I was eight when my neighbors got a TV. It was small and expensive, but that didn’t matter. IT WAS WONDERFUL. Everyone in the building came up to the fifth floor to see this latest wonder of the modern world. That was in 1948.
Soon, a lot of people got a TV, but not us. My parents didn’t think it was good for children. Being a good son, I didn’t argue with them. But I secretly watch TV—at my friends’ homes.
By 1955, televisions weren’t so expensive and were much larger. My parents still thought they were not good for us, but my sisters insisted, saying they were the only people in the neighborhood who didn’t have one. All their friends talked about certain programs and actors, but they couldn’t. Their friends laughed at them, which made them feel very unhappy. My youngest sister cried, saying she was never going back to school and that life without a TV wasn’t worth living. Nothing my parents said made her feel better. The next morning, without telling us, they went out and got a new TV.
When we were young our parents allowed us to watch TV for two hours a night. And we couldn’t watch until our homework was finished. But after a year or two, TV wasn’t exciting or new anymore. It became just another part of our lives like shoes or soap. My parents still had fears about TV. We were going to forget how to read, and TV was going to fill our minds with violence, they said.
Today people still argue about the value of TV. Nobody can deny the power of TV, which has a powerful influence on our lives. On average, Americans spend 30 hours a week watching TV. Is this influence good or bad? This is an unanswerable question indeed: It is hard enough to measure influence; and it is even harder to decide what is good and what isn’t. What is good, I suppose, is that many people are concerned about TV’s influence and that we have the power to change what we don’t like.
The people of Monhegan Island, 18 kilometers away off the coast of Maine, don’t have electricity, and they decided; once again, that they liked that way. Electricity, they think, would make life too easy and spoil their way of life. Maybe the young people wouldn’t want to go to town dances anymore. Maybe they would be more interested in staying at home and watching TV.
小题1:How old was the author, when their family got a TV?| A．About 15. | B．8. | C．18. | D．About 10. |
小题2:The author’s parents finally decided to buy a TV because _______.| A．they wanted to meet their daughters’ needs . | | B．the children couldn’t go to school without a TV | | C．the sisters would like to be like their friends | | D．they had to do as the youngest daughter told them to |
小题3:The author thinks “to judge whether a TV’s influence is good or bad” is ________.| A．concerning | B．hard | C．meaningless | D．important |
小题4:The last paragraph is written to show ________.| A．the disadvantage of TV | | B．TV influences people a great deal | | C．the advantage of TV | | D．we can change what we don’t like |
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小题1:A
小题2:A
小题3:B
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试题分析：我八岁（1948年）时邻居家有了电视，电视虽小有贵，但是很多人被它所吸引。到1955年由于兄弟姐妹们的影响和要求，父母不得不买了一台电视。但是还是限制看电视必须先完成作业，而且只能看两个小时。因为父母认为电视有很多坏处，如我们会忘记读书，受到电视上的暴力影响。今天人们还在讨论电视的价值。不可否认电视给我们的生活带来很大的影响。有好处也有坏处。但是好处是许多人关心电视带来的影响并我们有力量改变我们不喜欢的东西。
小题1:细节理解题。通过文章中第一段的I was eight in 1948.和第三段的By 1955, ... they went out and got a new TV.通过简单地计算可知，1955--1948=7，加8 得15。故选A。
小题2:细节理解题。通过文章中第三段My youngest sister cried, saying she was never going back to school and that life without a TV wasn’t worth living. Nothing my parents said made her feel better. 可知，父母买电视是因为小妹妹的强烈要求。故选A。
小题3:细节理解题。通过文章中第五段This is an unanswerable question indeed:It is hard enough to measure influence; and it is even harder to decide what is good and what isn’t.可知很难判断电视带来的影响。故选B。
小题4:推理判断题。最后一段是用来证明作者在前一段得出的结论是：电视的好处是许多人关心电视带来的影响并我们有力量改变我们不喜欢的东西。故选D。 |
核心考点
试题【I was eight when my neighbors got a TV. It was small and expensive, but that did】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
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Fill Her Tank First
The summer of 1975 I’d just graduated from college in Southern California and received a 1968 Ford Capri for a graduation present. I had my first job, in Los Angeles. One Sunday night, __36__ myself a very independent grown-up, I left my uncle’s place in South Laguna after a visit, without __37__ to him that I had less than an __38__ of a tank of gas and no cash to buy __39__ on the way to L.A. I pulled onto the Pacific Coast Highway and watched the needle __40__ as I headed north. When I started running on fumes, I pulled into a __41__. There was no self-service __42__; there were no credit cards, no ATMs.
