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“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I 36 disappointment. “If you can carry on, one day something good will happen. And you"ll realize that it wouldn"t have happened if not for that 37 disappointment.”
Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932.I had decided to try out a job in radio, then work my way up to sports 38 . I hitchhiked to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station and got turned down every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn’t risk hiring inexperienced person. “Go out in the sticks and find a small station that’ll give you a 39 ,”she said.
I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois. 40 there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local 41 to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I 42 . The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn’t hired.
My disappointment must have 43 . “Everything happens for the best,” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, my frustration 44 . I asked a1oud, “How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?”
I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur 45 . “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an 46 game.
On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother’s words. I often wonder what 47 my life might have taken if I’d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.
36. A. faced B. received C. considered D. met
37. A. old B. previous C. early D. original
38. A. layer B. manager C. announcer D. fan
39. A. job B. suggestion C. chance D. advantage
40. A. While B. When C. Which D. So
41. A. worker B. student C. announcer D. athlete
42. A. accepted B. agreed C. applied D. promised
43. A. come B. shown C. disappeared D. brightened
44. A. turned over B. hit over C. boiled over D. took over
45. A. murmuring B. calling C. whispering D. announcing
46. A. forceful B. close C. imaginary D. ordinary
47. A. side B. action C. approach D. direction
答案
解析
36.A。固定搭配。face disappointment 意为“面对失望”。D选项met后要加with,meat with sth 意为“遇到某事”、“经历某事”。
37.B。该句句意是“你会认识到,如果没有以前的挫折就不会有现在的一切。”,因此,这里是指“以前的挫折(失望)”。
38.C。从下文44空之后的信息“How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can"t get a job in a radio station?"可确定答案。
39.C。在语境中考查名词词义辨析。give sb a chance意为“给某人一个机会”。那位女士只能说“给一个工作机会“,而不是能肯定 “给一个工作”。
40.A。考查从句连接词的选择。根据语法知识分析,While 在此引导让步状语,意为“虽然,尽管”。
41.D。从上下文的逻辑看,该句句意为“…父亲说,蒙哥马利·沃德开了一家新商店,想雇请一个本地的运动员管理店里的体育部。我中学时曾在迪克森打过橄榄球,出于这个原因我去申请了这份工作。”
42.C。见上述解释。
43.B。从后面的内容可以推出,当时“我的沮丧心情一定表现出来了。”所以此时,“母亲(又)提醒我说。 “一切总会好的,"爸爸(还)给我买了一辆汽车找工作用。”。
44.C。考查动词短语辨析。boil over原意为“因沸溢出,发怒”,这里用于形容作者失望到了极点。其他几个短语意思分别为:turn over“打翻,移交给,翻身,翻阅”;hit over“撞到”;take over“接收;接管”。
45.B。根据上文“我正在等电梯时突然听到叫喊叫声。”得知B为正确答案。murmur 意为“喃喃自语”,whisper 意为“低声说”,announce意为“宣布”,这三个词与上下文不符。根据下文 “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?”这句话判断,calling表示“喊叫”。
46.C。在语境中考查形容词词义辨析。结合文章所提供的语境可以知道此时没有比赛,因此是想像中的比赛。
47.D。该句句意为“我经常想,如果(当年)我得到Montgomery Ward的那份工作,我的生活方向(人生之路)又会怎样走呢?”。
核心考点
试题【Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phra】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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A.2 | B.3 | C.4 | D.5 |
A.well-equipped | B.competitive | C.suitable | D.famous |
A.To ask the family for help |
B.To make a study of financial courses. |
C.To do research on the price of college |
D.To get to know how to ask for financial aid |
A.To suggest ways to prepare for college learning |
B.To help readers find the right college |
C.To make Johnson Review popular |
D.To introduce college life |
At first we tried to push on through. We didn’t want to move the children out of home, so we camped upstairs. we put a sheet of plastic across the floor to protect us from the damp. But after three months, we felt very sick, so we moved to a wooden house in a park. The house was small, but at first we were all just delighted to be in a new place. Unfortunately, things took longer than expected and we were there for 10 months. The life there was inconvenient. What surprised me most was how much I missed being part of a community(社区).We had lived in a friendly village with good neighbours, and I’d never thought how much I’d miss that.
Although-our situation was very bad, it’s difficult to feel too sorry for yourself when you look at what’s happening elsewhere. I watched a news report about floods in Northern India and thought , “We didn’t have a straw hut(茅草房)that was swept away , and our house is still sanding . We’re lucky .”
We moved back home in August. With December coming, there’s reconstruction work to be done, so it’s difficult to prepare for Christmas. But I can’t wait — I’m going to throw a party for our friends in the village to say thanks for their support. This year , I won’t need any gifts — living away from home for months has made me realize how little we actually need or miss all our possessions . Although we are replacing things, there’s really no rush — we have our home back, and that’s the main thing.
小题1:What does the underlined word “amiss” in the first paragraph mean?
