When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in basic training in New Jersey and not sure if I could make it home for the holidays. Only on the afternoon of December 23 was the list of men who would have three-day passes (通行证) posted. I was one of the lucky soldiers.
It was Christmas Eve when I arrived, and a light snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see beyond her, into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights, all colors, and ornaments (装饰物) shining against the green of a pine.
“Where did it come from？” I asked.
“I asked the Gates boy to cut it,” my mother said. “I wouldn’t have had one just for myself, but when you called--- oh, such a rush! He just brought it in this afternoon…”
The pine reached to the proper height, almost to the ceiling, and the Tree Top Krystal Star was in its place. A few green branches reached about a little awkwardly (难看地) at the side, I thought, and there was a bit of bare trunk showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with warm light and the whole house with pleasant smell of Christmas.
“It’s not like the ones you used to find,” my mother went on. “Yours were always in good shape. I suppose the Gates boy didn’t know where to look. But I couldn’t be picky.”
“Don’t worry, ” I told her. “It’s perfect.”
It wasn’t, of course, but at the moment I realized something for the first time: all Christmas trees are perfect.
小题1: When the writer got home, ________.| A．it was December 23 | | B．it was snowing heavily | | C．he found a Christmas tree in the living room | | D．the Gates boy was cutting a Christmas tree for his mother |
小题2: From the passage, we can conclude（推断） that ________.| A．the writer used to cut very beautiful Christmas trees | | B．his mother didn’t like perfect trees | | C．his mother didn’t want to have a tree | | D．the writer wouldn’t have a tree cut by someone else |
小题3:“All Christmas trees are perfect”, because they can remind you of ________.| A．the wartime | B．the green of a pine | | C．the pleasant smell | D．the sweet home |
小题4: The best title for this passage would be “________”.| A．How to Choose a Christmas Tree | | B．How Soldiers Spent Christmas | | C．The Perfect Christmas Tree | | D．The Christmas Without a Tree |
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小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:C |
试题分析：作者描述了非常时期回家过圣诞节的一次经历。家人为他准备的圣诞树虽然有不少的不尽人意的地方，但他最终意识到：在和平安宁的日子里，在有家人团聚的日子里，所有的圣诞树都是完美的。
小题1:推理判断题。into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights, all colors, and ornaments (装饰物) shining against the green of a pine.从以上描述可以推断出作者看到了客厅里的圣诞树。并且选项A，B，D与文中的描述不符，故选C。
小题2:推理判断题。从“It’s not like the ones you used to find,” my mother went on. “Yours were always in good shape.可以推断出作者过去能砍来漂亮的圣诞树，并且选项B，C，D与文中描述不符，故选A。
小题3:推理判断题。因为作者现在在家中，家的温馨让他觉得All Christmas trees are perfect，所以圣诞树能让你想起温暖的家，而不只是绿色的松树和令人舒服的气味等，故选D。
小题4:标题归纳题。从文章结尾作者的感悟It wasn’t, of course, but at the moment I realized something for the first time: all Christmas trees are perfect.中可以推断出本文的最好的题目应该是选项C. The Perfect Christmas Tree。 |
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试题【When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in basic training in New Jersey and 】；主要考察你对
人生百味类等知识点的理解。
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Last week, the manager of an old jeweler"s shop received a letter marked "personal". As he was very busy, the letter lay on his desk till teatime. When he opened it, a $100 note fell. out onto his desk. With the note was a short letter. This is what it said:
Dear sir,
I got engaged (订婚的) forty years ago. Unfortunately at that time there was a lot of unemployment and I lost my job. I was out of work for about six months before I got another one. Of course I was very short of money.
I came to your shop to buy a wedding ring one day. The assistant brought some rings for me to have a look, later she was called away, and then I put one of the rings into my pocket. When she came back, I said I did not know the size of my girlfriend"s finger.
