One misfortune led to another, and that"s how Alexandra came to live with my family. Within days, she
packed and 1 her family behind to live with us. She walked into our house as a 2 , nervous and
uncomfortable, smiling 3 but finally feeling safe. At first, she spent most of her time in her room, only
showing her face at dinner time. But each night she became more a 4 of our family.
Soon enough, I met the real Alexandra, a 5 girl who jumped at unexpected noises, had an unforgettable
laugh, and was somewhat misunderstood. She 6 right in with the weird mix of my family, bringing her own
sparkle (活力) to our 7 . After a while, I became very 8 to her. We painted each other"s nails and texted
inside jokes only a few feet away from 9 . She would even tease me like an older sister. I admired her because
she opened up to us 10 she had suffered so much. Through it all she was still the 11 person she had always
been.
She was not with us very long; she had dreams yet to realize. Her ambition was 12 , and she decided a local
college was 13 she would study English and Secondary Education. Because of my family she was able to
follow through with her 14 .
Without her, the house is quieter, lonelier, and 15 something. She showed me things no other person could,
lessons that cannot be taught but only understood through an 16 like this.
As I 17 back on the shadow she left, I question whether I could endure what she had. People say that what
my family did for her was a great act of unconditional 18 and sacrifice, but in my eyes what she did for me
was even greater. Though she is not 19 to me, she is a person I will always remember, not as an adopted sister
but as a do 20 one. |
( )1.A.left
( )2.A.loser
( )3.A.willingly
( )4.A.piece
( )5.A.pretty
( )6.A.joined
( )7.A.combination
( )8.A.friendly
( )9.A.one another
( )10.A.ever since
( )11.A.only
( )12.A.engineering
( )13.A.when
( )14.A.goals
( )15.A.covering
( )16.A.opportunity
( )17.A.bring
( )18.A.love
( )19.A.familiar
( )20.A.last | B.put
B.fool
B.occasionally
B.kind
B.sweet
B.matched
B.conversation
B.modest
B.us
B.as if
B.same
B.acting
B.which
B.opinions
B.missing
B.adventure
B.call
B.happiness
B.related
B.full | C.kept
C.stranger
C.broadly
C.role
C.worried
C.set
C.tradition
C.close
C.them
C.as far as
C.likely
C.teaching
C.whether
C.manners
C.holding
C.experience
C.feel
C.help
C.exposed
C.real | D.moved
D.trouble-maker
D.falsely
D.part
D.confident
D.fit
D.expectation
D.innocent
D.her
D.even though
D.other
D.learning
D.where
D.habits
D.destroying
D.explanation
D.look
D.dignity
D.ordinary
D.moral | | 完形填空。 | Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on
business. He enjoyed his 1 and traveling. Then, after returning to the United States from a 2 trip to
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), Mr. Cousins got sick. Because he had pushed his body to
3 of its strength on the trip, a change began to take place 4 him. The material between his bones
became 5 .
In less than one week after his return, he could not 6 . Every move that he 7 was painful. He was
not able to sleep at night. The doctors told him that they did not know how to cure Mr. Cousins" problem
and he might never 8 over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up 9 .
Mr. cousins thought that 10 thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He did not want
to take medicine to cure himself. 11 , he felt that happy thoughts or 12 might cure his illness. He began to
13 on himself while still in the hospital by watching funny shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found
that 10 minutes real laughter during the 14 gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night.
15 the doctors could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he
could 1 his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins tested in the hotel room watching funny
shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping 17 he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well 18
to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for 19 .
After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work. He had laughed himself back to 20 . | ( )1. A. time
( )2. A. boring
( )3. A. top
( )4. A. from
( )5. A. weak
( )6. A. speak
( )7. A. made
( )8. A. look
( )9. A. effort
( )10. A. foolish
( )11. A. Instead
( )12. A. sleep
( )13. A. rescue
( )14. A. day
( )15. A. Promising
( )16. A. invent
( )17. A. until
( )18. A. soon
( )19. A. exercise
( )20. A. power | B. holiday
B. tiring
B. degree
B. around
B. ill
B. breathe
B. did
B. get
B. hope
B. unusual
B. However
B. travel
B. operate
B. week
B. Deciding
B. begin
B. whenever
B. completely
B. illness
B. sense | C. sleep
C. dangerous
C. problem
C. inside
C. false
C. stand
C. took
C. turn
C. treatment
C. funny
C. Therefore
C. laughter
C. examine
C. month
C. Doubting
C. continue
C. unless
C. slowly
C. rest
C. health | D. work
D. pleasant
D. limit
D. beside
D. painful
D. see
D. gave
D. think
D. arrangement
D. unhappy
D. Otherwise
D. television
D. experiment
D. year
D. Recognizing
D. prove
D. so that
D. enough
D. pleasure
D. happiness | | 阅读理解。 | My father had returned from his business visit to London when I came in, rather late, to supper. I could
tell at once that he and my mother had been discussing something. In that half-playful, half-serious way I
knew so well, he said, "How would you like to go to Eton?"
