One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue when remembered it was necessary to buy a
pair of socks. I __1__ the first sock shop that __2__ my eye, and a boy clerk, not more than
seventeen, came forward. "I wish to buy a pair of socks." His eyes __3__. " Do you know that you
have come into the finest place in the world to buy socks?" I had not been aware of that, as my
entrance had been __4__.
"Hold on, lad, I am going to buy only one pair!" "I know that, but I want you to see how
marvelously __5__ these are." There was on his face an expression of serious and holy joy, as if he
were revealing to me the __6__ of his religion. I looked at him in __7__. " My friend, " said I, "if you
can keep up this zeal and excitement day after day, in ten years you will __8__ every sock in the
United States."
My amazement at his __9__ and joy in salesmanship will be easily understood. In many shops the
customer has to wait for someone to 10 him. And when finally some clerk does 11 you, you are
made to feel as if you were 12 him. He shows no interest either in you or in the goods he is 13 to
sell. 14 possibly every clerk began his career with hope and 15 . The daily work was too much
and dull for him； gradually his only pleasures were found 16 of working hours. He became a 17 ,
not inspired salesman. After being mechanical, he became incompetent, then sour. That was the last
18 . His usefulness was over.
I have observed this melancholy (可悲的) 19 in the lives of so many men in so many occupations
that I have come to the 20 that the surest road to failure is to do things mechanically. |
( )1. A. rushed into
( )2. A. hit
( )3. A. opened
( )4. A. accidental
( )5. A. various
( )6. A. mysteries
( )7. A. amazement
( )8. A. occupy
( )9. A. affection
( )10. A. wait upon
( )11. A. observe
( )12. A. asking
( )13. A. paid
( )14. A. And
( )15. A. sadness
( )16. A. outside
( )17. A. mechanical
( )18. A. procedure
( )19. A. improvement
( )20. A. faith | B. turned into
B. caught
B. glared
B. deliberate
B. strange
B. opinion
B. interest
B. sell
B. prejudice
B. care about
B. notice
B. inviting
B. ordered
B. However
B. enthusiasm
B. beyond
B. strong
B. approach
B. decrease
B. conclusion | C. stole into
C. fixed
C. brightened
C. considerate
C. long
C. idea
C. puzzle
C. own
C. success
C. concern about
C. view
C. interrupting
C. motivated
C. Therefore
C. doubt
C. inside
C. courageous
C. stage
C. increase
C. summary | D. changed into
D. focused
D. widened
D. special
D. beautiful
D. thought
D. admiration
D. attract
D. pride
D. take care
D. see
D. punishing
D. permitted
D. Yet
D. consideration
D. dull
D. demanding
D. pace
D. decline
D. intention |
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核心考点
试题【完形填空 One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue when remembered it 】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 阅读理解 | My father was Chief Engineer of a merchant ship, which was sunk in World War Ⅱ. The book
Night of the Uboats told the story.
Memories
In September, 1940, my mother, sister and I went to Swansea, where my father"s ship was
getting ready to sail. We brought him a family photograph to be kept with him at all times and keep
him safe.
Then I remember my mother lying face down, sobbing. She had heard from a friend that the ship
had been sunk by a torpedo(鱼雷).
I can remember the arrival of the telegram(电报), which in those days always brought bad news.
My grandmother opened it. It read, "Safe.Love Ted."
My most vivid memory is being woken and brought down to sit on my father"s knee, his arm in a
bandage.
He was judged unfit to return to sea and took a shore job in Glasgow for the rest of the war. For
as long as I can remember, he had a weak heart.Mother said it was caused by the torpedoes. He
said it was because of the cigarettes. Whichever, he died suddenly in his early 50s.
Ten years later I read Night of the Uboats and was able to complete the story.
Torpedo
One torpedo struck the ship. Father was in the engine room, where the third engineer was killed.
He shut down the engines to slow the ship making it easier for it to be abandoned.
