It"s baseball season again，and Hank Snydder is back on the field.He has been back from the accident that kept him out of the game for the season last year，and that cost the Muggers last year"s championship.Baseball fans in the city of Midvale are happy and George Brenner，the Muggers" owner，is happy too, because when Hank plays the team wins and the games sell out.“Last year"s attendance was all time low when Hank was out，”said Brenner.“We"re glad to have him back in uniform.”
Needless to say，the Muggers pay Hank well.But other teams have offered him a million dollars.Still，Hank has been faithful to the Muggers up to now.But there is a rumor(谣传)that Hank might play for the Suffers of Sun City next year.A newspaper reporter asked Hank if there was any truth in it.He said.“Nothing has been decided，but I have to admit that I could be leaving Midvale after this season.”What about another rumor that Hank might be getting married? “That"s true.” Hank replied，“and I"m very happy about it.”
There is no need to ask how Midvale or George Brenner would feel about losing Hank.But is Hank completely happy about the changes that may be taking place in his life? “Only one thing troubles me，”he said.“I"ve always loved the Muggers" blue uniforms.It will take me some time to get used to the Suffers" green and gold uniforms.”
小题1:Hank Snydder didn"t play for the Muggers last year because ________.| A．there were no baseball matches | | B．the club didn"t pay him enough money | | C．other players had accidents | | D．something had happened to him |
小题2:The Muggers didn"t win the championship of last season ________.| A．because the players of the Muggers didn"t take part in the games | | B．because of Hank Snydder"s absence | | C．because all the players didn"t try their best | | D．because the Muggers hadn"t hoped to win it |
小题3:Which of the following statements is not mentioned in the passage?| A．Hank Snydder still plays for the Muggers. | | B．Hank Snydder has been loyal to the Muggers. | | C．Hank Snydder might be getting married. | | D．Hank Snydder has some trouble with his partners. |
小题4:If Hank Snydder joins the Suffers of Sun City next year，________.| A．the owner of the Muggers will feel happy | | B．the owner of the Muggers will require him to return all the money | | C．it may be a great loss to the Muggers | | D．he will play for the baseball team for nothing |
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小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:D |
小题1:答案 D [细节理解题。第一段中“He has been back from the accident that...last year...”给出了答案的信息。]
小题2:答案 B [细节理解题。第一段中“He has been back from the accident that kept him out of the game for the season last year, and that cost the Muggers lasr year"s championship，”说明该队没有赢得冠军就是因为Hank Snydder没有出场。]
小题3:答案 C [推理判断题。去年正是由于Hank Snydder的缺席，该队没能获得冠军，那么如果他转到the Suffers of Sun City，肯定对the Muggers是一大损失，与C项一致。]
小题4:答案 D [细节理解题。第一段中“It"s baseball season again，and Hank Snydder is back on the field，”以及the Muggers老板说的一句“We"re glad to have him back in uniform.”说明文章提到A的内容；第二段“Still，Hank has been faithful to the Muggers up to now.”一句提到B的内容；文章第二段“What about another rumor that Hank might be getting married？”“That"s true，”Hank replied.“and I"m very happy about it.”说明C项的内容文章也提到了；只有D项没有提到，故选D。] |
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试题【It"s baseball season again，and Hank Snydder is back on the field.He has been bac】；主要考察你对
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I first went to hear a live rock concert when I was eight years old.My brother and his friends were all ____ of a heavy metal group called Black Wednesday.When they ____ that Black Wednesday were going to perform at our local theatre, they all bought ____ for performance.However, at the last minute, one of the friends couldn"t go, so my brother ____ me the ticket.I was really ____！
I remember the buzz (嘈杂声) of excitement inside the theatre as we all found our ____.After a few minutes, the lights went down and everybody became ___.I could barely make out the stage in the ____.We waited.Then there was a roar from the crowd, like an explosion, as the first members of the band ____ the stage.My brother leaned over and shouted something in my ear, but I couldn"t ___ what he was saying.The first song was already starting and the music was as ____ as a jet engine.I could ____ the drum beats and bass notes in my stomach.
