The Quiet Hero 沉默的英雄
It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do. But I’ll 1 that Sunday in 2000 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I 2 to think of my shortcomings — how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children, and how many things I couldn’t 3 my waitress’ salary to buy.
But what 4 kids I had! My daughter Maria was a senior in college, and Denny was home visiting from his freshman year at Harvard University. They were 5 impolite enough to complain, but there was so much more I 6 I had done for them. I just hoped they ___7 .
As I walked into the 8 quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase 9 a dozen red roses! When had Denny possibly slipped down to leave them? But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly 10 of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It 11 :
She took a day off from her busy 12 to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5 hours just to get there, and they had to be there early 13 he could see his hero take batting practice. 14 their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was 15 his hero making a diving catch. After the game, of course he had to 16 his hero’s signature, so she stayed with the little boy 17 one in the morning…
It took me long enough to 18 it, but I finally know who the 19 hero is. Mom, I love you!
And suddenly, it was a 20 Mother’s Day, after all.
| 小题1: | | A．admit | B．adopt | C．deny | D．refuse |
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| 小题2: | | A．intended | B．liked | C．tended | D．hesitated |
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| 小题3: | | A．stress | B．spare | C．strengthen | D．spend |
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| 小题4: | | A．poor | B．great | C．faithless | D．pretty |
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| 小题5: | | A．merely | B．usually | C．never | D．often |
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| 小题6: | | A．wished | B．hoped | C．expected | D．desired |
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| 小题7: | | A．supported | B．understood | C．approved | D．disgusted |
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| 小题8: | | A．1iving-room | B．kitchen | C．bed loom | D．study |
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| 小题9: | | A．including | B．containing | C．possessing | D．pinning |
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| 小题10: | | A．handwriting | B．description | C．tone | D．scratch |
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| 小题11: | | A．wrote | B．recorded | C．memorized | D．read |
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| 小题12: | | A．event | B．content | C．schedule | D．circumstance |
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| 小题15: | | A．impressed | B．printed | C．presented | D．pressed |
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| 小题16: | | A．buy | B．abandon | C．get | D．swap |
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| 小题17: | | A．before | B．until | C．after | D．when |
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| 小题18: | | A．see | B．hear | C．realize | D．tell |
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| 小题19: | | A．actual | B．true | C．imaginary | D．visual |
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| 小题20: | | A．sad | B．bitter | C．happy | D．exciting |
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小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:C
小题6:A
小题7:B
小题8:B
小题9:B
小题10:A
小题11:D
小题12:C
小题13:D
小题14:C
小题15:B
小题16:C
小题17:B
小题18:C
小题19:B
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年少的时候，我们心目中可能有各种各样的英雄形象，让我们激动、崇拜并仿效；等我们慢慢长大，才发觉真正的英雄其实就在我们身边，他（她）们默默无闻，无私奉献，就像文章中这位母亲。
小题1:该句句意为“但我承认2000年那个星期天对我而言苦乐参半。”
小题2:作为单身母亲，我总是不由自主想到自己的缺点。tend to do意为“倾向于”。
小题3:服务员收入微薄，孩子们想要的很多东西我都不能匀出钱去买。share匀出。
小题4:从下文内容可知，孩子们给母亲过了一个美好的母亲节，他们是伟大的孩子。
小题5:该句句意为“他们从不无理地抱怨。”
小题6:但作为母亲，有多少事情我想为他们做却做不到啊。wish后面的宾语从句用虚拟语气，表示难以实现的愿望。
小题7:我只是希望孩子们能够理解（我的无奈）。
小题8:从后面的to start breakfast可知，我悄悄走进厨房。
小题9:花瓶里装着一打红玫瑰，表示容器中装有什么东西，只能用contain。
小题10:从下文内容可知，18岁的儿子给母亲写了一封短信，所以此处指的是字迹。
小题11:该句句意为“短信的内容是”，read在此处意为“内容如下”。
小题12:母亲的时间表安排的很满，但还是请了一天假带儿子去见儿子心目中的英雄。
小题13:根据句意可知上下文之间是因果关系，所以用并列连词so。
小题14:on与名词或动名词连用，表示“一……就……”。
小题15:T恤衫上印着儿子崇拜的英雄的形象。
小题16:比赛后，儿子当然要索取英雄的签名。
小题17:母亲一直陪伴着儿子直到凌晨一点钟。until引导时间状语。
小题18:该句句意为“我过了很长时间才意识到，谁是真正的英雄。”
小题19:true真正的；actual实际的；imaginary想象的；visual视觉的。
小题20:懂事的儿女让母亲感到欣慰，自然这是一个快乐的母亲节。 |
核心考点
试题【The Quiet Hero 沉默的英雄 It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mother】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
The Abominable Snowman喜马拉雅雪人
He has been called the “missing link.” Half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world-Mount Everest.
