题目内容

Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands.__16__people were reluctant (不情愿的) to work on farms along the Atlantic. They feared the violent storms __17__ the ocean. As the farmer interviewed__18__for the job, he received a steady stream of __19__ .
Finally, a short, thin man, __20__ past middle age, approached（接近） the farmer. "Are you a good farmhand?" the farmer asked him.
"Well, I can sleep__21__ the wind blows," answered the little man.
Although __22__ by this answer, the farmer, in great need of help, __23__ him. The little man worked well around the farm, busy from dawn to dusk, and the farmer felt __24__ with the man's work.
Then one night the wind blew __25__ in from offshore. __26__ out of bed, the farmer rushed next door to the hired hand's sleeping quarters. He shook the little man and shouted, "__27__ ! A storm is coming! __28__ things down before they blow away!"
The little man __29__ in bed and said firmly, "No sir. I told you, I can sleep when the wind blows."
Angered by the response, the farmer meant to fire him on the spot. __30__ , he hurried outside to prepare for the storm. To his __31__ , he discovered that all of the haystacks(草垛) had been covered with tarpaulins(帆布). The cows were in the barn, the chickens were in the coops, and the doors were barred. Everything was tied down. __32__ could blow away.
The farmer then understood __33__ his hired hand meant, so he returned to his bed to also sleep while the wind blew. When you're __34__ , spiritually, mentally, and physically, you have nothing to__35__. Can you sleep when the wind blows through your life?

【小题1】
A．NoB．FewC．MostD．All
【小题2】
A．AboveB．AcrossC．belowD．through
【小题3】
A．ApplicantsB．peasantsC．workersD．engineers
【小题4】
A．arrivalsB．refusalsC．approvalsD．finals
【小题5】
A．wellB．TooC．veryD．pretty
【小题6】
A．whenB．beforeC．afterD．because
【小题7】
A．Pleased B．puzzledC．surprisedD．frightened
【小题8】
A．firedB．scoldedC．hiredD．ordered
【小题9】
A．DisappointedB．satisfiedC．excitedD．tired
【小题10】
A．loudlyB．SlightlyC．hardlyD．silently
【小题11】
A．JumpingB．RisingC．GettingD．Falling
【小题12】
A．Stand upB．Get upC．Sit downD．Lie down
【小题13】
A．LetB．PutC．LayD．Tie
【小题14】
A．rolled overB．jumped overC．rolled upD．jumped up
【小题15】
A．ThereforeB．OtherwiseC．likewiseD．Instead
【小题16】
A．expectationB．imaginationC．amazementD．sorrow
【小题17】
A．SomethingB．EverythingC．AnythingD．Nothing
【小题18】
A．howB．whichC．thatD．what
【小题19】
A．preparedB．finishedC．determinedD．En
【小题20】
A．beatB．winC．desireD．fear


【小题1】C
【小题2】B
【小题3】A
【小题4】B
【小题5】A
【小题6】A
【小题7】B
【小题8】C
【小题9】B
【小题10】A
【小题11】A
【小题12】B
【小题13】D
【小题14】A
【小题15】D
【小题16】C
【小题17】D
【小题18】D
【小题19】A
【小题20】D

