We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well en
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We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. Sometimes a single unimportant event may cause a number of things to happen. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this causes your troubles to begin. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, destroying your half-prepared meal. You hang up hurriedly and attend to your baby. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this is not enough to bring you to tears, your husband arrives home, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can also go wrong on the road. During rush hour one evening two cars collided and the drivers began to argue. The woman driver behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She got into a panic and stopped her car. This forced the driver following her to stop suddenly. This driver’s wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake, and as she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the window and landed on the road. A truck driver seeing a cake flying through the air slammed on the brakes. The truck was carrying empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the truck onto the road, causing a terrible traffic jam. It took the police an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the truck driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two dogs were enjoying themselves, for they were happily having what was left of the cake.
小题1:If you want to answer the phone without any trouble, you’d better ___________ . | A．pull out the telephone line when you are with your baby | | B．put your baby on the bed and keep an eye on him / her | | C．not hurry to answer the phone | | D．make sure your baby is not near the table |
小题2:Who is responsible for the accidents that happened on the road? | A．The two drivers who were arguing. | | B．It wasn’t mentioned in the passage. | | C．The woman driver. | | D．The truck driver. |
小题3:From this story we learn that ________. | A．there are many road accidents every day | | B．the accidents mentioned in the passage are very strange | | C．no one knows why this kind of accident happens | | D．the accidents mentioned in the passage are very common |
小题4:The writer’s purpose in writing this passage is to ___________. | A．remind us not to answer the phone when we are busy | | B．tell us driving is dangerous every day | | C．remind us not to be nervous when we meet an accident | | D．remind us not to carry a cake when we are sitting in a car |
小题5:The main idea of this passage is that ________.| A．troubles always come in groups | | B．accidents may happen anywhere at anytime | | C．a telephone call may cause great trouble | | D．anyone may have trouble on their way home |
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小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:A |
解析
试题分析：本文讲述的是在我们的人生中麻烦事会接连发生，会有连锁反应，我们应该冷静处理。
小题1:C这里并不是说要通过什么具体的事情来避免接电话的麻烦，而是指做事不可太慌乱。
小题2:B。文中只是在陈述事情，并没有提到谁应为此事负责任。
小题3:D。从文章的第一句话以及接下来举的两个例子都可看出，这种事件的发生还是比较普遍的。
小题4:C。作者写这篇文章主要是为了说明：一件很小的事情有可能引发很多麻烦，原因在于一时的慌乱。
小题5:A。从文中所举的两个例子可知，在我们的生活中麻烦事会接连发生，会有连锁反应，所以选项A为最佳标题。
点评：本文讲述的是在我们的人生中麻烦事会接连发生，会有连锁反应，我们应该冷静处理。
文章基本上是考查细节题，对此类题型考生可以首先从问题中找到关键词，然后以此为线索，运用略读及查阅的技巧在文中迅速寻找这一细节，找到后再把这一部分内容仔细阅读一遍，仔细比较所给选项与文中细节的细微区别，在准确理解细节的前提下，最后确定最佳答案。 |
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Now that I am no longer young, I have friends whose mothers have passed away. I have heard these sons and daughters say they never fully appreciated their mothers ___小题1:___ it was too late to tell them. I am blessed (赐福) with the dear mother who is still alive. I ___小题2:___ her more each day. My mother does not change, but I ___小题3:___ . As I grow older and wiser, I realize ___小题4:___ an extraordinary person she is. How ___小题5:___ that I am unable to speak these words in her ___小题6:___ , but they flow easily from my pen.
How does a daughter begin to thank her mother for life itself? For the love, patience and just ___小题7:___ hard work that go into ___小题8:___ a child? For running after a toddler (学走步的小孩), for understanding a ___小题9:___ teenager, for tolerating (忍受;容忍) a college student who knows ___小题10:___ ? For waiting for the day when a daughter ___小题11:___ how wise her mother really is?
