．though |
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| 小题19: | | A．advice | B．support | C．attention | D．command |
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| 小题20: | | A．from | B．behind | C．over | D．towards |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:C
小题6:C
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:D
小题10:B
小题11:A
小题12:A
小题13:C
小题14:D
小题15:B
小题16:D
小题17:B
小题18:A
小题19:C
小题20:B |
解析
试题分析：本文是关于学生准备圣诞节，而David的穿着不好，给了老师一个空的盒子.文章中充满了浓浓的师生之情。
小题1:A 本题考查学生对文章的理解和对词义的辨析，A. anxious焦急的；急切的。 B. courageous有勇气的，C. serious 严肃的，D. cautious谨慎的，从后面的waiting for the final school bell.可知每个人都很焦虑。选A。
小题2:B 考查动词：A. warning警告B. ringing响起C. calling打电话D. yelling叫喊，本题中its指的是school bell 所以只能和ring搭配。选B。
小题3:B 本题考查动词词义的辨析，A. scolded责备，B. wondered想知道C. realized 意识到，D. learned学习，后面用的是what kind of home life David had, 所以用wondered。
小题4:D 本题考查副词词义的辨析，A. modestly谦虚地B. naturally自然地C. inaccurately不准确的，D. improperly不适当地，根据下文中的without a coat, boots, or gloves可知David穿得不合适。选D。
小题5:C 本题考查形容词的词义辨析，special特殊的；特别的，上文中说到David穿得不好，下文中说到作者能记得的是David 脸上一直挂着微笑，总是乐于助人，说明他与众不同。A. popular流行的，B. upset不安的D. funny滑稽的，选C。
小题6:C本题考查动词的辨析，A. expressing表达B. delivering发表C. wearing呈现，显现， D. sharing分享， wear在这儿意思是面笑容。选C。
小题7:D本题考查动词的辨析，A. practiced练习B. wandered漫步C. studied学习D. stayed留下，David在放学后待在学校摆齐凳子，拖地，故选D。
小题8:A本题考查情态动词的辨析，A. would老是，总是，B. should应该C. might可以，D. could能力，他总是会笑笑。选A。
小题9:D本题考查动词词组的区别：A. aim at旨在B. turn to求助于，转向C. put off 推迟，D. head for朝……进发，前进。在这儿是说David打扫完教室后回家。选D。
小题10:B本题考查名词的辨析，A. argument争论，B. excitement兴奋C. movement 运动， D. judgment判断， excitement指学生期待已久的圣诞到来的兴奋之情。选B。
小题11:A 本题考查名词的辨析，A. school学校B. year年C. education教育D. program，课程，before the holiday break显然是school day.选A。
小题12:A本题考查名词的辨析，A. relief轻松，宽慰，B. return回来C. vain徒劳D. control控制，最后一个人匆匆走出教室，我宽慰的笑了。选A。
小题13:C本题考查副词的辨析：A. weakly虚弱地，B. sadly难过地C. quietly安静地，D. helplessly无助地，由上下文可知，这儿应是David静静地站在讲桌旁。选C。
小题14:D本题考查动词的辨析，A. searched搜索B. found发现C. raised举起D. pulled拉，此处应是David从身后把那个盒子拉出来。选D。
小题15:B本题考查动词的辨析，A. Holding拿B. Handing递C. Sending送D. Leaving 留下，hand sth. to sb. 把……交给某人，选B。
小题16:D 本题考查名词的辨析，A. delight高兴B. expectation期待C. appreciation欣赏， D. surprise惊讶，既然是送给老师的礼物，盒子里应该有东西，而老师打开后盒子是空的，所以感到惊奇。选D。
小题17:B本题考查形容词的辨析，A. cheap便宜的B. empty空的，C. useless无用的， D. special特殊的，由上文中的saw nothing和下文中的It’s full of love。可知选B。
小题18:A本题考查连词的用法，A. as在这儿引导时间状语从句，B. until直到C. because 因为，D. though虽然，当我看着他骄傲的脏兮兮的脸，我流泪了。选A。
小题19:C本题考查句词的辨析，A. advice建议 B. support支持C. attention注意， D. command命令，由前文中的We never talked much可知，作者并没对David注意太多。选C。
小题20:B本题考查介词的辨析，A. from来自B. behind 在…后面C. over越过，D. towards朝着，由整篇文章可知，这儿是空盒子背后的意义。选B。 |
举一反三
Dear XXX,
As we drove off from Columbia, I wanted to write a letter to you to tell you all that is on my mind.
