Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important : giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You needn’t worry if you money.
This is how I with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store in my mind, I step in and make the to the storekeeper. If an accident takes place, the of which I think the local police could use, I him up and tell him about it, though I am not in here. I found a rule about this world is to give getting something back, though the often comes in an unexpected form.
One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important special letter to my home, though it was to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of . More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was . I was told at the window that there were boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long list. As I was about to be , the postmaster appeared in the . “Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering an delivery to your home?” I said it was. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office we make one specifically for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get but complaints.”
| 小题1: | | A．difference | B．research | C．speech | D．discovery |
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| 小题2: | | A．earn | B．lack | C．spend | D．steal |
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| 小题3: | | A．experienced | B．connected | C．cooperated | D．experimented |
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| 小题4: | | A．strikes | B．flashes | C．happens | D．attempts |
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| 小题5: | | A．appeal | B．request | C．suggestion | D．demand |
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| 小题6: | | A．story | B．damage | C．challenge | D．material |
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| 小题7: | | A．call | B．hold | C．cheer | D．pick |
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| 小题8: | | A．possession | B．trouble | C．place | D．charge |
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| 小题9: | | A．plus | B．without | C．for | D．before |
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| 小题10: | | A．process | B．goal | C．return | D．concern |
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| 小题11: | | A．replied | B．addressed | C．driven | D．brought |
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| 小题12: | | A．invitation | B．apology | C．complaint | D．appreciation |
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| 小题13: | | A．discussing | B．providing | C．applying | D．starting |
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| 小题14: | | A．enough | B．extra | C．no | D．other |
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| 小题15: | | A．admitting | B．relating | C．buying | D．waiting |
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| 小题16: | | A．positive | B．shocked | C．discouraged | D．optimistic |
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| 小题17: | | A．doorway | B．window | C．home | D．yard |
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| 小题18: | | A．unfamiliar | B．unexpected | C．unknown | D．uncertain |
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| 小题19: | | A．in case | B．now that | C．even if | D．rather |
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| 小题20: | | A．nothing | B．something | C．anything | D．everything |
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小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:C
小题6:A
小题7:A
小题8:D
小题9:B
小题10:C
小题11:B
小题12:D
小题13:D
小题14:C
小题15:D
小题16:C
小题17:A
小题18:B
小题19:C
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试题分析：像大多数人那样，作者是在将生活视为索取的过程中长大的。直到年近四十，作者才有了一个重要发现：奉献更能使生活精彩纷呈。即使你没有钱也不用担心，也可以奉献。有时候一个不经意间的奉献，你可以得到意想不到的回报。
