There is a wonderful fable about a young orphan girl who had no family and no one to love her. One day,
feeling particularly 1 , she was walking through a meadow 2 she noticed a small butterfly 3 in a thorn
bush. The more the butterfly 4 to free itself, the 5 the thorns cut into its body. The young orphan girl
carefully 6 the butterfly from its captivity (围困). 7 flying away, the little butterfly changed into a beautiful
fairy. The young girl rubbed her eyes in 8 .
"For your 9 kindness," the good fairy said to the girl, "I will grant (给予) you any 10 you would like."
The little girl thought for a moment and then replied, "I want to be 11 !" The fairy said, "Very well," and
leaned toward her, 12 in her ear. Then the good fairy disappeared. 13 the little girl grew up, there was no
one in the land as happy as she. Everyone asked her the 14 of her happiness. She would only answer, "It is
that I 15 a good fairy when I was a little girl."
When she was very old and on her deathbed, the neighbors all gathered around her, 16 that her fabulous
secret of happiness would die with her. "Tell us, please," they 17 , "Tell us what the good fairy said."
The lovely old woman 18 and said, "She told me that everyone, no matter how 19 they seemed, no matter
how old or young, how rich or poor, had 20 of me. If I would be loved, love and be lovable." |
( )1. A. mean
( )2. A. while
( )3. A. stayed
( )4. A. expected
( )5. A. more
( )6. A. released
( )7. A. In spite of
( )8. A. despair
( )9. A. wonderful
( )10. A. promise
( )11. A. happy
( )12. A. gossiping
( )13. A. Once
( )14. A. purpose
( )15. A. listened to
( )16. A. confused
( )17. A. urged
( )18. A. relaxed
( )19. A. secure
( )20. A. memory | B. unfit
B. when
B. lying
B. struggled
B. bigger
B. approached
B. Owing to
B. relief
B. generous
B. fortune
B. famous
B. whispering
B. Before
B. incident
B. heard from
B. certain
B. begged
B. smiled
B. anxious
B. sympathy | C. comfortable
C. though
C. caught
C. hoped
C. more painful
C. helped
C. As for
C. disbelief
C. brave
C. wish
C. rich
C. telling
C. As
C. cause
C. dreamt of
C. doubtful
C. shouted
C. wept
C. unsafe
C. confidence | D. lonely
D. as
D. playing
D. managed
D. deeper
D. assisted
D. Instead of
D. admiration
D. magical
D. belief
D. powerful
D. shouting
D. Until
D. secret
D. relied on
D. afraid
D. informed
D. sighed
D. wealthy
D. need | | 完形填空。 | I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be 1
Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, "What would I say when the
other kids asked what I"d 2 ?" Just when I started to 3 that there would not be a Christmas that year,
three women 4 at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll, I felt such a sense of
5 that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn"t 6 . Somebody
had thought 7 of me to bring me a gift.
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my 8
Christmas there special and memorable, I 9 remembered the women"s visit. I decided that I wanted to
create that same feeling of 10 for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I 11 a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans
(孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and
school suppliers, 12 with a child"s name. We wanted all of them to know they were 13 . Before I called
out their names and handed them their gifts, I 14 them that they couldn"t open their presents 15 every
child had come forward. Finally the 16 they had been waiting for came as I called out, "One, two, three.
Open your presents!" As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles 17
up the room. The 18 in the room was obvious, and 19 wasn"t just about toys. It was a feeling-the feeling
I knew 20 that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn"t forgotten. Somebody
thought of me. I matter. | ( )1. A. sending
( )2. A. found
( )3. A. doubt
( )4. A. broke in
( )5. A. relief
( )6. A. blamed
( )7. A. highly
( )8. A. present
( )9. A. hardly
( )10. A. strength
( )11. A. kept up with
( )12. A. none
( )13. A. fine
( )14. A. reminded
( )15. A. after
( )16. A. chance
( )17. A. lit
( )18. A. atmosphere
( )19. A. it
( )20. A. by | B. receiving
B. prepared
B. hope
B. settled down
B. loss
B. loved
B. little
B. first
B. immediately
B. independence
B. caught up with
B. few
B. special
B. suggested
B. until
B. gift
B. took
B. sympathy (同情)
B. such
B. till | C. making
C. got
C. suggest
C. turned up
C. achievement
C. forgotten
C. poorly
C. recent
C. regularly
C. importance
C. came up with
C. some
C. helpful
C. convinced
C. when
C. moment
C. burned
C. calmness
C. something
C. for | D. exchanging
D. expected
D. accept
D. showed off
D. disappointment
D. affected
D. enough
D. previous
D. occasionally
D. safety
D. put up with
D. each
D. normal
D. prom ised
D. since
D. reward
D. cheered
D. joy
D. everybody
D. from | | 阅读理解。 | When I was growing up in America, I was ashamed of my mother"s Chinese English. Because of her
English, she was often treated unfairly. People in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take
her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not
hear her.
My mother has realized the limitations of her English as well. When I was fifteen, she used to have me
call people on phone to pretend I was she. I was forced to ask for information or even to yell at people who
had been rude to her. One time I had to call her stockbroker (股票经纪人). I said in an adolescent (青春期的)
voice that was not very convincing, "This is Mrs. Tan.."
