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My sister and I grew up in a little village in England. Our father was a struggling 1, but I always knew he was  2 . He never criticized us, but used  3 to bring out our best. He’d say,” If you pout water on flowers, they flourish. If you don’t give them water, they die.” I  4 as a child I said something  5 about somebody, and my father said, “ 6 time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it’s a reflection of you.” He explained that if I looked for the best  7 people, I would get the best  8 . From then on I’ve always tried to  9  the principle in my life and later in running my company.
Dad’s also always been very  10 . At 15, I started a magazine. It was   11  a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a  12: stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.
I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision,  13  any good father would. When he realized I Had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad  14  me to go into law. And I’ve  15  regretted it. I wanted to be a biologist,  16 I didn’t pursue my  17 . You know what you want. Go fulfill(实现) it.”
As 18  turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national 19 for young people in the U.K. My wife and I have two children, and I’ d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad  20  me.
小题1:
A．biologistB．managerC．lawyerD．gardener
小题2:
A．strictB．honestC．specialD．learned
小题3:
A．praiseB．courageC．powerD．warmth
小题4:
A．thinkB．imagineC．rememberD．guess
小题5:
A．unnecessaryB．unkindC．unimportantD．unusual
小题6:
A．AnotherB．Some C．AnyD．Other
小题7:
A．onB．in C．at D．about
小题8:
A．in caseB．by turnsC．by chanceD．in return
小题9:
A．reviseB．setC．reviewD．follow
小题10:
A．understandingB．experiencedC．seriousD．demanding
小题11:
A．taking upB．making upC．picking upD．keeping up
小题12:
A．suggestionB．decisionC．noticeD．choice
小题13:
A．andB．asC．even ifD．as if
小题14:
A．helpedB．allowedC．persuadedD．suggested
小题15:
A．alwaysB．neverC．seldomD．almost
小题16:
A．ratherB．butC．forD．therefore
小题17:
A．promiseB．taskC．beliefD．dream
小题18:
A．thisB．heC．itD．that
小题19:
A．newspaperB．magazineC．programD．project
小题20:
A．controlledB．comfortedC．remindedD．raised

答案

小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:B
小题6:C
小题7:B
小题8:D
小题9:D
小题10:A
小题11:A
小题12:D
小题13:B
小题14:C
小题15:A
小题16:B
小题17:D
小题18:C
小题19:B
小题20:D
解析

