Zigfried, a little mouse, blew his breath on the frosty window of the farmhouse
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Zigfried, a little mouse, blew his breath on the frosty window of the farmhouse and rubbed it to see the outside. Still nobody came. Maybe today, he thought 31 . It was only a few days before Christmas and he was watching for a miracle (奇迹).
This farmhouse had been 32 too long. It needed a family. Zigfried’s 33 made a noise. He realized that he hadn’t eaten anything since yesterday. He jumped from the windowsill (窗沿), grabbed a 34 from his home, and went next door to Farmer Mike’s.
Farmer Mike’s house had been a great place for the little mouse 35 the farmer married a wife who had a cat. Zigfried 36 when he thought of it. He looked around cautiously as he 37 into the room where grain was stored and was quite 38 as he filled his bag with wheat. He was turning to leave when suddenly he 39 a hot breath about his ear. His heart beat 40 , and without thinking he started to run and luckily 41 the cat’s paws (爪子).
The next afternoon Zigfried heard some good news: a 42 family would be moving into the farmhouse soon. Zigfried’s granny would arrive on Christmas Eve to 43 with him. He hoped that the family would come before his granny came. Before long, a car came 44 the road leading to the house, with butter sandwiches, cheese and chocolate.
Zigfried’s Christmas miracle did arrive!
The house came 45 the next few days. Zigfried 46 every single hour of them. 47 , the day before Christmas when he was drinking hot chocolate with a 48 smile at the door of his home, he heard the 49 of the children of the family about what they might get for Christmas. What? A cat? The 50 froze on his face； his mouth fell wide open. After a long while, he at last found his voice: “Hey! Whose Christmas miracle is this?”
| 小题1: | | A．carefully | B．excitedly | C．hopefully | D．proudly |
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| 小题2: | | A．shabby | B．noisy | C．messy | D．empty |
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| 小题3: | | A．mouth | B．nose | C．stomach | D．throat |
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| 小题4: | | A．bag | B．stick | C．bowl | D．coat |
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| 小题5: | | A．although | B．until | C．whereas | D．unless |
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| 小题6: | | A．leapt | B．sniffed | C．trembled | D．withdrew |
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| 小题7: | | A．broke | B．marched | C．paced | D．stole |
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| 小题8: | | A．curious | B．nervous | C．pitiful | D．sensible |
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| 小题9: | | A．took | B．released | C．felt | D．drew |
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| 小题10: | | A．strongly | B．irregularly | C．slowly | D．wildly |
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| 小题11: | | A．escaped | B．seized | C．rubbed | D．scratched |
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| 小题12: | | A．close | B．happy | C．new | D．young |
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| 小题13: | | A．celebrate | B．communicate | C．compete | D．compromise |
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| 小题14: | | A．across | B．from | C．off | D．up |
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| 小题15: | | A．alive | B．loose | C．open | D．still |
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| 小题16: | | A．counted | B．enjoyed | C．missed | D．wasted |
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| 小题17: | | A．However | B．Instead | C．Moreover | D．Therefore |
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| 小题18: | | A．bitter | B．forced | C．polite | D．satisfied |
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| 小题19: | | A．introduction | B．discussion | C．comment | D．debate |
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| 小题20: | | A．blood | B．smile | C．tear | D．sweat |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:B
小题6:C
小题7:D
小题8:B
小题9:C
小题10:D
小题11:A
小题12:C
小题13:A
小题14:D
小题15:A
小题16:B
小题17:A
小题18:D
小题19:B
小题20:B |
解析
文章大意：记叙文。以拟人的方式，记叙了Zigfried这只老鼠看到搬了一家新人来，圣诞过十分满意，却不知自己成了别人的圣诞礼物。
小题1:还是没有人来，今天还是有希望，在圣诞节来临前，还有奇迹的发生，carefully“小心地”； excitedly“高兴地”hopefully“有希望地”；proudly“自豪地”。
小题2:根据后面：It needed a family“这房子需要一个家”可知，这房子空多时了。shabby“破旧的；破败的；破烂的”；noisy“嘈杂的；喧闹的”；messy“凌乱的，散乱的”；empty“空的，空虚的，空洞的”。
小题3:根据本句后面的：He realized that he hadn’t eaten anything since yesterday.“他意识到从昨天他没有吃任何东西。”可知，肚子饿了，故选C。
小题4:肚子饿了，他从窗台上跳了起来，从他的家抓起一个口袋，到农民迈克家去。同时下文有提示：···38 as he filled his bag with wheat.
