题目内容
When I was 8, a gentleman came to my orphanage(孤儿院) every week to lead us in woodworking projects. I remember the night that I finished my first project. It was a small table and I looked upon it as though I had created a life. I could 1 wait to give it to Mother Winters, our orphanage’s leader, as a 2.
Since the tables’ coating was still 3, the man asked us to wait a while before taking our tables to our dormitories. But I couldn’t wait. I dashed out the door in a 4, carrying my table, smiling from ear to ear.
“It is very pretty,” Mother Winter smiled at me. When she touched the coating she noticed that it was still wet. Then she asked me why I had brought. I stood with 5 down. “Were you supposed to bring this home?” she asked. “No, ma’am, ” I said.
Mother Winters kicked the table over and all of the legs were 6 off. She made me throw the table outside. After Mother Winters left, I went out to get my little table. There was dirt all over it. 7 silently, I hid the ruined table in my closet. A year later I gave it to Mother Henderson, my houseparent, to 8.
Thirty years later I learned Mother Henderson was living in Asheville, North Carolina, so I drove up to see her. She gently asked me to come down to her basement and help her get something 9. “Do you remember that?” she asked, 10 into a dark corner. I did. I could not speak for fear of crying. “Roger, I want you to 11 it.” Mother Henderson gave me back the little 12 that I had given up for lost so long ago. She had kept it, never 13 if she would see me again.
Today, I look at the table with bittersweet memories. I think of when Mother Winters forced me to throw it away. But I am also 14 and joyful at the kindness of Mother Henderson, who kept it as a remembrance of a young orphan who tried very hard to 15.
- 1.
- A.only
- B.hardly
- C.almost
- D.simply
- A.
- 2.
- A.gift
- B.reward
- C.work
- D.praise
- A.
- 3.
- A.unfinished
- B.drying
- C.covering
- D.applied
- A.
- 4.
- A.way
- B.while
- C.circle
- D.hurry
- A.
- 5.
- A.head
- B.tears
- C.voice
- D.hands
- A.
- 6.
- A.taken
- B.broken
- C.cut
- D.let
- A.
- 7.
- A.Screaming
- B.Freezing
- C.Standing
- D.Crying
- A.
- 8.
- A.put away
- B.throw away
- C.take away
- D.wash away
- A.
- 9.
- A.proper
- B.popular
- C.important
- D.expensive
- A.
- 10.
- A.struggling
- B.diving
- C.sliding
- D.pointing
- A.
- 11.
- A.lay
- B.have
- C.sell
- D.clear
- A.
- 12.
- A.table
- B.gift
- C.memory
- D.joy
- A.
- 13.
- A.promising
- B.hoping
- C.knowing
- D.complaining
- A.
- 14.
- A.excited
- B.comforted
- C.amused
- D.entertained
- A.
- 15.
- A.accept
- B.struggle
- C.tolerate
- D.please
- A.
试题分析:本文讲述了作者作为一名孤儿在孤儿院想讨好老师而受伤害而在多年之后被另外一位宿舍管理员而温暖和安慰的故事。
1.考查副词。句意:我迫不及待地把它作为一个礼物送给我们孤儿院的领导温特斯妈妈。. A. only仅仅B. hardly几乎不 C. almost几乎D. simply仅仅,简单地,根据固定短语:can’t wait to do sth,迫不及待地做某事,所以B正确
2.考查语境理解。句意:我迫不及待地把它作为一个礼物送给我们孤儿院的领导温特斯妈妈。A. gift礼物B. reward酬劳 C. work工作,作品 D. praise赞扬,根据语境当然是作为一个礼物,所以A正确。
3.考查动词。句意:由于桌子的涂料还没有干,这个人让我们等一会再把桌子搬进我们的宿舍。A. unfinished没有完成 B. drying烘干 C. covering覆盖D. applied运用。根据前线索I could 36 wait to give it to Mother Winters, our orphanage’s leader, as a 37 . 我迫不及待地把它作为一个礼物送给我们孤儿院的领导温特斯妈妈,说明桌子刚做好,当然是涂料还没有干,所以B正确
4.考查名词和语境理解。句意:但我等不及了,我匆匆冲出门,搬着我的桌子,咧着嘴笑着。. A. way方式,方法 B. while一会C. circle圈 D. hurry着急,根据固定短语:in a hurry 匆忙地,和前句I couldn’t wait.我等不及了,所以是匆忙地,所以D正确。
5.考查名词和语境理解。句意:我站在那,低着头。根据前句:When she touched the coating she noticed that it was still wet. Then she asked me why I had brought.当老师摸涂料的时候,她注意到涂料是湿的,然后她就问为什么搬来,我当然是低头站在那儿,不好意思了,所以A正确。
6.考查动词。句意:温特斯妈妈使劲踢了桌子,桌子腿都散架了。根据短语:take off脱掉; 起飞; (使)离开; 突然成功; break off 停止cut off 切断,隔绝let off 让 下车,引爆,所以B正确。