试题分析：本文讲述了作者的父亲非常理解自己，总是通过赞扬的方式来鼓舞我，同时也一直很支持我的选择，结果证明我父亲是做的非常正确的，我也做了我想做的事情，获得了自己的成就。
小题1:A. biologist生物学家  B. manager经理  C. lawyer律师   D. gardener园丁 ；后文讲到go into law.故此处答案选C
小题2:A. strict严格的   B. honest诚实的 C. special特别的    D. learned博学的 从后文的观点看，结合句意：但是我知道他是特别的，故选C
小题3:A. praise赞扬，赏识   B. courage鼓励  C. power激励    D. warmth温暖 根据前文讲到额批评，再语义转折，再结合句意：但是用赏识来让我们变的最好。故选A
小题4:我记得当我是个小孩子的时候，故选C
小题5:A. unnecessary不必要的    B. unkind不友好的   C. unimportant不重要的  D. unusual不寻常的，根据后文unpleasant可知此处填B
小题6:any time任何时候，句意：任何时候你向别人说一些不好的话，同时也会对自己有一种不好反射作用，故选C
小题7:如果我在人们之间寻找优点，故选B
小题8:A. in case以防万一    B. by turns轮流 C. by chance偶然    D. in return作为回报；句意“如果你在人们之间寻找优点，你也会得以回报，故选D
小题9:A. revise 修正B. set设置 C. review回顾   D. follow遵循； 句意：从那以后，我一直在人生中遵循这个原则，故选D
小题10:A. understanding理解的 B. experienced有经验的    C. serious严重的，严肃的   D. demanding苛求的；从后文父亲的说话中及结合句意：父亲总是很善解人意的，故选A
小题11:A. taking up占据 B. making up编造    C. picking up捡起   D. keeping up保持；句意：我占据了大量的时间，故选A
小题12:A. suggestion 建议B. decision决定    C. notice通知   D. choice选择，从后文看，是呆在学校还是离开学校去工作，故选D
小题13:A. and并且   B. as正如   C. even if即使  D. as if 好像；句意：正如一个好的父亲会做的那样，我的父亲尽力的劝说我改变主意，故选B
小题14:A. helped 帮助B. allowed允许 C. persuaded劝说    D. suggested建议；句意：当我23岁时我的父亲劝说我去学法律，故选C
小题15:后文讲到父亲的梦想是一个生物学家，所以这里应该是父亲一直能很后悔，故选A
小题16:句意：但是我没有去追求我的梦想，故选B
小题17:A. promise答应   B. task任务 C. belief信念   D. dream梦想；句意：但是我没有去追求我的梦想，故选D
小题18:as it turn out结果最终表明，固定结构，故选C
小题19:前文讲到leave to work on my magazine.故此处选杂志，故选B
小题20:A. controlled控制    B. comforted安慰    C. reminded使想起   D. raised抚养；句意：我想我将用我父亲抚养我的方式把他们带大，故选D
点评：文章围绕作者的父亲对自己教育来展开讲述。解答此类文章需要对文章花两分钟过的时间进行浏览，把握作者写作的大意，同时将自己设身处地的融入情节中，对于第一遍做不出的题目不要急于作答，将后续题目答完后再仔细作答。
举一反三
“To be or not to be.” Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly, or to live dully and meanly. A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally. He answered it by saying: “I think, therefore I am.”
　　But the best definition of existence I ever saw was one written by another philosopher who said: “To be is to be in relations.” If this is true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive. To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity(强烈) of our relations. Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But other than our regular occupation, how much are we alive? If you are interested only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned --- poetry and prose(散文), music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs ---you are dead.
On the contrary, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest --- even more, a new accomplishment(成就) --- you increase your power of life. No one who is deeply interested in different kinds of subjects can remain unhappy. The real pessimist is the person who has lost interest.
　　Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacts with new friends, and new ideas and thoughts, too. Where your thoughts are, there will be your life too. If your thoughts are limited only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to your narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live a narrow restricted(有限的, 受约束的) life. But if you are interested in what is going on in China, then you are living in China. If you’re interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people. If you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination.
To be or not to be --- to live intensely and richly, or merely to exist, which depends on ourselves. Let us widen and intensify our relations. While we live, let us live!
小题1:What does the author mainly want to do by this passage?
A．Argue against an idea.
B．Explain some famous sayings.
C．Introduce some famous sayings.
D．Put forward an idea.
小题2:What does the underlined word most probably mean?
A．Somebody who always lives in a world of passion and imagination.
B．Somebody who is always interested in making new friends.
C．Somebody who always expects the worst to happen.
D．Somebody who likes to live a rich and abundant life.
小题3:Which of the following behavior is probably NOT encouraged by the author?
A．Thinking more than your own business.
B．Caring only about your physical welfare.
C．Reading good novels.
D．Listening to fine music.
小题4:What is the main idea of the passage?
A．To be is to be in relations.
B．I think, therefore I am.
C．To be or not to be, that is a question.
D．A man dies as often as he loses a friend.

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When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very  31  .Some stories are told 32 they were true. Real people who live in a 33 world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not  34 . They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be 35 for us.
But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only 36 . How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter ,we  37 seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than  38 . Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of  39 . When we read or write something ,we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our 40--which is real—and our imagination—which is real in a different way --- to make the words come to life in our minds.
Both realism and fantasy(幻想) 41  the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read 42  realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we  43 that we are real and they are  44 . It sounds 45 ,but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and  46 about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by  47 that what we read is like real life. In a way, we are writing the book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our 48 when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose  49  in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel  50  we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.
小题1:
A．possibleB．easyC．newD．different
小题2:
A．thatB．whatC．whetherD．as if
小题3:
A．usualB．normalC．certainD．common
小题4:
A．realisticB．reasonableC．moralD．instructive
小题5:
A．difficultB．impossibleC．importantD．necessary
小题6:
A．thinkableB．designedC．imaginedD．planned
小题7:
A．doB．makeC．haveD．are
小题8:
A．lessonsB．dreamsC．experienceD．magic
小题9:
A．workingB．thinkingC．livingD．understanding
小题10:
A．knowledgeB．skillC．wordsD．grammar
小题11:
A．makeB．getC．useD．have
小题12:
A．a newspaperB．somethingC．everythingD．a story
小题13:
A．findB．learnC．knowD．hope
小题14:
A．tooB．notC．allD．so
小题15:
A．dangerousB．seriousC．strangeD．terrible
小题16:
A．talkB．learnC．readD．think
小题17:
A．tellingB．pretendingC．promisingD．guessing
小题18:
A．mindB．lifeC．worldD．society
小题19:
A．heartB．timeC．moneyD．ourselves
小题20:
A．whatB．howC．whenD．why

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People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. People"s understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research. Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term-quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.
　　Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person"s life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75.
小题1:________ leads to people"s deeper understanding of health.
A．Common knowledge
B．Progress in scientific research
C．Better conditions of living
D．Quality of life
小题2:The emphasis of health has shifted nowadays because _________.
A．people enjoy better conditions of living and they can live longer
B．people pay more attention to their physical health, not their mental health
C．people have realized the importance of mental well-being
D．people are inspired by medical advances
小题3:We can infer from the passage __________.
A．nowadays the emphasis of health has a broader focus because of improvements in the quality of food
B．the overall quality of people"s lives improved greatly in the 20th century
C．those who never fall ill are the truly healthy people
D．those who were born before 1900 could not have lived until now
小题4:This passage is mainly about __________.
A．different understandings of the term "health"
B．improving the quality of life
C．the importance of quality living
D．people"s expectations of a long and healthy life

