Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the henhouses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the door.With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he drew him 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the henhouses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the door.With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he drew himself a last glass of beer and made his way up to bed.

As soon as the light in the bedroom went out, there was a big noise all through the farm buildings. Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White pig, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals. It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn(谷仓) as soon as Mr.Jones was safely out of the way.

At one end of the big barn, Major lay on his bed of straw comfortably. He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather heavy, but he was still a nicelooking pig, with a wise and easygoing appearance. Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves comfortable after their different fashions. First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately beside Major. The two carthorses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs(蹄子) with great care for fear that there should be some small animals hidden in the straw. Clover was a motherly big horse approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth kid.

Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of firstrate intelligence, but he was well respected for his steadiness of character and extraordinary abilities. After the horses came Benjamin, the donkey, Benjamin got angry easily. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make all such remarks—for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would rather have had no tail and no flies. Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed. If asked why, he would say that he saw nothing to laugh at.

16．All the animals came to the barn to ________．

A．vote for a farm master

B．listen to Major's strange dream

C．discuss how to win a prize

D．share how to drive Mr. Jones away

17．According to the passage, Clover was ________．

A．considerate and in good shape

B．oldaged and out of shape

C．a fat horse with a gentle heart

D．a pretty horse with a nice character

18．What earned Boxer high respect?

A．His strong build and great wisdom.

B．His calm character and great powers of work.

C．His good temper and strong build.

D．His steady character and quick mind.

19．Which remark could be to Benjamin's taste?

A．Life is like a box of sweets.

B．Life is an interesting journey.

C．Life is a battle.

D．There is nothing exciting in life.

本文向我们展示了Manor Farm 中动物们的外貌及其性格。

16．B　细节理解题。由第二段“Word had gone round…had had a strange dream…wished to communicate it to the other animals.”可知，动物们是来听Major的怪梦的。

17．C　推理判断题。从倒数第二段的“…with great care for fear that…Clover was a motherly big horse…who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth kid.”可知，Clover是一匹很胖的马，但心肠很好，所以选C项。

18．B　细节理解题。从最后一段的“he was well respected for his steadiness of character and extraordinary abilities.”可知Boxer 因其性格平和、工作能力强而受到较高的尊重，所以选B项。

19．D　推理判断题。从最后一段的“Alone…he never laughed.If asked why, he would say that he saw nothing to laugh at.”可知，Benjamin 觉得生活没有乐趣，没什么值得笑的地方，所以选D项。

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The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants. Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.

It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They had to move back to an apartment in New York City.

Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.

People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.

60. Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ______.

A. want to be as rich as their neighbors

B. want others to know or to think that they are rich

C. don’t want others to know they are rich

D. want to be happy

61. It can be inferred from the story that rich people like to ________.

A. live outside New York City B. live in New York City

C. live in apartments D. live with many neighbors

62. What’s the author’s attitude to keeping up with the Joneses?

A. Negative. B. Positive.

C. Supportive. D. Objective.

It was my first day at school in London and I was half-excited and half-frightened. On my way to school I wondered what sort of questions the other boys would ask me and rehearsed (practiced) all the answers: “I am nine years old. I was born here but I haven’t lived here since I was two. I was living in Farley. It’s about thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago.” I also wondered if it was the custom for boys to fight strangers like me, but I was tall for my age. I hoped they would decide not to risk it.

No one took any notice of me before school. I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say “hello”, but no one spoke to me. When a teacher called my name and told me where my classroom was, one or two boys looked at me but that was all the curiosity my arrival aroused.

My teacher was called Mr Jones. There were 42 boys in the class, so I didn’t stand out there, either, until the first lesson of the afternoon. Mr Jones was very fond of Charles Dickens and he had decided to read aloud to us from David Copperfield, but first he asked several boys if they knew Dickens’ birthplace, but no one guessed right. A boy called Brian, the biggest in the class, said: “Timbuktu”, and Mr Jones went red in the face. Then he asked me. I said: “Portsmouth”, and everyone stared at me because Mr Jones said I was right. This didn’t make me very popular, of course.

“He thinks he’s clever,” I heard Brian say.

After that, we went out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian’s team, and he obviously had Dickens in mind because he told me to go in goal. No one ever wanted to be the goalkeeper.

