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I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was ____36____ and when I was 14 years old, he predicted, “You are never to be ____37____ but a failure.”
After 5 years of poor jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best thing ____38____ could have happened to me. I ____39____ I should do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove ___40___ her that what people said about me had gone ___41___, especially her mother, who once said to me, “Let’s ____42____ it. You’ve failed every thing you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my ____43____ and went to ____44____. My first novel ____45____ while I was still a college student.
After college, I taught during the day in high schools and attended ____46____ classes at London University, where I ____47____ a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of ____48____ that job to write full time when I was ____49____ a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself---here was a working-class boy who’d ___50___ school early, now teaching at the university.
My writing career ____51____ when I discovered my own writing ____52____. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. _____53____ what does it mean? I just wish that all those people who have ____54____ me down had just said, “I believe in you and you will be ____55____.”
小题1:
A.naughtyB.lazyC.uselessD.raggy
小题2:A. nothing         B. something        C everything        D. anything
小题3:
A.whenB.thatC.whichD.as
小题4:
A.thoughtB.promisedC.decidedD.expected
小题5:
A.toB.for C.withD.at
小题6:
A.ridiculousB.acceptableC.believableD.wrong
小题7:
A.seeB.faceC.treatD.react
小题8:
A.writingB.experimentC.practiceD.composition
小题9:
A.schoolB.collegeC.clubD.company
小题10:
A.went acrossB.put asideC.came outD.set off
小题11:
A.lectureB.writingC.teachingD.evening
小题12:
A.receivedB.acceptedC.gaveD.offered
小题13:
A.giving upB.paying forC.signing upD.ridding of
小题14:
A.paidB.madeC.offeredD.tried
小题15:
A.finishedB.goneC.delayedD.left
小题16:
A.made offB.took offC.gave offD.moved off
小题17:
A.styleB.habitC.ideaD.skill
小题18:
A.ThereforeB.ButC.ThoughD.For
小题19:
A.writtenB.turnedC.tornD.put
小题20:
A.cheerfulB.enjoyableC.successfulD.forgettable

答案

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:A 
小题6:D
小题7:B
小题8:A
小题9:B
小题10:C 
小题11:D
小题12:A
小题13:A
小题14:C
小题15:D 
小题16:B
小题17:A
小题18:B
小题19:D
小题20:C
解析
作者通过自己的努力向别人证明自己很成功!
小题1:C 上下文串联。根据上文我在学校表现很差可知校长认为我没有用处。
小题2:D 词义辨析。Anything成功的人或事。这里是指校长认为我永远都不会成功。
小题3:B 语法分析。本句考察的是强调句型。强调主语the best thing。
小题4:C 动词辨析。A思考;B允诺;C决定;D期待;根据句意可知我决定要做一些积极的事情。
小题5:A 固定词组。Prove to sb向某人证明。这里可知是我想向别人证明他们的说法是错的。
小题6:D 形容词辨析。解析同上。
小题7:B 动词辨析。A看见;B直面;C对待,治疗;D反应;这里是指我们直面这一切。
小题8:A 上下文串联。根据下文的novel可知是指写作。
小题9:B 上下文串联。根据下文的a college student可知是指上大学。
小题10:C 短语辨析。A穿过,横过;B放在一边;C出版;D引爆,使发生;这里是指我的小说出版。
小题11:D 上下文串联。上文提及白天教学,晚上参加夜校。
小题12:A 动词辨析。A收到;B接受;C给;D提供。这里是指我得到了学位。
小题13:A 短语辨析。A放弃;B付钱买…;C报名;D清除;结合上下文可知我要放弃工作专职写作。
小题14:C 动词辨析。这里是指利兹大学给我提供了一份全职工作。
小题15:D 词组辨析。Leave school毕业。这里是指我为自己感到自豪,很早就中学毕业,现在却在大学教书。
小题16:B 短语辨析。A匆匆逃走;B事业成功;C发出;D离开。这里是指我的事业成功了。
小题17:A 上下文串联。这里是指我我发现了自己的写作风格。
小题18:B 上下文串联。上文提及我已经很有名誉了,但是这又意味着什么呢?
小题19:D 固定词组。Put down看不起,轻视;结合上下文可知D正确。是指过去看不起我的人。
小题20:上下文串联。与文字开头相对应,开头是别人说我是失败的人,这里希望别人承认我的成功。
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Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia, on August 27th, 1910. She attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen. At that time, some doctors and nurses from Yugoslavia were working in India, and they often wrote to the school about their work. She decided to join them one day.
When she finished school, she went first to Britain. Then a year later she went to India, where she began to train to be a teacher. After training, she was sent to Calcutta, where she taught geography at a school and soon after became headmistress(女校长).
However, although she loved teaching, in 1946 Mother Teresa left the school and went to work in the poor parts of Calcutta. Later she trained to be a nurse in Panta, and then began her work helping the poor and comforting the dying in the streets of the city. Slowly, others came to help her, and her work spread to other parts of India.
Mother Teresa is now a well-known person. Many photos have been taken of her, as she travels the world to open new schools and hospitals in poor countries. In 1979, she was given the Nobel Peace Prize for the lifetime of love and service she has given to the poor.
小题1:What first inspired Mother Teresa to work in India?
A.Her visit to the poor parts of Calcutta.
B.Her visit to Britain after she left school.
C.The medical worker’s letters to her school.
D.The work of the nurse in the city of Panta.
小题2:In which order did Mother Teresa do the following things?
a. Trained to be a nurse                        
b. Went to India.
c. Helped the dying.                          
d. Studied to be a teacher.
e. Went to Britain.                            
f. Worked as a headmaster.
A.b, a, c, e, d, fB.b, f, a, d, e, c
C.e, b, d, f, a, cD.e, a, b, c, d, f
小题3:Mother Teresa gave up teaching because she wanted to ___________.
A.look after the poor.
B.travel to poor countries
C.build hospitals for the poor
D.train nurse to care for the poor
小题4:Mother Teresa is now a famous person because she has ___________.
A.saved many poor people in India
B.helped to bring about world peace
C.helped to make India a more peaceful place
D.taken care of many poor people in the world

