Bernice Gallegos sat down one day this summer, as she does pretty much every day, and began listing items on eBay.She dug into a box and pulled out a baseball card.She stopped for a moment and admired the picture.“Red Stocking B.B.Club of Cincinnati,” the card read, under the reddish brown color photo of 10 men with their socks pulled up to their knees.

       As a collector and seller, it's her job to spot old items that might have value today.It's what Bernice, 72, and her husband, Al Gallegos, 80, have been doing since 1974 at their California antique (古玩) store.

       This card, she figured, was worth selling on eBay.She took a picture, wrote a description and put it up for auction (拍卖).She put a $10 price tag on it, deciding against $15 because it would have cost her an extra 20 cents.Later that night she got a few odd inquiries—someone wanting to know whether the card was real, someone wanting her to end the auction and sell him the card immediately.

       The card is actually 139 years old.Sports card collectors call the find "extremely rare" and estimate the card could fetch five, or perhaps, six figures at auction.

       Just like that, Bernice is the least likely character ever for a rare-baseball card story."I didn't even know baseball existed that far back," Gallegos says, "I don't think that I've ever been to a baseball game." The theory is that the card came out of a storage space they bought a few years back.It is not uncommon in their line of work to buy the entire contents of storage units for around $200.

       When she met with card trader Rick Mirigian, she found out what the card was—an 1869 advertisement with a picture of the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

       "When I came to meet her and she took it out of a sandwich bag and she was smoking a cigarette, I almost fainted," Mirigian says."They've uncovered a piece of history that few people will ever be able to imagine.That card is history.It's like unearthing a Mona Lisa or a Picasso."

What can we conclude from Paragraph 3?

       A.Bernice had to pay some fees for her card on eBay.

       B.Bernice wanted to end the auction that night.

       C.Bernice decided to sell the card for $15.

       D.eBay charged her 20 cents for the card.

The underlined word "fetch" in Paragraph 4 most probably means "____".

       A.go and bring  B.add up to        C.go down to     D.be sold for

From the passage, we may learn that ____.

       A.Bernice is a baseball fan

       B.Bernice is the last person to purchase the rare-baseball card

       C.Bernice unexpectedly became the owner of the rare-baseball card

       D.Bernice didn't realize the value of the card until she put it up for auction

What would be the best title for the passage?

       A.A Surprisingly Valuable Discovery       B.Be mice Gallegos—A Lucky Collector

       C.Sports Card Collectors                D.The History of the Baseball Card


第二节:完形填空(共20 小题 ,满分30分)
Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, we accept these failures as a 36 part of the learning process. But all too often as parents and teachers we disallow this 37 right to 高考资源网our children.
When I see a child 38 to this kind of pressure, I think of Donnie.
Donnie was my youngest third grader. His 39 of failure kept him from classroom games that other children enjoyed. He 40  answered questions — he might be wrong.
I tried my best to build his  41. But nothing changed until midterm, when Mary Anne, a student teacher, was assigned(安排)to 高考资源网our classroom.
She was young and pretty, and she loved children. My pupils, Donnie included, 42 her.
One morning, we were working math problems at the chalkboard. Donnie had 43 the problems with painstaking neatness. Pleased with his progress, I 44 the children with Mary Anne and went for art materials. When I returned, Donnie was in 45 . He’d missed the third problem.
My student teacher looked at me in despair. Suddenly her face 46. From the desk we shared, she got a container filled with pencils.
"Look, Donnie," she said, kneeling beside him and gently 47 the tear stained face from his arms. "I’ve got something to 48 you." She removed the pencils, one at a time, and placed them on his desk.
"See these  49 , Donnie," she continued. "They belong to Mrs. Lindstrom and me. See how the erasers are 50 ? That’s because we make mistakes too. But we erase the mistakes and try again. That’s what you 51 learn to do, too."
She kissed him and stood up. "Here," she said, "I’ll leave one of these pencils on 52  desk so you’ll remember that everybody makes mistakes, 53 teachers." Donnie looked up with love in his eyes and a smile.
The pencil became Donnie’s 54 possession. That, together with Mary Anne’s frequent encouragement, gradually 55 him that it’s all right to make mistakes — as long as you erase them and try again.
36. A. small        B. basic          C. necessary            D. large
37. A. correct      B. same          C. important          D. natural
38. A. turn          B. object           C. refer              D. subject
39. A. fear          B. advice          C. chance                  D. sense
40. A. always      B. often         C. sometimes         D. seldom
41. A. self-protection                B. self-improvement
C. self-confidence               D. self-learning
42. A. respected     B. disliked        C. avoided             D. mined
43. A. worked out  B. copied          C. gone over          D. leaned
44. A. left               B. offered         C. missed                  D. parted
45. A. surprise           B. astonishment    C. anger                D. tears
46. A. darkened      B. brightened           C. pulled             D. loosened
47. A. lifting       B. picking        C. holding             D. pushing
48. A. help         B. show         C. reward                  D. promise
49. A. pencils      B. mistakes      C. marks             D. containers
50. A. used         B. built         C. worn              D. damaged
51. A. may         B. must          C. will               D. can
52. A. my               B. someone’s      C. the teacher’s         D. y our
53. A. still          B. also           C. even              D. not
54. A. prized       B. given              C. kept               D. expected
55. A. warned      B. informed     C. persuaded          D. Reminded

When I looked at the grade on my math paper my jaw almost dropped to the ground: a big “65” in bright red ink. I had never received such a terrible grade before.
I was so ashamed that when I got home that afternoon I lied to my dad. I told him I got 85 and that the report wouldn’t come until the end of the month. Dad smiled. His daughter would never lie about her grade, so he didn’t doubt the unusual delay of my report.
A month later, Dad casually asked me again about the report at the dinner table. He looked right into my eyes and asked for an answer. Having no choice, I told him that I had in fact got just 65 in my math final. I had lied because I didn’t want to let him down.
For a moment, he just looked at me. I would have preferred a telling off than that silence. Finally, Dad said, in a hurt voice, “You have already let me down, with your lie. I am not disappointed at your math score. That is no big deal – no one can be perfect all the time. But I am very disappointed in you. If you can’t be honest with your dad, who can you be honest with? It’s much easier to achieve a better grade than rebuild someone else’s trust in you.”
Dad’s words touched my heart. I couldn’t forgive myself for having hurt his feelings. I took out the report that I had been hiding for weeks, handed to him and apologized, sincerely. I realized that my honesty is not only important to me personally, but to those around me that truly care about my well-being.
In one of Shakespeare’s plays a character says: “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” After the crisis between Dad and me, I began to understand those words.
【小题1】.The first paragraph may suggest that the author ______.

A.was punished by her father for a bad grade
B.never expected teachers to give her bad grades
C.usually got a higher grade
D.was bad at math
【小题2】. The author lied to her father because ______.
A.she thought her father would believe her story
B.she didn’t want to let her father down
C.her father wouldn’t get her grade report
D.her father got angry whenever she got a poor grade
【小题3】. Why did her father stay silent after his daughter told him that she had lied?
A.He didn’t understand what his daughter had said.
B.He was angry that his daughter lied to him again.
C.He was unhappy with his daughter’s bad score.
D.He was hurt that his daughter had lied to him.
【小题4】. The purpose of the article is to tell us that ______.
A.dishonesty may work sometimes, but there is a price to pay
B.sometimes a lie can make things easier
C.we should study hard to make our parents happy
D.we should accept the fact that we are not perfect

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