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Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic(阁楼)one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript(手稿). On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Gainestown boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henry’s.
My father then set out to sell it. Eventfully, he foud himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.
My father never told me what the O. Henry story was about. But i doubt that it could have been better than his own story.
小题1:Who found the O. Henry’s manuscript?
A.The girl’s mother. | B.The author’s father. |
C.The girl. | D.The author. |
A.O. Henry once worked in Houston. |
B.O. Henry once stayed in Galveston. |
C.O. Henry once moved to Des Moines. |
D.O. Henry once taught at SMU. |
A.named | B.treated | C.proved | D.described |
A.To sell the O. Henry story. | B.To meet the author himself. |
C.To talk with the O. Henry expert. | D.To give money to the girl. |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A
解析
试题分析:文章大意:这是一位处于贫困中的母亲在发现O.Henry书稿时没有私藏,而是转交给作者的父亲,作者的父亲让专家鉴定后将书稿卖的钱如数给小女孩的母亲,生病的孩子得救了。
小题1:A考查细节理解。根据第二段的She was cleaning out the attic(阁楼)one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript(手稿). On its top page were the words, “By O.Henry”可知那位小女孩的母亲一天打扫阁楼上发现布满尘土的旧手稿,手稿上写着O.Henry的签名,故选A。
小题2:B 考查细节理解。根据第二段的My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O.Henry had once lived in Houston可知我父亲从没有听说过这个故事,但是他知道O.Henry曾住在Houston,故选B。
小题3:C考查猜测词义。根据前文作者的父亲找到一位专家应是“证明”是O.Henry的作品。A命名;B对待;C证明;D描述。故选C。
小题4:A考查细节理解。根据最后一段的My father then set out to sell it我父亲然后出发去把它卖掉,可知选A。
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试题【When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about th】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children, Anna took in one of the families that had lost in the flood and she her home with them until it was for them to rebuild their house.
Anna’s friends were when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to .
“Well,” Anna her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very , because her husband had been killed in the and she had a lot of children, I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for Christmas this year, so I’m going to only one present to all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our ,’ she said to her children.
The children were and happy to get such a present. They the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. And I was that Christmas present.”
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I was in the ninth year at St Joseph’s High School, when I began to suffer depression. My parents noticed, but felt that since I’d always been a responsible girl and a good student, this was just a temporary 21 .
Unfortunately, that was not to be. I didn’t have many friends. I could never share my 22. A deep insecurity destroyed my self-confidence. Soon I 23 to attend classes for many days. I would shut myself in my room for hours.
The examinations were approaching, 24 I simply didn’t care. My parents and teachers were surprised at my bad performance.
One morning, after a particularly 25 lecture from Dad, I stood depressed, in the school assembly. 26 , as the other students marched to their classroom, our principal 27 me. I made my way to Sister Sylvia’s office.
The next 45 minutes were the most 28 moments of my life. Sister Sylvia said she’d noticed a big 29 in me. She wanted to know why I was lagging in studies, so frequently 30 and unhappy. She took my hand in hers and 31 patiently as I spilled out my worries. She then 32 me as I sobbed my pent-up (压抑的)emotions out. Months of frustration and loneliness 33 in her motherly hug.
No one had tried to 34 what the real problem was, but my principal had done it with her simple act of just listening to me with such 35 and caring.
As the examinations approached again, I studied 36 . When the results were 37 , everybody was pleased, but happiest of all was my principal.
I soon made new friends and was happy 38 . But whenever I had a problem, I could always slip into Sister Sylvia’s office for a(n) 39 .
Today I’m a 40 young woman doing my MA and hoping to become a writer. I’ve become an inspiration to several of my friends and cousins, thanks to a kind nun who cared.
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He knew that his friends would arrive soon with all kinds of interesting plans for the day. They would walk past him and laugh. They would make jokes about his having to work on a beautiful summer Saturday. The thought burned him like fire.
He put his hand into his pockets and took out all that he owned. Perhaps he could find some way to pay someone to do the whitewashing for him. But there was nothing of value in his pockets—nothing that could buy even half an hour of freedom. So he put the bits of toys back into his pockets and gave up the idea.
