题目
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阅读下面的短文并回答问题。(请注意问题后的词数要求)。
" If you carry on, one day something good will happen. And you"ll realize that it wouldn"t have happened if not for that previous disappointment."
〔2〕Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to try for a
job in radio, then work my way up to a sports announcer. I went to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station-and got turned down every time.
〔3〕In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn"t risk hiring an inexperienced person. "Go out in the sticks and find a small station that"ll give you a chance," she said.
〔4〕I returned home to Dixon, Illinois. While there were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father
said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its sports department.
Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I applied. The job sounded just right for me.
But ______ _ .
〔5〕My disappointment must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom reminded me. Dad
offered me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a
wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
〔6〕As I left his office, my frustration boiled over. I asked aloud, "How can a fellow get to be a sports
announcer if he can"t get a job in a radio station?"
〔7〕I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said about
sports? Do you know anything about football?" Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to
broadcast an imaginary game. I got the job!
〔8〕On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother"s words: …
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2. Fill in the blank with proper words in paragraph 4 to complete the sentence.
( no more than 6 words )
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3. Why did the writer say ""My disappointment must have shown"" in paragraph 5?
Find details to support your idea. ( no more than 20 words )
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4. Translate the underlined sentence in paragraph 1 into Chinese.
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5. What can you learn from the passage? (no more than 30 words)
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答案
2. I wasn"t hired./ I was turned down./ I didn"t get it./ they didn"t offer it to me.
3. Because both his parents comforted and encouraged him: "Everything happens for
the best," Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to job hunt.
4. 如果你坚持下去,总有一天会成功.
5. 略(只要表达正确,观点积极,即可得满分)
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试题【阅读表达 。 阅读下面的短文并回答问题。(请注意问题后的词数要求)。〔1〕"Everything happens for the best," my m】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her explanation. She said to them,"Now I have a brother in Los Angeles. If I was calling him on the phone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from across the street, which of you would hear what I said earlier, my brother or you and for what reason?"
Tom at once answered, "Your brother. Because electricity travels faster than sound waves.""That"s very good, "Miss Gorgers answered; but then one of the girls raised her
hand, and Miss Gorgers said."Yes, Kate."
"I disagree,"Kate said."Your brother would hear you earlier because when it"s 11 o"clock here it"s only 8 o"clock in Los Angeles."
A. how to telephone
B. about electricity
C .about time zone
D. about sound
2. Miss Gorgers raised this question because she wanted to know whether______.
A. it was easy to phone to Los Angeles
B. her student could hear her from 75 feet away
C. her students had grasped her lesson
D. sound waves were slower than electricity
3. Tom thought that electricity was _________.
A. slower than sound waves
B. faster than sound waves
C. not so fast as sound waves
D. as fast as sound waves
4. Kate thought Tom was wrong because _______.
A. clocks in Los Angeles showed a different time from those in New York
B. electricity was slower than sound waves
C. Tom was not good at physics at all
D. Tom"s answer had nothing to do with sound waves
5. Whose answer do you think is correct according to the law of physics?
A. Tom"s
B. Kate"s
C. Both A and B
D. Neither A nor B
morning I was due to visit a store at 9 am. I 1 my car, bundled my scarf around me and 2
up the street towards his shop front.
The Street where his store was 3 was partially blocked by two large, ruddy faced workmen
who were tearing up the concrete. I prepared myself for the 4 cat calls (起哄). I was up early,
out in the cold, and probably to be seen as a funny scene by two men I didn"t even 5 .
Then I stopped and 6 my own father. Both he and my grandfather had 7 much of
their early careers working outside in similar jobs before they 8 and became engineers. I recalled how hard Dad worked, in all kinds of 9 -;how he"d come home with sunburn or frost
nip (冻伤). I realized that if was cold then these two guys were probably 10 , given that it
looked as though they"d already been 11 for hours.
My customer"s shop wasn"t open yet but I was beyond being annoyed at his 12 . I Went to
a coffee sh、op around the comer, 13 myself a hot chocolate, then two more with
whipped cream .I made my 14 down the Street to wards the workmen. One of them turned to
me with a wide smile and 15 me with a joking "Oh lovey, you shouldn"t have!" To his 16 ,
I passed him the tray with the two 17 chocolates. I replied," Maybe not. 18 it"s too
cold to be working outside today."
I got two looks of genuine (真诚的) 19 , and a timely reminder that it"s as easy to be
20 as it is to pre-judge-but the former is so much nicer!
( )2. A. wandered
( )3. A. locate
( )4. A. cheering
( )5. A. see
( )6. A. met
( )7. A. wasted
( )8. A. retired
( )9. A. weather
( )10. A. hungry
( )11. A. waiting
( )12. A. rudeness
( )13. A. ordered
( )14. A. promise
( )15. A. caught
( )16. As hame
( )17. A. cold
( )18. A. So
( )19. A. thanks
( )20. A. shy
B. traveled
B. served
B. expected
B. notice
B. called
B. spent
B. reded
B. streets
B. freezing
B. playing
B. coldness
B looked
B. decision
B. greeted
B. honor
B. hot
B. or
B. surprise
B. careful
C. stopped
C. laid
C. pleasant
C. find
C. remembered
C. spared
C. qualified
C. pressure
C. excited
C. chatting
C. lateness
C. filled
C. way
C. suggested.
C. sorrow
C. special
C. But
C. trust
C. grateful
D. pulled
D. stationed
D. interesting
D. know
D. asked
D. kept
D. aged
D. stores
D. thirsty
D. working
D. disappearance
D. poured
D. choice
D. warned
D. shock
D. soft
D. And
D. upset
D. kind
to 1 only one person. However, there Were over 20 candidates, among whom was my son. I 2
him, "It"s difficult to get into the company. Don"t 3 too much for fear that you would feel disappointed
when you fail." My son said smilingly, " 4 I try, there will be hope!"
