完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分, 满分30分)It was a rainy day and I was riding on a bus downtown

完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分, 满分30分)It was a rainy day and I was riding on a bus downtown

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完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分, 满分30分)
It was a rainy day and I was riding on a bus downtown to go to work. I was_36_next to a man in a business suit and J paid little attention_37_ we both got off at the same stop and walked to the same news-stand to get a morning_38_.
The man running the stand was obviously having a_39_day. He was rude and unsmil­ing as we bought our papers,which only_40_ more gloom (郁闷) to my day. The business­man_41_my gloomy feeling and smiled brightly,_42_the news-stand owner for the paper and for being open on such a( n) _43_to make sure we were able to get our papers.
As we_44_away,I asked this man why he was so_45_to the newsman when he didn"t _46_his expression of thanks and friendliness. The businessman smiled at me and said,"Why would I let someone else _47_what I say and what I feel?"
We then_48_to go to our own work places. To this day,I still don"t know who that businessman was,or_49_he worked. He appeared briefly in my life and disappeared just as_50_. But I"ve never forgotten the words he said and his_51_which seemed like a ray of light on a gloomy day.
That was a good 25 years_52_,but the effect this had on my life has lasted. I_53_had a chance to thank him personally,but the way I look at life has changed _54_those words. I have learnt that we cannot control people and_55_that come to us, but we can always control our response to them. 
小题1:
A.whispering B.sitting C.driving D.weeping
小题2:
A.since B.after C.unless D.until
小题3:
A.paper B.suit C.call D.coffee
小题4:
A.good B.nervous C.bad D.long
小题5:
A.providedB.offered C.added D.returned
小题6:
A.breathedB.called C.noticed D.took
小题7:
A.thankingB.envying C.asking D.blaming
小题8:
A.evening B.afternoon C.morning D.midnight
小题9:
A.turned B.passed C.drove D.ran
小题10:
A.cruel B.serious C.pleasant D.rude
小题11:
A.stick to B.refer to C.get used to D.respond to
小题12:
A.explain B.understand C.control D.correct
小题13:
A.attempted B.sought C.continuedD.separated
小题14:
A.where B.why C.whether D.how
小题15:
A.gently B.quickly C.regularly D.strangely
小题16:
A.humor B.smile C.business D.help
小题17:
A.ago B.before C.later D.after
小题18:
A.often B.seldom C.once D.never
小题19:
A.in search of B.in memoryof C.for the purpose ofD.as a result of
小题20:
A.situations B.statements C.possibilities D.positions

答案

小题1:B 小题1:D小题1: A小题1: C小题1: C  
小题1: C小题1: A小题1: C小题1: A小题1: C     
小题1:D 小题1:C 小题1:D小题1: A小题1: B    
小题1: B小题1: A小题1: D小题1: D小题1: A
解析

