In your life，nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck．Everything to test the limits of your soul．Without these small tests，life would be like a smoothly paved， ，flat road to nowhere．Safe and comfortable but dull and pointless．
If someone you or breaks your heart，forgive them for they have helped you trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart to．If someone loves you，love them back ，not only because they love you，but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and to things you would have never felt or seen without them．
Make every day count．Appreciate every and take from it everything that you possibly can，for you will never be able to experience it again．
| 小题1: | | A．takes | B．occurs | C．shows | D．breaks |
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| 小题2: | | A．busy | B．muddy | C．straight | D．enjoyable |
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| 小题3: | | A．wins | B．interests | C．influences | D．hurts |
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| 小题4: | | A．look through | B．1earn about | C．watch out | D．adjust to |
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| 小题5: | | A．unconditionally | B．desperately | C．intentionally | D．instantly |
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| 小题6: | | A．arms | B．mouth | C．brain | D．eyes |
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| 小题7: | | A．success | B．failure | C．moment | D．challenge |
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小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:A
小题6:D
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试题分析：在我们的生活中，没有什么事情是偶然发生的，每件事情的发生都是用来考验我们的。我们要原谅那些伤害过我们的人，是他们让我们知道到了什么是信任，什么是友谊，这样才会使我们更加成熟。
小题1:B。动词辨析。A．带走 ；B．发生；C．展示；D．打破。根据前句内容nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck和空后内容可以判断此处是一种对比关系，指一切事情的发生不是偶然的，而是用来考验我们的，故B选项正确。
小题2:C。形容词辨析。A．繁忙；B．多泥的；C．直的；D．快乐的。根据空前后的形容词a smoothly paved， ，flat road to nowhere．可以判断此处是用来形容道路平坦的正面词，再由搭配可知答案选C。
小题3:D。动词辨析。A．赢； B．感兴趣；C．影响；D．伤害。从空后内容or breaks your heart可以推断D选项正确。
小题4:B。动词短语辨析。A．浏览；B．学习；C．瞭望；D．调整。俗话说“吃一堑长一智”，从情理可知当人经历过某些事情后会获得一些经验，教训，故答案选B。
小题5:A。副词辨析。A．无条件地；B．分开地；C．故意地；D．立即。在生活中当别人爱你的时候，你也要去爱别人，根据搭配可知答案选A。
小题6:D。名词辨析。A．胳膊；B．嘴；C．大脑；D．眼。根据空后内容or seen without them可以判断作者强调让人们睁开眼睛，敞开心扉去爱别人，故答案选D。
小题7:C。名词辨析。A．成功；B．失败；C．片刻；D．挑战。根据上文Make every day count可知作者建议人们要珍惜时间，珍惜每一刻，让每一天都过得有意义，故答案选C。 |
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试题【In your life，nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck．Everythin】；主要考察你对
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Reading to dogs is an unusual way to help children improve their literacy skills. With their shining brown eyes, wagging tails, and unconditional love, dogs can provide the nonjudgmental listeners needed for a beginning reader to gain confidence, according to Intermountain Therapy Animals （ITA） in Salt Lake City. The group says it is the first program in the country to use dogs to help develop literacy in children, with the introduction of Reading Education Assistance Dogs（READ）.
The Salt Lake City Public Library is sold on the idea. “Literacy specialists admit that children who read below the level of their fellow pupils are often afraid of reading aloud in a group, often have lower self-respect, and regard reading as a headache,” said Lisa Myron, manager of the children’s department.
Last November, the two groups started “Dog Day Afternoon” in the children"s department of the main library. About 25 children attended each of the four Saturday-afternoon classes, reading for half an hour. Those who attended three of the four classes received a “paw graphed” book at the last class.
The program was so successful that the library plans to repeat it in April, according to Dana Thumpowsky, public relations manager.
小题1:What is mainly discussed in the text?| A．Children’s reading difficulties. | | B．Advantages of raising dogs. | | C．Service in public library. | | D．A special reading program. |
小题2: Specialists use dogs to listen to children reading because they think ______________. | A．dogs are young children"s best friends | | B．children can play with dogs while reading | | C．dogs can provide encouragement for shy children | | D．children and dogs understand each other |
小题3:By saying “The Salt Lake City Public Library is sold on the idea”, the writer means the library ____________.
