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A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to   1  , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.
“Frank!” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t   2  , as I knew, but all the time   3  his foot against mine.
My   4  raced back more than thirty years to the   5   days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The   6  was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.
7  wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to   8   each other very well. Frank West   9  me because he wasn’t   10 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had   11   of a mind than a baby has. His “  12 ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and   13  more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank   14   on her entirely. He needed all the   15  of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She   16  nearly everything she owned.
When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the   17  ones. So before we   18   that morning, I stood beside Frank and   19  my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his   20  to me was always the same.
(   )1. A. work             B. stay       C. live            D. expect
(   )2. A. answer      B. speak     C. smile         D. laugh
(   )3. A. covering          B. moving      C. fighting         D. pressing
(   )4. A. minds       B. memories   C. thoughts        D. brains
(   )5. A. better       B. dark       C. younger           D. old
(   )6. A. cave              B. place      C. sight                 D. scene
(   )7. A. Discussing           B. Solving      C. Sharing              D. Suffering
(   )8. A. learn from          B. talk to     C. help            D. know
(   )9. A. needed        B. recognized  C. interested         D. encouraged
(   )10. A. normal      B. common     C. unusual         D. quick
(   )11. A. more         B. worse     C. fewer           D. less
(   )12. A. word         B. speech     C . sentence         D. language
(   )13. A. not              B. no         C. something        D. nothing
(   )14. A. fed              B. kept       C. lived           D. depended
(   )15. A. attention    B. control          C. treatment         D. management
(   )16. A. lost              B. needed          C. destroyed         D. left
(   )17. A. troublesome  B. unlucky    C. angry                D. unpopular
(   )18. A. separated          B. went      C. reunited              D. returned
(   )19. A. pushed      B. tried      C. showed        D. measured
(   )20. A. nodding           B. greeting     C. meeting           D. acting

I spend a lot of time backpacking and hiking the outdoors and there are two pieces of equipment that are with me on each trip: an Adventure Medical Kits Weekender and an Adventure Medical Kits Suture Syringe Kit. Both proved very helpful on my most recent adventures to the Wrangell in Alaska.

On that day, we were “blessed” with rain, making our water crossing on the Dixie Pass very difficult. Our party of 12 had almost reached our destination when I slipped, severely gashing(划伤) my knee open in the process. While I could not see the wound at first because of the rain pants I was wearing, I knew it was severe.

  Blood was running freely and I made those standing nearby aware of the damage. They quickly came over to assist, pulled my pack off and removed the Weekender First Aid Kit and Suture Kit from it. Fortunately, one of my partners is a doctor called William, who has often performed this type of work in the operating room, not out in the wild.

  I seriously think he was more nervous about all this than me! I, of course, was more than happy that I did not have to stitch(缝合) myself up. As a marine, I’ve had to do it before. Fortunately, the sky had cleared up about two hours before, so we had great sunlight to work with. The doctor worked quickly with the assistance of another fellow camper acting as a nurse and placed seven stitches into my knee once the wound had been cleaned up.

  Later that evening we used a syringe(注射器) we set aside loaded with Iodine(抗炎药) to clean the wound and then bandaged it again. The doctor was very impressed with the kits contents!

  I’ve already ordered another Suture Syringe Kit. I have to say the kits are worth their weight in gold! Thanks for the contents in the kits!

1.What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 probably refer to?

A. the wound              B. the rain                 C. the kit                               D. the knee

2.Why did the author think that William was more nervous while performing the first aid than himself?

A. Because William didn’t know how to use the kits.

B. Because the author didn’t trust William.

C. Because the author hurt himself severely.

D. Because William had no experience of doing it in the wild.

3.From the passage, we can infer that the kits are__________.

A. useless                 B. extremely useful   C. troublesome             D. not essential

4.What is mainly discussed in the passage?

