完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）One day a few years ago we had a guest of the uninvited v
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完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
One day a few years ago we had a guest of the uninvited variety. In fact, it was a bird, 1 a sparrow.
“What’s that?” I asked when I first heard the gentle thumping(重击声). “It sounds like Joe is outside playing basketball,” my wife, Anita, said. She 2 and listened more devotedly. “It’s coming from the 3 .” she said. “Maybe it’s one of the little kids.”
We rushed out the door. Jonathan, our youngest, was 4 to make trouble. “If he’s making holes in the wall again…” I said as I searched there. No children 5 . But there was that 6 again, coming from right up there.
And that’s when I 7 the sparrow. It was flying 8 just inches below the ceiling. It was 9 trying to get out, but couldn’t see that the way out wasn’t up, but down 10 the open door. So the bird continued 11 its wings and hitting its head against the 12 .
“Poor thing,” Anita said. “It must be 13 .”
“Well, maybe it’s because of us,” I said as I moved toward it. I tried to show the bird how to glide（滑翔） down to get outside, but that only seemed to 14 it more. “Why don’t we just 15 for a few minutes?” Anita suggested. “I’m sure he’ll 16 eventually.” So we went back into the house, where we continued to hear the ongoing 17 .Then suddenly, it was silent. We looked into the garage, and our uninvited guest was gone.
“See?” Anita said. “I told you he’d succeed.”
“Yeah,” I said. “But how many knocks on the head did it 18 him?”
I’ve thought about that little sparrow through the years. Just like that sparrow, we often meet situations we don’t know how to 19 . Born to go upward, we don’t even consider the possibility that something good might happen if we stop flapping（拍打）around and just glide 20 a little bit.
| 小题1: | | A．for example | B．rather than | C．or rather | D．as well |
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| 小题2: | | A．hurried | B．paused | C．ignored | D．confirmed |
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| 小题3: | | A．basement | B．kitchen | C．garage | D．hall |
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| 小题4: | | A．easy | B．happy | C．sorry | D．angry |
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| 小题5: | | A．in all | B．at all | C．above all | D．after all |
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| 小题6: | | A．guest | B．voice | C．noise | D．sound |
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| 小题7: | | A．watched | B．found | C．realized | D．caught |
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| 小题8: | | A．carefully | B．gently | C．patiently | D．anxiously |
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| 小题9: | | A．eventually | B．unwillingly | C．obviously | D．thoroughly |
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| 小题10: | | A．through | B．over | C．below | D．beyond |
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| 小题11: | | A．shaking | B．breaking | C．striking | D．injuring |
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| 小题12: | | A．wall | B．floor | C．door | D．ceiling |
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| 小题13: | | A．clumsy | B．painful | C．amazed | D．terrified |
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| 小题14: | | A．frighten | B．comfort | C．confuse | D．calm |
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| 小题15: | | A．leave | B．scream | C．relax | D．escape |
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| 小题16: | | A．put it aside | B．leave it alone | C．give it up | D．figure it out |
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| 小题17: | | A．accident | B．achievement | C．struggle | D．trouble |
