On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Clarke, dressed for going out, took her handbag with her money and her key in it, pulled the door behind her to lock it and went to the Over 60s Club. She always went there on Thursdays. It was a nice outing for an old woman who lived alone.
At six o’clock she came home, let herself in and at once smelt cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke in her house? How? Had someone got in? She checked the back door and the windows. All were locked or fastened, as usual. There was no sign of forced entry.
Over a cup of tea she wondered whether someone might have a key that fitted her front door—“a master key ”perhaps. So she stayed at home the following Thursday. Nothing happened. Was anyone watching her movements? On the Thursday after that she went out at her usual time, dressed as usual, but she didn’t go to the club. Instead she took a short cut home again, letting herself in through her garden and the back door. She settled down to wait.
It was just after four o’clock when the front door bell rang. Mrs. Clarke was making a cup of tea at the time. The bell rang again, and then she heard her letter box being pushed open. With the kettle of boiling water in her hand, she moved quietly toward the front door. A long piece of wire appeared through the letter box, and then a hand. The wire turned and caught around the knob on the door lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and poured the water over the hand. There was a shout outside, and the skin seemed to drop off the fingers like a glove. The wire fell to the floor, the hand was pulled back, and Mrs. Clarke heard the sound of running feet.
小题1:Mrs. Clarke looked forward to Thursday because__________.| A．she worked at a club on the day | | B．she lived alone | | C．she visited a club on Thursdays | | D．a special visitor came on Thursday Clarke |
小题2: If someone had made a forced entry,________.| A．Mrs. Clarke would have found a broken door or window | | B．he or she was still in the house | | C．things would have been thrown about | | D．he or she would have needed a master key |
小题3:According to the passage, which of the following is right?| A．She is about more than 50 years old. | | B．The next day after she found something unusual in her house, she stayed at home. | | C．The man who tried to enter her house wore a pair of gloves. | | D．Mrs. Clarke was in an attempt to trick the thief when she noticed something unusual. |
小题4:The wire fell to the floor________.| A．because Mrs. Clarke refused to open the door | | B．when the man’s glove dropped off | | C．because it was too hot to hold | | D．because the man just wanted to get away |
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小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:D |
试题分析：本文叙述了Mrs. Clarke每到周四都去俱乐部去，有一天她照常去那里，等到回到家中，她发现家里好像有人来过，于是她想出来一个办法来看个究竟，那天，她装着去俱乐部，但是一会就回来了，躲在一个地方看着是否有人来，结果贼真的来了，她用准备好的热水浇了贼的手，贼吓得跑开了。
小题1:细节理解题。根据…went to the over 60s Club. She always went there on Thursdays. 太太盼望星期四因为在这天她要去俱乐部。故选C。
小题2:推理题。根据She checked the back door and the windows. All were locked or fastened, as usual. There was no sign of forced entry.可知如果有人强行进入的话，门窗就会坏了，故选A。
小题3:细节理解题。根据but she didn’t go to the club. Instead she took a short cut home again, letting herself in through her garden and the back door. She settled down to wait.她故意让贼看见她出去，但是她又回来了，想看个究竟，故选D
小题4:推理题。根据Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and poured the water over the hand. There was a shout outside, and the skin seemed to drop off the fingers like a glove. The wire fell to the floor, the hand was pulled back, and Mrs. Clarke heard the sound of running feet.可知这个人是想逃跑，故选D。 |
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Over the years, thanks to my life’s obstacles(障碍), I understood the meaning of faith and the strong will to survive. It was Hurricane Ike that made me fully____ the beauty of our strength and a human’s motivation to ____.
Mom had a two-week ____ in summer. While we enjoyed our holiday in Southeast Texas, we didn’t realize the fact that Ike ____ cause months and likely years of “labor”. By September 7th, the “eyes of Texas” were watching Hurricane Ike more ____, making the typical mad rush for last-minute hurricane ____. Two days later, both oil and ice were in ____ demand.
In the early hours of September 11th, some neighbors were planning to ____the storm in their homes, ____ others were making final preparations to get away. At first, we decided to stay. But that afternoon, the Houston-Galveston area would be on the more ____ side of the storm. Mom and I packed some of our most ____ belongings in the car and ____ the East Texas town of Lufkin.
As Ike pushed farther inland, we ____power in Lufkin. On Sunday, our next-door neighbor told us via cell phone that our ____ had remained well. Our hopes could not have been ____. But a few hours later, the neighbors reported that our brick chimney had ____, and it was sitting on our living room, ____ a hole in the roof between two skylights (天窗).
We wouldn’t be allowed to return home ____ September 17th. I climbed upstairs, and looked toward the hole in the roof which showed a beautiful blue sky.
Without hesitation, I shouted, “Wow! A third skylight!”
