阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21—35各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Mary’s parents are different from the average. While she was growing up they required her to 21. First of all she had to work around their home. Later on Mary worked for other people.

When Mary was 14 years old, her mother and father told her that they were no 22 going to buy her clothes. Sure, they would continue to buy shoes for her and also the special clothes like suits, but 23 else was her responsibility. Some people thought that they were 24, but they wanted to teach Mary some 25 lessons. One thing she learned was that nothing is cheap or 26. She learned how to deal with her money carefully. Another thing she learned was 27 to keep from wearing out(穿破)her clothes too fast.

Also, even 28 Mary went to school she was 29 to work. All through her high school and 30 years she worked as well as studied. Mary’s parents had plenty of 31 but they felt she would 32 her education more if she had to 33 it. And strange as it may seem, they had heard that students who worked part- time generally got 34 grades than students who did no work.

  Now Mary is a mother herself. She requires her children to do the same 35 she did, especially working part- time as they go to school.

21.A.study B.play C.learn D.work

22.A.longer      B.money     C.any   D.hope

23.A.what B.that   C.nothing    D.everything

24.A.responsible     B.lazy C.poor  D.careless

25.A.difficult   B.daily        C.valuable    D.useless

26.A.free   B.expensive  C.useful       D.proper

27.A.how  B.when C.why  D.where

28.A.when B.as      C.until  D.since

29.A.permitted  B.required    C.going       D.forced

30.A.hard        B.work       C.happy       D.college

31.A.time        B.children   C.money      D.work

32.A.value       B.have  C.use    D.receive

33.A.enjoy       B.pay   C.pay for     D.enjoy

34.A.worse       B.better       C.more D.less

35.A.as     B.what  C.which       D.like

Mary Buendia once spent a day in an airplane, looking for a cat.She didn't find it that day.The plane flew around all over the world for three weeks with the cat on board. She finally found it in the cargo hold and sent it home first-class.Another time, she found two suitcases full of birds from Turkey.But her strangest experience was when she pulled a snake out of a man's pants.

Mary Buendia is an animal health inspector at JFK Airport in New York.She takes care of all the animals that pass through the airport and checks that they are healthy.In the Animal Health Center, there are areas for dogs, cats, reptiles, birds, and fish. There is also an area for very big animals.The biggest they ever had was a black rhino."It was no problem," she says.

At the center, they receive all types of animals—monkeys, wild cats, poisonous spiders.It's impossible for one person to know about all of these, but there are 20 people working with Mary.Between them, they understand how to take care of the animals.She recently had to feed a group of toucans, which are rare birds."Luckily," she says, "there is a supermarket nearby which is open 24 hours.I had to go at 2 a.m.to buy bananas."

Mary often works at night. "It's quiet between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m.," she says, "because we don't have night flights. We try to give the animals a quiet night." Mary clearly loves her job. "You never know what the day will bring," she says, and goes off to feed the birds.

71.The best title of the passage will probably be ____________.

A.JKF Airport in New York. B.Airport Health Inspector.

C.Mary Buendia                 D.Animal Health Center.

72.From the first paragraph, we can know that ___________.

A.Working as an Airport Health Inspector, Mary Buendia has various experiences.

B.After the cat was found, it was sent home to New York.

C.Mary got frightened when she pulled a snake out of a man’s pants.

D.Mary was tired of dealing with animals at the airport.

73.We can infer from the passage that ______.

A.Mary often works at night during flights.

B.It took Mary a whole day to find a lost cat in an airplane

C.Only healthy animals can be permitted to go aboard the airplane.

D.Mary knows everything about the animals by working with 20 other people.

74.An Airport Health Inspector should do the following Except ___________.

A.inspect whether the animals are healthy.

B.go shopping at night

C.take care of animals

D.work with colleagues and learn from each other

75.What kind of animals is "reptile" (in Para2) _________

A.a kind of large animals           B.a kind of wild spiders

C.a kind of rare birds                D.The passage doesn't mention

Frankenstein is one of the world’s most famous horror stories. It’s about a doctor who creates a new man from the body parts of dead people and brings it to life. But the experiment goes wrong and the monster(怪兽) kills the doctor and many others. The story has been read by millions since it was first published and in the last hundred years it has been made into dozens of movies. Many people are surprised to learn its writer was a 19-year-old woman, called Mary Shelley.

