For many years, I was convinced that my suffering was due to my size. I believed

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For many years, I was convinced that my suffering was due to my size. I believed that when the weight disappeared, it would take old wounds, hurts, and rejections with it.
Many weight – conscious people also mistakenly believe that changing our bodies will fix everything. Perhaps our worst mistake is

believing that being thin equals being loved, being special, and being cherished. We fantasize（梦想）about what it will be like when we reach the long – awaited goal. We work very hard to realize this dream. Then, at last, we find ourselves there.
But we often gain back what we have lost. Even so, we continue to believe that next time it will be different. Next time, we will keep it off. Next time, being thin will finally fulfill its promise of everlasting happiness, self–worth, and, of course, love.
It took me a long while to realize that there was something more for me to learn about beauty. Beauty standards vary with culture. In Samoa a woman is not considered attractive unless she weighs more than 200 pounds. More importantly, if it’s happiness that we want, why not put our energy there rather than on the size of our body? Why not look inside? Many of us work hard to change our body, but in vain. We have to find a way to live comfortable inside our body and make friends with and cherish ourselves. When we change our attitudes toward ourselves, the whole world changes.
小题1:The passage tries to tell us the importance of .

A．body size	B．attitudes
C．culture difference	D．different beauty standards

小题2: What does the word “everything” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．All the problems.	B．All the properties
C．The whole world	D．The absolute truth

小题3: What can be inferr

ed about the author?

A．The author is a Samoan

B．The author succeeded in losing weight

C．The author has been troubled by her/his weight.

D．The author probably got wounded in wars or accidents.

小题4:. According to the author, what is the common view of those who have lost some weight first and gained it back later?

A．They feel angry about the regained weight

B．They are indifferent to the regained weight

C．They feel optimistic about future plans on weight control.

D．They think they should give up their future plans on weight control.

答案

小题1:.B
小题1:.A
小题1:.C
小题1:.C

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I am a German by birth and descent. My name is Schmidt. But by education I am quite as much an Englishman as a "Deutscher", and by affection much more the former. M

y life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and I flatter myself I speak both languages without any foreign accent.
I count England my headquarters now: it is “home” to me. But a few years ago I was resident in Germany, only going over to London now and then on business. I will not mention the town where I lived. It is unnecessary to do so, and in the peculiar experience I am about to relate I think real names of people and plac

es are just as well, or better avoided.
I was connected with a large and important firm of engineers. I had been bre

d up to the profession, and was credited with a certain amount of “talent”; and I was considered—and, with all modesty, I think I deserved the opinion—steady and reliable, so that I had already attained a fair position in the house, and was looked upon as a “rising man”. But I was still young, and not quite so wise as I thought myself. I came close once to making a great mess of a certain affair. It is this story which I am going to tell.
Our house went in largely for patents—rather too largely, some thought. But the head partner"s son was a bit of a genius in his way, and his father was growing old, and let Herr Wilhelm - Moritz we will call the family name—do pretty much as he chose. And on the whole Herr Wilhelm did well. He was cautious, and he had the benefit of the st

ill greater caution and larger experience of Herr Gerhardt, the second partner in the firm.
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atents and the laws which regulate them are strange things to have to do with. No one who has not had personal experience of the complications that arise could believe how far these spread and how involved they become. Great acuteness as well as caution is called for if you would guide your patent bark safely to port—and perhaps more than anything, a power of holding your tongue. I was no chatterbox, nor, when on a mission of importance, did I go about looking as if I were bursting with secrets, which is, in my opinion, almost as dangerous as revealing them. No one, to meet me on the journeys which it often fell to my lot to undertake, would have guessed that I had anything on my mind but an easy-going young fellow"s natural interest i

n his surroundings, though many a time I have stayed awake through a whole night of railway travel if at all doubtful about my fellow-passengers, or not dared to go to sleep in a hotel without a ready-loaded gun by my pillow. For now and then - though not through me - our secrets did ooze out. And if, as has happened, they were secrets connected with Government orders or contracts, there was, or but for the exertion of the greatest energy and tact on the part of my superiors, there would have been, to put it plainly, the devil to pay.
小题1: The writer preferred to be called ________.