小题5:麦克的房子对这只小老鼠来说是一个好地方，直到农民农民娶了妻子，这个女人有一只猫。although“尽管；虽然”；until“到…为止，在…以前”；whereas“但是，然而”unless“除非”。
小题6:麦克的妻子养一只猫，猫是老鼠的天敌。故当Zigfried听到这就颤抖。
小题7:所以当他潜入房间时，他环顾四周，小心翼翼。break“打破；折断”；march“前进，行军”；pace“踱步，走来走去”；steal“偷，偷偷地行动，秘密、不显明地行动”。
小题8:由于对猫的害怕，当Zigfried装小麦时都十分不安。curious“好奇的, 好求知的”； nervous“不安的”pitiful“令人怜悯的，使人同情的”；sensible“明智的，合乎情理的”。
小题9:它感觉到他的耳边灼热的呼吸。猫来了。
小题10:猫来了，它的心跳加速。strongly“强烈地，坚强地”； irregularly“不规则地”；slowly“缓慢地，慢吞吞地”；wildly“疯狂地，失去控制地”。
小题11:猫来了，来不及想，跑，庆幸的是，逃出了猫的爪子。escape“逃脱”；seize“抓住”；rub“擦，摩擦”；scratch“擦，刮”。
小题12:第二天下午，Zigfried听到一些好消息：一个新家要搬到这个空房子了。
小题13:Zigfried的奶奶也会在平安夜来与它一起庆祝。celebrate“庆祝；歌颂”； communicate“交流”；compete“竞赛，竞争”；compromise“妥协”。
小题14:不久，一辆车出现在公路上，come across“偶遇，偶然发现”；come from“来自某处；出生于”； come off“成功，达到效果”； come up“出现”。
小题15:空房子搬了人家，故又恢复了活力。alive“活泼的，有生气的”；loose“松的，宽的”；open“敞开的，开着的”；still“不动的，静止的”。
小题16:空房子搬了人家，故又恢复了活力，所以它享受着这每一分钟。
小题17:但当它听一听到孩子们的讨论时，它的微笑僵在脸上了，中间表转折。故用However。
小题18:当他带着满意的微笑喝着热巧克力时，故用satisfied“满意的”。
小题19:它听到了孩子们的讨论，可得到什么样的圣诞礼物时。Introduction“介绍”；discussion“讨论”comment“评论”；debate“争论”。
小题20:什么？一只老鼠？笑容僵在脸上了。同时前面有提示：···with a 48 smile ···· |
举一反三
Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck,talent,and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.
However,to succeed in life,one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical.And,in addition to that,in order to get really good at something,one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing.To become great at certain things,it’ll require even more time,time that most people won’t put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do ,it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success,you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost.It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent,but thinking that way does you no good,and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.
Whatever you do,if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out,almost to the point of addiction,and over a long period of time.If you’re not willing to put in the time and work,don’t expect to receive any rewards.Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.
小题1:Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.| A．the reasons for success | B．the meaning of success | | C．the standards of success | D．the importance of success |
小题2:In Paragraph 2,the underlined word that refers to ______.| A．being good at something | B．setting a practical goal | | C．putting in more time | D．succeeding in life |
小题3:Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ______.| A．work makes one feel pain | B．one tends to enjoy his work | | C．one gives up his work easily | D．it takes a lot of time to succeed |
小题4:What can we infer from Paragraph 4?| A．Successful people like to show their great skills. | | B．People sometimes succeed without luck or talent. | | C．People need to achieve success at the cost of life. | | D．It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success. |
小题5:What is the main theme of the passage?| A．Having a goal is vital to success. | | B．Being good is different from being great. | | C．One cannot succeed without time and practice. | | D．Luck,talent and family help to achieve success. |
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Home to me means a sense of familiarity and nostalgia(怀旧). It"s fun to come home. It looks the same. It smells the same. You"ll realize what"s changed is you. Home is where we ran remember pain, live, and some other experiences; We parted here; My parents met here; I won three championships here.
If I close my eyes, I can still have a clear picture in mind of my first home. I walk in the door and see a brown sofa surrounding a low glass-top wooden table. To the right of the living room is my first bedroom. It"s empty, but it"s where my earliest memories are.
There is the dining room table where I celebrated birthdays, and where I cried on Halloween-when I didn"t want to wear the skirt my mother made for me. I always liked standing on that table because it made me feel tall and strong. If I sit at this table, I can see my favorite room in the house, my parents" room. It is simple: a brown wooden dresser lines the right side of the wall next to a television and a couple of photos of my grandparents on each side. Their bed is my safe zone. I can jump on it anytime - waking up my parents if I am scared or if I have an important announcement that cannot wait until the morning.
