人物故事类
故事类阅读应试技巧
1、抓住文章的6个要素:
阅读时要学会从事情本身的发展去理解故事情节而不要只看事件在文中出现的先后顺序。因此,无论是顺叙还是倒叙,阅读此类文章时,必须要找到它结构中的5个W(when, where, who, why, what)和1个H(how),不过不是每篇都会完整地交待六个要素。毫无疑问,寻出这些元素是能够正确快速解题的一个先决条件。
2、注意作者的议论和抒情:
高考英语阅读理解故事类文章常伴随着作者思想情感的流露和表达,因此议论和抒情往往夹杂其中。行文时或按事情发生发展的先后时间进行或按事情发生发展的地点来转换,也可能按事情发展的阶段来布局。在引出话题,讲完一件事情后,作者往往会表达个人感悟或提出建议等。这些体现作者观点或思想的语句在阅读时可以划线,它们往往体现文章中心或者写作意图,属于必考点,所以要仔细体会。
3、结合前两点归纳文章中心,把握作者态度:
故事类文章是通过记叙一件事来表达中心思想的,它是文章的灵魂。归纳文章中心思想时,尤其要分析文章的结尾,因为很多文章卒章显志,用简短的议论、抒情揭示文章中心;文章中议论抒情的句子往往与中心密切相关;也有的文章需要在结合概括各段大意的基础上归纳中心。另外,叙述一件事必有其目的,或阐明某一观点,或赞美某种品德,或抨击某种陋习,这就要求我们在阅读时,通过对细节(第1点中的六要素)的理解,把握作者的态度。
4、有章有据进行解题判断:
分析文章,归纳主题,属于分析、概括、综合的表述能力的考查。切忌脱离文章,架空分析,一定让分析在文章中有依据。
完形填空。 A man and his wife had a dog to keep their house. When they went out, they always left the dog inside
the house.
One evening they wanted 1 to the cinema, 2 they left the dog in the house and locked the
door and their 3 . They 4 in their car.
When the film finished, they came back home. They opened the gate and put the car 5 . But when
they came to the front door, they found that part of the glass 6 the door was broken. The door was
unlocked and 7 . A robber (窃贼)! They went in and quickly looked in all the rooms to see 8 things
the robber had taken. But everything was in the 9 place and nothing at all 10 .
The dog 11 in the sitting room on the floor. The lady was 12 the dog. "Why didn"t you keep the
house ?" she said. The dog was 13 to see its owners. It began to wag (摇) its tail (尾巴) and then it went
to a corner of the room and picked up something in its mouth. It went to the lady and 14 the thing at her
feet. When the lady went to pick it up, she gave a scream (尖叫). Can you guess what the dog"s present was?
It was…a…man"s 15 .完形填空。 Once upon a time , there was a child ready to be born. So 1 he asked God, "They tell me you are
sending me to 2 , but being so small and helpless, 3 am I going to live there?"
" 4 the many angels (天使), I chose the best one for you. She will be waiting for you and will take
care of you." God replied.
"But here in heaven (天堂), I do 5 else but sing and smile! That"s enough for me to be happy."
God said, "Your angel will sing and smile for you every day. And you will feel your angel"s love and you"ll
be 6 ."
The child said, "And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me 7 I don"t know
the language that men speak?" God told the child, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweetest words you will ever hear, and with 8 patience (耐心) and care, your angel will teach you 9 .
The child said, "I"ve 10 that on the earth there are bad men, who will protect me?"
God said, "Your angel will protect you 11 it means risking her life (冒生命危险)."
"But I will always be sad because I will not see you any more."
"Your angel will always talk to you about 12 and in face, I will always be next to you."
At the moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from the earth could already be heard, and
the child, in a hurry, asked, "Oh, God, since I am about to 13 now, please tell me my angel"s 14 !"
"It is not hard to remember," God replied 15 . "You will call your angel Mommy."根据短文内容和所给的首字母,写出短文中所缺的单词,使短文完整,合乎情景。 The mobile phone is a useful thing, but maybe I don"t know h 1 to use it. Sometimes it makes things
difficult for me.
One day I wanted to see my friend nearby. I could a 2 at his house in five minutes, but I looked at my
mobile phone and thought i 3 would be better to ring him up. I r 4 him for the first time, but the line
was busy. Five minutes later, there was an answer, but it was the wrong number. Then I tried a 5 and this
time I got an answer from him.
I asked him i 6 he was at home in the afternoon. And he said he would be at home all afternoon. So
I went to his house, but then I found n 7 in. I called him for the fourth time. This time I got so angry that
I s 8 , "You are not at home? But you just told me over the telephone that you would be at home all
afternoon!"
Here w 9 his answer, "No, I said: "I will NOT be at home all afternoon." "I went back to my room,
sat down in front of the mobile phone and looked at it. What e 10 could I do? Nothing!完形填空。 On a cold November afternoon, my mother and I were walking back home from a pizza store. We had
bought many things. We were dressed 1 , and I was feeling a little 2 as I was carrying our shopping,
so I decided to throw something away. I was walking towards a dustbin (垃圾箱) 3 I noticed a poor man
walking out of the restaurant in front of us. He headed over to the nearby dustbin and started looking through it.
I suddenly felt very 4 because I was about to throw away a new drink just because it was too heavy. I walked up to him and handed the 5 and some bread over to him. The man looked up 6 and took
what I gave him. A huge smile 7 on his face. I felt I couldn"t be happier with 8 . But then he said,
"Wow, this is my son"s lucky day!"
With that, he thanked me happily and started off on his bike. I 9 heard him singing as he rode away.
I got a warm 10 inside. I now understand what it 11 by the saying "Giving is getting".
12 it was only a little action, I got and learned more in those two minutes than I did in the rest of the
month. Everyone in the world 13 help. Everyone can give help and everyone will be helped by showing
kindness.
The scene of that man"s happiness caused by my small gift appears in my mind 14 I have the chance
to do something nice. This is the power (力量) of 15 .阅读下列短文,并做短文后的题目,从四个选项中,选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳选项。 Mrs Weeks was reading a newspaper story to her class. The story said:
Were you ever in a hospital when you were small? How did you feel? The doctors in Children"s Hospital
are asking for money for children"s toys. Some children in the hospital must stay in bed for many weeks. Toys
are needed to keep these sick children happy and quiet. Money for them can be sent to the hospital.
After Mrs. Weeks read the story, she said,"This story gave me an idea."
"You want us to bring some money for the toys.""We could bring some of our own toys for the children in
the hospital, "said the boys and girls one after another.
"Well, your ideas would be nice, "Mrs. Weeks said,"but mine is different."
Mrs. Weeks smiled. "Do you think you could make toys?" she asked.
"Yes, yes," the whole class answered.
"Great! Let"s begin to make toys tomorrow," said Mrs. Weeks.
On Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Weeks took the children to the hospital with the toys made by her students.
The children in the hospital felt very happy to see the toys. The children in the class felt happy, too.
A few days later, Mrs. Weeks read another newspaper story to the class:
Some school pupils brought toys to Children"s Hospital last week. The toys were made by the pupils of
Grade Three in Green Street School. The doctors said, "We have never had so many wonderful toys. Our
children are very happy with them. They say, "THANK YOU, GRADE THREE""1. What was the first newspaper story mainly about? [ ] A. Sick children in Children"s Hospital
B. Doctors in Children"s Hospital
C. Mrs. Weeks and her students
D. Toys made by the boys and girls2. What "idea" did Mrs. Weeks have in mind? [ ] 阅读理解。 Mark was walking home from school one day when he saw the boy in front of him fall over and drop all
of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a basketball and a walkman (随身听). Mark stopped
and helped the boy pick up these things. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry some of his
things. As they walked, Mark knew that the boy"s name was Bill, and he loved computer games, basketball and
history, and he was having lots of troubles with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his
girlfriend.
They arrived at Bill"s home first and Mark was invited in for a coke and to watch television. The afternoon
passed happily with a few laughs and some small talks, then Mark went home. They often saw each other at
school, had lunch together once or twice, and then they both finished middle school. They ended up in the same
high school where they sometimes saw and talked with each other over the years. At last just three weeks before they finished high school, Bill asked Mark if they could talk?
