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Dorothy Brown was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music. Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her ___1___ concert. She had been waiting for this ___2___ for years and years. “Now it is here at last,” she thought. “How beautiful her ___3___ is.”
The song made her ___4___ to the days when she was Lauren’s ___5___. As a young ___6___, Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer. She studied ___7___ in France, Italy and in the United States. “You can become a fine ___8___ in the future,” her teachers told her. “But you must be ___9___ to study hard and work for many years. There will be ___10___ time for anything but music in your life.”
Dorothy was ___11___ at that time and she was ___12___ that music was all she wanted or needed to ___13___ her life. For almost a year Dorothy ___14___ of nothing else. Then she ___15___ David, a young engineer travelling Europe. They soon fell in ___16___. David asked her to be his ___17___. Dorothy also wanted to marry David. But she loved ___18___, too. She didn’t know what to do. David was against her being a singer. He said, “If you want to be a singer, you must forget about getting married. You can’t ___19___ do both.” Thus her days were gone and would never return.
Now Lauren became a singer instead of her, which was her ___20___.
1. A. sorry      B. successful   C. first    D. wonderful
2. A. dance     B. moment     C. show   D. party
3. A. voice      B. face    C. dress   D. life
4. A. think of  B. bring back  C. go back      D. come back
5. A. age B. friend C. mother       D. teacher
6. A. musician B. pop star      C. lady    D. girl
7. A. French   B. music  C. piano  D. dance
8. A. actress    B. student       C. singer D. dancer
9. A. prepared B. learning     C. driven D. waiting
10. A. some    B. any    C. no     D. enough
11. A. eight     B. eighteen     C. eighty D. eighty-eight
12. A. lucky    B. sure    C. afraid  D. fond
13. A. fill       B. live     C. lead    D. take
14. A. heard    B. knew  C. talked D. thought
15. A. saw off        B. learned from      C. heard of     D. met with
16. A. love     B. feeling       C. music  D. touch
17. A. assistant       B. teacher       C. wife    D. student
18. A. him      B. engineering       C. herself       D. music
19. A. certainly      B. possibly     C. only    D. mainly
20. A. thought                B. hope       C. purpose      D. will
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解析

本文使用倒叙的形式述说了 Dorothy 学习音乐的故事。一开始说小女儿举办音乐会,由女儿美丽的歌声想到自己年轻时候学习音乐的情况。Dorothy 年轻时很有音乐天赋,先后在法国、意大利和美国学习音乐。不过由于偶遇 David 并相爱,为了爱情而放弃了音乐的学习。不过让她可以感到欣慰的是女儿已成为歌唱家,完成了她的心愿。
1. C。由下文的“这一时刻她等了好多年了”来看,这里说的是女儿第一次演出。由于演唱会还没有开始,结果未知,因此可排除选项 A、B 和D。
2. B。由下文知道,Dorothy Brown 也曾学习过音乐,但由于认识 David 并结婚而影响了自己在音乐方面的发展,现在正好让女儿来完成自己的心愿。由此可知,她“盼望这一时刻好多年了”。
3. A。由“今天小女儿 Lauren 将举办演唱会”来看,此处说的是“她的声音真美”。
4. C。女儿的演出使她想到了和女儿一般大的时候的事情。下面是回忆自己以往学习音乐的情况。go back to the days… 意为“回忆起……的日子”。
5. A。从下面的“当还是一个年轻姑娘时,Dorothy 想成为一名歌唱演员”来看,Dorothy 在和女儿差不多大的时候也曾学习过音乐。
6. D。当 Dorothy 还是个小女孩时,她想成为一名歌唱演员。
7. B。由上下文可知“她曾在法国、意大利和美国学习过音乐”。
8. C。由上下文可知,此处是老师告诉她以后有能力成为一名出色的歌唱家。
9. A。前面说“你有能力成为一名出色的歌唱家”,现在话锋一转,“但是你必须愿意努力学习、刻苦勤奋很多年”。be prepared to do sth 表示“有能力并且愿意做某事”。
10. C。这是老师继续说的话:在你一生中要把全部时间用于音乐,不能用在其他方面。
11. B。由 Dorothy 遇到了 David 并与他结婚等来看,当时她的年龄不可能是 8 岁、80 岁或 88 岁,当时 Dorothy 为 18 岁比较合理。
12. B。/13. A。听了老师的话,再加上当时她只有 18 岁,“她确信音乐是充实她生活的全部内容”。fill one’s life 为“填充生活,充实生活”。
14. D。有接近一年的时间,Dorothy 什么也不想,这里说的是她一心扑在学习音乐上。