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Johann Gutenberg, who worked as a goldsmith(金匠),took what has already been discovered, and created a small invention that changed history. He created a machine that allowed him to move small blocks of letters in such a way that written material could be printed and mass-produced. Few people could read before Johann Gutenberg made the invention, but once books became less expensive, more Europeans could read and write.
Block printing existed long before Gutenberg. The Chinese had been using wood blocks to print books as early as 868, but a new set of woodcuts(木刻印版) had to be made for each book. Producing one book was not easy; producing all kinds of books was more difficult.
Writing ink dates from about 2500 BC in Egypt and China. Johann Gutenberg use an oil-base printing ink that would last longer than other inks used in his time. We don’t know much about Gutenberg because he was not famous during his lifetime. He was born in Germany about 1400. In 1448, Gutenberg developed signatures for each number, letter, and punctuation mark(标点符号). He then built the molds (模型) to hold the signatures in place. Johann Gutenberg published the first mass-produced book: a 1,282 page Bible. To this day, more copies of the Bible have been printed the any other book.
Copies of Gutenberg’s invention spread throughout Europe, but the German goldsmith did not get rich from his invention. Some officials denounced the invention of printing because they feared that it would spread bad ideas. By 1500 there 1,700 printing presses in Europe. The presses had already produced about 20 million volumes of 40,000 different books.
小题1:What happened after Johann Gutenberg’s invention?
A.People could afford to read books.
B.People became interested in inventing.
C.It was still difficult to print all kinds of books.
D.Punctuation mark began to be used in printing.
小题2:Compared with block printing in China, Johann Gutenberg’s method __________.
A.was difficult to run.B.needed harder paper
C.used a new kind of inkD.was put into use earlier
小题3:The underlined word “denounced” in the paragraph means __________.
A.fought againstB.acceptedC.laughed atD.supported
小题4:What is the best title for the passage?
A.A famous 1,282 page Bible
B.The life of a famous inventor
C.An invention that changed history
D.The development of printing

