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When I was a teenager I volunteered to work at the water station at a 10,000m race. My job was to 34 water to the runners. I remember being so 35 to see all the different kinds of people who passed by and grabbed a cup of water. Some ran past, some walked past and a few wheeled past. I saw so many types of people doing it. I thought maybe I could do it too! So the next year I 36 up for the race.
That first 10,000m race was quite an experience. I jogged, I walked, I jogged and I walked 37 , I didn’t know if I could finish. Then came a defining (决定性) 38 .
At one point near the end, a 70-year-old man ran past me, very, very fast, and I felt 39 because I was 50 years younger than he but I couldn’t even keep up with him. I felt 40 for a second.
But then I realized something. He was running his race and I was running mine. He had 41 abilities, experience, training and goals for himself. I had mine. Remember my 42 was only to finish.
After a minute, it 43 me that this was a lesson I could draw from. I learned something about myself in that moment. I turned my embarrassment into 44 .
I decided that I would not give up on running races. In fact, I would run even more races and I would learn how to train and prepare 45 and one day I would be one of those 70-year-old persons who were still running. As I crossed the finish line, I was proud of my accomplishment. In life we all have those moments where we 46 ourselves to others. It’s only natural . Don’t allow those moments to 47 you. Turn them into motivation and let them inspire you. With the proper preparation and training, you can improve your result to 48 anything you want in life.
| 小题1: | | A．bring out | B．pass out | C．take out | D．pick out |
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| 小题2: | | A．excited | B．worried | C．concerned | D．anxious |
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| 小题3: | | A．gave | B．made | C．signed | D．dressed |
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| 小题4: | | A．At times | B．In time | C．In all | D．After all |
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| 小题5: | | A．victory | B．decision | C．moment | D．conclusion |
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| 小题6: | | A．embarrassed | B．annoyed | C．moved | D．thrilled |
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| 小题7: | | A．relaxed | B．defeated | C．puzzled | D．inspired |
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| 小题8: | | A．special | B．evident | C．common | D．different |
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| 小题9: | | A．motto | B．plan | C．goal | D．direction |
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| 小题10: | | A．worried | B．hit | C．reached | D．hurt |
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| 小题11: | | A．attraction | B．devotion | C．inspiration | D．expectation |
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| 小题12: | | A．slightly | B．hardly | C．clearly | D．properly |
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| 小题13: | | A．introduce | B．relate | C．present | D．compare |
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| 小题14: | | A．weaken | B．wound | C．amuse | D．cheer |
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| 小题15: | | A．reserve | B．deliver | C．achieve | D．abandon |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:C
小题6:A
小题7:B
小题8:D
小题9:C
小题10:B
小题11:C
小题12:D
小题13:D
小题14:A
小题15:C |
解析
小题1:考查动词短语。我的工作是为运动员发水。pass out”意为“分发。”
小题1:考查形容词。看着各种各样的人经过水站拿水，我还记得当时非常兴奋。
小题1:考查动词。我想也许自己也能做到！所以第二年我也报了名参加比赛试试看。sign up for报名参加。
小题1:考查介词短语。我跑跑走走，跑跑走走，有时候（at times 有时）还不知道自己能不能完成，然后到了一个决定性的时刻。
小题1:考查名词。时间副词then置于句首且谓语动词为go，come等时句子全部倒装。 moment时刻。
小题1:考查形容词。由下文 “...that I was younger than him and I couldn’t keep up with him” 得知，作者竟然在比赛中落后于一位70岁老者，自然感到难堪与尴尬了 。
小题1:考查形容词。一瞬间，我很有挫败感。defeat打败。
小题1:考查形容词。他的能力、经验、训练和目标不同，那是他的，我有自己的。由上文作者在难堪之感后同时也能自嘲地从中意识到什么和获此哲理 “He was running his race and I was running mine. He had different experience，training and goals and I had mine”可知答案。
小题1:考查名词。要记得我的目标goal只是要跑完全程。
小题1:考查动词。“It hit sb that从句”意思是“某人突然想到……”。
小题1:考查名词。（被老人超越的）羞辱转化成了激励inspiration。
小题1:考查副词。我要参加更多的赛事，并且要学习如何正确地properly训练准备，以致有一天，我会是70岁还在跑的一个人。结合下文的With the proper preparation and training可知此处的答案。
小题1:考查动词。在生活中，我们都有把自己与别人相比较compare的时刻。这是很自然的。
小题1:考查动词。结合下文可知此处表达的含义应是“不要让这些时刻消弱weaken自己的自信”。
小题1:考查动词。靠着适当的准备和训练，你可以不断进步，实现achieve任何想要达到的人生目标。 |
举一反三
There once was a very honest shopkeeper whose business was to provide goods to the local people. He would open his shop at 8:00 a.m. after having his breakfast and at 1:00 p.m. he would go for lunch. In the evening at 8:30 p.m. he closed his shop to complete his daily routine.
