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Rita was in shopping mall, looking for a gift for her little daughter. Suddenly she stopped before a store, inside which were all kinds of dolls.
“Why not a lovely doll? Girls like dolls,” she thought as she stepped into the store.
Looking around ,she saw a grandma doll—one with gray and a pair of glasses. As she gazed at it, in her mind somehow appeared Linda, her mother.
When Rita was a little girl, she got her first doll form Linda for her birthday. She was very happy. Then the second, the third……,Rita began to feel puzzled, When she asked her mum the reason, the answer was always “A girl can never have enough dolls.” Year after year, Rita grew up and Linda aged, but a doll a year from Linda never arrived late.
“But why always a doll?” This question had been in Rita’s mind until one day her father gave the answer.
Little Linda dreamed to have a doll. Her parents promised one for her fifth birthday. Sadly, they both died in a traffic accident before it arrived .The never—received gift was the most precious* in her eyes. That’s why she thought dolls were the best birthday gifts for Rita.
Her mother’s story being recalled ,Rita got an idea……
It was Linda’s sixtieth birthday. The whole family gathered around the sixty-year-old lady when the doorbell rang, Much to Linda’s surprise ,a package was delivered* to her, with a card read:
Dear Linda,
I forget to send you the package that you should have received on May 20,1956,your fifth birthday. The gift inside has aged ,but I felt that you might still wish to have it. Sorry for the lateness!                                                             Love,                                                 Angel of Joy
Linda opened the package and saw a lovely grandma doll. She clasped the doll that she had waited so many years to receive ,tears coursing down her face. The doll, given by “Angel of Joy”, made her the happiest “child ”alive .
小题1:Who is Linda in the story?
Rita’s daughter        B. Rita’s mother 
C. The grandma doll      D. Angel of Joy
小题2:Why did Linda think that dolls were the best birthday gifts for Rita?
A.Rita dreamed to have all kinds of lovely dolls.
B.Rita looked liked a doll when she was a little girl.
C.Linda received a lot of lovely dolls form her parents.
D.Linda had never got the dream doll form her parents
小题3:What does the underlined word clasped probably mean in the passage?
A.heldB.threwC.madeD.bought
小题4:Which can be the best title of the passage?
A.The Story of an AngelB.Linda’s Birthday
C.Linda,the Happiest ChildD.A Late Birthday Gift

答案

小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:D
解析

试题分析:这篇短文给我们讲述的是一个迟到的生日礼物。Rita在给自己的女儿买礼物的时候,想到了自己的妈妈。她的妈妈总是送给她布娃娃当礼物,开始她不明白这是为什么。后来她知道,原来她的妈妈小时候一直想得到一个布娃娃礼物,但是始终没有得到。最后在妈妈六十岁生日的时候,Rita给她的妈妈买了一个布娃娃礼物。
小题1:细节理解题。根据短文第三段中As she gazed at it, in her mind somehow appeared Linda, her mother.可知,当Rita看着那个布娃娃出神的时候,他的脑子里浮现出来她的妈妈,Linda。由此可知,Linda是Rita的妈妈。故选B。
小题2:细节理解题。根据短文第六段中Rita的父亲告诉他的话我们可知,Linda小时候特别希望得到一个布娃娃,她的父母答应她在她五岁生日的时候送给她一个。但是不幸的是,她的父母在她生日到来之前因为车祸都去世了。因此Linda从没得到过她梦想的布娃娃,在她的眼中,布娃娃是最珍贵的礼物,所以她才给自己的女儿买布娃娃。故选D。
小题3:词义猜测题。根据划线的这个单词所在的句子以及上下文的意思可知,Linda opened the package and saw a lovely grandma doll. She clasped the doll that she had waited so many years to receive ,tears coursing down her face Linda打开包裹,看到了一个可爱的布娃娃,她拿着她等了这么多年才收到的礼物,眼泪流了下来。这里clasped的意思是拿着,故选A。
小题4:主旨大意题。这篇短文给我们讲述的是Rita在给自己的女儿买礼物的时候,想到了自己的妈妈。她的妈妈总是送给她布娃娃当礼物,开始她不明白这是为什么。后来她知道,原来她的妈妈小时候一直想得到一个布娃娃礼物,但是始终没有得到。最后在妈妈六十岁生日的时候,Rita给她的妈妈买了一个布娃娃礼物。故选D,一个迟到的生日礼物。
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试题【 Rita was in shopping mall, looking for a gift for her little daughter. Suddenly】;主要考察你对人物故事类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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2014 is the year of horse in China. Do you know anything about the horse?
The horse is strong and runs very fast. He’s a useful and hard-working animal. The horse learns to know his master(主人) soon. He loves his master, even after his master has died. Here’s a story about such a horse. In a war, the master was killed, and fell from his horse. When his body was found some days later, the horse was still standing beside it. During that long time, the horse didn’t leave the body of his master, without food or water, in the coldest weather, driving away the birds that might eat it. Wasn’t be a great animal?
小题1:The horse is a _________ animal to man.
A.strangeB.lazyC.useful D.small
小题2:When the body of the master was found, the horse was _________.
A.going away B.eating grass beside it
C.drinking waterD.still standing beside it
小题3:The story probably took place in _________.
A.spring B.summerC.autumn D.winter

