题目内容
It was a cold winter. The day my husband fell to his death, it started to snow, just 36 any November day. His 37 , when I found it, was lightly covered with snow. It snowed almost every day for the next four months, while I sat on the couch and watched it 38 . One morning, I walked slowly 39 and was surprised to see a snow remover clearing my driveway and the bent back of a woman clearing my walk. I dropped to my knees and crawled back upstairs, 40 those good people would not see me. I was 41 . My first thought was, how would I ever 42 them? I didn’t have the 43 to brush my hair, 44 clear someone’s walk.
Before Jon’s death, I felt proud that I 45 asked for favors. I identified myself by my competence(能力) and 46 . So who was I if I was no longer capable? How could I 47 myself if I just sat on the couch every day and watched the snow fall?
Learning to receive the love and 48 from others wasn’t easy. Friends cooked for me and I cried. Finally, my friend Kathy said, “Mary, cooking for you isn’t a 49 for me; it makes me feel good to be able to do something for you.”
Over and over, I heard 50 words from the people who supported me during those 51 days. One wise man told me, “You aren’t doing nothing because being fully open to your 52 may be the hardest work you will ever do.”
I am not the person I 53 was, but in many ways I have changed for the 54 . I’ve been surprised to learn that there is incredible freedom coming from 55 one’s worst fear and walking away whole. I believe there is strength, for sure, in accepting a dark period of our life.
1.A. on
B. in
C. like
D. for
2.A. body
B. soul
C. shoe
D. footprint
3. A. sweep up
B. drop off
C. fall down
D. pile up
4.A. upstairs
B. downstairs
C. indoors
D. outdoors
5.A. so
B. yet
C. and
D. for
6.A. delighted
B. disappointed
C. annoyed
D. ashamed
7.A. pay
B. award
C. reward
D. treat
8.A. courage
B. strength
C. spirit
D. power
9.A. stand alone
B. leave alone
C. sit alone
D. let alone
10.A. frequently
B. gradually
C. hardly
D. uncertainly
11.A. intelligence
B. independence
C. excellence
D. qualification
12. A. achieve
B. praise
C. respect
D. promote
13.A. supply
B. support
C. contribution
D. similar
14. A. burden
B. job
C. business
D. sorrow
15. A. sensitive
B. same
C. considerate
D. similar
16. A. blue
B. rainy
C. bright
D. snowy
17.A. despair
B. difficulty
C. pain
D. regret
18.A. still
B. once
C. even
D. never
19.A. worse
B. less
C. more
D. better
20. A. facing
B. noticing
C. managing
D. expressing
1.C
2.A
3.D
4.B
5.A
6.D
7.C
8.B
9.D
10.C
11.B
12.C
13.B
14.A
15.D
16.A
17.C
18.B
19.D
20.A
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试题分析:
1.C 介词辨析。A在…上B在...里C像…一样D为了;句意:就像11月的天一样。
2.A 名词辨析。A尸体B灵魂C鞋子D脚印;当我发现的时候,他的尸体被雪覆盖着。
3.D 短语辨析。A清扫B减少C跌落D堆积;我坐在沙发上看着雪堆积起来。
4.B 上下文串联。根据40空前crawled back upstairs可知我下楼才发现有人帮我扫雪。
5..A 上下文串联。我爬山了楼,所以那些人就看不见我了。
6.D 形容词辨析。A高兴B失望C恼怒D羞愧;我为自己感到羞愧,因为要别人来帮我。
7.C 动词辨析。A付钱B奖励C回报D对待;别人帮助了我,我又该怎么回报他人呢?
8.B 名词辨析。A勇气B力气C精神D权力;我甚至连梳头的力气都没有了。
9.D 短语辨析。A突出B不理,不管C独自坐着D更不要说;句意:我练梳头的力气都没有了,更不要说是清扫我家路上的雪了。
10.C 副词辨析.A频繁地B逐渐地C几乎不D不确定地;丈夫去世前,我几乎不求助别人。
11.B 名词辨析。A智力B独立C优秀D资格;我认为自己是一个有能力且独立的人。
12.C 词义辨析。A实现B表扬C尊敬D提拔;如果我整天坐在沙发上,又怎么能尊重自己?
13.B 名词辨析。A供应B支持C贡献D相似;学会接受别人的爱和支持是不容易的。
14.A 名词辨析。A负担B工作C生意D悲哀;朋友说为我做饭对她来说不是负担。
15.D 形容词辨析。A敏感的B同样的C体贴的D相同的;我经常从帮助我的人那里听到相同的话,这些人在那段忧郁的日子里总是在帮助我。
16.A 形容词辨析。A忧郁B有雨的C聪明的D下雪的;句意同上句解释。
17.C 名词辨析。A绝望B困难C痛苦D遗憾;对自己的痛苦完全放开是很困难的事情。
18.B 副词辨析。A仍然B曾经C甚至D从未;我已经不再是曾经的那个我了。
19.D 上下文串联。在某种程度上我在变得更好。
20.A 句意分析。我惊讶地发现有难以置信的自由来自于我有能力来面对人生中最大的恐惧。
考点:考查夹叙夹议类完型
点评:本文是一篇夹叙夹议的短文,介绍了我在丈夫去世以后所经历的一段痛苦的人生,但是有很多的好心人一直在帮助我,让我摆脱了那段忧郁的日子。从选项中可以看出,本大题主要还是考查了词汇的辨析与运用,但更加注重综合语言能力的运用,需要根据故事情节,了解词汇用法的同时,结合语境,做出准确的判断。
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
A.a, e, c, b, d | B.b, e, a, d, c | C.d, a, e, b, c | D.a, e, d, b, c |
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. |