题目
题型：不详难度：来源：
I worked on my fitness by joining exercise classes in town. A few years later, my husband and I moved to a retirement community, and I wanted to teach aerobic（有氧运动的）classes. The community center wouldn’t give me a room to teach in, so I had to walk around and find any available empty room.
One day, the community center staff came to me and asked if I would help with the entertainment for a Hawaiian luau（夏威夷式宴会）they were putting on. I said yes. Then I talked five other ladies into dancing with me. We performed the hula（呼啦舞）and a war chant and brought the house down. Someone had a camera and took pictures, and then sent them to our local paper. We got requests for more engagements, which in turn led to more publicity and yet more engagements. Soon we had invitations from all over the country. The Dancing Grannies were born!
I think the real secret of the Dancing Grannies is out attitude. I was raised extremely poor ---no-food poor. If we wanted toys we had to make things up to play with ,so I learned early to be very creative. And you know,I think being poor was one of the best things that ever happened to me because I learned to look for treasures.
That’s what I’m still doing today—looking for the treasure in growing old. I’m getting better and better.
It’s true that antiques have to be treated a bit differently, with a little care, but they still have a beauty of their own.
小题1:What did the writer think of the living style of the older people when she was 50?
| A．Unsatisfying | B．Favorable | C．Pleasant | D．Practical |
| A．Because she couldn’t offer an expensive room. |
| B．Because she wasn’t given a room to teach in by the community center. |
| C．Because she wanted to find a better one. |
| D．Because she wanted to keep fit by walking. |
| A．It was just so-so. | B．It was a failure. |
| C．It was average. | D．It was a success. |
| A．Being active | B．Being creative |
| C．Being rich | D．Being poor |
| A．Ancient treasures | B．Poor children |
| C．Old people | D．The Dancing Grannies |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:D
小题5:C
解析
试题分析：本文讲述在自己50岁曾经想象70岁以后的生活，太令人不满意了，所以当作者老了以后，开办舞蹈班，并且取得成功，得了老年人也可以把生活过得精彩。
小题1: A 细节理解题。A unsatisfying令人不高兴的；B favorable喜欢的；C pleasant令人愉快的；D practical实际的。根据第一段提到I looked around and saw only one style of living. It’s not fair, I thought.可知作者认为老年生活是令人不高兴的，所以选A项。
小题2:B 细节理解题。根据第二段提到The community center wouldn’t give me a room to teach in, so I had to walk around and find any available empty room.社区中心不能给我提供教课的教室，所以我不得不去找空闲的房间，所以选B项。
小题3: D 细节理解题。根据第三段提到的We got requests for more engagements, which in turn led to more publicity and yet more engagements. Soon we had invitations from all over the country. The Dancing Grannies were born!我们应邀参加许多活动，导致更多的来自全国各地的邀请，所以证明作者的表演十分成功，所以选D项。
小题4:D细节理解题。根据第四段提到And you know,I think being poor was one of the best things that ever happened to me because I learned to look for treasures可知贫穷是发生在我身上最好的身上最好的事情，因为我学会寻找财富。所以选D项。
小题5:C 细节推断题。根据最后一段提到It’s true that antiques have to be treated a bit differently, with a little care, but they still have a beauty of their own.这是真的，老年人应该被区别对待，多点关心，但他们仍然过了精彩的生活，所以antiques指的是老年人，所以选C项。
核心考点
试题【Twelve years ago, when I was 50,I wondered what 60 or 70 would be like? I looked】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
对应空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
My job was to make classroom observations and encourage a training program that would enable students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this .
One day, I entered Donna’s classroom, took a seat in the back of the room and . All the students were working a task. The student next to me was filling her page with “I Can’ts.” “I can’t kick the soccer ball.” “I can’t get Debbie to like me.” Her page was half full and she showed no of stopping. I walked down the row and found was writing sentences, describing things they couldn’t do.
By this time the activity aroused my , so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on I noticed she too was busy writing. “I can’t get John’s mother to come for a parents’ meeting.” I felt it best not to .
After another ten minutes, the students were to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their “I Can’t” statements into an empty shoebox. Then Donna hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked it under her arm and headed out the door. Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna got a shovel from the tool house, and then marched the students to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to . The box of “I Can’ts” was placed at the of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. At this point Donna announced, “Boys and girls, please join hands and your heads.” They quickly formed a circle around the grave.
Donna delivered the eulogy (悼词). “Friends, we gathered here today to the memory of ‘I Can’t.’ He is by his brothers and sisters ‘I Can’ and ‘I Will’. May ‘I Can’t’ rest in . Amen!”
