It was Christmas 1961. I was teaching in a small town where my twenty-seven thir
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It was Christmas 1961. I was teaching in a small town where my twenty-seven third graders eagerly 36 the great day of gift-giving in advance.
Each day the children produced some new 37 — strings of popcorn, handmade trinkets, and German bell. Through it all she remained alone, 38 from a distance, seemingly miles away. I wondered what 39 happen to this quiet child, once so happy, now suddenly so withdrawn. I hoped the festivities would 40 her. But nothing did. The students made the fried marbles（油炸玻璃弹子）and competed with one anther to bring the 41 ones.
The day of gift-giving finally came. We cheered over our handiwork as the presents were 42 . All along, she sat quietly watching. To see her smile, I had made a special bag for her. She opened it so slowly and carefully. I waited but she 43 . I had not passed through the wall of isolation she had 44 around herself.
After school I sat down in a chair, hardly 45 of what was happening, when she came to me with outstretched hands, bearing a small white box, and slightly soiled, 46 it had been held many times by 47 , childish hands. She said nothing. “For me?” I asked. She said not a word, but 48 her head. I took the box and cautiously opened it. There inside, glistening green, a fried marble 49 from a golden chain. Then I looked into that eight-year-old 50 and saw the question in her dark brown eyes. In a flash I knew — she had 51 it for her mother, who had died just three weeks before and would never hold her or brush her hair or 52 her childish joys or sorrows.
I meant it when I whispered, “Oh, Maria, it is so beautiful. Your mother would 53 it.” Neither of us could stop the 54 . She threw herself into my arms and we wept together. And for that brief moment I became her mother, for she had given me the greatest 55 of all: her trust and love.
| 小题1: | | A．prepared | B．reserved | C．expected | D．waited |
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| 小题2: | | A．fancies | B．impressions | C．wonders | D．possessions |
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| 小题3: | | A．looking | B．playing | C．searching | D．watching |
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| 小题4: | | A．would | B．should | C．must | D．needed |
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| 小题5: | | A．attend to | B．appeal to | C．listen to | D．object to |
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| 小题6: | | A．prettiest | B．wisest | C．heaviest | D．naughtiest |
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| 小题7: | | A．transformed | B．informed | C．exchanged | D．deserted |
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| 小题8: | | A．gave away | B．threw away | C．carried away | D．turned away |
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| 小题9: | | A．built | B．adjusted | C．offered | D．filled |
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| 小题10: | | A．afraid | B．aware | C．content | D．fond |
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| 小题11: | | A．when | B．while | C．as though | D．even if |
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| 小题12: | | A．untouched | B．unknown | C．unwashed | D．unpacked |
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| 小题13: | | A．nodded | B．raised | C．dropped | D．turned |
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| 小题14: | | A．protected | B．hung | C．held | D．escaped |
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| 小题15: | | A．face | B．cheek | C．hair | D．forehead |
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| 小题16: | | A．bought | B．exchanged | C．made | D．stole |
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| 小题17: | | A．appreciate | B．enjoy | C．communicate | D．share |
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| 小题18: | | A．love | B．benefit | C．dislike | D．need |
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| 小题19: | | A．laugh | B．excitement | C．tears | D．description |
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| 小题20: | | A．joy | B．identity | C．contribution | D．gift |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:B
小题6:A
小题7:C
小题8:D
小题9:A
小题10:B
小题11:C
小题12:C
小题13:A
小题14:B
小题15:A
小题16:C
小题17:D
小题18:A
小题19:C
小题20:D |
解析
小题1:A。prepare预备。班上27个孩子都在热切盼望着这个互赠礼品、激动人心的日子到来。
小题2:C。每天孩子们都会做点儿新玩意（wonders）。
小题3:D。但自始至终，她都是孤零零地远远观望（watching），仿佛是隔了一道几里长的障碍。
小题4:A。would将。我猜想着这个安静的孩子发生了什么事。
小题5:B。appeal to吸引。我希望节日的活动能吸引她。
小题6:A。彼此相比较，带来最漂亮的（prettiest）。
小题7:C。在交换（exchanged）礼物时我们为对方亲手做的小礼品不停地欢呼叫好。
小题8:D。turned away把……打发走。我等待着，但是她却转过了身。
小题9:A。build the wall of isolation表示建立隔离之墙。
小题10:B。be aware of 意识到。我坐了下来，几乎没有意识到要发生什么。
小题11:C。as though好像。好像是被孩子未洗过的小手摸过了许多遍。
小题12:C。unwashed未洗过的。解析见上题。
小题13:A。她没出声，只是点点（nodded）头。
小题14:B。一条金色的链子挂着（hung）一个油炸玻璃弹子。
小题15:A。然后，我看着八岁孩子的脸（face）。
小题16:C。这是她为妈妈做（made）的项链。
小题17:D。她的妈妈再也不能分享（share）她童年时光的快乐和忧伤。
小题18:A。***妈一定会喜欢（love）的。”
小题19:C。我们已无法抑制住泪水（tears）。
小题20:D。因为她把一份最珍贵的礼物(gift)送给了我。 |
举一反三
Warning: reading too much Cinderella to your daughter may damage her emotional health in later life. A paper to be developed at the international congress of cognitive psychotherapy(认知心理疗法) in Gothenburg suggests a link between the attitudes of women abused by their parents and early exposure to the wrong sort of fairy tales. It says girls who identified with Cinderella, Rapunzel and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast were more likely to say in destructive relationships as adults.
