When I was young, I belonged to a club that did community service work. There was one specific event that was 1 for me. I spent three or four hours handing out warm dinner to the ___2_ out in the streets. After that I went to a homeless shelter(避难所) not far from the Bay Bridge. I was in high school and at the time my sister was too young to join in . She wanted to help, 3 she made many chocolate chip cookies for me to __4_____ and hand out to people. When getting to the shelter, I passed out the 5 . I began making sandwiches and shared them with the crowd. I had the containers with my sister’s cookies in them and began to walk around, offering them to anyone near me.
I walked 6 to an old gentleman and said, “Sir, would you like a cookie?” He stopped and turned around, looked at me 7 and said, “What did you say? Did you call me sir?” I told him I had , and his eyes 8 a little bit and said, “No one has ever called me sir.” So he was completely 9 . It struck me.
I explained I had been raised that regardless of (不顾) 10 and social status（地位）, everyone deserved(值得） 11 . It saddened me to think that just because he was homeless, no one offered him the honor . It broke my heart. I just didn’t understand 12 no one ever called him sir. I had never thought that anyone was 13 me because I wasn’t raised that way. Every single person deserves to be treated with respect. Years later, I still carry that 14 and the lesson it taught me. Somtimes, what we take for granted can really make a difference in 15 life.
| 小题1: | | A．uncommon | B．unusual | C．universal | D．simple |
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| 小题2: | | A．winners | B．losers | C．hopeless | D．homeless |
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| 小题4: | | A．enjoy | B．eat | C．take | D．produce |
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| 小题5: | | A．meals | B．cookies | C．chocolates | D．chips |
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| 小题6: | | A．near | B．close | C．forward | D．along |
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| 小题7: | | A．briefly | B．swiftly | C．highly | D．directly |
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| 小题8: | | A．cried | B．opened | C．watered | D．lit |
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| 小题9: | | A．disappointed | B．moved | C．spoiled | D．relieved |
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| 小题10: | | A．income | B．pain | C．colour | D．goal |
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| 小题11: | | A．respect | B．praise | C．happiness | D．laughter |
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| 小题12: | | A．what | B．how | C．why | D．whether |
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| 小题13: | | A．in front of | B．below | C．behind | D．beside |
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| 小题14: | | A．word | B．memory | C．feeling | D．sadness |
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| 小题15: | | A．someone’s | B．anyone’s | C．everyone’s | D．no one’s |
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小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:B
小题6:B
小题7:D
小题8:C
小题9:B
小题10:C
小题11:A
小题12:C
小题13:B
小题14:B
小题15:A |
试题分析：本文讲述了作者在当社区志愿者时的一次经历，那个听到我叫他先生的无家可归的人，非常感动，因为以前从没有这样叫过他，从而作者也感触到自己的的所做会给别人的生活带来不同。
小题1:A. uncommon 罕见的 B. unusual不同寻常的 C. universal通用的D. simple简单的；句意:有一件对于我来说非常不同寻常的事情。故选B
小题2:后文讲到homeless shelter 无家可归的人的避难所，故选D
小题3:我的妹妹年龄太小不能参加，所以她做了一些巧克力饼干，故选B
小题4:A. enjoy喜欢 B. eat吃 C. take拿着，带着 D. produce生产，句意：她做了一些巧克力饼干让我带着去分发给那些人，故选C
小题5:前文讲到了cookies ，故此处也是cookies， 句意：当我达到避难所时，我开始分发饼干，故选B
小题6:A. near在附近 B. close靠近 C. forward向前的 D. along沿着，句意：我走近一个人，故选B
小题7:A. briefly短暂地B. swiftly敏捷地 C. highly高度地 D. directly立即，直接地；句意：直接看着我说，故选D
小题8:A. cried哭泣 B. opened打开 C. watered含水的 D. lit照亮的；句意：他的眼眶有些湿润，故选C
小题9:A. disappointed失望的B. moved感动的C. spoiled被宠坏的D. relieved放心的，句意：他被完完全全地感动了。故选B
小题10:A. income收入B. pain疼痛 C. colour颜色，外貌 D. goal目标；句意：我解释说我始终相信不管是什么外貌肤色，什么社会地位，故选C
小题11:A. respect尊敬B. praise表扬 C. happiness幸福 D. laughter笑声，句意：都值得尊敬，故选A
小题12:句意：我不理解为什么曾经没有人叫他“先生”，故选C
小题13:A. in front of在...前面 B. below在下C. behind在...之后D. beside在...旁边；句意：我从来没有认为任何人低我一等，故选B
小题14:A. word话语 B. memory记忆 C. feeling感觉 D. sadness悲伤；句意：我仍然对这次经历和感触记忆犹新，故选B