Do your best in classes, but don’t let pressure get to you. If you graduate and learn something in your four years, we would feel happy. Your Columbia degree will take you far, even if you don’t graduate with honors. So please don"t give yourself pressure. The only thing that matters is that you learned. The only measurement you should use is that you tried.
Most importantly, make friends and be happy. College friends are often the best in life, because during college you are closer to them physically than to your family. Also, going through independence and adulthood is a natural bonding (结合的) experience. Pick a few friends and become really close to them — pick the ones who are genuine and sincere to you. Don’t worry about their hobbies, grades, looks, or even personalities. If you think you like someone, tell her. You have very little to lose. People are not perfect, so as long as they are genuine and sincere, trust them and be good to them. They will give back. This is my secret of success — that I am genuine with people and trust them (unless they do something to lose my trust).
College is the four years where you have:
•the greatest amount of free time
•the first chance to be independent
•the most flexibility to change
•the lowest risk for making mistakes
So please treasure your college years – make the best of your free time, become an independent thinker in control of your destiny. May Columbia become the happiest four years in your life, and may you blossom into just what you dream to be.
Love,
XXX
小题1:What is the most probable relationship between the writer and the receiver of the letter?| A．Friends. | B．A parent and his or her daughter. | | C．A teacher and a student. | D．Sisters. |
小题2:Which of the following suggestions is not given to the receiver in the letter?| A．How to adapt to the college life quickly. | | B．To make new friends. | | C．To learn to be independent in thinking. | | D．Not to make herself under much pressure in grades. |
小题3:According to the writer of the letter, college is a time _______.| A．during which one may make mistakes | | B．during which one has little free time | | C．during which it is hard for one to change | | D．during which one needs to learn to be independent |
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More than four out of five people admit to telling little white lies at least once a day and the preferred way of “being economical with the truth” is to use technology such as cellphones, text messages and e-mails, a survey said last Thursday. The research found that “techno-treachery （高科技说谎）” was widespread with nearly 75 percent of people saying gadgets (小器具) made it easier to fib (撒小谎). Just over half of the respondents （被调查者） said using gadgets made them feel less guilty when telling a lie than doing it face to face. The workplace was a favorite location for fibbing with 67 percent of the 1,487 respondents admitting they had lied at work. The top lie was pretending to be ill (43 percent), followed by saying work had been completed when it hadn’t (23 percent). Worryingly for bosses 18 percent said they lied to hide a big mistake. But, employers were not the only ones on the receiving end of dishonest statements. Just over 40 percent of the respondents said they had lied to their families or partners. Key topics to lie about were: buying new clothes or the cost of them (37 percent), how good someone looked in something (35 percent), how much they had eaten (35 percent) and drunk (31 percent) and how much they weighed (32 percent).
小题1:The underlined phrase “being economical with the truth” probably means______.| A．telling lies | B．making apologies | C．feeling guilty | D．admitting mistakes |
小题2: It can be inferred(推断) from the passage that ______.| A．employers sometimes lie to their employees, too | | B．75% of people have ever lied to someone | | C．without gadgets, people may feel more pressure when telling white lies | | D．more people lie to their family than to their bosses |
小题3:Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?| A．Cell phones make people more likely to lie. | | B．Some people might lie to their bosses when they are not doing their work well. | | C．40% of employers admit that they have lied to their families or partners. | | D．Nearly 1,500 people were questioned in the survey. |
小题4: What is the main idea of the passage? | A．People are getting more likely to lie. | | B．People tend to fib using gadgets. | | C．Most people tell white lies at the workplace. | | D．18% of people lie to their bosses. |
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My daughter Julie and I went shopping this morning. A little part of me thought about going to another checkout line. This one had the shortest queue, there was only one guy in it, but he was in a ______ and there seemed to be some complications going on.
