When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very 31 .Some stories are told 32 they were true. Real people who live in a 33 world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not 34 . They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be 35 for us.
But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only 36 . How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter ,we 37 seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than 38 . Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of 39 . When we read or write something ,we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our 40--which is real—and our imagination—which is real in a different way --- to make the words come to life in our minds.
Both realism and fantasy(幻想) 41 the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read 42 realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we 43 that we are real and they are 44 . It sounds 45 ,but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and 46 about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by 47 that what we read is like real life. In a way, we are writing the book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our 48 when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose 49 in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel 50 we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.
| 小题1: | | A．possible | B．easy | C．new | D．different |
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| 小题2: | | A．that | B．what | C．whether | D．as if |
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| 小题3: | | A．usual | B．normal | C．certain | D．common |
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| 小题4: | | A．realistic | B．reasonable | C．moral | D．instructive |
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| 小题5: | | A．difficult | B．impossible | C．important | D．necessary |
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| 小题6: | | A．thinkable | B．designed | C．imagined | D．planned |
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| 小题8: | | A．lessons | B．dreams | C．experience | D．magic |
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| 小题9: | | A．working | B．thinking | C．living | D．understanding |
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| 小题10: | | A．knowledge | B．skill | C．words | D．grammar |
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| 小题12: | | A．a newspaper | B．something | C．everything | D．a story |
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| 小题13: | | A．find | B．learn | C．know | D．hope |
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| 小题15: | | A．dangerous | B．serious | C．strange | D．terrible |
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| 小题16: | | A．talk | B．learn | C．read | D．think |
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| 小题17: | | A．telling | B．pretending | C．promising | D．guessing |
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| 小题18: | | A．mind | B．life | C．world | D．society |
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| 小题19: | | A．heart | B．time | C．money | D．ourselves |
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小题1:D
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:A
小题5:B
小题6:C
小题7:A
小题8:D
小题9:B
小题10:A
小题11:C
小题12:B
小题13:C
小题14:B
小题15:C
小题16:D
小题17:B
小题18:A
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试题分析：本文讲述的是对读书的理解，读书就像我们所做的事情一样，虽然有些是虚幻的，但很多和我们的现实都是有联系的。读书会让我们去思考。
小题1:D 上下文串联。上文中有similar相似，or提醒我们应选与similar意义相反的词different
小题2:D 语法分析。told用在被动语态中，因而后面不可跟宾语从句，应该是方式状语从句。句子意思是：有些故事讲起来似乎就是真的。
小题3:B 形容词辨析。usual习惯性，符合规章制度的或一贯如此的；common的意思：常见的，普通的，不足为奇的，有时可引申为“平凡”的意思；normal 正常的，正规的，标准的生活在正常世界的现实的人做实际的事。
小题4:A 形容词辨析。换句话说，那些故事就是有关象我们这样的人做我们所做的事。有些故事则是虚构的。
小题5:B 形容词辨析。A困难B不可能C重要D必要；这些故事中的人和动物与我们不同，他们能做对我们来说是不可能的事。
小题6:C 形容词辨析。甚至现实的作品也只是想象出来的（不是可以思考的，也不是设计出来的，更不是计划好的）
小题7:A 语法分析。使用do+动词原形表示强调。我们确实似乎了解（强调手法）
小题8:D 名词辨析。A教训B梦想C经历D魔术。当他研究魔术时，他对自己现实生活的了解也比对魔术的了解要多
小题9:B 名词辨析。A工作B思考C生活D理解；读书象写作一样，是一种行为，是一种思考的方法
小题10:A 名词辨析。用我们的知识（现实的知识）和想象（不同方式体现的现实）使得言语在我们的脑海中具有生命力。
小题11:C 动词辨析。A生产B得到C使用D有；现实和幻想用读书和写作的想象力和魅力使我们去思考
小题12:B 词义辨析。当我们读到某些现实的东西时，我们就不得不去想象我们所读到的有关的人就象我们一样
小题13:C 动词辨析。A发现B学会C知道D希望；即使我们知道我们是现实的而他们是虚构的（则不是现实的）
小题14:B 上下文串联。即使我们知道我们是现实的而他们是虚构的（则不是现实的）
小题15:C 形容词辨析。A危险的B严重的C奇怪的D可怕的；这听起来很奇怪。
小题16:D 我们读书的时候，可以把丢失的信息补充起来而且会思考一个人所做事情的影响和起因
小题17:B 我们只有通过自称我们所读到的东西就象真正的生活一样来给作家一些帮助。某种意义上讲我们也在写作。
小题18:A 名词辨析。A思维B生活C世界D社会；没有思考我们脑子中在想什么
小题19:D 固定搭配。Lose oneself in…沉浸于…；这里是指埋头于一则精彩的故事中
小题20:C 连词辨析。我们读书时如果知道我们的感受如何的话，那将有助于我们成为更好的读者。
点评：本文讲述的是对读书的理解。本文主要是测试学生综合运用语言的能力，即从语篇的角度综合测试阅读理解能力、词汇的掌握和对英语习惯用语的熟悉程度、以及语法规则的灵活运用。考生做题时必须时刻从上下文考虑，不应该只看到所添的词在短语或句子内是否可行。因此，在做题时最好将全文通读一下，了解了全文的意思以后再作答。 |
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试题【When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar t】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
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People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. People"s understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research. Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term-quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.
Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person"s life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75.
小题1:________ leads to people"s deeper understanding of health.| A．Common knowledge | | B．Progress in scientific research | | C．Better conditions of living | | D．Quality of life |
小题2:The emphasis of health has shifted nowadays because _________.| A．people enjoy better conditions of living and they can live longer | | B．people pay more attention to their physical health, not their mental health | | C．people have realized the importance of mental well-being | | D．people are inspired by medical advances |
小题3:We can infer from the passage __________.| A．nowadays the emphasis of health has a broader focus because of improvements in the quality of food | | B．the overall quality of people"s lives improved greatly in the 20th century | | C．those who never fall ill are the truly healthy people | | D．those who were born before 1900 could not have lived until now |
小题4:This passage is mainly about __________.| A．different understandings of the term "health" | | B．improving the quality of life | | C．the importance of quality living | | D．people"s expectations of a long and healthy life |
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Many years ago, I pulled a family out of a burning car somewhere in Wyoming. Last week I received a telephone call from a woman who could not stop crying as she told me that one of my stories had saved her son from committing suicide. In closing she called me a hero.
That got me thinking about what a hero is. Was I a hero because I pulled a family from a burning car? If so, how could I be a hero just because I wrote a story that saved someone’s life?
Today I looked up the word “hero” in the dictionary to see exactly what it meant. It read “a person who does something brave” and also “a person who is good and noble”.
That statement impressed me more than the part about being brave. So I thought about something very important. And I remembered what happened to me years ago.
After my marriage of twenty years ended, I was in such a condition. I was within hours trying to get up enough courage to end the pain and misery. When I returned home, someone had sent me a card in the mail which told me how much they would appreciate me as a friend. That wonderful card probably saved my life. That person, without even knowing it, saved a life and became a hero.
The many stories I kept writing in the following years saved the life of a teenage boy. In turn that makes the person who sent me the card a double hero. I suppose that is why I fight so hard to help the children now living in orphanages (孤儿院). Most children come out of these institutions with a very hard and bitter attitude against the world. The gifts we send them let them know that they have not been forgotten. Hopefully, most of them will never hurt anyone because of the kindness shown to them by those of us who cared. If it works, we will also become "heroes".
小题1:The main idea of the passage is _______________.| A．why the writer should be a hero | B．that everyone is a hero | | C．whether the writer is a hero | D．what a hero exactly is |
小题2:Why did the woman call the writer a hero at the end of the call?| A．Because he asked her son not to kill himself. | | B．Because he saved a family from a burning car. | | C．Because his story saved her son’s life. | | D．Because he was cute and kind to everybody. |
小题3:What does the underlined word “it” in the last sentence of Paragraph 5 refer to?| A．The fact that the sender helped the writer. | | B．The action of sending the card. | | C．The wonderful card the writer received. | | D．The fact that the sender was a friend of the writer. |
小题4:According to the writer, who can be considered as a hero?| A．A person who is brave. | | B．A person who helps someone in trouble. | | C．A person who can hold a door for others. | | D．A person who writes wonderful stories. |
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Flowers only bloom(开花) when they are planted in the right soil. That is also true for me.
I first moved to Foxboro, Massachusetts, as a single mother with my baby daughter, Darcy. I was drawn to its New England beauty, friendly people and rich history. It happened that there were a lot of forsythia(连翘) bushes around the house in which I lived just like my childhood home. I joined St. Mark’s Episcopal Church where I taught the Sunday school. At church, I met my second husband, Dean. For more than 25 years, I bloomed in Foxboro, and I had another two children.
Then, when Darcy was a few years out of college, she moved to Alameda, California, to be near friends. I missed her badly. A year later my beloved husband Dean had deadly cancer. He only made it eight months. My heart was broken. Later I moved to Alameda with my children. It was a beautiful Victorian island, and I was grateful to spend more time with Darcy. I even attended a church and made a few friends there. Still, I couldn’t help but miss Foxboro. It had everything and everyone I loved.
One spring day, when I was walking by a school, something yellow caught my eyes. Forsythia bushes! They made me homesick and I kept back my tears. “I miss you, Foxboro,” I whispered. Then I went into a shop and looked at some ceramic(陶瓷的) pots lined up on a shelf. A large white one seemed to catch my attention. “That’ll be perfect in my living room,” I thought.
I turned it over to look at the price. Instead I found these words: “New England Pottery, Foxboro, Massachusetts.” A piece of artwork, from my second hometown, was right here. It was able to spread across the country and so were forsythia bushes. I took it as a sign that I can bloom, right where I am.
