题目内容
I know I should have told the headmaster at the time. That was my real .
He had gone out of the study for some , leaving me alone. In his absence I looked to see was on his desk. In the was a small piece of paper on which were written the “English Writing Prize 1949. History Is a Serious of Biographies (人物传记)”.
A(n) boy would have avoided looking at the title as soon as he saw the _ _ _. I did not. The subject of the English Writing Prize was kept a until the start of the exam so I could not reading it.
When the headmaster , I was looking out of the window.
I should have told him what had then. It would have been so to say: “I’m sorry, but I the title for the English Writing Prize on your desk. You’ll have to it.”
The chance passed and I did not it. I sat the exam the next day and I won. I didn’t __ to cheat, but it was still cheating anyhow.
That was thirty-eight years when I was fifteen. I have never told anyone about it before, have I tried to explain to myself why not.
The obvious explanation is that I could not admit I had seen the title __ admitting that I had been looking at the things on his desk. there must have been more behind it. Whatever it was, it has become a good example of how a little mistake can trap (使陷入) you in a more serious moral corner (道德困境).
1.A. plan B. fault C. grade D. luck
2.A. reason B. course C. example D. vacation
3.A. this B. which C. that D. what
4.A. drawer B. corner C. middle D. box
5.A. names B. words C. ideas D. messages
6.A. honest B. handsome C. friendly D. active
7.A. desk B. paper C. book D. drawer
8.A. question B. key C. note D. secret
9.A. help B. consider C. practise D. forget
10.A. disappeared B. stayed C. returned D. went
11.A. existed B. remained C. happened D. continued
12.A. tiring B. easy C. important D. difficult
13.A. saw B. gave C. set D. made
14.A. repeat B. defend C. correct D. change
15.A. take B. have C. lose D. find
16.A. remember B. learn C. mean D. pretend
17.A. past B. ago C. then D. before
18.A. either B. never C. nor D. so
19.A. by B. besides C. through D. without
20.A. But B. Though C. Otherwise D. Therefore
1.B
2.A
3.D
4.C
5.B
6.A
7.B
8.D
9.A
10.C
11.C
12.B
13.A
14.D
15.A
16.C
17.B
18.C
19.D
20.A
【解析】
试题分析： 考察故事类短文，本文讲述我在无意中看见了作文比赛的题目，但是我没有能够战胜自己，没有当场告诉校长，让自己陷入了道德困境。
1.B 解析： fault意为” 过失，过错；罪过，责任”，常指性格上的弱点或行为上的过失，含有当事人对过失负有责任的意味，有时也可用于物。短文第一句话I know I should have told the headmaster at the time.表示“我本来应该在那时告诉校长。”因为本来应该做而没有做，所以作者认为这的确是他的过过错。plan意为“计划”。grade意为“等级，级别；阶段；程度，标准，水平”。luck意为“幸运”。
2.A解析：reason意为“理由”，指对已经发生的事情提供的理由、原因或借口，着重说明行为的动机。for some reason表示“为某种理由”。course意为“进程，经过，过程，趋势”。example意为“例证，实例；标本，样本”，for example表示“例如”，常用逗号将其与句子分开。vacation意为“假期”，短文中没有提到校长度假的事。
3.D解析：what引导宾语从句，在从句中作主语。look to意为“照顾，注意，负责”。表示在他不在期间，我看到他的办公桌上有什么。this不引导从句。which引导宾语从句表示“哪一个”。that引导宾语从句时，在从句中不充当任何成分，只起连接作用。
4.C解析：in the middle表示“在他的办公桌的中间”，根据上文所提供的情景in his absence I looked to see what was on his desk.可判断出在他的办公桌的中间有一张字条。drawer意为“抽屉”。corner意为“角落”。box意为“盒子，箱子”。
5.B解析：words意为“话语”，根据所提供的情景English Writing Prize 1949: History Is a Series of Biographies可判断出在字条上写的话语。name意为“名字”。idea意为“主意”。message意为“口信”。
6.解析：honest意为“诚实的；正直的，耿直的；坦率的，坦白的，正派的，公正的”。指言行一致、表里如一，忠诚可靠，强调真实性。根据下文中的exam可判断出字条上写的内容是考试的题目，作为诚实的学生，不应该提前看这张字条。handsome意为“(一般指男子外貌)漂亮的，清秀的，俊美的”。friendly意为“友好的”。active意为“活跃的”。
7. B 解析：paper意为“纸”，指上文提到的写着考试题目的字条。desk意为“办公桌，课桌”。book意为“书”。answer意为“答案”。
8.D 解析：secret意为“秘密”，表示英语写作大奖赛的题目应该在开始考试前一直处于保密状态。question意为“问题”。key意为“答案，关键，钥匙”。note意为“笔记”。
9.A 解析：can’t help doing sth意为“禁不住做某事”。根据上文所提供的情景I did not.（有没有避免看这个题目。）可判断出作者禁不住读了这个题目。consider意为“考虑”。practise意为“实践”。forget意为“忘记”。
10.C 解析：return意为“回来”，表示当校长回来时，作者正看着窗外。disappear意为“消失”。remain意为“剩余，剩下；遗留，留下”。go意为“走，去”。
11.C 解析：happen意为“发生”，多指客观的或具体的事物发生，含有偶然或自发的意味，间或也指按计划发生。表示作者本来应该发生了什么事告诉校长，但没有告诉。
12.B 解析：easy意为“容易”，因为说出自己因看了大奖赛的题目而非常抱歉是一件容易的事。tiring意为“令人疲劳的”。important意为“重要的”。difficult意为“困难的”。
13.A 解析：see意为“看见”，指看见了校长办公桌上大奖赛的题目。give意为“给”。set意为“放；搁；贴；靠”。make意为“制造”。
14.D 解析：change意为“改变，变更，变换”，因为作者提前看了英语写作大奖赛的题目，所以他认为校长应该改换这个题目。repeat意为“重复”。defend意为“保卫”。correct意为“改正”。
15.A 解析：take it意为“把握住机会”。因为作者当时没有把自己看了大奖赛的题目这件事告诉校长，失去了这个机会。have意为“有”。lost意为“丢失”。find意为“发现”。
16.C 解析：mean to so sth意为“打算做某事”，表示作者并没有打算作弊。remember to so sth意为“记着去做某事”。learn to do sth意为“学会做某事”。pretend to do sth意为“假装做某事”。
17.B 解析：ago意为“以前，前”，表示这件事发生在38年前，当作者15岁时。past意为“过去的；完了的”，放在“数字+表示时间的名词”前表示“在过去的多少年”。如：in the past three years在过去的三年中。then意为“然后”。before意为“在……之前”。
18.C 解析：nor意为“也不，也没有”，与上文中的neither构成neither … nor表示“既不……，也不”，表示既没有把这件事告诉任何人，也没有试图向自己解释为什么当时没有把这件事告诉校长。either意为“两者之一的；(两者之中)随便哪一个的；两者中任何一方的”。never意为“从不”。so意为“因此”。
19.D 解析：without意为“没有”，表示没有得到允许看放在办公桌上的东西。by意为“通过”，表示通过某种手段或方式。besides意为“另外（还）”。through意为“穿过”。
20.A解析：but意为“但是”，表示两句之间是转折对比关系。though引导让步状语从句，表示“虽然，尽管”。otherwise意为“否则”。therefore意为“因此”。
