Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
―Thomas Jefferson
As a high school coach, I did all I could to help my boys win their games. I pushed as hard for 1 as they
did.
A dramatic incident, 2 , following a game in which I was appointed as a referee (裁判), 3 my views on
victories and defeats. I was refereeing a league championship basketball game in New Rochelle, New York,
between New Rochelle and Yonkers High. New Rochelle was coached by Dan O"Brien, Yonkers by Les Beck.
The gym was 4 with audience, and the volume of noise made it 5 to hear. The game was well played
and 6 contested. Yonkers was 7 by one point as I 8 the clock and discovered there were only 30
seconds left to play.
Yonkers, 9 the ball, passed off-shot-missed. New Rochelle recovered-pushed the ball up court - shot. The
ball 10 around the rim and off. The fans shouted with disappointment.
New Rochelle, the 11 team, recovered the ball, and tapped it in ( 拨进篮框) for what looked like victory.
The noise of whistles, screams and shouts was 12 . I took a quick look at the clock and saw that the game
was over. I hadn"t heard the final buzzer (终场哨声) because of the noise. I 13 with the other official, but he
could not help me.
Still 14 help in this chaos, I approached the timekeeper, a young man of 17 or so. He said,"Mr. Covina,
the buzzer 15 as the ball rolled off the rim, 16 the tap-in was made."
I was in the unpleasant position of having to tell Coach O"Brien the 17 news."Dan," I said, " Yonkers won
the game."
His face clouded over. The young timekeeper came up. He said, "I"m sorry, Dad. The time ran out before the
final basket."
Suddenly, Coach O"Brien"s face 18 . He said, "That"s okay, Joe. You did what you had to do. I"m 19 of
you."
Turning to me, he said, "Al, I want you to meet my 20 , Joe."
The two of them then walked off the court together, shoulder to shoulder. |
( )1. A. ability
( )2. A. therefore
( )3. A. changed
( )4. A. located
( )5. A. evident
( )6. A. strongly
( )7. A. leading
( )8. A. stared at
( )9. A. in place of
( )10. A. rolled
( )11. A. winning
( )12. A. deafening
( )13. A. argued
( )14. A. claiming
( )15. A. took on
( )16. A. after
( )17. A. sad
( )18. A. fixed up
( )19. A. proud
( )20. A. fellow | B. direction
B. however
B. held
B. equipped
B. important
B. closely
B. falling
B. glared at
B. in possession of
B. centered
B. host
B. annoying
B. quarreled
B. receiving
B. went on
B. instantly
B. interesting
B. lit up
B. accused
B. student | C. victory
C. moreover
C. shared
C. crowded
C. likely
C. successfully
C. scoring
C. glanced at
C. in face of
C. rocked
C. champion
C. disturbing
C. checked
C. giving
C. took off
C. before
C. strange
C. cleaned up
C. independent
C. son | D. honesty
D. thus
D. conveyed
D. covered
D. impossible
D. amusingly
D. losing
D. aimed at
D. in favor of
D. hung
D. guest
D. disgusting
D. compromised
D. seeking
D. went off
D. when
D amazing
D. showed up
D. embarrassed
D. friend |
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核心考点
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| 阅读理解。 | Last week my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home in Tucson, Arizona. He moved there
a few years ago, and I was eager to see his new place and meet his friends.
My earliest memories of my father are of a tall, handsome, successful man devoted to his work and family
but uncomfortable with his children. As a child I loved him; as a school girl and young adult,I feared him and
felt bitter about him. He seemed unhappy with me unless I got straight As and unhappy with my boyfriends if
their fathers were not as "successful" as he was. Whenever I went out with him on weekends, I used to
struggle to think up things to say, feeling on guard.
On the first day of my visit, we went out with one of my father"s friends for lunch at an outdoor cafe. We
walked along that afternoon, did some shopping, ate on the street table, and laughed over my son"s funny facial
expressions. Gone was my father"s critical (挑剔的) air and strict rules. Who was this person I knew as my
father, who seemed so friendly and interesting to be around? What had held him back before?
The next day my dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own
childhood. Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him at that moment. After so many years, I"m at last seeing another side of my father. And in so doing, I"m delighted with my new
friend. My dad in his new home in Arizona is back to me from where he was. | | 1. Why did the author feel bitter about her father as a young adult? | A. He did not love his children.
