题目内容
When visiting a place, usually the visitors will buy some l___________ things.
local

Where do most writers get their ideas? For Yoshiko Uchida, it all began with Brownie, a five-month-old puppy. So excited was Yoshiko by Brownie’s arrival that she started keeping a journal, writing about all the wonderful things Brownie did and the progress he made.
Soon she was writing about other memorable events in her life, too, like the day her family got their first refrigerator. She also began writing stories, thanks to one of her teachers. Yoshiko wrote stories about animal characters such as Jimmy Chipmunk and Willie the Squirrel. She kept on writing, sharing the kitchen table with her mother, who wrote poems on scraps of paper and the backs of envelopes.
Yoshiko grew up in the 1930s in Berkeley, California. Her parents, both of whom had been born in Japan, provided a loving and happy home for Yoshiko and her sister. They also provided a stream of visitors to their home who later found their way into Yoshiko’s stories. One visitor who later appeared in several of Yoshiko’s stories was the bad-tempered Mr. Toga, who lived above the church that her family attended. Mr. Toga would scold anyone who displeased him. The children all feared him and loved to tell stories about how mean he was and how his false teeth rattled (咯咯响) when he talked.
Yoshiko also included in her stories some of the places she visited and the experiences she had. One of her favorite places was a farm her parents took her to one summer. The owners of the farm, showed Yoshiko and her sister how to pump water from the well and how to gather eggs in the henhouse. They fed the mules that later pulled a wagon loaded with hay while Yoshiko and the others rode in the back, staring up at the stars shining in the night sky. Yoshiko, who lived in the city, had never seen such a sight. As Yoshiko gazed up at the stars, she was filled with hope and excitement about her life. The images of that hayride stayed with her long after the summer visit ended, and she used them in several of her stories.
The experiences Yoshiko had and the parade of people who marched through her young life became a part of the world she created in over twenty books for young people, such as The Best Bad Thing and A Jar of Dreams. Because of such books, we can all share just a little bit of the world and the times in which this great writer grew up.
【小题1】The author tells about Mr. Toga’s false teeth in Paragraph 3 in order to ____________.
A.show health care was not good enough in Berkeley during the 1930s |
B.provide an interesting detail in Yoshiko’s life and stories |
C.show Yoshiko’s young life was difficult and frightening |
D.tell about a beloved relative who helped Yoshiko learn how to write |
A.family relationships | B.terrors in the night |
C.limitless possibilities | D.sacrifices to benefit others |
A.Yoshiko loved to write about parades. |
B.Yoshiko met many interesting people. |
C.Yoshiko liked to go for long walks with others. |
D.Yoshiko preferred to talk to her pets instead of to people. |
A.People who live in the city should spend as much time as they can in the country. |
B.Writers like Yoshiko Uchida must communicate with as many writers as possible. |
C.Those who move to the United States often miss their homelands for many years. |
D.Writers like Yoshiko Uchida look to the richness of their lives for material. |
阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
第一节:(共15小题,每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 When she flew into Athens on an unseasonably cold day in September, she quickly realized that she hadn’t brought enough warm clothes. Walking through the streets of the Greek capital, she happened to see a nice coat in a shop window and went in to ask about the price. The coat was too expensive, but as Christine was about to leave the shop, the woman asked her where she was from. When Christine answered Australia, the woman agreed to reduce the price because she knew a nice girl from Australia called Elena. Christine then noticed a photo of a young man standing next to a motorbike. Her eyes opened wide with astonishment. It was Nicos! Indeed the young man was Nicos, and the woman in the shop was Maria. She had come to Athens from Santorini to look after the shop for a friend.
Sadly, the story has a tragic ending. Nicos had been killed in a motorcycle accident.
“I wanted to tell Elena,” said Maria. “But I didn’t know how. Now that I have met you, I know that it’s time to tell her.”
【小题1】Elena went to Greece in order to visit .
A.her parents | B.Christine | C.Nicos. | D.her grandparents |
A.He had moved away. |
B.His mother forbade him to do so. |
C.He h ad died in an accident. |
D.They had lost touch with each other. |
A.They two had planned the talk before. | B.They met each other accidentally. |
C.They were business partners. | D.They recognized each other. |