Helen Keller was born in America in June, 1880. Everything was all right when she was born. But when she was 19 months old, an attack of fever left her blind and deaf for the rest of her life. She was so young when she became blind that as she grew older she did not remember being able to see; and she became deaf before she had any idea of the importance of human speech. She lived in darkness and silence.
As she grew older, she, too, wanted to express her ideas and feelings. But she realized she was cut off from others. Her parents were greatly worried. How could anyone make touch with Helen’s mind and intelligence in darkness and silence without speech? Helen was nearly seven before a teacher was found. Her name was Miss Sullivan.
Miss Sullivan had a lot of difficulties in teaching Helen Keller. As the child could neither see nor hear, she had to use manual alphabet. But Helen’s energy and intelligence and strong spirit as well as Miss Sullivan’s skill and patience, overcame all the difficulties. As Helen grew up, she became an able student, passed examination and finally took a university degree in English literature. She then devoted all herself to helping the blind and the deaf. Her personal success, together with the work she had done for others, made her one of the greatest women in modern times. She wrote many books and “The Story of My Life”is a wonderful one.
小题1:Which of the following statements is TRUE?| A．Helen Keller was born blind and deaf. | | B．She first became blind and then deaf. | | C．She became blind and deaf in 1880. | | D．She became blind and deaf sometime about January 1882. |
小题2:Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?| A．Helen became blind and deaf because she suffered from a high fever. | | B．Helen became blind before she could see anything. | | C．Helen became deaf before she realized how important it was to be able to hear and speak. | | D．Helen, too, wanted to touch with others with speech. |
小题3:Helen was finally successful mainly because of______.| A．her parents’ help | | B．the manual alphabet Miss Sullivan used in teaching her | | C．the help she got when she was studying for a university degree | | D．her hard work, cleverness and will-power as well as Sullivan’s great efforts |
小题4:Helen Keller finally became______.| A．an able student | | B．a writer | | C．the greatest woman in modern times | | D．a student who took a university degree in English literature |
小题5:Helen Keller’s parents were greatly worried because___.| A．She was growing older | | B．She was cut off from others | | C．she, too, wanted to express her ideas and feelings but she could not | | D．she was almost seven years old and yet they were not sure whether they could find a suitable teacher for her |
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小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:B
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试题分析：本文介绍的海伦凯勒的生平事迹和海伦的成功是因为她的聪明，努力，意志力和老师的努力。
小题1:计算题：从第一段的句子：Helen Keller was born in America in June, 1880. Everything was all right when she was born. But when she was 19 months old, an attack of fever left her blind and deaf for the rest of her life.可知海伦是在1882年的一月份变成聋哑人的，选D
小题2:细节题：从第一段的句子：She was so young when she became blind that as she grew older she did not remember being able to see;可知她一开始是可以看见的，但是后来失明了。选B
小题3:细节题：从第三段的句子：But Helen’s energy and intelligence and strong spirit as well as Miss Sullivan’s skill and patience, overcame all the difficulties. 可知海伦的成功是因为她的聪明，努力，意志力和老师的努力。选D
小题4:细节题：从第三段的句子：She wrote many books and “The Story of My Life”is a wonderful one.可知海伦最后成为了一个作家。选B
小题5:细节题：从第二段的句子：How could anyone make touch with Helen’s mind and intelligence in darkness and silence without speech?可知海伦的父母担心能不能给她找个好老师。选D
点评：本文介绍的海伦凯勒的生平事迹和海伦的成功是因为她的聪明，努力，意志力和老师的努力。测试考生在阅读基础上的逻辑推理能力，要求考生根据文章所述事件的逻辑关系，对未说明的趋势或结局作出合理的推断；或根据作者所阐述的观点理论，对文章未涉及的现象、事例给以解释。考生首先要仔细阅读短文，完整了解信息，准确把握作者观点。 |
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The Pecan Thief
When I was six years old, I was visiting my grandfather"s farm in Kansas. Grandpa had sent me into the 36 to gather pecans for us to enjoy later.
Pecan picking was really 37 work and my little basket was only half full. I wasn"t about to 38 Grandpa down. Just then something caught my 39 . A large brown squirrel was a few feet away. I watched as he picked up a pecan, hurried to a tree and 40 in a large hole in the trunk. A moment later the squirrel 41 out and climbed down to the ground to pick up another nut. Once again, he took the pecan back to his hiding place.
