I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree kid until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a glass
rabbit, __1__ cut my eye badly enough to blind it. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched(缝上) the
eyeball together where it was cut, __2__ a big ugly scar in the middle of my eye. And as I grew, this
__3__ eye in so many ways controlled me.
I walked with my face looking at the __4__ so people would not see the ugly me. Sometimes people,
even strangers, asked me__5__questions or made hurtful remarks. When the kids played games, I was
always the "__6__".
Yet Mama would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world. If you hold your head up
high, people will see your beautiful __7__."
Those words have meant __8__ things to me over the years. As a little child, I thought Mama meant,
"Be careful, or you will fall down or __9__ something because you are not looking." As an adolescent, I
found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people 10 me, they liked me. My mama"s
words helped me begin to 11 that by letting people look at my face, I let them recognize the intelligence
and beauty 12 both eyes.
In high school I was 13 both academically and socially. I was even elected class president, 14 , all
I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would 15 to my mama
and she would look at me with 16 eyes and say, "Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them
see the beauty that is inside."
When I met the man who became my 17 for life, we looked each other straight in the eye, and he
told me I was beautiful inside and out. He 18 it. My mama"s love and 19 were the spark that gave
me the confidence to 20 my own doubt. |
( )1. A. that
( )2. A. achieving
( )3. A. sightless
( )4. A. sky
( )5. A. outstandin
( )6. A. monster
( )7. A. face
( )8. A. different
( )9. A. look into
( )10. A. recognize
( )11. A. spot
( )12. A. behind
( )13. A. awful
( )14. A. therefore
( )15. A. smile
( )16. A. terrible
( )17. A. partner
( )18. A. loved
( )19. A. statement
( )20. A. increase | B. which
B. beginning
B. careless
B. rabbit
B. inspiring
B. angel
B. eyes
B. strange
B. bump into
B. find
B. imagine
B. on
B. successful
B. however
B. laugh
B. awkward
B. colleague
B. got
B. encouragement
B. emphasize | C. who
C. surviving
C. stainless
C. floor
C. astonishing
C. acquaintance
C. head
C. stupid
C. burst into
C. identify
C. realize
C. beneath
C. cheerful
C. besides
C. cry
C. skeptical
C. leader
C. meant
C. treatment
C. plant | D. where
D. leaving
D. tasteless
D. scar
D. embarrassing
D. stranger
D. soul
D. common
D. get into
D. know
D. comment
D. beside
D. grateful
D. and
D. scold
D. loving
D. master
D. hated
D. comment
D. overcome |
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核心考点
试题【完形填空 I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree kid until the day I fell. It】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 完形填空 | Jerry is the kind of man you love to hate.He is always in a(n)__1__mood and always has something
__2__to say.In his opinion, the bottom line is your choice__3__you live a life.
One morning, he did something you are never__4__to do in the restaurant business: he left the back
door open and was__5__up at gunpoint by three armed robbers.While trying to open the__6__, with
his hand shaking from__7__, he input the wrong code.The robbers beat him and even__8__him.Luckily,
Jerry was found__9__quickly after the robbers had fled and he was rushed to the local first aid center.
After 18 hours of operation and weeks of good care, he was out of hospital with fragments (碎片) of
the bullets still in his body.
Jerry told me what happened after he was sent to hospital.He said the doctors were 10 .They kept
telling him he was going to be fine and 11 him into the emergency room.But when he saw the 12 on
the faces of the doctors and nurses, he got really 13 .In their eyes, he 14 , "He"s dying." He knew he
needed to take 15 .There was a big,burly nurse shouting questions at him.She asked if he was allergic
(过敏的) to anything, and the doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for his reply.Jerry
16 for a while and then he decided to live.He took a deep breath and said, "Yes. 17 !" Over their
laughter, Jerry told them to operate on him 18 he wouldn"t die.
Jerry lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing 19 .I learnt from him
that every day we have the choice to live fully.
Attitude, 20 , is everything. | ( )1. A. exciting
( )2. A. positive
( )3. A. how
( )4. A. advised
( )5. A. pulled
( )6. A. box
( )7. A. nervousness
( )8. A. knocked
( )9. A. probably
( )10. A. excited
( )11. A. rolled
( )12. A. surprise
( )13. A. scared
( )14. A. knew
( )15. A. notice
( )16. A. thought
( )17. A. Medicine
( )18. A. unless
( )19. A. reply
( )20. A. to be honest | B. good
B. funny
B. where
B. imagined
B. put
B. safe
B. worry
B. killed
B. relatively
B. organized
B. carried
B. expressions
B. embarrassed
B. found
B. order
B. wondered
B. Operation
B. even if
B. attitude
B. in that case | C. usual
C. new
C. whether
C. asked
C. held
C. counter
C. unwillingness
C. knifed
C. merely
C. hardworking
C. wheeled
C. feeling
C. disappointed
C. meant
C. breath
C. judged
C. Bullets
C. as if
C. opinion
C. after all | D. balanced
D. different
D. why
D. supposed
D. done
D. door
D. pressure
D. shot
D. reasonably
D. great
D. forced
D. puzzles
D. annoyed
D. read
D. action
D. stopped
D. Fragments
D. before
D. determination
D. strictly speaking | | 完形填空 | Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. However, I was not thinking about
the golden chain when I had to help people who__1__their way and parked in front of my house.