I"m lucky because I know my first home still exists. It exists in my mind and heart, on a physical property(住宅) on West 64th street on the western edge of Los Angeles. It is proof I lived, I grew and I learned.
Sometimes when I feel lost, I lie down and shut my eyes, and I go home. I know it"s where I"ll find my family, my dogs, and my belongings. I purposely leave the window open at night because I know I"ll be blamed by Mom. But I don"t mind, because I want to hear her say my name, which reminds me I"m home.
小题1:Why does the author call her parents" bed her "safe zone"(Paragraph 3)?| A．It is her favorite place to play. | | B．Her needs can be satisfied there. | | C．Her grandparents" photos are lined on each side. | | D．Her parents always play together with her there. |
小题2:What can be learned from the passage?| A．The old furniture is still in the author"s fist bedroom. | | B．The author can still visit her first physical home in Los Angeles. | | C．The author"s favorite room in her first home is the dining room. | | D．Many people of the author"s age can still find their first physical homes. |
小题3:Sometimes when she feels lost, the author will _______.| A．Open the window at night | | B．lie down in bed to have a dream | | C．try to bring back a sense of home | | D．go to Los Angeles to visit her mom |
小题4:What is the author"s purpose of writing this passage?| A．To express how much she is attached to her home. | | B．To declare how much she loves her first house. | | C．To describe the state of her family. | | D．To look back on her childhood. |
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I went to a group activity, “Sensitivity Sunday” which was to make us more 36 the problem faced by disabled people. We were asked to “ 37 a disability” for several hours one Sunday. Some member 38 chose the wheel chair. Other wore sound-blocking earplugs (耳塞) or blindfolds (眼罩).
Just sitting in the wheelchair was a 39 experience, I had never considered before how 40 it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down my 41 made the chair begin to roll. Its wheel were not 42 . Then I wondered where to put my 43 , It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into 44 , I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of 45 for several hours. For disabled people, “adopting a wheelchair” is not a temporary(临时的) 46 .
I tried to find a 47 position and thought it might be restful, 48 kind of nice to be 49 around for a while. Looking around, I 50 would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as I 51 the heavy wheels, I came to know that controlling the 52 of the wheelchair as not going to be 53 task,
My wheelchair experiment was soon 54 . It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of “disability” gave me only a taste of the 55 , both physical and mental, that disabled people must overcome.
| 小题1: | | A．curious about | B．aware of | C．interested in | D．careful with |
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| 小题2: | | A．cure | B．adopt | C．prevent | D．analyze |
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| 小题3: | | A．inserted | B．strangely | C．as usual | D．like me |
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| 小题4: | | A．learning | B．working | C．satisfying | D．relaxing |
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| 小题5: | | A．convenient | B．awkward | C．boring | D．exciting |
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| 小题6: | | A．height | B．force | C．skill | D．weight |
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| 小题7: | | A．locked | B．repaired | C．powered | D．grasped |
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| 小题8: | | A．hands | B．feet | C．keys | D．handles |
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| 小题9: | | A．place | B．action | C．play | D．effect |
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| 小题10: | | A．operation | B．communication | C．transportation | D．production |
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| 小题11: | | A．exploration | B．education | C．experiment | D．entertainment |
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| 小题12: | | A．flexible | B．safe | C．starting | D．comfortable |
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| 小题14: | | A．shown | B．pushed | C．driven | D．guided |
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| 小题15: | | A．realized | B．suggested | C．agreed | D．admitted |
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| 小题16: | | A．lifted | B．turned | C．pressed | D．seized |
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| 小题17: | | A．path | B．position | C．direction | D．way |
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| 小题18: | | A．easy | B．heavy | C．major | D．extra |
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| 小题19: | | A．forgotten | B．repeated | C．conducted | D．finished |
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| 小题20: | | A．weaknesses | B．anxieties | C．challenges | D．illnesses |
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The baby monkey is much more developed at birth than the human baby. Almost from the moment it is born, the baby monkey can move around and hold tightly to its mother. During the first few days of its life the baby will approach and hold onto almost any large, warm, and soft object in its environment, particularly if that object also gives it milk. After a week or so, however, the baby monkey begins to avoid newcomers and focuses its attentions on “mother” ---- the real mother or the mother-substitute(母亲替代物）.