Not so 42 anymore, I thought. I dashed over to the tree and looked into the hole. It was 43 with pecans! Golden pecans were right there for taking. This was my 44 . Handful by handful, I scooped all of those pecans into my basket. Now it was full! I was so 45 of myself. I couldn"t wait to show Grandpa all the pecans. 46 , I ran back and shouted, “Look at all the pecans!” He looked into the basket and said, “Well, well, how did you find so many ? ” I told him how I"d 47 the squirrel and taken the pecans from his hiding place.
Grandpa congratulated me on how smart I"d been in observing the squirrel and his habits. Then he did something that 48 me. He handed the basket back to me and put his arm gently 49 my shoulders.
“That squirrel worked very hard to gather his winter 50 of food, ” he said. “Now that all of his pecans are gone, don"t you think that little squirrel will 51 the cold winter? ”
“I didn"t think about that,” I said.
“I know, ” Grandpa said. “But a good man should never take 52 of someone else"s hard work.”
Suddenly I felt a bit 53 . The image of the starving squirrel wouldn"t 54 my mind. There was only one thing I could do. I carried the basket back to the tree and poured all the nuts into the hole.
I didn"t eat any pecans that night, but I had something much more filling—the 55 of knowing I had done just the right thing.
| 小题1: | | A．woods | B．rooms | C．holes | D．roads |
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| 小题2: | | A．dirty | B．hard | C．light | D．easy |
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| 小题3: | | A．settle | B．let | C．have | D．keep |
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| 小题4: | | A．sweater | B．basket | C．hand | D．eye |
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| 小题5: | | A．joined | B．lived | C．disappeared | D．discovered |
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| 小题6: | | A．held | B．jumped | C．stood | D．found |
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| 小题7: | | A．secret | B．strange | C．anxious | D．patient |
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| 小题8: | | A．filled | B．covered | C．rebuilt | D．decorated |
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| 小题9: | | A．time | B．choice | C．achievement | D．chance |
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| 小题10: | | A．afraid | B．ashamed | C．proud | D．careful |
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| 小题11: | | A．Otherwise | B．However | C．Therefore | D．Besides |
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| 小题12: | | A．followed | B．driven | C．protected | D．caught |
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| 小题13: | | A．annoyed | B．satisfied | C．delighted | D．surprised |
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| 小题14: | | A．off | B．beside | C．around | D．over |
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| 小题15: | | A．cost | B．supply | C．support | D．preparation |
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| 小题16: | | A．escape | B．spend | C．flee | D．survive |
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| 小题17: | | A．place | B．notice | C．charge | D．advantage |
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| 小题18: | | A．unconfident | B．guilty | C．embarrassed | D．nervous |
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| 小题19: | | A．leave | B．open | C．cross | D．occupy |
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| 小题20: | | A．inspiration | B．expectation | C．satisfaction | D．impression |
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Prince Roman was a Polish nobleman, a captain in the army of Czar Nicholas of Russia. When his young wife died, the prince left the army and returned in sorrow to his native Poland.
In time, love for his country and its people took the place of his lost love. He joined a Polish rising against the Russians. The rising was crushed, and Prince Roman was taken prisoner. His relatives and friends begged the military court to have mercy on him.
The president of the court received these appeals kindly. He was a good Russian, but he was also a good-natured man. Russian hatred of Poles was not as fierce at that time as it became later; and the Russian felt sympathetic as soon as he saw the prince"s thin, tired, sun-burnt face.
The court of three officers sat in a bare room, behind a long black table. Some clerks sat at the two ends, but no one else was there when the guards brought in the prince.
Those four walls shut out from Prince Roman all sights and sounds of freedom, all hopes of the future, all comforting thoughts. How much love for Poland remained in him then? How much love of life? He stood before his judges alone, having refused their permission to sit. He answered their first formal questions — his name and so on — clearly and politely although he felt too weary to talk.
Then the president of the court seemed to suggest how the young man could best help himself. He asked questions in a way that almost put the right answers in the prisoner"s mouth.
“Didn"t your wife"s death drive you to despair? Wasn"t your mind unbalanced by that sad event ?”
Prince Roman was silent.
"You were not fully responsible for you conduct, were you?"
Prince Roman was silent.
"You made a sudden blind decision to join the rising. You didn"t realize that your actions were dangerous and dishonourable. Isn"t that the truth of this unfortunate matter?"
The judges looked at the prisoner hopefully. In silence the prince reached for a pen and some paper. He wrote, "I joined the rising because I believe it was just." He pushed the paper towards the president, who took it and read it in silence.