By the time he got on deck(甲板) he was alone. Every lifeboat was gone except one which had
stuck fast. When he tried to cut it free, it swung against the ship, injuring his hand and arm.He had
no choice but to jump-still with the photograph in his pocket.
Three days later, he and other survivors were safe in Glasgow.All 23 with him signed the back of
the photograph.
A Toast
In my room is the book and the photograph. Often, glass in hand, I have wondered how I would
have dealt with an explosion, a sinking ship, a jump into a vast ocean and a wait for rescue? Lest(以
免)we forget, I have some more whisky and toast the heroes of the war.
1. We can infer that the mother and children went to Swansea________.
A. to meet a friend
B. to see the father off
C. to take a family photo
D. to enjoy the sailing of the ship
2. What did the author learn about the father from the telegram?
A. He was still alive.
B. His knee was broken.
C. His ship had been sunk.
D. He had arrived in Glasgow.
3. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 6 refers to the father"s________.
A. weak heart
B. taking a shore job
C. failure to return to sea
D. injury caused by a torpedo
4. What can we know about the author"s father after his ship was attacked?
A. He lost his arm.
B. He repaired the engines.
C. He managed to take a lifeboat.
D. He was the last to leave the ship.
5. What is the passage mainly about?
A. A group of forgotten heroes.
B. A book describing a terrifying battle.
C. A ship engineer"s wartime experience.
D. A merchant"s memories of a sea rescue. | | 完形填空 | One of the warmest Christmas memories that I have was the year that I was Santa Claus. I was a
young substitute(替代者) for a __1__ with a new family just starting out in life. I was __2__ to work
at the local grade school on the last day __3__ the Christmas holidays.
I can still __4__ going from classroom to classroom and doing my best to __5__ both old and
joyful at the same time. I was about 50 pounds heavier then, __6__ I had the round little belly part
down fine. My beard, however, was another __7__ as it kept sliding halfway down my face. I thought
that more than a few of the kids __8__ me, but it didn"t matter. They still enjoyed __9__ Santa. They
still laughed and delighted in their 10 gifts and candy canes. They still felt joyous and happy. They still
knew that they were 11 and that was all that mattered to them.
If there is one 12 that I could give to each of you at Christmas time and 13 day of the year, it
would be that knowledge that you are loved. You are loved and 14 by a greater love than you could
ever imagine. You are loved by God who 15 you. In all the difficulties, problems, and heartaches
this world 16 , you are loved. In all the obstacles you must overcome, challenges you must 17 ,
and pains you must go through, you are loved. In all the mistakes you make, times you stumble (绊倒), and 18 paths you take, you are loved. You are loved every second in your life with a glorious love
that will 19 end.
Know that you are loved. Know that God loves you always. Rejoice (欣喜) in this love with the
20 heart of a child. And then, like a jolly (欢乐的) laughing Santa, go out and share it with the world. | ( )1. A. worker
( )2. A. called in
( )3. A. after
( )4. A. regret
( )5. A. taste
( )6. A. but
( )7. A. matter
( )8. A. recognized
( )9. A. buying
( )10. A. big
( )11. A. hated
( )12. A. thing
( )13. A. another
( )14. A. looked out
( )15. A. kept
( )16. A. takes
( )17. A. face
( )18. A. right
( )19. A. seldom
( )20. A. joyous | B. farmer
B. called on
B. before
B. stop
B. sound
B. and
B. pound
B. welcomed
B. selling
B. small
B. thrown
B. man
B. every
B. looked for
B. made
B. fetches
B. hand
B. wrong
B. often
B. angry
| C. student
C. called off
C. during
C. remember
C. smell
C. so
C. gift
C. visited
C. writing
C. old
C. loved
C. woman
C. one
C. watched over
C. liked
C. carries
C. break
C. real
C. never
C. jealous | D. teacher
D. called at
D. over
D. consider
D. feel
D. still
D. knowledge
D. memorized
D. seeing
D. ugly
D. forgotten
D. school
D. either
D. watched out
D. removed
D. brings
D. please
D. busy
D. almost
D. pitiful | | 完形填空 | Not long ago I wasn"t doing very well in exams and I was full of disappointment and __1__ thinking. While on the Internet, I met many new friends, but one in particular __2__. His nickname is Colorful
Day and we __3__ on the Web. He told me: he lost his __4__ at age 15, and felt the whole world had
closed its door to him.