7.考查动词。句意:我默默地哭了,把它藏在我的壁橱里。根据语境作者是一肚子委屈,本打算作为礼物送出去,温特斯妈妈却不领情,所以是哭了,所以D正确。
8.考查动词短语。句意:一年后我把它送给了我的宿舍管理员,是为了把它扔掉。A. put away收起来B. throw away扔掉 C. take away拿走带走 D. wash away冲走,根据语境所以B正确。
9.考查形容词。句意:她温和地让我来到她的地下室帮她找某件重要的东西。A. proper 适当Bpopular受欢迎的 C. important重要的 D. expensive昂贵的,根据语境来到地下室当然是找重要的东西,所以C正确。
10.考查动词。句意:他指了指那个黑暗的角落,问到:你还记得吗?A. struggling挣扎 B. diving潜水C. sliding溜,滑 D. pointing指,根据语境所以D正确。
11.考查动词。句意:我记得,我差点掉下泪来,罗杰,我想让你拥有它。A. lay放置 B. have
C. sell卖D. clear扫除,使干净,根据语境应该是拥有,所以B正确。
12.考查语境。句意:亨德森的母亲给了我那张很久以前遗弃的小桌子。根据语境当然是多年以前扔掉的小桌子,所以A正确
13.考查动词。句意:她保存了它而且从不知道她会再次看到我。. A. promising 允诺B. hoping希
C. knowing知道 D. complaining抱怨,根据语境这是我多年遗憾去看望她,所以是她不知道是否
再次看到我,所以C正确。
14.考查形容词。句意:我也因为亨得利妈妈的善良而感到了安慰和高兴。A. excited 兴奋B. comforted安慰C. amused 吃惊D. entertained娱乐。根据语境:看到桌子想起了多年前的伤心本想扔掉的桌子而被亨得利妈妈保存了这么多年,当然是感到安慰了,所以B正确。
15.考查动词。句意;保留它作为一个孤儿小时候努力讨人喜欢的一个记忆。A. accept接受 B. struggle挣扎C. tolerate忍受D. please讨人喜欢,根据语境所以D正确
考点:社会生活类短文理解。
完形(15%)
Albert Einstein said, “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” Once __41 __, such opportunities are like valuable diamonds hidden in the sand.
Several years ago, I spoke at a school about how we were surrounded by “___42___ ” if we could only recognize them. A man stopped by to see me, and I remembered him as somebody who had suffered through a(n) ___43___ divorce (离婚) and was examining what was most important to him. He took a small ___44___ out of his pocket. Here is what he said to me that day.
“I ___45___ on this stone when I was leaving church last Sunday. You had spoken about ___46___ opportunities—diamonds. I put the stone in my ___47___ to remind me to look for those “diamonds” that I need. I have been trying to sell my business . On Monday morning, a man w
ho seemed interested in ___48___ some of my stock (股票) stopped by. I thought, ‘Here’s my diamond—don’t let it ___49___!’ I sold the entire stock to him by noon. Now my next diamond is to find a new ___50___ !”
Not long afterward, he did find a new an
d better job. From then on, he decided to keep his stone with him all the time as a ___51___ to look for “diamonds” as he dug through the ___52___ of life.
Richard DeVos is right when he points out. “This is an exciting world. It is filled with opportunities. Great moments wait around every corner.” Those moments are diamonds that, ___53___ left unrecognized, will be forever lost.
Are you looking for “diamonds” every day? If not, you may ___54___ pass them by! Perhaps there is a diamond of opportunity hidden in the difficulty you’re ___55___ now.
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请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 31 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 32 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been 33 for years—often from 34 childhood. These stories may have no 35 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 36 my development? I was never 37 to work on cars or be around 38 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later, 39 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 40 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 41 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 42 and told him about my 43 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 44 is it that you can solve 45 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 46 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 47 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 48 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 49 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 50 we choose.
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