题目内容
It was a cold winter’s afternoon, Robert stopped for a moment as he crossed the bridge and looked down at the river below. There were hardly any ___1___ on the river. ___2___ the bridge, however, almost directly below, ___3___ was a small canoe(独木舟), with a boy in it. He was ___4___ wearing many clothes, Robert ___5___. He shivered(打了个寒颤) and walked on.
___6___ he heard a cry. “Help! Help!” The cry ___7___ from the river. Robert looked down. The boy was ___8___ the water and his canoe was ___9___ away, “Help! Help!” he called again.
Robert was a good ___10___. Taking off his clothes, he ___11___ into the river. The ___12___ water made him tremble all over, ___13___ in a few seconds he reached the ___14___. “Don’t be afraid,” he said and started to swim towards the river bank, ___15___ the boy with him. But at that ___16___ he noticed a large motor boat under the bridge. There were several people on the boat, all___17___in his direction. Robert ___18___ to swim towards the boat.
“Give me a hand,” he shouted ___19___ he got near the boat. He ___20___ up into a row of faces. “It’s funny,” he thought. “They look so ___21___.” Silently they helped the boy into the boat and ___22___ him in a blanket. But they did not move to ___23___ Robert.
“Aren’t you going to pull me ___24___ too?” Robert asked.
“You!” said one of the men. Robert noticed that he was standing next to a large ___25___. “You! Why, we were making a film and you spoiled(破坏) a whole afternoon’s work! You can stay in the water.”
1. A. fish B. boats C. waves D. sounds
2. A. From B. Towards C. Near D. Beyond
3. A. there B. it C. where D. that
4. A. then B. also C. only D. not
5. A. noticed B. saw C. guessed D. said
6. A. Till then B. Just then C. Far away D. From there
7. A. happened B. went C. arrived D. came
8. A. on B. within C. in D. under
9. A. running B. floating C. flowing D. pulling
10. A. swimmer B. guard C. soldier D. sportsman
11. A. threw B. looked C. dived D. turned
12. A. deep B. cool C. dirty D. cold
13. A. but B. so C. and D. or
14. A. canoe B. bank C. boy D. bridge
15. A. pushing B. dragging C. holding D. catching
16. A. place B. period C. second D. moment
17. A. seeing B. smiling C. looking D. shouting
18. A. decided B. went C. agreed D. promised
19. A. while B. till C. for D. as
20. A. turned B. looked C. hurried D. stood
21. A. nervous B. afraid C. excited D. angry
22. A. wrapped B. left C. placed D. threw
23. A. save B. thank C. help D. wrap
24. A. on B. out C. away D. off
25. A. boat B. blanket C. camera D. screen
1---20 DCADA BDCBA CDACB DCADB DACBC
解析:
通读短文，把握大意：一个寒冷的冬天的下午，罗伯特在过一座桥时，忽听一个小男孩在桥下呼救。罗伯特脱衣下水救小孩，但到最后却发现那是在拍电影，自己做了“好事”，不但没受到赞扬，反而受到责备。
1. B。选 D 显然不行，因为前面说罗伯特往桥下一“看”(looked down at the river below)，其结果不应是“声音”(sounds)；另外按照一般的常识：一个人在一个寒冷的冬天过桥时，他往桥下一看，他所注意的不会是河面上是否有“鱼(fish)”或者“波浪(waves)”，而应是“船(boats)”——河上无船，正说明天气“寒冷”。
2. C。此题选 B 显然不行，因为 towards 意为“朝…”，具有动态性，与语境不合；若选 beyond(在…之外或那边)，与下文的 almost directly below 所表示的语境不合；若选 from 也不行，因为这其实是一个存在句的地点状语，表示位置。
3. A。从上下文看这应是一个存在句，故用 there be 句型。
4. D。由于下文有罗伯特“打了个寒颤”这样的语境，所以可以推知这个小孩应该是“没(not)”穿很多衣服。
5. A。这是一个宾语从句前置的句子，正常语序应是：Robert noticed that he was not wearing many clothes. 此题若选 C, D 显然不合语境；若选 B 也不行，因为按照常识，一个桥上的人看一个桥下的人，这个人穿的衣服是多是少，他只能是“注意到(notice)”而不应是“看见(see)”。
