In 1929, the New York Stock market collapsed (股市崩溃), and the manager of a big company came home
with a 1 heart.
"My dear, what is the matter with you?" His wife asked him, smiling "I"m done! I"m finished! My company
was over and all my 2 will be closed down by the court (法院) tomorrow," he said, and began to cry 3 .
His wife asked gently (温柔地), "What about your body? Is it to be closed down, too?"
"No!" He looked at his wife, confused.
"What about me, your 4 ?" "No!" He mopped (擦掉)his tears and looked at her hopelessly. "What about
your kids?"
"Of course not."
"Then why do you say all the property (财产) will be closed down? You still have a helpful wife and
several 5 kids, and you have a lot of experience, good health, and a quick 6 that God gives you. As for
the money you lost, it"s just 7 that you used to have but don " t have any more. You can still work and make
money in the future.
Three years 8 , his Company became one of the top corporations (公司) that was 9 by "Fortune (财富
杂志)". He had all his achievements to several 10 from his good wife. |
( )1. A. light
( )2. A. factory
( )3. A. Sad
( )4. A. wife
( )5. A. hopeless
( )6. A. mind
( )7. A. nothing
( )8. A. ago
( )9. A. to choose
( )10. A. words | B. happy
B. shop
B. Sadly
B. daughter
B. hope
B. hand
B. anything
B. before
B. chosen
B. books | C. heavy
C. school
C. loud
C. son
C. hopeful
C. body
C. everything
C. later
C. choosing
C. advice | D. relaxing
D. property
D. gently
D. sister
D. hopefully
D. mouth
D. something
D. late
D. to be chosen
D. companies |
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试题【完形填空。 In 1929, the New York Stock market collapsed (股市崩溃), and the manager o】；主要考察你对 人物故事类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 阅读理解。 | Joe Biggs was a butcher (屠夫). His shop was in a village in one of the most beautiful parts of southern
England. He worked in it for many years while his father was there. Then, when his father reached the age
of 65, he stopped working in the shop. Joe was alone in it, so he had to work harder.
Joe worked five and a half days a week. His shop shut at one o"clock on Thursday, and it was shut the
whole of Sunday. Saturdays were the busiest days.
Joe had a big fridge in his shop, but he tried not to buy too much meat at a time.
One Thursday a woman came into the shop at five minutes to one. "I"m sorry I"m very late," she said,
"but some people have just telephoned to say that they are going to come to dinner tonight, and I need some
more meat."
Joe only had one piece of good meat in the shop. He had sold all the rest earlier in the day. He took the
piece out and said to the woman. "This is ￡7 15." "That piece is too small," the woman answered. "Haven"t
you got anything bigger?"
Joe went into the room behind his shop, opened the fridge, put the piece of meat into it, took it out again
and shut the door of the fridge with a lot of noise. Then he brought the piece of meat back to the woman and
said, "This piece is bigger and more expensive. It"s ￡9. 30."
" Good," the woman answered with a smile, "give me both of them, please." | | 1. Joe worked alone in the shop _____. | A. on Saturdays
B. on Thursdays
C. after his father died
D. after his father stopped working | | 2. Joe sold meat in his shop _____. | A. on Thursday afternoons
B. on Sundays
C. on Fridays
D. every day | | 3. One day a woman came to his shop _____. | A. at 1:55, Tuesday
B. at 1:05
C. to say sorry to him
D. because someone had suddenly telephoned her | | 4. Joe only had one piece of good meat because _____. | A. Joe"s fridge was too small.
B. he tried not to buy too much meat at a time
C. he knew that the meat would go bad (变质)
D. he had no money to buy more | | 5. Which of the following is TRUE? | A. The woman wanted to buy the two pieces of meat together.
B. The woman didn"t want the expensive piece of meat.
C. Joe brought the woman a different piece.
D. People bought all the meat from him. | | 完形填空。 | In a small town in France, there was a farmer who lived alone. Every day he 1 a pound of butter to his
neighbor, who was a baker, One day the baker decided to 2 the butter to see if he was getting a pound.
After he weighed it, he found that he wasn"t. The baker then took 3 farmer to the judge (法官).
The judge asked the farmer if he had any way to weigh the butler. The farmer replied."I am so 4 that I
do not have enough money to buy anything to weigh it, 5 I do have a kind of scale (天平)." The judge asked,
"Then how do you weigh the buttery" The farmer replied,"Before the baker started buying butler from 6 , I
had bought bread from him. So now every time when I bring home the bread from the baker, I put it On the
scale and give him the butter of the same weight,"
We 7 what we give to Others in life. Whenever you take action, ask yourself this 8 , "Am I honest?"