Bill asked Mark if he still remembered the day years ago when they had first met." Did you ever think
why I was carrying so many things home that day?" asked Bill. "You see, I cleaned out my locker (锁柜)
because I didn"t want to leave anything for anyone else. I had put away some of mother"s sleeping pills and I was going home to kill myself. But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I began to understand that
if I killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when
you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more. You saved my life."1. When Mark met him the first time, Bill was going ________. [ ] A. to have a basketball game
B. to his classroom
C. to see Mark
D. back home2. From what Bill was carrying, we can know that he ________. [ ] 阅读理解。 One day in early March of 1993, Pauline and Tom Nichter and their 11-year-old son, Jason, were
shopping for a toy in Buena Park, CA. Suddenly, Pauline saw a wallet lying on the floor. When she looked
inside, she found $200. The family, homeless and without work, knew that would change their lives. But they
took the wallet to the nearby police station and turned it in. The wallet was found to have some other pockets,
and more money in...over $2,000! The police called the man who lost the wallet to pick it up. The man thanked
the Nichters and shook their hands, but did not reward them. Luckily for the family, a TV news reporter
filmed the story. People from all over the world heard the story and sent them letters, money, and even jobs.
A businessman even let them live in his house for free for six months. So far, the family has received over
$100,000. Now the Nichters"future is bright.1. The best title of the reading would be ________. [ ] A. Money Is Everything
B. From Poor To Rich
C. A Kind Businessman
D. A Lost Wallet And The Police2. Who found out the secret of the wallet? [ ] 完形填空。 Rudi Matt lived in a small village in the Swiss Alps in 1865. What he wanted most in the world was to
climb the highest peak (峰) in the Alps. Rudi"s mother and his uncle, Franz, a mountain guide, wanted him to
stop 1 and start working in a hotel. Rudi would not 2 his dream and secretly got in touch with an
English mountain climber 3 was planning to climb the highest peak.
Franz was very angry when he found out what Rudi had done, but he finally agreed to let Rudi go if he
went climbing, 4 . Franz also didn"t want to see Emil Saxo, a guide from another village, got to the top
5 him.
Rudi turned out to be a very good climber, 6 as they got close to the top, the Englishman got sick
and could go no farther. Franz stayed behind to take care of him, but Saxo continued, wishing to be the 7
to the top. Rudi went after Saxo, hoping to beat him to the top. When they met, Saxo fought with Rudi and fell
down by accident. Saxo was helpless and hurt. Rudi must 8 whether to carry Saxo back down to safety
or to continue alone to the top.
He decided Saxo"s life was more 9 than his dream and helped him down. During that time, the English
man and Franz 10 the climb, and finally they reached the top. Later, when they returned to the village, they
told people that Rudi was the real conqueror (征服者) of the mountain.完形填空。 One Saturday afternoon, Kate went to buy something for her sister and herself.
As Kate was coming out of a 1 , a young lady walked towards her. She said she was Miss Green—
a good friend of Kate"s sister. Kate 2 her. Then she called a taxi to send Kate home. She 3 the driver
where he should go. Kate was 4 that it was not the in direction of her home.
" 5 ?" Kate asked. The lady smiled.
When they came to a quiet road, a big rough man 6 , on the road. He stopped the taxi driver,
knocked him down, and threw him out of the 7 . At the same time, Miss Green took out of a knife and
8 it at Kate. She asked Kate to keep 9 . The man then started the taxi. "
Oh, my God! I"m being kidnapped," Kate said to herself.
She tried to escape, but not 10 . Suddenly an 11 came to her. She took out a lipstick (口红)
from her pocket, wrote "SOS" on the window, and covered the word with her 12 .
A few minutes later, a police car 13 and the policemen saw the sign. When the kidnappers saw the
policemen they stopped the taxi, jumped into the grass, and ran away.
The policemen then 14 Kate up and sent her home. When her parents knew what had happened,
they were greatly surprised. But they were also 15 because their daughter had finally come back safely.完形填空。 Mr. Green was ill and went to the hospital. A doctor 1 and said, "Well, Mr. Green, you are going
to 2 some injections (注射), and you"ll feel much better. A nurse will come 3 give you the first one
this evening, and then you"ll 4 get another one tomorrow evening." 5 a young nurse came to Mr.
Green"s bed and said to him, "I am going to give you your 6 injection now, Mr. Green. Where do you want
it?"
The old man was 7 . He looked at the nurse for a 8 , then he said," 9 has ever let me
choose that before. Are you really going to let me choose now?"
"Yes, Mr. Green," the nurse answered. She was in a hurry. "Where do you want it?"
"Well, then," the old man answered 10 "I want it in your left arm, please."阅读理解。 A small man with a fat stomach got on the train at the last station before the frontier (边境). He carried
a paper bag. And four feet of ducks (鸭子) could be seen under the cover. The man found an empty seat,
put the bag in the middle of the floor, took out a newspaper and began to read.
Then a policeman came in. Of course he saw the bag with the ducks" feet at once and said, "Whose is
that bag?"
Nobody answered. The policeman repeated the question, and said, "I shall have to take it away from
the owner. Food mustn"t be taken out of country."
"Well, then," said the small man with a fat stomach." Hurry up and take it away. We want to go home.
"The policeman took the bag and went on to the next carriage (车厢).
At the next station, when they were safely across the frontier, the small man got up, smiled at other
passengers and said, "I hope that they"ll enjoy the ducks" feet. The rest of the bag had nothing but rubbish in
it." Then he opened his coat and pointed to another bag he was carrying under it. It was tied over the stomach,
which was not really fat. "I have the rest of the two ducks here," he said. With these words, he got off the
train.
But while he was happily walking to the exit with the bag in his hand, a policeman came up to him,
saying, "Hey, man! Foreign food mustn"t be brought in."1. The small man put the bag in the middle of the floor . [ ] A. because the other passengers didn"t like it
B. so that the policeman could find it easily
C. so that he could make more room for himself
D. because there was not an empty seat in the carriage2. Why did the first policeman take the paper bag away? Because . [ ] 完形填空。 John lived with his mother in a very big house, and when she 1 , the house became too big 2 him,
so he bought a 3 one in the next street. There was a very nice, old clock in his 4 house, and when the
man came to take his things to the new house, John thought, "I"m not going to let them 5 my beautiful old
clock in their truck. Perhaps they will break it, and then it will be very expensive to repair it." So he 6 and
began to carry it down the road in his arms.
It was heavy, so he stopped two or three times to have 7 . Then suddenly a small boy came along the
road. He stopped and looked at John for 8 seconds. Then he said to John, "You"re a 9 , aren"t you?
10 don"t you buy a watch like everyone else?"阅读理解。 Once there was a clever farmer. Though he was poor, he decided one day to take the king a roast goose
(烤鹅) as a present. He had not had 1 to eat that day, and soon the 2 of the roast goose became too
much for him as (当…时) he 3 it to the king, so he ate one of its legs.
When he came before the king and gave him the goose, the king 4 saw that it had only one leg.
Now, the king 5 was born with one bad leg, so he had never been able to 6 properly (正常地).
When he saw the goose with only one leg, he thought the farmer had 7 this to laugh at him. Of course
he was very 8 . The farmer was told that if anybody laughed at the king, he would be 9 at once.
"Where is 10 leg of the goose?" the king asked.
"All the geese (goose的复数) in this 11 of the country have one leg only," the farmer answered.
"Do you think I"m a fool (傻子)?" the king shouted. " 12 ," said the farmer, "if you look out of the
window, you will see geese with one leg by the 13 ."
The king looked, and there the geese were 14 on one leg beside the water. The king at once told
one of his men to 15 them with a big stick, and of course, they 16 their other legs and ran away.
"There," said the king. "You were lying (说谎). That 17 that the geese here have two legs, like all
other 18 in the country."
"But it doesn"t show anything," answered the farmer, "if your men threw a big stick like that at me, I
would grow two 19 legs myself to help me to run away 20 ."完形填空。 Mr. Green heard that a certain government department (政府部门) wanted a clerk (职员), 1 he
wrote and 2 the position (职位). But while he was waiting for 3 , a friend of his introduced (介绍)
him to the head of the department. And the head at once gave him 4 .
