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The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.?

—Thomas Macaulay?

Some thirty years ago,I was studying in a public school in New York.One day,Mrs Nanette O’Neil gave an arithmetic ?　1　? to our class.When the papers were2　?she discovered that twelve boys had made the same mistakes throughout the test.

There is really nothing new about ?　3　? in the exams.Perhaps that was why Mrs O’Neill ?　4　? even say a word about it.She only asked the twelve boys to

5　? after class.I was one of the twelve.?

Mrs O’Neill asked ?　6　? questions,and she didn’t ?　7　? us either.Macaulay,she wrote on the blackboard the ?　8　? words by Thomas Macaulay.She then ordered us to ?　9　? these words into our exercise?books one hundred times.?

I don’t ?　10　?about the other eleven boys.Speaking for myself I can say:it was the most important single ?　11　? of my life.Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay’s words,they ?　12　? seem to me the best yard?stick(准绳),because they give us a ?　13　? to measure ourselves rather than others.?

?　14　?of us are asked to make ?　15　? decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle.But all of us are called ?　16　? daily to make a great many personal decisions. ?　17　? the wallet,found in the street,be put into a pocket or turned over to the policeman?Should the ?　18　? change received at the store be forgotten or ?　19　?.Nobody will know except ?　20　?.But you have to live with yourself,and it is always better to live with someone you respect.

1.A.test　　　　　　B.problem　　　　　　C.paper　　　　　　　D.lesson?

2.A.examined　　　 B.completed　　　　 C.marked　　　　　　 D.answered?

3.A.lying　　　　　 B.cheating　　　　　 C.guessing　　　　　 D.discussing?

4 A.didn’t　　　　 B.did　　　　　　　 C.would　　　　　　 D.wouldn’t?

5.A.come　　　　　 B.leave　　　　　　 C.remain　　　　　　 D.apologize?

6.A.no　　　　　　 B.certain　　　　　 C.many　　　　　　　 D.more?

7.A.excuse　　　　 B.reject　　　　　　 C.help　　　　　　　 D.scold?

8.A.above　　　　　 B.common 　　　　　　C.following　　　　 D.unusual?

9.A.repeat　　　　 B.get　　　　　　　 C.put　　　　　　　 D.copy?

10.A.worry　　　　 B.know　　　　　　　 C.hear　　　　　　　 D.talk?

11.A.chance　　　　 B.incident　　　　　 C.lesson　　　　　　 D.memory?

12.A.even　　　　　 B.still　　　　　　 C.always　　　　　　 D.almost?

13.A.way　　　　　 B.sentence　　　　　 C.choice　　　　　　 D.reason?

14.A.All　　　　　 B.Few　　　　　　　 C.Some　　　　　　　 D.None?

15.A.quick　　　　 B.wise　　　　　　　 C.great　　　　　　 D.personal?

16.A.out　　　　　 B.for　　　　　　　 C.up　　　　　　　　 D.upon?

17.A.Should　　　　 B.Must　　　　　　　 C.Would　　　　　　 D.Need?

18.A.extra　　　　 B.small　　　　　　 C.some　　　　　　　 D.necessary?

19.A.paid　　　　　 B.remembered　　　　 C.shared　　　　　　 D.returned?

20.A.me　　　　　　 B.you　　　　　　　 C.us　　　　　　　　 D.then?

 

1.A　选项B和C与下一句中 papers在数上不一致，选项 D不合文意。根据文意及 papers,test 两词的提示可决定选A项，表示一次算数测验。?

2.C　that从句所表示的情况只有在评卷时才会发现，故选C项paper作为可数名词可表示“试卷”，mark the papers意为“评卷”,answer the papers 意为“答卷”，complete the papers意为“答完试卷”,examine与the papers不能搭配。?

3.B　下一句末尾的it指的就是本题要填的词，而这个词所表示的事情显然与这十二位男生有关。从上文已知道这十二位男生在考试中所出的错误完全一样，那么这是一件什么性质的事情呢？显然是“作弊行为”，根据词义，应选B。本句的意思是：“考试中的作弊确实没有什么?新招。”??

4.A　正因为Mrs O’Neill了解学生一般怎样在考试中作弊的，所以她对此什么话也没说。根据文意及下一句中的only可以决定本题应用否定形式。这里强调的是一个事实而不是一个意愿，故选A项，而不选D项。?

5.C　下一段是包括作者在内的十二位同学课后留下来的情况，故选C项。文中没有?apologize?的内容，故应排除D项。?

6.A　第二分句的either一般用于否定一种情况后又否定一种情况的场合，因此，本题必须用否定词。四个选项中只有A项适合。

7.D　首先排除B、C两项。表示“原谅”时，excuse常与me连用。excuse me表示“对不起”“请原谅”，作为客套语，常用于要走开、询问、插话或表示异议等场合。表示这一意思时，excuse通常不用与句中与其他人称代词连用，故排除A项。scold符合句意，故选D项，句意是：“既没问问题，也没有训斥。”?

8.A　Thomas Macaulay的名言已出现在本文的开头,故选A项。above作定语时可位于被修饰名词的前面，也可位于其后。the above words = the words above意为“以上的话”。

9.D　A、B、C三项中的动词都不能使麦考莱的话进入练习本，只有copy这一动作得以完成，故选D项。指语言时，repeat通常指口头重复。麦考莱这句名言的意思是：“衡量一个人的真正为人，要看他在知道永远不会被人发现的情况下做些什么。”?

