A few weeks ago, I followed a friend into an art supply store. I found him picking out tubes of
water-color paint, which 1 me because he"s not an artist "I
2 up for a water-color class, and it starts next week," he said."I really don"t have 3 for it,
but it was on my list of 50 things to do before I die, so I 4 it. Every few months 1 look at the list
arid decide what to focus on next. 5 I had the list, I complained a lot about what I was 6 in my
life. Now 1 just bury myself in doing these things. Write your own list. and you"ll 7 what I mean."
So that night. I did just that, and he was right. The list revealed (显露出) a whole lot about what
was 8 to me. It also revealed how 9 behind I am at getting to the things I really want.
I filled up the first twenty 10 quickly, but then began to think carefully.
Eventually I 11 , items I"ve thought about for years, and 12 I"ve carried with me since I was
young. When I 13 he list later, some entries surprised me.
First, I want to 14 much more, particularly now that my children are 15 arid can go with me-to
see the world. I would like to take them to bike through Denmark and camp in the Canadian Rockies.
I"m also surprised to 16 some things on the list that need to be done soon. If I"m going to learn to
roller-blade (轮滑), 17 , I"d better start before I turn 50.
Like my friend, I now have an alternative to 18 .When I"m bored with life, I take out my list.
My friend told me the 19 was preparing the ground so that life could- work in mysterious ways."If
you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock (码头)," he said. Thanks to my 20 , I"m working
on some big docks. |
( )1. A. surprised
( )2. A. made
( )3. A. interest
( )4. A. went for
( )5. A. Because
( )6. A. doing
( )7. A. admire
( )8. A. important
( )9. A. slightly
( )10. A. thoughts
( )11. A. studied
( )12. A. burdens
( )13. A. reviewed
( )14. A. play
( )15. A. wealthier
( )16. A. write
( )17. A. such as
( )18. A. complaining
( )19. A. problem
( )20. A. hobbies | B. moved
B. took
B. concern
B. called for
B. After
B. missing
B. abolish
B. strange
B. slowly
B. lists
B. added
B. challenges
B. discovered
B. relax
B. cleverer
B. put
B. for instance
B. relaxing
B. key
B. optimism | C. pleased
C. signed
C. time
C. accounted for
C. Before
C. pushed
C. spot
C. beneficial
C. possibly
C. ideas
C. dropped
C. dreams
C. wrote
C. travel
C. healthier
C. find
C. in fact
C. objecting
C. answer
C. list | D. excited
D. gave
D. emotion
D. cared for
D. Although
D. engaged
D. see
D. special
D. hopelessly
D. blanks
D. obtained
D. responsibilities
D. appreciated
D. hike.
D. older
D. leave
D. in particular
D. adjusting
D. question
D. Wishes |
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核心考点
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| 阅读理解。 | A nine-year-old kid was sitting at his desk when suddenly there was a puddle (/JC^C)between his feet
and the front of his trousers was wet. He thought his heart was going to stop because he couldn"t possibly
imagine how this had happened. It had never happened before, and he knew that when the boys found out
he would never hear the end of it. When the girls found out, they would never speak to him again as long as
he lived.
He prayed this prayer, "Dear God, I need help now! Five minutes from now I"m dead meat!" He looked
up from his prayer and here came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he had been discovered. As
the teacher was walking toward him, a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water.
Susie tripped (绊倒) in front of the teacher and dumped (倒) the bowl of water in the boy"s lap. The boy
pretended to be angry, but all the while was saying to himself, "Thank you. Lord!"
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy was the object of sympathy. The
teacher rushed him downstairs and gave him gym shorts to put on while his trousers dried out. All the other
children were on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy was wonderful. But as
life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred (转移) to someone else+-Susie.
She tried to help, but they told her to get out.
When school was over, the boy walked over to Susie and whispered,"You did that on purpose, didn"t you?"
Susie whispered back,"I wet my trousers once, too!" | | 1. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means ______ . | A. the boys would never play with him
B. the boys would treat him as usual
C. he would hardly hear any praise from the boys
D. he would be laughed at by the. boys endlessly | | 2. After Susie dumped water in his lap, the boy was in a state of _____. | A. excitement
B. relief
C. anxiety
D. anger | | 3. What did the other kids do after the incident? | A. They offered him dry clothes.
B. They laughed at the boy rudely,
C. They helped the boy do the cleaning.
D. They urged the boy to get out angrily. | | 4. Why did Susie dump water in the boy"s lap? | A. The boy asked her to do so.
B. She just did it by accident.
C. The teacher tripped her on purpose.
D. She knew the boy"s embarrassment. | | 完形填空。 | I"ve often puzzled over something that happened to me one winter when I was eight. Over the years I
had been wondering if my 1 was nothing more than a kid"s imagination.