Several months 5 , 6 Mr. Green was working in the department, he got a letter from his old
address. This letter said:
"Dear Sir,
We are 7 to have to tell you that we cannot offer (提供) you the work in this department because
we do not think that you would 8 do the job successfully (成功地). Yours Faithfully," Mr. Green laughed,
but when he looked at the letter more 9 he was 10 to see that he signed (签名) it himself!完形填空。 It was December 25, 1972. Marie, a 13-year-old Australian girl, was very happy. It was 1 and
Marie"s mother made an unusual cake. She put four small coins (硬币) into 2 . The four small coins
were for good 3 .
After dinner Marie and her 4 ate the cake. When they 5 the cake, there were three coins on
the table. One coin was 6 . Marie"s mother didn"t notice that.
After Christmas Marie got 7 . She coughed and couldn"t speak. Six weeks later she felt 8 ,
but she 9 couldn"t speak. So Marie went to the hospital.
Doctors at the hospital 10 Marie. They took an X-ray (X光). Marie"s mother asked the doctors,
"Why can"t Marie 11 ?" The doctor said, "We don"t know. Maybe she will speak again. Maybe she won"t.
We"re 12 , but we can"t help her."
For twelve years Marie didn"t speak. She 13 and got a job. But she never spoke.
One day when Marie was 25 years old, she got ill. She began to cough. She coughed up a lot of blood
(血). She also coughed up 14 small and black from her throat (喉咙). What was it? Marie didn"t know.
She took it to the hospital. A doctor said, "This is a coin."
The doctor told Marie, "I 15 you can speak again." Soon Marie began talking.阅读理解。 During the Second World War, Winston Churchill was the British Prime Minister. One day he had to go
to the British Broadcasting Corporation (the BBC) to make an important speech to the nation.
An hour before the time of this speech, he stopped a taxi in the street and asked the driver to take him to
the BBC, but the taxi driver, who did not recognize him, said he could not take him anywhere just then,
because he wanted to go back to his home at the other end of London to hear Churchill make a speech on the
radio. Churchill was so pleased when he heard this . Churchill answered that he gave the man a pound, which
was worth quite a lot in those days.
"All right, get in," said the driver happily, opening the door of the taxi. "I"ll take you, and to hell with
(让…见鬼去) Churchilland his speech!"1. During the Second World War, Winston Churchill was the _______. [ ] A. British Prime Minister
B. American Prime Minister
C. Chinese Prime Minister
D. French Prime Minister2. An hour before the time of this speech, he stopped a ______ in the srteet and asked the driver
to take him to the _______.[ ] 阅读理解。 Walking in the street, Richard didn"t know where to go. His hometown was about 400 miles away.
He used to have little food. So he came to this city. But nobody would use a man who could neither read
nor write. It began to snow and soon the ground turned white. He felt a little warm when he was passing
a restaurant. He stood at the gate, but a policeman saw him and made him leave.
The young man was hungry and cold . He was afraid of dying in such bad weather.He went in a
supermarket. It was quite warm in it. He knew he would soon be driven out. He thought for a while and
had an idea. He looked around. The salesgirl was busy serving (为…服务) a rich man. He put on a coat
quickly and hurried off. Bad luck! Another salesgirl found it. Of course, he was caught and sent to a police
station. He understood the prison (监狱) was waiting for him.
"Were you thinking of anything while you were stealing the coat, young man?" asked an officer.
"Yes, sir" answered Richard," I would have a warm coat unless (除非) I was caught; In case (万一)
I would able to live in a warm room!"1. Richard came to the city to . [ ] A. look for some food
B. find a job
C. find a warm place
D. steal a coat2. The policeman didn"t let Richard . [ ] 完形填空。 Mr. Brown, a teacher in a primary school, often fell asleep in class, but he didn"t want his 1 to
know and do that. One day he again fell asleep 2 . When he woke up, one of the 3 , Tom, asked
him, "Why did you fall asleep in class just now, dear sir?"
Mr. Brown"s face turned 4 . "I…I…The Sungod (太阳) asked me to visit him in my dream." he
said.
Tom wanted to say something, 5 he said nothing. The next day, Tom also 6 in class.
When the teacher saw him, he 7 Tom up and asked him, "Why did you fall asleep in class and
not 8 me, Tom?"
Tom answered with a smile on his 9 , "The Sungod asked me to visit him, too." The teacher
became 10 when he heard this and asked, "What did he say to you, then?"
He told me he didn"t see you yesterday.阅读理解。 A man walked into a doctor"s examining room. "Put out your tongue," the doctor said. The man
put out his tongue, and the doctor looked at it quickly.
"OK. You can put your tongue back now," the doctor said. "It"s clear what"s wrong with you. You
need more exercise."
"But, doctor," the man said, "I don"t think…"
"Don"t tell me what you think," the doctor said. "I am the doctor, not you. I know what you need.
I see hundreds of people like you. None of them get any exercise. They sit in offices all day and in front
of the TV in the evening. What you need is to walk quickly for at least 20 minutes a day."
"Doctor, you don"t understand," the patient said. "I…"
"I don"t want to hear any excuses," the doctor said. "You must find time for exercise. If you don"t,
you will get fat and have health problems when you are older."
"But I walk every day," the patient said.
"Oh, yes, and I know what kind of walking that is. You walk a few feet to the train station from
your house, a few more feet from the station to your office, and a few more feet from your office to a
restaurant for lunch and back. That is not real walking. I"m talking about a walk in the park for twenty
minutes every day."
"Will you listen to me, doctor!" the patient shouted, getting angry with his doctor who thought he
knew everything. "I"m a mailman," the patient went on, "and I walk for seven hours every day!" For a
moment the doctor was silent, then he said quietly, "Put your tongue out again, will you?"1. At first the doctor asked the man . [ ] A. to walk to work
B. to exercise
C. to show his tongue
D. to see hundreds of other patients2. The doctor would not . [ ] 阅读理解。 Don"t You Like Any Colours?
Mrs. Green was seventy, but she had a small car, and she always drove to the shops in it on Saturday
and bought her food.
She did not drive fast, because she was old, but she drove well and never hit anything. Sometimes her
grandchildren said to her, "Please don"t drive your car, Grandmother. We can take you to the shops." But she
always said, "No, I like driving. I"ve driven for fifty years, and I"m not going to stop now."
Last Saturday she stopped her car at some traffic-lights because they were red, and then it did not start
again. The lights were green, then yellow, then green again, but her car did not start.
"What am I going to do now?" she said.
But then a policeman came and said to her kindly, "Good morning. Don"t you like any of our colours
today?"1. Mrs. Green was ______. [ ] A. young
B. old
C. busy
D. clever2. Her grandchildren asked her not to ______. [ ] 完形填空。 Newton (牛顿) was a great English scientist. He was one of the greatest 1 in history. One
morning he got up early and began 2 on a difficult problem. It was time to have breakfast, but he
was thinking 3 the problem. Her servant, Mary brought a pan of water and egg to his room. She
was going to boil (煮) the egg for him. But Newton wanted to do by 4 . He said to Mary, "Please
put the egg on the table. I"ll boil 5 ."
Mary put the egg beside Newton"s watch on the table and 6 , "Boil the egg for only four minutes
and it"ll be 7 . "Then quickly she walked out of the room. Mary was afraid Newton would 8 to
boil the egg. She went to his room again half an hour later. What did she 9 ? Newton was standing by
the pan, having the 10 in his hand. He had put the watch in the pan and was boiling it .根据短文内容判断下列句子的正误,正确的用“T”,错误的用“F”。 A meteorite (陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettiffer in Britain when he was
working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.
The meteorite weighed (重) one kilo, and might be over four thousand million (百万) years old.
"I hear the big noise in the air. I looked up and I saw the tops of the trees coming and going," he said.
"I didn"t know what it was."
Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500 meteorites may fall on the
earth every year, but only very few are found.
Mr Pettiffer"s meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the Second World War. Mr Pettiffer is glad.
"When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange."
( )1. The meteorite was far from Mr Pettiffer when it fell down.
( )2. The meteorite was already 4,000,000,000 years old.
( )3. Mr Pettiffer found the tops of the trees coming and going because the moving was made by wind.