I begged the guy at the station. I __43__ write him a check for gas, I said, or I could sleep in my car and try to __44__ to a town with a bank the next morning. As he was informing me that I could sleep in my car but he’d have me __45__, a station wagon __46__ to the next pump. The driver--- a thin, plain, middle-aged guy---overheard the tail end of my __47__ request. As the attendant went to serve him, he nodded at me. “__48__ her tank first,” he said.
“Really?” I said. Hope __49__. “Oh, thank you. Thank you. But please. I just need two dollars’ __50__. I just need to go home.”
“Fill it,” he __51__ to the attendant. Then to me, “You will do the same one day, for someone else.”
I keep looking for that unlucky young person, __52__ to save her night on the road. Meanwhile, in case she never __53__ up, I try for other acts of random kindness. That __54__ driver is always at the pump a few feet away, __55__ the attendant to fill mine first.
| 小题1: | | A．thinking | B．hoping | C．knowing | D．showing |
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| 小题2: | | A．confirming | B．convincing | C．admitting | D．concerning |
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| 小题3: | | A．eighty | B．eight | C．eighth | D．eighths |
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| 小题4: | | A．another | B．more | C．much | D．some |
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| 小题5: | | A．drop | B．increase | C．reduce | D．decrease |
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| 小题6: | | A．train station | B．bus station | C．railway station | D．gas station |
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| 小题7: | | A．at one time | B．at a time | C．at times | D．at that time |
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| 小题8: | | A．could | B．might | C．should | D．must |
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| 小题9: | | A．scramble | B．drive | C．climb | D．walk |
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| 小题10: | | A．ordered | B．helped | C．warned | D．arrested |
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| 小题11: | | A．went up | B．drove up | C．pulled up | D．drew into |
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| 小题12: | | A．tried | B．succeeded | C．reasoned | D．failed |
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| 小题13: | | A．Fill | B．Filled | C．Filling | D．To fill |
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| 小题14: | | A．increased | B．raised | C．accumulated | D．fired |
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| 小题15: | | A．value | B．worthy | C．worth | D．money |
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| 小题16: | | A．pardoned | B．repeated | C．said | D．spoke |
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| 小题17: | | A．ensuring | B．supposing | C．hoping | D．considering |
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| 小题18: | | A．shows | B．goes | C．grows | D．comes |
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| 小题19: | | A．easy-going | B．polite | C．powerful | D．quiet |
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| 小题20: | | A．introducing | B．instructing | C．interesting | D．interacting |
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Comedian Groucho Mark said, “Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
You and I have principles and we also have 31 . I have opinions about what I think is right or wrong or good or bad. But they’re only opinions —I could be 32 ! I won’t try to build my life around my opinions, 33 I’ll try to keep to my principles.
A 15-year-old boy learned a valuable 34 about life principles. One day, he found a wallet that 35 $127 as well as a woman’s 36 . He jumped onto his 37 and went to her house. He told her he found her wallet and she gave him a big 38 . She also gave him twenty dollars.
That evening the boy told his parents about the 39 and his father said, “I don’t think you should have 40 $20 for doing what you should have done. A person shouldn’t be rewarded for being 41 .”
He considered his father’s statement and 42 that he would return the money. He 43 biked to the lady’s home and gave her back the money. She didn’t want to 44 it, but he told her she had to — that his father 45 something to him that he had 46 realized before.