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| 小题19: | | A．classify | B．handle | C．debate | D．conclude |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:B
小题6:D
小题7:B
小题8:D
小题9:C
小题10:A
小题11:C
小题12:D
小题13:D
小题14:A
小题15:A
小题16:D
小题17:C
小题18:A
小题19:B
小题20:D |
解析
试题分析：这篇文章讲述了几年前的一天，一只误飞进作者车库的麻雀是如何挣扎地飞出去的经过，作者想到我们的人生就像那只麻雀，经常遇到不知道如何处理的状况。
小题1:A．for example例如 B．rather than而不是 C．or rather更准确地说 D．as well也 根据句意：事实上，它是一只鸟，更准确地说，是一只麻雀。故选C
小题2:A．hurried 匆忙地 B．paused暂停的 C．ignored忽略 D．confirmed确认 根据句意：她停下来，更加仔细地听。故选B
小题3:A．basement地下室 B．kitchen厨房 C．garage车库 D．hall门厅 根据句意：好像来自于车库。故选C
小题4:A．easy容易的 B．happy高兴的 C．sorry对不起 D．angry生气的 根据句意：作者的儿子，乔纳森，很容易制造麻烦。故选A
小题5:A．in all总共 B．at all 根本 C．above all首先 D．after all毕竟 根据句意：那里根本没有孩子。故选B
小题6:A．guest 客人 B．voice声音 C．noise噪音 D．sound响声 根据句意：但是又有了一声响声。故选D
小题7:A．watched 观看 B．found发现 C．realized意识到 D．caught捕捉 根据句意：
作者发现了一只麻雀。故选B
小题8:A．carefully仔细地 B．gently轻轻地 C．patiently耐心地 D．anxiously焦虑地 根据句意：它正在天花板下面几英寸处不安地飞着。故选D
小题9:A．eventually 最后 B．unwillingly勉强地 C．obviously明显地 D．thoroughly彻底地 根据句意：很明显正在努力地想飞出去。故选C
小题10:A．through通过 B．over 越过 C．below在下面 D．beyond超过 根据句意：向下通过开着的门。故选A
小题11:A．shaking震动 B．breaking破坏 C．striking 打 D．injuring受伤 根据句意：它继续拍打着翅膀。故选C
小题12:A．wall墙 B．floor地板 C．door门 D．ceiling天花板 根据句意：用它的头抵抗者天花板。故选D
小题13:A．clumsy笨拙的 B．painful痛苦的 C．amazed吃惊的 D．terrified感到恐惧的 根据句意：它一定很恐惧。故选D
小题14:A．frighten惊恐 B．comfort安慰 C．confuse使混乱 D．calm平静 根据句意：但是那使它看起来更加恐惧。故选A
小题15:A．leave离开 B．scream尖叫 C．relax放松 D．escape逃脱 根据句意：作者的妻子说我们为什么不离开几分钟呢。故选A
小题16:A．put it aside把它放在旁边 B．leave it alone让它单独在这 C．give it up放弃它 D．figure it out搞定它 根据句意：相信它最终能搞定的。故选D
小题17:A．accident事故 B．achievement成就 C．struggle 挣扎 D．trouble麻烦 根据句意：作者和他的妻子回到房子继续听着不间断的挣扎声。故选C
小题18:A．cost花费 B．offer提供 C．earn 赚的 D．owe欠 根据句意：但是它撞了多少次头呢？故选A
小题19:A．classify分类 B．handle处理 C．debate辩论 D．conclude 推断 根据句意：我们经常遇到一些不知道如何处理的情况。故选B
小题20:A．up向上 B．back 后退 C．forth向前 D．down向下 根据句意：只需要向下滑行一点点。故选D
点评：解答此类题型时，一定不要看一个做一个，要首先花两分钟的时间进行整体的浏览，在这两分钟里不是走马观花的看，而是要搞清楚事情的发展顺序、感情色彩以及段与段之间的关系、动词时态等。在这个基础上再进行逐一详细的解答，遇到个别不会时，可空下来，待整个文章读完后再进行解答。 |
举一反三
As I write this, I have half an eye on an old James Bond film that is showing on my computer. But this is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page.
I suppose I was an enthusiastic reader of "literature" between the ages of nine and fourteen. I had enough time to be White Fang, Robinson Crusoe, and Bilbo Baggins and Jeeves. Of course there was room in the schoolboy"s imagination for some real historical figures: Scott of the Antarctic, all of the Vikings, and Benjamin Franklin were good friends of mine.
Then, in adolescence, I began a long search for strange and radical (激进的) ideas. I wanted to challenge my elders and betters, and shock my fellow students with amazing points of view. Of course, the only place to look was in books. I hunted out the longest titles and the authors with the funniest names; I searched the library for completely unread books. Then I found one which became my bible for the whole of 1982, it had a title composed of eleven long words and an author whose name I didn"t know how to pronounce. It was really thick and looked dead serious. Even better, it put forward a whole world-view that would take days to explain. Perfect. I took it out of the library three times, proud to see the date-stamps lined up on the empty library insert.
Later, I went to university. Expecting to spend long evenings in learned discussion with clever people, I started reading philosophy. For some reason I never found the deep-thinking intellectuals I hoped to meet. Anyway, I was ready to impress with my profound (深奥的) knowledge of post-structuralism, existentialism and situationism. These things are usually explained in rather short books, but they take a long time to get through. They were the end of my youthful reading.