( )4. Quite a few people see a meteorite fall on the earth although they visit the earth often each other.
( )5. Mr Pettiffer was happy to see the falling the meteorite.根据短文内容选择正确答案。 One year there was a heavy rain in a small town. For a week it rained every day. The river was in flood.
Most people got away from the flood in boats. But a religious (敬畏神灵的) old man refused to go with
them. He sat on top of his house and waited for the water to go down.
The water rose higher and higher. Soon it reached the top of the old man"s house. Then two men in a boat
came up. Saving. "Come with us. The water is rising."
The old man shook his head. "No." he said. "God, will save me."
The men could do nothing to help him. They went away by boat.
Then a helicopter arrived. It flew above the old man"s head. "The water is still rising." the pilot (飞行员)
shouted. "Climb up or you will drown (淹死)." But the old man refused to leave his house again."God will
save me." He cried. And the helicopter flew away.
The next day, the old man was drowned. God was waiting at the door. The old man was very angry
with him. "I believe in you," he shouted. "I told everybody you would save me. And what happened? You
let me drown."
"I did not. What about the boat I sent?" God answered. "And the helicopter?"1. The old man thought _______. [ ] A. he would die in the flood
B. it would go on raining
C. a helicopter would come to save him
D. God would save him2. During the flood. The old man . [ ] 根据上下文,在空格处填上适当的词,使其意思完整、语法正确,每个空格限填一个词。 Yesterday morning an old woman (1) a lot of things in a shop. She put them in a
big (2) . She was going to carry it to the car, but the box was heavy and the car wasn"t
(3) . At that time Li Ping and Han Mei were (4) by the car and talking. When
they (5) the old woman and the big box beside her, they went to (6) her. They
lifted the heavy box and (7) it to the car. Suddenly the box (8) down and one of
Li Ping"s feet was (9) hurt. He had to lie in bed in the hospital for several days. He became
worried about his lessons. But his friend Han Mei said," (10) worry about your lessons. I
will come to help you with your lessons after class every afternoon."阅读理解。 One morning, Jim Reed checked his e-mail. He found a strange message on the e-mail. It was from a
woman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had talked to her on e-mail many times in the last ten days. All the
other messages were fun and interesting to read, but this message was different.
The message said, "Good-bye loved kowihn yu I amj leaving."
Mr. Reed was frightened by the message. He tried to understand the words that were not spelled right.
He quickly wrote a message to his new friend.
"What do you mean by the message you just sent me?"
He waited but did not get an answer. He wrote back, "Please talk to me."
Finally, she wrote, "I am fallg asleep waht it say gildgye ti ny friends." Mr. Reed thought hard about
this message. "Is she going to kill herself?" he thought.
"What is your phone number?" he typed. The woman sent a phone number. Mr. Reed called. At first the
phone was busy. Then it just rang and rang. He called directory assistance in Pittsburgh. They connected him
with the police. Reed told his story. Then he faxed them what his friend wrote.
The police and paramedics quickly went to the woman"s house. When she didn"t answer the doorbell,
they broke in. They found her on the floor near the computer. She told them, "I took 60 pills." The paramedics
rushed her to the hospital.
"Mr. Reed did a great job of saving this woman," the police captain said. "If he hadn"t guessed at the
e-message, she would be dead now." The woman is fine now, and she thanks Mr. Reed for saving her life.1. Mr Reed ___________. [ ] A. met his new friend by telephone
B. saw his new friend somewhere before
C. wrote e-mail to his new friend for ten days
D. talked with his new friend about strange things2. The e-message he found was strange ___________. [ ] 完形填空。 I was not quite seventeen when I decided to join the US Army. My mother tried her best to 1
me out of my dream, then finally signed the papers that would allow me to be a solider.
One day, nearly two years after the Philippines (菲律宾) became my 2 , I was told to go to the
office of Lieutenant Colonel (中校) Boyd. He seemed to be a kind man, but I was pretty sure that he hadn"t
called me in to 3 the time of day.
Standing before his desk, I waited 4 as he read through some paperwork. Then he looked up.
"Why, Private (二等兵), haven"t you written to your mother for more than six months?"
I felt weak in my knees. Has it been 5 long? I thought.
"I don"t have anything to say, sir."
Lieutenant Colonel Boyd told me that my mother had got in touch with the American Red Cross,
which in turn informed me about that. Then he said, "Go to that desk, and you"ll find some paper and a
pen. Sit down right this minute and write to your mother, Private?"
"Yes, sir."
When I finished a short letter, I stood before him again.
"Private, I"m 6 you to find something to say to your mother at least once a week. Do you
understand?" I did.
Some thirty-five years later, my 7 mother"s mind was not as good as it used to be, and I had
to place her in a convalescent home (疗养院). As I 8 her own things in a big old strong box, I found
some letters tied with a bright red ribbon (缎带).
They were the letters I had 9 from the Philippines. I sat on the floor of her room that afternoon
reading each one, tears (眼泪) running down my face. I now realized how deeply I, as a 10 , had made
her worried by my careless thoughts.
The lesson I learned may have been too 11 to help my mother, but it"s still 12 me good.
These days I don"t need an officer standing over me to write my loved ones on a regular basis (定期).阅读理解。
Mrs Green was walking along a San Francisco street. Suddenly a man took her purse and ran. Mrs.
Green was very angry. She had ten dollars, her bus pass, and the keys to her house in her purse. Mrs.
Green ran after the thief. The thief ran one block (街区), two blocks, three blocks.
The thief was a young man, so he could run fast. Mrs. Green was not a young woman - she was
73 years old - but she could run fast, too. Mrs. Green stayed right behind the thief. Mrs. Green was
wearing two chopsticks in her hair. The chopsticks had sharp (尖的) ends.
Mrs. Green took the chopsticks out of her hair. "Maybe I can stab (刺,戳) the thief with these
chopsticks," she thought. "Then he will drop my purse."
The thief ran into a building. Mrs. Green followed him. "Help! Stop him!" she shouted. "He has my
purse!" Two police officers were walking near the building. They heard Mrs. Green and ran to help her.
One police officer stayed with Mrs. Green. The other police officer ran after the thief.
The police officer found the thief at the corner of the building. The thief was looking in Mrs. Green"s
purse. When he saw the police officer, the thief dropped the purse and ran away.
A few minutes later the police officer caught the thief. He was found under a car and taken to jail
(监狱). The thief will stay in jail for a long time. But the thief was lucky. He was lucky that the police
caught him! Why?1. What did the thief take from the woman? [ ] A. Ten dollars
B. Keys
C. A purse
D. A bus pass2. Where did the thief hide? 完形填空。 There was a pleasant feeling of anticipation (期盼) in the air on my first working-as a teacher day.
But it was not to last.
It was a Saturday, and I was on the way to my aunt"s. Sitting in the bus, I 1 what I would do to
deal with my little sister and her friend, who were both in 2 third year of primary school. My 3
and that girl"s mum expected me to help their children with spoken English, and had agreed to 4 me.
I started my two girl "class". Their school books were on the desk, but I didn"t use them, 5 my
own teaching plan.
At the beginning, the girls were calm and studied 6 . But an hour later, after a 15 minute break,
they quit concentrating on study. Instead, they ran about the 7 giggling (咯咯笑) madly, paying 8
attention to me.
The room got messier-books and toys covered the floor. I was just about to 9 this when suddenly
the door opened. Their parents looked stunned (受惊吓的).
My aunt asked, "You have finished the task?" My face 10 , I lied and nodded slightly. Before the
girl"s mum could hand me the money, I 11 out of the house. I knew I couldn"t accept it.
Being a teacher with a messy ending is surely 12 …阅读理解。 Tracy sat at the kitchen table daydreaming. She was thinking about the used bike she planned to buy.
She was making a list of things she wanted to do to fix up the bike. On her list, Tracy had written new
seat, paint, and bell. Then she thought, "I want to make sure drivers see me on my bike. I"ll add reflectors
(反光镜)
to my list."
Tracy"s dad walked into the kitchen. "What are you doing?" he asked.
"Oh, I"m just thinking about the bike I want to buy", Tracy said. "I had hoped to earn enough on my
paper route the first week to buy it, but I only made fifteen dollars. I hope the bike is still there after I get
paid next week."
