Isn"t it amazing how one person, sharing one idea, at the right time and place can change the course
of your life"s history?When I was 14, I was a high school_1_with learning disabilities.
One day I met an old man, a bum (流浪汉). He asked me if I was running away from home, because
I looked so_2_.Then he told me he had something grand to show me and_3_with me.We walked to the
downtown Library.
The bum first brought a couple of old 4 and then started with a few 5 that
were very special and that changed my life.He said, "There are two things I want to 6 you.Number one
is to never 7 a book by its cover, for a cover can fool you."
He followed with, "I"ll 8 you think I"m a bum, don"t you?"
"Yes, I 9 so, sir."
Well, young man, I"ve got a little 10 for you.I am one of the 11 men in the world.I have probably
everything any man could ever want.But a year ago, my wife 12 , and since then I have been deeply
13 on life.I realized there were certain things I had not yet experienced in life, one of 14 was what it
would be like to live like a bum on the streets.For the past year, I have been going from city to city doing
just that.So, you see, don"t ever judge a book by its cover, for a cover can fool you.
"Number two is to learn how to 15 .For there is only one thing that people can"t 16 away from
you, your wisdom."He 17 my right hand and put it upon the books he"d 18 from the shelves, the
writings of Plato and Aristotle"s everlasting 19 from ancient times.
His 20 request was for me to never forget what he taught me.
I haven"t. |
( )1. A. assistant
( )2. A. tired
( )3. A. agree
( )4. A. books
( )5. A. demands
( )6. A. scold
( )7. A. read
( )8. A. bet
( )9. A. hope
( )10. A. enjoyment
( )11. A. wealthiest
( )12. A. died away
( )13. A. looking
( )14. A. which
( )15. A. read
( )16. A. get
( )17. A. shook
( )18. A. bought
( )19. A. artists
( )20. A. greeting | B. dropout
B. old
B. remain
B. stories
B. speeches
B. remind
B. judge
B. hope
B. guess
B. shock
B. healthiest
B. went out
B. insisting
B. that
B. write
B. run
B. checked
B. pulled
B. classics
B. strict
| C. waiter
C. familiar
C. share
C. novels
C. lectures
C. teach
C. open
C. wish
C. did
C. pleasure
C. happiest
C. passed away
C. depending
C. where
C. recite
C. take
C. examined
C. lent
C. treasure
C. supportive | D. dealer
D. young
D. talk
D. drinks
D. statements
D. confuse
D. start
D. decide
D. wanted
D. surprise
D. strongest
D. gave out
D. reflecting
D. them
D. recognize
D. work
D. grabbed
D. sold
D. words
D. parting |
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试题【完形填空 Isn"t it amazing how one person, sharing one idea, at the right time an】；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 | A very special teacher in a high school had a husband who died suddenly of a heart attack. About a
week after his death , she _ 1__ some of her thoughts with a classroom of students. with a __2__ look
on her face, she __3__ and said, "__4__class is over, I would like to share with all of you a thought
which I feel is very __5__. Each of us is put here on earth to learn, share, love, appreciate and give of
ourselves—and none of us knows __6__ this fantastic experience will _7__. It can be __8__ at any
moment. Perhaps this is a __9__ that we must __10_ the most out of every single day."
Her eyes beginning to water, she went on "So I would like you all to make me a __11 —from now
on , on your way to school, or on your way home, find something __12_to notice. "For, although it may
sound __13__to some people, these things are the "stuff" of life. The little things we are put here on earth
to enjoy. The things we often take for granted. We must make it important to__14__ them, for at any
time—it can all be taken away."
The class was completely quiet. We all _15__ our books and filed（排成一行行走） out of the
room __16__. That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole
semester.___17_, I think of that teacher and remember what an __18__ she made on all us, and I try to
_19__ all of those things sometimes we all _20__. | ( )1. A. speak
( )2. A gentle
( )3. A. stood
( )4. A. after
( )5. A. fasinating
( )6. A. why
( )7. A. begin
( )8. A. made up
( )9. A. card
( )10. A. make
( )11. A. surprise
( )12. A. beautiful
( )13. A. nice
( )14. A. notice
( )15. A. put up
( )16. A. quickly
( )17. A. Every once in a while
( )18. A. pressure
( )19. A. forget
( )20. A. overlook | B. share
B. happy
B. cried
B. when
B. useful
B. when
B. change
B. run out
B. notice
B. take
B. promise
B. different
B. silly
B. watch
B. picked up
B. nosily
B. More often than not
B. inflence
B. appreciate
B. cherish | C. explain
C. surprised
C. laughed
C. before
C. important
C. where
C. appear
C. passed away
C. sign
C. leave
C. noise
C. magnificant
C. great
C. care
C. rose up
C. happily
C. At last
C. impression
C. realize
C. mention | D. express
D. lively
D. paused
D. as
D. necessary
D. while
D. end
D. taken away
D. track
D. get
D. face
D. meaningful
D. pessimistic
D. appreciate
D. stood up
D. silently
D. Frequently
D. mark
D. imagine
D. discover | | 完形填空 | Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for _ 1__ hands. Most people were reluctant（不情愿） to work on __2__ along the Atlantic. They dreaded the awful
