On a hot summer day in late August, I sought shade and a cool drink at a waterfront café on a Greek island.
Over a hundred degrees in 1 air. Crowded. Tempers (脾气) of both the tourists and waiters had 2 to meet
the situation, making it a rather quarrelsome environment (环境).
At the table next to mine sat an attractive, 3 couple, waiting for 4 . They held Hands, whispered, kissed,
and laughed. Suddenly they stood, picked up their 5 and stepped together 6 the edge of where they were
sitting to place the table in the sea water. The man stepped 7 for the two chairs. He politely 8 his lady in
the knee-deep water and then sat down himself. All people around laughed and cheered.
9 appeared. He paused for just a second, walked into the water to 10 the table and take their 11 , and
then walked back to the 12 cheers of the rest of his 13 . Minutes later he returned carrying a bottle of wine and
two glasses. Without pausing, he went 14 into the water to 15 the wine. The couple toasted (祝酒) each other,
the waiter and the crowd. And the crowd 16 by cheering and throwing flowers to them. Three other tables 17
to have lunch in the water. The place was now filled with laughter.
One doesn"t step into water in one"s best summer clothes. Why not?
Customers are not served 18 . Why not?
Sometimes one should consider 19 the line of convention (常规) and enjoy 20 to the fullest. |
( )1.A. fresh
( )2.A. managed
( )3.A. lonely
( )4.A. cheers
( )5.A. metal table
( )6.A. on
( )7.A. outside
( )8.A. led
( )9.A. The manager
( )10.A. set
( )11.A. menu
( )12.A. loud
( )13.A. tourists
( )14.A. at last
( )15.A. change
( )16.A. replied
( )17.A. prepared
( )18.A. with pleasure
( )19.A. following
( )20.A. life | B. cool
B. expected
B. curious
B. service
B. empty bottle
B. off
B. forward
B. seated
B. A friend
B. wash
B. bill
B. anxious
B. customers
B. in time
B. drink
B. insisted
B. joined in
B. in the café
B. keeping
B. wine | C. still
C. attempted
C. well-dressed
C. attention
C. chairs
C. around
C. down
C. watched
C. A waiter
C. remove
C. food
C. familiar
C. fellows
C. once more
C. sell
C. agreed
C. settled up
C. in the sea
C. limiting
C. lunch | D. thin
D. risen
D. bad-tempered
D. flowers
D. bags
D. along
D. back
D. received
D. The servant
D. check
D. order
D. final
D. assistants
D. as well
D. serve
D. understood
D. continued
D. with wine
D. crossing
D. time |
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核心考点
试题【完形填空。 On a hot summer day in late August, I sought shade and a cool drink at】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 阅读理解。 | Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents"
home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station (加油站) about 50 miles from Oklahoma City,
where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register (收款台),
I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.
I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped
and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas
station. They said they would take me to my friend"s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got
out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.
I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present
from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.
Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car
and found that I"d left the lights on all day, and the battery (电池) was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly
Ford dealership－a shop selling cars－was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the
showroom.
"Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?" I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck
to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say
thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and
say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.
"Thank you"－two powerful words. They"re easy to say and mean so much. | | 1. The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City _____. | A. to visit a friend
B. to see his parents
C. to pay or the cash register
D. to have more gas for his car | | 2. The words "took off" underlined in Paragraph 2 mean "_____". | A. turned off
B. moved off
C. put up
D. set up | | 3. What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car? | A. He had it pulled back to the gas station.
B. The couple sent him a business card.
C. The couple offered to help him.
D. He called his friend for help. | | 4. The battery of the author"s car was dead because _____. | A. something went wrong with the lights
B. the meeting lasted a whole day
C. he forgot to turn off the lights
D. he drove too long a distance | | 5. By telling his own experiences, the author tries to show _____. | A. how to write a thank-you letter
B. how to deal with car problems
C. the kind-heartedness of older people
D. the importance of expressing thanks | | 完形填空。 | The year I went away to college was a very difficult transition (过渡期) for me. 1 is probably true with
many people. I got quite homesick and 2 thought about going home.
