Dear XXX,
As we drove off from Columbia, I wanted to write a letter to you to tell you all that is on my mind.
Do your best in classes, but don’t let pressure get to you. If you graduate and learn something in your four years, we would feel happy. Your Columbia degree will take you far, even if you don’t graduate with honors. So please don"t give yourself pressure. The only thing that matters is that you learned. The only measurement you should use is that you tried.
Most importantly, make friends and be happy. College friends are often the best in life, because during college you are closer to them physically than to your family. Also, going through independence and adulthood is a natural bonding (结合的) experience. Pick a few friends and become really close to them — pick the ones who are genuine and sincere to you. Don’t worry about their hobbies, grades, looks, or even personalities. If you think you like someone, tell her. You have very little to lose. People are not perfect, so as long as they are genuine and sincere, trust them and be good to them. They will give back. This is my secret of success — that I am genuine with people and trust them (unless they do something to lose my trust).
College is the four years where you have:
•the greatest amount of free time
•the first chance to be independent
•the most flexibility to change
•the lowest risk for making mistakes
So please treasure your college years – make the best of your free time, become an independent thinker in control of your destiny. May Columbia become the happiest four years in your life, and may you blossom into just what you dream to be.
Love,
XXX
小题1:What is the most probable relationship between the writer and the receiver of the letter?| A．Friends. | B．A parent and his or her daughter. | | C．A teacher and a student. | D．Sisters. |
小题2:Which of the following suggestions is not given to the receiver in the letter?| A．How to adapt to the college life quickly. | | B．To make new friends. | | C．To learn to be independent in thinking. | | D．Not to make herself under much pressure in grades. |
小题3:According to the writer of the letter, college is a time _______.| A．during which one may make mistakes | | B．during which one has little free time | | C．during which it is hard for one to change | | D．during which one needs to learn to be independent |
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小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:D |
试题分析：这篇文章是父母写给上大学的女儿的信，在为女儿骄傲的同时，也为女儿指明大学学习的方向，期望女儿在大学学习的轻松，快乐成长，能够独立。
小题1:细节题：从文章第一段的句子：可知作者和收信人可能是父母和女儿的关系，选B
小题2:细节题：从文章第三段的句子：可知D是对的，从第四段的句子：可知BC是对的，而文章没有提到：怎么很快的适应大学生活，这不是给收信人的建议。选A
小题3:细节题：从文章的句子：College is the four years where you have: •the greatest amount of free time •the first chance to be independent可知写信人认为大学是人学会独立的时期，选D |
核心考点
试题【Dear XXX, As we drove off from Columbia, I wanted to write a letter to you to te】；主要考察你对
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More than four out of five people admit to telling little white lies at least once a day and the preferred way of “being economical with the truth” is to use technology such as cellphones, text messages and e-mails, a survey said last Thursday. The research found that “techno-treachery （高科技说谎）” was widespread with nearly 75 percent of people saying gadgets (小器具) made it easier to fib (撒小谎). Just over half of the respondents （被调查者） said using gadgets made them feel less guilty when telling a lie than doing it face to face. The workplace was a favorite location for fibbing with 67 percent of the 1,487 respondents admitting they had lied at work. The top lie was pretending to be ill (43 percent), followed by saying work had been completed when it hadn’t (23 percent). Worryingly for bosses 18 percent said they lied to hide a big mistake. But, employers were not the only ones on the receiving end of dishonest statements. Just over 40 percent of the respondents said they had lied to their families or partners. Key topics to lie about were: buying new clothes or the cost of them (37 percent), how good someone looked in something (35 percent), how much they had eaten (35 percent) and drunk (31 percent) and how much they weighed (32 percent).
小题1:The underlined phrase “being economical with the truth” probably means______.| A．telling lies | B．making apologies | C．feeling guilty | D．admitting mistakes |
小题2: It can be inferred(推断) from the passage that ______.| A．employers sometimes lie to their employees, too | | B．75% of people have ever lied to someone | | C．without gadgets, people may feel more pressure when telling white lies | | D．more people lie to their family than to their bosses |
小题3:Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?| A．Cell phones make people more likely to lie. | | B．Some people might lie to their bosses when they are not doing their work well. | | C．40% of employers admit that they have lied to their families or partners. | | D．Nearly 1,500 people were questioned in the survey. |
小题4: What is the main idea of the passage? | A．People are getting more likely to lie. | | B．People tend to fib using gadgets. | | C．Most people tell white lies at the workplace. | | D．18% of people lie to their bosses. |
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My daughter Julie and I went shopping this morning. A little part of me thought about going to another checkout line. This one had the shortest queue, there was only one guy in it, but he was in a ______ and there seemed to be some complications going on.
Well, I stamped on that little part, and we stepped in _______him. At first, he seemed to be having _____ getting his groceries onto the conveyor belt(输送带). But after a while, I _____ that what he was actually doing was dividing them into two lots.
Still, getting the stuff up there was no_______ task in itself. I ____to help, but he and the checkout lady had it under_____. He asked Julie if she would ______ putting his empty basket away. Then he ______for his wallet which was in a pouch(小袋子)on one side of his chair. The way he was positioned and the fact he only had one usable______ made this quite a stretch for him, so I helped there.
What must it be like, I ________, to be so dependent on other people like that?
The checkout operator came around and gave him his _______ and the items he needed to have to hand. I offered to get ________bigger bag and he said, “ No. but you could do me a favor. Take that lot along to the entrance and give it to Angela.”
I _____did that, leaving Julie with our shopping. Angela, it turned out, was collecting food for people who might otherwise go ___! I hadn’t even noticed her before.
This guy, despite the limitation that his ________condition imposed(强加于) on him, had bought more than twice as much shopping as he needed. He may have been _________ physically, but his heart was more than capable of ________ all that. And it changed my idea of _______ when I realized that the help he had given was ________ the help he had received.
| 小题1: | | A．taxi | B．wheelchair | C．grocery | D．bench |
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| 小题2: | | A．before | B．behind | C．near | D．beyond |
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| 小题3: | | A．difficulty | B．potential | C．doubt | D．ability |
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| 小题4: | | A．regretted | B．recognized | C．requested | D．realized |
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| 小题5: | | A．special | B．obvious | C．easy | D．necessary |
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| 小题6: | | A．struggled | B．offered | C．forced | D．preferred |
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| 小题7: | | A．control | B．consideration | C．repair | D．attack |
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| 小题8: | | A．mind | B．finish | C．enjoy | D．escape |
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| 小题9: | | A．hoped | B．chose | C．reached | D．begged |
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| 小题11: | | A．warned | B．wondered | C．feared | D．insisted |
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| 小题12: | | A．change | B．bill | C．note | D．coin |
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| 小题13: | | A．more | B．another | C．other | D．the other |
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| 小题14: | | A．desperately | B．faithfully | C．sadly | D．Gratefully |
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| 小题15: | | A．thirsty | B．tired | C．hungry | D．crazy |
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| 小题16: | | A．mental | B．natural | C．official | D．physical |
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| 小题17: | | A．admired | B．limited | C．forgotten | D．accepted |
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| 小题18: | | A．overcoming | B．keeping | C．passing | D．destroying |
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| 小题19: | | A．pride | B．patience | C．dependence | D．bravery |
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| 小题20: | | A．other than | B．more than | C．less than | D．rather than |
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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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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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