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I know I should have told the headmaster at the time. That was my real 36 .

He had gone out of the study for some 37 , leaving me alone. In his absence I looked to see 38 was on his desk. In the 39 was a small piece of paper on which were written the 40 “English Writing Prize 1949. History Is a Serious of Biographies (人物传记)”.

A(n) 41 boy would have avoided looking at the title as soon as he saw the 42 . I did not. The subject of the English Writing Prize was kept a 43 until the start of the exam so I could not 44 reading it.

When the headmaster 45 , I was looking out of the window.

I should have told him what had 46 then. It would have been so 47 to say: “I’m sorry, but I 48 the title for the English Writing Prize on your desk. You’ll have to 49 it.”

The chance passed and I did not 50 it. I sat the exam the next day and I won. I didn’t 51 to cheat, but it was still cheating anyhow.

That was thirty-eight years 52 when I was fifteen. I have never told anyone about it before, 53 have I tried to explain to myself why not.

The obvious explanation is that I could not admit I had seen the title 54 admitting that I had been looking at the things on his desk. 55 there must have been more behind it. Whatever it was, it has become a good example of how a little mistake can trap (使陷入) you in a more serious moral corner (道德困境).

36. A. plan B. fault C. grade D. luck

37. A. reason B. course C. example D. vacation

38. A. this B. which C. that D. what

39. A. drawer B. corner C. middle D. box

40. A. names B. words C. ideas D. messages

41. A. honest B. handsome C. friendly D. active

42. A. desk B. paper C. book D. answer

43. A. question B. key C. note D. secret

44. A. help B. consider C. practise D. forget

45. A. disappeared B. stayed C. returned D. went

46. A. existed B. remained C. happened D. continued

47. A. tiring B. easy C. important D. difficult

48. A. saw B. gave C. set D. made

49. A. repeat B. defend C. correct D. change

50. A. take B. have C. lose D. find

51. A. remember B. learn C. mean D. pretend

52. A. past B. ago C. then D. before

53. A. either B. never C. nor D. so

54. A. by B. besides C. through D. without

55. A. But B. Though C. Otherwise D. Therefore

36-55: BADCB ABDAC CBADA CBCDA

解析:

36．解析： fault意为“过失，过错；罪过，责任”，常指性格上的弱点或行为上的过失，含有当事人对过失负有责任的意味，有时也可用于物。短文第一句话I know I should have told the headmaster at the time.表示“我本来应该在那时告诉校长。”因为本来应该做而没有做，所以作者认为这的确是他的过过错。plan意为“计划”。grade意为“等级，级别；阶段；程度，标准，水平”。luck意为“幸运”。

37．解析：reason意为“理由”，指对已经发生的事情提供的理由、原因或借口，着重说明行为的动机。for some reason表示“为某种理由”。course意为“进程，经过，过程，趋势”。example意为“例证，实例；标本，样本”，for example表示“例如”，常用逗号将其与句子分开。vacation意为“假期”，短文中没有提到校长度假的事。

38．解析：what引导宾语从句，在从句中作主语。look to意为“照顾，注意，负责”。表示在他不在期间，我看到他的办公桌上有什么。this不引导从句。which引导宾语从句表示“哪一个”。that引导宾语从句时，在从句中不充当任何成分，只起连接作用。

39．解析：in the middle表示“在他的办公桌的中间”，根据上文所提供的情景in his absence I looked to see what was on his desk.可判断出在他的办公桌的中间有一张字条。drawer意为“抽屉”。corner意为“角落”。box意为“盒子，箱子”。

40．解析：words意为“话语”，根据所提供的情景English Writing Prize 1949: History Is a Series of Biographies可判断出在字条上写的话语。name意为“名字”。idea意为“主意”。message意为“口信”。

41．解析：honest意为“诚实的；正直的，耿直的；坦率的，坦白的，正派的，公正的”。指言行一致、表里如一，忠诚可靠，强调真实性。根据下文中的exam可判断出字条上写的内容是考试的题目，作为诚实的学生，不应该提前看这张字条。handsome意为“(一般指男子外貌)漂亮的，清秀的，俊美的”。friendly意为“友好的”。active意为“活跃的”。

42．解析：paper意为“纸”，指上文提到的写着考试题目的字条。desk意为“办公桌，课桌”。book意为“书”。answer意为“答案”。

43．解析：secret意为“秘密”，表示英语写作大奖赛的题目应该在开始考试前一直处于保密状态。question意为“问题”。key意为“答案，关键，钥匙”。note意为“笔记”。

44．解析：can’t help doing sth意为“禁不住做某事”。根据上文所提供的情景I did not.（有没有避免看这个题目。）可判断出作者禁不住读了这个题目。consider意为“考虑”。practise意为“实践”。forget意为“忘记”。

