A mother and daughter living in my community are two of the most unfriendly people I have ever come across in my life. They are totally separated, mixing with 36 . As they drive past 37 they keep their eyes looking away and make no sign of acceptance. The only fame they have is making a nuisance of themselves to the local police station by 38 music played too loud, dogs barking more than once a day and any other pretty 39 gripe (把柄).
On moving into this neighborhood, I was 40 of these two but decided I would make up my own mind. This proved quite a 41 to me as more than once either the mother or the daughter would knock on my door and blast (猛烈抨击) me with some 42 or other.
I 43 answered politely and made sure I 44 as they went past my place and also made the effort now and then to make a kind remark about their garden or pets.
Time passed and in October, as part of the kindness rock give (送爱心石活动), Maureen and I 45 to place a kindness rock in their garden. Their 46 remained unchanged, however, and I continued to be as friendly as possible. During the Easter give, we decided once again to 47 these two unhappy ladies to our list and left a packet of cookies on their 48 . Imagine my 49 when two days later they 50 at my gate and jokingly said they are considering hanging their Christmas stockings on their gate, and they 51 me a bunch of flowers!
So, my fellow gifters , do not 52 on your random（随意的） gifts of kindness. You may never know just what this 53 to others, nor how many broken or 54 hearted people you may just change with a simple act of 55 .
| 小题1: | | A．nobody | B．someone | C．anyone | D．nothing |
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| 小题2: | | A．ladies | B．neighbors | C．friends | D．relatives |
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| 小题3: | | A．composing | B．requesting | C．reporting | D．explaining |
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| 小题4: | | A．important | B．easy | C．interesting | D．little |
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| 小题5: | | A．accused | B．warned | C．reminded | D．convinced |
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| 小题6: | | A．challenge | B．job | C．task | D．matter |
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| 小题7: | | A．jokes | B．advice | C．explanation | D．complaint |
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| 小题8: | | A．seldom | B．never | C．always | D．sometimes |
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| 小题9: | | A．waved | B．stared | C．noticed | D．laughed |
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| 小题10: | | A．started | B．continued | C．mentioned | D．decided |
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| 小题11: | | A．smile | B．attitude | C．decision | D．anger |
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| 小题12: | | A．add | B．recommend | C．reduced | D．drove |
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| 小题13: | | A．place | B．roof | C．gate | D．fence |
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| 小题14: | | A．interest | B．smile | C．surprise | D．face |
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| 小题15: | | A．whispered | B．stopped | C．shouted | D．wandered |
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| 小题16: | | A．brought | B．wished | C．threw | D．expected |
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| 小题17: | | A．take in | B．take up | C．give in | D．give up |
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| 小题18: | | A．refers | B．means | C．relates | D．contributes |
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| 小题19: | | A．kind | B．light | C．hard | D．warm |
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| 小题20: | | A．sorrow | B．hope | C．imagination | D．kindness |
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小题1:选A。根据mixing with nobody 可知她们不与任何人来往，完全与别人隔离了。
小题1:选B。acknowledgement 意为“致意；打招呼”。
小题1:选C。根据music played too loud, dogs barking. . . 等信息可知她们向当地警局反映情况，故用reporting。
小题1:选D。“petty little affairs”意为“琐事”。event 大事，体育赛事；incident 事件，（尤其指不寻常的 事）如暴力事件，issue 问题，都不合语境。
小题1:选B。邻居们非常不喜欢这对母女，作者一搬到这里就有人告知他这些情况。warn sb. of sth. (警告某人某事)符合语境。
小题1:选A。根据more than once either the mother or the daughter would knock on my door and blast me可知，作者要和她们好好相处是个挑战。
小题1:选D。上文讲到这对母女喜欢投诉，可知她们找作者来抱怨。
小题1:选C。根据下文，作者想用自己的行动感动这对母女，故总是很有礼貌地同她们讲话。
小题1:选A。当她们经过时，作者向她们打招呼。
小题1:选D。make a kind remark 意为“说好话；赞扬”。这也是作者友善的示意。
小题1:选B。尽管作者一再表示友好，她们的态度仍然没有改变。
小题1:选A。add. . . to. . . “把……加到……中”。作者决定把她们也列入要送礼物的名单中。
小题1:选C。根据语境，作者把饼干放在她们家门口。
小题1:选C。根据. . . at my gate and jokingly said. . . 可知她们出现在作者家门口，说话态度很好，让 作者感到惊讶。
小题1:选B。根据上下文，她们在作者家门口停留。
小题1:选C。她们从作者的善意中受到了感悟，开玩笑说正在“考虑”在即将到来的圣诞节在门口挂上 圣诞袜来接收更多的礼物。
小题1:选D。根据You may never know just what this. . . to others 可知，不要放弃对别人的善意，不经 意的善意会对人产生很大影响。
小题1:选B。一个人的善意对别人意味着很多。
小题1:选C。文章告诉我们，这对母女开始很固执，铁石心肠，后来在作者的感化下态度发生了改变。
小题1:选D。用善意之举改变别人，故用介词with。 |
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When 7-year-old Warren Buffet said “ I will be the richest man one day”, his friends made fun of his “daydreaming”. But ever since then the little boy has set about learning how to make money, selling drinks, delivering newspapers and buying stocks. He had already earned $ 9,000 ( equal to $ 90,000 today) by the time he graduated from high school and became a millionaire at 32.
