We always want what we cannot have. When we’re young, we want to stay out late,
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We always want what we cannot have. When we’re young, we want to stay out late, have romantic relationships and be 1 ．However, when we"re 2 , we want to go back to being young and we 3 the days when we didn’t have to worry about complex love affairs, 4 pressure and money problems．
Young people believe adulthood 5 freedom from parents and schoolwork．When they get older, they feel that 6 is freedom from work pressure and family responsibilities. To 7 this feeling, people say, "The grass is always 8 on the other side of the fence．"
As 9 , we like to be like adults but as young adults, we 10 to be young again. We think about staying out late and 11 our own money to spend．Suddenly, we see that love can result in 12 hearts; staying out late makes it hard to get ready for 13 the next morning. We find out that adult life is not as 14 as we thought it would be and suddenly, 15 becomes very scary．
Life is 16 ．It gives us time to 17 but also requires us to work. The time will come when we must grow up and we will always look back wishing we 18 being young a bit longer. That time will not come back. It is normal to want what we cannot have but the 19 is that to be happy is to appreciate what we have．That is the first step to grow up. 20 life becomes more complex, we will not regret the time we wasted wishing we were adults．
| 小题1: | | A．comfortable | B．dependent | C．polite | D．independent |
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| 小题2: | | A．defeated | B．older | C．married | D．confident |
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| 小题3: | | A．like | B．forget | C．miss | D．regret |
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| 小题4: | | A．job | B．study | C．age | D．health |
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| 小题5: | | A．creates | B．shows | C．limits | D．means |
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| 小题6: | | A．adulthood | B．childhood | C．parenthood | D．neighborhood |
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| 小题7: | | A．reduce | B．experience | C．describe | D．understand |
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| 小题8: | | A．thinner | B．greener | C．yellow | D．colorful |
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| 小题9: | | A．researchers | B．adults | C．teenagers | D．elders |
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| 小题10: | | A．decide | B．wish | C．return | D．stop |
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| 小题11: | | A．making | B．worrying about | C．having | D．showing off |
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| 小题12: | | A．healthy | B．ambitious | C．excited | D．broken |
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| 小题13: | | A．breakfast | B．school | C．work | D．exercise |
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| 小题15: | | A．love | B．life | C．career | D．future |
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| 小题16: | | A．long | B．fair | C．short | D．beautiful |
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| 小题17: | | A．study | B．think | C．live | D．play |
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| 小题18: | | A．stopped | B．imagined | C．enjoyed | D．tried |
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| 小题19: | | A．reason | B．result | C．truth | D．dream |
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| 小题20: | | A．When | B．If | C．Unless | D．Before |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:D
小题6:A
小题7:C
小题8:B
小题9:C
小题10:B
小题11:C
小题12:D
小题13:C
小题14:D
小题15:B
小题16:B
小题17:D
小题18:C
小题19:C
小题20:A |
解析
试题分析：本文对生命中，人们往往对自己所没有拥有的东西，非常渴望。对自己现在拥有的东西并没有在意，我们只有对现在拥有的东西心存感激，人生才会幸福。
小题1:A．comfortable 舒服的B．dependent依靠的 C．polite礼貌的D．independent独立的;根据句意：我们年轻的时候，想在外面待到很晚，想谈恋爱，想独立。故选D
小题2:A．defeated被击败 B．older 更老的 C．married结婚 D．confident自信的;根据句意：当我们年龄大一些的时候，我们想回到年轻。故选B
小题3:根据句意：当我们不再担心复杂的恋爱关系时，我们却想念那些日子。故选C
小题4:根据前文意思：我们不用再担心复杂的恋爱关系，工作压力，不再为金钱烦恼的时候。故选A
小题5:A．creates创立 B．shows表露 C．limits限制 D．means意味着;根据句意：年轻人认为成年人意味着不被家长和家庭作业约束。故选D
小题6:根据句意：当他们更大一些时，他们感到成年人就没有工作压力和家庭责任。故选A
小题7:A．reduce减少B．experience经历 C．describe描述 D．understand理解;根据文后文可知，这里是描述他们的感受。故选C
小题8:根据文意：栅栏另一边的草总是更绿一些。故选B
小题9:A．researchers研究人员 B．adults成年人 C．teenagers青少年 D．elders老年人;根据句意：青少年总是想成为成年人。故选C
小题10:根据前文，作为青少年我们想像成年人一样，作为成年人，我们有希望我们再次回到童年，故选B
小题11:根据句意，我们想着呆在外边，有我们自己的钱花，故选have.
