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F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary: “My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quickly brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
小题1:How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?
A.5B.6 C.7D.8
小题2:Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
A.f-c-e-a-b-dB.b-e-a-f-c-dC.f-d-e-c-b-aD.b-f-c-d-e-a
小题3:We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald            .
A.had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.
B.was well educated and well off before he served in the army
C.would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down
D.helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital
小题4:The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about _______.
A.Zelda’s personal life
B.Zelda’s illness and treatment
C.Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham
D.Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world

答案

小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:D
解析

小题1:A细节理解题。据题意,由文章中关键词novel可知,文章中提及到的弗兰西斯·司各特·菲茨杰拉德的小说有:This side of paradise,The Beautiful and Damned,The Great Gatsby,Tender Is the Night and The love of the last Tycoon,共计5篇。故选A项
小题2:D细节理解题。根据第一段中“……was once a student of St. Paul Academy……In 1917 he joined the army……”可知弗兰西斯·司各特·菲茨杰拉德先在圣保罗学院学习,然后参加的军队。由此可知答案应为D项
小题3:C推理判断题。由第四段第一句“However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing”可以判断出C项
小题4:D。推理判断题。根据人物传记的特点和本段对菲茨杰拉德生活、作品的描述,说明了菲茨杰拉德的作品对学界的意义,因此最后总结的一段是关于菲茨杰拉德对文学界的贡献的。故选D项
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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21—40题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are   , one by one. "There is my grandmother"s house," I say,      across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯)      memory for me. Lise was one of the mobile children,      from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of      , and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors      for 200 years.
We soon     by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories    back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the     where I was once so gloriously a child. It still    a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk      the rooms in memory. Here, my mother      in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family      into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being      them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise       attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I     ; where I belong. "
She has      her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human     To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need      origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the        of "I". We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
小题1:
A.appearingB.movingC.exposingD.expanding
小题2:
A.referringB.travellingC.pointingD.coming
小题3:
A.sharedB.shortC.freshD.treasured
小题4:
A.passedB.raisedC.movedD.sent
小题5:
A.homeB.duty C.reality D.relief
小题6:
A.builtB.livedC.remainedD.explored
小题7:
A.catch up B.pull upC.step downD.come down
小题8:
A.falling B.turningC.rushing D.bringing
小题9:
A.yardB.villageC.roomD.house
小题10:
A.adapts toB.appeals toC.belongs toD.occurs to
小题11:
A.across B.throughC.alongD.past
小题12:
A.layB.playedC.stoodD.sat
小题13:
A.marchingB.lookingC.breakingD.pouring
小题14:
A.between B.with C.nearD.behind
小题15:
A.wondersB.listensC.reactsD.agrees
小题16:
A.beganB.grew C.studied D.stayed
小题17:
A.deepenedB.recognizedC.acceptedD.found
小题18:
A.heartB.rightsC.interestD.behaviors
小题19:
A.oneB.itsC.thatD.every
小题20:
A.meaningB.expressionC.connectionD.background

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Brief  Introduction

Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941)
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One"s Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Reading (A litter writen by her)
My dear,
"Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can"t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan"t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can"t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don"t think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can"t fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can"t even write this properly. I can"t read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can"t go on spoiling your life any longer.
I don"t think two people could have been happier than we have been
                            ...........................from the last letter of virginia woolf 
Background  of  litter
During this period, Virginia Woolf wrote his masterpiece, it can be said that this period of her creation of the harvest season. But this does not relieve her illness, her symptoms of schizophrenia is more and more serious, especially in the second world wars, the German Air Force bombing the UK for some time. Wolf created a printing factory was destroyed, then he lived in London for the villa was blown out. These two events left not resolve the shadow in the heart of Woolf, shorten(缩短) her embrace death. In March 28, 1941, she came to the ouse River, in the clothing pocket filled with stones, step by step toward the middle of the river walk, over his short life, has left us with a large number of magnificent; ornate; fascinating(美轮美奂的) works of art.
小题1:According to the first paragraph we can infer that            
A.During the interwar period,virginia woolf was important for London people.
B.She has been living for 55 years
C.Her first the novels Mrs Dalloway in 1925
D.She regarded as one of the foremost romanticism literary figures of the twentieth century
小题2:What is form of The main body?
A.Letter of resignationB.Letter of condolence
C.Letter of suicideD.Letters of apologies
小题3:Where can we see this article?
A.newspaperB.testbookC.German LiteratureD.television
小题4:According to the reading, which of the following is not the reason of her Dutch act(自***)?
A.She can"t go on spoiling your life any longer.
B.She feels certain she is going mad again.
C.She cannot bear her husband"s interference.
D.The approach of war makes her psychological problems aggravated.
小题5:What can we know about virginia woolf’s character?
A.OptimisticB.ComplexC.OrdinaryD.Lonely