Although the 3 time for many students is getting 4 from home, my mailbox was frequently 5 . One
day when I went to the mailbox, there was a postcard 6 out at me. I sat down to read it, 7 a note from
someone back home. 8 I became increasingly puzzled (困惑) as 9 postcards were like this; It was a full
news report about a woman named Mabel and her newborn baby. I took the card back to my room and 10
about it.
Several days later I 11 another postcard, this one 12 news about Maybelline, Mabel"s cousin. Soon after,
another card arrived and then another, 13 full of news of different people. I began to 14 look forward to
the next one, 15 to see what this author would come up with 16 . I was never 17 .
Finally, the cards 18 coming, right about the time I had begun to feel 19 about college life. They had
been such a happy distraction (调剂) that I have 20 all the postcards and still bring them out to read whenever
I need a lift. | ( )1. A. If
( )2. A. often
( )3. A. hard
( )4. A. visitors
( )5. A. empty
( )6. A. pouring
( )7. A. describing
( )8. A. But
( )9. A. any
( )10. A. joked
( )11. A. mailed
( )12. A. delivering
( )13. A. one
( )14. A. nearly
( )15. A. promising
( )16. A. below
( )17. A. frightened
( )18. A. continued
( )19. A. easy
( )20. A. lost | B. So
B. carefully
B. last
B. letters
B. full
B. reaching
B. considering
B. Thus
B. no
B. talked
B. accepted
B. demanding
B. each
B. possibly
B. surprised
B. lately
B. disappointed
B. stopped
B. safe
B. collected | C. As
C. seldom
C. busiest
C. calls
C. closed
C. staring
C. enjoying
C. Also
C. some
C. forgot
C. wrote
C. discovering
C. either
C. usually
C. interested
C. next
C. excited
C. started
C. tired
C. torn | D. What
D. merely
D. happiest
D. directions
D. open
D. rolling
D. expecting
D. Even
D. such
D. cared
D. received
D. developing
D. both
D. really
D. pretending
D. behind
D. pleased
D. avoided
D. anxious
D. saved | | 阅读理解。 | My friend, Emma Daniels, spent the summer of 1974 traveling in Israel. During her month-long stay
in Jerusalem she often went to a café called Chocolate Soup. It was run by two men, one of
whom-Alex-used to live in Montreal. One morning when Emma went in for coffee, while chatting with her
new friend Alex, she mentioned that she had just finished the book she was reading and had nothing else to
read. Alex said he had a wonderful book she might like, and that he"d be happy to lend it to her. As he lived
just above the café, he quickly ran up to get it. The book he handed to Emma just minutes later was Markings,
a book by a former Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN).
Emma had never read it, nor had she ever bought a copy. But, when she opened it up, she was floored to
see her own name and address inside the cover in her own handwriting (笔迹). It turned out that the summer
before, at a concert back in Montreal, Emma had met a Californian who was in town visiting friends. They
decided to exchange (交换) addresses, but neither of them had any paper. The man opened up a book he was
carrying in his backpack (背包) and asked Emma to write her name and address inside. When he returned to
California, he left the book behind in Montreal, and his friend Alex kept it. When Alex later moved to Jerusalem, he took the book along. | | 1. Alex lent Emma the book, Markings, _____. | A. to show his friendliness to her
B. to show his interest in reading
C. to tell her about the importance of the UN
D. to let her write her name and address inside | | 2. How did Emma feel the moment she opened the book? | A. Pleased.
B. Satisfied.
C. Worried.
D. Surprised. | | 3. We can learn from the text that the Californian _____. | A. met Emma at a concert
B. invited Emma to a concert
C. introduced Emma to his friend
D. left Emma his backpack | | 4. Who was supposed to be the first owner of the book? | A. An official of the UN.
B. A coffee shop owner.
C. A friend of the author"s.
D. Alex"s friend from California. | | 阅读理解。 | When I learned that my 71-year-old mother was playing Scrabble-a word game-against herself, I
knew I had to do something. My husband suggested we give her a computer to play against. I wasn"t
sure my mother was ready for it After all, it had taken 15 years to persuade her to buy an electric cooker.
