题目内容
When Ron Clark began teaching in 1995, his teacher gave him this advice, “If you can 1 the life of one child, you’ll be a success.” Up to now, Ron still doesn’t agree with that advice. When Ron entered a class, he decided to change every student’s life for the better.
Ron never planned on being a teacher. After 2 , he travelled around the world, living a life 3 of adventures(冒险), but after getting terribly sick, he went back to his hometown, North Carolina. Then he got 4 again and taught at a school there. “From then on it was like magic — I fell in love with teaching.” said Ron. After five years of teaching, he heard that some schools in East Harlem, New York were failing because there were 6 good teachers. “At that moment I had a(n) 6— it was like a calling,” he said. “And so I said, ‘I’m going to do it.”
Before school started, Ron went to every single student’s home to 7 with their families. He gave his students his home phone number, so if they had any 8 with their homework, they could call him. To connect with his students, Ron knew he should use special 9 of teaching. He learned to play funny games with them, gave them 10 lessons, and spent his time showing students 11 New York’s tourist attractions. His students studied harder and behaved better in 12 .
Because of his 13 in North Carolina and Harlem, Ron Clark has become one of the most successful teachers in America. And his book called The Essential 55, more than 14 else, has become very popular in the world.
Sold in over 25 15 , The Essential 55 has encouraged teachers around the world to influence the lives of all of their students. Ron Clark is now starting a new school in Atlanta, Georgia — probably his biggest adventure!
1. A．live B．influence C．make D．choose
2. A．school B．work C．class D．college
3. A．filled B．fond C．proud D．full
4. A．terrible B．well C．sick D．pleased
5. A．some B．few C．many D．more
6. A．feeling B．idea C．view D．mind
7. A．play B．study C．deal D．meet
8. A．information B．advice C．task D．trouble
9. A．ways B．goals C．rules D．aims
10. A．friendly B．nicely C．lively D．lovely
11. A．across B．along C．around D．at
12. A．subject B．lesson C．return D．score
13. A．effects B．affects C．works D．efforts
14. A．anywhere B．anyone C．anything D．nothing
15. A．towns B．cities C．countries D．universities
1.B
2.D
3.D
4.B
5.B
6.A
7.D
8.D
9.A
10.C
11.C
12.C
13.D
14.C
15.C
【解析】
试题分析：这篇短文主要记述了美国一名著名的教师——Ron Clark，他对教学充满了热情，因为“老师”这份工作赐给他许多宝贵的机会让他得以改变学生的一生，这就是来自美国北卡罗来纳州的教师Ron Clark。他从自己多年的教学经验中总结出了55个细节，写成了《教育的55个细节》（TheEssential 55），与老师和同学们共勉。
1.动词辨析。A. 居住，生活；B. 影响，改变；C. 制作，使得；D. 选择。联系下文，可知此处指的是如果你能影响一个孩子的生活，你就是一个成功者。故选B。
2.名词辨析。A. 学校；B. 工作；C. 班级；D. 大学。结合语境可知此处指的是他大学毕业后，故选D。
3.结合语境可知此处指的是过着一种充满冒险的生活。Fill后一般搭配介词with，故选D，full of充满……。
4.联系上下文描述，可知此处指的是他又恢复健康，故选B，健康的。
5.联系前文描述，可知此处表示否定含义，故选B，因为好教师很少。
6.名词辨析。A. 感觉；B.思想，想法；C.视野，意见；D. 理智，意见；联系下文描述，可知此处指的是 我有一种感觉，故选A，感觉。
7.联系下文with their families.可知此处指的是和他们的家人见面，故选D，会见。
8.名词辨析。A.信息，资料；B. 建议，忠告；C.工作，业务；D. 麻烦，烦恼。结合语境可知此处指的是如果他们有任何关于作业的烦恼，故选D。
9.名词辨析。A.道路，方法；B. 目标，目的；C.规则，条例；D.目的，目标。结合语境可知此处指的是他应该用特殊的教学方法。故选A。
10.形容词辨析。A. 友好的；B.副词，漂亮地；C.生动的；D. 可爱的。结合语境可知此处指的是给他们上生动的课堂，故选C。
11.介词辨析。A. 在……对面；B.沿着；C.四处，在……周围；D.在一点。联系下文，可知此处指的是在纽约的旅游景点四周。故选C。
12.联系前文描述，可知此处指的是作为回报，他的学生努力学习并且表现的更好。故选C。
13.结合语境可知此处指的是由于他的努力，他成为了美国最成功的老师之一。结合语境可知选D。
14.词义辨析。A. 任何地方；B. 任何人；C. 任何事；D. 什么也没有。联系前文，可知此处指的是其它任何事，故选C，
15.联系下文around the world to influence the lives of all of their students.描述，可知此处指的是在超过25个国家进行销售，故选C，国家。
考点：个人传记类记述文
点评：这篇短文内容比较简单，理解不难。各小题与上下文联系比较紧密，答题中一定要注意联系上下文。答完后多读几遍，看看是否符合逻辑，适当修改。个别小题可以当作单独的词义辨析题来做，先区分词义，结合语境选出最能使语句通顺的答案。
Ron loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the following year. As Ron was walking to the game, a car hit him so hard that he was thrown three feet into the air.