"Well, if you would like to earn the money tomorrow, you can help me," Tracy"s dad said.
"Doing what?" Tracy asked eagerly.
"I"m washing windows in the morning," her dad said. "I could use five dollars" worth of help."
Even though it was a Saturday, Tracy got up quite early. She washed the inside of all of the windows.
By twelve o"clock, she finished and had the money in her hand. Just as she was ready to leave, her mom
called to her, "Tracy, did you make your bed?" Tracy rushed to her bedroom and made her bed. Finally, she
headed for the door. She raced down the street to where the bike was for sale. Luckily, It was still there. The
owner noticed Tracy looking at the bike. "Would you like to buy it?" asked the owner.
"I sure would! I have twenty dollars," Tracy answered, pulling the money out of her pocket.
Within minutes Tracy rode away wearing a huge smile. She circled the block several times. She wanted
her friends to see her on her new bike.通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选择最佳的一项。 On my way into the house, I heard a child"s voice from the other side of a small forest. I had traveled several thousand kilometers to the center of Africa, to see this kid. I went through 1 and saw a little boy walking
up and down. "We are all the same," he was saying. He paused, looked 2 at the paper in his hand, then into
the front. "We are not different from one another. We all belong (属于) to one family."
His thin voice 3 his weak body. His jacket was too large, and his trousers swept the ground. I thought he could not possibly be 11 years old. He had a certain unbelievable charm (诱惑力) —even in those 4 few
moments I was moved by his amazing feelings.
"We are all the same," he was saying again. It seemed to me that his words 5 a faraway bell. He was
reading those famous words spoken by Shylock in Shakespeare"s The Merchant of Venice.
The kid was 6 not for himself, but a huge family he had not asked to join: the millions of Africans who
7 a deadly virus (病毒) in their bodies. "We all belong to one family. We love and we laugh. We hurt and
we cry. We live and we die." He stopped, opened his arms, hands turned upwards and caught his shoulders (臂膀).
I went into the house with 8 the boy had given me in those few moments. I had 9 for five or six
stories like, who was this kid, where did he come from, where did he get so much courage (勇气), and what
would 10 to him?
This was the beginning, that afternoon in the spring of 2000. Over the next year or so I 11 try to find
the answers to these questions. I was going to discover something that could make my life 12 for ever.完形填空。 Even your worst enemies (敌人) could be your best friends. This was 1 about my best friend
in 5th and 6th grade.
We started school in Bedford when our families moved there. We shared interests and did things
together.
In the last year, however, we looked down upon each other and rarely (很少) talked except to say
terrible things. I 2 her for a long time.
My family moved from Massachusetts to Kansas a month ago. To my 3 , she gave me a teddy
bear as a farewell present. She"d designed it herself and 4 made a scarf for it. She also wrote a card
that said:
Hey Frances,
Wow ... you were my best 5 for two amazing years. But now you"re 6 hundreds of miles
away. I am going to miss you! There are many things I regret doing to you. And now that I want to say
7 to you, I have to make it fit into one little 8 . Fifth grade was a trip. We two new girls became
friends immediately. Sixth grade was 9 , even though the path was hard. In 7th grade we made new
friends. We wouldn"t even say "hi". Was it my fault (错误) that we fought? I feel sorry and I don"t know
10 . You won"t be here next week so we can"t go to the movies or the mall one last time. Now that
you"ve done reading my sloppy card ... bye. Hope you can forgive (原谅) me.
Sincerely. Love always,
Michelle
This card made me cry for the first time during the move. It made me 11 that moving keeps you
away from people you care about. I also realized that I cared for Michelle more than I thought. If we try to
forgive and 12 , life will be easier and happier.阅读理解。 Last September I decided to fly from my hometown, Phoenix, to visit my sister in Seattle. I wanted to
take my dog Rosie with me, so I spoke to my vet (兽医) before I booked the tickets. Rosie would have to
travel in a large wooden box, and I wanted to check that she would be OK. The vet said that Rosie would be
fine because it was only a short flight.
When the plane landed in Seattle at five o"clock, I asked the flight attendant if I could stay in my seat
until Rosie was taken off the plane. The flight attendant told me to get off the plane immediately, and that I
should wait for Rosie at the baggage claim area (行李认领处). So I went to the baggage claim area and
waited until all the baggage had been taken off the plane. Soon I was the only person waiting and there was
still no sign of Rosie.
After forty-five minutes, I asked a woman who worked for the airline if she could find out where my
dog was. After I"d waited another thirty minutes, she told me that the plane was now flying to Los Angeles.
Rosie was still on the plane! It wasn"t until eleven thirty that night that the airline found Rosie in Los Angeles.
There were no more flights that night so she had to spend the night in her box at Los Angeles airport.
I got Rosie back the next morning, but by this time she had been in her box for over eighteen hours.
Poor Rosie!通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选择最佳的一项。 I keep a two-dollar bill in my wallet (钱包). My mother gave it to me when I was six years old. The bill
goes with me wherever I go because I believe luck would 1 me everywhere.
Whenever I felt there was a trouble, I would 2 for my two-dollar bill and set it on the table, I would
watch it for several hours and could always come up with 3 .
When I began to look for my first job, I was thirty years old and very 4 . The thought of being
interviewed (面试) for a job was scary (恐怖的) but I had to work. Mrs. Martin, the office manager, asked me
some questions and the interview was over. As I got 5 her office, I said, "Mrs. Martin, I know that I am
not the best applicant (申请者), but please give me a chance. I learn quickly and can be a very 6 member
of your team."
That evening I received a phone call from Mrs. Martin. "Gina," she said. "You were not the best applicant,
but you have so much confidence (信心) in yourself that we have 7 to give you a chance." "Thank you so
much, Mrs. Martin!" I said. I was so excited that I forgot to say 8 to Mrs. Martin.
I took out my two-dollar bill. "Thanks, Mom. I am going to 9 it," I sad out loud so my mother could
hear me.
At that moment, I remember the time she pulled all of us into the living room and said, "You are all clever
in my 10 , but if you fail once, don"t give up. You will be successful." I still think of Mom every day and
keep my two-dollar bill in my wallet. At a family reunion (团聚) years later, I found that my brothers and sisters
11 had two-dollar bills in their wallets. We laughed and talked about how 12 this gift from Mom had
been to each of us.完形填空。通读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选择能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 A little boy invited his mother to his school"s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy"s disappointment (失望), she said she would go. This 1 be the first time that his classmates and teacher 2 his mother and
he felt ashamed (丢脸) of what she looked. 3 she was a beautiful woman, there was a deep scar (伤痕)
that covered the whole right side of her face. The boy never wanted to 4 why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were impressed (留下印象) by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in
spite of (尽管) the scar, but the little boy still felt uncomfortable and hid himself from everyone. However, he
could hear the conversation 5 his mother and his teacher. The teacher asked 6 , "How did you get the
scar on your face?" The mother replied, " 7 my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone
was 8 afraid to go in because the fire was terrible, so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a
long 9 of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to keep him from hurt. I was knocked,
but luckily, a fireman came in and saved 10 of us." She said slowly, "This scar will be lasting, but to this day, I have never regretted (后悔) what I did."
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. This was his first
time to hear the story. He 11 her in his arms and felt the great 12 from his mother. He held her hand
tightly for the rest of the day.阅读下面短文,然后从其后各题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。 I"ve refused to allow my step son Jim to go to university because it will be too expensive and a waste
of time. People think I"m selfish or not kind-hearted. But I don"t feel sorry for that, and I think more parents
will be coming around to my way of thinking. Britain"s universities are failing to serve either the country or
our children. It"s about time we voted (投票) with our feet.
I can"t remember when I began to change my mind on education. Like a lot of middle-class parents,
we had believed that going to university was what your children did. It"s one of the reasons (理由) we offered
more than $ 100,000 in fees (学费) for Jim to go to a private (私立) school rather than a free public one.
Education is more important than nice cars, new kitchens or skiing holidays.
Jim is a young boy of whom any parent would be proud. He"s clever and helpful; he"s good at things like
hanging pictures and mending doors; he can get on well with other kids. But he"s shown little interest in study.