I can"t recall any of the songs that the band played.I just ____ that I really enjoyed the show and didn"t want it to ____.But in the end, after three encores (加演), the show finished.We left the ____ and walked unsteadily out onto the pavement.I felt a little dizzy, as if I had just ___from a long sleep.My ears were still ____with the beat of the last song.
After the____， I became a Black Wednesday fan too for a few years before getting into other kinds of music.Once in a while，____， I listen to one of their songs and ____I"m back at that first show.
| 小题1: | | A．members | B．friends | C．fans | D．volunteers |
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| 小题2: | | A．guessed | B．discovered | C．thought | D．predicted |
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| 小题3: | | A．flowers | B．drinks | C．clothes | D．tickets |
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| 小题4: | | A．booked | B．offered | C．returned | D．found |
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| 小题5: | | A．relaxed | B．embarrassed | C．excited | D．encouraged |
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| 小题6: | | A．seats | B．entrance | C．spots | D．space |
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| 小题7: | | A．comfortable | B．quite | C．serious | D．nervous |
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| 小题8: | | A．silence | B．noise | C．darkness | D．smoke |
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| 小题9: | | A．fell upon | B．got through | C．broke into | D．stepped onto |
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| 小题10: | | A．forget | B．hear | C．repeat | D．bear |
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| 小题11: | | A．loud | B．heard | C．sweet | D．fast |
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| 小题12: | | A．feel | B．touch | C．enjoy | D．digest |
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| 小题13: | | A．realize | B．understand | C．believe | D．remember |
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| 小题14: | | A．continue | B．delay | C．finish | D．change |
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| 小题15: | | A．party | B．theatre | C．opera | D．stage |
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| 小题16: | | A．escaped | B．traveled | C．benefited | D．woken |
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| 小题17: | | A．aching | B．burning | C．ringing | D．rolling |
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| 小题18: | | A．competition | B．performance | C．interview | D．celebration |
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| 小题19: | | A．though | B．otherwise | C．instead | D．besides |
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| 小题20: | | A．decide | B．regret | C．conclude | D．imagine |
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It was about six years ago.We were at senior high school.Those days in school were gray to most Chinese students because of the college entrance examination pressure.Not our parents and teachers didn"t love us，but they loved us too much.Our only happiness was a high grade in the exam.
One afternoon after the final exam，we four girls came to a small wood and we felt it only belonging to us that afternoon.We talked and laughed.We played all the games that we could think of.We felt we were on the top of the world for the first time in our life.We totally forgot the unhappiness in our life and we threw the homework and the endless exams far away out of the wood.
In the middle of the wood ran a small and peaceful stream.Now and then，we could see some wild ducks on the water looking for food.The water weeds danced happily while the water passed beside them.The air was so fresh that we breathed it freely.
The sun had set before we knew it.We had to leave the place which brought us much happiness.We agreed to come back again every time we felt bored.
Years later，we went there several times.But，every time we went there to find that great feeling，we failed.Strangely，the feeling was different from that of several years ago.
I know that wonderful experience was just for once.We can never find that kind of happiness again which only belonged to the special afternoon in our life.That was a release of our uneasy heart.We can never go back to that young age or that simple life.It was our golden ages.No matter how boring and hard the life was，it gave us something worthy to recall.We"ll treasure it forever.
小题1:What does the writer think of their senior high school life?| A．Unhappy. | B．Helpless. | | C．Useless. | D．Meaningless. |
小题2:What does “it” refer to in the second paragraph?| A．The final exam. | B．Happiness. | | C．A small wood. | D．A high grade. |
小题3:What does the second paragraph mainly tell us?| A．How the girls forgot everything in the wood that afternoon. | | B．How the girls played games in the wood that afternoon. | | C．How peaceful the wood was that afternoon. | | D．How the girls relaxed themselves in the wood that afternoon. |
小题4:What did the writer introduce to us in the third paragraph?| A．Hungry wild ducks. | | B．Dancing water weeds. | | C．Fresh air. | | D．A peaceful stream. |
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Night after night, my mother came to my bed, even long after my childhood years.She would ____ down and push my long hair out of the way, and then kiss my forehead.
