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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从31—50各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

I Was Forced to Find My Gifts

I was a pretty typical 17-year-old with a strong interest in painting when something happened. One Sunday, I went to an old swimming hole and dove in. I ________ something under the water head-on and broke a couple of vertebrae(椎骨)of my neck.

For five months I stayed at the hospital, feeling like a ________ to my family. My self-image was instantly ________. I was described with terms like “disabled” or “crippled.” I was angry and ________ after I failed so many times at some ________ task—dropping something on the floor and trying to get it back up again.

Near the end of my stay in the hospital, my doctor almost forcibly tied a ________ to my hand. He had seen my paintings I’d done before and ________ me to paint. Fortunately, I found that I ________ had this artistic ability left. It was like a big weight had been ________. At least I could do something worthwhile again, and it became a ________ part of my recovery.

After I left the hospital, I stayed at home, feeling desperately ________. It seemed like I was cut off from ________. No one can get along ________ love and acceptance. So that fall, I started at the University of Texas, majoring in graphic design.

One day a man happened to see one of my paintings. He had a great ________ for it and asked if I ever did art shows. So I was given a(n) ________. Much to my surprise, I found that people liked my paintings and would pay for them. That was about 11 years ago. Today, 1,500 ________ have carried my work.

It was the art that provided the ________ for me to get up every morning and do something, ________ sitting in front of the television. Society has such ________ expectations of the disabled person, so it’s very easy to get sucked into a dependency routine — you know, the “give me” kind of attitude. And that’s what I take the most ________ in — the fact that what I’m doing today is well received all over.

1.A. sawB. hitC. touchedD. picked

2.A. burdenB. failureC. jokeD. patient

3.A. improvedB. createdC. changedD. judged

4.A. helplessB. carelessC. nervousD. tired

5.A. difficultB. specialC. simpleD. important

6.A. bandageB. towelC. ropeD. paintbrush

7.A. allowedB. taughtC. orderedD. encouraged

8.A. alreadyB. stillC. evenD. always

9.A. gainedB. carriedC. liftedD. measured

10.A. vitalB. strangeC. boringD. different

11.A. lonelyB. weakC. frightenedD. guilty

12.A. successB. classmatesC. societyD. treatment

13.A. inB. forC. behindD. without

14.A. sympathyB. fondness

C. talentD. responsibility

15.A. exhibitionB. challengeC. permissionD. message

16.A. hospitalsB. galleriesC. schoolsD. families

17.A. imaginationB. chanceC. motivationD. curiosity

18.A. instead ofB. apart fromC. due toD. but for

19.A. highB. lowC. enoughD. unrealistic

20.A. powerB. prideC. comfortD. advantage

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1.From Paragraph 1 we know that the Shenandoah Valley ____________.

A. had been a place for Indians to live

B. had attracted many people in the past

C. used to be positions for a few battles

D. had been well-known for its natural scenes

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A. beautiful B. expensive C. cheap D. small

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A. It’s a little hard for people to book a room in the inn.

B. The inn can serve the guests according to their tastes.

C. Many young couples prefer to hold their weddings there.

D. Everyone would like to have their breakfast in the inn.

4.Where can we see this passage?

A. In a geography book.

B. In a tourist magazine.

C. In a cooking diary.

D. In an evening newspaper.

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. The spelling of English has always been a problem. 1. Then people could spell words in different ways which you might find interesting. But it made reading English much more difficult. So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same. In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today wasn’t made until the time of the late Qing Dynasty. 2. They are Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, and James Murray. These men spent nearly all of their lives trying to collect words for their dictionaries. For them, it was not only a job; it was a wonderful journey of discovery. The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short.

3. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small house built in the garden behind his house to do his work. Part of it was one meter underground. 4. He had to wear a heavy coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o’clock and worked several hours before breakfast. 5. Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter A! Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.

A. In winter it felt like a barn.

B. Murray had never been to college.

C. He worked on the dictionary until he was very old.

D. Often he would work by candle light into the evening.

E. But it was more of a problem in the days before a dictionary.

F. Three men did most of the important early work on dictionaries.

G. The idea of this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌中间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处,每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加:在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

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