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It was one of those terribly hot days in Baltimore. Needless to say, it was too hot to do anything outside. But it was also scorching in our apartment. This was 1962, and I would not live in a place with an air conditioner for another ten years. So my brother and I decided to leave the apartment to find someplace indoors. He suggested we could see a movie. It was a brilliant plan.
Movie theaters were one of the few places you could sit all day and—most important —sit in air conditioning. In those days, you could buy one ticket and sit through two movies. Then, the theater would show the same two movies again. If you wanted to, you could sit through them twice. Most people did not do that, but the manager at our theater. Mr. Bellow did not mind if you did.
That particular day, my brother and I sat through both movies twice, trying to escape the heat. We bought three bags of popcorn and three sodas each. Then, we sat and watched The Music Man followed by The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. We’d already seen the second movie once before. It had been at the theater since January, because Mr. Bellow loved anything with John Wayne in it.
We left the theater around 8, just before the evening shows began. But we returned the next day and saw the same two movies again, twice more. And we did it the next day too. Finally, on the fourth day, the heat wave broke.
Still, to this day I can sing half the songs in The Music Man and recite half of John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart’s dialogue from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! Those memories are some of the few I have of the heat wave of 1962. They’re really memories of the screen, not memories of my life.
小题1:In which year did the author first live in a place with an air conditioner?
A.1952B.1962C.1972D.1982
小题2:What does the underlined word”It” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A.The heat
B.The theater.
C.The Music Man
D.The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
小题3:What do we know about Mr. Bellow? 
A.He loved children very much.
B.He was a fan of John Wayne.
C.He sold air conditioners.
D.He was a movie star.
小题4:Why did the author and his/her brother see the same movies several times?
A.The two movies were really wonderful.
B.They wanted to avoid the heat outside.
C.The manager of the theater was friendly.
D.They liked the popcorn and the soda at the theater.
小题5:What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A.The author turned out to be a great singer.
B.The author enjoyed the heat wave of 1962.
C.The author’s life has been changed by the two movies.
D.The author considers the experience at the theater unforgettable.

答案

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:D
解析

【文章大意】这是一篇记叙文。本文讲述了作者小时候为了避暑和弟弟到电影院去一遍一遍看电影,以至于多年时候还记得电影里面的歌曲和对白,表达了自己对以往那段在电影院里度过的时光的怀念之情。
小题1:C考查细节理解。由第二段第三句“This was 1962,I wuold not live in a place with air conditioner for another ten years”可知,作者在10年后住进了有空调的房子。故选C。
考查类别统一为:考查细节理解。考查猜测词义。考查判断推理。考查主旨要义;考查文章标题;
小题2:D考查指代判断。由第三段第三句和第四句“Then,we sat and watched The Music Man followed by The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. We have already seen the second movie once more.”可知,it指的是这两部电影中的第二部电影即The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance。故选D。
小题3:B考查细节理解。由第三段最后一句“…because Mr. Bellow loved anything with John Wayne in it.”可知,Mr. Bellow很喜欢John Wayne。故选B。
小题4:B考查细节理解。由第二段第一句可知,在这炎热的夏天电影院是你可以一坐一整天的为数不多的地方,最重要的是这里有空调,所以作者和弟弟到电影院区的目的是为了避暑。故选B。
小题5:D考查判断推理。最后一段中作者说时至今日他仍然会唱The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance里的歌,会背诵里面的对白,很少会记起1962年的热浪但是会时常记起这部电影,说明作者很怀念那段在电影院度过的时光。故选D。
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Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slaveholders. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett.”
For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s wife tried to strike Mumbet’s sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.
While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.
Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants(后裔). One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founder of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.
Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part: “She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.” 
小题1:What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1?
A.She was born a slave
B.She was a slaveholder
C.She had a famous sister
D.She was born into a rich family
小题2:Why did Mumbet run away from the Ashleys?
A.She found an employer
B.She wanted to be a lawyer
C.She was hit and got angry
D.She had to take care of her sister
小题3:What did Mumbet learn from discussions about the new consititution?
A.She should always obey her owners’ orders
B.She should be as free and equal as whites
C.How to be a good servant
D.How to apply for a job
小题4:What did Mumbet do after the trial?
A.She chose to work for a lawyer
B.She found the NAACP
C.She continued to serve the Ashleys
D.She went to live with her grandchildren
小题5:What is the test mainly about?
A.A story of a famous writer and spokesperson
B.The friendship between a lawyer and a slave
C.The life of a brave African American woman
D.A trial that shocked the whole world

