My father was raised in a fatherless home at a time when the family of five struggled to survive, which
caused my father to be extremely tightfisted (吝啬) with money.
When we children became 1 that other children got pocket money from their parents, we made a(n)
2 to ask our father for some. Immediately his face turned stone-cold, and he said, "If you"re old enough
to ask, you"re old enough to 3 ." And we had to seek odd jobs about the neighborhood.
He didn"t 4 his attitude as we grew into adulthood. There was a time when 5 of us had a car, so
we had to ride a 6 whenever we came home. Though the bus stopped about two miles from home. Dad
never met us, 7 in bad weather. If someone 8 (and my brothers did a lot), he"d say in his 9
father-voice, "That"s what your legs are 10 !"
One spring evening I was on the bus home from 11 . Tests and long hours in labs had 12 me
exhausted. As other students were 13 at their stops, I looked silently out of the window. Finally, the bus
came to a
14 at my destination, and I 15 , carrying my suitcase to begin the long journey home.
The row of privet hedge (树篱) came into 16 , which lined the driveway that climbed the hill to our
house. I stopped to put a book in the suitcase. When I stood up, I saw something gray 17 along the top
of the hedge toward the house.
It was the top of my father"s head, I 18 . Then, each time I came home, be would stand behind the
hedge, watching, 19 he knew I had arrived safely. I held back my tears. He did care, 20 .
Upon reaching home, I found my father sitting innocently in his chair. "So! It"s you!" he said, his face
lengthening into surprise. |
( )1. A. excited
( )2. A. suggestion
( )3. A. spend
( )4. A. change
( )5. A. neither
( )6. A. bicycle
( )7. A. especially
( )8. A. complained
( )9. A. strangest
( )10. A. for
( )11. A. work
( )12. A. made
( )13. A. treated
( )14. A. corner
( )15. A. jumped on
( )16. A. mind
( )17. A. moving
( )18. A. understood
( )19. A. until
( )20. A. in advance | B. certain
B. attempt
B. survive
B. strengthen
B. each
B. bus
B. even
B. refused
B. scariest
B. in
B. home
B. led
B. met
B. house
B. went off
B. leaf
B. flying
B. realized
B. after
B. above all | C. surprised
C. trouble
C. earn
C. take
C. none
C. train
C. only
C. cried
C. softest
C. by
C. college
C. found
C. received
C. street
C. got off
C. flower
C. falling
C. imagined
C. since
C. after all | D. aware
D. plan
D. raise
D. show
D. all
D. car
D. once
D. intended
D. lowest
D. on
D. town
D. proved
D. greeted
D. stop
D. climbed on
D. view
D. shining
D. thought
D. though
D. in total |
| 1-5: DBCAC 6-10: BBABA 11-15: CABDC 16-20: DABAC |
核心考点
试题【完形填空。 My father was raised in a fatherless home at a time when the family of】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 阅读理解。 | There are a lot of things that happen to me in China but would certainly never happen in the US. One of
those things is being called"strong".
The first time was last December. I was walking across the high school campus in Guangzhou where I
taught when a student in a gray scarf waved hello. I smiled and waved back, but then she stopped and called
my name."You"re so strong!" She smiled and pointed at what appeared to be my right arm.
I looked down at my arms. Let"s get one thing clear: I"m a very skinny guy. Once, while rehearsing for a
high school talent show, I was told by the teacher in charge that I couldn"t participate in the men"s shirtless
dance routine because my visible rib cage (胸腔) would frighten the audience.
"I"m so what?""You"re so strong!" she repeated."Um, thanks!" I didn"t know what else to say, so we both
waved goodbye.
The next morning I stepped into my oral English classroom only to be greeted instantly by a unanimous
(异口同声的) "Waaa!" of shock and admiration."What?" I asked."You"re so strong!" shouted a boy from the
back of the class.
"Okay, will someone tell me what that means?" I was curious as to the real reason for such praise. So I
turned to the monitor, gesturing for him to speak.
"We just mean, you look very strong today," he offered earnestly.
"What?! You mean like this?" I curled (卷起) my arm like a body-builder.
"No! But it"s so cold, and you"re only wearing a short-sleeved shirt."
