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Since the end of World War I (WWI) in 1918，Canadians, and millions of others around the world have paused at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month to honour the sacrifices our soldiers have made in different wars, fighting for the freedoms that we all enjoy today.
Known as Remembrance Day, the day originated as a tribute to the soldiers of WWI， a dark period for our young country, which claimed the lives of over 60,000 military personnel and civilians and over 16 million dead worldwide.
As there are no more surviving soldiers of WWI，today we rely on the wisdom and words of those soldiers who fought in the wars that followed，and this day now also recognizes their heroic contribution.
They tell us to always remember what those brave souls fought for, and all they ask in return is that we never forget.
That’s why we wear the red poppy (罂粟花);that’s why when we see a soldier in uniform we should stop him or her and say “Thank you” ; that’s why we take a pause from our busy lives for two short minutes today to honor that request.
Yet this message is fading away, year after year.
Take for example the terrible decision to allow parents to excuse students from Remembrance Day ceremonies at school.
Not only is this disrespectful, it distances the student from his or her classmates.
It is difficult to understand why any Canadian parent would want to remove their child from the time-honored tradition of reading the poem In Flanders Fields, while a wreath of poppies is laid.
It is more important than ever to teach school-aged children about our history，no matter how violent it was. Sheltering them from the realities of war is a great disservice.
Understanding why conflicts happened, or happen today, can help shape choices and decisions they make as adults.
Of course, because we live in a free society, we cannot force an individual to do something. It is unfortunate, but some parents now have their child “opt-out” of the services. These people should be reminded they are free to make such choices only because of the men and women the rest of us are remembering.
小题1:Which of the following is true about Remembrance Day?| A． It’s only held in Canada. | | B．Its ceremony lasts 11 hours. | | C．It falls on November 11th each year. | | D．It’s to celebrate the country’s independence. |
小题2:Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a Remembrance Day activity today?| A．Stopping at 11a.m. to remember the war dead. | | B．Listening to stories told by WWI soldiers. | | C．Wearing a red poppy to show respect. | | D．Showing gratitude to soldiers in uniform. |
小题3:What can we learn from the passage?| A．War history is too violent for school children. | | B．The writer was once a soldier in the Canadian army. | | C．Few students are willing to take part in Remembrance Day ceremonies. | | D．More parents are keeping their children away from frightening war stories. |
小题4:The underlined word “It” in the last paragraph probably refers to _____| A．the death of so many soldiers in wars | | B．the fact that there were so many wars after WWI | | C．people’s ungratefulness for the freedom they have | | D．removing children from Remembrance Day events |
小题5:The writer believes that_____| A．the sacrifice of the soldiers should always be remembered | | B．Remembrance Day is becoming less important for soldiers | | C．schools - no longer think Remembrance Day is necessary | | D．people should be forced to learn about the realities of war |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:D
小题5:A |
解析
试题分析：文章讲述了作者认为士兵们的牺牲应该被永远怀念，而很多的加拿大的父母亲去有意的不让自己的孩子去参加荣军节的活动，不让他们去了解战争的本质，这使得作者非常的担忧。
小题1:细节题。从文章around the world have paused at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month to honour the sacrifices our soldiers have made in different wars,可知荣军节是每年的11月11日，故选C
小题2:细节题。从That’s why we wear the red poppy (罂粟花); that’s why when we see a soldier in uniform we should stop him or her and say “Thank you” ; that’s why we take a pause from our busy lives for two short minutes today to honor that request.可知在这一天只有听老兵讲解故事没有提到，故选B
小题3:细节题。从Take for example the terrible decision to allow parents to excuse students from Remembrance Day ceremonies at school.及第七自然段，可知加拿大的父母们有意的使孩子们避开那些有关战争的故事，故选D
小题4:细节推断题。从It is difficult to understand why any Canadian parent would want to remove their child from the time-honored tradition 可知最后一段的it指代的是父母亲使孩子们远离荣军节相关活动的这件事，故选D
小题5:推断题。从文章最后一段及These people should be reminded they are free to make such choices only because of the men and women the rest of us are remembering.可知作者认为士兵们的牺牲应该被永远怀念，故选A
点评：议论文的文体重在把握好作者的写作思想感情，本文中作者对于士兵们的牺牲应该被永远怀念这个观点进行了阐述，解答好这类题时，对于细节题要在看懂文意的前提下在文章中找到相对应的句子，比较作答。对于主旨题，需要学生综合把握作者写作感情，结合原文进行作答。 |
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It was a busy morning，about 8:30,when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital .I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for all appointment(约会)at 9:30
The nurse had him take a 36 in the waiting area, 37 him it would be at least 40 Minutes 38 someone would be able to see him I saw him 39 his watch and decided， since I was 40 busy—my patient didn’t 41 at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound .While taking care of his wound．I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment
The gentleman said no and told me that he 42 to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his 43 . He told me that she had been 44 for a while and that she had a special disease I asked if she would be 45 if he was a bit late. He replied that she 46 knew who he was，that she had not been able to 47 him for five years now. I was 48 , and asked him，“And you 49 go every morning，even though she doesn’t know who you are?”
