They think they"re lucky and it"s Christmas again. They can"t see that we live on a dirty street in a shabby house among people who aren"t much good. Johnny and the children can"t see how pitiful it is that our neighbors have to make happiness out of this filth and dirt. My children must get out of this. But how? The money that we"ve saved isn"t nearly enough.
The McGaritys have money, but they are show-offs with it. The McGarity girl just yesterday stood out there in the street eating from a bag of cookies while a ring of hungry children watched her. I saw those children looking at her and crying in their hearts, and when she couldn"t eat any more, she threw the rest down the sewer(阴沟).
Miss Jackson who teaches at the Settlement House isn"t rich, but she knows things. She understands people. Her eyes look straight into yours when she talks with you. Everybody else here looks away because they"re ashamed of their lives. I"d like to see the children would be like Miss Jackson when they grew up.
小题1:The writer"s family is the poorest one on that street.
小题2:The McGarity girl is characterized as rich and nice.
小题3:The writer thinks Miss Jackson is an example her children should follow.
小题4:The writer wants to move out of that district.
小题5:Watching the rich girl eating cookies, those hungry children cried. |
小题1:B
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:A
小题5:B |
试题分析:在作者居住的社区有着很多穷人，与这些人相比，他的孩子们认为自己是幸运的，但是作者却在考虑搬出这个环境，希望孩子们能够在一个更好的环境里成长。在本文中作者描述了社区中各型各色的人们，有喜欢炫耀的the McGarity一家，也有Miss Jackson这样好心的人。
小题1:B 细节理解题。根据第一段中Johnny and the children can"t see how pitiful it is that our neighbors have to make happiness out of this filth and dirt可以判断作者家不是最穷的，故本句内容错误。
小题2:B 细节理解题。根据第二段中对The McGarity girl行为的描述可知The McGarity girl富有但是心地不善良，故本句内容错误。
小题3:A 细节理解题。根据文章末句I"d like to see the children would be like Miss Jackson when they grew up. 可以判断此句内容正确。填A。
小题4:A细节理解题。从文章第一段中My children must get out of this. 可以判断作者想要搬出这个地方，本句内容正确，填A。
小题5:B细节理解题。根据第二段I saw those children looking at her and crying in their hearts可知孩子们内心在痛苦，而没有哭，故此句内容正确，填A。 |
核心考点
试题【They think they"re lucky and it"s Christmas again. They can"t see that we live o】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
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The Johnson family from England believe they are lucky to be alive after surviving an incredible incident off the coast of Australia. The Johnsons had been that they might see some whales when they were _ a yacht （帆船）— a large expensive boat for a 10-day sailing around the Whitsunday Islands. , they had no clue just how their viewing would be. Two hours into their journey a nine-meter-long humpback whale out of the ocean and crashed into their boat before returning to the water.
Mark Johnson，the eldest son，was sailing the yacht when he heard an immense bang and a thud(重击声).He thought the yacht had hit a rock. However, when he looked up, he saw the whale down the deck of the boat. He told the reporters, “ We were staring into its right eye. It was a very _ moment. The eye was about the of a dinner plate. It was huge.”
for the Johnson family, no one was hurt, but the yacht suffered damage. The whale had ruined the mast and rigging — the pole and ropes which hold the ——and so the family was left at sea, 10 miles from the shore. The equipment was also damaged, but fortunately they had a cell phone and were able to call for help.
Why the whale jumped onto the yacht is a ，but the family thinks that maybe the boat had not sailed between the whale and its baby calf. Perhaps the whale was trying to its calf when it jumped, hit the yacht by chance.
Whatever the reason, people are completely that this incident happened. There is over 135 million square miles of ocean , so what are the of a whale jumping onto a 30-foot-long yacht? The chance of something like this happening is miniscale, but it just shows that life is full of surprises.
