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Once in a village, the villagers built a new church building and people came from far and wide to see it.
They admired its beauty! They said it was the most beautiful building in the world. Up on the roof, a little nail
heard the people praising everything about the lovely structure - except the nail! No one even knew he was
there, and he became very angry and sad.
"If I am not important, nobody will miss me if I quit!" So the nail then released (松开) its hold, got down
from the roof, and fell into the mud.
That night it rained and rained. Soon, the board that had no nail was blown away, and the roof began to
leak (漏水). The water flowed down along the walls and over the beautiful pictures on the walls. The plaster (石膏) began to fall, the floor was ruined, and the Bible was also ruined by water. All this was because a little
nail decided to quit!
But what of the nail? While holding the board, it was not known by others but it was useful. Buried in the
mud now, it was useless and would soon be eaten up by rust!
What the story wants to say is that every member is important to a whole group!
You may, like the nail, feel not important at times, but just like the nail, your absence is felt. A big building
might fall to pieces. You are important to a group even if you are small.
B. Because he was angry and sad without people"s praising him.
C. Because he knew a big nail would replace him.
D. Because he had finished his task successfully.
B. The nail was put in a more important position.
C. Many things in the building were ruined and the nail was eaten up by rust.
D. The nail regretted his original decision at last.
B. diligent
C. stupid
D. thoughtful
B. it is a pity that small people are never looked up to
C. quit when it is necessary, and don"t care about what others say
D. being valued is important to a man
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Smith over the head 2 his walking stick. McKay"s wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a
3 person, he had been 4 to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often.
Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener, he is also a 5 collector.
Unfortunately for him, the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKay"s, or too often,
on the McKays 6 .
"For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our 7 ,"
said Laurene. She added, that it wasn"t so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his
plant 8 bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks. "We"d be 9 there happily reading
our newspapers, when 10 so much water would come from above that we"d be as wet as if we"d 11 with
our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the 12 of fish!"
And on Saturday evening it was just too 13 . "It was James"s birthday," explained Laurene, "and I"d made
him a birthday cake. The candles were a great sight as you can imagine, but James didn"t get to blow them
out." 14 , Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet
15 . Rarely had Laurene seen McKay move so fast. "I couldn"t 16 him. He was up there in a flash. It was
the fastest I@^@^@d seen him move since 1964."
Smith is not going to take things further with the police. He has also promised to change his 17 from now
on. And what of James McKay? 18 he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, "Happy
Birthday 19 the most exciting birthday 20 !" said the cheerful old man. "The best since my adolescence I"d
say!"
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| 阅读理解。 | |||
| I was concentrating on my work when my friend called me saying he was coming to visit me. After explaining where my new house was, I told him that I had left the key under the doormat, which helps preventing the floor from being dirty. Since I knew it would be quite late before I could get back, I suggested that he make himself at home and help himself to anything that was kept in the refrigerator（冰箱）. Two hours later my friend phoned me from the house. At the moment, he said he was listening to some of my records after having had a nice meal. He had found the pan and meat in the refrigerator. Now, he was drinking a cup of tea and hoped that I would join him soon. When I asked him if he had any difficulty finding the house, he answered that the only problem was that he had not been able to find the key under the doormat, but luckily, the living room window by the apple tree had been left open and he had climbed in through the window. I listened to all this in great surprise. There is no apple tree outside my window, but there is one by the living room window of my next-door neighbor"s house！ | |||
| 1. When my friend arrived, I could not go to meet him because________. | |||
| A. we were not good friends B. I was busy at work C. he had not told me that he would come D. I did not want to see him | |||
| 2. A doormat is a mat (垫子)______. | |||
| A. used as a door B. for cleaning the bottom of shoes C. put up on a door as an ornament（装饰物） D. near a door under which people put their keys | |||
| 3. I listened to my friend"s phone call in great surprise because____. | |||
| A. he had not waited for me to eat together B. he had eaten too much of the food C. he mistook my neighbor"s house for mine D. he had left the house with the window open | |||
| 4. At last my friend______. | |||
| A. did not enter my house B. entered my house after he opened the door C. entered my house by climbing through the window D. entered my house with the help of my neighbor | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today. So here"s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure (空闲), it is work. Pick up the phone. Send ane-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted. It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really,really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice,it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today,seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to believed. | |||
| 1. How did the author form her view of life? | |||
| A. By working and social experience. B. Learning from her friends. C. Through an unfortunate experience. D. Because of her children and husband. | |||
