Shaking It OffOne day, a farmer’s donkey fell into a dry well(井). The poor animal cried for hours before his finally found him. The farmer tried hard to pull him out from the well but failed. He fel 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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Shaking It Off

One day, a farmer’s donkey fell into a dry well(井). The poor animal cried for hours before his       finally found him. The farmer tried hard to pull him out from the well but failed. He felt       for the donkey but after carefully thinking about the situation, he       that he would save neither the donkey nor the well. Since the donkey was too       and it was not worth（值得） the trouble of saving. So he invited his neighbors to help him bury(埋葬) the old donkey in the __   so that it would make him end his pain.
     many people coming to help, the old donkey was excited at first. As they began to scoop the dirt into the well with shovels(铲子), he soon       what was happening. He felt upset and cried sadly again. As the farmer and his neighbors continued throwing the dirt on his      , he suddenly had a good idea. Some time later, when the farmer finally looked down into the well, he was surprised at what he saw:     the dirt landed on his back, he would shake it off and take a step up!
Soon, everyone was amazed when the donkey stepped       over the edge of the well and ran away quickly! It seemed that it would       him at first, but it actually helped him later because of the manner in which he faced his adversity(逆境).
That is life! Just like the donkey, life is going to throw dirt on us, all kinds of dirt.     we face our problems in an active way, and refuse to       to any trouble, each dirt is like a stepping stone with which we get out of the deepest wells. This is a key       one of the secrets of life.     stop and never give up. Success is just in its way.

小题1:

A．neighbor

B．owner

C．relative

D．kid

小题2:

A．sorry

B．lucky

C．dangerous

D．worried

小题3:

A．complained

B．decided

C．agreed

D．meant

小题4:

A．strong

B．tall

C．old

D．poor

小题5:

A．water

B．hole

C．well

D．house

小题6:

A．Heard

B．Hearing

C．To hear

D．Hears

小题7:

A．realized

B．remembered

C．discovered

D．found

小题8:

A．leg

B．stomach

C．tail

D．back

小题9:

A．any time

B．every time

C．one time

D．some time

小题10:

A．angrily

B．heavily

C．proudly

D．sadly

小题11:

A．save

B．bother

C．fill

D．bury

小题12:

A．as soon as

B．as long as

C．as far as

D．as well as

小题13:

A．give up

B．give out

C．give in

D．give off

小题14:

A．to

B．of

C．on

D．from

小题15:

A．Always

B．Never

C．Sometimes

D．Hardly

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:C
小题6:B
小题7:A
小题8:D
小题9:B
小题10:C
小题11:D
小题12:B
小题13:C
小题14:A
小题15:B