Well, I stamped on that little part, and we stepped in _______him. At first, he seemed to be having _____ getting his groceries onto the conveyor belt(输送带). But after a while, I _____ that what he was actually doing was dividing them into two lots.
Still, getting the stuff up there was no_______ task in itself. I ____to help, but he and the checkout lady had it under_____. He asked Julie if she would ______ putting his empty basket away. Then he ______for his wallet which was in a pouch(小袋子)on one side of his chair. The way he was positioned and the fact he only had one usable______ made this quite a stretch for him, so I helped there.
What must it be like, I ________, to be so dependent on other people like that?
The checkout operator came around and gave him his _______ and the items he needed to have to hand. I offered to get ________bigger bag and he said, “ No. but you could do me a favor. Take that lot along to the entrance and give it to Angela.”
I _____did that, leaving Julie with our shopping. Angela, it turned out, was collecting food for people who might otherwise go ___! I hadn’t even noticed her before.
This guy, despite the limitation that his ________condition imposed(强加于) on him, had bought more than twice as much shopping as he needed. He may have been _________ physically, but his heart was more than capable of ________ all that. And it changed my idea of _______ when I realized that the help he had given was ________ the help he had received.
| 小题1: | | A．taxi | B．wheelchair | C．grocery | D．bench |
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| 小题2: | | A．before | B．behind | C．near | D．beyond |
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| 小题3: | | A．difficulty | B．potential | C．doubt | D．ability |
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| 小题4: | | A．regretted | B．recognized | C．requested | D．realized |
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| 小题5: | | A．special | B．obvious | C．easy | D．necessary |
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| 小题6: | | A．struggled | B．offered | C．forced | D．preferred |
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| 小题7: | | A．control | B．consideration | C．repair | D．attack |
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| 小题8: | | A．mind | B．finish | C．enjoy | D．escape |
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| 小题9: | | A．hoped | B．chose | C．reached | D．begged |
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| 小题11: | | A．warned | B．wondered | C．feared | D．insisted |
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| 小题12: | | A．change | B．bill | C．note | D．coin |
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| 小题13: | | A．more | B．another | C．other | D．the other |
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| 小题14: | | A．desperately | B．faithfully | C．sadly | D．Gratefully |
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| 小题15: | | A．thirsty | B．tired | C．hungry | D．crazy |
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| 小题16: | | A．mental | B．natural | C．official | D．physical |
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| 小题17: | | A．admired | B．limited | C．forgotten | D．accepted |
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| 小题18: | | A．overcoming | B．keeping | C．passing | D．destroying |
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| 小题19: | | A．pride | B．patience | C．dependence | D．bravery |
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| 小题20: | | A．other than | B．more than | C．less than | D．rather than |
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On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Clarke, dressed for going out, took her handbag with her money and her key in it, pulled the door behind her to lock it and went to the Over 60s Club. She always went there on Thursdays. It was a nice outing for an old woman who lived alone.
At six o’clock she came home, let herself in and at once smelt cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke in her house? How? Had someone got in? She checked the back door and the windows. All were locked or fastened, as usual. There was no sign of forced entry.
Over a cup of tea she wondered whether someone might have a key that fitted her front door—“a master key ”perhaps. So she stayed at home the following Thursday. Nothing happened. Was anyone watching her movements? On the Thursday after that she went out at her usual time, dressed as usual, but she didn’t go to the club. Instead she took a short cut home again, letting herself in through her garden and the back door. She settled down to wait.
It was just after four o’clock when the front door bell rang. Mrs. Clarke was making a cup of tea at the time. The bell rang again, and then she heard her letter box being pushed open. With the kettle of boiling water in her hand, she moved quietly toward the front door. A long piece of wire appeared through the letter box, and then a hand. The wire turned and caught around the knob on the door lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and poured the water over the hand. There was a shout outside, and the skin seemed to drop off the fingers like a glove. The wire fell to the floor, the hand was pulled back, and Mrs. Clarke heard the sound of running feet.
