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The idea had come to me as I listened to a talk on my car radio. The speaker was quoting a Biblical (圣经的) passage about husbands being thoughtful of their wives. Then he went on to say, “Love is an act of will. A person can choose to love.” To myself, I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband. Well, for two weeks that would change.
And it did. Right from the moment I kissed Evelyn at the door and said, “That new yellow sweater looks great on you.”
“Oh, Tom, you noticed,” she said, surprised and pleased. Maybe a little puzzled.
After the long drive, I wanted to sit and read. Evelyn suggested a walk on the beach. I started to refuse, but then I thought, “Evelyn’s been alone here with kids all week and now she wants to be alone with me.” We walked on the beach while the children flew the kites.
So it went. Two weeks of not calling the Wall Street firm where I am a director; a visit to the shell museum though I usually hate museums. Relaxed and happy, that’s how the whole vacation passed. I made a new pledge to keep on remembering to choose love.
There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment, however. Evelyn and I still laugh about it today. On the last night at our cottage, preparing for bed, Evelyn stared at me with the saddest expression. “What’s the matter?” I asked her.
“Tom, ” she said in a voice filled with sadness, “do you know something I don’t?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well…..that checkup(体检) I had several weeks ago….. our doctor ….. did he tell you something about me? Tom, you’ve been so good to me….. am I dying ?”
It took a moment for it all to sink in. Then I burst out laughing.
“No, honey,” I said, wrapping her in my arms. “You’re not dying; I’m just start to live.”
小题1:The writer thought he was a _______ husband in the past.
| A．lovely | B．loyal | C．strict | D．selfish |
| A．with his family | B．with Evelyn | C．alone | D．with his children |
| A．he praised her sweater, which puzzled her |
| B．she insisted on visiting a museum, which he hated |
| C．he knew something about her illness but didn’t tell her |
| D．he was so good to her that she thought she must be dying |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:D
解析
试题分析：收音机里一个关于爱的谈话节目使作者意识到了自己的自私，于是下决心在度假的两周里尝试着去做一个好丈夫。然而丈夫的“反常表现”却使妻子误以为丈夫表现出来的体贴周到是因为提前知道了自己的体检结果，认为自己肯定要不久于人世了。
小题1:D细节理解题。根据文章第二段I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband.可知作者认为自己是个自私的丈夫，故D选项正确。
小题2:C推理判断题。由文中作者心里想的“Evelyn’s been alone here with kids all week’s been alone here with kids all week可知妻子Evelyn一周以来都是自己带着孩子们，而作者刚开车到家，由此推断作者是独自开车去海滨度假村的，所以答案选C。
小题3:D细节理解题。根据下文作者的叙述可知对于作者一反常态的表现，妻子误以为肯定是自己的体检结果有问题，肯定是因为自己要活不长了，丈夫才对她这么体贴周到的，所以D选项正确。
核心考点
试题【I made a pledge(发誓) to myself on the way down to the vacation beach cottage. For】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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From the beginning, it was obvious that Jessie was traumatized (受精神创伤的). He was afraid of everything: the car, the doors, the stairs, and just about everything else. We couldn’t foresee where Jessie’s fear would take us.
Jessie was with us for about six months, when we became foster parents to a mixed-breed young dog. Jessie did not like her at all. We all lived in a nervous co-existence, until dinnertime. Within moments a food fight erupted between Jessie and this foster child.
It all happened so fast, and I was in the middle. My husband managed to get in between the two dogs, grabbing Jessie by his collar. Jessie screamed all the way down the hall and into the bedroom. I, quickly put the foster dog into her own bedroom and hurried down the hall. The crashing I heard in the bedroom, scared me to death. But nothing prepared me for the scene I witnessed as I opened the bedroom door.
There was my husband, on top of a terrified Jessie, holding back his head. Blood dripped from my husband’s arm. To tell you the truth, as I was sitting beside my husband in the emergency room, I just didn’t know what to do with Jessie. I was so angry at that dog.
Day after day, week after week, however, my husband faithfully trained the dog that others would have put down. As his arm healed over the next months, something rare and beautiful began to take place. Jessie, under my husband’s gentle persuasion, began to understand and obey. And Jessie adored him. I could see, that although the tempest had ruled Jessie’s former life, affirmation and love had calmed the storm.