I don"t remember when it first started ___ me — her hands pushing my hair that way, for they felt workworn and rough ____ my young skin.Finally，one night, I shouted out at her, “Don"t do that any more—your hands are too rough！” she made no ____ and left quietly.But never again did my mother do it with that familiar expression of her ____.
With the passing years, my ____returned to that night time after time.By then I ____ my mother"s hands and her goodnight kiss.Sometimes the incident seemed very ____， sometimes far away, but always it was ____ in the back of my mind.
The years have passed, and I"m not a little girl any more.Mom is in her seventies, and those hands I once ___ to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family.
Now, Mom no longer has Dad and lives ____.One night on Thanksgiving Eve, I found myself ___to her house to spend the night with her.As I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand hesitantly ran across my face to ___the hair from my forehead.Then a ____， ever so gently , touched my forehead.I burst into tears.
In my memory, thousands of times, I ____ the night my young voice complained.Catching Mom"s hand in hand, I told her how ____I was for that night.I thought she"d remember ____ I did.But Mom didn"t know what I was talking about.She had already forgotten and ____ long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new ____for my gentle mother and her caring hands.And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was ____ to be found.
| 小题2: | | A．annoying | B．astonishing | C．delighting | D．disappointing |
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| 小题3: | | A．along | B．above | C．against | D．aside |
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| 小题4: | | A．reply | B．promise | C．request | D．agreement |
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| 小题5: | | A．pity | B．sadness | C．apology | D．love |
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| 小题6: | | A．feelings | B．opinions | C．spirits | D．thoughts |
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| 小题7: | | A．missed | B．forgot | C．held | D．shook |
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| 小题8: | | A．strange | B．close | C．serious | D．common |
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| 小题9: | | A．stressed | B．existed | C．hidden | D．exposed |
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| 小题10: | | A．expected | B．changed | C．reminded | D．complained |
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| 小题12: | | A．drawn | B．carried | C．moved | D．stayed |
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| 小题14: | | A．tear | B．kiss | C．press | D．hand |
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| 小题15: | | A．returned | B．remembered | C．realized | D．recalled |
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| 小题16: | | A．sorry | B．happy | C．angry | D．nervous |
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| 小题18: | | A．disappeared | B．forgiven | C．apologized | D．abandoned |
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| 小题19: | | A．imagination | B．inspiration | C．decoration | D．appreciation |
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| 小题20: | | A．still | B．soon | C．nowhere | D．anyhow |
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Herta Müller, the Romanianborn German writer, has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature.The award was announced in Stockholm.
Ms Müller, 56, immigrated to Germany from Romania in 1987.She is the first German writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Gunter Grass in 1999 and the 13th winner writing in German since the prize was first given in 1901.She is the 12th woman to get the literature prize.
But unlike Doris Leasing and V．S.Naipaul, Ms Müller is relatively unknown outside literary circles in Germany.“I am very surprised and still cannot believe it，” Ms Müller said in a statement in Germany.“I can"t say anything more at the moment.”
She has written about 20 books, but just five have been translated into English, including the novels “The Land of Green Plums” and “The Appointment”．
At a news conference at the German Publishers and Booksellers Association in Berlin, where she lives, Ms Müller, wearing all black and sitting on a big chair, appeared overwhelmed by all the cameras in her face.She spoke of the 30 years she spent under a dictatorship, describing “living with fear in the morning that in the evening one would no longer exist”．
When asked what it meant that her name would now be mentioned at the same moment as German greats like Thomas Mann and Heinrich Bll, Ms Müller remained calm.“I am now nothing better and I"m nothing worse，” she said.“My inner thing is writing.That"s what I can persist_in,_and if nothing special happens, I will never give up.”
Earlier in the day, at a news conference in Stockholm, Peter Englund，secretary of the Swedish Academy, said Ms Müller was honored for her “very, very special language” and because “she has really a story to tell about...and growing up as a stranger in your own family.”