45．解析：return意为“回来”，表示当校长回来时，作者正看着窗外。disappear意为“消失”。remain意为“剩余，剩下；遗留，留下”。go意为“走，去”。

46．解析：happen意为“发生”，多指客观的或具体的事物发生，含有偶然或自发的意味，间或也指按计划发生。表示作者本来应该发生了什么事告诉校长，但没有告诉。

47．解析：easy意为“容易”，因为说出自己因看了大奖赛的题目而非常抱歉是一件容易的事。tiring意为“令人疲劳的”。important意为“重要的”。difficult意为“困难的”。

48．解析：see意为“看见”，指看见了校长办公桌上大奖赛的题目。give意为“给”。set意为“放；搁；贴；靠”。make意为“制造”。

49．解析：change意为“改变，变更，变换”，因为作者提前看了英语写作大奖赛的题目，所以他认为校长应该改换这个题目。repeat意为“重复”。defend意为“保卫”。correct意为“改正”。

50．解析：take it意为“把握住机会”。因为作者当时没有把自己看了大奖赛的题目这件事告诉校长，失去了这个机会。have意为“有”。lost意为“丢失”。find意为“发现”。

51．解析：mean to so sth意为“打算做某事”，表示作者并没有打算作弊。remember to so sth意为“记着去做某事”。learn to do sth意为“学会做某事”。pretend to do sth意为“假装做某事”。

52．解析：ago意为“以前，前”，表示这件事发生在38年前，当作者15岁时。past意为“过去的；完了的”，放在“数字+表示时间的名词”前表示“在过去的多少年”。如：in the past three years在过去的三年中。then意为“然后”。before意为“在……之前”。

53．解析：nor意为“也不，也没有”，与上文中的neither构成neither … nor表示“既不……，也不”，表示既没有把这件事告诉任何人，也没有试图向自己解释为什么当时没有把这件事告诉校长。either意为“两者之一的；(两者之中)随便哪一个的；两者中任何一方的”。never意为“从不”。so意为“因此”。

54．解析：without意为“没有”，表示没有得到允许看放在办公桌上的东西。by意为“通过”，表示通过某种手段或方式。besides意为“另外（还）”。through意为“穿过”。

55．解析：but意为“但是”，表示两句之间是转折对比关系。though引导让步状语从句，表示“虽然，尽管”。otherwise意为“否则”。therefore意为“因此”。

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【小题1】After the author cheated on the math test, he felt ____________.

A．frightened because he might be caught

B．excited that he had succeeded

C．pleased that nobody knew it

D．unhappy because he had done something wrong

【小题2】By “It wasn't even an accident that I cheated”, the author means that ________.

A．he had planned not to study before the test

B．he decided to cheat when he knew there was going to be a test

C．he decided to cheat after he had wasted the whole evening

D．he had planned to cheat with Plummer before the test

【小题3】The author’ mother often drives him crazy because _____-.

A．She really knows what he is thinking

B．she was very strict with him

C．she doesn’t believe him

D．she asks him to come down for dinner

【小题4】After he was informed of what he had done, the father _______.

A．scolded the author severely

B．didn’t say anything and left

C．called Mr. Burke immediately

D．let the author make a call to Mr. Burke

【小题5】The author’s father kissed the author good night because ________-.

A．he had done something unusual

B．he promised to study math harder

C．he was willing to take a make-up test

D．he realized his mistake and had the courage to admit it

I have only once been in trouble with the law. The whole process of being arrested and taken to court was a rather unpleasant experience at the time, but it makes a good story now. What makes it rather disturbing was the arbitrary circumstances both of my arrest and my subsequent? fate in court.

It happened in February about twelve years ago. I had left school a couple of months before that and was not due to go to university until the following October. I was still living at home at the time.

One morning I was in Richmond, a suburb of London near where I lived. I was looking for a temporary job so that I could save up some money to go traveling. As it was a fine day and I was in no hurry, I was taking my time, looking in shop windows, strolling in the park, and sometimes just stopping and looking around me. It must have been this obvious aimlessness that led to my downfall.

It was about half past eleven when it happened. I was just walking out of the local library, having unsuccessfully sought employment there, when I saw a man walking across the road with the obvious intention of talking to me. I thought he was going to ask me the time. Instead, he said he was a police officer and he was arresting me. At first I thought it was some kind of joke.

But then another policeman appeared, this time in uniform, and I was left in no doubt.

“But what for?” I asked.

“Wandering with intent to commit an arrestable offence.” he said.

“What offence?” I asked.

“Theft.” he said.

“Theft of what?” I asked.

“Milk bottles,” he said, and with a perfectly straight face too!

“Oh,” I said.

It turned out there had been a lot of petty thefts in the area, particularly that of stealing milk bottles from doorsteps.

