题目内容
As he looked down, he found his bag ____.
A.lose B. missing C. losing D. being lost
B
Jimmy is an automotive mechanic, but he lost his job a few months ago. He has a good heart, but always feared applying for a new job.
One day, he gathered up all his strength and decided to attend a job interview. His appointment was at 10 am and it was already 8:30. While waiting for a bus to the office where he was supposed to be interviewed, he saw an elderly man wildly kicking the tyre of his car. Obviously there was something wrong with the car. Jimmy immediately went up to lend him a hand. When Jimmy finished working on the car, the old man asked him how much he should pay for the service. Jimmy said there was no need to pay him; he just helped someone in need, and he had to rush for an interview. Then the old man said, “Well, I could take you to the office for your interview. It’s the least I could do. Please, I insist.” Jimmy agreed.
Upon arrival, Jimmy found a long line of applicants waiting to be interviewed. Jimmy still had some grease on him after the car repair, but he did not have much time to wash it off or have a change of shirt. One by one, the applicants left the interviewer’s office with disappointed look on their faces. Finally his name was called. The interviewer was sitting on a large chair facing the office window. Rocking the chair back and forth, he asked, “Do you really need to be interviewed?” Jimmy’s heart sank. “With the way I look now, how could I possibly pass this interview?” he thought to himself.
Then the interviewer turned the chair and to Jimmy’s surprise, it was the old man he helped earlier in the morning. It turned out he was the General Manager of the company.
“Sorry I had to keep you waiting, but I was pretty sure I made the right decision to have you as part of our workforce before you even stepped into the office. I just know you’d be a trustworthy worker. Congratulations!” Jimmy sat down and they shared a cup of well-deserved coffee as he landed himself a new job.
1. Why did Jimmy apply for a new job?
A.He was out of work B.He was bored with his job
C.He wanted a higher position D.He hoped to find a better boss
2.What did Jimmy see on the way to the interview?
A.A friend’s car had a flat tyre B.a wild man was pushing a car
C.a terrible accident happened D.an old man’s car broke down
3.Why did the old man offer Jimmy a ride?
A.He was also to be interviewed B.He needed a traveling companion
C.He always helped people in need D.He was thankful to Jimmy
4.How did Jimmy feel on hearing the interviewer’s question?
A.He was sorry for the other applicants
B.There was no hope for him to get the job
C.He regretted helping the old man
D.The interviewer was very rude
5.What can we learn from Jimmy’s experience?
A.Where there is a will, there’s a way
B.A friend in need is a friend indeed
C.Good is rewarded with good.
D.Two heads are better than one
When I was 11, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings(缺点). Week by week her list grew: I was very thin, I wasn’t a good student, I talked too much, I was too proud, and so on. I tried to hear all this as long as I could. In the end, I became so angry that I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.
He listened to me quietly, then he asked. “Are the things she says true or not? Janet, didn’t you ever wonder what you’re really like? Well, you now have that girl’s opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.” I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (like being very thin), but a good number I could—and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I go to fairly clear picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Dad. He refused to take it.” That’s just for you,” he said.
“You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt. When something said about you is true, you’ll find it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don’t shut your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.”
Daddy’s advice has returned to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice.
1.What did the father do after he had heard his daughter’s complaint?
A.He told her not to pay any attention to what her” enemy” had said.
B.He criticized (批评) her and told her to overcome her shortcomings.
C.He told her to write down all that her” enemy” had said about her and pay attention only to the things that were true.
D.He refused to take the list and have a look at it.
2.What does “Week by week her list grew” mean?
A.Week by week, my shortcomings grew more serious.
B.She had made a list of my shortcomings and she kept on adding new ones to it so that it was growing longer and longer.
C.I was having more and more shortcomings as time went on.
D.Week by week she discovered more shortcomings of mine and pointed them out to me.
3.Why did her father listen to her quietly?
A.Because he wasn’t quite sure which girl was telling the truth.
B.Because he had been so angry with his daughter’s shortcomings that he wanted to show this by keeping silent for a while.
C.Because he knew that his daughter would not listen to him at that moment.
D.Because he believed that what her daughter’s “enemy” said was mostly true.
