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Learning experiences happen to us throughout our lives. Not long ago, I had one that I would like to __16__.
I was going to Marblehead with my sailboat team. The team was racing down the highway at 85 mph __17_ we realized we were __18_. Luckily, we saw a rest area ahead. I had a brand-new $20 bill. I was so __19_ because I had never had that kind of cash before. But spending it on __20__ seemed like throwing it away. We all rushed into the pizza line. __21__ I got a pizza and a drink, and walked to my table. About halfway through the meal, I __22_ I had not actually handed any money to the cashier. I had just __23__ out, and nobody had noticed. I felt terrible.
My conscience (良心) opened its mouth and swallowed me in one big bite. I couldn’t __24__ over it. I just couldn’t go back to the cashier and __25__ for my stolen pizza. I was so upset that I __26__ to give myself the pleasure of an ice cream for __27__ that someone would say, “Hey, Jeff, why not you use the change __28__ the pizza instead of that nice, new $20 bill?” I was not so __29__ of my cash now. For the next two years, whenever I was __30__ of the “pizza incident”, I would say to myself, “Don’t think about it…”
I have learned two things from this __31__. Maybe I was a fool for __32__ in to my conscience, and being too stupid to appreciate a __33__ pizza. But the real lesson is that even if you get away with what you have done, your conscience will __34__ up with you.
This reflects the saying, “Coward (懦夫) dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies one.” I was a coward and have felt terrible about that incident at least a thousand times. If I had been a “__35__” and gone back to pay for the pizza, I would have felt a little uncomfortable about it only one, or maybe twice.
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【小题1】C
【小题2】D
【小题3】C
【小题4】A
【小题5】B
【小题6】B
【小题7】D
【小题8】A
【小题9】B
【小题10】B
【小题11】A
【小题12】D
【小题13】D
【小题14】C
【小题15】B
【小题16】A
【小题17】D
【小题18】A
【小题19】C
【小题20】D
解析【小题1】C。“share” 在这里是“分享”的意思。从后文我们可以看出，作者和大家分享了自己的一段经历，因此用”share”。选A,B两项的同学通常将原文翻译成“讲一段经历”。但只要将选项还原，我们就会发现：to say an experience是非常不地道的用法；to talk an experience在语法上也不对（通常用to talk about sth.），因此可以排除这两项。D选项在文意上不符。
【小题2】D。这是一个时间状语从句，考查的是其中连词的用法。”be racing down”是一个延续性的动作，而”realize”是一个瞬时发生的动作。严格地说，as作连词时，前后的动作在时间延续性上要求统一，因此在这里不合适；while后面引出的动作应该是延续性的，而非”realize”这样的瞬时动作；then意思是“然后”，如果用在此处应该说and then。
【小题3】C。A,D是比较容易排除的干扰项，“迷路”、“焦躁”在后文并没有体现出来。大多数做错本题的同学选择了”tired”，因为与后面的”rest area”相呼应。但是，如果我们继续读下去就会发现，让作者一行人停下来的主要原因是饥饿而非疲劳，也才因此有了后文买皮萨的故事。而所谓”rest area”其实就是指能提供饮食补给的地方。因此本题选hungry.
【小题4】A。这一题主要考察词汇。因为拥有新奇东西而引起的情感通常是”excited”兴奋，而非“热切”、“满足”，或者“受到鼓舞”。
【小题5】B。从后文可以推断出，作者很不情愿将心爱的纸币花在批萨上，因此选择”food”.有21%的同学选择了A选项，这些同学其实延续了28题的错误：全文的中心故事是由hungry/ food引发的，而非tired/ rest area.
