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Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. All announced that they were the best, the most important and the most useful,
Green said, “_____ I am the most important, I’m the sign of life. Look around, and you will see that I am almost everywhere.”
Blue interrupted, “You only think about the earth. But consider the sky and sea, they gives space and peace. Without my peace, you would all be______.”
Yellow chuckled, “I bring laughter and warmth into the world. Every time you looked at a sunflower, the whole world starts to smile. Without me there would be no____. “
Orange started next to blow her trumpet, “Who is the ________ of health and strength? It’s me, think of carrots, pumpkins, and oranges. Although I don’t hang around all the time, I carry the most important vitamins.”
Red could no longer______it and he shouted out, “I am the ruler of all of you. I am the color of danger and bravery. Without me, the earth would be as empty as the moon. “
Purple_____Up to his full height. He was very tall and said, “ I am the color of power. Kings, have always chosen me for I am the sign of authority and wisdom.”
And indigo(靛青色) started to Speak…… The colors’ quarreling became louder and louder. Suddenly rain started to pour down. The colors were all_______, and crowded close to one another for comfort.
Rain began to speak, “You foolish colors. Don’t you know that you were each made for a special purpose? Join hands with one another and come to me, “
Doing_______they were told, the colors united and joined hands. The rain continued, “From now on, when it rains, each of you will stretch(伸展)_ ___ the sky to form a great rainbow, the rainbow is a sign of hope for tomorrow. And so, whenever a heavy rain washes the world , a rainbow with ______ colors appears in the sky. Let us remember to appreciate one another.”
小题1:
A.luckilyB.clearlyC.carefullyD.firstly
小题2:
A.everythingB.somethingC.nothingD.anything
小题3:
A.funB.problemC.lifeD.trouble
小题4:
A.markB.reasonC.signD.sense
小题5:
A.sitB.listenC.hearD.stand
小题6:
A.roseB.lookedC.putD.turned
小题7:
A.excitedB.surprisedC.afraidD.angry
小题8:
A.becauseB.asC.whenD.since
小题9:
A.inB.throughC.overD.across
小题10:
A.fiveB.sixC.sevenD.eight

答案

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:D
小题6:A
小题7:C
小题8:B
小题9:D
小题10:C
解析