Ron woke up in a hospital room. When he learned that both his legs were broken, he realized his college basketball dreams were over. Ron did what the doctors told him, but his progress was slow. When he left the hospital, Ron was sent to a health center for physical treatment.
A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny. Sunny was a coach．His legs were hurt paralysed(瘫痪的) from a skiing accident. Even though he couldn’t move his legs, Sunny coached of a basketball team called the Suns. Everybody on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited Tony to join the game. Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself．
After becoming a part of the Suns, Ron improved quickly. Basketball was like medicine for him. And whenever Ron became depressed or angry, Sunny was there to encourage and help him. The day before Ron left the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he managed to be generous and cheerful, even with his paralysis.
Sunny smiled and said, “It’s really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadows(阴影) fall behind.”
【小题1】What happened to Ron on his way to a basketball game?
| A．A car hit him. | B．He met his coach. |
| C．His doctor called him. | D．He fell down and cut his foot. |
| A．懒惰的 | B．好奇的 | C．沮丧的 | D．激动的 |
| A．Basketball can teach people about life. |
| B．Keep smiling when you face difficulties. |
| C．Life is more difficult for the paralysed. |
| D．Skiing is more dangerous than basketball. |
BEING an astronaut sounds cool, doesn't it? In space, they get to do some pretty amazing things, like floating in zero gravity(重力).
However, there are also plenty of things that astronauts can't do because of their weightless environment, and that's very sad. What's worse, they can't even let their sadness show, because it's impossible to cry in zero gravity.
Of course, astronauts can still produce tears. But crying is much more difficult in space, according to The Atlantic(大西洋月刊) in January. Without gravity, tears don't flow(流动) down out of the eyes like they do here on Earth. This means that when you cry in space, your tears have nowhere to go-they just stick(粘) to your eyes.
In May 2011, astronaut Andrew Feustel experienced this during one of his spacewalks. "Tears," he said, "don't fall off of your eyes...They just kind of stay there."
Besides making your vision(视线)unclear, this can also cause physical pain. Back on Earth, tears are supposed to bring comfort to the eyes. But that's not the case in space. The space environment dries out astronauts' eyes, and when tears suddenly wet the eyes, it can cause pain rather than comfort. "My right eye is stinging(刺痛) like crazy," Feustel told his teammate during the walk.
Since gravity doesn't work in space, astronauts need some extra help to get rid of（除去） the tears. Feustel chose to rub his eyes against his helmet to wipe(擦) the tears away. Another choice is to just wait-"When the tears get big enough they simply break free of the eyes and float around," astronaut Ron Parise told The Atlantic.
There are lots of small things-things like crying-that we are so used to on Earth. We usually take them for granted until they become a problem in a totally different environment, like space. There, astronauts can't talk to each other directly. They also can't eat or drink in normal ways. They can't even burp (打嗝), because there is no gravity to hold the food down in their stomach. If they do burp, they just end up throwing up（呕吐）everything in their stomach, according to the UK National Space Center.
Therefore, perhaps it's only space explorers who can honestly say: "Gravity, you're the best."
【小题1】From Paragraphs 2 and 3 , we can know that_______.
| A．astronauts are unable to feel sad in space |
| B．astronauts produce fewer tears in space |
| C．tears produced in space flow down more slowly |
| D．tears produced in space don't flow downward |
| A．They cause physical pain. |
| B．They bring comfort to them. |
| C．They make their vision clearer. |
| D．They float around and cause trouble. |
| A．find them important |
| B．consider them useless |
| C．need them during an emergency |
| D．fail to notice their presence(存在) |
| A．suggestions of how astronauts can stay comfortable in space |
| B．other basic things that are difficult to do in space |
| C．why burping is impossible in space |
| D．things human can't do without gravity |