小题1:Before being adopted by the writer, Jessie had _______.
| A．suffered a lot |
| B．Lived a happy life |
| C．lived on the road half a year |
| D．often fought against other dogs |
| A．happy | B．disappointed |
| C．angry | D．worried |
| A．his own behavior |
| B．the writer’s fault |
| C．Jessie’s bite |
| D．The new foster dog |
| A．A Dog Named Jessie |
| B．Love Calmed the Storm |
| C．Conflicts Between Dogs |
| D．Fights Between Man and Dog |
I met him many years ago while doing my internship （实习）in the county prison. He was __ a program he had designed to help prisoners with drug and alcohol problems. He was always new ways to bring hope and help to these men and their .
One of his favorite was the Toy Drive he would run every Christmas for the children of the prisoners. He did this for twenty years his sudden death. As last Christmas , I decided that this tradition had to be , for the children as well as the of my friend.
But the file where he kept the names of the people who had helped him over the years had gone . I had to start anew（重新）and with very little ! I started making phones calls, explaining about the project and my . I prayed every night that the event would, , be worthy of my friend.
To my great , individuals, churches and businesses began to come on board and, __ , I had enough toys to give to all the children of the prisoners with some left over for the local community !
When Christmas Eve finally arrived, I felt very happy, thinking I had done all I could do and reflecting on what a（n） it had been for me. I was bagging up the remaining toys if there was anyone left who might like them. Then my phone rang.
It was my daughter. She to explain about a woman she knew in Kentucky who had five children, one seriously ill, no husband, no heating in the home, no toys!
Ohh--how could we not?
My daughter and I drove all night, from New York to Kentucky, and those children woke up in a nice warm house with plenty of !
My friend’s of kindness lived on that year, reaching all the way to Kentucky!
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But major league baseball didn’t seem much of a possibility for a girl, even an athletic one like Sally, so her father and mother talked her into taking tennis lessons when she was twelve. At first she hated to trade in her baseball bat for a tennis racket, but it wasn’t long before she started to win tournaments in her new sport. “ Tennis became much more fun when I started winning,” Sally remembers. Soon a row of trophies （奖牌）replaced her box of baseball cards, and tennis star Billie Jean King replaced Dodger shortstop Maury Wills as her sports idol.
Sally first became interested in the space program in 1962 when astronaut John Glenn orbited the earth in his Mercury space capsule. Sally was ten years old at the time, but she remembers the launch and the splashdown (掉落) as if they happened yesterday. The girl who used to memorize batting averages became a space fan. She quickly learned the name of every NASA astronaut(there were only eight of them in 1962), the date of every launch, and the name and number of every spacecraft from Freedom 7 to Skylab 3. She could tell you the speed of light (186,300 miles per second), the distance to the moon (238,860 miles), and the names of the three nearest stars( the Sun, Alpha Centauri, and Barnard’s Star).
By the time she was sixteen, Sally had decided to become an astrophysicist, a scientist who studies space. She had also become a nationally ranked tennis player. She remembers yawning（打哈欠） through an important tennis match on June 20, 1969, after staying up all night to watch Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. Sally lost the match.
As Sally got older, many of her friends started playing professional tennis. Some of them tried to talk her into quitting school to join them on the professional tennis circuit. But Sally said no. “ Black holes are more interesting to me than backhands,” she told them. Now she knows that she made the right choice, but in 1970 Sally had no way of knowing that NASA would open the space program to women.
小题1:At the age of twelve, Sally Ride ________.
| A．was interested in playing tennis |
| B．was persuaded into taking tennis training |
| C．began to become interested in space |
| D．decided to become an astrophysicist |
| A．she was tired |
| B．she couldn’t decide whether to be an astrophysicist |
| C．she couldn’t decide whether to take part in a professional tennis circuit |
| D．she wasn’t interested in tennis |
| A．had been a professional baseball player |
| B．had never been a professional player |
| C．had never been a woman astrophysicist |
| D．wasn’t interested in space program |
| A．the name of the neareast star |
| B．a place where the American astronauts and the crew work |
| C．a place where astronauts and the crew are trained |
| D．a container of the crew and astronauts detached(分离) from a rocket |
| A．According to the story, Sally Ride is a woman astrophysicist. |
| B．The ambition of becoming a woman astronaut was made in Sally’s childhood. |
| C．Freedom 7 and Skylab 3 are the names of the nearest stars. |
| D．Sally didn’t quit her schooling at the time as she knew sooner or later NASA would hire woman astronaut. |
On September 3, the American tennis player said a tearful goodbye to his 21-year career after a third-round defeat in the US Open. The 36-year-old tried his best, but was unable to keep up with German Benjamin Becker, more than ten years his junior.
