题目内容
England was one of the first countries to set aside a day to recognize mothers．In the eighteenth century, many people worked as household servants for the , "Mothering Sunday" was _ for them to return home to be with their mothers．Though this stopped when the Industrial Revolution altered the working and living patterns of people, one for mothers was established as a holiday in the twentieth century．
In the United States, Mother's Day did not become a（n） holiday until 1915．Its establishment was due to the perseverance and love of one , Anna Jarvis．Anna's mother had provided strength and support as the family their home in West Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania her father served as a minister．
When Mrs Jarvis died on May 5, 1905, Anna was determined to her．She asked a minister at the church in West Virginia to give a sermon（布道） memory of her mother．
On the same Sunday in Philadelphia, ministers there honoured Mrs.Jarvis and all mothers with a (n) Mother's Day service．Anna Jarvis began writing to congressmen, asking them to a day to honour mothers. In 1910, the governor of West Virginia proclaimed(宣布) the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day and a year later every state it．
On Mother' s Day morning some American children the tradition of serving their mothers breakfast in bed．Other children will give their mothers which they have made themselves or bought in ．Adults give their mothers red carnations, the official Mother's Day flower．If their mothers , they may bring white carnations to their grave（坟墓）sites．This is the busiest day of the year for American ．On the special day, family members do not want Mom to cook dinner!
1.A．before B．since C．when D．until
2.A．rich B．poor C．living D．injured
3.A．protected B．reserved C．changed D．persuaded
4.A．form B．custom C．habit D．plan
5.A．Monday B．Wednesday C．Sunday D．Friday
6.A．ordinary B．common C．regular D．official
7.A．nearly B．largely C．deeply D．highly
8.A．mother B．sister C．daughter D．waitress
9.A．destroyed B．found C．made D．left
10.A．where B. when C．why D．how
11.A．reward B．honour C．award D．inspire
12.A．on B．at C．in D．for
13.A．special B．expensive C．simple D．easy
14.A．put off B．give up C．take on D．set aside
15.A．understood B．received C．celebrated D．prevented
16.A．follow B．refuse C．accept D．support
17.A．letters B．gifts C．calls D．toys
18.A．schools B．churches C．stores D．hospitals
19.A．went ahead B．moved on C．stayed up D．passed away
20.A．restaurants B．departments C．offices D．markets
1.C
2.A
3.B
4.B
5.C
6.D
7.B
8.C
9.C
10.A
11.B
12.C
13.A
14.D
15.C
16.A
17.B
18.C
19.D
20.A
【解析】
试题分析：文章大意：在十八世纪，佣人们可以在某一个星期天回家陪伴母亲，这是早期母亲节的雏形。后来美国的安娜为现代母亲节的确立作出了突出的贡献。
1.C连词辨析。A在……之前；B自从；C当……时候；D直到。根据语境可知，此处意为“当许多人做家庭佣人的时候”，故选when。
2.A形容词辨析。这里考查的the + adj表示一类人。联系前面的servants可以推知，此处指富人 (the rich)。这里指为富人家做佣人。
3.B 短语辨析。A保护；B保留；C改变；D劝服。Mothering Sunday是专门留作他们回家和母亲在一起的日子。
4.B名词辨析。A形式；B风俗；C习惯；D计划。根据文章的语境可知，此处是指这一风俗 (custom)因为工业革命而中断了。
5.C上下文连串。上下文中很多信息可以告诉我们，母亲节是在一个周日，故用Sunday。
6.D 形容词辨析。A普通的；B通常的；C规律的；D正式的。本段介绍美国母亲节的由来。此处的意思是直到1915年母亲节才成为正式的 (official)节日。
7.B副词辨析。A几乎；B很大程度上；C深深地；D高度地。根据下文可知，母亲节的设立很大程度上 (largely)应归功于安娜所做的工作。
8.C。上下文连串。根据后面的Anna’s mother等可知，此处指一个“女儿（daughter）”的爱。
9.C 动词辨析。make their home意为“安家”，为固定搭配。安娜的母亲提供精力，因为他们安家在西弗吉尼亚州。
10.A。连词辨析。根据句子的结构可知，此处说明父亲工作的地点，故选where。他父亲在那里当部长。
11.B 上下文连串。下文中的a day to honor mothers给出了提示。母亲去世后，安娜决定向她的母亲表示敬意 (honor)。
12.C 介词辨析。in memory of sb. 意为“纪念某人”。安娜请牧师布道以表示她对母亲的纪念。
13.A 形容词辨析。A特殊的；B贵的；C简单地；D容易的。这里指用一种“特殊的”母亲节的方式表示对她的敬意，故用special。
14.D 短语辨析。set aside“留出”。第一段第一句中有提示。此处指安娜要求留出一天以表示对母亲们的敬意。
15.C 动词辨析。A理解；B解释；C庆祝；D阻止。空后的it指母亲节，所以此处指一年以后每个州都“庆祝”母亲节。
16.A 动词辨析。follow the tradition意为“按照传统”。此处说的是母亲节的传统庆祝方式：伺候他们的母亲在床上吃早餐。
17.B 上下文连串。根据后面which引导的定语从句的内容可知，这里指送给母亲的“礼物”。其他孩子将给他们母亲礼物。