A. uses dogs to attract children.
B. accepts the idea put forward by ITA.
C. has opened a children"s department.
D. has decided to train some dogs.
小题4: A “paw graphed” book is most probably_____________. | A．a book used in Saturday classes | | B．a book written by the children | | C．a prize for the children | | D．a gift from parents |
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A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.
The conversation soon turned into complaints about ____ in work and life. Offering his__ coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and ____ with a large pot of coffee and a ____ of cups---porcelain(陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal(水晶), some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful—telling them to ____ themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said,“If you have ____all the nice-looking expensive cups have been ____, leaving behind the plain and ____ ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves , that is the ____ of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup ____ adds no quality to the coffee. ____ it is just more expensive and in some cases ____ hides what we drink.”
“____ all of you really want is coffee, not the cup, ____ you consciously went for the best cups…. And then you began ____ each other’s cups.”
Now consider this:__ __ is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. ____ are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the ____ of life we live. Sometimes , by concentrating only on the cup, we ____ to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don’t let the cups ____ you...enjoy the coffee instead.
| 小题1: | | A．stress | B．dream | C．sorrow | D．truth |
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| 小题2: | | A．friends | B．customers | C．fellows | D．guests |
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| 小题3: | | A．carried | B．returned | C．arrived | D．reached |
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| 小题4: | | A．kind | B．variety | C．sort | D．number |
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| 小题5: | | A．devote | B．expose | C．help | D．apply |
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| 小题6: | | A．searched | B．witnessed | C．noticed | D．discovered |
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| 小题7: | | A．taken up | B．brought in | C．sold out | D．cut down |
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| 小题8: | | A．expensive | B．cheap | C．beautiful | D．usual |
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| 小题9: | | A．point | B．answer | C．source | D．result |
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| 小题10: | | A．by itself | B．on its own | C．for itself | D．itself |
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| 小题11: | | A．At no time | B．At times | C．In no case | D．In most cases |
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| 小题12: | | A．ever | B．even | C．never | D．hardly |
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| 小题13: | | A．What | B．That | C．Which | D．Whether |
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| 小题15: | | A．looking | B．liking | C．envying | D．looking at |
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| 小题16: | | A．Love | B．Life | C．Future | D．Failure |
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| 小题18: | | A．quantity | B．style | C．quality | D．standard |
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| 小题19: | | A．have | B．hesitate | C．forget | D．fail |
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| 小题20: | | A．force | B．drive | C．puzzle | D．amaze |
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A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.
A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a piece of advice, “I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage,” she offered. “Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together.”
The husband agreed. So each of them tried to think of the things that annoyed them about the other and wrote down what they came up with. The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.
“I’ll start,” offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill three pages. In fact, as she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband’s eyes because he never thought that he had so many shortcomings.
The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. “Now, you read your list and then we’ll talk about the things on both of our lists,” she said happily.
Quietly the husband stated, “I don’t have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect. I don’t want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn’t want to try and change anything about you.” The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.
In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don’t really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us and see the wonderful things before us?
小题1:Why were there tears in the husband’s eyes when the wife read his annoyances?| A．Because he had no courage to face his shortcomings. | | B．Because he never thought he had so many annoyances in his wife’s eyes. | | C．Because he was sorry that he didn’t find any annoyance about his wife. | | D．Because he didn’t think he deserved to have such a perfect wife. |
小题2:After hearing the husband’s words, the wife felt _________. .| A．moved and ashamed | B．sad and disappointed | | C．satisfied and proud | D．surprised and confused |
小题3:The story is intended to tell us that ___________. .| A．disappointment cannot be avoided in our life | | B．young couples should be more tolerant (宽容的) to each other | | C．we should turn a blind eye to other people’s blame | | D．we should try to look for and see the wonderful things around us |
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What do you want to be when you grow up? A teacher? A doctor? How about an ice-cream taster?
