In early autumn I applied for admission to college. I wanted to go nowhere but to Cornell University, but my mother fought strongly against it. When she saw me studying a photograph of my father on the sports ground of Cornell, she tore it up.

  “You can’t say it’s not a great university, just because Papa went there.”

“That’s not it at all. And it is a top university.” She was still holding the pieces in her hand. “But we can’t afford to send you to college.”

“I wouldn’t dream of asking you for money. Do you want me to get a job to help support you and Papa? Things aren’t that bad, are they?”

“No,” she said. “I don’t expect you to help support us.”

Father borrowed money form his rich cousins to start a small jewellery shop, His chief customers were his old college friends. To get new customers, my mother had to help. She picked up a long-forgotten membership in the local league of women, so that she could get to know more people. Whether those people would turn into customers was another question. I knew that my Parents had to wait for quite a long time before their small investment (投资) could show returns. What’s more, they had not wanted enough to be rich and successful ；Otherwise they could not possibly have managed their lives so badly.

I was torn between the desire to help them and change their lives, and the determination not to repeat their mistakes. I had a strong belief in my power to go what I wanted. After months of hard study I won a full college scholarship（奖学金）.My father could hardly contain his pride in me, and my mother eventually gave in before my success.

1.The author was not allowed to go to Cornell University mainly because      .

A. his father graduated from the university

B. his mother did not thinks it a great university

C. his parents needed him to help support the family

D. his parents did not have enough money for him

2.The father started his small shop with the money from          .

A. a local league                 B. his university

C. his relatives                   D. his college friends

3.Why did the mother renew her membership in the league?      

A. To help with her husband’s business  

B. To raise money for her son

C. To meet her long-forgotten friends    

D. To better manage her life

4.According to the text, what was the author determined to do in that autumn? 

A. To get a well-paid job for himself

B. To improve relations with his mother

C. To go to his dream university

D. To carry on with his father’s business

“Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, old, wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and stepped outside the house. There was full of thick smoke.
I began to run, but as I was still only half-awake, instead of going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could see fire all around. The floor became hot under my bare feet. I found an open door and ran into a room to get to the window. But before I could reach it, one of my feet caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fallen over felt like a bundle of clothes, and I picked it up to protect my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor gave way under me and I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.
I saw a doorway in fire, then I put the bundle over my face and ran. My feet burned me terrible, but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave a thin cry, I nearly dropped it in my surprise. Then I was in a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in a night-dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came running madly.
She was the Mayor’s wife, and I had saved her baby.
【小题1】When the fire arose in the middle of the night, the author was _______.

I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I  was 36  the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final   37 . During the test，the girl 38  next to me whispered something，but I didn’t understand. So I leaned(倾斜) over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me  39 I had an extra pen. She showed me that  40  was out of ink and would not write．I happened to have an extra one，so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk．
Later, after the test papers had been  41 the teacher asked me to  42 in the room when all the other students  43  . As soon as we were alone, she began to talk to me about  44 it meant to grow up；she mentioned how important it was to stand  45  your own two feet and be responsible for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about __46 _and emphasized the fact   that when people do something dishonest，they really  47 themselves．She made me promise that I would think  48  about all the things she had said. Then she told me I could   49 . I walked out of the room wondering   40  she had chosen to talk to me about all those things．
Later on，I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the gir1 next to me, it looked  51 I was copying answers  52  the girl’s test paper. So I came to find her and tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very strange to her that I hadn’t   53  anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test.  54  I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor   55  letting her use my pen, I was sure she continued to believe that I had cheated on the test．

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各小题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I found out that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of  36  . I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final  37  . During the test, the girl  38   next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me  39  . I had an extra pen. She showed me that  40   was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.

Later, after the test papers had been  41  , the teacher asked me to  42   in the room when all the other  students were  43  . As soon as we were alone, she began to talk to me about   44  it meant to grow up; she mentioned how important it was to stand  45   your own two feet and be responsible for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized（强调）the fact  46  people do something dishonest, they are really  47  themselves. She made me promise that I would think  48  about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could  49  , I walked out of the room wondering  50  she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.

Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated in the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked  51  I was copying answers 52 the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was that it seemed very strange to her that I hadn’t  53  anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test.

  54  I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor  55   letting her use my pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had cheated in the test.

A. panic          B. invasion     C. action           D. trouble

A. test           B. lesson           C. class            D. papers

A. rising         B. standing     C. living           D. sitting

A. why            B. whether      C. where            D. that

A. she            B. that         C. hers         D. it

A. turned in       B. handed       C. given out        D. marked

A. work           B. read         C. study            D. stay

A. talking            B. studying         C. dismissed        D. expected

A. how            B. why          C. which            D. what

A. on             B. by           C. to               D. with

A. when           B. that when        C. that         D. whether

A. punishing      B. amusing      C. believing        D. cheating

A. well           B. highly           C. seriously        D. honestly

A. stay           B. leave            C. continue     D. refuse

A. if             B. whether      C. how          D. why

A. as though      B. at               C. even if          D. that

A. on             B. in               C. from         D. at

A. asked          B. mentioned        C. answered     D. realized

A. Long before        B. As long as       C. Even though  D. Just as

A. unless         B. by           C. before           D. for

I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.

Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed. As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible (负责任) for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.

Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her use my pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had cheated on the test.

1.The story took place exactly ____ .

2.The girl wanted to borrow a pen, because ____ .

3.The teacher saw all this, so she asked the boy ____ .

4.The thing(s) emphasized in the teacher’s talk was (were) ____ .

5.The boy knew everything ____ .