Oh, I got it. My"strength" had less to do with my muscle and more to do with my apparent ignorance of
the cold weather. | | 1. From the passage we can learn that the author is _______. | A. an American teacher
B. an American student
C. a Chinese teacher
D. a Chinese student | | 2. The author used the example of being refused to join in the dance routine to show that ______. | A. many people worry about his bad health
B. actually he isn"t physically strong at all
C. he is as strong as a body builder
D. being called "strong" often happens to him | | 3. The underlined word "she" in the 4th paragraph refers to ______. | A. a stranger he met on the way to work
B. the teacher in charge of the dance routine
C. the girl who joined in the rehearsing
D. the girl he met on the campus | | 4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? | A. Am I Strong or Do I Need a Sweater
B. The Chinese Culture or the Western Culture
C. How I Can Get Stronger in Winter
D. How We Can Tell Two Different Cultures Apart | | 完形填空。 | The first event of my life to be printed into my memory occurred when I was three. My mother stands,
working in the 1 and then glances at me with a 2 smile. Two feet down the table, I knock on a chair with
a bowl and a spoon, 3 my own invisible (无形的) powder. We wear 4 dresses, mine the leftover 5 from
hers, sky blue-mommy"s favorite color. I am her shadow.
However, by 14 I could not 6 my mother. All that I heard every day was no.I wanted to dye my hair and
she said no. I wanted to 7 late with my friends and she said no. I didn"t understand why she said no. She was
trying to 8 me from aches and pains and mistakes 9 in her teens. Several years later, I finally understood her, but it was too late. She became ill. I cried and 10 ,"Don"t take her, God, please! She is my mother, my mommy
, the woman who gave me life. All my years, 11 the bad times and the good, she has been there, 12 to me
forever by an invisible umbilical cord (脐带) that lasts longer after birth." But this cord, this love could do nothing to stop the cancer from 13 .
A few years later 14 I myself lay in the hospital bed, my newly born daughter was 15 in my arms. cried
and smiled and prayed. Please help me to 16 her into a wonderful girl. And looking down 17 her eyes, I
could see the message they held, "Your 18 would be proud."
I stand in the kitchen now, and these thoughts flashed through my mind. I glance at my young daughter. A
19 feeling rushes through my soul as I take in the familiar 20 . I am my mother"s shadow. | ( ) 1. A. kitchen
( ) 2. A. lovely
( ) 3. A. preparing
( ) 4. A. same
( ) 5. A. material
( ) 6. A. stand
( ) 7. A. keep up
( ) 8. A. save
( ) 9. A. watched
( )10. A. screamed
( )11. A. through
( )12. A. connected
( )13. A. spreading
( )14. A. when
( )15. A. placed
( )16. A. change
( )17. A. for
( )18. A. daughter
( )19. A. warm
( )20. A. saying | B. dining room
B. lively
B. mixed
B. similar
B. clothes
B. agree
B. keep on
B. warn
B. liked
B. said
B. in
B. shared
B. growing
B. before
B. given
B. support
B. through
B. mother
B. strange
B. scene | C. sitting room
C. loving
C. mixing
C. different
C. dress
C. know
C. stay up
C. help
C. heard
C. shouted
C. on
C. concerned
C. escaping
C. since
C. thrown
C. bring
C. up
C. children
C. painful
C. drawing | D. garden
D. horrible
D. prepared
D. matching
D. clothing
D. realize
D. stay out
D. stop
D. experienced
D. prayed
D. within
D. joined
D. moving
D. then
D. taken
D. raise
D. into
D. friends
D. exciting
D. paint | | 阅读下面短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。 | Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart(购物手推车).They
will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know-or even think to ask-who it was that invented them.
Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business.
Every day he would see shoppers lugging (吃力地携带) groceries around in baskets they had to carry.
One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make
shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.
On June 4,1937,Coldman"s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the
morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn"t wait to see them using his invention.
But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the cart a long look, but hardly anybody would give
them a try.
After a while, Coldman decided to ask customers why they weren"t using his carts." Don"t you think this
arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?"one shopper replied.
But Coldman wasn"t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade
people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and
pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony (假冒的)
customers.
As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his
market. But not only did more people come-those Who came bought more. With larger, easier-to- handle
baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
Today"s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman"s original model. Perhaps that"s one reason
Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937-before
the coming of the shopping cart. | 1. The underlined words"chrome-plated contraptions" in Paragraph 1 refer to ____, ( no more than 3 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
2. What was the purpose of Goldman"s invention? ( no more than 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? ( no more than 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
4. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? ( no more than 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
5.What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. ( no more than 20 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________________ | | 完形填空。 | The yearly Marathon in my town usually happened during a heat wave. My job was to follow behind the
runners in an ambulance 1 any of them needed medical attention.
