"This Friday we"ll have the yearly Egg Drop Challenge," said our science teacher, Mr. baker. "You can
work alone or with a partner."
My friend, Cassie, and I smiled at each other. We always worked on projets 1 .
The 2 of the challenge was simple-to build a protective container to keep an egg from breaking when
3 the stadium wall.
I made my sandwich that afternoon while waiting for Cassie. 4 the butter-cream gave me an idea.
"I have a brilliant design for our 5 container!"I said when Cassie arrived."We can 6 the egg with
some butter-cream."
"Why not pit the egg in a basket with a parachute (降落伞) 7 ?" Cassie rolled her eyes. "The parachute
is better than that stupid idea."
I couldn"t believe it, Of course we"d had our little 8 in the past, but she"d never called any of my ideas"
9 " before. "Then I"ll build mine and you build yours!"
10 words had been out, our friendship was challenged. When Friday finally arrived, I had to 11
Cassie"s Egg Force One looked pretty good. 12 , my Egg-cellent Egg Cream didn"t look quite scientific.
We kids carried our containers up three stadium steps and dropped them over the side wall. Those whose
eggs broke were out; those whose eggs survived 13 three more steps and dropped them again. This
would go on till the last egg broke.
After four rounds, only Cassie and I were 14 . I let go of my box. I heard someone say"ew" after
seconds. Had my egg broken? I raced down the 15 . The side walk was dotted with egg shells (蛋壳)
from those
16 drops. Finally I found my little Egg-cellent Egg Cream.
"That looks like egg drop soup, Laura,"Cassie said. She was holding her Egg Force One. My 17
raced. Had she won? I looked at her basket. 18 . "My egg bounced 19 ,"she explained, pointing to a
broken shell. "A tie (平局),"Mr. Baker said. Cassie looked at me, and her glare 20 . I laughed. She smiled… |
( )1. A. patiently
( )2. A. function
( )3. A. rolled down
( )4. A. Spreading
( )5. A. butter
( )6. A. protect
( )7. A. followed
( )8. A. ideas
( )9. A. wrong
( )10. A. Since
( )11. A. explain
( )12. A. Therefore
( )13. A. paced down
( )14. A. left
( )15. A. steps
( )16. A. intended
( )17. A. eyes
( )18. A. Lost
( )19. A. around
( )20. A. returned | B. silently
B. goal
B. pushed against
B. Boiling
B. sandwich
B. replace
B. covered
B. fights
B. stupid
B. While
B. deny
B. Anyway
B. turned around
B. wanted
B. way
B. unexpected
B. hands
B. Dirty
B. out
B. remained | C. together
C. reason
C. thrown at
C. Baking
C. cream
C. carry
C. attached
C. worries
C. brilliant
C. But
C. admit
C. Otherwise
C. walked up
C. chosen
C. wall
C. failed
C. feet
C. Broken
C. in
C. increased | D. alone
D. result
D. dropped over
D. Holding
D. egg
D. mix
D. supported
D. challenges
D. scientific
D. And
D. prove
D. Besides
D. went back
D. discovered
D. sidewalk
D. desired
D. heart
D. Empty
D. down
D. softened |
| 1-5: CBDAD 6-10: ACBBA 11-15: CBCAA 16-20: CDDBD |
核心考点
试题【完形填空。 "This Friday we"ll have the yearly Egg Drop Challenge," said our scien】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 附加题（阅读理解）。 | Most young architects-particularly those in big cities-can only dream about working in a building of their
own. And making that dream come true often means finding a building no one else seems to want, which is
exactly what happened to David Yocum and his partner, Brain Bell. Their building is a former automobile
electrical-parts film in Atlanta. Form the outside, it looks too old, even something horrible, but open the door
and you are in a wide, open courtyard, lined on three sides with rusting (生锈的) walls.
In 2000, Yocum and Bell found this building in the city"s West End. Built in 1947, the structure had been
abandoned years earlier and the roof of the main building had fallen down. But the price was right, so Yocum
bought it. He spent eight months of his off-hours on demolition (排除), pulling rubbish out through the roof,
because it was too dangerous to go inside the building. The demolition was hard work, but it gave him time to
think about what he wanted to do, and "to treasure what was there- the walls, the rust, and the light." Yocum
said. "Every season, more paint falls off the walls and more rust develops. It"s like an art installation (装置) in
there-a slow-motion show."
