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It was a bright spring afternoon when Freda told me she wouldn’t need me any more. I had just finished my four-hour work － 36 up and down the stairs of her three-storey home, cleaning the floor and washing the dished. She was 37 jeans and a sweater. Sitting at the table I had just 38 a pile of papers spread around her. Her husband’s 39 was going to be reduced by thirty percent. And they were trying to live as if it had 40 happened. I felt sorry for her, but I also felt a sense of 41 .
I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had 42 an unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just 43 I had become an expert at scraping（刮掉）dirt stuck to their wooden floor. 44 that I had learned exactly how to place toys on the girls’ beds. It was 45 than that, for I felt I had become a part of their 46 .
Freda stayed at home with the kids, 47 I would often see her in the morning 48
them to school. And I’d be there when they 49 home at lunch for sandwiches and piano practice. I had 50 them grow up. Now I was fired, but the 51 thing was that I still wanted to keep scraping away the dirt and dust for the family.
I left Freda’s 52 relationship with my clients（主顾）. Who am I 53 them? As a matter of fact. I’m 54 an employee － the lowest kind of employee. But I’m also a trusted 55 of the family. I can’t help worrying about what happens around me.
1.A. moving B. coming C. jumping D. stepping
2.A. hanging B. making C. changing D. wearing
3.A. washed B. cleaned C. swept D. brushed
4.A. duty B. pay C. work D. money
5.A. never B. seldom C. already D. yet
6.A. loss B. surprise C. fear D. regret
7.A. started B. improved C. developed D. broken
8.A. why B. what C. that D. which
9.A. but B. and C. or D. for
10.A. less B. more C. least D. most
11.A. story B. life C. activity D. experience
12.A. so B. as C. since D. however
13.A. taking B. bringing C. meeting D. calling
14.A. left B. marched C. went D. returned
15.A. found B. noticed C. watched D. realized
16.A. possible B. great C. proper D. strange
17.A. meaning B. result C. nature D. importance
18.A. for B. to C. with D. at
19.A. merely B. certainly C. probably D. hardly
20.A. member B. person C. relative D. companion
1.A
2.D
3.B
4.B
5.C
6.A
7.C
8.C
9.C
10.B
11.B
12.A
13.A
14.D
15.C
16.D
17.C
18.B
19.A
20.A
【解析】
试题分析：本文叙述的是一个和雇主建立了深厚的感情的保洁员当要离开雇主家时的不舍和感慨。
1.A 考查区分动词词义和语境理解。破折号后的内容是对前面的解释。根据常识，“我”（每天）会擦地板，洗碗等，可推测“我”在三层楼的房子里上下走动。而stepping (迈步)，coming (来)，jumping (跳)，不符合本句语意，所以A正确
2.D考查区分动词词义和语境理解。根据空后宾语jeans and a sweater.牛仔裤和毛衣，当然是穿着，所以D正确。
3.B 考查区分动词词义和语境理解。. A. washed 洗 B. cleaned使）清洁; 变干净; 除去…的灰尘; 使…干净; C. swept 擦 D. brushed 刷，根据空后宾语a pile of papers spread around her.散放在她周围的一堆文件，所以得出C正确。
4.B 考查区分动词。根据空后was going to be reduced by thirty percent将被减少百分之三十，A. duty责任B. pay 工资C. work 工作D. money钱，所以B正确。
5.C考查区分副词，根据句意：他们尽力生活得好像已经发生一样。根据前句was going to be reduced by thirty percent，将被减少而实际上还没有减，所以是好像已经发生，所以C正确。
6. A 考查名词和语境理解。我为他们感到遗憾，但也有一种失落感。A.loss失落B. surprise惊讶C. fear 害怕D. regret遗憾，根据上文Freda told me she wouldn’t need me any more他告诉我讲不再需要我，即我要离开他家，所以是失落感
