题目内容
When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor,a doctor named Gibbs. When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was1trees. His house sat on ten acres(英亩), and his life’s goal was to make it a2.
The good doctor had some interesting3concerning planting trees. He never 4his new trees. Once I asked why. “Watering plants will 5them.” He said, “If you water them, each younger generation will grow 6. So you have to make things7for them.”
He talked about how watering trees 8shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow 9roots in search of water. He’d planted an oak and, 10watering it every morning, he’d11it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s12.
Dr. Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I returned and walked by his 13and looked at the trees that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re incredibly 14now.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two 15. I stand over them and pray for them. 16I pray that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change my17.
Iknowmychildrenaregoingtoencounterhardship. Life is tough, whether we want it to be or not. Too many times we pray for18, but that’s a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for 19that reach deep into the earth 20they won’t be swept apart when the rains fall and the winds blow.
- 1.
- A.planting
- B.examining
- C.watching
- D.cutting
- A.
- 2.
- A.hospital
- B.forest
- C.park
- D.garden
- A.
- 3.
- A.instructions
- B.experiences
- C.theories
- D.experiments
- A.
- 4.
- A.covered
- B.shook
- C.watered
- D.pulled
- A.
- 5.
- A.strengthen
- B.enlarge
- C.drown
- D.spoil
- A.
- 6.
- A.taller and taller
- B.faster and faster
- C.smaller and smaller
- D.weaker and weaker
- A.
- 7.
- A.rough
- B.easy
- C.smooth
- D.pleasant
- A.
- 8.
- A.set aside
- B.made for
- C.put away
- D.break down
- A.
- 9.
- A.countless
- B.numerous
- C.deep
- D.limited
- A.
- 10.
- A.thanks to
- B.along with
- C.apart from
- D.instead of
- A.
- 11.
- A.protect
- B.fasten
- C.appreciate
- D.beat
- A.
- 12.
- A.patience
- B.growth
- C.attention
- D.movement
- A.
- 13.
- A.laboratory
- B.house
- C.office
- D.clinic
- A.
- 14.
- A.dead
- B.broken
- C.weak
- D.strong
- A.
- 15.
- A.trees
- B.sons
- C.works
- D.houses
- A.
- 16.
- A.Mostly
- B.Occasionally
- C.Scarcely
- D.Loudly
- A.
- 17.
- A.mind
- B.decision
- C.direction
- D.prayer
- A.
- 18.
- A.gifts
- B.reunion
- C.ease
- D.freedom
- A.
- 19.
- A.branches
- B.leaves
- C.tops
- D.roots
- A.
- 20.
- A.so that
- B.even though
- C.now that
- D.in case
- A.
全文大意:小树的成长不必过于呵护, 这样它才能根深蒂固, 经受风雨。一个人的一生也不可能一帆风顺,父母应该怎样教育孩子呢?
1.A。上下文暗示题,根据后一句可知。
2.B。句意是:这位医生一有空就植树,他的目的是要把这一带变成一片森林。
3.C。上下文暗示题由后文可知,医生有他自己的植树理论。
4.C。句意是:他从不给树浇水。
5.D。句意是:浇水的话,把树娇惯坏了。
6.D。句意是:越来越弱小。
7. A。句意是:使树木(的生长环境)艰难一些。
8.B。短语动词辨异。Make for 对...有利,促进。set aside不顾, 保留。put away把...收好。 break down瓦解。
9. C。句意是:不浇水的树才会扎根深处,吸取水分。
10.D。由前文可知,他不给新栽的树苗浇水。故用instead of。
11.D。取而代之的是天天用卷成长条的报纸击打它。
12.C。击打小树为了激活它的注意力。
13. B。句意是:经过他家门前的时候。
14.D。所有的都已茁壮成长。
15.B。从后文可知,此处指“我”的孩子们。
16.A。句意是:大多数时候,我都为他们的轻松愉快的生活而祈祷。
17.D。句意是:现在是改一改我的祷告词的时候了。
18. C。根据上文第51空可知,此处用ease。
19.D。句意是:我们要祝福他们有深入泥土的根。
20.A。连接词的考查。此处用so that引导目的状语从句。
完形(15%)
Albert Einstein said, “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” Once __41 __, such opportunities are like valuable diamonds hidden in the sand.
Several years ago, I spoke at a school about how we were surrounded by “___42___ ” if we could only recognize them. A man stopped by to see me, and I remembered him as somebody who had suffered through a(n) ___43___ divorce (离婚) and was examining what was most important to him. He took a small ___44___ out of his pocket. Here is what he said to me that day.
“I ___45___ on this stone when I was leaving church last Sunday. You had spoken about ___46___ opportunities—diamonds. I put the stone in my ___47___ to remind me to look for those “diamonds” that I need. I have been trying to sell my business . On Monday morning, a man who seemed interested in ___48___ some of my stock (股票) stopped by. I thought, ‘Here’s my diamond—don’t let it ___49___!’ I sold the entire stock to him by noon. Now my next diamond is to find a new ___50___ !”
Not long afterward, he did find a new and better job. From then on, he decided to keep his stone with him all the time as a ___51___ to look for “diamonds” as he dug through the ___52___ of life.
Richard DeVos is right when he points out. “This is an exciting world. It is filled with opportunities. Great moments wait around every corner.” Those moments are diamonds that, ___53___ left unrecognized, will be forever lost.
Are you looking for “diamonds” every day? If not, you may ___54___ pass them by! Perhaps there is a diamond of opportunity hidden in the difficulty you’re ___55___ now.
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完形填空 (共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 31 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 32 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been 33 for years—often from 34 childhood. These stories may have no 35 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 36 my development? I was never 37 to work on cars or be around 38 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later, 39 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 40 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 41 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 42 and told him about my 43 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 44 is it that you can solve 45 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 46 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 47 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 48 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 49 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 50 we choose.
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