There was a 2 near our house. In winter it was the greatest 3 place in the world. One 4 all I
wanted to do was go skating. I had been waiting for weeks 5 the water was frozen solid. Mom had one
rule: "Never ice-skate alone." But I couldn"t 6 any longer that afternoon. So I 7 my skates under my
coat and ran to the pond. Several people were skating near the shore, and some kids were playing hockey.
I was not really 8 .
The hockey game had attracted 9 audience, so I skated in the other direction until their cheering 10 .
But another noise came soon. The ice was cracking beneath me. Freezing water 11 my body, and I sank like
a rock. My feet 12 the bottom. Just when I thought I wouldn"t last another 13 , I felt a tap on my
shoulder."Don"t worry," someone said. I swung my 14 around. I couldn"t see anybody. But I heard the
voice again, "Push your feet into the bottom and you"ll shoot straight up to the surface." I did as I was told
and 15 . I crawled to the shore and lay down, 16 . The next thing I knew was people were 17 around
me, covering me with coats.
When I awoke, I was home in my own bed. Mom sat next to me, 18 my hand."I saw nobody there. It
must be an angel that came to my 19 . " I said. Mom smiled,"I just thank God you"re safe."
For a long time I thought I would 20 a more realistic explanation if I just thought hard, but I never did. | ( )1. A. attention
( )2. A. river
( )3. A. skating
( )4. A. afternoon
( )5. A. after
( )6. A. go
( )7. A. found
( )8. A. lonely
( )9. A. noisy
( )10. A. changed
( )11. A. filled
( )12. A. hit
( )13. A. day
( )14. A. head
( )15. A. left
( )16. A. worried
( )17. A. lying
( )18. A. raising
( )19. A. place
( )20. A. take up | B. behavior
B. pond
B. fishing
B. morning
B. until
B. run
B. threw
B. single
B. happy
B. disappeared
B. controlled
B. dragged
B. hour
B. hand
B. succeeded
B. surprised
B. standing
B. shaking
B. mind
B. make up with | C. explanation
C. lake
C. swimming
C. evening
C. as
C. sit
C. took
C. alone
C. small
C. increased
C. covered
C. set
C. minute
C. arm
C. tried
C. excited
C. laughing
C. holding
C. defense
C. bring up | D. reason
D. dam
D. skiing
D. night
D. if
D. wait
D. hid
D. afraid
D. young
D. stopped
D. loaded
D. tapped
D. second
D. leg
D. survived
D. exhausted
D. crawling
D. washing
D. rescue
D. come up with | | 阅读理解。 | Burn rate is the speed at which a startup business consumes money. My rate was $ 75,000 a month.
Four months after my company was set up, I had only a quarter of the starting capital left in the bank.
Looking for guidance, I went to talk to my friend, Arthur Walworth about my new venture. "Times
of great change always bring out the risk-takers," he said."And they leave winners and losers. My
grandfather invested a lot of money in a project of Thomas Edison" s that ended up in failure."
I was lost in thought at the notion(an idea or belief about something) of a Thomas Edison project
ending in failure. Damn. It could happen to anybody! I must continue.
At that time CD-ROM sales had bombed, so investors were fleeing from the field. I didn"t turn away
from mine entirely, but instead linked it to the internet.
My plan was to offer consumers descriptions of home-design products by using a special software
and let them modify the designs. Then we can enable them to get online professional and constructional
help to have their houses built, decorated and furnished according to their own choice.
To realize my plan I needed investors, so I continued to meet regularly with venture capitalists. One
said I had a great idea. But I needed to test it. Get the money somewhere. To get this money from a
venture capitalist is going to cost my wife and my children! He turned down my request.
Wife? Children? I hardly remembered them.
I was working nonstop-struggling to turn the key in the lock, to find the right way ahead. The pressure
was terrible. It was just at this time that my parents and sisters stepped up. Two hundred thousand dollars.
A lot of money to them, invested in this crazy son and brother without a moment"s hesitation. Dad and
Mom had driven out from Chicago and seen the passion in my little office and the trouble at home.
With their help my company survived and has been prospering ever since. | | 1. When the author"s company started operation, he had _____. | A. $ 450,000
B. $ 400,000
C. $ 350,000
D. $ 300,000 | | 2. Arthur implies that to start a business in times of change, people have to _____. | A. rely on famous people all be time
B. invest as much money as possible
C. face the risks of possible failure
D. think about nothing but success | | 3. The author"s company was engaged in _____. | A. furniture design and production
B. online home-design service
C. traditional home designing
D. home decoration business | | 4. Faced with a very unfavorable market situation, the author decided _______ . | A. to improve his service
B. to start a new business
C. to withdraw his money
D. to reduce his investment | | 完形填空。 | I still remember the days when I was a youthful student in an engineering school. I lived a 1 life,
without caring about the future. I smoked, drank with friends and made girl friends. 2 did I realize that
casualness would certainly lead to loss.
