With a determined(坚定的) look on his face, Chicago’s Michael McCarthy held on to the banister(扶手) and climbed to the top of the Willis Tower not long ago. The Tower stands 1,451 feet(442 meters) tall, the 21 building in the US.
As he got to the last step, McCarthy 22 fell down, but that didn’t stop him. The 14-year-old boy finally finished climbing the 2,109 steps and arrived at the top, where he 23 cheers from many people.
“I just want to show people that 24 a kid with no legs can do it, anyone can do it,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy, who was born without legs, has to wear prosthetic legs(假肢) and use a stick to walk. But McCarthy has a strong 25 . He believes having a disability(残疾) shouldn’t stop anyone 26 achieving his or her success.
He has been in a special school 27 he was four. When he decided to climb the Willis Tower, his teacher, Jeff Kohn, was 28 by his determination(决心) and offered to help train him. They 29 more than ten hours practicing climbing stairs and keeping balance with the prosthetics and sticks on the steps every day. “ 30 seems that he never knows how difficult it is. 31 I was so tired that I asked him to rest for a day,”said Kohn. “But he said he was still full of energy and wanted more 32 .”
Kohn always walked with McCarthy for the climb. “I 33 the last 10 floors, he went faster,” said Kohn. “He’s the most craven sportsman I’ve ever trained.”
McCarthy said he was 34 of himself and that the tower now holds special meaning. “When I’m older, I’ll 35 to the building and say ‘Look at this building I climbed’,” he said.
小题1:A. largest B. highest C. earliest
小题2:A. seldom B. hardly C. almost
小题3:A. enjoyed B. needed C. made
小题4:A. while B. though C. if
小题5:A. heart B. hope C. body
小题6:A. by B. for C. from
小题7:A. as B. since C. until
小题8:A. pleased B. beaten C. moved
小题9:A. used B. spent C. took
小题10:A. Here B. There C. It
小题11:A. However B. Sometimes C. Then
小题12:A. friends B. helpers C. exercise
小题13:A. tried B. saw C. did
小题14:A. thinking B. talking C. proud
小题15:A. point B. go C. turn |
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:A
小题6:C
小题7:B
小题8:C
小题9:B
小题10:C
小题11:B
小题12:C
小题13:B
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文章介绍了一个失去双腿的年轻人靠自己的毅力征服了美国最高的大楼，以此告诉我们做任何事情都要意志坚定，一定会成功。
小题1:形容词辨析。形容山的高低应该用high.
小题2:副词辨析。A很少；B几乎不；C几乎。根据句意可知C正确。
小题3:动词辨析。A享受；B需要；C制作；根据句意可知A正确。他享受别人的欢呼。
小题4:连词辨析。句意：如果没有腿的人都能做到，那么任何人都能做到。
小题5:名词辨析。A信念；心；B希望；D身体；句意：他有强烈的信念。
小题6:固定用法。Stop sb from doing sth阻止某人做某事；
小题7:考察连词。根据前半句的现在完成时可知与since连用。
小题8:动词辨析。A使…高兴；B击败；C感动。这里是指我被他的决心打动。
小题9:固定句型.spend some time in doing sth花费时间做某事。
小题10:固定句型。It seems that…似乎…
小题11:副词辨析。Ａ然而；Ｂ有时候；Ｃ那时；句意：有时候我是如此之累以至于我请求他休息一天。
小题12:名词辨析。A朋友；B帮助的人；C练习，锻炼；句意：他仍然充满了精力，想要更多的锻炼。
小题13:动词辨析。A尝试，努力；B看见；C做；句意：他看见了最后十层。
小题14:固定词组。句意可知作者为自己感到自豪。Be proud of…对…自豪
小题15:动词辨析。A指着；B走；C转；point to指向…;句意：我会指向那栋楼房说，那就是我爬过的大楼。 |
核心考点
试题【With a determined(坚定的) look on his face, Chicago’s Michael McCarthy held on to t】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
Dou Kou, a Chinese boy, is called “the youngest writer in the world”. He has written three books till now. Dou Kou was born in Jiangsu in 1994. When he was 7 months old, his parents started working in over 30 different cities, such as Xi’an and Shenzhen. This kind of life gave him things to think and write about. When he was 9 months old, he could speak and at the age of one, he could say five to six hundred words. At three, he could look up words in the dictionary. At four, his father taught him how to learn by himself. His parents like reading very much. So does he. At the age of 5, he began writing fairy tales. At the age of 6, he wrote a novel about his life in different cities with his parents. His fairy tales are all from his life. One day, he found many mice in the house. They only ate their food but also hurt his mother’s hand. So he thought, “If we give mice the stomach of cows, they will eat grass and they will be helpful to people.” This was his first fairy tales Change Stomach for Mice. Now he studies well in a middle school. He has written his third book, the novel called Eyes of Children. He says, “I am not different from other children. I just wrote several books.
