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阅读理解。 An old woman had two large pots (罐), one on each end of a pole (扁担). She carried the pole with
the pots across her neck.
One of the pots had a crack (裂缝) in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered (递送)
a full pot of water. At the end of the long walk from the well to the house, the cracked pot arrived only
half-full.

      For two years this happened daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.
Of course, the perfect pot was proud. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection.
      One day, the cracked pot spoke to the woman by the well: "I am ashamed of myself because this
crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."
      The old woman smiled: "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the
other pot"s side? That"s because I have always known about your crack, so I planted flower seeds on
your side of the path. And every day while we walk back, you water them."
      "For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate (装饰) the table. Without
you being just the way you are, I would not have this beauty."
       Each of us has our own cracks. But it"s these cracks that make our lives together so interesting and
meaningful.1. How did the cracked pot feel about itself at first? A. Proud.
B. Happy.
C. Excited.
D. Ashamed.2. Where were the flowers growing?A. On both sides of the path.
B. In the woman"s house.
C. On the perfect pot"s side.
D. On the cracked pot"s side.

3. Which is the correct order of the following events?
① The woman picked the flowers and decorated the table.
② The woman told the truth to the cracked pot.
③ The cracked pot talked to the woman about its crack.
④ The woman found a crack on one pot.
⑤ The woman planted some flower seeds.

A. ④⑤①③②
B. ⑤④③②①
C. ④③①②⑤
D. ④⑤③①②4. What does the passage mainly want to tell us?A. Never laugh at old women.
B. Try your best to be perfect in life.
C. Imperfection makes life meaningful.
D. Don"t use a cracked pot to carry water.

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完形填空。     It"s a small gas station that has snacks, drinks, cigarettes, and candies. The young man behind the
counter knows his   1   by name and what they normally want to buy. He treats children and adults with
equal    2 . He reads science fiction behind the counter when business is   3 .
     One day, three people rushed in and grabbed food off the shelves as fast as they could,    4    not
intending to pay for it. He hit the "panic button" , then went over the counter and   5    the front door. It
was obvious that they were homeless, and  equally obvious that they weren"t going     6    with their
illgotten gains. They    7 the food and simply crowded together in panic-knowing the police were   8
the way.
     Imagine what they must have felt like when they were told they didn"t have to steal if they were that    9 . "We have food in the back, expired (到期) but still    10 to eat. If you need food, you    11
have some."
     They were told to   12   what they had dropped and put it back, and then asked to straighten out the
mess. They were doing just that    13    the police arrived. The officers were told the situation was under
control and the police were no longer    14 .
     This wasn"t what they had    15 . They were being treated as human beings who could right the wrong
they"d done. Shocked, they quickly followed orders to take turns and use the restroom to clean up.
Soon three    16 people walked out with all the    17 their arms could hold. They were   18 that, if
they needed to come back again, they were to ask and not just grab.
     And then the young man went back to read until the next customer came in. He would be the   19
person in the world to claim he was a hero. But he gave three people something they were in desperate
need of-a   20   amount of selfrespect and a little bit of hope.(     )1. A. friends
(     )2. A. respect
(     )3. A. slow
(     )4. A. bravely
(     )5. A. opened
(     )6. A. nowhere
(     )7. A. hid
(     )8. A. in
(     )9.  A. anxious
(     )10. A. safe
(     )11. A. must
(     )12. A. hold up
(     )13. A. when
(     )14. A. popular
(     )15. A. wanted
(     )16. A. dirtier
(     )17. A. money
(     )18. A. reminded
(     )19. A. first
(     )20. A. large   B. neighbors
B. pride
B. busy
B. reasonably
B. locked
B. somewhere
B. lifted
B. on
B. cautious
B. easy
B. can
B. hand out
B. after
B. necessary
B. desired
B. cleaner
B. cigarettes
B. warned
B. last
B. fair       C. customers
C. wisdom
C. heavy
C. hardly
C. closed
C. anywhere
C. swallowed
C. off
C. courageous
C. sweet
C. should
C. pick up
C. before
C. reliable
C. expected
C. cleverer
C. drinks
C. ordered
C. best
C. small      D. passengers
D. privilege
D. swift
D. obviously
D. broke
D. everywhere
D. dropped
D. by
D. hungry
D. unique
D. need
D. hand in
D. since
D. important
D. admired
D. quicker
D. food
D. persuaded
D. worst
D. full

