I grew up in a community called Estepona. I was 16 when one morning, Dad told me I could drive him
into a 1 village called Mijas, on condition that I took the car in to be 2 at a nearby garage. I readily
accepted. I drove Dad into Mijas, and 3 to pick him up at 4 pm, and then dropped off the car at the 4 .
With several hours to spare, I went to a theater. 5 when the last movie finished, it was six. I was two
hours late!
I knew Dad would be angry if he 6 I"d been watching movies. So I decided not to tell him the truth.
When I 7 there I apologized for being late, and told him I"d 8 as quickly as I could, but that the car
had needed a major repair. I"ll never forget the 9 he gave me. "I"m disappointed you 10 you have to lie
to me, Jason." Dad looked at me again. "When you didn"t 11 , I called the garage to ask if there were any
12 , and they told me you hadn"t yet picked up the car." I felt 13 as I weakly told him the real reason. A
14 passed through Dad as he listened attentively. "I"m angry with 15 . I realize I"ve failed as a father. I"m
going to walk home now and think seriously about 16 I"ve gone wrong all these years." "But Dad, it"s 18
miles!" My protests and apologies were 17 . Dad walked home that day. I drove behind him, 18 him all
the way, but he walked silently.
Seeing Dad in so much 19 and emotional pain was my most painful experience. However, it was 20
the most successful lesson. I have never lied since. |
( )1. A. lonely
( )2. A. kept
( )3. A. agreed
( )4. A. village
( )5. A. However
( )6. A. realized
( )7. A. went
( )8. A. started
( )9. A.word
( )10. A. find
( )11. A. turn up
( )12. A. questions
( )13. A. ashamed
( )14. A. nervousness
( )15. A. you
( )16. A. where
( )17. A. meaningless
( )18. A. asking
( )19. A. physical
( )20. A. indeed | B. small
B. washed
B. planned
B. community
B. Then
B. found out
B. ran
B. left
B. face
B. decide
B. drive out
B. problems
B. frightened
B. sadness
B. myself
B. how
B. useless
B. persuading
B. practical
B. always | C. distant
C. watched
C. determined
C. garage
C. Therefore
C. thought
C. walked
C. arrived
C. look
C. believe
C. go away
C. mistakes
C. nervous
C. silence
C. me
C. why
C. helpless
C. begging
C. personal
C. also | D. familiar
D. serviced
D. promised
D. theater
D. Still
D. figured out
D. hurried
D. come
D. appearance
D. feel
D. come out
D. faults
D. surprised
D. thought
D. yourself
D. when
D. worthless
D. following
D. natural
D. almost |
| 1-5: C D D C A 6-10: B D D C D 11-15: A B A B B 16-20: A B C A C |
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| 完形填空。 | James"s New Bicycle
James shook his money box again. Nothing! He carefully 1 the coins that lay on the bed. $24.52 was all
that he had. The bicycle he wanted was at least $90! 2 on earth was he going to get the 3 of the money?
He knew that his friends all had bicycles. It was 4 to hang around with people when you were the only
one without wheels. He thought about what he could do. There was no 5 asking his parents, for he knew
they had no money to 6 .
There was only one way to get money, and that was to 7 it. He would have to find a job. 8 who would
hire him and what could he do? He decided to ask Mr. Clay for advice, who usually had 9 on most things.
"Well, you can start right here," said Mr. Clay. "My windows need cleaning and my car needs washing."
That was the 10 of James"s odd-job (零工) business. For three months he worked every day after finishing
his homework. He was amazed by the 11 of jobs that people found for him to do. He took dogs and babies for
walks, cleared out cupboards, and mended books. He lost count of the 12 of cars he washed and windows he
cleaned, but the 13 increased and he knew that he would soon have 14 for the bicycle he longed for.
The day 15 came when James counted his money and found $94.32. He 16 no time and went down to the
shop to pick up the bicycle he wanted. He rode 17 home, looking forward to showing his new bicycle to his
friends. It had been hard 18 for the money, but James knew that he valued his bicycle far more 19 he had
bought it with his own money. He had 20 what he thought was impossible, and that was worth even more than
the bicycle. | ( )1. A. cleaned
( )2. A. How
( )3. A. amount
( )4. A. brave
( )5. A. point
( )6. A. split
( )7. A. borrow
( )8. A. Or
( )9. A. decisions
( )10. A. beginning
( )11. A. similarity
( )12. A. brand
( )13. A. effort
( )14. A. all
( )15. A. finally
( )16. A.gave
( )17. A. patiently
( )18. A. applying
( )19. A. since
( )20. A. deserved | B. covered
B. Why
B. part
B. hard
B. reason
B. spend
B. earn
B. So
B. experience
B. introduction
B. quality
B. number
B. pressure
B. enough
B. instantly
B. left
B. proudly
B. asking
B. if
B. benefited | C. counted
C. Who
C. sum
C. smart
C. result
C. spare
C. raise
C. For
C. opinions
C. requirement
C. suitability
C. size
C. money
C. much
C. normally
C. took
C. silently
C. looking
C. than
C. achieved | D. checked
D. What
D. rest
D. unfair
D. right
D. save
D. collect
D. But
D. knowledge
D. opening
D. variety
D. type
D. trouble
D. some
D. regularly
D. wasted
D. tiredly
D. working
D. though
D. learned | | 阅读理解。 | Native Tongue
At first Kate thought the Romanian girl could not speak and understand English. Nadia would not reply
to anything Kate said. Kate was in charge of showing Nadia around on her first day at Buckminster Grade
School. Kate could not figure out why the school had put Nadia in a class where she could not understand
what people were saying.
