A young woman carrying a three-year-old child got on a bus. The conductor(售票员) hurried to give her a warm welcome and then kindly asked the other passengers to make more room for the woman and her child. On seeing this, people began to talk. "You know this conductor used to be very rude. Now suddenly he has changed his bad behavior , "said a middle-aged man.
"Yes, he should be praised and we must write a letter to the company," said a second passenger. "That"s right," another lady said, "I wish a newspaper reporter were here so that more people could learn from this conductor. "
Just then a gentleman who looked like a teacher turned to the conductor and said , "Excuse me, but can I know your name, please? Your excellent service must be praised..."
Before he could open his mouth, the three-year-old child sitting on the young woman"s lap interrupted (打断谈话), "I know his name. I call him Dad."
小题1:The passengers were ________ to see the conductor"s kindness to the woman and the child.| A．excited | B．pleased | C．interested | D．surprised |
小题2:One passenger suggested writing a letter to the company to ______ .| A．make a demand for more buses | | B．thank the conductor for his good service | | C．criticize（批评） the conductor for his rude behavior | | D．invite a newspaper reporter to write about the conductor |
小题3:What was the gentleman?| A．A teacher. | | B．A newspaper reporter. | | C．Not known from the story. | | D．The conductor"s friend from his company. |
小题4:The word "he" in the last paragraph refers to _______.| A．the gentleman | | B．the conductor | | C．the middle-aged man | | D．the three-year-old child |
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小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:B |
试题分析：文章讲述了一个小故事，一位售票员为了自己的老婆孩子有位置的小故事。
小题1:D 推理题。根据第一段3,4行"You know this conductor used to be very rude. Now suddenly he has changed his bad behavior 说明这个售票员前后的行为差别很大，所以人们非常惊讶。故D正确。
小题2:B 推理题。根据第二段第一句 he should be praised and we must write a letter to the company说明人们要写信给公司是想表扬他的行为，故B正确。
小题3:C 推理题。根据文章第三段Just then a gentleman who looked like a teacher turned to the conductor and said 只是说他看起来像老师，但是并没有确定说他是老师，故C正确。
小题4:B 推理题。根据文章倒数第二段那位绅士问他的名字是什么。故这里的he指那位售票员。故B正确。
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Henry was a carpenter of our village. Once I asked him to make a table for my family. A week later, Henry sent us the table and the bill as well.
My wife said to me, "It"s a beautiful table, dear, isn"t it?"
"I won"t decide about that until I see the bill." I said.
Henry was drinking a glass of water. He laughed and gave me a piece of paper. It said,
Bill
One dining table June 10, 2011
Cost of wood 17.00
Paint 1.50
Work, 8 hours (1 an hour) 8.00
Total(总计) 36.50
When I was looking at the bill, Henry said," It"s a fine day, isn"t it? Quite sunny."
"Yes," I said. "I"m glad it is only the 10th of June."
"Me too, " said Henry." You wait. It will be a bit hotter by the end of the month."
"Yes, hotter and more expensive. The table will be 20 more expensive on June 30th, won"t they, Henry? " I said, "If it isn"t too much trouble, please add it up again. You can forget the date."
"OK, man. You are such a guy." Henry said with a smile in his two blue eyes, and he left with the money he should get.
小题1:The table was made of __________.| A．Wood | B．glass | C．Paper | D．chair |
小题2:The bill showed 36.50 in all because Henry __________.| A．didn’t do well in math | B．was an honest carpenter | | C．added the date to the bill | D．was not a carpenter |
小题3:In Henry’s opinion the write was a __________ guy.| A．smart and careful | B．silly and lazy | C．rich and hardworking | D．stupid and rich |
小题4: From the story we know that __________.| A．Henry got 26.5 for his work in the end | | B．The table will cost 20 more on June 30 | | C．The writer paid 36.5 for the table | | D．The writer got 36.5 |
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Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius（天才） of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius.“ There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.
