阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从26~40各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I can still remember it as if it happened yesterday. I was a college freshman and had ________ most of the night before, laughing and ________ with friends. Now just before my first class of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my ________ was dropping down to my desk to make my textbook a ________. A few minutes’ nap (小睡) time before class wouldn’t hurt, I thought.

BOOM! I ________ my eyes and looked around with my heart beating wildly trying to find the ________ of the noise. My young professor was looking at me with a ________ on his face. He had dropped his textbooks onto the teacher’s desk ________. “Good morning!” he said, still smiling. “I am glad to see everyone is ________. Now let’s get started.”

For the next hour I wasn’t ________ at all. It wasn’t from the shock of my professor’s textbook alarm clock. It was ________ from the interesting discussion he led. With knowledge and good humor, he made the material ________. His words were full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. When the class was over, I left the classroom not only wide awake, but a little ________ and a little better as well.

I learned something far more important than not sleeping in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well and do it with joy. What a wonderful world it would be ________ every teacher, doctor, cook, businessman, farmer and worker made their work an expression of their love. Don’t sleepwalk through your life then. ________ up! Let your love fill your work. Life is too short not to live it well.

1.A. got upB. stayed upC. stood upD. put out

2.A. talkingB. quarrelingC. fightingD. working

3.A. armB. legC. faceD. head

4.A. overcoatB. pillowC. curtainD. carpet

5.A. openedB. closedC. trustedD. covered

6.A. beginningB. endC. causeD. result

7.A. dislikeB. surpriseC. angerD. smile

8.A. on purposeB. as wellC. by mistakeD. by chance

9.A. happyB. greatC. awakeD. clear

10.A. carefulB. sleepyC. interestedD. satisfied

11.A. evenB. yetC. stillD. instead

12.A. come outB. come aliveC. come backD. come up

13.A. smarterB. funnierC. busierD. lazier

14.A. unlessB. ifC. beforeD. since

15.A. WakeB. CheerC. SetD. Go

When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story” shown in late April.

Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that LOSS became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.

Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.

She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University, but Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”

Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.

1.The main idea of the passage is __________.

A. what a hard time Liz had in her childhood

B. how Liz managed to enter Harvard University

C. how Liz struggled to change her life

D. why Liz loved her parents so much

2.What actually made her go towards her goal?

A. Willpower and determination.B. Envy and encouragement.

C. Decisions and understanding.D. Love and respect for her parents.

3.When she wrote “What drove me to live on... I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that ________.

A. she needed to travel more around the world

B. she would do something for her own life

C. she could hardly understand the society

D. she had little experience of social life

An old woman diverted (转移 ) attention from the book when I was sitting in my car. She walked slowly towards my parked car with a large shoulder bag. She stopped and put a hand out to rest against the car. She gently closed her eyes, took a deep breath and wiped the sweat off her forehead. Was there a way I could do anything to help her? But I wondered if the lady noticed me sitting inside the car, she would feel embarrassed and walk away.

I stilled my body while my mind searched for answers. I turned my head towards my driver, wanting him to ask the lady if we could give her a ride. Because of my head movement, she noticed me and moved her hand away from the car. Her calm expression changed to a cautious one. I grabbed the water bottle next to me, smile, gently opened the door and offered the bottle to her. She looked at me hesitatingly, shook her head with downcast (低垂的) eyes and walked away.

I was so annoyed with myself. I should have been more careful not to move. However, she was back I opened the door and patted the seat next to me. She sat down, opened her bag and offered me a banana. I took it and offered her the water bottle again. She took it. I ate, she drank and we smiled. She rested for a couple of minutes.

Those minutes brought such tranquility (宁静) to me. She took my head in both her hands and kissed my forehead, and then she left. I was trying to help someone in distress(不幸,苦恼). In turn, I became distressed and she took away my distress and replace it with tranquility.

1.What did the author want to do when the old woman rested against her car?

A. She wanted to communicate with the old woman

B. She wanted to let driver warn the old woman off.

C. She wanted to make the old woman notice her existence.

D. She wanted to help the old woman without bothering her.

2.Why did the old woman choose to rest against the author’s car?

A. Because she was too tired to walk further.

B. Because it was a comfortable place to stay.

C. Because she thought there was nobody in the car.

D. Because she could put her large shoulder bag on the car.

3.Why did the author feel blue?

A. The old woman refused her water.

B. The old woman left without saying a word.

C. The old woman suspected the author’s kindness.

D. She interrupted the old woman’s quiet moment of rest.

4.The old woman came back to ________.

A. drink some drink

B. accept and thank the author’s kindness

C. rest for another few minutes

D. offer a banana to the author

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