"Why did they do this?" Kate wondered aloud. "I mean, you can"t learn if you can"t understand the teacher."
Nadia"s voice was a whisper. "I understand English. I will learn." Nadia"s English was perfect.
Kate was perplexed. She couldn"t understand why Nadia did not like to speak. Then she realized that
moving to a new country probably wasn"t the easiest thing to do. There were hundreds of unfamiliar and
unusual things to learn-all at the same time.
"There"re a lot of new things to learn, huh?" said Kate. Nadia nodded rapidly. In a quiet voice she replied.
"Many things people say, I do not understand. I have been speaking English and Romanian all my life, but I
do not know what some children are saying. For example, yesterday a boy asked if I could help him find the
USB port on a thin black box he was carrying. Isn"t a port a place for ships? It made no sense to me." "Don"t
worry." said Kate. "You"ll figure everything out in time. You see, that thin black box was a computer. A USB
port is a place where you can connect other machines to a computer." Nadia and Kate were quiet after that.
They took notes while the teacher gave a maths lesson. To Kate"s surprise, Nadia put up her hand and offered
to answer questions at the blackboard.
Nadia solved every question the teacher gave her. Some of the questions were really difficult, and no one
understood what was going on except Nadia and the teacher. When the teacher said that Nadia answered
everything correctly, the whole class clapped their hands.
Nadia was smiling when she sat back down next to Kate. "Some things," she said in a normal voice, "are
the same all over the world." | | 1. At the beginning of Nadia"s first day at school, she was _____. | A. disappointed
B. helpful
C. lively
D. shy | | 2. The underlined word "perplexed" probably means _____. | A. puzzled
B. angry
C. shocked
D. serious | | 3. We can infer from the passage that _____. | A. Nadia did not like Kate
B. Nadia had lived by the sea before
C. Nadia had never seen a computer before
D. Nadia spoke in a soft voice out of politeness | | 4. Which of the following statements is true? | A. Nadia was better at maths than other students.
B. Nadia found some of the maths questions difficult.
C. Nadia was encouraged to answer questions in class.
D. Nadia understood the maths better than other teachers. | | 5. What is the message of the story? | A. Talking about something familiar gives you confidence in communication.
B. Answering questions in class makes you better understood by classmates.
C. Language plays an important role in communication between cultures.
D. Mathematics helps to improve communication between cultures. | | 阅读理解。 | Peter was mad on mountains. Climbing was the love of his life. Church towers, seaside cliffs, rock faces,
ice mountains, anything-"If it"s there," he used to say, "then I want to climb it." So the news of his marriage
gave me a surprise. I"d never known him to take much interest in girls. Well, well, Peter was a married man!
I couldn"t get over it. I wondered whether his wife would try to stop some of risky adventures.
She was French perhaps-from that place where he usually spent his holidays. Chamonis, wasn"t it? From
Chamonis he"d climbed Mont Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and one of the Aifuilles the day after! That
was it, then, she was French from a family, most of whom like climbing. No doubt. No other explanation.
A month later I met them both in town. Anna surprised me because she was English. She was a dancer
in the theater. "Never climbed more than sixty steps in my life," she told me. "Peter has his interests, and I"ve
got mine. No problems." "None at all," Peter said, smiling.
"Where did you spend your honeymoon?" "I flew to New York to see the drake Dancers on Broadway.
A wonderful show!"
Peter said, "I didn"t want to miss the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north face
of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great fun, the Eiger. Grand place for a honeymoon! I"ll show you the photos
we took one day." | | 1. "Peter was mad on mountains" means _____. | A. he disliked climbing mountains
B. he was angry on mountains
C. he lost his senses on mountains
D. he enjoyed climbing mountains very much | | 2. The phrase "risky adventures" means _____. | A. expensive adventures
B. dangerous adventures
C. terrible adventures
D. unkind adventures | | 3. According to the passage, after Peter"s marriage _____. | A. he would stop mountain climbing because his wife didn"t Iike it
B. his wife would stop him from mountain climbing
C. he himself would give up his love
D. Peter would continue his love and so he did | | 4. The writer had thought the only reason why Peter married was that the girl _____. | A. might be French living near the mountain, and from a mountaineer family
B. would not stop his climbing
C. perhaps came from France
D. might live near the mountain | | 5. Peter and Anna"s marriage is probably _____. | A. a failure because neither of them loved the other"s love
B. happy because each of them respected the other"s love
C. painful because either of them would do their own thing
D. a mistake because either of them wouldn"t care the other"s love | | 完形填空。 | The child in the hospital bed was just waking up after having a throat (喉咙) operation. His throat 1 ,
and he was afraid. However, the young nurse 2 by his bed smiled so 3 that the little boy smiled back.