Since the back building had been constructed without windows, an all-glass front was added to the building
to give it a view of the courtyard, and skylights were installed in the roof. The back of the building is a working
area and a living room for Yocum and his wife. A sort of buffer (缓冲) zone between the front and the back
contains a bathroom, a kitchen and a mechanical room, and the walls that separate these zones have openings
that allow views through to the front of the studio and the courtyard beyond.
Yocum and Bell, who have just completed an art gallery for the city, feel that the experience from the
decoration of their building, focusing on the inside rather than the outside, has influenced their work. It has
also given these architects a chance to show how they can make more out of less. | 1. According to the passage, it is _____ for most young architects in big cities to work in a building of their
own. | A. easy
B. unnecessary
C. unrealistic
D. common | | 2. Yocum bought the old building because _____. | A. it was a bargain to him
B. it was still in good condition
C. it was located in the city center
D. it looked attractive from the outside | | 3. Working on the old building, Yocum and Bell _____. | A. pulled rubbish out through the roof
B. removed the skylights from the bathroom
C. presentd a slow-motion show in an art gallery
D. built a kitchen at the back part of the old building | | 4. It can be inferred from the passage that Yocum and Bell _____. | A. benefited a lot from pulling down the roof
B. turned more old buildings into art galleries
C. got inspiration from decorating their old building
D. paid more attention to the outside of the art gallery | | 5. The main idea of the passage is that _____. | A. people can learn a lot from their failures
B. it is worthwhile to spend money on an old building
C. people should not judge things by their appearance
D. creative people can make the best of what they have | | 完形填空。 | "Hey, Dad, are you going to come to my award ceremony tonight?" I 1 asked my father. "I have to work
late tonight. I doubt whether I"ll be able to 2 it on time. I am just too busy right now," he replied.
My mind could not 3 the idea that he would be too busy working late. He was also too busy to 4 my
horse show, football games and the 15th birthday party. He always used the same 5 . Why had I even
bothered to ask? 6 , there was always a slight hope that tonight would be 7 .
As my mother and I arrived at school, two friends 8 me."Jill, meet my dad. Dad, this is my friend Jill."
I shook the hand of a tall man. Camera flashes lit up the room, and claps filled the 9 as students accepted
their awards. My name was finally called, 10 three others. I followed my classmates to the 11 . When I
reached out my hand to shake the 12 , a big smile lit up her face. The blinding flash from my mother"s camera 13 my eyes and I knew my dad wasn"t there. I walked back to my seat 14 .
Back at home, seeing my dad"s car in the garage, I told myself he would not be 15 . But the strong smell
of alcohol (酒精) hit me as soon as I 16 inside, and I could feel my tears 17 . I followed the sound of his
drunken words and saw him 18 on the couch.
19 did father lie to me? I threw my award on the floor, walked to my bedroom, and shut the door. Tears
rolled down my face. I wondered if I would ever be more 20 than his whiskey bottle. | ( )1. A. confidently
( )2. A. reach
( )3. A. create
( )4. A. watch
( )5. A. excuse
( )6. A. Besides
( )7. A. active
( )8. A. recognized
( )9. A. air
( )10. A. apart from
( )11. A. stage
( )12. A. Jill’s
( )13. A. fixed
( )14. A. successfully
( )15. A. drunk
( )16. A. stepped
( )17. A. getting off
( )18. A. leaning
( )19. A. How
( )20. A. perfect | B. eagerly
B. keep
B. support
B. avoid
B. reply
B. Thus
B. formal
B. greeted
B. audience
B. other than
B. position
B. teacher’s
B. touched
B. disappointedly
B. woken
B. noticed
B. taking down
B. lying
B. Where
B. comfortable | C. proudly
C. take
C. appreciate
C. attend
C. promise
C. Otherwise
C. different
C. encouraged
C. school
C. except for
C. office
C. mother’s
C. hurt
C. delightedly
C. forgiven
C. examined
C. building up
C. putting
C. Why
C. fortunate | D. fearfully
D. make
D. accept
D. speed
D. trick
D. However
D. serious
D. showed
D. playground
D. along with
D. exit
D. father’s
D. inserted
D. hopefully
D. hidden
D. glanced
D. turning around
D. carrying
D. Whether
D. important | | 完形填空。 | 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 | | 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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