It's 7 am Kyoto (东京), Japan, and the taxi company has just called a second time to say they can't find my house.  1  I tell him directions. even a blind person can  2  , look impatiently at my watch, and wait. Only two hours remain until my  3  leavesand it's an hour-and-a-half trip to Osaka airport.

  The telephone rings  4  .“Terribly sorry,”begins the clerk. Then I  5  what's happened: flooded with  6  , the company is too busy. I've heard this happens when the weather gets  7  . I shout into the  8  that I have a plane to catchI must be in Seoul  9  and I'll meet the  10  a few hundred meters away on a bridge over the Kamo River.

  Standing in the heavy  11  , I look up and down. No  12  From the other direction a white car comes up, then stops. A young man opens the door, signing to me to  13  . Shaking with cold and  14  , I climb inside.

  In the most  15  Japanese, the man explains to me that he is the person with whom I have spoken  16  this morning. He apologizes again and again, but does not explain why a taxi could  17  except to say they are“very, very busy”this morning.

  A few hours later, seated into my seat as the storm-delayed 727  18  , I open the  19  . My eyes wander to the headline (标题) of a short article:“Taxi Strike Begins this Morning in  20  .”

1.

[  ]

A.For the first time
B.Once again
C.Several times
D.Many times

2.

[  ]

A.see
B.feel
C.touch
D.follow

3.

[  ]

A.car
B.ship
C.taxi
D.flight

4.

[  ]

A.again
B.too
C.a second time
D.no more

5.

[  ]

A.am pleased with
B.am surprised at
C.realize
D.am terrified at

6.

[  ]

A.calls
B.rain
C.roads
D.buses

7.

[  ]

A.fine
B.cloudy
C.sunny
D.bad

8.

[  ]

A.clerk's ear
B.phone
C.speaker
D.company

9.

[  ]

A.at noon
B.by noon
C.by afternoon
D.in the evening

10.

[  ]

A.plane
B.clerk
C.car
D.taxi

11.

[  ]

A.wind
B.crowds
C.rain
D.clouds

12.

[  ]

A.taxi
B.car
C.bus
D.plane

13.

[  ]

A.get on
B.get off
C.get out
D.get in

14.

[  ]

A.wind
B.anger
C.hunger
D.illness

15.

[  ]

A.rude
B.polite
C.pleasant
D.impatient

16.

[  ]

A.three times
B.twice
C.only once
D.four times

17.

[  ]

A.push me aside
B.not pick me up
C.put away
D.put off

18.

[  ]

A.lands
B.drivers
C.starts
D.takes off

19.

[  ]

A.book
B.magazine
C.newspaper
D.window

20.

[  ]

A.Japan
B.Kyoto
C.Osaka
D.Seoul

Lie in bed, by an open window, and listen…
“No air conditioning? How can you sleep?” a friend asks, horrified. I tell her my family has decided to shut the air conditioner off and reduce our electric bill. On this first night of our cost-cutting plan, it’s only 85 degrees. We’re going to suffer, but the three kids complain anyway.
They have grown up in 72-degree comfort, protected from the world outside.
“It’s too hot to sleep,” my 13-year-old daughter complains. “I’m about to die from this heat,” her brother complains down the hall. “Just try it tonight,” I tell them. In truth I’m too tired to turn for long. My face is sweaty, but I lie quietly listening to the cricket choirs outside that remind me of childhood.
The neighbor’s dog howls. Probably a passing squirrel. It’s been years since I took the time to really listen to the night.
I think about grandma, who lived to 92 and still helped with my mom’s gardening until just a few weeks before she died. And then, I’m back there at her house in the summer heat of my childhood. I move my pillow to the foot of grandma’s bed and turn my face toward the open window. I turn the pillow, hunting for the cooler side.
Grandma saw me turn over and over. “If you just watch for the breeze(清风),” she said, “you’ll cool off and fall asleep.” I stare at the filmy white curtain, willing it to move. Lying still, waiting, I suddenly notice the life outside the window. The bug chorus. Neighbors, porch(门廊)-sitting late, speak in unclear words that calm me.
“Mom, did you hear that?” my seven-year-old son cries, “I think it was an owl(猫头鹰)family.”
“Probably,” I tell him, “just keep listening…”
Without the working air conditioner, the house is peaceful, and the natural night noises seem close enough to touch. I hope I’m awake tonight when the first breeze comes in.
【小题1】On the first night of the writer’s cost-cutting plan, her children ______.