4.Which do you think would be the best title for this passage?
A.The Best Advice I’ve Ever Had
B.Not an Enemy,but the Best Friend
C.My Father
D.My Childhood
One winter term during college, I took a history class to fulfill a requirement.
The professor was a 1 fellow with red hair. He would walk shyly into the room wearing his hooded (带帽的) winter coat, once not even 2 the hood during the lecture. He was terribly nervous in class and lowered his head 3 looking up through his glasses at his students.
So I 4 a little game for myself. I would try to find something in his lecture to ask him an intelligent question about, 5 me to pay attention rather than letting my eyes close. He was obviously 6 to have a question to answer. In fact, his answers were always interesting.
I continued to do this every day of the course and found myself actually enjoying the subject. The professor seemed to become a bit more 7 and some of the other students even 8 from time to time. My little game had saved me from being bored, as it was 9 to do. And, I learned quite a bit about ancient world history. Except for all of his strange __10 , he was indeed quite an expert in his field.
On the last day of his class, we gathered our 11 and headed out the door. The shy, red-haired professor 12 directly in front of me, with obvious efforts, as I reached the door, and put out his hand. He said, “I want to thank you for making this class so interesting.” As he shook my hand and 13 for the first time, I was so surprised. To me, it had been a pleasant way to 14 the time. I had no idea that all of my question asking had any 15 on him or the others at all.
Each of us, through the things we say and do, can have a great effect not just on our own experiences, but those of others.
1. A.strange B.patient C.popular D.proud
2. A.cleaning B.noticing C.removing D.wearing
3. A.hardly B.simply C.absolutely D.quickly
4. A.played B.continued C.created D.bought
5. A.reminding B.forcing C.allowing D.telling
6. A.angry B.surprised C.sad D.pleased
7. A.relaxed B.traditional C.reasonable D.concerned
8. A.gave up B.fell behind C.look back D.joined in
9. A.designed B.permitted C.challenged D.forbidden
10. A.explanation B.appearance C.secret D.hobby
11. A.collection B.friends C.game D.books
12. A.waited B.apologized C.greeted D.stepped
13. A.regretted B.smiled C.cried D.required
14. A.pass B.save C.fix D.waste
15. A.guidance B.result C.mercy D.effect
An old farmer lived on a farm with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early to read his Bhagavat Geeta. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.
One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! I try to read the Bhagavat Geeta just like you but I don't understand it, What good does reading the Bhagavat Geeta do?"
The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water."
The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out (漏出) before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, "You'll have to move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the same took place. He told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water with a basket.
The old man said, " You're just not trying hard enough," So the boy again dipped the basket into the river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. he said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!"
"So you think it is useless?" The old man said, "Look at the basket."
The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket into a clean one inside and outside.
"You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and out. That is the work of Krishna in our lives."
1.We can learn from Paragraph 1 that the grandson_________.
A.was fond of reading
B.liked his grandpa very much
C.got up early to carry water every day
D.helped his grandpa on the farm
2.According to the grandson,___________.
A.he enjoyed reading the Bhagavat Geeta
B.learning the Bhagavat Geeta was easy
C.he was not good at remembering anything
D.reading the Bhagavat Geeta was meaningless
3.We can learn that by getting water with a basket, the grandson__________.
A.washed the dirt off the basket
B.kept some water for the future
C.was punished for what he had said
D.became stronger and cleverer
4.The grandfather gave his grandson a lesson by_________.
A.telling him an interesting story
B.having a heated discussion with him
C.asking him to carry water with a basket
D.performing an experiment for him
5.What would the grandson like to do in the future?
A.To help his grandpa carry water
B.To hold water with a bucket
C.To read the Bhagavat Geeta.
D.To remember everything in his life.
Bad temper
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper,he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.__51___Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the munber of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled(缩小)down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
___52___He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now
pulled out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.___53___And the boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
__54___ He said:”You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence.The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one.___55__ It won’t matter how many times you say I ‘m sorry the wound is still there.A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one”.
A. The first day , the boy had driven 37miles into the fence.
B. The boy cried.
C. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.
D. Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all.
E. The father took his son by the hand and led him to fence.
F. The days passed.
G. The father looked sad。