James was a curious young man. Everywhere he went, he liked to observe things and to __21__ people—what they did, what they said and what they wore. Subconsciously, he was making quick __22__ all the time. He couldn’t really __23__ it; it just happened.

For example, he once saw a man whose body was __24__ with tattoos(文身). That man was strong and walked proudly. James imagined his __25__ people up, sometimes with sticks and sometimes with his hands, speaking __26__ words each time he opened his mouth. A troublemaker, perhaps, James __27__ to himself.

Sometimes James felt __28__ for judging others this way, but that feeling was __29__ and never really lasted.

Then, one day, he saw a woman seated alone in a café. The woman was __30__, quite fat, and although she was not __31__, James could tell she was a short lady. __32__, James glanced across at her, looking at her from top to bottom. As his eyes reached her __33__, he got a shock.

There she was, on her left foot, wearing a platform shoe that was at least 3 inches high. __34__ could such a little middle-aged lady who was average-looking at best be so vain as to wear high platforms? Look beautiful? In that short moment of time, __35__ thoughts flowed through James’ mind.

A second later, James’ eyes naturally moved across to the lady’s right foot. And there, he got an even bigger __36__. ----It was a flat shoe. She was not vain; she had a birth defect(缺陷) ----uneven length of her legs. If anything, she deserved __37__ and understanding, certainly not blame, not even mental ones.

James was __38__ with guilt. It was a(n) __39__ lesson he learned about not __40__ conclusions, about not judging people, especially so quickly.

A. greet                            B. watch                       C. meet                 D. cheat

A. mistakes                B. progress                   C. judgments         D. promises

A. help                      B. get                           C. accept               D. keep

A. faced                            B. covered                    C. filled                D. charged

A. cheering                B. dressing                   C. beating              D. holding 

A. humorous                     B. modest                     C. bad                   D. cautious

A. thought                 B. proved                            C. explained          D. told

A. curious                  B. guilty                       C. excited              D. happy

A. temporary                     B. strange                     C. permanent         D. deep

A. young                   B. middle-aged             C. old                   D. pretty

A. speaking                B. standing                   C. sitting               D. walking

A. Therefore                     B. However                  C. As well             D. As usual

A. feet                       B. hands                       C. eyes                  D. legs

A. When                    B. Why                        C. How                 D. What

A. inspiring                B. blaming                   C. persuading         D. defending

A. pleasure                 B. honor                       C. comfort             D. shock

A. love                      B. award                      C. sympathy          D. respect

A. hit                        B. started                      C. equipped           D. struck

A. new                      B. valuable                   C. interesting         D. difficult

A. denying                 B. reaching                   C. leading to          D. jumping to

完形填空(共20小题;每题1分,满分20分)

       阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

James was a curious young man. Everywhere he went, he liked to observe things and to __21__ people—what they did, what they said and what they wore. Subconsciously, he was making quick __22__ all the time. He couldn’t really __23__ it; it just happened.

For example, he once saw a man whose body was __24__ with tattoos(文身). That man was strong and walked proudly. James imagined his __25__ people up, sometimes with sticks and sometimes with his hands, speaking __26__ words each time he opened his mouth. A troublemaker, perhaps, James __27__ to himself.

Sometimes James felt __28__ for judging others this way, but that feeling was __29__ and never really lasted.

Then, one day, he saw a woman seated alone in a café. The woman was __30__, quite fat, and although she was not __31__, James could tell she was a short lady. __32__, James glanced across at her, looking at her from top to bottom. As his eyes reached her __33__, he got a shock.

There she was, on her left foot, wearing a platform shoe that was at least 3 inches high. __34__ could such a little middle-aged lady who was average-looking at best be so vain as to wear high platforms? Look beautiful? In that short moment of time, __35__ thoughts flowed through James’ mind.

A second later, James’ eyes naturally moved across to the lady’s right foot. And there, he got an even bigger __36__. ----It was a flat shoe. She was not vain; she had a birth defect(缺陷) ----uneven length of her legs. If anything, she deserved __37__ and understanding, certainly not blame, not even mental ones.