A．a German	B．an Englishman
C．both a German and an Englishman	D．neither a German nor an Englishman

小题2:Which of the following words cannot be used to describe the writer?

A．Talented

B．Modest

C．Reliable

D．Wise

小题3:The head of the company where the writer works is ________.

A．Schmidt

B．Moritz

C．Wilhelm’s father

D．Gerhardt

小题4: The writer often stayed awake on the train or kept a ready-loaded gun in the hotel, because ________.

A．some peo

ple sometimes let out the secrets of his company

B．the writer occasionally didn’t keep the secrets of his company

C．patents and the laws are strange things to have to do with

D．the secrets were connected with Government orders or contracts

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完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分．满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意．然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Returning from a trip overseas, I sensed that something was wrong between Keith, one of my two sons, and me. So I asked him, “Keith, have I done anything that really _ 1__ your feeling?”
Immediately, he said, “Yes. Last Christmas you promised us a special    2    that I really wanted but you never gave it to me.”
The    3  was that I’d completely forgotten about it. I   4    , “Is there anything else I’ve done wrong, but didn’t apologized for?”
Again, his   5   was immediate, “Remember last Christmas when Mom said you had to go to the    6  because Stephen was going to be born? You left us at home and  7   in a hurry. Remember?”
“Well, you left and forgot the suitcase.” I couldn’t believe he   8    all the details! “After you came back from the hospital you were   9   . When you got home, the suitcase had been opened and everythinghad been thrown all over the place and you 10  me.”
“And you didn’t do it?” I asked.
“No, I didn’t . I was just searching for my gift.”
My heart sank. I felt  11   . I hugged Keith and asked him to  12    me. His Honesty made me think of our other son, Kevin. Maybe I’d hurt his feelings, too. I went to ask him the same question. Kevin’s answer was as immediate as his  13   , “Last Christmas you promised us a special toy, but you forgot about it.”
Though Christmas had passed, I took my two sons to the store that da

y and bought them what I had promised. The  14   thing wasn’t the toy. The problem was I’d made a promise too  15    and didn’t keep it as their father.
1．A．showed        B．hurt          C．attended        D．expressed
2．A．candy         B．book          C．picture         D．toy
3．A．challenge    B．message      C．idea         D．fact
4．A．complained   B．apologized                      C．continued     D．explained
5．A．suggestion     B．answer         C．memory         D．blame
6．A．hospital        B．church       C．school       D．garden
7．A．settled down                    B．went on       C．set off      D．got up
8．A．knew          B．imagined     C．discovered    D．remembered
9．A．angry          B．worried       C．happy         D．satisfied
10．A．praised       B．punished     C．helped        D．educated
11．A．terrible     B．hopeless      C．inspired      D．encouraged
12．A．support      B．criticize                       C．suspect       D．forgive
13．A．mother        B．brother      C．sister        D．father
14．A．strange       B．interesting  C．important    D．difficult
15．A．lightly        B．rudely         C．equally        D．truly

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When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in basic training in New Jersey and not sure if I would make it

home for the holiday. Only on the afternoon of December 23 was the list of men who would have the three-day holiday posted. I was one of the lucky soldiers. It was Christmas Eve when I arrived home, and a little snow had fallen. Mothe

r opened the front door. I could see beyond her, into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights, colors, and ornaments (饰品) shining against the green of a pine.
"Where did it come from?" I asked.
"I asked the Gates boy to cut it," my mother said. "I wouldn"t have had one just for myself, but when in great need... such a rush! He just brought it in this afternoon."
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he pine reached to the proper height, almost to the ceiling, and the Tree Top Crystal（水晶）Star was in its place. A few green branches reached out a little awkwardly（难看）at the side, I thought, and there was a bit of bare trunk showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with warm light and the whole house with the pleasant smell of Christmas.
"It"s not like the one you used to find," my mother went on. "Yours were always in good shape. I suppose the Gates boy didn"t know where to look for a better one. But I couldn"t be fussy(挑剔的)."
"Don"t worry," I told her. "It"s perfect."
It wasn"t, of course, but at the moment I realized something for the first time: All Christmas trees are perfect.
1. What did his mother"s Christmas tree look like?