How does a ___小题12:___ woman thank a mother for ___小题13:___ to be a mother? For being ready ___小题14:___ advice (when asked) or remaining ___小题15:____ when it is most appreciated? For not saying, “I told you so,” when she could have uttered these words ___小题16:___ ? For being ___小题17:___ herself-loving, thoughtful, patient, and forgiving?
I don’t know how, dear God, except to ask you to bless her as richly as she ___小题18:___ and to help me live up to the example she has ___小题19:___ . I pray that I will look as good in the eyes of my children as my mother ___小题20:___ in mine.
| 小题22: | | A．approve | B．appreciate | C．need | D．resemble |
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小题25:A.sad B.glad C.comic D tragic
| 小题26: | | A．absence | B．presence | C．appearance | D．existence |
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| 小题27: | | A．common | B．plain | C．normal | D．usual |
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| 小题28: | | A．raising | B．rising | C．developing | D．training |
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| 小题29: | | A．childish | B．energetic | C．fearless | D．moody |
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| 小题30: | | A．anything | B．something | C．everything | D．nothing |
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| 小题31: | | A．detects | B．discovers | C．recognizes | D．realizes |
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| 小题32: | | A．pretty | B．foolish | C．green | D．grown |
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| 小题33: | | A．failing | B．intending | C．continuing | D．keeping |
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| 小题35: | | A．silent | B．quiet | C．cool | D．noiseless |
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| 小题36: | | A．dozen times | B．a dozen of times | C．dozens of times | D．dozen of time |
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| 小题37: | | A．valuably | B．essentially | C．naturally | D．virtually |
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| 小题38: | | A．devotes | B．deserts | C．deserves | D．desires |
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| 小题39: | | A．set | B．settled | C．placed | D．fixed |
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When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings. Week by week her list 小题1: : I was very thin; I wasn’t a 小题2: student; I talked too much; I was too 小题3:, always feeling superior to(胜过) others, and so on. I tried to hear all as long as I could. 小题4:, I became very angry. I ran to my father with 小题5: in my eyes.
He listened to me 小题6: , and then he asked,“Are the things she says true or not? Janet, don’t you ever wonder 小题7: you’re really like? Well, you now have that girl’s 小题8: . Go and 小题9:a list of everything she said and mark the points that are 小题10: . Pay no attention to the other things she said.”
I did小题11:he told me. To my great 小题12:, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t 小题13: (like being very thin),but a good number I could--- and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I went to a fairly 小题14: picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Daddy. He 小题15:to take it.“That’s just for you,” he said，“You know 小题16: than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to 小题17:, not just close your ears in anger, feeling 小题18: when something said about you is true, you will find it of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your affairs. Don’t shut your 小题19:. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.”
Daddy’s advice has always 小题20: to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice.
| 小题21: | | A．collected | B．added | C．grew | D．continued |
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| 小题22: | | A．good | B．bad | C．short | D．greedy |
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| 小题23: | | A．silly | B．friendly | C．dull | D．proud |
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| 小题24: | | A．In other words | B．Above all | C．As a result | D．At last |
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| 小题25: | | A．tears | B．happiness | C．promises | D．wishes |
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| 小题26: | | A．coldly | B．quietly | C．eagerly | D．happily |
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| 小题28: | | A．excuse | B．opinion | C．talk | D．advice |
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| 小题29: | | A．take | B．make | C．create | D．receive |
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| 小题30: | | A．wrong | B．correct | C．big | D．true |
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| 小题32: | | A．joy | B．pleasure | C．surprise | D．anger |
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| 小题34: | | A．wonderful | B．clear | C．interesting | D．beautiful |
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| 小题35: | | A．promised | B．refused | C．expected | D．agreed |
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| 小题36: | | A．wider | B．higher | C．better | D．worse |
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| 小题37: | | A．listen | B．stand | C．speak | D．share |
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| 小题38: | | A．hurt | B．sad | C．shy | D．excited |
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| 小题39: | | A．words | B．mouths | C．eyes | D．ears |
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| 小题40: | | A．returned | B．gone | C．appeared | D．happened |
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It is three in the morning on a Tuesday, and I’m walking toward table eighteen, the one I call home. I pass the waiters, give a brief nod to the 小题1: and take my seat. I 小题2: the “usual,” water and peanut butter pie. Yes, I’m at an all-night diner.