Of the 20 candidates, only three could 5 the final round, which would later decide the one to be
employed. Everything seemed to 6 quite well and my son 7 the first round and entered the final.
Unexpectedly, the final interview was unbelievably 8 , and all of them were asked to go home and wait
for the 9 of the interview.
One morning, my son 10 a text from the company that he was not cmployed. Before I 11 what
to say to comfort him, I was told that afternoon that my son received another
12 saying he was employed. 13 the first text was also part of the test in the interview. The three
men received the same text that morning and only my son"s 14 was satisfying to the company, so he
was employed. I asked my son 15 they replied. My son told me that one 16 silent, one said "
good-by" and he said "thank you".
Only then did I know my son"s" 17 "came in that way. That is: don"t forget to say" thank you" to
those who even 18 on. Saying "thank you" shows your 19 for
Others work, therefore, you will get the upper hand in terms of 20 compared with others under the
same conditions.
( )2. A. interrupted
( )3. A. spend
( )4. A. As if
( )5. A. enter
( )6. A. move
( )7. A. passed
( )8. A. challenging
( )9. A. course
( )10. A. prepared
( )11. A. figured out
( )12. A. gift
( )13. A. Ridiculously
( )14. A. reply
( )15. A. when
( )16. A. got
( )17. A. hope
( )18. A. cheat
( )19. A. pity
( )20. A. chances
B. promised
B. expect
B. as soon as
B. survive
B. go
B. eatned
B. simple
B. plan
B. received
B. took up
B. note
B. Actually
B. question
B. what
B. kept
B. dream
B. hate
B. doubt
B. skills
C. reminded
C. waste
C. Even if
C. change
C. fit
C. left
C. perfect
C. answer
C. copied
C. set off
C. text
C. Cleverly
C. reason
C. how
C. made
C. plan
C. dislike
C. respect
C. lessons
D. followed
D. wish
D. As long as
D. judge
D. stay
D. started
D. secret
D. result
D. wrote
D. worked on
D. rule
D. Sadly
D. belief
D. whom
D. went
D. aim
D. disappoint
D. desire
D. salaries
Some of the greatest success stories of 1 have followed a word of 2 or an act of confidence
by a loved one or a 3 friend. Had it not been for a confident wife, Sophia, we might not have listed
Nathaniel Hawt home among the great 4 of literature. One cold evening when Nathaniel, a 5 man,
went home to tell his wife, Sophia, that he was a failure and had been fired from his job in the customs.
she 6 him with a cry of joy.
"Now," she said 7 , "you can write your book!"
"Yes?" replied the man, with 8 confidence, "and what shall we 9 while I am writing it?" To his
10 , she opened a drawer and pulled out a sum of money.
"Where on earth did you get that?" he asked.
"I have always known you were a man of 11 ," she told him. "I 12 that someday you would write
a great novel. So every week, out of the 13 you gave me for housekeeping, I saved a little bit. So here
is enough to 14 us for one whole year."
From her trust and 15 came one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Scarlet Letter.
( )2. A. enjoyment
( )3. A. trusting
( )4. A. books
( )5. A. successful
( )6. A. bugged
( )7. A. sadly
( )8. A. little
( )9. A. stick to
( )10. A. amazement
( )11. A. business
( )12. A. knew
( )13. A. time
( )14. A. lead
( )15. A. confidence
B. encouragement
B. merciful
B. novels
B. courageous
B. surprised
B. willingly
B. much
B. try out
B. satisfaction
B. writing
B. see
B. room
B. hold
B. experience
C. kindness
C. cautious
C. names
C. sorrowful
C. comforted
C. proudly
C. no
C. take up
C. expectation
C. talent
C. understand
C. job
C. last
C. competence
D. delight
D. intelligent
D. nicknames
D. heartbroken
D. loved
D. intentionally
D. less
D. live on
D. disappointment
D. marketing
D. dream
D. money
D. leave
D. guidance
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯要求，在空格处填人一个适当的词
或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
Long long ago, in a small and faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1,000
Mirrors. A 1ittle happy dog learned of this place 1 decided to visit it.
When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through
the doorway 2 his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found 3 staring at 1,000
other happy 1ittle dogs 4 (wag) their tails just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and 5 (answer)
with 1,000 great smiles. As he left the House, he thought to himself, "It is such a wonderful place 6 I
will come back to visit it often."
In the same village, 7 little dog, who was not as happy as the first one, also decided to visit the
House. In a bad mood, he slowly climbed up the stairs and looked through the doorway 8 a smile.
When he saw the 1,000 9 (friend) dogs staring back at him, he shouted 10 (angry) at them and was
horrified to see 1,000 1ittle dogs shouting back at him in the same way. As he 1eft, he thought to himself,
" This is a horrible place, and I won"t come back here any more.
All the faces in the world are like mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see in the faces of the
people you meet?
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