I was growing tired of helping so many people. Almost every__2__I was awaken during a sound
night"s sleep and had to__3__someone out. Many times I was__4__by some penniless motorists who
did not even thank me for the helps that they received and some even complained that I could have
done 5 .
One day, a young man with a weekold beard climbed out of a__6__automobile.He had no money
and no food.He asked if I could give him some__7__, and offer him gasoline and a meal. I told him that
if he wanted to work for me, he could cut the grass, but__8__the work wasn"t necessary.
Though sweaty and hungry, he worked hard.After working all day, he sat__9__to cool himself. I
thanked him for his work and gave him the money he 10 . I then offered him some 11 money for a
task particularly well done, but he shook his head, 12 .
I never saw him again.He probably thinks I helped him out that day, but that is not 13 it was. I
didn"t help him. He helped me to 14 people again. He helped me to once again want to do something
for those who are 15 . I wish I could thank him for 16 some of my belief in the basic 17 of others
and for giving me back a little of the 18 I had lost. Because of him, I once again felt part of a golden
chain of kindness that 19 us to others.
I may have fed his body that day, but he fed my 20 . | ( )1. A. fought
( )2. A. morning
( )3. A. bring
( )4. A. taken for granted
( )5. A. less
( )6. A. fashionable
( )7. A. money
( )8. A. actually
( )9. A. in the sun
( )10. A. asked
( )11. A. old
( )12. A. accepted
( )13. A. the situation
( )14. A. believe in
( )15. A. in trouble
( )16. A. forgetting
( )17. A. goodness
( )18. A. weakness
( )19. A. adapts
( )20. A. heart | B. found
B. afternoon
B. help
B. put up with
B. more
B. famous
B. food
B. specially
B. in the shade
B. begged
B. extra
B. received
B. the thing
B. watch over
B. in danger
B. losing
B. happiness
B. strength
B. adjusts
B. soul | C. made
C. night
C. carry
C. turned down
C. worse
C. flashy
C. help
C. particularly
C. in the field
C. needed
C. small
C. refused
C. the issue
C. look after
C. in tears
C. restoring
C. pleasure
C. optimism
C. devotes
C. head | D. lost
D. evening
D. drive
D. taken up with
D. enough
D. shabby
D. work
D. generally
D. in the car
D. charged
D. good
D. denied
D. the way
D. care about
D. in fear
D. finding
D. nature
D. pessimism
D. connects
D. mouth | | 阅读理解 | All over my garden I"ve planted nothing but roses, because I especially love the flower. A close
friend came for a visit the other day. I told her that she should pick a bunch of roses to beautify her
bedroom. I promised that the smell of the roses would be wafted far, far away.
That girl friend of mine, walking into the garden in high spirits, smelt here and there, but in the end
she didn"t pick a single rose. I said that she could pick many flowers; I told her that I was not a flower
farmer and didn"t make a living out of them. Saying so, I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the
flowers, but she stopped me, crying no, no, no!
To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one, she said. With her hands seizing at my sleeves, she told
me that by no means should they be cut. Roses are the smiling face of the earth, and who could be so
ironhearted as to destroy such a charming smile?
My mind was shocked: the ugly earth, the tough earth, the plain earth-it is for the reason of that smile
that it wins the care and pity of people.
1. The writer plants nothing but roses in her garden probably because ________.
A. she can make money out of them
B. her friends like them
C. she enjoys the roses very much
D. the roses sell well
2. The underlined word "wafted" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to "________".
A. given off
B. lost
C. destroyed
D. thrown away
3. Why did the writer"s close friend refuse to pick a single rose?
A. Because the roses were not beautiful.
B. Because she loved the roses very much.
C. Because she did not like this kind of roses.
D. Because the writer did not want to give her any.
4. What is the best title for the passage?
A. The Pity of People to the Roses
B. A Lover of Flowers
C. A Lovely Rose Garden
D. The Smiling Face of the Earth | | 完形填空 | Pete Rose was a great baseball player.Though I have never met him, he taught me something _1_
that changed my life.
