December 24 arrived along with a heavy snow. It was my first Christmas Eve witho
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December 24 arrived along with a heavy snow. It was my first Christmas Eve without my mother, and the day’s usual 36 had disappeared.
The telephone rang. I 37 it and went to my bedroom to bury the continuous 38 , knowing it must be my friend Rebecca calling. How could I be 39 ? I wanted to be left 40 .
My heart felt as 41 as the falling snow. 42 can I stop missing my mother?
I 43 the window. Seeing Rebecca’s car parked out front, I went back to my bed and drew the covers over my head.
“Lucy!” she shouted. “I know you’re in there. Answer the door!”
“Leave me alone!” I 44 back. I heard paper rustling(沙沙作响) as she slid 45 under the door.
“Merry Christmas, ” she called out.
Not answering the 46 made me even 47. It wasn’t fair to my best friend. Her father and sister 48 in a car accident when she was eight years old. 49 , her mother had to return to 50 , and Rebecca was left to look after herself.
When she left, I carried the small package, sat down and 51 it. Inside was a golden pen and a journal. When I opened the journal’s front cover, out fell a bookmark with a(n) 52 written on it:
Dear Lucy,
My words won’t heal（治愈）the 53 . But your own words can.
Love,
Rebecca
As I stared at the journal’s blank pages, a single tear fell on the page which quickly absorbed it.
That night, I 54 the phone and dialed her number.
“Looks like the snow is melting(融化), ” I said. “Spring was just ___55____the corner.”
| 小题1: | | A．excitement | B．disappointment | C．fright | D．pity |
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| 小题2: | | A．answered | B．covered | C．picked | D．ignored |
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| 小题3: | | A．pleasure | B．puzzled | C．sadness | D．interest |
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| 小题4: | | A．regretful | B．joyful | C．comfortable | D．careful |
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| 小题5: | | A．alive | B．active | C．alone | D．crazy |
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| 小题6: | | A．light | B．white | C．heavy | D．clear |
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| 小题7: | | A．Why | B．Where | C．Whether | D．How |
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| 小题8: | | A．looked through | B．looked into | C．looked out | D．looked up |
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| 小题9: | | A．brought | B．shouted | C．took | D．turned |
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| 小题10: | | A．anything | B．something | C．everything | D．nothing |
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| 小题11: | | A．phone | B．question | C．letter | D．door |
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| 小题12: | | A．more helpful | B．more attractive | C．worse | D．better |
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| 小题13: | | A．survived | B．escaped | C．lived | D．died |
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| 小题14: | | A．As a whole | B．As a result | C．In all | D．In general |
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| 小题15: | | A．work | B．wash | C．repair | D．learn |
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| 小题16: | | A．closed | B．folded | C．opened | D．painted |
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| 小题17: | | A．article | B．poem | C．notice | D．message |
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| 小题18: | | A．failure | B．pain | C．wish | D．shame |
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| 小题19: | | A．picked up | B．picked out | C．pushed back | D．put away |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:C
小题6:C
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:B
小题10:B
小题11:D
小题12:C
小题13:D
小题14:B
小题15:A
小题16:C
小题17:D
小题18:B
小题19:A
小题20:A |
解析
本文讲述了作者在母亲离开后过的第一个圣诞节前夜，朋友的关心使她渐渐地走出了寒冷的冬天。
小题1:名词辨析。由于母亲的离世，这个圣诞节已经没有了往日的兴奋(excitement)，故选A。
小题2:动词辨析。根据后面“我”径直走向自己的房间，可知“我”并没有去接电话，故选D。
小题3:上下文串联。“我”走进房间继续沉浸在悲伤(sadness)之中。
小题4:形容词辨析。根据上下文可知，我怎么能高兴(joyful)呢？
小题5:形容词辨析。根据句意，应该是:自己想一个待会。故选C.
小题6:形容词辨析。heavy在此处有两层含义：雪下的大，用heavy修饰；另外“我”的心情沉重，也用heavy来修饰。故heavy最恰当。
小题7:疑问词辨析。根据意思，应该是“我“怎么能够停止思念我的母亲？
小题8:动词短语辨析。根据意思，应该是透过窗户向外看，故用look through.
小题9:动词辨析。“我”在里面，朋友在门外，所以应该是“喊”。
小题10:不定代词辨析。根据句意，应该是把某样东西塞进门里。故用something.
小题11:名词辨析。根据前面朋友喊Answer the door!，可知答案为D.
小题12:形容词的比较级。没有应门使得我的心情更糟糕(worse)。
小题13:动词辨析。根据下文朋友的妈妈出去工作，和accident这样的字眼，不难看出答案为D。
小题14:短语辨析。由于父亲的离世，朋友的妈妈不得不再次回去工作(work)。故选B.
小题15:上下文串联。见上一题解释。
小题16:上下文串联。拿了包裹，坐下来打开包裹。这是三个并列的动作。
小题17:上下文联系。书签上有一个信息(message).