And this month the 77-year- old, who earned his fortune by making a lot of great investment in the stock market, made his childhood dream come true. With a fortune of $ 62billion, Buffet has risen to be the world’s richest man according to Forbes Magazine.
Born in 1930, Buffet, the only son of a stockbroker, started on achieving his billion-dollar dream at an early age and was always ready to think outside the box to develop his business. At 8 he went to golf courses collecting and selling used balls.
At 11 when he sold soda pop door to door with a friend, the pair collected lids on the streets to judge which flavor was the most popular.
As a paper boy during high school, Buffet delivered two rival (竞争对手的)papers, so that even when customers canceled one of the subscriptions, he could still make a profit from the other. With his paper delivery savings, Buffet bought 162,000 square meters of farmland and collect rent.
Young Buffet stepped into the stock market at 11 but earned only $ 5. The experience taught him one of the virtues (品质) in investing: patience.
After graduating from university, Buffet started his venture with stocks with his childhood earnings and money from friends. He researched the stocks and just bought those of solid companies that were undervalued and inexpensive at the time. By sticking to companies such as American Express and Coca-cola, Buffet has become rich.
“Learning is important to Buffet’s success. He is a learning machine who can spend his entire day reading. He keeps learning, from books, street smarts and investigation, from both success and failure. In this way, he finally over achieved his aptitude ( 才能) ，” said Charlie Munger, his long-time business partner.
小题1:Which of the following questions has NOT been discussed in the selection？| A．What is Buffet’s approach to investing. | | B．How do other people view Buffet. | | C．How has Buffet handled hardships in his life. | | D．How did Buffet make a fortune and realize his dream. |
小题2:With the example of delivering two rival papers in high school, the author intends to tell us that Buffet______.| A．had a good sense of business | | B．was a good paper boy | | C．was hard to deal with business | | D．knew anything but how to make money |
小题3:. What did Buffet learn from his early experience of investing in stock market?| A．You never stop learning. | | B．Be patient in business. | | C．Only buy stocks of solid companies that are undervalued and inexpensive. | | D．Stick to buying stocks in companies such as American Express and Coca-cola. |
小题4:. Which of the following can most probably serve as the title of the selection?| A．Buffet – Good Example for All | | B．Buffet- a Newspaper Boy | | C．Buffet- Investor in Stock Market | | D．Buffet- a Successful Daydreamer |
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I have always believed the saying , “Any man can be a father, but it 31 someone special to be a dad.” This is true. Since the 32 of my son, Joshua, things have changed a lot in my life, but the 33 have been good! My wife and I have been through many 34 moments which have made both of us stronger.
My son was born with a serious breathing problem and he couldn’t keep his 35 down. He was put on several different medications, 36 he did not get any better. My wife and I were both told many times by people that Joshua 37 he was born early; he had not 38 much weight since he was born.
As time progressed his regular doctor 39 my wife and me to visit Dr. Eid, a specialist in Louisville. He was 40 by my son’s condition and so we were sent to Louisville’s Children’s Hospital . Joshua 41 many different checkups. The 42 spent there was very demanding for my wife and me. But we did make it 43 . Our son Joshua was diagnosed (诊断) with asthma (哮喘) , and with acid reflux syndrome (酸回流综合症). After the treatment, his 44 began to improve slowly.
Joshua is 1 year and 1 month old now and his progress has been 45 --- he is up to 27 pounds now. I keep telling my wife that if he keeps 46 like this he might become a football _____47 someday. There is a saying that has 48 me get through these troublesome times, “Problems will either 49 you or break you.” When you think the 50 hours are upon you, remember the dawn is just in sight.
小题1:| A．takes | B．asks | C．tells | D．brings |
小题2:| A．return | B．illness | C．birth | D．death |
小题3:| A．doctors | B．friends | C．causes | D．changes |
小题4:| A．boring | B．challenging | C．exciting | D．puzzling |
小题5:| A．food | B．water | C．weight | D．medicine |
小题6:小题7:| A．looked about | B．looked for | C．looked like | D．looked at |
小题8:| A．gained | B．lost | C．kept | D．raised |
小题9:| A．followed | B．ordered | C．invited | D．advised |
小题10:| A．angered | B．shocked | C．disappointed | D．scared |
小题11:| A．went into | B．put into | C．went through | D．broke through |
小题12:| A．time | B．money | C．hour | D．holiday |
小题13:| A．out | B．down | C．off | D．through |
小题14:| A．diet | B．study | C．health | D．weight |
小题15:| A．great | B．slow | C．little | D．enough |
小题16:| A．walking | B．running | C．training | D．growing |
小题17:| A．supporter | B．player | C．coach | D．fan |
小题18:| A．left | B．moved | C．helped | D．watched |
小题19:| A．cheat | B．make | C．beat | D．find |
小题20:| A．easiest | B．latest | C．brightest | D．darkest |
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When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard：The Liz Murray Story” , shown in late April.