"You bet," I cried quickly catching the joke. Everyone knew it was the most expensive, the most famous
of schools. You had to be entered at birth, if not before. Besides, even at 12 or 13, I understood my father.
He disliked any form of showing off. He always knew his proper station in life, which was in the middle of
the middle class, our house was medium-sized; he had avoided joining Royal Liverpool Golf Club and went
to a smaller one instead; though once he had got a second-hand Rolls-Royce at a remarkably low price, he
felt embarrassed driving it, and quickly changed it for an Austin 1100.
This could only be his delightful way of telling me that the whole boarding school idea was to be dropped.
Alas! I should also have remembered that he had a liking for being different from everyone else, if it did not
conflict (冲突) with his fear of drawing attention to himself.
It seemed that he had happened to be talking to Graham Brown of the London office, a very nice fellow,
and Graham had a friend who had just entered his boy at the school, and while he was in that part of the
world he thought he might just as well phone them. I remember my eyes stinging (刺痛) and my hands
shaking with the puzzlement of my feelings. There was excitement, at the heart of great sadness.
"Oh, he doesn"t want to go away," said my mother, "You shouldn"t go on like this." "It"s up to him," said
my father. "He can make up his own mind." | | 1. The house the writer"s family lived in was _____. | | [ ] | A. the best they could afford
B. right for their social position
C. for showing off
D. rather small | | 2. His father sold his Roils-Royce because _____. | | [ ] | A. it made him feel uneasy
B. it was too old to work well
C. it was too expensive to possess
D. it was too cheap | | 3. The writer"s father enjoyed being different as long as _____. | | [ ] | A. it drew attention to him
B. it didn"t bring him in arguments
C. it was understood as a joke
D. there was no danger of his showing off | | 4. What was the writer"s reaction to the idea of going to Eton? | | [ ] | A. He was very unhappy.
B. He didn"t believe it.
C. He was delighted.
D. He had mixed feelings. | | 5. We can know from the passage that _____. | | [ ] | A. Children who can go to Eton are very famous
B. Children can go to Eton if they will
C. It is very difficult for a child to get admitted by Eton
D. Children don"t have the right to decide whether they will go to Eton | | 阅读理解。 | Mr. Fitzpatrick has given much attention to his "Weight reduction" (减轻体重) programs. Just last year,
for example, when he was the main speaker at the company dinner, he said he put on twenty pounds instead
of losing thirty he promised he would.
The year before that, he joined a health club. He exercised every day and ate less food. At the end of three
months, however, he began making excuses about why he couldn"t go there more often.
After the health club failed to work, he joined Weight Watchers but stopped going because he was the only
man there. And he hated following any of the diet programs. Fitz"s latest idea is to join a walking club to "walk
off" the weight. | | 1. Mr. Fitzpatrick was _____ when spoke at the company dinner last year. | | [ ] | A. lighter than the year before
B. planning to go on a diet
C. heavier than the year before
D. with the Weight Watchers | | 2. He did not stay with Weight Watchers because _____. | | [ ] | A. he couldn"t do as the diet programs required him
B. he felt uncomfortable being watched by women
C. the members of Weight Watchers were all women but him
D. Both A and C | | 3. Which of the following can best explain the main idea of the passage? | | [ ] | A. There is no good way to lose weight.
B. One can do nothing without a strong will.
C. There are different ways to lose weight.
D. Walking is the best way of losing weight. | | 阅读理解。 | The man from the west stopped and drew back his arm. "You"re not Jimmy Wells," he said in a quick and
angry way, "Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man" nose from a Roman to pug."
"It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one," said the tall man, "you"ve been under arrest for ten minutes.
Silky Bob. Chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and phones us she wants to have a word with
you. Going quietly, are you? That"s sensible. Now before we go to the station here"s a note I was asked to hand
you. You may read it here at the window. It"s from Patrolman Wells.?" The man from the West opened the little
piece of paper handed him. His hand was steady when he began to read, but it trembled a little by the time he
finished. The note was rather short. Bob: I was at the right place on time. When you struck the match to light
your cigar I saw it was the face wanted in Chicago. Somehow I couldn"t do it myself, so I went around and
got a plain clothes man (便衣) to do the job. | | 1. The man from the West must have broken the law _____. | | [ ] | A. in Chicago
B. in New York
C. in his hometown
D. somewhere else | 2. The man from the West recognized the tall man not to be the one he had been waiting for because the tall
man _____. | | [ ] | A. had a different accent from his
B. had a different nose from his friend"s
C. was his another old friend
D. said "Chicago wants to talk with you?" | | 3. The two men may have walked _____. | | [ ] | A. for ten minutes
B. arm in arm
C. face to face
D. both A and B | | 4. We can suppose Jim _____. | | [ ] | A. was afraid of the man from the West
B. got another man to help him when necessary
C. had an appointment with Bob 20 years ago
D. had something else to do and couldn"t come himself |
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