And my mother was standing beside me, whispering loudly, "Why he don"t send me check already two
week late." And then, in perfect English I said:"I"m getting rather concerned. You agreed to send the check
two weeks ago, but it hasn"t arrived."
Then she talked more loudly. "What he want? I come to New York tell him front of his boss." And so I
turned to the stockbroker again, "I can"t tolerate any more excuse. If I don"t receive the check immediately,
I am going to have to speak to your manager when I am in New York next week." The next week we ended
up in New York. While I was sitting there red-faced, my mother, the real Mrs.Tan, was shouting to his boss
in her broken English.
When I was a teenager, my mother"s broken English embarrassed me. But now, I see it differently. To me,
my mother"s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It is my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is
vivid, direct, and full of observation and wisdom. It was the language that helped shape the way I saw things,
expressed ideas, and made sense of the world. | | 1. Why was the author"s mother poorly served? | | [ ] | A. She was unable to speak good English.
B. She was often misunderstood.
C. She was not clearly heard.
D. She was not very polite. | | 2. From Paragraph 2, we know that the author was _____. | | [ ] | A. good at pretending
B. rude to the stockbroker
C. ready to help her mother
D. unwilling to phone for her mother | | 3. After the author made the phone call, _____. | | [ ] | A. they forgave the stockbroker
B. they failed to get the check
C. they went to New York immediately
D. they spoke to their boss at once | | 4. What does the author think of her mother"s English now? | | [ ] | A. It confuses her.
B. It embarrasses her.
C. It helps her understand the world.
D. It helps her tolerate rude people. | | 阅读理解。 | I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The announcement in the paper
said that you could buy tickets at the theater box office in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since
I work from 9 o"clock to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theater was during my 45-minute lunch break.
Unfortunately, the theater is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland
Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday, I stood at
the bus stop for fifteen minutes waiting for a bus. By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not
enough time left to make the trip-so I gave up and went back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesda
y, and again on Wednesday. On Thursday, my luck changed, I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre
in exactly twenty minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard
one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line,
I caught the next bus and headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip
by taxi. It was expensive, but I felt it would be worth hearing the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes,
but it felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line.
The reason, I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets. | | 1. The writer is probably _____. | | [ ] | A. worker
B. a college teacher
C. manager of a company
D. a clerk | | 2. He learned _____ that there would be a concert last Friday. | | [ ] | A. from his friends
B. from one of his colleagues
C. over the radio
D. from the newspaper | | 3. He could go and buy the ticket _____. | | [ ] | A. any day before work hours
B. both before and after work hours
C. only during lunch time
D. on Saturday and Sunday | | 4. The word "relieved" in the last two sentences may best be replaced by "_____". | | [ ] | A. surprised
B. pleased
C. puzzled
D. sorry | | 5. The story is about _____. | | [ ] | A. a good concert
B. someone enjoying a good concert
C. someone trying to buy concert tickets for his friends
D. someone"s disappointment at not being able to go to the concert | Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A. B. C. and D.
Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. | This is a true story that happened in Japan. In order to repair a house with a history of 10 years, someone
in Japan tore open the walls (Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls.)
While painting the walls, he found that there was a lizard 1 there because a nail from outside had been
hammered into one of its feet. Seeing this, he felt pity and at the same time 2 . When he checked the nail,
he found it was nailed 10 years ago when the house was first built.
What happened? The lizard had survived in such a 3 for 10 years-in a dark wall partition for 10 years
without moving! It was incredible. He wondered how this lizard had survived for 10 years without moving
a single step-since its foot was nailed!
So, he stopped his work and 4 the lizard: what has it been doing and what has it been 5 . Later, he
didn"t know from where 6 lizard appeared, with food in its mouth… AHHH! He was astonished and touched
deeply. The lizard that was stuck by the nail had been fed by this 7 lizard. Just imagine it had been doing
this for 10 tiresome years, 8 giving up hope for its partner!
Before hearing the story, I watched a program on a father who kept digging in the ruins caused by an
earthquake for 38 hours before finding his son, despite the dangers of fires and aftershocks. He talked about
his 9 to his son: No matter what happens, I"ll always be there for you!
What beautiful love that occurred between both humans and such 10 creatures as lizards! The relationship
between the two lizards remains unknown, 11 no matter what it is, the love between them has done a 12 .
So never abandon your loved ones. | ( )1. A. show
( )2. A. angry
( )3. A. wall
( )4. A. observed
( )5. A. living on
( )6. A. other
( )7. A. able
( )8. A. before
( )9. A. suggestion
( )10. A. clever
( )11. A. but
( )12. A. joke | B. hidden
B. satisfied
B. room
B. helped
B. working on
B. any
B. free
B. after
B. lesson
B. strange
B. though
B. warning | C. stuck
C. worried
C. position
C. followed
C. playing with
C. more
C. busy
C. with
C. promise
C. tiny
C. and
C. wonder | D. killed
D. curious
D. roof
D. kept
D. finding out
D. another
D. dull
D. without
D. requirement
D. terrible
D. for
D. mistake |
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