I start to take out my books, 小题3: full well that I will be 小题4: on the same page of Socrates that I’ve been on for the better part of the semester. Of course, it’s 小题5: —for my group that is. I wait for the empty chairs around me to be 小题6: .
Just as the Muzak songs start to repeat themselves, Shana and Jenny walk in. I am 小题7: with the usual big hugs and smiles. 小题8: , the diner stops being a twenty-for-hour restaurant with bad service and becomes my place—my home 小题9: the prisonlike dorm room. For the next couple of hours, we will joke about people we know, talk about books, reflect on the meaning of life, quote movies and 小题10: new private jokes. Table number eighteen is our 小题11: home.
During my senior year of college, I started going to the diner for a temporary escape from a dorm room that felt like it was closing in on me. Not to 小题12: the phones, the stereo and the computer. How could anyone seriously 小题13: to have good study habits? Some friends of mine told me about the place; they went there to study, and they really liked it.
So I tried it. It felt remarkably freeing. I start going there every night (except weekends, of course), and, believe me it was not because the pies were 小题14: great either. Maybe it would force me to open my books and my 小题15: would improve. Right? Well….
But that’s not the 小题16: . I mean, anyone who has gone to college knows that it’s not only about forcing yourself to wake up at 7:45 A.M. (after you had gone to sleep two hours earlier) to listen to a professor spoon-feeding you information 小题17: the significance of the Battle of Hastings. It is 小题18: about finding a little haven where you can create what will be the most important thing in your life—yourself. At a school of thirty-five thousand people, I found a small place that was as 小题19: to me as my Social Security number.
Through laughter, tears, learning, growing and the 小题20: free ice cream, we found a sanctuary. A place where we could be ourselves.
| 小题21: | | A．friends | B．strangers | C．regulars | D．waiters |
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| 小题22: | | A．make | B．take | C．bring | D．order |
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| 小题23: | | A．remembering | B．knowing | C．deciding | D．learning |
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| 小题24: | | A．stuck | B．focused . | C．fixed | D．turned |
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| 小题25: | | A．certain | B．early | C．late | D．clear |
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| 小题26: | | A．washed | B．cleaned | C．filled | D．covered |
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| 小题27: | | A．armed | B．satisfied | C．occupied | D．greeted |
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| 小题28: | | A．Finally | B．Suddenly | C．Actually | D．Particularly |
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| 小题29: | | A．away from | B．similar to | C．apart from | D．close to |
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| 小题30: | | A．create | B．play | C．write | D．hear |
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| 小题31: | | A．inner | B．outer | C．warmer | D．smaller |
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| 小题32: | | A．answer | B．talk | C．mention | D．mend |
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| 小题33: | | A．choose | B．determine | C．pretend | D．expect |
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| 小题34: | | A．pretty | B．that | C．too | D．rather |
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| 小题35: | | A．health | B．friendship | C．conditions | D．grades |
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| 小题36: | | A．place | B．benefit | C．point | D．view |
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| 小题37: | | A．relate | B．requiring | C．reflecting | D．regarding |
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| 小题38: | | A．also | B．still | C． more | D．even |
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| 小题39: | | A．available | B．beneficial | C．familiar | D．encouraging |
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| 小题40: | | A．special | B．occasional | C．unusual | D．natural |
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Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I hardly went to bed before midnight, and I would always get up late the next morning.
But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high relationship between success and rising early. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity (效率) was always higher. So I set out to become a habitual early riser. But whenever my alarm went off, my first thought was always to stop that noise and go back to sleep. Eventually some sleep research showed that my strategy was wrong.
The most common wrong strategy is this: supposing you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It sounds very reasonable, but will usually fail.