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  How to make friends with people from a different culture? The rules are as follows:
Appreciate the person
Most Americans like to be recognized as individuals as someone special with unique, personalities. Therefore never say,“you are from America so I want to be your friend.” Also don’t imply that the reason why you approached them is that you wanted someone to practice your English with . That turns people off. Instead try saying,”“you seem like a real nice and interesting person and I would like to get to know you better .’ This way , they are much more inclined to be friendly because you see them as a three dimensional person and appreciate them for who they are in the inside . And by doing so , you not only learn about Americans and practice your English , but also gain a real friend in the process
Quit Calling Us Foreigners.
Please avoid calling a foreigner especially in his face . The word makes people feel like an outsider , and even unwelcome , suggesting separation and insurmountable difference , widening an already existing gap in the situation. When Americans travel , they rarely say,“I’m foreign to your place .” They tend to say ,”I’m new in town . I’m new here.” The reason is because new and unfamiliar things can become old and familiar. But can foreign things become native? You catch my drift.
Just Do It .
Some students like to be told about American culture but are less interested in spending the time and effort to actually experience it .As Americans always say ,“get your hands dirty.” You should have first hands on experience, or you will never really know anything.
Find that Common Language.
Now I just must stress the importance of finding a common language. By that I don’t mean English, Chinese , German ,French,etc. I mean finding something you have in common with another person on a spiritual and philosophical level: likes , dislikes, worldviews, ways of thinking and attitudes toward life. And to start , you must first enhance your knowledge of the particular culture from which your potential
小题1: The underlined sentence“get your hands dirty” means     .
A get involved   B talk about American culture    C star with dirty work   D Don’t wash your hands too often
小题2: Americans prefer to make friends with those who    .
A  avoid talking about their homeland     B  recognize their personalities
C  obey rules of communicating with friends   D  needn’t practice English while playing together
小题3:According to the passage , which of the following is friendly?
A   I am longing to make friends with an American.
B   This is my friend Tom , who is a foreigner.
C   There must be a gap between us in many things.
D   You ‘ve  got a great personality
小题4:  In the last paragraph , the author suggests we should   
A  Learn at least one foreign language well
Bfind common interests or opinions with our potential new friend
C make sure we can understand each other
D ask where our potential new friends come from
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When I was in the final year of my graduation studies, I visited a friend’s home for lunch. The moment I reached his house, I found the staircases of his building were not so good and his home was not painted very well. I couldn’t  36  in words but it was not even the type of house in which a typical middle-class Indian family lives.
The greatest things I did find there were his parents. We sat on the ground for lunch because they didn’t have a dining  37 . His mother served us very delicious food, smiled throughout and showed care for the  38  lunch session. I can never forget that.
His father worked as a normal  39  and I wondered if he earned enough money to support their two sons. While we were taking lunch, his father returned home to meet us. When he entered their home, his hands were dark black and his clothes were very dirty. My friend had no  40  about his father and made the introductions.
As soon as his father came in, my friend asked me if I wanted “Papad”(a typical Indian food)to eat. Before I could say anything, the father very gently and kindly  41  it for me, after going through many staircases even though he was looking  42 .
Today, my friend is a leader in a big company. He is able to  43  high rent in Hyderabad and have a new beautiful home. Not only that, he helped his brother  44  in his studies and is still helping.
What I want to say is that I consider  45  as richness in a poor family. The amount of money you make won’t  46  other’s hearts; the only way is with love and kindness. Struggle and bad periods are needed for everyone’s life, as they make us strong. If you have strong willpower, goals and also the attitude of hard and smart work, you can  47  be a successful person in some areas of life.
小题1:  
A.describe B.takeC.talkD.speak
小题2:  
A.roomB.carC.tableD.hall
小题3:
A.desirableB.healthyC.temporaryD.entire
小题4:.
A.doctorB.mechanicC.lawyerD.teacher
小题5:
A.commentB.hesitationC.worryD.expectation
小题6:
A.borrowedB.boughtC.broughtD.took
小题7:  
A.tiredB.happyC.sadD.excited
小题8:
A.costB.spendC.tookD.pay
小题9:
A.dearlyB.financiallyC.highlyD.costly
小题10:
A.familiarityB.relationshipC.loveD.friendship
小题11:  
A.winB.getC.gainD.defeat
小题12:  
A.possiblyB.hardlyC.suddenlyD.definitely

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I think it was my mother who taught me the meaning of honesty. Not because she actually was honest, but because she lied all the time. She felt that the easiest way out of any given situation was generally the best way out. And, for her, that generally meant telling a “little white lie.” As a young child I thought it was kind of cool. And, naturally, when I would come to her with a concern or question wondering what I should do, she generally advised me to lie.
“Mom, I told Theresa that I would go over to her house, but now I would rather go to Sue’s house to play.”
“Tell Theresa you’re sick,” she would advise. And generally I did. But I didn’t seem blessed with her lack of conscience. On many painful occasions Theresa would find out that I really went to Sue’s house without her. These occasions taught me that it is more painful to be caught in a lie than it is to tell the truth in the first place. I wondered how it was possible that my mother had never learned that lesson.
I started thinking of all the lies that I’d heard her tell. I remembered the time she told someone that her favorite restaurant had closed, because she didn’t want to see them there anymore. Or the time she told Dad that she loved the lawn-mower he gave her for her birthday. Or when she claimed that our phone lines had been down when she was trying to explain why she hadn’t been in touch with a friend of hers for weeks. And what bothered me even more were all the times she had involved me into her lies. Like the time she told my guidance counselor that I had to miss school for exploratory surgery, when she really needed me to babysit. And it even started to bother me when someone would call for her and she would ask me to tell them that she wasn’t there.
So, I started my own personal fight against her dishonesty. When I answered the phone and it was someone my mother didn’t want to talk to, I said, “Louise, mom is here, but she doesn’t want to talk to you.” The first time I did it, she punished me, but I refused to apologize. I told her that I had decided that it was wrong to lie. And the next time it happened I did the same thing. Finally, she approached me and said, “I agree that lying is not the best thing to do, but we need to find a way to be honest without being rude.” She admitted that her methods weren’t right, and I admitted that mine were a bit too extreme.
Over the past few years, the two of us have worked together to be honest—and yet kind. Honesty should mean more than not lying. It should mean speaking the truth in kindness. Though I started by trying to teach my mom the importance of honesty, I ended up gaining a deeper understanding of the meaning of the term.
小题1: The author’s mother __________. 
A.thought white lies were not lies
B.helped the author get out of trouble with white lies
C.told the author to lie when in trouble
D.taught the author the importance of being honest
小题2:The author __________.
A.was thankful to her mother’s advice
B.felt more awkward when being caught lying
C.found that telling the truth hurt more than telling a lie
D.felt guilty when hurting people with her honesty
小题3:It can be inferred that the author’s mother __________.
A.met her friends in the same restaurant regularly
B.didn’t get along with the author’s teachers
C.was not popular among her friends
D.wanted to have something else for her birthday
小题4:Finally the author and her mother agreed that __________.
A.kind-heartedness is more important than honesty
B.appropriate methods are the key to telling a good lie
C.honesty is defined as kindness as well as truthfulness
D.absolute honesty is basic to good interpersonal relationships

