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He is a lesson to every boy who ever picked up a basketball and dreamed that it would change his life.
The lights were never brighter and the crowds were never bigger for a homegrown sports hero than they were a quarter-century ago for Ray Hall. But his athletic achievements, as impressive as they are, are to my mind not what is most admirable about the man.
Known as “Sugar Ray” in his teens, Hall was rated among the country’s top 25 high school basketball players. An inner-city kid from a solid family, Hall took on the challenge of lifting Canisius College — still recovering from its failure — back to respectability, rejecting more favorable offers. His status of a savior (救世主) brought more pressure than any 18-year-old should have to handle. However, I watched him mature into the player who led Canisius back to daylight.
After college Hall played professionally in Italy and Greece for over 10 years until a car accident at 32 ended his basketball career. The news that he would never play again shocked Hall but unlike so many others he was ready for life after basketball. When I met Hall — still fit at 46 — for lunch Monday, he wore a cut-sharp gray suit, designer tie and blazing white shirt that screamed Success. “That was always the question — when the cheers end, where do you go? Who do you turn to?” he said. “It starts and ends with that person in the mirror.”
Hall got the concept of academics-first from his parents. He graduated from Canisius a semester early. “No matter how good of an athlete you are, you are just one injury away from losing it all,” he said. “But if you take care of things academically, you are prepared until you leave this earth.”
For the past 14 years, he has been in a computer sales job at Ingram Micro. He married his college sweetheart. They have three kids and a nice house in the suburbs. He figured out early what others learn too late: Athletics is part of a journey, not the destination.
Congratulations, Ray, you made it. In more ways than one.
小题1:Ray was regarded as a savior because ________.
A.he liked to take on challenges |
B.he helped his team to regain its glory |
C.he was faithful to his hometown city |
D.he fought hard against failure at a young age |
A.Unlike other athletes, he was academically superior. |
B.He defeated his injury and returned to the playground. |
C.He enjoys a successful job and a happy family. |
D.He has gained impressive athletic achievements. |
a. He was rated among the best high school basketball players.
b. He was in a car accident.
c. He graduated from Canisius College.
d. He started his computer sales job.
e. He gave up his athletic career.
A.a, c, b, e, d | B.a, c, e, b, d | C.c, a, b, d, e | D.c, a, e, b, d |
A.Ray was from an academic family |
B.Ray was very mature in his teens |
C.Ray was once desperate facing the cruel reality |
D.athletics was not Ray’s final goal in life |
A.To describe the difficulties of being a professional athlete. |
B.To explain the importance of choosing the right college. |
C.To emphasize the need for a good education. |
D.To warn against playing professional basketball. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:C
解析
试题分析:本文介绍了“Sugar Ray”的一生的故事以及他的个人经历和对我们的启示。
小题1:B 推理题。根据第二段An inner-city kid from a solid family, Hall took on the challenge of lifting Canisius College — still recovering from its failure — back to respectability, rejecting more favorable offers. His status of a savior (救世主) brought more pressure than any 18-year-old should have to handle. However, I watched him mature into the player who led Canisius back to daylight.可知他帮助自己的球队重新获得了荣誉。故B正确。
小题2:C 细节题。根据文章倒数第二段For the past 14 years, he has been in a computer sales job at Ingram Micro. He married his college sweetheart. They have three kids and a nice house in the suburbs.可知他从事了一项很好的工作,有了一个幸福的家庭。故C正确。
小题3:A 细节题。第二段For the past 14 years, he has been in a computer sales job at Ingram Micro. He married his college sweetheart. They have three kids and a nice house in the suburbs.;和Hall took on the challenge of lifting Canisius College;第三段After college Hall played professionally in Italy and Greece for over 10 years until a car accident at 32 ended his basketball career和“But if you take care of things academically, you are prepared until you leave this earth.”以及倒数第二段For the past 14 years, he has been in a computer sales job at Ingram Micro可知A项顺序正确。
小题4:D 细节题。根据文章倒数2,3行He figured out early what others learn too late: Athletics is part of a journey, not the destination.可知运动不是他的终极目标。故D正确。
小题5:C 主旨大意题。根据文章倒数第三段Hall got the concept of academics-first from his parents. He graduated from Canisius a semester early. “No matter how good of an athlete you are, you are just one injury away from losing it all,” he said. “But if you take care of things academically, you are prepared until you leave this earth.”
