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in his house was the word “Faith” pasted. People raised lots of to find out why the word was pasted on his mirrors. He said, “My dad often me to believe that as long as you have , you should have faith. Every time you look into the mirror, you’re looking at yourself and see “ Faith”.
The I learned from this is simple-----faith is a living thing and in the same way we’re all given 24 hours a day and we’re all given the same measure of faith. Faith keeps us going when things get ! Why is some people’s faith stronger than that of others? Exercise! If we choose to exercise our faith, it will ; but if we choose not to, it remains weak. Some people might that they don’t have faith, but we all practice faith every day even if we don’t it as a faith. Daily , such as studying, investing or reaching for a dream, take faith．
Faith hearing and doing. I made a decision yesterday----to reading the newspapers full of too much sad and news. Why? Because I there was a drop of my mental state after reading the newspapers.
Faith, when it’s put to , becomes a beautiful thing. It lifts your mental state to a higher place that you to raise yourself up and declare, “Yes, I can.” So make the decision today to strengthen your faith by it.
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小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:A
小题6:B
小题7:A
小题8:C
小题9:D
小题10:D
小题11:A
小题12:D
小题13:C
小题14:B
小题15:C
小题16:D
小题17:B
小题18:C
小题19:B
小题20:A
解析
试题分析：本文叙述了电视剧中一位年轻人家中的每一面镜子上都贴着 “faith”这个字的情节引发了作者的深思。是啊，信念，当它起作用时，就是一件美好的礼物，它可以使人们鼓足勇气、奋力拼搏。
小题1:考查副词及上下文的呼应。bravely勇敢的； briefly简要地； mostly大多数； finally最后。一个年轻人正在社区里为自己拉票，而多数人都想知道他有什么理由可以让他们支持他，故选C。
小题2:考查名词及上下文的呼应。support支持； instruction指导； pity同情； information消息。根据上文“seeking his community votes…”可知，人们想知道为什么要给他支持。故选A。
小题3:考查名词及上下文的呼应。wall墙； mirror镜子； picture图画；book书。根据下文提到“the word was pasted on his mirrors”可知。他把他带到房子，每一个房子的镜子上都粘上一个词“faith”，故选B。
小题4:考查名词及上下文的呼应。voices 声音； questions问题； rules规则； standards水平。根据下文“why the word was pasted on his mirrors”，可知此处表示人们提出问题（raise questions）想了解为什么镜子上都有这个单词。故选B。
小题5:考查动词及上下文的呼应。teaches教学； permits允许； forces强迫； promises允诺。本句表示父亲教导我人生的道理（teach sb. to do sth.）。我的父亲经常教导我只要活着就应该有信心，故选A。
小题6:考查名词及上下文的呼应。friendship友谊； breath呼吸； wealth财富； success成功。根据上下文可知，把faith这个词贴在镜子上是为了每一次照镜子时都能看到它，这说明父亲让他相信信念非常重要，只要活着，我们就要有信仰。have breath表示“活着”。故选B。
小题7:考查名词及上下文的呼应。lesson 一课，教训； view观点； choice选择； example例子。根据破折号后的内容是作者从这一电视剧情节中学到的lesson。故选A。
小题8:考查副词及上下文的呼应。extremely及其； freely自由地；equally平等地； frequently经常地。根据下文24 hours a day 判断，我们每个人的一天同样(equally)都是24小时。故选C。
小题9:考查形容词及上下文的呼应。strange奇怪的； different不同的；funny滑稽的； tough难的。根据常识可知，当事情变得艰难时(get rough)，更能显出信念的作用。故选D。
小题10:考查动词及上下文的呼应。stay停留； return回来； slow慢的；grow生长。本句对比了两种情况：选择经受磨练，信念就会增强(grow)；选择逃避磨练，信念就会仍然薄弱。故选D。
小题11:考查动词及上下文的呼应。argue争论； realize意识到； understand理解； predict预言。作者认为有些人可能会有不同意见，他们也许会争辩(argue)说，他们没有信念。故选A。
小题12:考查动词及上下文的呼应。agree 同意； appreciate感激； admire欣赏； acknowledge承认。联系上文可知，作者对这些人的驳斥是：我们每天都在践行它，即使我们不承认(acknowledge)那就是信念。故选D。
小题13:考查名词及上下文的呼应。services服务； steps步骤； tasks 任务；experiments实验。此空后列举的内容都是我们的日常活动，故用task。日常活动如学习、投资或实现梦想都需要信念，故选C。
小题14:考查动词短语及上下文的呼应。dreams of梦想； comes from来自； feels like想要； keeps on继续。信念来自于(come from)你所听和所做的事。故选B。
小题15:考查动词及上下文的呼应。consider考虑； delay推迟； stop停止； risk冒险。看了那些报纸后，作者总会情绪低落。因此，要树立信念，作者应该是决定以后不再(stop)看那些有负面影响的报纸了。故选C。
