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There once was a very honest shopkeeper whose business was to provide goods to the local people. He would open his shop at 8:00 a.m. after having his breakfast and at 1:00 p.m. he would go for lunch. In the evening at 8:30 p.m. he closed his shop to complete his daily routine.
However, to get time for lunch was really difficult be-cause he didn’t have anybody to help him at that time. Therefore, it was his daily practice that whichever customer was shopping at 1:00 p.m. would be asked to oversee (看管) the shop until the shopkeeper returned from lunch.
One day, a group of four thieves planned to steal from his shop while he was gone for lunch. One of the thieves went at 1:00 p.m. to be the customer that would be asked to oversee the shop.
The thief, pretending to be a customer, went in at 1:00 p.m. and started buying several items. As planned, the shop-keeper asked the thief to sit on his chair for thirty minutes until he returned from lunch.
Then, the other three thieves quickly came and told the pretend customer to help, but something had changed within him and he knew deeply in his heart that if he was given responsibility for the shop, he should not perform any dishonest acts during that time. His friends did not agree. As the now honest man tried to stop them, they resisted (抵抗) and a fight started. And at the same time the shopkeeper returned and asked why there was a fighting. The now honest man explained the entire plan.
The shopkeeper had been searching for an honest man who could take ownership of the shop and run it. The shop-keeper felt that he had found the right man.
小题1:What is the problem for the shopkeeper?
A.Nobody could prepare lunch for him every day.
B.He had nobody to keep the shop when he went for lunch.
C.He was too busy to have lunch every day.
D.He couldn’t find a person to work at the shop.
小题2:Why did the thief go to the shop at 1:00 p.m.?
A.Because he thought he would be asked to keep the shop.
B.Because the shopkeeper invited him to lunch then.
C.Because the shop was closed at that time.
D.Because he thought he could buy cheap things then.
小题3:When the shopkeeper returned from lunch, he found _______.
A.everything in his shop was stolen
B.the thief became the new owner of the shop
C.there was a fighting in his shop
D.the thief helped his fellows steal things from his shop
小题4:From the passage, we can infer that _______.
A.once a thief, he will always be a thief
B.an honest man will be responsible for his action
C.you can’t believe in a dishonest man forever
D.trust can change a thief into an honest man

答案

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:D
解析
生命不可能从谎言中开出灿烂的鲜花,我们每一个人都应该走正直诚实的生活道路,从而才能获得一个问心无愧的归宿。
小题1:细节理解题。结合to get time for lunch was really difficult be-cause he didn’t have anybody to help him at that time可知答案。
小题2:细节理解题。结合One of the thieves went at 1:00 p.m. to be the customer that would be asked to oversee the shop可知答案。
小题3:细节理解题。结合As the now honest man tried to stop them, they resisted (抵抗) and a fight started. And at the same time the shopkeeper returned and asked why there was a fighting. The now honest man explained the entire plan可知答案。
小题4:推理判断题。结合but something had changed within him and he knew deeply in his heart that if he was given responsibility for the shop, he should not perform any dishonest acts during that time可知答案。
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When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My parents took me by train or by car to a hotel by the   26  . All day, I seem to remember, I played on the sands with strange   27  children. We made houses and gardens, and   28  the tide destroy them. When the tide went out, we climbed over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.
In those days the sun seemed to shine always   29  and the water was always warm. Sometimes we left beach and walked in the country,   30  ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were sweets in one’s pockets or good places where one could   31  ice creams. Each day seemed a life-time.
 32 I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good  holiday is much the same as it was.  I   33   like the sun and warm sand and the sound of   34  beating (拍打) the rocks. I no longer wish to   35   any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets.   36  , I still love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.
Sometimes I  37  what my ideal(理想的) holiday will be like when I am  old .  38  I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about  39  who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves  40 on too many ices creams.
小题1:
A.seaB.lakeC.mountainD.river
小题2:
A.movedB.excitedC.anxiousD.nervous
小题3:
A.madeB.broughtC.watchedD.heard
小题4:
A.gentlyB.hardlyC.brightlyD.carefully
小题5:
A.in need ofB.in search ofC.in place ofD.in praise of
小题6:
A.sellB.makeC.buyD.offer
小题7:
A.WhenB.AlthoughC.IfD.But
小题8:
A.almostB.perhapsC.stillD.often
小题9:
A.wavesB.windC.handsD.feet
小题10:
A.destroyB.fixC.useD.build
小题11:
A.ButB.HoweverC.OtherwiseD.Besides
小题12:
A.wonderB.feelC.understandD.believe
小题13:
A.AllB.EachC.BothD.Every
小题14:
A.girlsB.boysC.childrenD.grown-ups
小题15:
A.happyB.tiredC.sadD.sick