B. He was too proud of himself.
C. He was silent most of the time.
D. He expected too much of her. | | 2. When the author went out with her father on weekends, she would feel ______. | A. nervous
B. sorry
C. tired
D. safe | | 3. What does the author think of her father after her visit to Tucson? | A. More critical
B. More talkative
C. Gentle and friendly
D. Strict and hard-working | | 4. The underlined words "my new friend" in the last paragraph refer to _______. | A. the author"s son
B. the author"s father
C. the friend of the author"s father
D. the cafe owner | | 完形填空。 | One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive.
Suddenly I 1 that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, 2 he knew me.
The man had a newspaper 3 in front of him, which he was 4 to read, but I could 5 that he was keeping
an eye on me. when the waiter brought my 6 the man was clearly puzzled (困惑) by the 7 way in which
the waiter and I 8 each other. He seemed even more puzzled as 9 went on and it became 10 that all the
waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the 11 . When he came out, he paid his bill
and 12 without another glance in my direction.
I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had 13 . "Well," he said,"that man was a
detective (侦探). He 14 you here because he though you were the man he 15 ." "What?" I said, showing my
16 . The owner continued,"He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I 17 say he
looked very much like you! Of course, since we know you, we told him that he had made a 18 ." "Well, it"s
really 19 I came to a restaurant where I"m known," I said." 20 , I might have been in trouble." | ( )1. A. knew
( )2. A. since
( )3. A. flat
( )4. A. hoping
( )5. A. see
( )6. A. menu
( )7. A. direct
( )8. A. chatted with
( )9. A. the waiter
( )10. A. true
( )11. A. restaurant
( )12. A. left
( )13. A. wanted
( )14. A. met
( )15. A. was to beat
( )16. A. care
( )17. A. must
( )18. A. discovery
( )19. A. a pity
( )20. A. Thus | B. understood
B. even if
B. open
B. thinking
B. find
B. bill
B. familiar
B. looked at
B. time
B. hopeful
B. washroom
B. acted
B. tried
B. caught
B. was dealing with
B. surprise
B. can
B. mistake
B. natural
B. However | C. noticed
C. though
C. cut
C. pretending
C. guess
C. paper
C. strange
C. laughed at
C. I
C. clear
C. office
C. sat down
C. ordered
C. followed
C. was to meet
C. worry
C. need
C. decision
C. a chance
C. Otherwise | D. recognized
D. as if
D. fixed
D. continuing
D. learn
D. food
D. funny
D. talked about
D. the dinner
D. possible
D. kitchen
D. calmed down
D. wished
D. discovered
D. was looking for
D. regret
D. may
D. fortune
D. lucky
D. Therefore | | 阅读理解。 | MONTREAL (Reuters)-Crossing the US-Canada border (边界) to go to church on a Sunday cost a US
citizen ＄10,000 for breaking Washington"s strict new security (安全) rules.
The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives right on the Canadian border.
Like the other half-dozen people of Township 15, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The
nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to church.
There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5,530-mile border between
Canada and the US-which in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through buildings.
As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the
US after attending church in Canada, as usual. The US customs (海关) station in this are is closed on
Sundays, so be just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared
last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later. Albert was told to go to the customs
office, where an officer told him be had been caught on carnera crossing the border illegally (非法).
Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 US citizens in that area so they can enter the country
when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May. That forces the
people to a 200-mile detour along hilly roads to get home through another border checkpoint.
Albert has requested that the customs office change their decisions on the fine, but he has not attended a
Sunday church since. "I feel like I"m living in a prison," he said. | | 1.We learn from the text that Richard Albert is _____. | A. an American living in Township 15
B. a Canadian living in a Quebec village
C. a Canadian working in a customs station
D. an American working in a Canadian church | | 2. Albert was fined because he _____. | A. failed to obey traffic rules
B. broke the American security rules
C. worked in St. Pamphile without a pass
D. damaged the gate of the customs office | | 3. The underlined word "detour" in paragraph 5 means _____. | A. a drive through the town
B. a race across the fields
C. a roundabout way of travelling
D. a journey in the mountain area | | 4. What would be the best title for the text? | A. A Cross-country Trip
B. A Special Border Pass
C. An Unguarded Border
D. An Expensive Church Visit | | 完形填空。 | Scott and his companions were terribly disappointed. When they got to the South Pole, they found the
Norwegians (挪威人)had 1 them in the race to be the first ever to reach it. After 2 the British flag at
the Pole, they took a photograph of themselves 3 they started the 950-mile journey back.
The journey was unexpectedly 4 and the joy and excitement about the Pole had gone out of them. The
sun hardly 5 . The snow storms always made it impossible to sight the stones they had 6 to mark their
way home. To make things 7 . Evans, whom they had all thought of 8 the strongest of the five, fell badly
into a deep hole in the ice. Having 9 along for several days, he suddenly fell down and died.
