题目内容
We went into a secondhand shop to get out of the rain.
I took my 6-year-old daughter’s hand and we started to walk around. Suddenly she reached out her hand to touch a pair of shiny black shoes.
“Buy for me?” she asked.
“Oh, Sweetie, they are tap dancing (踢踏舞) shoes. You aren’t taking tap dance.”
“Buy for me?” she repeated.
“Well, let’s try them on.”
She sat on the floor and took off her bright pink rain boots . When she stood up we heard “click”. She took a step, “click, click, click.”
The sun came out and we went on our way. Our next stop was the grocery store(杂货店).
“Click, click, click…” people turned to look as we entered the store. People would never allow their ?daughter to wear tap dancing shoes to the grocery store .
“Excuse me, dear. Why would you allow your daughter to wear tap dancing shoes here? They make such a noise.”
“Isn’t it wonderful?”
“Wonderful? My dear, this is not the place to wear those shoes.”
“You don’t understand. When she was a baby, doctors told us that she would never walk or talk. It has taken a lot of hard work and patience, but she asked for the shoes and the ‘click, click, click’ says that she can walk,” I said.
My daughter is 18 now and will graduate from grade 12 in June. It has not always been easy, but it has all been worthwhile (值得做的). She has taught me that it doesn’t matter what others think. They don’t walk in your shoes.
【小题1】Why did the mother and daughter go to the secondhand shop?
A.They just went window shopping. |
B.The daughter loved the place. |
C.They just found the place to hide from the rain. |
D.The mother wanted to buy cheap shoes for her daughter. |
because _________.
A.they make noise | B.they are expensive |
C.they are dirty | D.it is not allowed |
A.The mother didn’t buy the tap dancing shoes for her daughter. |
B.The mother allowed her daughter to do anything she wanted. |
C.The mother had once thought of giving her daughter up. |
D.For the mother, the “click” noise sounded beautiful. |
A.They don’t have the same shoes as yours. |
B.They don’t know how you feel. |
C.They don’t walk the same way as you. |
D.They don’t know the size of your shoes. |
A.the love between mother and daughter is strong |
B.sometimes you shouldn’t care what others say |
C.you should wear the wrong shoes for your feet |
D.wearing your own shoes helps you walk faster |
【小题1】C
【小题2】A
【小题3】D
【小题4】B
【小题5】B
解析试题分析:这篇文章作者通过小时候女儿执意要买一双踢踏舞鞋的经历明白了一个道理,那就是不要在意别人怎么想,因为别人不知道你的感受。
【小题1】细节理解题。根据文中原句We went into a secondhand shop to get out of the rain.(我们走进了一个二手商店去避雨)可知此题答案是C。
【小题2】细节理解题。根据文中原句Why would you allow your daughter to wear tap dancing shoes here? They make such a noise.(为什么你会让你的女儿在这儿穿踢踏舞鞋?它们产生这么大的噪音。)可知此题答案是A。
【小题3】推理判断题。从文中描述来看作者看到女儿能走路倍感欣慰,所以听到“click”的声音也感到非常美妙,所以此题D的描述是正确的。
【小题4】语义猜测题。根据文中描述此句的意思是“他们不知道你的感受”,故选B。
【小题5】主题归纳题。这篇文章想告诉人们有时做事不必太在意别人所说的,故选B。
考点:人生百味类短文阅读
Will you be excited when you finally get to relax?
What will the Junior 3 students do to celebrate after the senior high school entrance exams in June? Here, three of them tell us what they plan to do after the big exam.
Li Junzhe, 15, Huaihua, Hunan:
My friends and I will travel to Beijing and the Shanghai Expo right after the exam.We planned to go by ourselves but were turned down by our parents.They said we were too young to travel alone.Actually I'm okay with it because I've already traveled by myself.
Zhu Hangian, 15, Dexing, Jiangxi:
What am I going to do this summer? Of course I'll go to see the Shanghai Expo! But before that, I will watch movies.Because of the big exam, I haven't seen any movies for a long time.I will watch whatever is in the cinema! As for the Expo, I can't wait to see the seeds in the UK Pavilion.
Dong Xu, 14, Dalian, Liaoning:
I will, no doubt, play computer games for days after the big exam.My mother never let me during the past few years.I can't imagine how exciting it will be now.Also my friends and I will go to see the Shanghai Expo.The first must-see on my list is the Liaoning Pavilion, our home pavilion.I'm curious (好奇的) about what we are showing to the world there.