小题16:考查形容词及上下文的呼应。various 各种各样的； genuine真诚地； latest最新的； negative负面的。此处所需词汇应与sad同义，表示“悲伤和负面的消息”。我下定决心停止读充满坏的和负面消息的报纸，故选D
小题17:考查动词及上下文的呼应。heard听见； noticed注意到； declared宣布； explained解释。读了那样的内容，我“注意到”了自己情绪的低落。故选B。
小题18:考查动词及上下文的呼应。check 检查； list列出； work工作；sleep睡觉。put…to work表示“践行、使起作用”(cause…to work)。当践行信念时，它会变成一个美好的东西，一件美丽的人生礼物。故选C。
小题19:考查动词及上下文的呼应。warns警告； causes引起； orders命令； forbids禁止。信念能把你的精神状态提升到更高的高度，促使你提升自我，并宣称：“是的，我能。”，故选B。
小题20:考查动词及上下文的呼应。exercising锻炼； forming养成；obtaining获得； thinking想。根据第二段“If we choose to exercise our faith, it will…”可知此处应选exercise. 通过锻炼，可以加强你的信念，故选A。
核心考点
试题【I was watching a TV series one night when I took in one scene. A young man was s】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The student had really answered the question completely ，but the answer didn’t confirm his competence in physics. I suggested the student try again. I gave him six minutes to answer the question, warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics. Five minutes later, he said he had many answers and clashed off one, which read：“Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, use the physical formula (公式）to calculate the height of the building. ”
At this point, my colleague had to accept it, and then the student made almost full marks. I couldn’t help asking the student what the other answers were. He listed many others and then added “Probably the best is to take the barometer to the administrator and said to him，" Sir, here is a fine barometer. If you tell me the height of the building, I will give it to you.，”
Then, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did,but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think.
The name of the student was Bohr who later was famous all over the world. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922.
小题1:The student got a zero at the beginning because_______.
| A．the teacher wasn’t satisfied with him. |
| B．his answer wasn’t complete or correct |
| C．his answer didn’t show his knowledge of physics |
| D．the teacher didn’t fully understand his answer |
| A．the administrator told Bohr the height |
| B．the student knew the expected answer |
| C．the author preferred Bohr’s last answer |
| D．the teacher was a very stubborn person |
| A．instructors can teach students how to think |
| B．arbiters can help students to get high scores |
| C．teachers should make students use physical formulas |
| D．students should be given more freedom in thinking |
| A．Critical | B．Optimistic | C．Approving | D．Ambiguous |
From the day I signed up for the Naumburg Competition, everything changed. I had made a decision to start again, to save my life, and that meant a 360-degree turnaround.
I kept on practicing. An enormous amount of work had to be done in two months. I went from not practicing at all to thirteen hours a day.
I spent two weeks just playing scales. If I thought I sounded bad before, now I sounded worse than awful.
At the time I lived on 72nd Street, close to West End Avenue. I had an apartment with a window the size of a shoebox. I didn"t do mylaundry. I left my apartment only to walk to Juilliard─and not onBroadway like everyone else. I walked up Amsterdam Avenue because I didn"t want to see anybody, didn"t want to run into anybody, didn"t want anyone to ask what I was doing.