He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The 1 of the Snowman has been around for __2 . Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mound Everest. The native people said they 3 this creature and called it the “Yeti,”and they said that they had 4 caught Yetis on two occasions 5 none has ever been produced an evidence（证据）.
Over the years, the story of the Yetis has 6 . In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not 7 the tracks of a monkey or bear and 8 that the Abominable Snowman might really 9 .
Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were 10 footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than 11 animal tracks, which had been made 12 as the melted（融化）and refroze in the snow. 13 , in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was 14 and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But, 15 . no evidence has ever 16 been produced.
These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman __17 . But if they ever 18 catching one, they may face a real 19 : Would they put it in a 20 or give it a room in a hotel?
| 小题1: | | A．event | B．story | C．adventure | D．description |
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| 小题2: | | A．centuries | B．too long | C．some time | D．many years |
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| 小题3: | | A．heard from | B．cared for | C．knew of | D．read about |
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| 小题4: | | A．even | B．hardly | C．certainly | D．probably |
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| 小题5: | | A．as | B．though | C．when | D．until |
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| 小题6: | | A．developed | B．changed | C．occurred | D．continued |
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| 小题7: | | A．entirely | B．naturally | C．clearly | D．simply |
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| 小题8: | | A．found | B．declared | C．felt | D．doubled |
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| 小题9: | | A．exist | B．escape | C．disappear | D．return |
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| 小题10: | | A．clearer | B．more | C．possible | D．rare |
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| 小题11: | | A．huge | B．recent | C．ordinary | D．frightening |
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| 小题12: | | A．strange | B．large | C．deep | D．rough |
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| 小题13: | | A．In the end | B．Therefore | C．After all | D．However |
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| 小题14: | | A．imagined | B．real | C．special | D．familiar |
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| 小题15: | | A．so | B．besides | C．again | D．instead |
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| 小题16: | | A．rightly | B．actually | C．normally | D．particularly |
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| 小题17: | | A．lightly | B．jokingly | C．seriously | D．properly |
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| 小题18: | | A．succeed in | B．insist on | C．depend on | D．join in |
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| 小题19: | | A．decision | B．situation | C．subject | D．problem |
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| 小题20: | | A．zoo | B．mountain | C．museum | D．laboratory |
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My Forever Valentine我永远的“情人”
Valentine’s Day was the time my father chose to show his love for the special people in his life. Over the years I fondly (天真的) thought 1 him as my “Valentine man”.
My first recollection of the 2 he could bring to Valentine’s Day came when I was six. That morning at the breakfast table I found a card and a gift-wrapped package at my chair. The card was 3 “Love, Dad” and the gift was a ring with a small piece of red glass to 4 my birthstone, a ruby (红宝石). There is 5 difference between red glass and rubies to a child of six, and I remember 6 that ring with pride that all the cards in the world 7 not surpass (超越).
8 I grew older, the gifts gave 9 to heart-shaped boxes filled with my 10__ chocolate and always included a 11 card signed “Love, Dad”. In those years my thank-you became 12 of a perfunctory (敷衍) response. The cards seemed less 13 , and I took for granted that the Valentine would 14 be there. I had 15 my hopes and dreams in receiving cards and gifts from “significant others” and “Love Dad” just didn’t seem quite 16 .
His final card remains on my desk today. It’s a 17 of how special fathers can be and how important it has been to me over the years to know that I had a father who continued a 18_ of love with simple acts of understanding and an ability to express happiness over the people in his life.
