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(n) 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 whatshe did, of course.
Strangely enough, she soon that she was a world-famous chef (主厨). She made a and wore diamonds and designer clothes. Most days she by the pool, meeting the rich and famous or reading—her favorite hobby. She took the leading role in her own TV show. Then she woke up, shocked and confused. was pouring from the kitchen. Rushing to investigate, she was met by three little faces and some very burnt bread.
| 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．surprisng |
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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．leant | 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．cleaned | B．relaxed | C．cooked | D．slept |
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| 小题11: | | A．Smoke | B．Light | C．Water | D．Fire |
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| 小题12: | | A．cheerful | B．strange | C．guilty | D．confident |
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小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:B
小题7:D
小题8:B
小题9:B
小题10:C
小题11:A
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试题分析：本文是一篇记叙文，记叙了作者当保姆照顾三个男孩的经历。照顾三个男孩非常累，尽管作者一再提醒自己，还是在沙发上睡着了，同时还做了一个梦，梦到自己成了世界有名的主厨，在做一只美味的鸡，可是鸡却着火了！作者醒来，原来是三个孩子饿了，到厨房里去做面包，却把面包做糊了。作者给他们做了点心，并又哄他们入睡，且答应他们不会在工作时睡觉了。
小题1:考查动词：A. given给，B. written 写，C. told告诉，D. taught教，她给他们讲故事。tell sb.a story，“给某人讲故事”。选C
小题2:考查形容词：. A. successful成功，B. helpful乐于助人的，C. tiring令人疲劳的，D. surprisng令人惊讶的，这段开头就说的是 What a busy day，接下来描述给他们喂饭，洗澡，换睡衣，哄他们睡觉，故照顾这三个男孩很累人。选C
小题3:考查动词： A. shook摇晃，B. put放，C. bent弯曲，D. kept保持，她把脚放在沙发上。选B
小题4:考查形容词： A. difficult困难的，B. boring令人厌倦的，C. important重要的，D. easy容易的，不管是谁，只要他说照看小孩是一种容易的挣钱方法的话，他肯定没有遇见过这三个小孩。选D
小题5:考查名词：A. eyes眼睛，B. mind思维，C. heart心脏，D. legs腿，因为很累，很想睡觉，所以眼睛变得越来越沉。选A
小题6:考查副词：A. nicely漂亮地，B. exactly确切地，C. curiously好奇地，D. carelessly粗心的，她想她绝对不能睡觉，当然，她正在这么做。选B
小题7:考查动词：A. realized意识到，B. reminded提醒，C. leant学会，D. dreamt梦想，奇怪的是，她突然梦到她是世界著名的大厨。选D
小题8:考查名词：A. decision决定，B. fortune运气，财产，C. business生意，D. plan计划，根据后文所说的她戴着钻石，穿着名牌服装可知她发了财。make a fortune 发财。选B
小题9:考查动词：A. cleaned清洁，打扫，B. relaxed放松，C. cooked烹饪，D. slept睡觉，大部分时间她都在池塘边放松，会见有名的富人或者读书——这是她的爱好。选B
小题10:考查副词： A. just仅仅，B. ever曾经，C. even曾经，D. only只有，她甚至在自己的电视剧里担任主角。选C
小题11:考查名词：A. Smoke烟，B. Light光，C. Water水，D. Fire火，鸡烧糊了，窜出了火苗，满屋子都是烟，选A
小题12:考查形容词：A. cheerful令人兴奋的，B. strange奇怪的，C. guilty内疚的，D. confident自信的，根据后文的 sorry，可知孩子们很内疚。选C |
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Adrian’s “Amazing Race” started early when his parents realized that he, as a baby, couldn’t hear a thing, not even loud noises. In a special school for the hearing-impaired (听觉受损的)，he learned sign language and got to mix with other disabled children. However, the sight of all the disabled children communicating with one another upset his mother. She wanted him to lead a normal life. So after speaking to an advisor, she sent him to private classes where he learned to read lips and pronounce words.
