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at the time, but I still understood the sudden shift in my mom"s attitude towards safety. Suddenly everything around us was potentially dangerous. Overnight, the world had gone from a playground to a dangerous
zone. I grew up with a lot of limits and rules. I couldn"t walk home from school by myself, even though
everyone I knew already did. I couldn"t go to summer camp because what if something happened to me?
As I got older, the list of things of fear got longer. My whole life was divided into "things you should
avoid", and "things you needed to do in order to have a good, long life." I became a natural worrier. I
worry about things like getting cancer, losing my wallet, car accidents, earthquakes, and losing my
job-disasters big and small, real and imagined.
The funny part is that you"d never know it by looking at my life. In fact, I"ve developed a rule for
myself: If it scares me, then I have to do it at least once. I"ve done lots of things that my mom would have worried about: I"ve ridden a motorcycle; I"ve traveled -a lot. I"ve performed stand-up comedy, and I"m
planning my second wedding.
There"s something else I don"t usually talk about, but it"s a cornerstone in my belief: When I was 14,
my mother died suddenly in a car accident. At my mom"s funeral I remember making a choice. I could
either live out the rest of my life trying to be "safe" or I could be brave enough to live out a fulfilling,
exciting and, yes, sometimes dangerous life.
I worry that I may have betrayed (背叛) my mother by writing her in this light, but she has been a
driving force in my life and, in the end I think she would have been proud of me. Courage isn"t a natural
character of human beings. I believe that using courage is like developing a muscle. The more often I do
things that scare me or that make me uncomfortable, the more I realize that I can do a lot more than I
originally thought I could do.
Even though I inherited (继承) my mother"s cautious nature. I"ve also come to believe that fear can be
a good thing, if we face it. Believing that has made my world a less scary place.
B. develop her independence
C. be in memory of her dead brother
D. protect her from possible danger
B. She faces up to them.
C. She turns to her mother for help.
D. She does them with her friends.
B. nothing can make the writer afraid now
C. frightening things made the writer lose her self-confidence
D. the writer"s mother felt annoyed with her
B. Fear is in fact not a bad thing.
C. Facing fear bravely produces courage.
D. The world is not as scary as people expect.
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试题【阅读理解。 After my brother died in an accident, my mother was in deep sadness. I】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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above my friend"s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was
that most city people, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives
indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him
then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of
northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew
to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone
in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones,
pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought:
before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk
in the mountains And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the
bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
B. Touched by the moon
C. A bottomless well of silence
D. Break away from modern life
B. Complete silence.
C. No modern equipment
D. The high mountains
B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life
C. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them
D. explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature
B. show the love for the moonlight
C. express the feeling of returning to nature
D. want to communicate longing for modern life
助)Flash Gordon. Gordon was a super-hero who 1 for good deeds (事情) in outer space.
My mum would buy the 2 for me because I 3 the prize that came with it. The prize was a pair of
glasses that Gordon 4 .
However, in order to get the prize I had to 5 the whole box of biscuits out because it was at the 6 . I didn"t dare to think of 7 my way to the prize because I was too 8 . Yes, I wanted to be like Flash
Gordon! 9 the glasses came out from the bottom, I put them on. I felt like my favorite 10 . I wore them
everywhere my mum and I went. I even tried to wear them to 11 , but the teachers didn"t want a super-hero flying around the playground.
Over the years there were other prizes from many 12 brands (牌子) of biscuits, but I was never really 13 the biscuits, only the 14 .
When you think about it, 15 itself can be like a box of biscuits. Even as adults, we keep 16 that
prize at all costs. Just 17 what we do at times. We become greedy (贪婪的) to get what we think is the
prize.
Try to look at it from a different view. Wouldn"t it be better to 18 the journey along the way ? In other words, don"t be impatient and pour the box. That will only spoil (破坏) the 19 meaning of the prize.
Enjoy what you have and be grateful. I promise your prize will 20 , without having to push others out of
the way to get it.