It"s not Jim"s intellect (智力) that"s the problem-after he entered the school he was asked to sit an exam
but an in-built reluctance (勉强) to do any more work than necessary to get by. We"ve tried everything to make
him work harder. None of it has worked. For his final exams, Jim got a D and two Es. Even allowing for our
low expectations (期望), this came as a surprise to his mother and me.
"Surely," I said to one of Jim"s teachers, "the only subject Jim would get on with such poor grades would
be the kind of subject that wouldn"t be worth doing anyway."
"Not at all," the teacher answered, as if speaking to a dinosaur. He read out the names of a lot of univer-
sities I"d never heard of, saying they"d all be fit for Jim.
It was at this point I realized how far away I was from today"s education. I knew that, since I was at
school in the early 1980s-when a student with such poor grades as Jim"s would not have been allowed to go to
any university-the population in the UK going on to higher education has gone up from 14% to a surprising 44%.1. The reason the writer won"t let Jim go to university is that _________. [ ] A. the family is too poor to send Jim there
B. there are few universities in the UK
C. Jim won"t be allowed to go to university
D. it"s a waste of time and money to do so2. What"s Jim"s main problem? [ ] 完形填空。 The sun was shining when I got on No. 151 bus. We passengers sat closely in heavy clothes. No one
spoke. That"s one of the unwritten rules. Although we see the same faces every day, we prefer to 1
behind our newspapers. People who sit so close together are using those newspapers to keep their distance
(距离).
As the bus came near the Mile, a voice suddenly rang out, "Attention! This is your driver 2 ." We
3 the back of the driver"s head. "Put your papers down. All of you." The 4 came down. "Now,
turn and face the person next to you. Go ahead."
Surprisingly we all did it. Still no one smiled. I faced an older woman. her head wrapped (裹) in a red
scarf. I saw her 5 every day. Our eyes met. We waited for the next order from the driver. "Now repeat
after me. Good morning, neightbor!"
Our voices were 6 . For many of us, these were the 7 words we had spoken that day. But we
said them together, like 8 , to the strangers beside us. We couldn"t help smiling. There was the 9 of
relief (解脱). Moreover, there was the sense of ice being broken "Good morning, neighbor." It was not so
10 after all. Some of us repeated it, others shook hands, and many laughed.
The bus driver said nothing more. He didn"t 11 to. Not a single newspaper went back up. I heard
laughter, a 12 sound I had never heard before in No. 151 bus.
When I reached my stop, I said goodbye to my seatmate, and then jumped off the bus. That day I was
starting off happily.通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选择能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 Andy Barton worked in an office. He was in a 1 mood (心情) this Friday.
At six o"clock his favourite programme "Travel with it!" was on TV. Andy liked to get home in good time
for that, so he was leaving the office a little 2 .
"I can get home in time if I hurry." Andy told himself when he 3 out of the office. But when he drove
off in his car, he 4 that he was almost out of gas (汽油). "I"ll have to stop at Fenton"s." Andy thought. He
5 Fenton"s because it was a self-service gas station. You do all the work yourself, but you pay 6 for
the gas. Fenton"s pump (泵) was not working properly and it 7 too much time to get gas.
So when Andy got home, it was already two minutes past six. Just then the phone rang. "Shall I answer
it?" Andy thought. He tried to fix his attention on the programme and forgot the phone. But it kept on ringing and
finally he picked it up.
"Mr. Barton?" 8 said, "Fenton"s Garage here."
"Fenton"s?" said Andy, " 9 , I was at your place only a few minutes ago, getting some gas. Did I
10 something behind or what?"
"No, you didn"t. Mr. Barton." the voice went on. "That"s just the point! You didn"t leave anything behind!
You went off without paying for your gas, you see! When that happened, we usually ring up the police. But
11 I recognized you and I know it was a mistake."
"I"m really very sorry." Andy said. "
Oh, 12 , Mr. Barton. But could you come round now and pay for your gas? And please hurry! We
close at half past six!"阅读短文并根据其内容回答问题。 An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was
very sick and they had no money. Only an operation (手术) could save him now and there was no one to
lend them the money.
One day she heard her Daddy say to her tearful mother, "Only a miracle (奇迹) can save him now."
The little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her piggy bank (存钱罐) from its hiding place. She poured
all the coins out on the floor and counted them carefully.
Holding her piggy bank, she ran to the nearby drugs store. she placed her coins on the glass counter.
"I want to buy a miracle for my little brother. He is really sick." said the little girl to the shop assistant.
"I beg your pardon?" the shop assistant could hardly believe what he heard.
"His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my Daddy says only a
miracle can save him."
"We don"t sell miracle here, child. I"m sorry," the shop assistant said.
"Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn"t enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how
much it costs."
In the shop was a well-dressed customer (顾客). His name was Carlton Armstrong. He asked the little
girl, "What kind of miracle does your brother need?"
"I don"t know," she replied. "He is really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy
can"t pay for it."
"How much do you have?" asked the man. "One dollar and eleven cents," she answered. "Well," smiled
the man. "A dollar and eleven cents? That is the exact price of a miracle for your little brother. I have the kind
of miracle you need."
He took her money in one hand and held her hand with the other. He said, "Take me to where you live.
I want to see your brother and meet your parents."
Carlton Armstrong saved Andrew"s life by giving him a successful operation.
"That operation," her mother said in a low voice, "was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have
cost." The little girl smiled. She knew exactly how much the miracle cost-one dollar and eleven cents.
1. Could the girl"s family pay for the boy"s operation?
________________________________________________________.
2. Where did Carlton Armstrong work?
________________________________________________________.
3. What did the little girl think of miracle at first?
________________________________________________________.
4. How did Carlton Armstrong do the miracle?
________________________________________________________.
5. Why did Carlton Armstrong receive the girl"s one dollar and eleven cents?
________________________________________________________.阅读下面材料,根据材料内容从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。 The first person who"d sent emails was an American friend who was in a big company. Some years ago,
when this method of communication first came into business life, his company in New York and its satellites
across the earth were among the first to get it.
One evening in New York, the American friend was late for a drink we"d arranged (安排). "Sorry," he
said, "I"ve been away and had to deal with 998 emails." "Wow," I said, "I"m really surprised you made it before
midnight." "It doesn"t really take that long," he explained, "if you simply delete (删除) them all."
The friend had developed his own way on dealing with emails before most of us heard of emails. If any
information he got was very important, his no reply would make the sender ring him up. If the sender wasn"t
important enough to have his phone number, the communication couldn"t be important enough.
Almost every week now, we have to spend lots of time in dealing with emails. But if this happens, it"s only
because we haven"t developed the same thing in dealing with emails as we do with post. Have you ever regarded
an important letter as a piece of advertisement and thrown it out? Of course you haven"t. Junk (垃圾) email
looks unnecessary to read. But I cannot understand why so many people would like to open emails which come
from this kind of address such as SPECIALOFFER@junk.com.
Dealing with emails is an art. Firstly, you delete anything from any address you don"t know. Secondly, not
all the emails have to be answered. Thirdly, a reply email doesn"t have to be the same length as the original (原始
的).1. Why was the friend late for the drink that evening? [ ] A. Because he had a lot of work to do.
B. Because he had to deal with quite a lot of emails.
C. Because he had to finish his work before midnight.
D. Because he had to delete quite a lot of emails.2. What is the American friend"s opinion on e-mails? [ ] 完形填空。 Last summer, I was a volunteer (志愿者) at a shelter for the homeless, a place for homeless people
to sleep at night. I wasn"t working that summer and was taking only two classes in summer school, so I
had some 1 time. Three nights a week, I helped in the kitchen of the shelter along with four other
volunteers. We 2 for 45 people hot meals 3 vegetables, chicken, fish and fruit. The homeless
people needed this good food because many of them usually didn"t eat well.
I 4 this volunteer work, making 5 with four volunteers in the kitchen. One was a very nice
elderly housewife, one a movie actor, another a young teacher and the other a college student, like me.
I talked with a lot of the homeless people at the shelter. Their life stories filled me with sympathy
(同情). Some of them had 6 with alcohol (烈酒) or drugs (毒品) while others only had 7 luck.
