题目内容
When the child saw a big dog, he was too ________(frighten)to move.
All the wisdom of the times, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us in books, but we must know how to make use of this treasure. The unluckiest people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
I’m very interested in people and finding out about them. Some of the most amazing people I’ve met could only be found in a writer’s imagination, then in his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends and new worlds.
Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the writer’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate(分开的), in some way they are connected with each other. The same ideas, or related(相关的) ones, appear in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in books, but with different solutions(解决方法) according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other. They connect the past, the present and the future and have their own generations (age groups), like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the end, you not only find out about the world and the people in it, you find out about yourself, too.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on(专注于) books somebody tells you “ought” to read, you probably won’ t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time — and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t suffer during the process.
1.Which of the following ideas may the writer of this article agree with?
A.You will never meet amazing people in your life unless you read.
B.You think actively instead of getting facts passively(被动地)when reading.
C.You will get much delight from any book that you are told to read.
D.You can relax yourself by reading because it involves little thinking.
2.What can we learn from Paragraph 4?
A.We can often find something connected with ourselves in books.
B.Different writings at different times share the same characteristics.
C.The same problems will appear in different books with similar solutions.
D.Reading books which are written for your generation is more helpful to you.
3.What’s the writer’s purpose of writing this article?
A.To advise us to enjoy ourselves by reading.
B.To encourage us to make full use of libraries.
C.To encourage us to find out solutions in books.
D.To advise us to discuss books with other people.
A little girl walked to and from school every day. Though it was not fine and clouds appeared in the sky that morning, the little girl made her daily trip to school as usual. When school was over, winds became stronger and it began to rain.
The mother of the little girl felt worried that her daughter would be afraid when she walked home from school and that lightning might frighten her child. Following the bright light of lightning, the mother quickly got into her car and drove to her child’s school.
As the mother drove along the road, she saw her little girl walking alone in the rain. To her great surprise, she found that when a lightning came, her daughter stopped, looked up and smiled. Another lightning came and then another followed. With each lightning, the little girl stopped, looked up and smiled.
Inside the car, the mother asked her daughter, “What were you doing? Why did you look up and smile when the lightning came?” The little girl answered with a smile, “Mum, you know, God was looking at me. Each time I felt a little afraid walking in the rain, God would take a picture of me. I knew he was playing a game with me.”
1.How did the little girl go to school every day?
A.By car. B.On foot.
C.By bus. D.By bike.
2.What was the weather like that day?
A.It was rainy. B.It was fine.
C.It was just windy. D.It was only cloudy.
3.At first, the mother felt worried because .
A.she couldn’t help her daughter
B.her daughter hadn’t taken her umbrella
C.she had something more important to do
D.her daughter might be afraid of the lightning
4.According to the article, we can know that the little girl was .
A.proud B.shy C.brave D.nervous
5.This passage is possibly from .
A.a menu B.a magazine C.a dictionary D.a report
On Thanksgiving Day, a teacher asked her class of firstgraders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought that these children from poor families actually had little to be thankful for. And she found most of them drawing pictures of flowers or tables with food. The teacher was very surprised to see the picture Douglas handed in. It's a hand,a simple hand.
But whose hand? The class were very interested in the strange picture. "I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food," said one child, "A farmer’s," said another, "Because he grows beautiful flowers. " Finally when the others were at work ,the teacher went over to Douglas' desk and asked whose hand it was. "It's your hand, Teacher," he said quietly and shyly.
She remembered that she had often taken Douglas, a dirty lonely child, by the hand while having a class break. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this is everyone's thanksgiving,not for the material things we get,but for the chance,in whatever small way, to give to others.
1.When did the story happen?
A.On Christmas Day. B.On Teachers' Day. C.On Mother's Day. D.On Thanksgiving Day.
2.why did Douglas draw a simple hand?
A.He was good at drawing it.
B.His teacher asked him to draw it.
C.He wanted to show his thanks to his teacher
D.He hoped to get his teacher’s praise.
