题目内容
There at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, my l4-year-old son, John, and I noticed the coat. While the other coats drooped (低垂), this one looked as if it were 41 itself up. The coat was beautifully made, with a Fifth Avenue label and an 42 price of $28, which was popular just then with 43 , but could cost several hundred dollars new. John tried it on and the 44 was perfect.
John 45 the coat to school the next day and came home with a big smile. “Did the kids like your coat?” I asked. “They loved it,” he said, 46 folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, a 47 came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness (作对) and 48 discussion replaced fierce argument. He became more mannerly and 49 , eager to please. He would generously lend his younger brother his tapes and lecture him 50 his behavior. When I mentioned this 51 to his teacher and wondered what caused the changes, she said laughing. “It 52 be his coat!” Another teacher told him she was giving him a good mark not only because he had earned 53 but because she liked his coat. At the library, we ran 54 a friend. “Could this be John?” he asked surprisingly, 55 John’s new height, appreciating the cut of his coat and holding out his hand, one gentleman to another.
John and I both know we should never 56 a person’s clothes for the real person within them. 57 , there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for 58 what is on the inside with what is on the outside.
For John, it is a time when it is as easy to try on different 59 to life as it is to try on a coat. The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast landscape 60 all the doors are open. And he could picture himself walking through those doors wearing his wonderful, magical coat.
|
1. |
|
|
2. |
|
|
3. |
|
|
4. |
|
|
5. |
|
|
6. |
|
|
7. |
|
|
8. |
|
|
9. |
|
|
10. |
|
|
11. |
|
|
12. |
|
|
13. |
|
|
14. |
|
|
15. |
|
|
16. |
|
|
17. |
|
|
18. |
|
|
19. |
|
|
20. |
|
1.B
2.C
3.A
4.D
5.D
6.C
7.B
8.A
9.A
10.B
11.A
12.B
13.C
14.C
15.A
16.B
17.A
18.D
19.C
20.A
【解析】
1.本题考查动词。其他的大衣都显得没精打采，惟独这件衣服趾高气扬。hold up 举起；与前面的drooped相对。
2.本题考查形容词。做得很漂亮，商标是第五大街的，价钱让人难以置信，只卖28美元。
3.本题考查名词。那时在小伙子们中很流行。14岁的儿子试穿，自然是对孩子们来说的。
4.本题考查名词。衣服合身极了。fit合适的衣服。
5.本题考查动词。第二天约翰就穿着它去上学了。
6.本题考查副名词。一边在椅子背儿上把衣服仔细地叠起来。自己喜欢的东西，自然小心对待。
7.本题考查名词。在接下来的几周内，约翰慢慢地变了。结合下文“变得听话而不再故意作对，遇事能心平气和地商讨而不再强词夺理。他变得更明事理、更有礼貌，也更体贴人了。他也乐于讨人欢喜。”可知答案。也可根据51题后的what caused the changes。
8.本题考查动词。 见47题解析。
9.本题考查形容词。见47题解析。
10.本题考查介词。他会很慷慨地把自己的磁带借给弟弟，并告诫他如何有良好的行为举止。lecture sb on/about sth 告诫某人有关某事。
11.本题考查名词。当我对他的一个老师提起这件事，并说我不知道这是为什么时，她笑着说：“一定是（must）因为他的大衣！”incident 指小事件或附带事件。
12.本题考查情态动词。见51题解析。
13.本题考查代词。另一个老师告诉他，她要给他一个好成绩，不仅仅因为他理应获得，还因为她喜欢他的大衣。It代替a good mark。
14.本题考查介词。在图书馆里我们遇见了一位朋友，他已经很长时间没有看见我们的孩子了。run into偶然碰见；遭遇。
15.本题考查动词短语。看着约翰长高的个子，品评着他大衣的样式，这位朋友不禁问道：“这是约翰吗？”[look up at ]抬头向上看……。
16.本题考查动词。约翰和我都知道不应该以貌取人。mistake for把…错认为…。
17.本题考查副词。“可穿着优雅为世人看，在思想上、言语上、行动上实践优秀的标准，以达到内外的和谐统一，这又另当别论”。与上文是转折关系。
18.本题考查动词。match sth to sth 将...和...搭配起来。
19.本题考查名词。尝试不同的生活方式就如同试衣服一样简单。approaches to sth……的方法/方式。
20.本题考查连词。where 引导定语从句在句中作状语。“整个世界、整个未来在你面前展开，犹如一幅巨大的画卷，那里的每一扇门都敞开着。”
Last year, Jack Bleed cut through the bone of his ring finger while working. The 31-year-old resident of North Little Rock, Arkansas, waited for about six hours at a nearby medical center while the medical staff there called all over town — even as far away as Dallas and Memphis — to find a hand surgeon to reattach his finger. Finally, a willing doctor was located in Louisville, Kentucky. But even though Bleed had insurance(保险), he would have to hire a private plane to get himself there, at a cost of $4,300. In the end, he charged the cost to two credit cards, and his finger was saved. His insurance company eventually covered the cost of the plane, but his experience makes people aware of the fact that trauma(外伤) care in the United States is not only geographically limited, but in many places, non-existent.
Only eight states — New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Washington — have local, fully functional trauma systems. The remaining states have partial systems, and 12 — including Arkansas — have no trauma system at all.
Although the President has signed a bill of $12 million for the purpose of supporting trauma care systems nationwide, many in Congress(国会) are unwilling to spend government money for a service they think should be paid for by states, says Wayne Meredith, medical director for trauma programs at the American College of Surgeons. Meanwhile, many states have also failed to find the dollars to support trauma systems. 
To make matters worse, many people without insurance depend heavily on the emergency care services, placing a huge financial burden on the medical centers that serve them.
For the same reason, doctors, too, often go unpaid. They are unwilling to perform emergency care, worsening critical shortages of neurosurgeons, orthopedists, and hand surgeons — the very types of specialists Bleed needed at short notice.
Supporting a trauma care system doesn’t take much. A half-penny sales tax in Miami-Dade County makes its outstanding system work. In Arkansas alone, says Wayne Meredith, a well-funded trauma system would possibly prevent 200 to 600 deaths each year. If trauma care systems were to work well across the nation, experts say, many thousands of lives each year could be saved. “You don’t get much better return on your investment than that,” Meredith says.
【小题1】
In Paragraph 1, the writer uses Bleed’s case to ______.
| A．make a comparison | B．describe a person |
| C．introduce a topic | D．tell a story |
Many people in Congress argue that trauma care systems should be supported by ______.
| A．the President | B．each state |
| C．insurance companies | D．the US government |
The example of Miami-Dade County shows that ______.
| A．its tax policy is admirable |
| B．running a trauma system is profitable |
| C．a trauma system is not expensive |
| D．sales tax is not heavy in small counties |
Why are the present trauma care systems in some states not satisfactory?
| A．They are shared by all the states. |
| B．They are short of financial support. |
| C．The doctors are not well trained. |
| D．The hospitals can’t provide low-cost services. |