Small moments sometimes last a very long time. And a few words—though they mean    21   at the time to the people who say them—can have great power.

  I recently heard a story from Malcolm Dalkoff, who has been a professional   22 for the last twenty-four years, mostly in advertising.

  As a boy, Dalkoff was terribly shy and     23   . He had few friends and no self-confidence. Then one day, his high-school English teacher, Ruth Brauch, asked the class to write their own chapter that would    24     the last chapter of the novel since they had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it in. Today he cannot recall anything special about the chapter he wrote, or what    25   Mrs. Brauch gave him.   26    , what he does remember is the four words in the paper: “This is good writing.” Four words. They    27   his life.

  “Until I read those words, I had no idea of who I was or what I was or what I was going to be,” he said, “After reading her    28    ,I went home and wrote a short story,    29   I had always dreamed of doing but never believed I could do.”

  Over the rest of that year in school, he wrote many short stories and always brought them to Mrs. Brauch for instruction. “She was    30   , helping and honest. She was just what I needed,” Dalkoff said. 

21

A. much

B. little

C. well

D. ill

22

A .report

B. designer

C. writer

D. teacher

23

A .weak

B. independent

C. troublesome

D. helpless

24

A. follow

B. change

C. connect

D. explain

25

A .help

B. encouragement

C. grade

D. words

26

A. Therefore

B. However

C. Meanwhile

D. Besides

27

A .improved

B. developed

C. changed

D. enriched

28

A. chapter

B. novel

C. note

D .explanation

29

A. everything

B. something

C. nothing

D. anything

30

A. encouraging

B. careful

C. strict

D. effective

Love in a Box

When I was a little girl,I found love in a box all because of a class assignment.On a Friday night I__1__at the dinner table,“My teacher said we have to bring a box,a special box,for our Valentines (情人节) on Monday.”

Mother said,“We’ll see”,and she continued eating.

What did “We’ll see” mean?I had to have that box__2__my second grade Valentine’s Day would be a disaster.Maybe they didn’t love me enough to help me with my__3__.

All Saturday I waited__4__and with Sunday arriving,my concern increased,but I__5__an enquiry about the box might__6__anger or loud voice,for in my house children only ask once.More than that __7__trouble.

Late Sunday afternoon,my father called me into the kitchen.The table was covered with colorful__8__of different kinds.A(n)__9__shoebox rested on top of it.__10__flooded through me when Daddy said,“Let’s get started__11__your project.”

In the next hour my father__12__the shoebox into an impressive valentine box.Colorful paper covered the ugly cardboard with red hearts__13__to what I considered all the right places.He sang while he worked.When he finished,he was so delighted that a__14__smile spread over his face.“What do you think of that?” he asked.

I answered him with a hug.

But inside,__15__danced all the way to my heart.It was the first time that my father devoted so much__16__to me,for his world consisted of work only.

The holiday party arrived,and my classmates put cards,and presents into the valentine boxes.Laughter filled our classroom until dismissal time__17__.

On the way home,I held out my valentine box for the world to__18__.The love that filled it meant more to me than all inside.

The valentine box became a symbol of his love that__19__through decades of other Valentine’s Days.He gave me other gifts through the years,but none__20__compared with the love I felt within the limits of the old,empty shoebox.

1.A.announced      B.appeared

C.served       D.sat

2.A.and          B.however

C.or          D.so

3.A.design        B.plan

C.idea         D.project

4.A.sadly        B.anxiously

C.disappointedly     D.patiently

5.A.found         B.realized

C.knew        D.imagined

6.A.start        B.cause

C.mark        D.produce

7.A.invited       B.took

C.saved       D.had

8.A.boxes         B.gifts

C.paper         D.food

9.A.new          B.big

C.attractive       D.empty

10.A.Relaxation     B.Relief

C.Cheer       D.Calm

11.A.by         B.at

C.in         D.on

12.A.folded        B.packed

C.changed        D.pressed

13.A.joined       B.attached

C.linked         D.connected

14.A.slight       B.brief

C.broad         D.confident

15.A.joy         B.fun

C.interest        D.amusement

16.A.money       B.time

C.support        D.hope

17.A.reached      B.set

C.spent          D.came

18.A.accept     B.respect

C.admire       D.recognize

19.A.carried      B.kept

C.spread        D.lasted

20.A.ever        B.even

C.yet        D.still

 

