阅读下面短文.掌握其大意.然后从各题所给的四个选项中.选出最佳选项.并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑.My grandparents built and lived in a small 600-square-foot cottage for most of their adult lives. They actively practiced living a 21 life. Savi 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
My grandparents built and lived in a small 600-square-foot cottage for most of their adult lives. They actively practiced living a   21  life. Saving and avoiding overspending was their life   22  for their whole life.   23  seeking satisfaction through material items, they chose to spend   24  time together, with family, and in nature.
Over the years my grandparents noticed   25  changes in their community. Every year more farmland was   26  to build larger and larger homes. With houses’ prices   27 , many of their neighbors sold their little homes and lands.   28  only their small house was still on the block, surrounded by a sea of tall buildings. Countless family members   29  my grandparents to expand their home. But they didn’t want a bigger place and were   30  with what they had.
　　In many ways, I’ve modeled my life after my grandparents. Through their example I learned an important   31 : It is absolutely possible to live a small and fulfilling life.
　　My grandparents lived in a small home, but they owned a(n)   32  garden. They loved gardening deeply because it not only   33  their grocery bill, but also improved their health and gave them a(n)   34  to be outside. They said, “ 35   you live in a small home or an apartment, you don’t have to give up gardening.”
My grandparents avoided lifestyle creep(攀比) by paying for their own home in cash and building it themselves. They also recycled and   36  everything. For instance, they drove the same car for over 15 years and didn’t buy anything new until their stuff was   37  worn out.
My grandparents taught me that living well on   38  isn’t about feeling bad for myself.   39 , it’s about giving yourself the time, freedom, and money to seek your dreams. You know: Becoming debt free, living in a smaller home, and others are a few ways to   40  your life.

小题1:

A．dull

B．simple

C．single

D．busy

小题2:

A．attitude

B．experience

C．principle

D．standard

小题3:

A．Rather than

B．More than

C．Other than

D．Apart from

小题4:

A．shopping

B．work

C．break

D．quality

小题5:

A．obvious

B．delicate

C．enjoyable

D．flexible

小题6:

A．improved

B．ruined

C．discovered

D．distributed

小题7:

A．taking up

B．making up

C．going up

D．turning up

小题8:

A．Probably

B．Suddenly

C．Instantly

D．Eventually

小题9:

A．forced

B．encouraged

C．persuaded

D．ordered

小题10:

A．content

B．angry

C．cautious

D．familiar

小题11:

A．lesson

B．theory

C．truth

D．sentence

小题12:

A．small

B．special

C．ordinary

D．huge

小题13:

A．reduced

B．handled

C．checked

D．handled

小题14:

A．platform

B．stage

C．excuse

D．solution

小题15:

A．As if

B．Even if

C．Only if

D．What if

小题16:

A．sewed

B．created

C．sold

D．reused

小题17:

A．thoroughly

B．generally

C．nearly

D．hardly

小题18:

A．more

B．less

C．better

D．worse

小题19:

A．What’s more

B．As a result

C．On the whole

D．On the contrary

小题20:

A．risk

B．manage

C．limit

D．destroy

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:B
小题7:C
小题8:D
小题9:B
小题10:A
小题11:A
小题12:D
小题13:A
小题14:C
小题15:B
小题16:D
小题17:A
小题18:B
小题19:D
小题20:B

