题目内容
A nine-year-old kid was sitting at his desk when suddenly there was a puddle (/JC^C)between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet.He thought his heart was going to stop because he couldn't possibly imagine how this had happened.It had never happened before, and he knew that when the boys found out he would never hear the end of jt. When the girls found out, they would never speak to him again as long as he lived.
He prayed this prayer, "Dear God, I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat!" He looked up from his prayer and here came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he had been discovered.As the teacher was walking toward him, a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water.Susie tripped (绊倒) in front of the teacher and dumped (倒) the bowl of water in the boy's lap.The boy pretended to be angry, but all the while was saying to himself, "Thank you.Lord!"
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy was the object of sympathy.The teacher rushed him downstairs and gave him gym shorts to put on while his trousers dried out.All the other children were on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk.The sympathy was wonderful.But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred (转移) to someone else+—Susie.She tried to help, but they told her to get out.
When school was over, the boy walked over to Susie and whispered, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Susie whispered back, "I wet my trousers once, too!"
56.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means ____ .
A.the boys would never play with him
B.the boys would treat him as usual
C, he would hardly hear any praise from the boys
D.he would be laughed at by the.boys endlessly
57.After Susie dumped water in his lap, the boy was in a state of ___ _.
A.excitement B.relief C.anxiety D.anger
58.What did the other kids do after the incident?
A.They offered him dry clothes. B.They laughed at the boy rudely,
C.They helped the boy do the cleaning. D.They urged the boy to get out angrily,
59.Why did Susie dump water in the boy's lap?
A.The boy asked her to do so. B.She just did it by accident.
C.The teacher tripped her on purpose. D.She knew the boy's embarrassment.
D BCD
请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的(A、B、C和D)四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
Lang Lang is a world-class young pianist who grew up in Shenyang. He went to a piano school in Beijing when he was just eight. “You need 41 .” his father said.“But if you don’t work hard, no fortune will come.”
What made him sad was 42 his piano teacher in Beijing didn’t like him. “You have no talent. You will never be a pianist.” 43 a nine-year-old boy, Lang Lang was badly 44 . He decided that he didn’t want to be a 45 any more. For the next two weeks, he didn’t touch the piano.
46 , his father didn’t push, but waited.
Luckily, the day came when his teacher asked him to 47 some holiday songs. He didn’t want to, but as he placed his fingers on the piano keys, he 48 that he could show others that he had talent 49 .That day he told his father 50 he had been waiting to hear---that he wanted to study with a new teacher. 51 that point on, everything turned around!
He started 52 competitions. In the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition, when it was 53 that Lang Lang had won, he was too 54 to hold back his tears. Soon 55 was clear that he couldn’t stay in China forever---he had to play on the world big 56 . In 1997 Lang Lang 57 again, this time to Philadelphia, U.S. There he spent two years practicing, and by 1999 he had worked hard enough for fortune to take over. After his 58 performance at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, gigs(特邀演出) in Lincoln’s Center and Carnegie Hall started 59 . Lang Lang finally worked to reach the place where fortune spots him, and lets him 60 .
41.A.exercise B.fortune C.knowledge D.wealth
42.A.whether B.why C.when D.that
43.A.Like B.With C.To D.As