| ( )1. A. paid ( )2. A. biscuit ( )3. A. designed ( )4. A. made ( )5. A. throw ( )6. A. beginning ( )7. A. changing ( )8. A. impatient ( )9. A. Although ( )10. A. soldier ( )11. A. cinema ( )12. A. old ( )13. A. interested in ( )14. A. color ( )15. A. success ( )16. A. looking at ( )17. A. think about ( )18. A. cut ( )19. A. new ( )20. A. appear | B. prepared B. toy B. deserved B. sold B. pour B. side B. losing B. lazy B. Since B. hero B. school B. famous B. afraid of B. price B. life B. looking after B. set down B. stop B. real B. disappear | C. fought C. book C. offered C. owned C. put C. bottom C. eating C. weak C. While C. model C. hospital C. different C. good at C. box C. love C. looking for C. pack up C. plan C. funny C. flow | D. waited D. space D. wanted D. wore D. leave D. top D. finding D. nervous D. Once D. player D. shop D. special D. angry at D. prize D. wealth D. looking up D. go through D. enjoy D. strange D. enrich | |
| 阅读理解。 | ||||
| Two years ago my grandmother was going to turn 75. My family discussed what was the best way to celebrate. Should we throw her a party ? Should we take her on a trip ? We remembered that she had touched so many people"s lives, and there were so many people for her to consider. Then someone got the idea that we should include everyone in the celebration by turning it into a tribute (献礼) to my grandmother. We secretly sent out letters to the people in Grandmother"s address book and asked them to send a letter with a memory that they had shared with her. People sent us letters with poems, stories and pictures. The deep feeling that was shared through the response (回应) surprised us. We compiled (编辑) these letters into a memory book and amazed her with it on the morning of her birthday. The unusual thing about my grandmother"s friends was not the number that she had, but the connection they shared. In many ways this book of friendship was the greatest achievement of my grandmother"s life. I believe that developing true friendships is one of the most important things that anyone can do in one"s lifetime. It is not a matter of the number of friends one has, but the quality of the bonds. If one has had at least one true friendship before dying, then one can say one has lived a successful life. I have made many friends and I believe I have begun to develop the same types of friendships my grandmother kept up over her lifetime. I only hope that I will be as successful as she has been. | ||||
| 1. How did the author"s family celebrate Grandmother"s birthday ? | ||||
| A. They took her on a trip across the country. B. They gave her a memory book of friendship. C. They invited all her friends to her birthday party. D. They asked all her friends to send her cards. | ||||
| 2. When receiving her birthday gift, the author"s grandmother probably felt _____. | ||||
| A. disappointed and lonely B. sorry and sad C. surprised and pleased D. nervous and excited | ||||
| 3. According to the passage, the author probably agrees that _____. | ||||
| A. the more friends you have, the better B. friends are more important than family C. understanding leads to greater success D. true friendship is very important to us | ||||
| 4. Which of the following words can best describe the author"s grandmother ? | ||||
| A. Kind. B. Great. C. Polite D. Pleasant | ||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||
| Minh Pham was born in Vietnam. He left there when he was 21 years old. Minh has been in America for almost two years. There is still much he does not understand about America.? Once, Minh was in a supermarket. He saw an old man and an old woman. They wanted a box of cereal(麦片).The box was on a high shelf. The man and the woman couldn"t reach it. Minh saw a stepladder. He got on the ladder and got the box. He handed it to the elderly couple. They thanked him.? "Where are your children?" asked Minh. "Why don"t they help you buy food?" "Our children have their own lives," said the man and the woman. "We like to be independent." Minh doesn"t think this is right. In his country, children help their parents. Minh gave the elderly couple his phone number. He told them to call him if they needed help. One night they asked Minh to dinner, but they never asked him for help.? One day, Minh was walking with a Vietnamese friend. The two men were going to a movie. Minh wanted to go to a restaurant first. Minh took his friend"s hand. He pulled him towards the restaurant. People on the street stared at Minh. In Vietnam, friends often hold hands. Minh found that the people in America are not used to men holding hands.? Minh Pham is going through a process (过程) known as resocialization. Socialization (社会化) is the process in which a person learns to live in a society. Everyone goes through this process. Minh went through it when he lived in Vietnam. But the Vietnamese way of life is rather different from the American way of life. When Minh came to America, he had to learn a new way of life. He had to learn how to live in a new society. Minh has learned a lot about American life in two years. He still has a lot to learn. The process of resocialization can take many years.? | ||||
| 1. The main idea of the passage is that socialization is the way in which a person ______.? | ||||
| A. learns to live in a society B. travels from one country to another? C. learns to act independently D. learns about their country? | ||||
| 2. The passage states that Minh didn"t understand why the elderly man and woman were not ______. | ||||
| A. helped by their children B. shopping for their children? C. holding hands D. using a stepladder? | ||||
| 3. According to the passage, socialization happens to ______. | ||||
| A. only the Vietnamese in America B. only Americans? C. only older people D. everyone? | ||||
| 4. The underlined word "resocialization" means ______.? | ||||
| A. keeping one"s own way of life? B. keeping up with others? C. a process of learning how to live in a new society? D. understanding a new culture? | ||||
| 完形填空。 | ||||
| About 10 years ago I taught a group of children to sail. They were bright, enthusiastic and as eager to 1 life as any other children. All, however, had a serious 2 . Three were in wheelchairs, one was nearly blind and two walked with difficulty, and another two 3 a lot from Cerebral palsy (脑瘫). Matthew was among them. His hands, arms, legs, and even his voice were all distorted (扭曲) from the disease. To speak, Matthew had the help of a 4 . Slowly, and with determination, he would 5 with distorted hands, letter by letter, what he wanted to say. Yet he was always bright and cheerful and loved to 6 everything his classmates were doing, both in the boat and in the classroom. They learnt fast and enjoyed every minute of the 7 . But I think that 1 was the one who learned the greatest lesson. One day the sailing centre was 8 by a storm. Rather than 9 the activity we decided to work in a classroom. All the children 10 . Just like other children they all wanted to answer the questions I asked. Often they would loudly 11 each other, trying to give an answer before one of the others. But when Matthew wanted to answer a question it was 12 . All of a sudden they all 13 . Matthew whispered and moved his hands at his letter-board. They 14 with great patience. Matthew 15 with dogged persistence (坚持) until the answer was 16 . When Matthew had answered his question the children were, almost magically, transformed back into a group of 17 and enthusiastic children. All of these children were heroes in their own way. But the 18 they afforded to Matthew with his most severe disabilities was 19 . If only the rest of the world were able to learn to afford care, respect and help to someone less 20 than themselves, violence and intolerance (不宽容) would possibly be gone. | ||||
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