题目内容
His heart ________ fast when the teacher asked him a difficult question.
- A.beat
- B.hit
- C.jumped
- D.ran
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him，and let him know that you trust him.” These words are from the black American educator，Booker Washington. He was saying that，“If you want people to grow up，you have to stop treating them like children.”
In America，families are close but children
are encouraged to be independent，to make their own decisions，even at a very early age. It’s not unusual for a child of seven to be given an allowance(津贴)every week. The child is encouraged to save some of the money but he or she can spend it on whatever they choose，for example，buying clothes，school supplies or CDs. Some teenagers even have their own credit cards! That’s a big responsibility since even adults are tempted to overspend when they have credit cards.
From an early age，American children are asked for their opinions and they are included in family decision making. At the dinner table，teenagers will be listened to on any topic，from politics to 
buying a new family car or where the family will go on vacation. In this way, teenagers are getting practice in becoming individuals：they are learning how to stand on their own two feet.
Many Chinese young people are becoming almost as interested as American teens in searching for independence. They want to express those qualities that make them unique human beings. You can see this in the way they dress, the music they listen to and the friends they choose. “Super Girl” Li Yuchun caught the imagination of Chinese teenagers on the “Super Girl” television contest. She was not the traditional “nice，young Chinese girl”. With her short，spiky hair and boy-like clothes, she was
telling everyone that she was different. She had the courage to be her own person and to stand on her own two 
feet...and she won!
There is an old saying，“Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him and then choose that way with all his strength.” If you do this, step by step, over a period of time, you may find that you have become the person you always wanted to be.
【小题1】The passage is intended to encourage the youth to________.
| A．save money for useful things | B．become independent |
| C．express their great ambitions | D．make important decisions |
| A．be accepted as a popular guy | B．learn to decide how to use money |
| C．overspend money without care | D．have school supplies of his own |
| A．are more independent than Americans | B．should become interested in America |
| C．are happy with their present situation | D．are not satisfied to be nice, quiet ones |
| A．that we should do things step by step | B．why we should understand our desires |
| C．what we should plan for our own life | D．how we can manage to realize our dreams |
A few months ago I was at a bus stop in town in the evening. The bus came on time and I took the window seat. The bus route was by the seashore and I was enjoying the breeze (微风) while watching the sea waves. After a few minutes the bus made its next stop. A young boy and a girl got on. They were standing on my left when the bus pulled off. I looked at them curiously and realized that all the window seats were occupied (占据). They could sit but not together. Suddenly a different wave passed through my body and my inner mind gave me the advice to get up. I got up and offered them my seat. The young lady smiled kindly and said thanks. I occupied another seat and we parted our ways. I don’t remember whether I got off the bus before them or not.
Months passed by. Suddenly one day while I was standing at the same bus stop waiting some time for the bus to arrive I heard a voice.
“Excuse me, Uncle.” I looked in the direction of the voice. It was a beautiful young lady.
Puzzled, I said, “I do not recognize you.”
She said, “Do you remember you gave us your window seat?”
Puzzled, I said, “Maybe, but what is so great in that?”
She said, “If you had not given your seat that day, perhaps I would have not sat with my friend. By sitting together it helped us bridge a misunderstanding that had been between us forever. Do you know we are getting married next month?”
“Good! God bless both of you,” I replied.
The young lady again said thank you and went on her journey. I realized the importance of giving that day.
1. Why were the young boy and the girl standing on the bus?
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A．Because they wanted to enjoy the sea view. |
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B．Because they couldn’t sit together. |
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C．Because there were no empty seats. |
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D．Because they preferred to stand. |
2. The underlined sentence in the first paragraph probably means that the author had a feeling that ______.
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A．he wanted to do something special |
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B．the sea wave made him upset |
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C．a wave from the sea flooded him |
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D．he wanted to make a sea wave in his heart |
3.From the story, we can conclude that ______.
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A．small things can create great happenings in life |
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B．it is giving rather than receiving that matters |
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C．offering one’s seat to others may win respect |
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D．we sometimes forget what happened in the past |
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21~40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选 出最佳选项。
Once upon a time there lived an old man in a nice cottage with a large garden. The old man was seen 21 his flowers all the time. They were so well-tended that every passer-by could not but 22 for a glance.
One day a young man went by the garden. He gazed at the splendid garden, 23 in admiration at the beauty of these sceneries. Then, suddenly he 24 the old gardener was blind. 25 , the young man asked, "Why are you busy tending these flowers every day which you can't 26 in fact?" The old man smiled and answered that " I can tell you 27 reasons. First I was a 28 when I was young, and I really like this job. Second, although I can't see these flowers, yet I can 29 them. Third，I can smell sweetness of them. As to the last one, that's 30 .
"Me? But you don't know me," responded the young man 31 .
"Yeah, it's 32 that I don't know you. But I know everyone knows flowers and would never 33 them down. I know the beauty of my garden will get many people into a good 34 . In the meantime, it also 35 a chance to me to have a word with you here and to enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us."
The old man's 36 astonished me. The blind man grows flowers and 37 them as a link of minds so as to make 38 enjoy the sunshine in spring. Isn't it one kind of happiness？
I believe every flower has 39 with which they can see the kindness of the man's heart. The blind man grows flowers in his heart. Though 40 to see the beauty of blossoming, he surely can hear the voice of it, I suppose.
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