At this dark and hopeless moment, a wonderful idea came to him. It filled his mind with a great, bright light. Calmly he picked up the brush and started again to whitewash.
While Tom was working, Ben Rogers appeared. Ben was eating an apple as he walked along the street. As he walked along it, he was making noises like the sound of a riverboat. First he shouted loudly, like a boat captain. Then he said “Ding---Dong---Dong”, “Ding---Dong---Dong” again and again, like the bell of a riverboat. And he made other strange noises. When he came close to Tom, he stopped.
Tom went on whitewashing. He did not look at Ben. Ben stared a moment and then said: “Hello! I"m going swimming, but you can"t go, can you?”
No answer. Tom moved his brush carefully along the fence and looked at the result with the eye of an artist. Ben came nearer. Tom"s mouth watered for the apple, but he kept on working.
Ben said, “Hello, old fellow, you"ve got to work, hey?”
Tom turned suddenly and said, “Why, it"s you, Ben! I wasn"t noticing.”
“Say --- I"m going swimming. Don"t you wish you could? But of course you"d rather work --- wouldn"t you? Of course you would.”
Tom looked at the boy a bit, and said “What do you call work?”
“Why, isn"t that work?”
Tom went back to his whitewashing, and answered carelessly.
“Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn"t. All I know is, it suits Tom Sawyer.”
“Oh come, now, you don"t mean to say that you like it?”
The brush continued to move.
“Like it? Well, I don"t see why I shouldn"t like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”
Ben stopped eating his apple. Tom moved his brush back and forth, stepped back to look at the result, added a touch here and there, and stepped back again. Ben watched every move and got more and more interested. Soon he said,“Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”
Tom thought for a moment, and was about to agree, but he changed his mind.
“No---no---it won"t do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly wants this fence to be perfect. It has got to be done very carefully. I don"t think there is one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it well enough.”
“No---is that so? Oh come, now —let me just try. Only just a little.”
“Ben, I"d like to, but if it isn"t done right, I"m afraid Aunt Polly … ”
“Oh, I"ll be careful. Now let me try. Say —I"ll give you the core of my apple.”
“Well, here --- No, Ben, now don"t. I"m afraid …”
“I"ll give you all of it.”
Tom gave up the brush with unwillingness on his face, but joy in his heart. And while Ben worked at the fence in the hot sun, Tom sat under a tree, eating the apple, and planning how to get more help. There were enough boys. Each one came to laugh, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was tired, Tom sold the next chance to Billy for a kite; and when Billy was tired, Johnny bought it for a dead rat —and so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, Tom had won many treasures.
And he had not worked. He had had a nice idle time all the time, with plenty of company, and the fence had been whitewashed three times. If he hadn"t run out of whitewash, Tom would have owned everything belonging to his friends.
He had discovered a great law of human action, namely, that in order to make a man or a boy want a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to get.
小题1:How many characters are mentioned in this story?
A.4. | B.5. |
C.6. | D.7 |
A.Because he was tired and wanted to play with his toys. |
B.Because he wanted to throw his toys away. |
C.Because he wanted to give his toys to his friends. |
D.Because he wanted to know if he could buy help with his toys. |
A.Tom wanted to do the whitewashing by himself |
B.Tom planned to make Ben give up his apple first |
C.Tom was unwilling to let Ben do the whitewashing |
D.Tom was afraid Ben would do the whitewashing better |
A.Tom was interested in whitewashing the fence |
B.Tom had a lot of friends who are ready to help others |
C.Tom was unwilling to whitewash the fence, but he managed to let other boys do it for him |
D.Tom was good at whitewashing the fence, so he looked at the result of his work with the eye of an artist |
A.His warm heart and kindness to friends. |
B.Tom"s threat. |
C.His curiosity about Tom"s brushing job. |
D.Aunt Polly"s idea. |
A.The Happy Whitewasher |
B.Tom And His Fellows |
C.Whitewashing A Fence |
D.Make The Things Difficult To Get |
"Look,Alice,” he said as he ran over to the chair where I was sitting "I found a kite. Could we go outside and it?"
