Mr. Dawson was an old grouch (脾气坏的人), and everyone in town knew it. 1 knew
not to go into his yard to pick an apple, because old Dawson would come after you with his
gun.
One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was walking out with her friend Amy. They 2 go by
Dawson"s house, but as they got close Janet saw him 3 on his front porch (门廊) and
suggested they cross over the street. Like most, she was 4 of the old man.
Amy said not to worry. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his usual
frown, 5 when he saw it was Amy, he gave a(n) 6 smile. Amy smiled back and told him
Janet was 7 overnight with her to listen to music and play games. Dawson told them that
sounded fun, and gave them each a(n) 8 .
Later, Janet asked Amy:"Everyone says he"s the meanest man in town. 9 he was so nice
to us?" Amy explained that when she 10 started walking past his house he wasn"t very friendly,
but she pretended he was wearing a(n) 11 smile and so she always smiled. It took a while,
but one day he half-smiled 12 . After a while, he started smiling real smiles and then talked to
her. She said he always 14 her an apple now, and is always very kind.
"An invisible smile?" questioned Janet. "Yes," answered Amy, "My grandma told me that if I
pretended I wasn"t 14 and pretended he was smiling an invisible smile at me and I smiled back
at him, 15 he would really smile."
If we remember that 16 wears an invisible smile, we too will find that most people can"t 17
our sunniness after a while. We"re always on the go trying to 18 so much, aren"t we? It"s so easy
to get caught up in everyday life that we forget how easily we can bring 19 to ourselves and others.
Giving a smile 20 so little efforts; let"s make sure that we"re not the ones that others have to pretend
are wearing invisible smiles. |
( )1. A. Students
( )2. A. used to
( )3. A. standing
( )4. A. surprised
( )5. A. and
( )6. A. forced
( )7. A. living
( )8. A. apple
( )9. A. What if
( )10. A. at first
( )11. A. real
( )12. A. back
( )13. A. buys
( )14. A. happy
( )15. A. sooner or later
( )16. A. someone
( )17. A. resist
( )18. A. pretend
( )19. A. cheer
( )20. A. makes | B. Boys
B. might
B. waiting
B. scared
B. so
B. invisible
B. staying
B. smile
B. How come
B. once
B. broad
B. away
B. offers
B. afraid
B. at times
B. anyone
B. prevent
B. work
B. smile
B. takes | C. Strangers
C. had to
C. sitting
C. curious
C. as
C. broad
C. coming
C. coin
C. For why
C. first
C. invisible
C. to
C. shows
C. satisfied
C. in the meantime
C. everyone
C. receive
C. accomplish
C. kindness
C. spends | D. Kids
D. could
D. leaning
D. pleased
D. but
D. stiff
D. going
D. candy
D. Why not
D. ever
D. awkward
D. again
D. takes
D. worried
D. once in a while
D. no one
D. remember
D. smile
D. friendship
D. costs |
| 1-5: DCCBD 6-10: CBABC 11-15: CABBA 16-20: CACAB |
核心考点
试题【完形填空。 Mr. Dawson was an old grouch (脾气坏的人), and everyone in town knew it. 1 】；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。 | I"ll be the first to admit that I am a technophobe (对技术有恐惧感的人). Who would
have guessed that a website would help repay a 20-year-old loan?
I"ll always remember my last day at school. My best friend, Jenny, had organized a
party in the Sixth Form Common Room. Jenny asked me to go to the supermarket with her to
buy all the snacks. "I"m really looking forward to this party, Stingy (小气)," she said.
Everyone called me Stingy instead of Debbie because they thought I didn"t like to spend
money. Actually, it was true.
"There"s lots of money in the kitty. Let"s go crazy!" Going crazy meant buying enough
snacks to feed an army. It came to￡19.90, which was a lot of money in 1982. Jenny gave
me a guilty look. "I"ve left the kitty money in the common room. Can you pay and I"ll give
you back the money?"
"Sure," I replied, trying to look relaxed." Neither a lender nor a borrower be" was
my motto but I didn"t want to look stingy. I gave ￡20 to the impatient shop assistant.
Well, the party was a great success-so great that I completely forgot about my loan
until I was flying to America the next day. I was going to live with my uncle"s family
until I started university.
I tried to get in touch with Jenny but her family had moved. My ￡20 was lost. Until…
I"d heard about a website called Friends Reunited which helped people contact old
school friends. My husband helped me log on and find my school. There she was, Jenny
Frost.
"I"m now married, with a beautiful daughter called Debbie. Does anyone know how to
get in touch with Debbie "Stingy" Jones? I still owe her ￡20!"
We met two months later and the ￡20 was returned, plus interest of course. After
all, I"m a bank manager now, so loans are my business. | | 1. Why did Jenny spend a lot of money on the snacks? | | [ ] | A. Debbie had money.
B. There was money she could use.
C. She wanted to be crazy.
D. She wanted Debbie to stop being stingy. | | 2. How did Debbie get her money at last? | | [ ] | A. Her husband found Jenny.
