"...She was married to an officer in India,long ago India;and she had a life of physical adventure(冒险)as exciting as her poetry.Her husband could cross rivers using crocodiles(鳄鱼)as stepping stones.He died when she was only 39.Unwilling to exist without h

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"...She was married to an officer in India,long ago India;and she had a life of physical adventure(冒险)as exciting as her poetry.Her husband could cross rivers using crocodiles(鳄鱼)as stepping stones.He died when she was only 39.Unwilling to exist without him,she took her life,leaving a son in England."
I stared at the paper,21?reading,couldn′t help thinking.
Crocodiles are lazy animals as a rule,but they can move like lightening when they want to.And they don′t mind hurrying?22?they′re hungry.There used to be lots in Indian rivers,living on fish mostly;but what′s a little fish for a fifteen-foot crocodile?They ate people,fisherman or anyone else delicious enough to get too near;women doing the?23,or children playing at the water′s
24.A hungry crocodile′s mouth?25?over a meal with a sound like a gunshot.A big fellow can?26?in a man in two bites(咬)。
That woman′s husband crossed rivers?27?from one crocodile′s back to the next.I believe it.It had to be done quickly before the creature could see what was happening.It wasn′t28?a brave,active man;and no doubt he improved with practice.He could never look?29while crossing.
The wife used to watch him--I felt sure of that.She lived?30?the adventure,the?31?excitement of it all.Their real life was with tigers,snakes...It′s no wonder she wrote?32poetry.
Then he died.I imagined how she felt.Was there another man?33?him in India,in the world?She was still young,hardly a sitting-room widow(寡妇)."I must?34,too."she said to herself.So she did what she felt she had to do.A?35?probably,to her head.
But her young son,their son?Was her love for him nothing compared to her husband?Well,what do you think?

第21题答案是

A.started
B.began
C.finished
D.stopped

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1.A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration.All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. All had a wonderful time.The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal,“I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage,” she offered.“Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together. ”Her husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.“I'll start,” offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it. Enough to fill 3 pages in fact. As she started, reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband's eyes.“What’s wrong?” she asked.“Nothing,” the husband replied, “keep reading your list.”The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over the top of it.“Now,you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists, ” she said happily.Quietly the husband stated, “I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you. ”The wife, touched by his honesty, the depth of his love for her, and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.(1)Which is NOT true according to the passage?A、The man and his girlfriend had a great wedding.B、The woman wanted reasons for a divorce.C、The man respected his wife very much.D、The woman was moved by her husband's kindness.(2) The woman suggested writing down another's weak points, in order to ________.A、make her marriage betterB、show her annoyance with her husbandC、let other people knowD、help her husband think independently(3) What is the writer's attitude to the husband's behavior?A、PositiveB、Ironical(讽刺的)C、OppositeD、None of the above.(4) According to your understanding, why did tears appear in the husband's eyes?A、Because his wife was too perfect.B、Because he accepted her as a whole, but she didn't.C、Because he loved her more than she loved him.D、Because his wife was too rude (粗鲁的).(5) It can be inferred from the passage that the wifeA、would shorten her list.B、would not let other people know her husband's bad aspects.C、would learn to respect and accept her husband fully.D、would be confused.

4.AWhen I was going home to India last year, I called up my mother to ask if she wanted anything from china,When India had not opened up its markers to the world, I carried suitcase loads of dark glasses and jeans. Thankfully, we can get all these anywhere in India now,Still ,her answer surprised me:“Green tea,”As long as I can remember she didn’t even drink Indian tea.I dutifully bought a big packet of Longjing and headed home to hear the story. My mother and her brother, both regular newspaper readers, believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all illnessesAt the turn of the century, China was not really familiar to the average Indian, It was a strange countryHow things change [And how soon]Now every town of any size seems to have a “China Market”. And everyone is talking about ChinaThe government of India has planned to send a team to China to see how things are done A minister once said that India must open the doors for more foreign investment(投资)and such a step would “work wonders as it did for China”.But it’s a two-way street, I just heard about a thousand Shenzhen office workers who have gone to Rangalore to train in software. Meanwhile, all the IT majors are setting up a strong presence in China,No wonder that trade, which was only in the millions just ten years ago, is expected to his about us$15 billion for last year and us$20 billion by 2008, a goal set by both governments,No wonder, my colleague wrote some weeks ago about this being the Sino-Indian(中印)century as the two countries started on January I the Sino-Indian Friendship Year,But what is still a wonder to me is my mother drinking Chinese tea.56 Why did the mother ask for Chinese green tea?A, she was tired of Indian teaB, she had a son working in China.C, she believed it had a curing effectD, she was fond of Chinese products,

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  • 第1题:

