题目内容
He offered ______ valuable advice that ______people disagreed
- A.such; a few
- B.such;few
- C.so; a few
- D.so;few
such是形容词，修饰名词，意思是如此的这样的；so是副词，修饰形容词，副词，意思是如此这样。a few表示一些，修饰可数名词；few表示几乎没有，表示否定含义。句意：他提供了如此有价值的建议，以至于很少有人不同意。valuable advice中心词是名词advice，故前一空用such，后面表示人很少，用few，故选B。
考点：词义辨析
As he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying.
He asked her what was wrong and she replied, “I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.”
The man smiled and said, “Come into the shop with me, and I’ll buy you a rose.”
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.” She brought him to a cemetery(墓地),where she placed the rose on the grave.
The man was moved. He returned to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered, and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house.
Today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.
【小题1】The man went to the shop to .
| A．have a rest | B．help the girl |
| C．buy some food | D．order some flowers |
| A．2 kilometers | B．75 miles | C．200 miles | D．200 kilometers |
| A．she was hungry | B．she got hurt |
| C．she couldn't afford a rose | D．she couldn’t find her way home |
| A．the cemetery | B．his shop |
| C．the girl’s home | D．his mother’s house |
| A．the girl loved flowers very much |
| B．the girl loved her mother very much |
| C．the shopkeeper sent the flowers to the man’s mother |
| D．the man drove to his mother’s house to look after her |
I was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance(保险业)company. I told him honestly why I wanted the job —I needed to keep my family in Boston. My wife recently died of a heart attack. A job in Boston would help me reduce some of the extreme trauma(精神创伤) and pain of the loss for my 16-year-old daughter. It was important for me to keep her in her present high school. I could still hardly talk about the loss of my wife. Bruce, the interviewer, was politely empathetic, but he didn’t probe(彻底调查) any further. He admitted (接受)my loss and, with great respect, moved on to another subject. After the next round of the interview, Bruce took me to lunch with another manager. Then he asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he, too, had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also been married 20 years and had three children. In his sharing, I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had —a pain that was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a beloved one. He offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, if I need help or just want someone to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call. Whether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I ever needed help. When he had no idea if we would ever see each other again, he helped our family deal with one of the greatest losses. He turned the normally cold business interview into a caring support for another person in need.
【小题1】The author took part in the interview because _______.
| A．he had lost his job and wanted to find a new one |
| B．he had to support his family in Boston |
| C．his wife had recently died of a heart attack |
| D．his daughter needed money for schooling |
| A．kind | B．easy-going | C．smart | D．understanding |
| A．Bruce invited the author to lunch later. |
| B．Bruce shared his life experience with the author. |
| C．Bruce was willing to help the author. |
| D．Bruce finally gave the job to the author. |
| A．Bruce and the author saw each other often |
| B．the author got little help from Bruce |
| C．the author learned much from the job interview |
| D．the author had a better life afterwards |
| A．An act of kindness |
| B．A pleasant interview |
| C．The same experience |
| D．An important lesson |
Reading B
Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed a boy ahead of him. He had tripped(绊倒) and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with some clothes, a baseball bat and a glove.
Mark knelt(跪) down and helped the boy pick up the things. Since they were going the same way, he offered to carry some things for the boy.
As they walked, Mark discovered the boy’s name was Bill. He loved video games, baseball and history, but he was having trouble with some of his subjects.
They arrived at Bill’s home first. Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed pleasantly with some laughs and talk. Then Mark went home.
They continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, then both graduated from junior school. Three days before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.
Three days before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.
Bill reminded Mark of the day years ago when they had first met. “Did you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill.
“You see, I took away all my things form school. I had stored away some of my mother’s sleeping pills. I was going home to kill myself. But after we spent some time talking and laughing, I realized that if I had died, I would have missed so many good times. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more. _____________.”
【小题1】When Bill fell down on his way home, Mark __________.
| A．didn’t notice that | B．went away quickly |
| C．helped him pick up the things | D．carried all the things for him |
| A．Mark was a warm-hearted boy. |
| B．Bill was good at all of his subjects. |
| C．Bill and Mark were in the same school. |
| D．Bill loved video games, baseball and history. |
| A．drink some Coke | B．watch TV |
| C．have a pleasant talk | D．play video games |
| A．wanted to tell him his story | B．wanted to kill himself again |
| C．hoped to have lunch together | D．hoped to go on holiday together |
| A．I should die. | B．You saved my life. |
| C．You did a good job. | D．You helped me a lot. |
C
“Everything happens for the best.” Whenever I faced disappointment, my mother would say this to me.
After I graduated form college in 1932, I decided to find a job in radio as a sports announcer(广播员). I went to Chicago and knocked at the door of every station. But unluckily, I was refused every time.
At one station, a kind lady told me that big stations wouldn’t hire(雇佣) a person without any experience and suggested that I try my luck at smaller stations. Following her advice, I went back to Dixon, where I had grown up. There were no such jobs in Dixon, and my father said a newly-opened store wanted a local athlete to work for it. I wanted this job, but I was refused again.
“Everything happens for the best,” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, I felt so frustrated. “How can I become a sports announcer if I can’t get a job in a radio station?” I asked aloud.
While I was waiting for the elevator, I heard someone calling. It was MacArthur. “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he asked me to have a try. He was pleased with my performance, and he offered me a chance to work there.
On my way home, I thought of my mother’s words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if without the failure before.”
【小题1】Why couldn’t the writer find a job at big radio stations?
| A．Because he never graduated from college. |
| B．Because he didn’t work hard in college. |
| C．Because he didn’t have much experience. |
| D．Because he didn’t know about sports. |
a. The writer got a job as a sports announcer at a radio station.
b. The writer was refused when he wanted jobs in Chicago.
c. The writer graduated from college.
d. The writer went back to his hometown to look for a job.
| A．cbda | B．cbad | C．bcda | D．bcad |
| A．The writer’s parents didn’t want him to be a sports announcer. |
| B．There were no radio announcer jobs in the writer’s hometown. |
| C．The writer became uninterested in being a sports announcer. |
| D．The writer got a job as a sports announcer in Dixon at last. |
| A．He shouldn’t be a sports announcer. |
| B．Disappointment leads to failure. |
| C．He should be proud of himself. |
| D．Everything will be OK if he keeps trying. |