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Although I had left school against the advice of my teachers, I had, without telling anyone, tried to1my studies in literature at evening classes. It was a tiresome2from one end of the city to another and to3among adults was uninteresting. I was the youngest in the4, so the friendship I knew at school was5. I put up with it for a short period. It was6long a walk on cold winter’s nights and it was hard to put my7into Shakespeare with wet shoes and trousers. So I continued writing poetry at home.
By chance, I8some prizes and awards for literature. A young woman from a9company came to the college one day. She told me that I won a national poetry award. I10at her in astonishment and disbelief. She wanted to make a short11about me, to which I said, “ No, I couldn’t do that.” Not that I had any real12. I was just frightened. In the end she13me that I should do it the following day.
So I did. They made a short film of me reading one of my14and I became15interested in literature than ever. I16what I should do after this, and decided some weeks later that I could not17myself spending the rest of my days dealing with machines. So one evening, I hesitatingly told my parents that I wanted to18to school. They were greatly surprised and a little afraid, but they did not try to persuade me not to. They wanted to know if I was19, and if I knew what it meant and20I realized that if I gave up my job training, it would be very difficult to get a good job. But nothing could stop me, and they asked about the matter no further.

  1. 1.
    1. A.
      stop
    2. B.
      go on
    3. C.
      continue
    4. D.
      walk
  2. 2.
    1. A.
      talk
    2. B.
      journey
    3. C.
      job
    4. D.
      walk
  3. 3.
    1. A.
      do
    2. B.
      sit
    3. C.
      talk
    4. D.
      work
  4. 4.
    1. A.
      family
    2. B.
      class
    3. C.
      city
    4. D.
      country
  5. 5.
    1. A.
      absent
    2. B.
      missed
    3. C.
      lost
    4. D.
      over
  6. 6.
    1. A.
      too
    2. B.
      very
    3. C.
      much
    4. D.
      quite
  7. 7.
    1. A.
      mind
    2. B.
      heart
    3. C.
      soul
    4. D.
      thought
  8. 8.
    1. A.
      defeated
    2. B.
      beat
    3. C.
      won
    4. D.
      hit
  9. 9.
    1. A.
      TV
    2. B.
      radio
    3. C.
      shoe
    4. D.
      food
  10. 10.
    1. A.
      looked
    2. B.
      fixed
    3. C.
      shouted
    4. D.
      stared
  11. 11.
    1. A.
      talk
    2. B.
      film
    3. C.
      conversation
    4. D.
      speech
  12. 12.
    1. A.
      reason
    2. B.
      cause
    3. C.
      excuse
    4. D.
      wish
  13. 13.
    1. A.
      advised
    2. B.
      suggested
    3. C.
      agreed
    4. D.
      persuaded
  14. 14.
    1. A.
      poems
    2. B.
      stories
    3. C.
      speeches
    4. D.
      plans
  15. 15.
    1. A.
      less
    2. B.
      much
    3. C.
      far
    4. D.
      more
  16. 16.
    1. A.
      wandered
    2. B.
      considered
    3. C.
      discussed
    4. D.
      wondered
  17. 17.
    1. A.
      think
    2. B.
      consider
    3. C.
      spend
    4. D.
      imagine
  18. 18.
    1. A.
      drop
    2. B.
      leave
    3. C.
      return
    4. D.
      go to
  19. 19.
    1. A.
      sure
    2. B.
      clear
    3. C.
      curious
    4. D.
      true
  20. 20.
    1. A.
      whether
    2. B.
      that
    3. C.
      how
    4. D.
      what
CCBBA ABCAD BCDAD DDCAA
1.选C。从下文可知,我在夜校“继续”学文学。go on后面需接with后再接宾语。
2.选C。该句中it指“从城市的一头到另一头上夜校”这件事,所以选job。如果选B或D项,需表达为It was a tiresome journey/walk to go from...。
3.选B。因为是上夜校,所以我“坐”在成人中间。
4.选B。我是“班”里最小的学生。
5.选A。absent表示“不存在的;缺乏的”。因为夜校以成人为主,我与他们的年龄差距使得我上学时的那种友谊不存在了。
6.选A。此处用too表示我有些厌倦。
7.选B。put one’s heart into sth.意为“把整个身心放在某事上;用全部精力去做某事”。mind的使用结构为put one’s mind on sth.。
8.选C。此处用won表示“获奖”。
9.选A。根据下文“拍短片”可推断是电视公司。
10.选D。根据语境我在“全国获奖”“吃惊又不相信”可以推断,此处用表示“盯着;凝视”的s tared最佳。
11.选B。根据下一段开头可知,她想为我拍电视短片。
12.选C。既然拒绝,用表示“借口”的excuse比表示“理由”的reason更佳。
13.选D。从下文给我拍摄了短片判断,她“说服”了我。
14.选A。因为我的诗歌获奖,所以拍摄时我最可能是读着一首诗歌。
15.选D。此处表示比较,联系上下文,我肯定是对文学更感兴趣了。
16.选D。wonder表示“不知道;想知道”。
17.选D。imagine doing sth.表示“想象做某事”,myself作spending的逻辑主语。
18.选C。我想“返回”学校上学。
19.选A。父母怕我动摇,想知道我是否“确定”了。
20.选A。表示“是否”的whether引导从句,与前面的if从句并列。
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When I first knew Bill, back in   22  , he was one of the most carefree(无忧无虑)people I had ever   23  . He was always ready to have a party. He thought   24  of going out for beer at three o’clock in the morning or driving 50 miles to see an old   25  he really liked. Bill and I were in the same class in college, and   26  was never dull when he was   27  . With him there was one wild   28  after another. Sometimes I wonder how we   29  to study for our exams.

