What separates me from everyone else? The difference is not what clothes I wear

What separates me from everyone else? The difference is not what clothes I wear

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What separates me from everyone else? The difference is not what clothes I wear or the music I listen to, but what I feel inside.
Ever since I was young, I have loved professional wrestling(摔跤). I woke up every Saturday to watch my favorite "Superstars." As I grew older, I got a lot of flak for watching this "fake" sport. My peers(同龄人) would laugh at me for following what was called a "man"s soap opera." So, I put my love for wrestling on the shelf. Like everyone else, I wanted to be associated with the cool clique. I yearned to be invited to the parties of the in-crowd and hang out with the popular kids. I became pretty successful. Although my Friday evenings were busy with parties, I would still wake up early Saturdays to watch wrestling. It wasn"t until freshman year that I realized I wasn"t being myself.
That year, I tried many new things and activities and made new friends. In my town, football was the sport, so I decided to play football, thinking it might give me a head start in popularity. The team started with 48 athletes. At the end, there were 14 of us left. I stuck it out not because I liked it, but because I am not a quitter. That long season taught me a lesson: I wasn"t a football player. More importantly, it taught me to be myself.
After that season, I went back to being a wrestling fan. I watched it religiously, no matter what insults were thrown my way. I came across a quote: "Don"t Dream It, Be It." When I read this, my friend Dan had the same idea I had.
"What if we build a wrestling ring(拳击场)?" we asked. We acquired the necessary wood and equipment for its construction. The following weekend, we met at his house. We saw our dream in a pile in his backyard. We worked from dawn to dusk to build our great establishment. By Sunday night, our mission was complete. Our hard work (combined with a little creativity) had paid off. We had a real ring. We decided to hold an "event." We practiced for hours, trying to improve every aspect of our wrestling ability. The date was May 24th. Our show had a start time of 9: 00 p.m. To our surprise, about one hundred family, friends and fans showed up to support us. It was the most important night of my life and a complete success. Since that time, we have held five shows with as many as two hundred and fifty people turning out. We continue to live this dream. We accomplished what we set out to do. We are now well known throughout school. When I walk down the halls, I am respected by my peers. Some are the same peers who ridiculed me for watching wrestling when I was younger. When they approach me, they often say, "Good match, Chris." I humbly say, "Thank you," knowing I did something I believed in.
As my senior year winds down, I"ll remember all of my high school memories. But what will stick out most is the memory that I did something I loved, despite what everyone said or thought. I accomplished my goal. I lived my dream.
小题1:What makes the writer different from the others is __________.
A.the different sports he loves
B.the different clothes he wears and the different music he listens to
C.that he is younger than the others.
D.the different ideas he has
小题2:What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.I practiced wrestling secretly in my spare time.
B.I put the clothes for wrestling on the shelf.
C.I decided to quit following wrestling.
D.I began not to watch wrestling on TV.
小题3:When the writer was a freshman, he ___________.
A.knew he couldn’t be a good football playerB.realized he was being himself
C.was still sociableD.built a wrestling ring
小题4:The writer built the wrestling ring in order to ________.
A.play football thereB.make his dream realized
C.be a professional playerD.have parties there.
小题5:What is the writer’s attitude towards his experience in high school?
A.OptimisticB.PessimisticC.DoubtfulD.Surprised

答案

小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:A
解析

试题分析:本文讲述的是作者在小时候一直都很喜欢职业摔跤,后来在同龄人的嘲笑之下,放弃了自己的梦想。不过在最后还是感觉到人要做真正的自我,于是和朋友建了一个拳击场,取得了成功。告诉我们做人要做真正的自我。
小题1:D 细节题。根据文章第一段What separates me from everyone else? The difference is not what clothes I wear or the music I listen to, but what I feel inside.可知我们和别人不同的地方在于我们的内心世界,而不是我们的外表。故D正确。
小题2:C 推理题。根据文章第二段2,3,4行. My peers(同龄人) would laugh at me for following what was called a "man"s soap opera." So, I put my love for wrestling on the shelf. Like everyone else, I wanted to be associated with the cool clique.可知我的同龄人都嘲笑我看这样的节目,,所以我决定放弃自己的这个爱好,像同龄人一样去参加各种聚会等活动。故C正确。
小题3:C 细节题。根据I became pretty successful. Although my Friday evenings were busy with parties, I would still wake up early Saturdays to watch wrestling. It wasn"t until freshman year that I realized I wasn"t being myself.可知直到大学一年级,我仍然很喜欢职业摔跤,仍然和朋友交往地很好,说明我很和善。故C正确。
小题4:B 细节题。根据文章4,5段I came across a quote: "Don"t Dream It, Be It." When I read this, my friend Dan had the same idea I had. 和"What if we build a wrestling ring(拳击场)?" we asked.可知我们建拳击场的目的就是为了实现自己梦想。故C正确。
小题5:A 推理题。But what will stick out most is the memory that I did something I loved, despite what everyone said or thought. I accomplished my goal. I lived my dream. 可知作者对于自己的工作生活经历还是持有很乐观的态度的。故A正确。
点评:本文讲述的是作者在小时候一直都很喜欢职业摔跤,后来在同龄人的嘲笑之下,放弃了自己的梦想。不过在最后还是感觉到人要做真正的自我,于是和朋友建了一个拳击场,取得了成功。告诉我们做人要做真正的自我。
本文要求考生读懂文章中的每个句子的意思还要推理它们之间的关系,结合自己的生活常识和经验,再通过逻辑推理和判断,理解文章的言外之意,从而揭示文章的深层涵义。任何一篇文章都有其特定的写作目的,读者应当知道如何去做或按照某种方式传递思考问题。推理判断题的答案不可能在文章中直接找到,因此推理时我们务必要忠于原文,在文章中寻找并确定可推论的依据,即:已知部分-推论的前提,从中推测出未知部分-推理的结论,切忌妄加评论,把自己的观点当成作者的观点。
举一反三
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 exampleB.rather thanC.or ratherD.as well
小题2:
A.hurriedB.pausedC.ignoredD.confirmed
小题3:
A.basementB.kitchenC.garageD.hall
小题4:
A.easyB.happyC.sorryD.angry
小题5:
A.in allB.at allC.above allD.after all
小题6:
A.guestB.voiceC.noise D.sound
小题7:
A.watchedB.foundC.realizedD.caught
小题8:
A.carefullyB.gentlyC.patientlyD.anxiously
小题9:
A.eventuallyB.unwillinglyC.obviouslyD.thoroughly
小题10:
A.throughB.overC.belowD.beyond
小题11:
A.shakingB.breakingC.strikingD.injuring
小题12:
A.wallB.floorC.doorD.ceiling
小题13:
A.clumsyB.painfulC.amazedD.terrified
小题14:
A.frightenB.comfortC.confuseD.calm
小题15:
A.leaveB.screamC.relaxD.escape
小题16:
A.put it asideB.leave it aloneC.give it upD.figure it out
小题17:
A.accidentB.achievementC.struggleD.trouble
小题18:
A.costB.offerC.earnD.owe
小题19:
A.classifyB.handleC.debateD.conclude
小题20:
A.upB.backC.forthD.down