Prince Roman was sentenced to hard work for life in the Siberian salt mines. It was a sentence of delayed death.
When Czar Nicholas read the report and sentence, he added in his own handwriting, "Make sure that this prisoner walks in chains every step of the way to Siberia."
小题1:What does the passage tell us of Poland at the time?| A．Polish officers in the Russian army had to return to Poland. | | B．Russia was at war with Poland, so the Poles were enemies. | | C．The Russians were very cruel rulers of Poland. | | D．It was ruled by Russia, and Poles served in the Russian army. |
小题2:How much love for Poland remained in the prince when he stood trial?| A．Not much, probably, after the failure of the rising. | | B． More than he had ever felt before. | | C．As much as he had ever felt. | | D．The passage doesn"t suggest an answer to the question. |
小题3:The questions which the president asked show that ______.| A．he was trying to find excuse for the prince"s conduct | | B．the court wanted the prince to admit his own guilt | | C．he wanted to learn the truth about the Polish rising | | D．Prince Roman was a weak person |
小题4:In the trial, Prince Roman ______.| A．was afraid to be responsible for his actions | | B．blamed others for his actions | | C．accepted responsibility for his actions | | D．admitted his guilt |
小题5:According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?| A．The judges were less sympathetic than Czar Nicholas. | | B．Czar Nicholas was as kind as the judges. | | C．Czar Nicholas was not as sympathetic as the judges. | | D．The judges were as cruel as Czar Nicholas. |
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When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah, he happened to live near a copper smelter(炼铜厂), and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what used to be a beautiful forest. One day a young visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area. Paul knocked him down. From then on, something happened inside him.
Years later Paul was back in the area, and he went to the smelter office. He asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back. The answer from that big industry was “No.”
Paul then went to college to study the science of plants. Unfortunately, his teachers said there weren"t any birds or squirrels to spread the seeds. It would be a waste of his life to try to do it. He was told everyone knew that even if he was knowledgeable as he had expected, he wouldn"t get his idea accepted.
Paul later got married and had some kids. But, his dream would not die. And then one night he did what he could with what he had. Under the cover of darkness, he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting.
And every week, he made his secret journey into the wasteland and planted trees and grass. For fifteen years he did this against the plain common sense. Slowly rabbits appeared. Later, as there was legal pressure to clean up the environment, the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing.
Now the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and bushes, and Paul has received almost every environmental award Utah has. It took him until his hair turned white, but he managed to keep that impossible vow(誓言) he made to himself as a child.
小题1:When Paul was a boy, _________.| A．he had decided never to leave his hometown | | B．the economy of Utah depended on the copper smelter | | C．he had determined to stop the copper smelter polluting the area | | D．no laws were made to protect the environment against pollution |
小题2:Why did Paul go to college to study the science of plants?| A．He wanted to find out the best way to save the area himself. | | B．He was interested in planting trees since he was young. | | C．He wanted to get more knowledgeable people to help him. | | D．He thought his knowledge would make his advice more persuasive. |
小题3:What does the underlined phrase “the plain common sense” in paragraph 5 probably refer to?| A．That his normal work and life would be greatly affected. | | B．That it was impossible for trees to grow on the wasteland. | | C．That no one would like to join him in the efforts. | | D．That he had to keep everything he did secret. |
小题4:The message of the passage is that ___________.| A．perseverance(持之以恒) will work wonders | | B．action speaks louder than words | | C．God helps those who help themselves | | D．many hands make light work. |
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Jerry stood up and looked at the crowd of people making their way through the station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he 36 , the girl with the 37 . The story had begun twelve months before in a 38 . Taking a book off the shelf he found himself 39 by the notes penciled in the margin. The soft handwriting 40 a thoughtful soul and an insightful mind. In the front of the book, he discovered the 41 owner’s name, Rosanna.
During the next year the two grew to know each other through the 42 . Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. The day finally came for their first 43 - 7:00 PM at the station.
A beautiful young woman was coming toward me, her 44 tall and slim. I started to walk toward her with delight, entirely forgetting to 45 that she was not wearing a rose. I 46 made one step closer to her, and then I saw Rosanna, a short and fat woman well past 40, was standing almost directly 47 the girl. The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away.
I felt 48 I was split in two, and there she stood. My fingers gripped the worn leather copy of the 49 that was to identify me to her. I knew this would not be 50 , something perhaps even better than love. I felt choked by the bitterness of my 51 . “I’m Jerry, and you must be Rosanna. I am so glad you could meet me; may I take you to 52 ?”
