One day I came home from school, changed my clothes and got ready for work. I worked at a local restaurant in town as a cashier and waiter.
I went to work feeling . And to make matters worse, I was busy that evening. It’s the same thing over and over again, with customers who complain about their food and where they are is too big or too small. Little things like that tend to a lot of us but we manage to deal with them.
Three elderly ladies walked in and sat by the windows. It happened to be the very near where I keep the dirty in the boxes. Trying to keep up with all the dirty tables, customers leaving and coming in and running all over the house, it was crazy. these elderly women were watching I was working to make sure every table was clean and ready for the next customers.
When they their meals, I took their plates back to the kitchen. They talked to me for a while about school, how I was doing, what I was in and what I planned to do in the future.
they were leaving, they walked past me and one of them said to me in a and gentle voice, “You are going places. ”And that was it. They left the and I had tears in my eyes, because they gave me to believe in myself. They my spirit from being down and gave me a to keep on working hard.
People used to tell me that I couldn’t have a career in until I had a degree. I’m now a co-anchor(联合主持人)of a student-produced television . And the best thing is: I’m only 17 years old and I am a senior in high school.
| 小题1: | | A．tired | B．excited | C．up | D．down |
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| 小题2: | | A．dealing | B．helping | C．talking | D．meeting |
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| 小题3: | | A．sat | B．seated | C．laid | D．dressed |
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| 小题4: | | A．attract | B．avoid | C．adjust | D．annoy |
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| 小题5: | | A．employees | B．customers | | C．bosses | D．employers |
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| 小题6: | | A．table | B．box | C．spot | D．kitchen |
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| 小题7: | | A．dishes | B．rooms | C．clothes | D．chairs |
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| 小题8: | | A．men | B．women | C．waiters | D．bosses |
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| 小题9: | | A．And | B．Otherwise | | C．But | D．So |
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| 小题11: | | A．finished | B．completed | C．ordered | D．got |
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| 小题12: | | A．place | B．grade | C．mark | D．position |
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| 小题13: | | A．Before | B．While | C．As | D．After |
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| 小题14: | | A．confident | B．loud | C．low | D．pleasant |
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| 小题15: | | A．kitchen | B．house | C．restaurant | D．table |
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| 小题16: | | A．ability | B．courage | | C．imagination | D．time |
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| 小题17: | | A．put down | B．picked up | | C．took over | D．pointed out |
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| 小题18: | | A．cause | B．reason | | C．present | D．permission |
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| 小题19: | | A．television | B．government | | C．school | D．restaurant |
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| 小题20: | | A．company | B．station | | C．show | D．advertisement |
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小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:C
小题7:A
小题8:C
小题9:C
小题10:B
小题11:A
小题12:B
小题13:C
小题14:A
小题15:C
小题16:B
小题17:B
小题18:B
小题19:A
小题20:C |
【文章大意】作者是一位17岁的中学生, 利用课余时间打工。一天, 在身心疲惫的时候, 一位顾客的一句话使作者对自己的前途重燃希望。那句话是: You are going places(你前途无量)。
小题1:选D。词汇复现题。由下文中的from being down可以得到暗示。放学后还得去上班作者心里感到很不高兴。后面的to make matters worse(使情况更为糟糕的是)说明此处填贬义词。feeling down意为“闷闷不乐”。
小题2:选A。习语搭配题。作为服务员, 我要与投诉的顾客打交道, 处理他们提出的问题。此处的deal with意为“与……打交道”。
小题3:选B。词语辨析题。seat为及物动词, “坐下”应说be seated, 而A项sit为不及物动词, 不能用于被动语态中。
小题4:选D。词语辨析题。annoy表示“使生气”。因为作者前面提到了顾客的种种抱怨, 因此只能导致雇员的烦恼、生气。句意: 诸如此类的小事容易造成我们雇员的烦恼。故选D。
小题5:选A。逻辑推理题。此处的us和后面的we指“饭店里的员工”, 故A项正确。此处的us与employees为同位语关系。employer雇主, 东家。
小题6:选C。逻辑推理题。前面的by the windows和后面的near where都说明此处填的是“地方(spot)”, the very spot强调“就是那个地方”。
小题7:选A。逻辑推理题。dish盘子; room房间; clothes衣服; chair椅子。服务员在客人走后, 要将吃剩的菜端走, 然后收拾桌子, 供后来的人就餐。所以, 此处要选A项。
小题8:选C。背景常识题。在饭店中, 进进出出的是顾客, 在房子中来回穿梭忙碌的是服务员, 故C项正确。
小题9:选C。句式结构题。虽然餐馆处于一片忙乱的状态, 但是这三位女士在专心地看着我。该空前的crazy给该空提出了暗示。故选C。
小题10:选B。句式结构题。后面的to make sure every table was clean and ready for the next customers表示目的, 故此处指我怎么做才能达到此目的。
小题11:选A。逻辑推理题。根据后面的took their plates back to the kitchen可知她们已经吃完了。且下文中有they were leaving暗示。
小题12:选B。逻辑推理题。她们在临走前, 跟我聊了一会儿, 问我有关学校的情况、在学校学得怎么样、在哪个年级及将来的打算。
小题13:选C。词语辨析题。句意: 当她们离开的时候, 她们走过我身边……根据句意可排除A、D选项; while引导时间状语从句时, 从句中的谓语动词是延续性动词。此处as表示“当……时候”。
小题14:选A。词语辨析题。confident自信的; loud大声的; low低的; pleasant令人愉快的。句意: ……她们从我身边走过时, 有一个人用自信而温和的声音说。由下文的You are going places. (你前途无量。)可以推测说话者的语气。因为说话人在鼓励作者, 所以只有A项符合语境。
小题15:选C。词汇复现题。由第一段中给出的故事背景I worked at a local restaurant in town as a cashier and waiter. 可知答案。
小题16:选B。逻辑推理题。根据文意可知, 别人给予了作者自信的“勇气”, 作者才得以重新振作起来。
小题17:选B。词语辨析题。三位女士使我重新获得自信的勇气, 并使我的情绪不再沮丧。put down记下; 镇压; pick up one’s spirit鼓起勇气; take over接管; point out指明(出)。