He 4 to be afraid. The young nurse was May Paxton 5 she was deaf (聋的). May Paxton graduated
6 the Missouri School for the Deaf near the year 1909. Three years 7 she went to see Dr. Richardson
about 8 a nurse. Dr. Richardson was one of the founders of Mercy Hospital of Kansas City: 9 had
never heard of a deaf nurse. She told May that her 10 would be very low and that the work would be 11 .
However, May said that hard work did not frighten her. Dr. Richardson was 12 her, and accepted May as
a student nurse.
Dr. Richardson never 13 her decision. 14 , she was so pleased with May"s work that she later accepted
two other deaf women as student nurses. The 15 was Miss Marian Finch, who was hard of 16 . The second
was Miss Lillie Bessie. These three were 17 "the silent angels (天使) of Mercy Hospital" during the 18 they
worked there.
Dr. Richardson often 19 her faith in the girls" ability to learn nursing. She wrote to May, "For three years,
you have been with us...It is wonderful to me that no man, 20 or child ever, to my knowledge, made a
complaint (投诉) against you..." | ( )1. A. cut
( )2. A. standing
( )3. A. shyly
( )4. A. continued
( )5. A. for
( )6. A. as
( )7. A. later
( )8. A. seeking
( )9. A. You
( )10. A. money
( )11. A. easy
( )12. A. angry with
( )13. A. regretted
( )14. A. In fact
( )15. A. one
( )16. A. reading
( )17. A. offered
( )18. A. year
( )19. A. spoke of
( )20. A. person | B. hurt
B. jumping
B. sadly
B. began
B. so
B. from
B. before
B. changing
B. She
B. check
B. disappointing
B. satisfied with
B. thought of
B. In a hurry
B. others
B. hearing
B. chosen
B. month
B. said
B. woman | C. wounded
C. lying
C. cheerfully
C. stopped
C. and
C. with
C. ago
C. hiring
C. We
C. pay
C. joyful
C. sorry for
C. liked
C. In surprise
C. first
C. listening
C. told
C. time
C. heard of
C. boy | D. damaged
D. crying
D. weakly
D. forgot
D. but
D. in
D. then
D. becoming
D. He
D. price
D. difficult
D. ashamed of
D. believed
D. In public
D. other
D. writing
D. called
D. term
D. noticed
D. girl | | 阅读理解。 | The famous director of a big and expensive movie planned to film a beautiful sunset over the ocean, so
that the audiences could see his hero and heroine in front of it at the end of the film as they said goodbye
to each other forever. He sent his camera crew out one evening to film the sunset for him.
The next morning he said to the men, "Have you provided me with that sunset?"
"No, sir," the men answered.
The director was angry. "Why not?" he asked.
"Well, sir," one of the men answered, "we"re on the east coast here, and the sun sets in the west. We
can get you a sunrise over the sea, if necessary, but not a sunset."
"But I want a sunset!" the director shouted. "Go to the airport, take the next flight to the west coast,
and get one."
But then a young secretary had an idea. "Why don"t you photograph a sunrise," she suggested, "and
then play it backwards? Then it"ll look like a sunset."
"That"s a very good idea!" the director said. Then he turned to the camera crew and said, "Tomorrow
morning I want you to get me a beautiful sunrise over the sea."
The camera crew went out early the next morning and filmed a bright sunrise over the beach in the
middle of a beautiful bay. Then at nine o"clock they took it to the director. "Here it is, sir," they said, and
gave it to him. He was very pleased.
They all went into the studio. "All right," the director explained, "now our hero and heroine are going
to say goodbye. Run the film backwards so that we can see the sunset behind them."
The "sunset" began, but after a quarter of a minute, the director suddenly put his face in his hands
and shouted to the camera crew to stop.
The birds in the film were flying backwards, and the waves on the sea were going away from the beach. | | 1. One evening, the director sent his camera crew out _____. | A. to film a scene on the sea
B. to find an actor and an actress
C. to watch a beautiful sunset
D. to meet the audience | | 2. Why did the director want to send his crew to the west coast? | A. Because he changed his mind about getting a sunset.
B. Because he was angry with his crew.
C. Because he wanted to get a scene of sunset.
D. Because it was his secretary"s suggestion. | | 3. The director wanted to film a sunset over the ocean because _____. | A. it went well with the separation of the hero and heroine
B. when they arrived at the beach it was already in the evening
C. it was more moving than a sunrise
D. the ocean looked more beautiful at sunset | | 4. After the "sunset" began, the director suddenly put his face in his hands _____. | A. because he was moved to tears
B. as he saw everything in the film moving backwards
C. as the sunrise did not look as beautiful as he had imagined
D. because he was disappointed with the performance of the hero and heroine | | 5. Which of the following is NOT true? | A. The crew had to follow the secretary"s advice (忠告).
B. If you want to see a sunrise, the east coat is the place to go.
C. The camera crew wasn"t able to film the scene the first day.
D. The director ordered his crew to stop filming the "sunset". |
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