小题12:A．healthy健康的 B．ambitious有野心的 C．excited兴奋的D．broken破碎的；根据前文，突然我们会感到爱情能导致我们心碎，故选D
小题13:在外面呆到深夜，我们会发现第二天早上难以工作，故选C.
小题14:A．rich富裕的B．busy忙碌的 C．poor贫困的 D．easy容易的，我们发现成年人的生活与我们曾经所想的不是一样容易的，故选D
小题15:前文都在讲生活，此处填life.生活变得令人可怕。
小题16:从后文，可知生活是公平的，既给了我们玩的时间也要求我们工作。故选fair.
小题17:通过前后句，可知这里填play,即给了我们玩的时间。故选D
小题18:A．stopped 停止B．imagined 想象 C．enjoyed欣赏、享受D．tried尝试；我们总是回首希望我们能更长时间的来享受童年。故选C
小题19:A．reason原因 B．result结果 C．truth真相D．dream梦想；但是生活的真理是感激现在我们所有的，故选C
小题20:根据前文，那就是我们成长的第一步，当生活变得复杂起来时，我们不会后悔曾经自己希望赶快变成成年人的想法的。
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举一反三
I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升)， the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure (空闲), it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.
小题1:The best title of this passage probably is ________.| A．Love your friends | B．Live a real life | | C．Don’t waste time | D．Be a good mother and wife |
小题2:How did the author form her view of life?| A．By working and social experience | | B．Learning from her friends. | | C．Through an unfortunate experience. | | D．Because of her children and husband. |
小题3:The underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph probably means ______.| A．it is so easy to keep alive but not to live a real life | | B．it is very hard to live a real life | | C．it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy life | | D．it is so easy to make a living |
小题4:What is the author’s attitude toward work?| A．Do it well to serve others. | | B．To earn enough money to make life better. | | C．Try your best to get higher position and pay. | | D．Don’t let it affect your real life. |
小题5:It can be inferred from the passage that ______.| A．the author is a success in personal life | | B．the author didn’t try her best to work well | | C．the author spent all her time caring for her children | | D．the author likes traveling very much |
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I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant, and ancient for a sportsman. Fifty is a nice number for the states in the US or for a national speed limit but it is not a number that I was prepared to have hung on me. Fifty is supposed to be my father’s age, but now I am stuck with this number and everything it means.
A few days ago, a friend tried to cheer me up by saying, “Fifty is what forty used to be.” He had made an inspirational (有灵感的) point. Am I over the hill ? People keep telling me that the hill has been moved, and I keep telling them that the high-jump bar has dropped from the six feet I once easily cleared to the four feet that is impossible for me now.
“You are not getting older, you are getting better.” Says Dr. Joyce Brothers. This, however, is the kind of doctor who inspires a second opinion.
And so as I approach the day when I cannot even jump over the tennis net, I am moved to share some thoughts on aging with you, I am moved to show how aging feels to me physically and mentally. Getting older, of course, is obviously a better change than the one that brings you eulogies(悼词). In fact, a poet name Robert Browning considered it the best change of all:
Grow old along with me !
The best is yet to me.
Whether or not Browning was right, most of my first fifty years have been golden ones, so I will settle for what is ahead being as good as what has gone by. I find myself moving toward what is ahead with a curious blend(混合) of both fighting and accepting my aging, hoping that the philosopher(哲学家) was right when he said , “old is always fifteen years from now.”
