阅读理解。 Hidden in our subconsciousness (潜意识) is a perfect mental picture. We s
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| 阅读理解。 |
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 Mercedes
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 regent, 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. |
| 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. |
| 2. How do people feel when they"re on their trip? |
A. Puzzled.
B. Happy.
C. Relaxed.
D. Impatient. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
答案
| 1-4: DDCB |
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There is one thing that everyone wants more than anything else. 1_____ They think that when they have
enough money to buy such things as houses, farms, and cars, they will have the one thing that everyone
wants.
Other people believe that if they know enough they will find this thing. 2_____ Still others think that if they
have power, they will find this thing. Some people keep telling themselves:"When I"m a boss, I will no longer
have to search for this thing."
What is it that everyone wants more than anything else? What is it that all of us keep working and striving
for (奋斗) each day? 3_____ .
Happiness is a strange thing. 4_____ What will make one man happy may not make another man happy.
Some men say that happiness comes from helping others; other men say that happiness comes from making
life more pleasant for everyone. What do you mean when you say "That makes me happy."?
5_____ Perhaps you will learn something that will bring you peace of mind, comfort, money or it may be
what you search for-happiness. |
A. Happiness means the same to everyone.
B. Read what different people have said about happiness.
C. They study all their life in search of it.
D. When one man feels happy, another man will feel sad.
E. Some people try to get it by making money.
F. It does not mean the same to all men.
G. It is happiness. |
| 阅读理解。 |
A boy was born to couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy
was the apple of their eyes. When the boy saw around two years old, the husband saw a medicine bottle
open. He was late for work so he asked the wife to cap the bottle and put it in the cupboard. The mother,
preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.
The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to it and, fascinated with its color, drank it all. It happened
to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages (剂量). When the child fell down, the mother
hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was unconscious. She was terrified how to face
her husband.
When the distraught (心烦意乱的) father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at
his wife and uttered just four words.
What do you think those four words were? The husband just said,"I love you, darling".
The husband"s totally unexpected reaction is proactive (积极主动的) behavior. The child is dead. He
can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he
have taken time to put the bottle away, this would not have happened. No point in attaching blame. She had
also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband.
That is what he gave her.
Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or who"s to blame, whether in a relationship, in a
job or with the people we know and miss out on the warmth in human relationships we could receive by
giving each other support. After all, shouldn"t forgiving someone we love be the easiest thing in the world
to do? Treasure what you have. Don"t multiply pain, anguish and suffering by holding onto forgiveness.
If everyone could look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be fewer problems in the world.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unwillingness to forgive, selfishness, and fears and you will find things
are actually not as difficult as you think. |
| 1. The meaning of the underlined phrase is ____. |
A. an adult
B. a healthy boy
C. the love of the parents
D. a naughty boy |
| 2. Why was the mother terrified to face the husband? |
A. Because she was afraid of her husband.
B. Because she thought that was her fault.
C. Because she poisoned her son herself.
D. Because she wanted to kill herself. |
| 3. What does this passage mainly talk about? |
A. Be careful to do everything.
B. Forgive what you shouldn"t forgive.
C. Treasure what you have now.
D. Envy can mislead the way you go. |
| 4. Which column of a paper can we find this article? |
A. Financial aid to students.
B. Grand view of science.
C. Enjoying the countryside view.
D. Life and society. |
| 完形填空。 |
Teaching my first child, Danae, to share her toys was the biggest challenge. To 1 this, we started
inviting other children to play, which could help Danae discover that it"s 2 to share with others-a lesson
I needed to 3 myself as well, as it 4 .
One evening Danac had 5 a friend, Natalie, to play with her. Their favorite was a children"s 6
game called Go Fish. That evening, 7 Natalie left, Danae came to me and said, "Mommy, I"d like to give
these to Natalie tomorrow. They"re her favorites."
She help up three cards from the Go Fish game. I tried to 8 that I didn"t want her to give them away
because then our 9 wouldn"t be complete. "But I really want her to have them!" Danae 10 . I thought
perhaps she didn"t understand that when she gave something away, it was gone 11 . So I tried again, saying,
" 12 you give the cards to her, you can"t 13 them back tomorrow."
A look of 14 came over Danae"s face. For a moment I was happy that she seemed to 15 . But then
she smiled and said."Well, that"s okay, I want her to have them anyway."
