完形填空。 When I come across a good article in reading newspapers. I often want

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完形填空。      When I come across a good article in reading newspapers. I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the   1 side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the
way to   2 in good health, or a   3 about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to   4 damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text   5 the title.
Therefore, the scissors would   6 before they start,   7 halfway done when I find out the   8 result.
     Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth you   9 .You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be   10 up. But you know the future is unpredictable (不可预料) - the
changed situation may not allow you to do what is left   11 . Thus you are   12 in a difficult position and
feel sad. How   13 that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen
that your life   14 greatly on you preference of one choice to the other.
     In fact that is what   15 is like, we are often   16 with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only   17 we get into another. The   18 may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I   19
remember a philosopher"s remarks, "When one door shuts, another opens in life." So a casual (不经意)
20 may not be a bad one.(     )1. A. front
(     )2. A. get
(     )3. A. advice
(     )4. A. suffer
(     )5. A. on
(     )6. A. use
(     )7. A. or
(     )8. A. satisfying
(     )9. A. courage
(     )10. A. given
(     )11. A. near
(     )12. A. filled
(     )13. A. dares
(     )14. A. improves
(     )15. A. study
(     )16. A. faced
(     )17. A. before
(     )18. A. following
(     )19. A. still
(     )20. A. treatmentB. same
B. keep
B. news
B. reduce
B. for
B. handle
B. but
B. regretful
B. strength
B. held
B. alone
B. attracted
B. comes
B. changes
B. society
B. supplied
B. after
B. next
B. also
B. action C. either
C. lead
C. theory
C. prevent
C. without
C. prepare
C. so
C. surprising
C. attention
C. made
C. about
C. caught
C. deals
C. progresses
C. nature
C. connected
C. until
C. above
C. once
C. choice    D. opposite
D. bring
D. report
D. cause
D. off
D. stay
D. for
D. impossible
D. patience
D. picked
D. behind
D. struck
D. does
D. goes
D. life
D. fixed
D. as
D. former
D. almo st
D. remark

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阅读理解。   I know we don"t have many serious talks, but now that I am on the edge of being an adult, I feel that
you need to know and understand me. During the past nine years that we have been in America, I have
grown greatly, changed from that wide-eyed and scared little girl to a proud and brave young woman.
The change wasn"t always smooth, and I wasn"t always patient, but you were both always understanding.
And through your understanding I have learned.
   I have learned from you. Dad, you wake up every morning to go to the steel plant, where people don"t
speak your language and you don"t speak theirs. I know that if you were in Vietnam, you would be
comfortably surrounded by friends. But you are here in America, doing what you don"t like, and through
that, you are teaching your children the power of persistence.
   I have learned from you, Mom, you cook nice Vietnamese sour soup and fish, wait up at nights for
your daughters. When I see you pacing back and forth because your daughters aren"t home yet, I cry
because I see so much pain in your eyes, and through your pain I learn the meaning of home a sanctuary
that I will always be able to turn to.
   Through all your sacrifices I learn the essence of being human. I learn to love. I find that this love leads
me to you, to the home, to the fact that I am Vietnamese-American. The dreams that you have taught me
slowly begin to take shape as I walk down the college path, step into the adult world and adventure out
of your world. Wherever I go, I carry my past with me, knowing that you will always be there behind me
and I will always come back, because you are where my home is.1.This passage is a ______.A. thank-you letter to the author"s parents
B. comment on the author"s parents
C. declaration of the author"s growing up
D. message to praise the author"s parents2. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.A. the girls in the family are very naughty
B. the author"s mother regrets immigrating to the USA
C. the author is proud of being a Vietnamese-American
D. the author"s father feels bad at work3. The underlined part "a sanctuary" refers to ______.A. a place full of happiness
B. a place providing protection
C. a place full of laughter
D. a place providing food4. On the whole, the author"s attitude to the USA is that ______.A. she cherishes the fact of living in the USA
B. she hates the USA because of the suffering she has got there
C. she blames the USA for the pain it brings to them
D. she is curious about the American way of life