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A big umbrella
Nancy: I saw seven girls in one umbrella and none of them got wet.
Taney: Oh, that must be a very big umbrella.
Nancy: No, it wasn’t raining. [
A good boy
Little Robert asked his mother for two cents(美分).
“What did you do with the money I gave you yesterday?”
“I gave it to a poor old woman,” he answered.
“You’re a good boy,” said the mother proudly. “Here are two more cents. But why are you so interested in the old woman?”
“She is the one who sells candies. ”
Break a mirror
“What are you so happy about, Jason?” Lisa asked the 98-year-old man.
“I broke a mirror,” he replied.
“But that means seven years of bad luck. ”
“I know,” he said happily. “Isn’t it wonderful? I can live for another seven years. ”
小题1:The three passages above are all ________.
A.jokes B.notices C.news D.letters
小题2:The seven girls didn’t get wet because _________.
A.the umbrella was big enough B.the seven girls wore raincoats
C.it wasn’t raining at all D.it wasn’t a heavy rain
小题3:Little Robert spent the money ________.
A.helping the poor old lady B.buying candies for himself
C.helping his mom D.buying gifts for his mom
小题4:_________ broke the mirror.
A.Nancy B.Lisa C.RobertD.Jason

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Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May,1907. Her mother, Maria Carson, had been a schoolteacher. She also loved nature. She showed Rachel the beauty of nature. She also taught Rachel a deep love for books. As a quiet child, Rachel liked to read and write stories. At a very early age, she decided she wanted to be a writer some day. Her story first appeared in a children’s magazine when she was ten years old.
Her first books, Under the Sea Wind came out in 1941. In 1948, Miss Carson began working on another book, The Sea Around Us. She always remembered carefully when she wrote. She collected information from more than one thousand places to write The Sea Around Us. When the book came out in 1951, it won the National Book Award. It was No. 1 on the best-seller list for more than a year. The Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous.
Rachel Carson’s most famous book, Silent Spring came out in 1962. In this book, she pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides(***虫剂) like DDT would cause the number of birds to decline because it would kill them as well. Finally, in November 1969, the United Sates government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years.
Rachel Carson has been regarded as a great environmentalist(环保主义者) and writer. She will be remembered by the world.
小题1:Rachel Carson had a deep love for nature and books because of ____________.
A.her fatherB.her motherC.her schoolteacherD.her brother
小题2:Rachel decided that she wanted to be a writer when ___________.
A.she was very youngB.she was in college
C.she became a teacherD.she became famous
小题3:The Chinese meaning of the word ”decline” in this passage is probably “___________”.
A.增加B.减少C.维持D.翻番
小题4:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Rachel Carson was a careful and serious writer.
B.The Sea Around Us won the National Book Award.
C.In Silent Spring Rachel said some pesticides were bad for the environment.
D.The use of DDT was stopped as soon as the book Silent Spring came out.

