Topping the class academically was certainly an advantage. Studying was a breeze

Topping the class academically was certainly an advantage. Studying was a breeze

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Topping the class academically was certainly an advantage. Studying was a breeze for
Nigel. The reward was certainly incomparable to the little effort that he had to put it. It begin when he was selected to help the teachers in the computer laboratories.
The peak of his school career came not when he topped the school but when he was selected for the nationwide competition. Unlike everyone else, Nigel wanted to join the contest because he liked playing with the Lego sets and making something out of them. Nigel spent the next two months rebuilding the robot. It was during the time that Nigel found out about the prizes for the competition. Its well us auspices competitor. Alicia, from a neighboring school. His early intentions were forgotten. Getting the thousand-dollar prize was more important than anything else. Nigel decided to befriend Alicia. Unaware of his intentions, she told him all about the robot that she had been building for the competition. He even helped her to put the finishing branches to her robot. He was glad with the way things had progressed. His robot looked even better than Alicia’s and it was able to become a ball with its arms, something Alicia had failed to do.
On the day of the competition, he says Alicia. Everything dawned on her the minute she saw him among the competition. She stared at him, puzzled at first, then angry and finally a look of helplessness came over her.
The flashbulbs of the camera exploded in Nigel’s try. The robot bird performed actions so unique and different that the specialist judgments were the same. Nigel was so personal with himself that he did not even notice the girl standing a few feet away from him. Without her, he would never win the competition.
小题1:What reward did Nigel receive for doing well in his school work?
A.He was offered a part-time jobB.He was honored with a scholarship
C.He helped his teacher construct a robotD.He helped in the computer laboratories
小题2:Nigel’s original intention of joining the contest was to ___.
A.be the top student of the schoolB.being great honor to his school
C.constructs a robot with the Lego setsD.wins the thousand-dollar prize
小题3:Why did Nigel help Alicia finish her robot?
A.He tried to make friends with herB.He was fond of building robots
C.He intended to help herD.He didn’t want her to suspect him
小题4:What is the author’s attitude towards Nigel’s actions?
A.He is mildly criticalB.He is strongly critical
C.He is in favor of themD.His attitude is not clear