So I left the shop without paying for the ring. My wife died a month ago, and the fact that I never paid for her ring has been on my conscience
(让我良心不安) all these years. I always feel guilty about that. At that time the ring cost $ 20, and I think that is about five times- $100 at today"s price. Now I am sending you that amount.
Yours truly,
A customer
After reading the letter, the manager said, "Well, well, well, life is full of surprise!"
小题1:The ring that the customer put into his pocket was_______ at that time.小题2:The underlined word "unemployment" means "_______" in Chinese.小题3:How long has the customer"s wife been dead?| A．A week. | B．A month. | C．A year. | D．Two months. |
小题4:Which is NOT true according to the passage?| A．The manager opened the letter by himself. | | B．The manager thought life was full of surprise. | | C．When the customer"s wife knew the fact, she was impatient. | | D．The customer always feels sad for not paying for the ring years ago. |
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根据短文内容，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
“Never give up!” It is my law(法则) of life. It has brought me ____. I learned the law from my father"s ____ story.
My father was ____ in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu，in China. When he was a young boy，he went to school in the morning，then ___ in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework ____ midnight. Life was hard，because they had no ___！
At the age of 14，my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold，the land where ____ people can become rich.
“____ don"t I go to America？” he thought to himself，full of hope.
So，my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to ____ money in America，” he told me. “But when I arrived there，I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire(雇佣) me because I spoke ____ English. Later，I worked in a small restaurant，cleaning up tables，____dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was ____ for the first few years. I worked from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. I wanted to go to school to learn English，but it was impossible. I couldn"t ____ the schooling(学费). ”
My father ____ working hard，and reached his goal.
“Alan，” he often says to me. “If you want something，you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come ____ in life. ” That is what I learned from my father.
| 小题1: | | A．disaster | B．loss | C．success | D．pity |
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| 小题2: | | A．life | B．fashion | C．danger | D．history |
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| 小题3: | | A．famous | B．lucky | C．rich | D．born |
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| 小题4: | | A．taught | B．worked | C．studied | D．slept |
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| 小题5: | | A．until | B．towards | C．for | D．during |
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| 小题6: | | A．experience | B．energy | C．time | D．money |
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| 小题7: | | A．kind | B．poor | C．strong | D．lazy |
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| 小题9: | | A．discover | B．make | C．collect | D．spend |
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| 小题10: | | A．little | B．good | C．much | D．excellent |
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| 小题11: | | A．giving | B．running | C．washing | D．receiving |
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| 小题12: | | A．comfortable | B．cheerful | C．nice | D．hard |
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| 小题13: | | A．borrow | B．need | C．afford | D．pay |
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| 小题14: | | A．kept | B．finished | C．minded | D．stopped |
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| 小题15: | | A．really | B．easily | C．quietly | D．slowly |
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On a Friday night，a poor young violinist was playing his violin at the entrance of the subway station. The music was so great that people slowed down to listen and put some money into his hat.
The next day，the violinist came to the entrance again. He put down his hat as usual. Beside the hat was a piece of paper with some words on it. It said，“A George Sang has put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Welcome to claim(认领)it.”Soon the people were all attracted by the words and wondered what it could be. After a while a man rushed through the crowd，took the violinist’s shoulders and said，“I knew you would certainly come here.”The violinist asked，“Did you lose something?”“Lottery(彩票).”The violinist took out a lottery ticket with Sang’s name on it. Sang took it and danced happily.
Sang was an office worker. He bought the lottery and won a prize of$500，000.But when he gave$50 to the violinist for his wonderful music，the lottery ticket was thrown in, too. The violinist was a college student. That morning，he was going to fly to Vienna for high education. However，when he found the ticket，he cancelled the flight and returned to the entrance.
Later someone asked the violinist why he didn’t take the lottery ticket to pay the tuition fee(学费).He said“Although I don’t have much money，I live happily. If I lose honesty(诚实)，I won’t be happy forever.”