小题18:选B。词语辨析题。三位女士给了我要继续努力的理由。在她们的鼓舞下, 我决心继续努力。reason表示某种行为的原因; cause表示某种现象的起因。故正确选项为B。
小题19:选A。词汇复现题。根据最后一段中的I’m now a co-anchor of a student-produced television. . . 可知。
小题20:选C。逻辑推理题。作者现在是联合主持人(co-anchor), 所以肯定是电视节目(show)的联合主持人。 |
核心考点
试题【One day I came home from school, changed my clothes and got ready for work. I wo】；主要考察你对
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[详细]举一反三
According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, we might all be braggarts(大话王) in this competitive society addicted to social networking.
Take a close look at your socialnetworking sites. Do you like to post photos of yourself in restaurants to show others what an exciting life you have? Or do you like to write about how happily in love you are? Or perhaps you are of the subtle type who constantly complain about jobs but really just want to impress others with your important position.
According to the results of a series of experiments conducted by Harvard University neuroscientists(神经科学家), the reward areas of our brain——the same areas that respond to “primary rewards” such as food ——are activated when we talk about ourselves. We devote between 30 to 40 percent of our conversation time to doing just that. Unfortunately, Bernstein says, some people can"t tell the difference between sharing positive information that others might actually want to know and direct bragging. She suggests that bragging involves comparison, whether stated or implied.
“We are expected to be perfect all the time. The result is that more and more people are carefully managing their online images”. says Elizabeth Bernstein, a columnist with the Wall Street Journal.
But the issue is not limited to the Internet. In a fiercely competitive job market we must sell ourselves on multiple platforms and show that we are better than others. In fact, we have become so accustomed to bragging that we don"t even realize we are doing it, says Bernstein. This is harmful to our relationships and puts people off.
Bernstein talked to some experts who said that people brag for all sorts of reasons: to appear worthy of attention; to prove to ourselves we are doing fine and that people who said we would fail are wrong; or simply because we"re excited when good things happen to us.
“Feel sorry for them, because they"re doing this unconscious, destructive thing that won"t help them in the long run，” said Professor Simian Valier, a research psychologist at Washington University.
小题1:The underlined word “subtle” in Para.2 is closest in meaning to “________”．| A．hidden | B．apparent | | C．outstanding | D．simple |
小题2:Which of the following is one of the features of braggarts?| A．They control conversation and only talk about themselves. | | B．They know well how to share positive information. | | C．They selfpromote to stand out in their career. | | D．They don"t pay much attention to their online image. |
小题3:What can we infer from the passage?| A．Braggarts make a good first impression but the effect decreases over time. | | B．People who like bragging know what they are doing. | | C．Braggarts always adopt comparison directly to show they are excellent. | | D．They care much about the feelings of others when talking. |
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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a goods yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I can dimly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity(大灾难) can do strange things to people. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn"t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don"t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. In spite of the fact the adjustment is never easy, I had my parents and teachers to help. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn"t been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was hurt. “I can"t use this.” I said. “Take it with you，” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words stuck in my head. “Roll it around！” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
小题1:We can learn from the beginning of the passage that ________.| A．the author lost his sight because of a car crash | | B．the author wouldn"t love life if the calamity didn"t happen | | C．the calamity made the author appreciate what he had | | D．the calamity strengthened the author"s desire to see |
小题2:What"s the most difficult thing for the author?| A．How to adjust himself to reality | | B．Building up assurance that he can find his place in life | | C．Learning to manage his life alone | | D．To find a special work that suits the author |
小题3:For the author, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man ________.| A．hurt the author"s feeling | | B．made the author puzzled | | C．directly led to the change of the author"s career | | D．inspired the author |
小题4:According to the passage, the author ________.| A．set goals for himself but only invited failure most of the time | | B．thought that nothing was impossible for him | | C．was discouraged from trying something out of reach for fear of failure | | D．suggested not trying something beyond one"s ability at the beginning |
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It is a true story behind a wellknown piece of art.