试题分析:这篇短文讲述的七种颜色之间的争吵,他们说自己是世界上最重要的。但最后一场大雨让它们知道了团结起来才是最美的。
小题1:考查副词及语境的理解。句意:绿色说:“显然,我是最重要的,我是生命的迹象,环顾四周,你会发现我几乎无处不在”。 a. luckily 幸运地,b. clearly明显地;无疑地,c. carefully 认真地,d. firstly首先。据句意故选B。
小题2:考查代词及语境的理解。句意:蓝色打断了他的话,“你只考虑了地球上,想想天空和海洋,他们带来了空间,和平。没有我的和平,你们都会什么都不是。” a. everything 一切,b. something 某事/物,c. nothing 没有东西/事,d. anything 任何事。据句意故选C。
小题3:考查名词及语境的理解。句意:黄色咯咯笑着说,“我给世界带来了笑声和温暖,每次你看着一朵向日葵,整个世界都开始微笑,没有我就没有快乐。”a. fun 快乐,b. problem 问题,c. life 生活,d. trouble麻烦。据“I bring laughter and warmth into the world. Every time you looked at a sunflower, the whole world starts to smile,可知黄色认为自己给世界带来了笑声和温暖,a符合题意。故选A。
小题4:考查名词及语境的理解。句意:谁是健康和力量的标志?a. mark 分数,b. reason 原因,c. sign 标志,d. sense 感觉。根据句意可知c符合题意,故选C。
小题5:考查动词及语境的理解。句意:红色再也无法忍受,他喊道,“我是你们的统治者,我是危险和勇敢的颜色,没有了我,地球会象月亮一样空旷。a. sit 坐,b. listen 听,c. hear 听到,d. stand 忍受。据句意d符合题意,故选D。
小题6:考查动词短语及语境的理解。句意:紫色笔挺地站起来。。a. rose up上升、站起来,b. looked up 查找,c. put up举起,d. turned up 出现,根据句意可知a符合句意,故选A。
小题7:考查形容词及语境的理解。句意:颜色都害怕了,紧紧拥挤在一起以求安慰。 a. excited 兴奋的,b. surprised 惊奇的,c. afraid 害怕的, d. angry 生气的。根据句意c符合题意,故选C。
小题8:考查连词及语境的理解。句意:按照他们被告知的那样,颜色们团结在一起,拉起手来。a. because 因为,b. as 按照,和……一样,c. when 当……时候,d. since 由于。根据the colors united and joined hands,可知颜色们按照雨说的做了。故选B。
小题9:考查介词及语境的理解。句意:从今以后,下雨时,你们每个人横跨天空中才能形成一个巨大的彩虹。a. in在……里面,b. through(从中间)穿过,c. over越过,d. across 横过。据句意故选D。
小题10:考查数词及语境的理解。句意:无论什么时候大雨冲刷这个世界,有着七种颜色的彩虹都会出现在天空中。因为彩虹包括七种颜色,Green、 Blue、 Indigo、 Orange、Red、Purple、Yellow故选C。
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试题【Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. All announced that 】;主要考察你对人物故事类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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A little boy went to a telephone booth (电话亭) at the cash counter of a store and made a phone call. The store owner looked at him and listened to the conversation.
Boy: “Lady, can you give me the job of cutting your lawn (草坪)?”
Woman (at the other end of the phone line): “No, thank you. I already have someone to cut my lawn.”
Boy: “Lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price the person who cuts your lawn now.”
Woman: “I’m very satisfied with the person who cuts my lawn.”
Boy (with more perseverance 执着) : “Lady, I’ll even sweep the floor and the stairs of your house for free.”
Woman: “No, thank you.”
With a smile on his face, the little boy hung up the phone. The store owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy.
Store owner: “Son... I like your attitude (态度). I like that positive (积极的) spirit and would like to offer you a job.”
Boy: “No, thanks.”
Store owner: “But you were really asking for one.”
Boy: “No, Sir. I was just checking my performance (表现) at the job I already have. I am the one who is working for that lady I was talking to.”
小题1:In fact, how many people are mentioned (提及) in the story?  _____________.
A.2B.3 C.4D.5
小题2:The boy said to the lady that he would even sweep her floor and stairs for free because ___________.
A.he wanted her to let him continue his job
B.he thought that the lady was too poor
C.the lady thought the money she paid the boy was too much
D.he wanted to know if he did his job well enough and couldn’t be replaced (取代) by others.
小题3:Which is TRUE according to the story?
A.The boy was angry with the lady.
B.The store owner wasn’t kind-hearted.
C.The lady wanted to find another person to do the boy’s job.
D.The boy was happy to know that the lady was satisfied with his performance.
小题4:The best title for the story is “_____________”.
A.Asking for a jobB.Self-appraisal (自我测评)
C.The lady and the boyD.The boy and the store owner