During the first two weeks of its warmth is perhaps the most important psychological（心理的） thing that a monkey mother has to give to its baby. The Harlows, a couple who are both psychologists, discovered this fact by offering baby monkeys a choice of two types of mother-substitutes ---- one covered with cloth and one made of bare wire. If the two artificial mothers were both the same temperature, the little monkeys always preferred the cloth mother. However, if the wire model was heated, while the cloth model was cool, for the first two weeks after birth the baby monkeys picked the warm wire mother-substitutes as their favorites. Thereafter they switched and spent most of their time on the more comfortable cloth mother
Why is cloth preferable to bare wire? Something that the Harlows called contact（接触的） comfort seems to be the answer, and a most powerful influence it is. Baby monkeys spend much of their time rubbing against their mothers’ skins, putting themselves in as close contact with the parent as they can. Whenever the young animal is frightened, disturbed, or annoyed, it typically rushes to its mother and rubs itself against her body. Wire doesn’t“rub”as well as does soft wire cloth. Prolonged（长时间的）“contact comfort” with a cloth mother appears to give the babies confidence and is much more rewarding to them than is either warmth or milk.
According to the Harlows, the basic quality of a baby’s love for its mother is trust. If the baby is put into an unfamiliar playroom without its mother, the baby ignores the toys no matter how interesting they might be. It screams in terror and curls up into a fury little ball. If its cloth mother is now introduced into the playroom, the bay rushes to it and holds onto it for dear life. After a few minutes of contact comfort, it obviously begins to feel more secure. It then climbs down from the mother-substitute and begins to explore the toys, but often rushes back for a deep embrace（拥抱）as if to make sure that its mother is still there and that all is well. Bit by bit its fears of the new environment are gone and it spends more and more time playing with the toys and less and less time holding on to its “mother.”
50. Psychologically, what does the baby monkey desire most during the first two weeks of its life?
A. Warmth B. Milk C. Contact D. Trust
小题1:After the first two weeks of their life, baby moneys prefer the cloth mother to the wire mother because the former is __. | A．larger in size | B．closer to them | | C．less frightening and less disturbing | D．more comfortable to rub against |
小题2:What does the baby monkey probably gain from prolonged “contact comfort”?| A．Attention | B．Softness | C．Confidence | D．Interest |
小题3:It can be inferred that when the baby monkey feels secure,_____________.| A．it frequently rushes back for a deep embrace when exploring the toys | | B．it spends more time screaming to get rewards | | C．it is less attracted to the toys though they are interesting | | D．it cares less about whether its mother is still around |
小题4:The main purpose of the passage is to______________.| A．give the reasons of the experiment | | B．present the findings of the experiment | | C．introduce the method of the experiment | | D．describe the process of the experiment |
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When asked about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get.
For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved (毫无掩饰的).
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it’s conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity. I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.
In adulthood the things that bring deep joy—love, marriage, birth—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. For adults, happiness is complicated (复杂的).
My definition of happiness is “the capacity for enjoyment”. The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’s easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health.
I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunch-box and had the house to myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which I love. When the kids and my husband come home, I enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day.
Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I don’t think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children, had much of either. She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this what satisfied her.
We, however, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we’ve got to have. We’re so self-conscious about our “right” to it that it’s making us miserable. So we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren’t necessarily happier.
Happiness isn’t about what happens to—it’s about how we see what happens to us. It’s the skillful way of finding a positive for every negative. It’s not wishing for what we don’t have , but enjoying what we do possess.
小题1:As people grow older, they ____.| A．feel it harder to experience happiness | | B．associate their happiness less with others | | C．will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness | | D．tend to believe responsibility means happiness |
小题2:What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 5 and 6?| A．She cares little about her own health. | | B．She enjoys the freedom of traveling. | | C．She is easily pleased by things in daily life. | | D．She prefers getting pleasure from housework. |
小题3:What can be inferred from Paragraph 7?| A．Psychologists think satisfying work is key to happiness. | | B．Psychologists’ opinion is well proved by Grandma’s case. | | C．Grandma often found time for social gatherings. | | D．Grandma’s happiness came from modest expectations of life. |
小题4:People who equal happiness with wealth and success ______.| A．consider pressure something blocking their way | | B．stress their right to happiness too much | | C．are at a loss to make correct choices | | D．are more likely to be happy |
小题5:What can be concluded from the passage?| A．Happiness lies between the positive and the negative | | B．Each man is the master of his own fate. | | C．Success leads to happiness. | | D．Happy is he who is content. |
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