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Even if it ________ (rain), we’ll start before seven o’clock.
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通读下面短文 ，掌握其大意, 然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
I stood in the doorway, watching my older brother carefully putting clothes into his bag. I coughed uneasily. Finally when Rocky 1 that I was there, he turned toward me with a sad smile.
“I’m 2 tomorrow,” he said.
“I know.” My 3 was almost a whisper (低声). I was 4 at myself for being so weak, but I wasn’t about to cry.
“My 5 is early, but there is still 6 time to come to the airport,” he said. Seeing the 7 look on my face, he quickly added, “I promise I won’t leave without saying goodbye.”
I tried to say 8 , but didn’t. It is always 9 to keep quiet if you’re about to cry. “You promised you wouldn’t cry, ” he said to me, thinking that I was close to 10 .
I remember the day he taught me how to ride a bike. 11 I thought he was always right behind me, holding the seat to keep me from 12 . I was happy with this, but he knew he couldn’t hold me up all my life. He told me that one day he would have to let go.
His coughing stopped my thinking. What was left to say? How could I say 13 to the person who taught me everything?
The next morning I 14 , looked at my alarm clock, and realized he had left 15 ago. We never even said goodbye.
Goodbye, Rocky! Although he may have been many miles away, I knew he heard me, even if it was only an answer in his heart.
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In every country, there are thousands of people who want to help out. Many join organizations run (管理) by their governments, for example, the Peace Corps in the United States and Voluntary Service Overseas in Britain. Since the powerful (猛烈的) earthquake took place in Sichuan, more than 200 thousand volunteers across China have been helping there! They do all kinds of work or come up with ways to help improve life. Some offer their professional skills for free. Others have no qualifications (资历), but they love to work hard to help.
One of the most famous volunteers in the world was Mother Teresa. She could be the best volunteer because she gave her life to helping the poorest people of Calcutta. She helped the homeless, cared for the sick, gave out food, and became the mother of those without families.
Now more and more teenagers actively look for volunteering opportunities, too. They volunteer because they think it will be fun or they will learn something. They also like the idea of being helpful to others, even if it is just handing out books for the teacher. As they get older, these reasons are still the same, but there are other important reasons for volunteering such as learning on-the-job, getting work experience, and improving their social life.
All volunteers bring joy to the people they help in so many ways. They might read books to the blind, fix up broken homes, find ways to get water for villages. Could you be a volunteer? What kind of volunteer work could you do? There is someone in the world who needs you.
【小题1】The Peace Corps is __ in the United States.
| A．a city | B．an organization | C．a volunteer | D．a school |
| A．the homeless | B．the sick | C．the poor | D．the kids |
| A．They want to make more friends. |
| B．They want to be helpful. |
| C．It helps them get work experience. |
| D．It can improve their social life. |
| A．Volunteers need qualifications. |
| B．Volunteers offer their help without any pay. |
| C．Young kids can’t be volunteers. |
| D．Some volunteers bring joy to others. |
| A．The world needs volunteers. |
| B．Mother Teresa was a great volunteer. |
| C．Volunteers do all kinds of work. |
| D．There are different ways of volunteering. |
To err is human. To blame（责备） the other guy is even more human.
Common sense is not all that common.
Why tell the truth when you can come up with a good excuse?
These three popular misquotes（戏谑的引语）are meant to be jokes, and yet they tell us a lot about human nature. To err, or to make mistakes, is indeed a part of being human, but it seems that most people don’t want to accept the responsibility for the problem. Perhaps it is the natural thing to do. The original quote about human nature went like this: “To err is human, to forgive, divine（神圣的）.” This saying mirrors an ideal: People should be forgiving of others’ mistakes. Instead, we tend to do the opposite – find someone else to pass the blame on to. However, taking responsibility for something that went wrong is a mark of great maturity（成熟）.
Common sense is what we call clear thought. Having common sense means having a good general plan that will make things work well, and it also means staying with the plan. Common sense tells you that you take an umbrella out into a rainstorm, but you leave the umbrella home when you hear a weather forecast for sunshine. Common sense does not seem to be common for large companies, because there are so many things going on that one person cannot be in charge of everything. People say that in a large company, “the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.”
And what is wrong with a society that thinks that making up a good excuse is like creating a work of art? One of the common problems with making excuses is that people, especially young people, get the idea that it’s okay not to be totally honest all the time. There is a corollary（直接推论）to that: if a good excuse is “good” even if it isn’t honest, then where is the place of the truth?
1.Which of the following is NOT based on common sense?
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A．A secretary works to a timetable. |
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B．A company’s next move follows a good plan. |
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C．A girl goes out with an umbrella in stormy weather. |
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D．A man tries to manage everything in a large company. |
2.What can we infer from the last paragraph according to the writer?
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A．A good excuse is the same as honesty. |
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B．Inventing a good excuse needs creative ideas. |
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C．Unpleasant truth is better than a good excuse. |
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D．Making a good excuse is sometimes a better idea. |
3.What would be the best title for this passage?
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A．A Mirror of Human Nature |
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B．To Blame or to Forgive |
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C．A Mark of Maturity |
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D．Truth or Excuse |