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阅读理解。     Recently, one of my best friends, whom I"ve shared just about everything with since the first day of
kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago,we"ve both
always looked forward to the few times a year when we can see each other.
     Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people
she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he
experimented with drugs and was into other selfdestructive behaviour. I was blown away! She told me
how she had been lying to her parents about where she was going and even stealing out to see this guy
because they didn"t want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better,
she didn"t believe me. Her selfrespect seemed to have disappeared.
     I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was
getting nowhere. I just couldn"t believe that she really  thought it was acceptable to hang out with a bunch
of losers, especially her boyfriend.
     By the time she left, I was really worried about her and exhausted by the experience. It had been so
frustrating, I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just
grown too far apart to continue our friendship, but I didn"t. I put the power of friendship to the final test.
We"d been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she valued me enough to know that I was trying to
save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.
     A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our conversation, and
then she told me that she had broken up with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone
with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly rewarding moments in my life. Never had
I been so proud of a friend.1. In the writer"s opinion, her friend ________.A. was a girl with no selfrespect
B. could find a better boyfriend
C. was brave enough to stick  to her own choice
D. didn"t value the writer"s suggestion2. What did the writer worry about?A. She would lose the friendship with her.
B. Her friend"s parents would be worried about their daughter.
C. Her friend would get into great trouble with the boy.
D. Her friend"s boyfriend would be in great trouble.3. We may learn from Paragraph 3 that the writer________.A. didn"t want to go anywhere else
B. understood her friend"s hanging with her boyfriend
C. couldn"t  believe  that  her  friend"s  choice  was acceptable
D. doubted that she could in any way help her friend4. What can be concluded from the passage?A. Friendship starting from childhood is not reliable.
B. Friendship is a cure for any injury in life.
C. Friendship should be everlasting once begun.
D. Friendship can have magical power in life.

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阅读理解。     I fell in love with the minister"s son the winter I turned fourteen. He was not Chinese. For Christmas  I  prayed for the boy, Robert. When I found out that my parents had invited the minister"s family over
for Christmas Eve dinner, I cried in panic. What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas?
What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners?
     On Christmas Eve, my mother created abundant Chinese food. And then they arrived-the minister"s
family and all my relatives. Robert greeted hello, and I pretended he was not worthy of existence.
     Dinner threw me deeper into disappointment. My relatives licked (舔) the ends of their chopsticks
and reached across the table. Robert and his family waited patiently for a large plate to be passed to
them. My relatives murmured with pleasure when my mother brought out the whole steamed fish. Robert
made a face.   Then my father reached his chopsticks just below the fish eye and picked out the soft
meat. "Amy, your favorite." he said, offering me the tender fish cheek. I wanted to disappear.
     At the end of the meal, my father leaned back and burped(打嗝) loudly, thanking my mother for her
fine cooking. "It"s a polite Chinese custom to show you are satisfied." explained my father to our
astonished guests. Robert was looking down at his plate with a reddish face. The minister managed to
bring up a quiet burp. I was shocked into silence for the rest of the night.
     After everyone had gone, my mother said to me ,"You want to be the same as American girls on the
outside." She handed me an early gift.It was a miniskirt ."But inside you must always be Chinese. You
must be proud that you are different. Your only shame is to have shame."
     It was not until years later that I was able to fully appreciate her lesson and the purpose behind her
particular menu. For Christmas Eve that year, she had chosen excellent Chinese food.1. When the writer found out the minister"s family    would come for Christmas Eve dinner, she
     cried    mainly because ________.A. she worried about their shabby Chinese Christmas
B. she worried about their Chinese relatives lacking American manners
C. she worried about meeting the minister"s family
D. she worried about being laughed at2. What does "he was not worthy of existence" probably mean? It means________.A. the writer was not interested in his existence
B. he was worthless
C. he should not exist
D. the writer expected his coming3. The dinner threw the writer deeper into disappointment mainly because________.A. her relatives licked the ends of their chopsticks
B. her father reached his chopsticks to pick fish for her
C. her father leaned back and burped loudly
D. she childishly expected all of them to act in the same way as Americans at table4. We can infer from the passage that ________.A. the writer appreciated her mother"s lesson years later
B. the writer must be proud that she is different
C. the mother prepared to show Chinese different food culture
D. the minister"s family really enjoyed the food