Last week I was in Houston on business and I ran into Bill in the bar at the hotel.  30  , I wasn’t even sure it was   31  . Was this short – haired businessman really the same person? I wasn’t really sure until I came near him but it indeed was Bill. Now he works for a bank. He   32  most of the evening about his job, his new car and his house. How he had changed! Back when we were in college, the  33  thing Bill cared about was possessions. Now they seemed to be his main   34  . Although I have changed quite a bit myself, somehow, I never   35  Bill changing so much. My image of him   36  the one I had formed   37  the time when we were college students together.

I suppose it’s   38  to expect people to remain the same, especially   39  I have changed so much myself. But I must say that I enjoyed the old Bill much more than the new Bill. Maybe he   40  the same way about me.

A.proper      B.same     C.usual        D.right

A.childhood   B.the army   C.his thirties    D.college

A.considered  B.supposed    C.met          D.expected

1,3,5

One day I heard that one of my dear friends had lost his mother. This made me sad, for my friend was very close to his mother. He had been by her side as she traveled through her long and hard journey with cancer. At this time, many memories about my loved ones that had passed away came flooding to me. Finally these memories passed, but it was really sad to think that my friend would have to go through the pain.

Three times I tried to write an email to my friend and three times words failed me. I am a person who is not often lost for words and I decided to have a sleep. Upon waking up I could hardly wait for my computer to work, the words I needed were there. I was still left with a heavy heart although I had sent an email.

Everything in this universe is balanced and indeed it is. Three days later, I received his reply letter. I was happy to hear that he’d been admitted to (录取) Cambridge University. It served as a gentle reminder for me that my friend would be okay and that life would go on.

Everything in life is balanced; the lowest feelings change places with the highest feelings. Without the lows, we would never appreciate the highs. No matter how dark the clouds seem to be, the sunshine is always there and just waiting for the opportunity to shine through.

1. When the author learnt her friend had lost his mother, she ______.

A.gave him some money

B.wrote an email to him

C.went to visit him

D.went for a journey with him

2.What good news did the author’s friend receive?

A.He received the author’s email.

B.He was told that life would go on.

C.He would go to Cambridge University.

D.His life would go back to normal again

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A.The author wrote four emails to her friend.

B.The mother of the author’s friend died from cancer.

C.The author’s friend is a teacher in Cambridge University.

D.The author felt relaxed after sending the email.

4. From the text, we can learn that the author is ______.

A.sincere and warm-hearted

B.proud and confident

C.serious and friendly

D.funny and responsible

5. The author aims to tell us that ______.

A.life is not fair to everybody

B.time waits for no man

C.everyone has good and bad times in life

D.where there is a will, there is a way

 

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Then Ms. Yates started to speak:

“I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here. I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven’t appeared in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the birth your children, in my imagination.”

Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:

“It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful in you chosen path.”

“There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.”

There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar(呼喊). Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.

1.What activity was organized for the school reunion?

A.Sightseeing in the park.

B.A picnic on the school playground.

C.Telling stories about past events.

D.Graduates’ reports in the old building.

2.What can be inferred from Paragraph 2? 

A.Some graduates were too busy to listen to Ms. Yates’ speech.

B.Many graduates disliked Ms. Yates’ ways of teaching.

C.Some people got tired from the reunion activities.

D.Most people had little interest in the reunion.

3.We can learn from Ms. Yates’ speech that she _____________.

A.kept track of her students’ progress

B.gave her students advice on their careers

C.attended her students’ college graduations

D.went to her students’ wedding ceremonies

4.What was Ms.Yates’ belief in teaching teenagers?

A.Teachers’ knowledge is the key to students’ achievements.

B.Pressure on students from teachers should be reduced.

C.Hard-pushed students are more likely to succeed.