Liz Murray , a 22-- year-- old American girl, has been writing a real--life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug--addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, My understanding was that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that "next to nothing could hold me down". She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. "I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time."
Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is "as simple as making a decision".
小题1: The word “setback” in the first paragraph most probably means___________?| A．danger | B．difficulty | C．unhappiness | D．disaster |
小题2:What’s the best title of the passage?| A．Liz’s Harvard Dream | B．Bitter Childhood of Liz | | C．Liz’s Love for Her Parents | D．Liz’s Struggle for Her Life |
小题3:What actually made Liz throw herself into her studies ?| A．Her parents’ addiction to drugs | B．Her mother’ s disease | | C．Lack of food and clothes | D．Her mother’ s death |
小题4: According to the passage, which is NOT true about Liz? | A．strong-- willed | B．envious | C．determined | D．respectful |
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A,B,C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
My friend Monty Roberts told me a story about a young boy. One day at school, the boy was asked to write a paper 36 what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.
That night he wrote a seven – paper 37 his dream of owning a farm. He put a great deal of his 38 into the paper and the next day he handed it in to his 39 . Two days later he received his paper back. On the 40 page was a large red F with a 41 that read, “See me after class.” The boy went to see the teacher after class and asked, “ 42 did I receive an F?” The teacher said, “This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like 43 . Owning a farm requires a lot of money. There’s no 44 a young man could ever do it.” Then the teacher added, “ 45 you will rewrite this paper, I will reconsider your 46 .”
The boy went home and 47 about it long and hard. Finally, after a week, he turned in the 48 paper, making no changes.
Monty then said, “I tell you this story because you are sitting in my farm. I 49 have that school paper over fireplace.” He added, “The 50 part of the story is that two summers ago the same schoolteacher 51 30 kids to camp out on my farm. When the teacher was 52 , he said, ‘Look Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream 53 . During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. 54 you had enough courage not to 55 yours.”
Don’t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what…
小题1:小题2:| A．giving | B．taking | C．describing | D．making |
小题3:| A．opinion | B．thought | C．soul | D．heart |
小题4:| A．classmate | B．teacher | C．father | D．writer |
小题5:| A．front | B．middle | C．back | D．last |
小题6:| A．word | B．note | C．paper | D．letter |
小题7:小题8:小题9:| A．road | B．way | C．method | D．idea |
小题10:| A．Now | B．Although | C．Since | D．If |
小题11:| A．work | B．idea | C．grade | D．advice |
小题12:| A．thought | B．write | C．spoke | D．read |
小题13:| A．new | B．same | C．different | D．second |
小题14:| A．never | B．again | C．even | D．still |
小题15:| A．first | B．biggest | C．best | D．most |
小题16:| A．brought | B．took | C．carried | D．found |
小题17:| A．arriving | B．leaving | C．moving | D．reaching |
小题18:| A．stealer | B．maker | C．lover | D．leader |
小题19:| A．Unluckily | B．Generally | C．Finally | D．Fortunately |
小题20:| A．take up | B．make up | C．give up | D．break up |
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Once upon a time there was a wise man that used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.
One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought that someone would dance on the beach. So he began to walk faster to catch up.
As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man and the young man wasn’t dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something and very gently throwing it into the ocean.
As he got closer he called out, “Good morning! What are you doing?”
The young man paused, looked up and replied, “Throwing starfish in the ocean.” “I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?” “The sun is up and the tide is going out, and if I don’t throw them in they’ll die.”
“But, young man, don’t you realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it. You can’t possibly make a difference!”
The young man listened politely, then he bent down, picked another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves and said, “It made a difference for that one.”
There is something very special in each and every one of us. We have all been gifted with the ability to make a difference. And if we can know that gift, we will gain through the strength of our visions the power to shape the future.
We must each find our starfish. And if we throw our starfish wisely and well, the world will be better.
小题1:
One day, the wise man saw the young man .| A．dancing along the beach | B．walking with a dancer | | C．picking up starfish for sale | D．trying to save as many starfish as possible |
小题2:
Near the end of the passage, “something very special” refers to .| A．the gifts from friends | B．the strength of making decision | | C．our own starfish | D．the ability of shaping one’s own future |
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From the last two paragraphs, we can learn that .| A．the wise man realized something new and important | | B．the wise man thought it was foolish of the young man to throw starfish into the ocean | | C．the young man had the ability to make a difference | | D．it is necessary for us to save starfish on the beach |
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The writer told this story in order to show us .| A．how and where we can write a good article | | B．everyone can do something for the future | | C．wise men are sometimes stupid | | D．young people are actually wiser than old people |
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