小题18:名词辨析。作者的母亲走了，心里肯定很痛苦，所以答案为pain。
小题19:短语辨析。根据意思，拿起（Pick up）电话,拨通了朋友的号码。
小题20:固定短语。around the corner 表示即将来临。 |
举一反三
People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviors are formed．It is not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative （合作的）and another is competitive．
Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of questions．They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behaviors．There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought （学派）on the matter have developed．As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from one another, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory．The controversy（argument) is often referred to as “nature and nurture（教育）”．
Those who support the “nature” side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological and genetic factors．That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics, and behavior is central to this theory．Taken to an extreme(走极端）, this theory maintains that our behavior is predetermined to such a degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts（本能）．
Proponents of the “nurture” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviorists, claimed that our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act．A behaviorist, B．F．Skinner, sees humans as beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings．The behaviorists’ view of the human being is quite mechanistic（机械论的）; they maintain that, like machines, humans’ respond to environmental stimuli（刺激） as the basis of their behavior．
Socially and politically, the consequences of these two theories are far-reaching．In the US, for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligence tests．This leads some proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically lower in status than whites．Behaviorists, on the contrary, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often robbed of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result, they do not develop the same responses that whites do．
Either of these theories cannot yet fully explain human behavior．In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes. That the controversy will continue for a long time is certain．
小题1:This passage is mainly concerned with ．| A．relation between personality and behavior | | B．relation between behavior and environment | | C．different accounts of patterns of human behavior | | D．different theories of the formation of human behavior |
小题2:The underlined word " proponents"" in paragraph 2 means ．| A．creators | B．advisors | | C．supporters | D．judges |
小题3:In paragraph 5 , the author mainly writes about ．| A．the considerable（值得考虑的） influence of the two theories | | B．differences between the blacks and whites | | C．racial discrimination in the United States | | D．different responds to intelligence tests |
小题4:What"s the author"s purpose in writing the passage?| A．To call our attention to the changes of human behavior． | | B．To urge scientists to do more research in social science． | | C．To give us a detailed explanation of human behavior． | | D．To present an argument in the field of social science． |
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Once 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．whether the writer is a hero | | C．what a hero exactly is | | D．that everyone is a hero |
小题2:Why did the woman call the writer a hero at the end of the call?| A．Because he was cute and kind to everybody | | B．Because he saved a family from a burning car. | | C．Because he asked her son not to kill himself. | | D．Because his story saved her son’s life. |
小题3:What does the underlined word “it” in the last sentence of Paragraph 5 refer to?| A．The wonderful card the writer received. | | B．The action of sending the card. | | C．The fact that the sender helped the writer. | | 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 helps someone in trouble. | | B．A person who writes wonderful stories. | | C．A person who can hold a door for others. | | D．A person who is brave. |
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A young man was getting ready to graduate from college, for many months he had 36 a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and 37 his father could well 38 it, he told him that was all he wanted.
On the morning of his graduation day his father called him into his own study and told him how 39 he was to have such a fine son. He handed his son a beautiful gift box. 40 but slightly disappointed, the young man 41 the box and found a lovely book. 42 , he raised his voice at his father and said, “ 43 all your money you give me a book?” And rushed out of the house 44 the book in the study.
He did not contact（联系）his father for a whole year 45 one day he saw in the street an old man who looked like his father. He 46 he had to go back home and see his father.
When he arrived at his father"s house, he was told that his father had been in hospital for a week. The moment he was about to 47 the hospital, he saw on the desk the 48 new book, just as he had left it one 49 ago. He opened it and began to 50 the pages. Suddenly, a car key 51 from an envelope taped behind the book. It had a lag (标签) with dealer’s name, the 52 dealer who had the sports car he had 53 . On the tag was the 54 of his graduation. and the 55 PAID IN FULL.
| 小题1: | | A．expected. | B．enjoyed. | C．admired. | D．owned |
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| 小题2: | | A．finding | B．proving | C．deciding | D．knowing |
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| 小题3: | | A．afford | B．offer | C．keep | D．like |
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| 小题4: | | A．encouraged | B．comfortable | C．proud | D．moved |
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| 小题5: | | A．Nervous | B．Serious | C．Careful | D．Curious |
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| 小题6: | | A．packed. | B．opened. | C．picked up | D．put aside |
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| 小题7: | | A．Angrily | B．Eagerly | C．Calmly | D．Anxiously |
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| 小题9: | | A．toasting | B．putting | C．forgetting | D．leaving |
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| 小题10: | | A．until | B．as | C．before | D．unless |
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| 小题11: | | A．learned | B．realized. | C．recognized. | D．admitted |
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| 小题12: | | A．get to | B．search for | C．turn to | D．leave for |
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| 小题13: | | A．much | B．still | C．hardly | D．quite |
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| 小题15: | | A．clean | B．read. | C．turn | D．count |
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| 小题16: | | A．lost | B．came | C．appeared. | D．dropped |
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| 小题17: | | A．old. | B．same | C．special | D．new |
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| 小题18: | | A．remembered. | B．desired. | C．found. | D．met |
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| 小题19: | | A．picture | B．place | C．date | D．met |
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| 小题20: | | A．words | B．information | C．date | D．card |
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。、
When I was in primary school, I got into a major argument with a boy named Tom in my class. I can’t remember what it was about, 21 I have never forgotten the 22 I learned that day.
