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Once, when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. 1 ,
there was only one family between us and the ticket counter.
This family made a big impression on me. There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12.
Their clothes were not 2 , but they were clean. The children were 3 , all of them standing in line,
two-by-two behind their parents, 4 hands. They were excitedly jabbering (喋喋不休地说) about the clowns,
elephants, and other acts they would see that night.
One could 5 they had never been to the circus before. It 6 to be a highlight of their young lives.
The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He 7 responded,"Please let me buy 8
children"s tickets and two adult tickets so I can take my family to the circus." The ticket lady 9 the price.
The mother"s head 10 , and her lip began to quiver. The father leaned a little 11 and asked,"How much did
you say?"
The ticket lady again quoted the price. The man didn"t have enough money.
Seeing what 12 , my dad put his hand in his pocket, 13 a $20 bill and dropped it on the ground. (We
were not wealthy in any sense of the word!) Then reached down, 14 the bill, tapped the man on the shoulder
and said,"Excuse me, sir, this fell 15 your pocket."
The man knew what was going on. He wasn"t begging for a handout 16 certainly appreciated the help
in a desperate, heartbreaking, embarrassing 17 He looked straight 18 my dad"s eyes, took my dad"s hand
in both of his, squeezed tightly onto the $20 bill, and with a tear running down his 19 , he replied, "Thank
you, sir. This really means a lot to me and my family."
My father and I went back to our car and 20 home. We didn"t go to the circus that night, but we didn"t
go without.
| ( )1. A. Immediately ( )2. A. expensive ( )3. A. badly-behaved ( )4. A. holding ( )5. A. know ( )6. A. advised ( )7. A. happily ( )8. A. six ( )9. A. answered ( )10. A. dropped ( )11. A. nearer ( )12. A. up to ( )13. A. turned out ( )14. A. picked up ( )15. A. off ( )16. A. and ( )17. A. situation ( )18. A. into ( )19. A. head ( )20. A. went | B. Finally B. cheap B. polite B. shaking B. understand B. recommended B. honestly B. eight B. quoted B. bent B. harder B. going on B. handed out B. took up B. from B. but B. condition B. onto B. mouth B. got | C. Hopefully C. plain C. well-behaved C. putting C. judge C. promised C. bravely C. ten C. spoke C. shook C. tighter C. happened C. pulled out C. sent up C. down C. or C. surrounding C. at C. cheek C. drove | D. Suddenly D. bad D. lovely D. waving D. sense D. allowed D. proudly D. two D. said D. nodded D. closer D. the matter D. put out D. made up D. out of D. so D. position D. in D. nose D. walked | |||||||||||||
| 1-5: BACAD 6-10: CDBBA 11-15: DBCAD 16-20: BAACC | ||||||||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||||
| I asked Jackie a lot of questions. I asked if she became close to her patients. She said, "Some I do, especially if I have become their close friends and they tell me things they wouldn"t tell anyone else. I"ve found it harder for the patient"s family to accept what"s happening. In most cases, the dying person has accepted the truth." I asked her how she could do this work for so long. She said,"I have taken care of 3,000people over 37years. I consider dying to be a very important part of life. I feel good because I can make these people"s journey easier." Jackie was the mother I have never had. My own mother, Helen, was taken away from me right after I was born. I never knew her. And I had a strange relationship with my father. He was a Sunday father. Since my sister and I lived in foster homes, he came to visit only on Sundays. But at the hospice (临终安养院), nurse Jackie gave me hope, love and encouragement. She listened to all my stories, and I listened to hers. It was a comfort. The nurses had told my family that death was coming near. As time went on, I became the star patient at the hospice, because I didn"t go according to plans. My kidneys started working again and could function without dialysis (透析). It was a mystery to my doctors. My friends said It was a miracle. But I knew what actually cured me. The employees showed me off to other patients and being the ham I was, I enjoyed. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. According to the second paragraph, the reason why Jackie feels happy is that _____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. she can have a trip with the patient B. She knows dying is very important C. She can reduce patients" pain during their last days D. she can arrange a journey for the patients before they die | ||||||||||||||||
| 2. They author mentioned his parents in the third paragraph in order to tell us _____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. he wants parents to love their own children B. Jackie cares for him more than his parents do C. he loves Jackie more than he loves his patients D. he had a very unhappy childhood | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. The underlined word "miracle" in the fourth paragraph means something that is _____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. very exciting B. hard to believe C. very risky D. very important | ||||||||||||||||
| 4. we can learn from the passage that _____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. Jackie worked in the hospice as a volunteer. B. the author"s mother left him when he was two C. the author was the youngest child in his family D. the author didn"t like being the hospice poster boy | ||||||||||||||||
| 5. According to the author, _____ actually cured him. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. Jackie"s love and encouragement B. other patients" moving stories C. the help of a well-known doctor D. his strong desire to live | ||||||||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||||
| An unemployed man is desperate to support his family. His wife watches TV all day and his three teenage kids have dropped out of high school to hang around with the local toughs. He applies for a cleaner"s job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test. The human resources manager tells him,"You will be hired at minimum wage, $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can contact you easily. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day." Greatly surprised, the man said that he has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this, the manager replies,"You must understand that to a company like ours that means you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high tech firm. Good day." Unable to believe what he hears, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers" market and sees a stand selling beautiful tomatoes. He buys a crate (柳条箱), carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than two hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100% profit. From that day on, he repeats the tomato business and becomes increasingly successful as time goes on. By the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse. The tomato company has put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work and the business grossed a million dollars. Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance. The insurance adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically. When the man replies that he doesn"t have time to mess with a computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance salesman is surprised," No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be if you"d had all of that five years ago!" "Ha! If I"d had all of that five years ago, I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.15 an hour!" the man replies. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. The man"s kids drop out of school because ____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. they want to hang around with the local toughs B. their mother watches TV all day C. their father is only a cleaner D. their family is very poor | ||||||||||||||||
| 2. The man applies for a cleaner"s job ____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. but he can"t accept it because the pay is too low B. and he gets it though the pay is only $5.15 an hour C. but he is turned down because he doesn"t have an e-mail address D. but he misses the chance because they fail to contact him | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. The man"s tomatoes sell well because ____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. the tomatoes look very beautiful B. he has chosen the right place to sell them C. many jobless people help him D. the tomatoes are contained in beautiful crates | ||||||||||||||||
| 4. From the conversation between the man and the insurance salesman in the last paragraph we can infer that ____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. the man will buy a computer soon B. it"s very easy to do tomato business C. one does not necessarily have an e-mail address to be successful D. the man is not able to buy any life insurance without an e-mail address | ||||||||||||||||
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| Have you ever thought, "I wish I could take a year off and just travel around the world"? Well, three lucky American teenagers were able to do just that. The teens-two males and one female-got an all-expenses paid, yearlong hike to five continents. This trip didn"t include any five-star hotels or shopping funs. Eighteen-year-old Jamie Fiel from Keller, Texas, 17-year-old Arsen Ewing from Canyon, California, and 16-year-old Tyler Robinson from Lincoln, Massachusetts, didn"t expect fancy treatment. They signed up for the experience of a lifetime, which included hard work, often uncomfortable accommodations, and encounters (遇到) with some of nature"s most dangerous animals and environments. Jamie, Arsen, and Tyler were among hundreds of high school kids nominated (提名) by their science teachers to take this trip. Earthwatch Institute sponsored (赞助) this adventure. Each year, Earthwatch employs thousands of volunteers worldwide to help with scientific research projects. The group went all around the world to get a close look at the most pressing environmental issues of our time. Their assignments were as varied as their locations, and included measuring and attending pink flamingos in Kenya"s Great Rift alley, and tracking giant sea turtles in Costa Rica. As they worked with the Earthwatch scientists, Jamie, Arsen, and Tyler began to understand that we are at a critical moment in the life of our planet. Time for change is running out. As the teens went from country to country and witnessed different environmental dangers and challenges, they understood that solutions to important environmental issues start with the power of one person"s actions. They realized that each of them can make a difference. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. These teenagers went on the journey around the world _____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. to experience the most serious environmental problems on the earth B. to bring the kindness of America to the other parts of the world C. to go on sightseeing around the world D. to call on more teenagers to join Earthwatch Institute | ||||||||||||||||
| 2. What"s true about their journey? | ||||||||||||||||
| A. They had to pay for their journey on their own expense. B. They often had to move from one hotel to another. C. They had to take great pains to collect environmental information. D. They received a warm welcome every time they arrived at a new place. | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. It can be inferred that Earthwatch Institute could be ____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. an international university that takes in students from all over the world B. a TV station that makes programmes on the beautiful scenery of the earth C. a travel agency that organizes adventure trips specially for school children D. an organization that brings science to life for people concerned about earth"s environment | ||||||||||||||||
| 4. What did they these teenagers learn from the journey? | ||||||||||||||||
| A. It was high time that people protected the environment. B. Long journey was not suitable for school children. C. It should take the whole world to help the children. D. Environmental problems can be solved if school children take part. | ||||||||||||||||
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| The shop was on the corner, and everyone knew that the best flowers in town were sold there. There was no 1 that said this, but everyone knew Papa Dent had been there for many, many years. When the shop first opened, there was a sign-a big one. It 2 : NICE FRESH FLOWERS FOR SALE HERE. The first customer 3 came in and said," Papa Dent, I like your shop, 4 I don"t like your sign. Would you sell any other kind 5 " Nice fresh flowers? Why don"t you take off the "nice" and the "fresh"?" Papa Dent 6 and the sign looked like this: FLOWERS FOR SALE HERE. The second day a man came into the shop. He said, "Take off the 7 from your sign. It will be 8 and better." So papa Dent 9 the sign again.It read: FLOWERS FOR SALE The third day, Papa Dent"s uncle came to the shop." It"s a 10 shop," he said," but your sign says 11 . Why don"t you take off " for sale"?" So 12 , papa Dent changed the sign. Finally, it read: FLOWERS. The 13 next day, one of the town"s officials came to visit Papa Dent. He said."You are a very clever man with 14 , but I want to make a 15 about the sign. It says " flowers", but it 16 the beautiful flowers you have in the window.Let your flowers 17 themselves. Papa Dent took the official"s advice. He 18 the sign. Everyone 19 to look at the fine flowers in the window. Papa Dent"s flowers became 20 . | ||||||||||||||||
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