| 小题1: | | A．explained | B．learned | C．told | D．taught |
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| 小题2: | | A．hiring | B．running | C．taking | D．driving |
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| 小题3: | | A．competition | B．game | C．trail | D．trip |
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| 小题4: | | A．Moreover | B．Nevertheless | C．Worthwhile | D．However |
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| 小题5: | | A．wide | B．close | C．vivid | D．tense |
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| 小题6: | | A．swam | B．leapt | C．slipped | D．stretched |
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| 小题7: | | A．suddenly | B．occasionally | C．immediately | D．accidentally |
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| 小题8: | | A．shooting | B．jumping | C．falling | D．sliding |
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| 小题9: | | A．exciting | B．surprising | C．frightening | D．astonishing |
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| 小题10: | | A． size | B．sample | C．range | D．scale |
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| 小题11: | | A． Certainly | B．Luckily | C．Definitely | D．Possibly |
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| 小题12: | | A． severe | B．extreme | C．actual | D．special |
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| 小题13: | | A． boat | B．beach | C．sail | D．journey |
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| 小题14: | | A． by all means | B．in no time | C．from then on | D．with no way |
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| 小题15: | | A． radio | B．craft | C．edition | D．compass |
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| 小题16: | | A． problem | B．mystery | C．suspect | D．question |
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| 小题17: | | A． carefully | B．surely | C．purposely | D．simply |
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| 小题18: | | A． see | B．touch | C．tend | D．reach |
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| 小题19: | | A． amazed | B．worried | C．interested | D．touched |
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| 小题20: | | A． surprises | B．chances | C．predictions | D．results |
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When Jean Calment entered the world in 1875, telephones and automobiles still lay in the future. Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso were not yet born. The Eiffel Tower was 14 years from being built. As a teenager, she met Vincent Van Gogh, near her home in Arles, in the south of France. He was “very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick—I forgive him, they called him loco.” She recalled. When she died last week at age 122, she was the world’s oldest person. (There were others who claimed to the title, but only Calment had the official documents to prove her age)
Each February 21, her birthday, she would share the secrets of long life. Some years it was “a sense of humor”, others it was “keeping busy”. “God may have forgotten me,” she once explained. The truth probably was that she had good genes. Her mother reportedly lived to be 86 and her father 94.
Her life had its sadness: she outlived her husband, her only daughter and her grandson. According to a friend, she was imperturbable. “If you can’t do anything about it,” she reportedly said, “don’t worry about it.”
In her last years she was nearly blind and deaf, but her health remained good. She ate a few bars of chocolate each week and continued smoking until a few years ago, when she could no longer light her own cigarettes. She never lost her sense of humor. On her 110th birthday, she commented, “I have only ever had one wrinkle, and I am sitting on it.” Her longevity made her famous. Her spirits made her eternal(永恒的)
小题1:Why does the author mention Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and the Eiffel Tower?| A．To show that Calment had seen famous people and things. | | B．To emphasize that Calement was born a long time ago. | | C．To indicate that Calement is just as famous. | | D．To admire the knowledge that Calement had. |
小题2:The author believes that Calment’s longevity is mainly due to _____.| A．a sense of humor | B．being kept busy | C．belief in God | D．good genes |
小题3:The underlined word imperturbable means ______.| A．calm | B．humorous | C．friendly | D．healthy |
小题4:Toward the end of the story, the author seems to be impressed by Calment’s _____.| A．attitude | B．religious belief | C．knowledge | D．lifestyle |
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Father’s Garden
My father was always a good(酷爱的) gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled(翻耕的) soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground.
As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden. I remember Dad pushing the tiller(耕作机) ahead in perfectly straight lines. Dad loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows of yellow corn, and our favorite--- red tomatoes.
As I grew into a teenager, I didn’t get so excited about gardening with Dad. Instead of magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of prison. As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared. After all the kids were grown and had started families of their own, Dad turned to gardening like never before. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer, he still took care of his garden.
But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded his body. I had to do the things he used to do. What really convinced me that Dad was dying was the state of his garden that year. The rows and rows of multicolored vegetables were gone. Too tired to weed them, he simply let them be. He only planted tomatoes.
For the first few years after he died, I couldn’t even bear to look at anyone’s garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket. Three years ago, I decided to plant my own garden and started out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, after breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the corner of my eye and I had to smile. It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, happily playing in the freshly tilled soil.
小题1:Why did the author like the garden when he was a child?| A．He wanted to be a garden-crazy like his father. | | B．He loved being in the garden with his father. | | C．The garden was full of his favorite food. | | D．The garden was just freshly tilled. |
小题2:When all the kids started their own families, the author’s father _____.| A．stopped his gardening. | | B．turned to other hobbies. | | C．devoted more to gardening. | | D．focused on planting tomatoes. |
小题3:What happened to the garden when the author’s father was seriously ill?| A．There was a great harvest. | | B．The garden was almost deserted. | | C．No plant grew in the garden at all. | | D．The author’s son took charge of the garden. |
小题4:Why did the author start his garden with tomatoes?| A．He wanted to honor his father. | | B．His son liked the fields of tomatoes. | | C．He only knew how to grow tomatoes. | | D．He thought tomatoes were easy to manage. |
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It seemed that ever since Amanda started her school, kids often made fun of her, which made her feel very helpless and lonely.