Glancing out a nearby window, I noticed it was outside. “I"m sorry, Tripper,.” I said, sad to see his eyes. "The wind is not blowing today. The kite won"t fly.”
The 10-year-old replied, “I think it"s enough. I can get it to fly,” he answered as he ran out to the back door .
Up and down in the yard he ran, pulling the kite to a small length of string. He ran back and forth,as hard as his ten year-old would carry him, looking back at the kite behind. After about ten minutes of determination, he came back in.
I asked, "How did it go?"
"Fine,”he said, not wanting to admit .“I got it to fly some”
As he walked past me to return the kite to the closet shelf, I heard him say under his breath, "I guess I"ll have to wait for the .”
At that moment I heard another Voice speak to my . "Alice, sometimes you are just like that. You want to do it your way waiting for the Wind.”
And the voice was right. We usually want to use our own efforts to what we want to do. We wait for the Wind only after we have done all we can and have exhausted(耗尽)our own .We must learn how to rely on Him in the first place!
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A.live | B.study | C.stay | D.lie |
A.playing | B.resting | C.challenging | D.arguing |
A.worried | B.troubled | C.excited | D.enjoyable |
A.casually | B.enthusiastically | C.stubbornly | D.deliberately |
A.decorate | B.drop | C.hang | D.fly |
A.hot | B.still | C.noisy | D.fine |
A.bright | B.disappointed | C.dull | D.satisfied |
A.clever | B.talented | C.determined | D.fearless |
A.sunny | B.cloudy | C.windy | D.rainy |
A.hurriedly | B.curiously | C.suddenly | D.unwillingly |
A.adapted | B.added | C.attached | D.devoted |
A.mind | B.body | C.arms | D.legs |
A.angrily | B.nervously | C.doubtfully | D.hopefully |
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A.win | B.defeat | C.mistake | D.luck |
A.wind | B.order | C.news | D.sunshine |
A.heart | B.memory | C.dream | D.world |
A.regardless of | B.instead of | C.in spite of | D.in case of |
A.imagine | B.decide | C.apply | D.accomplish |
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Maybe I could the worst one. I opened the Yellow Pages and called the first within walking distance. The receptionist(接待员)told me to come right over. I hurried across the school. I forgot the in worrying about how I would pay the .
In a few minutes I was being examined by a dentist who said, “Hmm!” as he examined my teeth. “Your teeth are in bad .”
“I already knew that,” I him and answered quickly to hide (隐藏) my .
“But don’t worry. I’m going to fix them.”
“No, you’re not. I can’t to pay you.” I started climbing out of the chair.
“You’re a student at the university, aren’t you?”
What did that make? “Yes...”
“You’re going to graduate in a few years, aren’t you?”
“I hope so.”
“And then you expect to get a job, don’t you?”
“That’s my .”
“Well, then you’ll pay me. you concentrate (集中精力) on your classes and the dentistry to me.”
I stared at him. He really it. He calmly picked up his tools and fixed my aching teeth. From that day on, I saw him every week until I had good teeth again. After graduation, I got a job and his bill in a few months.
In the 40 years following, I’ve learned to call this man a “woodwork angel.” They are strangers who appear out of nowhere when I need help. sometimes they’ve rescued me danger or making a big mistake.
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A.bear (忍受) | B.take | C.treat | D.forget |
A.identified | B.admitted | C.ignored | D.expressed |
A.where | B.who | C.why | D.how |
A.changed | B.provided | C.supported | D.enjoyed |
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A.teacher | B.dentist | C.driver | D.operator |
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A.class | B.time | C.address | D.pain |
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A.directed | B.comforted | C.stopped | D.advised |
A.anger | B.fear | C.hope | D.trick |
A.agree | B.wait | C.afford | D.remember |
A.effort | B.use | C.difference | D.offer |
A.plan | B.picture | C.purpose | D.procedure |
A.As a result | B.In the meantime | C.After that | D.Ever since |
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A.passed | B.had | C.settled | D.filled |
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