A long time ago, there was an emperor. One day he told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse and 1 as much land area as he liked, he would give him the area of land he had covered. 2 enough, the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse and 3 as fast as possible to cover as much land area as he could. He 4 riding and riding, whipping the horse to go as fast as possible. Even when he was 5 and tired, he did not stop 6 he wanted to cover as much area as possible. When he at last covered a large amount of land, he was exhausted and was 7 . Then he asked himself, “Why did I 8 myself so hard to cover so much land area? Now I am dying and I only 9 a very small area to 10 myself.”
The above story is 11 to the journey of our 12 . We push ourselves very hard every day to make more 13 , to gain power or recognition. We neglect our 14 , time with our family and to appreciate the surrounding 15 and the things we love to do. One day 16 we look back, we will 17 that we don’t really need that much, 18 then we cannot turn back time for what we have 19 .
Life is not about making money. Life is definitely not about work! Work is only 20 to keep us living so as to enjoy the beauty and pleasures of life.
| 小题2: | | A．Good | B．Strange | C．Sure | D．Interesting |
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| 小题3: | | A．rode | B．ran | C．expanded | D．struggled |
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| 小题4: | | A．kept on | B．asked for | C．gave up | D．succeeded in |
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| 小题5: | | A．sad | B．excited | C．confused | D．hungry |
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| 小题7: | | A．sleeping | B．arguing | C．dying | D．smiling |
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| 小题8: | | A．push | B．make | C．destroy | D．prove |
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| 小题9: | | A．need | B．have | C．find | D．show |
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| 小题10: | | A．live | B．bury | C．support | D．sleep |
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| 小题11: | | A．useful | B．certain | C．similar | D．special |
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| 小题12: | | A．future | B．past | C．history | D．life |
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| 小题13: | | A．friends | B．progress | C．discoveries | D．money |
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| 小题14: | | A．health | B．career | C．honor | D．freedom |
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| 小题15: | | A．things | B．condition | C．people | D．beauty |
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| 小题16: | | A．before | B．when | C．unless | D．since |
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| 小题17: | | A．realize | B．regret | C．apologize | D．explain |
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| 小题18: | | A．or | B．until | C．however | D．but |
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| 小题19: | | A．saved | B．missed | C．reduced | D．won |
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| 小题20: | | A．possible | B．probable | C．necessary | D．suitable |
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小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:A
小题5:D
小题6:C
小题7:C
小题8:A
小题9:A
小题10:B
小题11:C
小题12:D
小题13:D
小题14:A
小题15:D
小题16:B
小题17:A
小题18:D
小题19:B
小题20:C |
试题分析：本文的主要内容是通过一个故事，说明了这样一个生活哲理。在生活中，我们一直争名逐利，忽视错过了很多美好的东西，但有一天当我们回顾往事时，我们意识到我们真的不需要那么多，但我们已经无法回到我们已经错过的时光。
小题1:根据he would give him the area of land he had covered，故选B。
小题2:根据the horseman quickly jumped onto his horse，故选C，Sure无疑的。
小题3:根据A long time ago, there was an emperor. One day he told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse，故选A。
小题4:根据whipping the horse to go as fast as possible.可知这里想说他一直不停的骑马，故选A，kept on继续进行。
小题5:根据and tired，故选D，hungry饥饿的。
小题6:根据he wanted to cover as much area as possible，故选C。
小题7:根据Now I am dying and I only need a very small area to bury myself，故选C。
小题8:根据myself so hard to cover so much land area?故选A，push推。
小题9:这里想表达我只需要很小的一块地来埋葬自己，故选A，need 需要。
小题10:这里想表达我只需要很小的一块地来埋葬自己，故选B，bury埋葬。
小题11:这里想说上面的这个故事和我们生命的历程很相似，故选C， be similar to与……相似。
小题12:这里想说上面的这个故事和我们生命的历程很相似，故选D。
小题13:根据to gain power or recognition.故选D。
小题14:这里想说我们忽视了自己的健康，故选A，health健康。
小题15:根据and to appreciate the surrounding，故选D，beauty美好。
小题16:这里想表达有一天当我们回顾往事时，故选B，when当……时候。
小题17:这里想表达我们意识到我们真的不需要那么多，故选A，realize意识到。
小题18:这里想表达但是，我们已经无法回到我们已经错过的时光，故选D，but但是。
小题19:这里想表达但是，我们已经无法回到我们已经错过的时光，故选B，missed 错过的。
小题20:根据to keep us living so as to enjoy the beauty and pleasures of life，故选C，necessary必要的。
点评：答题前一定要略读全文，把握文章要表达的主题，注意前后句与句，段落与段落之间的关系。答题中，一定要认真分析，注意选项与上下文的关系，与前后单词的关系。对于一时没有太大的把握的题可以放到最后再来完成，因为有时答案可以从下文内容体现出来。答完后再通读一遍文章，看看所选选项能不能是语句通顺，语意连贯。 |