小题1:From the text we learn that the author ____.| A．gave birth to three children in Foxboro | | B．planted forsythia bushes around her house | | C．got to know her second husband at church | | D．worked as a middle school teacher in Foxboro |
小题2:The author moved to Alameda so that she could ____.| A．have more time together with Darcy | | B．forget the sorrow at her husband’s death | | C．visit her children at Alameda College frequently | | D．enjoy the beautiful scenery on the Victorian island |
小题3:When the author saw forsythia bushes at a school she _____.| A．wanted to buy a ceramic pot to put them in | | B．thought of her life in Foxboro | | C．felt they would look great in her living room | | D．believed they were real art work |
小题4:Why does the author compare herself to flowers?| A．Because she wanted to show she likes flowers. | | B．Because she can live in any place that is right like flowers. | | C．Because she moved across the country just like flowers. | | D．Because girls are like flowers that are blooming. |
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Love and Friendship
They are both so much related to each other. And both are so dissimilar! What are the differences between friendship and love? Is platonic(柏拉图式的) friendship possible between persons of the opposite sex? ___小题1:____
What is friendship? Why do we call a person our friend? When do we call someone a very good friend? If we care for a person, if we are always ready to help that person and if we share most of our thoughts with a person, they are our good friends. We can always count upon our good friends in an emergency. We are always sure that our friends will understand why we acted in a certain way. ___小题2: ___ The friendship is so deep and the relationship is so intimate, that most of the things are automatically understood by our friends.
__小题3:____ In a relationship of deep love, all the sharing that we discussed above is taken for granted. But love transcends(超出) all this. During love, we are attached with a particular person, while in friendship, one may have many friends. A loving relationship makes one so much attached to the other that one gets pained if his/her beloved is hurt! Love also involves a physical element. ____小题4:____ This is a vital difference. Nature gives us love so that the species can go forward. Nature does not give us friendship.
Your heart beats will never increase in anticipation of meeting your friend. ___小题5:_____ You will not feel totally lost, if you don’t meet your friend for a few days. You will not have dreams in your eyes thinking about your friend. But in love, you will do all this and much more. Indeed, there is no comparison between love and friendship.| A．What about love? | | B．My answer is “Yes”. | | C．Let us try and understand. | | D．Friendship does not have that. |
E.We need not explain anything to our very good friends.
F.You will not lie awake at night thinking about your friend.
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I had not seen my parents for a long time. Last Saturday I drove a long way to visit them, 36 neither of them was at home. So I waited patiently at their home 37 their return. Not seeing them made me really 38 .
As I was walking around their bedroom, I 39 little reminders of them. Some Christmas gifts were still 40 in boxes. There were 41 on the wall, which I guess must have a 42 meaning to them. What took my breath away was seeing my dad’s emblems（徽章）from his military service of our country 43 he was young. My father never 44 to us about the Korean Wars. As I looked at those emblems hanging 45 with all the photos that he treasures, I 46 that this was an important part of his life, but I never spent the 47 in talking with him about them. The photos of my mom with her close 48 made me realize her life before she was my mom. I had been so 49 running my business to raise my own family that I 50 the chance to know about their past and experience.
We sometimes don’t realize something is 51 for us until we have lost it, so it’s not too late for us to talk to our parents about their past. I am writing my story to 52 everyone who is fortunate to still have their parents 53 to invest some time to learn about them. I am grateful to have 54 of my parents. So I still have time to talk with them. I hope that readers will 55 from my story and find the time to talk about those things in their life that mean so much to their parents.
| 小题3: | | A．frightened | B．embarrassed | C．upset | D．excited |
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| 小题4: | | A．sought | B．took | C．needed | D．saw |
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| 小题5: | | A．kept | B．folded | C．hidden | D．covered |
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| 小题6: | | A．Santa Claus | B．family trees | C．family photos | D．old clothes |
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| 小题7: | | A．simple | B．real | C．past | D．special |
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| 小题8: | | A．if | B．when | C．though | D．until |
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| 小题9: | | A．talked | B．explained | C．showed | D．referred |
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| 小题10: | | A．finally | B．clearly | C．proudly | D．openly |
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| 小题11: | | A．promised | B．declared | C．admitted | D．realized |
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| 小题12: | | A．courage | B．time | C．chance | D．energy |
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| 小题13: | | A．friends | B．teachers | C．students | D．children |
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| 小题14: | | A．strict | B．eager | C．busy | D．blind |
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| 小题15: | | A．rejected | B．avoided | C．delayed | D．missed |
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| 小题16: | | A．hopeful | B．important | C．careful | D．original |
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| 小题17: | | A．encourage | B．demand | C．require | D．warn |
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小题18:away B. awake C. around D. alone
| 小题19: | | A．one | B．neither | C．either | D．both |
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| 小题20: | | A．make | B．benefit | C．change | D．recover |
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