When I was in my second year of senior high school, a girl called Jeanie in my class made a big name for herself. She had successfully the interviews for a famous women’s university in the USA.
On hearing the news, I told the girl that I her very much. Then, she at me and said the words I will never . “You can also do it! If you have , you realize them. You see, action, dreams are still dreams. If you , the dreams will come true. ”Her words gave me so much . She encouraged me to take action to achieve my dreams. From then on, I spent a lot of time an article for competitions. It was a really for me, not only for my writing but also a of my courage.
After several days’ hard work, I finished it. Even though I lacked , I still handed it in. I knew it was the only that may make my dreams come true. But day in and day out, I waiting and waiting, yet I heard nothing. I was very then.
One day, however, a classmate of mine to an English newspaper and said , “Mary, your is in the newspaper! Is that your article? ”My heart beat heavily. With shock and joy, I the newspaper. The thing I thought was had really happened.
| 小题1: | | A．begun | B．given | C．attended | D．passed |
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| 小题2: | | A．loved | B．admired | | C．congratulated | D．thanked |
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| 小题3: | | A．smiled | B．aimed | C．laughed | D．shouted |
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| 小题4: | | A．doubt | B．understand | | C．forget | D．accept |
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| 小题5: | | A．designs | B．demands | C．actions | D．dreams |
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| 小题6: | | A．into | B．by | C．without | D．with |
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| 小题7: | | A．try | B．like | C．work | D．live |
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| 小题8: | | A．pain | B．inspiration | | C．surprise | D．advice |
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| 小题9: | | A．seeking | B．reciting | | C．reading | D．preparing |
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| 小题10: | | A．shock | B．turn | C．challenge | D．success |
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| 小题11: | | A．test | B．risk | C．part | D．reward |
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| 小题12: | | A．self-respect | B．self-confidence | | C．enthusiasm | D．dream |
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| 小题13: | | A．way | B．suggestion | | C．question | D．purpose |
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| 小题14: | | A．hated | B．kept | | C．meant | D．remembered |
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| 小题15: | | A．worried | B．surprised | | C．disappointed | D．ashamed |
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| 小题16: | | A．wrote | B．explained | C．returned | D．pointed |
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| 小题17: | | A．proudly | B．hopelessly | | C．excitedly | D．angrily |
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| 小题18: | | A．name | B．writing | C．report | D．diary |
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| 小题19: | | A．picked out | B．picked up | | C．made out | D．made up |
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| 小题20: | | A．incorrect | B．impossible | | C．interesting | D．special |
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小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:D
小题6:C
小题7:A
小题8:B
小题9:D
小题10:C
小题11:A
小题12:B
小题13:A
小题14:B
小题15:C
小题16:D
小题17:C
小题18:A
小题19:B
小题20:A |
【文章大意】如果你有梦想, 你就可以去实现它们。如果你去尝试, 就可以实现它们。在一个女孩这样的鼓励下, 作者坚持不懈地努力, 最后实现了自己的梦想。
小题1:选D。逻辑推理题。根据句意可知, 她成功地通过了一所著名的女子大学的面试。pass an interview通过面试。
小题2:选B。逻辑推理题。根据下文她对作者的鼓励的话可推知作者应该在言谈之间流露出羡慕之情。