Later on, Adrian’s parents decided to send him to a regular school. But the headmaster tried to prevent them from doing so, saying regular school couldn’t take care of a special needs students. His parents were determined to take the risk and push him hard to go through his work everyday because they wanted to prove that, given the opportunity, he could do anything. Adrian made the grade and got accepted. It was a big challenge. The pace（节奏）was faster so he had to sit at the front of the class and really pay attention to the teacher, which wasn’t always easy. But he stuck to it and did a lot of extra work after school.
The efforts made by Adrian and his parents paid off. Adrian graduated with good grades and got into a top high school. He also achieved a lot in life outside school. He developed a love for the outdoors and went to Nepal to climb mountains. He even entered the World Yacht Race 05/06--- being the first hearing-impaired Asian to do so.
But none of these achievements would have been possible without one of the most important lessons from his mother.” “If you believe in yourself and work hard, you can achieve great results.” She often said.
小题1:How did Adrian communicate with other children in the special school?| A．By speaking. | B．By making loud noises. | | C．By reading lips | D．By using sign language. |
小题2:Adrian’s parents decided to send him to a regular school because .| A．they wanted to prove the headmaster wrong | | B．they wanted him to live a normal life | | C．he wouldn’t mix with other disabled children | | D．he wasn’t taken good care of in the special school |
小题3:How did Adrian finally succeed in his study? | A．He did a lot of outdoor activities. | | B．He was pushed hard to study every day. | | C．He worked very hard both in and after class | | D．He attended private classes after school. |
小题4:Why is Adrian’s life described as an “Amazing Race”?| A．He did very well in his study | | B．He succeeded in entering a regular school | | C．He reached his goals in spite of his disability | | D．He took part in the World Yacht Race 05/06 |
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Would you jump off the Great Wall of China for 300 pounds a day?
A stunt (特技表演)person is a man or woman who does all the dangerous bits of acting work in films or on TV. This can be anything from a simple fall into a swimming pool, or walking off the top of a tall building. It sounds like a job that you would have to be made to try, but there are actually lots of people who want to do it.
Sarah France, twenty-four, is one of Britain’s sixteen professional stunt women ---there are one hundred and sixty stunt men in the country. We asked Sarah how she came to be a stunt woman.
“When I was young I was trained to be a dancer, and for seven years after school I was hardly out of work. A dancer’s life is pretty short, though, and my father suggested I should think about doing stunt work after I’d given up dancing. I thought about it for the next two years and decided to have a go. For six months, I worked really hard every day. I had to learn different skills---swimming, jumping, horse -riding, etc.”
Sarah finished the course in just five months and applied to the office which decides whether you’re accepted as a professional stunt person or not. Two weeks after she was accepted, Sarah was throwing off the Great Wall of China in Superman IV.
“I was very lucky to get work so quickly. I had a small part, playing a traveler who fell off the Wall after an earthquake. The traveler’s life was saved by Superman, of course! Actually, I fell forty-five feet into a pile of cardboard boxes! You can’t use anything softer than that or you will be brought back into view of the cinema. Instead you just have to learn to fall properly. It’s quite dangerous but I enjoy it.”
小题1:Quite a number of people want to do dangerous acts in films because___________.| A．they are mad | B．they don’t think them dangerous | | C．no training is needed | D．they can earn much money |
小题2:Sarah gave up dancing because___________.| A．her father persuaded her to do stunt work | | B．she could not go on dancing forever | | C．she had to work hard every day | | D．she was often out of work |
小题3:Soon after Sarah got her new job as a stunt person, ______________.| A．an earthquake took place near the Great Wall | | B．she fell off the Great Wall and hurt herself | | C．she was asked to act in Superman IV | | D．she learned how to fall properly |
小题4:Which of the following words best describes Sarah?| A．Healthy | B．Adventurous | C．Skillful | D．Successful |
小题5:The purpose of the first sentence of the passage is to ____________.| A．draw the readers’ attention to the whole passage | | B．invite you to try jumping off the Great Wall for money | | C．ask you to be a stunt person | | D．raise a question for the readers to think about |
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Jenny was a pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl (珍珠) necklace priced at $2.50. Her mother bought the necklace for her on condition that she had to do some homework to pay it off. Jenny agreed. She worked very hard every day, and soon Jenny paid off the necklace. Jenny loved it so much that she wore it everywhere except when she was in the shower. Her mother had told her it would turn her neck green!