15. D。前面说她有一年的时间把心思全扑在学习音乐上,这里说的是“接着她遇到了在欧洲旅游的 David”,这动摇了她学习音乐的念头。meet with 意为“遇到,偶然碰到”。
16. A。从下文 David 要她做他的妻子及 Dorothy 也想嫁给他等来看,这里说的是他们见面后不久就相爱了。fall in love (with sb / sth) 意为“爱上某人或某物”。
17. C。从上文“他们相爱”可推测,此处说的是“David 要她做他的妻子”。
18. D。Dorothy 也想嫁给 David,“但是她也爱音乐”,她不知道怎么办,这就在嫁人与学习音乐方面产生了矛盾。
19. B。下文 David 说学习音乐和结婚,“你二者不可能兼得”。possibly可以与 can’t 连用,表示“不可能”。
20. B。从上下文特别是 Now Lauren became a singer instead of her 可推测,Dorothy 想成为歌唱家的愿望由女儿来完成了,故此处用 hope。will往往含有“遗嘱,遗愿”的意思,在此不太合乎情理。
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My husband, Tom, is a born shopper. He loves to look at things and to touch them. He likes to compare prices between the same things in different stores. He would never think of buying anything without looking around in several stores. I, on the other hand, am not a shopper. I regard shopping as boring and unpleasant. If I like something and can afford it, I buy it immediately. I never take a time to look around for a good sale or a better deal (交易). Of course my husband and I never go shopping together. Doing shopping together would be too painful for both of us . When it comes to shopping, we go our separate ways.
Sometimes I ask my son Jimmy to buy some food in the shop not far from our home. But he is always absentminded. This was his story.
One day I said to him , “ I hope you won’t forget what I have told you to buy.” “No,” said Jimmy. “ I won’t forget . You want three organs, six eggs and a pound of meet.”
He went running down the street to the shop. As he ran , he said to himself over and over again , “ Three organs , six eggs and a pound of meat.”
In the beginning he remembered everything but he stopped several times. Once he saw two men fighting outside a clothes shop until a policeman stopped them. One of them was badly hurt. Then he stopped to give ten cents to a beggar. Then he met some of his friends and he played with them for a while. When he reached the shop, he had forgotten everything except six eggs.
As he walked home, his face became sadder and sadder. When he saw me he said, “ I’m sorry , mum . I have forgotten to buy oranges and the meat . I only remembered to buy six eggs , but I’ve dropped three of them.”
小题1:The husband loves shopping necause_________________.
A.he has much money
B.he likes the shops
C.he likes to compare the prices between the same items
D.he has nothing to do but do shopping
小题2:The wife doesn’t like shopping because___________________.
A.she has no money
B.she has no tome
C.she doesn’t love her husband
D.she feels it boring to go shopping
小题3:They never go shopping together because_____________________.
A.their ways of shopping are quite different
B.they hate each other
C.they needn’t buy anything for the family
D.they don’t have time for it
小题4:Jimmy didn’t buy what his mother wanted because_____________________.
A.the shop was closed that day
B.the policeman stopped him
C.he forgot some of them
D.he gave all the money to the beggar

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I feel very excited at the thought that in another week I shall be with you again on holiday. I have enjoyed my stay in England very much indeed. Mr Brown and classmates are nice to me, but, as they say in England, “There’s no place like home.” and I think you feel this above all at Christmas time.
I am leaving here early on Thursday, the 23rd, and I shall arrive in Basle on Friday morning, so I shall be home somewhere about lunchtime. Can you meet me at the station, as I shall have a lot of luggage?