    The workers who brought the girl to the orphanage(孤儿院)knew little about her. The streets where they found her had been her home for many years. Her parents were unknown. They left her long ago. At the orphanage, the girl, like all the children there, was taught to read and write. While she was studying at the orphanage, she learned something else-to be independent. At twenty-one,she left the orphanage and began work as a secretary. And then,in 1975, while she was still working as an ordinary secretary, something special happened. She entered the Miss Hong Kong competition and won it. This was the turning point in her life. Now her name, Mary Cheung, was known to everybody. Mary entered the competition because she wanted to show that orphanage girls could be something. Winning the competition gave her the chance to start a new life. This led her first into television and then into business as a manager. When she was working as a manager, she had trouble with her reports. “My English just wasn't good enough.” she says. Luckily, she had a boyfriend (who later became her husband) to help her. Mary studied management at Hong Kong Polytechnic and graduated in 1980. She started her own business in 1985. But she did not stop developing herself. She then studied at the University of Hong Kong. Since 1987, she had spent a lot of time on photography. She has held several exhibitions of her work in many places-China, New Zealand and Paris. She still found time, however, to work on TV, write for newspapers and bring up her family. The girl from the street has come a long way, but her journey is not finished yet.

    (1).Before Mary Cheung was brought to the orphanage,she had lived in the streets for many years.

    A.T

    B.F

    (2).The sentence "orphanage girls could be something" means that orphanage girls could be popular and successful.

    A.T

    B.F

    (3).Her life changed in 1985.

    A.T

    B.F

    (4).This passage is probably taken from a novel.

    A.T

    B.F

    (5).Mary's boyfriend was good at English.

    A.T

    B.F


    正确答案: (1).A (2).A (3).B (4).B (5).A

  • 第2题:

    She had hardly got home________ her husband went to work?

    A.when

    B.after

    C.that

    D.since


    正确答案:A
    hardly…when“刚……就”。为固定搭配。

  • 第3题:

    根据下列内容,回答191-195题。
    Mrs.Janes gave music lessons at a school.She had a good voice and enjoyed singing,except that some of her high tones sounded like a gate that had been forgotten to oil.Mrs.Janes knew her weakness well,and took every chance she could to practice these high tones.As she lived in a small house,where she could not practice without disturbing the rest of the family,she usually went for long walks along the country roads whenever she had time and practiced her high tones there.Whenever she heard a car or a person coming along the road,she stopped and waited until she could no longer be heard before she started practicing again,because she was a shy person.
    One afternoon,a fast,opened car came up behind her so silently and so fast that she didn’t hear it until it was only a few yards from her.She was singing some of her highest and most difficult tones at that time and as the car passed;she saw an anxious expression came over the driver’s face.
    He stopped his car suddenly,jumped out and began to examine all the tyres carefully. Mrs.Janes didn’t dare to tell him what noise he had heard really was,so he got back into the car and drove off.
    How did Mrs.Janes sing? __________

    A.She sang well,but she didn’t practice singing hard.
    B.She enjoyed singin9,but she had a terrible voice.
    C.She was a good singer,but she could not sing the high tones well.
    D.She sang terribly,and she was not singer at all.

    答案:C
    解析:
    推断题。根据第一段“She had a good voice and enjoyed singing,except that some of herhigh tones sounded like a gate that had been forgotten to oil”可推知,她是一个好歌手,只是某些高音符唱不好。故答案为C。

  • 第4题:

    Mrs.Peters stopped playing the piano when she began to work.She had lived in a very small?flat,and there had been no room for a piano.But when she married,she had a new flat which was?big enough for one.So she decided to get one and her husband agreed and helped her.She saved?some money,and her parents gave her a generous amount of money for her birthday.Then she went?to a shop and said,"I′ll choose whichever piano does not cost too much and fits into my living room."
    When she had paid for the piano,the shop assistant asked her if she would like him to get it?tuned(调音)evey few months.Mrs.Peters agreed.
    A few months later she heard from the shop that a man was coming to tune the piano at ten that?morning.Now she had not cleaned the house yet,so it was dusty and untidy.Mrs.Peters hated having?even the least amount of dirt,and felt ashamed whenever strange people saw her house like that.So she had to hurry..to clean everything carefully.It meant a lot of effort,and it made her hot and tired,but anyhow,by the time the man arrived,everything was finished.
    She opened the door,and the man was standing there with a big dog.!"Good morning,"the man said politely,"Will it disturb you if I bring my dog in,please?I′m blind,and he leads me wherever?I go.