小题1:D make a difference有影响，起(重要)作用； make a research做研究 make a speech 作演讲；make a discovery有发现。像很多人一样，我生来就认为生活就是获得，直到三十多岁的时候才发现，放弃或给予也会使得生活如此精彩。再者，后文也提到了这种发现。
小题2:B你缺钱也无须担心(言下之意，即使缺少钱，你也能给予)。earn赚(钱)，挣(钱)；lack缺乏，缺少；spend花(钱)；steal偷。
小题3:A下文列举的事例都是作者生活中经历的事情。Experience经历；connect；联系，相联系cooperate合作；experiment做实验。
小题4:B本句主语为 an idea。主意在某人脑海中闪现用flash。(sth.)strike sb="(sth)ocuur" to sb.；happen to …发生在某人身上；attempt试图，尝试(其主语为人)。如果我灵机一动发现改进隔壁商店橱窗展示效果的主意，我会走进那家店，向店主提出建议。
小题5:C appeal呼吁；request请求；suggestion建议；demand命令。向店主提出建议。
小题6:A story故事，事情。出现事故，警察应了解事情的经过真相。damage 破坏；challenge 挑战；material物质，材料。
小题7:A根据后文tell him about it 可知作者是打电话(call)告诉警察事情的经过。holdup耽搁 C. cheer sb. up使某人振作起来，为某人加油/喝彩；pick sb. up接某人。
小题8:D in possession拥有；trouble处在困境之中；in place在对的位置，适当的，在工作，准备就绪；charge负责。作者虽然不负责这里的事情，但他却主动帮助警察了解事故经过。
小题9:B上文列举的事例都表明作者想主动帮助别人而不希望得到什么。plus加上；without 没有，不；for为了；before在……前。
小题10:C return回报。根据转折连词though和下文所列举的事例表明，帮助别人有时候在不经意时也会得到回报。process过程，工序，做事方法；goal目标；return回报；concern关心。
小题11:B address此处为动词，注明……的地址。信上标明收信人的地址是我办公室的地址。reply回答；drive驱赶，驾驶；bring带来。
小题12:D appreciation欣赏，赞赏，感谢。邮递员把本来该送到办公室的信送到家里，人们通常只会责备他们，而作者却与此相反，非但没有责备，而是给邮局局长写了封感谢信。invitation邀请；apology道歉；complaint抱怨。
小题13:D作者要开办(starting)一项新的业务。 Discussing讨论；providing 提供；applying申请，利用。一年多以后，我在开办一家新公司时需要一个邮政信箱。
小题14:C结合上下文可知，邮局里已没有(no)剩余的邮箱。enough足够的；extra额外的；other其它的。
小题15:D邮局里没有剩余的邮箱，要想安装邮箱，只能等(waiting)到有的时候。admitting承认； relating有关系；buying买。我得排在很多人后面登记等待新邮箱。
小题16:C因为这样的情况，作者有些泄气(discouraged)准备离开。Positive积极的；shocked震惊的；optimistic乐观的。
小题17:A正当我有些泄气准备离开时，邮局局长出现在门口(doorway)。window窗户；home家；yard院子，庭院。
小题18:B您就是一年前因为邮局将一封意想不到(unexpected)的快递信件发到您家里而给我们来信的那位先生吧？unfamiliar不熟悉；unknown不知道；uncertain不肯定。
小题19:C本句句意为在这个邮局里，你应该得到一个邮箱，即便(even if)是我们给你做一个。in case以防; now that既然,因为；rather而不是。
小题20:A nothing but只有。邮递员从顾客那里一般不会得到任何东西，只有抱怨。anything but除……之外任何事（物）都……，根本不是……。 |
核心考点
试题【Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
My favorite English teacher could draw humor out of the driest material. It wasn’t forced on us either. He took Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, Addison’s essays, and many other literary wonders from the eighteenth century and made them hilarious, even at eight o’clock in the morning. The thing that amazed me most was that the first time I read these works on my own, some of them seemed dead, but the second time, after his explanation, I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t seen the humor. The stories and poems and plays were suddenly filled with allusions(典故) and irony and hilarious moments. I learned more from him than from any other teacher.
My least favorite English teacher also made people laugh. Some students found him to be wonderfully funny. Many others did not. He assigned journals over a six-week period, to be written every day. At the end of the six weeks I had a notebook full of bits and pieces about my ideas, short stories, reactions to what we had read, and so on. Our teacher announced that we would be grading each other’s journals. Mine was passed to Joe, that class clown, who always behaved in a funny or silly way. He saw it fit to make a joke of and said, “This writing isn’t fit to line the bottom of a birdcage.” Our teacher laughed at that funny remark. It hurt me so much that the anger from it has driven my writing and teaching ever since.
So what makes the difference? Humor is one of the most powerful tools teachers or writers have. It can build up students and classes and make them excited about literature and writing, or it can tear them apart. It is true that humor is either productive or counter-productive and self-defeating.