One woman worked for almost 30 years for a small company, and then she lost (失去) her job, she looked
for a 8 job, but couldn"t find one, for she was too 9 . She could do nothing but sell her furniture-sofas,
chairs, and tables 10 she could pay for her food. The woman 11 on looking for a job, but she still
couldn"t find one. She had no money for her flat and had to sleep in her car. Then she had to sell her car.
Alone, 12 and homeless she finally came to the shelter.完形填空。 John Brown, an office worker, lives in Washington. He inherited (继承) $ 1,000,000 when he was 23. He
didn"t feel 1 at all. His college friends were looking for their first jobs, but he didn"t have to. John decided
to 2 living a simple life like everyone else. He didn"t tell any of his friends and gave his $100,000 of his
money to a 3 that helped poor children to live better lives. Today he is 36, he 4 wears cheap shoes and
owns a small car only, but he is much happier.
Once, John went to meet a little girl in Africa. He said the meeting was very 5 . "When I met her, I
felt very, very happy, "he said. "I saw that the money 6 for a very good plan. It brought me 7 to the
child in a way that giving money 8 cannot. ""I want to do everything I can," he added.通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选择能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 Most teachers agree that the first lesson of a teacher is often unforgettable. I remember getting into the
class with the 1 of a beginner teacher: nervous, careful, excited... The school I 2 my first lesson in
was well-known to hold the most troublesome (顽皮的) students in the city. With this in 3 , I was more
nervous than I should be. But I tried my best not to 4 it out and went into the class. The first thing I did
was taking a look at the whole class. My eyes 5 on a big black student. He was sitting in the back 6
of the class with no one in front of him. His body was much 7 than mine. I thought it would be better to
leave that boy untouchable. As soon as I started my lesson writing on the blackboard, I heard some noise from
the back. I 8 the students to find out who did it, but the class looked very 9 . I went on writing and
the noise went on. Then I stopped my lesson to solve this problem because I believed that if I lost control
(控制) of the class from the 10 I wouldn"t be able to get it back. I thought the big boy made the noise.
To my 11 , a small boy was the source (根源) of trouble. Days went 12 and I discovered that the big
boy was good and quiet and the great source of trouble came from a group of small-sized students who became
under control after some weeks. From then on, I realized that judging (判断) by appearance can often be wrong,
not only with students!阅读下面短文。根据短文内容从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。 Mr. Brown lived in a house less than two miles from his office, so he was able to drive home every day for
lunch. Every time he drove home at noon, he found many cars were parked outside his house and there was no
room for his own car. He had to drive somewhere else to park his car. Then he had to walk back home. This
made him very angry.
He had put up a board, which said, "No parking in the garden facing the road,"but nobody noticed it. People seemed to obey (遵守) only a police notice with white letters on a blue board:
Mrs. Brown suggested (建议)that he should steal a police notice. He was afraid to do so. She then
suggested that he should make one just like a police notice. He said he was not the police and couldn"t use the
word "police". Several days later, Mr. Brown made a blue board with white letters:
"Oh,"Mrs. Brown said, "You told me you weren"t going to use the word "police", but why do you use it
now?" "Really?"he asked, looked at it again.
She started to laugh, "You are really clever."1. Mr. Brown"s office was ___________ his house. [ ] A. next to
B. not so far from
C. 2 hours" drive from
D. 5 miles from2. Mr. Brown made _____________ notice board (s) altogether. [ ] 完形填空。 A London family were enjoying an unusual holiday in Iceland (冰岛) last month when things went
very wrong. Anne and Ben Harding and their two children, Claire, 13, and Sam, 11, 1 died in
freezing water.
The accident happened while the Harding family were 2 a glacier (冰河) in a popular Icelandic
beautiful place. 3 were walking along the edge of the ice when suddenly they fell 4 the ice into
the freezing water. His father Ben heard a cry for help and ran towards 5 . "I found my wife and
children in the ice water. And then my wife Anne just 6 below the surface (表面). It was terrible."
Ben 7 his children from the water, but when he went to save his wife, he fell in, too, as he was
trying to 8 in the ice. 9 , when he was in the water, he went all out to catch hold of Anne and
pulled her 10 out of water. "Her face was blue. 11 was really frightening (恐怖的)".
Anne spent three days in hospital there before the family 12 . And what are their plans for their
next holiday?阅读理解。 Waiting for Dr. Dirkson
(A play)
THE SCENE: A classroom in a high school.
(场景) Summer is over. This is the first day of school. The students arrive one by one or in small
groups. Everyone stops to read the sign on the door. It says:
PHYSICS 1, DR.F. DIRKSON.
THE CHARACTERS: Five students (Linda, Ben, Rudy, Tony, Molly) and Dr. Dirkson.
(人物)
Linda: Dirkson? Dirkson? I don"t know that name. Who is he?
Rudy: Don"t ask me. He must be a new teacher. I don"t remember him teaching in this school last year.
Do you, Ben?
Ben: No, but here comes Tony. If anyone can tell you about Dr. What"s-His-Name, Tony can. He knows
everything.
Tony: (laughs.) I don"t know everything. I only know almost everything. What is your question, please?
Molly: What do you know about this new teacher?
Tony: I don"t really know much about Dr. Dirkson. I do hear things, though. I hear lots of things.
Rudy: What do you hear? Is he a good teacher? I"m hoping to go to college. This class is important to me.
Tony: I have a friend who goes to Central High School. I"m almost sure that"s where Dr. Dirkson comes
from. If it"s the same teacher, he is rough. Believe me, he is rough and tough.
Linda: What do you mean "rough and tough"? I plan to go to college, too. I have to do well in this class.
Tony: What I hear is that Dirkson"s exams are very hard. He usually fails about half the class. All the girls.
Linda: (angry) That can"t be true. You"re making it up, Tony.
Molly: He"s just talking like that to make us angry, Linda. Tony, What does Dr. Dirkson look like? Is he
married?
Tony: I don"t think so. But don"t get excited, Molly. He isn"t going to interest you. He"s about seventy-seven
years old and he uses a walking stick.
Molly: (she is angry) Tony, why do you say that this teacher fails all the girls? Do you think physics is too
hard for girls? Do you think we can"t do it?
Tony: All I"m saying, Molly, is that girls don"t make it in Dr. Dirkson"s class. Physics is very difficult. It"s
not like art or music or history. It"s a science. How many famous women scientists are there? Hardly
any. You can count them on the fingers of one hand.
Ben: That"s not fair(公平), Tony. There are many women who are doctors and engineers and scientists. And
there are more of them all the time.
Rudy: That"s right, Tony. I agree with Ben. Girls can do anything we can do.
Tony: I don"t care what anybody says. I"m telling you the truth, Molly. I"m not saying that girls are not
intelligent (有智力的). They just don"t have the right kind of intelligence to understand physics.
Dr. Dirskson must know that. Take my advice (忠告) and get out of his class before he walks in.
(A very pretty young woman hurries into the classroom.)
Dr. Dirkson: Good morning. I"m sorry I"m late. I am Dr. Dirkson.
(The whole class starts to laugh. Everyone laughs hard. Everyone except Tony.)阅读短文,根据其内容回答问题。 "Climbing Mount Qomolangma is a kind of discovery," said a reporter of CCTV. He was sent to join the
climbing team for broadcasting? (播放) this TV program. The climbers climbed Mount Qomolangma from
May 18 to 24. CCTV also sent a team to join in this most dangerous and exciting sport. They called it "Standing
at the World"s Third Pole (极) in 2003".
It is just 50 years since the first climbers got to the top of Mount Qomolangma. In 2003, nearly 600 people
from all over the world tried to reach the highest mountain in the world.
As we know, Mount Qomolangma is famous for its height 8,848 metres in the world, so it has attracted
thousands of people to climb. On May 25th, 1953, Edmund Hillary from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay
from Nepal finally reached the top of Mount Qomolangma. This most dangerous sport in the world brings the
greatest challenge and the most exciting and happiest moment to human beings because the climbers have to
face the terrible cold and avalanches (雪崩), and some other difficulties. The higher they climb, the more
difficulties they will meet. On the way to the top they may lose their lives at any time. It is reported that 175
climbers had to live there for ever. During the past 50 years, more than 10,000 men and women tried to get to
the top, but only 1,200 have made their dreams come true. We Chinese climbers first showed our national flag
to the world on the top of the mountain in 1960.