解析试题分析：文章介绍了一个农夫雇佣了一个帮手，他的简历上说自己可以在风暴中安然入睡，后来农夫理解了他的意思，他可以在风暴来之前就做好准备。
【小题1】考查词义辨析：A. No没有B. Few 很少C. Most 大部分D. All所有，句意：大部分人不愿在大西洋沿岸的农场干活。选C
【小题2】考查介词：A. Above在…上B. Across穿过C. below在…下面D. through穿过（内部），他们害怕穿过海洋的强烈的风暴。Across是穿过表面。选B
【小题3】考查名词：A. Applicants申请人B. peasants农民C. workers工人D. engineers 工程师，当农夫面试申请人的时候，他遭遇到很多的拒绝。选A
【小题4】考查名词：A. arrivals到达B. refusals拒绝C. approvals同意D. finals最后，从上一题的解析可知选B
【小题5】考查副词：A. well好，非常，B. Too也C. very 非常D. pretty非常，修饰介词短语，用well表示非常，well past middle age 远远超过中年了。选A
【小题6】考查连词：A. when当…时候，B. before在…前面C. after在…之后D. because因为，句意：刮风的时候我能睡觉。选A
【小题7】考查形容词：A. Pleased 高兴的B. puzzled困惑的C. surprised惊讶的D. frightened害怕的，句意：虽然很惊讶，但因为需要帮助，农夫还是雇佣了他。选B
【小题8】考查动词：A. fired 解雇B. scolded 责备C. hired雇佣D. ordered命令，解析同上。选C
【小题9】 考查形容词：A. Disappointed失望的B. satisfied满意的C. excited 兴奋的D. tired疲劳的，从前面的句子：The little man worked well around the farm, busy from dawn to dusk, 可知农夫对这个小个子的人工作很满意。选B
【小题10】考查副词：A. loudly 大声地B. Slightly稍微地C. hardly几乎不D.silently沉默地，形容风呼啸而来，用loudly。选A
【小题11】考查动词：A. Jumping跳B. Rising升起C. Getting得到D. Falling落下，和后面的rushed next door to the hired hand's sleeping quarters.可知是从床上跳起来。选A
【小题12】考查词组：A. Stand up 站起来B. Get up起床C. Sit down坐下D.Lie down躺下，因为小个子的人还在睡觉，农夫叫他起床。选B
【小题13】考查动词：A. Let 让B. Put 放C. Lay放置，下蛋D. Tie系，栓，句意：风暴来了，在被吹走前把东西拴好。选D
【小题14】考查词组：A. rolled over翻过身 B. jumped over跳过C. rolled up卷起来D. jumped up跳起来，这个人在床上翻过身。选A
【小题15】考查副词：A. Therefore因此B. Otherwise否则C. likewise同样地D. Instead相反，农夫本打算解雇这个人，相反的，他来到外面为风暴做准备。选D
【小题16】考查名词：A. expectation期望B. imagination想象C. amazement惊讶D. sorrow悲伤，令他惊讶的是所有的草垛都被帆布盖好了。选C
【小题17】考查不定代词：句意：所有的东西都拴好了，没有什么可以被吹走的。选D
【小题18】考查宾语从句：宾语从句中meant后面缺少宾语，用what连接宾语从句。选D
【小题19】考查动词：A. prepared准备B. finished完成C. determined决定D. Encouraged鼓励，句意：你已经在身体上，精神上都做好了准备。选A
【小题20】考查动词：A. beat 击败B. win赢得C. desire渴望D.fear害怕，没什么可害怕的。选D
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If you were to walk up to Arthur Bonner and say, “Hey, Butterfly Man,” his face would break into a smile. The title suits him. And he loves it.

Arthur Bonner works with the Palos Verdes blue butterfly, once thought to have died out. Today the butterfly is coming back — thanks to him. But years ago if you’d told him this was what he’d be doing someday, he would have laughed, “You’re crazy.” As a boy, he used to be “a little tough guy on the streets”. At age thirteen, he was caught by police stealing. At eighteen, he landed in prison for shooting a man.

“I knew it had hurt my mom,” Bonner said after he got out of prison. “So I told myself I would not put my mom through that pain again.”

One day he met Professor Mattoni, who was working to rebuild the habitat for an endangered butterfly called El Segundo blue.

“I saw the sign ‘Butterfly Habitat’ and asked, ‘How can you have a habitat when the butterflies can just fly away?’” Bonner recalls. “Dr. Mattoni laughed and handed me a magnifying glass (放大镜), ‘Look at the leaves.’ I could see all these caterpillars(蝴蝶的幼虫) on the plant. Dr Mattoni explained, ‘Without the plant, there are no butterflies.’”

Weeks later, Bonner received a call from Dr. Mattoni, who told him there was a butterfly which needed help. That was how he met the Palos Verdes blue. Since then he’s been working for four years to help bring the butterfly back. He grows astragals, the only plant the butterfly eats. He collects butterflies and brings them into a lab to lay eggs. Then he puts new butterflies into the habitat.

The butterfly’s population, once almost zero, is now up to 900. For their work, Bonner and Dr. Mattoni received lots of awards. But for Bonner, he earned something more: he turned his life around.