小题3:选A。词语辨析题。在对别人说出鼓励的话语时, 应该是微笑着的。smile at sb. 向某人微笑, 合乎句意。aim at旨在; laugh at嘲笑; shout at朝……大声喊叫。
小题4:选C。逻辑推理题。对自己影响非常大的话, 应该不会轻易忘记。
小题5:选D。词汇复现题。结合上下文, 接下来都是在说梦想的问题, 故选D项。
小题6:选C。逻辑推理题。根据句意“没有行动, 梦想永远都只是梦想, 如果你去尝试, 就可以实现它们。”可知填without“没有”。
小题7:选A。逻辑推理题。结合上一句话“没有行动, 梦想永远都只是梦想”, 接下来就会提到“去尝试, 就可以实现它们”。由此可知填try(尝试)。
小题8:选B。逻辑推理题。根据下文的“encouraged”可知她的话给了我很大的鼓舞(inspiration)。
小题9:选D。习语搭配题。结合下文可知作者写了一篇文章参加比赛, 故用prepare. . . for. . . , 固定用法, 意思是“为……做准备”。
小题10:选C。逻辑推理题。结合下一段的第一句可知写作对作者来说是hard work, 故选challenge, 意为“困难, 挑战”。
小题11:选A。词语辨析题。比赛对作者不仅是写作方面的挑战, 也是对勇气的一种检验。test检验。risk冒险; part部分; reward回报。
小题12:选B。逻辑推理题。根据第二段the girl鼓励作者实现梦想以及最后一句提到写文章参加比赛对作者的写作和勇气都是挑战来看, 作者是缺乏自信的。故选B项。
小题13:选A。词语辨析题。根据句意可知作者认为这也许是实现梦想的唯一的方法。way方法; suggestion建议; question问题; purpose目的。
小题14:选B。习语搭配题。根据时间状语day in and day out可知作者一直坚持等, 故用keep doing sth. 一直做某事, 持续做某事。
小题15:选C。逻辑推理题。自己写的东西石沉大海, 没有任何消息, 作者自然感到失望。
小题16:选D。词语辨析题。四个词都能和to搭配, 但是结合语境“我的一个同学指着报纸对我说”可知选D项, 意为“指着”。
小题17:选C。逻辑推理题。看到报纸上有自己同学的名字, 应该感到很兴奋。只有C项表示“兴奋地”。
小题18:选A。常识背景题。通常报纸上发表一篇文章会把作者的名字写上。
小题19:选B。逻辑推理题。当同学告诉自己这一消息时, 作者当然会先接过(pick up)报纸看看。
小题20:选B。逻辑推理题。根据句意“我原以为不可能的事情竟然变成了现实”可知选B项。 |
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Do you suppose Darwin, one of the greatest scientists of all time, really did foolish experiments? Or did he do experiments that were so simple and basic that other people just thought they were foolish?
Sometimes, people think they already know the answer to a question or the solution to a problem. Sometimes, they really do know an answer or a solution, but without thinking they are important.
Charles Darwin didn’t settle for(满足于)just thinking he knew something. And, he believed all things could be important however simple they seemed to be.
Suppose you drop sheets of paper that are of exactly the same size and shape. If you drop them at the same time in the same place, they will fall in the same way. Now make one of the sheets of paper into a tight little ball and let it drop along with the other sheets. What happens? You have done an experiment that is so simple that you might think it couldn’t be worth anything.
But this simple experiment is important. It explains part of our present-day understandings of physics, ideas that were worked out long ago by Galileo and Newton. And these understandings set aside some of ancient Greek physics.
Scientists sometimes stop to look at very simple things and to think very hard about them. Even the simplest idea, which we might think is foolish, can shake the foundations of science.
小题1: The passage tells us that Charles Darwin . | A．was a great English scientist | | B．always liked doing the experiments that others thought difficult | | C．thought even the simplest thing was important | | D．didn’t get well with others |
小题2: The underlined phrase “set aside” most probably means . | A．throw away | B．store up | | C．put to use | D．realize |
小题3: The author of the passage tries to . | A．convince us that Charles Darwin, Galileo and Newton are the greatest scientists in the world | | B．draw the conclusion that basic sciences are simple things | | C．prove that two sheets of paper, with the same size and shape, will fall at the same speed | | D．draw our attention to everyday happenings around us |
小题4:Which of the following is TRUE? | A．Darwin really did foolish experiments. | | B．According to some people Darwin did foolish experiments. | | C．It is believed by all the people that things could be important though they seemed to be simple. | | D．Galileo and Newton worked out ancient Greek physics. |
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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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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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