    Mrs.Peters had wasted her time getting everything clean as__________

    A.the dog would dirty the house
    B.the piano tuner could see nothing in the house
    C.the dog disturbed Mrs.Peters
    D.the piano tuner always took the dog

    答案:B
    解析:
    【考情点拨】推理判断题。【应试指导】文中讲到,彼得斯夫人精心打扫房间,是因为当陌生人来访时,如果房间很脏、很乱,她会感到很难堪的。而当钢琴调音师到来时,她才知道这是一位盲人,根本看不到房间是否干净。

  • 第5题:

    Laura was married for 6 months.Her husband was using drugs.She didn't want her son or her unborn baby to live that way,but she was afraid to ask her husband to leave.She left him a note instead.After reading the note,Laura's husband waited for her to come home and then beat her and her son.
    Laura had little education and she never had a good paying job.She was ashamed to ask for help from the police,courts or women's shelters.Sometimes her husband was very nice to her.She decided to try harder so her children could have a home and a father.Laura joined a church and told a priest about her problem.
    But her husband kept using drugs and hurting the family.Finally,she told her husband she loved him,but they should live apart for a while.He beat her again.The priest came over to talk to her.He asked the husband to go out for a while.Laura packed up her things and left home with her son.The next day she lost the baby.Her husband went to jail.
    Laura got a lot of help from groups that help women who have been beaten.Now she is in college,has her own apartment and works on special projects at a women's shelter."We got out,and it changed life for me and my child.You can do it.You can break the cycle,"Laura said.

    Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

    A.Husband-Wife Relationship
    B.Women's Rights
    C.Laura's Marriage
    D.Family Violence

    答案:D
    解析:
    整篇文章讲的是丈夫吸毒并对妻子、孩子使用暴力。因此,“家庭暴力”应是最合适的标题。

  • 第6题:

    Mrs.Peters stopped playing the piano when she began to work.She had lived in a very small?flat,and there had been no room for a piano.But when she married,she had a new flat which was?big enough for one.So she decided to get one and her husband agreed and helped her.She saved?some money,and her parents gave her a generous amount of money for her birthday.Then she went?to a shop and said,"I′ll choose whichever piano does not cost too much and fits into my living room."
    When she had paid for the piano,the shop assistant asked her if she would like him to get it?tuned(调音)evey few months.Mrs.Peters agreed.
    A few months later she heard from the shop that a man was coming to tune the piano at ten that?morning.Now she had not cleaned the house yet,so it was dusty and untidy.Mrs.Peters hated having?even the least amount of dirt,and felt ashamed whenever strange people saw her house like that.So she had to hurry..to clean everything carefully.It meant a lot of effort,and it made her hot and tired,but anyhow,by the time the man arrived,everything was finished.
    She opened the door,and the man was standing there with a big dog.!"Good morning,"the man said politely,"Will it disturb you if I bring my dog in,please?I′m blind,and he leads me wherever?I go.

    It meant a lot of effort,and it made her hot and tired.Here"it"refers to__________

    A.hating dirt
    B.cleaning everything
    C.waiting for the man
    D.feeling ashamed of the dirty and untidy house

    答案:B
    解析:
    【考情点拨】词语理解题。【应试指导】根据上下文可知,此句中“it”指前一句所做的事情,即clean everything carefully。

  • 第7题:

    Laura was married for 6 months.Her husband was using drugs.She didn't want her son or her unborn baby to live that way,but she was afraid to ask her husband to leave.She left him a note instead.After reading the note,Laura's husband waited for her to come home and then beat her and her son.
    Laura had little education and she never had a good paying job.She was ashamed to ask for help from the police,courts or women's shelters.Sometimes her husband was very nice to her.She decided to try harder so her children could have a home and a father.Laura joined a church and told a priest about her problem.
    But her husband kept using drugs and hurting the family.Finally,she told her husband she loved him,but they should live apart for a while.He beat her again.The priest came over to talk to her.He asked the husband to go out for a while.Laura packed up her things and left home with her son.The next day she lost the baby.Her husband went to jail.
    Laura got a lot of help from groups that help women who have been beaten.Now she is in college,has her own apartment and works on special projects at a women's shelter."We got out,and it changed life for me and my child.You can do it.You can break the cycle,"Laura said.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

    A.Laura has two childre
    B.Laura never got any jo
    C.Laura's husband got punishe
    D.Laura got little help from the societ

    答案:C
    解析:
    第三段提到她在遭到丈夫的殴打之后失去了还未出生的孩子。因此她只有一个孩子。选项A错误。第二段提及她没有得到过高工资的工作,并不意味着她没有工作。选项B错误。第三段提到她失去孩子之后,她的丈夫进了监狱。因此,选项C正确。最后一段提到她得到了社会上的很多帮助,还进了大学。所以,选项D错误。

  • 第8题:

