题目内容
Last week, the manager of an old jeweler's shop received a letter marked "personal". As he was very busy, the letter lay on his desk till teatime. When he opened it, a $100 note fell. out onto his desk. With the note was a short letter. This is what it said:
Dear sir,
I got engaged (订婚的) forty years ago. Unfortunately at that time there was a lot of unemployment and I lost my job. I was out of work for about six months before I got another one. Of course I was very short of money.
I came to your shop to buy a wedding ring one day. The assistant brought some rings for me to have a look, later she was called away, and then I put one of the rings into my pocket. When she came back, I said I did not know the size of my girlfriend's finger. 
So I left the shop without paying for the ring. My wife died a month ago, and the fact that I never paid for her ring has been on my conscience
(让我良心不安) all these years. I always feel guilty about that. At that time the ring cost $ 20, and I think that is about five times- $100 at today's price. Now I am sending you that amount.
Yours truly,
A customer
After reading the letter, the manager said, "Well, well, well, life is full of surprise!"
【小题1】The ring that the customer put into his pocket was_______ at that time.
| A．$20 | B．$50 | C．$100 | D．$400 |
| A．辞职 | B．就业 | C．悲伤 | D．失业 |
| A．A week. | B．A month. | C．A year. | D．Two months. |
| A．The manager opened the letter by himself. |
| B．The manager thought life was full of surprise. |
| C．When the customer's wife knew the fact, she was impatient. |
| D．The customer always feels sad for not paying for the ring years ago. |
【小题1】A
【小题2】D
【小题3】B
【小题4】C
解析试题分析：短文大意：一位顾客在四十年前订婚时，因失业缺钱，在一家珠宝店给女朋友拿了一枚戒指而没有付钱。他的妻子一个月前去世了，而事实上所有的这些年他一直在为没有付戒指款而感到内疚，所以他给珠宝店的经理写了一封信并且寄去原戒指款的五倍作为补偿，珠宝店经理读后大为感叹“好的，好的，好的，生活中充满了惊喜！”
【小题1】细节理解题。根据At that time the ring cost $ 20, and I think that is about five times- $100 at
today's price（在那时间戒指20美元，我认为这约是今天价格的五倍，达100美元）可知选.A。
【小题2】词义猜测题。根据and I lost my job.（我失去了我的工作）可知unemployment 的意思是失业，所以选D。
【小题3】细节理解题。根据My wife died a month ago （我的妻子一个月前去世了）可知选B。
【小题4】细节理解题。读短文可知经理自己打开信，读后说生活中充满了惊喜。客户总是为几年前没付戒指钱而感到不安，所以选C。
考点：人生百味类阅读。
导学全程练创优训练系列答案One windy spring day, I noticed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Colorful creations of different shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds flying and dancing. As the strong winds blew against the kites, a string kept them in control.
Instead of blowing away with the wind, they rose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining (控制的) string and the cumbersome (笨重的) tail kept them in control, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They rose beautifully even when they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose(松散的). “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”
Yet freedom(自由) simply put it in the control of an unkind wind. It fell down to the ground and landed in a mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last”, free to lie powerlessly in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to stop lifelessly against the first obstacle (障碍物).
How much like kites we sometimes are. The Heaven gives us adversity (逆境) and rules, rules to follow from which we can grow and get strength. Some of us break away from the rules so hard that we never reach the heights we might get to. We keep part of the rules and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.
Let us each rise to the great heights, knowing that some of the rules that we may be angry about are in fact the strong force that helps us achieve.
【小题1】Why does the writer write the first paragraph?
| A．Because it was the first time that he had seen young people flying kites. |
| B．Because he wants to share his feelings in nature with the readers. |
| C．Because he wants to tell the readers how to make beautiful kites. |
| D．Because he wants to use readers’ similar life experience to understand the article better. |
| A．anyone who wants no restraints is sure to be a sad end |
| B．what a pity it is that one kite flew down to the ground |
| C．man with freedom can’t be like that kite which fell down |
| D．the unkind wind is the cause of the fallen kite’s failure |
| A．束缚 | B．放纵 | C．摇摆 | D．牵引 |
| A．without restrictions and rules we can make endless progress |
| B．kites are good examples to those who want to get freedom |
| C．restrictions are necessary for us human beings |
| D．we don’t need any freedom at all |
We all have dreams. Do you still remember your dream when you were still a middle school student. As teenagers, you may have many dreams. Maybe you wanted to be a scientist, a teacher or a doctor. These dreams can be very big, such as winning a Nobel Prize, or very small. You may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.
If you have a dream, what do you do with it? Do you try to make your dream come true? Andrew Matthews wrote a book called Follow Your Heart. It tells us it’s the biggest challenge(挑战) to make our dreams come true.
There will be many difficulties on the road to your dreams. But you must never give up your dream. Because the biggest difficulty comes from you yourself.
Everyone can make his/her dream come true. The first thing to do is to remember your dream. Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want and keep working hard. Do this step by step and your dream will come true one day.
【小题1】Follow Your Heart is the name of .
| A．Andrew Matthews | B．a book about hearts |
| C．a book by Andrew Matthews | D．a dream |
| A．To be a man like Nobel. |
| B．To win a Nobel Prize. |
| C．To be the best student in the class. |
| D．To be a scientist. |
| A．the book | B．your school | C．your dream | D．you yourself |
| A．Different people have the same dream. |
| B．If you keep on, you can make your dream come true. |
| C．There are few difficulties on the road to everyone's dream. |
| D．When you give up your dream, it will come true soon. |
Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? 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’ll 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（避免）. I think failure 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 to do. As a popular saying goes , “ Failure is the mother of success .”
