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请阅读下列寓言小故事和故事寓意,从所给的六个选项( A、B、C、D、E和F)中,选出附和各小题要求的最佳选项
下面是几则寓言小故事:
46. An ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning. A dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her. The ant climbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, aiming at the dove. The ant, perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain the birdcatcher shouted, and noise made the dove take wing.
47. Two men were travelling together, when a bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and hid himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and pretended to be dead as much as he could. The bear soon left him, for he will not touch a dead body. When he disappeared, the other traveler descended from the tree, and asked his friend what it was the bear had whispered in his ear. “He gave me this advice,” his companion replied. “Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger.”
48. A prince had some monkeys trained to dance. Being naturally good at learning, they showed themselves excellent pupils, and in their rich clothes and masks, they danced as well as any of the courtiers. Their performance was often repeated with great applause, till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocket a handful of nuts and threw them upon the stage. The monkeys at the sight of the nuts forgot their dancing and became (as indeed they were) monkeys instead of actors. Pulling off their masks and tearing their robes, they fought with one another for the nuts. The dancing spectacle thus came to an end in the laughter and ridicule of the audience.
49. A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he noticed something shining in the straw. “Ho! Ho!” said he, “that’s for me,” and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. It turned out to be a pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard. “You may be a treasure,” signed the cock, “to man, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn.”
50. An old man on the point of death summoned his sons around hi to give them some parting advice. He ordered his servants to bring in a bunch of sticks, and said to his eldest son: “Break it.” The son tried hard, but with all his efforts was unable to break the bundle. The other sons also tried, but none of them was successful. “Untie it,” said the father, “and each of you take a stick.” When they had done so, he called out to them: “Now, break,” and each stick was easily broken.
请阅读下面的故事寓意,然后匹配与之对应的小故事。
A. Not everything you see is what it appears to be.
B. One man’s pleasure may be another’s pain. / One man’s meat is another’s poison.
C. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
D. One good turn deserves another.
E. Union gives strength.
F. Precious things are for those that can prize them.
Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after __36__ thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head __37__ his walking stick.McKay’s wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a __38__ person, he had been __39__ to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often.
Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener, he is also a __40__ collector.Unfortunately for him, the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKay’s, or too often, on the McKays __41__.
“For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our __42__,” said Laurene.She added that it wasn’t so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant __43__ bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks.“We’d be __44__ there happily reading our newspapers, when __45__ so much water would come from above that we’d be as wet as if we’d __46__ with our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the __47__ of fish!”
And on Saturday evening it was just too __48__.“It was James’s birthday,” explained Laurene, “and I’d made him a birthday cake.The candles were a great sight as you can imagine, but James didn’t get to blow them out.” __49__, Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet __50__.Rarely had Laurene seen McKay move so fast.“I couldn’t __51__ him.He was up there in a flash.It was the fastest I’d seen him move since 1964.”
Smith is not going to take things further with the police.He has also promised to change his__52__ from now on.And what of James McKay? __53__ he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, “Happy Birthday”.“__54__ the most exciting birthday __55__!” said the cheerful old man.“The best since my adolescence I’d say!”
1.A.hitting B.tapping C.pushing D.touching
2.A.by B.with C.through D.via
3.A.quiet B.sensitive C.stubborn D.peaceful
4.A.accustomed B.driven C.taken D.attracted
5.A.fish B.seed C.plant D.newspaper
6.A.themselves B.itself C.herself D.himself
7.A.bathroom B.balcony C.bedroom D.kitchen
8.A.which B.what C.that D.whether
9.A.sitting B.exercising C.sleeping D.eating
10.A.regularly B.suddenly C.precisely D.unconsciously
11.A.swum B.watered C.showered D.drowned
12.A.taste B.smell C.feeling D.sense
13.A.little B.soon C.late D.much
14.A.Otherwise B.Besides C.Instead D.Consequently
15.A.over B.across C.through D.down
16.A.stop B.blame C.ignore D.stand
17.A.views B.attitude C.mind D.ways
18.A.While B.Since C.Until D.As
19.A.Sincerely B.ImpossiblyC.PreviouslyD.Definitely
20.A.before B.already C.ever D.since
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Traditionally, Chinese people _________ the Chinese characters Double Happiness and stick them onto walls or doors for weddings.
| A.cut out | B.cut off | C.cut up | D.cut down |
There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage(孤儿院)turned me into an old man.
