Everyone has got two personalities一the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real．You don’t show your secret personality when you’re awake because you can control your behavior, but when you’re asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you．In a normal night，of course，people frequently change their position．The important position is the one that you go to sleep in．
●If you go to sleep on your back，you’re a very open person．You normally trust peop1e and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas．You don’t like to upset people，so you never express your real feelings．You’re quite shy and you aren’t very confident．
●If you sleep on your stomach，you are a rather secretive person．You worry a lot and you’re always easily upset．You’re very stubborn，but you aren’t very ambitious．You usually live for today not for tomorrow．This means that you enjoy having a good time.
●If you sleep on curling (蜷缩) up，you are probably a very nervous person．You have a low opinion of yourself and so you’re often defensive．You’re shy and you don’t normally like meeting people．You prefer to ________________________________.
●If you sleep on your side，you have usually got a well-balanced personality．You know your strengths and weakness．You’re usually careful．You have a confident personality. You sometimes feel anxious，but you don’t often get depressed．You always say what you think even if it annoys people．
小题1:What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words．)
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小题2:Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
You always stick to your own opinion，but you don’t have far-reaching goals．
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小题3:Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence． (Please answer within 10 words．)
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小题4:which of the positions do you think is true to you? How can you improve the weakness of your personalities? (Please answer within 30 words．)
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小题5:Translate the underlined sentence in the first paragraph into Chinese.
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小题1:Sleeping positions and personalities
由第一段中的“…your sleeping position shows the real you．”以及后文的分析可知文章主要讲了一个人的睡觉姿势与性格有关系。
小题1:You’re very stubborn，but you aren’t very ambitious．
要答对该题，需要抓住两个点，一是stick to your own opinion，再就是have far-reaching goals，只要搞清楚了它们的含义，就不难得出答案了。
小题1:be on your own／stay alone
根据上文的“You’re shy and you don’t normally like meeting people．”可推知答案。
小题1:I often sleep on my stomach．I will try to be happy，listen to good advice and make a good plan for tomorrow．
该题为开放性问题，要求学生根据自己的情况作答，一般没有标准答案。
小题1:当你醒着时，你不会表露出你隐藏的性格，因为你能控制自己的行为；但是当你睡着时，你的睡姿会显露出真正的你。 |
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核心考点
试题【Everyone has got two personalities一the one that is shown to the world and the ot】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
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One in five American families will move every year. Moving is one of the most stress-producing events a family has to go through. Experts say it can be harder for children. How do you help your child adjust to the changes?
The Ricardos moved from their old house to a new home. Same family, same dog-but it was harder for 9-year-old Elena. She hated the room, the house and everything. She hated leaving her friends the most.
“ I was so emotional. I mean, saying goodbye to all my friends…..my very close friends, who was my neighbor, made me so sad,” says Elena.
For some children, the emotional stress of moving is not much more different from the emotions when someone has died.
“There’s that sense that, ‘I’ve lost my friends, my friends, my base, my school, my teachers-everything I knew that made me feel safe is all gone now. I have to start over,” says Dr. Tim Jordan.
Starting over is exactly Dr. Tim Jordan’s advice. Make new friends, enter the new school and enter the new neighborhood. And here are some other pieces of advice.
● Explain clearly to the children why the move is necessary.
● Familiarize(使熟悉) the children as much as possible with the new area with maps, photographs or the daily newspaper.
● After the move, got the children to join in activities in the place.
● Help the children keep in touch with friends from the neighborhood before through telephone, letters, e-mail, and personal visits.
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Which of the following is useful to reduce the children’s stress before the move?| A．Let doctors give children some advice. | | B．Try letting children accept the fact of moving. | | C．Let children keep in touch with their former friends. | | D．Copy the new environment in the old home. |
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What can we know from the passage?| A．Most American children can get used to the changes in moving. | | B．Dr. Tim Jordan lost his family, friends, teachers after moving. | | C．The emotional stress of moving is the same in some way as that of knowing someone’s death. | | D．the Ricardos lost their dogs after moving to their new house. |
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The passage mainly wants to _____| A．tell parents the reasons of moving. | B．explain the reasons of stress. | | C．give parents some advice on moving. | D．teach parents how to move. |
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People often talk as if shyness is a disease or mental condition that can be cured. I prefer to think of it as an emotional disability. It’s something we are born with and something we carry with us in our entire lives. There are too many people, however, who seem to be determined to find some way of doing away with their shyness. In my opinion, it’s a waste of time. I don’t mean that we should do nothing about it; quite the contrary, I think we need to separate the basic fact of shyness from our ability to take part in a social environment.
Look at one of the most famous shy people of them all, Johnny Carson. This man is painfully shy, yet for decades he made a living talking and associating with different people every night, in front of a national audience. Carson has never done away with his shyness, but he has successfully found a way to deal with it to the extent that he could be, not just a talk show host, but a legend (传奇) among talk show hosts. Look also at Sally Fields, who has recently admitted her problem with shyness. This is a woman who has appeared in many films, TV shows and interviews, yet in her early years she was so shy that she turned down a lunch invitation from Jane Fonda because she was terribly afraid of meeting her.