____3__that raged across the Atlantic, wreaking havoc（浩劫，灾难） on the buildings and crops.
As the farmer 4 applicants for the job, he 5 a steady stream of refusals. 6 , a short, thin
man， well past middle age, approached the farmer. "Are you a good farmhand? "the farmer asked him.
"Well, I can __7__ when the wind blows," answered the__8 _ man.
Although __9__ by this answer, the farmer, desperate（不顾一切的） for __10_, hired him. The
man worked well around the farm, __11_ from dawn to dusk, and the farmer felt satisfied with the man"s
work.
Then one night the wind howled loudly in from offshore. __12_ out of bed， the farmer grabbed（抓起） a lantern and __13_ next door to the hired hand"s sleeping quarters. He__14_ the little man and
yelled, "Get up! A storm is coming! Tie things down before they blow away!"
The little man __15__ in bed and said __16__, "No sir. I told you, I can sleep when the wind blows."
Enraged by the response， the farmer was tempted to __17__ him on the spot. Instead， he hurried
outside to prepare for the storm. To his __18__, he discovered that all of the haystacks（干草垛）
had been covered with tarpaulins（油布）. The cows were in the barn, the chickens were in the coops（鸡笼）, and the doors were barred. The shutters were tightly secured. Everything was tied down.
Nothing could blow away.
The farmer then understood what his hired hand __19__, so he returned to his bed to also sleep
__20_ the wind blew. | ( )1. A. hired
( )2. A. field
( )3. A. winds
( )4. A. interviewed
( )5. A. accepted
( )6. A. Surprisingly
( )7. A. work
( )8. A. strong
( )9. A. pleased
( )10. A. help
( )11. A. happy
( )12. A. Coming
( )13. A. ran
( )14. A. beat
( )15. A. put on
( )16. A. firmly
( )17. A. kill
( )18. A. surprise
( )19. A. expected
( )20. A. when | B. applied
B. garden
B. storms
B. trained
B. received
B. Luckily
B. do
B. young
B. satisfied
B. pleasure
B. sad
B. Leaving
B. rushed
B. shook
B. rolled over
B. happily
B. instruct
B. joy
B. prepared
B. as | C. took
C. farm
C. huricane
C. saw
C. refused
C. Obviously
C. sleep
C. little
C. surprised
C. man
C. tired
C. Jumping
C. went
C. shouted
C. got up
C. delightly
C. fire
C. regret
C. offered
C. after | D. got
D. park
D. flood
D. visited
D. offered
D. Finally
D. help
D. kind
D. puzzled
D. work
D. busy
D. Going
D. moved
D. stroke
D. sat
D. angrily
D. inform
D. sadness
D. meant
D. while | | 阅读理解 | In a cold winter, a couple had to move out from the luxury villa because of bankruptcy. The husband
worked day and night to support the family but with no care of his wife. So she thought, "he doesn"t love
me anymore, he just cares his business—not me".
One day, she began to take a bath, he stopped her at the door, "Let me take it first, OK?" "Why not
let me shower first ," she asked. "I was tired, sweetie, you take it later, OK?" She was totally depressed.
On a morose day, she found nothing to do and turned on his computer, a  few words blurred her eyes
—it was his diary:
Today, I was quite sad, she asked me why I was always taking the bath first, and I said to her, I was
exhausted. She was unhappy, in her mind, I treated her not as well as usual, but how can I do? I wasn"t
as rich as before! We moved to the small apartment, there was only a shower in such a freezing winter.
But I found that if one person took the shower first, the room could get a litter warm, so every time I
rushed to the bathroom first. I was thinking that, when she took the shower, the room would get warmer,
at least1℃,2℃or 3℃
Now I can"t give her comfortable life, bring her the luxury restaurant, buy expensive dresses for her,
but at least, I can give her 1℃love. | | 1. Why was the husband always taking the bath first? | A. Because he was tired from work.
