I devote myself to music because of my grandmother. My mom and I lived with gran
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I devote myself to music because of my grandmother. My mom and I lived with grandparents from the time I was two until I was eight. And even then, I was at their house before and after school every day while my mother was at work.
Grandma loved music. It was her that first _31 me to Elvis Presley as a very young child, and once I heard his music, I was truly in 32 with it. Most five-year-olds ask for 33 for birthdays, but I wanted Elvis’albums. I would play them non-stop and 34 to the music in my grandma’s family room though my movements didn’t look good.
Grandma played the piano and 35 me to sing “America the Beautiful” and “Somewhere over the Rainbow”. I 36 started playing music on the piano, and soon Grandma was paying for me to take piano lessons from a lady living in the 37 . I would come home from __38 and walk three houses down for my lesson. I _39 took about nine months of lessons, but it was enough to give me a(n) 40 and allow me to continue to teach myself.
Last month when I came home to visit Grandma in the hospital, I brought along my guitar with me. She was in a lot of pain, but the music seemed to _41 her soul. She had me sing some songs and when I started to sing “Somewhere over the Rainbow”, her weakened voice 42 in with mine for a few lines. That experience was one of the most 43 of my lifetime and one I will certainly cherish forever. I told her of my music career and she was very _44 and said, “That’s wonderful!” I _45 to play for her throughout the week I was home.
My grandma passed away two days ago. In my opinion, part of her will live on through every song I write or sing in my life.
| 小题1: | | A．sent | B．left | C．remembered | D．introduced |
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| 小题2: | | A．debate | B．love | C．agreement | D．doubt |
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| 小题3: | | A．music | B．space | C．gifts | D．toys |
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| 小题4: | | A．wave | B．sleep | C．dance | D．play |
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| 小题5: | | A．forced | B．prepared | C．enabled | D．taught |
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| 小题6: | | A．generally | B．finally | C．fortunately | D．suddenly |
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| 小题7: | | A．hotel | B．apartment | C．neighborhood | D．countryside |
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| 小题8: | | A．school | B．hospital | C．street | D．office |
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| 小题9: | | A．exactly | B．only | C．completely | D．seldom |
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| 小题10: | | A．explanation | B．celebration | C．translation | D．foundation |
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| 小题11: | | A．comfort | B．blame | C．attract | D．find |
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| 小题12: | | A．joined | B．poured | C．moved | D．fell |
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| 小题13: | | A．surprising | B．moving | C．puzzling | D．tiring |
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| 小题14: | | A．sad | B．calm | C．bored | D．pleased |
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| 小题15: | | A．refused | B．expected | C．continued | D．pretended |
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答案
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:C
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:A
小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:C |
解析
小题1:本句是强调句型，“正是祖母把我介绍给了猫王”，固定搭配，introduce sb. To...。故选D。
小题1:考查固定短语。句意“一听到猫王的音乐，我就爱上了他的音乐。”故选B。
小题1:形成对比，其他小孩要玩具，而我要猫王的专辑作为生日礼物。故选D。
小题1:考查固定用法。dance to the music“跟着音乐跳舞”，“跟着......的拍子”用介词to，故选C。
小题1:“祖母弹钢琴教我唱歌”，“教某人做某事”teach sb. to do sth.，故选D。
小题1:词义辨析。generally“逐渐地”；suddenly“突然”。听到最后，我能自己弹钢琴了，故用finally，故选B。
小题1:固定搭配in the neighbourhood“在一个街区，在附近”，故选C。
小题1:根据句意可知，作者放学回家，再去上钢琴课。故选A。
小题1:考查词义辨析。exactly“精确地”；only“仅仅”；completely“完全”；seldom“很少”。根据后面的意思“.....已经足够了”可知，答案选only“仅仅”。故选B。
小题1:考查名词：这足够给我个基础，用foundaton。选D。
小题1:comfort“使缓和”，根据祖母忍受着剧痛可知，音乐或许能缓解她的疼痛。故选A。
小题1:她微弱的嗓音和我的一起唱了几句。“加入......”join in，故选A。
小题1:考查形容词辨析。surprising“令人惊讶的”；moving“令人感动的”；puzzling“令人困惑的”；tiring“累人的”；“和祖母一起唱歌的那次经历是最感人的一次”，故选B。
小题1:形容词辨析。祖母知道我的事业后，肯定很欣慰，只有pleased符合文意。故选D。
小题1:refuse to do sth.“拒绝做某事”；expect to do sth.“期待做某事”；continue to do sth.“继续做某事”；pretend to do sth.“假装做某事”。根据句意，作者连续为祖母弹奏了一周。故选C。 |
举一反三
We are going on a long train journey. Out of the windows, we can see cars running on nearby highways, children waving at a crossing, cattle grazing（吃草） on a distant hillside, smoke pouring from factories, village houses and city skylines.
