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  A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a  , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it ________from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles, _______everywhere. I tried to use a broom, ____ with each sweep they just rolled across the kitchen.
For the next week, every time I was in the ____, I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept _____. Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and ____ 12 frozen peas hidden underneath.
At the time I found those few remaining ____, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful ____ I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded ____ those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my ____ had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble___ his new surroundings and the ____ of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered.
When life gets you ____, when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never ____, remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be ___, and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas ___, including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them ___, you’ll start to feel whole again.
The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to ____, and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, __will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?
小题1:
A.drinkB.fruitC.vegetableD.meat
小题2:
A.movedB.walkedC.ranD.slipped
小题3:
A.rubbedB.rolledC.grewD.existed
小题4:
A.butB.andC. althoughD. so
小题5:
A.bedroomB.living roomC.kitchenD.storeroom
小题6:
A.gettingB.turning upC.taking upD.using up
小题7:
A.foundB.ateC.leftD.planted
小题8:
A.presentsB.cansC.vegetablesD.peas
小题9:
A.manB.childC.womanD.boy
小题10:
A.ofB.forC.withD.in
小题11:
A.wifeB.lifeC.sonD.friend
小题12:
A.turning toB.leading toC.adjusting toD.adding to
小题13:
A.thankB.loveC.helpD.loss
小题14:
A.downB.nearC.closeD.wide
小题15:
A.get itB.make itC.take itD.leave it
小题16:
A.grewB.boughtC.collectedD.frozen
小题17:
A.eventuallyB.fortunatelyC.properlyD.specially
小题18:
A.bothB.allC.eitherD.each
小题19:
A.call onB.put onC.bring inD.move on
小题20:
A.whileB.becauseC.sinceD.or

答案

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:A
小题5:C
小题6:B
小题7:A
小题8:D
小题9:C
小题10:A
小题11:B
小题12:C
小题13:D
小题14:A
小题15:B
小题16:C
小题17:A
小题18:B
小题19:D
小题20:D
解析

