It was Thanksgiving morning. I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the
doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together on the top
step.
"Any old papers, lady?" asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say "no" until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals(凉鞋), wet with heavy snow.
"Come in and I"ll make you a cup of hot cocoa."
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I served them cocoa and bread to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started cooking.
The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking
at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, "Lady, are you rich?"
"Am I rich? Pity, no!"
I looked at my wornout slipcovers(椅套). The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟)carefully and
said, "Your cups match your saucers." They left after that, holding their papers against the wind. They had
reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful.
Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.
I tasted the potatoes and stirred(搅动)the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a regular job, these matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy marks of little sandals
were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to forget how
rich I am.
1. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Lady, are you rich?
B. A story of Thanksgiving Day
C. Don"t forget how rich you are
D. Does cups and saucers match well?
2. The writer let the two children come in and served them well because________.
A. she wanted to sell old papers to them
B. she wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving party
C. she showed great pity and care on them
D. she had the same experience as them in the past
3. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. The girl thought the writer was rich just because she wanted to make the writer happy.
B. The writer had thought she wasn"t rich because her supplies were not expensive.
C. If cups and saucers match well, they are a best pair even though cheap.
D. After hearing what they said, the writer seemed to understand what a rich life was.
4. The writer left the muddy marks of little sandals on the floor for a while to________.
A. show that she was a kindhearted lady
B. remind her that she shouldn"t forget how rich she was
C. leave room for readers to think about what being rich is
D. prove that she had understood what meant being rich
5. It can be inferred from the text that whether you are rich depends on________.
A. how much money you have made
B. what attitude you have had towards life
C. the way you help others
D. your social relationship
had a slight 1 .
I worked in a 2 doctor"s office and this was one of those days when the unexpected happened,
making the schedule run 3 than usual. It seemed I was going to be late 4 home and my husband,
being the 5 person, would be ready to pronounce me late once again. Maybe 6 I hurried, I could
still make it home.
I was heading inside to 7 for my gas when I noticed an older couple at the counter. I heard them
asking for 8 to the local hospital. It was the same hospital that I had just 9 a few minutes ago.
The young man at the counter was trying to be 10 in explaining how to get there, with two other
people making 11 . One of them was 12 trying to give them a whole different route back. It was
then that I walked over to the couple and said, "Would you like to follow me to the 13 ?"
A look of 14 crossed the woman"s face.
"I"m going right by there," I said, which wasn"t a(an) 15 since I had just made up my mind to do
16 that.
I got in my car and began the journey back. I was trying to watch to be sure they were right 17
me. It took only fifteen minutes to get there as rush hour traffic was beginning to 18 . I felt better
than I had all day and my headache was nearly gone.
Later, as I arrived home, my husband 19 , "So you aren"t ever late any more."
I said, "Sometimes it"s 20 to be late."
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( )3. A. earlier
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( )7. A. pay
( )8. A. opinions
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( )15. A. duty
( )16. A. partly
( )17. A. across
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( )19. A. teased
( )20. A. possible
B. common
B. later
B. cooking
B. punctual
B. since
B. change
B. trouble
B. visited
B. helpful
B. promises
B. still
B. office
B. relief
B. fact
B. properly
B. before
B. die down
B. shouted
B. special
C. busy
C. easier
C. calling
C. generous
C. while
C. wait
C. directions
C. called
C. experienced
C. jokes
C. even
C. hospital
C. sadness
C. reason
C. exactly
C. beside
C. speed up
C. burst
C. good
D. noisy
D. simpler
D. working
D. careful
D. if
D. search
D. money
D. left
D. active
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D. perfectly
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D. safe
on getting better." Ridley"s critics have accused him of his views on climate change and the free market.Yet Ridley,54,sticks to his guns."It is not mad to believe in a happy future for people and the planet.
"he says.Ridley,who"s been a foreign correspondent,a zoologist,an economist,and a financier,brings a
broad view to his sunny outlook."People say I"m bonkers to claim the world will go on getting better.
yet I can"t stop myself,"he says.Read on to see how Ridley makes his case.
Compared with 50 years ago,when I was just four years old,the average human now earns nearly
three times as much money,eats one third more calories,and can expect to live one third longer.In fact,
it"s hard to find any region of the world that"s worse off now than it was then,even though the global
population has more than doubled over that period.
City citizens take up less space,use less energy,and have less impact on natural ecosystems than
country livers.The world"s cities now contain over half its people,but they occupy less than 3 percent
of its land.Urban growth may worry environmentalism,but living in the country is not the best way to
care for the earth.The best thing we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers.
The rich get richer,but the poor do even better.Between 1980 and 2000,the poor doubled their
consumption.Nigerians are twice as rich and live nine more years.The percentage of the world"s
people living in absolute poverty has dropped by over half.The United Nations estimates that poverty
was reduced more in the past 50 years than in the previous 500.
B.proud
C.concerned
D.optimistic
B.earning more money,better food and living longer
C.spending more money,richer food and easy life
D.higher pay,various food and active life
B.all people should live in cities
C.living in the countryside causes trouble
D.tall buildings should be built in the country
B.poverty in the world nearly disappears
C.the percentage of the rich has dropped by over half
D.the rich get more benefit than the ordinary people
B.Calm Down!