Working life was hard to get used to after so much theory. It was the end of books for me. There didn"t seem to be much in books that would actually get things done. To do things you had to answer the telephone and work a computer. You had to travel about and speak to people who weren"t at all interested in philosophy. I didn"t stop reading, you can"t avoid that. I read all day. But no books came my way, only manuals (操作手册) and contracts and documents. Maybe most people satisfy their need for stories and ideas with TV and, to tell the truth, it was all I needed for ten years. In those days I only had a book "on the go" for the duration of aeroplane flights. At first I would come home and watch TV over dinner. Then, I moved the TV so I could watch it from bed. I even got a switch so I could turn it off without getting out of bed. Then, one fateful day, my TV broke and my landlady took it away.
My new TV is an extra circuit board (电路板) inside my computer. It"s on a desk in front of a working chair and I can"t see it from the bed. I still use it for the weather forecasts and it"s nice to have it on while I"m typing this… but what to do last thing at night? Well, have another go with books.
Now, I just like books. I have a pile of nice ones by my bed and I"m reading about six at the same time. I don"t want to be any of the characters. I don"t care if a thousand people have already read them. I don"t have to search through libraries. There are books everywhere and all of them have something to read in them. I have the strange feeling that they"ve been there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.
小题1:The writer enjoyed reading “literature” between the ages of nine and fourteen because ________.| A．he thought it was important for a schoolboy to do so | | B．he was still too young to understand other books | | C．he believed all the real historical figures were his friends | | D．he could imagine himself being the characters in the books |
小题2:“Existentialism” (in paragraph 4) is probably ________.| A．a library intended for teenagers | B．a kind of books on traditions | | C．a philosophy theory | D．a kind of reading skill |
小题3:The main reason the writer stopped reading books was that ________.| A．he found watching TV was more interesting | | B．he became too busy to read any books | | C．he found books were of little use to his work | | D．he had to read a lot of manuals, contracts and documents |
小题4:Now the writer starts to read books again ________.| A．to find back his youth in books | B．for the pure pleasure of reading | | C．so as to help kill his spare time | D．for only business purposes |
小题5:Which of the following is the best title of the passage?| A．The Years with Books | B．Books and TV Programs | | C．Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover | D．Reading Makes One Excellent |
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When I was a teenager I volunteered to work at the water station at a 10,000m race. My job was to__36__ water to the runners, I remember being so __37__ to see all the different kinds of people who passed by and grabbed a cup of water. Some ran past, some walked past and a few wheeled past. I saw so many types of people doing it. I thought maybe I could do it too! So the next year I __38__ up for the race.
That first 10,000m race was quite an __39 _. I jogged, I walked, I jogged and I walked. __40__ , I didn’t know if I could finish. Then came a defining(起决定性作用的)__ 41__ .
At one point near the end, a 70-year-old man ran past me, very, very fast, and I felt __42__ because I was 15 years old, younger than him but I couldn’t even keep up with him. I felt __43_ for a second.
But then I __44__ something. He was running his race and I was running mine. He had__45_ abilities, experience, training and goals for himself. I had mine. Remember my _46_ was only to finish.
After a minute, it_47__ me that this was a lesson I could draw from. I learned something about myself at that moment. I turned my embarrassment into __48__ .
I __49__ that I would not give up running races. In fact, I would run even more races and I would learn how to train and prepare __50__ and one day I would be one of those 70-year-old persons who were still running. As I crossed the finish line, I was proud of my __51 __.
In life we all have those moments when we __52__ ourselves with others. It’s only__53 .__ Don’t allow those moments to __54___ you. Turn them into motivation and let them inspire you. With the proper preparation and training, you can improve your result to __55__ anything you want in life.