He smiled and said．“She doesn’t know me but I know who she is” I had to hold back 50 as he left.
Now I 51 that in marriages，true love is 52 of all that is The happiest people don’t 53 have the best of everything；they just 54 the best of everything they have 55 isn’t about how to live through the storm，but how to dance in the rain.
小题1:A breath B.test C seat D break
小题2:A persuading B promising C understanding D telling
小题3:A if B before C since D after
小题4:A taking off B．fixing C looking at D winding
小题5:A very B also C seldom D not
小题6:A turn up B show off C come on D go away
小题7:A needed B forgot C agreed D happened
小题8:A daughter B wife C mother D sister
小题9:A. late B well C around D.there
小题10:A lonely B worried C doubtful D hungry
小题11:A so far B neither C no longer D already
小题12:A recognize B answer C believe D expect
小题13:A moved B disappointed C surprised D satisfied
小题14:A only B.then C.thus D still
小题15:A curiosity B tears C words D judgment
小题16:A realize B suggest C hope D prove
小题17:A agreement B expression C acceptance D exhibition
小题18:A necessarily B completely C．naturally D frequently
小题19:A. learn B make C.favor D.try
小题20:A Adventure B Beauty C Trust D Life |
When I was 15, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my short-comings(缺点). Week by week her list grew. I was skinny(瘦的), I talked too loud, I was too proud, and so on. I put up with(忍受)her as long as I could. At last, I ran to my father in tears and anger. He listened to my outburst quietly. They he asked, “Are the things she says the true or not?”True? I wanted to know how to strike back. What did truth have to do with it?
“Mary, didn’t you ever wonder what you are really like? Well, you now have that girl’s opinion. ”Go and make a list of every thing she said and mark the points that are true. You needn’t pay attention to the other things she said.
I did as he told me and discovered to my surprise that about half the things are true. Some of them I couldn’t change(like being skinny), but a good number I could and suddenly wanted to change. For the time in my life I began to get a quiet clear picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Daddy, but he wouldn’t take it.“That’s just for you,”he said.“You know better than any else the truth about yourself, once you hear it. But you’ve got to learn to listen, not close your ears in anger or hurt. When someone says something about you, you’ll know if it’s true or not. If it is ,you’ll find it will echo(共鸣)inside you.”
“I still don’t think it very nice of her to talk about me in front of everybody.”
“Mary, there is one way you could stop others talking about you ever again, and criticizing(批评) you—just say nothing and do nothing. But then, if you do that, you’d find you were nothing. You wouldn’t like that now, would you?”“No, I admitted(承认)”
小题1:One day the writer ran to her father in tears and anger because__________.| A．she found she talked too much. | B．she found she was too proud. | | C．her classmates were not friendly to her. | D．a girl pointed out many of her shortcomings. |
小题2:The writer’s father asked her ____________.| A．to pay attention to all that her“enemy”said about her. | | B．not to pay attention to what her“enemy”said about her. | | C．to pay attention only to the points that were true about her. | | D．to pay attention only to the points that were not true about her. |
小题3:The writer found that___________.| A．about half the things her“enemy”said were true. | | B．most of the things her“enemy”said were true. | | C．few of the things her“enemy”said were true. | | D．none of the things her“enemy”said were true. |
小题4:The writer’s father thinks__________.| A．if one says nothing and does nothing, people will praise him. | | B．one should not do anything because others will talk about him. | | C．it is not good to talk about others. | | D．everyone is talked about by others. |
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Last week, I took a sales class for female business owners. The 36 thing the instructor did was ask if anyone had been the victim of a 37 sales experience. Every person in the room 38 her hand.
When she knew details, we learned that the 39 situations had one thing in common. It 40 that whenever a class member had a bad sales experience, it involved the 41 promising something he wouldn’t or couldn’t deliver.
The example I 42 with the class was a current one. I bought a summer membership at our community pool 43 because it advertised a lovely baby pool to which I could escape with my active one and four year-olds. However, every time I’ve used the pool this summer, the baby area has been 44 . Too much chlorine（氯气）, 45 one manager.
I’m sure the pool director was very apologetic that his 46 had been inconvenienced, and that’s nice, but the 47 is that I did not get what I paid for. When the baby pool was closed, I had to swim with my 48 in the adult pool, which did not 49 me the control I wanted and as such, was quite stressful. I would have rather stayed home.