But 36 in our minds is the final destination（目的地）. On a certain day at a certain hour, we will 37 into the station. Bands will be playing and flags 38 . Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will 39 and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a(n) 40 jigsaw（拼图） puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles（过道）, damning（诅咒） the minutes for waiting, waiting for the station.
“When we reach the 41 , that will be it!” We cry “When I am 18.” “When I 42 a new 450SL Mercedes Benz!” “When I put the 43 kid through college.” “When I have 44 off the debts!” “When I get a promotion（提升）.” “When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live 45 ever after!”
46 , we come to realize that there is no such station as we arrive at once and for all. The 47 joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It 48 leaves us behind.
“Cherish（珍视） the moment” is a good 49 . It is the burdens（负担） of today that drive us to keep on 50 . And it is the regrets over yesterday that motivate（激发） us to overcome the 51 and look forward to the future.
So 52 pacing the aisles and counting the miles. 53 , climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot（赤脚） more 54 , swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived 55 we go along. The  station will come soon enough.
小题1:A hidden B faint C deep D buried
小题2:A pull B get C approach D arrive
小题3: A floating B waving C raising D shaking
小题4:A come up B come around C come out D come true
小题5:A divided B separated C completed D united
小题6:A station  B age C target D point
小题7:A borrow B buy C ord er D rent
小题8:A first B best C last D eldest
小题9:A cut B left C taken D paid
小题10:A happily B fully C anxiously D freely
小题11:A Believe it or not B Sooner or later C Once again D All at once
小题12:A simple B basic C true D final
小题13:A eventually（最后） B accidentally C instantly D constantly
小题14:A motto（箴言） B sentence C concept D slogan（标语）
小题15:A pushing B trying C working D sticking
小题16:A effort B mistake C challenge D fault
小题17:A consider B stop C go on D plan on
小题18:A Besides B Thus C However D Instead
小题19:A often B gently C quickly D slowly
小题20:A if B unless C as D once |
After Mom died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was frail（衰弱） and moved slowly, but he always had a glass of freshly squeezed（挤榨的） orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with an unsigned note reading, “Drink your juice.” Such a gesture（表示）, I knew, was as far as Dad had ever been able to go in expressing his love. In fact, I remember, as a kid I had questioned Mom “Why doesn’t Dad love me?” Mom frowned（皱眉）, “Who said he doesn’t love you?”“Well, he never tells me,” I complained. He never tells me either,” she said, smiling. “But look how hard he works to take care of us, to buy us food and clothes, and to pay for this house. That’s how your father tells us he loves us.”
I nodded slowly. I understood in my head, but not in my heart. I still wanted my father to put his arms around me and tell me he loved me. Dad owned and operated a small scrap（小片） metal business, and after school I often hung around while he worked. Dad handfed scrap steel into a device（装置） that chopped （切）it as cleanly as a butcher（屠夫） chops a rack of ribs（肋骨）. The machine looked like a giant pair of scissors（剪刀）, with blades（刃） thicker than my father’s body. If he didn’t feed those terrifying blades just right, he risked serious injury. “Why don’t you hire someone to do that for you?” Mom asked Dad one night as she bent over him and rubbed（搓） his aching shoulders with a strong smelling liniment（涂剂）. “Why don’t you hire a cook?” Dad asked , giving her one of his rare smiles.