答案

小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
解析

这是一篇记叙文。主要讲的是一位学习优异的学生Nigel 一次有机会参加全国机器人大赛,开始时出于爱好,为了一千美元的奖金,别有用心的取得另一位参赛选手Alicia 的信任,获得她的参赛机器人秘密,当自己成功时却忘记了该感谢的人。
小题1:细节理解题。由第一段最后一句不难得出答案。
小题2:细节理解题。从第二段第二句可得出答案。出于爱好是他参赛的住处目的。
小题3:推理判断题。从全文主要是第二段可得知在她帮助Alicia 过程中是用心不良的,只是想获取对方的秘密,但又不能暴露自己,只好伪装到底。
小题4:推理判断题。从最后一段作者对成功后的Nigel得意忘形的描写,以及最后两句结尾的评论,可知作者对这种虚伪的人是持委婉批评态度的。
举一反三
My name is Jane Eyre and my parents died when I was a baby. For ten years I lived a ___1___ life with my aunt and cousins who treated me unfairly. My cousins teased me and my aunt never showed me any ___2___. The only person who cared about me was the maid, Bessie. One day my cousin John 3 me: “You should go and beg, not live with rich folks like us!” After fighting with him I was locked in a room, where I ___4___ for hours crying.
Things ___5___ the same until a tall gentleman called Mr Brockehurst came to visit. My aunt told me that I was going to a school ___6___ by the gentleman. “Train her to be useful and humble,” said Aunt. Two days later I ___7___ my home.
At first my ___8___ at Lowood School was easy. The food was bad and I was often cold but I made ___9___ and enjoyed studying. But after an illness killed several students, new owners ___10___ the school and life improved. Six years later I ___11___ a teacher and was very happy. But eventually(最后) I felt that I should explore more of the world and found a job as a private teacher in a ___12___.
Before I left Lowood, I was ___13___ by Bessie, who told me that seven years ago my father’s brother had come ___14___ me but left again to go abroad. “He looked like quite a gentleman,” said Bessie. I wondered if he would ever look for me again.
My new life ___15___ at Thornfield Hall, a large country house, ___16___ a little girl called Adele. She was the adopted(被收养的) daughter of the owner of the house, Mr Rochester. He ___17___ stayed at Thornfield and ___18___ my time was mainly spent with Adele and the servants. My life was quite happy now although there was something ___19___ about my new home. Often I heard odd(奇怪的) sounds ___20___ from the top floor of the house.
1. A. happy     B. long    C. sad     D. comfortable
2. A. food       B. love    C. method      D. schooling
3. A. shouted at     B. cried over C. found out   D. talked with
4. A. lived      B. stayed C. studied       D. beat
5. A. appeared B. worked      C. seemed       D. remained
6. A. built       B. designed     C. owned D. opened
7. A. built       B. reached      C. left     D. sold
8. A. food       B. life     C. book   D. study
9. A. noise      B. friends       C. mistakes     D. faces
10. A. took over     B. took up      C. took off     D. took away
11. A. turned   B. met     C. became      D. found
12. A. school  B. home  C. library       D. country
13. A. taught   B. visited C. brought      D. required
14. A. looking for  B. looking after      C. looking into       D. looking at
15. A. stopped B. continued   C. started D. remained
16. A. showing       B. teaching     C. searching    D. wanting
17. A. often    B. hardly C. happily      D. quietly
18. A. yet       B. so       C. still     D. though
19. A. interesting    B. good   C. instructive  D. strange
20. A. come    B. drop   C. fall     D. go
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Heaviest snow in half a century hit the south of the country. It snowed continuously for half a month, ___41__ the railways, highways, and runways in the airfields. Ice wrapped and paralyzed (使瘫痪)the power and communication system. Many people were trapped in railway stations, bus stations and airports, and ___42___ in cars, buses and trains. Governments and people did everything they could ___43___ the snow disaster, no one was killed __ 44___ cold and hunger. Gradually, trapped people all went back home safely. Many moving stories happened during the ___45___. While fighting the snow, people forgot their animal friends until a moving story of a swallow couple was ___46___on the internet.
The swallow couple had not eaten anything for several days ___47  _ the snow. They tried to fly into people"s home to warm themselves, but every house was closed ___48  _. They got to a side of a balcony (阳台) ___49 _ wind could not reach. They jumped and flapped their wings to attract the attention of the people inside the house, who were busy with their own things. The wife"s body was __50__, she could not move any longer. The husband came near and wrapped his wife with his wings. The husband lost his __51__ soon because of his opened wings. The couple died in the cold and hunger, one __52__ another.
The next morning, the housemaster went to the balcony to check his flowers and saw a __53__ swallow outside the window pane, touching it, he found that they were two embracing together. Thinking of the __54__ the snow had brought to the people, he was __55__ to tears. He took them in, giving them some warmness which they could not __56__ any longer. He found a small cardboard box, filled it with some hay and __57__ the swallow couple in. He buried them in the back garden.
In my hometown in the countryside, a swallow family lives in the roof of my house. They come back from the __58__ every spring to have babies. Then in autumn, when babies have grown up, they fly to the south for __59__. I wonder if they will come back this spring as they __60__.
41.A.protecting              B.maintaining            C.blocking                D.keeping
42.A.even                      B.still                       C.yet                        D.nevertheless
43.A.fight                      B.fighting                 C.to fight                  D.fought
44.A.to                          B.from                      C.with                             D.for
45.A.process                  B.procedure               C.practice                  D.progress
46.A.common                B.widespread             C.well-known            D.familiar
47.A.regardless of          B.instead of               C.in addition to          D.because of

