Boffins are the clever ones in class. They always come out __1__ in tests. To be a boffin, you must
be good at all the __2__.
Boffins are clever, but are never the most __3__ people in the school. They have friends amongst
themselves. __14__ in society, they are normally shy and withdrawn (离群的). Boffins __5__ their
studies to the __6__ of other people. Edwin is the __7__ example of a boffin. He has friends, but
they are also __8__. Edwin is extremely clever. His voice has a very strong British accent that other
people __9__ funny.
A boffin"s interest is something __10__ other people may not be interested in. For example, they
may like to play games on computer that others may find __11__. In their spare time, boy boffins
__12__ like playing war games and strategies. Boffins prefer technology such as computers to having
sports __13__. Normally, they are not very sporty and are bad at __14__.
Boffins also act in a manner that is slightly strange. They don"t __15__ what other people will think
of them because of these outbursts.
While most children take the word "boffin" in a __16__ way, adults, especially teachers, __17__
boffins. Boffins spend their time in class actually __18__ attentively instead of messing around. This is
mainly the reason why they appear to be more intelligent than everyone else around them.
Although they may not be the most exciting people, I like boffins. They have intelligent __19__ of
their own and are not afraid to show them. Boffins are the cleverest ones, and there"s nothing bad about
__20__ in that way. |
( )1. A. alone
( )2. A. sports
( )3. A. popular
( )4. A. Therefore
( )5. A. prefer
( )6. A. company
( )7. A. useful
( )8. A. classmates
( )9. A. discover
( )10. A. which
( )11. A. amusing
( )12. A. would
( )13. A. outside
( )14. A. English
( )15. A. reject
( )16. A. positive
( )17. A. argue with
( )18. A. listening
( )19. A. minds
( )20. A. ruling out | B. top
B. activities
B. diligent
B. So
B. devote
B. course
B. similar
B. players
B. seek
B. that
B. popular
B. feel
B. indoors
B. P.. E..
B. like
B. active
B. approve of
B. talking
B. rooms
B. standing out | C. last
C. jobs
C. intelligent
C. But
C. refer
C. approach
C. classic
C. boffins
C. uncover
C. as
C. pleasing
C. look
C. upstairs
C. music
C. care
C. relative
C. speak of
C. writing
C. hobbies
C. carrying out | D. late
D. subjects
D. humorous
D. Then
D. contribute
D. access
D. extreme
D. teachers
D. find
D. who
D. boring
D. smell
D. abroad
D. art
D. accept
D. negative
D. comment on
D. reading
D. eyes
D. turning out |
| 1-5: BDACA 6-10: ACCDB 11-15: DBABC 16-20: DBAAB |
核心考点
试题【完形填空 Boffins are the clever ones in class. They always come out __1__ in tes】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 完形填空 | It"s no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with their
birth parents. That"s especially__1__of children who remain in homes where they"re badly treated
because the law blindly favors biological parents. It"s also true of children who __2__ for years in foster (寄养) homes because of parents who can"t or won"t care for them but refuse to give up custody
(监护) rights.
Fourteenyearold Kimberly Mays __3__ neither description, but her recent court victory could __4__
help children who do. Kimberly has been the __5__ of an angry custody battle between the man who
raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge __6__ that the
teenager can remain with the only father she"s ever known and that her biological parents have "no legal
__7__" on her.
Shortly after__8__ in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched
and sent home with the __9__ parents. Kimberly"s biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg,
received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests __10__ that the child wasn"t the
Twiggs" own daughter, but Kim only was, thus leading to a custody __11__ with Robert Mays. In
1989, the two families __12__ that Mr Mays would maintain custody with the Twiggs getting visiting
rights. Those rights were ended when Mr Mays decided that Kimberly was being __13__.