    共用题干
    第一篇

    Oseola McCarty

    Late one Sunday afternoon in September 1999,Oseola McCarty,an elderly cleaning lady passed away
    in the little wooden flame house where she had lived and worked most of her life.It may seem like an ordinary
    end to a humble life,but there was something quite exceptional about this woman.
    In the summer of 1995,McCarty gave $150,000,most of the money she had saved throughout her life,
    to the University of Southern Mississippi in her hometown. The money was to help other Mrican Americans
    through university.She had started her savings habit as a young child when she would return from school to
    clean and iron for money which she would then save.
    She led a simple,枷gal existence,never spending on anything but her most basic needs.Her bank
    also advised her on investing her hard-earned savings.
    When she retired,she decided that she wanted to use the money to give children of limited means the
    opportunity to go to university.She had wanted to become a nurse,but had to leave school to look after ill
    relatives and work.When asked why she had given her life savings away,she replied,"I'm giving it away
    so that children won't have to work so hard,like I did."After news of her donation hit the media,over 600
    donations were made to the scholarship fund.One was given by media executive,Ted Turner,who reputedly
    gave a billion dollars.
    She didn't want any fuss made over her gift,but the news got out and she was invited all over the United
    States to talk to people.Wherever she went,people would come up to her to say a few words or just touch
    her. She met the ordinary and the famous,President Clinton included.In the last few years of her life,
    before she died of cancer,McCarty was given over 300 awards:she was honoured by the United Nations and
    received the Presidential Citizen's Medal.Despite having no real education,she found herself with two honorary
    doctorates:one from the University of Southern Mississippi and the other from Harvard University.Her
    generosity was clearly an inspiration to many people arid proof that true selflessness does exist.

    This woman shocked and inspired the world because__________.
    A:she had managed to save so much money
    B:she gave her money to African Americans
    C:she gave her life savings to help others through university
    D:she only spent money on cheap things

    答案:C
    解析:
    本篇文章主要讲述的就是奥莎拉·麦卡迪把一生的积蓄全部奉献给了那些她并不认 识却需要帮助才能完成学业的年轻人。她的这一举措震惊、激励了全世界,得到了全社会的 认可。
    由文章第二段最后一句话及第三段可知,奥莎拉·麦卡迪工作很辛苦,只进行基本需 求的消费。她很努力地存钱,并且银行也给她投资的建议。
    由文章第四段第三句话“When asked why she had given her life savings away, she replied, 'I'm giving it away so that children won't have to work so hard,like I did."’可知答案为C。
    由文章第四段第四句话“After news of her donation hit the media, over 600 donations were made to the scholarship fund.”可知答案为C。
    由文章最后一段最后一句话“Her generosity was clearly an inspiration to many people and proof that true selflessness does exist.”可知答案为C。第二篇 本篇文章主要讲述的是庞兹骗局和麦道夫骗局。

  • 第9题:

    阅读下列短文,然后根据短文的內容從每小题的四个选项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选择,并把它前面的大写字母填入左边括号里。
    A
    Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States,yet she had only just begun painting in her late seventies.As she once said of herself:“I would never sit back in a rocking-chair,waiting for someone to help me.”
    She was born on a farm in New York State.At twelve she left home and was in a service until at twenty-seven,she married Thomas Moses,the tenant of hers.They farmed most of their lives.She had ten children,of whom five survived;her husband died in 1928.
    Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery pictures as a hobby,but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time.Her pictures were first sold at an exhibition,and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painteD.Three of the pictures were shown in the Museum of Modern Art,and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York.Between the 1930‘s and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures:careful and lively pictures of the country life she had known,with a wonderful sense of color and form.

    From Grandma Moses‘s words of herself in the first paragraph,it can be inferred that she was_______.

    A.independent
    B.pretty
    C.rich
    D.alone

    答案:A
    解析:

  • 第10题:

    "...She was married to an officer in India,long ago India;and she had a life of physical adventure(冒险)as exciting as her poetry.Her husband could cross rivers using crocodiles(鳄鱼)as stepping stones.He died when she was only 39.Unwilling to exist without him,she took her life,leaving a son in England."
    I stared at the paper,21?reading,couldn′t help thinking.
    Crocodiles are lazy animals as a rule,but they can move like lightening when they want to.And they don′t mind hurrying?22?they′re hungry.There used to be lots in Indian rivers,living on fish mostly;but what′s a little fish for a fifteen-foot crocodile?They ate people,fisherman or anyone else delicious enough to get too near;women doing the?23,or children playing at the water′s
    24.A hungry crocodile′s mouth?25?over a meal with a sound like a gunshot.A big fellow can?26?in a man in two bites(咬)。
    That woman′s husband crossed rivers?27?from one crocodile′s back to the next.I believe it.It had to be done quickly before the creature could see what was happening.It wasn′t28?a brave,active man;and no doubt he improved with practice.He could never look?29while crossing.
    The wife used to watch him--I felt sure of that.She lived?30?the adventure,the?31?excitement of it all.Their real life was with tigers,snakes...It′s no wonder she wrote?32poetry.
    Then he died.I imagined how she felt.Was there another man?33?him in India,in the world?She was still young,hardly a sitting-room widow(寡妇)."I must?34,too."she said to herself.So she did what she felt she had to do.A?35?probably,to her head.
    But her young son,their son?Was her love for him nothing compared to her husband?Well,what do you think?