In a village near Nuremberg lived a family with eighteen children. Merely to keep food on the table, the father worked eighteen hours a day. Despite their ___ condition, two of the children had a dream to seek their talent for ____ but they knew well their father would never be able to send ____ of them to Nuremberg to study at the Academy.
The two boys finally worked out an agreement. They would toss (扔) a coin. The ____ would work in the nearby mines to support his brother. Albrecht ____ the toss and went off to Nuremberg. Albert went into the dangerous mines and, for the next four years, financed his brother, ____ work at the academy was almost a(n ) ____ success. Albecht"s woodcut and oils were much ____ than those of his professors and he soon was earning considerable fees ____ his works.
When the young ____ returned home, the family held a festive dinner. Albrecht rose to toast to his beloved brother, “Now, Albert, it is your ____ to seek your dream and l will support you”．
All heads turned to the far end of the table, where Albert sat, tears streaming down his pale face, while he ____ and repeated, “No...no.” Finally, Albert rose and ____ the tears from his cheeks. He said softly, “I ____ go to Nuremberg, brother. It is too late for me. Look what four years in the mines have done to my hands! The bones in every finger have been smashed at least once, and I cannot even hold a glass to ____ your toast.”
Today, Albrecht"s masterful works ____ in every great museum in the world, but chances are great ____ you, like most people, are familiar with only one of them. Albrecht drew his brother"s abused hands with palms together and the ____ stretched skyward. He called it simply “Hands”， but the entire world almost immediately opened their hearts to his great masterpiece and ____ his tribute (敬意) of love “The Praying Hands”．
Next time you see that touching creation, take a second look. Let it be your reminder, if you still need one, that no one ever makes it ____！
| 小题1: | | A．hopeful | B．lucky | | C．disappointed | D．hopeless |
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| 小题2: | | A．music | B．art | | C．mining | D．farming |
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| 小题3: | | A．all | B．both | | C．each | D．either |
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| 小题4: | | A．painter | B．loser | | C．winner | D．failure |
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| 小题7: | | A．random | B．immediate | | C．attractive | D．ordinary |
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| 小题8: | | A．smaller | B．worse | | C．faster | D．better |
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| 小题10: | | A．miner | B．worker | | C．artist | D．professor |
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| 小题11: | | A．luck | B．turn | | C．move | D．moment |
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| 小题12: | | A．sobbed | B．nodded | | C．smiled | D．laughed |
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| 小题13: | | A．recovered | B．swept | | C．wiped | D．handed |
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| 小题14: | | A．can"t | B．shouldn"t | | C．can | D．should |
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| 小题15: | | A．hold | B．return | | C．move | D．turn |
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| 小题16: | | A．hang | B．represent | | C．present | D．visit |
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| 小题18: | | A．figures | B．hands | | C．fingers | D．arms |
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| 小题19: | | A．said | B．loved | | C．renamed | D．called |
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| 小题20: | | A．yet | B．out | | C．alone | D．before |
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For a long time I saw happiness as a huge banner (旗帜) across the finish line of a long race.I felt that only when I____certain things could I finally be happy in my life.Most of the time I felt like a tortoise believing that being slow and____would win the race.At other times I would___like a rabbit trying different side roads at a dangerous ____hoping to reach that banner a little faster.____，I began to see that no matter how long I raced towards it，the banner was never any____.I finally decided to____and take a break.It was then that I saw my____sitting beside me.
It had been with me as I____hard to support my family，as I played with my children and heard their____and even when I was ____with my wife at my side looking after me.It had been with me as I raced towards that stupid banner.I just didn’t have the____to see it.
There is an old Chinese proverb that says，“Tension is who you think you should be.___is who you are.”Perhaps we all should stop our race towards the____life we think we should have and ____the life we have now.Happiness will never be found under some banner far away.It will be found____your own heart，soul and mind.It will be found when you____that others love you just as you do.
