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We can make mistakes at any age. Some mistakes we make are about money. But most mistakes are about people. “Did Jerry really care when I broke up(分开) with Helen?” “When I got that great job, did Jim, as a friend, really feel good about it?” “And was Paul friendly just because I had a car?” When we look back, these thoughts can make us feel bad. But when we look back, it is too late.
Why do we go wrong with our friends, or our enemies? Sometimes what people say hides their real meanings. And if we do not really listen, we miss the feeling behind the words. When someone tells you, “You’re a lucky dog!” Is he really on your side? If he says, “You’re a lucky guy!” That is being friendly. But “a lucky dog”? There is a bit of envy (嫉妒) in those words. What he may be saying is that he does not think you deserve (应得) your luck.
“Just think of all the things you have to be thankful for” is another phrase(短语) that says one thing and means another. It could mean that the speaker is trying to get you to see your problem. But this phrase contains the thought that your problem is not at all important.
How can you tell the real meaning behind someone’s words? One way is to take a good look at the person talking. Do his words fit the way he looks? Is what he says shown by the tone of voice?  The look in his eyes? Stop and think. The minute you spend thinking about the real meaning of what people say to you may save your another mistake.
小题1:When the writer thinks of some of the things that happened between him and his friends, he          .
A.feels happy, thinking how nice his friends are to him
B.feels he might not have understood his friend’s true feelings
C.thinks it a mistake to have broken up with his girl friend
D.is sorry that his friends let him down
小题2:When the writer talks about the saying, “You’re a lucky dog!”, he is saying that          .
A.the speaker is just friendly
B.this sentence suggests the same as “You’re a lucky guy!”
C.the word “dog” should not be used to apply to(运用到) people.
D.sometimes the words show that the speaker is a bit envious.
小题3:This passage tries to tell you how to          .
A.avoid mistakes about money and friends
B.get an idea of friendly people
C.avoid mistakes in understanding what people tell you
D.keep people friendly without trusting them
小题4:The writer suggests that           should be trusted.
A.everybody B.nobody C.all the people D.not all the people

答案

小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:D
解析

试题分析:本文叙述了我们可能会在任何时候犯错误。我们有一些关于钱的错误。但是大多数都是关于人与人的误解。有时朋友表达的意思并非是他表面上的意思,而是隐藏在背后的意思。
小题1:细节理解题。根据Did Jerry really care when I broke up(分开) with Helen? When we look back, these thoughts can make us feel bad.他感觉他的朋友不理解他, 故选B。
小题2:细节理解题。根据"You"re a lucky dog"不就用来指人了吗?所以,这是个明显错误的答案。 这道题也有很多同学选择B:这句谚语的意思是你是个幸运的家伙。但是第二段特别比较了”you’re a lucky dog “和”You’re a lucky guy”这两句话的区别。后者是衷心祝福,友好的,而前者There"s a bit of envy in those words(有一点嫉妒的意味),所以不能选择B。故选D。
小题3:主旨大意题。根据我们通过略读找到的位于段落开头的三个段落主题句,可以发现答案是C。
小题4:细节理解题。根据并非每一人都应该相信,故选D。
点评:主旨大意题要识别和理解主题句,可迅速准确地抓住短文的中心思想,从而把握住全篇的主要内容。在确定文章的主旨思想时,选项的内容既不能太具体也不能太笼统。
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My sister and I grew up in a little village in England. Our father was a struggling 1, but I always knew he was  2 . He never criticized us, but used  3 to bring out our best. He’d say,” If you pout water on flowers, they flourish. If you don’t give them water, they die.” I  4 as a child I said something  5 about somebody, and my father said, “ 6 time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it’s a reflection of you.” He explained that if I looked for the best  7 people, I would get the best  8 . From then on I’ve always tried to  9  the principle in my life and later in running my company.
Dad’s also always been very  10 . At 15, I started a magazine. It was   11  a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a  12: stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.
I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision,  13  any good father would. When he realized I Had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad  14  me to go into law. And I’ve  15  regretted it. I wanted to be a biologist,  16 I didn’t pursue my  17 . You know what you want. Go fulfill(实现) it.”
As 18  turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national 19 for young people in the U.K. My wife and I have two children, and I’ d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad  20  me.
小题1:
A.biologistB.managerC.lawyerD.gardener
小题2:
A.strictB.honestC.specialD.learned
小题3:
A.praiseB.courageC.powerD.warmth
小题4:
A.thinkB.imagineC.rememberD.guess
小题5:
A.unnecessaryB.unkindC.unimportantD.unusual
小题6:
A.AnotherB.Some C.AnyD.Other
小题7:
A.onB.in C.at D.about
小题8:
A.in caseB.by turnsC.by chanceD.in return
小题9:
A.reviseB.setC.reviewD.follow
小题10:
A.understandingB.experiencedC.seriousD.demanding
小题11:
A.taking upB.making upC.picking upD.keeping up
小题12:
A.suggestionB.decisionC.noticeD.choice
小题13:
A.andB.asC.even ifD.as if
小题14:
A.helpedB.allowedC.persuadedD.suggested
小题15:
A.alwaysB.neverC.seldomD.almost
小题16:
A.ratherB.butC.forD.therefore
小题17:
A.promiseB.taskC.beliefD.dream
小题18:
A.thisB.heC.itD.that
小题19:
A.newspaperB.magazineC.programD.project
小题20:
A.controlledB.comfortedC.remindedD.raised

