题目内容

like didn’t play football yesterday because he had ________ his leg．

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A．damaged

B．hurt

C．hit

D．struck

答案：B
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本题考查词义辨析。某部位受伤用hurt。damage“损坏”；hit/strike“击，打击”。

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I didn't like the man who kept on talking to me, but I couldn't ________ him.

A.
get away with
B.
get along with
C.
get rid of
D.
get to know

Bernice Gallegos sat down one day this summer, as she does pretty much every day, and began listing items on eBay．She dug into a box and pulled out a baseball card．She stopped for a moment and admired the picture．“Red Stocking B．B．Club of Cincinnati,” the card read, under the reddish brown color photo of 10 men with their socks pulled up to their knees．

As a collector and seller, it's her job to spot old items that might have value today．It's what Bernice, 72, and her husband, Al Gallegos, 80, have been doing since 1974 at their California antique （古玩） store．

This card, she figured, was worth selling on eBay．She took a picture, wrote a description and put it up for auction （拍卖）．She put a $10 price tag on it, deciding against $15 because it would have cost her an extra 20 cents．Later that night she got a few odd inquiries—someone wanting to know whether the card was real, someone wanting her to end the auction and sell him the card immediately．

The card is actually 139 years old．Sports card collectors call the find "extremely rare" and estimate the card could fetch five, or perhaps, six figures at auction．

Just like that, Bernice is the least likely character ever for a rare-baseball card story．"I didn't even know baseball existed that far back," Gallegos says, "I don't think that I've ever been to a baseball game．" The theory is that the card came out of a storage space they bought a few years back．It is not uncommon in their line of work to buy the entire contents of storage units for around $200．

When she met with card trader Rick Mirigian, she found out what the card was—an 1869 advertisement with a picture of the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings．

"When I came to meet her and she took it out of a sandwich bag and she was smoking a cigarette, I almost fainted," Mirigian says．"They've uncovered a piece of history that few people will ever be able to imagine．That card is history．It's like unearthing a Mona Lisa or a Picasso．"

What can we conclude from Paragraph 3?

A．Bernice had to pay some fees for her card on eBay．

B．Bernice wanted to end the auction that night．

C．Bernice decided to sell the card for $15．

D．eBay charged her 20 cents for the card．

The underlined word "fetch" in Paragraph 4 most probably means "____"．

A．go and bring B．add up to C．go down to D．be sold for

From the passage, we may learn that ____．

A．Bernice is a baseball fan

B．Bernice is the last person to purchase the rare-baseball card

C．Bernice unexpectedly became the owner of the rare-baseball card

D．Bernice didn't realize the value of the card until she put it up for auction

What would be the best title for the passage?

A．A Surprisingly Valuable Discovery B．Be mice Gallegos—A Lucky Collector

C．Sports Card Collectors D．The History of the Baseball Card

When he thought of the past, my grandfather would sometimes show us photographs of himself at school．They were brown and faded, and it was hard to believe that the blurred figure of the little boy in the short trousers and socks could ever have been Grandfather．Besides, he wore a cap—and the boys in the photographs wore caps pulled so far forward that half of their faces were obscured．When Grandfather asked us to pick him out from the group, we would surely point to the wrong boy．

On one such occasion my younger sister, aged six, burst into tears when Grandfather proudly guided her finger to the right boy．"How could that boy be you?" she cried．"He should have a beard．” We were, of course, all convinced that grandfathers should have beards , preferably white and bushy, like our own grandfather's．

"I was a good scholar ,”Grandfather would say, wagging his beard over the photographs．" I should have been top of the c1ass if I hadn't had to get up at six every morning to milk the cows and chop the wood, and again when I came home from school．”

"But Saturdays? What did you do on Saturdays?"

"Saturdays, if it was fine, I’d be out all day in the fields with the men," replied Grandfather．"And if it was wet, I’d be helping my mother with odd jobs round the house．There wasn't much time for studying．"

We all tried hard to imagine what it would have been like to have been Grandfather getting up at crack of dawn and never, obviously, having a moment for himself．It seemed we had learnt something from what Grandfather had said about his childhood．

1．In the first paragraph of this passage, what the author really tells us is that______．

A ．his grandfather used to wear short trousers, socks and a cap as well

B．it was difficult to tell which of the boys in the photographs was Grandfather

C．he didn't believe Grandfather wore a cap pulled forward when he was at school

D．it was fun to watch boys in the photographs wearing caps pulled forward

2．The author's sister burst into tears because______________．

A．she did not get a chance to pick out Grandfather in the photographs

B．she was told which was the right boy before she herself could pick him out

C．other children did not agree with her that Grandfather should have had a beard

D．she found Grandfather in the photographs did not have a beard

3．When Grandfather said, "I should have been top of the class…．", he meant____________．

A if he had had more time for studying, he would have been the best in his class

B．he should have spent more time studying rather than playing ball games

C．his school days should not have been so hard and miserable

D．he could have never been the best student even if he had studied still harder

4．In the last paragraph the author said, "We all tried hard to imagine…"because__________．

A．the figures of the boys in the photographs were small and blurred

B．the children had never experienced life like that of Grandfather

C．the photographs Grandfather showed them were brown and faded

D．Grandfather failed to tell them about his childhood in detail

Work is a part of living —my grandparents understood that. They lived and worked on a farm that has been in my family for 150 years. They raised chickens for eggs , pigs and cattle for meat . Cows were kept for milk and the cream, from which Grandma made butter and cheese. What little yard they had became a garden.

The Depression, therefore, didn’t make much change in their lives. But it did bring an unending flow of men out of work, drifting from job to job, to the farm. The first to show up at the door of the kitchen was a man in rags. He took off his hat and quietly explained that he hadn’t eaten for a while. Grandpa stood watching him a bit , then said , “There’s a stack of firewood against the fence behind the barn (谷仓). I’ve been needing to get it moved to the other side of the fence . You have just about enough time to finish the job before lunch .”

Grandma said a surprising thing happened. The man got a shine in his eyes and he hurried to the barn at once. She set another place at the table and made an apple pie. During lunch, the stranger didn’t say much, but when he left, his shoulders had straightened. “Nothing ruins a man like losing his self-respect,” Grandpa later told me.

Soon after, another man showed up asking for a meal. This one was dressed in a suit and carried a small old suitcase. Grandpa came out when he heard voices. He looked at the man and then offered a handshake.” There is a stack of firewood along the fence down behind the barn I’ve been meaning to get it moved. It’d sure be a help to me . And we’d be pleased to have you stay for lunch.” The fellow set his suitcase aside and neatly laid his coat on top. Then he set off to work.

Grandma says she doesn’t remember how many strangers they shared a meal with during those Depression days-or how many times that stack of wood got moved.

1．When he was asked to move a stack of firewood, the first man who asked for a meal got a shine in his eyes for he was glad that .

A. he had found a good job

B. he would have something to eat

C. he would no longer suffer from the Depression

D. he would get what he wanted without losing his self-respect

2．The writer’s grandfather asked those jobless men to move the stack of firewood because .

A. he didn’t want them to have a meal free of charge

B. he had been needing to get it moved

C. he wanted to help them in his own way

D. he wanted to show them his kindness and respect

3．The writer’s grandfather was all of the following but .

A. kind B. thoughtful C. wealthy D. sympathetic

4．The best title for the story would be .

A. The Depression B. The Pleasure of Helping Others

C. No Pains, No Gains D. Work-A Part of Living

I didn't like the man who kept on talking to me, but I couldn't ________ him.

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