根据短文内容,从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最恰当的答案。
【小题1】The underlined word "Pavilion." means _______ in Chinese.
A.场馆 | B.水族馆 | C.溜冰场 | D.台球馆 |
A.Dong Xu | B.Nobody |
C.Zhu Hangjian | D.Li Junzhe |
A.watch movies at home | B.play computer games |
C.see films in the cinema | D.go to Beijing with his friends |
A.they will go to see the Shanghai Expo | B.they all want to see movies |
C.they will play games for days | D.they will travel to Beijing |
A.A Plan To The Shanghai Expo | B.Summer fun ahead! |
C.A trip To Shanghai | D.The Big Exam |
One Friday Mrs. King asked her class to write a story after class. “Use your imagination!” she cried, “You can write your story about anything.” Kenny looked worried. “A story?” he thought, “What could I possible have to write about? I don’t know any stories.” The bell rang and all the kids went home.
The next day, Kenny sat at his desk at home, thinking and thinking. The warm sun was shining through the windows, making him drowsy. And soon he fell fast asleep. As he slept, Kenny began to dream about fantastic things.
First he dreamed that he was a world-famous doctor, saving whole cities and curing diseases. Then he dreamed that he was in a UFO. He was talking to strange but friendly space creatures. Then he dreamed that he had become as small as a mouse by a bad scientist. He had to find a way to stop the plot(阴谋)of the mad scientist!
Kenny dreamed wonderful and exciting things until his little brother woke him up. “What were you dreaming about?” he asked. Kenny told his brother the wonderful dreams. His brother enjoyed the stories. Suddenly, Kenny knew that he had his kinds of stories in his imagination.
【小题1】 What did the teacher ask the students to do as homework?
A.To act as a doctor | B.To read some stories |
C.To help family members | D.To write a story |
A.One | B.Two |
C.Three | D.Four |
A.A great doctor | B.A mad scientist |
C.A visitor on a spaceship | D.A good student |
A.unhappy | B.sleepy |
C.upset | D.awake |
A.A strange dream | B.Mrs. King’s class |
C.Writing a story with imagination | D.An evil scientist |
If you had a chance to prepare dinner for your mother, would you choose to make it right now or some day in the future? Watch the video Paradise (天堂) Dinner by Liu Xiaoyu, a junior at[Hebei Institute of Communications, and you will find a right answer.
Recently the six-minute film Paradise Dinner won a great success on the Internet. It told the story of a son who made a big lunch for his mother, but he can only send the dinner to paradise, because his mother has been dead.
"If you do not show your filial piety to your mother right now, you might never have the opportunity in the future, because your mother is growing older and older day by day-this is the main theme of my film, " said the 21-year-old Liu.
Liu conceived(构想) the story for Paradise Dinner over his 2010 summer vacation.
One day during that holiday, Liu found his parents were not young any more. " So I decided to write a story for Paradise Dinner to call for all people, especially young people, to show more filial piety to their parents," he said.
With the help of his teachers and his schoolmates, he found actors, Zhang who played the mother and Yuan Zhen who played the son. At last he finished the film.
Many Web users said they liked the film very much and most of them cried like Liu's parents when they watched it.
【小题1】 From the passage, we know Liu Xiaoyu _____.
A.made a big dinner for his mother |
B.made a short video on the Intemet |
C.has graduated from a university |
D.sent a dinner to paradise himself |
A.She didn't know the film. |
B.She didn't feel moved. |
C.She couldn't help crying when she saw the film. |
D.She acted the mother in the film. |
A.友善 | B.同情心 | C.仁慈心 | D.孝心 |
A.when Liu Xiaoyu wrote the story |
B.Liu Xiaoyu's parents were old |
C.why Liu Xiaoyu wrote the story |
D.why our parents should love their children |
A.encourage p.eople to care more about their parents |
B.introduce a short video |
C.think highly of the talent of Liu Xiaoyu |
D.show the kind heart of most people |
Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are decided to a certain degree by genes. However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.
Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself, each extra dollar makes less and less difference. Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier. But the link between money and happiness is complex. In the past half-century, the average income has sharply increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met, money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.
“Dollars buy status (social position), and status makes people feel better,” say some experts, which helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways, scientists or actors, for example, may happily accept relatively poorly-paid jobs.