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阅读理解。     A traveller was staying in an Egyptian village. One day, she held up her camera to take pictures of the
children. Suddenly the young ones began to shout at her. The traveller"s face turned red and she
apologized to the head for what she was doing, and told him she had forgotten that people in some places believed a person would lose his soul (灵魂) if his picture was taken. She explained to him the operation
of a camera for a long time. Several times the head tried to say something, but he couldn"t. When she
believed that the head didn"t fear any longer, the traveller then let him speak. With a smile, he said, "The
children were trying to tell you that you forgot to take off the lens (镜头) cap!" 1. The children shouted when the traveller was taking pictures of them because _______.A. they didn"t want to stop playing
B. the traveller forgot to take off the cap on her head
C. they didn"t want to have their pictures taken
D. the traveller was not doing well with her camera2. The traveller made an apology to (向……道歉) the head because _______.A. she thought it was not right to take people"s pictures without telling them beforehand(事先)
B. the children would lose their souls
C. she had stayed in the village too long
D. she didn"t take a picture of the head first3. The traveller explained how to use a camera to the head because _______.A. the head was very interested in her camera
B. the head wanted to learn to take pictures
C. she was afraid of the head
D. she wanted the head not to worry about what she was doing4. When the head smiled, it"s clear that _______ .A. the children wanted to play with her
B. the traveller didn"t know what the children meant
C. he wanted the traveller to tell him something else
D. the traveller didn"t let him speak5. Which of the following is NOT right?A. The traveller knew something about people in some countries.
B. The children wouldn"t mind if the traveller took pictures of them.
C. The head was afraid that the traveller"s camera would hurt the children.
D. The traveller didn"t understand why the children shouted.

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阅读理解。     When you are little, the whole world feels like a big playground. I was living in Conyers, Georgia the
summer it all happened. I was a second grader, but my best friend Stephanie was only in the first grade.
Both of our parents were at work and most of the time they let us go our own way.
     It was a hot afternoon and we decided to have an adventure in Stephanie"s basement. As I opened
the basement door, before us lay the biggest room, full of amazing things like guns, dolls, and old clothes.
I ran downstairs, and spotted a red steel can. It was paint. I looked beyond it and there lay even more
paint in bright colors like purple, orange, blue and green.
     "Stephanie, I just found us a project for the day. Get some paintbrushes. We are fixing to paint." She
screamed with excitement as I told her of my secret plans and immediately we got to work. We gathered
all the brushes we could find and moved all of our materials to my yard. There on the road in front of my
house, we painted big stripes(条纹)of colors across the pavement (人行道). Stripe by stripe, our colors
turned into a beautiful rainbow. It was fantastic!
     The sun was starting to sink. I saw a car in the distance and jumped up as I recognized the car. It
was my mother. I couldn"t wait to show her my masterpiece. The car pulled slowly into the driveway and
from the look on my mother"s face, I could tell that I was in deep trouble.
     My mother shut the car door and walked towards me. Her eyes glaring, she shouted, "What in the
world were you thinking?I understood when you made castles out of leaves, and climbed the neighbors"
trees, but this!Come inside right now!"I stood there glaring back at her for a minute, angry because she
had insulted (侮辱) my art.
     "Now go clean it up!"Mother and I began cleaning the road. Tears ran down my cheeks as I saw my
beautiful rainbow turn into black cement.
     Though years have now passed, I still wonder where my rainbow has gone. I wonder if, maybe when
I get older, I can find my rainbow and never have to brush it away. I guess we all need some sort of
rainbow to brighten our lives from time to time and to keep our hopes and dreams colorful.1.What did the writer want to do when his mother came home?A. To introduce Stephanie to her.
B. To prevent her from seeing his painting.
C. To put the materials back in the yard.
D. To show his artwork to her.2. In his mother"s eyes, the writer_______.A. was a born artist
B. always caused trouble
C.was a problem solver
D. worked very hard3.The underlined word "rainbow" in the last paragraph refers to______.A. the rainbow in the sky
B. the stripes on the pavement
C. something imaginative and fun
D. important lessons learned in childhood4. It can be learned from the passage that parents should______.A. encourage children to paint
B. value friendship among children
C. discover the hidden talent in children
D. protect rather than destroy children"s dreams

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