Those things never 19 , nor does the memory of a man who never 20 being my Valentine.
| 小题2: | | A．memory | B．magic | C．puzzle | D．presents |
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| 小题3: | | A．read | B．written | C．shown | D．signed |
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| 小题4: | | A．recover | B．resemble | C．represent | D．replace |
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| 小题5: | | A．much | B．little | C．great | D．less |
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| 小题6: | | A．having | B．owning | C．wearing | D．watching |
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| 小题7: | | A．could | B．did | C．must | D．should |
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| 小题8: | | A．Because | B．Since | C．When | D．As |
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| 小题9: | | A．room | B．way | C．honour | D．seat |
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| 小题10: | | A．favorite | B．lovely | C．dear | D．precious |
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| 小题11: | | A．usual | B．common | C．strange | D．special |
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| 小题12: | | A．less | B．little | C．more | D．much |
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| 小题13: | | A．important | B．beautiful | C．familiar | D．standard |
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| 小题14: | | A．surely | B．always | C．regularly | D．often |
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| 小题15: | | A．let | B．kept | C．placed | D．remembered |
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| 小题16: | | A．suitable | B．enough | C．effective | D．sacred |
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| 小题17: | | A．signal | B．certificate | C．consequence | D．reminder |
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| 小题18: | | A．tradition | B．hobby | C．habit | D．custom |
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| 小题19: | | A．lose | B．die | C．miss | D．appear |
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| 小题20: | | A．thought | B．wanted | C．tried | D．stopped |
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Stand Beside You Forever永远站在你身后
题材：感人故事难度：＊＊＊＊词数：272标准时间：15分钟完成时间：______ 正确数：______
The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She 1 the driver and, using her hands to feel the 2 of the seats, walked down and found the 3 which the driver had told her was empty. Then she settled in.
It had been a year since Susan, 34, 4 a medical misdiagnosis(误诊), was suddenly thrown into a world of 5 . Mark, her husband, was an Air Force officer and he loved Susan with all his heart. He 6 her how to rely on her other 7 , specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and 8 to adapt herself to the new environment. He helped her befriend the bus drivers who could 9 for her, and save her a seat.
10 , Susan decided that she was ready to try the 11 on her own. Monday morning, she said good-bye and for the first time, they went their 12 ways.
On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was 13 the bus, the driver said, “Boy, I 14 envy you.” Susan had no 15 what the driver was talking about, and asked, “What do you 16 ?”
The driver answered, “You know, every morning for the 17 week, a fine-looking gentleman 18 a military uniform has been standing across the corner 19 you as you get off the bus. He 20 you cross the street safely and he watches until you enter your office building. You are one lucky lady.”
Tears of gratitude poured down Susan’s cheeks.
| 小题1: | | A．thanked | B．asked | C．discovered | D．paid |
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| 小题2: | | A．location | B．shape | C．size | D．cost |
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| 小题4: | | A．according to | B．instead of | C．thanks to | D．due to |
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| 小题5: | | A．anger | B．darkness | C．happiness | D．light |
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| 小题6: | | A．asked | B．encouraged | C．taught | D．praised |
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| 小题7: | | A．feelings | B．sights | C．senses | D．abilities |
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| 小题9: | | A．make out | B．watch out | C．find out | D．work out |
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| 小题10: | | A．Finally | B．Luckily | C．However | D．Besides |
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| 小题12: | | A．opposite | B．separate | C．difficult | D．usual |
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| 小题13: | | A．getting on | B．getting in | C．getting off | D．getting up |
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| 小题15: | | A．idea | B．opinion | C．way | D．thought |
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| 小题16: | | A．want | B．mean | C．say | D．suggest |
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| 小题17: | | A．next | B．old | C．past | D．following |
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| 小题19: | | A．searching | B．watching | C．calling | D．noticing |
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| 小题20: | | A．looks out | B．takes up | C．believes in | D．makes sure |
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Tilly Smith, the 11-year-old British girl, who was called as “Angle of the Beach”, saved 100 tourists from a Thai beach hit by the tsunami① in 2004 and has been named Child of the Year by readers of a French children’s newspaper.