But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work,” he answered. “Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
小题1:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?| A．Edison invented the electric light. | | B．Many other people have changed Edison’s life. | | C．Edison has changed the life of many other people. | | D．Few men in history can change other people’s life. |
小题2:Edison thought ____________.| A．he could be happy if he was a genius | | B．genius plays the most important part in one’s success | | C．hard work could do better than genius | | D．genius could do better than hard work |
小题3:In Edison’s opinion, ____________.| A．thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure as well as help | | B．people’s successs lies mostly in genius | | C．hard work is the second important thing in making people successful | | D．there are few secrets for him to discover later |
小题4:The last sentence in the passage most probably implies(暗示） ____________.| A．life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings | | B．Edison made 100 inventions in his life | | C．Edison was able to live and work for 100 years | | D．People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years’ work |
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In 1957, Jane Goodall first met the famous anthropologist (人类学者) Dr Louis Leakey, who later played an important role in her life. With the 32 of gaining insight into humans’ evolutionary (进化的) past, Dr Leakey 33 a pioneering long-term field study on 34 chimps. Even though Jane had no formal 35 , her patience and determination to understand animals 36 him to choose her for the study. 37 it was unusual for a woman to work in the forest of Africa, going there 38 the fulfillment (实现) of her childhood dream. In the summer of 1960 she 39 in Tanzania(坦桑尼亚) on Lake Tanganyika’s eastern shore. This marked the 40 of the longest continuous field study of animals in their 41 habitat(栖息地). Five years 42 , she earned a doctor’s degree at Cambridge University and then 43 to Tanzania to found the Gombe Stream Research Center. And in 1977, to provide on-going 44 for chimp research, Dr Goodall 45 The Jane Goodall Institute.
Today, she 46 most of her time traveling around the world, giving lectures on her 47 at Gombe and speaking to school groups about Roots &Shoots, her environmental education and humanitarian program for the 48 .
“Chimps have given me so 49 . The long hours spent with them in the 50 have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my 51 of human behavior, of our place in nature.”
| 小题1: | | A．way | B．idea | C．knowledge | D．method |
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| 小题2: | | A．suggested | B．achieved | C．argued | D．changed |
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| 小题3: | | A．modest | B．special | C．rude | D．wild |
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| 小题4: | | A．exercise | B．training | C．living | D．practice |
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| 小题5: | | A．devoted | B．let | C．made | D．led |
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| 小题6: | | A．If | B．Because | C．Although | D．Once |
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| 小题7: | | A．meant | B．stopped | C．intended | D．inspired |
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| 小题8: | | A．arrived | B．left | C．reached | D．went |
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| 小题9: | | A．end | B．beginning | C．happening | D．achievement |
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| 小题10: | | A．new | B．old | C．man-made | D．natural |
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| 小题11: | | A．later | B．before | C．ago | D．behind |
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| 小题12: | | A．connected | B．referred | C．returned | D．turned |
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| 小题13: | | A．environment | B．evidence | C．time | D．support |
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| 小题14: | | A．created | B．built | C．founded | D．set |
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| 小题15: | | A．costs | B．spends | C．pays | D．devotes |
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| 小题16: | | A．bravery | B．presence | C．experiences | D．appearance |
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| 小题17: | | A．animals | B．youth | C．human | D．adults |
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| 小题18: | | A．little | B．many | C．much | D．few |
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| 小题19: | | A．field | B．university | C．institute | D．forest |
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| 小题20: | | A．imagination | B．desire | C．understanding | D．protection |
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Mr. Brown worked in a factory of a small town. He had been there for twenty years before one day he was sent to the capital for important business. He was quite excited because he had never been there before. Before he set off, he asked his wife and three daughters if they wanted him to buy something for them in London. Mrs. Brown began to think it over and then she said she wished her husband would be able to buy a nice umbrella for her, and so did their three daughters. As he was afraid he would forget it, he drew an umbrella on his hand. To his regret, he lost it at the station.
On the train Mr. Brown sat opposite to an old woman. The woman’s umbrella was so nice that he carefully looked at it and said to himself not to forget to buy a few umbrellas like it. When the train arrived at the station in London, he said good-bye to the old woman, took his bag and her umbrella and was going to get off.
“Wait a minute, sir,” shouted the old woman. “That’s my umbrella!”