小题15:A. someone’s某人的B. anyone’s任何人的C. everyone’s每个人的 D. no one’s没有的，句意：有时候，我们认为理所当然的事情会对某个人的生活带来不同，故选A
点评：文章重在理解作者的感情基调，从全文来看，作者通过对自己的一次经历来展开全文，最后表明主旨。由此可见对于议论文的文章重在把握作者的感情色彩，答题时不断提醒自己作者在讲什么，对于长句子要善于运用成分分析法，理清句子的主谓和主从句的关系，这一点非常重要。 |
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In the first week after arriving in the new city for further study, I fell and broke my leg. I was really ___36___by the kindness of my new roommate. “We are family now,” she said when she __37__me lying in my bed with a swollen leg, unable to move. She took me to ___38__ by taxi to get my leg examined. The driver was so___39__ that we arrived there very quickly. After that, my __40___continued helping me though I told her I could do things on my own.
So many blessing I had never expected came to me when I was alone and helpless. Bus drivers picked me up from anywhere they saw me. Many people __41__ the door for me. Such things were small but __42___ for a person on walking sticks.
___43___for people’s kindness, I did whatever I could to make people laugh. I made many jokes about my two sticks and the bad fall. And I tried not to __44__ a single time about what had happened. I also tried to be kind to other students who were injured. I took time to __45__ with a girl in a wheelchair who always ate lunch alone.
I soon realized that pain can be__46__ by mental strength. I could see that although I was using physical sticks, there were hundreds of mental sticks I could depend on. I also saw that sometimes ____47____ situation can be good. There are choices to discover great kindness in the world.
| 小题1: | | A．touched | B．saved | C．cured | D．supported |
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| 小题2: | | A．heard | B．left | C．found | D．viewed |
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| 小题3: | | A．hotel | B．hospital | C．playground | D．library |
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| 小题4: | | A．patient | B．angry | C．kind | D．brave |
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| 小题5: | | A．driver | B．doctor | C．family | D．roommate |
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| 小题6: | | A．cleaned | B．moved | C．opened | D．decorated |
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| 小题7: | | A．hard | B．impossible | C．different | D．useless |
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| 小题8: | | A．In turn | B．In reply | C．In return | D．In addition |
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| 小题9: | | A．complain | B．advise | C．miss | D．enjoy |
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| 小题10: | | A．study | B．discuss | C．practise | D．chat |
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| 小题11: | | A．reduced | B．gained | C．caused | D．limited |
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| 小题12: | | A．busy | B．unpleasant | C．puzzled | D．tiring |
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When I was a teenager, I volunteered to give out water at a marathon. Watching the different runners who passed by and grabbed a cup was 36 . The next year I signed up for the race. I did little preparation and my only goal was to finish. On the day of the race, it was 37 hot. I remember struggling at about the 5th mile, thinking, “I am never doing this again!”
Have you ever felt that way about something? You eagerly choose a goal 38 soon realize it is 39 to achieve than you imagined it would be. That first 10 km race was quite an experience. I jogged, I walked, I jogged and I walked. Then 40 a decisive moment. Near the end, a 70-year-old man ran past me. I felt 41 that I was younger than him but I couldn’t keep up with him. I felt defeated for a second but then I realized 42 . He was running his race and I was running mine. He had different experience, training and goals and I had mine. 43 in life do we 44 ourselves with others and feel disappointed in ourselves when we really shouldn’t? I decided, then, that one day I would be one of those 70-year-olds who were still running. 45 I crossed the finish line, I was proud of my achievement. Since then I have run several races and run purely for fun.