My neighbors could not believe I was making jokes ____ crying, but ____ is always good medicine. It was with that joke that I knew, given time, everything would be okay.
| 小题1: | | A．observe | B．appreciate | C．explore | D．improve |
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| 小题2: | | A．work | B．apologize | C．recover | D．change |
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| 小题3: | | A．vacation | B．journey | C．meeting | D．schedule |
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| 小题4: | | A．must | B．might | C．should | D．would |
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| 小题5: | | A．closely | B．constantly | C．warningly | D．differently |
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| 小题6: | | A．adventure | B．equipment | C．supplies | D．reports |
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| 小题7: | | A．basic | B．high | C．pure | D．neat |
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| 小题8: | | A．get through | B．put away | C．test out | D．suffer from |
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| 小题9: | | A．since | B．when | C．until | D．while |
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| 小题10: | | A．dangerous | B．abundant | C．peaceful | D．awesome |
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| 小题11: | | A．available | B．concrete | C．prized | D．potential |
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| 小题12: | | A．set out | B．headedfor | C．settled down | D．watched out |
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| 小题13: | | A．provided | B．reduced | C．produced | D．lost |
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| 小题14: | | A．garden | B．house | C．pool | D．yard |
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| 小题15: | | A．clearer | B．wilder | C．lower | D．higher |
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| 小题16: | | A．passed | B．stood | C．gone | D．followed |
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| 小题17: | | A．leaving | B．digging | C．filling | D．kicking |
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| 小题18: | | A．by | B．before | C．until | D．after |
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| 小题19: | | A．in spite of | B．instead of | C．apart from | D．in terms of |
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| 小题20: | | A．faith | B．will | C．strength | D．laughter |
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I’d meant to go to Miros that day. I’d packed my bag and was ready. The motor-boat in on time. The sky was cloudy, but the wind wasn’t too strong for the two-hour . I stood at my window, staring at the boat. Then I lost of her, an old light-house partly blocked my view of the harbor. A dozen passengers were their way there. I was about to join them --- when a man’s face at the light-house window.
This was strange, because the light-house had been empty, unused and for thirty years. It was stranger still --- because I’d seen that before. I couldn’t place it but it was, or had once been, familiar to me. I opened my window and across. “I know we’ve met before, but I can’t remember where.”
I him to open his if he could and answer me. He did neither. The face behind the glass motionless (静止). Seeing him more clearly now, I knew he was not looking at me. He seemed to be looking upwards, the clouds. How well I’d known that face, sometime, somewhere!
I again. “We met years ago. Was it in Athens in the 1950s? I used to live in Plaka.”
He didn’t reply nor give any that he’d heard. I went back further, to I was in the navy. “Perhaps we met at sea during the war,” and that thought at once him to mind. Commander Leftis! He was Commander Leftis of course! How could I have forgotten? I’d saved his life once. But surely he …
The motor-boat her bell. I turned my eyes. The wind had risen, but she was pulling . Laughing, I called, “Now I’ve missed her, and it’s your , Commander!”
As the boat drew away, the face at the window faded. minute it was there. Looking up, I could see the whites of the eyes. The minute it was gone.
Well, I didn’t rush to the light-house. I knew that Leftis was dead. He died at sea in 1963 or 1964. But there’s one other thing I ought to tell you: the motor-boat never reached Miros. It was lost in a storm, with all the passengers.
| 小题1: | | A．reached | B．arrived | C．went | D．came |
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| 小题2: | | A．voyage | B．crossing | C．travel | D．boating |
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| 小题3: | | A．sight | B．way | C．patience | D．chances |
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| 小题4: | | A．searching | B．finding | C．making | D．hurrying |
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| 小题5: | | A．placed | B．existed | C．occurred | D．appeared |
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| 小题6: | | A．locked | B．opened | C．rebuilt | D．chained |
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| 小题7: | | A．man | B．face | C．window | D．light-house |
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| 小题8: | | A．jumped | B．ran | C．shouted | D．screamed |
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| 小题9: | | A．expected | B．hoped | C．believed | D．asked |
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| 小题10: | | A．became | B．remained | C．seemed | D．grew |
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| 小题11: | | A．through | B．after | C．for | D．at |
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| 小题12: | | A．persuaded | B．repeated | C．tried | D．continued |
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| 小题13: | | A．suggestion | B．answer | C．sign | D．action |
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| 小题14: | | A．when | B．which | C．where | D．how |
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| 小题15: | | A．kept | B．brought | C．caused | D．changed |
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| 小题16: | | A．beat | B．rang | C．turned on | D．put on |
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| 小题18: | | A．problem | B．question | C．duty | D．fault |
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| 小题20: | | A．next | B．rest | C．other | D．last |
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I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper has me with plenty of opportunities to make them. In one of my earlier , my mother was telling me“Don’t watch the when you say, ‘I’m sorry’. Hold your head up and look at the person in the , so he’ll know you it. ”
My mother thus made the key point of a(n) apology: It must be direct. You must never to be doing something else. You do not a pile of letters while apologizing to a person in position after blaming him or her for a mistake that turned out to be your . You do not apologize to a hostess, whose guest of honor you treat , by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad .
One of the important things we should do for an apology is a readiness to the responsibility for our careless mistakes. We are used to making excuses, which leaves no for the other person to us. Since most people are open-hearted, the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling about themselves. That, after all, is the of every apology. It little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly at fault. Answering for one’s encourages others to take their share of the blame.
| 小题1: | | A．provided | B．mixed | | C．compared | D．treated |
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| 小题2: | | A．dreams | B．courses | | C．memories | D．ideas |
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| 小题3: | | A．side | B．ground | | C．wall | D．bottom |
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| 小题4: | | A．mind | B．soul | | C．face | D．eye |
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| 小题5: | | A．imagine | B．enjoy | | C．mean | D．regret |
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| 小题6: | | A．useful | B．successful | | C．equal | D．basic |
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| 小题7: | | A．pretend | B．forget | | C．refuse | D．expect |
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| 小题8: | | A．hold on | B．put away | | C．look through | D．pick up |
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| 小题9: | | A．poorer | B．weaker | | C．worse | D．lower |
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| 小题10: | | A．fault | B．reason | C．result | D．duty |
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| 小题11: | | A．cruelly | B．freely | | C．roughly | D．foolishly |
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| 小题12: | | A．manners | B．excuses | | C．efforts | D．roles |
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| 小题13: | | A．active | B．effective | | C．extra | D．easy |
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| 小题14: | | A．raise | B．perform | | C．admit | D．bear |
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| 小题15: | | A．situation | B．need | | C．sign | D．room |
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| 小题16: | | A．advise | B．forgive | | C．warn | D．blame |
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| 小题17: | | A．wiser | B．warmer | | C．better | D．cleverer |
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| 小题18: | | A．purpose | B．method | | C．end | D．advantage |
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| 小题19: | | A．cares | B．matters | | C．depends | D．remains |
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| 小题20: | | A．facts | B．states | | C．rights | D．actions |
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A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps. One should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting us in age.
Men often discover their similarity to each other by the common love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this: “Love my, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond(纽带) of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.
A good book is often the best container of a life preserving the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which become our steady companions and comforters.
Books are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay(腐朽), but good books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago.
The great and good do not die, even in this world. Preserved in books, their spirits walked abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect(智者) to which one still listens.
小题1:The writer introduces the topic of the passage by .| A．describing life experience of great writers | | B．telling his own story of reading good books | | C．presenting the best thoughts in good books | | D．comparing good books to good friends in life |
小题2:What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean?| A．Readers feel sympathy for the author. | | B．Readers live together with the author. | | C．Readers and the author share the same feeling. | | D．Readers are the author’s companions and comforters. |
小题3:which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．We can learn about the great and good through books. | | B．The most important part of a man’s life is his treasures. | | C．Good books help us to know about their authors’ friends. | | D．Books are often regarded as best containers in our life. |
小题4:the passage mainly tells us that .
A. one should have some good friends
B one should read as many books as possible
C. one should keep company with good books
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That summer an army of crickets(蟋蟀) started a war with my father. Dad didn’t care for insects much more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few living in the basement. Mamma was a city girl and she said a cricket was just too noisy. Then to support her point she wouldn’t go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father’s cigarettes and paced between the sofa and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the store and hurried back. He sprayed poison from a jug. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it.
For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. He suggested that we’d all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn’t like because he scratched for no reason.
However, soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma was upset because she thought they were the dead crickets coming back, but Dad said these were certainly new ones. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed all over until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the basement again.
A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, Dad emptied the basement of junk. Then he burned a lot of old newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests.
While we ate supper that evening, the wind lifted some flames onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mower’s(割草机) fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasn’t much anyone could do.
After the fire trucks left, Mamma took the others to Aunt Gail’s. I helped Dad and Uncle Burt carry things out of the house and pile them by the road. We worked into the night and we didn’t talk much, while all around the noise of crickets broke our silence.
小题1:What do we know about the author’s mother?| A．She didn’t like insects at all. | | B．She liked insects more than his father. | | C．She cared for insects very much. | | D．She could only tolerate a few insects. |
小题2:The author’s father drove to the store to buy _______. | A．cigarettes for himself | B．some poison | | C．more coffee for his wife | D．some gasoline |
小题3:The author’s father burned the old newspapers and magazines because he thought ______. | A．they were no longer useful | | B．the crickets were afraid of fires | | C．they became the home of crickets | | D．the dead crickets came back to life |
小题4:We learn from the last paragraph that ________. | A．the author’s family lost their battle against the crickets | | B．the author’s parents learned to put up with insects | | C．the author’s family didn’t suffer much in the fire | | D．the author’s parents got divorced |
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