One night I was sitting in my kitchen halflistening as my 15yearold son, Tommy quarreled with his
12yearold brother Kevin. I didn"t pay attention when Kevin__1__the stairs with the__2__on his face.
About 20 minutes later, as I was walking upstairs I heard Kevin__3__inside the bathroom. I bit
my tongue to__4__myself saying, "Come on, Kevin, don"t be such a __5__." Instead, I knocked on
the door and asked, "Hey, Kevin, do you want a __6__?" No answer. I __7__ again, "Why don"t
you come out of there?"No answer again. So, looking around, I took hold of a pile of __8__ and a
pencil and wrote, "If you don"t want to talk, we can __9__ notes to each other."
An hour later I was 10 sitting outside the bathroom with two piles of the cards in front of me. They
are cards from Kevin on which he had 11 all his unpleasant feelings into words for me. By this time I
don"t 12 the rings of my telephone and popular TV show downstairs. One of Kevin"s notes said, " 13
in this family cares about me. I am not the youngest, and I am not the 14 , and I am not the 15 .
Tommy thinks that I am stupid and Dad wishes he had 16 Kevin as a kid because he"s better at
baseball. And you never 17 me."
18 came to my eyes. I wrote back, "You know, Kevin, I really do love you and I am sorry I don"t
always 19 it. I am here for you and you are loved in this family."Since then I try my best to never only
20 my family members any more. Kevin and I have a closer relationship now. |
( )1. A. rushed down
( )2. A. injury
( )3. A. laughing
( )4. A. stop
( )5. A. man
( )6. A. dialogue
( )7. A. tried
( )8. A. papers
( )9. A. draw
( )10. A. still
( )11. A. put
( )12. A. pay attention
( )13. A. Nobody
( )14. A. tallest
( )15. A. biggest
( )16. A. one
( )17. A. notice
( )18. A. Smiles
( )19. A. know
( )20. A. halfnotice | B. rushed up
B. wound
B. crying
B. keep
B. student
B. conversation
B. hesitated
B. books
B. write
B. even
B. spelled
B. look forward
B. Everybody
B. oldest
B. fastest
B. the same
B. believe
B. Tears
B. recognize
B. halffinish | C. rushed out
C. hurt
C. whispering
C. quit
C. baby
C. discussion
C. cried
C. cards
C. send
C. rather
C. wrote
C. care about
C. Neither
C. shortest
C. laziest
C. the other
C. trust
C. Appreciation
C. realize
C. halfempty | D. rushed into
D. harm
D. singing
D. persuade
D. pupil
D. talk
D. shouted
D. towels
D. share
D. already
D. translated
D. hear from
D. Either
D. favorite
D. smartest
D. other
D. hear
D. Happiness
D. show
D. halffill |
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试题【完形填空 One night I was sitting in my kitchen halflistening as my 15yearold son】；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 | He was 11 years old and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family"s cabin on
an island in the middle of a New Hampshire lake. On the day __1__ the bass (鲈鱼) season opened,
he and his father were fishing early in the evening, __2__ sunfish with worms. Then he tied on a
small lure (鱼饵) and practiced casting. When his pole __3__, he knew something huge was __4__.
His father watched __5__ as the boy skillfully worked the fish alongside the dock. Finally, he very
carefully lifted the __6__ fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen, __17__ it was
a bass. It was10 pm-two hours before the season opened. The father looked at the fish, then at the
boy.
"You"ll have to __8__, son, " he said.
"Dad!" cried the boy.
"There will be other fish, " said his father.
"Not as big as this one, " cried the boy.
__9__ no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy
could 10 by his father"s firm voice that the decision was 11 . He slowly worked the hook out of the
lip of the huge bass and lowered it into 12 . The creature moved its powerful body and 13 . The boy
thought that he would never again see such a great fish.
That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. And he was
14 . He has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he 15 that night long ago. But
he does see 16 fish again and again every time he comes up against a question of principles. As his
father taught him, principles are simple matters of right and wrong. It is only the practice of principles
17 difficult. Do we 18 when no one is looking?