| 2. The underlined sentence "It is so easy to exist instead of to live" in the fifth paragraph probably has the same meaning as____. | |||
| A. it is so easy to keep alive but not to live a real life B. it is very hard to live a real life C. it is so easy to make a living D. it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy life | |||
| 3. What"s the author"s attitude toward work? | |||
| A. Do it well to serve others. B. To earn enough money to make life better. C. Try your best to get higher position and pay. D. Don"t let it affect your real life. | |||
| 4. It can be inferred from the passage that _____. | |||
| A. the author is a success in personal life B. the author didn"t try her best to work well C. the author spent all her time caring for her children D. the author likes traveling very much | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer"s showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted. As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautifully wrapped gift box. Curious, and somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather bound Bible, with the young man"s name marked in gold. Angrily, he shouted at his father and said"with all your money, you give me a Bible?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the Bible. Many years passed and the young man had become very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father now was getting old, and thought perhaps he should go see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. However, before he could make arrangements, he received a mail telling him his father had passed away. When he arrived at his father"s house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father"s important papers and saw the still gift-wrapped Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and was about to turn pages whena ear key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer"s name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had wanted. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words PAID IN FULL. How many times do we miss God"s blessings because we can"t see past our own desires? | |||
| 1. Why did the young man warn the sports ear eagerly? | |||
| A. His classmates all had such cars. B. His father once promised him a car. C. He had a high regard for the car. D. His father encouraged him to buy a car. | |||
| 2. Which of the following is NOT TRUE to the passage? | |||
| A. The young man misunderstood his father on his graduation Day. B. The gift he received in his father"s study was wrapped very well. C. The father put the car key in between the pages of a Bible. D. The gift for graduation was a Bible instead of a sports ear. | |||
| 3. What"s the main idea about this passage? | |||
| A. Bible is the most educable thing. B. Packing is very important for a gift. C. There is no father but loves her son. D. One may miss blessing only by judging the appearance of a gift. | |||
| 4. In the end of the story, which of the following can describe the young man? | |||
| A. Disappointed B. Regretful C. Satisfied D. Frightened | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| I made a pledge (誓言) to myself on the way down to the vacation beach cottage. For two weeks I would try to be a loving husband and father. Totally loving. No ifs, ands or buts. The idea had come to me as I listened to a talk on my car radio. The speaker was quoting a Biblical (圣经 的) passage about husbands being thoughtful of their wives. Then he went on to say, "Love is an act of will. A person can choose to love." To myself, I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband. Well, for two weeks that would change. And it did. Right from the moment I kissed Evelyn at the door and said, "That new yellow sweater looks great on you." "Oh, Tom, you noticed," she said, surprised and pleased. Maybe a little puzzled. After the long drive, I wanted to sit and read. Evelyn suggested a walk on the beach. I started to refuse, but then I thought, "Evelyn"s been alone here with the kids all week and now she wants to be alone with me." We walked on the beach while the children flew their kites. So it went. Two weeks of not calling the Wall Street firm where I am a director; a visit to the shell museum though I usually hate museums. Relaxed and happy, that"s how the whole vacation passed. I made a new pledge to keep on remembering to choose love. There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment, however. Evelyn and I still laugh about it today. On the last night at our cottage, preparing for bed, Evelyn stared at me with the saddest expression. "What"s the matter?" I asked her. "Tom," she said in a voice filled with distress (悲痛), "do you know something I don"t?" "What do you mean?" "Well…that checkup (体检) I had several weeks ago…our doctor…did he tell you something about me? Tom, you"ve been so good to me…am I dying?" It took a moment for it all to sink in. Then I burst out laughing. "No, honey," I said, wrapping her in my arms. "You"re not dying; I"m just starting to live." | |||
| 1. From the story we may infer that Tom drove to the beach cottage __________. | |||
| A. with his family B. with Evelyn C. alone D. with his children | |||
| 2. During the two weeks on the beach, Tom showed more love to his wife because __________. | |||
| A. she looked lovely in her new clothes B. he had made a lot of money in his Wall Street firm C. he was determined to be a good husband D. she was seriously ill | |||
| 3. The author says, "There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment." What was the one thing that went wrong? | |||
| A. He praised her sweater, which puzzled her. B. She insisted on visiting a museum, which he hated. C. He knew something about her illness but didn"t tell her. D. He was so good to her that she thought she must be dying. | |||
| 4. By saying "I"m just starting to live," Tom means that _____. | |||
| A. he is just beginning to understand the real meaning of life B. he is just beginning to enjoy life as a loving husband C. he lived an unhappy life before and is now starting to change D. he is beginning to feel regret for what he did to his wife before |