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My husband, Micheal, and I were at a restaurant with his boss, a rather stern(严厉的) elderly man. When Micheal began a story I was sure he had told before, I gave him a kick under the table. There was no response, so I gave him another kick. Still the story went on. Suddenly he stopped and said with a smile, “Oh, but I’ve told you this one before, haven’t I ?” We all chuckled and changed the subject.
Later, on the dance floor, I asked my husband why it had taken him so long to get my message. “What do you mean?” he replied. “I cut off the story as soon as you kicked me.”
“But I kicked you twice, and it still took you a while to stop!”
Suddenly we realized what had happened and returned to our table. The boss smiled and said, “Don’t worry. After the second one I thought it wasn’t for me, so I passed it along!”
小题1:The writer kicked her husband because __________.
A.she didn’t like him
B.she didn’t like stories
C.he was telling a story he had told before
D.the story he told was not interesting
小题2:What can be inferred from the text?
A.Micheal was kicked three times.
B.Micheal kicked the boss.
C.The boss was kicked twice
D.The boss kicked the author.
小题3:They all chuckled because __________.
A.they kicked each other
B.they changed the subject in the end
C.they were all satisfied with the dinner
D.they all thought each of them had done something interesting
小题4:It took Micheal so long to stop his story because __________.
A.he wanted to finish the whole story
B.he got a kick only after a long while
C.he didn’t understand at once why he was kicked
D.the two kicks given were not heavy enough

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A year ago I paid no attention to English idioms,  21  my teacher said again and again that it was important.
One day, I happened to __ 22 _ an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to  __23  .As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner shook his head, saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!”  I was  24 ___ , I thought, perhaps this is not a __ 25 __ topic.Well, I’d __ 26 change the topic.So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall?  _27 _ the way, have you ever __28__ there?” “Certainly, everyone back home will __29 __ me if I leave China without seeing __30 .It was great.” I said, “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. It is a place of  31 .” Soon I was interrupted again by his words, “ __ 32  !” I couldn’t  _33 __ asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t ask you to do __34__ ”, he answered, gently surprised.
I said, “Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say’?”
Hearing this, the Englishman _ 35__  to tears.He began to __ 36___ ,“‘You don’t say actually means ‘really?’.It is an  _37__  of surprise.Perhaps you don’t pay attention __38___ English idioms.”
Then I knew I had made a fool of __39__ .Since then I have been more  ___50__  with idioms.
小题1:
A.thoughB.whenC.if D.as
小题2:
A.look B.meet C.pick up D.find out
小题3:
A.walk B.talk C.play D.go
小题4:
A.pleased B.angry C.afraid D.surprised
小题5:
A.properB.strange C.safe D.polite
小题6:
A.to B.better C.not D.like
小题7:
A.On B.In C.All D.By
小题8:
A.gone B.visited C.seen D.been
小题9:
A.look at B.think of C.send forD.laugh at
小题10:
A.it B.them C.anything D.something
小题11:
A.interesting B.interest C.interestsD.interested
小题12:
A.Really B.Good C.You don’ t sayD.You are right
小题13:
A.be B.help C.think D.do
小题14:
A.this B.so C.anything D.me a favor
小题15:
A.laughed B.cried C.moved D.came
小题16:
A.explainB.shout C.prove D.say
小题17:
A.experienceB.expressionC.explanation D.example
小题18:
A.for B.to C.at D.in
小题19:
A.me B.myself C.him D.himself
小题20:
A.helpful B.popular C.careful D.satisfied

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A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child, and some children, like boys and girls who live abroad with their parents, seem to learn two languages almost as easily as one. In school it is not easy to learn a second language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects, too.
A man’s mind is rather like a camera, but it takes photos not only of what we see but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo with a camera, there is much to do before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends. In the same way there is much work to be done before we can keep a picture forever in our mind.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
小题1:We usually begin to learn our own language by ________ it.
A.speakingB.hearingC.sayingD.teaching
小题2:If you have a good ________ , you’ll have less difficulty in learning something.
A.teacherB.cameraC.memoryD.family
小题3:The children who live abroad with their parents can learn two languages more easily, because ______.
A.they are very cleverB.they have good teachers
C.they have more chances to use these languagesD.they have a better life
小题4:Memory is ________ that we write in our mind and carry about.
A.the best diaryB.the best cameraC.a great helpD.a beautiful picture

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