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完形填空。    We have known for a long time that flowers of different plants open and close at different times
of day.This is so __1__ that there seems to be no need to ask the reason for it. Yet no one  __2__
understands why flowers open and close like this at particular times. The process is not as  __3__
as we might think,as recent experiments have shown. In one study, flowers were kept in constant
__4__. We might expect that the flowers, without any information about the time of day, did not
open as they __5_ do. As a matter of fact, they __6__ to open at their usual time. This suggests
that they have some mysterious(神秘的) way of knowing the __7__. Their sense of time does not
__8__information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, inside them, a kind of "inner clock".
     This __9__ may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants
but also __10__ , including man, have this "inner clock" which __11__ the working of their bodies
and influences their activities. Men, then, are also influenced by this mysterious __12__. Whether
we wish it or not, it affects such things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food.
     In the past, this did not really __13__ because people lived in natural condition. In

the __14__
world, things are different; now there are spacemen, airplane pilots and, in ordinary life, a lot of
people who have to work at night. It would be very __15_  , then, to know more about the "inner
clock". Such things as flowers might help us understand more about ourselves.(     )1. A. familiar
(     )2. A. partly
(     )3. A. complex
(     )4. A. quietness
(     )5. A. finally
(     )6. A. refused
(     )7. A. time
(     )8. A. deal with
(     )9. A. discovery
(     )10.A. beasts
(     )11.A. controls
(     )12.A. world
(     )13.A. happen
(     )14.A. ancient
(     )15.A. hard        B. strange
B. personally
B. simple
B. darkness
B. completely
B. decided
B. secret
B. add to
B. activity
B. animals
B. studies
B. flower
B. exist
B. modern
B. expensive C. similar
C. really
C. mature
C. loneliness
C. physically
C. continued
C. process
C. give away
C. invention
C. strangers
C. measures
C. power
C. matter
C. wonderful
C. convenientD. special
D. willingly
D. meaningful
D. sadness
D. normally
D. failed
D. study
D. depend on
D. method
D. humans
D. destroys
D. experiment
D. work
D. peaceful
D. important

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阅读理解。    There are two types of people in the world. Although they have equal degree of health and
wealth and other comforts of life, one becomes happy and the other becomes unhappy. This arises
from the different ways in which they consider things, persons, events and the resulting effects upon
their minds.
People who are to be happy fix their attention on the convenience of things: the pleasant parts of
conversation, the well prepared dishes, the goodness of the wine and the fine weather. They enjoy
all the cheerful things. Those who are to be unhappy think and speak only of the opposite things.
Therefore, they are continually dissatisfied. By their remarks, they sour the pleasure of society,
offend many people, and make themselves disagreeable everywhere. If this turn of mind was founded
in nature, such unhappy persons would be the more to be pitied. The intention of criticizing and being
disliked is perhaps taken up by imitation(模仿). It grows into a habit, unknown to its possessors. The
habit may be strong, but it may be cured when those who have it realize its bad effects on their interests
and tastes. I hope this little warning may be of service to them, and help them change this habit.
    Although in fact it is chiefly an act of the imagination, it has serious results in life since it brings on
deep sorrow and bad luck. Those people offend many others; nobody loves them, and no one treats
them with more than the most common politeness and respect. This frequently puts them in bad temper
and draws them into arguments. If they aim at getting some advantages in social position or fortune,
nobody wishes them success. Nor will anyone start a step or speak a word to favor their hopes. If they
bring on themselves public objections, no one will defend or excuse them, and many will join to criticize
their wrongdoings. These should change this bad habit and be pleased with what is pleasing, without
worrying needlessly about themselves and others. If they do not, it will be good for others to avoid any
contact with them. Otherwise, it can be disagreeable and sometimes very inconvenient, especially when
one becomes mixed up in their quarrels.1. People who are unhappy _______.A. always consider things differently from others
B. usually are affected by the results of certain things
C. usually misunderstand what others think or say
D. always discover the unpleasant side of certain things