    第30题答案是

    A.without
    B.till
    C.for
    D.on

    答案:C
    解析:
    考情点拨:词语搭配题。
    应试指导:此句意为:她为探险而活着。表示“为……而活着”,应用for。

  • 第11题:

    阅读下列短文,然后根据短文的內容從每小题的四个选项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选择,并把它前面的大写字母填入左边括号里。
    A
    Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States,yet she had only just begun painting in her late seventies.As she once said of herself:“I would never sit back in a rocking-chair,waiting for someone to help me.”
    She was born on a farm in New York State.At twelve she left home and was in a service until at twenty-seven,she married Thomas Moses,the tenant of hers.They farmed most of their lives.She had ten children,of whom five survived;her husband died in 1928.
    Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery pictures as a hobby,but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time.Her pictures were first sold at an exhibition,and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painteD.Three of the pictures were shown in the Museum of Modern Art,and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York.Between the 1930‘s and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures:careful and lively pictures of the country life she had known,with a wonderful sense of color and form.

    Grandma Moses spent most of their life________.

    A.nursing
    B.painting
    C.farming
    D.embroidering

    答案:C
    解析:

  • 第12题:

    阅读下列短文,然后根据短文的內容從每小题的四个选项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选择,并把它前面的大写字母填入左边括号里。
    A
    Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States,yet she had only just begun painting in her late seventies.As she once said of herself:“I would never sit back in a rocking-chair,waiting for someone to help me.”
    She was born on a farm in New York State.At twelve she left home and was in a service until at twenty-seven,she married Thomas Moses,the tenant of hers.They farmed most of their lives.She had ten children,of whom five survived;her husband died in 1928.
    Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery pictures as a hobby,but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time.Her pictures were first sold at an exhibition,and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painteD.Three of the pictures were shown in the Museum of Modern Art,and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York.Between the 1930‘s and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures:careful and lively pictures of the country life she had known,with a wonderful sense of color and form.

    ()Which of the following would be the best title for the passage

    A.Grandma Moses
    B.The Children of Grandma Moses
    C.Grandma Moses:Her Best Pictures
    D.Grandma Moses and Her First Exhibition

    答案:A
    解析:

  • 第13题:

    DOn May 23,1989, Stefania Follini came out from a cave at Carlsbad, New Mexico. She hadn’t seen the sun for eighteen and a half weeks. Stefania was in a research program, and the scientists in the program were studying body rhythms(节奏). In this experiment Stefania had spent 130 days in a cave, 30 feet in depth.

    During her time in the cave, Stefania had been completely alone except for two white mice. Her living place had been very comfortable, but there had been nothing to tell her the time. She’d had no clocks or watches, no television or radio. There had been no natural light and the temperature had always been kept at 21℃.

    The results were very interesting. Stefania had been in the cave for over four months, but she thought she had been there for only two. Her body clock had changed. She hadn’t kept to a 24-hour day, she had stayed awake for 20-25 hours and then had slept for 10 hours. She had eaten fewer meals and had lost 171bs in weight as a results! She had also become rather depressed(抑郁).

    How had she spent her time in the cave? As part of the experiment she’d done some physical and mental tests. She’d recorded her daily activities and the results of the tests on a computer. This computer had been specially programmed for the project. Whenever she was free, she’d played cards, read books and listened to music. She’d also learned French from tapes.

    The experiment showed that our body clocks are affected by light and temperature. For example, the pattern of day and night makes us wake up and go to sleep. However, people are affected in different ways. Some people wake up naturally at 5:00 am, but others don’t start to wake up till 9:00 or 10:00 am. This affects the whole daily rhythm. As a result, the early risers, on the other hand, are tired during the day and only come to life in the afternoon or evening!

    第68题:

    Stefania stayed in the cave for a long time because ______.

    A. she was asked to do research on mice

    B. she wanted to experience loneliness

    C. she was the subject of a study

    D. she needed to record her life


    正确答案:C

  • 第14题:

    D On May 23,1989, Stefania Follini came out from a cave at Carlsbad , New Mexico. She hadn’t seen the sun for eighteen and a half weeks . Stefania was in a research program, and the scientists in the program were studying body rhythms (节奏)。In this experiment Stefania had spent 130 days in a cave ,30 feet in depth.

    During her time in the cave, Stefania had been completely alone except for two white mice. Her living place had been very comfortable ,but there had been nothing to fell her the time .she’d had no clock or watches , no television or tadio. There had been NO natural light and the temperature had always been kept at 21℃

    Stefania stayed in the cave for a long time because___________.

