题目内容
My neighbors used to give a hand in time of trouble, was very kind of them.
- A.who
- B.that
- C.what
- D.which
考查定语从句。Which指代前面主句并在从句中作主语。
Justin’s bedroom was so full of flat bicycle tires, bent tennis rackets, deflated(瘪掉的)basketballs, and games with missing pieces that you could barely get in the door. His parents pleaded with him to clean out his room.
“What use is a fish tank with a hole in the bottom?” his father asked. But Justin simply smiled and repeated his motto, “Never throw anything out, you never know when it might come in handy.”
When Justin was away from home, he always carried his blue backpack--a smaller version of his bedroom--a place to store the many objects that he collected. It was so worn and stretched that it hardly resembled a backpack anymore.
Justin had earned a reputation for figuring things out and getting people out of otherwise hopeless situations. Many of his classmates and neighbors sought him out when they needed help with a problem. On the first day of school, his friend Kenny, came looking for Justin.
“Do you think you have something in your bag that could help me remember my locker combination?” he asked. “I lost the piece of paper it was written on. I have a science class in two minutes and if I’m late on the first day it’ll make me look bad for the rest of the year.” Kenny looked really worried.
“Relax,” Justin said, taking his backpack off and unzipping the top. “Remember how you borrowed my notebook in homeroom to write the combination down? Well, I know how we can recover what you wrote.”
He took the notebook and a soft lead pencil out of his bag. The page that Kenny had written on had left faint marks on another page in the notebook. Justin held the pencil on its side and rubbed it lightly over the marks. Slowly but surely the numbers of the locker combination appeared in white, set off by the gray pencil rubbings.
“That’s amazing!” Kenny said. “I owe you one.” And he dashed off to open his locker.
It was just another day in the life of the boy whose motto was “Never throw anything out, you never know when it might come in handy.”
【小题1】Why is Justin’s room such a mess? WWW.K**S*858$$U.COM
| A.He always forgets to clean it. | B.He shares the room with his brother. |
| C.He has no time to clean it. | D.He never throws anything away. |
| A.He uses it as a place to store objects. |
| B.He uses it to carry his books and sports equipment. |
| C.His parents tell him to clean it all the time. |
| D.He’s had it for as long as he can remember. |
| A.ignored | B.asked | C.pushed | D.Ordered |
| A.Annoyed. | B.Disinterested. | C.Grateful. | D.Angry. |
People who put a smiley face at the end of a message, in an attempt to show feeling, show no feeling. I wish there was a symbol for two fingers in the air.
I had some bad news this week. My manager informed me of this news via email. It was like hearing about the death of a loved one via pigeon. Bad news should only ever be delivered face to face or voice to voice.
We seem to celebrate our numerous methods of communication, but really there is no communication at all. I talk to my plants more than I talk to my neighbors, I get text messages that take me three hours to read because they’re written like this: “Hi, I ope you av a gr8 day. Call me La8tr.” I had an email from someone this week that read, “Da ut ov 2day are really annoying me!” Ut? I had to say this 20 times before I understood it. Youth has now become ut. Haven’t we taken enough from them—now we have to take their letters?
I had an email recently from a girl who used to live over the road from me as a child. She wrote, “Hi Shazia, howz u? Im sure u used 2 live across the road from me. We sumtimes played tennis 2 gever at the park and you was in your eliment. I am married now wif 3 daughters.” Then, to my horror, she ended the email with: “Im now teachin in Leeds. Luv Clare.”
Teaching? With English like this. It’s like saying you’re a train driver when you’ve never seen a train. It was like reading modern Morse code.
Getting bad news via email makes it seem so much worse than it actually is. Just a few lines, no emotion, no comfort, not really an explanation. Just a few cold hard words. It’s an excuse. Just write a few words and the problem of delivering it is no longer yours. A close friend recently told me she was very happy to announce she was getting married—and made the announcement by email. I don’t know how she didn’t fall off her chair with excitement while writing it. If you are really happy or really sad to announce something important, wouldn’t you like a human reaction? Some euphoria, elation, tears, a punch in the face?
I receive long text messages every day with information and explanations that I don’t bother reading. They’re boring, and annoy me. In the time it took someone to write me three laborious texts, they could have called, spoken to me, made some tea. People who put a smiley face at the end of a sentence, in an attempt to show feeling, show no feeling. I wish there was a symbol for two fingers in the air, because that’s the one I’d send back.
The telegram has been responsible for reporting world-shattering events when there were very few other options(选择权). Now we have options, and people opt for the least humane one. My mum, in an attempt to get down with the ut of today, asked me to teach her to text. Now she constantly texts me in block capitals, so it looks as if she is still angry and annoyed with me after all these years.
People don’t even write by hand any more. My doctor prints out prescriptions from his computer; even my mechanic prints out a receipt. I get typed Christmas cards and my friends send me emails. I get very excited when hand-written letters come through my door, only because they rarely do.
When I was at school, the girls used to write letters to each other, even though we sat side by side and spoke to one another all day. I think it was a way of expressing private things we were afraid to say when we were 14 and too shy. We used to write things like, “You are my best friend, can’t wait to sit next to you in math.”
I miss the personal method of communication. Once the pen was mightier than the sword, now it seems the keyboard is mightier than the pen.
【小题1】We can learn from paragraph 3 and paragraph 4 that the writer wants to say ________.
| A.the spelling mistakes in the messages make her very annoyed |
| B.only writing letters will bring friends and neighbors much closer |
| C.she talks to plants more because no one shares her joys and sorrows |
| D.gestures and the pen can express a lot more than the cold keyboard |
| A.She has been separated from all his classmates many years. |
| B.No doctors write prescriptions by hand because of computers. |
| C.In communication, we should write more letters than send messages. |
| D.Less shy than school girls, boys rarely write letters to their friends. |
| A.the writer is a person full of emotions and treasures friendship and affections |
| B.the writer becomes excited when she gets priceless gifts from other people |
| C.her classmates would write to each other because they couldn’t send messages |
| D.people put a smiley face at the end of a message just to show they are happy |
| A.The writer wastes much time in reading many rubbish text messages every day. |
| B.Few people can write letters well in modern society owing to texting messages. |
| C.Now people are too busy to communicate with each other face to face often. |
| D.The writer prefers personal communication rather than electronic equipment. |
| A.Because she thinks the annoyance of reading text messages is originated from it. |
| B.Because we have more options to keep in touch with each other than ever before. |
| C.Because advanced technology partly takes the blame for lacking the human touch. |
| D.Because she thinks humans today become colder with the development of society. |
| A.Optimistic. | B.Critic. | C.Sympathetic. | D.Pessimistic. |