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  Hsieh, a never-say-die young man, has mastered the technique of painting by holding the paintbrush in his mouth.When he was sixteen, Hsieh had a terrible electrical accident.Both of his arms and the lower part of his right leg were cut off.He also lost sight in his right eye.But Hsieh didn’t lose his heart.He decided to learn art, and took the first difficult steps toward changing his life.

  “At first, I tried to hold a pen in my mouth.But I couldn’t control it,” Hsieh said, “Finally, after trying over and over again, I learned to write my own name.”

  Learning to paint was even more difficult.At first, every brushstroke he made caused deep cuts in his mouth.It was extremely painful.But Hsieh didn’t let the pain discourage him.“Instead, I held the paintbrush even tighter, ” Hsieh explained in a firm voice.“I knew if I gave up, it would not only be the end of my painting, but also the end of my struggle for a better life.“ No matter what the obstacle(障碍)is, Hsieh always manages to find the bright side of a situation.

  Hsieh works hard to inspire others.He is a tireless lecturer, giving about four hundred formal speeches a year! “If a person like me can lead a happy life,” Hsieh explained, “Why would regular people feel unhappy? It doesn’t always take two arms to achieve your dreams.All it takes is a warm heart.”

(1)

What happened to Hsieh when he was young?

[  ]

A.

He was struck by electricity.

B.

His left leg was hurt.

C.

He lost heart because of failure.

D.

He was ill for two months.

(2)

Which of the following is his character?

[  ]

A.

realistic thought.

B.

impressive works.

C.

unexpected news.

D.

belief in success.

(3)

Which is right?

[  ]

A.

Hsieh once got the help from the government.

B.

Only such a person like Hsieh can succeed.

C.

He touched himself before he began to paint.

D.

It doesn’t always take two arms to realize one’s dream.

(4)

Which is the best title?

[  ]

A.

How to learn painting

B.

A painter without hands

C.

A you man who was hurt

D.

How to make oneself well-known

答案:1.A;2.D;3.D;4.B;
解析:

(1)

从第一段When he was sixteen…得知,Hsieh遭受了电伤事故,并未因为失败而灰心丧气,排除C项;他是右腿截肢,排除B项。D项在文中未提到。

(2)

从never-say-die看出Hsieh对未来充满希望,A项,现实的想法;B项,印象派作品;C项,没有预料到的消息;D项,对成功充满信心。

(3)

Hsieh失去双臂,但是自强不息,克服难以想象的困难,用嘴咬着画笔练习,最后,成为画家,一举成名。D项正合此意,“要想实现梦想并不一定非用双手不行”。文章中没有谈到A项的意思;B项中的only限制了范围;D项中的touch是触摸,而文章中的touch是感动。

(4)

此篇文章讲了一个残疾人成为画家的过程。B项作为题目,点出了文章主人公的特点,照常理,画画是用手画出来的,《没有手的画家》作题目,强烈地吸引读者。


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  Annie Dakley Mozee was only nine when she took her father' s big kentucky rifle (步枪) into woods to hunt food. Her father was dead, and the family was poor and hungry.

  When she found that she could shoot squirrels and rabbits by aiming the rifle carefully, a new life began for her. She began earning money by selling game to Mr Frost, who owned a hotel in a nearby town.

  Then Annie began to try for a trick shot(高明的射手) ,everyone heard of her skill with a rifle .

  When she was fifteen, Mr Frost set up a shooting match between her and a famous marksman (神枪手) . And finally, Annie won the match by one point. She was on her way to becoming a world -famous sharp shooter (一等射手) . She now called herself Annie Oakley .

1.Annie first used her rifle to ________.

[  ]

A.protect herself

B.shoot birds

C.make her living by hunting

D.be fond of shooting.

2.A new life began for Annie when she ________.

[  ]

A.met a famous marksman.

B.met Mr Frost.

C.turned strick shot.

D.found out that she could shoot.

3.Annie Oakley became famous because ________.

[  ]

A.the government gave her a medal of sharp shooter.

B.she beat a famous marksman.

C.she was praised for a first - class shot.

D.she turned big- game hunter.

4.The under lined word “game” of the selection means ________.

[  ]

A.form a play.

B.sports and exercise outdoors.

C.food fed to poultry(家禽) .

D.animals and birds hunted for food.

5.The best title for this selection is ________.

[  ]

A.How Annie Oakley Got Her Start .

B.The Shooting Match.

C.The Girl's Way To A Shot.

D.How To Shoot Game.

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  In Europe, men do not usually wear skirts. But the Scottish national clothing for men is a kind of skirt. It is called a kilt. The Scottish like to be different. They are also proud of their country and its history, and they feel that the kilt is part of that history. That's why the men still wear kilts at traditional (传统的) dances and on national holidays. They believe they are wearing the same clothes that Scottish men always used to wear.