I stopped going to classes and became a hermit. I even talked Miss DeLay into giving my lesson at night.
My eating habits were awful. I lived on fried sausages, a pint of peanut butter/chocolate ice cream, and a gallon of Coca-Cola every day. That"s all I ate for eight weeks.
I was nuts. I was completely obsessed with getting back into shape, with doing well in this competition. If I could, people would know I was still on earth. Not to count me out; to stop asking, “Whatever happened to Nadja?”
The last week before the Naumburg auditions, I couldn"t touch the violin. I had worked and worked and worked and worked and then I just couldn"t work anymore.
I certainly could have used it. I wasn"t as prepared as I should have been. But I simply had to say, “Nadja, you"ve dedicated yourself to this thing. Ready or not, do your best.”
Fifty violinists from around the world auditioned for the competition on May 25, 26, and 27, 1981. Those that made it past thepreliminaries would go on to the semifinals. Those that passed that stage would go to the finals. In years past, one violinist was chosen as winner and two received second and third place.
On May 26, the day of my audition, I went to the Merkin Concert Hall at 67th Street and Broadway. I waited, played for twenty minutes, and went home. I couldn"t tell whether the preliminary judges were impressed or not. I"d find out the next evening.
Maybe subconsciously I was trying to keep busy; that night, when I fried the sausages, I accidentally set my apartment on fire. I grabbed my cat and my violin, and ran out the door. The fire was put out, but everything in my place was wrecked.
Fortunately, the phone was okay and on the evening of May 27, I had the news from Lucy Rowan Mann of Naumburg. Thirteen of us had made it.
Talk about mixed emotions. I was thrilled to be among the thirteen; a group that included established violinists, some of whom had already made records. But it also meant I had to play the next day in the semifinals of the competition.
Everyone entering the competition had been given two lists of concertos. One was a list of standard repertory pieces. The other list was twentieth-century repertory. For our big competition piece, we were to choose from each list and play a movement from one in the semifinals, and a movement from the other in the finals─if we made it that far.
From the standard repertory list, I chose the Tchaikovsky Concerto. I had been playing the Tchaik for three years, so it was a good piece for me.
From the twentieth-century list, I chose the Prokofiev G minor Concerto. I had never played it onstage before.
My goal had been just passing the auditions, but now my thought pattern began to change. If I wanted a sliver of a chance of advancing again, my brain said, “Play your strong piece first.”
Logically, I should play the Tchaikovsky in the semifinals just to make it to the next stage. Who cared if that left me with a piece I probably wouldn"t play as well in the finals of the competition? It"d be a miracle to get that far.
There wouldn"t be more than seven violinists chosen for the final round, and if I were in the top seven of an international group, that was plenty good enough.
The semifinals were held on May 28 in Merkin Concert Hall. You were to play for thirty minutes: your big piece first, then the judges would ask to hear another.
There was a panel of eight judges. They had a piece of paper with my choices of the Tchaikovsky and the Prokofiev in front of them. “Which would you like to play?” they asked.
I said meekly, “Prokofiev.”
My brain and all the logic in the world had said, “Play your strong piece.” My heart said, “Go for it all. Play your weak piece now, save Tchaikovsky for the finals.”
Maybe I don"t listen to logic so easily after all.
My good friend, the pianist Sandra Rivers, had been chosen as accompanist for the competition. She knew I was nervous. There had been a very short time to prepare; I was sure there"d be memory slips, that I"d blank out in the middle and the judges would throw me out. My hands were like ice.
The first eight measures of the Prokofiev don"t have accompaniment. The violin starts the piece alone. So I started playing.
I got through the first movement and Sandra said later my face was as white as snow. She said I was so tense, I was beyond shaking. Just a solid brick.
It was the best I"d ever played it. No memory slips at all. Technically, musically, it was there.
I finished it thinking, “Have I sold my soul for this? Is the devil going to visit me at midnight? How come it went so well?”
I didn"t know why, but often I do my best under the worst of circumstances. I don"t know if it"s guts or a determination not to disappoint people. Who knows what it is, but it came through for me, and I thank God for that.