3.What do you learn about Douglas from the passage?
A.He liked drawing hands
B.He was very active in class.
C.He always kept his hand clean
D.His family was not rich.
4.According to the passage, which of the following is an opinion,but not a fact?
A.The teacher went over to Douglas' desk and talked to him.
B.Different people show their thanksgiving in different ways.
C.The teacher often took Douglas by the hand after class while having a class break.
D.Most of the students were drawing the pictures of flowers or tables with food.
5.We can infer from the passage that Douglas is a ____boy.
A.shy B.foolish C.clever D.kind-hearted
A young American doctor was sleeping when suddenly his doorbell began to ring. It was already midnight. But what could the doctor do? He had to put on his coat and go downstairs.
When he opened the door, he saw a man standing with his hat in his hand. “How do you do, sir?” said the man. “Can you come at once to a place out of town? It’s quite far but you have a car and I can show you the way.”
“Certainly,” said the doctor, “I’m quite ready. I can come at once.” In a few minutes the car was standing at the front door, and the man got on the doctor’s car. They drove on for a long time, then the man said, ”Here we are. This is my home. Now I can pay you and you can go back to town.”
“But I must see the patient,” the doctor said, “How can I go back without seeing the patient? Where is the patient?”
“There is no patient,” explained the man, “Nobody is ill. I live here. You see, one must go home from a town, mustn’t he? There are no taxis at this time of the night, but a doctor often makes night calls, so excuse me. Here is your money. Thank you, doctor. Good night.”
1.When the doorbell began to ring, the doctor_________.
A.was sleeping downstairs B.was working downstairs
C.was sleeping upstairs D.was working upstairs
2.The man asked the doctor ________.
A.to go to his house B.to go downstairs
C.to see a patient D.to go to a place out of town
3.They left ________.
A.at once B.after a few minutes C.on foot D.on a bike
4.What the man wanted to do was only _________.
A.to fool the doctor B.to give the doctor money
C.to get home in the doctor’s car D.to play a joke with the doctor
5.The doctor must be _________ at last.
A.happy B.sad C.angry D.ill
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Peter’s job was to examine cars when they crossed the frontier(国境) to make sure that they were not smuggling(走私) anything into the country. Every evening he would see a factory worker coming 1 the hill towards the frontier, pushing a bike with a pile of goods(货物) of old straw on it. When the bike 2 the frontier, Peter would stop the man and 3 him take the straw off and untie(解开) it. Then he would examine the straw very 4 to see 5 he could find anything, then he would look in all the man’s pockets 6 he let him tie the straw again. The man would then put it on his bike and go off down the hill with it. Although Peter was always 7 to find gold or other valuable things hidden in the straw, he never found anything. He was sure the man was 8 something, but he was not 9 to think out what it could be.
Then one evening, after he had looked through the straw and emptied the worker’s pockets 10 usual, he 11 to him, “Listen, I know you are smuggling things 12 this frontier. Won’t you tell me what it is? I’m an old man, and today is my 13 day on the job. Tomorrow I’m going to retire(退休). I promise I shall not tell 14 if you tell me what you’ve been smuggling.” The worker did not say anything for 15 . Then he smiled, turned to Peter and said quietly, “Bikes.”
1. A.towards B.down C.to D.up
2. A.arrived B.appeared C.came D.reached
3. A.ask B.order C.make D.call
4. A.carefully B.quickly C.silently D.horribly
5. A.that B.where C.how D.if
6. A.before B.after C.first D.so
7. A.lucky B.hoping C.thinking D.wondering
8. A.taking B.smuggling C.stealing D.pushing
9. A.possible B.strong C.able D.clever
10. A.like B.more C.then D.as
11. A.told B.cried C.ordered D.said
12. A.cross B.past C.across D.into
13. A.last B.first C.newest D.second
14. A.everyone B.anyone C.no one D.someone
15. A.moment B.long time C.sometime D.some time