可知在这一切中,教育都起了很大的作用。故C正确。
点评:本文介绍了“Sugar Ray”的一生的故事以及他的个人经历和对我们的启示。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。
核心考点
试题【BHe is a lesson to every boy who ever picked up a basketball and dreamed that it】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Rosa’s parents were separated. Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer __4__, she went to her father’s farm in Arizona.
The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and __5__ with some farm work. Her father, however, was so __6__ that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would __7__ her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the __8__ he would always buy her a present.
When summer came to a close, Rosa __9__ to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a __10__ to talk about.
Not long after __11__ began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting __12__, like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not __13__. Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to __14__.
When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could __15__ about her trip to England!
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A Different Roast Every Day
Alan worked in an office in the city. He worked very hard and really wanted to take a holiday.
He usually went to the seaside, but one day he saw an ad(广告) in a newspaper. " Enjoy country life. Spend a few weeks at Willow Farm. Good food, fresh air, horse riding, walking, fishing. Good prices (价格)."
"This sounds like a good idea," he thought. "I"ll spend a month at Willow Farm. I"ll enjoy horse riding, walking and fishing. They"ll make a change from sitting by the seaside."
Four days later he returned home.
"What"s wrong with Willow Farm?" his friend Jack asked him. " Didn"t you enjoy country life?"
"Country life was fine," Alan said, "but there was another problem."
"Oh, what?"
"Well, the first day I was there a sheep died, and we had roast mutton (烤羊肉) for dinner."
"Fresh meat is the best."
"I know, but on the second day a cow died, and we had roast beef for dinner."
"Lucky you!"
"You don"t understand," Alan said. "On the third day a pig died and we had roast pork for dinner."
"A different roast every day," Jack said.
" Let me finish," Alan said, " on the fourth day the farmer died and I didn"t dare to stay for dinner!"
小题1:Where did Alan work? He worked ___.
A.on a farm | B.at a school |
C.in a restaurant | D.in an office in a city |
A.by the seaside | B.in the country |
C.in the mountains | D.on an island |
A.he lived near there |
B.he had a good friend there |
C.he thought it would make a change from sitting by the seaside |
D.he wanted to enjoy the fresh air in the country |
A.A few days. | B.A week. | C.Three days. | D.Four days. |
A.He fell ill. |
B.The air there was not fresh. |
C.The prices were too high. |
D.He was afraid that they would have the dead man for dinner. |
This is a talk by a London taxi(出租车)driver.
"I"ve been a taxi driver for nearly ten years. Most London taxi drivers have their own taxis."
"It"s a nice job most of time. You meet a lot of people. I always work at night, because there is too much traffic during the day. I live twenty miles outside London and I go to work at 5:30 in the afternoon."
"I usually go home between 2 and 3 in the morning."
"Some very strange things happened late at night .The other day I was taking a woman home from a party .She had her little dog with her. When we got to her house, she found that she had lost her key. So I waited in the car with the dog while she climbed in through the windows."
"I waited and waited. After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on .I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb in through the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought I was a thief.
Luckily the woman came downstairs.She must have gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog!"
小题1:The driver always worked at night because it was easier to _____.
