题目内容
He ________ the ladder while ________ on the tree.
- A.falled down from; reaching for the apple
- B.fell down; he reached for the apple
- C.fell off; he reached for the apple
- D.fell off; reaching the apple
本题考查“从……跌下”和“伸手去够”两个短语,表达第一空的含义应用fall off,后一空的选词应为reach for来表示够的动作,而D项则表示“够到”。
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to eke(补充) out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog (沼泽地). He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired(陷于泥坑)to his waist in black muck(淤泥) was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse(稀疏的) surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
"No, " the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel(茅舍).
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
"I'll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be proud of."
And that he did. In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia(肺炎).
What saved him? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.
【小题1】Whose life did the Scottish farmer save?
A.Lord Randolph Churchill's. | B.Sir Winston Churchill's. |
C.Sir Alexander Fleming's | D.Penicillin's. |
A.The nobleman wanted to bring him up to be a man like his father. |
B.The farmer was too poor to afford his son's education. |
C.The nobleman wanted to pay back the farmer for saving his son. |
D.The farmer wanted to make his son become a proud man. |
A.Kind, brave and generous. | B.Kind, shy and merciful. |
C.Kind, innocent and passive. | D.Kind, brave and honest. |
A.The farmer saved the nobleman's son twice. |
B.The nobleman's son later became a great person. |
C.The farmer's son later became a great person. |
D.Penicillin is a powerful kind of medicine. |
I sometimes wonder if old Finchley has the right personality to be a research scientist. He keeps asking when he’ll be coming back. After all, it was his own fault. Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley. Well, he must have pumped about a thousand cc into himself before I noticed he was clearly becoming smaller.
It was funny watching him, because his clothes remained the same in size. They simply piled up around him so that he looked like a small boy in his father’s clothes. But he kept getting smaller and smaller. As my colleague Dawson and I watched him, he disappeared! All we could see was Finchley’s clothes on the floor. They looked so strange, because the lab coat was on top, shirt and trousers inside and, I suppose, underclothes inside again. It gave me a strange feeling, and I think Dawson was a bit shaken, too.
Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨). He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end.
It seems as if Finchley had taken a free ride on a dust mite and landed on the land of the mite family. Of course, we didn’t know till Finchley told us later. But anyhow, as I said, Dawson nearly passed out. He jumped off his chair and pointed at the microscope, too shocked to speak.
【小题1】It can be inferred that Finchley, Dawson and the writer have possible invented .
A.a machine to make people small | B.a new way to study the family of mites |
C.a new powerful microscope | D.some kind of medicine |
A.he tried out what has just invented on himself |
B.his father’s clothes totally covered him up |
C.he took something poisonous |
D.he was changed into a dust mite |
A.will remain tiny all the time | B.is a devoted scientist |
C.is not fit to be a scientist | D.passed out there and then |
A.got out of his scope by accident | B.was waving through his scope |
C.suddenly got lost in his clothes | D.gradually disappeared in the lad |
Choosing the right job is probably one of the most important decisions we have to make in life, and it is frequently one of the hardest decisions we have to make.One important question that you might ask yourself is: “How do I get a good job?”__1.There are people who can answer an insignificant advertisement in the local paper and land the best job in the world; others write to all sorts of places all over the country, and never seem to get a reply at all.Still others believe that the in person, door-to-door approach is by far the best way to get a job; and then there are those who, through no active decision of their own, just seem to be in the right place at the right time._2._.He used to spend a lot of his free time down by the sea watching the tall ships, but never thinking that he might one day sail one of them.His father was a farmer, and being a sailor could never be anything for the boy but an idle dream.One day, on his usual wandering, he heard the captain of the ship complaining that he could not sail because one member of his crew was sick.Without stopping to think, the lad(少年)offered to take his place.__3._
__4._.If the lad had gone home to ponder(考虑) his decision for a week, he may have missed his chance.It is one thing to be offered an opportunity; it is another thing to take it and use it well.
Sometimes we hear stories about people who break all the rules and still seem to land plum jobs(美差).When you go for a job interview or fill out an application, you are expected to say nice things about the company to which you are applying.__5.And within a year this person had become general manger of the company.
A.This story also illustrates the importance of seizing an opportunity when it presents itself. |
B.People find jobs in an infinite number of ways. |
C.it’s almost impossible to find a good job by answering advertisement in newspapers |
D.Take for example the young man who wanted to be a sailor. |
E.But there was one person who landed an excellent job by telling the interviewer all the company’s faults.
F.He spent the rest of his life happily sailing the ships he had always loved.
G.It is very important to seize an opportunity when it presents itself.