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When 16-year-old Ella Fitzgerald stepped onto the stage to perform at Harlem’s Apollo Theater in 1934, she had no idea that her life was about to change. Her childhood had been 36 . After the death of her parents, Fitzgerald had been placed in a boarding school. 37 , the teachers at the school mistreated her, 38 she ran away. Homeless and orphaned, Fitzgerald was trying her best to 39 on the streets of New York City when she won a contest to perform during an amateur night at the Apollo. She had 40 planned to dance, but at the last second, she decided to sing her mother’s favorite song 41 . Her performance earned her 42 from several well-known musicians. Ella Fitzgerald went on to become a 43 jazz singer.
During a musical career that spanned six decades, Fitzgerald 44 more than 200 albums. She won 13 Grammy Awards, the last of which she received in 1990. She worked with some of the greatest American singers of the twentieth century, including Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her talent and charm 45 a wide range of listeners around the world. The worldwide 46 of Ella Fitzgerald helped make jazz a more popular genre.
Until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the United States 47 African American citizens the same treatment 48 white citizens received. Fitzgerald’s manager and her band 49 to perform at places where discrimination was practiced. They also decided not to perform unless they were paid the same 50 as white singers and musicians. Ella’s fight for 51 received support from numerous celebrity admirers, including Marilyn Monroe. Fitzgerald never took her good fortune for granted. She gave money to charities and organizations that contributed to 52 disadvantages children. For her many civic contributions, in 1992 President George Bush 53 her the Presidential Medal of Honor, one of the highest honors 54 to civilians.
In 1991, Fitzgerald gave her 55 performance in New York’s Carnegie Hall. Although Ella Fitzgerald died in 1996, the American “First Lady of Song” continues to live in the hearts and ears of music lovers worldwide.
| 小题1: | | A．rich | B．rough | C．tiresome | D．happy |
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| 小题2: | | A．Importantly | B．Unforgettably | C．Naturally | D．Unfortunately |
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| 小题3: | | A．therefore | B．but | C．so | D．then |
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| 小题4: | | A．survive | B．experience | C．learn | D．stand |
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| 小题5: | | A．strangely | B．blindly | C．originally | D．probably |
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| 小题6: | | A．in spite | B．instead | C．in place | D．though |
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| 小题7: | | A．jealousy | B．recognition | C．reputation | D．gratitude |
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| 小题8: | | A．creative | B．dependent | C．undiscovered | D．distinguished |
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| 小题9: | | A．released | B．sold | C．copied | D．showed |
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| 小题10: | | A．compared with | B．appealed to | C．composed of | D．depended on |
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| 小题11: | | A．celebration | B．admiration | C．relaxation | D．indication |
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| 小题12: | | A．denied | B．supported | C．offered | D．hated |
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| 小题13: | | A．which | B．what | C．that | D．like |
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| 小题14: | | A．decided | B．refused | C．started | D．afforded |
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| 小题15: | | A．number | B．quantity | C．amount | D．lots |
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| 小题16: | | A．wealth | B．future | C．equality | D．agreement |
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| 小题17: | | A．caring for | B．playing with | C．preferring to | D．taking after |
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| 小题18: | | A．rewarded | B．awarded | C．paid | D．presented |
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| 小题19: | | A．accessible | B．inadequate | C．available | D．official |
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| 小题20: | | A．best | B．vivid | C．open | D．final |
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The family had just moved. The young woman was feeling a little __1__. It was Mother’s Day – and 800 miles separated her from her parents.
She had called them that morning, and her mother had __2__ how colorful their backyard was __3__ spring had arrived. Later, she told her husband how she __4__ those lilacs (丁香花) in her parents’ yard. “I know where we can find some,” he said. “Get the __5__ and come on.” So off they went.