18.C 名词辨析。A学校；B教堂；C商店；D医院。这些礼物是孩子们自己做的或是在“商店”里买的。
19.D 短语辨析。此处白色的康乃馨和上文中红色的康乃馨相对应，再结合选项的意思可以推知，此处指若母亲去世 (pass away)。pass through“通过”，pass on“传递，继续”，pass by“（时间）逝去”，均不符合语义。
20.A上下文连串。根据文章最后一句话可知，这里指“餐馆”很忙碌，因为在这个特殊的日子里家人都不想让母亲做饭。
考点：考查文化类短文
七星图书口算速算天天练系列答案THE BRONTE FAMILY
Yorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels (小说) of the 19th century. These were Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The youngest sister, Anne, was also a gifted novelist, and her books have the same extraordinary quality as her sisters’.
Their father was Patrick Bronte, born in Ireland. He moved with his wife, Maria Bronte, and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after, Mrs. Bronte and the two eldest children died, leaving the father to care of the remaining three girls and a boy.
Charlotte was born in 1816. Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820. Their brother Branwell was born in 1817. Left to themselves, the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills. They grew up largely self-educated. Branwell showed a great interest in drawing. The girls were determined to earn money for his art education. They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.
As children they had all written many stories. Charlotte, as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books, each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting. Therefore, they turned to writing for income. By 1847, Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily, Wuthering Heights; and Anne, Agnes Grey. After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher(出版商), but there was no interest shown in Charlotte’s book. (It was not published until 1859.) However, one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her works. Jane Eyre was already started, and she hurriedly finished it. It was accepted at once; thus each of the sisters had a book published in 1847.
Jane Eyre was immediately successful; the other two, however, did not do so well. People did not like Wuthering Heights. They said it was too wild, too animal-like. But gradually it came to be considered one of the finest novels in the English language. Emily lived only a short while after the publication of the book, and Anne died in 1849.
Charlotte published Shirley in 1849, and Villette in 1853. In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls. But only a year later, she died of tuberculosis(肺结核) as her sisters had.
【小题1】We know from the text that .
| A．Jane Eyre was published in 1847 |
| B．Charlotte Bronte wrote 22 books in all |
| C．the Bronte sisters received good education |
| D．Patrick Bronte helped his daughters with their writing |
| A．Shirley and Villette | B．The Professor and Agnes Grey |
| C．Agnes Grey and Wutheriing Heights | D．The Professor and wuthering Heights |
| A．Their novels interested few publishers. |
| B．None of them had more than two books published. |
| C．None of them lived longer than 40 years old. |
| D．Emily was the least successful of the three. |
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the great nineteenth century English novelist, was born near Portsmouth. His father ran heavily into debt and when he was twelve, he had to go and work in a factory for making boot polish. The only formal education he received was a two-year schooling at a school for poor children. In fact, he had to teach himself all he knew. He worked for a time as junior clerk in a lawyer's office. After that, he worked as a reporter in the law courts, and later in parliament, for London newspapers. His career as a writer of fiction began in 1833 with short stories and essays in periodicals, and in 1837 his comic novel The Pickwick Papers made him the most popular author at his time in England.