  That's what they believe. However, kilts are not really so old. Before 1730, Scottish men wore a long shirt and blanket around their shoulders. These clothes got in the way when the men started to work in factories. So, in 1730 a factory owner changed the blanket into a skirt; the kilt. That's how the first kilt was made.

  Then, in the late 1700s Scottish soldiers in the British Army began to wear kilts. One reason for this was national sentiment ( = feelings) . The Scottish soldiers wanted to be different from the English soldiers. The British Army probably had a different reason. A Scottish soldier in a kilt was always easy to find! The Scottish soldier fought very hard and became famous. The kilt was part of the fame, and in the early 1800s men all around Scotland began to wear kilts.

  These kilts had colorful stripes (条纹) going up and down and across. In the 1700s and early 1800s, the color of the stripes had no special meaning. Men sometimes owned kilts in several different colors. But later the colors became important to the Scottish families. By about 1850, most families had special colors for their kilts. For example, men from the Campbell family had kilts with green, yellow and blue stripes. Scottish people often believe that the colors of the kilts are part of their family history. In fact, each family just chose the color they liked best.

  This is not the story you will hear today if you are in Scotland. Most Scottish people still believe that kilts are as old as Scotland and that the colors are as old as the Scottish families. Sometimes feelings are stronger than facts!

1.This text is mainly about ________.

A.soldiers' clothes in Britain
B.the history of Scotland
C.a special kind of skirt
D.Scottish families

2.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A.The English soldiers were the first to wear kilts.

B.It was hard then to tell the Scottish soldiers from the English ones apart from the clothes.

C.Colors were specially designed in the first kilts.

D.The factory owner made the first kilt from long shirts to make his workers different from others.

3.Scottish soldiers were dressed in kilts partly because of ________.

A.the colors
B.the weather
C.national sentiment
D.the design

4.The colors of the kilts are ________.

[  ]

A.not part of the Scottish family history

B.older than the Scottish family history

C.for the Campbell family only

D.mainly green, yellow and blue

5.From the last paragraph we can infer that ________.

[  ]

A.the European people are full of strong feelings

B.there are no stories about kilts in Scotland today

C.the British like to do things on feelings, not on facts

D.the Scottish prefer to keep their tradition rather than believe the fact

阅读理解:

  Several years ago, my parents, my wife, my son and I ate at one of those restaurants where the menu is written on a blackboard.After a wonderful dinner, the waiter set the check in the middle of the table.That’s when it happened:my father did not reach for the check.

  Conversation continued.Finally I realized that I should pick up the check!After hundreds of restaurant meals with my parents, after a lifetime of thinking of my father as the one with dollars, it had all changed.I reached for the check, and my view of myself suddenly changed.I was an adult.I was no longer a kid.

  Some people mark off(区分)their lives in years, I measure mine in small events.I didn’t become a young man at a particular age, like 16, but rather when a kid who wandered in the streets called me “mister.” These events in my life are called “milestones”(里程碑)

  There have been other milestones.The cops(policemen)of my youth always seemed big, even huge, and of course they were older than I was.Then one day they were suddenly realized that all the football players in the game I was watching were younger than I was.They were just big kids.With that milestone gone was the dream that someday, maybe I, too, could be a football player.Without ever having reached the hill, I was over it.

  I never thought that I would fall asleep in front of the TV set as my father did.Now it’s what I do best.I never thought that I would go to the beach and not swim, yet I spent all of August at the shore and never once went into the ocean.I never thought that I would appreciate opera, but now the combination of voice and orchestra attract me.I never thought that I would prefer to stay home in the evenings, but now I find myself passing up parties.I used to think that people who watched birds were strange, but this summer I fond myself watching them, and maybe I’ll get a book on the subject.I feel a strong desire for a religious belief that I never thought I’d want, feel close to my ancestors(祖先)long gone, and echo my father in arguments with my son.I still lose…

  One day I bought a house.One day-what a day!–I became a father, and not too long after that I picked up the check for my own father.I thought then it was a milestone for me.One day, when I was a little older, I realized it was one for him, too, another milestone.

(1)

The tone established in the passage is one of ________.

[  ]

A.

sad regret

B.

amusement

C.

happiness

D.

deep feeling

(2)

The author mentions the event in the restaurant because ________.

[  ]

A.

that was one of his milestone

B.

he paid the bill but he didn’t want to

C.

he became a father with dollars

D.

that was the last restaurant meal with his parents

(3)

“Then they were suddenly neither.” Suggests that ________.

[  ]

A.

suddenly they became older than I was

B.

suddenly I knew that they was neither bigger nor older than I was

C.

suddenly I realized that I made mistake

D.

suddenly I found myself no longer a kid

(4)

Which of the following best expresses the author’s thinking?

[  ]

A.