D.Students’ respect is the best reward for teachers.

 

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As I walked down the  35  streets under the tall buildings, I felt very small and cold, so I began  36  both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out  37  a few homeless people under blankets.

About a block from my  38 , I heard a sound behind me. I   39  quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me  40  so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I   41  what the noise had been. It had been my wallet  42  to the sidewalk.

Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk   43  for 15 minutes, my wallet was   44  to be found.

Just as I was about to quit the  45  , I heard the garbage truck stop to the sidewalk next to  46  . When a voice came from the inside, “Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened and out jumped a small blonde(金发碧眼的) man with an  47  look in his eyes. “Is this  48  you’re looking for?” He asked, holding up something like a wallet.

It was already 3 a.m. by the time I got into bed. I couldn’t get much sleep, but I had got my wallet back. I also had got back some  49  of city life. I realized the city couldn’t be a bad place  50  people were willing to help each other.

1.

A.comfortable

B.serious

C.tiresome

D.fortunate

 

2.

A.comfort

B.desire

C.pain

D.trouble

 

3.

A.setting up

B.giving up

C.holding up

D.picking up

 

4.

A.expected

B.changed

C.controlled

D.possessed

 

5.

A.deserted

B.crowded

C.blank

D.narrow

 

6.

A.running

B.jumping

C.moving

D.marching

 

7.

A.towards

B.except

C.including

D.between

 

8.

A.bank

B.theatre

C.apartment

D.office

 

9.

A.stood

B.walked

C.turned

D.left

 

10.

A.satisfied

B.confused

C.frightened

D.annoyed

 

11.

A.turn out

B.figure out

C.give out

D.pull out

 

12.

A.belonging

B.adding

C.sticking

D.falling

 

13.

A.gratefully

B.anxiously

C.skillfully

D.delightedly

 

14.

A.nowhere

B.anywhere

C.everywhere

D.somewhere

 

15.

A.instruction

B.training

C.search

D.acting

 

16.

A.it

B.him

C.someone

D.me

 

17.

A.amused

B.unpleasant

C.uneasy

D.embarrassed

 

18.

A.what

B.who

C.whichever

D.whomever

 

19.

A.production

B.judgment

C.friendship

D.appreciation

 

20.

A.as soon as

B.as long as

C.as far as

D.as well as

 

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Radcliffe, who failed to complete the Olympic marathon and the 10,000m last August, said: "Athens made me a stronger person and it made me care less about criticism"

"In the past I wanted to please everyone, but now I am going to listen even more to the people around me."

She didn't care about criticism made at the weekend by Liz McColgan, who felt Radcliffe should have rested and let her body recover after her failure in Athens.

"Liz is someone I look up to but she hasn't spoken to me since last year and if she really cared for me, I'm sure she would have contacted me."

Instead Radcliffe won the New York City marathon just 11 weeks after Athens.

"In New York I wasn't in my best state but I did know I was good enough to win the race."

Radcliffe insisted her only goal in Sunday's race would be winning a third title and not chasing world records.

However, Radcliffe has not ruled out in the future chasing her "final" world record time and questioned sayings that marathon runners have the ability in their career to produce only four or five world-class times.

"I don't think that ——although I can't put a number on it," said. Radcliffe. "That changes from person to person."

Radcliffe is sure she can better her winning London 2003 performance at some point in the future. Following a successful three-month training period in the United States, the 31-year-old will chase a third title on Sunday after her first victory in 2002 and again 12 months later.

Radcliffe clocked a time of 2:18:56 in her first 42.2-kilometre race three years ago.

Afterwards she set a "mixed course" mark of 2:17:18 five months later in Chicago before lowering that to a time of 2:15:25 in the 2003 London event.

1.Radcliffe’s failure in Athens made her___________.?

A. develop respect for Liz?   B. love people around her more?

C. rest for five months?      D. face criticism calmly?

2.Which of the following is true according to the passage??

A. Radcliffe broke the world record in the New York City marathon.?

B. Radcliffe didn’t fully recover before the New York City marathon.?

C. Radcliffe won her first marathon title in the New York City marathon.?

D. Radcliffe had a 3-month training before the New York City marathon.?

3.By saying “I can’t put a number on it,” Radcliffe means she’s not sure ___________.?

A. if she has the ability to set a new world record?

B. if she can win another race though she has won many times?

C. how many times a marathon runner can set the world record?

D. if she has the ability to produce four or five world-class times?

4.According to the text, Radcliffe has won ___________ London marathon title(s).?

A. one     B. two?             C. three          D. four

5.What can we learn from Radcliffe’s story??

A. Practice makes perfect.?            B. Well begun is half done.?

C. Where there is a will, there is a way.?  D. A friend in need is a fried indeed.

 

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