What could I say to that? I sat 16 for a moment and then I realized I had been trying for so long to 17
her to share. Did it 18 that our Go Fish set would be 19 ? What mattered was that my daughter was
learning the 20 of giving, that she was thinking about others instead of herself, and that she was trying to
make her friends happy. Isn"t that what life is all about? |
( )1. A. achieve
( )2. A. kind
( )3. A. design
( )4. A. turned up
( )5. A. begged
( )6. A. box
( )7. A. before
( )8. A. explain
( )9. A. thing
( )10. A. insisted
( )11. A. surely
( )12. A. If
( )13. A. ask for
( )14. A. surprise
( )15. A. understand
( )16. A. sadly
( )17. A. conduct
( )18. A. work
( )19. A. incomplete
( )20. A. content | B. apply
B. gentle
B. know
B. turned away
B. encouraged
B. card
B. while
B. suggest
B. card
B. recommended
B. suddenly
B. Once
B. call for
B. concern
B. accept
B. angrily
B. ask
B. mean
B. lost
B. usefulness | C. receive
C. fun
C. create
C. turned to
C. invited
C. paper
C. after
C. respond
C. set
C. announced
C. forever
C. As
C. look for
C. delight
C. refuse
C. quietly
C. force
C. remind
C. limited
C. way | D. get
D. merciful
D. review
D. turned out
D. found
D. show
D. until
D. teach
D. toy
D. cried
D. indeed
D. Unless
D. care for
D. satisfaction
D. doubt
D. slowly
D. help
D. matter
D. gone
D. joy | | 完形填空。 | When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the
Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born.I loved this bird; I would 1 him for
hours. He would 2 effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the 3 and
float there beautifully. Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move
4 into the grasses. We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language 5 "pink-colored feet";
meksikatsi and I became very good friends.
The bird had a very particular significance to me 6 I desperately wanted to be able to fly too. I felt
very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where 7 was impossible. And
most of the things that I 8 about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other
people.
When I was ten years old, something unexpected 9 my life suddenly. I found myself become an 10
child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a 11 position that many native Americans find
themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but 12 two cultures.
A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is
what 13 people have called that bird for thousands of years. Meksikatsi, he said, was really "duck". I was
very 14 with English. I could not understand it. First of all, the bird did not look like"duck", and when it
made a 15 , it did not sound like "duck", I was even more 16 when I found out that the meaning of the
verb "to duck" came from the bird.
As I 17 to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of 18 , but I never forgot
that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning. I 19 that languages are not just different words for the
same things but totally different 20 , totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world. | ( )1. A.keep
( )2. A.jump
( )3. A.nest
( )4. A.quickly
( )5. A.means
( )6. A.though
( )7. A.communication
( )8. A.dreamed
( )9. A.improved
( )10. A. educated
( )11. A. weak
( )12. A. between
( )13. A. most
( )14. A. desperate
( )15. A. noise
( )16. A. ashamed
( )17. A. tried
( )18. A. evidence
( )19. A. identified
( )20. A. concepts | B. watch
B. dive
B. hill
B. naturally
B. reads
B. because
B. imagination
B. worried
B. enriched
B. adopted
B. comfortable
B. against
B. few
B. bored
B. call
B. confused
B. came
B. distinction
B. confirmed
B. regulations | C. follow
C. circle
C. water
C. freely
C. shows
C. while
C. belief
C. knew
C. changed
C. outgoing
C. terrible
C. without
C. their
C. uncomfortable
C. decision
C. embarrassed
C. determined
C. profit
C. realized
C. messages | D. search
D. wander
D. road
D. quietly
D. states
D. until
D. flight
D. argued
D. ruined
D. independent
D. central
D. beyond
D. my
D. disappointed
D. choice
D. frightened
D. expected
D. sense
D. predicted
D. evaluations | | 阅读理解。 | Last year, I took a sightseeing trip to Washington, DC.I heard a voice say, "Can you help me?"
When I turned around, I saw an elderly blind woman with her hand extended. Immediately, I pulled
out all of my change and placed it on her hand without even looking at her. But the blind woman
smiled and said, "I don"t want your money. I just need help finding the post office."
In an instant, I realized what I had done.I acted with prejudice―I judged another person simply
for what I assumed she had to be. I hated what I saw in myself.
The thing I had forgotten about myself is that I am an immigrant.I left Honduras and arrived in
the US at the age of 15.I started my new life with two suitcases,my brother and sister. Through the
years, I have been a doorkeeper, cashier and pizza delivery driver among many other humble (卑微的)
jobs,and eventually I became a network engineer.
In my own life, I have experienced prejudice. I remember a time―at the age of 17―when I was a
busboy, I heard a father tell his little boy that if he did not do well in school, he would end up like
me.
But now, living in my American middle-class lifestyle, it is too easy to forget my past, to forget
who I am, where I have been,and to lose sight of where I want to be going.That blind woman on the
streets cured me of my blindness. She reminded me of my belief in humility (谦虚). By the way, I helped
that lady to the post office. I hope to thank her for the priceless lesson. | | 1. How did the writer give the blind woman money? | A. In a modest way
B. In a polite way
C. In an impatient way.
D. In a painful way | | 2. According to the text, the writer ______. | A. still lives a poor life
B. was busy with his work
C. was born in Honduras
D. was a native of Washington D.C. | | 3. According to the text, the author most probably agrees that one should ______. | A. be nice to the elderly and the disabled
B. try to experience different kinds of culture
C. treat others equally with love and respect
D. think about one"s past as often as possible | | 4. What would be the best title of the text? | A. A priceless lesson
B. An act of prejudice
C. A sightseeing trip
D. A humble moment | 最新试题
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