B. Jenny had a website on the Internet.
C. Debbie met Jenny by chance.
D. Debbie put a message on the Friends Reunited website. | | 3. Which sentence best describes Debbie Jones? | | [ ] | A. She didn"t like to spend money at school and doesn"t like using computers.
B. She sometimes lends money and doesn"t like using computers.
C. She sometimes lends money and uses the computer whenever she can.
D. She only lends money to friends and doesn"t like using computers. | | 4. We know from the passage that Jenny _____. | | [ ] | A. liked parties at school and felt guilty about borrowing money
B. had fun at school but soon forgot about her school friends
C. forgot her best friends at school until she saw the Friends Reunited website
D. was forgetful about the money | | 完形填空。 | I was cleaning out an old box when an old card caught my eye: Queen City Casket
Company. "What is it?" I wondered. I 1 it over. There, on the back in faded ink, was a
hand-scrawled (手写的) 2 . Immediately my mind traveled 3 many years.
I was nine years old, walking down the cold, wet streets of Springfield, with a bag
of magazines on my shoulder. On my 4 that day, I came to that Company finally, whose
owner, Mr Rader, had always taken me there to ask his workers 5 they wanted any
magazines.
Shaking off the 6 like a wet dog, I entered Mr. Rader"s office. After a quick glance
he 7 me over to the fire-place. Noticing the 8 in the top of my 9 , he said, "Come
with me!" pulling me into his 10 and drove me downtown. We pulled to a stop before a
shoe store. Inside, a salesman 11 me with the finest pair of Oxfords I had 12 seen.
I 13 several inches tall when I got up 14 them. "We"d like a pair of new socks too,"
Mr. Rader said.
Back in his office, Mr. Rader took out a 15 , wrote something on it, and handed it
to me. With 16 eyes, I read, "Do to others as you would have them do to you." He said
affectionately (深情地), "Jimmy, I want you to 17 I love you".
I said good-bye, and for the first time I 18 the hope that things would be 19 .
With people like Mr. Rader in the world, there was hope, kindness and love, and that
would always make a 20 . | ( )1. A. read
( )2. A. address
( )3. A. forward
( )4. A. return
( )5. A. if only
( )6. A. dust
( )7. A. led
( )8. A. hole
( )9. A. magazine
( )10. A. truck
( )11. A. wore
( )12. A. ever
( )13 A. grew
( )14. A. for
( )15. A. pen
( )16. A. tearful
( )17. A. recognize
( )18. A. sensed
( )19. A. mistaken
( )20. A. deal | B. thought
B. list
B. so
B. rounds
B. how
B. sweat
B. followed
B. mud
B. shoe
B. factory
B. fitted
B. already
B. measured
B. with
B. paper
B. believable
B. know
B. received
B. bad
B. fortune | C. turned
C. message
C. ahead
C. trip
C. whether
C. tail
C. watched
C. water
C. sock
C. home
C. lent
C. never
C. rose
C. on
C. card
C. terrible
C. consider
C. lost
C. all right
C. choice | D. passed
D. information
D. back
D. arrival
D. why
D. rain
D. carried
D. cover
D. bag
D. store
D. comforted
D. hardly
D. felt
D. in
D. notebook
D. puzzling
D. express
D. imagined
D. impossible
D. difference | | 阅读理解。 | Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to pick up a passenger
at 2:30 a.m.. When I arrived to collect, I found the building was dark except for a single
light in a ground floor window.
I walked to the door and knocked, "Just a minute," answered a weak, elderly voice.
After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her eighties stood before me.
By her side was a small suitcase.
I took the suitcase to the car, and then returned to help the woman. She took my arm
and we walked slowly toward the car.
She kept thanking me for my kindness. "It"s nothing," I told her. "I just try to treat
my passengers the way I would want my mother treated."
"Oh, you"re such a good man." She said. When we got into the taxi, she gave me an
address, and then asked, "Could you drive through downtown?"
"It"s not the shortest way," I answered quickly.
"Oh, I"m in no hurry," she said. "I"m on my way to a hospice (临终医院). I don"t have
any family left. The doctor says I don"t have very long."
I quietly reached over and shut off the meter (计价器).
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where
she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived, and the furniture shop that had
once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she"d ask me to slow down in front of a particular building and would sit
staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
At dawn, she suddenly said, "I"m tired. Let"s go now."
We drove in silence to the address she had given me.
"How much do I owe you?" she asked.
"Nothing." I said.
"You have to make a living," she answered. "Oh, there are other passengers," I
answered.
Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly. Our
hug ended with her remark, "You gave an old woman a little moment of joy." | | 1. The old woman chose to ride through the city in order to _____. | | [ ] | A. show she was familiar with the city
B. see some places for the last time
C. let the driver earn more money
D. reach the destination on time | | 2. The taxi driver did not charge the old woman because he _____. | | [ ] | A. wanted to do her a favor
B. shut off the meter by mistake
C. had received her payment in advance
D. was in a hurry to take other passengers | | 3. What can we learn from the story? | | [ ] | A. Giving is always a pleasure.