In some of my earlier letters I have told you all about the other students here. Well, I want to ask my Polish friend Jan to come and spend Christmas with us. Will that be all right? His father and mother died last year, he can go home for Christmas, and he has no friend in England except the Browns. He is a nice boy. I know you all like him, and I feel sure he will enjoy Christmas with us. It is very short notice, but you are always pleased, I know, if we bring our friends home. however, I have not yet invited him, as I thought it was better to ask you first. Please let me know as soon as possible if it will be all right.
小题1:The writer was very excited at the thought that ________.
A.she would be back home with her new friend
B.she would be with her parents in another week
C.her parents wanted to see her very much
D.she would go on staying in England
小题2:She wanted some one to meet her because ________.
A.she was told to do soB.she would be tired out after the trip
C.she would carry a pile of thingsD.she didn’t know where the station was
小题3:The underlined sentence “There’s no place like home” means ________.
A.There is not a place that the writer likes
B.There is no place that the writer can live in
C.The writer’s home is not in London in fact
D.East and west, home is best
小题4:These paragraphs are taken out of a ________.
A.magazineB.letterC.bookD.newspaper

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When sailors are allowed ashore after a long time at sea, they sometimes get drunk and cause trouble. For this reason, the navy ___1___ has its police in big ports. Whenever sailors cause trouble, the police come and ___2___ them.
One day, the police in a big seaport received a telephone call ___3___ a bar in the town. The barman said that a big sailor had got drunk and ___4___ the furniture in the bar. The officer in charge of the police guard that evening said that he would come immediately.
Now, officers who ___5___ and punish the sailors ___6___ drunk usually chose ___7___ policeman they could find to go with them. ___8___ this particular officer did not do this. ___9___, he chose the smallest and ___10___ man he could find to go to the bar with him and ___11___ the sailor.
Another officer who ___12___ there was surprised when he saw the officer of the guard chose such a small man. ___13___ he said to him, “Why ___14___ you take a big man with you? You have to fight the sailor who ___15___.”
“Yes, you are ___16___ right,” answered the officer of the guard. “That is exactly ___17___ I am taking this small man. If you see two policemen coming ___18___ you, and one is ___19___ the other, which one ___20___ you attack?”
1. A. always    B. seldom       C. forever       D. sometimes
2. A. meet with      B. deal with    C. see      D. judge
3. A. about     B. from   C. in       D. of
4. A. was breaking  B. was ordering      C. was moving       D. was dusting
5. A. would go       B. might beat  C. dared to fight     D. had to go
6. A. slightly   B. not at all    C. heavily       D. much more
7. A. the biggest     B. the youngest      C. the bravest  D. the experienced
8. A. In fact    B. But     C. So      D. And
9. A. Instead   B. Therefore   C. Although    D. Then
10. A. good-looking      B. weakest-looking C. ugly-looking      D. strongest-looking
11. A. seize     B. kill     C. get rid of    D. catch up with
12. A. will go B. had come   C. would start off      D. happened to be
13. A. Yet       B. But     C. So      D. Then
14. A. don’t    B. couldn’t     C. can’t   D. do
15. A. looks strong B. is drunk     C. seems rude D. is dangerous
16. A. all B. very    C. too     D. quite
17. A. how     B. what   C. why    D. that
18. A. up B. at       C. before D. towards
19. A. not smaller than   B. as big as    C. as small as         D. much smaller than    
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He could have been president of Israel or played violin at Carnegie Hall, but he was too busy thinking. His thinking on God, love and the meaning of life graces our greeting cards and day-timers.
Fifty years after his death, his shock(乱蓬蓬的一堆)of white hair and hanging moustache still symbolize genius. Einstein remains the foremost scientist of the modern time. Looking back 2,400 years, only Newton ,Galileo and Aristotle were his equals.
Around the world , universities and academies(研究院)are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s “miracle year” when he published five scientific papers in 1905 that basically changed our grasp of space, time ,light and matter. Only he could top himself about a decade later with his theory of relativity.
Born in the age of horse-drawn carriages, his ideas launched a technological revolution that has made more changes in a century than in the previous two thousand years. Computers, satellites, telecommunications, lasers, televisions and nuclear power all owe their invention to ways in which Einstein exposed a stranger and more complicated reality underneath the world.