The theory was developed by Susan Darker Smith, a psychotherapist at the University of Derby. She interviewed 67 female abuse survivors and found that 61 put up with severe abuse because they believed they could change their partners with patience, composition and love . The same view was taken by male survivors who had been abused as children. Hardly any of the women in a control group, who had not experienced abuse, thought they could change their partners in this way.
The same view was taken by male survivors who had been abused as children. These women and men said they would leave a relationship rather than put up with abuse from a partner. Ms Darker Smith found the abused women were much more likely to identify with Cinderella and other submissive female characters in fairytales, who were later rescued by a stranger prince or hero.
Although most girls heard the stories, damage appeared to be done to those who adopted the characters as role models. “They believe if their love is strong enough they can change their parents’ behaviors,” she said.” Overexposure in children to stories that emphasize the transformational qualities of love may make women believe they can change their partners.” For example, they might never have understood the obvious flaw in the story of Rapunzel, who remained locked in a high tower until rescued by a knight on a white horse, who broke the door down. “The question,” said Ms Darker Smith, “is why she did not break the door down herself.”
小题1:The passage is especially intended for _________.| A．parents with young daughters | B．girls who like reading  fairy stories | | C．girls who think they can change their partners | | D．parents with grown-up daughters |
小题2:Cinderella, Rapunzel and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast are similar in that _________.| A．They all married some princes | | B．They all changed their partners with love | | C．They were all abused by their partners | | D．They all put up with abuse |
小题3:Which of the following statements is true of the women in a control group?| A．They don’t believe in fairy tales. | | B．They don’t believe in the transformational qualities of love. | | C．They have also experienced abuse. | | D．They survived abuse. |
小题4:What does the underlined word “submissive”in the 3rd paragraph probably mean?| A．kind-hearted | B．passive | C．gentle | D．easy-going |
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I spent two months with an American family last year when I studied in America.
It is said, “The best house is in America, the best wife is in Japan, and the best food is in China.” So I took pride （自豪）and __21__ to __22__ “the best food” for my American family. Each day, regardless of my poor skill of cooking, I would do something in __23__ way: changing the dishes’ colour, the meat’s type or the soup’s style. （风味）Thus, my American friends could discover the __24__ of eating Chinese food. Because of my “__25__” job, I was often rewarded （奖励） by their __26__ of appreciation （感激）such as “very delicious”, “excellent”, etc.
But the joke was here: Yesterday, I cooked Sichuan style __27__ for dinner. I was __28__ at my achievement.（成就）
When all the family members arrived at the table, they first looked __29__ at the fish, then looked at me. “Why do all the fish have their __30__?” they asked, “It’s terrible!”
Terrible or beautiful? I don’t know. But I __31_ know that fish heads are delicious. The __32__ is the best part of fish; in __33__ only the respectable （受敬重的）guest can have the special honour of __34__ it.