The four who were 10 pushed on at the best speed they could 11 . Captain Oates had been suffering for
some time from his 12 fact; at night his feet swelled (肿胀) so large that he could 13 put his boots on the
next morning, and he walked bravely although he was in great 14 . He knew his slowness was making it less
likely that
15 could save themselves. He asked them to leave him behind in his sleeping-bag, but they refused, and helped
him 16 a few more miles, until it was time to put up the 17 for another night.
The following morning, 18 the other three were still in their sleeping-bags, he said."I am just going outside
and may be 19 some time." He was never seen again. He had walked out 20 into the snow storm, hoping that
his death would help his companions. | ( )1. A. hit
( )2. A. growing
( )3. A. after
( )4. A. safe
( )5. A. rose
( )6. A. taken up
( )7. A. easier
( )8. A. to
( )9. A.battled
( )10. A. left
( )11. A. manage
( )12. A. ached
( )13. A. hardly
( )14. A. pain
( )15. A. all others
( )16. A. away
( )17. A. bed
( )18. A. while
( )19. A. missed
( )20. A. patiently | B. fought
B. putting
B. until
B. fast
B. set
B. cut up
B. better
B. upon
B. struggled
B. lost
B. try
B. frozen
B. never
B. fear
B. some others
B. with
B. tent
B. since
B. separated
B. lonely | C. won
C. planting
C. while
C. short
C. appeared
C. set up
C. bitter
C. as
C. speeded
C. defeated
C. employ
C. harden
C. seldom
C. trouble
C. others
C. off
C. blanket
C. for
C. passed
C. alone | D. beaten
D. laying
D. before
D. slow
D. disappeared
D. picked up
D. worse
D. in
D. waited
D. saved
D. find
D. harmed
D. nearly
D. danger
D. the others
D. on
D. sleeping-bag
D. once
D. gone
D. worriedly | | 完形填空。 | You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells are exploding; people are shooting from a house
behind you. What are you doing there? You aren"t a soldier. You aren"t 1 carrying a gun. You"re standing in
front of a 2 and you"re telling the TV 3 what is happening.
It"s all in a day"s work for a war reporter, and it can be very 4 . In the first two years of the 5 in former
Yugoslavia (前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were 6 .What kind of
people put themselves in danger to 7 pictures to our TV screens and 8 to our newspapers? Why do they
do it?
"I think it"s every young journalist"s 9 to be a foreign reporter," says Michael Nicholson, "that"s 10 you
find the excitement.So when the first opportunity comes,you take it 11 it is a war."
But there are moments of 12 . Jeremy Bowen says, "Yes,when you"re lying on the ground and bullets (子弹)
are flying 13 your ears,you think: "What am I doing here? I"m not going to do this again." But that feeling 14
after a while and when the next war starts, you"ll be 15 ."
"None of us believes that we"re going to 16 ," adds Michael.But he always 17 a lucky charm (护身符)
with him. It was given to him by his wife for his first war. It"s a card which says "Take care of yourself." Does
he ever think about dying? "Oh, 18 ,and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, "If you get
me out of this, I 19 I"ll never do it again." You can almost hear God 20 ,because you know he doesn"t believe
you." | ( )1. A. simply
( )2. A. crowd
( )3. A. producers
( )4. A. dangerous
( )5. A. stay
( )6. A. injured
( )7. A. bring
( )8. A. scenes
( )9. A. belief
( )10. A. why
( )11. A. even so
( )12. A. fear
( )13. A. into
( )14. A. returns
( )15. A. there
( )16. A. leave
( )17. A. hangs
( )18. A. never
( )19. A. consider
( )20. A. whispering | B. really
B. house
B. viewers
B. exciting
B. fight
B. buried
B. show
B. passages
B. dream
B. what
B. ever since
B. surprise
B. around
B. goes
B. away
B. escape
B. wears
B. many times
B. accept
B. laughing | C. merely
C. battlefield
C. directors
C. normal
C. war
C. defeated
C. take
C. stories
C. duty
C. how
C. as if
C. shame
C. past
C. continues
C. out
C. die
C. holds
C. some time
C. promise
C. screaming | D. even
D. camera
D. actors
D. disappointing
D. life
D. saved
D. make
D. contents
D. faith
D. where
D. even if
D. sadness
D. through
D. occurs
D. home
D. remain
D. carries
D. seldom
D. guess
D. crying |
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