"We" re supposed to stay behind the 2 runner, so take it slowly," I said to the driver, Doug, as the race
started. The front-runners started to 3 and then my eyes were 4 to the woman in blue silk running shorts
and a loose white T-shirt.
We knew we were already watching our"last runner". Her 5 were so crippled (残疾的) that it seemed
almost impossible for her to be able to walk, 6 alone run a marathon.
Doug and I 7 in silence as she slowly moved forward. 8 , she was the only runner left in sight. Tears
streamed down my face when I watched with respect 9 she pushed forward with great 10 through the
last miles.
When the finish line came into sight, rubbish lay everywhere and the 11 crowds had long gone home.
12 ,standing straight and ever so proud 13 a lone man. He was 14 one end of a ribbon (缎带) of crepe
paper (彩色皱纹纸) 15 to a post. She slowly crossed through, leaving both ends of the paper fluttering
behind her.
I do not know this woman"s name, but that day she became part of my 16 -a part I often depend on. For
her, it wasn"t about 17 the other runners or winning a prize, but about 18 what she had set out to do, no
matter 19 .When I think things are too difficult or i get those" I-just-can"t-do-it", I think of the last runner.
Then I realize how 20 the task before me really is. | ( )1. A. so that
( )2. A. first
( )3. A.run
( )4. A. drawn
( )5. A.hands
( )6. A.let
( )7. A. watched
( )8. A. Quickly
( )9. A. since
( )10. A. pain
( )11. A. tired
( )12. A. Besides
( )13. A. stood
( )14. A. helping
( )15. A. kept
( )16. A.dream
( )17. A.following
( )18. A.finishing
( )19. A.where
( )20. A.difficult | B. in case
B. best
B. separate
B. thrown
B. legs
B. leave
B. drove
B. Unluckily
B. before
B. determination
B. waiting
B. Therefore
B. waited
B. catching
B. tied
B. feeling
B. hoping
B. realizing
B. how
B. interesting | C. even though
C. only
C. disappear
C. fixed
C. arms
C. speak
C. observed
C. Naturally
C. as
C. strength
C. cheering
C. Yet
C. came
C. holding
C. connected
C. idea
C. encouraging
C. starting
C. when
C. easy | D. only if
D. last
D. appear
D. caught
D. body
D. take
D. stared
D. Finally
D. until
D. desire
D. impatient
D. Fortunately
D. had
D. tying
D. led
D. life
D. beating
D. winning
D. what
D. hopeful | 信息匹配。
阅读应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。 | Two men on a touring holiday in Britain were injured by an explosion (爆炸) in their motor truck in the
center of Norwich yesterday.
1
Several people rushed to give help and helped to put out the fire inside the truck. A light American bus
rushed to save drivers before Norwich firemen arrived. The men-American Mr Gary House, aged 25,of Ohio,
who was Driving,and his passenger Mr Charles Lynn,23,of Vancouver were taken to Norfolk and Norwich
Hospital with minor(轻微的)burns.
2
"I heard this explosion. It was pretty loud. I thought it could have been a bomb." said Mr Leslie Webster,
manager of the market, who was working in his office in Red Lion Street."I looked out of the window and
saw this man jump from the truck and roll on the ground. Then another man came out of the truck. 3
"I came downstairs to get a fire extinguisher (灭火器),but by the time I got outside, someone who came
from the bank. was in the truck with an extinguisher."
4 One was taken into the market office to await treatment. "The second man insisted on going back
into the truck to see if everything was all right, and five minutes later he came out with a drawer that was
burning," he added. The explosion was also heard inside the bank. Office workers provided afire extinguisher
and telephoned for medical help.
Although a window was blown out, damage inside the truck was mainly superficial (表面的).
The two men spent the last six months touring the Continent and had traveled to Norwich from
Shettertor. 5 | A. They were allowed to leave after treatment.
B. Mr Webster, who lives at 71,Trinity Street, Norwich, said both the two injured were shocked.
C. At the time of the accident their wives were shopping in the city.
D. Shoppers and businessman in Red Lion Street were shocked by a loud bang (突然巨响), and
seconds later the two men jumped over from the truck, which had stopped outside Barelays bank.
E. Their wives were traveling with them but they remained unburned.
F. He seemed to be in a worse state, parts of his trousers were hanging below his knees. |
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