题目内容
One family, which had emigrated from Japan and settled at the turn of the century near San Francisco, had established a business in which they grew roses and trucked them into San Francisco three mornings a week.
The other family was a naturalized(加入国籍的)family from Switzerland who also marketed roses, and 21 families became modestly successful, 22 their roses were known in the markets of San Francisco for their 23 vase-life.
For four decades the two families were neighbors, and the sons 24 the farms, but then on December 7, 1941, Japan 25 Pearl Harbor. Although the rest of the family members were American, the 26 of the Japanese family had never been naturalized. In the turmoil(动乱) and the questions about internment camps(拘留营), his neighbor made it clear that, if 27 , he would look after his friend’s nursery(花圃). It was 28 each family had learned in church—Love the neighbor as thyself. “You would do 29 for us, ” he told his Japanese friend.
It was not long before the Japanese 30 was transported to a poor landscape in Granada, Colorado. The relocation center consisted of tar-paper-roofed barracks (兵营) 31 by barbed wire and armed guards.
A full year went by. Then two. Then three. While the 32 neighbors were in internment, their friends worked in the greenhouses, the 33 before school and on Saturdays, and the father's work often stretched to 16 and 17 hours. And then 34 , when the war in Europe had
35 , the Japanese family packed up and 36 a train. They were going home.
What would they find? The family was 37 at the train station by their neighbors, and when they got to their home, the whole Japanese family stared.. There was the nursery, complete, clean and shining in the sunlight, neat, prosperous and healthy.
So was the balance of the bank passbook 38 to the Japanese father. And the house was 39 as clean and welcoming as the nursery.
And there on the dining room 40 was one perfect red rosebud, just waiting to unfold- the gift of one neighbor to another.
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3.C
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【解析】文章介绍了在二战中两个家庭的珍贵友谊,告诉我们人间自有真情在。
1.上下文串联。根据上文可知一共有两个家庭。所以选both选D应该用the two.
2.连词辨析。根据是下文可知他们的生意成功是因为他们种植的玫瑰寿命很长久。
3.形容词辨析。解析同上。
4.短语辨析。A接管;B处理;C注意;当心;D移交;根据句意可知儿子接管了父辈的生意,两家人的友谊一直保留了下去。
5.动词辨析。根据常识可知是日本共计了珍珠港。
6.上下文串联。根据文章可知是这家的丈夫没有成为美国公民,仍然是日本国籍。
7.词义辨析。根据句意可知根据句意:邻居明确表态,若有需要,他乐意照看朋友的花圃。每个家庭都在教堂学过:要像爱自己一样去爱邻居。他对日本邻居说:“如果你是我,你也会这么做的。”
8.词义辨析。Something这里是泛指某些事情。解析同上。
9.名词辨析。解析同27.
10.名词辨析。根据句意:日本家庭去了加拿大一块贫瘠的土地。
11.上下文串联。根据下文的armed guards可知A符合句意。
12.上下文串联。当日本家庭在拘留营中的时候,瑞士邻居在花圃忙碌。上学前和周六,孩子们都要去干活,父辈们一天的工作时间长达十六七个小时。
13.上下文串联。BD属于C的范围,解析同上。
14.词义辨析。根据句意:欧洲战争结束那天,日本家庭打理好行囊,踏上了回家的列车。
15.动词辨析。解析同上。
16.动词辨析。Board登机,登船;
17.动词辨析。Meet迎接;句意是在他们在车站受到了邻居的迎接。
18.动词辨析。Hand sth to sb把…递给某人;
19.词义辨析。根据句意:花圃就在那儿,完好无损,一尘不染,在阳光的照耀下熠熠生辉,他们的屋子和花圃一样,一尘不染,迎接主人的归来。餐厅里的桌子上有一朵漂亮的红玫瑰,含苞欲放——这是一个邻居为另一个邻居准备的礼物。
20.名词辨析。解析同上。
“Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.”
This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown citizen who lived in Rome in AD 52 wrote it.
We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives.
But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives?
Picture this: You’re rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is getting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. How calm and happy do you feel?
Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave us feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have not telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they lead simpler lives.
One family in the UK went “back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons Benjamin, 10, and Tomas, 7, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones.
The grandmother, Lyn, said, “It was hard physically, but not mentally.” She believed life was less materialistic. “The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes,” She said. The boys said they fought less to fight over, such as their computer. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a “trendy(时髦的), beer-drinking granny, to one who cooked things.”
Here are some simple ways to beat the stress often caused by our inventions!
Don’t be available all the time, turn off your mobile phone at certain times of the day. Don’t check your e-mail every day.
Don’t reply to somebody as soon as they leave a text message just because you can. It may be fun at first, but it soon gets annoying.
【小题1】The passage is mainly about .
A.problem with technology |
B.improvements of our life with technology |
C.the important roles technology plays in our everyday life |
D.major changes which will be likely to happen to technology |
A.share a truth about life |
B.tell us what life was like long time ago |
C.make us wonder what causes such a thing to happen |
D.point out that you experience some big problems and they may be the same |
A.they liked to live simple lives |
B.they were curious about how people lived without modern inventions |
C.they were troubled by modern inventions |
D.living in a different time would be a lot of fun for them |
A.Busy on line | B.Free. | C.Be able to | D.Be found by others. |