When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and
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When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it．But just as I am about to do so, I find the article on the 36 side is as much interesting．It may be a discussion of the way to 37 in good health, or 38 about how to behave and conduct oneself in society．If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to 39 damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text 40 the title．Therefore, the scissors would 41 before they start, 42 halfway done when I find out the 43 result．
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your 44 ．You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be 45 up．
But you know the future is unpredictable—the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left 46 ．Thus you are 47 in a difficult position and feel sad．How 48 that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life 49 greatly on your preference of one choice to the other．
In fact that is what 50 is like: we are often 51 with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting．It often occurs that your attention is drawn to one thing only 52 we get into another．The 53 may be more important than the latter and give rise to divided mind．I 54 remember a philosopher"s remarks: "When one door shuts, another opens in life．" So a casual 55 may not be a bad one．
| 小题1: | | A．front | B．same | C．opposite | D．either |
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| 小题2: | | A．get | B．keep | C．lead | D．bring |
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| 小题3: | | A．a report | B．news | C．a theory | D．advice |
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| 小题4: | | A．reduce | B．suffer | C．prevent | D．cause |
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| 小题6: | | A．use | B．stay | C．prepare | D．handle |
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| 小题8: | | A．satisfying | B．surprising | C．regretful | D．impossible |
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| 小题9: | | A．courage | B．strength | C．attention | D．patience |
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| 小题10: | | A．given | B．held | C．made | D．picked |
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| 小题11: | | A．near | B．alone | C．behind | D．about |
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| 小题12: | | A．caught | B．attracted | C．filled | D．struck |
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| 小题13: | | A．dares | B．deals | C．comes | D．does |
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| 小题14: | | A．goes | B．changes | C．progresses | D．improves |
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| 小题15: | | A．life | B．society | C．nature | D．study |
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| 小题16: | | A．supplied | B．faced | C．connected | D．fixed |
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| 小题17: | | A．before | B．after | C．until | D．as |
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| 小题18: | | A．following | B．next | C．above | D．former |
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| 小题19: | | A．almost | B．also | C．once | D．still |
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| 小题20: | | A．treatment | B．choice | C．action | D．remark |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:C
小题6:B
小题7:A
小题8:C
小题9:C
小题10:A
小题11:C
小题12:A
小题13:C
小题14:D
小题15:A
小题16:B
小题17:B
小题18:D
小题19:D
小题20:B |
解析
在我们的生活中我们经常会面临着痛苦的抉择。
小题1:形容词辨析。A前面的；B同样的；C反面的；D(两者之中)任一的。根据句意可知是指报纸另外一面内容也很精彩。
小题2:固定词组。Keep in good health保持良好的健康状态。
小题3:词义辨析。A报道；B新闻；C理论；D建议。根据句意可知是关于在社会在如何行为举止良好的一篇报道。
小题4:动词辨析。A减少；B遭受；C预防，阻止；D导致；根据下文的名词damage，可知这是一个搭配，suffer damage遭受破坏。
小题5:介词搭配。根据上下文语境可知这里是指如果我们剪下某一面，另外一面可能会遭受破坏，只剩下一个没有标题的文章。
小题6:动词辨析。A使用；B保持，待，停留；C准备；D处理；根据句意可知是指在开始剪之前剪刀要停顿下，或者当我发现破坏另外一半的这样会让我遗憾的结果时，剪到一半要停顿下来。
小题7:连词辨析。解析同上。
小题8:形容词辨析。解析同41.
小题9:名词辨析。A勇气；B力气；C注意力；D耐心；根据句意可知这里是指值得你注意这两方面。
小题10:短语辨析。give up放弃；hold up延误，阻碍，抢劫；make up化妆，编造，弥补，组成；pick up捡起，用车接，无意中学会…根据句意可知是剪了一面而放弃另外一面。
小题11:短语辨析。根据下文可知leave behind留下。句意：变化的形式也许不会允许你做留下的事情。
小题12:固定短语。Be caught in…遭遇…;
小题13:固定词组。How comes?怎么会？
小题14:动词辨析。根据上下文可知是指你的生活会大大改善因为你更喜爱其中的一个选择。
小题15:上下文串联。根据上下文可知是指这就是生活的意义。我们经常会面对着像都想要的报纸的两面这样的选择。
小题16:形容词辨析。解析同上。
小题17:上下文串联。句意是指当我们的注意力被吸引到一个事物以后，我们的注意力经常会转移到另一个事物。
小题18:上下文串联。根据下文的the latter可知这里是the former.
小题19:副词辨析。根据句意可知：我仍然记得哲学家的话：当一扇门关起来，上帝会为你打开另外一扇门。所以一次随意的选择也许并不是糟糕的一个。
小题20:略 |
举一反三
Normally when I pop in to see my parents, my mum bursts out of the house with a big smile. Not today. "Your brother," she says, "he"s showered twice this afternoon. Does he know how much it costs to run this house?" Are we limiting water now? I didn"t think the recession(萧条) had got that bad. My poor brother is a boomerang kid. Like 60 percent of guys immediately after university, he"s back at home. Graduating ￡15,000 in debt and faced with unpaid internships(实习期) or low wages thanks to the flooding of the market with graduates, a lot of twenty some things simply don"t have the necessary income or parental support to live independently.