However, to get time for lunch was really difficult be-cause he didn’t have anybody to help him at that time. Therefore, it was his daily practice that whichever customer was shopping at 1:00 p.m. would be asked to oversee (看管) the shop until the shopkeeper returned from lunch.
One day, a group of four thieves planned to steal from his shop while he was gone for lunch. One of the thieves went at 1:00 p.m. to be the customer that would be asked to oversee the shop.
The thief, pretending to be a customer, went in at 1:00 p.m. and started buying several items. As planned, the shop-keeper asked the thief to sit on his chair for thirty minutes until he returned from lunch.
Then, the other three thieves quickly came and told the pretend customer to help, but something had changed within him and he knew deeply in his heart that if he was given responsibility for the shop, he should not perform any dishonest acts during that time. His friends did not agree. As the now honest man tried to stop them, they resisted (抵抗) and a fight started. And at the same time the shopkeeper returned and asked why there was a fighting. The now honest man explained the entire plan.
The shopkeeper had been searching for an honest man who could take ownership of the shop and run it. The shop-keeper felt that he had found the right man.
小题1:What is the problem for the shopkeeper?| A．Nobody could prepare lunch for him every day. | | B．He had nobody to keep the shop when he went for lunch. | | C．He was too busy to have lunch every day. | | D．He couldn’t find a person to work at the shop. |
小题2:Why did the thief go to the shop at 1:00 p.m.?| A．Because he thought he would be asked to keep the shop. | | B．Because the shopkeeper invited him to lunch then. | | C．Because the shop was closed at that time. | | D．Because he thought he could buy cheap things then. |
小题3:When the shopkeeper returned from lunch, he found _______.| A．everything in his shop was stolen | | B．the thief became the new owner of the shop | | C．there was a fighting in his shop | | D．the thief helped his fellows steal things from his shop |
小题4:From the passage, we can infer that _______.| A．once a thief, he will always be a thief | | B．an honest man will be responsible for his action | | C．you can’t believe in a dishonest man forever | | D．trust can change a thief into an honest man |
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When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My parents took me by train or by car to a hotel by the 26 . All day, I seem to remember, I played on the sands with strange 27 children. We made houses and gardens, and 28 the tide destroy them. When the tide went out, we climbed over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.
In those days the sun seemed to shine always 29 and the water was always warm. Sometimes we left beach and walked in the country, 30 ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were sweets in one’s pockets or good places where one could 31 ice creams. Each day seemed a life-time.
32 I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good holiday is much the same as it was. I 33 like the sun and warm sand and the sound of 34 beating (拍打) the rocks. I no longer wish to 35 any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets. 36 , I still love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.
Sometimes I 37 what my ideal(理想的) holiday will be like when I am old . 38 I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about 39 who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves 40 on too many ices creams.
| 小题1: | | A．sea | B．lake | C．mountain | D．river |
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| 小题2: | | A．moved | B．excited | C．anxious | D．nervous |
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| 小题3: | | A．made | B．brought | C．watched | D．heard |
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| 小题4: | | A．gently | B．hardly | C．brightly | D．carefully |
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| 小题5: | | A．in need of | B．in search of | C．in place of | D．in praise of |
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| 小题7: | | A．When | B．Although | C．If | D．But |
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| 小题8: | | A．almost | B．perhaps | C．still | D．often |
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| 小题9: | | A．waves | B．wind | C．hands | D．feet |
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| 小题10: | | A．destroy | B．fix | C．use | D．build |
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| 小题11: | | A．But | B．However | C．Otherwise | D．Besides |
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| 小题12: | | A．wonder | B．feel | C．understand | D．believe |
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| 小题14: | | A．girls | B．boys | C．children | D．grown-ups |
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| 小题15: | | A．happy | B．tired | C．sad | D．sick |
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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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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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