6. B。从上文看，罗伯特打了个寒颤就准备继续往前走。然而“就在这时(just then)”，他听到了呼救声。
7. D。此题答案可从语境及语感很容易地推出(注意 come from 意为“来自”)。
8. C。此题 A(on), D(under) 显然不合语境；而 B 虽有些接近语境的要求，但within 表示的“不超过”、“不多于”、“在…里面”等，还是与语境不符合。
9. B。此题选 A、D 均不合语境，因为 his canoe 不可能 running, pulling；选项 C(flowing)意为“流，流动”，也不合语境。
10. A。下文要说罗伯特脱衣下水救人，这当然是说他是一个出色的 swimmer。
11. C。既然是脱衣救人，当然是要“潜入(dive into)”水中。
12. D。这是一个寒冷的冬天的下午， 罗伯特现在潜入水中， 当然是“寒冷的 (cold)”水使他浑身颤抖。
13. A。请注意语意的转折：虽然冷得发抖,“但(but)”还是没用几分钟就游到了小孩这儿来。
14. C。下水的目的是为了救小孩，当然是要到“小孩(boy)”这儿来。
15. B。水中救人本不是件容易的事，加上这又是一个寒冷的冬天， 就更是难上加难，所以这里用 drag 表示“拖”(强调笨重)。
16. D。从语境可显然看出：这里的意思是“就在那时(at that moment)”。
17. C。选项 B(smiling)与下文的“生气(angry)”不符合；选项 D( shouting) 与下文的“默默地(silently)”不符合；选项 A(seeing) 表示的是结果不合语 意。
18. A。此处填 C(agreed), D(promised)显然不行，因为上文并没有哪个人叫他 往船这边游来，所以这里并不存在“同意(agreed)”或“答应(promised)”的问题。A、B 相比，显然A(decided)更符合语境，因为罗伯特发现桥下有汽艇，且 汽艇上人都往他这边看，所以他“决定”(decided)往汽艇这边游来。
19. D。此题若选 B(till) 或C(for)，显然不合语境；选 A(while)虽然与语境有些接近，但由于引导的从句通常要是一个持续性的谓语， 而不能是终止性的谓 语。
20. B。从语境来看，只有 B(looked) 讲得通，由于罗伯特是在水里，所以他看汽艇上的人，要“抬起头来(looked up)”。
21. D。从下文语境来看：汽艇上的人是在拍电影，现在他们整个下午的工作被 罗伯特破坏，所以这些人看起来很“生气”(angry)。
22. A。一个寒冷的冬天的下午，一个落水小孩被救上汽艇，同学们可以很容易 地想到：该用毯子把他怎么样呢? 当然是“包(wrapped)”起来。
23. C。小孩被救上汽艇，罗伯特还在水中，此时由于他并不存在生命危险，所以并不需要“救命(save)”，又因为连汽艇还没上来，不存在用毯子“包(wrap)”；至于“感谢(thank)”，从整个语境看那就更谈不上了。
24. B。pull out 在这里指从水里拉出来(即从水里拉到汽艇上来)。
25. C。由于下文说这些人是在拍电影，所以这时罗伯特注意到跟他说话的这个是站在一部大“摄影机(camera)”旁。
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Last night, when I was driving back home, I noticed a hitchhiker(搭便车的人) who was having no luck getting a ride. I rolled down my 36 and signed to the man to my car. I asked him where he was 37 and he told me he needed a 38 to his doctor’s office which would close in 15 minutes. I told him to 39 and he gratefully did so.
40 he got in he told me that he was a 41 and went out to sea for weeks at a time. He took medicine for his nerves and 42 to get another prescription(处方) before he left on the boat. He said that he had prayed (祈祷) 43 would stop for him so he could be there before the 44 office closed. With some 45 driving we managed to make it there in about 10 46. I then asked him how he 47 on getting back home and he said he could walk. “I’ll patiently 48 for you and bring you back,” I told him. He 49 me and said he should only be about 15 minutes.
Afterwards he got back in my 50 and tried his hardest to pay me back: offering me dinner, gas money, even offering to ship me 40 lbs of scallops (海扇贝)! I 51 refused, gave him a smile card and asked him to help someone else the next time he had a 52. I drove him back to where I had picked him up and 53 one more “thank you” he was on his way.
I feel that the universe 54 provides us with what we need. In the man’s 55 it was a ride, in mine the opportunity to help someone else.
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I started winning competitions. We still had very little money -- my father had to borrow $5,000 to pay for a trip to the International Young Pianists Competition in Ettlingen, Germany, in 1994, when I was 12. I realized later how much pressure he was under. Tears streamed down his face when it was announced that I'd won -- earning enough money to pay back our loan.