Even so, we packed up our old computer and delivered it to my parents" home. And so began my mother"s
adventure in the world of computers.
It also marked the beginning of an unusual teaching task for me. I"ve taught people of all ages, but I
never thought I would be teaching my mother how to do anything. She has been the one teaching me all
my life: to cook and sew: to enjoy the good times and put up with the bad. Now it was my turn to give
something back.
It wasn"t easy at the beginning. There was so much to explain and to introduce. Slowly but surely, my
mother caught on, making notes in a little notebook. After a few months of Scrabble and other games, I
decided it was time to introduce her to word processing (文字处理) This proved to be a bigger challenge
(挑战) to her, so I gave her some homework I asked her to write me a letter, using different letter types,
colors and spaces.
"Are you this demanding with your kindergarten pupils?" she asked.
"No, of course not," I said. "They already know how to use a computer."
My mother isn"t the only one experiencing a fast personal growth period. Thanks to the computer, my
father has finally got over his phone allergy (过敏反应). For as long as I can remember, any time I called,
my mother would answer. Dad and I have had more phone conversations in the last two months than we"ve
had in the past 20 years. | | 1. What does the author do? | A. She is a cook.
B. She is a teacher.
C. She is a housewife.
D. She is a computer engineer. | | 2. The author decided to give her mother a computer _____. | A. to let her have more chances to write letters
B. to support her in doing her homework
C. to help her through the bad times
D. to make her life more enjoyable | | 3. The author asked her mother to write her a letter _____. | A. because her mother had stopped using the telephone
B. because she wanted to keep in touch with her mother
C. so that her mother could practice what she had learned
D. so that her mother could be free from housework | | 4. After the computer was brought home, the author"s father _____. | A. lost interest in cooking
B. took more phone calls
C. played more games
D. began to use it | | 完形填空。 | I used to live selfishly, I should admit. But one moment changed me.
I was on my lunch break and had 1 the office to get something to eat. On the way, I 2 a Busker (街头
艺人), with a hat in front of him. I had some 3 in my pocket, but I would not give them to him, thinking to
myself he would 4 use the money to feed his addiction to drugs or alcohol. He 5 like that type-young and
ragged. 6 what was I going to spend the money on? Only to feed my addiction to Coca-Cola or chocolate! I
then 7 I had no right to place myself above 8 just because he was busking.
I 9 and dropped all the coins into his 10 , and he smiled at me, I watched for a while. As 11 as it sounds,
I expected something more to come from that moment-a feeling of 12 or satisfaction, for example. But nothing
happened 13 , I walked off. "It proved to be a waste of 14 ," I thought.
On my way home at the end of the 15 , I saw the busker again and he was 16 . I watched him pick up the
hat and walk 17 a cafe counter. There he poured the 18 contents into a tin collecting 19 an earthquake fund-
raising (募捐) event. He was busking for charity (慈善)!
Now I donate any 20 I have to charity tins and enjoy the feeling of giving. | ( )1. A. left
( )2. A. led
( )3. A. chocolates
( )4. A. almost
( )5. A. acted
( )6. A. Though
( )7. A. declared
( )8. A. it
( )9. A. waited
( )10. A. rag
( )11. A. selfish
( )12. A. happiness
( )13. A. Disappointedly
( )14. A. words
( )15. A. moment
( )16. A. walking around
( )17. A. around
( )18. A. chief
( )19. A. by
( )20. A. work | B. cleaned
B. chose
B. coins
B. only
B. looked
B. For
B. realized
B. all
B. followed
B. hat
B. awkward
B. sadness
B. Unfortunately
B. effort
B. day
B. passing by
B. in
B. basic
B. for
B. time | C. prepared
C. saw
C. tins
C. rather
C. sounded
C. Therefore
C. expected
C. him
C. stopped
C. pocket
C. innocent
C. love
C. Coincidentally
C. space
C. break
C. packing up
C. behind
C. actual
C. on
C. energy | D. searched
D. fooled
D. drugs
D. still
D. smelt
D. But
D. guessed
D. them
D. arrived
D. counter
D. special
D. hate
D. Comfortably
D. money
D. event
D. running off
D. to
D. total
D. with
D. change |
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