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walking along the bank of a lake, the girl 1 to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose. After some time the girl 2
the mother would not return to her eggs and she 3 to take them home. There she carefully 4 the eggs in
the heat of a lamp. Several days 5 the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the 6 . Geese are known
to take the first living thing they see as their mother. 7 , to these young geese, the girl was their mother.
As they 8 , the girl was able to 9 her birds to run across the grass, but she could not teach them to 10 .
The girl became increasingly worried about this, both when 11 and in her dreams. Later, she had an 12 : She
would pilot a plane to guide them in 13 . She asked her father for a plane and he assembled (组装) a small
aircraft for her.
Caring about 14 safety, the father decided to pilot the plane himself. However, the birds did not 15 or
follow him, and 16 slept in the grass.
One day, the girl 17 into the plane, started it and soon left the 18 . Seeing their mother take to the air, the
birds 19 flapped (拍打) their wings and 20 . She flew the plane freely in the sky, her young birds following.
| ( )1. A. managed ( )2. A. realized ( )3. A. helped ( )4. A. placed ( )5. A. ago ( )6. A. family ( )7. A. But ( )8. A. increased ( )9. A. ask ( )10. A. fly ( )11. A. asleep ( )12. A. idea ( )13. A. sky ( )14. A. his ( )15. A. respect ( )16. A. so ( )17. A. climbed ( )18. A. house ( )19. A. secretly ( )20. A. looked away | B. attempted B. expected B. decided B. protected B. out B. lake B. Also B. improved B. lead B. race B. away B. opinion B. heaven B. her B. remember B. instead B. looked B. floor B. disappointedly B. set out | C. happened C. imagined C. afforded C. treated C. later C. home C. Thus C. rose C. want C. swim C. around C. explanation C. flight C. their C. recognize C. hardly C. reached C. water C. patiently C. went by | D. supposed D. admitted D. meant D. examined D. long D. world D. Still D. grew D. allow D. sing D. awake D. excuse D. plane D. its D. receive D. too D. fell D. ground D. eagerly D. turned back | |||||||||||||
| 1-5 CABAC 6-10 DCDBA 11-15 DACBC 16-20 BADDB | ||||||||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||||
| It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas 2005. While most people were warming up their cars, Trevor, my husband, had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work. On arrival, he parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does. After putting in 10 hours of labor, he returned to find his bike gone. The bike, a black Kona 18 speed, was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, putting in 60-hour weeks to support his young family. And the bike was also used to get groceries (食品杂货), saving us from having to walk long distances from where we live. I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story. Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, then called my husband to pick it up. Once again my husband had a way to get to and from his job. It really is an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before. People say that a smile can be passed from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers are even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it strengthened our faith in humanity (人性) as a whole. And it has influenced (影响) us to be more mindful of ways we, too, can share with others. No matter how big or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares. And the results can be everlasting. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. Why was the bike so important to the couple? | ||||||||||||||||
| A. The man"s job was bike racing. B. It was their only possession. C. It was a nice Kona 18 speed. D. They used it for work and daily life. | ||||||||||||||||
| 2. We can infer from the text that _____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. the couple worked 60 hours a week B. people were busy before Christmas C. the stranger brought over the bike D. life was hard for the young family | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. How did people get to know the couple"s problem? | ||||||||||||||||
| A. From radio broadcasts. B. From a newspaper. C. From TV news. D. From a stranger. | ||||||||||||||||
| 4. What do the couple learn from their experience? | ||||||||||||||||
| A. Strangers are usually of little help. B. One should take care of their bike. C. News reports make people famous. D. An act of kindness can mean a lot. | ||||||||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||||
| A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house, reduced to waist-high ruins, smelly and dirty. Before the trip, I"d had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate. "You from New Orleans?" she asked. I said I was. "No charge," she said, and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet. The next day I went for a haircut, and the same thing happened. As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage (抵押贷款) on our ruined house. We looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. We"d begun to accept that we"d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kennedy in California. He"d read some pieces I"d written about our sufferings for Slate, the online magazine, and wanted to give us ("no conditions attached") a new house across the lake from New Orleans. It sounded too good to be true, but I replied, thanking him for his exceptional generosity, that we had no plans to go back. Then a poet at the University of Florida offered to let his house to me while he went to England on his one-year paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet"s offer to James Kennedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months. Throughout this painful experience, the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity. It"s almost worth losing your worldly possessions to be reminded that people are really nice when given half a chance. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. The garage employee"s attitude toward the author was that of ____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. unconcern B. sympathy C. doubt D. tolerance | ||||||||||||||||
