题目内容
Rich as the Smiths are, the difficulties they _________ to survive when they got married are absolutely beyond your imagination.
A. had to struggle B. had struggling C. had struggled D. had struggle
B
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Father Maurice Chase used a special way to celebrate his 90th birthday. The Catholic priest(神父) took $ 15,000 in cash to Los Angeles’ Skid Row (贫民区) and gave it away. Twenty wheelchair – bound peop
le received $100 bills, while the rest received $1to $ 3 each.
“I come out here to tell them that God loves them and I love them and that some one is concerned about them,” Chase said.
Chase has given away cash and blessings every Sunday at the same corner for 24 years.Several hundred people wait for him every week.
He makes a point of coming on Thanksgiving and Christmas, too, but this is the first year he spent his birthday in the downtown neighborhood where people live mainly in shelters and on dirty sidewalks.
“ It’s the place that makes me the happiest.I just love it,” said Chase. “I look forward to coming here.”
The money comes from donations he receives from rich and famous people he met during his work as assistant to the president of Loyola Marymount University.
The crowd broke into choruses of “Happy Birthday” several times. Some people presented him birthday cards, to his delight.
Travis Kemp, a 51 – year – old disabled man with long black hair, was one of the lucky 20 to receive $ 100. He said he had no special plans for spending the money. “He has a lot of respect from me,” Kemp said. “I know I couldn’t do it.”
【小题1】On his 90 th birthday, Chase .
| A.handed out cash to the needy |
| B.collected money for poor people |
| C.visited poor people’s homes with gifts |
| D.held a party at Los Angeles’ Skid Row |
| A.Celebrating his birthday with his neighbours. |
| B.Working in Loyola Marymount University. |
| C.Celebrating Christmas with the people he has helped. |
| D.Going to Los Angeles’ Skid Row to help people there. |
| A.All his savings. |
| B.His earnings as a Catholic priest. |
| C.Donations from the wealthy and celebrities(名人). |
| D.Donations from Loyol |
| A.he was the luckiest person on that day |
| B.the disabled need to be taken care of |
| C.Chase is greatly appreciated by the needy |
| D.even old people came to celebrate Chase’s birthday |
| A.Every recipient could get $100 in cash from Father Maurice Chase. |
| B.Father Maurice Chase gave the cash away not only on his birthday but also on other occasions. |
| C.Although Father Maurice Chase gave the cash away on his birthday, he didn’t receive anything in return. |
| D.Father Maurice Chase earned a lot of money as assistant to the president of Loyola Marymount University. |
| 完形填空 | |||
| In 1982, Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. He got into a lifeboat, but his supplies were __1__. His chances of surviving were small. __2__ when three fishermen found him 76days later, he was alive-much __3__ than he was when he started, but alive. His __4__ of how he survived is fascinating. His cleverness-how he __5__ to catch fish, how he evaporated(使蒸发) sea water to __6__ fresh water- is very interesting. But the thing that __7__ my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, and there seemed no __8__ in continuing the struggle. He was starved and __9 exhausted. Giving up would have seemed the only possible choice. When people __10 these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their minds, which gives them the courage to keep going. Many people in __11 desperate circumstances __12 in or go mad. Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the courage to carry on __13 difficulties. "I tell myself I can __14 it," wrote Callahan in his book. "Compared to what others have been through, I'm fortunate, I tell myself these things over and over, __15 up courage… I wrote that down after I read it. It __16 me as something important. And I've told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed __17 off or when my problems seemed too terrible. And every time I've said it, I've always come back to my __18 . The truth is, our circumstances are only bad __19 to something better. But others have been through the much worse, that is, in comparison with what others have been through, you're fortunate. Tell this to yourself over and over again, and it will help you __20 through the rough situation with a little more courage. | |||
| ( ) 1: A. full ( ) 2: A. And ( ) 3: A. th inner ( ) 4: A. attitude ( ) 5: A. helped ( ) 6: A. make ( ) 7: A. attacked ( ) 8: A. operation ( ) 9: A. partly ( )10: A. deal ( )11. A. similarly ( )12: A. bring ( )13: A. for the lack of ( )14: A. make ( )15: A. rolling ( )16: A. defeated ( )17: A. far ( )18: A. feelings ( )19: A. related ( )20: A. see |
B. rich B. Yet B. stronger B. decision B. pretended B. absorb B. caught B. taste B. completely B. defend B. differently B. take B. in the face of B. carry B. using B. told B. long B. senses B. measured B. cut |
C. few C. Still C. worse C. instruction C. managed C. choose C. froze C. message C. hardly C. survive C. gradually C. break C. in exchange for C. follow C. building C. introduced C. ever C. ideas C. contributed C. get |
D. enough D. Thus D. healthier D. account D. intended D. replace D. cheated D. point D. generally D. observe D. commonly D. give D. as a result of D. respect D. making D. struck D. even D. influences D. compared D. think |