Don’t be a tortoise or a rabbit when it comes to your happiness.Be a playful puppy and carry your stick of____with you everywhere you go.____yourself out of the race and realize that when it comes to love and happiness，you are____there.
| 小题1: | | A．forgot | B．missed | | C．overcame | D．accomplished |
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| 小题2: | | A．safe | B．steady | | C．calm | D．quiet |
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| 小题3: | | A．act | B．run | | C．jump | D．walk |
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| 小题4: | | A．place | B．height | | C．speed | D．time |
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| 小题5: | | A．Generally | B．Gradually | | C．Fortunately | D．Firstly |
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| 小题6: | | A．clearer | B．lower | | C．closer | D．smaller |
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| 小题7: | | A．settle in | B．start off | | C．stop by | D．sit down |
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| 小题8: | | A．happiness | B．goal | | C．success | D．friendship |
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| 小题9: | | A．studied | B．fought | | C．exercised | D．worked |
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| 小题10: | | A．laughter | B．complaints | | C．stories | D．breathing |
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| 小题11: | | A．lonely | B．tired | | C．sick | D．hungry |
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| 小题12: | | A．courage | B．chance | | C．wisdom | D．strength |
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| 小题13: | | A．Stress | B．Relaxation | | C．Failure | D．Pain |
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| 小题14: | | A．real | B．perfect | | C．common | D．ordinary |
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| 小题15: | | A．enjoy | B．change | | C．improve | D．create |
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| 小题17: | | A．realize | B．believe | | C．hope | D．admit |
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| 小题18: | | A．sorrow | B．responsibility | | C．fortune | D．joy |
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| 小题19: | | A．Carry | B．Make | | C．Push | D．Take |
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| 小题20: | | A．never | B．still | | C．already | D．ever |
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(2014·蚌埠市高三第三次教学质量检查考试)
Some years ago when I was in my second year in university，I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time.The moment was exciting.Salome’s ____filled the room and brought the theater to life.I was so____that I decided to write an article about her.
I____Salome Bey，telling her I was from Essence magazine，and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career.She____and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday.When I hung up，I was scared out of my mind.I___I was lying.I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.
I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday.I sat there____，taking notes and asking questions that all began with，“Can you tell me...” I soon realized that____Salome Bey was one thing，but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible.The____was almost unbearable (不可容忍的)．I struggled for days ____draft after draft.Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.
It didn’t take long.My manuscript____.How stupid of me！I thought.How could I____in a world of professional writers？Knowing I couldn’t ____the rejection letter，I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.
Five years later，I was moving to California.While____my apartment，I came across the unopened envelope.This time I opened it and ____the editor’s letter in disbelief：
Dear Ms Profit，
Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic.Yet we need some ___ materials.Please add those and return the article immediately.We would like to____your story soon.
Shocked，it took me a long time to____.Fear of rejection cost me dearly.I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article appear in a major magazine.More importantly，I lost years of____writing.Today，I have become a fulltime writer.Looking back on this____，I learned a very important lesson：You can’t____to doubt yourself.
| 小题1: | | A．joy | B．voice | | C．speech | D．smile |
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| 小题2: | | A．moved | B．active | | C．satisfied | D．proud |
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| 小题3: | | A．visited | B．emailed | | C．interviewed | D．phoned |
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| 小题4: | | A．agreed | B．refused | | C．hesitated | D．paused |
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| 小题5: | | A．replied | B．discovered | | C．explained | D．knew |
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| 小题6: | | A．seriously | B．nervously | | C．patiently | D．quietly |
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| 小题7: | | A．blaming | B．fooling | | C．inviting | D．urging |
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| 小题8: | | A．hardship | B．failure | | C．comment | D．pressure |
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| 小题10: | | A．returned | B．disappeared | | C．spread | D．improved |
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| 小题11: | | A．compare | B．compete | | C．survive | D．struggle |
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| 小题12: | | A．ignore | B．deliver | | C．face | D．receive |
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| 小题13: | | A．cleaning | B．repairing | | C．decorating | D．leaving |
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| 小题14: | | A．saw | B．read | | C．found | D．noticed |
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| 小题15: | | A．memorial | B．relevant | | C．private | D．reliable |
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| 小题16: | | A．broadcast | B．create | | C．publish | D．assess |
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| 小题17: | | A．prepare | B．recover | | C．escape | D．concentrate |
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| 小题18: | | A．energetic | B．enjoyable | | C．typical | D．endless |
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| 小题19: | | A．experience | B．success | | C．benefit | D．accident |
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| 小题20: | | A．attempt | B．pretend | | C．expect | D．afford |
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