Pete was being _2_ in spring training the year he was about to break Ty Cobb"s alltime hits record.
Suddenly one reporter asked him, "Pete, you only need 78 hits to reach your nearest _3_.How many
atbats(击球)do you think it"ll take you to get the 78 hits?"Without hesitation, Pete just _4_ at the
reporter and said, "78."The reporter yelled back, "Ah, come on, Pete, you don"t think you"ll get 78 hits
in 78 atbats, do you?"
Mr.Rose calmly _5_ his philosophy with the reporters who were _6_ waiting for his reply to the
claim.
"Every time I _7_ up to the plate (击球区), I _8_ to get a hit! _9_I have it in mind, I have no right
to step into the batter"s (击球手) box! It is 10 expectation that has enabled me to get all of the hits
in the first place."
When I thought about Pete Rose"s 11 and how it applied to everyday 12 , I felt a little
embarrassed.As a business person, I was hoping to increase my 13 . As a father, I was hoping to be
a good dad.As a married man, I was hoping to be a good husband.The truth was that I was a fairly
good salesperson, I was not so 14 a father, and I was an okay husband.I immediately decided that
being okay was not 15 ! I wanted to be a great salesperson, a great father and a great husband.I 16
my attitude to a positive one, and the results were 17 . I was fortunate enough to win a few sales trips,
I won Coach of the Year in my 18 baseball league, and I share a loving relationship with my wife,
Karen, with whom I am 19 to enjoy the rest of my life!
20 , Mr Rose! | ( )1. A. reliable
( )2. A. admired
( )3. A. decision
( )4. A. stared
( )5. A. enjoyed
( )6. A. anxiously
( )7. A. climb
( )8. A. seem
( )9. A. Though
( )10. A. abrupt
( )11. A. plan
( )12. A. agenda
( )13. A. sales
( )14. A. wise
( )15. A. explicit
( )16. A. changed
( )17. A. hopeful
( )18. A. son"s
( )19. A. supposed
( )20. A. Good luck | B. enjoyable
B. interviewed
B. record
B. shouted
B. shared
B. nervously
B. jump
B. fail
B. Unless
B. simple
B. idea
B. exercise
B. skills
B. kind
B. helpful
B. added
B. amazing
B. wife"s
B. expected
B. Best regards | C. valuable
C. watched
C. level
C. glared
C. discussed
C. cheerfully
C. drive
C. expect
C. Because
C. positive
C. ability
C. work
C. experiences
C. mean
C. enough
C. devoted
C. funny
C. friend"s
C. encouraged
C. Thanks | D. unbelievable
D. trained
D. goal
D. pointed
D. reviewed
D. impatiently
D. step
D. compete
D. When
D. considerate
D. behaviour
D. life
D. experiments
D. bad
D. practical
D. contributed
D. disappointing
D. customer"s
D. determined
D. Congratulations | | 阅读理解。 | The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone
we didn"t know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around
to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.
She said, "Hi, girl! My name is Rose. I"m 87 years old. Can I give you a hug?"
I laughed and enthusiastically(热情地)responded, "Of course you may!" and she gave me a giant
squeeze.
"Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked. She jokingly replied, "I"m here
to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel!"
" No seriously," I said. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge
at her age.
"I always dreamed of having a college education and now I"m getting one!" she told me.
Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever
she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other
students. She was living it up.
At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I"ll never forget what
she taught us.
"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are
only two secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find
humor every day. You"ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die!" she said.
"There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old
and lie in bed for one full year and don"t do one productive thing, you will turn 20 years old. If I am
87 years old, and stay in bed for a year, and never do anything, I will turn 88. Anybody can grow
older. But every minute counts for young men," she added.
"The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change.Have no regrets. The elderly
usually don"t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.The only people who
fear death are those with regrets."
She concluded her speech by courageously singing The Song of Rose.She challenged each of us
to study the lyrics(歌词)and live them out in our daily lives.
At the year"s end, Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago.One week
after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. | | 1．Rose made herself known to the author in a________ manner. | A．serious
B．cold
C．humorous
D．crazy | | 2．From the information provided in the passage, we know ________. | A．Rose finished the college degree within a year
B．Rose did realize her dream of meeting a rich husband and getting married through college education
C．Rose enjoyed her campus life very much
D．Rose grew so old that she stopped playing | | 3．Rose delivered the speech________. | A．at the graduation
B．which she prepared carefully
C．ended with The Song of Rose
D．to challenge all the other speakers | | 4．According to her speech, ________. | A．even you have a dream, you won"t succeed
B．all people don"t grow up while growing older
C．Rose usually regretted having done something
D．a nineyearold is as old as an 87yearold if he doesn"t do anything |
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