A. How first aid kits saved a backpacker in Alaska.

B. How a doctor did the operation in the wild.

C. How the author with 12 fellow campers hike the outdoors.

D. How the author hurt himself.

 

Thanks a Million, Dad
I was born disabled.A difficult birth, feet first, my head stuck.By my first birthday, I couldn't stand or walk.
When I was three, the doctor told dad I had cerebral palsy (脑瘫).A loss of oxygen to my brain had destroyed brain signals to the right side of my body.
But no son of my dad' s was going to be disabled.Every morning before breakfast and every evening before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floor to exercise my right leg.The muscles were shrunk and twisted together.Back and forth up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles into shape.
But my dad' s exercise of passion didn't stop there.For my 13th birthday, he threw me a special party.When everybody was gone, he brought me to open a large box, it was a-set of boxing gloves.We put them on.My dad kept on beating me mercilessly.Each time I tried to get up, leather kissed my nose, eyes and jaw.I "begged him to stop. He said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world.
That same year, I was the only kid in my neighborhood that wasn't picked for Little League. Two weeks later.Dad started the Shedd Park Minor League, and every kid played.Dad coached us and made me a pitcher (棒球投手).
The power of my dad' s love guaranteed I walked and more.In high school, I became a football star.
In 1997, a brain surgeon in San Jose told me I didn’t t have cerebral palsy after all.He explained how and where the doctor' s forceps (镊子) at birth had damaged my brain.
My dad never knew the whole truth since he passed away years ago.But all that counts is the bottom line.After all his madness, on this Father' s Day, like every Father' s Day, I' m no longer disabled.

  1. 1.

    What caused the author' s disability?

    1. A.
      A failed operation.
    2. B.
      The doctor's forceps.
    3. C.
      An accident in a game.
    4. D.
      Shrunken and twisted muscles.
  2. 2.

    What do we learn from the passage?

    1. A.
      The author has a talent for boxing.
    2. B.
      The author achieved a lot thanks to his father' s love.
    3. C.
      The author became a baseball star with the help of his father.
    4. D.
      The author doesn't think his father should be so strict with him.
  3. 3.

    Paragraph 3 suggests that the author' s father____.

    1. A.
      wouldn't give up hope easily
    2. B.
      believed his son was a normal child
    3. C.
      blamed the doctors for his son' s disability
    4. D.
      couldn't accept the truth that his son was disabled
  4. 4.

    The author wrote the passage to ____.

    1. A.
      remember his father
    2. B.
      encourage disabled children
    3. C.
      show the difficulty the disabled face
    4. D.
      give advice to the parents of disabled children

下面短文中有10处语言错误,请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

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It was very nice to get your invitation to spend ∧ weekend with you. Luckily I was

                                     the                        am

completely free then, so I’ll to say “yes”. I’ll arrive in Bristol at around 8 pm in Friday evening

 
 


Dear Jacob,

Glad to hear from you. I would love to tell you something about my new invention, that can catch snakes but not harm them.

First I bought an ice-cream maker making of steel. Between the outside and the inside wall of the bowl there is some jelly, which freeze when cooled. I put the bowl into the fridge. Then in the evening I placed a frozen bowl in the snakes’ habitat and some ice cubes on top of the bowl to keep cool. Finally I covered the whole thing with a large bucket. The next morning when I removed the bucket or the bowl, I found the snakes very sleepily. I collected the passive snakes using a net and released it all back into the wild.

What do you think of my invention? Glad to hear from your advice. Thank you.

Best wishes,

                                                                   Caroline

下面短文中有10处语言错误,请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加:在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧),并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线(﹨)划掉。

修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意:

1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

例如:

It was very nice to get your invitation to spend ∧ weekend with you. Luckily I was

                                     the                        am

completely free then, so I’ll to say “yes”. I’ll arrive in Bristol at around 8 pm in Friday evening

 
 


Dear Jacob,

Glad to hear from you. I would love to tell you something about my new invention, that can catch snakes but not harm them.

First I bought an ice-cream maker making of steel. Between the outside and the inside wall of the bowl there is some jelly, which freeze when cooled. I put the bowl into the fridge. Then in the evening I placed a frozen bowl in the snakes’ habitat and some ice cubes on top of the bowl to keep cool. Finally I covered the whole thing with a large bucket. The next morning when I removed the bucket or the bowl, I found the snakes very sleepily. I collected the passive snakes using a net and released it all back into the wild.

What do you think of my invention? Glad to hear from your advice. Thank you.

Best wishes,

                                                                   Caroline

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