Some time later, they stopped at a hill and there were lilacs all round. The young woman rushed up to the nearest __6__ and buried her face in the flowers. Carefully, she __7__ some. Finally, they returned to their car for the __8__ home. The woman sat smiling, surrounded by her __9__.
When they were near home, she shouted “Stop,” got out quickly and __10__ to a nearby nursing home. She went to the end of the porch (门廊), where a(n) __11__ patient was sitting in her wheelchair, and put the flowers into her lap. The two __12__, bursting into laughter now and then. Later the young woman turned and ran back to her __13__. As the car pulled away, the woman in the wheelchair __14__ with a smile, and held the lilacs __15__.
“Mom,” the kids asked, “__16__ did you give her our flowers?”“It is Mother’s Day, and she seems so __17__while I have all of you. And anyone would be __18__ by flowers.”
This satisfied the kids, but not the husband. The next day he __19__ some young lilacs around their yard.
I was the husband. Now, every May, our yard is full of lilacs. Every Mother’s Day our kids __20__ purple lilacs. And every year I remember that smile of the lonely old woman. And that has become a lasting touching memory of my life.
| 小题1: | | A．moved | B．worried | C．angry | D．depressed |
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| 小题2: | | A．learned | B．imagined | C．mentioned | D．realized |
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| 小题3: | | A．now that | B．so that | C．as if | D．even if |
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| 小题4: | | A．missed | B．planted | C．watered | D．showed |
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| 小题5: | | A．cars | B．kids | C．clothes | D．lilacs |
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| 小题7: | | A．bought | B．picked | C．sent | D．raised |
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| 小题8: | | A．break | B．holiday | C．trip | D．dinner |
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| 小题9: | | A．friends | B．memory | C．flowers | D．honor |
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| 小题10: | | A．responded | B．pointed | C．drove | D．hurried |
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| 小题11: | | A．loving | B．elderly | C．serious | D．sensitive |
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| 小题12: | | A．hesitated | B．waited | C．sat | D．chatted |
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| 小题13: | | A．family | B．mother | C．path | D．home |
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| 小题14: | | A．nodded | B．waved | C．left | D．continued |
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| 小题15: | | A．weakly | B．politely | C．quickly | D．tightly |
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| 小题17: | | A．quiet | B．confused | C．alone | D．patient |
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| 小题18: | | A．calmed | B．persuaded | C．disappointed | D．cheered |
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| 小题19: | | A．arranged | B．dried | C．grew | D．hid |
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| 小题20: | | A．find | B．gather | C．receive | D．sell |
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Martin was grown-up, and for his birthday that year his father gave him a 36 without any pictures in it!
Martin’s father found he was not 37 about it, and told him, “Son, this isn’t just any 38 book; it’s a magic (有魔力的) book. But to discover its magic you’ll have to 39 it.”
Well, that was better. Martin liked 40 to do with magic. He started reading it, 41 he wasn’t very willing to.
The next morning, his 42 asked him, “Have you found the magic 43 ? ”
So… there was a key to find! Martin flicked through (快速翻阅) the book, but there was no 44 of the key.
And then his father 45 him, “You won’t find it like that . You have to read the book.”
Martin didn’t have much patience (耐心), thinking his father just told a 46 . A little later, his little sister, Angela, asked him 47 the book. After several days, she 48 shouted, “I’ve found the key!” And she wouldn’t stop 49 all the places she had visited using the magic key.
This made Martin read the book again. At first it was a 50 ; there wasn’t even one single 51 in the book. But, gradually, Martin became 52 the adventurous (冒险的) prince’s life. Then, suddenly, he was there.
The book 53 was the key!
It was true that every time he 54 it, he felt going to its valleys and seas, and he lived the adventures of the prince.