完型填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
"Hey, Tahlia! How's the model?"
I had just taken a bite of my hot dog __21__ I heard a familiar voice yelling at me from across the crowded school yard. I saw a group of popular girls who were all __22__.
"What kind of __23_ are you going to do? An ad for a Frankenstein movie?" More laughter. My stomach twisted into a tight knot. How could they humiliate (羞辱) me like this, __24__ the entire school? As I walked into the cafeteria, I __25__ the dark scars on my right hand.
At 9 months old, I knocked over a tea pot and dumped boiling water allover my hands and stomach. My parents __26__ me to the hospital, but I had to have skin graft (移植) operation. I was in so much pain! But what __27__ me most were the cruel things people said about how I looked, __28__ that day at lunch.
The girls were being supermean to me because they'd heard I was considering doing some modeling. A close friend had suggested that I shouldn't let my scars limit me and that I might __29__ a good model.
But after that __30__ at school, I was sure I'd made a huge mistake. Upon arriving home, I covered the mirror with a blanket, fell on my bed and sobbed.
The next day, I __31__ myself to go to school. At lunch my best friend Jesse tried to encourage me: "You can't __32_ forever, Tahlia. So what if you have a few scars? Just go outside and show them that you're just as good as they are." Although I knew he was right, I couldn’t __33__ standing up for myself like that.
However, that night as I sat on the bed, my friend's words replayed in my mind. I'm __34__ hiding from myself, I thought. How stupid! Slowly, I stood up, walked over to the __35__, and tossed the blanket aside. There, in the mirror I saw a slim, dark-haired, blue-eyed girl, looking just fine, __36__ with a few scars.
The next day I wore a comfortable T-shirt to school. What's more, I had lunch outside the cafeteria, __37__ beside those mean girls. They were shocked that I should dare to walk into their territory. I felt __38_ too—free and happy.
Sometimes people still look at me strangely. They __39_ and stare, but I don't let it get to me. I have applied to several modeling companies, and at least one company is considering me for jobs. Maybe I'll never __40_ posing on the runway, but I do know one thing: I'm done.

【小题1】
A.as B.when C.while D.before
【小题2】
A.applauding B.cheering C.laughing D.quarreling
【小题3】
A.modeling B.writing C.drilling D.acting
【小题4】
A.in spite of B.in view of C.in terms of D.in front of
【小题5】
A.looked into B.searched for C.wondered aboutD.glanced at
【小题6】
A.presented B.sent C.rushedD.handed
【小题7】
A.hurtB.beat C.disappointed D.puzzled
【小题8】
A.for B.like C.on D.after
【小题9】
A.impressB.make C.consult D.defeat
【小题10】
A.effect B.phenomenon C.challenge D.scene
【小题11】
A.forced B.expected C.reminded D.preferred
【小题12】
A.apologize B.beg C.hide D.complain
【小题13】
A.consider B.imagine C.appreciate D.resist
【小题14】
A.hardly B.ever C.even D.gradually
【小题15】
A.blanket B.bed C.chair D.mirror
【小题16】
A.while B.though C.but D.because
【小题17】
A.right B.still C.therefore D.anyhow
【小题18】
A.sensitive B.uncomfortable C.different D.tense
【小题19】
A.compare B.associate C.wave D.whisper
【小题20】
A.give up B.end up C.put up D.set up

He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.

“What's the matter, Schatz?”

“I've got a headache.”

“You better go back to bed.”

“No. I'm all right.”

“You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dressed.”

But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.

“You go up to bed,” I said, “You're sick.”

“I'm all right,” he said.

When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature.

“What's is it?” I asked him.

“One hundred and two.”

Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative(泻药), the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza(流感)can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic(传染病;传染性的) of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia(肺炎).

Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.

“Do you want me to read to you?”

“All right. If you want to, “ said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached(超然的;冷漠的)from what was going on.

I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates(海盗);but I could see he was not following what I was reading.

“How do you feel, Schatz?” I asked him.

“Just the same, so far,” he said.

I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely.

“Why don't you try to sleep? I'll wake you up for the medicine.”

“I'd rather stay awake.”

After a while he said to me, “You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.”

“It doesn't bother me.”

“No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you.”

I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out with my gun and the young hunting dog….I killed two quail(鹌鹑), and missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey of quail close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day.

At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room.

“You can't come in,” he said. “You mustn't get what I have.”

I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed(发红)by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.

I took his temperature.