In his research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desires, not just for money, but for friends, family, job, health, rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than those who felt a smaller gap. Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better than income alone. “The gap measures just blow away the measures of only income.”says Michalos.
Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so bad “Given all the problems of aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied?” asks Professor Laura Carstensen. In one survey, Carstensen interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotion questionnaire. She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people. Some scientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they’re more realistic about their time running out. Older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don’t.
“People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever,” she says. “A goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20.”
【小题1】Some actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs__________.
A.make them feel much better |
B.provide chances to make friends |
C.improve their social position |
D.satisfy their professional interests |
A.the gap between reality and desire is bigger |
B.they have a stronger desire for friendship |
C.the hope for good health is much greater |
D.their income is far below their expectation |
A.would like to have more goodbye kisses than young people |
B.are used to living a hard life because they are kind to others |
C.express their positive opinions just as some young people do |
D.find it easier to feel happy because they are more realistic |
A.increases gradually with age |
B.is controlled partly by desires |
C.has little to do with wealth |
D.is decided mostly by genes |
Years ago I worked at a factory in a small county. Every day I got up very early and often did much extra work at night. I was so tired and exhausted. My whole life was hopeless. Then one day I read the following article from a magazine:
"A woman went to live with her husband in camp on the Mojave Desert during the war. She simply hated the place: the heat was almost un-bearable, 125 degrees in the shade, the wind blew incessantly, and there was sand everywhere. Finally, in desperation (不顾一切地) she wrote her parents in Ohio that she couldn't stand it another minute and was coming home.
Quickly came the reply by airmail from her father——just two lines:
"Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw the mud, the other saw stars."
The daughter did some real thinking, not only with the intellect (思维) but also with her heart. She decided to stick to her post.
She made friends with the natives, learned to love the country, and eventually wrote a book about it.
The desert hadn't changed, but her attitude had. Because she listened with her heart to the words her father sent, a whole new world opened up to her.
A change of attitude could change everything.
After reading the article, I was deep in thought (陷入沉思)…
【小题1】At first, the woman the life with her husband in the desert.
A.could stand. | B.could accept. |
C.couldn’t stand. | D.couldn’t understand. |
A.look at the mud. | B.look at the stars. |
C.come home. | D.stay with her husband. |
A.a woman went to live with her husband in camp. |
B.the desert hadn't changed, but her attitude had. |
C.the daughter's parents wanted her to stay with her husband. |
D.a change of attitude could change everything. |
A.give up the tiring work. | B.go to the desert. |
C.write a letter to father. | D.go on the work. |
Droughts (干旱)are common in Kenya . Before ,they came every 10 years ,but now they seem to be hitting us more often and for a longer time .
We gave the droughts names :“longoza”was the drought when many animals died ; there was the drought of the “planes” because food was dropped from the air by planes; and one particularly bad drought was called “ man who dies with his money in his fist (拳头)”,because ,even if there was money , there was simply no food to buy .
I was born in 1951 in Machakos. From what my mother tells me , when I was 7, there was a serious drought . I clearly remember the terrible weather and the hunger. I can’t tell you how many times I went to bed without eating . “ I slept like that ,” is how we described it . I can’t count the number of days when “ I slept like that,” or describe the feeling of going to sleep hungry ,knowing I’d wake up and there would still be no food for breakfast.
My father would leave early in the morning carrying a little basket to ask for food on credit (赊欠). Each night he would return home around 10:00p.m. My mother would try to encourage me by telling me to keep the water in our pot boiling so that when my father arrived we could quickly cook any food he brought in the already prepared water . I would keep the fire burning and the water boiling , along with the hopes that we would eat that night. But my father would arrive frustrated and empty -handed. And I would sleep like that.
【小题1】The best title for the text is ________.
A.A Hungry Childhood Caused by Droughts |
B.Food and Hunger |
C.Protecting the Environment |
D.Droughts and Their Names |
A.Many animals needed food dropped by planes. |
B.People had to eat animals because of hunger. |
C.Many animals died because of the droughts. |
D.People died of hunger even if they had money. |
A.To wait for her father to come back to have supper. |
B.To cook the food that her father would bring back. |
C.To keep her house warm all night. |
D.To make her hungry mother happy. |
A.I was disappointed when my father came back empty-handed |
B.I felt sorry because my family got hungry again |
C.I went to sleep with no food for breakfast. |
D.I went to bed with nothing to eat |