试题分析：本文通过对祖父母简朴生活的细微的描述，作者悟出了来自祖父母的生活哲学：适时地返朴归“简”吧！返朴归“简”既是一种生活方式，也是一种生活态度。抛开繁杂和过多的物质束缚，用一颗知足的心去拥抱简单而充实的生活，我们将和快乐不期而遇。简单的快乐，你值得拥有！
小题1:B根据上文“lived in a small 600-square-foot cottage”中的“small”可以推断祖父母生活的简朴(simple)。dull呆板的，枯燥的；single单身的，唯一的；busy忙碌的。
小题2:C节俭和避免过度的花费是他们的人生信条/原则(principle)。上文的“Saving and avoiding overspending”从逻辑意义上说不是一种“attitude态度”，也不是什么“experience      经验，经历”更不是什么“standard标准”。
小题3:A Rather than而不是；More than不仅仅；Other than除了；Apart from除了。把下一题和这一题联系起来考虑。我们将句子改成“They chose to spend   24  time together, with family, and in nature 23  seeking satisfaction through material items”就比较容易选出答案。
小题4:D上下文字面意思是：他们选择了和家人在一起共度珍贵时光，享受大自然，而不是去追求物质上的满足。quality time珍贵时光；shopping购物；work工作；break休息。本句译文：比起通过物质来寻求满足，他们更愿意和家人在一起共度珍贵时光，享受大自然。
小题5:A 根据下文的描述“Every year more farmland was   26  to build larger and larger homes. ”说明他们所居住的社区发生了“obvious明显的”变化。delicate微妙的；enjoyable愉快的，快乐的；flexible灵活的，易弯曲的，柔韧的。这些年来，我的祖父母注意到他们所在的社区发生了非常明显的变化。
小题6:B根据下文的“to build larger and larger homes”推断应该是“毁掉农田来建造房子”。improved改善；ruined毁坏；discovered发现；distributed分配。每年，越来越多的农田被毁掉，用以建造越来越大的房子。
小题7:C根据下文“many of their neighbors sold their little homes and lands.”的描述说明房地产的价格在上升。go up上升；take up拿起，继续，接受（提议），占去。make up组成，补足，弥补，编造；turn up出现，调大(声音)。随着房地产价格的节节攀升，他们的很多邻居都卖掉了自己的小房子和土地。
小题8:D 由于“很多邻居都卖掉了自己的小房子和土地”，所以最终的结果是“only their small house was still on the block, surrounded by a sea of tall buildings.(街区就只剩下祖父母家的小房子，而周围全是高楼大厦)”Eventually终于，最后；Probably也许；Suddenly突然；Instantly立刻。
小题9:B面临“街区就只剩下祖父母家的小房子，而周围全是高楼大厦”的情况所以“很多家庭成员鼓励(encouraged)祖父母扩建他们的房子”。本题的最大干扰项是C项persuaded劝服，但是从下文看，祖父母并没有被劝服。forced迫使；ordered命令。
小题10:A be content with="be" satisfied/pleased with对感到满意；angry生气；cautious小心的，谨慎的；familiar熟悉的。但他们并不想要一个更大的地方，也非常满足于拥有的一切。
小题11:A learn a lesson学习一课；在很多方面，我一直效仿我祖父母的生活。从他们身上我学到了重要的一课：我们可以过一种简单而满足的生活。theory理论；truth真相；sentence句子。
小题12:D与上文“My grandparents lived in a small home”中的“small”形成对比，故用“huge巨大的”。我祖父母家的房子虽小，却拥有一个巨大的花园。small小的；special特殊的；ordinary普通的。
小题13:A grocery意为“食品杂货”的意思。根据常识，花园里可以种植蔬菜、水果等来供自己吃，这样就可以“减少(reduced)鲜蔬杂货的开销”。handled处理；checked检查，核对；added增加。他们热爱园艺，因为这不仅能减少鲜蔬杂货开销，……
小题14:C 根据常识“护理花园”就要到室外去，而拥有自己的花园确实是“走出户外”绝佳理由/借口(excuse)。Platform平台；stage舞台；solution解决方法。……而且还可以改善他们的健康状况，还提供了一个进行户外活动的理由。
小题15:B 上下文有让步关系。As if 似乎，好像；Even if即使；Only if只是；What if要是……又怎样，如果……将会怎么样。即使你住在一个小房子或者小公寓里，你也不必放弃园艺。
小题16:D跟上文中的“recycled循环利用”相匹配的词只有“reused重复使用”。sewed缝纫；created发明创造；sold销售，卖。他们还尽量重复使用和循环利用所有东西。
小题17:A祖父母一生过着简朴的生活，再结合上文“他们的车一开就是15年多”我们可以推断“家里的东西在没有完全(thoroughly)用坏之前绝不买新的”。generally一般地；nearly几乎；hardly几乎不。
小题18:B living well on less=" living" a simple life。More更多；better 更少；worse更糟糕。我的祖父母告诉我过简朴的生活不是亏待自己/并不心疼自己。feel bad for心疼。
小题19:D下文所说与上文所说正好相反(On the contrary)“相反，它能赋予你时间、自由和金钱去追求梦想”。What’s more况且；As a result结果；On the whole总的说来。   D.
小题20:B下文所说都是生活中的真谛。没有负债，住小一点的房子以及其它就是经营你生活的一些方法。risk冒险；manage经营，管理；limit限制；destroy破坏。