小题1:How many books has Dou Kou written?| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five | D．Six |
小题2:Thanks to his _____, Dou Kou could write his books.| A．mother | B．father | | C．school life | D．life in different cities |
小题3:Dou Kou began to use a dictionary _____.| A．when he wrote fairy tales | | B．before his father taught him how to learn something | | C．after he went to school | | D．after his mother taught him how to learn something |
小题4:The underlined(划线的) sentences show us that Dou Kou _____.| A．is different from other children | | B．doesn’t tell the truth. | | C．is the same as other children | | D．likes his books |
小题5:Which is the best title?| A．Three Books by a child | | B．How to Write a Fairy Tales | | C．How Clever the Boy is | | D．Dou Kou, the Youngest Writer |
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A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s 36 , she said she would go. This would be the first time that his classmates and teacher 37 his mother and he felt 38 of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar that 39 nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to 40 why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were 41 by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother
42 the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed and 43 himself from everyone. He did, however, get within hearing of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked 44 , “How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother replied, “ 45 my son was a baby, he was in a room that 46 fire. Everyone was 47 afraid to go in because the fire was 48 , so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself 49 him trying to protect him. I was knocked 50 but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us. ” She 51 the burned side of her face. “This scar will be 52 , but to this day, I have never 53 what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He 54 her in his arms and felt a great sense of the sacrifice that his mother had made for him. He held her hand 55 for the rest of the day.
| 小题1: | | A．enjoyment | B．disappointment | C．sorrow | D．joy |
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| 小题2: | | A．noticed | B．greeted | C．accepted | D．met |
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| 小题3: | | A．sick | B．ashamed | C．afraid | D．tired |
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| 小题4: | | A．included | B．passed | C．covered | D．shaded |
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| 小题5: | | A．talk about | B．think about | C．care for | D．hear about |
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| 小题6: | | A．impressed | B．surprised | C．excited | D．comforted |
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| 小题7: | | A．in sight of | B．by means of | C．by way of | D．in spite of |
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| 小题8: | | A．hid | B．protected | C．separated | D．escaped |
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| 小题9: | | A．carefully | B．seriously | C．nervously | D．anxiously |
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| 小题10: | | A．As | B．When | C．Since | D．While |
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| 小题11: | | A．caught | B．set | C．lit | D．made |
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| 小题13: | | A．out of control | B．under control | C．in control | D．over control |
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| 小题15: | | A．helpless | B．hopeless | C．senseless | D．useless |
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| 小题16: | | A．pointed | B．showed | C．wiped | D．touched |
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| 小题17: | | A．ugly | B．lasting | C．serious | D．frightening |
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| 小题18: | | A．forgot | B．recognized | C．considered | D．regretted |
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| 小题19: | | A．grasped | B．held | C．put | D．caught |
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| 小题20: | | A．quietly | B．slightly | C．tightly | D．suddenly |
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One cold night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco．There I was walking home around one o’clock in the morning after a 31 practice at the theatre. With the opening night only a week away, I was still learning my lines by heart. I was having 32 handling my part-time job at the bank in the daytime and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about 33 both acting and San Francisco. I had 34 too much of city life.
As I walked down the 35 streets under the tall buildings, I felt very small and cold, so I began 36 both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out 37 a few homeless people under blankets.
About a block from my 38 , I heard a sound behind me. I 39 quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me 40 so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I 41 what the noise had been. It had been my wallet 42 to the sidewalk.
Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk 43 for 15 minutes, my wallet was 44 to be found.
Just as I was about to quit the 45 , I heard the garbage truck stop to the sidewalk next to 46 . When a voice came from the inside, “Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened and out jumped a small blonde(金发碧眼的) man with an 47 look in his eyes. “Is this 48 you’re looking for?” He asked, holding up something like a wallet.
It was already 3 a.m. by the time I got into bed. I couldn’t get much sleep, but I had got my wallet back. I also had got back some 49 of city life. I realized the city couldn’t be a bad place 50 people were willing to help each other.