小题1:Which of the following statements about Ms Müller is true?| A．Most of her works have been translated into English. | | B．She immigrated to Germany from Romania when she was 35. | | C．She"s the first Romanian writer that has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. | | D．She is the first German writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature in the 21st |
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小题2:Before getting the Nobel Prize, Ms Müller __________.| A．was famous for her works | | B．lived a poor but happy life | | C．was not wellknown to most people | | D．had enough confidence in winning it |
小题3:The underlined words “persist in” in Paragraph 6 mean __________.| A．refuse to do | B．continue to do | | C．stop to do | D．agree to do |
小题4:We can learn from the passage that __________.| A．Ms Müller"s special language and experience made her get the Nobel Prize | | B．most of Ms Müller"s novels are unsuccessful works | | C．Ms Müller felt much better after she won the Nobel Prize | | D．Ms Müller was honored because of her wonderful description about German"s |
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What a busy day! The three boys were fed, bathed and changed into their nightclothes.Mary had ____ them a story and finally they were asleep.“Babysitting(照看)the three boys aged eight, six and four is extremely ____，” she thought.
“Sleep，” she considered, “if only I could！” But she had difficult homework to complete.Leaning back, she ____ her feet onto the sofa to get comfortable.Whoever said babysitting was a(an) ____ way to make money obviously hadn"t met the three boys, she thought.The television was on, the room was warm, and the lights were dim.Mary"s ____ felt heavier and heavier.I mustn"t sleep, she thought — which was ____ what she did, of course.
Strangely enough, she soon ___ that she was a worldfamous chef(主厨)．She made a ____ and wore diamonds and designer clothes.Most days she relaxed by the pool, meeting the rich and famous or ____ — her favorite hobby.She ____ took the leading role in her own TV show.
That is, until she became too ____.“I am definitely the best in the world，” she thought, as she prepared a tasty chicken dish.But ___ seemed to go right.She spilt the flour, she dropped an egg and she cut her finger.Despite all the troubles, she ____ to get the chicken into the dove.Soon, smoke blanketed the room.The chicken was on fire.____ set in, but Mary could not run — she was ____ to the spot.She tried hard to move, but could not, ____ a sharp sound awoke her.
She got shocked and confused — ____ was pouring from the kitchen.Rushing to investigate, she was met by three ____ little faces and some very burnt bread.“Sorry, we were hungry and you were ____， so we tried to make some bread，” explained a boy.Relieved, Mary made them a snack and sent them back to bed.She____ them never to fall asleep on the job again！
| 小题1: | | A．given | B．written | C．told | D．taught |
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| 小题2: | | A．successful | B．helpful | C．tiring | D．surprising |
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| 小题4: | | A．difficult | B．boring | C．important | D．easy |
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| 小题5: | | A．eyes | B．mind | C．heart | D．legs |
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| 小题6: | | A．nicely | B．exactly | C．curiously | D．carelessly |
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| 小题7: | | A．realized | B．reminded | C．learnt | D．dreamt |
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| 小题8: | | A．decision | B．fortune | C．business | D．plan |
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| 小题9: | | A．cooking | B．reading | C．running | D．babysitting |
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| 小题11: | | A．selfish | B．proud | C．stubborn | D．sensitive |
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小题12:A everything B．something C．anything D．nothing
| 小题13: | | A．tried | B．arranged | C．managed | D．prepared |
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| 小题14: | | A．Panic | B．Pain | C．Noise | D．Stress |
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| 小题15: | | A．frozen | B．dragged | C．pushed | D．brought |
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| 小题16: | | A．because | B．until | C．as | D．unless |
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| 小题17: | | A．smoke | B．light | C．water | D．fire |
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| 小题18: | | A．cheerful | B．strange | C．guilty | D．confident |
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| 小题19: | | A．busy | B．hungry | C．worried | D．asleep |
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| 小题20: | | A．promised | B．allowed | C．expected | D．persuaded |
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