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Lots of people have hobbies. Some people collect old coins or foreign stamps; some do needlework; others spend most of their spare time on a particular sport.
A lot of people enjoy reading. But reading tastes differ widely. Some people only read newspapers or comics, some like reading novels, while others prefer books on astronomy, wildlife, or technological discoveries.
If I happen to be interested in horses or precious stones, I cannot expect everyone else to share my enthusiasm. If I watch all the sports programs on TV with great pleasure, I must put up with the fact that other people find sports boring.
Is there nothing that interests us all? Is there nothing that concerns everyone—no matter who they are or where they live in the world? Yes, dear Sophie, there are questions that certainly should interest everyone. They are precisely the questions this course is about.
What is the most important thing in life? If we ask someone living on the edge of starvation, the answer is food. If we ask someone dying of cold, the answer is warmth. If we put the same question to someone who feels lonely and isolated, the answer will probably be the company of other people.
But when these basic needs have been satisfied—will there still be something that everybody needs? Philosophers think so. They believe that man cannot live by bread alone. Of course everyone needs food. And everyone needs love and care. But there is something else—apart from that—which everyone needs, and that is to figure out who we are and why we are here.
Being interested in why we are here is not a “casual” interest like collecting stamps. People who ask such questions are taking part in a debate that has gone on as long as man has lived on this planet. How the universe, the earth, and life came into being is a bigger and more important question than who won the most gold medals in the last Olympics.
小题1: This text is most probably taken from __________. 
A.a research paperB.a course schedule
C.a personal letterD.a book review
小题2: Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?
A.Philosophical questions are as interesting as collecting stamps.
B.Thinking about philosophical questions is a serious interest.
C.Figuring out who we are and why we are here is man’s basic needs.
D.Philosophy has universal appeal and concerns everybody in nature.
小题3: The author believes that __________.
A.no existing subject can interest everyone in the world
B.different people may have different interests and concerns
C.everyone has to figure out who we are and why we are here
D.people in modern society pay more attention to philosophical questions

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Hidden in our subconsciousness(潜意识)is a perfect mental picture.  We see ourselves on a long trip that goes across the continent. We are traveling by train. Out the windows, we think in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways,  of children waving at a crossing , of cattle feeding on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, or row upon row of corn and wheat, of flat lands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hills, of city skylines and village halls.
But uppermost in our minds is the final destination.  On a certain day at a certain hour, we will pull into the station. Bands will be playing and flags waving. Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, condemning(谴责)the minutes for loitering(虚度)— waiting, waiting,  waiting for the station.
"When we reach the station, that will be it!”we cry. "When I’m 38." "When I buy a new 450SL Mercdes Benz!""When I put the last kid through college.""When I have paid off the debt!" "When I get a promotion.""When I reach the age of rement, I shall live happily ever after!"
Sooner or later, we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream.It constantly outdistances us.
"Relish(appreciate) the moment" is a good motto,  actually it isn’t the burdens of today that drive man mad. It is the regret over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today.
So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, swim more rivers,  watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. Then the station will come soon enough.
小题1:
Why does the author describe the mental picture?
A.To lead us into a perfect world.B.To let people enjoy the scenery.
C.To introduce an actual trip of his.D.To compare it to our life’s journey.
小题2:
How do people feel when they’re on their trip?
A.Puzzled.B.Happy.C.Relaxed.D.Impatient.
小题3:
What does the author mean by "Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of
today" in Line 2 Paragraph 5?
A.Regret and fear are responsible for the loss of today.
B.We must be careful of the two thieves: regret and fear.
C.Regret and fear stop us from enjoying our present life.
D.We’re frequently challenged by the two: regret and fear.
小题4:
Why does the author write the passage?
A.To teach us a good lesson.
B.To tell us the right attitude to life.
C.To advise us to forget our worries.
D.To stop us wandering along the aisles.

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