When ideals such as honesty and a personal standard of always doing the right thing guide our every action and decision, we 47 develop a good character. These great principles 48 our lives and make us into a person of 49 . They teach confidence. That boy is 50 to be raised by a wise father who had the wisdom to say, “Those are my principles.”
| 小题1: | | A．lives | B．opinions | C．conditions | D．purposes |
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| 小题2: | | A．happy | B．different | C．wrong | D．clever |
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| 小题4: | | A．lesson | B．skill | C．secret | D．course |
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| 小题5: | | A．cost | B．contained | C．got | D．covered |
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| 小题6: | | A．name | B．script | C．identification | D．house |
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| 小题7: | | A．bicycle | B．car | C．horse | D．taxi |
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| 小题8: | | A．hand | B．surprise | C．chance | D．hug |
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| 小题9: | | A．performance | B．event | C．principle | D．trade |
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| 小题10: | | A．accepted | B．paid | C．earned | D．saved |
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| 小题11: | | A．generous | B．honest | C．selfless | D．confident |
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| 小题12: | | A．imagined | B．expected | C．predicted | D．decided |
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| 小题13: | | A．once | B．even | C．again | D．still |
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| 小题14: | | A．fetch | B．take | C．return | D．spare |
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| 小题15: | | A．pointed out | B．gave out | C．picked up | D．added up |
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| 小题16: | | A．always | B．often | C．never | D．ever |
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| 小题17: | | A．suddenly | B．actually | C．immediately | D．personally |
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| 小题18: | | A．shape | B．protect | C．encourage | D．understand |
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| 小题19: | | A．attitude | B．sense | C．direction | D．character |
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| 小题20: | | A．sure | B．free | C．fortunate | D．tough |
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John, a famous musician, took his priceless antique violin and played it in the crowded subway station. The music from the violin was delicately streaming throughout the whole station. However, during the one-hour play, only six or seven people were truly appreciating the charming music. A three-year-old kid was so fascinated by the music that he forgot everything around. John only got 52 dollars for his work that day.
However, in normal days, when John is about to hold a concert, one ticket can be sold at more than 100 dollars and it is extremely hard to buy a ticket even at such a high price. Therefore, later, many passers-by in the station that day felt deeply regretful for not recognizing the famous musician and missing such a valuable but cheap music feast.
I have a very busy friend who had totally changed after knowing that his wife came down with incurable illness. He cooked by himself for the family and took a walk with his wife every day. Nonetheless, his wife still did not manage to conquer the illness and passed away after three months. After that, he often sighed miserably that due to his past busy life, he had missed a lot of beautiful time with his wife. But now, it is impossible to make up for it.
It is no use crying over spilt milk. We have missed a lot of precious things in our life without knowing to cherish them.
Actually, I also missed something precious before. The reason why we would have missed those precious things is less than simple: we had thought that we could still own them tomorrow.
Nevertheless, tomorrow is actually by no means reliable. There was a famous Buddhist monk saying that in many people’s lives, they have only done two things: waiting and regretting. The result is that they were always too late to cherish what they had before they lost it. We would often claim to do something when we grow up, or when we have money or when we become old, etc. However, when we reach the condition we have expected, we could no longer realize our wish, because we have lost it by then.
小题1:The reason why people often regret may be that _______.| A．they are too busy to notice the beautiful things | | B．they are too careless to cherish precious things | | C．they are lazy to observe the surroundings | | D．they think that it’s none of their business |
小题2:The idea the author would like to get across to us seems that _______.| A．actions speak louder than words | | B．a bad beginning makes a bad ending | | C．the lost will never come back | | D．each day brings its own bread |
小题3:What method does the author employ to support his opinion？| A．By listing data. | B．By comparing the details . | | C．By explaining the procedures . | D．By taking examples. |
小题4:How do we understand the underlined parts “waiting and regretting”?| A．Many people will not cherish what they have until they lost them. | | B．Many people cannot do well until they get older. | | C．Many people know what they are doing. | | D．Many people regret for what they don’t possess. |
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For most of my 15 years, my father usually said very little to my mother and me. He preferred reading the newspaper or watching football matches on television to talking to his family.
Everything changed one morning. As soon as I came downstairs to breakfast, I could see that he wasn’t his usual reserved (缄默的) self. “Can’t wait! FIFA World Cup! Big match! Must see!” I quickly figured out what all the excitement was about: Dad is a big football fan.
I had never been interested in football, but Dad’s excitement that morning made me more and more curious. I had to find out why this sport was making my normally reserved father act like a five-year-old on his first trip to Disneyland.
Dad decided that we should all eat at a little German restaurant so that we could watch the World Cup while eating. Secretly, I think he was hoping to turn Mum and me into football fans.
The match started a few minutes after we entered the restaurant. As I was eating my meal, a loud noise came from the television. Surprised, I looked up at the TV: “Why is that man jumping up and down?” Dad patiently explained: “That’s Papa Bouba Diop, my son. It’s normal for them to jump up and down after they’ve scored.”