A.live a comfortable life as usual
B.begin to be unhappy
C.are protected from the world outside
D.are about to die from the heat
【小题2】The author talks about her grandmother and her childhood to show that ______.
A.people used to live a hard life
B.people at that time were hardworking
C.it’s OK for people to live a simple life
D.she has learned a great deal from her grandma
【小题3】In the writer’s eyes, her children are ______.
A.free from parents’ protection
B.full of dissatisfaction with life
C.dependable because of parents’ love
D.lacking in real test of hardships in life
【小题4】Which of the following titles best suits the passage?
A.Waiting for the Breeze.
B.An Interesting Experience.
C.Life at Present and Life in the Past.
D.Different Times, Different Children

I cheated on a unit test in math class this morning during second period with Mr. Burke. Afterward, I was too sick to eat lunch just thinking about it.

I came straight home from school, went to my room, and lay on the floor trying to decide whether it would be better to run away from home now or after supper. Mostly I wished I was dead. It wasn't even an accident that I cheated.

Yesterday Mr. Burke announced there'd be a unit test and anyone who didn't pass would have to come to school on Saturday, most particularly me, since I didn't pass the last unit test. I did plan to study just to prove to him that I'm plenty smart—which I am mostly—except in math.

Anyway, I got my desk ready to study on . Just when I was ready to work, Nicho came into my room with our new rabbit and it jumped on my desk and knocked the flashcards all over the floor. What a mess! Nicho and I finally took the rabbit outside but then Philip came to my room and also Marty from next door and before long it was dinner.

After dinner my father said I could watch a special on television if I'd done all my homework. Of course I said I had. That was the beginning. I felt terrible telling my father a lie about the homework.

It was nine o'clock when I got up to my room and that was too late to study for the unit test so I lay in my bed with the light off and decided what I would do the next day when I was in Mr. Burke's math class not knowing the 8- and 9-times tables. So, you see, the cheating was planned after all.

The next day, I'd go into class as usual, acting like things were going just great. I'd sit down next to Stanley Plummer—he is so smart in math it makes you sick—and from time to time, I'd glance over at his paper to copy the answers.

Lying on the floor of my room, I begin to think that probably I've been bad all along. It just took this math test to clinch it. I'll probably never tell the truth again. I tell my mother I'm sick when she calls me to come down for dinner. She doesn't believe me, but puts me to bed anyhow. I lie there in the early winter darkness wondering what terrible thing I'll be doing next when my father comes in and sits down on my bed.

"What's the matter?" he asks. "I've got a stomachache," I say. Luckily, it's too dark to see his face. "Is that all?" "Yeah." "Mommy says you've been in your room since school." "I was sick there too," I say. "She thinks something happened today and you're upset." That's the thing that really drives me crazy about my mother. She knows things sitting inside my head the same as if I was turned inside out.

"Well," my father says. I can tell he doesn't believe me. "My stomach is feeling sort of upset." I hedge. "Okay," he says and he pats my leg and gets up.

Just as he shuts the door to my room I call out to him in a voice I don't even recognize as my own. "How come?" he calls back not surprised or anything. So I tell him I cheated on this math test. To tell the truth, I'm pretty much surprised at myself. I didn't plan to tell him anything.