小题1:The author seems to tell us in Paragraph 1 that ______.| A．time alone will tell | B．time goes by quickly | | C．time will show what is right | D．time makes one forget the past. |
小题2:When the author turned fifty, people around him ________ .| A．tried to comfort him | B．got inspiration with him | | C．were friendlier with him | D．found him more talkative |
小题3:The author considers his fifty years of life _________.| A．peaceful | B．ordinary | C．satisfactory | D．regretful |
小题4:We can infer from the passage that ________ .| A．the old should lead a simple life | | B．the old should face the fact of aging | | C．the old should take more exercise | | D．the old should fill themselves with curiosity |
小题5:Which of the following statements is WRONG?_______. | A．It’s hard for the author to jump over the six-feet high-jump bar now. | | B．The author is optimistic about his future. | | C．the author used to think 50 was far away from him. | | D．Most elephants live less than 50 years. |
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Emanuel’s father liked to declare he’d spent ages by the sea, breathing seawater. Now, away from the sea, in the hospital, his body just looked like a beached fish. His condition went from bad to worse. The doctor came from saying, “He’ll be home in a day,” “He’ll be home in a week,” to “He will be home in a month.”
When Emanuel was a teenager, if he ever seemed bored with the pier(码头), his father would shout, “What ? This isn’t good enough for you?” And later, when he suggested Emanuel take a job at the pier after high school, the boy almost laughed, and his father again said, “What? This isn’t good enough for you?” And before Emanuel went to war, when he talked of marrying Maggie and becoming an engineer, his father said, “What? This isn’t good enough for you?”
And now, here he was, Emanuel helped out at the pier, working evenings after his taxi job, doing his father’s labor.
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. It is not until much later that children understand: their stories and all their accomplishments sit on top of the stories of their mothers and fathers.
One night his father, lying in hospital, was practically too weak to speak. Others comforted him. “Your old man will pull through. He’s the toughest man we’ve ever seen.”
When the news came that his father had died, Emanuel felt heart-broken.
In the following weeks, Emanuel’s mother lived in a confused state. She spoke to her husband as if he were still there .She yelled at him to turn down the radio. She cooked enough food for two .One night, when Emanuel offered to help with the dishes, she said. “Your father will put them away.” Emanuel put a hand on her shoulder. “Ma,” he said softly, “Dad’s gone.”
“Gone where?” murmured Mum.
小题1:Which of the following shows the right order of the story?
a．Emanuel’s father fell ill.
b．Emanuel helped out at pier.
c．Emanuel went to the war.
d．Emanuel wished to be an engineer.
e. Emanuel’s mother lived in a confused state| A．bacde | B．dcabe | C．bceda | D．decba |
小题2:In Paragraph 4, the writer inplies that . | A．Children can never understand how much their parents have devoted to them | | B．Children wouldn’t have achieved so much without their parents’ support | | C．Children often feel regretful because they leave their parents | | D．Children like moving away from their parents |
小题3:The underlined phrase “pull through” can probably be replaced by ________| A．wake up | B．give up | C．pick up | D．get up |
小题4:The last paragraph mainly tells us that . | A．Emanuel’s mother was at a loss at her husband’s death. | | B．Emanuel often helped his mother to wash the dishes. | | C．Emanuel lived with his mother and often comforted her. | | D．Emanuel’s mother doesn’t like to listen to the radio. |
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Australia’s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to perform euthanasia(安乐死)—that’s to say, doctors are permitted to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. Word that the law was passed by the vote of 15 to 10 immediately flashed on the Internet and was picked up by John, the director of the Right to Die Society of Canada, who posted it on the group’s homepage online, saying, “This isn’t merely something that happened in Australia. It’s world history.”
The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill Law has left physicians and citizens trying to deal with its moral and practical influence. Some have breathed sighs of relief; but others, including churches, right to life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the law. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia--where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part—other states are going to consider making a similar law. In the U. S. and Canada, where the right to die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes (多米诺骨牌) to start falling.
Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death--probably by a deadly injection or pill--to end suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as incurably ill by two doctors. After a "cooling off" period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally Ill Law means he can get on with living without the disturbing fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. "I" m not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I"d go, because I"ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks," he says.