James was __38__ with guilt. It was a(n) __39__ lesson he learned about not __40__ conclusions, about not judging people, especially so quickly.

A. greet                         B. watch                       C. meet                 D. cheat

A. mistakes                    B. progress                   C. judgments         D. promises

A. help                            B. get                           C. accept               D. keep

A. faced                           B. covered                    C. filled                D. charged

A. cheering                    B. dressing                   C. beating              D. holding 

A. humorous                  B. modest                     C. bad                   D. cautious

A. thought                      B. proved                            C. explained          D. told

A. curious                      B. guilty                       C. excited              D. happy

A. temporary                  B. strange                     C. permanent         D. deep

A. young                        B. middle-aged             C. old                   D. pretty

A. speaking                    B. standing                   C. sitting               D. walking

A. Therefore                   B. However                  C. As well             D. As usual

A. feet                      B. hands                       C. eyes                  D. legs

A. When                          B. Why                        C. How                 D. What

A. inspiring               B. blaming                   C. persuading         D. defending

A. pleasure                       B. honor                       C. comfort             D. shock

A. love                            B. award                      C. sympathy          D. respect

A. hit                              B. started                      C. equipped           D. struck

A. new                            B. valuable                   C. interesting         D. difficult

A. denying                       B. reaching                   C. leading to          D. jumping to

A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling. Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a  patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to   36  , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.
“Frank!” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t   37   , as I knew, but all the time   38  his foot against mine.
My   39   raced back more than thirty years to the   40   days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The   41  was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.
  42   wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to   43  each other very well. Frank West   44  me because he wasn’t   45 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had   46  of a mind than a baby has. His “  47 ” consisted of rough sounds—sounds of pleasure or anger and   48  more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank   49  on her entirely. He needed all the   50  of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She   51  nearly everything she owned.
When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the   52  ones. So before we   53   that morning, I stood beside Frank and   54  my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his   55  to me was always the same.

【小题1】
A.workB.stayC.liveD.expect
【小题2】
A.answerB.speakC.smileD.laugh
【小题3】
A.coveringB.movingC.fightingD.pressing
【小题4】
A.mindsB.memoriesC.thoughtsD.brains
【小题5】
A.betterB.darkC.youngerD.old
【小题6】
A.caveB.placeC.sightD.scene
【小题7】
A.DiscussingB.SolvingC.SharingD.Suffering
【小题8】
A.learn fromB.talk toC.helpD.know
【小题9】
A.neededB.recognizedC.interestedD.encouraged
【小题10】
A.normalB.commonC.unusualD.quick
【小题11】
A.moreB.worseC.fewerD.less
【小题12】
A.wordB.speechC.sentenceD.language
【小题13】
A.notB.noC.somethingD.nothing
【小题14】
A.fedB.keptC.livedD.depended
【小题15】
A.attentionB.controlC.treatmentD.management
【小题16】
A.lostB.neededC.destroyedD.left
【小题17】
A.troublesomeB.unluckyC.angryD.unpopular
【小题18】
A.separatedB.wentC.reunitedD.returned
【小题19】
A.pushedB.triedC.showedD.measured
【小题20】
A.noddingB.greetingC.meetingD.acting

I can honestly say it was the best of times and the worst of times.I was joyfully  36  my first Child at the same time that my once-energetic mother was   37  her battle with a brain cancer.

For ten years,my courageous mother had fought,but none of the operations or other  38  had been successful.Finally,she became totally  39  unable to speak,walk,eat or dress on her own.As she grew closer and closer to death,my baby grew closer and closer to life.My biggest fear was that their lives would never  40  she and my baby could never  41  each other.

My fear seemed  42  .A few weeks before my  43  date,mother went into a deep coma(昏迷)and doctors said she would never  44  .So we brought her to her own house.As often as I could,I  45  her about the baby moving inside me.I hoped that somehow  46  inside,she knew.

On February 3rd,at about the same time my labor(分娩)started at hospital,the nurse at her house told me the  47  news:Morn opened her eyes,sitting up and smiling.I asked for the phone to be  48  to Morn’S ear.