She came ahead of a South African Aids orphan, a six-year-old girl who survived a kidnapping②and a young Parisian pop singer to win the Mon Quotidien award. Tilly had studied tsunamis with her geography teacher, Andrew Kearney, shortly before flying to Thailand for a holiday with her parents and younger sister last year. As she watched the waves suddenly begin to move back, and the sea was bubbling③, she warned her mother, Penny, that the beach was about to be struck by a tsunami. Mrs Smith and her husband, Colin, warned other holidaymakers and hotel staff and scores of people were cleared from Maikhao beach at Phuket.
Tilly, now 11, and back in Thailand for anniversary commemorations④of the disaster, said: “It’s really good, just to know about tsunamis or any natural disaster in case you are in one. I’m very glad that I was able to say on the beach that a tsunami was coming. And I’m glad that they listened to me.”
Tilly is unaware of her great popularity among French children. Her picture appears on the front page of Mon Quotidien, which is read by 10 to 14-year-olds.
“Our readers chose Tilly because they could identify with her,” said Francois Dufour. “To be a pop star at 11 seems impossible, and the idea of having Aids or being kidnapped is far from their lives.”
1. The passage mainly wants to tell readers that ______.
A. a little girl saved 100 tourists out of a tsunami
B. British “Angle of the Beach” was named Child of the Year
C. many people came for anniversary commemorations
D. the tsunami was able to be avoided
2. The underlined words “Mon Quotidien” (in Paragraph 4) should be the name of ______.
A. a magazine B. a book C. a novel D. a newspaper
3. Which of the following about Tilly Smith is TRUE?
A. She could make full use of her knowledge from books.
B. She was ever kidnapped by a pop singer.
C. She visited Thailand by boat with her parents.
D. She had expected to attract the French children.
4. According to the Tilly Smith’s knowledge, when there is a tsunami, ______.
A. the sea water will not be clear B. the sea will be bubbling when moving back
C. the sea water will make great noise D. the sea will be bubbling when moving forward |
Stacy had recently moved from New York City to Stoneybrook, Connecticut. It was ___1___ for her to make new friends but she finally had three when she joined the Babysitters Club to ___2___ little children whose parents were busy. Claudia, Kristy, and Mary were in her class at school and also the other ___3___ of the club. The girls met at five o’clock on Fridays and waited for the ___4___ to ring. So far they had been busy, in spite of the ___5___ that they couldn’t stay out late and were under 13.
___6___, the girls’ world was invaded(侵犯) by a second group ___7___ themselves the Babysitters Agency. They were ___8___ and the group also included a few boys. The Babysitters Club tried to think of ways to ___9___ with the older group. They could clean and work for less money, however, they ___10___ it would be difficult to compete. The shock was even greater than they had ___11___ when most of their best customers started to call the new group. They ___12___ to get only a few jobs.
To try a new ___13___ Kristy recruited(招收) a few older kids who told the club they didn’t want to ___14___ their money with the other group. The club ___15___ only too quickly that these older girls joined only as spies and didn’t ___16___ for their job assignments(分派). Thus, more parents were ___17___ with the club.
Finally, the girls realized that the ___18___ in the other group were not good babysitters. They watched television, talked on the phone, and invited boyfriends to the house ___19___ they were sitting. When the children of the families started to ___20___, and a near accident almost occurred, the club went to the parents to tell them what was happening.
1. A. active B. thoughtful C. easy D. hard
2. A. take care of B. run into C. go through D. take advantage of
3. A. children B. members C. circles D. players
4. A. alarm B. traffic C. phone D. neighbor
5. A. fact B. degree C. question D. demand
6. A. Therefore B. Suddenly C. Regularly D. Unwillingly
7. A. attracting B. finding C. calling D. matching
8. A. younger B. cleverer C. taller D. older
9. A. compete B. fight C. do D. meet
10. A. heard B. knew C. promised D. shot
11. A. damaged B. caught C. expected D. forced
12. A. hoped B. liked C. refused D. seemed
13. A. chance B. possibility C. power D. policy
14. A. share B. give C. provide D. mark
15. A. put down B. paid off C. found out D. come through
16. A. check up B. end up C. look up D. show up
17. A. satisfied B. unhappy C. curious D. helpful
18. A. kids B. adults C. systems D. situations
19. A. that B. when C. where D. how
20. A. blow B. complain C. appreciate D. spread |