The pool has 50 a customer. I will not be buying a pass next summer.
In work and in life, it is really important not to 51 something you can’t deliver, because at best, it will improve your 52 . At worse, you could lose your job. 53 , before you assure a co-worker or customer that you can get something done, make sure that your boss or someone higher-up isn’t going to step in and force you to 54 your plan. You are not God, so don’t lead people to believe that you 55 the universe.
| 小题1: | | A．last | B．first | C．latest | D．only |
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| 小题2: | | A．good | B．miserable | C．bad | D．wonderful |
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| 小题3: | | A．raised | B．rose | C．arose | D．aroused |
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| 小题4: | | A．negative | B．supportive | C．positive | D．pessimistic |
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| 小题5: | | A．appeared | B．noticed | C．seemed | D．presented |
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| 小题6: | | A．seller | B．buyer | C．shopper | D．assistant |
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| 小题7: | | A．told | B．shared | C．held | D．spoke |
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| 小题8: | | A．roughly | B．correctly | C．naturally | D．precisely |
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| 小题9: | | A．closed | B．turned | C．switched | D．forbidden |
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| 小题10: | | A．announced | B．claimed | C．declared | D．exclaimed |
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| 小题11: | | A．colleagues | B．fellows | C．customers | D．children |
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| 小题12: | | A．point | B．subject | C．sense | D．truth |
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| 小题13: | | A．friends | B．students | C．kids | D．cousins |
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| 小题14: | | A．supply | B．afford | C．provide | D．undertake |
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| 小题15: | | A．gained | B．acquired | C．hurt | D．lost |
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| 小题16: | | A．promise | B．serve | C．accommodate | D．explain |
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| 小题17: | | A．mood | B．relationships | C．feelings | D．learning |
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| 小题18: | | A．However | B．Instead | C．Therefore | D．Besides |
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| 小题19: | | A．abandon | B．continue | C．change | D．conduct |
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| 小题20: | | A．command | B．demand | C．contain | D．control |
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I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say .Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁)calls on the two families on the same afternoon.
At the first home, the son of the deceased woman said to me, ”If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died. ”At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today .That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate ,was more than she could take．It’s my fault that she’s dead.”
You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course------keeping mother at home, putting off the operation----would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?
There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.
The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.
A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needｓ,and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to his tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him，and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we don not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.
小题1:The author had to conduct the two women’s funerals probably because_______.| A．he was minister of the local church | | B．he wanted to comfort the two families | | C．he was an official of the community | | D．he had great pity for the deceased |
小题2:People feel guilty for the death of their loved ones because________.| A．they can’t find a better way of express their sorrow | | B．they have neglected the natural course of events | | C．they believe that they were the reason | | D．the don’t know things often turn in the opposite direction |
小题3:According to the main passage, the underlined part in Paragraph 4 probably means that________.| A．everything in the world is predetermined | | B．there’s an explanation for everything in the world | | C．the world can be interpreted in different ways | | D．we have to be sensible in order to understand the world |
小题4:What’s the main idea of the message?
A .Life and death is an unsolved mystery.
B. Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault.
C Every story should have a happy ending.
D. In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away. |
Almost two-thirds of children want their parents to spend more time reading to them before bed, and most prefer Mum’s storytelling to Dad’s, researchers said.
They carried out a study that showed younger children aged 3-4 were most hungry for more stories, with over three-quarters saying they wished their parents read to them more often.
More than half of all children aged 3-8 said story time was their favourite pastime with their parents.
"The results of our research confirm the traditional activity of storytelling continues to be a powerful learning and emotional resource in children"s lives," said child psychologist Richard Woolfson.
Storytelling ranked higher than television or video games among pastimes for kids, and 82 percent said reading a story with their parents helped them sleep better, according the survey of 500 children aged 3-8 in Britain.
The best storytellers were mothers who used funny voices to illustrate different characters or made their own special sound effects to keep the story moving, researchers said.
When mum and dad are not at hand, celebrities(名人) will do: over 30 percent of children said they would like to hear a bedtime story from Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, with teen idols(偶像) Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus and Emma Watson.
"It can be very difficult for parents to find the time to read with their children, but these moments can help build strong relations and play a vital part in their child"s development," said Woolfson.
小题1:The underlined word “pastime” in the passage most probably means .| A．old time | B．entertainment | C．emotion | D．character |
小题2:The author develops the passage mainly by .| A．pointing out similarities and differences | B．following the natural time order | | C．comparing opinions from different fields | D．providing examples and statistics |
小题3:Reading a story with their parents helped most kids aged 3-8 .| A．grow stronger | B．become more emotional | C．sleep better | D．become more powerful |
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