题目内容
The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.―Thomas MacaulaySome thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in
There is really nothing new about ___38___ in the exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs. O’Neill ___39___ even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to ___40___ after class. I was one of the twelve. Mrs. O’Neill asked ___41___ questions, and she didn’t ___42___ us either. Macaulay, she wrote on the blackboard the ___43___ words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to ___44___ these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.
I don’t ___45___ about the other eleven boys. Speaking for myself I can say: it was the most important single ___46___ of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay’s words, they ___47___ seem to me the best yard-stick(准绳), because they give us a ___48___ to measure ourselves rather than others. ___49___ of us are asked to make ___50___ decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called ___51___ daily to make a great many personal decisions. ___52___ the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket or turned over to the policeman? Should the ___53___ change received at the store be forgotten or ___54___? Nobody will know except ___55___. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always better to live with someone you respect.
36. A. test | B. problem | C. paper | D. lesson |
37. A. examined | B. completed | C. marked | D. answered |
38. A. lying | B. cheating | C. guessing | D. discussing |
39. A. didn’t | B. did | C. would | D. wouldn’t |
40. A. come | B. leave | C. remain | D. apologize |
41. A. no | B. certain | C. many | D. more |
42. A. excuse | B. reject | C. help | D. scold |
43. A. above | B. common | C. following | D. unusual |
44. A. repeat | B. get | C. put | D. copy |
45. A. worry | B. know | C. hear | D. talk |
46. A. chance | B. incident | C. lesson | D. memory |
47. A. even | B. still | C. always | D. almost |
48. A. way | B. sentence | C. choice | D. reason |
49. A. All | B. Few | C. Some | D. None |
50. A. quick | B. wise | C. great | D. personal |
51. A. out | B. for | C. up | D. upon |
52. A. Should | B. Must | C. Would | D. Need |
53. A. extra | B. small | C. some | D. necessary |
54. A. paid | B. remembered | C. shared | D. returned |
55. A. me | B. you | C. us | D. then |
36. A
解析:选项B和C与下一句中 papers在数上不一致,选项 D不合文意。根据文意及 papers 、test 两词的提示可决定选A,表示一次算数测验。
37.C
解析:that从句所表示的情况只有在评卷时才会发现,故选C. paper作为可数名词可表示“试卷”,mark the papers意为“评卷”, answer the papers 意为“答卷”,complete the papers意为“答完试卷”,examine与the papers不能搭配。
38.B
解析: 下一句末尾的it指的就是本题要填的词,而这个词所表示的事情显然与这十二位男生有关。从上文已知道这十二位男生在考试中所出的错误完全一样,那么这是件什么性质的事情呢?显然是“作弊行为”,根据词义,应选B。本句的意思是:“考试中的作弊确实没有什么新招。”
39.A
解析:正因为Mrs O’Neill了解学生一般怎样在考试中作弊的,所以她对此什么话也没说。根据文意及下一句中的only可以决定本题应用否定形式。这里强调的是一个事实而不是一个意愿,故选A,而不选D。
40.C
解析:下一段是包括作者在内的十二位同学课后留下来的情况,故选C。文中没有apologize
的内容,故应排除D。
41.A
解析:第二分句的either一般用于否定一个情况后又否定一个情况的场合,因此,本题必须用否定词。四个选项中只有A适合。
42.D
解析:首先排除B、C两项。表示“原谅”时excuse常与me连用,excuse me表示“对不起”、“请原谅”,作为客套语,常用于要走开、询问、插话、表示异议等场合。表示这一意思时,excuse通常不用与句中与其他人称代词连用,故排除A。scold符合句意,故选D,句意是:“既没问问题,也没有训斥”。
43.A
解析:Thomas Macaulay的名言已出现在本文的开头,故选A。above作定语是可位于被修饰名词的前面,也可位于后,The above words = the words above意为“以上的话”。
44.D
解析:A、B、C三项中的动词都不能使麦考莱的话进入练习本,只有copy这一动作得以完成,
故选D。指语言时,repeat通常指口头重复。麦考莱这句名言的意思是:“衡量一个人的真
正为人,要看他在知道永远不会被人发现的情况下做些什么。”
45.B
解析:下文所述内容主要是作者学习了麦考莱这句名言以后的感受及对他以后性格的影响,
但至于另十一位同学的感受,作者不了解,故选B。
46.C
解析:指自己日后受益匪浅的“教训”,incident与句子主语it一致,指这件事,但incident一词没有反映出下文作者所叙述的思想变化,故应排除。A、D两项与文意不符。47.B 虽然时隔三十年,时间那么长久,但麦考莱的名言对于作者来说仍然是记忆犹新,是生活准绳,选B。本题用still与前面的Thirty years构成时间上的对比。
48.A
解析:这里是指衡量自己的一种方法,故选A。
49.B
解析:根据下一句But all of us,这里应用否定词,故排除A、C。我们当中总要有人作出象国家是否参加战争、军队是否去打仗这样的重大决定,但做出这样重大决定的人毕竟为数不多,故排除D而选B。
50.C
解析:这样的决定当然是重大决定,故选C。
51.D
解析:call on sb. to do sth.表示“要求某人做某事”。call sb. out意为“把某人叫出去”,call sb. up意为“给某人打电话”,两者虽然能接不定式,但不符合语境。call for sb.虽也有“要求某人”之意,但不能接不定式。
52.A
解析:下一问句已有提示。A项表示“应该或不应该做某事”。
53.A
解析:change在这里作“零钱”解。把这一题和余下一题结合起来理解,不难选出extra与returned这两词相符答案,本题选A。
54.D
解析:多余的找头应该归还,故选D。
55.B
解析:根据下一句中的主语,这里应选B。意思是 :“这样的事只有你知道”。这里的you是泛指,指任何人。