I was 23 that I was right and he was wrong--and he was sure that I was wrong and he was right. The 24 decided to teach us a very important lesson. My English teacher, Ms Green 25 both of us up to the 26 of the class and 27 him on one side of her desk and me on 28 . In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could 29 see that it was black. She asked the boy what 30 the object was. “White,” he answered.
I couldn’t believe he said the object was white, 31 it was obviously black! Another 32 started between my classmate and me, this time about the 33 of the object.
The teacher told me to go stand where the boy was standing and told him to come stand where I had been. We changed 34 and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I 35 answer, “White.” It was an object with two 36 colored sides, and from his side it was white. 37 from my side was it black.
My teacher taught me a very important lesson that day: You must 38 in the other person’s shoes and look at the 39 through their eyes in order to 40 understand their view.
| 小题2: | | A．text | B．lecture | C．class | D．lesson |
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| 小题3: | | A．told | B．wished | C．convinced | D．allowed |
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| 小题4: | | A．officer | B．worker | C．doctor | D．teacher |
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| 小题5: | | A．told | B．came | C．brought | D．woke |
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| 小题6: | | A．front | B．back | C．middle | D．side |
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| 小题7: | | A．planted | B．placed | C．had | D．fixed |
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| 小题8: | | A．another | B．other | C．the other | D．others |
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| 小题9: | | A．clearly | B．fortunately | C．happily | D．nearly |
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| 小题10: | | A．width | B．shape | C．color | D．size |
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| 小题11: | | A．if | B．unless | C．until | D．when |
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| 小题12: | | A．fight | B．argument | C．conversation | D．game |
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| 小题13: | | A．color | B．shape | C．size | D．weight |
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| 小题14: | | A．places | B．seats | C．attitudes | D．glasses |
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| 小题15: | | A．needed to | B．was able to | C．hoped to | D．had to |
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| 小题16: | | A．similarly | B．differently | C．beautifully | D．surprisingly |
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| 小题17: | | A．Still | B．Also | C．Since | D．Only |
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| 小题19: | | A．movement | B．situation | C．condition | D．behavior |
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| 小题20: | | A．truly | B．suddenly | C．quietly | D．unexpectedly |
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After 21 years of marriage，my wife wanted me to take another woman，my widowed mother, out to dinner and a movie．Due to the 31 of my work and my three children，I visited her only 32 ．That night I called inviting her to go out．Though a bit 33 ，she accepted it happily．
That Friday after work，I drove over to 34 her up．On reaching her house，I noticed that she seemed to be nervous about our 35 ．Wearing the dress she had worn to 36 her last wedding anniversary，she smiled like an angel．
We went to a 37 that，although not elegant，was very comfortable．After we sat down，I 38 my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me．A smile was on her lips．“I used to have to 39 the menu when you were smal1，”she said．“Then it’s time you relaxed and let me return the 40 ，”I responded．During the dinner，we had such a 41 conversation-all about each other’s life—that we 42 the movie．When back home, she said, “Pity we didn’t see the film．Yet I’ll go out with you again, but only if you let me 43 you．” I agreed．
A few days later，Mother died of a massive heart attack．It 44 so suddenly that I had no 45 to do anything for her．some time later，I 46 an envelope of a copy of a restaurant receipt from where mother and I had 47 ．An attached note said，“I paid this 48 in advance．I wasn‘t sure whether I could be there；but nevertheless，I paid for two—one for you and the other for your wife．You’ll never know 49 that night meant for me．I love you, son．”
At that moment．I understood the importance of giving our loved ones the time they 50 because these things can never be put off till “some other time”．
| 小题1: | | A．hopes | B．plans | C．demands | D．promises |
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| 小题2: | | A．occasionally | B．frequently | C．casually | D．immediately |
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| 小题3: | | A．depressed | B．embarrassed | C．surprised | D．discouraged |
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| 小题6: | | A．congratulate | B．celebrate | C．announce | D．welcome |
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| 小题7: | | A．cinema | B．restaurant | C．hotel | D．theatre |
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| 小题8: | | A．focused | B．cleaned | C．1ifted | D．opened |
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| 小题9: | | A．read | B．print | C．write | D．hand |
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| 小题10: | | A．task | B．effort | C．prize | D．favor |
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| 小题11: | | A．complex | B．urgent | C．humorous | D．pleasant |
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| 小题12: | | A．discussed | B．arranged | C．missed | D．delayed |
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| 小题13: | | A．invite | B．inform | C．notice | D．remember |
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| 小题14: | | A．appeared | B．happened | C．seemed | D．proved |
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| 小题15: | | A．courage | B．belief | C．chance | D．permission |
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| 小题16: | | A．received | B．delivered | C．posted | D．rejected |
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| 小题17: | | A．1ived | B．dined | C．worked | D．rested |
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| 小题18: | | A．menu | B．bill | C．1etter | D．ticket |
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| 小题20: | | A．trust | B．move | C．deserve | D．share |
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