She turned the students and marched them back into the classroom. They celebrated the of “I Can’t”. Donna cut a large tombstone from paper. She wrote the words “I Can’t” at the top and the date at the bottom, then hung it in the classroom. On those rare occasions when a student and said, “I Can’t,” Donna pointed to the paper tombstone. The student then remembered that “I Can’t” was dead and chose other statement.
| 小题1: |
|
| 小题2: |
|
| 小题3: |
|
| 小题4: |
|
| 小题5: |
|
| 小题6: |
|
| 小题7: |
|
| 小题8: |
|
| 小题9: |
|
| 小题10: |
|
| 小题11: |
|
| 小题12: |
|
| 小题13: |
|
| 小题14: |
|
| 小题15: |
|
| 小题16: |
|
| 小题17: |
|
| 小题18: |
|
| 小题19: |
|
| 小题20: |
|
As usual on the Charlotte-to-Miami flight, the plane was totally__ . Because we did not get our boarding passes until we__ At the gate, KallieAnd I could not get seats togetherAnd were __ by theAisle（过道）. IAsked two passengers in my row if they would switch places with KallieAnd me, __ we could be together. They __ , saying they thought they should stay in theirAssigned seats.
Meanwhile,A motherAnd her three children were inA _ several rowsAhead of us. There had beenA mistake in their boarding passes,And _ the whole family had been split up. The passengers in her row_ refused to move elsewhere. She was very__ About the younger boy sitting with strangers. She was in tears, yet nobody__ to help her.
There wereA troop of Boy Scouts(童子军) on __ . Suddenly the Scout leader stood upAnd said, "Ma’am, I think we can help you." He then __ five minutes rearranging his group so thatAdequate space was __ for the family. The boys followed his directions cheerfullyAnd without _ ,And the mother"s relief was obvious.
Kallie, however, was beginning to panicAt the _ not being next to me. I told her that there wasn’tAnything I could do. __ , the man sitting next to the Scoutmaster, __ to meAndAsked, "Would youAnd your daughter like our seats?" __ to himselfAnd the Scoutmaster. We traded seatsAnd continued our trip, very much relieved to be togetherAnd watch the scenery from Kallie’s window seat.
| 小题1: |
|
| 小题2: |
|
| 小题3: |
|
| 小题4: |
|
| 小题5: |
|
| 小题6: |
|
| 小题7: |
|
| 小题8: |
|
| 小题9: |
|
| 小题10: |
|
| 小题11: |
|
| 小题12: |
|
| 小题13: |
|
| 小题14: |
|
| 小题15: |
|
| 小题16: |
|
| 小题17: |
|
| 小题18: |
|
| 小题19: |
|
| 小题20: |
|
It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25. I didn’t think there would be any , sighing about having to work on Christmas. Just then five bodies at my desk, a pale woman and four children.
“Are you all ?” I asked. “Yes,” she said weakly and lowered her head.
But when it came to of their problems, things got a little strange. They all claimed to have headaches, but the headaches weren’t by the normal body language of holding the head or trying to keep it still.
Something was wrong. Our hospital policy, , was not to turn away any patient. I explained it might be a little while a doctor saw her. She responded immediately, even a bit “Take your time,” and then added, “It’s warm in here.”
Then, I checked their registration form out of curiosity. No address—they were .The waiting room was warm. I went back to the nurses’ station and mentioned we had a homeless in the waiting room. The nurses, complaining of on Christmas, turned to sympathy for a family just trying to get on Christmas. The team went into action, much as we do when there’s a emergency. But this was a Christmas emergency.
We were all a free meal on Christmas Day, so we took back that meal and prepared a big dinner for our .We needed presents. We from different departments candies, fruits and other things that could be presents. As seriously as we met the needs of the patients, our team worked to meet the needs of a family who just wanted to be warm on Christmas.
, as the family walked to the door to leave, the mother came back, gave me a hug and whispered, “Thanks for being our angels today.”
| 小题1: |
|
| 小题2: |
|
| 小题3: |
|
| 小题4: |
|
| 小题5: |
|
| 小题6: |
|
| 小题7: |
|
| 小题8: |
|
| 小题9: |
|
| 小题10: |
|
| 小题11: |
|
| 小题12: |
|
| 小题13: |
|
| 小题14: |
|
| 小题15: |
|
| 小题16: |
|
| 小题17: |
|
| 小题18: |
|
| 小题19: |
|
| 小题20: |
|
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, ‘Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life.” I reflected on what Jerry said. Later, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life.
Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gun point by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, he forgot the password, nervous. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments（碎片） of the bullets still in his body.
I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.” “Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked. Jerry continued, “The doctors and nurses were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. I knew I needed to take action.”
“What did you do?” I asked. “Well, there was a big, strong nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. “She asked if I was allergic (过敏的)to anything. “Yes,” I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, “Bullets!” Over their laughter, I told them. “I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.