    A.she was asked to do research on mice

    B.she wanted to experience loneliness

    C.she was the subject of astudy

    D.she needed to record her life


    正确答案:C

  • 第15题:

    What did mother do with her daughter's letter asking forgiveness?__________

    A.She had never received the letter.
    B.For years, she often talked about the letter.
    C.She didn't forgive her daughter at all in all her life.
    D.She read the letter again and again till she died.

    答案:D
    解析:
    根据最后一段“…aphoto ofmyfather and aone-pageletter,folded and refoldedmanytimes.”可知应选D。

  • 第16题:

    Laura was married for 6 months.Her husband was using drugs.She didn't want her son or her unborn baby to live that way,but she was afraid to ask her husband to leave.She left him a note instead.After reading the note,Laura's husband waited for her to come home and then beat her and her son.
    Laura had little education and she never had a good paying job.She was ashamed to ask for help from the police,courts or women's shelters.Sometimes her husband was very nice to her.She decided to try harder so her children could have a home and a father.Laura joined a church and told a priest about her problem.
    But her husband kept using drugs and hurting the family.Finally,she told her husband she loved him,but they should live apart for a while.He beat her again.The priest came over to talk to her.He asked the husband to go out for a while.Laura packed up her things and left home with her son.The next day she lost the baby.Her husband went to jail.
    Laura got a lot of help from groups that help women who have been beaten.Now she is in college,has her own apartment and works on special projects at a women's shelter."We got out,and it changed life for me and my child.You can do it.You can break the cycle,"Laura said.

    Laura didn't go to the police or courts because__.

    A.she was afraid of being laughed at
    B.the priest asked her not to do so
    C.her husband was a nice guy
    D.she was not well-educated

    答案:A
    解析:
    从第二段可知,她没有受过什么教育,也从来没有过像样的工作。她的思想还是比较封闭的。因此她认为向警察、法院以及妇女避难所寻求帮助是件羞耻的事。

  • 第17题:

    Laura was married for 6 months.Her husband was using drugs.She didn't want her son or her unborn baby to live that way,but she was afraid to ask her husband to leave.She left him a note instead.After reading the note,Laura's husband waited for her to come home and then beat her and her son.
    Laura had little education and she never had a good paying job.She was ashamed to ask for help from the police,courts or women's shelters.Sometimes her husband was very nice to her.She decided to try harder so her children could have a home and a father.Laura joined a church and told a priest about her problem.
    But her husband kept using drugs and hurting the family.Finally,she told her husband she loved him,but they should live apart for a while.He beat her again.The priest came over to talk to her.He asked the husband to go out for a while.Laura packed up her things and left home with her son.The next day she lost the baby.Her husband went to jail.
    Laura got a lot of help from groups that help women who have been beaten.Now she is in college,has her own apartment and works on special projects at a women's shelter."We got out,and it changed life for me and my child.You can do it.You can break the cycle,"Laura said.The message Laura left her husband was most likely“__”.

    A.Do not beat the kid any more
    B.Learn to take care of the family
    C.Leave me and my children
    D.Be a good father

    答案:C
    解析:
    见这篇短文涉及家庭暴力的问题。第一段讲到Laura结婚六个月了。她丈夫吸毒。她不希望自己的儿子或者未出世的孩子过这样生活。她很害怕她的丈夫,不敢直接撵她的丈夫出门,只好给她的丈夫留了一张字条。由此判断,字条上写的是要求她的丈夫离开这个家。

  • 第18题:

    Mrs.Peters stopped playing the piano when she began to work.She had lived in a very small?flat,and there had been no room for a piano.But when she married,she had a new flat which was?big enough for one.So she decided to get one and her husband agreed and helped her.She saved?some money,and her parents gave her a generous amount of money for her birthday.Then she went?to a shop and said,"I′ll choose whichever piano does not cost too much and fits into my living room."
    When she had paid for the piano,the shop assistant asked her if she would like him to get it?tuned(调音)evey few months.Mrs.Peters agreed.
    A few months later she heard from the shop that a man was coming to tune the piano at ten that?morning.Now she had not cleaned the house yet,so it was dusty and untidy.Mrs.Peters hated having?even the least amount of dirt,and felt ashamed whenever strange people saw her house like that.So she had to hurry..to clean everything carefully.It meant a lot of effort,and it made her hot and tired,but anyhow,by the time the man arrived,everything was finished.
    She opened the door,and the man was standing there with a big dog.!"Good morning,"the man said politely,"Will it disturb you if I bring my dog in,please?I′m blind,and he leads me wherever?I go.

    Mrs.Peters was soon able to buy a piano because__________.