小题1:The passage mainly discusses ________.| A．teaching | B．literature | C．humor | D．knowledge |
小题2:The underlined word “hilarious” in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.| A．funny | B．tiring | C．inspiring | D．brilliant |
小题3:The English teacher the writer disliked most ________.| A．was not able to make students laugh | B．hurt his student’s feelings | | C．didn’t let his students do the grading | D．had no sense of humor |
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Anna lived on the side of a valley．One summer, there was a very big , and a lot of houses down below Anna＇s were washed away．Anna＇s house was enough to escape the flood, so when the water had and the other houses were there with no roof and no walls and all covered with mud（泥）, her house was just all right．
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．Such was that Christmas present．”
| 小题1: | | A．accident | B．flood | C．fire | D．earthquake |
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| 小题2: | | A．below | B．big | C．high | D．small |
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| 小题3: | | A．reduced | B．come | C．disappeared | D．appeared |
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| 小题4: | | A．rising | B．standing | C．flowing | D．falling |
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| 小题6: | | A．nothing | B．anything | C．something | D．everything |
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| 小题7: | | A．gave | B．shared | C．found | D．built |
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| 小题8: | | A．necessary | B．important | C．obvious | D．possible |
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| 小题9: | | A．worried | B．disappointed | C．satisfied | D．puzzled |
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| 小题11: | | A．supply | B．grow | C．support | D．educate |
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| 小题12: | | A．asked for | B．talked with | C．turned up | D．explained to |
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| 小题14: | | A．storm | B．rain | C．war | D．flood |
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| 小题15: | | A．because | B．which | C．that | D．as |
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| 小题17: | | A．boy | B．student | C．teacher | D．girl |
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| 小题18: | | A．child | B．daughter | C．present | D．sister |
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| 小题19: | | A．angry | B．lovely | C．excited | D．sorry |
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| 小题20: | | A．disliked | B．gained | C．led | D．welcomed |
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A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package: What food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse declared the warning, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house.”
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Mr Mouse, I can tell you this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me, I cannot be bothered by it.”
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so sorry, Mr Mouse,” sympathized the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; be assured that you are in my prayers.”
The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, “A mouse trap, am I in grave danger, huh?”
So the mouse returned to the house, head down and depressed to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was an evil snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knew to treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.
So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
小题1:We may infer that the passage is most probably a ______.| A．fairy tale (神话) | B．Fable (寓言) | C．science fiction | D．news report |
小题2:We could see from the passage that the mouse was ______.| A．kind and warm-hearted | B．well-informed | | C．good at cheating others | D．foolish and rude |
小题3: The underlined word “ingredient” (Paragraph 7) refers to ______.| A．the mouse | B．the pig | C．the snake | D．the chicken |
小题4:What can we learn from the story?| A．Better safe than sorry. | | B．Traps are usually well disguised. | | C．To help others is just to save you. | | D．To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us all. |
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By the age of almost four, Elijah Edney has never had a haircut in his life. But now he can " t wait to visit the barber"s - for two reasons: losing his two - foot - long golden hair will mean that strangers stop mistaking him for a girl; the hair will be donated to charity to provide a wig (假发) for a child with cancer.
Mrs. Edney, who works in a restaurant, says, "Elijah has always had beautiful hair, so I let him grow it as he w8nted. It" s like silk. But now it is at a stage where people mistake him for a girl and he wants it cut into a boy"s haircut. "
Mrs. Edney and her husband want to collect enough money-£350-to process Elijah"s hair for a sick child. She says, "I couldn"t bear to see all Elijah"s beautiful hair go to waste and my mum mentioned charities that have human hair made into wigs. "
Mrs. Edney says, "If we can raise the amount we want, it will mean a family will not have to pay for the wig and can receive it for free. When you"ve got children yourself, you hope that if they lost their hair someone would do the same for them by donating their hair. "
The two-foot-long hair will be donated to the Little Princess Trust (小公主信托基金) to make a wig for children suffering cancer. Elijah keeps telling people he is giving his hair to poor princesses and he is so excited about it.