The woman’s face broadened into a big smile. “I don"t know what this is about, son,” she answered,” but the young lady in the green suit who just 53 begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said 54 you were to ask me out to dinner, I should go and tell you that she is waiting for you in the big 55 across the street. She said it was some kind of test!”
| 小题1: | | A．hadn’t | B．wouldn’t | C．couldn’t | D．didn"t |
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| 小题2: | | A．rose | B．flower | C．book | D．notes |
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| 小题3: | | A．restaurant | B．meeting room | C．library | D．station |
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| 小题4: | | A．absorbed | B．surrounded | C．interested | D．burdened |
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| 小题5: | | A．reacted | B．reflected | C．responded | D．repeated |
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| 小题6: | | A．previous | B．nice | C．thoughtful | D．beautiful |
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| 小题7: | | A．phone | B．telegram | C．book | D．e-mail |
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| 小题8: | | A．dining | B．meeting | C．walking | D．talking |
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| 小题9: | | A．legs | B．face | C．figure | D．hair |
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| 小题10: | | A．observe | B．conclude | C．notice | D．say |
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| 小题11: | | A．carefully | B．eagerly | C．luckily | D．easily |
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| 小题12: | | A．behind | B．past | C．over | D．before |
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| 小题13: | | A．as long as | B．even though | C．no matter how | D．as though |
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| 小题14: | | A．newspaper | B．book | C．magazine | D．note |
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| 小题15: | | A．a meeting | B．happiness | C．love | D．a dinner |
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| 小题16: | | A．relief | B．sorrow | C．disappointment | D．unwillingness |
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| 小题17: | | A．a walk | B．your home | C．a party | D．dinner |
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| 小题18: | | A．went by | B．called me | C．came here | D．dropped in |
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| 小题19: | | A．when | B．supposing | C．unless | D．since |
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| 小题20: | | A．market | B．restaurant | C．building | D．library |
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Although I love my life, it hasn’t been a lot of fun as I’ve been ill for 28 years.
Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my ___36___ was more manageable, I ___37___ ten years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs. ___38___ that was years ago and times have changed. ___39___ I live with my mother on a country farm.
Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to ___40___ my disability pension(残疾抚恤金). ___41___ I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited in my ___42___. I decided that I would consider ___43___ to singing in restaurants.
My family are all musicians, so I was ___44___ when I went into our local music store. I explained that I wanted to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn’t have a lot of ___45___ to get started. And ___46___ you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can ___47___ use.
When I told the owner of the shop about my ___48___, he gave me a long, thoughtful ___49___. “This means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” he said. “Come with me.”
He led me ___50___ the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand ___51___ on his treasure and said, “I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your ___52___ and I’ll record them for you. That should get you started.”
I ___53___. Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose ___54___ that I could sing. I have come full circle with his help.
His ___55___ still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance.
| 小题1: | | A．sadness | B．tiredness | C．sickness | D．loneliness |
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| 小题2: | | A．enjoyed | B．kept | C．shared | D．set |
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| 小题3: | | A．Eventually | B．Unfortunately | C．Surprisingly | D．Gladly |
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| 小题4: | | A．Then | B．Sometime | C．Meanwhile | D．Now |
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| 小题5: | | A．make up for | B．get rid of | C．take advantage of | D．add up to |
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| 小题7: | | A．condition | B．choices | C．positions | D．movement |
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| 小题8: | | A．living up | B．getting on | C．going back | D．reaching out |
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| 小题9: | | A．interviewed | B．found | C．invited | D．recognized |
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| 小题10: | | A．time | B．energy | C．knowledge | D．money |
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| 小题11: | | A．once | B．seldom | C．often | D．thus |
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| 小题12: | | A．hardly | B．nearly | C．formerly | D．actually |
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| 小题13: | | A．family | B．idea | C．offer | D．job |
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| 小题14: | | A．view | B．look | C．sight | D．face |
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| 小题15: | | A．along | B．towards | C．through | D．over |
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| 小题16: | | A．lovingly | B．pitifully | C．gratefully | D．unhappily |
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| 小题18: | | A．ought to cry | B．should have cried | C．could have cried | D．had to cry |
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| 小题19: | | A．the ones | B．few | C．the rest | D．more |
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| 小题20: | | A．devotion | B．kindness | C．trust | D．courage |
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