题目内容
He ________ too hard since he was elected manager, and is still busy with his business.
A.works B.is working
C.worked D.has been working
D
阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意, 然后从1-15各题所给出的A、B、C、D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Once a young man was in deep love with a girl. This man folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes (纸鹤) as a gift to his girl. Although he was a small branch manager in a company, and his __1__ didn’t seem too bright, they were very __2__ together until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and would never come back. She also told him that she couldn’t see any future for both of them, “so let’s go our own __3__ from now on…” The young man was __4__, but he agreed. When he regained his __5__, he worked hard day and night, just to make something out of himself. Finally with all the __6__ work, this man set up his own __7__.
One rainy day, while this man was __8__, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain, walking to somewhere. He __9__ that they were his ex-girlfriend’s (前女友)parents, so he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to find him in his expensive car and to know that he had his own company, car, etc.
To the man’s surprise, the couple were walking towards a cemetery (墓地). He got out of his car and followed them. And there he saw his ex-girlfriend — a photograph of her __10__ as sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone, and those precious paper cranes in a glass bottle! He walked over and asked the couple why this had happened. They explained that __11__ she did not leave for France at all. She fell ill with cancer. In her heart, she had believed that he would __12__ some day. She didn’t not want her __13__ to be his barrier(障碍). Therefore, she chose to leave him. She asked her __14__ to put his paper cranes beside her, because if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him.
The man just cried __15__. He was heartbroken once again.
| 1. A. appearance | B. future | C. salary | D. apartment |
| 2. A. happy | B. pleasant | C. worried | D. sensitive |
| 3. A. futures | B. goals | C. ways | D. courses |
| 4. A. excited | B. mad | C. heartbroken | D. puzzling |
| 5. A. position | B. confidence | C. independence | D. freedom |
| 6. A. main | B. beautiful | C. hard | D. heavy |
| 7. A. office | B. family | C. studio | D. company |
| 8. A. running | B. driving | C. walking | D. wandering |
| 9. A. recognized | B. noticed | C. understood | D. memorized |
| 10. A. glaring | B. talking | C. smiling | D. crying |
| 11. A. fortunately | B. recently | C. difficultly | D. actually |
| 12. A. come | B. make | C. suffer | D. succeed |
| 13. A. illness | B. heart | C. cranes | D. sadness |
| 14. A. husband | B. parents | C. friends | D. son |
| 15. A. heatedly | B. hardly | C. sadly | D. excitedly |
John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.
Fortunately he had a strong-willed caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe.” She told him not to depend on others, including his mother. “You have to earn success,” she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”
These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15, to Chicago. Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words---as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.
While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try. ” She also let him pawn(典当)her furniture to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine for blacks.
It is natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind.: “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary!”
Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America---worth $150 million.
【小题1】John’s mother decided to move to Chicago because_______.
| A.his father died when John was very young. |
| B.life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown |
| C.John needed more education badly |
| D.there were no school for Negroes in their hometown |
| A.didn’t believe in or depend on others |
| B.thought one could be whatever one wanted to be |
| C.believed one would succeed without working hard |
| D.thought no one could succeed without working hard. |
| A.if you try, you would succeed |
| B.a failure is difficult to beat, even if you try |
| C.a try is always followed by a failure |
| D.no failure can be beaten unless you try |