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December 24 arrived along with a heavy snow. It was my first Christmas Eve without my mother, and the day’s usual  36  had disappeared.
The telephone rang. I  37  it and went to my bedroom to bury the continuous 38 , knowing it must be my friend Rebecca calling. How could I be  39 ? I wanted to be left  40 .
My heart felt as  41  as the falling snow.  42  can I stop missing my mother?
I  43  the window. Seeing Rebecca’s car parked out front, I went back to my bed and drew the covers over my head.
“Lucy!” she shouted. “I know you’re in there. Answer the door!”
“Leave me alone!” I  44  back. I heard paper rustling(沙沙作响) as she slid  45  under the door.
“Merry Christmas, ” she called out.
Not answering the  46  made me even 47. It wasn’t fair to my best friend. Her father and sister  48  in a car accident when she was eight years old.  49 , her mother had to return to  50 , and Rebecca was left to look after herself.
When she left, I carried the small package, sat down and  51  it. Inside was a golden pen and a journal. When I opened the journal’s front cover, out fell a bookmark with a(n)   52  written on it:
Dear Lucy,  
My words won’t heal(治愈)the 53  . But your own words can.
Love,
Rebecca
As I stared at the journal’s blank pages, a single tear fell on the page which quickly absorbed it.
That night, I  54  the phone and dialed her number.
“Looks like the snow is melting(融化), ” I said. “Spring was just ___55____the corner.”
小题1:
A.excitementB.disappointmentC.frightD.pity
小题2:
A.answeredB.coveredC.pickedD.ignored
小题3:
A.pleasureB.puzzledC.sadnessD.interest
小题4:
A.regretfulB.joyfulC.comfortableD.careful
小题5:
A.aliveB.activeC.aloneD.crazy
小题6:
A.lightB.whiteC.heavyD.clear
小题7:
A.WhyB.WhereC.WhetherD.How
小题8:
A.looked throughB.looked intoC.looked outD.looked up
小题9:
A.broughtB.shoutedC.tookD.turned
小题10:
A.anythingB.somethingC.everythingD.nothing
小题11:
A.phoneB.questionC.letterD.door
小题12:
A.more helpfulB.more attractiveC.worseD.better
小题13:
A.survivedB.escapedC.livedD.died
小题14:
A.As a wholeB.As a resultC.In allD.In general
小题15:
A.workB.washC.repairD.learn
小题16:
A.closedB.foldedC.openedD.painted
小题17:
A.articleB.poemC.noticeD.message
小题18:
A.failureB.pain C.wishD.shame
小题19:
A.picked upB.picked outC.pushed backD.put away
小题20:
A.aroundB.overC.onD.at