Another __35__ thing is: The American friends often said to me “__36__” as they __37__ fruits or other things. According to Chinese tradition I would simply smile in answer to their kindness __38__ actually helping myself to any of the food. __39__, I said “help yourself” to them whenever I brought home fruits. Dear me, no matter how much or how often I brought home food, as long as it was nice to their taste, they __40__ hesitated （犹豫）to use their hands to “help themselves” until all was finished
| 小题1: | | A．worry | B．attention | C．delight | D．pleasure |
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| 小题2: | | A．buy | B．fetch | C．cook | D．leave |
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| 小题3: | | A．their | B．a new | C．the same | D．a simple |
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| 小题4: | | A．way | B．joy | C．trouble | D．importance |
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| 小题6: | | A．expressions | B．flowers | C．talk | D．smile |
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| 小题8: | | A．praised | B．pleased | C．good | D．surprised |
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| 小题9: | | A．happily | B．excitedly | C．surprisedly | D．worriedly |
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| 小题10: | | A．bones | B．skins | C．tails | D．heads |
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| 小题11: | | A．do | B．will | C．want to | D．should |
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| 小题12: | | A．tail | B．head | C．soup | D．flesh |
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| 小题13: | | A．fact | B．China | C．USA | D．the West |
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| 小题14: | | A．enjoying | B．looking at | C．playing with | D．cooking |
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| 小题15: | | A．real | B．exciting | C．interesting | D．easy |
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| 小题16: | | A．please help us | B．excuse me | C．help yourself | D．eat them please |
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| 小题17: | | A．brought home | B．wanted | C．were buying | D．were eating |
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| 小题18: | | A．not | B．but not | C．without | D．nor |
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| 小题19: | | A．At last | B．Above all | C．After all | D．In return |
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| 小题20: | | A．usual | B．often | C．never | D．had |
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I start to wonder what else had changed since I’d been gone. My parents are in an awkward puzzle, wondering how to treat me now----whether to treat me—still their daughter—as one of them, an adult, or as the child they feel they sent away months earlier.
I run into two of my best friends from high school; we stare at each other, expressionless. We ask the simple questions and give simple answers. It’s as if we have nothing to say to each other. I wonder how things have changed so much in such a small amount of time. We used to laugh and promise that no matter how far away we were, our love for each other would never change. Their interests don’t interest me anymore, and I find myself unable to relate my life to theirs.
I had been so excited to come home, but now I just look at it all and wonder: Is it me? Why hadn’t the world stood still here while I was gone? My room isn’t the same, my friends and I don’t share the same promise, and my parents don’t know how to treat me—or who I am, for that matter.
I get back to school feeling half-satisfied, but not disappointed. I sit up in my bed in my dorm room, surrounded by my pictures, dolls. As I wonder what has happened, I realize that I can’t expect the world to stand still and move forward at the same time. I can change and expect that things at home will stay the same. I have to find comfort in what has changed and what is new; keep the memories, but live in the present.
A few weeks later, I’m packing again, this time for winter break. My mom meets me at the door. I have come home accepting the changes, not only in my surroundings, but most of all in me.
小题1:What can we infer about the writer?| A．She is a high school student. | B．She is a college student. | | C．She is a clerk in a school. | D．She is a traveler. |
小题2:What surprises the writer most?| A．The living conditions of her parents. | B．The decorations in her room. | | C．The meeting with her best friends. | D．The things still staying the same. |
小题3:What is this passage mainly about?| A．The writer’s curiosity about the changes. | | B．The changes in the writer’s surroundings and in herself. | | C．The writer’s disappointment about the changes. | | D．The writer’s refusal to accept the changes. |
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After two classes, I started to recognize several of the faces in each class. There was always someone braver than the others who would introduce themselves and ask me questions about how I was liking Forks. I tried to be diplomatic, so mostly I just lied a lot to appear to be skilled at dealing with people. At least I never needed the map.
One girl sat next to me in both Trig and Spanish, and she walked with me to the cafeteria for lunch. She was tiny, several inches shorter than my five feet four inches, but her wildly curly dark hair made up a lot of the difference between our heights. I couldn"t remember her name, so I smiled and nodded as she gossiped about teachers and classes. I didn"t try to keep up.
We sat at the end of a full table with several of her friends, who she introduced to me. I forgot all their names as soon as she spoke them. They seemed impressed by her bravery in speaking to me. The boy from English, Eric, waved at me from across the room.