Jenny had a very loving daddy. When Jenny went to bed, he would read Jenny her favorite story.
One night when he finished the story, he said, “Jenny, could you give me your necklace?”
“Oh! Daddy, not my necklace!” Jenny said. “But you can have Rosy, my favorite doll. Remember her? You gave her to me last year for my birthday. Okay? ”
“Oh no, darling, that’s okay.” Her father brushed her cheek with a kiss. “Good night, little one.
A week later, her father once again asked Jenny for the necklace after her favorite story. “Oh, Daddy, not my necklace! But you can have Ribbons, my toy horse. Do you remember her? She’s my favorite.”
“No, that’s okay,” her father said and brushed her cheek again with a kiss. “God bless you, little one. Sweet dreams. ”
Several days later, when Jenny’s father came in to read her a story, Jenny was sitting on her bed and her lip was trembling. “Here, Daddy,” she said, holding out her hand. She opened it and her beloved pearl necklace was inside. She let it slip into her father’s hand.
With one hand her father held the plastic pearl necklace and with the other he pulled out of his pocket a blue box. Inside the box was a real, beautiful pearl necklace. He had had it all along. He was waiting for Jenny to give up the cheap necklace so he could give her a real one.
小题1:What did Jenny have to do to get the plastic pearl necklace?| A．She had to help her mother do some housework. | | B．She had to listen to her father tell a story every night. | | C．She had to ask her father to pay for the necklace. | | D．She had to give away her favorite toys to the poor children. |
小题2:From the text we know that ______.| A．Jenny’s mother paid a lot for the plastic pearl necklace | | B．Jenny wore the necklace everywhere even in the shower | | C．Jenny didn’t like Rosy and Ribbons any longer | | D．Jenny got a real pearl necklace from her father |
小题3:Jenny’s father asked for her plastic pearl necklace repeatedly in order to ______.| A．get it for himself | B．donate it | C．train her character | D．put it away |
小题4:What can be the best title for the text?| A．A Lovely Girl | B．Father and Daughter | | C．A Pearl Necklace | D．An Unforgettable Childhood |
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The composing career (作曲生涯) of Albert Roussel got off to a changeable start, and received one of its biggest successes from a lie.
Roussel became an orphan (孤儿) at the age of eight and went to live with his grandfather. He built on the music he had learned from his mother, entertaining himself by reading through the family music collection and playing operatic selections and popular songs on the piano. Three years later Roussel’s grandfather died, and his mother"s sister took him in. Her husband arranged for young Albert to take piano lessons. Summer vacations at a Belgian seaside added a second love to his life — the sea. He studied to be a soldier in the navy, but still made time to study music.
In the French Navy, he and two friends found time to play the music of Beethoven and other composers. Roussel also began composing. At the Church of the Trinity in Cherbourg on Christmas Day 1892, he had his first public appearance as a composer. That success encouraged Roussel to write a wedding march, and one of his fellow naval officers offered to show it to a famous conductor, Edouard Colonne. When Roussel’s friend returned with the manuscript (手稿), he reported that Colonne had advised Roussel to give up his naval career and devote his life to music.
Not long afterward, at the age of 2S, Roussel did just that. He applied the qualities that he had developed in the navy to his composing and became a major force in twentieth century French music. As for Edouard Colonne’s inspiring advice that Roussel should devote his life to music, Roussel"s naval friend later admitted that he had made it up and that he had never even shown Roussel’s manuscript to the conductor.