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Gary and Gavin were twin brothers who worked in a department store owned by their father. After their father had passed away, they took over the store. Everything went well until the day a twenty-dollar bill disappeared. Gary had left the bill on the cash register. But when he returned, the money was gone.
Gary then asked his brother Gavin, “Did you see that twenty-dollar bill on the cash register?” Gavin said that he had not. But Gary did not let it go and kept questioning. “Twenty-dollar bills can’t get up and walk away by themselves! Surely you must have seen it.” There was accusation in Gary’s voice. Tempers began to rise and anger grew. “I said I didn’t see it!” Gavin raised his voice.
The quarrel divided the young men and they could no longer work together. Later, a wall was built in the center of the store. For twenty years, they never said a word to each other.
One day, a strange man came to the store. He walked in and asked Gary, “How long have you been here?” Gary replied that he’d been there all his life. “Then you are the person I’m looking for, since I must tell you the truth,” the customer said emotionally. “Twenty years ago, I was totally broke and hungry. I entered this store from the back door and saw a twenty-dollar bill on the cash register. And I took it. All these years I hadn’t been able to forget that. I had to come back and ask for your forgiveness(宽恕).”
The stranger felt very surprised when seeing tears come to the eyes of the middle-aged man in front of him. “Would you please go next door and tell the same story to the man in the store?” Gary asked. Then something surprised the stranger even more --- after hearing his story, the two middle-aged men hugged each other and cried together in the front of the wall of the store.
After twenty years, the wall of anger that set them apart finally came down.
小题1:After the twin’s father died, the department store was managed by ________.
A.Gary B.Gavin
C.the twinsD.a stranger
小题2:Gary thought ________ took the twenty-dollar bill on the cash register.
A.his neighbourB.Gavin
C.a strangerD.nobody
小题3: What happened to the twin brothers after they quarreled with each other?
A.They still did business together.
B.They still loved each other.
C.They didn’t work together any longer.
D.They were as good brothers as before.
小题4: The underlined word “broke” probably means ________.
A.没钱的B.破旧的
C.破碎的D.冲突的
小题5: The stranger came back to the store because he wanted to ________.
A.buy something from the storeB.borrow some money
C.return the moneyD.say sorry and ask to be excused
小题6: The writer wanted to tell us at the end of the story that ________.
A.the wall in the center of the store fell down by itself.
B.the stranger pulled down the wall in the center of the store.
C.the twin brothers pulled down the wall in the center of the store.
D.the twin brothers didn’t hate each other any longer.

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It was the first day of school. I had a new classmate, a little old lady with a warm smile.
She said, “Hi, young man! I"m Rose. I’m 87 years old. Can I give you a hug? ”
I said      , “Of course!”
“Why are you in college at such an age?” I asked.
She joked, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children, and then travel around the world.”
“No, seriously,” I asked.
“I always dreamed of having a college education. Now I’m getting one!” she told me.
After a year, Rose became       . She could easily get along well with others wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from others.
At the end of the term we invited Rose to       at our party. I’ll never forget what she taught us.
“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. Here are the secrets of staying young. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you        your dreams, you die!” she said.
“There is a big       between growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow old. That doesn’t take any talent,” she added. “But to grow up, you have to find the chance in change. Have no regrets(遗憾). We usually don’t have regrets for what we did,      rather for things we did not do.”
Finally we graduated from the college with Rose. One week after graduation, she died peacefully in her sleep. She taught us by example that it’s never too late to be all you can possibly be.
小题1:
A.angrilyB.happilyC.completely D.comfortably
小题2:
A.popularB.common C.hardworkingD.lucky
小题3:
A.sayB.speakC.talkD.discuss
小题4:
A.haveB.keepC.likeD.lose
小题5:
A.chanceB.changeC.differenceD.problem
小题6:
A.andB.butC.asD.because