A.Wrong. | B.Missing. | C.Right. | D.Found. |
A.was sick of staying upstairs |
B.cared much about her children |
C.could not stand living a wooden house |
D.did not deal well with her family affairs during the flood |
A.Because her situation was not serious. |
B.Because many other places were flooded. |
C.Because she had been to Northern India. |
D.Because some others suffered even more. |
A.She valued human feelings more than before. |
B.She realized she almost didn’t need possessions. |
C.She found Christmas gifts no longer badly needed. |
D.She thought her own home was the most important. |
Then there’s honesty in our actions. Are you honest at school, with your parents, and with your boss? If you’ve ever been dishonest, I think we all have, try being honest, and notice how whole it makes you feel. Remember, you can’t do wrong and feel right. This story by Jeff is a good example of that:
In my second year of study, there were three kids in my math class who didn’t do well. I was really good at it. I would charge them three dollars for each test that I helped them pass. I’d write on a little piece of paper all the right answers, and hand them off.
At first I felt like I was making money, kind of a nice job. I wasn’t thinking about how it could hurt all of us. After a while I realized I shouldn’t do that anymore, because I wasn’t really helping them. They weren’t learning anything, and it would only get harder down the road. Cheating certainly wasn’t helping me.
It takes courage to be honest when people all around you are getting away with cheating on tests, lying to their parents, and stealing at work. But, remember, every act of honesty is a deposit(储蓄)into your PBA and will build strength.
小题1:The underlined part “appear through smoke and mirrors” in the first paragraph means “ ”.
小题2:Which of the following can best explain Judy Garland’s words?
A.Be your true self rather than follow others. |
B.Don’t copy others or you can’t be the first class. |
C.Make efforts to be the first instead of the second. |
D.Don’t learn from others unless they’re excellent. |
A.honesty can be of great help. |
B.A bad thing can be turned into a good one. |
C.Helping others cheat can do good to nobody. |
D.One should realize the wrong in his bad deeds. |
A.one must be brave to be honest |
B.it’s difficult to be honest when others are not |
C.one should be honest when making a deposit |
D.honesty in one’s actions can help him in the future |
A pedestrian is killed in a traffic accident in the USA every 110 minutes;one is injured every nine minutes, according to official date. Crosswalk can be especially dangerous for the elderly. Among people 70 and older, 36% of pedestrian deaths in 2006 occurred in crosswalks, compared with 21% of those younger than 70, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The Federal Highway Administration(FHWA)advises that next year states increase by nearly 15% the amount of time traffic lights provide for pedestrians to cross the street after the flashing orange hand appears .
FHWA spokesman Doug Hecox says reasons for the change include an aging population that needs more time to cross, health-conscious Americans walking more, children encouraged to walk to prevent getting overweight and high gas prices pushing people to walk instead of drive.
Pedestrian deaths went down by 12% from 5,449 in 1996 to 4,784 in 2006. But among those in 2006, 471 were killed in crosswalks, down slightly from 488 ten years earlier, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says.
小题1:Which of the following is true according to the text?
A.Among 100 pedestrian deaths there were 21 people younger than 70. |
B.Old people are more likely to meet with accidents in crosswalks. |
C.Traffic accidents killed more old people than young people. |
D.About seven traffic accidents happened per hour. |
A.Fixing more traffic lights. |
B.Providing more crosswalks. |
C.Giving pedestrians more time to cross streets. |
D.Increasing the time before the orange lights appear. |
A.There’re many cars and buses on the road. |
B.Pedestrians are careless. |
C.Crosswalks are crowded. |
D.Drivers don’t give way. |
A.fewer people were injured in crosswalks |
B.crosswalk safety has been greatly improved |
C.much has been done to reduce traffic accidents |
D.pedestrian deaths in crosswalk remain a serious problem |
One might get a bit more energy out of the ethanol than that used to make it, which could still make ethanol more sustainable than gas generally, but that’s not the end of the problem. Using corn to make ethanol means less corn is left to feed animals and people, which drives up the cost of food. That result leads to turning the fallow land — including, in some cases, rain forest in places such as Brazil — into farmland, which in turn gives off lots of carbon dioxide(CO2)into the air. Finally, over many years, the energy benefit from burning ethanol would make up for the forest loss. But by then, climate change would have progressed so far that it might not help.
You cannot really declare any practice “sustainable” until you have done a complete lift-cycle analysis of its environmental(环境的)costs. Even then, technology and public policy keep developing, and that development can lead to unforeseen and undesired results. The admirable goal of living sustainable requires plenty of thought on an ongoing basis.
小题1:What might directly cause the loss of the forest according to the text?
A.The growing demand for energy to make ethanol. |
B.The increasing carbon dioxide in the air. |
C.The greater need for farmland. |
D.The big change in weather. |
A.the energy benefit | B.the forest loss |
C.climate change | D.burning ethanol |
A.impractical | B.acceptable | C.admirable | D.useless |
A.Technology. | B.Sustainability. |
C.Ethanol energy. | D.Environmental protection. |
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