| 2. What do we know about James Kennedy? | ||||||||||||||||
| A. He was a writer of an online magazine. B. He was a poet at the University of Florida. C. He offered the author a new house free of charge. D. He learned about the author"s sufferings via e-mail. | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. It can be inferred from the text that ____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. the author"s family was in financial difficulty. B. rents were comparatively reasonable despite the disaster. C. houses were difficult to find in the hurricane-stricken area. D. the mortgage on the ruined house was paid off by the bank. | ||||||||||||||||
| 4. The author learned from his experience that ____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. worldly possessions can be given up when necessary. B. generosity should be encouraged in some cases. C. people benefit from their sad stories. D. human beings are kind after all. | ||||||||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||||
| When Andrea Peterson landed her first teaching job, she faced the daunting task of creating a music program with almost no money for equipment or supplies in a climate where standards-based learning was the focus and music just provided a break for students and teachers. For her drive and creativity in overcoming those challenges, she"s been name national teacher of the year. Principal Waynes Kettler said he"s worked with many outstanding teachers in his 22 years as an educator, but Peterson is "just that one step above anybody I"ve ever worked with before." Kettler and others at Monte Cristo Elementary School talk about the ways she has introduced the learning from other classrooms into her music program and her creativity in working around things such as the lack of money for new music. When students were reading S.E. Hinton"s novel The Outsiders in their regular classroom, Peterson helped them write a 30-minute play with scenes from the book. Then they chose three Broadway tunes that focused on race, equality and social justice, the themes of the book. Peterson composed two other sons herself after classroom discussions about the play and the book. The honor means a lot to residents of Granie Falls. It"s inspiring to know that people from small towns can even win national honors. As national teacher of the year, Peterson will spend the next year outside classroom, as a national and international spokeswoman for education. Not surprisingly, she is a big believer in the value of arts education. She said it"s essential for schools to offer classes such as art or music and physical education because for some kids one of those subjects is the only thing that motivates them to come back to school day after day. | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. The underlined word "daunting" in Paragraph 1 most probably means ___. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. discouraging B. interesting C. creative D. unbearable | ||||||||||||||||
| 2. When Peterson began her teaching career, _____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. music was focus of learning in most schools. B. the environment was favorable to music teaching. C. the school lacked teaching facilities for music. D. financial support for music programs was unavailable. | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. What is the most important reason that Peterson won the award? | ||||||||||||||||
| A. She concerned herself with current social problems. B. She motivated students to learn music with her creativity. C. She has taught music at the elementary school for 22 years. D. She made great efforts to arouse students" interest in literature. | ||||||||||||||||
| 4. Which of the following is an example of Peterson"s way of teaching music? | ||||||||||||||||
| A. She wrote plays on themes of race, equality and social justice. B. She made use of the contents of other classes in her teaching. C. She organized classroom discussions of Broadway tunes. D. She helped students compose songs by themselves. | ||||||||||||||||
| 5. In Peterson"s opinion, ____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. art, music and PE classes are all important. B. more subjects should be offered to students. C. students should be motivated to attend art classes. D. arts education is more important than other subjects. | ||||||||||||||||
| 6. It can be inferred from the text that ____. | ||||||||||||||||
| A. Peterson"s honor was a surprise for the local people. B. Peterson"s art classes attracted students back to school. C. Peterson aroused the local residents" passion for music. D. Peterson will change her profession next year. | ||||||||||||||||
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| We arrived in Spain for the first time a few weeks ago. I decided to 1 a car because we had sold the one we had in England before 2 home. Yesterday the sales office rang us to say the car was 3 . I had tried out a model like it before, but as I was not yet 4 driving in this city, my wife did not want me to collect it 5 so we went together to 6 it. We paid for the car and 7 the papers. They told us that there was 8 petrol (汽油) to take us to a garage, where we could fill up. The 9 garage to the office was about 100 yards away and we got there 10 . But when I turned into main road I suddenly saw a lot of cars racing 11 me. I got out of 12 as fast as I could by backing into the garage 13 and the man behind 14 me. "It"s such a problem to 15 to drive on the right side, isn"t it?" my wife said. "Yes, if only I had had a few lessons for 16 ." I replied. "You had better go 17 on the way home," my wife said. "You"d be sorry if you had 18 on the first day, wouldn"t you?" While we were talking, the man behind got out of his car and said in good English, "Would you mind telling me 19 you are thinking of leaving? 20 are you going to sit in your car all day?" | ||||||||||||||||
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