It was there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them.
They were sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, as far away from where I sat as possible in the long room. There were five of them. They weren"t talking, and they weren"t eating, though they each had a tray of untouched food in front of them. They weren"t staring at me, unlike most of the other students, so it was safe to stare at them without fear of meeting an over interested pair of eyes. But it was none of these things that caught and held my attention.
I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all extremely, inhumanly beautiful. They were faces you never expected to see except perhaps on the airbrushed pages of a fashion magazine, or painted by an old master as the face of an angel. It was hard to decide who was the most beautiful -- maybe the perfect blond girl, or the bronze-haired boy.
小题1:What does the underlined word “diplomatic” mean?| A．smooth | B．clever | C．honest | D．delight |
小题2:From the passage, we can infer that _______________.| A．“I” was really liking the new place. | | B．“I” was not interested in what the girl said. | | C．“I” had a bad memory, so it’s hard to remember names. | | D．“I” was good at making friends. |
小题3: According to the last two paragraphs, why did “they” catch “my” attention?| A．Because “they” weren’t talking. | | B．Because “they” sat in the corner. | | C．Because “they” didn’t eat the food. | | D．Because “they” looked incredibly beautiful. |
小题4:According to the passage, which statement is NOT true?| A．The girl walked with “me” was a little short. | | B．“I” saw the five students for the first time. | | C．Those students sitting in the corner had finished their food. | | D．“I” probably wanted to know more about those five students. |
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I have spent years of my life traveling all over the world. When I arrive in a new country or city, usually I am very 36 and go to bed early. For this 37 my first day or night in any new place is always quiet and very 38 happens. 39 my first night in Algeciras was very different. This night was very 40 and unusual.
At that time 41 in Southern Spain was a dirty and 42 looked-after city. I arrived late in the evening by 43 . As soon as I got off the boat, I went to look for a 44 . I found a small hotel not far from the boat.
This hotel looked 45 and untidy from the outside. But I was very tired and did not know my 46 around the city of Algeciras. And so I decided to stay in this 47 hotel on the quay(码头). I also decided to stay in this hotel for another 48 . The moon was full and it was a clear, 49 night. From the hotel I could 50 the sea. I could see the huge rock of Gibraltar in the bright moonlight.
The hotel had a narrow 51 and no name. When I went through this doorway, I had to climb up narrow and dark stairs to the first floor. I 52 a small cupboard with a desk in front of it. This was the hotel office.
An untidy and tired woman was sitting beside the 53 . When I said I wanted a room for the night, she took me 54 some more stairs to a room on the second floor. Inside this room the landlord was sitting playing cards with some friends. He was 55 his game of cards and I was simply a nuisance(讨厌的人). He looked at me when the woman told him that I wanted a room. Then he said, Room Five, and turned back to his game of cards.
| 小题1: | | A．frightened | B．excited | C．tired | D．satisfied |
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| 小题2: | | A．choice | B．reason | C．aim | D．journey |
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| 小题3: | | A．much | B．little | C．few | D．many |
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| 小题5: | | A．ordinary | B．common | C．forgetful | D．strange |
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| 小题6: | | A．Gibraltar | B．Algeciras | C．Madrid | D．New Delhi |
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| 小题7: | | A．badly | B．well | C．wrongly | D．good |
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| 小题8: | | A．bus | B．boat | C．plane | D．train |
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| 小题9: | | A．guide | B．driver | C．hotel | D．dinner |
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| 小题10: | | A．clean | B．dirty | C．beautiful | D．interesting |
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| 小题11: | | A．friend | B．address | C．charge | D．way |
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| 小题12: | | A．small | B．large | C．expensive | D．funny-looking |
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| 小题13: | | A．reason | B．person | C．memory | D．sight-seeing |
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| 小题14: | | A．dark | B．cloudy | C．bright | D．sunny |
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| 小题15: | | A．look down at | B．praise | C．study | D．forget |
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| 小题16: | | A．bedroom | B．doorway | C．stairs | D．bulletin-board |
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| 小题17: | | A．came to | B．picked up | C．painted | D．escaped from |
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| 小题18: | | A．cupboard | B．office | C．desk | D．doorway |
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| 小题20: | | A．tired of | B．enjoying | C．throwing | D．buying |
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