Not long before, my daughter"s shoes were scratched (划破) with a knife. She burst into tears. I took
them to the shoemaker"s.
The young apprentice(学徒) glanced at the 1 and said, "Nothing I can do except 2 the upper."
His master looked at them and said, "If you 3 me, I will add more scratches on both the shoes."
I was 4 and asked why.
He explained,"As if the opening were made 5 for a special style."
I didn"t fully understand him, 6 I decided to leave the shoes.
Two days later I dropped by from work to 7 the shoes. I found more scratches on each shoe; all the
openings were patched (缝补)by soft red leather; the stitches (针脚) were twisted with the appearance
looking more 8 and interesting than ever. I couldn"t help praising the master"s 9 .
Another time, my sister"s blouse was torn, leaving a large opening. My wife checked it 10 , and then said,
"Let me take it home and 11 it."
Three days later, seeing it again, I was greatly 12 : all the torn parts took on a look of ice crystal (水晶);
attached to it was a snowman made of flowery rags. I sighed with 13 ,"It"s amazing!"
"I was 14 by that shoemaker. Patches are supposed to be 15 , but a skillful craftsman (工匠) can make
it take on a kind of 16 ." replied my wife.
Her words inspired me more: perfection is impossible to achieve in 17 ; patches appear in the 18 of
injury, disability or disease. Since you can"t change the existence of wound, you should not 19 people"s
sympathy by disclosing the wound, which is meaningless. Just sew the 20 by patches and produce a most
beautiful flower on it, and that is the significance of life. |
( )1. A.scar
( )2. A.replace
( )3. A.tell
( )4. A.delighted
( )5. A.on purpose
( )6. A.so
( )7. A.bring
( )8. A.ugly
( )9. A.skill
( )10. A.anxiously
( )11. A.wash
( )12. A.puzzled
( )13. A.anger
( )14. A.encourage
( )15. A.common
( )16. A.difference
( )17. A.future
( )18. A.form
( )19. A.treat
( )20. A.wound | B. opening
B. remove
B. show
B. confused
B. by chance
B. and
B. collect
B. strange
B. drill
B. suddenly
B. iron
B. disappointed
B. regretd
B.inspired
B. beautiful
B. perfection
B. mind
B. name
B. accept
B. pain | C. hole
C. throw
C. agree
C. excited
C. in particular
C. as
C. see
C. lovely
C. performance
C. carefully
C. save
C. surprised
C. praise
C. moved
C. ugly
C. newness
C. life
C. shape
C. ignore
C. injury | D. mark
D. tear
D. trust
D. astonished
D. in turn
D. but
D. return
D. familiar
D. strength
D. delightedly
D. mend
D. touched
D. care
D. attracted
D. rare
D. change
D. place
D. need
D. expect
D. disability |
| 1-5: BADBA 6-10: DBCAC 11-15: DCCBC 16-20: BCADA |
核心考点
试题【完形填空。 Not long before, my daughter"s shoes were scratched (划破) with a knife.】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 完形填空。 | I can honestly say it was the best of times and the worst of times. I was joyfully expecting my first
child at the same time that my mother was 1 her battle with a brain tumor (瘤). For ten years, my
fiercely independent and 2 mother had fought, but none of the treatments had been successful. 3 ,
she never lost her ability to smile. But now, finally, she became totally 4 -unable to speak, walk, eat or
dress on her own.
As she grew closer and closer to death, my 5 grew closer and closer to life inside me. My biggest
6 was that their lives would never connect. I was sad not only at the 7 loss of my mother, but that
she and my baby would never know each other. Her doctor did not 8 any hope; they told us her time
was up.
We brought Mother 9 to her own bed in her own house. As 10 as I could, I sat beside her and
talked to her about the baby moving inside me.
On February 3, 989, at about the same time my labor (分娩) 11 , Mother opened her eyes. When
they told me this at the 12 , I called her home, "Mom, listen. The baby is coming! You"re going to have
a new grandchild!"
"Yes! Yes! I know!"
Four beautiful words! The first 13 words she"d spoken in months! When I 14 again an hour later,
the nurse at her house told the 15 message: Mom sat up, smiling, with her oxygen tubes removed.
When I brought Jacob home. Mom was sitting in her chair and 16 to welcome him. Tears of joy
blocked my vision as I 17 my son in her arms and she clucked (发出咯咯声) at him. They 18 .
Then she quietly clipped hack into a coma (昏迷) and 19 peacefully. Memories of my son"s birth
will always be 20 for me, but it was then that I learned love has the power to overcome any worries
and any sorrow. And love can last forever. | ( )1. A.attending
( )2. A.courageous
( )3. A.So
( )4. A.tired
( )5. A.sorrow
( )6. A.problem
( )7. A.coming
( )8. A.admit
( )9. A.up
( )10. A.soon
( )11. A.started
( )12. A.office
( )13. A, common
( )14. A.got up
( )15. A.impossible
( )16. A.likely
( )17. A. hugged
( )18. A.joined
( )19. A.passed away
( )20. A.proud | B. losing
B. interesting
B. Again
B. blind
B. love
B. dream
B. disappearing
B. hold
B. away
B. fast
B. failed
B. hospital
B. caring
B. woke up
B. possible
B. ready
B. threw
B. knew
B. turned over
B. frightening | C. defending
C. funny
C. Instead
C. disabled
C. baby
C. surprise
C. falling
C. drop
C. about
C. early
C. ended
C. house
C. clear
C. called up
C. necessary
C. free
C. took
C. nodded
C. settled down
C. bittersweet | D. defeating
D. lucky
D. Still
D. depressed
D. body
D. fear
D. unexpecting
D. permit
D. home
D. often
D. continued
D. station
D. correct
D. looked up
D. terrible
D. nervous
D. laid
D. cried
D. gave out
D. exciting | | 阅读理解。 | 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. | | 1. Why did the nail decide to quit? | A. Because he was not able to hold on any longer.
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. | | 2. What"s the result of the nail"s giving up? | A. People began to realize the importance of the nail.
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. | | 3. We can conclude that the nail was ______ in the passage. | A. clever
B. diligent
C. stupid
D. thoughtful | | 4. The passage wants to tell us that ______. | A. no matter how small you seem, you are important to a group
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 | | 完形填空。 | Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after 1 thirty-year-old Keith
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!" | ( )1. A. hitting
( )2. A. by
( )3. A. quiet
( )4. A. accustomed
( )5. A. fish
( )6. A. themselves
( )7. A. bathroom
( )8. A. which
( )9. A. sitting
( )10. A. regularly
( )11. A. swum
( )12. A. taste
( )13. A. little
( )14. A. Otherwise
( )15. A. over
( )16. A. stop
( )17. A. views
( )18. A. While
( )19. A. Sincerely
( )20. A. before | B. tapping
B. with
B. sensitive
B. driven
B. seed
B. itself
B. balcony
B. what
B. exercising
B. suddenly
B. watered
B. smell
B. soon
B. Besides
B. across
B. blame
B. attitude
B. Since
B. Impossibly
B. already | C. pushing
C. through
C. stubborn
C. taken
C. plant
C. herself
C. bedroom
C. that
C. sleeping
C. precisely
C. showered
C. feeling
C. late
C. Instead
C. through
C. ignore
C. minds
C. Until
C. Previously
C. ever | D. touching
D. via
D. peaceful
D. attracted
D. newspaper
D. himself
D. kitchen
D. whether
D. eating
D. unconsciously
D. drowned
D. sense
D. much
D. Consequently
D. down
D. stand
D. ways
D. As
D. Definitely
D. since | | 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 |
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