Now Mr. Brown noticed that he had taken her umbrella. His face turned red at once and said in a hurry,“Oh, I’m very sorry, Madam! I didn’t mean it!”
Seven days later Mr. Brown left the capital. To his surprise, he met the old woman and sat opposite to her again. Looking at the four umbrellas, the old woman was satisfied with herself. “It seems that I had a better result than the other four women.” She thought.
小题1:We can learn from the passage that Mr. Brown was ______.| A．a conductor | B．a worker | | C．a thief | D．an umbrella maker |
小题2:The underlined word “it” in the first paragraph refers to ______.| A．his ticket | B．his bag | | C．his drawing | D．his umbrella |
小题3:Why did Mr. Brown take the woman’s umbrella?| A．Because he was lost in thought. | | B．Because it was much like his own umbrella. | | C．Because he thought the woman would not notice it. | | D．Because the woman misplaced it beside Mr. Brown. |
小题4:When looking at Mr. Brown with four umbrellas, the woman felt ______.| A．surprised | B．angry | C．fortunate | D．sad |
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Wings of Angel
I used to hate myself because I wasn"t "normal". Everyone else could play on the monkey bars and ride on a bicycle, but not 36 . I had a severe spinal cord disorder(脊髓病) and I knew I would always be much 37 than others. I hated going to school and I hated others 38 at me. I hated seeing others smiling broadly and standing 39 and tall. And most of all, I hated looking in the 40 and seeing an ugly hunchback(驼背).
My friends found me 41 because I didn"t let other get close to me. I thought I was going to go on like this for the rest of my life 42 Angela appeared.
That afternoon, I was sitting by myself in a corner of the school—a spot where no one would 43 me. That"s when I first heard your voice. "Hi. Can I sit down?"
I raised my head and there she was, with an irresistible smile on her round face. "What are you looking at?" you asked. "Ants." "What are they doing?" "No 44 ." "I bet they"re playing games and make friends. Don"t you think so?" That was how our 45 started and it didn"t stop. We talked about everything under the sun—the ants, the clouds, my little niche(处境)—until it was sunset. Then suddenly, you saw my 46 . She just stared. My heart 47 . What I feared most had happened and I knew for sure she would 48 me now. She stood up, pointed at my back and said, "I know 49 your back is hunched." I closed my eyes like a criminal waiting to be 50 . I begged in my heart for her to 51 , but she just kept on going. "I know what you"ve got there. Do you?" "No," I answered 52 . She bent and whispered in my ears. "Your back is bunched because you"ve got a pair of wings from the angels."I was 53 . I looked into her eyes and her 54 touched my heart. From that day on, I started to learn to 55 myself because I have the wings of an angel and a kind_hearted friend.
| 小题2: | | A．sadder | B．shorter | C．weaker | D．slower |
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| 小题3: | | A．looking | B．smiling | C．aiming | D．glaring |
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| 小题4: | | A．still | B．alone | C．straight | D．together |
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| 小题5: | | A．street | B．sun | C．corner | D．mirror |
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| 小题6: | | A．distant | B．stubborn | C．hopeless | D．unfortunate |
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| 小题7: | | A．after | B．before | C．since | D．until |
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| 小题8: | | A．disturb | B．seek | C．interrupt | D．ignore |
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| 小题9: | | A．wonder | B．idea | C．sign | D．action |
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| 小题10: | | A．connection | B．competition | C．conversation | D．comprehension |
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| 小题11: | | A．face | B．back | C．eyes | D．shoulders |
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| 小题12: | | A．sank | B．beat | C．broke | D．ached |
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| 小题13: | | A．care for | B．rely on | C．look down upon | D．put up with |
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| 小题14: | | A．that | B．how | C．whether | D．why |
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| 小题15: | | A．accused | B．arrested | C．punished | D．sentenced |
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| 小题16: | | A．relax | B．leave | C．stop | D．pause |
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| 小题17: | | A．shyly | B．weakly | C．proudly | D．firmly |
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| 小题18: | | A．astonished | B．ashamed | C．annoyed | D．amused |
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| 小题19: | | A．wisdom | B．generosity | C．honesty | D．kindness |
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| 小题20: | | A．control | B．like | C．comfort | D．enjoy |
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