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“To be or not to be.” Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly, or to live dully and meanly. A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally. He answered it by saying: “I think, therefore I am.”
  But the best definition of existence I ever saw was one written by another philosopher who said: “To be is to be in relations.” If this is true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive. To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity(强烈) of our relations. Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But other than our regular occupation, how much are we alive? If you are interested only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned --- poetry and prose(散文), music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs ---you are dead.
On the contrary, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest --- even more, a new accomplishment(成就) --- you increase your power of life. No one who is deeply interested in different kinds of subjects can remain unhappy. The real pessimist is the person who has lost interest.
  Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacts with new friends, and new ideas and thoughts, too. Where your thoughts are, there will be your life too. If your thoughts are limited only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to your narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live a narrow restricted(有限的, 受约束的) life. But if you are interested in what is going on in China, then you are living in China. If you’re interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people. If you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination.
To be or not to be --- to live intensely and richly, or merely to exist, which depends on ourselves. Let us widen and intensify our relations. While we live, let us live!
小题1:What does the author mainly want to do by this passage?
A.Argue against an idea.
B.Explain some famous sayings.
C.Introduce some famous sayings.
D.Put forward an idea.
小题2:What does the underlined word most probably mean?
A.Somebody who always lives in a world of passion and imagination.
B.Somebody who is always interested in making new friends.
C.Somebody who always expects the worst to happen.
D.Somebody who likes to live a rich and abundant life.
小题3:Which of the following behavior is probably NOT encouraged by the author?
A.Thinking more than your own business.
B.Caring only about your physical welfare.
C.Reading good novels.
D.Listening to fine music.
小题4:What is the main idea of the passage?
A.To be is to be in relations.
B.I think, therefore I am.
C.To be or not to be, that is a question.
D.A man dies as often as he loses a friend.

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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.possibleB.easyC.newD.different
小题2:
A.thatB.whatC.whetherD.as if
小题3:
A.usualB.normalC.certainD.common
小题4:
A.realisticB.reasonableC.moralD.instructive
小题5:
A.difficultB.impossibleC.importantD.necessary
小题6:
A.thinkableB.designedC.imaginedD.planned
小题7:
A.doB.makeC.haveD.are
小题8:
A.lessonsB.dreamsC.experienceD.magic
小题9:
A.workingB.thinkingC.livingD.understanding
小题10:
A.knowledgeB.skillC.wordsD.grammar
小题11:
A.makeB.getC.useD.have
小题12:
A.a newspaperB.somethingC.everythingD.a story
小题13:
A.findB.learnC.knowD.hope
小题14:
A.tooB.notC.allD.so
小题15:
A.dangerousB.seriousC.strangeD.terrible
小题16:
A.talkB.learnC.readD.think
小题17:
A.tellingB.pretendingC.promisingD.guessing
小题18:
A.mindB.lifeC.worldD.society
小题19:
A.heartB.timeC.moneyD.ourselves
小题20:
A.whatB.howC.whenD.why

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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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