He was __5__ so fast that I couldn"t believe he was blind! But he continued to __16__: Five years
ago, I realized it was time to change my life. I had read about Helen Keller and understood her life and
__7__. So I developed a website about her life __8__ mine called Three Days to See.
I visited his website which was well produced and vividly__9__.
I asked, "How did you __10__ to build such a website?" He said, "Owing to the new technology, I
can use software specially __11__ for the blind. __12__ I point the cursor(光标), it will just read it out
to me. We can do far more things and __13__ more information than we could before."
I then asked, "Didn"t you have great difficulty with it?"
He hesitated and then began his __24__ with a smiling face, "Yes, but I have faith in myself to __15__ my colorful day. And modern technology gives me this __16__ to do it."
His __17__ attitude towards life made me believe that our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
__18__ the chalice (大杯) of opportunity. I returned to my lessons, and this time with a smile on my
face and with __19__ of a colorful future.
The Internet, which opened to me to __20__ different lives and cultures, has a charm you couldn"t
find in another wise nonvirtual world. | ( )1. A. positive
( )2. A. turned out
( )3. A. argued
( )4. A. eyesight
( )5. A. speaking
( )6. A. follow
( )7. A. friendship
( )8. A. as well as
( )9. A. offered
( )10. A. try
( )11. A. designed
( )12. A. Whether
( )13. A. send
( )14. A. webpage
( )15. A. create
( )16. A. moment
( )17. A. hopeful
( )18. A. but
( )19. A. eagerness
( )20. A. touch | B. active
B. stood out
B. interviewed
B. hearing
B. saying
B. write
B. marriage
B. such as
B. presented
B. come
B. distinguished
B. However
B. access
B. speech
B. produce
B. privilege
B. disappointed
B. and
B. expectations
B. feel | C. negative
C. came out
C. told
C. courage
C. typing
C. read
C. happiness
C. like
C. delivered
C. work
C. planned
C. Whatever
C. communicate
C. words
C. recognize
C. opportunity
C. pleasant
C. so
C. richness
C. experience | D. instructive
D. looked out
D. chatted
D. confident
D. spelling
D. copy
D. hardships
D. as
D. found
D. manage
D. imagined
D. Wherever
D. exchange
D. opinions
D. organize
D. occasion
D. optimistic
D. then
D. nervousness
D. suffer | | 完形填空。 | One day I came home from school, changed my clothes and got ready for work. I work at a local
restaurant in town as a cashier, seater and waiter.
I went to work feeling 1 . And to make matters worse, I was busy that evening. It"s the same thing
over and over again. 2 with customers who complain about their food and where they are 3 is too big
or too small. Little things like that tend to 4 a lot of us 5 but we manage to deal with it.
Three elderly ladies walked in and sat by the windows. It happened to be the very 6 near where I
keep the dirty 7 in the boxes. Trying to keep up with all the dirty tables, customers leaving and coming
in and 8 running all over the house, it was crazy. 9 these elderly women were watching 10 I was working
to make sure every table was clean and ready for the next customers.
When they 11 their meals, I took their plates back to the kitchen. They talked to me for a while about
school, how I was doing, what 12 I was in and what I planned to do in the future.
13 they were leaving, they walked past me and one of them said to me in a 14 and gentle voice, "You
are going places. And that was it." They left the 15 and I had tears in my eyes, because they gave me 16
to believe in myself. They 17 my spirit from being down and gave me a 18 to keep on working hard.