7.C考查动词。句意：我在他家做保洁做了六年而且和他们全家人建立了没想到的关系。A. started开始B. improved改善C. developed培养，发展D. broken打破，根据宾语relationship，所以C正确。
8.C考查连词。句意：不仅仅是我做保洁做得好，而且我已经学回来怎样在女孩的床上摆好玩具，A. why为什么B. what什么C. that无词义D. which哪一个，根据句意本句不少词义不少成分，所以C正确。
9.C 考查固定短语。句意：不仅仅是我做保洁做得好，而且我已经学回来怎样在女孩的床上摆好玩具，根据前面not just 不仅确定固定短语not only/just…but (also)…,所以C正确。
10.B考查比较等级和语境理解。根据后句for I felt I had become a part of their ，判定本句句意：这超出了清洁工和雇主之间的关系，因为我感到我已经成了他们生活中的一部分，more than + 句子，超出。。。，所以B 正确。
11.B 考查名词和语境理解。句意：这超出了清洁工和雇主之间的关系，因为我感到我已经成了他们生活中的一部分，所以B正确。
12.A 考查连词。根据前句Freda stayed at home with the kids，他呆在家里和孩子们在一起，后句I would often see her in the morning我总是在早晨看见她，之间是因果关系，所以A正确。
13.A 考查动词和语境理解。句意：在早晨我总是看见她带孩子们去学校。Take sb to + 地点名词,带某人去某地，bring…to …把。。。带到。。。来，meet 遇到call喊 ，所以A正确。
14.D 考查动词。句意：当她们回来的时候我总是在家等着她们。A. left 离开B. marched前进C. went 去D. returned回，根据宾语和前句送孩子去上学，当然是回到家，所以D正确。
15.C 考查动词。句意：我看着她们长大。A. found发现B. noticed 注意C. watched 看着D. realized 意识到，根据前文I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years，，所以C正确。
16.D考查区分形容词。句意：我被解雇了，但奇怪的是我仍然不想离开她家。A. possible 可能B. great好的C. proper合适的D. strange 奇怪的，根据空前空后之间的关系，所以D正确。
17.C 考查区分名词。句意：我离开了她家，就不再是自然的雇主和雇工之间的关系A. meaning 意义 B. result结果C. nature 自然D. importance重要，所以C正确。
18.B 考查介词。句意：对她们来说，我是谁呢？根据句意，所以B正确。
19.A 考查副词。句意：实际上，我不仅仅是雇工。A. merely不仅B. certainly 当然C. probably可能D. hardly几乎不，根据后句But I’m also a trusted of the family.，但是我也是。。。，所以A正确。
20.A 考查名词。句意：我也是她们全家信任的一分子。A. member成员 B.person人C. relative亲戚D. companion 伙伴，所以A正确。
考点：考查社会生活类短文。
完形填空（每小题1.5分，共30分）
It was a normal summer night, humidity（潮湿）hung in the thick air. The only sound was my sister’s heavy __36__ from the bed next to me.
I couldn’t go to _37__, partly because of my cold and partly because of my __38__ for the next day. My mum had said that tomorrow was going to be a __39__ .
Sweat stuck to my aching body. Finally, I gathered enough __40__ to sit up. I looked out of my small window into the night. There was a big bright __41__ hanging in the sky, giving off a magic glow.
My sister turned over as though she was as light as air. Why could she sleep soundly? Why wasn’t she __42__ too? Did she know about tomorrow?
I couldn’t stand the __43__ anymore, so I did what I always do to make myself feel better. I went to the __44__ and picked up my toothbrush and toothpaste. Pouring the red paste onto the brush, I cleaned back and forth, up and down.
Then I walked downstairs to look for some __45__of movement, some life. Gladiator, my cat, __46__ me as he meowed（猫叫）his sad song. He was on the old orange couch （长沙发）, sitting up on his front legs, 47 something to happen. He looked at me as if to say, “I’m __48__, pet me. I need a good hug.” Even the couch begged me to sit on it.
In one movement I settled down onto the soft 49 . This couch represented my birth, my parents’ marriage, and hundreds of other little __50__.
As I held Gladiator, my heart started beating heavily. My mind was __51__ with questions: What’s life? Am I really alive? Are you listening to me? Every time I moved my hand down Gladiator’s body, I had a __52__ thought; each touch sang a different song.