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I first heard this story a few years ago from a girl. Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few years. However, I still like to think that it really did happen, somewhere, sometime.
They were going to Fort Lauderdale-- three boys and three girls -- and when they boarded the bus, they were carrying sandwiches and wine, dreaming of golden beaches and sea tides as the gray, cold spring of New York vanished behind them.
As the bus passed through New Jersey, they began to notice Vingo. He sat in front of them, dressed in a plain ill-fitting suit, never moving, his dusty face masking his age. He kept chewing the inside of his lip a lot, frozen into complete silence.
Deep into the night, the bus pulled into Howard Johnson"s, and everybody got off except Vingo. He sat rooted in his seat, and the young people began to wonder about him: perhaps he was a sea captain, a runaway from his wife, an old soldier going home. When they went back to the bus, one of the girls sat beside him and introduced herself.
¨We"re going to Florida," she said brightly. “I hear it"s really beautiful. "
"It is," he said quietly, as if remembering something he had tried to forget.
“Want some wine?" she said. He thanked her and retreated again into his silence. After a while, she went back to the others, and Vingo nodded in sleep.
In the morning, they awoke outside another Howard Johnson"s, and this time Vingo went in. The girl insisted that he join them. He seemed very shy, and ordered black coffee and smoked nervously as the young people chattered about sleeping on beaches. When they returned to the bus, the girl sat with Vingo again, and after a while, slowly and painfully, he began to tell his story. He had been in jail in New York for the past four years, and now he was going home.
¨Are you married?"
“I don"t know. "
“You don’t know?" she said.
“Well, when I was in jail I wrote to my wife," he said. ¨‘I told her that I was going to be away a long time, and that if she couldn"t stand it, if the kids kept asking questions, she could just forget me. I"d understand. Get a new guy, I said - she"s a wonderful woman – and forget about me. I told her she didn"t have to write me. And she didn"t. Not for three and a half years. "
"And you"re going home now, not knowing?"
" Yeah," he said shyly. ‘‘Last week, when I was sure the parole was coming through, I wrote her again. There"s a big oak tree just as you come into town, I told her that if she didn"t have a new guy and if she"d take me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and I"d get off and come home. If she didn"t want me, forget it - no handkerchief, and I"d go on through. "
"Wow," the girl exclaimed. "Wow. "
She told the others, and soon all of them were in it, caught up in the approach of Brunswick, looking at the pictures Vingo showed them of his wife and three children.
Now they were 20 miles from Brunswick, and the young people took over window seats, waiting for the approach of the great oak tree. Vingo stopped looking, tightening his face, as if fortifying himself against still another disappointment.
Then Brunswick was 10 miles, and then five. Then, suddenly, all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming and shouting and crying. All except Vingo. Vingo sat there stunned, looking at the oak tree. It was covered with yellow handkerchiefs —20 of them, 30 of them, maybe hundreds. As the young people shouted, the old con slowly rose from his seat and made his way to the front of the bus to go home.
小题1:According to the passage, which statement is TRUE?
A.The young people are travelling from Florida to New York.
B.Vingo was put in prison ten years ago, and now he was set free to go home.
C.The young people around Vingo were quite curious about his silence.
D.At last, Vingo went home together with the three boys and three girls.
小题2:From the underlined sentences in Para 3, we can infer that _____.
A.Vingo was nervous because he didn"t know whether his wife would accept him.
B.Vingo was very disappointed because his wife didn"t answer his letter.
C.Vingo was very shy because he knew someone was watching him.
D.Vingo was excited because he could go home and meet his wife and children.
小题3:The underlined word "fortify" in the passage has the same meaning as that in Sentence___.
A. The French soldiers are working hard to fortify airbase.
B. The food has been fortified with Vitamin C.
C. People in the whole city were fortified by the moving story about their hero.
D. We had to drink some more coffee to fortify ourselves for the journey.
小题4:Which word do you think can best describe Vingo"s wife?
A.humorous B.loyalC.generousD.hard-working
小题5:After reading the whole story, we can probably make a conclusion that_____.
A.Young people are always curious about everything new around them.
B.Home is always the first place a person wants to go.
C.Don’t laugh at a person who has no home.
D.It is impolite to ask questions about one"s privacy that he or she doesn"t want to tell.
小题6:What"s the best title for the passage?
A.A story of a poor manB.The power of love
C.Help from strangersD.Going home

