题目内容
She started an engineering science but _______ after only a year.
- A.dropped away
- B.dropped out
- C.dropped off
- D.dropped behind
从题目的前半句“她开始了对工程科学的学习”,以及表转折含义的并列连词but,可判断后半句应表示“只在一年以后就放弃了”的意思。
A good friend of mine was complaining about her son the other day.“Did you notice,” she started, “how he didn’t wait for me to get my salad before he dove into his?”
True enough, the boy attacked his plate faster than a cat in the wild.Without manners, we’re no more than animals.Actually, that’s not true.I’ve been watching and feeding a group of wild cats, and they show unusual politeness toward each other.Even when food is scarce, they take turns, leaving at least a small part for the next in line.
My mother educated her three children to have good manners all the time.We were made to feel very uncomfortable as if we were sitting on pins and needles until we got used to saying please, thank you, pardon me, and I’m sorry.And I have to say, while it was a painful learning experience, it was one of the most valuable.
I can’t tell you how often I sat with my friends, eating at their dinner tables, and their parents thought highly of my good manners.While it was a little embarrassing, I knew even then that my mother’s teachings were paying off.
Many years later, when I was attending seminars across the country, my manners were quite useful.
While I regret that I haven’t been a perfect example, I’m still working on it.I suppose, in this regard, my mother lives on through me.I didn’t have her beautiful singing voice or her green eyes, but she did make sure I received one of her finest characteristics.
1.What did the writer’s friend most probably complain about?
A.Her son’s eating too quickly. |
B.Her son’s not having a healthy diet. |
C.Her son’s not having good table manners. |
D.Teenagers’ not having good manners. |
2.The underlined word “scarce” in Paragraph 3 probably means “________”.
A.too much |
B.not delicious |
C.not enough |
D.quite hot |
3.We learn that the writer’s mother __________.
A.was strict about her children’s manners |
B.never punished her children |
C.had beautiful blue eyes |
D.was not good at singing |
4.What does the writer think of her experience of learning good manners?
A.Easy and relaxing |
B.Painful and valuable |
C.Easy but useless |
D.Too horrible |
5.We can infer from the passage that the writer _________.
A.is surely liked by everyone around her |
B.is not satisfied with most people’s manners around her |
C.thinks she has been a perfect example to the young |
D.thanks her mother for teaching her the good manners a lot |
A young Scottish lady, like a lot of teens today, got tired of home. The daughter objected to her family’s 1. lifestyle and said, “I don’t want your God. I am leaving!” She left home. Before long, she was disappointed and unable to find a job, so she took to the streets to do everything she could to 2. . Many years passed by, her father died, her mother grew 3. , and the daughter became more and more stubborn in her way of life.
No 4. was made between mother and daughter during these years. The mother, having heard of her daughter’s whereabouts, went to the poor part of the city in 5. of her daughter. She stopped at 6. of the rescue missions(收容所) with a simple speech. “Would you allow me to 7. this picture?” It was a picture of the smiling, gray-haired mother with a handwritten 8. at the bottom: “I love you still … come home!”
One day the daughter wandered into a rescue mission for a hot meal. She sat 9. listening to the service, all the while letting her 10. wander over to the bulletin board. There she saw the picture and thought, could that be my mother?
She couldn’t 11. until the service was over. She stood and went to look. It was her mother, and there were those words, “I love you still … come home!” 12. she stood in front of the picture, she wept. It was too 13. to be true.
It was night, but she was so 14. by the message that she started walking home. 15. the time she arrived it was early in the morning. She was afraid and 16. her way timidly. As she knocked, the door 17. open on its own. She thought someone must broken into the house. Concerned for her mother’s 18. , the young girl ran to the bedroom and shook her mother awake and said, “It’s me! It’s me! I’m home!”
The mother couldn’t believe her eyes. They fell into each other’s 19. . The daughter said, “I was so worried and thought someone had broken in.” The mother replied gently, “No, dear. From the day you left, that door has never been 20. .”
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