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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 teenagersB.a kind of books on traditions
C.a philosophy theoryD.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 booksB.for the pure pleasure of reading
C.so as to help kill his spare timeD.for only business purposes
小题5:Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A.The Years with BooksB.Books and TV Programs
C.Don’t Judge a Book by Its CoverD.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 outB.pass out C.take outD.pick out
小题2:
A.excitedB.worriedC.concernedD.anxious
小题3:A gave B. made    C. signed          D. dressed
小题4:
A.achievementB.encouragementC.interestD.experience
小题5:
A.At timesB.In timeC.In allD.At all
小题6:
A.victoryB.decisionC.momentD.conclusion
小题7:
A.embarrassedB.annoyedC.movedD.thrilled
小题8:
A.relaxedB.defeatedC.puzzledD.inspired
小题9:
A.realizedB.lostC.noticedD.remembered
小题10:
A.necessary B.evidentC.commonD.different
小题11:
A.mottoB.planC.goalD.direction
小题12:
A.worriedB.hitC.reachedD.hurt
小题13:
A.attractionB.devotionC.expectationD.inspiration
小题14:
A.hopedB.promisedC.decidedD.suggested
小题15:
A.slightlyB.hardlyC.clearlyD.properly
小题16:
A.excitementB.accomplishment C.movementD.judgment
小题17:
A.introduceB.relateC.presentD.compare
小题18:
A.importantB.naturalC.strangeD.ridiculous
小题19:
A.weakenB.woundC.amuseD.cheer
小题20:
A.prevent B.deliverC.achieveD.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.storedB.hidC.gainedD.housed
小题2:
A.neighborsB.friendsC.parentsD.teachers
小题3:
A.fellB.appearedC.jumpedD.flew
小题4:
A.ruinedB.woundedC.harmedD.lost
小题5:
A.operate onB.take overC.get aroundD.ask for
小题6:
A.introducedB.realizedC.predictedD.promised
小题7:
A.orphanageB.hospitalC.schoolD.store
小题8:
A.recognizedB.turnedC.gatheredD.assumed
小题9:
A.valuableB.willingC.regrettableD.useful
小题10:
A.anxiousB.curiousC.delightfulD.surprising
小题11:
A.immediatelyB.happilyC.finallyD.probably
小题12:
A.stopB.comfortC.interruptD.support
小题13:
A.disappearedB.PulledC.RemovedD.finished
小题14:
A.functionB.occasionC.positionD.condition
小题15:
A.shockedB.frightenedC.pleasedD.worried
小题16:
A.smilesB.puzzleC.hopeD.tears
小题17:
A.energyB.healthC.moneyD.blood
小题18:
A.IfB.SinceC.ThoughD.Unless
小题19:
A.expectB.wishC.agreeD.permit
小题20:
A.softB.strangeC.tiredD.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.droveB.startedC.parkedD.broke
小题2:
A.outsideB.downC.towardD.over
小题3:
A.playingB.smilingC.rollingD.running
小题4:
A.wayB.lengthC.timeD.distance
小题5:
A.even ifB.as ifC.so long asD.now that
小题6:
A.parkB.caveC.prisonD.castle
小题7:
A.get upB.take upC.break downD.lie down
小题8:
A.tearB.smileC.pleasureD.surprise
小题9:
A.howeverB.insteadC.thereforeD.anyhow
小题10:
A.stopB.winC.achieveD.succeed
小题11:
A.luckily B.apparentlyC.actuallyD.equally
小题12:
A.confidentB.joyfulC.quietD.proud
小题13:
A.worryB.dreamC.aimD.hope
小题14:
A.boyB.childC.player D.winner
小题15:
A.chance B.fortuneC.approvalD.trouble
小题16:
A.someoneB.anyoneC.everyoneD.one
小题17:
A.failB.runC.fallD.cry
小题18:
A.embarrassingB.disappointingC.frighteningD.amusing
小题19:
A.happenedB.contributedC.relatedD.mattered
小题20:
A.discoveryB.observationC.storyD.incident

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