Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she talked about how she became a percussion soloist（打击乐器独奏演员）in spite of deafness.
“Early on I decided not to allow the 1 of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began 2 piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion（酷爱）for music grew. But I also began to lose my 3 . Doctors told me that the nerve damage(神经损伤) was the 4 and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never left me.”
“My 5 was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I learned to ‘hear’ music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can 6 the pitch of a note（音调高低）by the vibrations（振动）I feel through my body and through my imagination. My sound world exists by making use of almost every 7 that I have.”
“I decided to be a musician even though I was deaf, and applied to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had 8 this before and some teachers disagreed with me. Because of my performance, I finally entered the academy and went on to 9 with the academy’s highest honors a few years later.”
“I’ve been a soloist for more than ten years. 10 the doctor thought I was totally deaf, it didn’t mean that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be limited by others. Follow your passion; follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go.”
| 小题1: | | A．conditions | B．opinions | C．advantages | D．recommendations |
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| 小题2: | | A．enjoying | B．choosing | C．taking | D．giving |
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| 小题3: | | A．sight | B．hearing | C．touch | D．taste |
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| 小题4: | | A．evidence | B．result | C．excuse | D．cause |
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| 小题5: | | A．job | B．opinion | C．promise | D．goal |
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| 小题7: | | A．feeling | B．effort | C．sense | D．idea |
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| 小题8: | | A．done | B．accepted | C．advised | D．refused |
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| 小题9: | | A．study | B．offer | C．graduate | D．educate |
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| 小题10: | | A．As | B．Although | C．Because | D．Since |
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【小题 1】B
【小题 2】C
【小题 3】B
【小题 4】D
【小题 5】D
【小题 6】A
【小题 7】C
【小题 8】A
【小题 9】C
【小题 10】B |
小题1:此题考查名词，根据上下文可知，此处应选择opinoins,意思是观点或看法。
小题2:此题考查动词，固定短语take a lesson,意思是上课。
小题3:此题考查名词，根据上文的“deafness”提示可知，选择B。
小题4:此题重点考查名词，根据语境可知选择D.
小题5:此题考查名词，根据语境可知，他的理想或愿望是成为一名打击乐演员，故选D.
小题6:此题考查动词，根据语境可知“我”根据震动来辨别音的高低，故选B.
小题7:此题考查名词，根据语境可知，“我”通过每个感官来感觉声音。
小题8:此题考查动词，根据句意可知，以前没有一个聋哑学生这样做过。
小题9:此题考查动词不定式做目的状语。
小题10:此题考查连词，连接让步状语从句，表示“尽管”之意。 |
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Do you know more and more Chinese artists have made regular donations to charity or put their efforts(努力) into charity work in China? Here let"s know some of them.
Faye Wong and her husband Li Yapeng started the Yan Ran Angel Foundation(基金会) for harelipped(兔唇的) children three years ago. It was named after their daughter. Its purpose is to help children under 14 to cure their harelips. The couple donated one million yuan (about $ 133,000) to start the organization.
Cong Fei was born in a poor family. He became a successful singer in Shenzhen. He helped 178 poor students and disabled people for more than 10 years. Before he died of an illness at the age of 37 in 2006, he decided to donate his cornea(角膜) to people with eye problems. He helped six people see the world.
Guan Mucun has donated money to Project Hope to help poor students finish primary education. Thirty of these poor students have already finished high school with her support. Guan has also helped with charity work for environment protection, HIV/AIDS prevention, blood donation and "Mother Water".
Guan had an unlucky childhood: her mother died when she was only 10 years old. With the help of the government and her neighbours, she grew up and was successful as a famous singer.
Action star Jackie Chan is a wholehearted supporter of charities including UNICEF, Operation Smile and his own Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation. In 2007, he used much of his spare time to visit the farthest parts of China on his Dragon"s Heart Charity Missions. The Dragon"s Heart Foundation aims to meet the needs of poor children and the elderly in the hardest-to-reach areas of the country. Chan has made several trips to these poor villages, bringing warm clothing, wheelchairs and school supplies, and helping to build schools.
