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When I was a child, I had an old neighbour named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any other doctor I’ve ever known. He never 11__ at us for playing in his yard. I remembered him as a kind and _12_ person
When Dr. Gibbs didn’t work, he planted trees. His house covered an area of ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it _ 13_ .
He had some interesting _ 14 _ concerning planting. He belonged to the “No pains, no gains” __15 of plant growing. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked _16__, he said, “Watering plants will spoil them, and if you water them, each successive tree_ 17_ will grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things 18__for them and weed out the weak ones.” So he never watered his trees. He would _19__a pine, and instead of _20__it every morning, he beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I __21__ him why he did so, and he said it was to get the tree’s _22__.
I planted a couple of trees a few _23__ ago. I carried water to them for a solid summer, sprayed them and prayed over them. Two years of careful tending has _24__ in trees that expect to be _25__ to hand and foot. Whenever a cold wind blows in, they tremble their branches.
Dr. Gibbs passed away a _26__of years after I left home. Now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees. They’re _27__ now, big and healthy.
Funny things about Dr. Gibbs’ trees. Hardship and difficulty seemed to benefit them _28__
comfort and ease never could.
Life is tough, whether we want 29_ to be or not. Too many times we pray for ease, but that’s a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is to pray for 30_ that reach deep into the earth, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won’t be swept away.
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【小题3】D
【小题4】B
【小题5】C
【小题6】D
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【小题9】B
【小题10】C
【小题11】A
【小题12】B
【小题13】C
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【小题15】D
【小题16】B
【小题17】C
【小题18】A
【小题19】C
【小题20】B
解析【小题1】动词辨析。A. shout吼叫 ；B. shot射击；C. aim瞄准；D. point。指着。由文章第一段末a kind and _37_ person,可知，他是一个友善的老人，故不会对我们吼叫，
【小题2】形容词辨析。A. cruel 残酷的；B. greedy 贪婪的；C. pleasant 高兴的；D. disciplined有纪律的。and连接两个并列的成分：kind 友善的，故用pleasant，令人高兴的，构成并列。
【小题3】名词辨析。A. museum博物馆；B. park 公园；停车场；C. playground 操场；D. forest森林。他的目标就是让种的树成为：森林。
【小题4】名词辨析。A. feature 特点；B. theory理论；C. character特征；D. instruction说明。由后一句：He belonged to the “No pains, no gains” ······他属于“不劳不获”······这是他的理论。
【小题5】名词辨析。A. class班；B. college大学，学院；C. school学校；D. university综合性大学。“No pains, no gains”，“不劳不获”这是学校老师所教的理论。
【小题6】代词辨析。A. what什么；B. when 什么时间； C. how怎么样；D. why为什么。他种树，从不浇水，我问为什么。同时下文中：I __21_ him why he did so,也可直接得出。
【小题7】名词辨析。 A. image肖像；B. product 产品；C. generation后代；D. species物种。如果浇水，树的继承者就会越来越来弱不经风。树的下一代：tree generation
【小题8】形容词辨析。A. Cheap便宜的； B. Easy容易的；C. Expensive昂贵的；D. rough艰难的。因此，你必须要让他们生活得困难些，同时下文中：Life is tough, 也可以直接得出。生活也是一样。
【小题9】动词辨析。A. paint涂色；B. plant种植；C.uproot 连根拔起；D. establish建立。他不但不给树浇水，反而还去拔树。
【小题10】动名词的使用。作介词of的宾语。不是给树浇水，上文和下文中都多次提到：watered his trees.
【小题11】动词辨析。A. Ask问；B. told 告诉；C. Inform通知；D. demand要求，命令。我问他为什么这样做。同时上文中也有提示：Once I asked _41__,可直接得出。
【小题12】名词辨析。 A. approval同意；B. attention 注意；C. pain 痛苦；D. communication交流。拔树当然是要让树‘注意’。
【小题13】名词辨析。A. week周；B. month月；C. year年；D. day天。根据下文中：Two years of careful tending has _24__ ······可直接得出。
【小题14】动词辨析。A. resulted in导致；B. produce生产；C. believe in 信赖；D spend花费。两年的细心照顾导致树从头到脚都要照顾。
【小题15】动词短语辨析。A. treat对待；B. tend照顾；C. support支持； D. attend出席。两年的细心照顾导致树从头到脚都要照顾。
【小题16】固定短语短语的使用。A.a number of许多；a couple of 一两（双）；a row of 一排；a period of 一段时间。我离开一两年，Dr. Gibbs死了。
【小题17】形容词辨析。A. trembling 颤动的；B. dying 将死的；C. strong强壮的；D. intelligent 聪明的。_52__ now, big and healthy. and连接并列的词，故用strong。
【小题18】连词辨析。A. while而；B. though虽然；C. as 因为；D. and 和。Hardship and difficulty seemed to benefit them _53__comfort and ease never could。Hardship and difficulty 和comfort and ease 构成对比，故用 while。
【小题19】代词的使用。A. them他们；B. that那；C. it 它；D. this这。Life is tough, whether we want _54__ to be or not. 生活是艰苦的，不管我们想它是还是不是。补全这句：whether we want Life to be or not.故用表特指,用it。
【小题20】名词辨析。A. trunk干；B. root 根；C. branch枝；D. leave叶。to pray for _30__ that reach deep into the earth, 到地下面，只有根才是这样生长的。
试题分析：考查记叙文。
考点：本文是一篇记叙文，用Dr. Gibbs种树，而不浇水，让树自己去生存的事例来说明我们的生活也是一样，要学习忍受并克服艰难困苦，才能茁壮的成长。故事情节清晰，逻辑性强，易于理解。从选项中可以看出，本大题主要还是考查了词汇的辨析与运用，但更加注重综合语言能力的运用，需要根据故事情节，了解词汇用法的同时，结合语境，做出准确的判断。
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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 w
ho 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 an
d 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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reaking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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