The decision to __14__ Kimberly with Mr Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made
clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉) on her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she
was more than just a personal possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an
absolute ownership that cancels(取消) all the __15__ of children. | ( )1. A.terrible
( )2. A.settle
( )3. A.likes
( )4. A.actually
( )5. A.victim
( )6. A.ruled
( )7. A.expectation
( )8. A.birth
( )9. A.biological
( )10. A.examined
( )11. A.battle
( )12. A.thought
( )13. A.harmed
( )14. A.make
( )15. A.freedom | B. sad
B. live
B. gives
B. eventually
B. object
B. believed
B. action
B. judgment
B. own
B. explained
B. right
B. quarreled
B. forbidden
B. leave
B. happiness | C. true
C. suffer
C. fits
C. successfully
C. sacrifice
C. ordered
C. effect
C. operation
C. kind
C. decided
C. agreement
C. agreed
C. wounded
C. give
C. rights | D. natural
D. gather
D. knows
D. abruptly
D. teenager
D. indicated
D. claim
D. school
D. wrong
D. showed
D. decision
D. prepared
D. hidden
D. keep
D. ideas | 阅读理解
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在标号为1～10的相应位置上。
"Love your neighbor as yourself" is a saying familiar to most of us. It means that you must have the
ability to love and accept yourself in order to form and keep __1__(satisfy) relationship with others.
Selfesteem (自尊) means accepting __2__ for who you really are, and believing that you are indeed a
worthwhile person __3__ is deserving of love and respect from others.
Selfesteem is our sense of __4__ good we feel about ourselves.It is based on our __5__ (judge) of
ourselves, not on other people"s assessment, __6__ simply on our own. Some very ordinary people feel
very good about themselves, while other __7__ (extraordinary) high achievers hold low opinions of
themselves.
Selfesteem is the primary key to longterm stress management. A positive, healthy selfesteem gives us
the "hardiness(强健)" to deal with the difficulties of life, and to see them as challenges to __8__
(meet), rather than threats to be feared.
Learning to love yourself for who you are is the key to __9__ (overcome) stress.Selfesteem comes
from the self, and cannot be promoted by others. Selfesteem is the __10__ (base) of contentment and
positive living. | 语法填空。
There are moments in life __1__ you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from
your dreams and hug them for real!
When the door of happiness closes, __2__ opens, but often we look so long at the closed door
__3__ we don"t see the one which has been opened for us.
Don"t go for looks; they can deceive (欺骗). Don"t go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for
someone __4__ makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be __5__ you want to be.
The __6__(happy) of people don"t __7__ (necessary) have the best of everything; they just make
the most of everything that __8__ (come) along their way. The brightest future will always be based
on a __9__ (forget) past.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone __10__ you was smiling.
Live your life so that when you die, you"re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying. | | 阅读理解 | Getting paid for going to work may sound too good to be true, but it"s part of an increasingly popular
scheme for commuters across Europe.
Employers in Belgium, the Netherlands and other European countries are rewarding staff if they come
to work on a bicycle, paying them for every kilometer they cycle, all in an effort to promote
environmentalism, not to mention a healthier lifestyle.
In Belgium, cycling commuters are being paid 20 euro cents (29 U. S. cents) per kilometer, whereas
those in the Netherlands can earn 15 cents and participants in Britain up to 20 pence (32 U. S. cents)
per mile-all of it taxfree.
In Belgium, a popular cycling nation and home to fivetime Tour de France and Giro D"Italia winner
Eddie Merckx, finance ministry figures show that more than 270,000 people took part in the scheme last
year, up from 140,000 in 2006.
Last year, that meant the Belgian taxman paid out 43 million euros to those who bill for cycling to
work.
"Higher oil prices and environmental awareness contribute to having more cyclists on the road," said
Dieter Snauwaert, coordinator of the biketowork scheme of the Flemish Cyclists" Union in Belgium.
One of the most successful corporate proponents has been Belgian discount supermarket chain
Colruyt, which launched the policy four years ago and now has 2,100 participants.
Colruyt provides employees who live up to 7 km away from work with a bicycle and takes care of
maintenance.
Company spokesman Victor De Meester said that apart from employees being healthier there were
also other advantages.
"The more people cycle to work the fewer parking spaces you have to offer. It"s not so easy,
especially in urban areas, to expand parking spaces," he said.