It was soo n clear I couldn't stay in China forever. To become a world-class musician, I had to play on the world's big stages. So in 1997, my father and I moved again, this time to Philadelphia, so I could attend The Curtis Institute of Music. Finally our money worries were easing. The school paid for an apartment and even lent me a Steinway（斯坦威钢琴）.At night, I would sneak into the living room just to touch the keys.
Now that I was in America, I spent two years practicing, and by 1999 I had worked hard enough for fortune to take over. The Chicago Symphony orchestra heard me play and liked me, but orchestra schedules were set far in advance. I thought I might join them in a few years.
The next morning, I got a call. The great pianist Andre Watts, who was to play the "Gala Benefit Evening" at Chicago's Ravinia Festival, had become ill. I was asked to replace him. That performance was, for me, the moment. After violinist Isaac Stern introduced me, I played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. My father's mouth hung open throughout the entire song.
I played until 3:30 a.m. I felt something happening. Sure enough, it was a great success. Still, my father kept telling me, "You'd better practice!" But living in America with me was beginning to relax him. In Beijing I'd been fat -- he made sure I ate -- and he'd been skinny. Now I was getting thin. He wasn't.
My father and I had often practiced a piece called "Horses," a fun version for piano and erhu. One night in Carnegie Hall, after I played Chopin and Liszt, I brought Dad out on the stage, and we played our duet（二重奏）. People went crazy -- they loved it. My father couldn't sleep for days. He was too happy to sleep.
There have been lots of concerts in Carnegie Hall, but for me playing there was especially sweet when I remember the cold days in Beijing. Together, my father and I worked to reach the lucky place where fortune spots you, and lets you shine.
【小题1】In the first paragraph his father cried when it was announced that he'd won mainly because__________.
| A．his father was excited that his son succeeded at last. |
| B．his father was under too much pressure. |
| C．they could pay back the loan with the prize. |
| D．his father was proud of him. |
a. He and his father moved to Philadelphia.
b. He was asked to replace the great pianist Andre Watts.
c. He and his father played “Horses” together.
d.The Chicago Symphony orchestra heard his performance.
e. The Curtis Institute of Music lent him a Steinway
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| A．The writer’s father had been very fat before they went to America. |
| B．The writer thought he would be one of them soon when he knew the Chicago Symphony orchestra heard him play and liked him. |
| C．The Curtis Institute of Music finally eased their money worries. |
| D．One can achieve his dream if he is lucky enough. |
| A．America | B．Beijing. | C．Carnegie Hall | D．All the places he went to. |
| A．I Took Off! | B．When Fortune Spots Me. |
| C．No Pain, No Gain. | D．My father and I |
Reading poems is not exactly an everyday activity for most people. In fact, many people never read a poem once they get out of high school.
It is worth reminding ourselves that this has not always been the case in America. In the nineteenth century, a usual American activity was to sit around the fireplace in the evening and read poems aloud. It is true that there was no television at the time, nor movie theatres, nor World Wide Web, to provide diversion. However, poems were a source of pleasure, of self-education, of connection to other people or to the world beyond one’s own community. Reading them was a social act as well as an individual one, and perhaps even more social than individual. Writing poems to share with friends and relations was, like reading poems by the fireside, another way in which poetry had a place in everyday life.
How did things change? Why are most Americans no longer comfortable with poetry, and why do most people today think that a poem has nothing to tell them and they can do well without poems?
There are, I believe, three culprits (肇事者): poets, teachers and we ourselves. Of these, the least important is the third: the world surrounding the poem has betrayed (背叛) us more than we have betrayed the poem. Early in the twentieth century, poetry in English headed into directions hostile (不利的) to the reading of poetry. Readers decided that poems were not for the fireside or the easy chair at night, that they belonged where other difficult-to-read things belonged.
Poets failed the readers, so did the teachers. They want their students to know something about the craft (技巧) of a poem, and they want their students to see that poems mean something. Yet what usually occurs when teachers push these concerns on their high school students is that young people decide poems are unpleasant crossword puzzles.
【小题1】 Reading poems is thought to be a social act in the nineteenth century because _______.
| A．it built a link among people | B．it helped unite a community |
| C．it was a source of self-education | D．it was a source of pleasure |
| A．diversity | B．change | C．amusements | D．happiness |
| A．the difficulty in studying poems |
| B．the way poems are taught in school |
| C．students’ wrong ideas about poetry |
| D．the techniques used in writing poems |
| A．Poems have become difficult to understand. |
| B．Students are poorly educated in high school. |
| C．TV and the Internet are more attractive than poetry. |
| D．Students are becoming less interested in poetry. |