C.Cheer Up!
D.Take Care!
I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the livingroom, my 12yearold son
looked up at me and said, "I__1__you." I did not__2__what to say, and I just stood there, looking__3__at him. My first__4__was that he__5__need help with his homework. Then I asked, "What was that all
__6__?"
"Nothing," he said, "My teacher said we should tell our parents we love them and__7__what they say."
The next day I called his teacher to__8__more about what my son said and how the other parents had
reacted( 反应). "Most of the fathers had the__9__response as you did," the teacher said, "When I first
__10__that we try this, I asked the children__11__they thought their parents__12__say. Some of them
thought their parents would have heart trouble."
Then the teacher__13__, " I want my students to know that feeling love is an important part of__14__. I"m trying to tell them it"s too bad that we don"t express our feelings. A boy__15__tell his father or mother
he loves him or her." The teacher understands that sometimes it is__16__for some of us to say something
that is good for us to say.
That evening when my son__17__to me, I took him in my arms and held on for an__18__moment,
saying, "Hey, I love you,__19__." I don"t know if saying that made__20__of us healthier, but it did feel
pretty good.
( )1. A. hate ( )2. A. realize ( )3. A. away ( )4. A. thought ( )5. A. must ( )6. A. for ( )7. A. test ( )8. A. talk to ( )9. A. same ( )10. A.allowed ( )11. A. how ( )12. A. would ( )13. A. explained ( )14. A. study ( )15. A. might ( )16. A. easy ( )17. A. turned ( )18. A. extra ( )19. A. either ( )20. A. all | B. love B. recognize B. for B. meaning B. should B. with B. know B. chat with B. different B. agreed B. whether B. will B. prepared B. work B. can B. difficult B. shouted B. ordinary B. too B. either | C. like C. know C. down C. news C. could C. around C. understand C. find out C. usual C. planned C. when C. could C. informed C. health C. should C. crazy C. went C. interesting C. also C. none | D. enjoy D. find D. on D. reason D. would D. about D. see D. do with D. unusual D. suggested D. what D. can D. developed D. body D. need D. silly D. came D. important D. again D. neither |
完形填空。 | |||
A serious car crash leads one woman to rediscover her faith in human kindness. long wait in the emergency ward and__6__me to deal with the visible distress of my hospital visitors. | |||
( )1. A.caught ( )2. A.imagined ( )3. A.push ( )4. A.into ( )5. A.survived ( )6. A.advised ( )7. A.assist ( )8. A.stay ( )9. A.patient ( )10.A.make ( )11.A.claim ( )12.A.presenting ( )13.A.accident ( )14.A.hoped ( )15.A.held ( )16.A.puzzled ( )17.A.knowledge ( )18.A.progress ( )19.A.unforeseen ( )20.A.sympathy | B.trapped B.found B.force B.onto B.met B.forced B.leave B.visit B.performance B.offer B.consult B.showing B.incident B.prepared B.lent B.doubted B.belief B.pride B.happier B.strength | C.lost C.devoted C.get C.off C.beat C.ordered C.participate C.operation C.presence C.drink C.conclude C.giving C.event C.waited C.moved C.stopped C.power C.surprise C.strange C.kindness | D.involved D.dreamed D.turn D.on D.feared D.helped D.come D.appointment D.physician D.take D.check D.telling D.occasion D.watched D.waved D.listened D.privilege D.comfort D.extreme D.donation |
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It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plan for the future. "I"m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it," Deluca recalls saying. "Buck said, "you should open a sandwich shop."" That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1,000. Deluca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn"t cover their startup costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000. But business didn"t go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, "After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn"t know how badly, because we didn"t have any financial controls." All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs. Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They"d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. "We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, "We are so successful; we are opening a second store."" And they did-in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error. But the partners" learnasyougo approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca would drive around and handdeliver the checks to pay their supplies. "It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn"t necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out," Deluca says. And having a goal was also important. "There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal," Deluca adds. Deluca ended up founding Subways Sandwich, the multimilliondollar restaurant chain. | |||
1.Deluca opened the first sandwich shop in order to ________. | |||
A.support his family B.pay for his college education C.help his partner expand business D.do some research | |||
2.Which of the following is true of Buck? | |||
A.He put money into the sandwich business. B.He was a professor of business administration. C.He was studying at the University of Bridgeport. D.He rented a storefront for Deluca. | |||
3.What can we learn about their first shop? | |||
A.It stood at an unfavorable place. B.It lowered the prices to poor management. C.It made no profits due to poor management. D.It lacked control over the quality of sandwich. | |||
4.They decided to open a second store because they ________. | |||
A.had enough money to do it B.had succeeded in their business C.wished to meet the increasing demand of customers D.wanted to make believe(假装)that they were successful | |||
5.What contributes most to their success according to the author? | |||
A.Learning by trial and error. B.Making friends with supplies. C.Finding a good partner. D.Opening chain stores. |