I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.
After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes scattered around the orphanage.
I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings,pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.
How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes,all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head,face and hands so I could look at them up close.
When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement(水泥)step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out.It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin.Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled.
I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back.But it would not stay on him.
【小题1】The author set the living butterfly free because_______.
| A.he liked it very much |
| B.he had sympathy for the beautiful butterfly |
| C.he couldn’t bear a butterfly dying in his favorite bushes |
| D.its wing broke off |
| A.dull and full of strict rules |
| B.simple and easy |
| C.happy and full of hope |
| D.hard and busy |
| A.tolerant | B.unconcerned | C.disgusted | D.discouraged |
A. the author lived alone in the dormitory
B. there were one hundred butterflies living in the bushes
C the cardboard paper was left on the step so as to be watched
D. the author failed to stick the worn wing onto the butterfly with his spit
【小题5】Which of the following is right according to the passage?
| A.I found beauty meant nothing special to me. |
| B.The house parent helped the children handle the quilt. |
| C.The house parent chased the butterfly in order to show it to the children. |
| D.I thought it cruel to catch the butterfly. |
I ran across an old photo of him the other day, thinking of some old things. He’s been dead for 25 years. His name was Rex.
36 was his favorite recreation(娱乐). He had so much 37 in the water as any person I have known. You didn’t have to throw a stick in the water to 38 him to go in. Of course, he would bring back a stick to you if you 39 throw one in.
That 40 me of that night, 41 he brought back a small box that he found somewhere--- how 42 nobody ever knew. Since it was Rex, it 43 easily have been half a race. The box wasn’t a good one. It was just a 44 old piece that somebody 45. Still it was something he wanted, probably 46 there was some difficulty in transportation(运输). And that he thought could test his courage. We first knew about his achievement when, deep in the night, we 47 him trying to get the box up onto the porch(门 厅). It sounded 48 two or three people were trying to tear the house 49 . We came downstairs and turned on the 50 light. Rex was on the top step trying to pull the thing up, but it had 51somehow. And he was just holding his own(坚持着). I suppose he would have held his own 52 dawn if we hadn’t helped him. The next day we carried the box miles away and threw it out. If we had thrown it out in a 53 place, he would have brought it home again, as a small token(象征)of his strength in such matters. 54, he had been taught to carry heavy wooden objects about and he was 55 of his skill.
| A. | Fighting | B. | Swimming | C. | Barking | D. | Running | |
| A. | fun | B. | trouble | C. | danger | D. | difficulty | |
| A. | stop | B. | .make | C. | get | D. | have | |
| A. | will | B. | do | C. | did | D. | would | |
| A. | reminds | B. | warns | C. | tells | D. | .suggests | |
| A. | which | B. | while | C. | as | D. | when | |
| A. | far | B. | long | C. | old | D. | heavy | |
| A. | could | B. | can | C. | should | D. | would | |
| A. | priceless | B. | worthless | C. | valuable | D. | important | |
| A. | kept | B. | forgot | C. | deserted(遗弃) | D. | remained | |
| A. | because | B. | only if | C. | even if | D. | in case | |
| A. | saw | B. | heard | C. | watched | D. | caught | |
| A. | like | B. | that | C. | as if | D. | at least | |
| A. | up | B. | in | C. | away | D. | down | |
| A. | hall | B. | kitchen | C. | bedroom | D. | porch | |
| A. | rolled | B. | stopped | C. | caught | D. | broken | |
| A. | at | B. | before | C. | till | D. | during | |
| A. | distant | B. | nearby | C. | silent | D. | busy | |
| A. | In all | B. | As a result | C. | At last | D. | After all | |
| A. | proud | B. | tired | C. | ashamed | D. | doubtful |