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My husband, Tom, has always been good with animals, but I was still amazed when he befriended a female grouse (松鸡). It"s         for a grouse to have any contact (接触) with people. In fact, they"re hard to spot,       they usually fly off when they hear humans approaching.
This grouse came into our lives in     Tom was working out in the field when he      her walking around at the edge of the field. She was       unafraid and seemed to be      about what he was doing.
Tom saw the       bird several times, and she got more comfortable around him. We quickly grew       of the bird and decided to call her Mildred.
One day, as Tom was working, Mildred came within a few feet of him to watch. Tom      he didn"t see her and kept working to see what she would do next.
Apparently, she didn"t like to be       . She"d run up and peck (啄) at Tom"s hands, then       off to see what he would do. This went on for about 20 minutes, until Mildred became tired of the        and left.
As spring went and summer came, Mildred started to        more and more often.       Mildred felt comfortable enough to jump up on Tom"s leg and stay long enough for me to get a        of the two of them together. This friendly grouse soon felt        not just with our family, but with anybody who walked or drove by.
When hunting season opened, we put a        at the end of our driveway asking       not to shoot our pet grouse. My father, who lived down the road,        warned people not to shoot her.       . hunters would stop and take pictures, because they had never seen anything like her.
小题1:
A.interestingB.reasonableC.impossibleD.unusual
小题2:
A.thoughB.becauseC.unless D.until
小题3:
A.springB.summerC.autumn D.winter
小题4:
A.gotB.keptC.noticedD.imagined
小题5:
A.naturallyB.certainlyC.normallyD.surprisingly
小题6:
A.crazyB.curiousC.concernedD.cautious
小题7:
A.shyB.awkwardC.friendlyD.elegant
小题8:
A.carefulB.tired C.fondD.sick
小题9:
A.supposedB.realizedC.hoped D.pretended
小题10:
A.ignored B.observedC.amazedD.disturbed
小题11:
A.putB.backC.setD.take
小题12:
A.gameB.workC.placeD.man
小题13:
A.give up B.come outC.turn overD.fly by
小题14:
A.EventuallyB.SuddenlyC.ConstantlyD.Presently
小题15:
A.chance B.dream C.pictureD.sense
小题16:
A.comfortableB.guiltyC.anxiousD.familiar
小题17:
A.lanternB.signC.gunD.loudspeaker
小题18:
A.driversB.farmersC.huntersD.tourists
小题19:
A.justB.yetC.thusD.also
小题20:
A.In factB.For longC.On the contraryD.By the way

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In 1943, when I was 4, my parents moved from Coeur d"Alene, Idaho, to Fairbanks, Alaska, where adventure was never very far away.
We arrived in the summer, just in time to enjoy the midnight sun. All that sunlight was fantastic for Mom"s vegetable garden. Working in the garden at midnight tended to throw her timing off, so she didn"t care much about my bedtime.
Dad was a Railway Express agent and Mom was his clerk. That left me in a mess. I usually managed to find some trouble to get into. Once I had a little Are going in the dirt basement of a hotel. I had tried to light a barrel(桶) of paint but couldn"t really get a good fire going. The smoke got pretty bad, though, and when 1 made my exit, a crowd and the police were there to greet me. The policemen took my matches and drove me
Mom and Dad were occupied in the garden and Dad told the police to keep me, and they did! I had a tour of the prison before Mom rescued me. 1 hadn"t turned 5 yet.
As I entered kindergarten, the serious cold began to set in. Would it surprise you to know that I soon left part of my tongue on a metal handrail at school?
As for Leonhard Seppala, famous as a dog sledder (驾雪橇者), I think I knew him well because I was taken for a ride with his white dog team one Sunday. At the time I didn"t realize what a superstar he was, but I do remember the ride well. I was wrapped (包裹) heavily and well sheltered from the freezing and blowing weather.
In 1950, we moved back to Coeur d"Alene, but we got one more Alaskan adventure when Leonhard invited us eight years later by paying a visit to Idaho to attend a gathering of former neighbors of Alaska.
小题1:What can be inferred about the author"s family?
A.His father was a cruel man.
B.His parents didn"t love him.
C.His parents used to be very busy.
D.His mother didn"t have any jobs.
小题2:What happened when the author was 4?
A.He learned to smoke.
B.He was locked in a basement.
C.He was arrested by the police.
D.He nearly caused a fire accident.
小题3:Which of the following is true?
A.Leonhard was good at driving dog sleds.
B.The author spent his whole childhood in Alaska.
C.Leonhard often visited the author"s family after 1950.
D.The author suffered a lot while taking the dog sled in Alaska.
小题4:What is the author"s purpose of writing the text?
A.To look back on his childhood with adventures.
B.To describe the extreme weather of Alaska.
C.To express how much he misses Leonhard.
D.To show off his pride in making trouble.