He was a great observer of people and their places because he was attracted by life and conditions in mid-nineteenth century London. He wrote 19 novels all his life and in many of them, Dickens gave a realistic picture of all classes of England society, showing deep sympathy for the poor and unfortunate, exposing the injustice and inhumanity（不人道） of the bourgeoisie（布尔乔亚阶级）.
Many of his novels like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and so on drew attention to the unsatisfactory social conditions that existed in England over a hundred years ago.
Dickens criticized capitalist society from the point of view of bourgeois humanism. He wished to see improvement in the living conditions of the poor, but failed to find any effective means to achieve that end.
1.Dickens only received a little formal education because______.
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A．he wanted to teach himself |
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B．he wanted to work and made a lot of money |
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C．he was too poor to afford any more formal education |
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D．he wanted some working experiences to be a novelist |
2.According to Dickens, the society at his time in England was________.
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A．just |
B．poor |
C．comfortable |
D．unsatisfying |
3.Which of the following novel made Dickens the most popular writer at his time in England?
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A．Oliver Twist |
B．The Pickwick Papers |
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C．A Tale of Two Cities |
D．Great Expectations |
4.According to the passage, which of the following about Dickens is true?
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A．He didn't go to school at all. |
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B．He only wrote about poor people and showed deep sympathy for them. |
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C．He began to write fictions when he was 21 years old. |
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D．He found some effective ways to improve the living conditions of the poor. |
5.It can be inferred from the passage that________.
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A．Dickens had a miserable childhood |
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B．Dickens tried many different jobs before he became a professional writer |
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C．Dickens wrote many novels but only some of them are popular |
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D．Dickens criticized capitalist society and helped to improve the living conditions of the poor |
THE BRONTE FAMILY
Yorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels (小说) of the 19th century. These were Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The youngest sister, Anne, was also a gifted novelist, and her books have the same extraordinary quality as her sisters’.
Their father was Patrick Bronte, born in Ireland. He moved with his wife, Maria Bronte, and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after, Mrs. Bronte and the two eldest children died, leaving the father to care of the remaining three girls and a boy.
Charlotte was born in 1816. Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820. Their brother Branwell was born in 1817. Left to themselves, the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills. They grew up largely self-educated. Branwell showed a great interest in drawing. The girls were determined to earn money for his art education. They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.
As children they had all written many stories. Charlotte, as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books, each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting. Therefore, they turned to writing for income. By 1847, Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily, Wuthering Heights; and Anne, Agnes Grey. After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher(出版商), but there was no interest shown in Charlotte’s book. (It was not published until 1859.) However, one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her works. Jane Eyre was already started, and she hurriedly finished it. It was accepted at once; thus each of the sisters had a book published in 1847.
Jane Eyre was immediately successful; the other two, however, did not do so well. People did not like Wuthering Heights. They said it was too wild, too animal-like. But gradually it came to be considered one of the finest novels in the English language. Emily lived only a short while after the publication of the book, and Anne died in 1849.
Charlotte published Shirley in 1849, and Villette in 1853. In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls. But only a year later, she died of tuberculosis(肺结核) as her sisters had.
1.We know from the text that .
|
A．Jane Eyre was published in 1847 |
|
B．Charlotte Bronte wrote 22 books in all |
|
C．the Bronte sisters received good education |
|
D．Patrick Bronte helped his daughters with their writing |
2.The underlined words “the other two” in the 5 th paragraph refer to .
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A．Shirley and Villette |
B．The Professor and Agnes Grey |
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C．Agnes Grey and Wutheriing Heights |
D．The Professor and wuthering Heights |
3. What do we know about the Bronte sisters from the text?
|
A．Their novels interested few publishers. |
|
B．None of them had more than two books published. |
|
C．None of them lived longer than 40 years old. |
|
D．Emily was the least successful of the three. |