One day is worth two tomorrow

B.

To save time is to length life

C.

When an opportunity is lost, it never comes back to you

D.

Time and tide wait for no man

阅读理解:

  Our boat floated on, between walls of forest too thick to allow us a view of the land we were passing through, though we knew from the map that our river must from time to time be passing through chains of hills which crossed the jungle plains.Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed:where the jungle did not actually spread right down into the river, banks of soft mud prevented us going ashore.In any case, what would we have sailed by landing?The country was full of snakes and other dangerous creatures, and the jungle was so thick that one would be able to advance only slowly, cutting one’s way with knives the whole way.So we stayed in the boat, hoping we reached the sea, a friendly fisherman would pick us up and take us to civilization.

  We lived on fish, caught with home-made net of string(we had no hooks), and fruits and nuts we could pick up out of the water.As we had no fire, we had to eat everything, including the fish, raw I had never tasted raw fish before, and I must say I did not much enjoy the experience; perhaps sea fish which do not live in the mud are less tasteless.After eating my raw fish, I lay back and dreamed of such things as fried chicken and rice, and ice-cream.In the never-ending damp heat of the jungle, ice-cream was a particularly frequent dream.

  As for water, there was a choice:we could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst.We drank the water.Men who had just escaped what had appeared to be certain death lose all worries about such small things as diseases caused by dirty water.In fact, none of us suffered from any illness as a result.

  One day we passed another village, but fortunately nobody saw us.We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time:we might not be so lucky to escape in a stolen boat again.

(1)

What they could see in the boat was only ________.

[  ]

A.

high wall

B.

villagers from time to time

C.

vast land

D.

heavy woods

(2)

They couldn’t land because ________.

[  ]

A.

the mud on the shore was too soft

B.

the forest was too thick to let them go through

C.

they could not find the mark on the map

D.

they could not find anyone to lead them out of the forest

(3)

The passage infers that the forest was ________.

[  ]

A.

rich of fruits and animals to be served as food

B.

not very thick as they could advance slowly by cutting the branches

C.

full of various dangerous beings

D.

full of ancient trees

(4)

The most proper title for this passage might be ________.

[  ]

A.

Escape

B.

Scenes of a River

C.

How to Survive on a boat

D.

A New Experience

阅读理解:

  It was at least two months before Christmas when nine-year-old Almie Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle.As Christmas drew near, her desire for a bicycle seemed to fade, or so we thought.We bought the latest rages.Baby-Sitter’s Club dolls, and a doll house.Then, much to our surprise, on December 23rd, she said that she “really wanted a bike more than anything else.”

  It was just too late, what will all the details of preparing Christmas dinner and buying last-minute gifts, to take the time to select the “right bike” for our little girl.So here we were-Christmas Eve around 9∶00 p. m., with Almie and her six-year-old brother, Dylan, nested snug in their beds.Now we could only think of the bicycle and the disappointment of our child.“What if the bicycle out of clay(a kind of earth)and write a note that she could trade the clay model in for a real bike?” her dad asked.“This is an expensive item and she is ‘such a big girl,’ and it would be much better for her to pick it out.”So he spent the next four hours painstakingly working with clay to make a tiny bike.

  On Christmas morning, we were excited for Almie to open the little heart-shaped package with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note.Finally, she opened it and read the note aloud.“Does this mean that I trade in this bike that Daddy made me for a real one?”Beaming, I said,“Yes.”Almie had tears in her eyes when she replied,“I could never trade in this beautiful bicycle that Daddy made me.I’d rather keep this than get a real bike.”At that moment, we would have moved heaven and earth to buy every bicycle on the planet!

(1)

Which is the right time order of the following events?

a.The girl asked for a new bike

b.The girl opened the little heart-shaped package

c.The parents bought the girl a modern and popular doll.

d.The father made the girl a bike with clay.

e.The girl would rather keep the clay bike than get a real one.

[  ]

A.

b, c, e ,d

B.

a, c, d, b, e

C.

a, c, b, d, e

D.

a, b, d, c, e

(2)

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

[  ]

A.

The parents wanted the girl to have the clay bike forever.

B.

Tears were in the girl’s eyes because she didn’t like the present at all.

C.

The girl never lost her desire for a bike.

D.

The parents paid little attention to the daughter’s desire for a bike.

(3)

Why did Dad make the clay bicycle?

[  ]

A.

Because he wanted to buy a real one, but he had no money.

B.

Because he didn’t want to disappoint his daughter.

C.

Because he thought his daughter would like it.

D.

Because he wanted to give his daughter a surprise.

(4)

What can be inferred from the last sentence of the text?

[  ]

A.

The parents were happy and encouraged.

B.

The parents felt comfortable and relaxed.

C.

The parents were moved and felt proud of the girl.

D.

The parents felt disappointed and sorry for the girl.

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