试题分析：这篇短文为我们讲述了一个故事。一个农民的驴掉进了一个干枯的井里，在经过努力但是还是不能把它就出来之后，这个农民放弃了，他觉得这头驴已经老了，没什么用了，所以他想干脆就把它埋在井里。很多人过来帮忙，但是令人惊奇的是，他们扔进井了的土不断的被驴踩在脚下，这样越来越高，最后这只驴竟然从井里出来了。作者通过这个故事告诉我们，生活中我们身处逆境的时候不要放弃，也许成功很快就会到来。
小题1:考查名词及语境的理解。句意：在它的主人发现它之前这只可怜的动物已经叫了几个小时。根据文章的第一句话，a farmer’s donkey ，一个农民的驴，我们可以知道这头驴是这个农夫的，故农夫是它的主人，owner 主人。neighbor 邻居；relative 亲戚；kid小孩。根据句意可知选B。
小题2:考查形容词及语境的理解。句意：但是在仔细的考虑了情势之后，他为这头驴感到抱歉。由下面的文意可知，农夫打算放弃救这头驴，所以应该是为它感到抱歉。sorry 抱歉；lucky 幸运的；dangerous 危险的；worried担心的。根据文意可知选A。
小题3:考查动词及语境的理解。句意：但是在仔细的考虑了情势之后，他不会救这头驴，他为这头驴感到抱歉。complain 抱怨；decide 决定；agree 同意；mean意思是。根据句意，在仔细考虑了情势之后，他决定不救这头驴。故选B。
小题4:考查形容词及语境的理解。句意：因为这头驴太老了，不值得费劲来救它。strong 强壮的；tall 高的；old 老的；poor穷的。根据文意可知，农夫不打算救这头驴，可见是这头驴已经老了，对农夫来说已经没有什么用处了，所以才会不救它。故选C。
小题5:考查名词及语境的理解。句意：所以他就请他的邻居帮忙把这头驴埋在井里来结束它的痛苦。根据文章的开头我们可以知道这头驴是掉进了井里，故这里农夫就打算直接将它埋在里面。water 水；hole洞；well 井；house房子。根据文意可知选C。
小题6:考查动词及语境的理解。句意：听到很多人来救它，这头老驴开始很兴奋。hear 听见。这里用的是它的ing形式，在句中做时间状语，并且它与该句的主语the old donkey 构成主动的关系。故选B。
小题7:考查动词及语境的理解。句意：当他们开始用铲子往井里扔土的时候，它意识到发生了什么。realize 意识到；remember 记得；discover 发现；find 发现，找到。根据文意，开始驴以为人们是来救它的，但是后来它意识到并不是这样。故选A。
小题8:考查名词及语境的理解。句意：在农夫和他的邻居们继续往它的背上扔土的时候，它突然有了一个好主意。根据文意我们可知这头驴是在井里，农夫和邻居在井的外面，故他们扔下来的土会落在驴的背上。由下文44空the dirt landed on his back也可知道。leg 腿；stomach 肚子，胃；tail 尾巴；back 背。故选D。
小题9:考查连词及语境的理解。句意：每次土落在它的背上的时候，它都会把它摇晃下来，踩在脚下，向上走一步。every time 每次…的时候，引导时间状语从句。any time 任何时间；one time 一次；some time 一段时间，均不符合句意。故选B。
小题10:考查副词及语境的理解。句意：很快，当驴自豪的走出井的边缘并且快速逃跑的时候，每个人都感到很惊讶。angrily 生气地；heavily 重地；proudly 自豪地；sadly伤心地。这里驴拼着自己的智慧最终从井里出来了，所以应是自豪地。故选C。
小题11:考查动词及语境的理解。句意：开始的时候好像土会埋葬它，但是事实上土却帮助了它。save 救；bother 打扰；fill 装满；bury埋葬。根据文章的开头，农夫和他的邻居打算用土把驴埋在井里。故选D。
小题12:考查连词及语境的理解。句意：只要我们积极的面对我们的问题…。as soon as 一…就…；as long as 只要，引导条件状语从句；as far as 远到…，和…一样远；as well as和…一样好。根据句意可知选B。
小题13:考查动词及语境的理解。句意：只要我们积极的面对我们的问题，拒绝向任何困难屈服，每一堆土都像是让我们从深井里爬出来的垫脚石。give up 放弃；give out 分发，筋疲力尽；give in 屈服，让步；give off发出。根据句意可知不向困难屈服，故选C。
小题14:考查介词及语境的理解。句意：这就是生活的秘诀之一。key 钥匙，答案，关键。与它搭配的介词应该是to ,故选A。
小题15:考查副词及语境的理解。句意：永不停止，永不放弃，成功很快就会到来。never 永不，从不，表达否定的意思。always 总是；sometimes 有时候。hardly几乎不。根据句意可知选B。

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Tommy buys a ticket(票) and goes in. But after two or three minutes he comes out. He buys a second ticket and goes in again. After a few minutes he comes out again and buys a third ticket. Two or three minutes after that, he comes out a third time and asks for another ticket. Then the girl selling tickets says to him, “Why are you buying all these? Are you meeting friends in the cinema all the time?”
“No, I’m not doing that.” the small boy says, “But a big woman always stops me at the door and tears (撕掉) my tickets up.”
小题1:Tommy goes to the cinema to .

小题2:Tommy wants to buy the ticket when the girl asks him.

小题3:The big woman is .

A．Tommy’s friend

B．the girl’s mother

C．a worker in the cinema

D．a shopkeeper near the cinema

小题4:What can we guess(猜) from the story?

A．Tommy is the first time to go to a cinema.

B．Tommy doesn’t like the small boy.

C．The girl likes the small boy.

D．The girl asks the woman to do so.