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When I was a child, my parents taught me the difference between good and bad behavior by showing me specific examples. My mother told me that you don’t   36  other kids because you would not like    37  if they hit you. That makes   38   . But, if my mother told me to be “nice” to someone, it was too vague for me to   39 . But if she said that being nice               40   delivering daffodils to a next door neighbor, that I could understand.
I believe that doing practical things can 41   the world a better place. When I was in my twenties I thought a lot about the meaning of life. At the time, I was getting started in my 42    of designing more humane facilities for animals at big farms and slaughterhouses(屠宰场). Many people would think that to even work at a slauterhouse would be inhumane, but they   43  that every human and animal   44  dies. In my mind, I had a(n)   45   of a way to make tht dying as   46  as possible.
Back in the 1970s, I went to fifty different feedlots and big farms in Arizona and Texas and       47  them work cattle. I cataloged the parts of each facility that 48  effectively. I took the best loading ramps, and other components and 49    them into an ideal new system. I get great   50  when a farmer tells me that my corral (畜栏) 51  helps cattle move through it quietly and   52 . When cattle stay calm, it means they are not scared. And that makes me feel I’ve    53  something important.
Some people might think if I could snap my   54  I’d choose to be “normal”. But, I wouldn’t want to give up my    55   to see in beautiful, precise pictures. I believe in them.

Comedian Groucho Mark said, “Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
You and I have principles and we also have 31 . I have opinions about what I think is right or wrong or good or bad. But they’re only opinions —I could be 32 ! I won’t try to build my life around my opinions, 33 I’ll try to keep to my principles.
A 15-year-old boy learned a valuable 34 about life principles. One day, he found a wallet that 35 $127 as well as a woman’s 36 . He jumped onto his 37 and went to her house. He told her he found her wallet and she gave him a big 38 . She also gave him twenty dollars.
That evening the boy told his parents about the 39 and his father said, “I don’t think you should have 40 $20 for doing what you should have done. A person shouldn’t be rewarded for being 41 .”
He considered his father’s statement and 42 that he would return the money. He 43 biked to the lady’s home and gave her back the money. She didn’t want to 44 it, but he told her she had to — that his father 45 something to him that he had 46 realized before.
When ideals such as honesty and a personal standard of always doing the right thing guide our every action and decision, we 47 develop a good character. These great principles 48 our lives and make us into a person of 49 . They teach confidence. That boy is 50 to be raised by a wise father who had the wisdom to say, “Those are my principles.”

Looking back on my childhood. I am convinced that naturalists are born and not made. Although we were brought up in the same way, my brothers and sisters soon abandoned their pressed flowers and insects. Unlike them, I had no ear for music and languages. I was not an early reader and I could not do mental arithmetic.
Before Word War I we spent our summer holidays in Hungary. I have only the dim memory of the house we lived in, of my room and my toys. Nor do I recall clearly the large family of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who gathered next door. But I do have a crystal clear memory of dogs, the farm animals, the local birds and above all, the insects.
I am a naturalist, not a scientist. I have a strong love of the natural world, and my enthusiasm has led me into varied investigations. I love discussing my favorite topics and enjoy burning the midnight oil reading about other people’s observations and discoveries. Then something happens that brings these observations together in my conscious mind. Suddenly you fancy you see the answer to the riddle. Because it all seems to fit together .This has resulted in my publishing 300 papers and books. Which some may light honor, with the title of scientific research.
But curiosity a keen eye, a good memory and enjoyment of the animal and plant world do not make a scientist? One of the outstanding and essential qualities required is self-discipline, a quality I lack. A scientist can be made a naturalist. If you can combine the two, you get the best of both worlds.
小题1:According to the author, a born naturalist should first of all be _____

A．full of ambition	B．self-disciplined
C．full of enthusiasm	D．knowledgeable

小题2:The first paragraph tells us that the author _____

A．lost his hearing when he was a child

B．didn’t like his brothers and sisters

C．was interested in flowers and insects in his childhood

D．was born to a naturalist’s family

小题3:The author says that he is a naturalist rather than a scientist probably because he thinks he ____.

A．just rends about other peoples observations and discoveries.

B．Lacks some of the qualities required of scientist.

C．Has a great deal of trouble doing mental arithmetic.

D．Come up with solutions in most natural ways.

小题4:The author can’t remember him relatives clearly because__

A．He didn’t live very long with them

B．He was too young when he lived with them.

C．The family was extremely large

D．He was fully occupied with observing nature.

小题5:Which of the following statements is true?

A．The author believes that a born naturalist can not be scientist.

B．The author read a lot of books about the natural world and oil industry

C．The author’s brothers and sisters were good at music and languages.

D．The author spent a lot of time working on riddles.

