When I was a kid, I always used to wonder how in the world my father work outsid
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When I was a kid, I always used to wonder how in the world my father work outside in the winter without a coat. It could be minus 20 degrees centigrade and there’d be Dad, removing snow, or perhaps chopping some wood --- his coat thrown aside--- wearing a shirt , a cap, and a pair of gloves.
“Aren’t you cold, Dad?” I’d ask. “No,” Dad would reply. “I’m not cold--- working too hard to be cold.”
Many times I wondered whether my father was an extremely tough man, or whether he was foolish.
One time when I was quite young, perhaps five or so, I went ice fishing with Dad. It was a bright, clear day—and bitterly cold.
After we’d been out on the ice for a little while, my feet started getting cold.
“Daddy, my feet are cold.” I said.
“Yeah, it’s cold out here today,” he replied.
“Tell you what,” he said. “Walk around. Make some circles in the snow. See how many different patterns you can make. That will get your feet warm.”
Now, I was just a little girl at the time but I remember thinking, “How in the world will walking around in the snow make my feet warm? Dad must be out of mind.
But he was my father, after all. I made circles in the snow. I made squares. Pretty soon I was having so much fun making patterns in the snow. I forgot about my feet being cold.
Now, all these years later, I know, too, from personal experience how my father was able to take his coat off and work outside in the winter wearing just a shirt, a cap and gloves. Because I do it, too. “Aren’t you cold?” my husband asked one winter day. “No,” I replied. “I’m not cold—working too hard to be cold.”
I hope my husband has decided I’m both tough and smart. But I guess quite a bit of the time he thinks I’m foolish.
Wherever Dad is in that great big farm in the sky—I’m sure he can’t help but smile whenever I take my coat off while I’m working outside in the winter.
小题1:When the author’s feet felt cold, her father advised her to .| A．go home alone first | B．keep walking in the snow | | C．draw pictures in the snow | D．light a fire on the ice |
小题2:Hearing her father’s advice, the author thought her father .| A．forgettable | B．warm-hearted | C．crazy | D．cruel |
小题3:What might the author’s husband think of her?| A．Tough | B．Smart | C．Brave | D．Foolish |
小题4:The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to .| A．remember her tough and smart father | | B．show how her father cared about her | | C．describe memories of her childhood | | D．explain why her father loved her so much |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A |
解析
试题分析：本文通过回忆父亲教育我在冬天怎么保暖，表示对坚强的父亲的怀念之情。
小题1:B 细节题。根据“Tell you what,” he said. “Walk around. Make some circles in the snow. See how many different patterns you can make. That will get your feet warm.”说明父亲建议我多活动，故B项内容正确。
小题2:C 推理题。根据Now, I was just a little girl at the time but I remember thinking, “How in the world will walking around in the snow make my feet warm? Dad must be out of mind.说明我很怀疑父亲的说法，认为他的说法不成立，疯了。故C项正确。
小题3:D 细节题。根据文章倒数第二段“Aren’t you cold?” my husband asked one winter day. “No,” I replied. “I’m not cold—working too hard to be cold.”
I hope my husband has decided I’m both tough and smart. But I guess quite a bit of the time he thinks I’m foolish.说明丈夫可能会认为我这样做很愚蠢，故D项正确。
小题4:A 主旨大意题。本文通过回忆父亲教育我在冬天怎么保暖，表示对坚强的父亲的怀念之情。故A正确。
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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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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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