Have you ever complained（抱怨）why life is so tiring? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time . If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find that the whole world smiles to you.
While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine . Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain . Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather . But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest .
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided . I think failure(失败) is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”
Attitude（态度）decides everything. With an optimistic（乐观的）attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
根据短文内容选择最佳答案。（每小题2分，满分10分）
小题1: People sometimes complain __________ .
A. their studies are successful
B. they have no enough money
C. life is tiring
小题2:According to the passage, in school, _________ .
A. the students don’t like their lessons
B. the teachers will be happy if the students do good jobs
C. the teachers are tired of their work
小题3:If there is a timely rain, ____________ .
A. you want to go out
B. you can listen to a concert
C. crops will grow better
小题4:When we face failure, we ___________ .
A. don’t know what to do
B. may give up hope
C. shouldn’t be afraid of it
小题5:The best title of this passage is ___________ .
A. Smile and the World Smiles to You
B. Complaining about Life
C. Failure is the Mother of Success

Have you ever received a gift that was so clearly not your taste? Worse, have you ever given a present and watched your friend look as though she had opened the wrong box? 小题1:__________? And what do your choices tell about your personal qualities（品质）?
小题2:__________. It calls for empathy—the ability to put yourself into someone else’s head and heart. We’re all able to do this; in fact, we’re born with a kind of natural empathy. 小题3:__________. When it isn’t, we’re not able to understand other people’s feelings sharply.
Think back to the presents you’ve given over the past year, the time and effort you put into your selection, how much you spent, your thoughts while you were shopping, and your feelings when the receiver opened the package. Keep in mind that what you choose shows your inner world.
We live in a society where exchanging presents is an important part of communication. Passing over the tradition won’t make it go away. 小题4:__________, tell your friends ahead of time.

A. When do you send a right gift
B. However, it needs to be developed
C. If you really dislike such a tradition
D. Why do presents sometimes go wrong
E. Choosing the right gift is an art, I believe

One day, a boy found the cocoon(茧) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small    in the cocoon. He sat and watched for several hours as a butterfly struggled to make    body through that little hole. Suddenly it stopped. So the boy  to help the butterfly, thinking the butterfly might be     .He took a pair of scissors and cut the hole  .The butterfly came out of the cocoon but it   a little different. It had a weak body and small, thin     . The butterfly didn’t start to fly. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling(爬行) around with a weak body and thin wings. It was never able to fly.
The boy acted with       but he didn’t understand why it could be like this. When a butterfly crawls out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of      out of the cocoon makes the fluid(液体) from the butterfly’s body into its wings. It helps the butterfly be      to fly. If the butterfly never has to squeeze(挤压) itself out of the cocoon, its wings will never get the fluid and it can never fly.
    struggles are what we need in our lives. If we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be       we could have been and we would never fly.
In our lives, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, and sometimes even        growth, without it , there's no way of life. We can't avoid       or problems. So, next time you are    a problem or difficulty, remember the butterfly. Struggle a little—then fly!

Long ago, in a small village of Wakefield lived two farmers, Harry and Peter. Harry was very hard working while Peter was            , Every day Harry got up early and came home late, but Peter walked around for fun.
　　 One summer there was no            and the crops（庄稼）were dying. Harry thought, “I must do something to save these crops, or they shall die.” With this            in mind, he went out to find a river so that he could dig a canal (沟渠) to his field. He walked on and on, feeling tired and thirsty. After a            search, he found a river full of blue water. He was very happy. He started digging a canal to his field.            it was noon his wife sent their daughter to bring Harry home           lunch. But Harry did not go. He did not want to leave his work unfinished. He completed his work            at night. He was very satisfied.
　　He went home and had a good meal and           into a sound sleep.
　　Peter did the same. But he was not at all determined (有决心的). He also            digging a canal to his field but he didn't have his work completed. His field did not get            water and all his crops died.
　　Harry’s field would be watered when needed. He had a good harvest because of his hard work.
小题1:A. cruel                B.1azy                 C. careless
小题2:A. rain                B. wind                 C. cloud
小题3:A. dream              B. problem             C. thought
小题4:A. quick              B. long                  C. slow
小题5:A. When              B. Although              C. Unless
小题6:A. to                 B. for                  C. with
小题7:A. early               B. late                 C. deep
小题8:A. fell                B. looked                C. turned
小题9:A. stopped             B. forgot                C. started
小题10:A. clean              B. fresh                 C. enough

Three students are giving their opinions(看法) about what a good friend should be like.

Cindy	I think a good friend should be honest(诚实的). That’s more important than any other thing. And it is where a real friendship starts. If a friend isn’t honest, he may lose his friends’ trust.
Jerry	I think a good friend has to be generous(慷慨的). Here being generous doesn’t mean he has to give his friends his lunch money or his clothes. It means he should share his ideas and feelings with his friends. In fact, his friends can know him better in this way.
Mary	In my opinion, a good friend should understand his friends. When there’s something wrong between him and his friends, he must put himself in his friends’ place and think more for his friends.