Many years later, during my first daily visit, after drinking the juice my father had squeezed for me, I walked over, hugged him and said, “I love you, Dad.” From then on I did this every morning. My father never told me how he felt about my hugs, and there was never any expression on his face when I gave them.
小题1:What would be the best title for the passage?
A I just couldn’t understand my father B My father never loved me
C Silent fatherly love D My hard-working father
小题2:The author’s father always prepared a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice for him because ______.
A that was the author’s favorite B he was sure the author would be thirsty
C the author was always complaining D that was a gesture of love
小题3:The author’s father didn’t hire a helper because ______.
A his job was too dangerous B his job required high skills
C he wanted to save money D he was not good at communicating with others
小题4:We may infer from the passage that ______.
A the author’s father lacked a sense of humor
B the author quite understood his father as time went on
C the author’s father didn’t love him very much
D the author’s father was too strict with him |
A friend of mine met with an accident driving in the darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t 36 .What was worse was that he found himself unable to ask for help—his mobile phone didn’t 37 . Nothing could be done but 38 in cold wilderness. It was 8 hours later that day broke, and then the 39 of the rescue.
It is almost 40 that he could stand the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his 41 , “First of all I checked up on my physical 42 and found myself not in fatal(致命的) danger. Finding no 43 to call for help, I leaned back to try my best to keep the wound from 44 . In this way I fell asleep.
This 45 me of another story: A group of young men 46 to explore a mountain cave and got lost. 47 to find a way out in the dark cave they were 48 and ran anxiously without a sense of 49 . Finally they fell dead in fear and exhaustion. According to the 50 people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the 51 of the cave. If they stayed where they got lost and tried to 52 themselves, they would probably 53 a small light glimmering(闪烁) not far away.
We can compare it with our 54 itself. Sometimes when we meet with difficulties in life, we feel lost in the darkness. If it is unclear, you needn’t put up a struggle 55 . Remember: CALM DOWN!
| 小题1: | | A．recover | B．move | C．escape | D．shout |
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| 小题2: | | A．control | B．operate | C．ring | D．work |
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| 小题4: | | A．failure | B．success | C．team | D．arrival |
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| 小题5: | | A．untrue | B．unbelievable | C．reasonable | D．strange |
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| 小题6: | | A．conclusion | B．decision | C．explanation | D．bravery |
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| 小题7: | | A．conditions | B．situations | C．signs | D．cases |
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| 小题8: | | A．method | B．way | C．road | D．approach |
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| 小题9: | | A．paining | B．spreading | C．hurting | D．bleeding |
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| 小题10: | | A．reminds | B．informs | C．demands | D．tells |
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| 小题11: | | A．had | B．managed | C．tried | D．planned |
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| 小题12: | | A．Unwilling | B．Unable | C．Determined | D．Deciding |
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| 小题13: | | A．frightened | B．surprised | C．excited | D．disappointed |
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| 小题14: | | A．hearing | B．sight | C．touch | D．direction |
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| 小题15: | | A．rescue | B．village | C．local | D．brave |
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| 小题16: | | A．end | B．top | C．opening | D．door |
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| 小题17: | | A．save | B．help | C．check | D．calm |
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| 小题18: | | A．look | B．sense | C．catch | D．realize |
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| 小题19: | | A．adventure | B．accident | C．life | D．experience |
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| 小题20: | | A．really | B．immediately | C．carefully | D．certainly |
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When Dean Arnold got his first job, he was miserable (痛苦的), Each time he went to work, he coughed and he couldn’t breathe. Working in a bakery(面包房) when you are allergic to (对…过敏) flour can be painful.