Yes, there really is a job where you can get paid to taste ice-cream. Just ask John Harrison, an＂Official Taste Tester＂for the past 21 years. Testing helps manufacturers to be sure of a product’s quality. During his career Harrison has been responsible for approving large quantities of the sweet ice cream－－as well as for developing over 75 flavors (味道).
Some people think that it would be easy to do this job: after all, you just have to like ice cream, right? No－－there’s more to the job than that, says Harrison, who has a degree in chemistry. He points out that a dairy or food-science degree would be very useful to someone wanting a career in this＂cool＂field.
In a typical morning on the job, Harrison tastes and assesses 60 ice-cream samples. He lets the ice cream warm up to about 12℉. Harrison explains,＂You get more flavor from warmer ice cream, which is why some kids like to stir it, creating ice-cream soup.＂
While the ice cream warms up, Harrison looks over the samples and grades each one on its appearance.＂Tasting begins with the eyes,＂he explains. He checks to see if the ice cream is attractive and asks himself,＂Does the product have the color expected from that flavor?＂Next it’s time to taste!
Continuing to think up new ideas, try out new flavors, and test samples from so many kinds of ice cream each day keeps Harrison busy but happy－－working at one cool job.
小题1:What is John Harrison’s job?| A．An official. | B．An ice-cream taster. | | C．A chemist. | D．An ice-cream manufacturer. |
小题2:According to John Harrison, to be qualified in the＂cool field＂, it is helpful to ______.| A．keep a diary of work | B．have a degree in related subjects | | C．have new ideas every day | D．find out new flavors each day |
小题3:What does Harrison do first when testing ice cream?| A．He stirs the ice cream. | | B．He examines the color of the ice cream. | | C．He tastes the flavor of the ice cream. | | D．He lets the ice cream warm up. |
小题4:Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?| A．Tasting with Eyes | B．Flavors of Ice Cream | | C．John Harrison’s Life | D．One Cool Job |
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Growing up, I remember my father as a silent, serious man—not the sort of person around whom one could laugh. As a teenager arriving in America, knowing nothing, I wanted a father who could explain the human journey. In college, when friends called home for advice, I would sink into deep depression for what I did not have.
Today, at twenty-seven, I have come to rediscover them in ways that my teenage mind would not allow—as adults and as friends with their own faults and weaknesses.
One night after my move back home, I overheard my father on the telephone. There was some trouble. Later, Dad shared the problem with me. Apparently my legal training had earned me some privileges in his eyes. I talked through the problem with Dad, analyzing the purposes of the people involved and offering several negotiation strategies(策略).He listened patiently before finally admitting, “I can’t think like that. I am a simple man.”
Dad is a brilliant scientist who can deconstruct the building blocks of nature. Yet human nature is a mystery to him. That night I realized that he was simply not skilled at dealing with people, much less the trouble of a conflicted teenager. It’s not in his nature to understand human desires.
And so, there it was—it was no one’s fault that my father held no interest in human lives while I placed great importance in them. We are at times born more sensitive, wide-eyed, and dreamy than our parents and become more curious and idealistic than them. Dad perhaps never expected me for a child. And I, who knew Dad as an intelligent man, had never understood that his intelligence did not cover all of my feelings.
It has saved me years of questioning and confusion. I now see my parents as people who have other relationships than just Father and Mother. I now overlook their many faults and weaknesses, which once annoyed me.
I now know my parents as friends: people who ask me for advice; people who need my support and understanding. And I have come to see my past clearer.
小题1:What was the author’s impression of her father when she was a teenager?| A．Friendly but irresponsible. | | B．Intelligent but severe. | | C．Cold and aggressive. | | D．Caring and communicative. |
小题2:Why did the author feel depressed when her friends called home?| A．She did not have a phone to call home. | | B．Her father did not care about her human journey. | | C．Her father was too busy to answer her phone. | | D．Her father could not give her appropriate advice. |
小题3:After the author overheard her father on the telephone, _________ .| A．he blamed her for impoliteness. | | B．he rediscovered human nature. | | C．he consulted with her about his problem. | | D．he changed his attitude towards the author. |
小题4:Which of the following is the best title of this passage?| A．My Parents as Friends. | | B．My Parents as advisers. | | C．My father—a serious man. | | D．My father—an intelligent scientist. |
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