“He’s big enough and useless enough,” Brian said when someone asked him why he had chosen me.

I suppose Mr Jones remembered Dickens, too, because when the game was nearly over, Brian pushed one of the players on the other team, and he gave them a penalty. As the boy kicked the ball hard along the ground to my right, I threw myself down instinctively and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare knees were grazed and bleeding. Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.

“Do you want to join my gang (team)?” he said.

At the end of the day, I was no longer a stranger.

51．The writer prepared to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT “________”.

A. How old are you? B. where are you from?

C. Do you want to join my gang? D. When did you come back to London?

52．We can learn from the passage that ________.

A. boys were usually unfriendly to new students

B. the writer was not greeted as he expected

C. Brian praised the writer for his cleverness

D. the writer was glad to be a goalkeeper

53．The underlined part “I didn’t stand out” in paragraph 3 means that the writer was not ________.

A. noticeable B. welcome C. important D. outstanding

54．The writer was offered a handkerchief because ________.

A. he threw himself down and saved the goal B. he pushed a player on the other team

C. he was beginning to be accepted D. he was no longer a new comer

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Mr. Jones had always wanted to make a trip into the middle of Africa to shoot wild animals. 36 first he had no enough money, and then he was married. His wife had not wanted him to 37 her. At last his wife   38 to the trip if he allowed her to go, too.
“But it will be very uncomfortable,” Mr. Jones   39 her. “ It will be very hot and we shall live in a tent, and it   40 be dangerous. ”“I don’t care.” said his wife. “I want to go with you.” So they bought a big tent, camp beds, a refrigerator (电冰箱)which did not need   41 and many other things which would make the trip comfortable, and went off to the__42 of Africa.
The first morning, 43 Mr. Jones took his gun and left the tent, he 44 his wife a bell and explained to her, “If you fell in 45 and you need me , 46 this bell and I’ll come at once.”
After a few minutes, he heard the bell and returned   47   to the tent. “What’s the matter?” he asked.“   48   ” said his wife, “I was only   49 the bell.” Mr. Jones went off, but after a quarter of an hour, the bell rang   50   .
Mr. Jones hurried back to the tent, but his wife said, “I’m   51 . I was cleaning our tent, and I knocked the bell over by mistake.” Mr. Jones returned to his __52 , but soon he heard the   53 once more. This time, when he got back to his   54 , the tent was burning and Mrs. Jones was lying on the ground, with 55 running from a big cut on her shoulder. “That’s better!” said Mrs. Jones. “This time the bell had been used correctly!”
36. A. And                       B. But                       C. For                     D. So
37. A. leave                    B. miss               C. marry              D. care
38. A. allowed              B. permitted                   C. satisfied            D. agreed
39. A. told                 B. advised             C. persuaded           D. warned
40. A. may                B. ought                      C. can’t               D. shall
41. A. money              B. electricity           C. force               D. power
42. A. south                B. middle                     C. east                D. west
43. A. while               B. until              C. before             D. after
44. A. gave                B. sent                 C. lent                D. bought
45. A. hurry               B. surprise              C. safety              D. danger
46. A. hit                  B. knock               C. beat                D. ring
47. A. again                B. back              C. quickly             D. home
48. A. Something         B. Nothing            C. No                        D. None
49. A. ringing             B. trying              C. using                D. testing
50. A. again                B. once              C. across               D. away
51. A. happy              B. sorry               C. tired                       D. all right
52. A. wife                        B. tent                C. trip                 D. hunting
53. A. cry                         B. shot                C. bell                D. shout
54. A. garden                      B. house              C. camp                D. office
55. A. water                       B. tears               C. blood                      D. Sweat

In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbors.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.
It was like a race, but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
【小题1】Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ________.

A．want to be as rich as their neighbors

B．want others to know or to think that they are rich

C．don’t want others to know they are rich

D．want to be happy

【小题2】It can be inferred from the story that rich people like to ________.

A．live outside New York City	B．live in New York city
C．live in apartments	D．have many neighbors

【小题3】Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because “Jones” is _____.

A．an important name	B．a popular name in the United States
C．his neighbor’s name	D．not a good name

Mr Jones, a new teacher, stood in front of the students, his body ________ with fear. ?

A．trembling

B．trembled

C．was trembling

D．was trembled

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