“What is it?”

“Something like a hundred,” I said. It was one hundred and two and four tenths.

“It was a hundred and two,” he said.

“Who said so?”

“The doctor.”

“Your temperature is all right,” I said. “It's nothing to worry about.”

“I don't worry,” he said, “but I can't keep from thinking.”

“Don't think,” I said. “Just take it easy.”

“I'm taking it easy,” he said and looked straight ahead, He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.

“Take this with water.”

“Do you think it will do any good?”

“Of course it will.”

I sat down and opened the Pirate book and began to read, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped.

“About what time do you think I'm going to die?” he asked.

“What?”

“About how long will it be before I die?”

“You aren't going to die. What's the matter with you? “

“Oh, yes, I am, I heard him say a hundred and two.”

“People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to talk.”

“I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two.”

He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning.

“You poor Schatz,” I said. “Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. That's different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it's ninety-eight.”

“Are you sure?”

“Absolutely,” I said, “It's like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car?”

“Oh,” he said.

But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack(松驰的) and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance.

1.The author writes about the doctor’s visit in order to _____.

A.show the doctor’s knowledge about influenza and its treatment

B.show the boy’s illness was quite serious

C.create a situation of misunderstanding around which to build a story

D.show the father was very much concerned about the boy’s illness

2.The pronoun “it” in “Papa, if it bothers you” (line 41) refers to _____.

A.the boy’s high temperature

B.the father giving the medicine to the boy

C.the father staying with the boy

D.the boy’s death

3.It can be inferred from the story that it is _____ by the time the father gets home from hunting.

A.early in the afternoon

B.close to evening

C.at noon

D.late in the morning

4.From the story we know that the boy kept tight control over himself because _____.

A.he did not want to be a bother to others

B.he wanted to recover quickly so that he could go hunting with his father

C.he was afraid that he would die if he lost control over himself

D.he thought he was going to die and he must show courage in the face of death

5.That the boy cried very easily at little things of no importance the next day suggests that _____.

A.he couldn’t control his emotions when he finally relaxed

B.his father would go out hunting without him if he didn’t cry

C.something went wrong with his brain after the fever

D.he often complained about unimportant things as a spoiled boy

6.The theme of the story is _____.

A.death is something beyond a child’s comprehension

B.to be calm and controlled in the face of death is a mark of courage

C.misunderstanding can occur even between father and son

D.misunderstanding can sometimes lead to an unexpected effect

 

I had the meanest mother in the world.While other kids ate candy for breakfast.I had to have cereal, eggs and toast.Others had cakes and candy for lunch, while we had to eat a sandwich.As you can guess, my supper was different from the other kids'.But at least I was not alone in my suffering.My sister and two brothers had the same mean mother as I did.

My mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times.She had to know who our friends were and what we were doing.We had to wear clean clothes every day.Other kids always wore their clothes for days. We reached the height of disgrace (耻辱) because she made our clothes herself, just to save money.

The worst is yet to come.We had to be in bed by 9:00 each night and up at 7:45 the next morning.So while my friends slept, my mother actually had the courage to break Child Labor Law.She made us work. I believed she lay awake all night thinking up mean things to do to us.Through the years, our friends' report cards had beautiful colors on them, black for passing, red for failing.My mother, however, would only be satisfied with black marks.None of us was allowed the pleasure of being a dropout (辍学者).

She forced us to grow up into educated and honest adults.Using this as a background, I'm now trying to bring up my three children.I'm filled with pride when my children think I am mean because now I thank God every day for giving me the meanest mother in the world.

1.From the passage we can learn that the writer's mother was____.

A.not generous at all

B.very cruel to her children

C.very mean with money matters

D.very strict with her children

2.Which of the following things did the writer hate to do most?

A.Eating differently from other kids.

B.Letting mother know where they were.

C.Going to bed early and getting up early.

D.Wearing clean clothes made by mother.

3.It can be inferred from the passage that____.

A.the writer's family lived a miserable life

B.all the other kids studied better than the writer

C.Mother was punished for breaking the Labor Law

D.the writer worked hard and usually got good grades in studies

4.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A.The writer is very thankful to her mother.

B.The writer has a deep hatred for her mother.

C.Mother practiced economy in running her home.

D.The writer is strict with her children when bringing them up.

5.The passage was written in a way of  tone.

A.humorous

B.hateful

C.ridiculous

D.impatient

 

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