| 小题1: | | A．bring out | B．pass out | C．take out | D．pick out |
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| 小题2: | | A．excited | B．worried | C．concerned | D．anxious |
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小题3:A gave B. made C. signed D. dressed
| 小题4: | | A．achievement | B．encouragement | C．interest | D．experience |
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| 小题5: | | A．At times | B．In time | C．In all | D．At all |
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| 小题6: | | A．victory | B．decision | C．moment | D．conclusion |
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| 小题7: | | A．embarrassed | B．annoyed | C．moved | D．thrilled |
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| 小题8: | | A．relaxed | B．defeated | C．puzzled | D．inspired |
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| 小题9: | | A．realized | B．lost | C．noticed | D．remembered |
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| 小题10: | | A．necessary | B．evident | C．common | D．different |
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| 小题11: | | A．motto | B．plan | C．goal | D．direction |
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| 小题12: | | A．worried | B．hit | C．reached | D．hurt |
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| 小题13: | | A．attraction | B．devotion | C．expectation | D．inspiration |
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| 小题14: | | A．hoped | B．promised | C．decided | D．suggested |
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| 小题15: | | A．slightly | B．hardly | C．clearly | D．properly |
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| 小题16: | | A．excitement | B．accomplishment | C．movement | D．judgment |
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| 小题17: | | A．introduce | B．relate | C．present | D．compare |
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| 小题18: | | A．important | B．natural | C．strange | D．ridiculous |
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| 小题19: | | A．weaken | B．wound | C．amuse | D．cheer |
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| 小题20: | | A．prevent | B．deliver | C．achieve | D．abandon |
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It was a quiet morning during the war. In a small valley, there was a little wooden building, which was an orphanage (孤儿院) that__16__ many young children who had lost their ___17__ in the war. Suddenly, a shell (炮弹) __18__ on the top of the orphanage’s building. Many children were ___19__. One little girl was badly hurt and bleeding. A runner was at once sent to __20__medical help.
When the doctor arrived, he_21_ that the girl’s greatest need at the moment was blood. He immediately checked the records in the__22__ to find someone who had the same blood type as the girl’s. A nurse soon __23__the children that had the same blood type together and asked who would be __24__ to donate blood to the girl. The children looked shocked, and no one said a word. Again with __25____ eyes, the doctor pleaded (恳求). __26__ a boy slowly raised his hand.
When the doctor injected the needle, the boy began to cry. The doctor tried to _27__ him, but in vain. Even when the needle was _28__ , the little boy was still crying. After the blood was given to the wounded girl, her___29__ got better. Then the doctor came to the boy, "Does it hurt?" "No, but I was afraid of dying." The doctor was __30_! "Why did you think you would die? "With __31_ in his eyes the boy replied, "Because I thought you would take all of my __32__ to save her! "The doctor didn’t know what to say! Then he asked, "__33_you thought you were going to die, why did you__34__to give her your blood?" With tears streaming down, he said in a___35__ voice, "Because she is my friend and I love her." There is no greater love in the world!
| 小题1: | | A．stored | B．hid | C．gained | D．housed |
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| 小题2: | | A．neighbors | B．friends | C．parents | D．teachers |
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| 小题3: | | A．fell | B．appeared | C．jumped | D．flew |
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| 小题4: | | A．ruined | B．wounded | C．harmed | D．lost |
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| 小题5: | | A．operate on | B．take over | C．get around | D．ask for |
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| 小题6: | | A．introduced | B．realized | C．predicted | D．promised |
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| 小题7: | | A．orphanage | B．hospital | C．school | D．store |
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| 小题8: | | A．recognized | B．turned | C．gathered | D．assumed |
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| 小题9: | | A．valuable | B．willing | C．regrettable | D．useful |
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| 小题10: | | A．anxious | B．curious | C．delightful | D．surprising |
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| 小题11: | | A．immediately | B．happily | C．finally | D．probably |
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| 小题12: | | A．stop | B．comfort | C．interrupt | D．support |
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| 小题13: | | A．disappeared | B．Pulled | C．Removed | D．finished |
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| 小题14: | | A．function | B．occasion | C．position | D．condition |
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| 小题15: | | A．shocked | B．frightened | C．pleased | D．worried |
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| 小题16: | | A．smiles | B．puzzle | C．hope | D．tears |
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| 小题17: | | A．energy | B．health | C．money | D．blood |
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| 小题18: | | A．If | B．Since | C．Though | D．Unless |
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| 小题19: | | A．expect | B．wish | C．agree | D．permit |
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| 小题20: | | A．soft | B．strange | C．tired | D．embarrassed |
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One afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I 21 the car by the roadside and waited for her.
As I looked 22 the car window, there was a small park where I saw a little boy, around two years old, 23 freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short 24 . The boy had a big smile on his face 25 he had just been set free from some sort of 26 . The boy would then fall to the grass, 27 , and without hesitation or without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could again, still with a 28 on his face.