In life we all 46 compare ourselves with others, which is only natural. But don’t let them weaken you. 47 , you should use them to inspire you and show you what is possible. Then you are a true winner.
| 小题1: | | A．pleasing | B．interesting | C．inspiring | D．amazing |
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| 小题2: | | A．extremely | B．strangely | C．sadly | D．certainly |
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| 小题4: | | A．easier | B．harder | C．better | D．worse |
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| 小题5: | | A．went | B．flew | C．happened | D．came |
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| 小题6: | | A．exhausted | B．disappointed | C．embarrassed | D．annoyed |
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| 小题7: | | A．something | B．anything | C．everything | D．nothing |
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| 小题8: | | A．How many | B．How much | C．How often | D．How old |
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| 小题9: | | A．cooperate | B．compare | C．combine | D．compromise |
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| 小题10: | | A．When | B．Because | C．Since | D．Until |
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| 小题11: | | A．hardly | B．sometimes | C．always | D．never |
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| 小题12: | | A．Furthermore | B．Therefore | C．Meanwhile | D．Instead |
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When you meet someone for the first time, you will form an impression in your mind of that person in the first moment. Your reactions to other people, however, are really just barometers (晴雨表) for how you perceive(理解) yourself. Your reactions to others say more about you than they do about others. You cannot really love or hate something about another unless it reflects something you love or hate yourself. We are usually drawn to those who are most like us and tend to dislike those who display those aspects of ourselves that we dislike.
Therefore, you can allow others to be the mirror to illuminate (阐明;照亮) more clearly your own feelings of self-worth. Conversely, you can view the people you judge negatively as mirrors to show you what you are not accepting about yourself.
To survive together peacefully with others, you will need to learn tolerance. A big challenge is to shift your perspective from judgment of others to a lifelong exploration of yourself. Your task is to assess all the decisions, judgments you make onto others and to begin to view them as clues to how you can heal yourself and become whole.
Several days ago I had a business lunch with a man who displayed objectionable table manners. My first reaction was to judge him as rude and his table manners as annoying. When I noticed that I was judging him, I stopped and asked myself what I was feeling. I discovered that I was embarrassed to be seen with someone who was chewing with his mouth open and loudly blowing his nose. I was astonished to find how much I cared about how the other people in the restaurant perceived me.
Remember that your judgment of someone will not serve as a protective shield against you becoming like him. Just because I judge my lunch partner as rude does not prevent me from ever looking or acting like him. In the same way, extending tolerance to him would not cause me to suddenly begin chewing my food with my mouth open.
When you approach life in this manner, those with whom you have the greatest dissatisfactions as well as those you admire and love can be seen as mirrors, guiding you to discover parts of yourself that you reject and to embrace your greatest quality.
小题1:The purpose of the author writing this passage is to advise people to _______.| A．avoid inappropriate manners | | B．learn tolerance towards others | | C．pay attention to others’ needs and feelings | | D．judge others favorably in any case |
小题2:The underlined word “objectionable” in Paragraph 4 has the closest meaning to __________.| A．discouraging | B．disappointing | C．disgusting | D．disturbing |
小题3:According to the passage, the following statements are all true except ______.| A．You can’t really love or hate others if they are similar to you. | | B．We are easily attracted by someone who is similar to us. | | C．Our first judgment of a person mostly comes from our personal opinion. | | D．The moment we see a stranger, our mind forms an impression of that person. |
小题4:It can be implied from the text that __________.| A．the writer’s first reaction to the man was to judge him as offensive | | B．we will need to learn tolerance to co-exist with others | | C．we shouldn’t focus on judging others but should constantly reflect on our own | | D．the writer didn’t care about other people’s view of him |
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I’m trying to be a writer, but I can’t even start. What should I do?
Abraham, Nebraska
There are many ways to come up with ideas, one of which is to write down a list of your experiences, as well as things from your imagination. When you want to write, look in the notebook for ideas.
Books for writers often have good suggestions, too. One we like is Spilling Ink: A Yong Writer’s Handbook by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter. Perhaps your library has it.