As the first movement ended, the judges said, “Thank you.” Then they asked for the Carmen Fantasy.
I turned and asked Sandy for an A, to retune, and later she said the blood was just rushing back into my face.
I whispered, “Sandy, I made it. I did it.”
“Yeah,” she whispered back, kiddingly, “too bad you didn"t screw up. Maybe next time.”
At that point I didn"t care if I did make the finals because I had played the Prokofiev so well. I was so proud of myself for coming through.
I needed a shot in the arm; that afternoon I got evicted. While I was at Merkin, my moped had blown up. For my landlord, that was the last straw.
What good news. I was completely broke and didn"t have the next month"s rent anyway. The landlord wanted me out that day. I said, “Please, can I have two days. I might get into the finals, can I please go through this first?”
I talked him into it, and got back to my place in time for the phone call. “Congratulations, Nadja,”“they said. “You have made the finals.”
I had achieved the ridiculously unlikely, and I had saved my best piece. Yet part of me was sorry. I wanted it to be over already. In the three days from the preliminaries to the semifinals, I lost eight pounds. I was so tired of the pressure.
There was a fellow who advanced to the finals with me, an old, good friend since Pre-College. Competition against friends is inevitable in music, but I never saw competition push a friendship out the window so quickly. By the day of the finals, I hated him and he hated me. Pressure was that intense.
The finals were held on May 29 at Carnegie Hall and open to the public. I was the fourth violinist of the morning, then there was a lunch break, and three more violinists in the afternoon.
I played my Tchaikovsky, Saint-Sa‘ns’s Havanaise, and Ravel"s Tzigane for the judges: managers, famous violinists, teachers, and critics. I went on stage at five past eleven and finished at noon. Those fifty-five minutes seemed like three days.
I was so relieved when I finished playing; I was finished! It"s impossible to say how happy I was to see the dressing room. I went out for lunch with my friends. It was like coming back from the grave. We laughed and joked and watched TV.
As I returned to Carnegie Hall to hear the other violinists, I realized I"d made a big mistake: they might ask for recalls. A recall is when they can"t decide between two people and they want you to play again. It"s been done; it"s done all the time in competitions. No way was I in shape to go onstage and play again.
In the late afternoon, the competition was over. Everybody had finished playing. Quite luckily─no recalls.
The judges deliberated for an hour. The tension in the air was unbelievable. All the violinists were sitting with their little circle of friends. I had my few friends around me, but no one was saying much now.
Finally, the Naumburg Foundation president Robert Mann came on stage.
“It"s always so difficult to choose ...” he began.
“Every year we hold this competition,” Robert Mann said. “And in the past, we"ve awarded three prizes. This year we"ve elected to only have one prize, the first prize.”
My heart sank. Nothing for me. Not even Miss Congeniality.
“We have found,” Mann went on, “that second place usually brings great dismay to the artist because they feel like a loser. We don"t want anyone here to feel like a loser. Every finalist will receive five hundred dollars except the winner, who will receive three thousand dollars.”
And then he repeated how difficult it was to choose, how well everyone had played ...dah, dah, dah.
I was looking down at the floor.
“The winner is ...”
And he said my name.
A friend next to me said, “Nadja, I think you won!”
I went numb. My friends pulled me up and pointed me toward the stage. It was a long walk because I had slipped into a seat in the back. Sitting up in front was my old friend. I would have to walk right past him and I was dreading it, but before I could, he got up and stopped me.
He threw his arms around me and I threw my arms around him. I kept telling him how sorry I was. I was holding him and started to cry, saying, “I"m sorry, I"m sorry, I"m sorry.” I didn"t want to lose, but I really didn"t want him to lose either. And he was holding me and saying, “Don"t be sorry. I"m so proud of you.” It was over, and we would be friends again.
I took my bow, then ran to Juilliard. Ten blocks uptown, one block west, to give Miss DeLay the news. She could be proud of me now, too.
