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Then, after returning to the United States from a ___2___ trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic(USSR), Mr. Cousins got sick. Because he had pushed his body to the ___3___ of its strength on the trip, a change began to take place ___4___ him. The material between his bones became ___5___.
In less than one week after his return, he could not ___6___. Every move that he ___7___ was painful. He was not able to sleep at night. The doctors told him that they did not know how to cure Mr. Cousins’ problem and he might never ___8___ over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up ___9___ Mr. Cousins thought that ___10___ thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He did not want to take medicine to cure himself. ___11___, he felt that happy thoughts or ___12___ might cure his illness.
He began to ___13___ on himself while still in the hospital by watching funny shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that 10 minutes of real laughter during the ___14___ gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night. ___15___ the doctors could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could ___16___ his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping ___17___ he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well ___18___ to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for ___19___. After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work. He had laughed himself back to ___20___.
1. A. time B. holiday C. sleep D. work
2. A. boring B. tiring C. dangerous D. pleasant
3. A. top B. degree C. problem D. limit
4. A. from B. around C. inside D. beside
5. A. weak B. ill C. false D. painful
6. A. speak B. breathe C. stand D. see
7. A. made B. did C. took D. gave
8. A. look B. get C. turn D. think
9. A. effort B. hope C. treatment D. arrangement
10. A. foolish B. unusual C. funny D. unhappy
11. A. Instead B. however C. Therefore D. Otherwise
12. A. sleep B. travel C. laughter D. television
13. A. rescue B. operate C. try D. experiment
14. A. day B. week C. month D. year
15. A. Promising B. Deciding C. Doubting D. Recognizing
16. A. invent B. begin C. continue D. prove
17. A. until B. whenever C. unless D. so that
18. A. soon B. completely C. slowly D. enough
19. A. exercise B. illness C. rest D. pleasure
20. A. power B. sense C. health D. happiness
答案
解析
1. D。他周游世界因为他是一个商人,因此说他喜欢他的工作和旅游。
2. B。因为外出经商,旅途一定劳累,因此选B,tiring 表示“使人劳累的”。
3. D。limit 表示“限度”,此句的意思是“他把最后的一点力气都用在旅途上”。
4. C。inside him 的意思是“在他的体内”。
5. A。此句的意思是“他骨头里的物质变得虚弱”。
6. C。从上文提到的原因可知,他不能站立。
7. A。make a move 意为“移动”。
8. B。get over 为固定搭配,意为“爬过、克服、熬过、恢复、原谅”。
9. B。give up hope 表示“放弃希望”。
10. D。从下文得知快乐的思想可以治疗他的疾病,因此可以判断unhappy thoughts导致他体内的bad chemical changes。
11. A。instead 表示“代替”,即他想用快乐的生活来替代服药。
12. C。or 为并列连词,和happy thoughts并列的就是laughter了。
13. D。experiment为不及物动词,意思是“进行实验、做试验”,常与介词 on, with 连用。
14. A。“during the day(在白天)与下文的 at night(在晚上)相对。
15. B。decide 在此为及物动词,意为“判定”,这里是现在分词短语作原因状语。
16. C。即在旅馆里continue his experiments with laughter(继续他的实验)。
17. B。每当他感到疲劳的时候他就睡觉休息。
18. D。他觉得身体恢复得足够的好了。
19. A。在海滩上跑步是为了锻炼身体。
20. C。back to health 意为“恢复了健康”。
核心考点
试题【Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled aroun】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman’s charisma is key. “Food TV isn’t about food anymore,” says Flay. “It’s about your personality(个性)and finding a way to keep people’s eyeballs on your show.”
But Lieberman isn’t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new how, Lieberman was back in his won small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company was looking for some one to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights, Lieberman got the job.
小题1: We can learn from the text that Lieberman’s family ___________.
A. have relatives in Europe | B.love cooking at home |
C. often hold parties | D.own a restaurant |
A.at one of this parties | B. from his teachers |
C.through his taped show | D.on a television program |
A.A natural ability to attract others. |
B.A way to show one’s achievement. |
C.Lieberman’s after-class interest. |
D.Lieberman’s fine cooking skill. |
A.He could prepare meals in a small kitchen. |
B.He was famous for his shows on Food TV. |
C.He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches. |
D.He could cook cheap ,delicious and simple meals. |
A.He is clever but lonely. |
B.He is friendly and active. |
C.He enjoys traveling around. |
D.He often changes his meals. |
Jeb let go of his jacket, grasped Tom and held him across his body, making a cross. Now the cougar’s enemy looked even bigger, and it rose up, ready to move away, but unfortunately Tom got scared and struggled free of Jeb.
“Tom,no!”shouted his father.
But Tom broke and ran and that’s the last thing you do with a cougar. The second Tom broke free, Jeb threw himself on the cougar, just as it jumped from the rock. They hit each other in mid-air and both fell. The cougar was on Jeb in a flash, forgetting about Tom, which was what Jeb wanted.
