题目内容
I made a cake, placed a candle on the top, ________ it and sang“happy birthday to me”at the top of my voice.
- A.lighting
- B.light
- C.lit
- D.to light
(2010?贵州模拟)完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When Nancy Lubin got $5,000 from her great-grandfather, she never once considered taking a vacation or paying off student loans with it. 36 , the 24-year-old New York University law student began thinking about the clothing 37 faced by the typical low-income woman:“If she goes for a job interview 38 dressed, she won’t get the job.” Lubin says,“But without a job, she can’t 39 good clothing.”
A few weeks later, Lubin 40 Dress for Success and began searching for clothing and volunteers. She asked women to donate(捐献)used business clothes that were 41 in good condition. She asked members of diet centres to give away clothes that no longer 42. At first Lubin stored the clothes in her one-bedroom apartment. Finally she found 43 in a Greenwich Village church basement(地下室),which now 44 as the organization’s main office.
Today, when women arrive at shelters and job training programmes—they 45 a suit, shoes, a bag, stockings and jewllery, and self-confidence as well. Some are trying to enter the work 46 after being on welfare(福利)for years.
_47 Dress for Seccess helped its first client a year and a half ago, more than 1,000 women have received suits—and many have been given 48 . Yarit Polanco was rencently hired 49 a law-firm office manager. “Because of Dress for Success, I made a good 50 ,”she says.
Donations are now 51 in, including jewellery,6,000 pairs of trousers and 40,000 worth of handbags. Broadcast journalists have given suits. And Lubin, who has put her 52 on hold is opening Dress for Success 53 in other cities.
“So many women have clothes lying around that they’ll never 54 again,”says a volunteer. “Nancy’s _55__ is so simple, yet so important to the women who benefit from it.”
36. A. Anyway B. Instead C. Fortunately D. Meanwhile
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As a young boy, I sometimes traveled the country roads with my dad. He was a rural mill carrier, and on Saturdays he would ask me to go with him. Driving through the countryside was always an adventure: There were animals to see, people to visit, and chocolate cookies if you knew where to stop, and Dad did.
In the spring, Dad delivered boxes full of baby chickens, and when 1 was a boy it was such a fun to stick your finger 'through one of the holes of the boxes and let the baby birds peck on your fingers.
On Dad' s final day of work, it took him well into the evening to complete his rounds because at least one member from each family was waiting at their mailbox to thank him for his friendship and his years of service. "Two hundred and nineteen mailboxes on my route." he used to say, "and a story at every one. " One lady had no mailbox, so Dad took the mail in to her every day because she was nearly blind. Once inside, he read her mail and helped her pay her bills.
Mailboxes were sometimes used for things other than mail. One note left in a mailbox read. "Nat, take these eggs to Marian; she's baking a cake and doesn't have any eggs. " Mailboxes might be buried in the snow, or broken, or lying on the groom:. bat the mail was always delivered On cold days Dad might find one of his customers waiting for him with a cup of hot chocolate. A young wrote letters but had no stamps, so she left a few button on the envelope in the mailbox; Dad paid for the stamps. One businessman used to leave large amounts of cash in his mailbox for Dad to take to the bank. Once, the amount came to 8 32,000.
A dozen years ago, when I traveled back to my hometown on the sad occasion of Dad’s death, the mailboxes along the way reminded me of some of his stories. I thought I knew them all, but that wasn't the case.
As I drove home, I noticed two lamp poles, one on each side of the street. When my dad was around, those poles supported wooden boxes about four feet off the ground. One box was painted green and the other was red, and each had a long narrow hole at the top with white lettering: SANTA CLAUS, NORTH POLE. For years children had dropped letters to Santa through those holes.
I made a turn at the comer and drove past the post office and across the railroad tracks to our house. Mom and I were sitting at the kitchen table when I heard footsteps. There, at the door, stood Frank Townsend, Dad's postmaster and great friend for many years. So we all sat down at the table and began to tell stories.
At one point Frank looked at me with tears in his eyes. " What are we going to do about the letters this Christmas?" he asked.
"The letters?"
'I guess you never knew. "
"Knew what?"
" Remember, when you were a kid and you used to put your letters to Santa in those green and red boxes on Main Street? It was your dad who answered all those letters every year. "
I just sat there with tears in my eyes. It wasn’t hard for me to imagine Dad sitting at the old table in our basement reading those letters and answering each one. I have since spoken with several of the people who received Christmas letters during their childhood, and they told me how amazed they were that Santa had known so much about their homes and families.
For me, just knowing that story about my father was the gift of a lifetime.
【小题1】It can be inferred from the passage that the writer regarded his travels with Dad us_____.
A.great chances to help other people |
B.happy occasions to play with baby chickens |
C.exciting experience* with a lot of fun |
D.good opportunities to enjoy chocolate cookies |
A.Dad had a strong sense of duty |
B.Dad was an honest and reliable man |
C.Dad had a strong sense of honor |
D.Dad was a kind and generous man |
A.Dad read letters for a blind lady for years. |
B.Dad paid for the stamps for a young girl. |
C.Dad delivered some eggs to Marian. |
D.Dad answered children's Christmas letters every year. |
A.offering analyses | B.providing explanations |
C.giving examples | D.making comparisons |
A.Santa Claus lived alone in the cold North Pole. |
B.Santa Claus answered all their letters every year. |
C.Santa Claus had unique mailboxes for the children. |
D.Santa Claus had so much information about their families. |
A.The Mail | B.Christmas Letters |
C.Special Mailboxes | D.Memorable Travels |
完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper(志愿做护士助手的小姑娘) at a local hospital in my town. Most of the 41 I spent there was with Mr Gillespie. He never had any 42 , and nobody seemed to care about his 43 .
I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him,__44__anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, 45 he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my hand. Mr Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).
I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr Gillespie was 46 . I didn’t have the 47 to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might 48 me he had died.
Several 49 later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I 50 who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was 51 ! I built up the courage to ask him if his name was Mr Gillespie. With a(n) 52 look on his face, he replied yes. I 53 how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever 54 .
He began to tell me how, 55 he lay there comatose, he could hear me talking to him and could 56 me holding his hand the whole time. Mr Gillespie 57 believed that it was my voice and 58 that had kept him alive.
Although I haven’t 59 him since, he fills my heart with 60 every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.
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