Then I made my big mistake. At the time I was nineteen, had long untidy hair, and regarded myself as part of the sixties’ “youth counterculture”. As a result, I wanted to appear cool and unconcerned with the incident, so I said, “How long have you been following me?” in the most casual and conversational tone I could manage. I thus appeared to them to be quite familiar with this sort of situation, and it confirmed them in their belief that I was a thoroughly disreputable （品行不端的）character.

????????????? A few minutes later a police car arrived.

????????????? “Get in the back,” they said. “Put your hands on the back of the front seat and don’t move them.”

????????????? They got in on either side of me. It wasn’t funny any more.

????????????? At the police station they questioned me for several hours. I continued to try to look worldly and familiar with the situation. When they asked me what I had been doing, I told them I’d been looking for a job. “Aha,” I could see them thinking, “unemployed”.

Eventually, I was officially charged and told to report to Richmond Magistrates’ Court the following Monday. Then they let me go.

I wanted to conduct my own defense in court, but as soon as my father found out what had happened, he hired a very good lawyer. We went along that Monday armed with all kinds of witnesses, including my English teacher from school as a character witness. But he was never called on to give evidence. My “trial” didn’t get that far. The magistrate （法官） dismissed the case after fifteen minutes. I was free. The poor police had never stood a chance. The lawyer even succeeded in getting costs awarded against the police.

And so I do not have a criminal record. But what was most shocking at the time was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on. I had the “right” accent, respectable middle-class parents in court, reliable witnesses, and I could obviously afford a very good lawyer. Given the obscure nature of the charge, I feel sure that if I had come from a different background, and had really been unemployed, there is every chance that I would have been found guilty. While asking for costs to be awarded, my lawyer’s case quite obviously revolved （回转） around the fact that I had a “brilliant academic record”.

Meanwhile, just outside the courtroom, one of the policemen who had arrested me was gloomily complaining to my mother that another youngster had been turned against the police. “You could have been a bit more helpful when we arrested you,” he said to me reproachfully （责备地）.

What did he mean? Probably that I should have looked outraged and said something like, “Look here, do you know who you’re talking to? I am a highly successful student with a brilliant academic record. How dare you arrest me!” Then they, probably, would have apologized perhaps even taken off their caps, and let me on my way.

1.Judging from the first paragraph, the writer’s attitude towards his story is _______.

A. angry????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. sad?????? ?????????????

C. amused?????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? D. more than just one of the above

2.The first man who came up to him was ______.

A. a uniformed policeman???????????????? ????????????? B. a policeman in plainclothes

C. not a policeman?????????????????????? ????????????? D. a good joker

3.The court never asked the author’s English teacher to give evidence because _______.

A. the time for the trial was limited to fifteen minutes only

B. the author wanted to conduct his own defense in court

C. the case was dismissed before the trial reached that stage

D. he was found to be unqualified as a character witness

4.The author believes that he would most probably have been declared guilty if _______.

A. the magistrate had been less gentle?????? ?????????????

B. he had really been out of work

C. he had been born in a lower— class family ?????????????

D. both B and C

5. In the opinion of one of the policeman who had arrested the author, the whole thing might not have occurred if ______.

A. he had protested strongly at the time???? ?????????????

B. he had begged to be allowed to go home

C. he hadn’t wandered aimlessly?????????? ?????????????

D. he had tried to look cool

6.We can see from the passage that the author ______.

A. has broken the law only once

B. has never broken the law

C. has broken the law on more than one occasion

D. once broke the law without knowing it

I know I should have told the headmaster at the time. That was my real 　36 .

He had gone out of the study for some 　37 , leaving me alone. In his absence I looked to see 　38 was on his desk. In the middle 　39 　a small piece of paper on 　40 were written the words “English Writing Prize 1949. History Is a Serious of Biographies (人物传记)”.

A(n) 41 boy would have avoided looking at the title 　42 he saw the paper. But I did not. The subject of the English Writing Prize was kept a 　43 until the start of the exam so I could not 　44 reading it.

When the headmaster 　45 ，I was looking out of the window.

I should have told him what had 　46 then. It would have been so 　47 to say: “I’m sorry, but I saw 　48 for the English Writing Prize on your desk. You’ll have to 　49 it.”

The chance passed and I did not 　50 it. I took the exam the next day and I won. I didn’t mean to cheat, but it was still cheating 　51 　.

That was thirty-eight years ago 　52 I was fifteen. I have never told anyone about it before, nor 　53 tried to explain to myself why not.

It’s obvious that I could not 　54 I had seen the title. Whatever it was, it has become a good 　　 55 of how a little mistake can trap (使陷入) you in a more serious moral corner (道德困境).

