题目内容
—Has Billy finished his homework today?
—I have no idea.He it this morning.
- A.would do
- B.was doing
- C.has done
- D.had done
依据答语中的时间状语可推知,比利作业未完成。他今天上午一直在做。过去进行时除表示某段时间内一直在进行的动作外,还可表示某时刻正在进行的动作。如:I was reading a book when he came in.
Ellen and Bill County are both teachers. They met in college and became good friends because of their shared love for children. Two years after the couple got married, Ellen saw a huge change in the life of one of her students, a 9-year-old girl. Three years ago both of the little girl’s parents had died and there was no one to take care of her. She was taken away to live in a government office. But finally she was taken in and adopted by a family and became their daughter. Ellen said that she noticed the difference in the child’s life after she was placed in a permanent home and thought that maybe she and her husband could help a child in a similar way.
They decided to become temporary parents and to take a child into their home on the weekends when the real parents could not take care of him or her. The pair planned to have their own children in a few years, but decided that this would be a way to give to the community in the meantime.
The couple quickly grew to love one of the children they looked after. When he became legally available, Billy became the first child they took in permanently. Six months after adopting Billy, Ellen was told by her doctor that she was unable to have children naturally. Ellen says she knew then that adoption was the way she was meant to have a family.
Since adopting Billy, now 17, Ellen and Bill have adopted five more children --- Rose,16; Albert, 11; Joshua, 5 and in June 2003, they added biological brother and sister Tyler and Rylee to the County family.
The County family has been recognized for their work on adoption, and have received many awards for their efforts. Last June, the family was even interviewed on the television show, “Adoption Stories”.
Ellen says she would like to encourage other families to adopt children. She adds that the best part of being a mother of six is: “Giving Josh a bath, putting a band-aid on a cut knee or just the everyday mom things, that makes motherhood such an honor and a privilege.”
【小题1】What is the passage mainly about?
A.How a couple first met at college | B.Where you can adopt a child |
C.The benefits of adoption to the community | D.How adoption created a happy family |
A.Because they had always loved children very much |
B.Because they saw the benefits of adoption for a child |
C.Because they were not able to have children of their own |
D.Because they wanted to receive awards for their community work |
A.Rylee and Tyler | B.Billy and Tyler |
C.Albert and Joshua | D.Rose and Albert |
A.Ellen had thought of adopting a child before getting married. |
B.Only kids under 16 can be adopted by a family |
C.A loving family is important to a child’s happiness |
D.Adopting a child always makes the family become famous |
I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare (兔子) and the tortoise (乌龟). At the end I said, “ Son, remember: Be slow and steady (镇定的), and that will win the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”
Sonny opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy, Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”
I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t wish that the hare would fall asleep!”
“He must have wished that,” Sonny said, “Otherwise how could he be so foolish as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”
“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted. “He won the race by perseverance (坚忍不拔的), by pushing on steadily.”
Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never have won the race. That’s for sure.”
I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They’re just hopeless.
【小题1】The writer argued (辩论)with his son because ______________.
A.he liked tortoises while his son liked hares |
B.they disagreed about whether the tortoise was foolish |
C.he tried to teach his son a moral (品德) lesson but the son had totally different opinion |
D.he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t. |
A.won the race by his own hard working |
B.took a risk (冒险) by agreeing to run a race |
C.was not given a fair chance in the race |
D.in fact did win the race luckily |
A.boys who were unknown to Sonny’s father |
B.boys who Sonny has run races with before |
C.boys who Sonny has never raced with before |
D.boys who Sonny did not expect to race with again |
A.are cleverer than Sonny’s generation |
B.have the same ideas about life as Sonny’s generation |
C.are more hopeful than Sonny’s generation |
D.have different ideas about life from Sonny’s generation |
A.The tortoise | B.Sonny |
C.The hare | D.Sonny’s father |