题目
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annoying, scary and difficult, but also life-changing, satisfying and amazing. Because I had
studied Spanish for a couple of years before I went out, I had just one week of classes at
Volunteer Bolivia.
Living with a family also helped my Spanish greatly and I felt immediately like one of their
daughters. We were good friends from the beginning of my time there and I was looked after
very well. I still had a lot of independence. The Volunteer Bolivia centre, with its cafe bar and
cultural talks, was a meeting place for all the volunteers and I met some wonderful people
from all over the world who were doing the same as me------giving something of themselves
to a country which needs so much.
My job was in a caring centre for prisoners" children from the Cochabamba prisons and
from the very (恰好的)start I felt welcomed and needed. There I met some inspiring members
who put so much of their heart into caring for those children who maybe had no one else to
love them. Not only the work itself was very hard but at times it was emotionally demanding,
especially sending a group of two year olds back into the prison at the end of the day. Despite
all this, I learnt a lot through the experience and now I"m more aware of the problems faced
daily by many people in South America. The centre has very limited funding (资金)so they
depend heavily on the work of volunteers, and any time people give is very valuable to them.
Since returning to Britain I have kept in touch with the people I worked with and I"m trying
to support them as much as possible. Volunteering through Volunteer Bolivia has changed my
life and is an experience I will never forget.
B. Spanish
C. French
D. Italian
B. In the volunteer centre.
C. In a cafe bar.
D. In a local family.
B. meet volunteers from other countries
C. look after some prisoners" children
D. help the local people with their farm work
B. Relaxing.
C. Disappointing.
D. Boring.
B. Volunteering through Volunteer Bolivia
C. My job
in a caring centre.D. Living with a family in Bolivia
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解. I spent three months volunteering with Volunteer Bolivia(玻利维亚). It was】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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team with__1__potential (潜力)．Here goes her story.
At the end of our training__2__the district track meet，this discus thrower，Lucy，
asked me if she__3__come to the school on Sunday for a little__4__training.
I agreed.The year before，she had placed second at the district meet and__5__missed
going to the state meet.She had won every discus event，__6__that district meet！And，
her throws in the competitions had__7__been between 106′1〞and 110′10〞.Something
began to__8__me.Why couldn’t Lucy__9__to get the discus to 111 feet？I wondered if it
was more a psychological barrier (心理障碍)__10__a physical one.I decided to try
something__11__.I made up my mind to__12__to Lucy.
On Sunday，after her drills，I said，“Why don’t you throw five or six good ones for
me to__13__？”She began to throw again，but__14__were farther than what she had
already thrown.But，I didn’t tell Lucy.As I was measuring the__15__one，I pulled out
some more tape (卷尺) and yelled out to her，“Come to see this！This one is__16__！”
It wasn’t.Lucy，thinking that this was a personal best，jumped wildly into the air in__17__.
The next afternoon，at the district meet，Lucy__18__with a personal best throw of
114′10〞！Just 24 hours after I had lied to her.However，this time she had__19__thrown
the discus four feet further than she had ever thrown it before.
Sometimes we__20__our own barriers in our mind.So learn to take control of your mind.
( )2．A.after
( )3．A.could
( )4．A.helpful
( )5.A.luckily
( )6．A.except
( )7．A.sometimes
( )8．A.frighten
( )9．A.seem
( )10．A.apart from
( )11．A.impossible
( )12．A.lie
( )13．A.look
( )14．A.many
( )15．A.worst
( )16．A.higher
( )17．A.excitement
( )18．A.disappeared
( )19．A.actually
( )20．A.break
B．during
B．must
B．extra
B．completely
B．including
B．always
B．please
B．pretend
B．rather than
B．familiar
B．turn
B．measure
B．all
B．closest
B．farther
B．anxiety
B．lost
B．hardly
B．remove
C．since
C．should
C．real
C．narrowly
C．despite
C．never
C．shock
C．need
C．because of
C．new
C．reply
C．match
C．some
C．first
C．bigger
C．puzzlement
C．won
C．nearly
C．take
D．before
D．would
D．regular
D．probably
D．with
D．seldom
D．bother
D．ask
D．according to
D．easy
D．call
D．take
D．none
D．final
D．longer
D．anger
D．arrived
D．only
D．set
It has been said, "Be contented with what you have, but never too__1__with what you are." There is
a story about a farmer who saw a tiger’s tail__2__between two large rocks.In a hu
rry, he seized the tail and__3__. All of a sudden he realized he had an angry tiger by the__4__and only two__5__stood
between him and the tiger"s teeth and claws! So there he remained, __6__to loosen his hold on the__7__
animal"s tail in case he will surely be killed.
A monk happened to go by and the farmer called out in__8__, "Come over here and help me.__9__
this tiger!"