A spokesman for the Little Princess Trust says, "We"re very grateful to anyone who decides to have their hair cut to donate it to the Little Princess Trust. As a result of hair donations like this, the charity receives real-hair wigs for free to pass on to families whose children have sadly lost their own hair through cancer treatment. "
小题1:Why has Mrs. Edney let Elijah"s hair grow so long?| A．Because Elijah has beautiful hair. | | B．Because she likes long hair. | | C．Because Elijah looks nice with long hair. | | D．Because she wants to donate his hair to charity. |
小题2:Who first thought of charities that use human hair?| A． Elijah"s father. | B． Elijah"s mother. | | C． Elijah himself. | D． Elijah"s grandmother. |
小题3:Elijah"s parents try to raise money to _________.| A．pay the barber for his work | | B．process his hair into a wig | | C．give the Little Princess Trust along with a wig | | D．give a child who lost his hair through cancer treatment |
小题4:What does Elijah think of his hair being given to a charity?| A．He doesn"t care about it. | B．He wants to keep it a secret. | | C．He is excited about it. | D．He feels sad for poor children. |
小题5:According to the last paragraph, the Little Princess Trust________.| A．encourages people to cut their hair to donate it | | B．welcomes and gives thanks for such donations | | C．gives free wigs to children who have lost their hair | | D．provides treatment for children with cancer |
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There was a boy who was sent by his parents to a boarding school (寄宿学校). ____ being sent away, this boy was the ____ student in his class. He was at the top in every ____ always with high marks.
But the boy changed after ____ home and attending the boarding school. His grades started ___. He hated being in a ____. He was lonely all the time. And there were especially dark times when he ____ committing suicide (自***). All of this was because he felt ____ and no one loved him.
His parents started ___about the boy. But they even did not know what was __50with him. So his dad decided to travel to the boarding school and ____ him.
They sat on the bank of the lake near the school. The father started asking him some casual questions about his classes, teachers and ____. After some time his dad said, “Do you know, son, why I am here today?”
The boy answered back, “To ___- my grades?”
“No, no,” his dad replied. “I am here to tell you that you are the most ___ person for me. I want to see you ____. I don’t care about grades. I care about you. I care about your happiness. YOU ARE MY LIFE.”
These words ____ the boy’s eyes to be filled with tears. He ____ his dad. They didn’t say anything to each other for a long time.
Now the boy had ____ he wanted. He knew there was someone on this earth who cared for him deeply. He ___ the world to someone. And today this young man is in college at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him ____!
| 小题1: | | A．After | B．Before | C．When | D．While |
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| 小题2: | | A．hardest | B．naughtiest | C．brightest | D．dullest |
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| 小题3: | | A．exam | B．activity | C．game | D．class |
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| 小题4: | | A．coming | B．returning | C．leaving | D．reaching |
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| 小题5: | | A．rising | B．increasing | C．reducing | D．dropping |
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| 小题6: | | A．group | B．term | C．company | D．party |
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| 小题7: | | A．led to | B．felt like | C．thought back | D．looked for |
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| 小题8: | | A．worthless | B．careless | C．concerned | D．annoyed |
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| 小题9: | | A．caring | B．turning | C．worrying | D．speaking |
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| 小题10: | | A．crazy | B．true | C．possible | D．wrong |
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| 小题11: | | A．talk with | B．listen to | C．tell to | D．care about |
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| 小题12: | | A．family | B．friends | C．study | D．grades |
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| 小题13: | | A．realize | B．analyze | C．check | D．test |
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| 小题14: | | A．outstanding | B．important | C．famous | D．familiar |
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| 小题15: | | A．happy | B．excellent | C．interested | D．satisfied |
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| 小题16: | | A．caused | B．wanted | C．encouraged | D．forced |
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| 小题17: | | A．answered | B．ignored | C．hated | D．hugged |
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| 小题18: | | A．nothing | B．something | C．everything | D．anything |
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| 小题19: | | A．showed | B．meant | C．intended | D．expressed |
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| 小题20: | | A．sad | B．angry | C．pleasant | D．joyful |
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