小题1:According to the text, which of the following statements is TURE?| A．Patients will ask their doctors for euthanasia if they are afraid of illness. | | B．Australia, Canada and the US speak highly of the law of euthanasia. | | C．All people in Australia don’t share the positive attitude to euthanasia | | D．If a patient requests death, he should sign a certificate after 48 hours. |
小题2:The underlined sentence in Para 2, “observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.” means that observers are prepared to learn the news that .| A．some other countries pass similar laws | | B．Australia has to put an end to euthanasia | | C．people begin to change attitudes to euthanasia | | D．different effects result from the game of dominoes |
小题3:Which is NOT the reason for Australia to become the first country to pass the law of euthanasia?| A．Australia has advanced technology of extending life. | | B． Australians realize suffering from a terrible disease is worse than death. | | C．Australia is faced with a growing ageing population. | | D．Australians find it easy to deal with the moral and practical influence. |
小题4:It can be inferred from the text that .| A．Australia passed the law of euthanasia by the vote of 15 to 10 | | B．John and his group are in favor of the law of euthanasia in Australia. | | C．an adult patient can request euthanasia by a deadly injection or pill | | D．Lloyd has seen many people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen. |
小题5:What’s the author’s attitude to euthanasia?| A．Negative | B．Critical | C．Doubtful | D．Positive |
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I"d been travelling for long hours on a lonely country road when I had a flat tire. So I had to stop and get the tools to 36 the problem. It certainly wasn’t 37 doing this with a white shirt and suit on.
Nightfall was approaching. Suddenly a car pulled 38 from behind me. A man got out and offered to 39 me. Seeing his unpleasant appearance and tattoos（纹身）on his arm, I became 40 as thoughts of robberies flashed through my mind. But 41 I could say anything he had already begun to take the tools to change the 42 . While watching him I happened to look back at his car and noticed someone sitting in the passenger seat. This had 43 me.
Then, without 44 , it began to rain. He suggested that I wait in his car because my car was unsafe. As the rain increased, getting us wet within seconds, I 45 agreed. When I settle into the back seat, a woman’s voice came from the front seat. “Are you all right?” She turned around to me. “Yes, I am.’’ I replied with much 46 when seeing an old woman there. It must be his Mom, I thought. To my 47 , the old woman was a neighbor of the man who was helping me. “Jeff insisted on stopping when he saw you 48 with the tire. ”“I am grateful for his help, ” I said. “Me, too!” she said with a smile. He helped drive her to see her husband twice a week in a nursing home. She also said that he 49 at the church and tutored disadvantaged students.
The rain stopped and Jeff and I changed me tire. I tried to offer him money and of course he 50 it. It was shameful that I judged people by the way they 51 . As we shook hands I began to apologize for my 52 . He said, ‘‘I experience that same 53 often. People who look like me don’t do nice things. I 54 thought about changing the way. But then I saw this as a chance to make a 55 . So I’ll leave you with the same question I ask everyone who takes time to know me. If Jesus returned tomorrow and walked among us again, would you recognize Him by what He wore or by what He did?’’
| 小题2: | | A．useful | B．easy | C．wise | D．lucky |
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| 小题4: | | A．carry | B．lift | C．drive | D．help |
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| 小题5: | | A．discouraged | B．frightened | C．disappointed | D．astonished |
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| 小题6: | | A．when | B．until | C．as | D．before |
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| 小题7: | | A．tire | B．suit | C．expression | D．shirt |
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| 小题8: | | A．embarrassed | B．concerned | C．discouraged | D．puzzled |
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| 小题9: | | A．warning | B．realizing | C．knowing | D．waiting |
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| 小题10: | | A．directly | B．happily | C．hurriedly | D．unwillingly |
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| 小题11: | | A．fear | B．satisfaction | C．relief | D．excitement |
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| 小题12: | | A．regret | B．amusement | C．surprise | D．delight |
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| 小题13: | | A．working | B．repairing | C．fighting | D．struggling |
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| 小题14: | | A．studied | B．performed | C．grew | D．volunteered |
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| 小题15: | | A．refused | B．kept | C．ignored | D．left |
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| 小题16: | | A．behaved | B．spoke | C．looked | D．thought |
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| 小题17: | | A．selfishness | B．stupidity | C．weakness | D．disability |
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| 小题18: | | A．life | B．incident | C．reaction | D．change |
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| 小题19: | | A．hardly | B．actually | C．finally | D．probably |
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| 小题20: | | A．point | B．start | C．remark | D．comparison |
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