The monk said, "Oh, no. I cannot do that. I cannot take the__10__of another." Then he went on to
deliver a long__11__against killing. All the while, the farmer was holding__12__to the tail of the angry
tiger. When the monk finally finished his__13__, the farmer asked, "If you won"t kill the tiger, then__14__
come and hold its tail while I kill it."
The monk thought that perhaps, it would be all right to__15__hold the tiger"s tail, so he__16__and
pulled.The farmer, however, turned and walked away down the road.
The monk__17__after him, "Come back here and kill the tiger!"
"Oh, no," the farmer replied. "You have__18__me!" If the largest room in the world is "room for
improvement", then it is good to leave__19__of room for change. A life of change! A life of growth! And
always leaving room for__20__.
It"s the only way to live.
| ( )1. A. relaxed ( )2. A. waving ( )3. A. cut ( )4. A. head ( )5. A. trees ( )6. A. afraid ( )7. A. wild ( )8. A. surprise ( )9. A. feed ( )10. A. life ( )11. A. message ( )12. A. loosely ( )13. A. blame ( )14. A. at least ( )15. A. basically ( )16. A. refused ( )17. A. ran ( )18. A. frightened ( )19. A. plenty ( )20. A. rest | B. excited B. dropping B. examined B. ear B. rocks B. read y B. big B. fear B. save B. wealth B. teaching B. securely B. work B. at most B. simply B. hesitated B. laughed B. changed B. much B. sleep | C. ontented C. urning C. ulled C. rm C. ills C. ager C. ngry C. erson C. atch C. hing C. rayer C. ightly C. eal C. fter all C. ardly C. greed C. omplained C. elped C. ess C. mprovement | D. surprised D. trembling D. appreciated D. tail D. fences D. anxious D. hungry D. order D. kill D. heart D. information D. closely D. lesson D. first of all D. mainly D. arranged D. shouted D. comforted D. more D. relaxation | |||||||||||||
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| Last month, James Connolly, a junior at the University of Massachusetts, stood in front of a local police station wearing a toga (长袍) as punishment. His crime? He was charged with underage drinking, illegal possession of alcohol and too much noise while holding a party. This shaming punishment has increased in the US in recent years, mostly imposed (强加) by local judges for less－serious cri  mes, such as drunk driving and theft.They believe shame is the best petty crime deterrent (威慑). For example, in Tennessee, Judge James McKenzie has made shoplifters stand outside Wal－Mart with signs that read, "I am a  thief put here by order of Judge McKenzie." "Alternative punishments like community service and fines don"t convey moral condemnation of the criminal," said Dan Kahan, a University of Chicago Law School professor, in an article published on the university"s website. "They aren"t shameful enough." Supporters of shaming punishment argue that public shaming is a good way of expressing community values. Some judges say shamed offenders seldom repeat their crimes. Others aren"t so sure. "There is little evidence to suggest that shaming punishments are successful in preventing people from committing specific crimes. And a shamed criminal may face a hard battle to regain trust in society," said Hosmanek. "So, a shaming punishment may force the offender into more crimes to support himself." | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. According to the passage, wearing a toga in public is a(n)________. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. honour B. shame C. duty D. crime | ||||||||||||||||
| 2. Connolly was punished for________. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. shoplifting B. drunk driving C. serious crimes D. petty crimes | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. Which of the following is the most effective in preventing petty crimes according to Professor Kahan? | ||||||||||||||||
| A. Getting a fine for what one has done. B. Apologizing to the police for one"s wrongdoing. C. Holding a sign in public that announces one’s own crime. D. Being forced to work for the community without being paid. | ||||||||||||||||
| 4. According to Hosmanek, shamed criminals are more likely to commit new crimes because________. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. it"s difficult for them to find a job B. they no longer have a sense of shame C. there"s too much fighting in society D. they do not want to do any work | ||||||||||||||||
| 5. This passage is mainly about________. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. crime deterrent B. alternative punishments C. shaming punishment D. community values | ||||||||||||||||
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| In 1883, a creative engineer, John Roebling, was inspired to build a splendid bridge connecting New York with Long Island. However, experts throughout the world thought that this was__1__. Even so, Roebling could not__2__the idea in his mind. After much discussion, he__3__convince his son Washington, an up-and-coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built. They hired their__4__  and began to build their dream bridge. Only a few months__5__the project was underway, a tragic on－site accident killed John Roebling and__6__injured his son, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to move or__7__. Surely now the project would have to be__8__. Though Washington Roebling lay in his hospital bed, he was not__9__ and his mind remained as__10__as it was before the accident.Suddenly an idea__11__him. All he could move was one finger, so he__12__the arm of his wife with that finger, __13__to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again.Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. For 13 years Washington tapped out his__14__with one finger until the bridge was__15__ completed. Perhaps this is one of the best examples of never-say-die attitude that__16__a terrible physical disability and achieves an impossible__17__. Often when we face difficulties in our daily lives, our problems seem very small__18__what many others have to face. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us that even the most__19__dream can be realized with__20__no matter what the chances are. | ||||||||||||||||
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