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48.A.loosely                  B.tightly                   C.roughly                  D.lightly 49.A.where                    B.what                      C.which                    D.to which
50.A.frozen                   B.terrified                 C.worried                  D.scared
51.A.faith                      B.heart                      C.courage                  D.heat
52.A.fastening                B.packing                  C.wrapping                      D.fixing 
53.A.dead                      B.live                       C.lively                     D.lovely
54.A.need                      B.hardship                 C.poverty                  D.shortage
55.A.affected                 B.moved                   C.encouraged             D.satisfied
56.A.find                       B.gain                       C.own                       D.feel
57.A.laid                       B.lay                        C.let                       D.allowed
58.A.west                      B.east                       C.south                     D.north
59.A.spring                    B.winter                    C.summer                 D.autumn
60.A.were                      B.had                        C.do                         D.did
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About ten years ago, a young and very successful businessman named Josh was traveling down a Chicago neighborhood street. He was going a bit too fast in his shiny, black, 12 cylinder Jaguar XKE, which was only two months old.
He was watching for kids rushing out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no child came out, but a brick sailed out and — WHUMP! — it hit the Jag’s shiny black side door! SCREECH...!!!! Immediately Josh stopped the car, jumped out, seized the kid and pushed him up against a parked car. He shouted at the kid, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing?!" Building up a head of steam, he went on. " That’s my new Jag, that brick you threw is gonna cost you a lot of money. Why did you throw it?" "Please, mister, please....I’m sorry! I didn’t know what else to do!" begged the youngster. "I threw the brick because no one else would stop!" tears were streaming down the boy’s face as he pointed around the parked car. "It’s my brother, mister," he said. "He rolled of the curb (路沿) and fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t lift him up. "Sobbing, the boy asked the businessman," Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and he’s too heavy for me.
Moved beyond words, the young businessman tried hard to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. Straining, he lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief and wiped the scrapers and cuts, checking to see that everything was going to be OK. He then watched the younger brother push him down the sidewalk toward their home.
It was a long walk back to the black, shining 12 cylinder Jaguar XKE — a long and slow walk. Josh never did fix the side door of his Jaguar. He kept the dent (凹痕) to remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at him to get his attention. Feel for the bricks of life coming at you.
1. The boy threw a brick at the businessman’s car because ________.
A. the businessman drove at a high speed  B. he envied the brand-new car very much
C. he wanted to ask for some money      D. he wanted to get help from the driver
2. Which of the following is the right order of the story?
a. The younger brother threw a brick at Josh’s car.
b. The elder brother fell out of his wheelchair.
c. The younger brother begged Josh for help.
d. Josh lifted the elder brother back into his wheelchair.
e. Josh shouted at the younger brother.
A. b, a, e, c, d        B. a, c, d, b, e       C. b, a, c, e, d   D. a, c, b, e, d
3. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Josh would accept the money from the kids.  B. The two kids were Josh’s neighbors.
C. Josh was a kind-hearted man.              D. Josh’s new car broke down easily.
4. According to the passage, the last sentence means ________.
A. trying to get ready for the trouble in your future life
B. driving fast in a neighborhood street is dangerous
C. trying to be more understanding seeing others in trouble
D. protecting oneself from being hurt
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Michelle is blind, but she makes such good use of her other senses that guests rarely realize that she is blind.
When my daughter Kayla came back from her home, she was very  1  about her day. She told me that she had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was especially excited about her finger-painting project. “I learned how to   2  colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! Michelle   3 with us too. She said she liked how the paint feels through her fingers,” said Kayla.
Something about my child’s excitement caught my   4 . this made me sit down and take a look at my child and at myself.
Then Kayla said, “Michelle told me my picture showed joy,   5  and a sense of accomplishment. She   6 saw what I was doing!” Kayla said she had never felt how good finger-painting felt until Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.
This is when I realized Kayla didn’t know that Michelle was blind. It had just never   7   in conversation. When I told her, she was quiet for a moment. At first, she didn’t   8  me. “ But mommy, Michelle understood exactly what was in my picture!” Kayla insisted. I knew my child was   9 because Michelle had listened to Kayla when she  10  her artwork. Michelle had listened to Kayla’s pride in her work, and her wonder at her discovery of the way colors blend.
小题1:1.
A.satisfiedB.movedC.excitedD.affected
小题2:
A.mixB.combineC.connectD.join
小题3:
A.wroteB.dealtC.contactedD.painted
小题4:
A.attentionB.sightC.noteD.observation
小题5:
A.discovery B.understandingC.prideD.achievement
小题6:
A.apparentlyB.reallyC.obviouslyD.carefully
小题7:
A.come aroundB.com acrossC.come throughD.come up
小题8:
A.doubtB.refuseC.believeD.approve
小题9:
A.rightB.polite C.realD.wrong
小题10:
A.describedB.createdC.designedD.invented

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John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1981. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.
Fortunately he had a strong—willed caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you want really to be if you just believe.” She told him not to depend on others, including his mother. “You have to learn success” she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”
These words, came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15, to Chicago.
Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words--as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.
While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him pawn(典当) her furniture to get the $ 500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.  
It is natural that difficulties and failures followed john closely until he become very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind:” Son, failure is not in your vocabulary!” Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America--worth  $150 million.
小题1: What does the story mainly want to show us?
A.The key to success for blacks.
B.The mental support John’s mother gave him.
C.The importance of a good education.
D.How John H. Johnson became successful.
小题2:Why did John’s mother decide to move to Chicago?
A.Because his father died when John was very young.
B.Because life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown.
C.Because John needed more education badly.
D.Because there were no schools for Negroes in their hometown.
小题3:Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.John’s mother didn’t believe in or depend on others.
B.John’s mother believed one would succeed without working hard.
C.John’s mother thought one could be whatever one wanted to be.
D.John’s mother thought no one could succeed without working hard.
小题4:What does the underlined sentence “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” in Passage 5 mean?
A.No failure can be beaten unless you try.
B.If you try, you would succeed.
C.A try is always followed by a failure.
D.A failure is difficult to beat, even if you try.

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