It was blazing hot, just like most July days. I stepped into a tiny ice-cream shop to cool off with a
chocolate ice-cream. It was an old woman bent over a table near the door. Her back was so badly twisted that her face nearly touched the tabletop. I sat down facing her a couple of tables away.
“Poor woman,” I thought, “What does she get out of life? Why God let people live so long past their prime?”
As I thought, another aged lady entered the shop and sat down with her. Soon the two of them were talking about childhood days. They talked of how little the shop had changed in 70 years... In minutes, the two of them were trembling with laughter.
I looked again at the first woman, then in the mirror on a nearby wall, catching a picture of myself. I was wearing a dirty shirt. She was well dressed in white, her hands sparking with gold rings. I was sad. She was laughing, smiling. I was putting the pieces of my life together. She had millions of wonderful memories to recall. I sat alone. She was sharing the day with a good friend. I was secretly worried about getting old. She was old, but it wasn’t hurting her.
As I left the shop, I thought of my foolish question about God letting people live past their prime. Why, that woman was more alive, more sensitive to life than I was. Age has not bent her spirit.
小题1:From the passage we know that the ice-shop _________.

A．changed a lot in the past	B．had only a couple of tables
C．started its business 70 years ago.	D．had only women shoppers.

小题2:What is the meaning of the underlined word “prime” in this passage?

A．miserable life

B．wonderful experience

C．long career

D．time of great strength, beauty, vigor(活力)

小题3: The writer implies all of the following except that _________.

A．the old lady had lived a full and satisfying life

B．the writer had more problems than the old lady

C．the old lady was very lonely and sad

D．the old lady had learned to enjoy the simple things in life

小题4: Which of the following is the conclusion the writer made about the old lady?

A．She was more alive and sensitive to life than the writer.

B．She considered the young man pitiable.

C．She was to be pitied for her old age.

D．People should not be allowed to live when they are too old.

小题5:Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?

A．To tell us the life of old people

B．To show that old age does not mean being short of spirit.

C．To show the difference between the old and the young.

D．To make the reader have a pity on the old people.

This Mother’s Day will be the 8^th year I have spent without my own mother. She passed away less than a month before Mother’s Day in the year 2000. She had been ill for almost two years, and I didn’t cry when she died, or at her funeral, but on that first Mother’s Day without her. On that day, I realized that this person I loved and depended on was gone forever.
She still lives in family memories, in the thoughts of her friends and co-workers, in the values she had instilled(灌输) in her children, and in the lovely flower gardens that she had so carefully tended.
She loved her gladioli and irises. Each fall she would dig the bulbs out of the soil and carefully wrap them in paper. The bulbs would be stored until the following spring when they would be replanted. It seemed like a lot of effort to me, but each year her flower garden was more glorious than the year before. She put the same hard work into caring for her family, instilling in her children a sense of justice and fair play, compassion, and strong moral values so that we blossomed.
Share anecdotes about your mother’s life at your Mother’s Day party. Too often, we avoid speaking of those loved ones who have passed away, fearful that we will unearth sad feelings. It doesn’t have to be that way. Sharing fond memories and stories of the life we shared with her can be a healing process that binds（捆绑）the family together.
My mother passed away when her oldest grandchild was only eight years old. Children will enjoy sharing pictures and stories of the grandmother they may have never known or have little memory of. Sharing anecdotes to pass on to the next generation will give children a feeling of family history and continuity, and may be one of the best ways to honor our mothers and grandmothers who have gone before us.
小题1:What does the underlined words “passed away” ( in Paragraph 1)mean?

小题2:On the first Mother’s Day after mum died the author realized_______ .

A．mum had been dead for a long time	B．mum had suffered a lot from the illness
C．it was true that mum had been dead	D．it was impossible to depend on mum

小题3:From the third paragraph we can infer that mum_______ .

A．loved her gladioli and irises	B．showed kindness to all her children
C．taught the children to plant patiently	D．had a good influence on the author

小题4:At the Mother’s Day party people don’t mention their lost mums only because_______ .

A．they are simply afraid of causing sad feelings

B．they have forgotten their mums completely

C．they don’t love their mums any longer

D．they think their mums have passed away

小题5:In order to show honor to our mothers and grandmothers we can _____ .

A．spend the Mother’s Day with our children

B．share the stories of them with the children

C．hold the Mother’s Day party every year

D．plant beautiful flowers in the family garden

Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members, and in particular their parents, don’t know them as well as their friends do. In families, it is quite often brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for advice.
It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a circle of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone. This communication is very important in children’s growing up, because friends can discuss something difficult to say to their family members. However, parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. The question of “choice” is an interesting one. Have you ever thought of the following questions?
Who chooses your friends? Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?
小题1:Many teenagers think their _____ know them better than their parents do.

A．friends