36. A. plan　　　　　　　　　　　 B. fault　　　　　　　　　　 C. grade　　　　　　　　　 D. luck

37. A. reason　　　　　　　　　 B. course　　　　　　　　 C. example　　　　　　　 D. vacation

38. A. this　　　　　　　　　　　 B. which　　　　　　　　　 C. that　　　　　　　　　　 D. what

39. A. are　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. is　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. was　　　　　　　　　　 D. were

40. A. what　　　　　　　　　　 B. which　　　　　　　　　 C. that　　　　　　　　　　 D. where

41. A. honest　　　　　　　　　 B. handsome　　　　　　 C. friendly　　　　　　　　 D. active

42. A. as well　　　　　　　　　 B. as soon as　　　　　　 C. as well as　　　　　　 D. as a result

43. A. question　　　　　　　　 B. key　　　　　　　　　　　 C. note　　　　　　　　　　 D. secret

44. A. help　　　　　　　　　　　 B. consider　　　　　　　 C. practise　　　　　　　 D. forget

45. A. disappeared　　　　　　 B. stayed　　　　　　　　　 C. returned　　　　　　　 D. went

46. A. existed　　　　　　　　　 B. remained　　　　　　　 C. happened　　　　　　 D. continued

47. A. tiring　　　　　　　　　　 B. easy　　　　　　　　　　 C. important　　　　　　 D. difficult

48. A. the title　　　　　　　　　 B. the exam　　　　　　　 C. the paper　　　　　　 D. the window

49. A. repeat　　　　　　　　　　 B. defend　　　　　　　　 C. correct　　　　　　　　 D. change

50. A. take　　　　　　　　　 B. have　　　　　　　　　　 C. lose　　　　　　　　 D. find

51. A. Otherwise　　　 B. Therefore　　　 C. anyhow　　　　　　 D. though

52. A. which　　　　　　 B. when　　　　　　　　　 C. on which　　　　　 D. that

53. A. I have　　　　　　 B. has I　　　　　　　 C. have I　　　　　 D. I has

54. A. inspect　　　　　　 B. perform　　　　　　　 C. employ　　　　　　 D. admit

55. A. example　　　　　　 B. reason　　　　　　　　 C. matter　　　　　　 D. signal

I was born an albino. No one in my family had ever known what an albino was, what it meant to be an albino, and what had to be done differently because I was an albino.

My parents treated me just like they treated everybody else. That was just about the best thing they could have done. It helped me trust myself, so when the anger came along, I could deal with them.

True, my photo always looked like a snowball with two pieces of coal for eyes. Kids would tease me, asking if I was joining the circus and calling me “Whitey”. Like most albinos, I had terrible eyesight, and my grades suffered until eventually I overcame my feeling ashamed of myself and realized it was okay to ask to sit in the front of the classroom so I could see the blackboard better. People stared at me when I held reading material right at the tip of my nose so I could see it well enough to read. Even when I was eight or nine, movie-theater clerks started asking me to pay adult prices because I “looked older”.

The worst part for me was that because my eyesight was so bad, I couldn’t play sports very well. I didn’t give up trying, though. And I studied harder.

Eventually, I got better at school and loved it. By the time I got to college, I was double majoring, going to summer school and devoting myself to every kind of after-class activity I could find. I had learned to be proud of being an albino. I did my best to make “albino” a positive word. And I decided to make my living with my eyes.

I couldn’t see well enough to play sports. But with a solid education and the drive to do it, I could make a living involved in the field I loved. I’ve done it now for more than thirty years in print and in video, and now in cyberspace. People make jokes about how I’m the only “blind editor” they know, but most of the time the jokes are signs of respect. And I make jokes about being an albino.

I was just a proud albino kid from the coal country of Pennsylvania. I now realize that being born an albino helped me to overcome difficulties, gain confidence, and be proud of my personal achievement and humble about my professional accomplishments.

56. What is an albino according to the passage?

A. Someone with bad eyesight.

B. Someone with some kind of disease.

C. Someone who looks older than his age.

D. Someone who joins the circus.

57. What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. The fact that the author was born an albino.

B. What had to be done differently to the author.

C. The way that the author’s parents treated him.

D. The fact that the author had no idea what an albino was.

58. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The author’s study was affected by his eyesight at first.

B. The author had to pay adult prices for movies when he was still young.

C. Despite his bad eyesight, the author played sport well.

D. “Albino” has already become a positive word now.

59. Why are people’s jokes about the author mostly signs of respect?

A. Because he is an albino.

B. Because he has a solid education.

C. Because they think he is a great “blind editor”.

D. Because they think he is proud of his achievement.

60. Through the passage, the author tells us ________.

A. that albino helped him achieve success

B. how an albino studied well

C. what it is like to be an albino

D. how people should treat an albino

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