He doesn't say anything at first and that just about kills me. I'd be fine if he'd spank me or something. And then he says I'll have to call Mr. Burke. It's not what I had in mind. "Now?" I ask surprised. "Now," he says. He turns on the light and pulls off my covers. "I'm not going to," I say.

But I do it. I call Mr. Burke, and I tell him exactly what happened, even that I decided to cheat the night before the test. He says I'll come on Saturday to take another test, which is okay with me, and I thank him a whole lot for being understanding and all.

"Today I thought I was turning into a criminal," I tell my father when he turns out my light. Sometimes my father kisses me good night and sometimes he doesn't. I never know. But tonight he does.

1.After the author cheated on the math test, he felt ____________.

A.frightened because he might be caught

B.excited that he had succeeded

C.pleased that nobody knew it

D.unhappy because he had done something wrong

2.By “It wasn't even an accident that I cheated”, the author means that ________.

A.he had planned not to study before the test

B.he decided to cheat when he knew there was going to be a test

C.he decided to cheat after he had wasted the whole evening

D.he had planned to cheat with Plummer before the test

3.The author’ mother often drives him crazy because _____-.

A.She really knows what he is thinking

B.she was very strict with him

C.she doesn’t believe him

D.she asks him to come down for dinner

4.After he was informed of what he had done, the father _______.

A.scolded the author severely

B.didn’t say anything and left

C.called Mr. Burke immediately

D.let the author make a call to Mr. Burke

5.The author’s father kissed the author good night because ________-.

A.he had done something unusual

B.he promised to study math harder

C.he was willing to take a make-up test

D.he realized his mistake and had the courage to admit it

 

I’m lying on my back in my grandfather’s orchard(果园),looking up at the branches above me. It is one of the last days of summer. Already the days are shorter and the nights are cooler. Some kinds of apples are already ripe(成熟的). Others will be ready to pick soon. I think of my grandmother’s apple pie(苹果馅饼), and how I used to make it with her. She died last year, before the apple harvest, and I have not had her pie since. I really miss her. I hear bees busily humming about, visiting the late summer flowers. The gentle hum of their wings nearly sends me to sleep.

The sky is as blue as my grandfather’s eyes. Above me, big white clouds race across the sky like pieces of cotton blowing in the wind. School starts in another week, and time seems to have slowed down.

“Sophie!” calls my grandfather. “Is that you?” I stand up, take his hand, and tell him all about my day as we walk through the orchard. We talk about apples, and bees, and Grandma. He tells me that he misses her too.

He puts his rough, brown farmer’s hand around my shoulder and pulls me close. “You know, Sophie,” he says, “ I spent the morning in the attic(阁楼), and you’ll never guess what I found. It’s the recipe(烹饪法)for Grandma’s apple pie. I used to help her make it sometimes. I can’t do it all alone, but you used to help her too. Maybe between the two of us, we can work it out. Want to try?”

“ But it won’t be the same without Grandma,” I tell him.

“ That’s true,” he says, “ but nothing is the same without Grandma. Still, I don’t think that she would want us never to have another apple pie. What do you say?” I nod yes, and we walk towards home… towards an afternoon in the farmhouse kitchen, making Grandma’s famous apple pie.

1. We learn from the passage that Sophie       .

A.likes to watch clouds in the attic

B.comes to the orchard after school

C.enjoys Grandma’s apple pie very much

D.picks many apples in the orchard

2.Both Sophie and her grandfather used to        .

A.help Grandma make apple pies

B.spend summer afternoons in the orchard

C.enjoy fresh fruit in the farmhouse kitchen

D.walk alone among the apple trees

3.The underlined part in the last paragraph shows          .

A.how much Sophie’s grandmother loved Sophie

B.how much Sophie’s grandfather likes apple pies

C.how much Sophie loves her grandfather’s orchard

D.how much Sophie’s grandfather misses Grandma

4. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?.

A.My grandfather’s orchard

B.My grandmother’s apple pie

C.A morning in the attic

D.The last days of summer

 

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