小题1:The author left Jerry’s restaurant because he___________.
| A．wanted to start business on his own |
| B．was afraid of another robbery later |
| C．was not equal to the job any longer |
| D．didn’t get along well with others |
| A．Because he left the back door open. |
| B．Because he opened the safe too slowly. |
| C．Because he pretended to forget the password. |
| D．Because he didn’t open the safe in time. |
| A．The doctors and nurses gave him up. |
| B．He decided to take action to live again. |
| C．He saw the expressions of the doctors and nurses. |
| D．He might not be saved by doctors and nurses. |
| A．no longer positive to his life after the operation |
| B．optimistic even when things were at their worst |
| C．Jerry influenced all his colleges in many ways |
| D．badly injured and stayed in hospital for six months |
| A．Where there is life, there is hope. |
| B．Everything comes to him who waits. |
| C．Humor is the best medicine that creates miracle. |
| D．Attitude determines everything. |
Standing the meat, I searched for the perfect small steak my husband used to love it. a woman came up beside me. I watched as she picked up a large pack of T-bone steaks, dropped them in her basket, , and then put them back. She turned to go and once again for the pack of steaks. She saw me her and she smiled. “My husband loves T-bone steaks, but they are so expensive.”
“My husband away eight days ago,” I told her, and to control the sadness in my voice, “Buy him the T-bone steaks. And every moment you have together.”
by my words, she placed the steaks in her basket and walked away . But several minutes later she came towards me again, a package in her arms. She was the brightest smile I had ever seen.
As she , I saw what she held. “These are for you,” she placed three beautiful yellow roses in my hands. I wanted to tell her what the roses for me, but, unable to speak, only watching her walking away.
Looking down at the roses, I wondered she knew it. Suddenly the answer seemed so . I wasn’t alone. There were many people caring for me and willing to help me. Just be thankful for what you have and who you are.
| 小题1: |
|
| 小题2: |
|
| 小题3: |
|
| 小题4: |
|
| 小题5: |
|
| 小题6: |
|
| 小题7: |
|
| 小题8: |
|
| 小题9: |
|
| 小题10: |
|
| 小题11: |
|
| 小题12: |
|
| 小题13: |
|
| 小题14: |
|
| 小题15: |
|
| 小题16: |
|
| 小题17: |
|
| 小题18: |
|
| 小题19: |
|
| 小题20: |
|
最新试题
- 1“钱帛进珠笼内收，若非出道少贪求。亲朋道义因财失，父子情怀为利休。急缩手，且抽头，免使身心昼心愁；儿孙自有儿孙福，莫与儿
- 2阅读下文，回答问题。女教师的特异功能 张玉庭假如没有粉笔，你知道怎么上课吗？请准许我给你讲个故
- 3---Did Mr. Zhu come to help you yesterday? --- Yes, but I wo
- 4His computer by his father. [ ]A. is t
- 5日本距中国最近的港口城市是（ ）A．东京B．横滨C．神户D．长崎
- 6正回购是央行以手中所持有的债券做抵押向金融机构融入资金，并承诺到期再买回债券并付出一定利息的经济行为。正回购是央行经常使
- 7依法治国是党***民治理国家的基本方略。其前提条件是[ ]A．国家行政机关必须依法行政、依法办事 B．建立科学完
- 8Was it in the library________he often went to do some readin
- 9阅读下面的材料，按要求作文。（40分）山东潍坊52岁的母亲王传丽，为了减体重捐肾救子每天暴走20公里，竭尽父母的责任；背
- 10十几年的语文学习生活中，你学习并牢固记住了许多课文。请选择你记忆最深刻的一篇课文，在网上写几句感言。句式不必仿照示例。（
热门考点
- 1（14分）教育特别是高等教育的发展是时代的反映，并影响时代的前行方向。阅读下列材料，回答问题。材料一 11世纪，主教们
- 2 雷雨交加的夜里，小明同学看到闪电后约10s听到雷声，则小明距离雷电产生的地方大约为（ ）A．850mB．1700m
- 3已知复数（是虚数单位），它的实部与虚部的和是（ ）A．4B．6C．2D．3
- 4若4xm-1-2=0是一元一次方程，则m=______．
- 5在等比数列中，若，则A．B．C．D．
- 6李某为盖住房而备料，邻居告诉李说吴某偷了他一盆沙子，李某找到吴某便上前一棒打断了吴的腿，结果李因故意伤害他人被拘留。这个
- 7已知x+y=，则x2+y2的值是：（ ）．
- 8若（x+a）7的二项展开式中，x5的系数为7，则实数a=______．
- 9Please pass me the book ________ cover is green.A．whichB．who
- 10我国的根本政治制度是[ ]A、全国人民代表大会B、地方各级人民代表大会C、人民代表大会制度 D、全国人民代表大会