小题1:Mrs. Clarke looked forward to Thursday because__________.| A．she worked at a club on the day | | B．she lived alone | | C．she visited a club on Thursdays | | D．a special visitor came on Thursday Clarke |
小题2: If someone had made a forced entry,________.| A．Mrs. Clarke would have found a broken door or window | | B．he or she was still in the house | | C．things would have been thrown about | | D．he or she would have needed a master key |
小题3:According to the passage, which of the following is right?| A．She is about more than 50 years old. | | B．The next day after she found something unusual in her house, she stayed at home. | | C．The man who tried to enter her house wore a pair of gloves. | | D．Mrs. Clarke was in an attempt to trick the thief when she noticed something unusual. |
小题4:The wire fell to the floor________.| A．because Mrs. Clarke refused to open the door | | B．when the man’s glove dropped off | | C．because it was too hot to hold | | D．because the man just wanted to get away |
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Over the years, thanks to my life’s obstacles(障碍), I understood the meaning of faith and the strong will to survive. It was Hurricane Ike that made me fully____ the beauty of our strength and a human’s motivation to ____.
Mom had a two-week ____ in summer. While we enjoyed our holiday in Southeast Texas, we didn’t realize the fact that Ike ____ cause months and likely years of “labor”. By September 7th, the “eyes of Texas” were watching Hurricane Ike more ____, making the typical mad rush for last-minute hurricane ____. Two days later, both oil and ice were in ____ demand.
In the early hours of September 11th, some neighbors were planning to ____the storm in their homes, ____ others were making final preparations to get away. At first, we decided to stay. But that afternoon, the Houston-Galveston area would be on the more ____ side of the storm. Mom and I packed some of our most ____ belongings in the car and ____ the East Texas town of Lufkin.
As Ike pushed farther inland, we ____power in Lufkin. On Sunday, our next-door neighbor told us via cell phone that our ____ had remained well. Our hopes could not have been ____. But a few hours later, the neighbors reported that our brick chimney had ____, and it was sitting on our living room, ____ a hole in the roof between two skylights (天窗).
We wouldn’t be allowed to return home ____ September 17th. I climbed upstairs, and looked toward the hole in the roof which showed a beautiful blue sky.
Without hesitation, I shouted, “Wow! A third skylight!”
My neighbors could not believe I was making jokes ____ crying, but ____ is always good medicine. It was with that joke that I knew, given time, everything would be okay.
| 小题1: | | A．observe | B．appreciate | C．explore | D．improve |
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| 小题2: | | A．work | B．apologize | C．recover | D．change |
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| 小题3: | | A．vacation | B．journey | C．meeting | D．schedule |
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| 小题4: | | A．must | B．might | C．should | D．would |
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| 小题5: | | A．closely | B．constantly | C．warningly | D．differently |
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| 小题6: | | A．adventure | B．equipment | C．supplies | D．reports |
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| 小题7: | | A．basic | B．high | C．pure | D．neat |
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| 小题8: | | A．get through | B．put away | C．test out | D．suffer from |
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| 小题9: | | A．since | B．when | C．until | D．while |
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| 小题10: | | A．dangerous | B．abundant | C．peaceful | D．awesome |
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| 小题11: | | A．available | B．concrete | C．prized | D．potential |
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| 小题12: | | A．set out | B．headedfor | C．settled down | D．watched out |
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| 小题13: | | A．provided | B．reduced | C．produced | D．lost |
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| 小题14: | | A．garden | B．house | C．pool | D．yard |
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| 小题15: | | A．clearer | B．wilder | C．lower | D．higher |
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| 小题16: | | A．passed | B．stood | C．gone | D．followed |
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| 小题17: | | A．leaving | B．digging | C．filling | D．kicking |
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| 小题18: | | A．by | B．before | C．until | D．after |
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| 小题19: | | A．in spite of | B．instead of | C．apart from | D．in terms of |
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| 小题20: | | A．faith | B．will | C．strength | D．laughter |
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