题目内容
—I've decided to quit this job, but I'm afraid I won't be able to find a better one.
—____.You never know until you try.
A.Forget it B.Go for it C.Good luck D.Never mind
B
The 92-year-old, thin, calm and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, even though she is nearly blind, moved to a nursing home today.
Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the hall of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready.
As she walked slowly to lift, I provided a true description of her tiny room, including the old sheets(床单) that had been hung on her window. “I love it.” She said with the happiness.
“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room…. Just wait..” “That doesn’t matter.” She replied. “ Happiness is something you decide ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged. It is how I arrange my mind, I have already decided to lobe it. It is a decision I make every morning when I wake up. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I will focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away.” She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank account(帐户). You put what you have in. So, my advice to you would be to put in a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my memory bank.” And with a smile, she said, “All my memories are happy ones.”
Mr. Jones was always happy in the nursing home and she died at the age of 108.
【小题1】 We can infer from the passage that the writer_____________.
A.is one of Mrs. Jones children |
B.is a relative of Mrs. Jones |
C.works in the nursing home |
D.is the owner of the nursing house |
A.isn’t in good condition |
B.is fairly big |
C.is very comfortable |
D.is equipped with new furniture |
A.Proud | B.Pleasant |
C.Loyal | D.Honest |
A.why the lonely woman was happy |
B.what a nursing home was alike |
C.how to live a long life |
D.how to lead a happy life |
While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I had an experience which occurred merely two feet away from me.
Trying to locate my friend among the passengers coming through the jet way, I noticed a man walking toward me carrying two light bags. He stopped right next to me to greet his family.
First he kissed his three children one by one and said, “It’s nice to see you. I missed you so much!” Then he hugged his wife, “I’ve saved the best for last!” giving her the longest, most passionate kiss I ever remember seeing. They stared at each other’s eyes, smiling at one another, while holding both hands. For an instant they reminded me of newlyweds(新婚夫妇), but I knew by the age of their kids that they couldn’t possibly be.
Full of admiration, I asked, “Wow! How long have you two been married?” “Being together for fourteen years total, married twelve of those.” He replied, without breaking his gaze from his lovely wife’s face. “Well, then, how long have you been away?” I asked. “Two whole days!” “Two days?” I was astonished. By the intensity (热烈) of the greeting, I had assumed he’d been gone for at least several weeks --- if not months. I knew my expression betrayed me, so I turned away my eyes and said quietly, “I hope my marriage is still that passionate after so long!”
The man suddenly stopped smiling and looked me straight in the eye. With forcefulness he told me something that left me a different person. “Don’t hope, friend…decide!” Then he smiled again, shook my hand and said, “God bless!”
With that, he and his family turned and walked away together.
I was still watching that man and his special family walk just out of sight when my friend came up to me and asked, “What are you looking at?” Without hesitation, and with a curious sense of certainty, I replied, “My future!”
【小题1】The best title of the passage may be __________.
A.Long Loving Hugs | B.My Future |
C.Don’t Hope. Decide | D.Love Is Everywhere |
A.The man replied to the author, with his eyes still fixed on his wife’s face. |
B.After being away for several weeks, the man missed his family very much. |
C.It was fourteen years since the couple had got married. |
D.Their three kids reminded the author of newlyweds. |
A.he failed to express his ideas to the man |
B.the man sensed his real feelings from his expression |
C.he didn’t believe in his expression any more |
D.his expression was not faithful to him |
A.the experience may be easily forgotten by the author |
B.the author will live a passionate life from now on |
C.the author will be away from his family and hug them passionately upon his return |
D.Americans prefer to save the best for last |
Many of us don’t like what we see around us but the last thing we do is to change it. I think that is the beginning of failure and that is why what we hate remains around us. If you don’t want to see things around you, don’t just hope it’ll change.
We have such an amazing power of creativity inside us to change the way things work around us. Only lazy people go about and say that is the way things have been working. I’ve come to discover that things around us depend on our actions and inactions. What I mean is that the circumstances that we like depend only on the things we do and the things we don’t do.
Do you want your country to change? Start by changing the small things around you. Before you think too far about any small thing to change, your habit should be the first thing to change. Change what you think about and talk about. Can you remember how difficult it was for you to break a habit that you desired to break some years back? If so, then you must accept that things aren’t just going to change by a magic thought. If it isn’t so easy to change yourself when you want to, it isn’t going to be so easy to change the people around you.
I think the best way I’ve changed people around me is that I changed myself. When you change, they’ll change. Just change yourself and see how many people will tell you later that you are the one who changes them. That’s one simple way young people can change their nations.
1. According to the text, why do we fail to change what we don’t like? _______
A.Because we lack the power of creativity. |
B.Because we never plan to change them. |
C.Because they cannot be changed. |
D.Because we don’t have the ability. |
2.The author can change people around him because he has realized that .
A.things around us decide what we do |
B.the further you think, the better |
C.his actions can affect things around him |
D.he has to change the nation first |
3.The third paragraph aims at .
A.telling readers one of the author’s interesting experiences |
B.giving an example to show how to change things around us |
C.showing readers how to change a nation |
D.asking us to remember to change our nation |
4.What can we learn from the text? ________
A.Circumstance creates a person. |
B.It is never too late to change your habits. |
C.A long journey begins with the first step. |
D.Changing ourselves means changing others. |