题目内容
2. Why not _____(serid)a present to her tomorrow?
3. For most children,this is a time for _____(play) freely.
4. The old woman _____(hold) tightly to the railing(栏杆)as she came down the
steps.
5. I have seen the film, so _____(have) Linda.
2. spend
3. playing
4. held
5. has
I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car, I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend’s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.
I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays wonderful.
Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I'd left the lights on all day, and the battery(电池) was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership - a shop selling cars - was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.
"Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?" I asked and told them my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck (小货车) to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.
"Thank you" - two powerful words. They're easy to say and mean so much.
【小题1】 The writer planned to stop at Oklahoma City ______.
| A.to visit a friend | B.to see his parents |
| C.to pay at the cash register | D.to have more gas for his car |
| A.turned off | B.moved off | C.put up | D.set up |
| A.He had it pulled back to the gas station. |
| B.The couple sent him a business card. |
| C.The couple offered to help him. |
| D.He called his friend for help. |
| A.something went wrong with the lights |
| B.the meeting lasted a whole day |
| C.he forgot to turn off the lights |
| D.he drove too long a distance |
| A.how to write a thank-you letter |
| B.how to deal with(处理)car problems |
| C.the kind-heartedness of older people |
| D.the importance of expressing thanks |
My aunt bought me a bicycle on my ninth birthday. She told me to learn to ride by ___36___. But I really didn’t know___37___to ride a bike. What should I do? First, I watched the other people ride. Then I pushed out the bicycle from my house. I was ___38___ I’d fall down and hurt my knees. But I knew I had to get on it sooner or later. So I___39___ to get on just like what the other people did. But I fell off twenty___40___later. Just at that time, my aunt came out from the ___41___. She told me to practice again and again. So I got on the bike a second time, and fell off a second time. But I never gave up. I practiced a third time, a fourth time …. I could be on it ___43___every time I tried again then before, 5 minutes, ten minutes, half an hour… until I could.
Like anything in life that you want to learn how to do or to be good at, you have to practice to ___44___it happen. Diligent practice is the key to success___45___you really want to learn to do a thing. More practice helps you to improve on the skills that you learn and ingrains (使根深蒂固)them in you until you can do it.
【小题1】
| A.herself | B.yourself | C.myself | D.himself |
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| 【小题3】 |
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| A.had | B.tried | C.like | D.hate |
| 【小题5】 |
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| A.school | B.house | C.farm | D.village |
| 【小题7】 |
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| A.shorter | B.longer | C. safer | D.dangerous |
| 【小题9】 |
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| A.if | B.when | C.until | D.after |
Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling(四脚朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out to do .”
【小题1】What does the underlined part “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 mean?
| A.A happy thing. | B.A difficult task. |
| C.A big dream. | D.A beautiful scene. |
| A.This passage is a description of giraffes’ living habits. |
| B.Baby giraffes can’t stand up until three months old. |
| C.Irving Stone spent a lifetime studying and writing stories about great people. |
| D.The great people can’t stand up after they’re knocked down for years. |
| A.How to keep a baby giraffe. |
| B.Learning to Get Back Up. |
| C.Stories about the great people. |
| D.A mother giraffe and its baby giraffe. |