“Morn,you’II have a new grandchild!”

“Yes!Yes!I know!”

Four words。four _49__  and beautiful words!

For the next tWO miracle weeks after I brought Jacob home,she gave US joy,smiling,holding Jacob and speaking to the family in complete  50  Then she quietly slipped back into a coma  51  and was finally free  52  the pain forever.

Memories of my son’s birth will always be   53  for me,but it was at this time that I learned an important truth about living.  54  both joy and sorrow are lasting only a short time,and often intertwined(相互纠缠),love has the   55  to face both.And love can last forever.

1.A.hoping     B.expecting            C.waiting for      D.taking care of

2.A.continuing B.starting         C.completing       D.losing

3.A.treatments B.methods          C.measures         D.injections

4.A.dull           B.unmoved          C.unconscious      D.disabled

5.A.combine        B.connect          C.mix              D.gather

6.A.replace        B.bless                C.know             D.inspire

7.A.well-founded   B.well—informed   C.well—known      D.well-planned

8.A.ready      B.final                C.due              D.fixed

9.A.come over  B.come up          C.come back            D.come around

10.A.discussed with B.talked to           C.explained to     D.described to

11.A.deep          B.dangerous            C.magic            D.mysterious

12.A.strange       B.fantastic            C.impossible       D.imaginary

13.A.built     B.set              C.felt             D.put

14.A.accurate      B.slow             C.clear                D.truthful

15.A.words     B.idioms           C.descriptions     D.sentences

16.A.state     B.setting          C.reaction         D.silence

17.A.off           B.against          C.from             D.beyond

18.A.light-hearted B.bitter-sweet     C.nice             D.fresh

19.A.If            B.As               C.Since                D.While

20.A.power     B.strength         C.force                D.energy

 

People have been burying the dead at Salem’s Hope Cemetery since 1833. The place is filled with old gravestones and gothic mausoleums(哥特式陵墓), the spirits of the dead hanging over the land like an early morning fog.
Keeping watch, a few steps from the road with her skirt over the pedestal (基座), is Goldie Belle Taylor, her face weathered but otherwise in good condition. On this day, she is holding a bunch of pink rises because Goldie Belle always holds flowers. Someone makes sure of that.
“And she has had fresh flowers in her hands for the last 150 years.” Karen Biery lives in Damascus, about five miles west of Hope Cemetery. She’s written a book based on the legend of Goldie Belle Taylor titled Believe. In 1886, at the age of two, young Goldie Belle used her hands to sop up (抹去) the left over elderberry juice from her father’s iron kettle. She died not long after from poisoning. She was the love of her dad’s life, and he was so upset that he sold the family farm to buy the Italian made statue, which today marks her grave.
At first, it was her father who brought the flowers and laid them in her hands. When he died in 1896, the flowers kept coming. Her flowers are different per season. Why do the flowers keep miraculously appearing? People have tried to find out by having camped by the statue, but not even the groundskeepers have been able to catch the criminal.
It’s said that a fairy arrives at Hope Cemetery looking for the grave of her birth mother. She comes across Goldie Belle’s statue.

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 probably refers to________.

    1. A.
      her face in good condition
    2. B.
      her bunch of pink roses
    3. C.
      Goldie Belle Taylor is holding pink roses
    4. D.
      Goldie Belle Taylor always holds flowers
  2. 2.

    It can be inferred from the third paragraph __________.

    1. A.
      her father was poisonous
    2. B.
      the iron kettle was poisonous
    3. C.
      elderberry juice was poisonous
    4. D.
      it was her father that hated her
  3. 3.

    After her father died, the flowers in the hands of Goldie Belle Taylor_______.

    1. A.
      usually change
    2. B.
      were stolen
    3. C.
      are no longer fresh
    4. D.
      come from a criminal
  4. 4.

    What would be the best title for the passage?

    1. A.
      A fairy brings the flowers.
    2. B.
      The mystery of Goldie’s flowers.
    3. C.
      What happens to the girl?
    4. D.
      How do the flowers get there?

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