2. From the passage we can infer (推断) that ________ .
A. all the soldiers had the three-day holiday
B. the writer could not go home for Christmas
C. the writer spent his first Christmas during the war
D. not all the soldiers went home for Christmas during the war
3. From the passage, we can conclude that ________ .
A. his mother didn"t like Christmas trees
B. the writer didn"t like the tree cut by someone else
C. the writer used to cut very beautiful Christmas trees
D. his mother didn"t want to have a Christmas tree during wartime
4. The best title for this passage would be ________ .
A. The Perfect Christmas Tree
B. How to Choose a Christmas Tree
C. How Soldiers Spent Their Christmas
D. A Christmas with an Ugly Christmas Tree
5. What does the writer mean by saying "All Christmas trees are perfect"?
A. Nothing is as perfect as Christmas.
B. Once at home, everything is so nice.
C. During the war, trees are hard to find.
D. All Christmas trees are the most beautiful.

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My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation i

n Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen（牛） that ploughed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $ 1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.
It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation

owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. More important, I earned my pay; it never entered my mind to say I was sick just because I didn’t want to work.
I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s jo

b. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $ 18 a week. Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. Nothin

g made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person can have.
When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dreamt of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.
The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb(番石榴树枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity. I learned working in the field — except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.
小题1:The word “tedious” in Paragraph 2 most probably means _______.

A．difficult

B．boring

C．interesting

D．unusual

小题2:The writer learned that_______ from his first job.

A．he should work for those who he liked most

B．he should work longer than what he was expected

C．he should never fail to say hello to his owner

D．he should be respectful and faithful to the people he worked for

小题3:_______ gave the writer self-esteem.

A．Having a family of eight people

B．Owning his own golf course

C．Bringing money back home to help the family

D．Helping his father with the work on the plantation

小题4:Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．He wanted to be a successful golfer.

B．He wanted to run a golf course near his house.

C．He was satisfied with the job he got on a plantation.

D．He wanted to make money by guiding oxen with a brooms

tick.

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The other day I heard a few local musicians talking:
"I hat

e all the pianos in this town and I hate that rubbish they play on the radio. They cannot even understand rhythm (韵律)."
"Nobody wants to pay musicians anything. I’m sick of all the people who want you to play without paying you."
One younger musician said, "There are several clubs who want me to play for a few nights a month, and I’m trying to find other places to play. I’m also planning to join in several summer festivals this year."
I really liked what the younger musician said so I made friends with him.
Attitudes are important.

Whether they’re positive (积极的) or negative (消极的), they’re all rubbing off on you. If you’re around people who are always complaining or blaming (责备) others, it is possible that you will start doing the same as well. If you spend lots of time with people who don’t support (支持) your dreams, it is time to take a look at the people you call "friends".
There is an easy exercise you can try. Make a list of the people who you often stay with, and simply stop spending time with the negative ones on your list. Set a new standard for yourself and don’t become friends with people who fall below that standard.
Of course, this exercise is entirely different from making friends only for the good of oneself. We really should try to help and spend time with those who are working towards a goal or dream.
小题1:The musicians’ conversation at the beginning is there to show that ______.

A．musicians’ living conditions are not good

B．people in that town have poor taste in music

C．young people are more likely to succeed

D．different people have different attitudes

小题2:The underl

ined part "they’re all rubbing off on you" in Paragraph 6 means ______.

A．they’ll push you ahead

B．they’ll help you realize your dreams

C．they’ll keep you from moving on

D．they’ll have an influence (影响) on you

小题3:By doing the exercise mentioned in Paragraph 7, you can ______.

A．improve your ability to make friends

B．make the right kind of friends

C．develop a better relationship with your friends

D．make some new friends with the same interests as you

小题4:We can get the following information from the passage EXCEPT ______.

A．the younger musician is a positive person and would be a good friend

B．one should avoid (避免) making friends with people who have lots of
difficulties

C．the exercise can help you keep close to really helpful friends

D．one will start complaining if one spends too much time with negative people

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