Suddenly, everything was clear. Playing the violin is what I"d do with my life. Heaven handed me a prize: “You"ve been through a lot, kid. Here"s an international competition.”
Everything had changed when I prepared for the Naumburg, and now everything changed again. I made my first recording. Between September 1981 and May 1982, I played a hundred concerts in America, made one trip to Europe, then two months of summer festivals. And people asked me back.
There was a great deal of anxiety playing in Europe for the first time. But I was able to rely on my self-confidence to pull me through.
Self-confidence onstage doesn"t mean a lack of nerves backstage. The stakes had increased. This wasn"t practice anymore, this was my life. I"d stare into a dressing-room mirror and say, “Nadja, people have bought tickets, hired baby-sitters, you"ve got to calm down; go out there and prove yourself.”
Every night I"d prove myself again. My life work had truly begun.
小题1:In a gesture to prepare for the competition, Nadja did all the following except _________.
| A．preoccupying herself in practice |
| B．trying to carry out her deeds secretly |
| C．abandoning going to school for classes |
| D．consuming the best food to get enough energy |
| A．Four. | B．Five. | C．Six. | D．Seven. |
| A．she forgot that there was going to be a recall |
| B．she didn’t get hold of the permission to leave |
| C．chances were that she had to replay and she was off guard |
| D．there was another play she had to take part in in the afternoon |
He large amounts of rainwater flowing down the hill, and water was also bubbling(冒泡) at the base of a rock on the hill. For a few minutes, Tom the water, wondering why it looked so . Then it hit him — the was similar to the video he was shown during Disaster Management classes. Fearing a disaster, he shouted at the students waiting outside their classrooms. “Run, run, don"t stay here! The on the hill is going to fall on us!”
Chaos broke out as the ran to the open area that had been appointed as an emergency gathering point. When some teachers Tom, he showed them the water gushing from the hill, and they started leading the students to safer ground.
Just then Principal Richard drove into the school. Tom ran over to tell him what was happening. After the site, Richard knew the school was in . The enormous rock at the top of the hill could come crashing down .
a group of teachers and older students, Richard climbed the hill and tried to make the water flow away from the rock. They were too : ten minutes later, they heard screams as the huge rock rushed down the hill. There was little Richard and his group could do as they watched the earth their classrooms. Thanks to Tom’s action and careful observation, was hurt in the incident.
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The boys were in a hurry, so they climbed slowly the day. The weather was pleasant, and they enjoyed the fresh as they climbed up a narrow path. Tom expected the to stay nice, late in the afternoon there was a heavy rain. The boys rushed toward a and decided to camp there that .
When the sun rose the next morning, they continued . As the boys went higher, the climbing became dangerous, and by that afternoon the trip appeared .
When they finally reached the of the mountain, they saw a beautiful sight. The of the sunset were yellow, red, and gold. The boys were very happy and they enjoyed the view. The farms and fields of wheat and corn appeared very small. In the distance, they could see trees, hills and valleys. They spent four more days in the mountains. They really had great fun.
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“Sure,” said the farmer. Then he called his dog, “Here, Dolly!”
Out from the doghouse and down the ramp(斜坡) ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence. His eyes danced with delight.
As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else moving inside the doghouse. Slowly, another little ball appeared. This one was much smaller than the others. Down the ramp it slid(滑行). Then in a somewhat awkward manner the little pup began hobbling(蹒跚) toward the others, doing its best to catch up…
“I want that one,” the little boy said, pointing to the slow dog.
The farmer knelt down at the boy’s side and said, “Son, you don’t want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs will.”
With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of trousers. There was a steel brace(支架) running down both sides of his leg. It was joined to a specially made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, “You see, sir, I don’t run very well myself, and he will need someone who understands.”
The world is full of people who need someone who understands.
小题1: It can be inferred that “Dolly” in the passage was _______.
| A．a mother dog | B．the little boy’s name |
| C．the farmer’s son | D．one of the puppies |
| A．3 | B．4 | C．5 | D．6 |
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| C．he liked puppies that were unable to run fast |
| D．he didn’t have enough money to buy a different one |
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