小题1:Who can get help from the Yan Ran Angel Foundation?| A．Harelipped children under 14. | B．All disabled children. | | C．All disabled children under 14. | D．All harelipped children. |
小题2:What can we learn from the passage?| A．Faye Wong and Li Yapeng don"t like their daughter. | | B．More than 7 people"s eyes were cured thanks to Cong Fei"s Cornea. | | C．Guan Mucun was once helped by the government and her neighbours. | | D．Jackie Chan didn"t have chance to visit the people he helped. |
小题3:What is the passage mainly about?| A．Chinese charity work. | | B．Charity work of some Chinese artists. | | C．Some famous Chinese artists, | | D．Organizations started by Chinese artists. |
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When Ben Franklin was only a boy，he always wanted to know about things. He was always asking his father and brothers “What？”and “How？” and “Why？”
They couldn"t always tell him what he wanted to know．
When they couldn"t tell him，Ben tried to find out for himself．
Many times Ben did find out things that no one knew before. The other boys would say，“That Ben Franklin！He"s always finding out something new！”
Ben lived close to the water．He liked to go there to see the boats. He saw how the wind blew them across the water．
One day Ben said to himself，“Why can"t the wind help me float（漂浮）across the water？And I"m going to try.” Ben got his big kite．He took hold of the kite string（线）and ran with it．The wind took the kite up into the air. Then Ben jumped into the water．
The wind blew the kite high into the air．Ben began to float across the water. Soon he was on the other side，and he had not worked at all．
One boy shouted，“Look at Ben floating across the water！His kite takes him to the other side without any work！”
“Yes,” said another．“He"s always finding new ways to do things.”
小题1:When he was only a child，Ben ________． | A．liked to fly a kite by himself | B．always asked easy questions | | C．always liked to play with water | D．always liked to find out how things worked |
小题2:His father and brothers ________． | A．couldn"t answer all his questions | | B．could answer all his questions | | C．tried hard to find out something new for him | | D．let him answer all the questions himself |
小题3:In the passage，the sentence “and he had not worked at all” means“_______”． | A．he worked hard to cross the water | | B．he didn"t go to work that day | | C．he didn"t cross the water at all | | D．he crossed the water in an easy way |
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Thanksgiving Day was near. The Grade 7 teacher asked her students to 16 a picture of something for which they were thankful.
People celebrated the 17 with turkey and other traditional goods of the season. So, 18 of her students’ pictures were about them.
However, Jack made a ___19____ kind of picture. Jack was not the same as other boys. He always looked sad. When asked to draw a picture of something for which he was 20 , he drew a hand. Other students were all very 21 in the picture. Whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer, because farmers feed 22 . Another suggested a police officer, because the police 23 and care for people. Still 24 guessed it was the hand of God, for God feeds us. And so the 25 went on until the teacher almost forgot the young artist himself.
When the children had gone on to other subjects, she stopped at Jack’s desk and asked him 26 it was. The little boy looked up and said in a 27 voice, “It’s yours, teacher.”
She remembered the times she had taken his hand and 28 with him here or there, as she had with the other students. She often said, “ 29 my hand, Jack. We’ll go outside.” Or, “Let me show you how to use your pencil.” Jack was most thankful for his ___30____ hand.