B. People should respect each other.
C. An act of kindness can bring people great joy.
D. People should learn to appreciate others" concern. | | 阅读理解。 | I had been to several doctors as a child, but I have a special place in my heart for
Dr. Vincent. He was a Pediatric Cardiologist at UCLA back in 1971 who saved my
life. I was eight years old at the time with a severe heart problem and I needed heart
surgery. My Mom did not have the money, and without the surgery there was a real
good chance I would not live to be thirteen years old. After contacting several
organizations, Dr. Vincent was able to get financial help for me through United Way,
a Crippled Children"s Organization.
Dr. Vincent was a handsome man; he was also very gentle and caring. I remember
being in the hospital for an Angiogram test, and during the procedure I was crying
terribly, so the medical staff called in Dr. Vincent to calm me down, and he was able
to comfort me when no one else could. Then the time came for me to have heart
surgery; there was a fifty-percent chance that I would not make it through the surgery
because it was experimental. At the time I was only the second or third person to have
this procedure done. I was absolutely terrified, and again Dr. Vincent reassured me he
would see to it that everything would be all right.
I had a lot of confidence and trust in Dr. Vincent; He came to see me after the surgery,
which was extremely painful but very successful, and brought me a stuffed animal. I was
so surprised to get this gift from Dr. Vincent; I gave him a hug. I guess Dr. Vincent must
have known I was feeling very lonely and scared. You see, I had no family or friends to
visit me while I was in the hospital except for my Mom, and I am not sure why. I do know
one thing; I had a wonderful doctor who took the time to help a scared little girl who felt
all alone.
This was twenty eight years ago, so wherever you are Dr. Vincent, I want to thank you
for not only saving my life, but you helped me live a normal productive life, and for showing
me that you truly cared, for that I will be eternally grateful to you. | | 1. Why did Dr. Vincent have a special place in her heart? Because _____. | | [ ] | A. Dr.Vincent was handsome
B. Dr.Vincent was caring and kind
C. Dr.Vincent carried out the operation.
D. Dr.Vincent offered the money the operation needed. | | 2. Dr.Vincent was called in during my test to _____. | | [ ] | A. feed her
B. comfort her
C. scare her
D. have the surgery. | | 3. Which of the following is true except _____. | | [ ] | A. the operation was experimental
B. she didn"t trust in Dr. Vincent
C. the operation would be extremely painful
D. she felt scared and all alone | | 4. How did Dr. Vincent get the money for the operation? | | [ ] | A. He collected it in the hospital.
B. He saved the money day by day.
C. He got help from an organization.
D. He borrowed the money from his friends. | | 阅读理解。 | I still remember the days when I was a youthful student in an engineering school. I
lived a casual life, without caring about the future. I smoked, drank with friends and
made girl friends. Little did I realize that casualness would certainly lead to loss.
Two years had passed and I was staring down a report card that highlighted FAIL in
more than half the subjects. I didn"t care, at least not till my dad found out about it.
You see, I studied in India and unlike the United States where the students are expected
to finance their own education, my dad financed me.
Then came the day when my dad found out my habit of smoking. He lost his temper
but he just told me, "Son, your allowance is cut in half from this moment on". It hit me
like a roundhouse kick (回旋踢) from Bruce Lee. I was jolted (震摇) out of my bones!
I couldn"t comprehend how to pay off the debts that I had accumulated in college. I owed
everybody money: the grocery store, the bars, the restaurants, my friends, etc. I was living
a life filled with credit.
When I went back to college, I knew that if I don"t change the way I live my life I
won"t be able to pay everybody off. So I decided to make some changes, drastic changes.
I quit smoking, cut off from my friends who led me down the wrong road, starting hanging
out in libraries and reading my engineering books.
One year later, I went from a miserable failure to a magna cum laude (优等成绩). Life
was never the same again. This incident made me know that anything is possible if you take
action and do something about it, however small or large. Even today it still motivates me
when I feel that I"m about to lose or give up. It reminds me that I can do it! | | 1. The author wrote this text with the purpose of _____. | | [ ] | A. introducing his university life to the teenage readers
B. encouraging those lazy students to study hard at school
C. showing you can overcome any difficulty if you take action
D. calling on the readers not to develop bad habits in college | | 2. The author didn"t care about his study until _____. | | [ ] | A. he entered the engineering school
B. he was in heavy debt he couldn"t bear
C. he decided to give up smoking
D. his allowance was cut in half | | 3. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means that the author _____. | | [ ] | A. paid off his debt and life wasn"t hard for him any more
B. removed his bad habits and didn"t lead a casual life
C. never hung out with his friends but studied all day
D. began to live a happy life due to his good grades | | 4. Which of the following statements is TRUE? | | [ ] | A. Students tended to earn money for college expenses in America.
B. The author did well in making good friends in the school.
C. The author made great progress with the help of his friends.
D. Students were encouraged to do part-time jobs in Indian schools. |
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