B. Because he didn"t love her anymore.
C. Because he wanted to get the bathroom warmer.
D. Because he treated his wife not as well as usual. | | 2. What does the underlined word "bankruptcy" in the first paragraph probably mean? | A. crash
B. moving
C. diseases
D. failure | | 3. The best title of the passage may be ______. | A. A trouble
B. 1℃love
C. Husband and wife
D. A romantic love story | One kind of female butterfly mates only once in its life —and then closes its wings to avoid
"harassment" when pursued by persistent and unwanted males, a Japanese researcher said.
Observations of the Small Copper Butterfly, a colourful orange and black butterfly, showed that some
females closed their wings when males flew by, but only when they were males of their own species, said
Jun-Ya Ide, an associate professor at Kurume Institute of Technology in Fukuoka, western Japan.
"When we looked into why, the males were courting the females. They do this very stubbornly, so the
females sometimes try to get away-or prefer to stay unobserved," he added.
Ide and his colleagues brought a model of a male butterfly near the females to test their reactions and
found that young females that had yet to mate kept their wings open, but those that had already mated
closed them.
Not only can the persistent attentions of unwanted suitors harm the delicate females, fleeing from them
—with the male often in pursuit —uses up strength and can even shorten their lives, he added.
"Closing their wings makes them less visible, helping them avoid communication with their own species. We figured they were trying to avoid harassment by males," Ide said. | | 1. What does the word "harassment" mean in the paragraph? | A. sexual invasion
B. embarassment
C. attack
D. threat | | 2. Why some some females closed their wings when males flew by? | A. because the female butterfly mates only once in its life.
B. because they close their wings to avoid "harassment" when pursued by persistent and unwanted
males.
C. because they don’t like the male butterfly at all.
D. because they are afraid of the male butterfly. | | 3. According the the passage, which is correct? | A. The females closed their wings when males flew by.
B. The female butterfly mates only once in its life.
C. Only the model of a male butterfly can make the young female butterflies to keep their wing s open.
D. Not only can the persistent attentions of wanted suitors harm the delicate females, fleeing from them
—with the male often in pursuit -- uses up strength and can even shorten their lives. | | 完形填空。 | The Price of a Dream
I grew up poor-living with my wonderful mother.We had little money,but plenty of
love and attention.I was 1 and energetic.I understood that no matter how poor a person
was,he could still 2 a dream.
My dream was 3.By the time I was sixteen,I started playing baseball.I could throw a
ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and 4 anything that moved on the football field.I was also
5 :my high school coach was John,who not only believed in me,but also taught me 6 to
believe in myself.He 7 me the difference between aving a dream and remaining true
to that dream.One particular 8 with Coach John changed my life forever.
A friend recommended me for a summer job.This meant a chance for money in my
pocket money for a new bike,new clothes and the 9 of savings for a house for my mother.
Then I realized I would have to 10 up summer baseball to handle the work schedule,and
meant I would have to tell John I wouldn"t be playing.
When I told John,he was 11 as I expected him to be."You have your whole life to work,"
he said,"Your 12 days are limited.You can"t afford to waste them." I stood before him with
my head 13,trying to think of the 14 that would exp lain to him why my dream of buying my
mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his 15 in me.
"How much are you going to make at this job,son?" he asked."3.5 dollars an hour," I
replied.
"Well," he asked,"is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?"
That simple question made 16 for me the difference between 17 something right now
and having a 18.I decided myself to play sports that summer and 19 the year I was hired
by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball,and was 20 a $20 000 contract(合同).In 1999,I
bought my mother the house of my dream! | ( )1.A.happy
( )2.A.live
( )3.A.athletics
( )4.A.kick
( )5.A.right
( )6.A.how
( )7.A.gave
( )8.A.accident
( )9.A.aim
( )10.A.keep
( )11.A.mad
( )12.A.living
( )13.A.moving
( )14.A.answers
( )15.A.sadness
( )16.A.direct
( )17.A.wanting
( )18.A.wish
( )19.A.by
( )20.A.paid
| B.polite
B.afford
B.music
B.play
B.popular
B.why
B.taught
B.matter
B.idea
B.end
B.mournful
B.playing
B.nodding
B.excuses
B.regret
B.clear
B.changing
B.goal
B.for
B.got
| C.shy
C.make
C.business
C.pass
C.lucky
C.when
C.brought
C.problem
C.start
C.give
C.frightened
C.working
C.shaking
C.words
C.hopelessness
C.straight
C.dreaming
C.score
C.over
C.offered
| D.honest
D.need
D.money
D.hit
D.confident
D.whether
D.asked
D.experience
D.purpose
D.pick
D.shameful
D.learning
D.hanging
D.ways
D.disappointment
D.bare
D.enjoying
D.desire
D.with
D.presented
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