| 小题1: | | A．comfortable | B．serious | C．tiresome | D．fortunate |
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| 小题2: | | A．comfort | B．desire | C．pain | D．trouble |
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| 小题3: | | A．setting up | B．giving up | C．holding up | D．picking up |
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| 小题4: | | A．expected | B．changed | C．controlled | D．possessed |
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| 小题5: | | A．deserted | B．crowded | C．blank | D．narrow |
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| 小题6: | | A．running | B．jumping | C．moving | D．marching |
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| 小题7: | | A．towards | B．except | C．including | D．between |
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| 小题8: | | A．bank | B．theatre | C．apartment | D．office |
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| 小题9: | | A．stood | B．walked | C．turned | D．left |
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| 小题10: | | A．satisfied | B．confused | C．frightened | D．annoyed |
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| 小题11: | | A．turn out | B．figure out | C．give out | D．pull out |
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| 小题12: | | A．belonging | B．adding | C．sticking | D．falling |
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| 小题13: | | A．gratefully | B．anxiously | C．skillfully | D．delightedly |
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| 小题14: | | A．nowhere | B．anywhere | C．everywhere | D．somewhere |
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| 小题15: | | A．instruction | B．training | C．search | D．acting |
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| 小题17: | | A．amused | B．unpleasant | C．uneasy | D．embarrassed |
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| 小题18: | | A．what | B．who | C．whichever | D．whomever |
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| 小题19: | | A．production | B．judgment | C．friendship | D．appreciation |
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| 小题20: | | A．as soon as | B．as long as | C．as far as | D．as well as |
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In the kitchen of my mother"s houses there has always been a wooden stand with a small notepad and a hole for a pencil.
I"m looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can"t be the same pencil. The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.
"I"m just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years." I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. "You still use a pencil. Can"t you afford a pen?"
My mother replies a little sharply. "It works perfectly well; I"ve always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in these days. "
Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, "One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on."
This story, which happened before I was born, reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is also a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible exhibits at every meal.
小题1:Why has the author"s mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?| A．To leave messages. | | B．To list her everyday tasks. | | C．To note down math problems. | | D．To write down a flash of inspiration. |
小题2:What is the author"s original opinion about the wooden stand?| A．It has great value for the family. | | B．It needs to be replaced. | | C．It brings her back to her lonely childhood. | | D．It should be passed on to the next generation. |
小题3:The author feels embarrassed for____________.| A．blaming her mother wrongly | | B．giving her mother a lot of trouble | | C．not making good use of time as her mother did | | D．not making any breakthrough in her field |
小题4:What can be inferred from the last paragraph?| A．The mother is successful in her career. | | B．The family members like traveling. | | C．The author had little time to play when young. | | D．The marks on the breadboard have disappeared. |
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The fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was the subject of popular books and movies for many decades. In recent years, however, the character has been criticized as an ill image of Asian-Americans.
Yunte Huang, an English professor at the University of California, says that’s not the case. He has been exploring the character and real-life policeman who inspired him.
Charlie Chan has been a familiar character to readers and film-goers, beginning in the 1920s. The detective solved crimes around the world in more than 40 films through the 1940s, and with the invention of television, found a new audience in the 1950s and 1960s.
Huang discovered Charlie Chan through books by American author Earl Derr Biggers, who created the character.
“One day, I happened to find two Charlie Chan novels. At that point I thought I knew that he was a negative character against Asians, but when I read the book,” he says, “I was immediately attracted. Ever since then, I’ve been a fan of Charlie Chan.”
As a fan of the books and films, Huang was surprised to learn that Charlie Chan was based on a real detective named Chang Apana, who was born to Chinese parents in Hawaii around 1871. Apana worked as a cowboy, and joined the Honolulu police force in 1898.
“He almost immediately became a local legend because as a former cowboy,” says Huang, “he would walk the most dangerous areas in Chinatown carrying a bullwhip（皮鞭）instead of a gun. He didn’t need that.”
Although some say the image of Charlie Chan, with his broken English, is embarrassing for Asian-Americans, Huang believes Chan’s broken English and unusual ancient sayings were part of his charm（魅力）.
“Let me just quote（引用）a few – ‘Actions speak louder than French,’ or ‘Mind like parachute (降落伞). Only function when open.’ Charlie Chan always owes these instructive sayings to Confucius’ eastern wisdom.
For Huang, the fictional Charlie Chan is highly entertaining, while the real-life policeman, Chang Apana, is a Chinese-American success, whose story is worth telling.
小题1:The passage mainly talks about ______________.| A．how Yunte Huang discovered Charlie Chan | | B．how Charlie Chan became famous in the US | | C．what Yunte Huang thought of Charlie Chan | | D．how a cowboy became a famous detective |
小题2:According to the passage, we know that Charlie Chan __________.| A．was a character in books and movies based on a real detective | | B．was a famous actor starring in movies beginning from the 1920s | | C．was a famous detective solving crimes all over the world | | D．was a Chinese immigrant who became a local legend |
小题3:Chang Apana didn’t need a gun as a weapon because__________.| A．he had his personal charm | | B．he liked being a cowboy | | C．he was not a true policeman | | D．a bullwhip was more useful |
小题4:It can be inferred from the passage that ________.| A．American author Earl Derr Biggers gave an ill picture of Asian-Americans | | B．Yunte Huang believes Charlie Chan represents Asian wisdom in some way | | C．Chan’s story was more popular with TV audience than readers and film-goers | | D．Charlie Chan became an ill image of Asian-Americans when it first appeared. |
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