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When I was a little girl, I found love in a box all because of a class assignment. On a Friday night I 36 at the dinner table, “My teacher said we have to bring a box, a special box, for our valentines on Monday”.
Mother said, “We’ll see,” and she continued eating.
What did “We’ll see” mean? I had to have that box, 37 my second grade Valentine’s Day would be a disaster. Maybe they didn’t love me enough to help me with my 38 .
All Saturday I waited 39 and with Sunday arriving, my concern increased. However, I 40 that an enquiry about the box would 41 anger or loud voices, for in my house children only asked once. More than that 42 trouble.
Late Sunday afternoon, my father called me into the kitchen. The table was covered with different kinds of colorful 43 . A (n) 44 shoebox rested on top of it. 45 flooded through me when Daddy said, “Let’s get started 46 your project.”
In the next hour my father 47 the shoebox into an impressive valentine box. Colorful paper covered the ugly cardboard with red hearts 48 to what I considered all the right places. He sang while he worked. When he finished, he was so delighted that a 49 smile spread across his face. “What do you think of that?” he asked.
I answered him with a hug.
But inside, 50 danced all the way to my heart. It was the first time that my father had devoted so much 51 to me, for his world consisted only of work.
The holiday party arrived, and my classmates put cards and presents into the valentine boxes. Laughter filled our classroom until dismissal time 52 .
On the way home, I held out my valentine box for the world to 53 . The love that filled it meant more to me than all the valentines inside.
The valentine box became a symbol of his love that 54 through decades of other Valentine’s Days. My father gave me other gifts through the years, but none 55 compared with the love I felt within the limits of the old, empty shoebox.
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解析试题分析:这是一个情感故事,讲述了一位父亲帮助女儿完成情人节作业——制作情人节盒子的故事,体现了浓浓的亲情。
【小题1】A 从上下文可知,我在饭桌上向家人宣布了(announce)老师要求交的作业。appear表示“出现”;serve表示“服务”;sit表示“坐”,都与语意不符。
【小题2】C 从上下文语句知,我必须要有情人节盒子,否则(or)这个情人节将会是一场灾难。此处表示转折,用or。
【小题3】D 下文11空格后的project有暗示,表示“作业”。
【小题4】B 从下文my concern increased可以推断出,我当时的心情——焦急不安(waited anxiously),但是,我知道(know)我父母的脾气,在我家,小孩子只能问一次,过多的询问可能会使(cause)父母生气。
【小题5】C 语意参见4题解析。find表示“发现”,realize表示“意识到”,imagine表示“想像”,都不符合语意。
【小题6】B 语意参见4题解析。start表示“开始”;mark表示“标记”;produce表示“生产”,都不符合语意。cause表示“导致”。
【小题7】A invite trouble是固定词组,表示“招灾惹祸”。
【小题8】C 从第六段中的“Colorful paper covered...”知,当时桌上堆满了各式各样的彩纸(colorful paper),同时在上面还放着一只空鞋盒(empty shoebox)。
【小题9】D 语意参见8题解析。文章结尾的empty shoebox有暗示。
【小题10】B 看到彩纸和盒子,听到父亲说要帮助自己做情人节盒子,我大感解脱(relief)。relief表示“解脱”;relaxation表示“放松”;cheer表示“振作,欢呼”;calm表示“冷静”。
【小题11】D 此时父亲说“让我们开始做你的作业吧”。此处get started on sth.是固定词组,表示“开始做……”。
【小题12】C 此处表示“父亲用一个小时把鞋盒变成了(change)令人印象深刻的情人节盒子”。change...into...表示“把……变成……”。
【小题13】B 固定词组attach to表示“依附于,附属于……”。
【小题14】C 父亲边做边唱,非常高兴,当他做完后,脸上露出了开朗的笑容(broad smile)。slight表示“轻微的”;brief表示“简要的”;confident表示“自信的”都不符合语境。
【小题15】A 我看到那做好的漂亮的盒子,心花怒放,选用joy“高兴,快乐”。fun表示“乐趣”;interest表示“兴趣”;amusement表示“娱乐,消遣”都不符合语境。
【小题16】B 我高兴,因为这是父亲第一次把这么多的时间(time)花在我身上,他的世界原本只有工作。
【小题17】D 从上下文知,最后,放学的时间到了(come)。
【小题18】C 回家的路上,我拿出那盒子想让全世界的人都来欣赏(admire)它。accept表示“接受”;respect表示“尊敬”;recognize表示“辨认”都不符合语境。
【小题19】D 那个情人节盒子成了父爱的象征,一直持续了(last)几十年,这些年,父亲给过我很多其他礼物,但从来没有一样能比得上那包含在破旧的空鞋盒里面的关爱。last在此表示“持续”。
【小题20】A 语意参见19题解析。ever意为“在任何时候,从来”,符合语意。
考点:考查情感类短文阅读
点评:这是一个情感故事,讲述了一位父亲帮助女儿完成情人节作业——制作情人节盒子的故事,体现了浓浓的亲情。本文主要是测试学生综合运用语言的能力,即从语篇的角度综合测试阅读理解能力、词汇的掌握和对英语习惯用语的熟悉程度、以及语法规则的灵活运用。考生做题时必须时刻从上下文考虑,不应该只看到所添的词在短语或句子内是否可行。因此,在做题时最好将全文通读一下,了解了全文的意思以后再作答。
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Albert Einstein said, “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” Once __41 __, such opportunities are like valuable diamonds hidden in the sand.
Several years ago, I spoke at a school about how we were surrounded by “___42___ ” if we could only recognize them. A man stopped by to see me, and I remembered him as somebody who had suffered through a(n) ___43___ divorce (离婚) and was examining what was most important to him. He took a small ___44___ out of his pocket. Here is what he said to me that day.
“I ___45___ on this stone when I was leaving church last Sunday. You had spoken about ___46___ opportunities—diamonds. I put the stone in my ___47___ to remind me to look for those “diamonds” that I need. I have been trying to sell my business . On Monday morning, a man who seemed interested in ___48___ some of my stock (股票) stopped by. I thought, ‘Here’s my diamond—don’t let it ___49___!’ I sold the entire stock to him by noon. Now my next diamond is to find a new ___50___ !”
Not long afterward, he did find a new and better job. From then on, he decided to keep his stone with him all the time as a ___51___ to look for “diamonds” as he dug through the ___52___ of life.
Richard DeVos is right when he points out. “This is an exciting world. It is filled with opportunities. Great moments wait around every corner.” Those moments are diamonds that, ___53___ left unrecognized, will be forever lost.
Are you looking for “diamonds” every day? If not, you may ___54___ pass them by! Perhaps there is a diamond of opportunity hidden in the difficulty you’re ___55___ now.
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请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 31 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 32 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been 33 for years—often from 34 childhood. These stories may have no 35 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 36 my development? I was never 37 to work on cars or be around 38 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later, 39 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 40 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 41 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 42 and told him about my 43 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 44 is it that you can solve 45 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 46 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 47 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 48 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 49 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 50 we choose.
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