Dad explained almost everything to me. His monosyllabic (单音节的) answers were a thing of the past. I loved the new Dad! I watched the rest of the match, becoming more and more interested. When I told my father that I planned to watch more matches with him, he smiled and gave me a wink (眨眼). At long last we had something in common.
Football has really helped Dad and me get closer and form a stronger relationship with each other. Who says football is only about 22 men running after a silly ball?
小题1:Which of the following words can best describe the author’s father? | A．A talkative football player. | B．A parent busy at work. | | C．An encouraging father. | D．A man of few words. |
小题2:What made the author curious about his father one morning? | A．His unusual excitement. | | B．His unexpressed eagerness. | | C．His great interest in the newspaper. | | D．His high expectation of the winner. |
小题3:The author’s growing interest in watching the match mainly came from________. | A．his and his father’s common love of German food | | B．watching a top level performance of the players | | C．his father’s love of football and his explanation | | D．eating in a restaurant with the excited fans |
小题4:What can we learn from the passage? | A．Sharing is the foundation of good relationship. | | B．Family members should be fans together. | | C．Interest is the mother of success. | | D．Personality decides everything. |
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A teacher teaching Maths to seven-year-old Laiq asked him, " If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?"
Within a few seconds Laiq 31 confidently, " Four!"
The confused teacher was expecting a（n） 32 correct answer, three．She was disappointed． "Maybe the child did not listen 33 " she thought． She 34 , "Laiq, listen carefully． If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?"
Laiq had seen the 35 on his teacher" s face． He 36 again on his fingers． But within him he was also 37 the answer that would make the teacher happy． This time hesitatingly he replied, "Four． "
The disappointment stayed on the teacher" s face． Suddenly she 38 that Laiq liked strawberries．She thought maybe he didn’t like apples and that was why he couldn’t answer the question．This time with an excitement in her 39 she asked, " If I give you one strawberry and one strawberry and one strawberry, then how many you will have?"
Seeing the teacher 40 , young Laiq calculated on his fingers again． There was no pressure on him, but a little on the teacher． She wanted her new 41 to succeed． 42 a hesitating smile young Laiq replied, "Three?"
The teacher now had a 43 smile． Her approach had succeeded． She wanted to 44 herself．But one last thing remained． 45 she asked him, "Now if I give you one apple and one apple and one more apple how many will you have?"
Confidently Laiq answered, "Four!" The teacher was 46 "How Laiq, how?" she demanded in a little annoyed voice．
In a voice that was 47 and hesitating young Laiq replied, " Because I already have one 48 in my bag． "
The story tells us: 49 someone gives you an answer that is 50 from what you expect, don" t think they are wrong． There shall be an angle that you may not have thought about yet．
| 小题1: | | A．told | B．added | C．replied | D．wrote |
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| 小题2: | | A．worthless | B．effortless | C．careless | D．selfless |
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| 小题3: | | A．possibly | B．actively | C．properly | D．strictly |
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| 小题4: | | A．repeated | B．ordered | C．whispered | D．complained |
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| 小题5: | | A．satisfaction | B．disappointment | C．punishment | D．determination |
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| 小题6: | | A．recognized | B．discovered | C．calculated | D．insisted |
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| 小题7: | | A．searching for | B．waiting for | C．arguing about | D．talking about |
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| 小题8: | | A．decided | B．noticed | C．expressed | D．remembered |
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| 小题9: | | A．eyes | B．hands | C．mouth | D．nose |
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| 小题10: | | A．sad | B．happy | C．pitiful | D．lovely |
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| 小题11: | | A．invention | B．system | C．reform | D．approach |
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| 小题13: | | A．victorious | B．precious | C．lasting | D．appealing |
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| 小题14: | | A．thank | B．congratulate | C．help | D．enjoy |
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| 小题15: | | A．Above all | B．In vain | C．On purpose | D．Once again |
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| 小题16: | | A．astonished | B．concerned | C．amused | D．relaxed |
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| 小题18: | | A．strawberry | B．apple | C．coin | D．box |
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| 小题19: | | A．Before | B．After | C．Until | D．When |
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| 小题20: | | A．absent | B．free | C．different | D．safe |
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