I guess that our shyness is there because each of us is born with some insecurity (不安全感) and this insecurity prevents us from reading out to others the way people with a more open personality do. As we grow up and become adults, we allow our social skills to grow and develop. But we are still stuck in kindergarten or elementary school or wherever it was when our shyness took root in our soul.
小题1:. In the author’s view, shyness can be explained as _________.| A．a disease that can be easily cured | | B．a not very normal mental condition | | C．an emotional disability | | D．something we pick up after birth |
小题2:. The author believes it’s a waste of time to ____________| A．develop a healthy personality | | B．talk with as many people as possible | | C．study where shyness comes from | | D．look for ways to do away with one’s shyness |
小题3:. Which of the following is TRUE of Johnny Carson?| A．He dared to speak in front of a national audience. | | B．He did away with his shyness carefully. | | C．He was described as a hero in some legend books. | | D．He failed to become a good talk show host. |
小题4:. The author thinks that our shyness is there because _______| A．we are not open enough | | B．we don’t feel safe at heart | | C．we try to reach out to others all the time | | D．we lack certain social skills |
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One day, I was working alone on the roof of a new six-story building. When I completed my work, I discovered that I had about 500 pounds of bircks left over! 36 carry the bricks down by hand I decided to lower them by a pulley（滑车）, which fortunately was _37 to the side of the building on the sixth floor.
Fastening the rope at the ground level, I went up to the roof and _38 the bricks into a barrel (桶). Then I went back to the _39 and untied the rope, 40 it tightly to insure a __41__ fall of the 500 punds of bricks. You know, I only weighed 135 pounds. Due to my __42 _ at being pulled off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and _43 to let go of the rope. Needless to say, I went on at a rather _44 _ rate up the building.
Near the third floor, I met the barrel __45 , which made my collarbone（锁骨）broken, __46 _ only slightly, I didn’t stop. At approximately（大约）the same time, the barrel _47__ the ground, and the bottom fell out of the barrel. 48 the bricks, the barrel now weighed about 50 pounds. I refer you again to my weight of 135 pounds. _49 you might imagine, I began a rapid down.
Also near the _50 _ floor, I met the barrel coming up, which made my legs broken. The encounter（相遇）with the _ 51 _ slowed me enough to reduce my _52 when I fell onto the pile of bricks, and 53 , only three vertebrae（椎骨）were broken. However, as I __54__there on the bricks in pain, unable to move, and _55 the barrel six stories above, I again lost my presence of mind. I let go of the rope!
| 小题1: | | A．Rather than | B．Other than | C．Better than | D．Instead of |
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| 小题2: | | A．connected | B．attached | C．added | D．joined |
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| 小题3: | | A．brought | B．carried | C．loaded | D．took |
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| 小题4: | | A．ceiling | B．floor | C．roof | D．ground |
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| 小题5: | | A．grabbing | B．pulling | C．fastening | D．holding |
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| 小题6: | | A．sudden | B．quick | C．slow | D．peaceful |
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| 小题7: | | A．carelessness | B．surprise | C．excitement | D．joy |
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| 小题8: | | A．forgot | B．had | C．took | D．began |
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| 小题9: | | A．slow | B．rapid | C．strange | D．special |
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| 小题10: | | A．coming down | B．going up | C．going down | D．coming up |
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| 小题11: | | A．Slowed | B．Calmed | C．Relaxed | D．Cooled |
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| 小题12: | | A．fell | B．beat | C．hit | D．knocked |
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| 小题13: | | A．Besides | B．Without | C．With | D．Beyond |
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| 小题14: | | A．As | B．When | C．While | D．Which |
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| 小题15: | | A．first | B．ground | C．second | D．third |
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| 小题16: | | A．bricks | B．barrel | C．pulley | D．rope |
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| 小题17: | | A．pain | B．weight | C．injuries | D．speed |
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| 小题18: | | A．unluckily | B．surely | C．undoubtedly | D．fortunately |
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| 小题20: | | A．noticed | B．remembered | C．watched | D．saw |
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Do you still remember your dreams from childhood? They’re like flowers that never fade, “23-year-old Liu Wei told a happy audience during a broadcast of the nationwide talent competition China’s Got Talent. Liu, an ___16____ pianist from Beijing, was named one of the show’s finalists.
Liu once had arms. At the age of 10 he accidentally grabbed a high-voltage wire and lost his arms. “My family and I were so ___17____ then,” Liu recalled. He credits a disable boy he met at the hospital who gives him the __18_____ to cheer him up.
He was forced to __19_____ playing soccer (his favorite sport) but bounced back and ___20____himself to learn swimming. After two years, Liu had won two gold medals and one silver at the National Swimming Championship for the disabled in 2002.
By the age of 19, Liu had taught himself __21_____ to play the piano with his feet, fulfilling a childhood ___22____ of composing and producing music, he said ___23____ a big smile. “__24_____ enough time, I could be just as same as anyone.”
