I was on a bus one March evening. The driver didn"t 1 to start the bus soon because it was not yet 2 .
A middle-aged woman got on. Tired and sad, she told her story 3 , not to anyone in particular. On her way to
the station, half of her money was stolen. The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she 4 still had some
left. A few minutes later, she stopped crying, but still looked unhappy.
When all the seats were taken, the driver started the engine. The conductor began to collect fares (车费).
When she came to an old man in worn-out clothes, he 5 that he had spent all his money when he had
accidentally got on a wrong bus and now he was trying to go home. On hearing this, she ordered the old man to
get off the bus. The old man was almost in tears as he 6 her to let him take the bus home. The driver took the
conductor"s side and repeated the conductor"s command (命令,要求).
The woman was watching the incident. 7 the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man,
she interfered (干预).
"Stop 8 him! Can"t you see he"s only trying to get home?"
" He doesn"t have any money!" the driver shouted.
"Well, that"s no 9 to throw him off the bus," she insisted.
Then she reached inside her blouse, took out her 10 money, and handed in to the conductor." Here"s his
fare and mine. Just stop giving him a 11 time."
All heads turned to the woman. "It"s only money," she shrugged.
She rode the rest of the way home 12 a happy smile, with the money she"d lost earlier 13 .
On the road of life, the help of strangers can 14 our loads and lift our spirits. How much sweeter the 15
will be when we make it a little smoother for others! |
( )1. A. try
( )2. A. empty
( )3. A. tearfully
( )4. A. strangely
( )5. A. explained
( )6. A. begged
( )7. A. Unless
( )8. A. attacking
( )9. A. problem
( )10. A. spending
( )11. A. busy
( )12. A. giving
( )13. A. forgotten
( )14. A. move
( )15. A. world | B. care
B. full
B. seriously
B. happily
B. declared
B. scolded
B. Although
B. bothering
B. need
B. collected
B. cold
B. wearing
B. used
B. increase
B. journey | C. decide
C. crowded
C. carefully
C. secretly
C. admitted
C. praised
C. Until
C. blaming
C. matter
C. remaining
C. hard
C. taking
C. earned
C. lighten
C. smile | D. intend
D. ready
D. calmly
D. fortunately
D. found
D. thanked
D. When
D. wronging
D. reason
D. borrowed
D. fearful
D. forcing
D. returned
D. carry
D. friendship |
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核心考点
试题【完形填空。 I was on a bus one March evening. The driver didn"t 1 to start the】；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 have always believed the saying, "Any man can be a father, but it 1 someone special to be a dad." This
is true. Since the 2 of my son, Joshua, things have changed a lot in my life, but the 3 have been good! My
wife and I have been through many 4 moments which have made both of us stronger.
My son was born with a serious breathing problem and he couldn"t keep his 5 down. He was put on
several different medications, 6 he did not get any better. My wife and I were both told many times by people
that Joshua 7 he was born early; he had not 8 much weight since he was born.
As time progressed his regular doctor 9 my wife and me to visit Dr. Eid, a specialist in Louisville. He was
10 by my son"s condition and so we were sent to Louisville"s Children"s Hospital. Joshua 11 many different
checkups. The 12 spent there was very demanding for my wife and me. But we did make it 13 . Our son
Joshua was diagnosed (诊断) with asthma (哮喘), and with acid reflux syndrome (酸回流综合症). After the
treatment, his 14 began to improve slowly.
Joshua is 1 year and 1 month old now and his progress has been 15 - he is up to 27 pounds now. I keep
telling my wife that if he keeps 16 like this he might become a football 17 someday. There is a saying that
has 18 me get through these troublesome times, "Problems will either 19 you or break you." When you think
the 20 hours are upon you, remember the dawn is just in sight. | ( )1. A. takes
( )2. A. return
( )3. A. doctors
( )4. A. boring
( )5. A. food
( )6. A. so
( )7. A. looked about
( )8. A. gained
( )9. A. followed
( )10. A. angered
( )11. A. went into
( )12. A. time
( )13. A. out
( )14. A. diet
( )15. A. great
( )16. A. walking
( )17. A. supporter
( )18. A. left
( )19. A. cheat
( )20. A. easiest | B. asks
B. illness
B. friends
B. challenging
B. water
B. but
B. looked for
B. lost
B. ordered
B. shocked
B. put into
B. money
B. down
B. study
B. slow
B. running
B. player
B. moved
B. make
B. latest | C. tells
C. birth
C. causes
C. exciting
C. weight
C. since
C. looked like
C. kept
C. invited
C. disappointed
C. went through
C. hour
C. off
C. health
C. little
C. training
C. coach
C. helped
C. beat
C. brightest | D. brings
D. death
D. changes
D. puzzling
D. medicine
D. until
D. looked at
D. raised
D. advised
D. scared
D. broke through
D. holiday
D. through
D. weight
D. enough
D. growing
D. fan
D. watched
D. find
D. darkest | | 阅读理解。 | When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens
were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible
setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story
has inspired a movie, "Homeless to Harvard:The Liz Murray Story", shown in late April.
Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination.
Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in
the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was
just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in
which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was
homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. "What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, My understanding was that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of
society," she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such
as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that "next to nothing could hold me down". She finished high
school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her
top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed
AIDS. "I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time."
Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is "as simple as making a decision". | | 1. The word "setback" in the first paragraph most probably means _____? | A. danger
B. difficulty
C. unhappiness
D. disaster | | 2. What"s the best title of the passage? | A. Liz"s Harvard Dream
B. Bitter Childhood of Liz
C. Liz"s Love for Her Parents
D. Liz"s Struggle for Her Life | | 3. What actually made Liz throw herself into her studies? | A. Her parents" addiction to drugs
B. Her mother" s disease
C. Lack of food and clothes
D. Her mother" s death | | 4. According to the passage, which is NOT true about Liz? | A. strong-willed
B. envious
C. determined
D. respectful | | 完形填空。 | I can never forget her-the little girl with a 1 so strong and powerful. We could hear her halfway down
the block. She was a(n) 2 peasant who asked for money and 3 gave the only thing she had-her voice. I
paused outside a small shop and listened. She brought to my mind the 4 of Little Orphan Annie. I could not
understand the words she 5 , but her voice begged for 6 . It stood out from the noises of Arbat Street, pure
and impressive, like the chime of a bell. She 7 from under an old-style lamp post (柱子,杆) in the shadow of
a building, her arms extended and 8 thrown back. She was small and of ordinary looks. Her brown 9
escaped the bun (发髻) it had been pulled into, and she occasionally removed it from her 10 . Her clothing I
can"t recall. Her voice, on the other hand, is always 11 on my memory.
I asked one of the translators about the girl. Elaina told me that she and hundreds of others like her
throughout the 12 Soviet Union add to their families" income by working on the streets. The children are unable
to 13 school, and their parents work fulltime. These children know that the result of an unsuccessful day is no
14 for the table. Similar situations 15 during the Depression (萧条) in the United States, but those American
children were faceless shoeshine boys of the twenties. This girl was real to me.
When we 16 past her I gave her money. It was not out of pity 17 rather admiration. Her smile of 18 did
not interrupt her singing. The girl watched us as we walked down the street. I knew this because when I looked
back she smiled again. We 19 that smile, and I knew I could never forget her courage and inner 20 . | ( )1. A. will
( )2. A. American
( )3. A. in return
( )4. A. voice
( )5. A. said
( )6. A. attention
( )7. A. laughed
( )8. A. hands
( )9. A. glasses
( )10. A. face
( )11. A. made
( )12. A. latter
( )13. A. attend
( )14. A. milk
( )15. A. broke
( )16. A. walked
( )17. A. and
( )18. A. anger
( )19. A. stopped
( )20. A. power | B. force
B. Chinese
B. in turn
B. image
B. murmured
B. love
B. cried
B. feet
B. hair
B. leg
B. impressed
B. rich
B. finish
B. vegetables
B. remained
B. swam
B. while
B. pity
B. shared
B. strength | C. voice
C. Japanese
C. in need
C. story
C. used
C. food
C. jumped
C. head
C. eyes
C. body
C. sent
C. former
C. leave
C. meat
C. occurred
C. flied
C. but
C. bitterness
C. won
C. weakness | D. determination
D. Russian
D. in silence
D. looks
D. sang
D. mercy
D. sang
D. face
D. watch
D. finger
D. put
D. great
D. enjoy
D. food
D. went
D. removed
D. or
D. thanks
D. exchanged
D. intelligence | | 完形填空。 | I didn"t cry when I learned I was the parent of a mentally handicapped (弱智的) child. "Go ahead and cry,"
the doctor 1 kindly. But I couldn"t cry then nor during the months that followed.
We sent her to a kindergarten in our neighborhood at age seven. I worried that she was the “ 2 " child
among twenty five-year-olds.
3 , positive things began to happen to Kristi in her school,and to her schoolmates, too. When talking big of
their own accomplishments, Kristi"s classmates always took 4 to praise her as well, "Kristi got all her spelling
words right today." No one would say that her spelling list was easier than anyone else"s.
During Kristi"s second year in school,she 5 a very special challenge. The big public event of the term was
a 6 based on the final outcome of the year"s music and physical education activities. Kristi was 7 in both.
My husband and I felt 8 about the day as well.
On the day of the program,Kristi 9 to be sick. Desperately I wanted to keep her home. Why let Kristi fail
in a gymnasium 10 with parents,students and teachers? What a simple 11 ! But I finally got her onto the
school bus.