From then on, with every new book, Martin never 55 being attracted by the letters and words inside.
| 小题2: | | A．sad | B．happy | C．surprised | D．angry |
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| 小题3: | | A．special | B．new | C．famous | D．ordinary |
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| 小题4: | | A．keep | B．read | C．take | D．value |
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| 小题5: | | A．somebody | B．nothing | C．everything | D．anybody |
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| 小题7: | | A．uncle | B．mother | C．father | D．aunt |
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| 小题9: | | A．mark | B．sign | C．signal | D．way |
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| 小题10: | | A．asked | B．praised | C．followed | D．told |
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| 小题13: | | A．happily | B．badly | C．quickly | D．slowly |
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| 小题14: | | A．working out | B．talking about | C．turning down | D．looking for |
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| 小题15: | | A．pity | B．pleasure | C．pain | D．success |
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| 小题16: | | A．picture | B．note | C．text | D．title |
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| 小题17: | | A．busy with | B．tired of | C．interested in | D．good at |
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| 小题18: | | A．it | B．yourself | C．himself | D．itself |
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| 小题19: | | A．opened | B．put | C．threw | D．covered |
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| 小题20: | | A．tried | B．felt | C．stopped | D．began |
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Today was a big day for my eldest son, Kevin. He had his first big boy haircut. Before today, we have always stood by his side, told the hairdresser what to do and watched over the whole thing. We’ve been working on the rewards (奖赏) of responsibility with my son for quite some time. Today, he got one of those rewards by having his own haircut.
When they arrived at the shop, his father showed him a book with lots of styles of haircuts for boys. After he made his choice, he waited patiently for his turn. My husband decided he would get his own hair cut at the same time.
When their names were called, Kevin showed the hairdresser the picture of his chosen haircut, which, thankfully, was not a strange haircut. The hairdresser looked to my husband for approval (批准) and he told her his son was in charge.
During his haircut, Kevin talked happily with the hairdresser. My husband, who was getting his haircut in the next chair, kept silent. When all was said and done, Kevin looked quite handsome.
When it was time to pay, he reached into his pocket and took out the cash my husband gave him. He handed it to her and said, “Thanks, it’s all yours.” I guess that’s the six-year-old equivalent (对应的语句) of “keep the change.”
I have to admit I was a little nervous about the whole thing before, but I’m a believer now. My son is growing up and ready for new big boy experiences.
小题1:When Kevin got his haircut, the author used to .| A．do her own thing | B．leave him alone | | C．talk happily with her son | D．manage the whole thing |
小题2:What did the author’s husband do at the hairdresser’s?| A．Picked out a hair style for his son. | B．Talked happily with the hairdressers. | | C．Had his own haircut silently | D．Stood together with the author. |
小题3:What was the hair style that Kevin chose like?| A．It was very strange. | B．It suited him well. | | C．It was very bad. | D．It was more like a girl’s |
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Last year, I took a sightseeing trip to Washington, DC. I heard a voice say, “Can you help me?”
When I turned around, I saw an elderly blind woman with her hand extended. Immediately, I pulled out all of my change and placed it on her hand without even looking at her. But the blind woman smiled and said, “I don’t want your money. I just need help finding the post office.”
In an instant, I realized what I had done. I acted with prejudice—I judged another person simply for what I assumed she had to be. I hated what I saw in myself.
The thing I had forgotten about myself is that I am an immigrant. I left Honduras and arrived in the US at the age of 15. I started my new life with two suitcases, my brother and sister. Through the years, I have been a doorkeeper, cashier and pizza delivery driver among many other humble (卑微的) jobs, and eventually I became a network engineer.
In my own life, I have experienced prejudice. I remember a time—at the age of 17 —when I was a busboy, I heard a father tell his little boy that if he did not do well in school, he would end up like me.
But now, living in my American middle—class lifestyle, it is too easy to forget my past, to forget who I am, where I have been, and to lose sight of where I want to be going. That blind woman on the streets cured me of my blindness. She reminded me of my belief in humility (谦虚). By the way, I helped that lady to the post office. I hope to thank her for the priceless lesson.
小题1:How did the writer give the blind woman money?| A．In a modest way. | B．In a polite way. | C．In an impatient way. | D．In a painful way. |
小题2:According to the text, the writer________.
A. still lives a poor life B. was busy with his work
C. was born in Honduras D. was a native of Washington D.C.
小题3:According to the text, the author most probably agrees that one should_________.| A．be nice to the elderly and the disabled | B．try to experience different kinds of cultures | | C．treat others equally with love and respect | D．think about one’s past as often as possible |
小题4:What would be the best title of the text?| A．A priceless lesson | B．An act of prejudice | | C．A sightseeing trip | D．A humble moment |
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