A.make money | B.drive |
C.climb in through the window | D.meet a lot of people |
A.she wanted to have a sleep |
B.her husband didn"t open the door for her |
C.she didn"t want to pay the driver |
D.she couldn"t find her key |
A.early in the morning | B.late at night |
C.20 miles outside London | D.near the police station |
A.The driver worked until between 2 and 3 in the morning. |
B.The police made a mistake. |
C.The woman had no money to pay the driver. |
D.The woman had forgotten about the driver and the dog. |
A.get money from the woman | B.return the dog to the woman |
C.phone the police | D.see what was happening in the house |
Sixty-year-old grandmother, Fiona McFee, is going to stop working next year and she decided to realize a childhood dream and sail around the coast of Scotland in a small boat. Although the inside of the boat is very cosy it has no running water or electricity. Fiona says she can live without these things but she plans to take her small CD player, her hot water bottle and a bag of books to make sure life isn’t too uncomfortable.
We asked her if she was afraid of being at sea for so long. She said, “Well, I’m going to take a good compass (指南针). Anyway I’m not afraid of death because I love the sea---I just hope it loves me.” Fiona certainly has plenty of energy; in her spare time, she enjoys playing the piano, rock-climbing, canoeing and dancing. Although she is sixty, she doesn’t want to have a quiet and peaceful life. “I’m looking forward to having fun in the rest of my life and that’s exactly why I’d like to be a sailor for a while.”
小题1:The underlined word cosy in the first paragraph means ____ .
A.bright | B.dirty | C.comfortable | D.dark |
A.Of course , it loves me , since I love it . |
B.If I love it , it should love me. |
C.I hope it will bring me a safe sailing as a return for my love of it . |
D.I hope it will save my life when I am in time of danger . |
A.she thinks it will be very exciting |
B.she likes sports and enjoys canoeing |
C.she has decided to realize a childhood dream |
D.she wants to be still active when she gets old |
A.Someone who does not show what she is feeling . |
B.Someone who is very proud and sure of her success . |
C.Someone who doesn’t use her head much . |
D.Someone who is open , honest and brave . |
A.Life Begins at Sixty | B.A Round Coast Sail |
C.An Old Woman Sailor | D.An Unusual Hobby(爱好) |
A year after graduation, I was offered a position teaching a writing class. Teaching was a profession I had never seriously considered, though several of my stories had been published. I accepted the job without hesitation, as it would allow me to wear a tie and go by the name of Mr. Davis. My father went by the same name, and I liked to imagine people getting the two of us confused. “Wait a minute” someone might say, “are you talking about Mr. Davis the retired man, or Mr. Davis the respectable scholar?”
The position was offered at the last minute, and I was given two weeks to prepare, a period I spent searching for briefcase (公文包) and standing before my full-length mirror, repeating the words, “Hello, class. I’m Mr. Davis.” Sometimes I would give myself an aggressive voice. Sometimes I would sound experienced. But when the day eventually came, my nerves kicked in and the true Mr. Davis was there. I sounded not like a thoughtful professor, but rather a 12-year-old boy.
I arrived in the classroom with paper cards designed in the shape of maple leaves. I had cut them myself out of orange construction paper. I saw nine students along a long table. I handed out the cards, and the students wrote down their names and fastened them to their breast pockets as I required.
“All right then,” I said. “Okey, here we go.” Then I opened my briefcase and realized that I had never thought beyond this moment. I had been thinking that the students would be the first to talk, offering their thoughts and opinions on the events of the day. I had imagined that I would sit at the edge of the desk, overlooking a forest of hands. Every student would yell. “Calm down, you’ll all get your turn. Once at a time, once at a time!”
A terrible silence ruled the room, and seeing no other opinions, I inspected the students to pull out their notebooks and write a brief essay related to the theme of deep disappointment.
小题1:The author took the job to teach writing because ______.
A.he had written some stories | B.he wanted to be expected |
C.he wanted to please his father | D.he had dreamed of being a teacher |
A.write down their suggestions on the paper cards |
B.cut maple leaves out of the construction paper |
C.cut some cards out of the construction paper |
D.write down their names on the paper cards |
A.They began to talk. | B.They stayed silent. |
C.They raised their hands. | D.They shouted to be heard. |
A.he got disappointed with his first class | B.he had prepared the topic before class |
C.he wanted to calm down the students | D.he thought it was an easy topic |
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