Just as I had forced my daughter to go to school, now I forced myself to go, too. Then I knew Kristi"s 12 . Her class was divided into relay teams. With her slow and clumsy reactions, she would surely 13 her team.
But as Kristi"s turn to 14 neared, a change took place in her team. The tallest boy in the line stepped 15
Kristi and placed his hands on her waist. Two other boys stood a little ahead of her. The 16 the player in front
of Kristi stepped from the sack(bag), the two boys seized it and held it open while the tall boy 17 Kristi and
dropped her neatly into the sack. A girl ahead took her hand and supported her until she gained her 18 .Then
off Kristi hopped (跳跃), smiling and proud.
At the cheers of the crowd, I slipped out to thank Heaven for the warm and considerate people making it
possible for my 19 daughter to be like her fellow human beings. Then I finally 20 . | ( )1. A. demanded
( )2. A. common
( )3. A. Thus
( )4. A. pains
( )5. A. failed
( )6. A. competition
( )7. A. stupid
( )8. A. annoyed
( )9. A. wanted
( )10. A. filled
( )11. A. approach
( )12. A. worry
( )13. A. hold on
( )14. A. participate
( )15. A. around
( )16. A. interval
( )17. A. caught
( )18. A. access
( )19. A. nervous
( )20. A. recovered | B. requested
B. different
B. Therefore
B. time
B. accepted
B. conclusion
B. slow
B. anxious
B. happened
B. jammed
B. method
B. disaster
B. hold out
B. operate
B. off
B. moment
B. lifted
B. position
B. slim
B. cried | C. advised
C. excellent
C. Eventually
C. efforts
C. faced
C. conference
C. serious
C. guilty
C. pretended
C. covered
C. key
C. choice
C. hold over
C. practise
C. behind
C. chance
C. protected
C. speed
C. disabled
C. prayed | D. joked
D. casual
D. However
D. measures
D. shared
D. ceremony
D. awkward
D. tough
D. proved
D. burdened
D. solution
D. error
D. hold up
D. show
D. beside
D. point
D. hid
D. balance
D. delicate
D .applauded | | 阅读理解。 | A newly-wed couple on a four-month honeymoon were hit by six natural disasters, including the Australian
floods, Christchurch earthquake and Japanese tsunami.
Stefan and Erika Svanstrom left Stockholm, Sweden, on December 6 and were immediately stranded in
Munich, Germany, due to one of Europe"s worst snowstorms. Stefan Svanstrom and Erika Svanstrom.
Travelling with their baby daughter, they flew on to Cairns in Australia which was then struck by one of
the most tremendous cyclones (龙卷风) in the nation"s history. From there, the couple, in their 20s, were
forced to shelter for 24 hours on the cement floor of a shopping centre with 2,500 others. "Trees were being
knocked
over and big branches were scattered across the streets," Mr Svanstrom told Sweden"s Express newspaper.
"We escaped by the skin of our teeth," said Svanstrom.
They then headed south to Brisbane but the city was experiencing massive flooding, so they crossed the
country to Perth where they narrowly escaped raging bush fires. The couple then flew to Christchurch, New
Zealand, arriving just after a massive magnitude 6.3 earthquake destroyed the city on February 22.
Mrs. Svanstrom said, "When we got there the whole town was a war zone." "We could not visit the city
since it was completely blocked off, so instead we travelled around before going to Japan."
But days after the Svanstroms arrived, Tokyo was rocked by Japan"s largest earthquake since records
began. "The trembling was horrible and we saw roof tiles fly off the buildings," Mr. Svantrom said. "It was like
the buildings were swaying back and forth." The family returned to Stockholm on March 29 after a much
calmer visit to their last destination China.
But Mr. Svanstrom, who also survived the destructive Boxing Day tsunami that hit southeast Asia in 2004,
said the marriage was still going strong. He added, "I know marriages have to endure some trials, but I think
we have been through most of them."
"We"ve certainly experienced more than our fair share of catastrophes, but the most important thing is that
we"re together and happy." | | 1. How many countries did the couple visit during their honeymoon? | A. 6.
B. 5.
C. 4.
D. 3. | 2. What"s the right order of the following things according to the passage?
a. The couple headed south to Brisbane.
b. The couple flew to Cairns.
c. The couple flew to Christchurch.
d. The couple were stranded in Munich. | A. a-b-c-d
B. a-c-b-d
C. d-b-c-a
D. d-b-a-c | | 3. By saying "We escaped by the skin of our teeth.", Mr. Svanstrom meant that _____. | A. The cyclones was tremendous
B. They escaped from the cyclones easily.
C. They had a narrow escape from the cyclones
D. There was something wrong with their teeth | | 4. According to the last two paragraphs, which word can best describe Mr. Svanstrom? | A. ambitious.
B. enthusiastic
C. considerate
D. optimistic |
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