Two years had passed and I was 3 at a report card that highlighted FAIL in more than half the
subjects. I didn"t 4 , at least not till my dad found out about it. You see, I studied in India and 5 the
United States where the students are expected to finance their own education, my dad financed me.
Then came the day when my dad found out my 6 of smoking. He lost his temper 7 he just told me,
"Son, your 8 is cut in half from this moment on". It 9 me like a roundhouse kick (回旋踢) from Bruce
Lee. I was jolted (震摇) out of my bones! I couldn"t comprehend how to pay off the debts that I had 10 in
college. I owed everybody 11 : the grocery store, the bars, the restaurants, my friends, etc. I was living a
life filled with 12 . When I went back to college, I knew that if I didn"t 13 the way I lived my life I
wouldn"t be able to pay everybody off. So I decided to make some changes. I quit smoking, 14 from my
friends who led me down the wrong road, starting 15 out in libraries and reading my engineering books.
One year later, I went from a 16 failure to a magna cum laude (优等成绩). Life was never the same
again. This incident made me know that anything is 17 if you take action and do something about it, 18
small or large. Even today it still 19 me when I feel that I"m about to lose or give up. It 20 me that I can
do it! | ( )1. A. happy
( )2. A. Little
( )3. A. breaking
( )4. A. care
( )5. A. as
( )6. A. habit
( )7. A. and
( )8. A. income
( )9. A. pleased
( )10. A. accumulated
( )11. A. friendship
( )12. A. joy
( )13. A. change
( )14. A. cut off
( )15. A. carrying
( )16. A. small
( )17. A. helpful
( )18. A. however
( )19. A. educates
( )20. A. calls | B. casual
B. Much
B. putting
B. hope
B. between
B. manner
B. but
B. education
B. made
B. brought
B. help
B. sadness
B. choose
B. took away
B. hanging
B. sudden
B. possible
B. even
B. shows
B. guarantees | C. hard
C. Often
C. staring
C. go
C. in
C. process
C. so
C. allowance
C. shocked
C. received
C. money
C. business
C. take
C. picked out
C. eating
C. reliable
C. important
C. still
C. motivates
C. persuades | D. busy
D. Nor
D. writing
D. stop
D. unlike
D. sign
D. otherwise
D. time
D. hit
D. earned
D. time
D. credit
D. decide
D. get down
D. setting
D. miserable
D. urgent
D. though
D. warns
D. reminds | | 完形填空。 | I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I used to give a lot of money to the homeless,feeling 1 for them.
But as time passed, I became a mom with no home, a huge 2 , and hardly any income. As a result, I 3
giving money to the people on the side of the road and became very 4 .
Things started to change for me 5 . I had a home, a backyard for my daughter,and plenty of food, and
I started to 6 myself out of debt. One day we saw a homeless person with the 7 , "Will work for food." I
8 . My daughter commented. "Mommy, you used to always give money to those people in 9 ." I replied,
"Honey, they just use that money for 10 , or other bad things." She didn"t respond. 11 when I said that, I
didn"t feel right.
Three days later, I was driving to 12 my daughter from school. A man was standing on the corner, and
something deep 13 me said,"Just help the guy." So I 14 down my window, and he ran over excitedly. He
said,"God bless you, I only need 77 cents." I 15 into my ashtray (烟灰缸) and strangely enough, there 16
three quarters and two pennies.
I picked them up and gave them to him. He 17 with joy and tears in his eyes."Wow, you just made it 18
for me to see my mom for Christmas! Thank you so much; the 19 that had this great sale is leaving in 20
minutes!" It was a moment I"ll 20 forever. I think that man won"t forget it either, but I was the one who got
the best gift in life-GIVING. | ( )1. A. angry
( )2. A. debt
( )3. A. continued
( )4. A. rich
( )5. A. slowly
( )6. A. save
( )7. A. determined
( )8. A. ran away
( )9. A. danger
( )10. A. life
( )11. A. And
( )12. A. bring up
( )13. A. on
( )14. A. rolled
( )15. A. reached
( )16. A. hid
( )17. A. stood up
( )18. A. possible
( )19. A. plane
( )20. A. thank | B. sorry
B. burden
B. appreciated
B. pleased
B. immediately
B. pull
B. sign
B. turned back
B. love
B. book
B.So
B. carry out
B. inside
B. pushed
B. went
B. stood
B. turned up
B. meaningful
B. bus
B. respect | C. grateful
C. disease
C. hated
C. relaxed
C. quickly
C. run
C. child
C. passed by
C. need
C. food
C. But
C. pick up
C. behind
C. blew
C. knocked
C. slept
C. set out
C. wonderful
C. woman
C. remember | D. strange
D. problem
D. stopped
D. bitter
D. greatly
D. feed
D. advertisement
D. sped up
D. sadness
D. smoking
D. Even
D. take out
D. over
D. took
D. shouted
D. sat
D. burst out
D. interesting
D. man
D. hold |
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