For six years now Bonner has kept his promise to stay out of prison. While he’s bringing back the Palos Verdes blue, the butterfly has helped bring him back, too.

When he was young, Arthur Bonner _______.

A. broke the law and ended up in prison

B. was fond of shooting and hurt his mom

   C. often laughed at people on the streets

   D. often caught butterflies and took them home

Bonner came to know the Palos Verdes blue after he _______.

A. found the butterfly had died out       

B. won many prizes from his professor

C. met Dr. Mattoni, a professor of biology  

D. collected butterflies and put them into a lab

From the last sentence of the text, we learn that raising butterflies has ________.

A. made Bonner famous              B. changed Bonner’s life

C. brought Bonner wealth             D. enriched Bonner’s knowledge

What does the underlined phrase “put through” mean in the 3rd paragraph?

A. hurt                         B. recall                  C. remember                    D. experience

Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A. A Promise to Mom                B. A Man Saved by Butterflies

C. A Story of Butterflies              D. A Job Offered by Dr. Mattoni

Mr．Glen is a millionaire．Five years ago, after returning from abroad to his motherland, he   36   up his small company．Speaking of success, Glen often tells us a story about his   37   expensive “school” fees．He always   38 a Ph．Degree, decided to return to the homeland, starting an undertaking．Before   39  , he bought a Rolex watch with the   40   made through years of work after school and the scholarships．At the airport he had to accept the routine customs check．The watch on his wrist was also demanded to be   41   down for inspection．Glen knew that carrying the specific goods out had to pay the tax．And he worried about paying   42   for his watch．So when he was checked, he told a lie that his watch was a worthless   43  ．When he was   44   of his ‘smarts’, immediately,   45   the presence of Glen, the officers hit the watch, which   46   nearly ￥100,000, into pieces at hearing Glen’s words．Glen was amazed．  47   he understood why, he was taken to the office to be   48  strictly．For many times of entry-exit   49   he knew that only those people in the “blacklist” would “enjoy” this special treatment．The officers   50   every thing carefully in the box, and warned him no matter what time of entry and exit he must accept the check and if   51   reusing and carrying fake and shoddy（伪劣）goods, he would be   52   according to law! Suddenly, his face turned red, and he had nothing in mind after boarding the plane for long.

After returning to the homeland, he often told the story to his family, and his employees, too．He said that this made a deep   53   on him, because an additional high “school” fee that he had ever paid made him realize the value of   54  , which he would   55   as the secret of his success forever.

A．set  B．came C．went  D．called

A．good      B．bad   C．extra D．few

A．owns     B．owes C．belongs     D．possesses

A．staying   B．leaving     C．living       D．coming

A．books    B．things       C．savings     D．pounds

A．put B．looked      C．taken D．lied

A．one B．it      C．them D．these

A．present   B．trade C．toy    D．fake

A．afraid    B．proud       C．well  D．hard

A．in   B．on     C．before      D．after

A．paid       B．spent C．took  D．cost

A．Before   B．After C．If      D．Though

A．appreciated  B．beaten      C．spoken      D．examined

A．conditions   B．experiences      C．experiments     D．chances

A．looked out   B．looked up      C．looked over      D．looked round

A．came out       B．found out  C．sent out    D．set out

A．hit  B．blamed     C．praised     D．charged

A．expression   B．idea  C．thought     D．impression

A．honesty  B．lies    C．goods       D．things

A．remember    B．learn       C．revise       D．read

Britain’s symbolic red phone boxes have become out of date in the age of the mobile, but villages across the country are stepping in to save them, with creative intelligence. Whether as a place to exhibit art, poetry, or even as a tiny library, hundreds of phone boxes have been given a new life by local communities determined to preserve a typical part of British life. In Waterperry, a small village near Oxford, the 120 residents have filled the phone box next to the old house with a pot of flowers, piles of gardening and cooking magazines, and stuck poems on the walls.

They took control of the phone box when telecoms operator BT said it was going to pull it down, an announcement that caused such dissatisfaction that one local woman threatened to chain herself to the box to save it. “I’d have done it, “ insisted Kendall Turner. “It would have been heartbreaking for the village. “ Local councilor Tricia Hallam, who came up with the idea for the phone box’s change, said quite a few people would have joined her, adding, “ We couldn’t let it go because it’s a British symbol.”