    A.her parents gave her all the money for it
    B.she saved enough money for it
    C.her husband gave her the money
    D.she saved some money and her relatives gave her the rest

    答案:D
    解析:
    【考情点拨】事实细节题。【应试指导】文章第一段第五句指出,Mrs.Peters节省了一些钱,父母在她生日时给了她一笔钱。因此,两项钱加在一起,才能买一台钢琴。

  • 第19题:

    Mrs.Peters stopped playing the piano when she began to work.She had lived in a very small?flat,and there had been no room for a piano.But when she married,she had a new flat which was?big enough for one.So she decided to get one and her husband agreed and helped her.She saved?some money,and her parents gave her a generous amount of money for her birthday.Then she went?to a shop and said,"I′ll choose whichever piano does not cost too much and fits into my living room."
    When she had paid for the piano,the shop assistant asked her if she would like him to get it?tuned(调音)evey few months.Mrs.Peters agreed.
    A few months later she heard from the shop that a man was coming to tune the piano at ten that?morning.Now she had not cleaned the house yet,so it was dusty and untidy.Mrs.Peters hated having?even the least amount of dirt,and felt ashamed whenever strange people saw her house like that.So she had to hurry..to clean everything carefully.It meant a lot of effort,and it made her hot and tired,but anyhow,by the time the man arrived,everything was finished.
    She opened the door,and the man was standing there with a big dog.!"Good morning,"the man said politely,"Will it disturb you if I bring my dog in,please?I′m blind,and he leads me wherever?I go.

    One morning,__

    A.a man was coming to repair her piano
    B.Mrs.Peters received a telephone call from the shop
    C.the piano was sent to her house at 10 o'clock
    D.Mrs.Peters was going to clean the house

    答案:B
    解析:
    【考情点拨】推理判断题。【应试指导】文章第三段第一句指出,几个月后,商店里说有一个人当天上午十点将来给钢琴调音。只有B符合题意。

  • 第20题:

    共用题干
    第一篇

    Oseola McCarty

    Late one Sunday afternoon in September 1999,Oseola McCarty,an elderly cleaning lady passed away
    in the little wooden flame house where she had lived and worked most of her life.It may seem like an ordinary
    end to a humble life,but there was something quite exceptional about this woman.
    In the summer of 1995,McCarty gave $150,000,most of the money she had saved throughout her life,
    to the University of Southern Mississippi in her hometown. The money was to help other Mrican Americans
    through university.She had started her savings habit as a young child when she would return from school to
    clean and iron for money which she would then save.
    She led a simple,枷gal existence,never spending on anything but her most basic needs.Her bank
    also advised her on investing her hard-earned savings.
    When she retired,she decided that she wanted to use the money to give children of limited means the
    opportunity to go to university.She had wanted to become a nurse,but had to leave school to look after ill
    relatives and work.When asked why she had given her life savings away,she replied,"I'm giving it away
    so that children won't have to work so hard,like I did."After news of her donation hit the media,over 600
    donations were made to the scholarship fund.One was given by media executive,Ted Turner,who reputedly
    gave a billion dollars.
    She didn't want any fuss made over her gift,but the news got out and she was invited all over the United
    States to talk to people.Wherever she went,people would come up to her to say a few words or just touch
    her. She met the ordinary and the famous,President Clinton included.In the last few years of her life,
    before she died of cancer,McCarty was given over 300 awards:she was honoured by the United Nations and
    received the Presidential Citizen's Medal.Despite having no real education,she found herself with two honorary
    doctorates:one from the University of Southern Mississippi and the other from Harvard University.Her
    generosity was clearly an inspiration to many people arid proof that true selflessness does exist.

    She managed to save so much money because________.
    A:she had ironed and washed clothes all her life
    B:she had worked hard,saved hard and invested carefully
    C:she had opened a good bank account
    D:she knew how to make money

    答案:B
    解析:
    本篇文章主要讲述的就是奥莎拉·麦卡迪把一生的积蓄全部奉献给了那些她并不认 识却需要帮助才能完成学业的年轻人。她的这一举措震惊、激励了全世界,得到了全社会的 认可。
    由文章第二段最后一句话及第三段可知,奥莎拉·麦卡迪工作很辛苦,只进行基本需 求的消费。她很努力地存钱,并且银行也给她投资的建议。
    由文章第四段第三句话“When asked why she had given her life savings away, she replied, 'I'm giving it away so that children won't have to work so hard,like I did."’可知答案为C。
    由文章第四段第四句话“After news of her donation hit the media, over 600 donations were made to the scholarship fund.”可知答案为C。
    由文章最后一段最后一句话“Her generosity was clearly an inspiration to many people and proof that true selflessness does exist.”可知答案为C。第二篇 本篇文章主要讲述的是庞兹骗局和麦道夫骗局。

  • 第21题:

    Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of America′s 32nd president,Franklin Roosevelt.She helped her husband in?many ways during his long(21)life.She also became one of the most(22)women in America.She fought for?equal rights for all people.
    Eleanor was born in New York City in 1884.Her family had great wealth.But Eleanor did not have a happy(23).Her parents died when she was very young.She was raised by her grandmother.Eleanor(24)that as a?child,her greatest happiness came from helping others.
    tn the early 1900s,many people were worried about the problems of(25)people who came to America in(26)of a better life.Eleanor could not(27)how people lived in such poor conditions while she and some others?had so much(28).
    After she finished school,Eleanor began(29)children to read and write in one of the poorest areas of New?York City.She also looked into(30)where workers were said to be badly(31).She saw little children of four?and five years old working until they(32)to the floor.She became involved(参与)with other women who(33)the same ideas about improving social conditions.
    Franklin Roosevelt began(34)Eleanor when he was in New York.They got(35)in 1905.In the next eleven?years,they had six children.The Roosevelts moved to Washington D.C.in 1913.

    第(32)题选

    A.dropped
    B.run
    C.jumped
    D.sank

    答案:A
    解析:

  • 第22题:

    Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States,yet she had only just begun painting in her late seventies.As she once said of herself:“I would never sit back in a rocking-chair,waiting for someone to help me.”
    She was born on a farm in New York State.At twelve she left home and was in a service until at twenty-seven,she married Thomas Moses,the tenant of hers.They farmed most of their lives.She had ten children,of whom five survived;her husband died in 1928.
    Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery pictures as a hobby,but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time.Her pictures were first sold at an exhibition,and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted.Three of the pictures were shown in the Museum of Modern Art,and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York.Between the 1930‘s and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures:careful and lively pictures of the country life she had known,with a wonderful sense of color and form.
    Which of the following would be the best title for the passage

    A.Grandma Moses
    B.The Children of Grandma Moses
    C.Grandma Moses:Her Best Pictures
    D.Grandma Moses and Her First Exhibition

    答案:A
    解析:

  • 第23题:

    阅读下列短文,然后根据短文的內容從每小题的四个选项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选择,并把它前面的大写字母填入左边括号里。
    A
    Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States,yet she had only just begun painting in her late seventies.As she once said of herself:“I would never sit back in a rocking-chair,waiting for someone to help me.”
    She was born on a farm in New York State.At twelve she left home and was in a service until at twenty-seven,she married Thomas Moses,the tenant of hers.They farmed most of their lives.She had ten children,of whom five survived;her husband died in 1928.
    Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery pictures as a hobby,but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time.Her pictures were first sold at an exhibition,and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painteD.Three of the pictures were shown in the Museum of Modern Art,and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York.Between the 1930‘s and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures:careful and lively pictures of the country life she had known,with a wonderful sense of color and form.

    Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to_______.

    A.make her home beautiful
    B.keep active
    C.improve her salary
    D.gain an international fame

    答案:B
    解析:

  • 第24题:

    问答题
    Practice 7  When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants. And as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. The young English governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months, and when other governesses came to try to fill it they always went away in a shorter time than the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how to read books she would never have learned her letters at all.

    正确答案:
    【参考译文】
    当玛丽·劳诺克斯被送到米瑟斯威特庄园,和她舅舅一起生活的时候,每个人都说她是他们见过的长相最令人不舒服孩子。这也对,玛丽有着消瘦的脸蛋、单薄的身体、薄薄的头发和一副不高兴的表情。她的头发是黄色的,由于出生在印度并且总是因为这样或那样的原因而生病,她的脸蛋也显得那么蜡黄。玛丽的父亲在英国政府中有份工作,经常很忙也时不时地生病,她的母亲是个大美人,只关心各种聚会以及和一些男人们寻欢作乐。玛丽的母亲从来没有想过要一个小女孩,当玛丽出生后,她就把她交给奶妈来照顾,奶妈知道,如果她想让女主人高兴的话,她就必须尽可能地把这个孩子带离她的视线。所以,当玛丽还是个多病、爱哭、难看的小婴孩时,她就被带离大人们的视线。当玛丽长成为一个多病、爱哭、蹒跚学步的小孩时,她还是被带离大人们的视线。除了奶妈和其他印度仆人的黑脸,玛丽从没记得见过任何熟悉的东西。因为女主人会被她的哭声打扰到而生气,所以奶妈和仆人们非常顺从玛丽,让她为所欲为。当玛丽长到6岁时,她像一头小猪那样乖戾而自私。来教她阅读和书写的年轻英语家庭女教师非常不喜欢玛丽,三个月后就放弃了这份工作,而后来试图教她的家庭教师也总是干不到第一位那么长的时间就离开了。所以如果不是玛丽自己真的想要读书的话,恐怕她连自己的名字也不会写。
    解析: 暂无解析