Kids, when they fall down, don"t view their falling down as failure, but 29 , they treat it as a learning experience. They try and try again until they 30 . While I was touched by the boy"s persistence, I was 31 touched by the manner in which he ran. With each attempt, he looked so 32 and so natural — no signs of fear, nervousness, or of being discouraged. His only 33 was to run freely and to do it as effectively as he could. He was just being a 34 — just being himself—being completely in the moment. He was not looking for 35 or was not worrying about whether 36 was watching. He didn"t seem to be bothered by the fact that maybe someone would see him 37 and that it would be 38 if he did fall. No, all that 39 to him was to accomplish the task, to feel the experience of running fully and freely. I learned a lot from that 40 and experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in my many pursuits（追求) in life.
| 小题1: | | A．drove | B．started | C．parked | D．broke |
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| 小题2: | | A．outside | B．down | C．toward | D．over |
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| 小题3: | | A．playing | B．smiling | C．rolling | D．running |
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| 小题4: | | A．way | B．length | C．time | D．distance |
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| 小题5: | | A．even if | B．as if | C．so long as | D．now that |
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| 小题6: | | A．park | B．cave | C．prison | D．castle |
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| 小题7: | | A．get up | B．take up | C．break down | D．lie down |
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| 小题8: | | A．tear | B．smile | C．pleasure | D．surprise |
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| 小题9: | | A．however | B．instead | C．therefore | D．anyhow |
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| 小题10: | | A．stop | B．win | C．achieve | D．succeed |
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| 小题11: | | A．luckily | B．apparently | C．actually | D．equally |
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| 小题12: | | A．confident | B．joyful | C．quiet | D．proud |
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| 小题13: | | A．worry | B．dream | C．aim | D．hope |
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| 小题14: | | A．boy | B．child | C．player | D．winner |
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| 小题15: | | A．chance | B．fortune | C．approval | D．trouble |
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| 小题16: | | A．someone | B．anyone | C．everyone | D．one |
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| 小题18: | | A．embarrassing | B．disappointing | C．frightening | D．amusing |
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| 小题19: | | A．happened | B．contributed | C．related | D．mattered |
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| 小题20: | | A．discovery | B．observation | C．story | D．incident |
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I have this old clock that belonged to my mom. My dad gave it to me years ago after mom passed away.
I have mixed feelings about having the clock. I love it because it was my mom’s, but it also holds some bad memories.
You see, it chimes. It counts out the hour and rings once on the half hour. Or at least it used to. Now you never know what number it will ring.
When my mother was at home dying from cancer, she asked for the clock to be unplugged. Hearing the hours count down really angered and frightened her.
Mom passed away. I decided I wanted to get the clock fixed so I could remember the good hours we had with her.
I took it to a local clock shop the other day.
“I know this has no particular value as a clock, but it was my mom’s and I need to get it fixed,” I said to the shop owner.
I went on to describe the problem.
“We get a lot of these in,” he told me. “Here’s what I do. We remove the clock works (机件) and replace it with a battery-operated movement (机芯) that chimes electronically,” he told me.
“You can’t fix this?”
“No, we don’t have the time nor the parts.”
I thanked him and went home. I called a few other places and was told the same thing.
“How incredibly sad,” I told the last one disappointedly.
How incredibly sad that we have become a society that replaces craftsmanship with convenience and easy fixes. We copy the original instead of creating something new. We duplicate (复制); we don’t originate (发明).
Sadly, the same goes for our attitude to life itself.
Each of us is an original, one of a kind. But we find it so much easier to copy another style than to develop our own.
We are wannabes (崇拜别人的人) rather than hey-world-look-at-mes.
We fail to see the real value in who we are, so we spend our lives trying to be someone else.
小题1: Why did the author decide to get the clock fixed? | A．Because it was a really old and valuable clock. | | B．Because it was the only thing that her mother had left her. | | C．Because it brought her memories of being with her mother. | | D．Because it left the author with mixed feelings. |
小题2: What did the clock shop owners tell the author?| A．The parts that the clock needed were electronic. | | B．It would cost a lot to repair the clock. | | C．They had never repaired a clock like this before. | | D．They could only make the clock electronic. |
小题3: The author intends to ________.| A．criticize the irresponsible clock shop owners | | B．criticize people who do not value things with a history | | C．criticize people who do not have a creative attitude toward life | | D．criticize people’s ignorance of traditional craftsmanship |
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