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Some time ago, an old businessman had a large store in Boston. He wanted a boy to work for him, and he put an advertisement in the newspaper. The next morning, many boys came to the old man’s office, asking for the job.
There was a post(柱子)by his desk, and there was a nail(钉子)in it. He took a walking-stick and said, “Everyone has three chances. If anyone can hit the nail on the head with this stick more than once, I will give him the job. ”
The boy thought it was very easy. They all tried, but nobody could make it. So the old man said, “I’m sorry I can’t take any of you. ” And they left.
He kept the advertisement in the papers, and the next morning many more boys came, and among them he saw a thin boy who had been there the day before. The boy hit the nail successfully for three times. The old man felt surprised and asked how he did that.
“Yes,” said the boy, “I failed yesterday, but I thought that if I kept on trying a while, I could do it. So I went home and practiced hitting a nail with a stick till I could do it, and I got up very early this morning, and tried again. ”
The old man said, “You are the boy for me,” and gave him the job. Whatever the boy had to do, he tried to do his best. It was not very long before he became the best clerk in the store.
小题1:Did the thin boy get the job at last?
___________________________________________________________
小题2:What did the old man have in Boston?
___________________________________________________________
小题3:Where did the boy practice hitting a nail?
___________________________________________________________
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Tina was a seventeen-year-old girl who always wore a bright smile. She suffered from a disease and had to use a walker most of the time. People didn’t speak to her very often. Maybe it was because she looked        and people didn’t know how to come near to her. Tina usually broke the ice with people she met with a big “     .”
In one class, I gave the students an assignment (作业) to      a poem. I only made the assignment worth a very small part of their total grade since I knew most of my        would not do it anyway. In the class, one by one each student      to correctly recite (背诵) the poem. Finally, angry and half joking, I said that the next student who       recite the poem had to do three push-up (俯卧撑). To my     , Tina was next. She used her walker to move to the front of the class.      she recited, she made a mistake. Before I could say a word, she       her walker and started doing push-ups. I wanted to say, “Tina, I was just     !”But she     , continued the poem and she finished the rest perfectly.
When she finished, a student asked, “Tina, why did you do that? It’s not an important assignment!”
“Because I want to be like you guys! To be     .” Tina said.
Silence fell on the whole room when another student cried out, “Tina, we’re not normal! We are teenagers! We get in      all the time.”
“I know,” Tina said as a big       spread across her face. The rest of the students laughed, too.
Tina got only a few       that day, but she got the love and respect of her classmates. To her, that was worth a lot more than a grade.

小题1:
A.differentB.strongC.shortD.young
小题2:
A.SorryB.ByeC.HiD.Thanks
小题3:
A.reciteB.copyC.findD.read
小题4:
A.friendsB.studentsC.teachersD.parents
小题5:
A.startedB.plannedC.continuedD.failed
小题6:
A.shouldn’tB.couldn’tC.needn’tD.wouldn’t
小题7:
A.surpriseB.surprisedC.excitementD.excited
小题8:
A.BecauseB.WhenC.AfterD.Though
小题9:
A.raisedB.changedC.threwD.checked
小题10:
A.wonderingB.trickingC.doubtingD.joking
小题11:
A.woke up B.gave up C.stood up D.made up
小题12:
A.happyB.socialC.normalD.fair
小题13:
A.attentionB.thoughtC.touchD.trouble
小题14:
A.cryB.smileC.sadnessD.joy
小题15:
A.pointsB.chancesC.mistakesD.successes

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