Attitude decides everything . With an optimistic(乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant . Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us .
【小题1】People sometimes complain____________.
| A．the sky is always dark | B．their studies are successful |
| C．they see the world with their heart | D．life is tiring |
| A．the students don’t like their lessons |
| B．the teacher will be happy if the students do the good jobs |
| C．the teachers don’t like their teaching |
| D．the teachers are tired of their work |
| A．you want to go out | B．you can listen to a concert |
| C．crops in the fields will grow better | D．farmers can’t have a good harvest |
| A．We must be confident in ourselves . | B．We shouldn’t be afraid of it . |
| C．We shouldn’t give up hope . | D．All of the avbove . |
| A．Smile and the World Smiles to You | B．Complaining about life |
| C．Failure is the Mother of Success | D．It is Very Hard to Success |
Millions of young people are writing blogs. Millions of others are reading them. The word“blog”is a short way of saying Web log.
Many popular Web sites now offer free，easy ways to create personal Web pages and fill them with writings and pictures. Web sites called “ Facebook ” and “MySpace” are some of the most popular blog sites for young people. Many young adults use their blogs to write about daily activities and events in their lives. They also provide a place for people to write their ideas and opinions and how they think of others’ ideas.
Blogs offer young people a place to show their writings and feelings. They can also be helpful to connect young people with others. But blogs can become dangerous when they are read on the Internet by millions of people all over the world.
Recent studies show that young people often provide their names, age and where they live on the Internet. That may not be safe for them. This personal information puts them at risk(风险)of being searched out by dangerous people who want to hurt them. Many students do not know about privacy(隐私)and are surprised to learn that adults can read their personal daily records easily. Students can also get into trouble when they put information about others on their blogs.
As a result, many schools have banned (禁止) the use of blogging Web sites on school computers. Many schools have also begun teaching parents about the Web sites. Parents should know what their children are doing online and should read their blogs to make sure they are not giving out private information. One way to keep away from these problems is to use programs so that blogs can be read by “friends only”. People can read the website only if they know a secret word chosen by the blogger.
【小题1】“Facebook”and“MySpace”are .
| A．school subjects | B．computer programmes |
| C．school online BBS | D．blog sites for young people |
| A．they get in the way of studies |
| B．they are not allowed for school students |
| C．surfing the Internet is bad for eyes |
| D．personal information can be found in blogs easily |
| A．the safety of children’s blogs |
| B．how to search the Internet |
| C．students’ behavior at school |
| D．communicating with parents at home |
| A．teaching parents about the Web sites |
| B．asking students to use programs to refuse strangers |
| C．telling school students not to make any net friends |
| D．stopping students from blogging on school computers |
| A．you write your blog at school |
| B．use a secret number for friends to enter your blog |
| C．your parents have little knowledge about websites |
| D．you show all your writings and feelings in your blog |
Dear Addie,
Greetings from New Jersey, how is New Zealand? I’m very excited to have you as my pen pal. I guess it’s my turn to tell you about myself.
First off, I live with my parents, two sisters, and our pet dog Brighty. Our town is called Whippangong. It is only about a half-hour away from New York City. My oldest sister, Ingrid, just turned 17, that means she now has a drive’s license. She drives us to the mall. Do you have a mall near you in Te Awamutu? My other sister is 11 and her name is Lucy. I guess I would say that she is my best friend. We still fight, though. She rides horses and takes lessons every Saturday morning. I have to go with her sometimes, and that is truly the most boring thing in the world. Do you like horses?
I take tap dancing classes. I like to practice in the food store. The sound of my feet stepping on the hard floors echoes(发出回声). I play scores in the fall; I’m on the swim team during the summer. I like swim, but I am really looking forward to diving this year. Next year I will start music lessons in school. I think I am going to play the piano.
Our house has eight rooms and a small backyard where every year we try to grow vegetables. We mostly get zucchini because the rabbits eat everything else. I guess rabbits don’t like zucchini. I have a bike and mum allows me to ride up and down our street, but nowhere else. I hope that I will get to ride it to school someday. Right now I ride the crowed and yucky bus.
Well, that is enough about me for now. I look forward to hearing from you again soon. I hope your surfing lessons went well. And I hope your mum does let you learn to play the drums.
Write soon
Love,
Jessica
【小题1】 In this letter, Jessica doesn’t talk about .
| A．her family numbers | B．her spare time |
| C．her house | D．her ambition |
| A．跌倒 | B．降落 | C．秋天 | D．瀑布 |
A. different B. fool
C.exciting D.frightening
【小题4】 Zucchini is likely to be a kind of .
| A．animals | B．vegetable |
| C．flower | D．fruit |
A. Jessica likes Lucy very much but they don’t always get along.
B. People below 18 can’t get driving licenses in New Jersey
C. Jessica usually goes to school by bike, but sometimes by bus.
D. Ingrid gets to take riding lessons and JessicA、wishes she could, too.
【小题6】 What might be Addie’s problem?
| A．She can’t take surfing lessons. |
| B．She wants to play the drums. |
| C．There are no malls near her house. |
| D．She has no family. |