Cougars are not as big as most people think and a determined man stands a chance, even with just his fists. As the cougar’s claws(爪子) got into his left shoulder. Jeb swung his fist at its eyes and hit hard. The animal howled(吼叫) and put its head back. Jeb followed up with his other fist. Then out of the corner of his eye. Jeb saw Tom. The boy was running back to help his father.
“Knife, Tom,” shouted Jeb.
The boy ran to his father’s bag, while Jeb started shouting as well as hitting, to keep the cougar’s attention away from Tom. Tom got the knife and ran over to Jeb. The cougar was moving its head in and out, trying to find a way through the wall Jeb was making out of his arms. Tom swung with the knife, into the cougar’s back. It howled horribly and ran off into the mountains.
The whole fight had taken about thirty seconds.
小题1:Why did Jeb pull his jacket open when he saw the cougar?
A.To get ready to fight. | B.To frighten it away. |
C.To protect the boy. | D.To cool down. |
A.They are afraid of noises. |
B.They hesitate before they hit. |
C.They are bigger than we think. |
D.They like to attack running people. |
A.By keeping shouting and hitting. |
B.By making a wall out of his arms. |
C.By throwing himself on the cougar. |
D.By swinging his fists at the cougar’s eyes. |
A.The cougar jumped from the rock. |
B.Tom struggled free of his father. |
C.Jeb asked Tom to get the knife. |
D.Jeb held Tom across his body. |
“When my wife died, I thought ,well, it is from God, but at least I have him.” he said. “Then I learned he is sick, too. I asked if there was medicine and the doctors said no.
HIV and AIDS have quietly arrived in this land. They remain almost completely underground, hidden in ignorance(无知)and shame.
The father of the infected 18-month-old said his village teacher had never talked about AIDS. Nearly a year of tests on the father have found no HIV, and the old children are clear, but his smallest child tested positive(阳性)at ten months.
Six years earlier, his wife lost a baby and have several transfusions in Pakistan. After she became sick and was found to be infected, “I told the family her blood was not good and to avoid eating with her.” he said. “And I told them not to kiss his son, he burst into tears.
“I don’t know what to do,” he said; “I have sacrificed so much since my marriage.. I mortgaged (抵押)half my land to pay for her medical care.”
The father can do little for his son but keep his secret. There are no AIDS treatment centers in Afghanistan, only a single secret clinic in the capital that just monitors the disease, and no drugs are available.
小题1:The underlined part “was oblivious to” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by______.
A. was shocked by |
B. was afraid of |
C. was curious about |
D. was unaware of |
A. He was diagnosed with AIDS just now |
B. He has no money to support the family |
C. His wife died of AIDS four weeks ago |
D. His youngest son was infected with AIDS |
A. the wife had several blood transfusions |
B. the family knew how to avoid AIDS |
C. the farmer had little knowledge about AIDS |
D. the family loved the youngest son most |
A. There are several AIDS treatment centers in Afghanistan |
B. The farmer will keep his son’s disease unknown to others |
C. The farmer sold his house to pay for his wife’s medial care |
D. Afghanistian’s medical conditions have been greatly improved. |
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because her thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely----a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “Creative voice.”
“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”
Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book, and a short-story collection.
小题1:Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?
A.She had seven brothers. | B.She felt herself a nobody. |
C.She was too shy to go to school. | |
D.She did not have any good teachers. |
A.work for a school magazine | B.run away from her family |
C.make a lot of friends | D.develop her writing style |
A.Her early years in college. | B.Her training in the Workshop. |
C.Her feeling of being different. | D.Her childhood experience. |
A.It is quite popular among students. |
B.It is the only book ever written by Cisneros. |
C.It wasn’t success as it was written in Spanish. |
D.It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine. |
The taxi-driver takes the tourist everywhere. He shows him all monuments and all the museums. In the evening they go back to the hotel. The tourist gives the taxi-driver 100 and says, “What about tomorrow?” The taxi-driver looks at the tourist. “ Tomorrow? It’s another 100 tomorrow.” But the tourist says, “That’s OK. If that’s the price. See you tomorrow.” The taxi-driver is very pleased. The day the taxi-driver takes the tourist everywhere again. And in the second evening they go back to the hotel. The tourist gives the taxi-driver another 100 and says, “I’m going home tomorrow.” He likes the tourist, above all, 100 a day is a good money. “So you are going home, where do you come from?” he asks.
“I come from New York.”
“New York!” says the taxi-driver, “I have a sister in New York. Her name is Susannah, Do you know her?”
“Of course I know her. She gave me 200 for you.”
小题1:The tourist is _______.
an Englishman
a Frenchman.
a Swedish.
an American.
小题2:The tourist asks every taxi-driver his name because_______
A.he is afraid f being cheated |
B.he knows one of the taxi-drivers |
C.he knows of one of the taxi-drivers |
D.there is a friend of his among the taxi-drivers. |
A.None but the tourist agrees to the price given without arguing with him |
B.His sister knows the tourist. |
C.His sister had brought so much money to him |
D.He wants to be the guide of the tourist. |
A.he tourist will give the taxi-driver another 200 |
B.the tourist makes fun of the taxi-driver |
C.the tourist will give the taxi-driver half of sum |
D.the taxi-driver insists that the tourist should pay him another 200 |
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