Mary was born into a rich London family in August 1797. She was educated by her parents and when she was 13 she decided to become a writer. In 1812, she met the famous writer Percy Shelley and they soon got married. Sadly for Mary, their first child died soon after birth in Italy. In her diary, Mary wrote about a dream:“I dreamt that my little baby came to life again---that it had only been cold and that we rubbed it before the fire and it lived.”

In 1816, Percy Shelley and 19-year-old Mary visited the poet Lord Byron at his home in Switzerland. Because of the bad weather they stayed indoors reading horror stories. On night, Byron asked everyone to write their own story. Mary thought of her dream and wrote the story of Frankenstein

Frankenstein was published when Mary was 21, and became a huge success. Many people didn’t think a 19-year-old woman could write so well and believed her husband was the real writer.

Although famous, Shelley’s life was full of sadness. Only one of her four children lived and in 1822 her husband died in a swimming accident. Mary was broken-hearted and decided not to marry again. She devoted herself to her child and continued to write until her death in 1851.

1.Where was Mary Shelley when she wrote the story Frankenstein ?

A.In England

B.In Italy

C.In Switzerland

D.In France

2.In which order do the following take place?

a. Bad weather made everyone stay indoors reading horror stories.

b. The story Frankenstein was first published.

c. Mary wrote about a dream in her diary.

d. Mary met the famous writer Percy Shelley.

e. Movies based on the story of Frankenstein were made.

A.a,c,b,e,d

B.d,c,a,b,e

C.c,a,b,d,e

D.b,a,d,c,e

3.How old was Mary Shelley when she died?

A.43

B.48

C.51

D.54

 

完形填空 (共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从下列各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

"I am going to have a dance performance tonight." Mary ran towards me with a rare bright smile on her face, saying, “I hope you'll come. ” She left   31    , disappearing in the throngs of people quickly.

I could hardly believe my ears, for Mary was a quite ordinary girl. I had never seen her   32  or wearing attractive clothes, moreover, she always wore her big black-frame glasses.

I arrived at the hall with the ticket, and found my seat. Her performance was the seventh one. I knew I would suffer from a hard time before her   33   , for I had no   34   of art, but her performance was worth  35 , no matter how long I would wait for. Time went slowly, I                                36    not to fall asleep.

Finally it came Mary’s turn. I opened my eyes as large as possible,   37    to lose anything. Wearing a golden and shining skirt, Mary appeared on the glorious stage. Her dress went well with the brilliant lights. I could feel all the audience in the hall   38   their eyes on her and it was also   39    for me to remove my sights from her.    40     with a charming smile, she looked like a pretty butterfly flying on the splendid     41   . After all the performances ended, I waited for her at the gate.

"Hi!" She stood in front of me with a bag and her crystal high-heeled shoes in her hands, and dressed as she used to be, but the making-up still could be seen. I expressed     42   to her. "I knew it would be wonderful." She could not hide her    43   , laughing like a child. Her crystal shoes were shinning in the wonderful    44    night. Suddenly I    45     that every girl has a pair of special shoes like the crystal shoes of Cinderella.

1. A. hurriedly     B. worriedly        C. surprisedly      D. contentedly

2. A. taking up     B. making up        C. coming up        D. getting up

3.  A. time             B. chance           C. turn         D. occasion

4.  A. request      B. need         C. use          D. sense

5. A. watching      B. reading      C. listening        D. looking

6.  A. handled      B. dealt            C. fought           D. struggled

7.  A. fearing      B. wishing      C. wondering        D. ordering

8. A. attended      B. absorbed     C. fixed            D. pointed

9. A. right         B. easy         C. wrong            D. hard

10. A. Singing      B. Practising       C. Playing      D. Dancing

11.A. stage         B. hall         C. house            D. gate

12. A. thanks       B. wishes           C. congratulations  D. apologies

13. A. sadness      B. excitement       C. enjoyment        D. eagerness

14. A. starry           B. rainy            C. cloudy           D. stormy

15.  A. thought     B. realized     C. expected     D. supposed

 

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