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A schoolgirl saved her father"s life by kicking him in the chest after he suffered a serious allergic (过敏的) reaction which stopped his heart.
Izzy, nine, restarted father Colm"s heart by stamping (踩) on his chest after he fell down at home and stopped breathing.
Izzy"s mother, Debbie, immediately called 999 but Izzy knew doctors would never arrive in time to save her father, so decided to use CPR.
However, she quickly discovered her arms weren"t strong enough, so she stamped on her father"s chest .Debbie then took over with some more conventional chest compressions (按压) until the ambulance arrived .
Izzy, who has been given a bravery award by her school, said: "I just kicked him really hard. My mum taught me CPR but I knew I wasn"t strong enough to use hands. I was quite scared. The doctor said I might as well be a doctor or a nurse. My mum said that Dad was going to hospital with a big footprint on his
"She"s a little star," said Debbie, "i was really upset but Izzy just took over. I just can"t believe what she did. I really think all children should be taught first aid. Izzy did CPR then the doctor turned up. Colm had to have more treatment on the way to the hospital and we"ve got to see an expert."
Truck driver Colm, 35, suffered a mystery allergic reaction on Saturday and was taken to hospital, but was sent home only for it to happen again the next day. The second attack was so serious that his airway swelled, preventing him from breathing, his blood pressure dropped suddenly, and his heart stopped for a moment.
He has now made a full recovery from his suffering.
小题1:Izzy kicked her father in the chest ______ .
A.to express her helplessnessB.to practise CPR on him
C.to keep him awakeD.to restart his heart
小题2:What"s the right order of the events?
1Izzy kicked Colm.
2Debbie called 999.
3Izzy learned CPR.
4Colm"s heart stopped.
A.3124B.4231C.3421D.4312
小题3:What does Paragraph 8 mainly talk about?
A.What Colm suffered.
B.Colm"s present condition.
C.What caused Colm"s allergy.
D.Symptoms of Colm"s allergic reaction.
小题4:Why does the author write the news?
A.To describe a serious accident.
B.To prove the importance of CPR.
C.To report a 9-year-old girl"s brave act.
D.To call people"s attention to allergic reaction.

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One night, when I was eight , my mother gently asked me a question I would never forget. “Sweetie, my company wants to       me but needs me to work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling that you’ve done        and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but you’ll have to       your friends. Would you say yes to your teacher?” She gave me a hug and asked me to think about it. I was puzzled. The question kept me     for the rest of the night I had said “yes” but for the first time, I realized the     decisions adults had to make.
For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I’d        wait for the phone to ring and then tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never replace her       and it was difficult not to feel lonely at times.
During my fourth-grade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large       apartment, I became       how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil herself. It was then     I started to appreciate the tough choices she had to make on       family and work.       difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn’t know whether you make the right choice, but you could always make the best out of the situation, with passion and a       attitude.
Back home , I       myself that what my mother could do, I could, too. If she        to live in Rio all by herself, I, too, could learn to be       . I learn how to take care of myself and set high but achievable    .
My mother is now back with us. But I will never forget what the       has really taught me. Sacrifices       in the end. The separation between us has proved to be       for me.
小题1:
A.attractB.promoteC.surpriseD.praise
小题2:
A.littleB.muchC.wellD.wrong
小题3:
A.leaveB.refuseC.contactD.forgive
小题4:
A.explainingB.sleepingC.wonderingD.regretting
小题5:
A.poorB.timelyC.finalD.tough
小题6:
A.eagerlyB.politelyC.nervouslyD.curiously
小题7:
A.patienceB.presenceC.intelligenceD.Influence
小题8:
A.ComfortableB.ExpensiveC.EmptyD.Modern
小题9:
A.Interested inB.aware ofC.doubtfulD.satisfied with
小题10:
A.whenB.whereC.whichD.that
小题11:
A.abandoningB.balancingC.comparingD.mixing
小题12:
A.Depending onB.supplied withC.Faced withD.Insisting on
小题13:
A.differentB.friendlyC.positiveD.general
小题14:
A.criticizedB.informedC.warnedD.reminded
小题15:
A.managedB.offeredC.attemptedD.expected
小题16:
A.gratefulB.energeticC.independentD.practical
小题17:
A.examplesB.limitsC.rulesD.goals
小题18:
A.questionB.experienceC.historyD.occasion
小题19:
A.pay offB.come backC.run outD.turn up
小题20:
A.blessingB.gatheringC.failureD.pleasure

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