| 小题1: | | A．print | B．find | C．draw | D．take |
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| 小题2: | | A．festival | B．week | C．night | D．Sunday |
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| 小题3: | | A．little | B．none | C．few | D．most |
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| 小题4: | | A．nice | B．different | C．same | D．best |
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| 小题5: | | A．thankful | B．pleased | C．sorry | D．afraid |
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| 小题6: | | A．sad | B．interested | C．careful | D．angry |
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| 小题7: | | A．chickens | B．dogs | C．cats | D．turkeys |
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| 小题8: | | A．hurt | B．protect | C．harm | D．smile |
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| 小题9: | | A．another | B．other | C．others | D．the other |
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| 小题10: | | A．tile | B．speech | C．discussion | D．talk |
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| 小题11: | | A．what | B．where | C．which | D．whose |
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| 小题12: | | A．high | B．low | C．hard | D．beautiful |
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| 小题13: | | A．walked | B．said | C．sang | D．taught |
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| 小题14: | | A．Touch | B．Look | C．Take | D．Push |
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| 小题15: | | A．mother’s | B．classmate’s | C．teacher’s | D．friend’s |
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There was a little boy who got angry easily. His father gave him a bag of nails(钉子) and told him that every 16 he got angry, to drive a nail into the back wall. The first day the boy had 17 37 nails into the wall. Then he put fewer and fewer nails. He found it was 18 to be not angry than to drive those 19 into the wall. Finally the day came when the boy didn"t get 20 at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to be not angry. The days 21 and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that 22 nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the 23 . He said, "You have done 24 , my son, but look at the holes in the wall. The wall will 25 be the same. When you say things 26 , they leave a scar(伤疤) just like this one. You 27 put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won"t matter 28 you say I"m sorry, the wound（伤口） is still there. A mental hurt is as bad as a physical one. Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed. They make you 29 and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always 30 to open their hearts to us.
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| 小题3: | | A．harder | B．tougher | C．easier | D．worse |
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| 小题4: | | A．sticks | B．knives | C．nails | D．forks |
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| 小题5: | | A．happy | B．sad | C．excited | D．angry |
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| 小题6: | | A．passed | B．came | C．returned | D．happened |
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| 小题8: | | A．house | B．nails | C．room | D．wall |
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| 小题9: | | A．badly | B．well | C．sadly | D．kindly |
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| 小题10: | | A．never | B．sometimes | C．often | D．always |
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| 小题11: | | A．politely | B．carefully | C．happily | D．angrily |
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| 小题12: | | A．must | B．need | C．can | D．should |
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| 小题13: | | A．how much | B．how long | C．how many times | D．how far |
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| 小题15: | | A．refuse | B．want | C．fail | D．learn |
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For many years, Yang Shanzhou was the local party secretary in a remote, mountainous village in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Though he could live a better life in the city, he still decided to move even further into the mountains, and devoted himself to greening the land. He passed away in 2010, but his story lives on.
A blanket of green - And it all started with a surprising decision made by Yang Shanzhou back in 1988.
The 62 year old decided to return to his hometown in Daliang Mountain, to bring green back to the barren hills. Along with fifteen other people, Yang settled down deep in the mountains and began to work on his plan.
It was a life that was harder than most people could ever imagine.
Su Jiaxiang, Yang Shanzhou’s secretary, said, “I went to visit him several times. He didn’t even have decent shoes and it was very cold at night. But you know he was almost seventy!”
In 2010, Yang Shanzhou passed away. He was buried in Daliang Mountain, according to his will. More than twenty years has passed since he first began his planting in the mountains.The hills are now covered with kinds of trees. By planting trees, Yang Shanzhou also planted hope. This hidden hero left his local government with a priceless legacy.
小题1:Yang Shanzhou lived in __________.| A．Jiangsu | B．Guizhou | C．Yunnan | D．Guangxi |
小题2:Which of the following sentences is NOT true?| A．Mr Yang has been dead for three years. | | B．Yang Shanzhou didn’t want to be buried in the mountain. | | C．Yang Shanzhou gave up the better life in the city. | | D．Yang Shanzhou will be remembered for ever. |
小题3:The 62 year old decided to return to his hometown in Daliang Mountain, to bring green back to the barren hills. “barren” means ________.小题4:From the passage we can know Mr Yang Shanzhou passed away at the age of _______.小题5:Mr. Yang brought many things except_________.| A．green hills | B．hope | C．priceless legacy | D．hard life |
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