But Arnold stayed with the National Biscuit Company for ten years. He was a businessman and he helped them improve production. At last his health problems became too serious. He left and formed his own company.
With his wife and mother, he founded Arnold Bakery. They tried new recipes (配方), changing the kind and amount of flour used. This enabled Arnold to work there without too much pain. The bread, made with unbleached flour (标准粉), was baked in a brick oven (烘炉).
They began by baking two dozen loaves. The bread was sold door to door for fifteen cents a loaf. Winning customers to his unusual, ol d-fashioned bread took time. But Arnold, struggling against his allergy, built his bakery into one of the largest in the United States.
小题1:A good title for this passage would be ______.| A．A Sick Baker | B．A Brick-oven Bread Baker | | C．An Old-fashioned Baker | D．How to Overcome Allergy |
小题2: Dean left the National Biscuit Company because he ______.| A．suffered from allergy to flour | B．didn’t like the job | | C．wanted to make more money | D．wanted to form his own company |
小题3:During his stay in the National Biscuit Company, ______.| A．he founded Arnold Bakery | | B．he tried a new method of baking | | C．he helped the company improve their production | | D．he became successful in his business |
小题4:Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?| A．Arnold’s bread was baked in a brick oven. | | B．Arnold’s bread was made with unbleached flour. | | C．Arnold’s bread was sold at a low price. | | D．Arnold’s bread was of poor quality. |
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What is true friendship? True friendship doesn’t mean that when you need your friends’ help, you will 36 them to dinner, and you will put your friends in a difficult 37 when you have to protect yourself. 38 true friendship is understanding of the souls and the 39 of the hearts. True friends are connected in hearts every minute whatever the 40 is.
True friendship involves 41 : doing something for someone else while expecting nothing 42 ; sharing thoughts and feelings 43 fear of judgment or negative criticism.
44 is essential to true friendship. We need to be able to 45 our deepest secrets with someone, without worrying that those secrets will 46 on the Internet the next day! Failing to 47 those secrets can destroy a friendship in a hurry. True friendship has 48 to do with fame, power, or possessions. True friends 49 contact you at usual time, but come to you 50 you need their help. They care not 51 you are, but who you are. You’re not his stepping-stone to 52 but are his walking stick to 53 difficulties. When you are happy, you are 54 to forget him, but when you are in trouble, he is the first one you will 55 for help.
| 小题1: | | A．inform | B．regard | C．treat | D．advise |
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| 小题2: | | A．situation | B．state | C．occasion | D．surrounding |
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| 小题3: | | A．In a word | B．On the contrary | C．In a nutshell | D．On average |
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| 小题4: | | A．consideration | B．connection | C．attraction | D．communication |
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| 小题5: | | A．distance | B．destination | C．position | D．ambition |
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| 小题6: | | A．promise | B．action | C．belief | D．words |
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| 小题7: | | A．in turn | B．at times | C．in return | D．at no times |
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| 小题8: | | A．with | B．without | C．despite | D．beyond |
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| 小题9: | | A．Trust | B．Honesty | C．Kindness | D．Humor |
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| 小题10: | | A．keep | B．unite | C．share | D．realize |
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| 小题11: | | A．take up | B．end up | C．come up | D．bring up |
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| 小题12: | | A．keep | B．prevent | C．protect | D．remain |
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| 小题13: | | A．something | B．nothing | C．anything | D．everything |
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| 小题14: | | A．frequently | B．regularly | C．seldom | D．usually |
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| 小题15: | | A．all the time | B．any time | C．each time | D．by the time |
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| 小题17: | | A．dream | B．future | C．success | D．aim |
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| 小题18: | | A．live through | B．put through | C．break through | D．look through |
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| 小题19: | | A．possible | B．likely | C．probable | D．impossible |
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| 小题20: | | A．turn to | B．bring in | C．set out | D．look up |
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