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People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviors are formed.It is not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative (合作的)and another is competitive.
Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of questions.They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behaviors.There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought (学派)on the matter have developed.As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from one another, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory.The controversy(argument) is often referred to as “nature and nurture(教育)”.
Those who support the “nature” side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological and genetic factors.That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics, and behavior is central to this theory.Taken to an extreme(走极端), this theory maintains that our behavior is predetermined to such a degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts(本能).
Proponents of the “nurture” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviorists, claimed that our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act.A behaviorist, B.F.Skinner, sees humans as beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings.The behaviorists’ view of the human being is quite mechanistic(机械论的); they maintain that, like machines, humans’ respond to environmental stimuli(刺激) as the basis of their behavior.
Socially and politically, the consequences of these two theories are far-reaching.In the US, for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligence tests.This leads some proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically lower in status than whites.Behaviorists, on the contrary, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often robbed of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result, they do not develop the same responses that whites do.
Either of these theories cannot yet fully explain human behavior.In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes. That the controversy will continue for a long time is certain.
小题1:This passage is mainly concerned with             
A.relation between personality and behavior
B.relation between behavior and environment
C.different accounts of patterns of human behavior
D.different theories of the formation of human behavior
小题2:The underlined word " proponents"" in paragraph 2 means          
A.creatorsB.advisors
C.supportersD.judges
小题3:In paragraph 5 , the author mainly writes about          
A.the considerable(值得考虑的) influence of the two theories
B.differences between the blacks and whites
C.racial discrimination in the United States
D.different responds to intelligence tests
小题4:What"s the author"s purpose in writing the passage?
A.To call our attention to the changes of human behavior.
B.To urge scientists to do more research in social science.
C.To give us a detailed explanation of human behavior.
D.To present an argument in the field of social science.

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Once 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.whether the writer is a hero
C.what a hero exactly is
D.that everyone is a hero
小题2:Why did the woman call the writer a hero at the end of the call?
A.Because he was cute and kind to everybody
B.Because he saved a family from a burning car.
C.Because he asked her son not to kill himself.
D.Because his story saved her son’s life.
小题3:What does the underlined word “it” in the last sentence of Paragraph 5 refer to?
A.The wonderful card the writer received.
B.The action of sending the card.
C.The fact that the sender helped the writer.
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 helps someone in trouble.
B.A person who writes wonderful stories.
C.A person who can hold a door for others.
D.A person who is brave.

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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A young man was getting ready to graduate from college, for many months he had  36  a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and  37  his father could well  38  it, he told him that was all he wanted.  
On the morning of his graduation day his father called him into his own study and told him how  39  he was to have such a fine son. He handed his son a beautiful gift box.  40  but slightly disappointed, the young man 41  the box and found a lovely book.   42 , he raised his voice at his father and said, “ 43  all your money you give me a book?” And rushed out of the house  44  the book in the study.
He did not contact(联系)his father for a whole year 45  one day he saw in the street an old man who looked like his father. He 46    he had to go back home and see his father.
When he arrived at his father"s house, he was told that his father had been in hospital for a week. The moment he was about to   47   the hospital, he saw on the desk the   48   new book, just as he had left it one  49   ago. He opened it and began to  50   the pages. Suddenly, a car key  51   from an envelope taped behind the book. It had a lag (标签) with dealer’s name, the 52  dealer who had the sports car he had   53 . On the tag was the  54  of his graduation. and the 55  PAID IN FULL.
小题1:
A.expected. B.enjoyed.C.admired.D.owned
小题2:
A.findingB.provingC.decidingD.knowing
小题3:
A.affordB.offerC.keepD.like
小题4:
A.encouragedB.comfortableC.proudD.moved
小题5:
A.NervousB.SeriousC.CarefulD.Curious
小题6:
A.packed.B.opened.C.picked upD.put aside
小题7:
A.AngrilyB.EagerlyC.CalmlyD.Anxiously
小题8:
A.AtB.FromC.WithD.To
小题9:
A.toastingB.puttingC.forgettingD.leaving
小题10:
A.untilB.asC.beforeD.unless
小题11:
A.learned B.realized.C.recognized. D.admitted
小题12:
A.get toB.search forC.turn toD.leave for
小题13:
A.muchB.stillC.hardlyD.quite
小题14:
A.yearB.monthC.weekD.day
小题15:
A.cleanB.read.C.turnD.count
小题16:
A.lostB.cameC.appeared. D.dropped
小题17:
A.old.B.same C.specialD.new
小题18:
A.remembered.B.desired.C.found.D.met
小题19:
A.pictureB.placeC.dateD.met
小题20:
A.wordsB.informationC.dateD.card

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