A newly trained teacher named Mary went to teach at a Navajo Indian reservation. Every day, she would ask five of the young Navajo students to __1__ the chalkboard and complete a simple math problem from   2   homework.

They would stand there, silently,  3   to complete the task. Mary couldn’t figure it out.   4   she had studied in her educational curriculum helped, and she   5   hadn’t seen anything like it in her student-teaching days back in Phoenix.

What am I doing wrong? Could I have chosen five students who can’t do the  6  ? Mary would wonder. No,  7  couldn’t be that. Finally she   8   the students what was wrong. And in their answers, she learned a   9   lesson from her young   10   pupils about self-image and a(n)   11   of self-worth.

It seemed that the students  12  each other’s individuality and knew that  13  of them were capable of doing the problems.   14  at their early age, they understood the senselessness of the win-lose approach in the classroom. They believed no one would  15  if any students were shown up or embarrassed at the  16  . So they   17   to compete with each other in public.

Once she understood, Mary changed the system   18   she could check each child’s math problem individually, but not at any child’s expense  19  his classmates. They all wanted to learn,  20  not at someone else’s expense.

1.  A.go to        B.come to         C.get close to    D.bring

2.  A.his           B.their           C.his own         D.her

3.  A.happy          B.willingly         C.readily        D.unwilling

4.  A.Anything      B.Nothing         C.Everything     D.Neither

5.  A.almost         B.certainly        C.hardly           D.never

6.  A.question       B.chalkboard     C.problem         D.homework

7.  A.they         B.it             C.everything     D.each

8.  A.asked              B.questioned     C.told            D.understood

9.  A.outstanding  B.surprising       C.annoying       D.frightening

10.A.sunburned    B.tender         C.Indian        D.naughty

11.A.sense        B.image         C.way           D.aspect

12.A.had          B.ignored          C.respected       D.cared

13.A.none           B.no one        C.each           D.not all

14.A.Especially    B.Even though       C.Even so       D.Even

15.A.lose          B.win            C.achieve          D.answer

16.A.time         B.situation         C.chalkboard     D.condition

17.A.refused        B.rejected         C.tried           D.promised

18.A.if             B.so that        C.unless        D.in case

19.A.in favour of  B.of            C.by means of   D.in front of

20.A.and          B.but             C.so              D.or

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)出可以填入空白的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Forty-three years seems like a long time to remember the name of a person. I have forgotten the name of an old lady who was a(n)   31   on my paper route when I was a twelve-year-old boy. Yet it seems like just yesterday that she taught me a lesson in   32  . One afternoon, a friend and I were   33   rocks onto the roof of the old lady’s house   34   her backyard. The object of our play was to observe how the rocks changed to missiles as they   35   to the roof’s edge and shot out into the   36  .

I found myself a perfectly smooth rock and sent it for a ride. The stone was too smooth, however, so it   37   from my hand as I let it go and headed   38   for a small window on the old lady’s back wall.

I was too scared about getting   39   that first night to be concerned about the old lady with the broken window. However, a few days later,   40   I was sure that I hadn’t been discovered, I started to feel   41   for her misfortune.

    I made up my mind that I would   42   my paper delivery money, and in three weeks I had the seven dollars that I   43   would cover the cost of her window. I put the money in an envelope with a(n)   44   explaining that I was sorry for breaking her window and hoped that the seven dollars would cover the   45   for repairing it.

    I waited until it was dark, then put the envelope through the letter slot in her door.

    The next day, I   46   the old lady her paper and was able to   47   the warm smile that I was   48   her. She thanked me for the paper and said, “Here, I have something for you.” It was a bag of cookies. I thanked her and ate the cookies as I   49   my route.

After several cookies, I   50   an envelope. When I opened the envelope, I was shocked. Inside was the seven dollars and a short note that said, “I’m proud of you.”

A. adviser        B. customer        C. assistant     D. neighbour

A. carefulness   B. cleverness       C. selfishness        D. forgiveness

A. throwing    B. kicking          C. picking      D. striking

A. by   B. under      C. from       D. around

A. dropped       B. rolled      C. flowed           D. fell

A. room           B. kitchen           C. yard   D. sky

A. skipped       B. stopped          C. stepped          D. slipped

A. straight        B. slow       C. right D. fast

A. lost      B. trapped          C. caught       D. hurt

A. before       B. when      C. but     D. though

A. guilty        B. safe        C. anxious      D. nervous

A. borrow      B. move      C. transfer     D. save

A. used          B. calculated       C. chose        D. earned

A. book         B. article    C. note   D. notice

A. period       B. cost        C. size    D. distance

A. handed      B. sold        C. left    D. showed

A. witness      B. wear       C. return        D. bring

A. comparing to B. playing with          C. learning about   D. receiving from

A. continued   B. chose      C. followed    D. forgot

A. tore           B. marked   C. bought      D. felt

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of __36____ and what color red is. It would be ___37____ to see again, but a(n) __38____ can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would __39___ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had _40_____.