We would if we 19 to put the fish back when we were young. For we would have learned the
truth. The decision to do right lives 20 in our memory. It is a story we will proudly tell our friends and
grandchildren. | ( )1. A.until
( )2. A.providing
( )3. A.bent over
( )4. A.on the other end
( )5. A.with anxiety
( )6. A.delighted
( )7. A.and
( )8. A.bring it home
( )9. A.Even though
( )10. A.tell
( )11. A.passed
( )12. A.the wide container
( )13. A.fled
( )14. A.wrong
( )15. A.landed
( )16. A.a different
( )17. A.which is
( )18. A.do wrong
( )19. A.were taught
( )20. A.freshly | B. when
B. catching
B. came up
B. on the other hand
B. in surprise
B. frustrated
B. but
B. put it aside
B. Now that
B. say
B. changed
B. the broad sea
B. disappeared
B. right
B. saw
B. many big
B. it is
B. do right
B. told
B. fresh | C. after
C. feeding
C. turned over
C. on one hand
C. with admiration
C. frightened
C. however
C. put it back
C. Ever since
C. speak
C. fixed
C. the black water
C. floated
C. satisfactory
C. cast
C. even bigger
C. that is
C. do harm
C. were let
C. bad | D. before
D. supplying
D. broke down
D. at the either side
D. for fear
D. exhausted
D. yet
D. pick it up
D. In case
D. talk
D. refused
D. the small river
D. swam
D. pleased
D. threw
D. the same
D. this is
D. do good
D. ordered
D. strongly | | 完型填空。 | When I began teaching in a university, I was invited to a workshop for new professors. I had __1___
a long time learning what to teach, but not learning how to _2_ it . somehow , my university seemed to
hope a weekend spent with experienced professors woule __3_ for that. My colleagu8es presented
well-crafted lectures about the tools they used. I enjoyed their _4_, but do not remember a thing they
said.
At a coffee break during the lectures, finding myself _5_, I turned to a mathematics professor staning
nearby. I asked him what his favorite teaching __6_ was. " a cup of coffee," he said " I talk too much and
too fast in the classroom. Students sometimes have trouble _7_ me. So when I"ve said _8_ that I ant my
students to think about, I would _9_ and take a sip of coffee. it lets what I "ve just said sink in.
When we were called to the next talk, he put down his cup and I _10_ there was not a trace of coffee
in it. "My doctor _11_ me to stop drinking coffee," he explained." So I have always used a (n) _12__ cup" I decided to try his _13_ in my class.
I took a cup of coffee with me to my next class. It helped . My pauses, as I _14_the coffee, not only
gave my students _15_ to think about what I had said, but gave me time to think about what I was going
to say next. I began to use my _16_ to look around the room to see how my students were reacting to
what I had just said. Whe I saw their _17_ wander, I tried to bring them back. When I saw them puzzled
over some concept that I thought I had _18_ , I gave another example. My __19_ became less organized
and less brilliant, but my students seemed to _20_ me better. | ( ) 1. A. wasted
( ) 2. A. manage
( ) 3. A. put up
( ) 4. A. lecture
( ) 5. A. alone
( ) 6. A. method
( ) 7. A. following
( ) 8. A. everything
( ) 9. A pretend
( )10. A. observed
( )11. A. suggested
( )12. A. empty
( )13. A. discovery
( )14. A dropped
( )15. A. space
( )16. A. chance
( )17. A. attention
( )18. A. translated
( )19. A. speeches
( )20. A. realize | B. cost
B. copy
B. build up
B. speech
B. absent
B. material
B. grasping
B something
B. stop
B. noticed
B. protected
B. clear
B. invention
B. made
B. time
B. pause
B. focus
B. expected
B. memories
B. understand | C. killed
C. teach
C. take up
C. story
C. lonely
C. tool
C. seizing
C. nothing
C. prevent
C. glared
C. allowed
C. large
C. magic
C. drank
C. room
C. situations
C. energy
C. explained
C. documents
C. admit | D. spent
D. consider
D. make up
D. experience
D. awkward
D. skill
D. imitating
D. anything
D. delay
D. proved
D. advised
D. false
D. idea
D. changed
D. schedule
D. conditions
D. devotion
D. solved
D. lectures
D. admire. | | 完形填空 | Carmen"s mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant her life
was in constant __1__.
Both the mother and the daughter knew that the chances were very __2__: finding a donor heart
that __3__ Maria"s blood type could take years. __4__, Carmen was determined to save her mother.
She kept __5__ hospitals all over the country.
Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble __6__ from one end of the room to the other.
Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a __7__ of the hospital, crying.
"Are you okay?" a man asked.
Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her __8__. This middleaged man was named Frank, whose
wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain
disease and wouldn"t __9__ it through the night. Suddenly, an idea came to Frank"s mind. He knew
Cheryl had always wanted to __10__ something from herself. Could her __11__ go to Carmen"s mother?
After reviewing the data, doctors __12__ Fank that his wife"s heart was by some miracle a perfect
__13__ for Carmen"s mother. They were able to __14__ the transplant.
That cold night, when Cheryl was __15__ dead, Frank came to knock at Maria"s door. She was
__16__ for Frank"s family as she had been doing every day recently. Though Maria had never met
Frank before, they both felt a strange __17__ as they hugged and cried. On New Year"s Eve, Carmen
attended Cheryl"s __18__ with Frank"s family, who were singing their favorite song"My heart will go on".