I forgot all about the __53__ and the next day’s surprise. The __54__ was so full of warmth and silence that I sank into its arms. Falling asleep with the big cat in my arms, I felt all my worries __55__ move away.
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Betty and Harold have been married for years .But one thing still puzzles (困扰) old Harold .How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa ,talking ,go out to a ballgame ,come back three and a half hours later ,and they’re still sitting on the sofa ? Talking ?
What in the world ,Harold wonders ,do they have to talk about ?
Betty shrugs .Talk ? We’re friends .
Researching this matter called friendship ,psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men .No matter what their age ,their job ,their sex ,the results were completely clear :women have more friendships than men ,and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships is “marked and unmistakable .”
More than two –thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman .Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend ,and almost always it was a woman .More married men than women named their wife/husband as a best friend ,most trusted person ,or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress （感情危机）.“Most women ,”says Rubin ,“identified （认定） at least one ,usually more ,trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment ,and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives .”
“In general,”writes Rubin in her new book ,“women’s friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support ,but men’s relationships are marked by shared activities.” For the most part ,Rubin says ,interactions （交往）between men are emotionally controlled –a good fit with the social requirements of “manly behavior .”
“Even when a man is said to be a best friend ,”Rubin writes ,“the two share little about their innermost feelings .Whereas a woman’s closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage ,it wasn’t unusual to hear a man say he didn’t know his friend’s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa .”
【小题1】What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that .
| A．he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband |
| B．women have so much to share |
| C．women show little interest in ballgames |
| D．he finds his wife difficult to talk to |
| A．a male friend | B．a female friend | C．her parents | D．her husband |
| A．Men keep their innermost feelings to themselves. |
| B．Women are more serious than men about marriage. |
| C．Men often take sudden action to end their marriage. |
| D．Women depend on others in making decisions. |
| A．happy and successful marriages |
| B．friendships of men and women |
| C．emotional problems in marriage |
| D．interactions between men and women . |
Every object tells a story. Even the most ordinary objects can present to us powerful images. Sometimes it is the ordinary nature of these objects that actually makes them so extraordinary. Such is the case with an old leather shoe in a museum in Alaska. At first glance it does not look like much. It is a woman’s shoe of a style popular in the 1890s. But what is unique(独特的) about this shoe is where it was found. It was discovered on the Checkout Pass, the famous trail used by the people seeking gold in Alaska. Who it belonged to or why it was left there is not known. Was it perhaps dropped by accident as the woman climbed up the 1500 stairs carved outface? Or did she throw away goods that she didn’t need in order to travel lighter?
Over 100, 000 people with “gold fever” made this trip hoping to become millionaires. Few of them understood that on their way they would have to cross a harsh wildness. Unprepared for such a dangerous journey, many died of starvation and exposure to the cold weather.
The Canadian government finally started requiring the gold seekers to bring one ton of supplies with them. This was thought to be enough for a person to survive for one year. They would carry their supplies in backpacks(背包) each weighing up to fifty pounds; it usually took at least 40 trips to get everything to the top and over the pass. Whoever dropped the shoe must have been a brave and determined woman. Perhaps she was successful and made it to Alaska. Perhaps she had to turn back in defeat. No one will ever know for sure, but what we do know is that she took part in one of the greatest adventures in the 19th century.
【小题1】The ordinary woman’s leather shoe is considered unusual because ______.
| A．it was an important clue to life in the past |
| B．it was found on a famous trail |
| C．it at one time belonged to a VIP |
| D．it was a fashionable shoe at that time |
| A．eventually became millionaires |
| B．brought with them many shoes |
| C．had conflicts with the Eskimos |
| D．were not properly equipped |
| A．they would not die of hunger and cold |
| B．the army would have enough food for fighting a war |
| C．they would change these goods with the Eskimos |
| D．the supplies would make Alaska rich |
| A．she must have lived a happy life |
| B．she certainly dropped the shoe on purpose |
| C．her adventurous spirit is definitely admired |
| D．her other shoes were equally fashionable |