10.B　下文所述内容主要是作者学习了麦考莱这句名言以后的感受及对他以后性格的影响，但至于另外十一位同学的感受，作者不了解，故选B项。?

11.C　指自己日后受益匪浅的“教训”，incident与句子主语it一致，指这件事，但incident一词没有反映出下文作者所叙述的思想变化，故应排除。A、D两项与文意不符。?

12.B　虽然时隔三十年，时间那么长久，但麦考莱的名言对于作者来说仍然是记忆犹新，是生活准绳，选B项。本题用still与前面的thirty years构成时间上的对比。?

13.A　这里是指衡量自己的一种方法，故选A项。?

14.B　根据下一句But all of us，这里应用否定词，故排除A、C两项。我们当中总要有人作出像国家是否参加战争、军队是否去打仗这样的重大决定，但作出这样重大决定的人毕竟为数不多，故排除D项而选B项。?

15.C　这样的决定当然是重大决定，故选C。?

16.D　call on sb.to do sth.表示“要求某人做某事”。call sb.out意为“把某人叫出去”，call sb.up意为“给某人打电话”，两者虽然能接不定式，但不符合语境。call for sb.虽也有“要求某人”之意，但不能接不定式。?

17.A　下一问句已有提示。A项表示“应该或不应该做某事”。?

18.A　change在这里作“零钱”解。把这一题和下一题结合起来理解，不难选出extra与returned这两词相符，故本题选A项。?

19.D　多余的找头应该归还，故选D项。?

20.B　根据下一句中的主语，这里应选B项。意思是:“这样的事只有你知道”。这里的you是泛指，指任何人。

 

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Mr. Ballou fell into the last category, and he always had a reason why. On one day, he had no change for a fifty, on another he was flat out of checks, on another, he was simply out when I knocked on his door. Still, except for the money apart, he was a nice enough guy, always waving or tipping his hat when he’d seen me from a distance. I figured him for a thin retirement check, maybe a work-related injury that kept him from doing his own yard work. Sure, I kept track of the total, but I didn’t worry about the amount too much. Grass was grass, and the little that Mr. Ballou’s property comprised didn’t take long to trim (修剪).

Then, one late afternoon in mid-July, the hottest time of the year, I was walking by his house and he opened the door, mentioned me to come inside. The hall was cool, shaded, and it took my eyes a minute to adjust to the dim light. 

“I owe you,” Mr Ballou said, “but…”

I thought I’d save him the trouble of thinking of a new excuse. “No problem. Don’t worry about it.”

“The bank made a mistake in my account,” he continued, ignoring my words. “It will be cleared up in a day or two. But in the meantime I thought perhaps you could choose one or two volumes for a down payment.

He gestured toward the walls and I saw that books were stacked (堆放) everywhere. It was like a library, except with no order to the arrangement.

“Take your time,” Mr. Ballou encouraged. “Read, borrow, keep, or find something you like. What do you read?”

“I don’t know.” And I didn’t. I generally read what was in front of me, what I could get from the paperback stack at the drugstore, what I found at the library, magazines, the back of cereal boxes, comics. The idea of consciously seeking out a special title was new to me, but, I realized, not without appeal--- so I started to look through the piles of books.

“You actually read all of these?”

“This isn’t much,” Mr. Ballou said. “This is nothing, just what I’ve kept, the ones worth looking at a second time.”

“Pick for me, then.”

He raised his eyebrows, cocked his head, and regarded me as though measuring me for a suit. After a moment, he nodded, searched through a stack, and handed me a dark red hardbound book, fairly thick.

“The Last of the Just,” I read. “By Andre Schwarz-Bart. What’s it about?”

“You tell me,” he said. “Next week.”

I started after supper, sitting outdoors on an uncomfortable kitchen chair. Within a few pages, the yard, the summer, disappeared, and I was plunged into the aching tragedy of the Holocaust, the extraordinary clash of good, represented by one decent man, and evil. Translated from French, the language was elegant, simple, impossible to resist. When the evening light finally failed I moved inside, read all through the night.

To this day, thirty years later, I vividly remember the experience. It was my first voluntary encounter with world literature, and I was amazed by the concentrated power a novel could contain. I lacked the vocabulary, however, to translate my feelings into words, so the next week. When Mr. Ballou asked, “Well?” I only replied, “It was good?”

“Keep it, then,” he said. “Shall I suggest another?”

I nodded, and was presented with the paperback edition of Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa (a very important book on the study of the social and cultural development of peoples—anthropology (人类学) ).

To make two long stories short, Mr. Ballou never paid me a cent for cutting his grass that year or the next, but for fifteen years I taught anthropology at Dartmouth College. Summer reading was not the innocent entertainment I had assumed it to be, not a light-hearted, instantly forgettable escape in a hammock (吊床) (though I have since enjoyed many of those, too). A book, if it arrives before you at the right moment, in the proper season, at an internal in the daily business of things, will change the course of all that follows.

1.Before his encounter with Mr. Ballou, the author used to read _____________.

A．anything and everything                  B．only what was given to him

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A．light-hearted and enjoyable               B．dull but well written

C．impossible to put down                   D．difficult to understand

3.From what he said to the author we can guess that Mr. Ballou _______________.

A．read all books twice                     B．did not do much reading

C．read more books than he kept             D．preferred to read hardbound books

4.The following year the author _______________.

A．started studying anthropology at college

B．continued to cut Mr. Ballou’s lawn

C．spent most of his time lazing away in a hammock

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