题目内容
A few months ago, I was picking up the children at school. Emily, another mother that I knew well, rushed up to me. She was full of __41__.
“Do you know __42__ you and I are?” she asked. __43__ I could answer, she gave out the reason for her question. She had just returned from renewing her driver’s license at a government office. The woman __44__ desk asked her what her “occupation” was. Emily hesitated, __45__ how to answer it. “What I mean is,” explained the woman, “do you have a job, or are you just a ...?” “Of course I have a job,” answered Emily. “I’m a (an) __46__.” “We don’t __47__ ‘mother’ as an occupation ... ‘housewife’ covers it,” she said.
I forgot all about her story __48__ one day I found myself in the same situation. This time it was at our own Town Hall. The clerk was a woman.
“And what is your occupation?” she asked. What __49__ me say it, I do not know. The words simply jumped out. “I’m ... a (an) ___50___ in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”
The clerk stopped, her ball-point pen ___51__ in mid-air. She looked up __52__ she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly.
“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “just what you do in your ___53__?” Coolly, I heard myself ___54__, “I have a continuing program of research in the
laboratory and in the field. I’m working for my masters (the whole family) and already have __55__ credits (令人增光的人或事物) (all daughters). I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). The job is more challenging than most jobs and the __56__ are in satisfaction rather than just money.”
There was an increasing note of __57__ in the clerk’s voice as she __58__ in the form. As I drove into our driveway(私家车道), I was __59__ by my lab assistants — ages 13, 7, and 3. Inside the house I could hear our new experimental model (six months) in the child-development program.
I felt successful. Motherhood...what a great __60__.
1. A. surprise B. anxiety C. anger D. excitement
2. A. who B. what C. how D. why
3. A. When B. As C. Before D. Since
4. A. at B. after C. by D. around
5.A. nervous B. sure C. anxious D. uncertain
6.A. mother B. worker C. teacher D. doctor
7. A. think B. list C. expect D. give
8. A. since B. unless C. until D. when
9. A. got B. caused C. permit D. made
10. A. researcher B. manager C. expert D. scholar
11. A. dropped B. floated C. frozen D. broke
12. A. so that B. even though C. as though D. because of
13.A. family B. subject C. study D. field
14. A. words B. reply C. shout D. whisper
15. A. two B. three C. four D. five
16. A. rewards B. awards C. profits D. benefits
17. A. interest B. respect C. doubt D fear
18.A. explained B. passed C. completed D. filled
19.A. accepted B. greeted C. recognized D. refused
20. A. person B. award C. career D. business
1.C
2.B
3.C
4.A
5.D
6.A
7.B
8.C
9.D
10.A
11.C
12.C
13.D
14.B
15.C
16.A
17.B
18.D
19.B
20.C
【解析】略
When Emily Beardmore first heard that a trip was being planned by the biology class at Windsor High School, she thought about how much fun it would be.
“I thought it would be a really good experience to go with other friends and teachers to another country in an environment other than a vacation environment,” the 17-year-old girl said.
A few months later, Emily got her chance when she and 14 of her classmates, along with biology teacher Tamara Pennington went to Costa Rica for eight days in late May.
“It was not just a tour,” said Pennington, who organized the trip. “You can go any place in the world on just a tour. This one was really working with the sea turtles (海龟) and practicing conservation(保护). It just seemed like the perfect science field trip for kids who think they want to get into science to see what it's really like to be out in the field and enjoy themselves.”
Emily said her time on the turtle program, which was the focus of the trip, was “crazy.”“We were walking on the beach at night and you can’t see anything—just see a big black dot.” She said with a laugh. “I was not expecting the turtles to be that big.” The turtles are leatherback turtles, which are becoming extinct (灭绝) because their eggs are used as food.
“When they would move their legs while laying their eggs they were really hard to control because they were a lot more powerful than you would imagine,” Emily said.
Once the eggs were collected, the students took them back to a hatchery(孵化场) and dug holes to copy the hole the mother turtle had made and then buried the eggs for the 60 days needed to hatch.
“The experience was so cool,” Emily said. “You go to another country to see what their culture is like and learn what their everyday lives are like. It made me really want to help out my mom a lot more than I do, and value what I have.”
1.What did Pennington consider the trip to be?
A.It was a common tour to a foreign country. |
B.It was a journey to practice what students learned. |
C.It was to attract students’ interest in science. |
D.It was a trip to do practical science activities. |
2.From what Emily said on her turtle program, we know that .
A.she was afraid of walking on the beach at night |
B.she didn’t dare to catch the powerful turtles |
C.she had thought turtles were small animals |
D.she got crazy at the sight of turtles at night |
3.What did Emily learn from her experience?
A.She learned to be grateful to her teachers. |
B.She understood the importance of what she had. |
C.She realized the beauty of foreign culture. |
D.She knew the importance of everyday life |
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.Teens Help Fight Turtle Extinction. |
B.Teens Take a tour to Costa Rica. |
C.Teens Have a Research on Turtles. |
D.Teens Learn to be Independent. |