Once someone asked why the pioneers never stopped trying to reach the top. "I don"t think climbing the
highest mountain only means danger or death. It is really a chance to challenge. You can really understand the
love of nature and the true meaning of life," a reporter of CCTV answered.
1. How many people succeeded in (成功) climbing up to the top of the mountain?
_________________________________________________________________________
2. What may the climbers meet when they climb Mount Qomolangrna?
_________________________________________________________________________
3. When did the Chinese climbing team first stand on the top of Mount Qomolangma?
_________________________________________________________________________
4. What does the sentence "It is reported that 175 climbers had to live there forever" mean?
_________________________________________________________________________
5. What can we learn from the climbers?
_________________________________________________________________________阅读短文,根据其内容简要回答问题。 During the Second World War it was very difficult for ordinary people to travel by plane because the
seats were needed for important government people and high rank (等级) officers in the army.
Mr. Brown worked for the government during the war. He acted as an ordinary cook but in fact he was
doing important secret work, and nobody was allowed to know how important he was except for a few very
top people.
One day Mr. Brown had to fly to London to give a report to some important people in the government
and army. He placed (预订) an order for a seat in a plane. But when Mr. Brown was about to get onto the
plane, an important army officer came to the airport at the last minute, and Mr. Brown"s seat was given to
the officer, so Mr. Brown had to wait for the next plane which was to fly to London two days later.
It was not until he reached London that the high rank officer discovered that the man whose seat he had
taken was the very one whose report he had flown to the city to listen to!
1. Is it easy or hard for ordinary people to travel by plane during the Second World War?
____________________________________________________________________
2. Who knew Mr. Brown"s real job?
____________________________________________________________________
3. Why was Mr. Brown"s seat given to the army officer?
____________________________________________________________________
4. How do you think the officer would feel when he saw Mr. Brown in London?
____________________________________________________________________
5. When did the army officer find he had taken Mr. Brown"s seat?
____________________________________________________________________完形填空。 Ashley Smith is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter. She was moving into her house in Atlanta,
Georgia early on the morning of March 12, when a man 1 her to her door, and put a gun to her side.
"I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really 2 ," she said in a TV interview last week.
The man was Brian Nichols, 33 years old. He 3 at an Atlanta courthouse on March 11.The police
were 4 him.
Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but set her free after she begged him not to take her 5 again and
again. "I told him 6 he hurt me, my little girl wouldn"t have mummy," she said with tears.
"I just talked to him and tried to 7 him believe me," Smith said.
She asked Nichols 8 he chose her. "He said he thought I was an angel 9 from God, and God
asked him to do so."
Smith even 10 for the man before he allowed her to leave. Nichols was 11 when she made him
breakfast and that the two of them watched TV, seeing 12 looking for him. "I cannot 13 that"s me
on the TV!" Nichols told the woman.
Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he 14 do. She said, "I think you should turn yourself
in. If you don"t, lots more people are going to get 15 ."
Finally, he let her go. Then she called the police.用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空,必要时可加助动词或情态动词。 One day when the famous American scientist Edison _____ (walk) on his way home, a young man
stopped him and required ______ (have) a word with him. Edison _____ (accept) his request.
The young man asked, "How, Mr. Edison, _____ you _____ (invent) so many things and achieve
your fame?"
The scientist said, "It seems that you have been thinking of ______ (become) famous every day."
The young man nodded, "Yes, I _____ (be) dreaming of being a person as famous as you. Every
minute I _____ (think) of you how to become reputable. I don"t know when I can achieve my fame."
Edison told him, "Don"t worry, young man. If you want _____ (be) a famous man this way, you
_____ (have) to wait until you _____ (die)!"
"Why should I?" the young man was _____ (puzzle).
Edison said, "What you dreamed is actually a high building. You never think of how _____ (build)
it with bricks. Thus the building will never come into reality. However, your story _____ (serve) as a
mirror. You _____ (remember) because of your idleness and laziness. They will often speak of your name
while they_____ (give) warnings to their children. Aren"t you a notorious person by then?"
The young man _____ (feel) very shameful and said, "I knew I ______ (not work) hard before, but
I"ll build my building."完形填空。 It is a thousand kilometers across that desert (沙漠). The road is 1 nearly all the way. Sometimes
there is a deep sand. A driver must then put his foot down hard and drive through! There are three small
2 along the way. Vick reached the first place at ten o"clock p. m. He had his 3 in a little restaurant
(餐馆) there. It was a warm 4 in August. Vick wanted to 5 through the night. The nights are warm
enough in August, but the days are very, very 6 .
He left the restaurant at 11: 30 and drove over 7 hours. There wasn"t a moon, but the 8 were
wonderful. There was nothing else on die road. Vick thought, "It"s an empty desert. No tree, house, man.
"He could 9 . the endless, white road in the car"s headlights (车灯). A million stars looked down on him.
It was two o"clock in the morning. Vick stopped the car. He was two hundred kilometers from the 10
town: "I"ll light the cooker (炊具)," he thought, "and make some tea. " He got out of the car.
He heard some sounds, ten or fifteen metres 11 . He could not see anything in the darkness (黑暗).
A man said, "Good morning. It"s a 12 morning, isn"t it?" The man came forward (向前), out of the
darkness; out of the desert. Vick did not move. The man said, "You are going to 13 some tea, aren"t you?
I often get a cup of tea at this time. It" s two o"clock. Cars always 14 near here at this time. Sometimes I
get a 15 . Now listen, and I"ll tell you a story. Then you"ll give me..."
- 1张爱玲曾说:“历史”能供给卡通数不尽的伟大美丽的故事。如果要给卡通“现代中国辉煌的科学”提供素材,可以选取的是 ①“神舟
- 2如果收入500元记作+500元,那么支出200元应记作______元.
- 3解方程:(x+10)(x﹣8)=x2﹣100.
- 4下表为“全球外国直接投资额”。从表中能够得出的准确信息是A.美国建立资本主义单极世界B.日本成为资本主义经济强国C.欧盟
- 5将一个底面半径为2,高为4的圆锥形纸筒沿一条母线剪开,所得到的侧面展开图形面积为 .
- 6如图所示,水平地面上叠放着A、B两物块。F是作用在物块B上的水平恒力,物块A、B以相同的速度做匀速运动,若在运动中突然将
- 72010年11月15日,上海静安区高层住宅发生大火,事故现场违规使用大量尼龙网、聚氨酯泡沫等易燃材料,由四个无证电焊工违
- 8“与善人居,如入芝兰之室,久而不闻其香,即与之化矣。与不善人居,如入鲍鱼之肆,处而不闻其臭,变与之化矣。”这告诉我们交朋
- 9Some fans, _____ money was a big problem, could not afford t
- 10“阿波罗号飞船”所用的氢氧燃料电池的电极应为:负极:2H2+4OH--4e-=4H2O则正极反应为______,该电池工
- 1除去下列物质中的杂质(括号内是杂质)所选用的试剂及操作方法不正确的一组是 [ ]A. KOH溶液(K2CO3)-
- 2一段长l6千米的公路因检修,要求过往车辆减速通行.一辆客车通过此路段时速度比检修前的速度减少了20%,所用时间比检修前增
- 3根据语境,选择恰当的词语填空(只填序号)。 中国传统文化历来追求一个“善”字:待人处世,强调_______、向善之心;
- 4下列运算正确的是( )A.a2+a2=a4B.4a2-2a2=2C.a8÷a2=a4D.a2⋅a3=a5
- 5 曲线C:在处的切线斜率为 ___▲____
- 6已知A={x|x2-ax+a2-19=0},B={x|x2-5x+8=2},C={x|x2+2x-8=0}.若A∩B,且
- 7连词成句。 1. answer, and, at, the ID card, the, Look, questions.
- 8已知钠原子的原子核内有11个质子,下列能正确表示钠原子结构示意图的是( )A.B.C.D.
- 9已知,则=( )。
- 10如图,凸四边形ABCD中,点E在边CD上,连接AE、BE.给出下列五个关系式:①AD∥BC; ②DE=EC; ③∠1=∠