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One day I decided to quit.I quitted my job, my relationship, my spirituality. I wanted to quit my life.
I went to the     to have one last talk with God. "Can you give me one good    not to quit?" His answer surprised me.
"Look around. Do you see the fern(蕨类植物) and the bamboo? When I planted their seeds, I took good care of them.The fern quickly grew from the earth.     nothing came from the bamboo seed. During the following three years, the fern grew more plentiful. And    , nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. Then in the fifth year a      sprout(新芽) emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was     small and insignificant. But just 6 months later the bamboo     to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing    . Those roots made it strong and gave it     it needed to survive.I wouldn’t give any of my creations a challenge it could not    .”
He said to me .”All this time you have been struggling , you have ___been growing roots . I would not quit on the bamboo.____will I ever quit on you .Don’t ____yourself with others .The bamboo had a different ____from the fern .Yet they both make the forest beautiful .Your time will ___ .You will rise high!”
"How high should I rise?" I asked.
"How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked     .
"As high as it can?" I    .
"Yes," He said. "Give me glory     rising as high as you can."
I left the forest and bring back this story. I hope it can help you see that God will never    on you. Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness. Bad days give you   . Both are necessary to life.
小题1:
A.farmB.heavenC.bushes D.woods
小题2:
A.reasonB.senseC.responseD.explanation
小题3:
A.EvenB.InsteadC.YetD.Rather
小题4:
A.againB.always C.everD.often
小题5:
A.thinB.tinyC.weakD.short
小题6:
A.largelyB.entirelyC.seeminglyD.probably
小题7:
A.raised B.providedC.roseD.produced
小题8:
A.fruits B.leaves C.seedsD. roots
小题9:
A.whichB.whereC.howD.what
小题10:
A.presentB.exploreC.handle D.offer
小题11:
A.particularlyB.actually C.merely D.obviously
小题12:
A.EitherB.So C.NeitherD.As
小题13:
A.furnishB.associateC.connect D.compare
小题14:
A.purposeB.recognitionC. creditD.possibility
小题15:
A.goB.comeC.getD.leave
小题16:
A.in natureB.in exchangeC.in respectD.in turn
小题17:
A.questionedB.requiredC.requested D.remarked
小题18:
A.fromB.withC.by D.for
小题19:
A.cut upB.give up C.break upD.pick up
小题20:
A.experiencesB.strengthsC.awardsD.ambitions

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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
I had been playing hockey(冰球)for about 10 years. I was always the one sitting at the end of the bench, and      got into a game. I went to all the      and showed up even when it was so      that your ‘breath froze’ and when the other players had decided to stay home. I felt I had      enough and thought of quitting.
I finally decided to      the news to my mom that I was leaving the team. My mom may have looked like a tiny and quiet lady but on      my words, she said, “Remember, ‘A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.’ Your mother didn’t raise    , so think about yourself in a      way and see yourself as a winner!” So I worked harder than ever at getting in better shape,      my shot accuracy and changing my      . 
Once in a match, we     our first game badly. What’s worse, one of our best players got hurt. I was sitting at my      place, at the end of the bench, when the coach came over and told me I was going    , I was nervous, excited and terrified all at the same time.
The opposing team was fast and I had to admit I was a little     .  But my mom’s words      out in my head like a church bell. Instead of being afraid, I was “pumped” and I very quickly found that all my      work was paying off.  I was as fast a skater as anyone else on the ice, and I seemed to get the     to score. The crowd went quiet.  All the time I spent on the ice when everyone had gone home had _____ me for this moment.
Won! I won!
The lesson I learned from my mom’s      has stayed with me over the years. I hear them whenever I am faced with a challenge, or whenever I     myself.  
小题1:
A.onceB.seldomC.usuallyD.even
小题2:
A.meetingB.showsC.matchesD.practices
小题3:
A.cloudyB.wetC.coldD.windy
小题4:
A.sufferedB.explainedC.plannedD.escaped
小题5:
A.write B.tellC.readD.report
小题6:
A.noticingB.gatheringC.hearingD.analyzing
小题7:
A.talkersB.dreamersC.attackers D.losers
小题8:
A.positiveB.familiar C.briefD.convenient
小题9:
A.testingB.improvingC.questioningD.affecting
小题10:
A.aimB.tasteC.habitD.attitude
小题11:
A.lost B.controlledC.practicedD.continued
小题12:
A.usualB.safeC.secretD.private
小题13:
A.offB.inC.byD.up
小题14:
A.annoyedB.nervousC.delightedD.bitter
小题15:
A.ranB.gave C.stood D.rang
小题16:
A.delicateB.extraC.creativeD.casual
小题17:
A.chance B.messageC.orderD.note
小题18:
A.spared B.requestedC.preparedD.sent
小题19:
A.actionsB.reasonsC.wordsD.promises
小题20:
A.judgeB.expressC.comfortD.doubt

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