试题分析:作者在用扫帚扫洒落在地上的豌豆时,弄的到处都是,多日后还不时的有豆出现在脚下。由此作者领悟到人困顿混乱时的生活宛如散落在地的豌豆,不管如何的凌乱,生活都要继续,你都要把它们一颗颗捡起,让你的生活恢复如初。
小题1:C名词辨析。A. 饮料; B. 水果;C. 蔬菜;D. 肉。根据情理可知作者做饭时要用到蔬菜,而且下文I had decided on frozen peas.也是很明显的提示,故C选项正确。
小题2: D动词辨析。A. 移动; B. 步行; C.跑 ;D.滑。由当时的情景可以推测作者拆袋子时,豆子洒落一地,应该是袋子从手里滑落了,所以D为正确选项。
小题3:B动词辨析。A. 摩擦;B.滚动;C. 生长;D. 生存。从常识可知豆子是圆形的,撒到地上应该到处滚动,此外根据下句they just rolled across the kitchen.也可以判断B选项正确。
小题4:A连词辨析。 A. 但是;B.和;C.虽然;D.所以。根据后句they just rolled across可知作者没能如愿地把豆子扫起来,和上句构成转折关系,所以A选项正确。
小题5:C名词辨析。A. 卧室;B. 起居室;C.厨房 ;D. 储藏间。根据上文可知豆子撒在了厨房里,所以C选项正确。
小题6:B动词辨析。 A. 得到;B. 出现;C. 从事;D.用完。根据上下文可知作者总会在厨房里发现遗落在地上的豆子,所以此处指豆子总是出现在厨房里。所以B选项正确。
小题7:A动词辨析。A. 发现 ; B. 吃;C.离开; D.种植。前句讲作者挪开冰箱去打扫后面,冰箱后面又出现了几粒豆子,所以选A,“我发现了几粒遗落在下面的豌豆”。
小题8:D名词辨析。A. 礼物 ;B.罐头;C. 蔬菜;D. 豌豆。从上文可知洒落在地上的是豌豆,选D。
小题9:C名词辨析。A.男人;B. 孩子;C. 女人;D. 男孩。从下文After we married,可知此时作者和一位女士在交往,所以C选项正确。
小题10:A介词辨析。A. ….的;B.为了;C. 和…一起;D. 在…里面。固定短语be reminded of“使某人想起”句意:在我们结婚后,我又想起了那些在冰箱下的豌豆。
小题11:B名词辨析。A. 妻子;B. 生活;C. 儿子; D. 朋友。根据作者的讲述可知作者把自己混乱的生活比喻成了散落在地上的豌豆,而且下文中多次出现的life也印证了这一点,所以B为正确选项。
小题12:C动词短语辨析。 A.转向;B. 导致;C. 适应;D.增添。从上文I was in a new city可知作者搬到了一个新城市,由此可知孩子也要去适应新生活,所以答案选C。
小题13:D名词辨析。A. 感谢; B. 爱;C. 帮助;D. 丧失。根据上文内容My wife had died可知孩子除了适应新环境,也要适应没有母亲的生活,所以D选项正确。
小题14:A形容词辨析。A. 低落的;B. 附近的;C. 亲密的;D. 宽的。作者在上文讲述失去妻子后混乱的生活,可知当时处在人生的低谷时期,由此判断此处是指人情绪低落时,所以A选项正确。
小题15:B短语辨析。A.得到; B. 做到;C. 拿到;D.留下。由情理可知当人处于人生低谷时,会失去信心,认为一切都不能恢复正常,所以选B,make it 指“成功做成某事”。
小题16:C动词辨析。 A. 种植;B. 买  ;C.收集 ;D.冷冻。根据下文how fast you collect your peas可知此处是指把洒落的豆子捡拾起来,所以C选项正确。
小题17:A副词辨析。A. 最后; B. 幸运地;C. 适当地;D. 特别地。从作者的讲述可知散落在地的豌豆最后都找到了,根据语境判断此处是指一切都会过去,生活最终会恢复正常,故选A。
小题18:B代词辨析。 A. 两者都 ; B. 三者或以上都 ;C. 两者之每一个;D. 每个。从语境可知此处强调把所有的豆子都捡拾起来,所以选B。
小题19:D动词短语辨析。A. 号召,拜访;B. 穿上;C. 带来;D.继续。根据上文and life will move on.可知D选项正确。
小题20:D连词辨析。A.当…时候;B. 因为;C. 自从;D. 或者。从语境判断前后句是选择关系,选D。
核心考点
试题【  A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
I ran into a stranger as he passed by. “I’m so sorry!” was my     . Then he said, “Excuse me too ... I didn’t even      you.” We were very    , the stranger and I. Then we went on our ways after saying     .
But at home, a different      is told. How we treat our      ones, the young and the old. Later, in the kitchen, as I cooked our supper, my      entered, very still. When I turned, I nearly knocked her down. “Get out of the way!” I      at her. She left, with her little heart broken. I didn’t      how hard I’d spoken.
That     , as I lay awake in bed, God’s quiet voice      to me and said, “While with strangers, you are polite,      with those you love, you didn’t do it properly. Go and look right now on the      floor, you’ll find some flowers there by the door. Those are the flowers she    __  for you. She picked them herself—pink, yellow and blue.”
By this time, I felt      and small and now my own      fell. I quietly went to her bed, “     up, my dear daughter.” I said. “Are these the flowers you picked for me?” She smiled, “I found them on the tree. I knew you’d like them,      the blue.” I said, “I’m so   __  that I missed them today ... And I shouldn’t have shouted at you that way.” She whispered(低声说), “Mommy, that’s okay. I still      you anyway.” I hugged her and said, “I love you too and love your flowers, especially the blue.”
小题1:
A.ruleB.replyC.stepD.truth
小题2:
A.seeB.tellC.getD.take
小题3:
A.nervousB.alikeC.politeD.confident
小题4:
A.welcomeB.thanksC.helloD.good-bye
小题5:
A.storyB.messageC.noticeD.activity
小题6:
A.crazyB.lovedC.blindD.brave
小题7:
A.motherB.husbandC.daughterD.son
小题8:
A.smiledB.lookedC.shotD.shouted
小题9:
A.lieB.careC.attackD.realize
小题10:
A.noonB.afternoonC.eveningD.night
小题11:
A.lookedB.pointedC.spokeD.listened
小题12:
A.whenB.butC.unlessD.besides
小题13:
A.kitchenB.bedroomC.dinning-roomD.library
小题14:
A.broughtB.boughtC.stoleD.paid
小题15:
A.excitedB.sadC.happyD.great
小题16:
A.legB.headC.tearsD.feelings
小题17:
A.LookB.EndC.DressD.Wake
小题18:
A.especiallyB.speciallyC.exceptD.except for
小题19:
A.braveB.lazyC.sorryD.excited
小题20:
A.hateB.loveC.missD.beat

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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

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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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