One day before her birthday, she was told by her mum that a “Make A Special Birthday ” contest was being held in a radio program of the city. If she wrote a to the program, she might win a big prize. The contest sounded , so she started thinking what she most for her birthday. After thinking for a short while, Amanda went to write her letter.
Here was Amanda’s letter:
My name is Amanda. I am nine years old. I have a at school. Can you help me? I have a special . Due to the way I walk and talk, kids often me. I just want one when no one plays jokes on me.
At the radio station in the city, the workers had fun about all the different presents that kids wanted on their birthdays. When Amanda’s letter arrived, the manager Mr. Tobin read it . He knew her disease that might her schoolmates who didn’t understand her . He thought it was for people to know the girl and her wish. It’s necessary for people to that everyone wants and deserves to be with respect, dignity and warmth. , Mr. Tobin quickly called up a local . The next day, a picture of Amanda and her letter made the front page of the newspaper.
All across the country, the media the story of Amanda, who for such a simple yet unusual gift — just one day without being laughed at. Finally her wish came true.
| 小题1: | | A．Poster | B．Card | C．Wish | D．Cake |
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| 小题2: | | A．poem | B．note | C．song | D．letter |
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| 小题3: | | A．fun | B．ridiculous | C．scientific | D．familiar |
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| 小题4: | | A．cared | B．missed | C．wanted | D．planned |
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| 小题5: | | A．challenge | B．problem | C．program | D．project |
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| 小题6: | | A．disease | B．family | C．dream | D．birthday |
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| 小题7: | | A．run after | B．care for | C．watch over | D．laugh at |
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| 小题9: | | A．worrying | B．thinking | C．reading | D．looking |
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| 小题10: | | A．nervously | B．carefully | C．helplessly | D．happily |
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| 小题11: | | A．attract | B．disappoint | C．confuse | D．surprise |
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| 小题12: | | A．disability | B．strength | C．reality | D．loss |
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| 小题13: | | A．impossible | B．hard | C．common | D．good |
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| 小题14: | | A．unknown | B．unusual | C．unimportant | D．unexpected |
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| 小题15: | | A．understand | B．promise | C．admit | D．imagine |
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| 小题16: | | A．observed | B．invited | C．treated | D．allowed |
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| 小题17: | | A．Instead | B．Therefore | C．Anyway | D．However |
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| 小题18: | | A．school | B．website | C．hospital | D．newspaper |
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| 小题19: | | A．edited | B．informed | C．reported | D．explained |
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| 小题20: | | A．asked | B．prepared | C．cared | D．waited |
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Instead of staying at home to care for the kids, many mothers work to help support their families. But what does a mother do when her child is sick?
Sophia Fowkes worked as a computer programmer before, but she was fired for taking too much time off to care for her very sick child. Although she lost her job, she took an opportunity to turn her hobby into a business: creating “baby cakes”, a combination of diapers (尿布) and baby products artfully arranged to look like a cake. Inside, it contains blankets, towels, bottles and toys — things that can be used for babies. They are perfect gifts.
However, the idea of making “baby cakes” came from one of her experiences. When her child was born, she received a gift called diaper cake. It was made of diapers, but it was small and unusable. So she decided to create her own style of it to give her friends as a gift. Her friends liked these gifts very much and advised her to make and sell “baby cakes”.
She thought that it would be turned into a full-time business. In 1998, she started Baby-Cakes.com. After several years, her business grew and expanded in a way that even she had never expected. She sold her products online at first. Three years after her own website was created, demand for her products was so great that in August, 2001 she opened a real store. She is ready to combine the online store with the traditional store.
小题1:Sophia was out of work because .| A．she wanted to start her own business | | B．she lost interest in computer programming | | C．she failed to design computer programs | | D．she couldn’t balance her work and family |
小题2:What made Sophia decide to create “baby cakes” for sale?| A．Her unemployment. | B．Her family’s support. | | C．Her friends’ suggestion. | D．Her market research. |
小题3:Which of the following is the right order for Sophia’s events?
a. She set up her first real store.
b. She turned her hobby into a business.
c. She used both traditional and online selling.
d. She set up her own website for her products.| A．b, c, d, a. | B．b, d, a, c. | C．a, c, b, d. | D．a, d, c, b. |
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