He escaped Hitler’s Germany and devoted the rest of his life to human rights and peace with an authority unmatched by any scientist today, or even most politicians and religious leaders. He spoke out against fascism(法西斯主义)and racial prejudice. His FBI(美国联邦调查局)file ran 1,400 pages.
His letters expose a disorderly personal life ─ married twice and indifferent toward his children while absorbed in physics. Yet he charmed lovers and admirers with poetry and sailboat outings. Friends and neighbors fiercely protected his privacy.
小题1:The first paragraph implies that Einstein             .
A.had the gift for politics and music
B.had run for president before he worked at his research
C.was an excellent violinist
D.was more a political leader of a musician than a thinker
小题2:When you think of Einstein, what typical appearance was formed in your mind?
A.Funny and humorous, with an air of a musician.
B.Wearing very wide trousers and a moustache, with an image of an actor.
C.Rough untidy mass of white hair and hanging moustache , with an image of thinking .
D.Black long hair and moustache, with his eyes deep set.
小题3:Why was 1905 called Einstein’s “miracle year”?
A.Because he topped himself with the theory of relativity.
B.Because he made important discoveries of space, time , light and matter.
C.Because he published five papers on his theory of relativity.
D.Because he wrote five important articles to help people understand space, time , light and matter better.
小题4:Which of the following is not true about Einstein according to the passage?
A.When he was absorbed in his research ,he didn’t care for his family.
B.He tried to amuse his family and friends in his spare time.
C.He was so busy with the physical research that he showed no interest in politics.
D.His theory led to much improvement in many technological fields.

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Asian athletes have had a spare time in the first two days of the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England. But Chinese hurdler(跨栏运动员) Liu Xiang surprised everyone by taking the bronze medal in the men"s 60-meter hurdles.
Liu became the first Chinese male athlete to get a world indoor medal in the 18-year history of the championship and was the only Asian medallist this time. 
"Karaoke (卡拉OK)! That"s what I"m going to do. I"m going to get a big group of my friends together and sing. I love both Western and Chinese music but especially Michael Jackson," said Liu after clocking 7.52 seconds in the final to take his place on the podium (领奖台).
"Frankly speaking, I didn"t think I was in the shape to win a medal," Liu said. "On my arrival here, my aim was just to fight my way into the final. After I did that, I thought I might just get into the top six. I knew British hurdler Colin Jackson was going to be here and he"s the world record holder indoors and out."
"There was also Cuba"s reigning (统治的) Olympic champion Anier Garcia and Allen Johnson, from the United States." It was Johnson, the reigning world outdoor champion, who was successful in 7.47 seconds with Garcia second and Jackson finished back in fifth. 
Now Liu will never underestimate his chances again and is aiming for glory in Paris later this year.
"There is the World Championship outdoors in the summer and I have now got to think that I can get a medal. I can never again think that I can"t get a medal," he said. Liu"s success here marks his rapid transition into the senior ranks.
"The university gives me a lot of flexibility. My courses are very easy and the teachers are very helpful," said Liu.
They might have to be even more accommodating(乐于助人的) now if Liu starts taking on celebrity status, although an invite to his homecoming karaoke party may help.
小题1:The first sentence "Asian athletes have had a spare time in the first two days…" means "________".
A.Asian athletes can do things at their will in the first two days
B.Asian athletes haven"t any achievements in the first two days
C.Asian athletes could match athletes from other continents
D.Asian athletes are tired of competing in the first two days
小题2:The underlined sentence means "________".
A.I was not satisfied with my performances
B.winning a medal can"t show what I have done
C.I didn"t think I was able to win a medal
D.I haven"t told anyone about my achievements in the hurdles
小题3:Liu ________ the World Championship outdoors in Paris later this year.
A.is busy preparing for
B.has great pressure on
C.is more confident of his ability in
D.pays little attention to
小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Liu Xiang was the youngest athlete to take part in the competition in England.
B.Liu Xiang was the first Asian medallist to get a world indoor medal.
C.Liu Xiang is not only a good athlete but a music-lover.
D.Liu Xiang finds it hard to get along with teachers in university.

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