One day later, on New Year"s Day, Maria __19__ with Cheryl"s heart. Yes, Cheryl"s loving heart would
go on, for it was __20__ in another loving mother"s chest. | ( )1. A. change
( )2. A. small
( )3. A. matched
( )4. A. Certainly
( )5. A. finding
( )6. A. rolling
( )7. A. corner
( )8. A. mother
( )9. A. put
( )10. A.save
( )11. A.heart
( )12. A.informed
( )13. A.copy
( )14. A.give up
( )15. A.noticed
( )16. A.praying
( )17. A.belief
( )18. A.funeral
( )19. A.passed away
( )20. A.active | B. danger
B. distant
B. replaced
B. Otherwise
B. phoning
B. running
B. bed
B. story
B. support
B. recycle
B. brain
B. warned
B. fit
B. carry out
B. predicted
B. begging
B. love
B. operation
B. woke up
B. alive | C. disorder
C. hard
C. controlled
C. However
C. touring
C. walking
C. man
C. error
C. pass
C. donate
C. husband
C. celebrated
C. variation
C. search after
C. found
C. decorating
C. bond
C. performance
C. left behind
C. necessary | D. pain
D. precious
D. cooperated
D. So
D. interrupting
D. jumping
D. nurse
D. dream
D. make
D. separate
D. spirit
D. reminded
D. baby
D. put off
D. declared
D. singing
D. relief
D. anniversary
D. dressed up
D. changeable | | 阅读理解。 | Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic!
Enthusiastic will take you further than any amount of experience."
How right they were! Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into
opportunity and strangers into friends.
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote
Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is
the inner voice that whispers, " I can do it! When others shout, "No, you can"t."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983
Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn"t let up on her experiments. Work was
such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
Author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do
what we love as the fulltime career, we can treat it as a part-time interest, like the head of state who
paints, the nun who runs marathons, and the official who handcrafts furniture.
We can"t afford to waste tears on "might-have-bees" we need to turn the tears into sweat as we go
after "what can be".
We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with our sense-finding pleasure in the fragrance of
a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old and the enchanging, beauty of a rainbow. It
is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lift in our steps and smoothes the wrinkles
from our souls. | | 1. What can be the best title of this passage? | A. Find pleasure in what you are doing
B. Wake up your life
C. To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul
D. No pains, no gains. | | 2.What conclusion does the writer draw though the experience of finding a job? | A. enthusiasm will take your further than any amount experience.
B Years wrinkle the skin, but no give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
C. We can"t afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens"
D. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers in to friends. | | 3. which of the following statements is wrong according to the passage? | A. No one can achieve great success without enthusiasm.
B. Enthusiasm will take a person further than any amount of his experience.
C. We should make great efforts to do the thing that can be done instead of regretting for the past.
D Barbara McClintock was generally accepted many years before she won the Nobel Prize. | | 4. Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase "let up"? | A. continue
B. make less effort
C. make great effort
D. stop | | 5. We can learn from the last paragraph that it is ____that makes our life meaningful? | A. love of garden.
B. love of drawing pictures with the crayon of a six-year old child
C. love of life
D. love of beautiful rainbow | | 完形填空 | One day, a poor boy Howard Kelly who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods
from door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to __1__ for a
meal at the next house.
However, he lost his nerve __2__ a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he
asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked __3__, so she brought him a large glass of milk. He
drank it __4__, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"
"You don"t owe me anything, " she __5__. "Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a __6__."
He said, "Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only
felt __7__ stronger, but it also increased his faith in God and human race. He was about to give up a nd
quit before this point.
Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her
to a big city, where specialists can be called __8__ to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now
__9__, was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a
strange light 10 his eyes. Immediately, he 11 and went down through the hospital hall into her
room.
12 in his doctor"s gown he went in to see her. He 13 her at once. He went back to the
consultation room and 14 to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave 15 attention
to her case.
After a long 16 the battle was won. Dr. Kelly 17 the business office to pass the final bill to him
for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She
was afraid to open it because she was 18 that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she
looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her 19 . She read these words.
"Paid in full with a glass of milk.
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly
Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she 20 silently. "Thank you, God. Your love has spread through
human hearts and hands." | ( )1. A. call
( )2. A. while
( )3. A. thirsty
( )4. A. slowly
( )5. A. shook
( )6. A. reward
( )7. A. physically
( )8. A. up
( )9. A. poor
( )10. A. fixed
( )11. A. rose
( )12. A. Dressing
( )13. A. recognized
( )14. A. desired
( )15. A. special
( )16. A. decision
( )17. A. compressed
( )18. A. negative
( )19. A. presentation
( )20. A. praised | B. make
B. when
B. lazy
B. unexpectedly
B. announced
B. kindness
B. mentally
B. for
B. famous
B. concentrated
B. raised
B. Having
B. knew
B. declared
B. ordinary
B. preparation
B. requested
B. uncertain
B. preference
B. pretended | C. beg
C. though
C. tired
C. steadily
C. replied
C. hand
C. normally
C. off
C. cruel
C. filled
C. got
C. Putting
C. spared
C. determined
C. normal
C. struggle
C. confused
C. positive
C. attention
C. pressed | D. prepare
D. unless
D. hungry
D. sadly
D. doubted
D. value
D. properly
D. in
D. vivid
D. consulted
D. come
D. Dressed
D. regained
D. declined
D. usual
D. debate
D. ordered
D. obvious
D. arrangement
D. prayed |
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