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Mom is usually home on Sunday but this week she was going to a big golf game and I was all alone in
the house. I was mad at Mom for divorcing Dad.
I kept looking at the telephone until I couldn"t stand it any longer. I picked up the receiver and dialed Dad"s
number over in Bakersfield. I even remembered to dial 1 first because it was long distance."You promised to
phone me this week but you didn"t," I said, feeling I had to talk to him.
"Take it easy, kid," he said. "I just didn"t get around to it. I was going to call this evening. The week isn"t
over yet."
I thought about that.
"Something on your mind?" he asked.
"I hoped you would call, so I waited and waited." Then I was sorry I said it.
"There was heavy snow in the morning," he said, "I had to chain up on highway 80 and lost time."
I know putting chains on eight big wheels in the snow is no fun. I felt a little better, as long as we were
talking. "How is Bandit?" I asked.
There was a funny silence. For a minute I thought the line was dead. Then I knew something must have
happened to my dog.
"Well, kid", he began. "My name is Leigh!" I almost yelled. "I"m not just some kid you met on the street!"
"Keep your shirt on, Leigh," he said. "When I had to stop along with some other truckers to put on chains,
I left Bandit out of the cab, I thought he would get back … I have sent out a call to CB radio, but I didn"t get
an answer yet." I was about to say I understood when there came the bad part, the really bad part. I heard a
boy"s voice say, "Hey, Bill, Mom wants to know when we"re going out to get the pizza?"
B. Leigh was a deserted boy
C. Leigh"s dad lived in another city
D. Leigh"s mother often went to golf games
B. It was let out of the cab and got lost
C. It was killed by a truck.
D. It ran off Highway 80 and into the mountain.
B. Stop talking
C. Calm down
D. Keep warm
B. his parents got divorced
C. his dad didn"t love him
D. his mom didn"t take him to pizza
答案
核心考点
举一反三
doorstep, knock on the door, and then run away as fast as our legs could 2 us. It was delightful to peer
(窥视) around a bush and watch our friends open their 3 and pick up the colorful gift, 4 who had left
it out for them.
I clearly 5 the May Day of the year when I turned ten. That year I was faced with a (an) 6 involving
one of my dearest friends, Pam. We had studied and 7 together nearly every day, but things 8 after a
new family had moved into our small town. Pam was spending more and more time at their house and I felt
9 and left out.
When my mother asked me 10 I was going to take a May Day basket to Pam"s house, I responded 11 ,
"Absolutely not! I hate Pam." I began to cry.
Mom wiped away my 12 and told me that things and people change. She explained that one of the
greatest things friends can do is to give each other a 13 to grow, to change and to develop, and that it"s 14
for one"s friends to spend time with other people.
I 15 decided to give Pam a basket as a sign of forgiveness, and asked my sister to help me do it. As we
watched from our 16 place, Pam picked up the basket and said loudly enough for us to hear, "Thank you,
Susie, I hoped you wouldn"t 17 me!"
That day, I made a 18 that changed my life: I decided to hold my friends tightly in my heart, but 19 in
my expectations of them, allowing them 20 to grow and to change-with or without me.
| ( )1. A. hang ( )2. A. send ( )3. A. baskets ( )4. A. asking ( )5. A. remember ( )6. A. plan ( )7. A. lived ( )8. A. failed ( )9. A. started ( )10. A. why ( )11. A. anxiously ( )12. A. tears ( )13. A. reason ( )14. A. able ( )15. A. nearly ( )16. A. covering ( )17. A. miss ( )18. A. decision ( )19. A. deeply ( )20. A. time | B. place B. transport B. eyes B. wondering B. experience B. task B. played B. finished B. hurt B. what B. weakly B. thoughts B. means B. impossible B. hardly B. hiding B. forget B. mistake B. shortly B. space | C. throw C. carry C. arms C. mentioning C. remind C. opportunity C. traveled C. changed C. paid C. whether C. angrily C. unhappiness C. chance C. acceptable C. finally C. cheering C. disturb C. suggestion C. highly C. sense | D. give D. support D. doors D. informing D. grasp D. challenge D. discussed D. proved D. injured D. how D. happily D. freedom D. direction D. doubtful D. generally D. passing D. control D. difference D. loosely D. care | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| There"s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella. At first I couldn"t stand it, now I"m used to it. I don"t know his name. I know he"s average in appearance, wears a gray suit, and has a common face. I met him five years ago one hot morning when I was sitting on a tree-shaded bench in Palermo Park, reading the paper. Suddenly I felt something touch my head. It was the very same man who now, as I"m writing, keeps hitting me, mechanically (机械地) and impassively, with an umbrella. On that occasion I turned around filled with anger. He just kept on hitting me. I asked him if he was crazy, he didn"t even seem to hear me. Then I threatened to call a policeman. Calmly, cool as a cucumber, he stuck with his task. After a few moments of hesitation, and seeing that he was not about to change his attitude, I stood up and hit him on the nose. The man fell down, but he immediately got back on his feet, obviously with great effort, and without a word again began hitting me on the head with the umbrella. His nose was bleeding and, at that moment, I felt sorry for him. I felt regret for having hit him so hard. After all, the man wasn"t exactly hitting me; he was merely tapping me lightly with his umbrella, not causing any pain at all. Of course, those taps were extremely bothersome. As we all know, when a fly lands on your forehead, you don"t feel any pain; what you feel is annoyance. Well then, that umbrella was one huge fly that kept landing on my head time after time. Convinced that I was dealing with a madman, I tried to escape. But the man followed me, wordlessly continuing to hit me. So I began to run (I should point out that not many people run as fast as I do). He took off after me, trying to land a blow. The man was out of breath so that I thought, if I continued to force him to run at that speed, he would drop dead right then and there. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. When the man began to strike the author with an umbrella, the author ______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A. became angry B. called the police C. turned around and escaped D. turned around and fought back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. The author would most probably agree that the man was ______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A. deaf B. blind C. dead D. mad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. The author felt sorry for the man because ______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A. the man formed a bad habit of beating others B. he hit the man so hard that his nose bled C. the man couldn"t catch up with him D. there was a fly on the man"s head | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. It can be learned from the passage that the man ______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A. shouted loudly while hitting the author B. wanted to tell the author something C. ran after the author breathlessly D. acted as if he were a fly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A mother and daughter living in my community are two of the most unfriendly people I have ever come across in my life. They are totally separated, mixing with 1 . As they drive past 2 they keep their eyes looking away and make no sign of acknowledgement. The only fame they have is making a nuisance (讨厌 的人) of themselves to the local police station by 3 music played too loud, dogs barking more than once a day and any other petty 4 gripe (把柄). On moving into this neighborhood, I was 5 of these two but decided I would make up my own mind. This proved quite a 6 to me as more than once either the mother or the daughter would knock on my door and blast (猛烈抨击) me with some 7 or other. I 8 answered politely and made sure I 9 as they went past my place and also made the effort now and then to make a kind remark about their garden or pets. Time passed and in October, as part of the Kindness Rock Give (送爱心石活动), Maureen and I 10 to place a kindness rock in their garden. Their 11 remained unchanged, however, and I continued to be as friendly as possible. During the Easter, we decided once again to 12 these two unhappy ladies to our list and left a packet of cookies on their 13 . Imagine my 14 when two days later they 15 at my gate and jokingly said they are considering hanging their Christmas stocking on their gate, and they 16 me a bunch of flowers! So, my fellow gifters, do not 17 on your random gifts of kindness. You may never know just what this 18 to others, nor how many broken or 19 hearted people you may just change with a simple act of 20 . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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