Colruyt, which has more than 22,000 employees, is now looking to target those who live further away
than 7 km (4.4 miles) by offering electric bicycles to make it easier to negotiate larger distances.
"Our target is 400 participants by 2015 but given the response we have had so far this may be too
low a number," De Meester said.
Colruyt"s belief that employees who cycle to work are healthier than their colleagues who don"t is
backed up by research from Dutch organization TNO.
The researcher found that over the course of a year, cycling employees on average lose one working
day less due to illness than employees who commute by other means.
If the number of workers who cycle to work increased by one percent, Dutch employers would save
a total of 27 million euros per year, TNO said.
1. Which of the following can be the title of the passage?
A. The Most Successful Supermarket Chain
B. Getting Paid for Cycling to Work
C. Europeans: Enjoying a Healthier Lifestyle
D. Why Cycling Employees Have a Better Body
2. What"s the purpose of the scheme?
A. To promote environmentalism.
B. To give money to the staff.
C. To increase the sale of bicycles.
D. To reduce the sale of electric bicycles.
3. Which of the following is NOT the advantage of the scheme?
A. It makes people have healthier bodies.
B. The employers make more profits.
C. It is friendly to our environment.
D. It needs more parking spaces.
4. The money the bicyclers obtain according to ________.
A. the kilometers they cycle
B. the brand of their bicycles
C. the tax they pay
D. the cost of their bicycles
5. What do we know about Belgian discount supermarket chain Colruyt?
A. All its workers are offered bicycles.
B. The charge of the bicycle maintenance is paid by the users.
C. It attaches great importance to the scheme.
D. It has the most participants. | | 阅读理解 | You love Jay Chou"s songs and you can sing some quite well. So you make a video of your
performance and post it online for your friends to see. But what if this led to something beyond
your wildest imagination-a career in music?
Canadian teenager Justin Bieber, 16, has just had the magical experience: He posted homemade
videos of his versions of songs by American singer Chris Brown online for his relatives. He received
a phone call from Brown, telling him how much he liked his performance. His singing eventually
earned him a fan base and a record contract. After releasing a popular EP (extended play密纹唱片)
record in November 2009, his album My world 2.0 came out last Tuesday.
Bieber sings ballads and songs about puppy love. But is he just another gooey (甜腻的) teen idol?
David Malitz, a columnist with the Washington Post, doesn"t think so. "If we truly want the best for
American children, let us pause and give thanks for Justin Bieber," he writes. "After years of humdrum
bubblegum (乏味的摇滚舞曲) from Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, the 16yearold has thrown
a candycoated wrench (扭转) into Disney"s heartthrob (甜心) assembly line (生产线) by giving
young fans something worth screaming their lungs out for: lovable pop songs."
From a boy who grew up below the poverty line with his divorced mom to a star who caused
nearriots (近乎失控) in shopping malls, even Bieber himself can"t believe his overnight fame, although
his kind of success is becoming more and more common in the Internet era.
Interested in hockey (冰球), the national sport of Canada, the boy once put up pictures of players
on the walls of his bedroom. He dreamed of being a hockey star and used to practice signing his
autograph (签名). He doesn"t need practice now. He signs autographs, if the girls can get close enough,
as a music star.
1. What did Chris Brown think of Justin Bieber"s singing?
A. He didn"t like it.
B. He liked it very much.
C. He didn"t say anything.
D. He supported Justin Bieber.
2. Who is a columnist?
A. Chris Brown.
B. Jay Chou.
C. David Malitz.
D. Miley Cyrus.
3. What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?
A. He had a happy family.
B. His family was very poor once.
C. His family was rich.
D. His family helped him a lot.
4. What"s Justin Bieber"s hobby?
A. Singing.
B. Hockey.
C. Signing.
D. Making records.
5. What"s the best title of the passage?
A. Justin Bieber"s overnight singing online.
B. Justin Bieber"s common experience.
C. Justin Bieber"s life.
D. Justin Bieber"s records. |
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