“I can read music and have __25_____ the ‘toeing’ by myself,” he told. According to Liu, the big toe is the most __26_____ digit when “toeing,” but that he can only reach five keys at the same time. “It means I have to train my toes to move more ___27____,” he said.
One of the show’s hosts, Cao Kefan, told press. “He was __28_____ so hard his feet were constantly cramping,” Cao said.
“ We’ve all __29_____ our dreams when we were young, but no one has fought as hard as you,” commented Gao Xiaosong. Gao is one of the show’s judges and one of most ___30____ music producers in China.
“You tell us that to __31_____ our dream, we need to s pare no pains,” said Yi Nengjing, a show judge and Taiwanese pop star.
“I’ve received a lot of letters of support, all ___32____ me to focus on my music,” Liu said. When asked what he would do when the show was ___33____, he revealed several music companies had asked to __34_____ him. But whatever happened, he added he is sure he would keep __35_____ his dream.
“Music is like water an d air to me,” he said. “I can’t live with out it.”
| 小题1: | | A．aimless | B．legless | C．armless | D．forceless |
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| 小题2: | | A．desperate | B．happy | C．angry | D．nervous |
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| 小题3: | | A．power | B．strength | C．energy | D．enthusiasm |
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| 小题4: | | A．give away | B．give in | C．give up | D．give off |
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小题5: | A．let | B．devoted | C．abandoned | D．challenged |
| 小题6: | | A．what | B．how | C．whether | D．which |
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| 小题7: | | A．idea | B．purpose | C．dream | D．thought |
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| 小题9: | | A．given | B．if | C．when | D．only if |
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| 小题10: | | A．carried out | B．figured out | C．worked out | D．gave out |
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| 小题11: | | A．flexible | B．available | C．sensible | D．advisble |
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| 小题12: | | A．heavily | B．rapidly | C．slowly | D．slightly |
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| 小题13: | | A．looking | B．working | C．exercising | D．practicing |
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| 小题14: | | A．looked for | B．fought for | C．make for | D．took for |
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| 小题15: | | A．influential | B．beneficial | C．potential | D．official |
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| 小题16: | | A．make | B．gain | C．get | D．realize |
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| 小题17: | | A．letting | B．discouraging | C．inspiring | D．encouraging |
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| 小题19: | | A．offer | B．sign | C．answer | D．find |
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| 小题20: | | A．pursuing | B．looking | C．thinking | D．promising |
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From the time each of my children started school, I packed their lunches. And in each lunch ,I___26_____ a note. Often written on a napkin (餐巾)， it might be thank you for a ____27____ moment ,a reminder of something we were happily expecting,or a bit of __28_______ for the coming test orsporting event.
In the early grade school they __29____ their notes. But as children grow older they become self-conacious(有自我意识的),and _30_______ he reached high
School,my older son ,Marc, informed me he no longer_31________ my daily notes.Telling him that he no longer needed to _32______them but I still needed write them, I___33_____ untill the day he gratuated
Six years after high school graduation, Marc called asked if he could move__34_____for a couple of months.I had spent those years well,graduating from college,__35______two internships()in Washington,DC,and __36_____,becoming a technical assistant in Sacramento.____37______ short vacation visits,hower,he had lived away from home .With his younger sister leaving for college, I was ___38____ happy to have Marc back.Since Iwas __39____ making lunch for his younger brother, I _40______ one for Marc,too.Imagine my __41______ when Igot a call from my 24-year-old son,__42___ his lunch.
Did I do something __43_____? Don’t you love me _44_____,Mom ? werejust a few of the questions he threw at me as I _45_____asked him what was wrong.
My note,Mom, he answered,Where is my note?
| 小题1: | | A．carried | B．found | C．included | D．held |
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| 小题2: | | A．difficult | B．special | C．comfortable | D．separate |
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| 小题3: | | A．congratulation | B．improvement | C．explanation | D．encouragament |
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| 小题4: | | A．loved | B．answered | C．wrote | D．examined |
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| 小题5: | | A．lately | B．by the way | C．by the time | D．gradually |
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| 小题6: | | A．received | B．understood | C．enjoyed | D．collected |
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| 小题8: | | A．held up | B．gave up | C．followed | D．continued |
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| 小题9: | | A．out | B．home | C．to | D．to Sacramento |
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| 小题10: | | A．organizing | B．planning | C．comparing | D．completing |
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| 小题11: | | A．hopefully | B．forfinally | C．particularly | D．certainly |
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| 小题12: | | A．Because of | B．Instead of | C．Except for | D．As for |
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| 小题13: | | A．especially | B．immediately | C．equally | D．generally |
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| 小题14: | | A．once | B．again | C．still | D．even |
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| 小题15: | | A．packed | B．fetched | C．bought | D．filled |
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| 小题16: | | A．fear | B．surprise | C．. anger | D．disappointment |
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| 小题17: | | A．waiting for | B．worrying about | C．caring for | D．asking about |
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| 小题18: | | A．wrong | B．funny | C．strange | D．smart |
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| 小题19: | | A．any more | B．enough | C．once more | D．better |
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小题20:Ainterestingly B.bitterly Cpolitely D. laughingly |