People used to tell me that I couldn"t have a career in 19 until I had a degree. I"m now a co-anchor
(联合主持人)of a student-produced television 20 . And the best thing is: I"m only 17 years old and I am
a senior in high school. | ( ) 1. A. tired
( ) 2. A. Dealing
( ) 3. A. sat
( ) 4. A. attract
( ) 5. A. employees
( ) 6. A. table
( ) 7. A. dishes
( ) 8. A. men
( ) 9. A. And
( )10. A. what
( )11. A. finished.
( )12. A. place
( )13. A. Before
( )14. A. confident
( )15. A. kitchen
( )16. A. ability
( )17. A. put down
( )18. A. cause
( )19. A. television
( )20. A. company | B. excited
B. Helping
B. seated
B. avoid
B. customers
B. box
B. rooms
B. women
B. Otherwise
B. how
B. completed
B. grade
B. While
B. loud
B. house
B. courage
B. picked up
B. reason
B. government
B. station | C. up
C. Talking
C. laid
C. adjust
C. boss
C. spot
C. clothes
C. servers
C. But
C. where
C. ordered
C. mark
C. As
C. low
C. restaurant
C. imagination
C. took over
C. present
C. school
C. show | D. down
D. Meeting
D. seating
D. annoy
D. employers
D. kitchen
D. chairs
D. people
D. So
D. why
D. got
D. position
D. After
D. pleasant
D. table
D. time
D. pointed out
D. permission
D. restaurant
D. advertisement | | 完形填空 | After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to __1__. She said,
"I love you, but I know this woman loves you too, and she would love to spend some time with you. "
The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my mother, who has been a widow for 19 years,
but my work had made __2__ impossible to visit her often. That night I called to __3__ her to go out for
dinner. "What"s wrong?Are you __4__?" she asked. "I thought that it would be __5__ to spend some
time with you, just the two of us, " I answered. She thought about it __6__, and then agreed.
That Friday after work, __7__ I drove to pick her up I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her
house, I __8__ that she, too, seemed to be __9__ about our date. She had curled her hair and was
wearing the dress that she had worn to 10 her last wedding anniversary.
We went to a restaurant that, 11 not the best, was very nice and comfortable. When I read the
menu, I lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there 12 at me. A nostalgic smile was 13 her lips.
During the dinner, we had a 14 conversation-nothing special but catching up on recent events of each
other"s life.
A few days 15 , my mother died of a sudden heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn"t
hav e a chance to do 16 for her. Some time later, I received an envelope with a note 17 : "You
will never know what that night meant for me. I"m looking forward to the 18 dinner. I love you,
son. "
At the moment, I understood the importance of saying in time: "I LOVE YOU". Nothing in life is
more important than your 19 . Give them the time they deserve, because these things cannot be 20
till "some other time". | ( )1. A. dinner
( )2. A. that
( )3. A. force
( )4. A. happy
( )5. A. pleasant
( )6. A. at a moment
( )7. A. after
( )8. A. noticed
( )9. A. pleased
( )10. A. congratulate
( )11. A. though
( )12. A. looking
( )13. A. in
( )14. A. pleasant
( )15. A. after
( )16. A. anything
( )17. A. written
( )18. A. first
( )19. A. date
( )20. A. put over | B. movie
B. this
B. invite
B. mad
B. pleased
B. for a moment
B. until
B. observed
B. calm
B. celebrate
B. even
B. seeing
B. above
B. curious
B. before
B. everything
B. saying
B. second
B. mother
B. put off | C. party
C. which
C. order
C. well
C. glad
C. for moment
C. as
C. watched
C. nervous
C. memorize
C. but
C. smiling
C. on
C. deep
C. later
C. nothing
C. telling
C. last
C. family
C. cut off | D. part
D. it
D. advise
D. ill
D. surprising
D. a long time
D. since
D. heard
D. easy
D. honor
D. yet
D. staring
D. beyond
D. short
D. ago
D. something
D. read
D. next
D. dinner
D. picked up |
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