Only three feet by three feet wide, and standing 2.51-meter tall, the phone boxes were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1936 for the 25th anniversary of the reign of King George V. Painted in “Post Office red” to match the post boxes, they were once a typical image of England and the backdrop(背景) to millions of tourist photographs.

Eight years ago there were about 17,000 across Britain, but today, in a country where almost everybody has a mobile phone, 58 percent are no longer profitable and ten percent are only used once a month. “On average, maintaining them costs ￡800 a year per phone box-about ￡44 million annually,” said John Lumb, general manager for BT Payphones.

Some red phone boxes in Britain have been used for ____.

a. selling flowers    b. cooking   c. reading  d. exhibiting art or poetry

A. a, b   B. c, d   C. a,b,c  D. b,c,d

Why do the villagers want to keep the red phone boxes?

A. Because millions of people visit Britain to see the red phone boxes.

B. Because the local people could earn a lot of money from the red phone boxes.

C. Because the red phone boxes have already become a symbol of Britain.

D. Because the red phone boxes may be useful for some people in emergency.

What is the color of the British post boxes according to the passage?

A. Green   B. Red     C. Black    D. Yellow

What is John Lumb’s attitude towards pulling down the red phone boxes?

A. supportive   B. Opposed   C. Neutral    D. Indifferent.

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首先阅读下列博客信息：

A． My name’s Marta and I’ m from Mexico City, but I moved to Los Angeles, California, five years ago, now I am living in an apartment at No．3178 SE Timmer Broadway．I am 28, single．I am a customer service representative for a large financial company．I am an outgoing person．I love to laugh and have fun! I enjoy cooking, dancing and listening to music．I don’t like watching or playing sports．You should be an outgoing, considerate lady with a good sense of humor, to share the apartment．Are you the one? Email and let’s have further talk.

B． My name’s Mark, and I’m from Hollywood, California．I’m a fitness instructor in Los Angeles．I am a friendly and easy-going person; I love playing sports-especially football and working out at the gym．I also play the guitar．My best friend David, who often has sports with me, went to Mexico last month．To avoid loneliness, I’d like very much to own a new friend who would share the fun of sports with me．I am longing.

C． My name’s Park Jun Seo, but you can call me Jun．I moved from Seoul Korea to Los Angeles two years ago．I am a graphic designer and I am looking for my younger brother, Lean Ban Seo, who might be in this city．As the story is too long, I just hope to find him and have my family reunited．He is lame at the right leg, 19 years old, 1.79 meters tall, with very big eyes and fair curly hair．With his picture of two years ago enclosed, I would be very appreciated if you have any information about that．Telephone me at 818-5789.

D． My name is Don and I am a programmer at a computer company．I have designed several pieces of software that can help students learn better, especially suitable for primary students who have some language disability to learn words and help them pronounce more correctly．If you think you need one, please fax to 857-4693．You can purchase by post.

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About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college in New York, I was working as a practice student at my University's Museum of Natural History. One day while I was working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in wheelchair.

As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was seated on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and the trunk of the human body. She was wearing a little white dress with the patterns of red roses and yellow dots.

As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼示意). As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the most beautiful, largest smile I have ever seen

All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. I immediately felt full of hope and confidence. She took me, a poor, unhappy college student, into her world, a world of smiles, love and warmth.               

That was ten years ago, but I still remember it clearly as if it happened just yesterday. I'm a successful business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.

What was the writer a decade ago?

A. A worker working in a university.

B. A teacher teaching in a college.

C. A clerk working in a museum.

D. A university student who had not yet taken a degree.

What does the underlined world “handicap” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. Life difficulty.    B. Troublesome problem.

C. Failure in work.   D. Physical disability. 

How did the writer probably feel before meeting the disabled girl?

A. She felt full of hope.

B. She was filled with confidence.

C. She felt unhappy because of poverty.

D. She felt life was beautiful.

Which of the following title suits this passage best?

A. A Disabled Girl.

B. A Disabled Girl’s Smile.

C. Full of Hope.

D. Full of Confidence.

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