Three years after getting their degree, most graduates are still not earning above the average salary. They have a near 50 percent tax burden, thanks to student loan repayments and council tax on top of income tax and national insurance. Unless you have parents who can afford to finance what is effectively a second home for them, returning to the parental nest is often the only affordable option.
The boomerang effect is becoming even more pronounced thanks to the recession. One in four of those losing their job during the downturn is under 25. Only 13 percent of final-year students have jobs. Home is the only place many are going: 111,000 16-29 year olds moved back home in 2008, five times the average of previous years.
Boomeranging is bad news. It poses serious problems for parents" finances. They"ve already supported their children through university, topping up loans with handouts, averaging ￡12,300 in total, to keep twenty somethings afloat. Now their retirement savings are being eaten away by continuously dependent children.
It’s bad for the returning kids too. Ambitious young people will be left frustrated, seeing their university peers from more wealthy backgrounds excel only because parents" money was there to support them through the initial period of poverty wages. Those living in rural areas are further disadvantaged by lack of access to cities where most new jobs are located. Half of all young people now feel they will not achieve their goals. Research by the Prince"s Trust reveals that one-quarter of all 16-25 year olds are regularly down or depressed. And depression does not help self-motivation, the very trait needed to seek out job opportunities.
小题1:In paragraph 1, the mother’s criticizing her son for showering too often shows _________. | A．the price of water has increased | | B．she thinks her son is selfish | | C．her son is an economic burden | | D．she wants to have a shower herself |
小题2:What is the boomerang mentioned in the passage? | A．A person earning low income. | | B．A person who has heavy tax burden. | | C．A youth who cannot get parental support. | | D．A youth returning to parents after graduation. |
小题3:According to the passage, which of the following does NOT contribute to the tax bill of most young graduates? | A．National insurance. | B．Income tax. | | C．Council income. | D．Student loans. |
小题4:Who is comparatively most affected by the recession according to the passage? | A．Those who haven’t completed their university studies. | | B．Those who are supported through by their parents. | | C．Those who can have access to the urban facilities. | | D．Those who were born into the well-off families. |
小题5:Which is the best title of the passage? | A．Global Recession | | B．Boomerang Kids | | C．Unemployment Rate | | D．Falling Incomes |
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In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue 1 . One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet （小鹦鹉）on my finger, I wanted to show Perky what the sky looked like. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my horror , Perky flew off. The enormous, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue 2 and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.
I told Kathy about Perky"s disappearance and I was anxious that she would blame me. But , unexpectedly, Kathy managed to 3 me. With fake optimism, she even tried to convince me that Perky would find a new 4 . But I was far too clever to 5 that such a thing was possible.
Decades later, I watched my own 6 growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the 7 of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the best of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed（宣称） to 8 the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. Then Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and ___9___that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.
"The best thing about Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the 10 we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just 11 down and landed on my finger."
When I was finally able to 12 , we examined the amazing evidence. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all 13 . It seems our two families had been 14 long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were 15 ! Perky lived!"
| 小题1: | | A．lake | B．sky | C．parakeet | D．backyard |
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| 小题2: | | A．pleasure | B．sadness | C．treasure | D．sense |
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| 小题3: | | A．forgive | B．comfort | C．help | D．delight |
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| 小题4: | | A．parent | B．home | C．nest | D．fellow |
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| 小题5: | | A．imagine | B．suppose | C．doubt | D．believe |
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| 小题6: | | A．birds | B．happiness | C．worries | D．children |
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| 小题7: | | A．parents | B．birds | C．interests | D．games |
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| 小题9: | | A．announced | B．said | C．retold | D．hoped |
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| 小题11: | | A．floated | B．dived | C．settled | D．went |
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| 小题12: | | A．think | B．speak | C．interrupt | D．explain |
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| 小题13: | | A．came up | B．turned up | C．turned out | D．matched up |
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| 小题14: | | A．known | B．fastened | C．connected | D．introduced |
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| 小题15: | | A．right | B．wrong | C．silly | D．mad |
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Once there was an old farmer, with a horse which was almost as old as himself. He __16__ one morning with his young son, 17 the horse before it died. Father and son walked, 18 the farmer did not want the horse to be 19 .
They met two men on the road20 said: “Why are you walking, farmer? You have a horse. It"s __21__to market.” The farmer knew that this was__22__, so he rode on the horse, __23__his son walked.
Then they met two old ladies. “__24__are you doing up there, farmer? Can"t you__25__how tired your boy is?” __26__the farmer got down, and his son rode__27__. __28__, three old men stopped them. One said: “Why are you walking, farmer?__29__. It"s too hot for an old man like you to walk today.” So the farmer got up 30__his son, and they__31__. __32__, a young woman passed them. “Why aren"t you walking?” she asked. “It isn"t __33_ to market. Give your poor old horse a rest.”