小题1:What information can we get from the second paragraph?| A．Albert’s grandfather died when Albert was eight years old. | | B．Albert"s aunt arranged for him to take piano lessons. | | C．Albert gave up studying music after he studied to be a soldier in the navy. | | D．Albert came to love the sea after summer vacations at the seaside. |
小题2:From the third paragraph we know that ______.| A．in the French Navy, Roussel and two friend began composing | | B．Roussel’s first public appearance at the church was successful | | C．Roussel"s naval friend showed the wedding march to Edouard | | D．Edouard Colonne advised Roussel to devote his life to music |
小题3:Which of the following is true according to the text?| A．The composing career of Roussel started stably. | | B．Roussel learned basic music knowledge from his aunt. | | C．A white lie helped Roussel achieve success. | | D．Roussel was cheated and hurt by his naval friend. |
小题4:Who told a lie according to the text?| A．Roussel’s grandfather. | B．Albert’s naval friend. | C．Roussel"s aunt. | D．Edouard Colonne. |
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When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny’s house, she wasn’t nervous. She was certainly not afraid of the dark. ______, it was only a 15-minute ride home. But halfway there, she began to wish that she hadn’t been so ______.
As she rounded a sharp bend, it suddenly ______ cold — very cold. Alice’s breath became puffs of white cloud and her legs were so cold that it became hard to ride.
With her heart beating fast, she struggled so hard to move ____ that she didn’t hear the car which suddenly appeared beside her. She stopped by the road. The big black car also ______. Slowly, the passenger-window began to slide down. Alice held her breath. In the soft light inside the car, something ______. Then, the light brightened and Alice was staring at a sweet, grey-haired old lady. “Hello, dear, ” said the old lady. “I need ______. I’m afraid I’m lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes. ”
“Airport? You ______ are lost, ” Alice said. “You need to go back five kilometers ______ you reach the T-junction. Turn left and ______ for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway. From there, just follow the ______ to the airport. But I’m afraid there’s no ______ you’ll get there in five minutes!”
“Thank you very much, dear, ” replied the old lady. “Don’t worry — I’ll ____ in time. ”
The ______ moved up and the car started off. A little way ahead, it ______ and with headlights flashing, it drove past Alice. But then, something ______ happened. The car began changing. First, its color ______ from black to silvery-grey. Then, the wheels began disappearing, but the car continued to move forward, ______ just above the ground. As the car ______ into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and more brightly. With a faint whistling ______, the car was gone in seconds, leaving Alice shaking her head in disbelief…
| 小题1: | | A．However | B．Besides | C．Therefore | D．Otherwise |
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| 小题2: | | A．brave | B．excited | C．curious | D．stubborn |
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| 小题3: | | A．fell | B．seemed | C．proved | D．grew |
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| 小题4: | | A．aside | B．around | C．forward | D．backward |
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| 小题5: | | A．arrived | B．stopped | C．stayed | D．started |
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| 小题6: | | A．gathered | B．existed | C．dropped | D．moved |
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| 小题8: | | A．necessarily | B．normally | C．basically | D．certainly |
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| 小题10: | | A．drive | B．walk | C．follow | D．march |
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| 小题11: | | A．address | B．signs | C．notices | D．guidance |
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| 小题13: | | A．have it | B．get it | C．make it | D．finish it |
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| 小题14: | | A．door | B．window | C．headlight | D．wheel |
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| 小题15: | | A．passed | B．rushed | C．turned | D．continued |
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| 小题16: | | A．strange | B．sensitive | C．imaginable | D．horrible |
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| 小题17: | | A．developed | B．appeared | C．spread | D．faded |
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| 小题18: | | A．rolling | B．floating | C．drawing | D．flashing |
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| 小题19: | | A．pointed | B．returned | C．broke | D．rose |
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| 小题20: | | A．tune | B．voice | C．sound | D．tone |
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