My classmates keep asking about a new movie I’ve seen. But I don’t want to spoil it for them. What should I do?
Corinne (by e-mail)
You could ask your classmates whether they are sure they want to know and if they insist, go ahead and tell them. You may be able to give them a general idea of the movie without revealing details of the ending.
I’m going to a soccer camp for youth, but I’m not sure if I’m good at soccer or if I’ll make friends.
Louise, New Hampshire
Soccer camp is for people who share an interest in the sport. No matter what a person’s ability is at the beginning, it’s likely that everyone will leave camp with improved skills.
Sharing a common interest may make conversations easier. Smile, be friendly, and have a sense of humor. Before long, you may find that you’ve made some good friends.
Someone invited me to a birthday party. When I got there, kids were doing stuff I’m not interested in, like watching scary movies. I told them my mom would pick me up, so I just left. Was I rude for doing that?
Sam (by e-mail)
You just did the right thing and that isn’t being rude.
We hope you’ll talk with your parents about this. They’re probably proud of what you did. They may have other suggestions for you, too. Talk about different situations that might come up and what would be the best way to handle (处理) them.
小题1:Who is interested in Spilling Ink: A Yong Writer’s Handbook? | A．Corinne. | B．Louise. | C．Abraham. | D．Sam. |
小题2:What can we learn about the soccer camp? | A．The practice is hard but interesting. | | B．It is difficult to make friends in the camp. | | C．The camp only wants people who are new to soccer. | | D．One’s skills can be improved when leaving the camp. |
小题3:The answer to Sam’s question shows what Sam did is _____. | A．funny | B．strange | C．foolish | D．smart |
小题4:According to the passage, you can make friends by the following means EXCEPT _________.| A．keeping smiling | B．Being humorous | | C．Changing your habits | D．Being friendly to others |
小题5:This purpose of the text is to _____. | A．give advice | B．tell stories | C．find friends | D．share interests |
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What if it isn’t a dog-eat-dog world? What if caring for a dog or for a mom with Alzheimer’s (老年痴呆症) makes you stronger and allows you to live longer?
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are challenging our long-held belief that humans are born to be selfish.
Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was misunderstood by his male followers, the researchers say. Rather than “every man for himself”, Darwin believed that humans are successful as a species precisely because of our educational, selfless and sympathetic characteristics.
Why has it taken so long for Darwin’s central revelation(揭示) to be properly understood? “We’ve had too many men in social science,” Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner told me in an interview. “Female scientists acknowledge that caring for people is part of human nature according to the research, which shows the human ability to care exists in our brains and nerve systems.”
In my book Passages in Caregiving , I urge women who take the whole responsibility for taking care of an elderly parent or a sick relative to build a “Circle of Care”. Reach out to your brothers and sisters, friends, neighbors and community volunteers to help you care, because no one can perform this overwhelming role alone. You will be as shocked as I to learn how the most selfless caregivers are rewarded with longer life.
Sympathy is not a woman’s word. In fact it makes all of us stronger under stress and more highly respected by our peers. For so long we have repeated the false saying “Nice guys finish last”. But the 40 richest Americans committed to doing good by donating half their fortunes are no spring chickens. So here is my new explanation：Nice guys die last.
小题1:The first paragraph serves to .| A．give the background of the topic | | B．blame the world for selfishness | | C．urge people to care for a dog | | D．bring out the topic of the passage |
小题2:In Passages in Caregiving, women are advised to . | A．share the responsibility of caring with others | | B．take good care of themselves | | C．learn how to live a longer life | | D．help as many people as possible |
小题3:The underlined words “no spring chickens” in the last paragraph refer to .| A．rich people | B．poor people | C．young people | D．aged people |
小题4:Why does the author mention the 40 richest Americans’ commitment in this passage?| A．To argue against offering sympathy. | | B．To use it as an example to support his opinion. | | C．To show their generosity to society. | | D．To call on people to learn from them. |
小题5:Which of the following might be the BEST title of the passage?| A．Selflessness could be the secret to longer life | | B．Darwin’s theory of evolution is out of date now | | C．Measures must be taken to improve the world | | D．Males and females have different opinions about selflessness |
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