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Many years ago, I pulled a family out of a burning car somewhere in Wyoming. Last week I received a telephone call from a woman who could not stop crying as she told me that one of my stories had saved her son from committing suicide. In closing she called me a hero.
That got me thinking about what a hero is. Was I a hero because I pulled a family from a burning car? If so, how could I be a hero just because I wrote a story that saved someone’s life?
Today I looked up the word “hero” in the dictionary to see exactly what it meant. It read “a person who does something brave” and also “a person who is good and noble”.
That statement impressed me more than the part about being brave. So I thought about something very important. And I remembered what happened to me years ago.
After my marriage of twenty years ended, I was in such a condition. I was within hours trying to get up enough courage to end the pain and misery. When I returned home, someone had sent me a card in the mail which told me how much they would appreciate me as a friend. That wonderful card probably saved my life. That person, without even knowing it, saved a life and became a hero.
The many stories I kept writing in the following years saved the life of a teenage boy. In turn that makes the person who sent me the card a double hero. I suppose that is why I fight so hard to help the children now living in orphanages (孤儿院). Most children come out of these institutions with a very hard and bitter attitude against the world. The gifts we send them let them know that they have not been forgotten. Hopefully, most of them will never hurt anyone because of the kindness shown to them by those of us who cared. If it works, we will also become "heroes".
小题1:The main idea of the passage is _______________.
A．why the writer should be a hero B．that everyone is a hero
C．whether the writer is a hero D．what a hero exactly is
小题2:Why did the woman call the writer a hero at the end of the call?
A．Because he asked her son not to kill himself.
B．Because he saved a family from a burning car.
C．Because his story saved her son’s life.
D．Because he was cute and kind to everybody.
小题3:What does the underlined word “it” in the last sentence of Paragraph 5 refer to?
A．The fact that the sender helped the writer.
B．The action of sending the card.
C．The wonderful card the writer received.
D．The fact that the sender was a friend of the writer.
小题4:According to the writer, who can be considered as a hero?
A．A person who is brave.
B．A person who helps someone in trouble.
C．A person who can hold a door for others.
D．A person who writes wonderful stories.

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Flowers only bloom(开花) when they are planted in the right soil. That is also true for me.
I first moved to Foxboro, Massachusetts, as a single mother with my baby daughter, Darcy. I was drawn to its New England beauty, friendly people and rich history. It happened that there were a lot of forsythia(连翘) bushes around the house in which I lived just like my childhood home. I joined St. Mark’s Episcopal Church where I taught the Sunday school. At church, I met my second husband, Dean. For more than 25 years, I bloomed in Foxboro, and I had another two children.
Then, when Darcy was a few years out of college, she moved to Alameda, California, to be near friends. I missed her badly. A year later my beloved husband Dean had deadly cancer. He only made it eight months. My heart was broken. Later I moved to Alameda with my children. It was a beautiful Victorian island, and I was grateful to spend more time with Darcy. I even attended a church and made a few friends there. Still, I couldn’t help but miss Foxboro. It had everything and everyone I loved.
One spring day, when I was walking by a school, something yellow caught my eyes. Forsythia bushes! They made me homesick and I kept back my tears. “I miss you, Foxboro,” I whispered. Then I went into a shop and looked at some ceramic(陶瓷的) pots lined up on a shelf. A large white one seemed to catch my attention. “That’ll be perfect in my living room,” I thought.
I turned it over to look at the price. Instead I found these words: “New England Pottery, Foxboro, Massachusetts.” A piece of artwork, from my second hometown, was right here. It was able to spread across the country and so were forsythia bushes. I took it as a sign that I can bloom, right where I am.
小题1:From the text we learn that the author ____.
A．gave birth to three children in Foxboro
B．planted forsythia bushes around her house
C．got to know her second husband at church
D．worked as a middle school teacher in Foxboro
小题2:The author moved to Alameda so that she could ____.
A．have more time together with Darcy
B．forget the sorrow at her husband’s death
C．visit her children at Alameda College frequently
D．enjoy the beautiful scenery on the Victorian island
小题3:When the author saw forsythia bushes at a school she _____.
A．wanted to buy a ceramic pot to put them in
B．thought of her life in Foxboro
C．felt they would look great in her living room
D．believed they were real art work
小题4:Why does the author compare herself to flowers?
A．Because she wanted to show she likes flowers.
B．Because she can live in any place that is right like flowers.
C．Because she moved across the country just like flowers.
D．Because girls are like flowers that are blooming.

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