Honesty or dishonesty can become a 9 . Some dishonest people can lie (说谎) without a red face. Others
lie so much that they do not even 10 what the truth is any more. But who is it bad for? As a matter of fact,
those who lie will hurt themselves by their own dishonest | ( )1. A. gave
( )2. A. weigh
( )3. A. /
( )4. A. rich
( )5. A. and
( )6. A. I
( )7. A. get back
( )8. A. answer
( )9. A. difference
( )10. A. Study | B. fed
B. watch
B. a
B. poor
B. so
B. my
B. look back
B. question
B. habit
B. mean | C. threw
C. cut
C. an
C. honest
C. but
C. me
C. give back
C. help
C. mistake
C. imagine | D. sold
D. use
D. the
D. quiet
D. or
D. mine
D. turn back
D. idea
D. difficulty
D. know | | 用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，使短文完整正确。 | | old, shoe, stand, foot, pick, small, feel, clear, need, use | | 完形填空。 | How do you usually get to school? Buy bus? On foot? Roby Burch, 16, a US student, gets to school
a little 1 -he goes by horse (马).
Burch has been riding his white horse 4 miles to and from school 2 the beginning of the semester.
"Every morning, wearing my blue jacket and jeans, I"m on my way at 6 am." Burch says,"The streets are
mostly 3 at this time of morning. It"s a nice way to start the day."
The idea was his 4 . His family were enjoying their vacation on their farm this summer, "My dad just
said, "Roby, you 5 ride your horse to school every day."" says Burch. He thought it really was a good
idea.
When they got back home, Burch asked for permission from the headmaster (校长), Joe Cox, and
surprisingly, he got the green light. Cox even 6 Burch to keep the horse next to the headmaster"s house.
Then his dad helped Burch find the best route to school. It is along back streets and has 7 cars than the
others.
For the return trip every afternoon, Burch leaves school at 5:45 pm. Even now, as the days grow shorter
and colder, he 8 to ride his horse." I will ride my horse even in the coldest weather." he says.
Burch says the first time he sat on a horse as a four-year-old boy he was afraid, 9 now, "it"s what I do
best." It"s no surprise that he wants to be a cowboy (牛仔) when he grows up."I love riding horses more
than 10 else." He says, "It"s really a guy thing." | ( )1. A. normally
( )2. A. for
( )3. A. empty
( )4. A. sister"s
( )5. A. will
( )6. A. invited
( )7. A. fewer
( )8. A. begins
( )9. A. so
( )10. A. anything | B. casually
B. since
B. crowded
B. brother"s
B. won"t
B. allowed
B. few
B. stops
B. or
B. nothing | C. differently
C. before
C. busy
C. mom"s
C. should
C. taught
C. more
C. continues
C. and
C. everybody | D. actually
D. after
D. awful
D. dad"s
D. shouldn"t
D. urged
D. many
D. refuses
D. but
D. somebody | | 阅读表达。根据短文内容回答下列问题。 | Greg Woodburn, a university student, spends a lot of time cleaning sports shoes. Some of them once
belonged to him; some belonged to his friends. But soon the shoes will have new owners, poor children
in the USA and 20 other countries, thanks to Greg"s Share Our Soles (鞋底) (S.O.S) charity.
Greg was a high school running star in a small town in California. He had to stop running for months
because his knee was injured. "I started thinking about all the things I got from running, the health, the
friendships and the confidence." he says. And I realized there are children who don"t even have shoes.
Greg collected his own sports shoes and then called his friends and the town. His aim was to have
100 pairs by Christmas 2006. When the number climbed to more than 500 pairs. Greg know that he could
collect sports shoes all year round.
Now he has set up collection boxes in his town. So far, S.O.S has collected and donated more than
3,000 pairs of shoes. And Greg has cleaned almost all of them. "People think of it as duty work," he says,
"but I like doing it, because I feel happy when I"m doing it. It"s not work I want to pass on to someone
else."
In just three years, Greg has started three branches (分部) of S.O.S and there are more and more
sports shoes.
For many poor children who have received the shoes mean opportunity. Two young boys in southern
California used to go to school on alternate days (隔日) because they both shared a pair of shoes. They
were too big for one boy and too small for the other. Thanks to S.O.S, each brother received his own
pair of shoes. The boys now go to school every day. When they graduate, they say they will help others,
just as Greg helped them. | 1. Who will Greg donate these sports shoes to?
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2. From running Greg got health, friendships and confidence, and what did he realize?
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3. How many pairs of shoes has S.O.S collected and donated so far?
_____________________________________________________________________
4. Why does Greg like to clean the donated shoes?
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5. What did the two boys in southern California learn from Greg?
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