My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a __41____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with _42____.

The __43___ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of __44____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I __45___ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being __46____, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.

It took me years to discover and strengthen this confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things. __47____ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was __48____. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words __49___ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could _50_____ where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought _51____ before playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I _52___ a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.

I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my _53____. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was __54___ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, __55___ on the average I made progress.

1.A. sky              B. cloud            C. sunshine           D. mist

2.A. helpful          B. wonderful        C. hopeful            D. successful

3.A. disaster         B. environment      C. incident           D. wonder

4.A. manage           B. try              C. want               D. prefer

5.A. lost             B. left             C. used               D. cared

6.A. purpose          B. potential        C. pressure           D. preparation

7.A. energy           B. happiness        C. luck               D. blindness

8.A. hardest          B. dullest          C. simplest           D. easiest

9.A. self-respect B. self-control         C. self-confidence    D. self-defence

10.A. think           B. consider         C. guess              D. mean

11.A. imperfect B. perfect                C. unfair             D. fair

12.A. Later           B. Soon             C. Once               D. Then

13.A. worried         B. encouraged       C. shocked            D. hurt

14.A. stuck           B. impressed        C. occupied           D. held

15.A. see             B. hear             C. notice             D. observe

16.A. important B. unimportant            C. possible           D. impossible

17.A. invented B. discovered              C. instructed         D. directed

18.A. experience B. advantages            C. knowledge          D. limitation

19.A. hardly          B. wildly           C. highly             D. deeply

20.A. so              B. for              C. but                D. and

 

 

II. 完型填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36—55各题所给的四个选中,选出最佳选项。

 Sussie and I have been friends since primary school, for more than twenty years. Our friendship has   36   constant(不变的). We have seen each other through all the times when we really need a friend. In   37   of our friendship, Sussie and I took our first   38   trip together.

The first day of our trip ended in New Jersey.   39   with the long drive, we decided to go to the restaurant for dinner. We sat down and   40   our meal. As we talked, I noticed a(n)   41   couple sitting a short distance away from us. The look of   adoration on the woman’s face  42    me. She stared into the face of the man as he talked,   43   me of a teenager in love!

I called Sussie’s  44  to the couple. As we watched, the man reached   45  to place a gentle kiss on the woman’s cheek. She   46  . “Now that’s what I call real love! I imagine they’ve been married for a long time.” I said. “  47   maybe,” remarked Sussie, “They haven’t been together long.” “Well, whatever the case, it’s   48  they care much for each other,” I said.

Sussie and I watched and listened  49  to their conversation. She smiled and  50   whatever he said. We were touched by the warm scene we were witnessing. Then the  51   changed. The woman’s wrinkled but beautiful face was suddenly covered with a   52   look. She asked the man in a sweet voice, “Do I know you? What is this place?” “You know me. I’m Ralph, your husband. We’re in New Jersey, ” the man said. “Oh, I   53   to have forgotten. I’m not sure,” she said. “That’s okay, sweetheart. You’ll be all right,” he   54   her, kissing her cheek again. Tears coursed down our cheeks as Sussie and I looked at each other. “We were right,” she said   55  . “It is the real thing. That is love.”

36. A. become                    B. grown                              C. remained                        D. developed

37. A. congratulation              B. terms                              C. favor                     D. celebration

38. A. air                                   B. car                              C. boat                                 D. train

39. A. Bored                             B. Suffered                          C. Tired                          D. Excited

40. A. cooked                           B. ordered                           C. prepared                        D. finished

41. A. young                             B. elderly                             C. friendly                            D. rich

42. A. scared                            B. astonished                     C. attracted                        D. bothered

43. A. showing                             B. reminding                       C. telling                        D. introducing

44. A. attention                       B. intention                         C. time                                 D. idea

45. A. away                              B. off                                     C. around                                D. over

46. A. smiled                            B. disagreed                       C. angered                          D. moved

47. A. Or                                   B. Though                            C. Therefore                       D. Otherwise

48. A. natural                           B. obvious                           C. important                       D. moving

49. A. madly                             B. silently                       C. unashamedly                 D. carefully

50. A. picked up                       B. stuck to                           C. agreed with                       D. questioned on

51. A. place                             B. scene                               C. topic                                D. sense

52. A. discouraged                 B. surprised                        C. disappointed                D. confused

53. A. need                               B. feel                                   C. seem                               D. use

54. A. told                                 B. answered                       C. comforted                      D. encouraged

55. A. quickly                            B. eagerly                            C. cheerfully                       D. thoughtfully

 

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