So the farmer, and his son, got down__34__.
It is a fact that you cannot please__35__the people all the time.
| 小题1: | | A．set out | B．set up | C．set down | D．set |
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| 小题2: | | A．selling | B．buying | C．to sell | D．to buy |
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| 小题3: | | A．so | B．because | C．that | D．when |
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| 小题4: | | A．very tired | B．too tired | C．quite tired | D．tiring |
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| 小题6: | | A．a short way | B．a long way | C．the right way | D．the wrong way |
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| 小题7: | | A．real | B．true | C．truly | D．really |
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| 小题8: | | A．while | B．when | C．as | D．during |
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| 小题10: | | A．see | B．watch | C．look | D．notice |
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| 小题12: | | A．thus | B．yet | C．instead | D．either |
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| 小题13: | | A．First | B．Finally | C．Near | D．Next |
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| 小题14: | | A．Sit down | B．Sit up | C．Get up | D．Get down |
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| 小题15: | | A．behind | B．after | C．beside | D．above |
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| 小题16: | | A．walked on | B．rode on | C．moved on | D．drove on |
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| 小题17: | | A．Some time later | B．A moment ago | C．In no time | D．At once |
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| 小题18: | | A．near | B．long | C．far | D．short |
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| 小题19: | | A．once again | B．on their own | C．the other day | D．all the same |
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| 小题20: | | A．both | B．each of | C．all | D．none of |
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One day a student went to see his teacher. He had been given an important position and now was coming to say goodbye to his teacher. The old man asked him how he would live among high officials. The student answered, “ I will be all right. I have prepared a hundred high hats, one for each official I will meet. I am sure I will succeed.” The teacher got angry on hearing this. “What?” he cried. “Is this what ten years of my teaching has made of you? Nothing but flatterer(拍马屁的人)?” “Excuse me, honored(尊敬的) master,” the student rose to his feet and apologized hurriedly. “But you have always been absorbed in(沉浸于) your studies and don’t know how vulgar(庸俗的) the world has come to be. There are few men in the world who are above flatterers like you.” “There is something true in what you said,” the teacher nodded, smiling with one of the student’s “high hats” on.
小题1:The student came to say goodbye to his teacher because_____________.| A．he had got hundred hats to sell | | B．he had got a fairly high position in society | | C．he wanted to see his parents in his home town | | D．he moved away to another city |
小题2:The student would live among high officials by___________.| A．selling hats to them | | B．making a hundred hats for them | | C．flattering them | | D．serving them |
小题3:The teacher was angry with__________.| A．himself | B．the society | C．his student | D．high officials |
小题4:The phrase “rose to his feet” means________.| A．stood up | B．kicked with his feet | | C．became quite excited | D．raised his feet |
小题5:The teacher____________.| A．liked to be flattered as well | | B．really knew nothing about the vulgar world | | C．was in need of a high hat | | D．was satisfied with the new hat |
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A farmer had a cow. He took very good care of this cow and one day when it was ill, he was very worried. He telephoned the vet.
“What’s the problem?” The vet asked him when he arrived.
“My cow’s ill,” the farmer said. “I don’t know what"s the matter with her. She’s lying down and won’t eat. She’s making a strange noise.”
The vet looked over the cow. "She’s certainly ill," he said, "and she needs to take some very strong medicine."
He took a bottle out of his box, put two pills into his hand and said, "Give her these. The pills should make her better."
“How should I give them to her?” the farmer asked.
The vet gave him a tube (管子)and said, "Put this tube in her mouth, then put the pills in the tube and blow. That’ll make it."
The next day the vet came to the farm again. The farmer was sitting outside his house and looked more worried.
“How’s your cow?” the vet asked.
“No change,” the farmer said, “and I’m feeling very strange myself.”
“Oh?” the vet said, "Why?"
“I did what you said,” the farmer answered. “I put the tube in the cow’s mouth and then put two pills down it.”
“And?” the vet asked.
“The cow blew first,” the farmer said.
小题1:In the story, the vet must be _________.| A．the farmer"s friend | B．a milk factory | | C．a hospital for cows | D．a doctor for animals |
小题2:The farmer asked the vet for help when his cow _______| A．couldn"t lie down | B．didn"t eat the pills | | C．couldn"t make any noise | D．was ill |
小题3:What medicine did the vet give the farmer?| A．Bottle of pills. | B．A long tube. | C．Two pills. | D．A small box. |
小题4:The vet taught the farmer how _________.| A．to blow the tube | | B．to make the cow take the pills | | C．to take the medicine | | D．to put the tube in his mouth |
小题5:Which of the following is true?| A．The farmer ate the pills himself. | | B．The cow got better after taking the medicine. | | C．The vet came to help the farmer change the cow the next day. | | D．The farmer waited for the vet outside his house the next day. |
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