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Jim was a 15-year-old boy living with his little sister, Joy. Their parents had passed away long ago. Jim took care of Joy by himself.
One day, Jim woke up at 3 in the morning as usual. When Joy was sleeping alone, Jim left their little house to deliver newspapers. As he did so, he found something unusual. One man was sitting in front of Jim’s house. Jim was so surprised that he stopped to look at him closely. It was an icy morning and he looked very old.
The poor old man didn’t have anything to cover himself with. Jim went into his house to get the old man a blanket(毯子). However, there were no extra blankets, so Jim thought hard and took his father’s coat. It was the only thing of his father’s that he had left. Jim wrote a short note. “Sir, I found you sleeping in front of my house. This is my father’s coat. I hope it fits you well.” He put the note in a pocket of the coat, and covered the old man with the coat. Then he went to work. When he came back three hours later, both the man and the coat were gone. Jim thought that it was the best thing he could have done with his father’s coat.
That afternoon, Jim hurried home after school because Joy was at home alone. However, Joy and the old man were standing in front of the house, and Joy shouted to Jim, “Brother!He’s our grandfather!”
The grandfather smiled and said, “Jim, I have been looking for you all around the country for eight years. I’m not rich. But I can take care of you two. Thank you for giving me the coat and letting me know what a good person my grandson is. This coat was the very one that I gave my own son, a long time ago.”
小题1:Jim looked after his little sister by himself because ________.
A.they were too poor B.their grandfather left them
C.he was old enough D.their parents had died
小题2: Jim got up early in the morning to ________.
A.take care of his sisterB.deliver newspapers
C.sit in front of the houseD.find something unusual
小题3: What did Jim do when he saw an old man was sitting in front of his house?
A.He took a blanket and gave it to him.
B.He took his father’s coat to cover him.
C.He stopped and talked to him.
D.He wrote a letter to the police.
小题4: When Jim came back home that afternoon, Joy told him that ________.
A.the old man was their grandpa
B.the old man and the coat were gone
C.their grandpa was looking for them
D.she couldn’t find their father’s coat
小题5: Which of the following is NOT true about the old man?
A.He was happy to find his grandchildren.
B.He thought Jim was a good boy.
C.He was poor and could not take care of them.
D.The coat helped the old man find his grandchildren.
小题6: The best title of the passage is “________”.
A.Jim and JoyB.A newspaper boy
C.An icy morningD.Father’s coat

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Having returned from her round trip, the angry woman stood outside the ticket office of the station. “The railway should pay me back£12, so you owe me the money,” she said to Harry Jenks, the young man who was working at the office. “You sold me a ticket for May 22nd, but there was no ship from Jersey that night. So my daughter and I had to stay in a hotel. It cost me £12.”
Harry was worried. He remembered selling the woman a return ticket. “Come into the office, Madam,” he said politely, “I’ll just check the Jersey timetable for May 22nd.”
The woman and her little girl followed him inside. She was quite right, as Harry soon discovered. There was no sailing on May 22nd. How could he have made such a careless mistake? He shouldn’t have sold her a ticket for that day. Wondering what to do, he smiled at the child. “You look sun burnt,” he said to her, “Did you have a nice holiday in Jersey?”
“Yes,” she answered, shyly, “The beach was lovely. And I can swim, too!”
“That’s fine,” said Harry. “My little girl can’t swim a bit yet. Of course, she’s only three…”
“I’m four,” the child said proudly, “I’ll be four and a half.”
Harry turned to the mother. “I remember your ticket, Madam,” he said, “But you didn’t get one for your daughter, did you?”
“Er, well…”woman looked at the child, “I mean… she hasn’t started school yet. She’s only four.”
“A four-year-old child must have a ticket, Madam. A child’s return ticket to Jersey costs…let me see…£13.50. So if the railway pays your hotel, you will owe£1.50. The law is the law, but since the fault was mine…”
小题1:What happened to the woman?
A.She had to buy the return ticket in Jersey.
B.She had to return home a day earlier.
C.She had to stay in a hotel for one night.
D.She couldn’t use the ticket for the round trip.
小题2:Which of the following is true?
A.Harry’s daughter could swim very well.
B.The Jersey timetable was totally wrong.
C.Actually, the little girl didn’t need a ticket.
D.The little girl was satisfied with the holiday.
小题3:Harry started talking to the little girl because he _________.
A.did not know what to do
B.wanted to be friendly to her
C.had a little girl about the same age
D.wanted to find a way out from her
小题4:According to the passage, we know that Harry was _________.
A.carefulB.hard-working
C.seriousD.smart
小题5:What would be the end of the story?
A.The woman would ask the police for help.
B.The woman would see the head of the station.
C.The woman would insist on getting back£12.
D.The woman would stop arguing and leave.

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