2. The underlined phrase in Paragraph 2 "sour the pleasure of society" most probably means "_ _"

A. have a good taste with social life
B. make others unhappy
C. tend to scold others openly
D. enjoy the pleasure of life 3. We can infer from the passage that _______.A. we should pity all such unhappy people
B. such unhappy people are dangerous to social life
C. people can get rid of the habit of unhappiness
D. unhappy people cannot understand happy persons

4. If such unhappy persons insist on keeping the habit, the author suggests that people should _ _.

A. prevent any communication with them
B. show no respect and politeness to them
C. persuade them to recognize the bad effects
D. quarrel with them until they realize the mistakes 5. In this passage, the writer mainly _______.A. describes two types of people
B. laughs at the unhappy people
C. suggests the unhappy people should get rid of the habits of unhappiness
D. tells people how to be happy in life

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语法填空。     Opportunities don"t come often. They come every once in a while. Very often, they come
quietly and go by without    1    (notice). Therefore, it is   2    (advise) that you should value and
treat them with care.     3    an opportunity comes, it brings a promise but never realizes it    4
its own. If you want to achieve something _  5   intend to fulfill one of your ambitious, you must
work hard, make efforts and get prepared,   6   , you will take no advantage of opportunities
when they come to visit you. The difference between a man     who succeeds and    7    who
does not lies only in the way each treats opportunities. The successful person always    8   (make)
adequate preparations to meet opportunity- ties as they duly arrive. The unsuccessful person, on
the other hand, works little and just waits to see them pass by. In my opinion, there are plenty of
opportunities for     9   in our society, but only those   10    are prepared adequately and qualified
highly can make use of them to achieve their purpose.

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阅读理解。

     Maurice Sendak"s children"s book, Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963, has become
very successful throughout the years and was made into a movie earlier this year.
     The book"s main character is a boy named Max who gets into trouble with his mother and is sent
to bed without any supper. Before long, Max"s room magically becomes a forest, and he sails away to
a land where monsters live. Max isn"t scared, though, and becomes king of the wild things, but after a
while, he begins feeling homesick. Max sails back home and his supper is still hot when he arrives in
his bedroom.
     Many teachers and professors like this story and use it to help children develop creativity and
imagination. Melina Davis, an education professor, said she likes how the book contains a couple
of pages that have only pictures on them. "This allows children to shape the story themselves," she
said.
     The book contains a few of larger words that some parents worry may confuse children, but
experts say those words help improve children"s reading skills and challenge them.
     Davis said the book is well written which helps kids get involved in the story. "The book talks
about what all children go through, like "I was naughty but my mommy still loves me"," Davis said.
     The book also encourages children to face their fears. "I think it"s really good to show that Max
makes friends with the monsters," Davis said. "Kids can find out monsters aren"t always the thing
under the bed that"s going to scare them. I think this is good because it shows that the children can
go to scary places but still have a positive experience."
     Since the book has been successful throughout the years, a movie was recently made and many
people are excited to see it. Davis said she thinks the movie will be wonderful but it might be a little
scary for younger children. "You don"t want bad dreams over a book that"s extremely wonderful,"
Davis said.

1. Teachers and professors like the book because it helps children ____________.

A. learn to draw their own pictures
B. understand their own fear
C. develop more quickly
D. become more imaginative

2. What is the intention of using the larger words in the book?

A. To add to the difficulty while children are reading.
B. To help challenge the children"s reading skills.
C. To cause the children some confusion.
D. To help children get involved in the story.

3. Which of the following is TRUE about the book?A. The character Max is brave enough in the story.
B. Max was sent to the forest as punishment.
C. It is suitable for people of all ages.
D. It is the most popular children"s book ever published.

4. What does Davis think of the movie?

A. She thinks children of all ages will love it.
B. She encourages children to see it to fight against their fear.
C. She worries that it might be too frightening for some children.
D. She believes it will be a better choice for children than the book.

5.What"s the author"s purpose in writing the passage?

A. To suggest ways to improve children"s reading.
B. To comment on a famous children"s book.
C. To encourage children to read scary stories.
D. To introduce a movie based on a children"s book.

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