There are two main schools (流派) of thought on sleep patterns. One is that you should go to bed and get up at the same time every day. The second school says you should go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. However, I have found both are wrong if you care about productivity. If you sleep at fixed hours, you’ll sometimes go to bed when you aren’t sleepy enough. You’re wasting time lying in bed awake.
My solution is to combine both methods. I go to bed when I’m sleepy and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time. So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5 a.m.), but I go to bed at different times every night.
However, going to bed only when I’m sleepy, and getting up at a fixed time every morning are my ways. If you want to become an early riser, you can try your own.
小题1:According to the passage, the underlined phrase refers to ________.| A．people who stay up until the next morning | | B．people who get up early in the morning | | C．people who feel sleepy in the morning | | D．people whose productivity is the lowest in the morning |
小题2:Why did the author want to become a habitual early riser?| A．Because he / she wanted to have more sleep time. | | B．Because he / she wanted to do morning exercise. | | C．Because he / she wanted to test which school is better. | | D．Because he / she found that the productivity was higher. |
小题3:The author experienced all the following EXCEPT ________.| A．going to bed after midnight | | B．asking scholars for advice on sleeping habits | | C．getting up early occasionally | | D．pressing off the alarm to go on sleeping |
小题4:What’s the author’s sleep pattern?| A．Going to bed early and getting up early. | | B．Going to bed late and getting up late. | | C．Going to bed when sleepy and getting up at a fixed early time. | | D．Going to bed early and getting up late. |
小题5:The passage is mainly about ________.| A．main schools of thought on sleep patterns | B．how to have a good sleep | | C．wrong strategies for getting up early | D．how to become an early riser |
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When I was learning calligraphy (书法), my teacher told me a story.
A calligrapher taught handwriting. One of his students who often practiced handwriting with old sheets of newspaper complained that he made very little progress though he had learned it with the calligrapher for a long time. His teacher said to him, “Try to use the best paper. Maybe you"ll write better.”
The student did as he was told. It really worked. He made headway not long afterwards and felt curious. He asked his teacher about the reason. The calligrapher answered，“When you used old newspaper to practice handwriting, you would think you were writing a draft. It didn"t matter if you wrote badly as old newspaper was plenty in supply. In that case you wouldn"t pay much attention to it. Now you use the best paper and you"ll treasure it. Each time you write you feel strongly about the rarity of chances and you"ll devote to it with all your heart and soul; you"ll do the handwriting much more attentively than practicing. Of course you"ve made rapid progress.”
Indeed, we spend our ordinary days just as they are worthless “old newspaper”．We don"t care if we scrawl and waste it, thinking that it will come endlessly—the “old newspaper” is inexhaustible. In such a mood we may each day pass by opportunities but fail to catch any of them.
Life is not a military exercise but an actual war in which real weapons are used. In everyday life there"s no chance for us to draft. That"s because what we call “draft” actually is the answer sheet we write that cannot be changed.
Every day of our life is something new. Let us take every day as a sheet of the best paper.
小题1:The calligrapher in the story told the student to write on the best paper because he thought ________.| A．the student would practice more carefully on the best paper | | B．it was comfortable to write on the best paper | | C．the student had enough money to buy the best paper | | D．the student could write more on the best paper |
小题2:The student didn"t make much progress at first because ________.| A．he didn"t follow his teacher"s advice | | B．he was too poor to buy better paper to write on | | C．he regarded his writing on old newspaper just as a draft | | D．he was not used to the calligrapher"s teaching manner |
小题3:We learn from the passage that ________.| A．the student finally gave up | | B．the student made rapid progress by practicing more carefully | | C．the calligrapher was strict with his students | | D．old newspaper is not useful |
小题4:Which of the following is true according to the passage?| A．What teachers say is always true. | | B．Success calls for attentiveness. | | C．Handwriting is easy to practice. | | D．New things are always better than old ones. |
小题5:The writer wants to tell us that ________.| A．there are some good ways to practice handwriting | | B．life is like old newspaper | | C．we should learn from the student in the story | | D．life will not give us a chance to draw a draft |
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