【小题6】B。“Luckily”是“幸运的”，从原文看不出作者买到食物是一件幸运的事；”immediately”是“马上，立刻”的意思，一半以上做错本题的同学选择了这一项。从前文中我们知道作者一行人冲进了”pizza line”，买批萨的队伍，可见买食物是需要等候的，不可能“马上”得到；”actually”表示“事实上”，文意不符。
【小题7】D。大多数做错本题的同学选择了C. “notice”的确有察觉到的意思，但通常用于嗅觉、视觉、听觉等感官察觉到的东西（牛津高阶：”notice: to see or hear sb/sth; to become aware of sb./sth.”）。而原文中，是思想上“意识到”，用”realize”更好。
【小题8】A。“walked out” 指作者没付钱就这么“（大摇大摆地）走出来”。如果用”left”，后面不用加out; work out“计算出”；find out“找出”。
【小题9】B。这道题考察了一个固定搭配”get over sth.” 表示“克服（某种负面情绪），（把某件事）想开，原谅”。这里，作者是说自己无法原谅自己买东西不付钱这种做法，没法克服这件事带来的负面情绪。
【小题10】B。ask for“请求，要求”，不符文意；apologize for“为…道歉”，一些同学错在这里。从常理上说，作者如果此时回到收银台，最直接的做法是付钱，而不是道歉，否则不符合常理；send for sb.表示请某人来到自己这里，send for sth.表示请别人将某物送到自己这里来。
【小题11】A。从后文我们知道，作者此时十分愧疚，以至于不敢去买饭后的甜点，一是自我惩罚，二来也生怕露出破绽。因此这里用refuse表示为了不漏出破绽而拒绝买甜点。后面的三个选项“想要”、“希望”、“打算”都不符合文意。
【小题12】D。“in fear that”表示“生怕…/唯恐…”。作者不敢去买甜点，唯恐掏钱的时候被人发现马脚。”In hope”表示“希望”，作者做“贼”心虚，肯定是生怕被揭穿，而不会希望被人质问，所以意思不对。”in surprise”和”in anger”分别表示吃惊的、生气的，于原文情境、意思都不相符。
【小题13】D。“the change from the pizza”表示“从买批萨那里找来的零钱”，from本身就有“从…来”的意思。选A、C的同学大概看到change就觉得change into sth., change for sth.读起来很顺，但是change into是“变成…”的意思，change for是“把…换成…”的意思，这时change都是动词“变化”，而本题中change是名词，表示找零、零钱。选B的同学理解了change的熟词生意，但是一般不用change with sth.表示“...的找零”。
【小题14】C。作者原本很为自己有一张新奇的货币而兴奋，但经历了这件事后，作者十分”upset沮丧”，不再像以前那样，为自己的宝贝而骄傲，因此选proud。将近六成同学选了B,D。作者明明十分沮丧，所以B ”upset”用在这里与全文意思相左；如果用D ”pleased”，则这句话应改为” I was not so pleased by my cash now”. “be pleased by”表示“被…取悦”，不能用of.
【小题15】B。sb. be reminded of sth.是remind sb. of sth.的一种被动形式，表示“被勾起（关于某件事的）回忆”。大多数做错的同学选了C “thought”。如果用thought，直接说”every time when I thought…”就可以了，不应该用被动I was thought。
【小题16】A。Experience与第一段相呼应。
【小题17】D。这一题考察的是动词短语的搭配。”turn in”表示上交、归还；“take in”表示吸收、接纳，用在衣服上还表示改短、改小；“hand in”也是递交、上交的意思。”give in to sth.”在表示上交之外，也表示向…妥协，屈服，让步。这里，作者想说自己向自己的良心妥协，对一件小事耿耿于怀，这种做法或许很傻。因此用give in to。
【小题18】A。Free有自由的意思之外，还表示“免费的”。作者这块批萨是没花一分钱的，因此是free pizza. 很多同学选了cheap廉价的，但廉价也是要花一点钱的，不符文意。”plain”可以表示“原味的、朴素的、明白的”等等，在这里都不符合文意；”delicious”美味的，在文中从未提及。
【小题19】C。我们熟悉的catch up with的意思是“追上、赶上”，但catch up with还有“查出来并抓获”的意思。在这里，作者想说，如果一个人做了亏心事，即使他自己努力不去想，他的良心也会把他的过失“追查出来”。Make up是弥补的意思，wake up 是醒来的意思，而put up with是容忍、宽容的意思。
【小题20】D。“A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies one”一句中提及了两种人：coward 和hero. 作者先说自己属于前者，然后再假设“如果自己是后者的情况”，因此这里应该用hero.
Complete the passage with the proper words in the box. Each word can only be used once. One word is not needed.
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The speeches of US President Barack Obama have become the favorite way for Japanese to study the English language. Japanese publishers have been ___1.___ the market with over a dozen language-learning titles. Companies are trying to enter a foreign-language teaching ___2.____ which was ____3.___ at $8.6 billion in 2008 by some research institutes.
Why is there such a huge Japanese market for recordings and books of Obama's speeches? Japanese say that listening to Obama speak is a good way to ____4.__ their English-speaking skills.
Most Japanese, including those studying English, would have difficulty __5._ a speech given by a native English speaker. But “Obama's English is easy to understand because he can ____6.___ words clearly and speaks at a relatively slow speed,” said Professor Tadaharu Nikaido, a communication specialist. “Movies ____7.__ to be the most difficult for Japanese, especially when actors mumble (咕哝) their words.” Obama sets his ____8.___ of vocabulary wide enough to accommodate (迎合) all levels of English speakers, Nikaido added, and at the lower end, it sometimes comes within the range of non-native speakers' comprehension.
The Obama speech phenomenon has given way to more books and magazines that focus on how Obama's communication skills might be ___9.___ in Japan for business and political purposes. At least half a dozen books and magazine covers of this kind have appeared in the past several months in Japan.
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