"The scoreboard said I lost today, but what the scoreboard doesn"t say is what I"ve found," Agassi said to the fans. "I have found inspiration and you willed me to succeed." It was an emotional speech at the end of a long career.
Agassi hated tennis as a teenager as much as he loves it now. His father made him play when he was a child. He got bored, and became a rebel(叛逆). The strict training that his father pushed upon him got in the way of his wild lifestyle. He grew hair long, wore colorful clothes and spat at a judge. Over the years, he has made bad jokes during news conferences. Asked what he would say to his 17-year-old self, Agassi answered, "I would say, I understand you a lot more than I want to be you."
The turning point in Agassi"s career came in 1992 when he unexpectedly won his first Grand Slam (大满贯赛事)at Wimbledon. It was the first time Agassi understood what real champions finally understand: winning is a test of courage and not just power, it"s a marathon, not a sprint(短跑).
And what a marathon Agassi was about to begin. He cut his long hair, got fitter and tightened up emotionally. On the court, he ranked No. 1 for almost two years. His lowest point came in 1997 when his ranking dropped to No. 141. He didn"t quit though. "I knew that I would try to get the most out of myself every day from that day forward. That was my promise," he said. "That never stopped."
小题1:The underlined phrase "more than ten years his junior" in the second paragraph means _________.
| A．having lower ranking than Agassi for more than ten years |
| B．having higher ranking than Agassi for more than ten years |
| C．more than ten years older than Agassi |
| D．more than ten years younger than Agassi |
| A．He felt angry with the judge |
| B．He felt satisfied with the scoreboard |
| C．He felt regretful but encouraged |
| D．He felt in great desperation |
| A．after 1997 Agassi began to take up marathon besides tennis |
| B．Agassi began to play tennis before he was fifteen |
| C．Agassi hesitated to quit his sports career |
| D．the reason why Agassi lost his last competition was that he lacked courage and power |
| A．0-2 | B．0-3 | C．1-3 | D．2-3 |
There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell they didn’t have a lot of money. Their clothes were not expensive, but they were clean. The children talked excitedly about the clowns. It was clearly a very important day out for them. The father and mother seemed happy as they could be.
The tickets lady asked how many tickets the father wanted, he proudly answered, “Please let me buy eight children’s tickets and two adults’ tickets, so I can take my family to the circus.”
The ticket lady told him the price.
The man’s wife lowered her head. There was no longer a smile on the man’s face. He quietly asked, “How much did you say?”
The ticket lady again told him the price.
The man obviously didn’t have enough money. But how could he tell his kids the bad news?
Seeing what was happening, my dad took a $20 note from his pocket and dropped in on the ground. (We were not rich ourselves at all!) He then tapped the man on the shoulder and said, “Excuse me, sir, you dropped this.”
The man understood my father was helping him. He picked up the money, looked straight into my dad’s eyes, and in tears replied. “Thank you. This really means a lot to me and my family.”
Although we did not go to the circus that night, we didn’t go without.
小题1:Why does the writer say “Their clothes were not expensive, but they were clean” ( Paragraph 2)?
| A．To show how rich the family were. |
| B．To show cheap clothes could be popular. |
| C．To show how hard the mother worked. |
| D．To show the children were well looked after. |
| A．He had lost his money. |
| B．His children were noisy. |
| C．The tickets were sold out. |
| D．The tickets were too expensive. |
| A．The poor man. | B．The writer’s father. |
| C．The poor man’s wife. | D．The ticket lady. |
| A．He found the money he lost. |
| B．He wanted others to help him. |
| C．He made his children unhappy. |
| D．He was thankful for the kindness. |
| A．The poor mans saw the circus that night. |
| B．The two families became close friends. |
| C．The writer’s father earned some money. |
| D．The writer saw the circs that night. |
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