考点：考察故事类短文
I cheated on a unit test in math class this morning during second period with Mr. Burke. Afterward, I was too sick to eat lunch just thinking about it.
I came straight home from school, went to my room, and lay on the floor trying to decide whether it would be better to run away from home now or after supper. Mostly I wished I was dead. It wasn't even an accident that I cheated.
Yesterday Mr. Burke announced there'd be a unit test and anyone who didn't pass would have to come to school on Saturday, most particularly me, since I didn't pass the last unit test. I did plan to study just to prove to him that I'm plenty smart—which I am mostly—except in math.
Anyway, I got my desk ready to study on . Just when I was ready to work, Nicho came into my room with our new rabbit and it jumped on my desk and knocked the flashcards all over the floor. What a mess! Nicho and I finally took the rabbit outside but then Philip came to my room and also Marty from next door and before long it was dinner.
After dinner my father said I could watch a special on television if I'd done all my homework. Of course I said I had. That was the beginning. I felt terrible telling my father a lie about the homework.
It was nine o'clock when I got up to my room and that was too late to study for the unit test so I lay in my bed with the light off and decided what I would do the next day when I was in Mr. Burke's math class not knowing the 8- and 9-times tables. So, you see, the cheating was planned after all.
The next day, I'd go into class as usual, acting like things were going just great. I'd sit down next to Stanley Plummer—he is so smart in math it makes you sick—and from time to time, I'd glance over at his paper to copy the answers.
Lying on the floor of my room, I begin to think that probably I've been bad all along. It just took this math test to clinch it. I'll probably never tell the truth again. I tell my mother I'm sick when she calls me to come down for dinner. She doesn't believe me, but puts me to bed anyhow. I lie there in the early winter darkness wondering what terrible thing I'll be doing next when my father comes in and sits down on my bed.
"What's the matter?" he asks. "I've got a stomachache," I say. Luckily, it's too dark to see his face. "Is that all?" "Yeah." "Mommy says you've been in your room since school." "I was sick there too," I say. "She thinks something happened today and you're upset." That's the thing that really drives me crazy about my mother. She knows things sitting inside my head the same as if I was turned inside out.
"Well," my father says. I can tell he doesn't believe me. "My stomach is feeling sort of upset." I hedge. "Okay," he says and he pats my leg and gets up.
Just as he shuts the door to my room I call out to him in a voice I don't even recognize as my own. "How come?" he calls back not surprised or anything. So I tell him I cheated on this math test. To tell the truth, I'm pretty much surprised at myself. I didn't plan to tell him anything.
He doesn't say anything at first and that just about kills me. I'd be fine if he'd spank me or something. And then he says I'll have to call Mr. Burke. It's not what I had in mind. "Now?" I ask surprised. "Now," he says. He turns on the light and pulls off my covers. "I'm not going to," I say.
But I do it. I call Mr. Burke, and I tell him exactly what happened, even that I decided to cheat the night before the test. He says I'll come on Saturday to take another test, which is okay with me, and I thank him a whole lot for being understanding and all.
"Today I thought I was turning into a criminal," I tell my father when he turns out my light. Sometimes my father kisses me good night and sometimes he doesn't. I never know. But tonight he does.
【小题1】After the author cheated on the math test, he felt ____________.
| A．frightened because he might be caught |
| B．excited that he had succeeded |
| C．pleased that nobody knew it |
| D．unhappy because he had done something wrong |
| A．he had planned not to study before the test |
| B．he decided to cheat when he knew there was going to be a test |
| C．he decided to cheat after he had wasted the whole evening |
| D．he had planned to cheat with Plummer before the test |
| A．She really knows what he is thinking |
| B．she was very strict with him |
| C．she doesn’t believe him |
| D．she asks him to come down for dinner |
| A．scolded the author severely |
| B．didn’t say anything and left |
| C．called Mr. Burke immediately |
| D．let the author make a call to Mr. Burke |
| A．he had done something unusual |
| B．he promised to study math harder |
| C．he was willing to take a make-up test |
| D．he realized his mistake and had the courage to admit it |