题目内容
--- Does Mary like rock music?
--- ___________________. Every time I play my rock CD, she would ask me to turn it off
- A.I'm not sure
- B.I'm afraid so
- C.I don't think so
- D.I'd love to
考查情景交际。句意：---Mary喜欢摇滚音乐吗？----我不怎么认为。每次我播放摇滚光盘，她都会要求我关掉。故选C。
For years I wanted a garden. I’d spend hours thinking of different things I could plant that would look nice together.
But then we had Matthew, and Marvin, and the twins Alisa and Alan, and then Helen. I was too busy raising them to grow a garden.
Money was not enough. Neither was time. Often when my children were little,one of them would want something that cost too much, and I’d have to say, “Do you see a money tree outside? Money doesn't grow on trees, you know.”
Finally, all the children got through high school and college and were off on their own. I started thinking again about a garden.
Then, one spring morning, on Mother’s Day, I was working in my kitchen. Suddenly, I looked out of the window and there was a new tree, planted right in my yard. There were things blowing around on it. Then I put my glasses on—and I couldn’t believe what I saw.
There was a money tree in my yard!
I went outside to look. It was true! There were dollar bills*, one hundred of them, hanging all over that tree. There was also a note among them, “Thank you for your time, Mom. We love you!”
Later, my children bought me tools, ornaments, a sunflower stepping stone and gardening books. A new page started in my life.
That was three years ago. My garden’s now very pretty, just like I wanted. When I go out and take care of my flowers, I don’t seem to miss my children as much as I once did. It feels like they’re right there with me. Now every year when winter comes, I look out of my window and think of the flowers I’ll see next spring in my little garden. I think about what my children did for me, and I get tears in my eyes—every time.
I’m still not sure that money grows on trees. But I know love does!
【小题1】How many children did the writer have?
| A．Three | B．Four | C．Five | D．Six |
| A．She was too busy to plant a money tree at that time. |
| B．She had to save money so that she could have a garden. |
| C．It wasn’t easy for her to make money to raise all the children. |
| D．They didn’t have much money because the mother lost her job. |
| A．before her children were born |
| B．one spring morning when the children were little |
| C．after the children went to school |
| D．on a Mother’s Day after the children left her |
| A．their mother needed money badly |
| B．they wanted to show their love to their mother |
| C．it was time for them to give the money back to her |
| D．they wanted to live together with their mother forever |
Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.
Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.
"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."
【小题1】What did Nathan put on his desk at college?
| A．The Statue of Liberty. | B．Superman. |
| C．His serf-portrait. | D．A Greenwich Village modal. |
| A．Because he made little money out of a lawyer. |
| B．Because he wanted to make toys for the children. |
| C．Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks. |
| D．Because he was going to work in the museum instead. |
| A．Nathan's work. | B．Nathan's exhibition. |
| C．Nathan's art. | D．Nathan's self-portrait |
| A．The Brick Artist | B．The Brick Exhibition |
| C．Toy Bricks for Adults | D．The Artist's Childhood |
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In the United States, children start school when they are five years old. In some states they must stay in school 61 they are sixteen. Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they 62 high school. There are two 63 of school in the United States: public school and private school. Most children go to public schools. Their parents do not have to pay 64 their education because the schools receive money from the government. If a child 65 to a private（私立的） school, his parents 66 to pay enough money for his schooling. Some parents still choose private schools, though they are much more 67 .
?Today about half of the high school 68 go to universities after they finish the high school. A student at a state university does not have to pay too m 69 if his parents live in this state.
?But many students work while they are studying at universities. In this way they can have good working habits and live by 70 own habits .