小题1:The young man played the violin for ________ at the entrance of the subway station.| A．pleasure | B．money | C．Love | D．friends |
小题2:George Sang put__________ into the violinist’s hat on a Friday night by mistake.| A．money | B．1ottery | C．money and lottery | D．nothing |
小题3:George Sang was very__________ to see the young violinist the next day.| A．worried | B．sorry | C．exciting | D．happy |
小题4:The underlined word“cancelled”means __________ .小题5:What’s the best title(标题)for this passage?| A．The meaning of honesty | | B．An office worker and a lottery ticket | | C．The importance of being honest | | D．A violinist and an office worker |
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When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings(缺点). Week by week her list grew: I was very thin, I wasn’t a good student, I talked too much, I was too proud, and so on. I tried to hear all this as long as I could. At last, I became very angry. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes. He listened to me quietly, then he asked. “Are the things she says true or not? Janet, didn’t you ever wonder what you’re really like ? Well, you now have that girl’s opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.”
I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (like being very thin), but a good number I could—and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I go to fairly clear picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Daddy. He refused to take it.“That’s just for you,” he said.“You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt. When something said about you is true, you’ll find it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don’t shut your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.”
Daddy’s advice has returned to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice.
小题1:What does “Week by week her list grew” mean? | A．Week by week she discovered more shortcomings of mine and pointed them out to me. | | B．She had made a list of my shortcomings and she kept on adding new ones to it so that it was growing longer and longer. | | C．I was having more and more shortcomings as time went on. | | D．Week by week, my shortcomings grew more serious. |
小题2:Why did her father listen to her quietly? | A．Because he believed that what her daughter’s “enemy” said was mostly true. | | B．Because he had been so angry with his daughter’s shortcomings that he wanted to show this by keeping silent for a while. | | C．Because he knew that his daughter would not listen to him at that moment. | | D．Because he wasn’t quite sure which girl was telling the truth. |
小题3:Which do you think would be the best title for this passage? | A．Not an Enemy, but the Best Friend | | B．The Best Advice I’ve Ever Had | | C．My Father | | D．My Childhood |
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When I was 16 years old, a boy gave me an important gift. It was a .
It was the early autumn of my first year at a middle school, and my old school was far away. a result, no one knew who I was. I was very , and afraid to make friends with anyone.
Every time I the other students talking and laughing, I felt my heart . I couldn’t talk to anyone about my problems. And I didn’t want my parents to me.
Then one day, my classmates talked with their friends, but I sat at my desk unhappily as usual. , a boy came into the classroom. I didn’t know he was. He passed me and then turned back. He me, without a word, but a smile.
, I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It made me feel happy and .
That smile changed my life. I started to talk with other students and made friends. Day by day, I became to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now.
One day I asked him why he smiled, but he couldn’t remember at me!
I have been happy every day all the dark days have gone. I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think you are lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and smiles will come back to you.
| 小题2: | | A．For | B．Because | C．As | D．Since |
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| 小题3: | | A．lonely | B．happy | C．hungry | D．popular |
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| 小题4: | | A．heard | B．listened | C．listen to | D．heard of |
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| 小题5: | | A．sing | B．playful | C．broken | D．dance |
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| 小题6: | | A．look for | B．worry about | C．feel glad like | D．know about |
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| 小题7: | | A．loudly | B．quietly | C．sadly | D．happily |
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| 小题8: | | A．At present | B．Just at that moment | C．By the time | D．For a moment |
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| 小题9: | | A．whose | B．that | C．which | D．who |
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| 小题10: | | A．looked at | B．looked for | C．looked like | D．looked after |
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| 小题11: | | A．Suddenly | B．Luckily | C．Hurriedly | D．Seriously |
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| 小题13: | | A．near | B．nearly | C．closer | D．closely |
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| 小题14: | | A．laughing | B．looking | C．meeting | D．smiling |
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| 小题15: | | A．though | B．because | C．even if | D．until |
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