题目内容
If I _________too late last night, I could not have fallen asleep in class
- A.didn’t stay up
- B.hadn’t stayed up
- C.don’t stay up
- D.haven’t stayed up
考查if条件状语从句的虚拟语气。If I _________too late last night是含有if条件状语从句的虚拟语气,根据last night可知是指的过去的事实,要用had done的过去完成时态,所以选B。
My six-year-old granddaughter stared at me as if she were seeing me for the first time.”Grandma, you are an antique(古董),”she said. "You are old. Antiques are old. You are my antique."
I was not satisfied to let the matter rest there. I took out the Webster's Dictionary and read the definition(定义)to Jenny.I explained, "An antique is not only old, it's an object existing since or belonging to earlier times...a work of art... piece of furniture. Antiques are treasured,"I told Jenny as I put away the dictionary. "They have to be handled carefully because they sometimes are very valuable. In order to qualify as an antique, the object has to be at least 100 years old."
"I'm only 67,"I renunded Jenny.
We looked around the house for other antiques, besides me. There was a desk that was handed down from rone aunt to another and finally to our family. "It's very old,"I told Jenny.“I try to keep it polished and I show it off whenever I can. You do that with antiques."
There was a picture on the wall purchased at a garage sale. It was dated 1867. "Now that's an antique," I boasted. "Over 100 years old." Of course it was marked up and scratched and not in very good condition. "Sometimes age does that," I told Jenny. "But the marks are good marks. They show living, being around. That's something to display with pride. In fact, sometimes, the more an object shows age, the more valuable it can become." It was important that I believed this for my own self-esteem.
Our tour of antiques continued. There was a vase on the floor. It had been in my house for a long time. I was not certain where it came from but I didn't buy it new. One thing about antiques, I explained to Jenny, was that they usually had a story. They'd been in one home and then another, handed down from one family to another, traveling all over the place. They'd lasted through years and years. They could have been tossed away, or ignored. or destroyed, or lost. But instead, they survived.
For a moment, Jenny looked thoughtful. “l don't have any antiques but you," she said. Then her face brightened. "Could I take you to school for show and tell?"
"Only if I fit into your backpack," I answered. And then Jenny's antique lifted her up and embraced her in a hug that would last through the years.
【小题1】Grandma read the definition of "antique" to Jenny in order to .
| A.list all the important characteristics of antiques |
| B.tell Jenny the importance of protecting antiques |
| C.change Jenny's shallow understanding of antiques |
| D.express her disappointment at being called "antique" |
| A.The desk reminded her of her dear relatives. |
| B.The marks on the picture showed its age and value. |
| C.There was usually a sad story behind each antique. |
| D.She planned to buy a new vase to replace the old one. |
| A.grandma was a treasure to her |
| B.antiques were rare and valuable |
| C.she had nothing but a few possessions |
| D.grandma and antiques had a lot in common |
| A.Grandma was too old to lift Jenny up. |
| B.Jenny had a strong desire for grandma's love. |
| C.Jenny was too young to know grandma's humor. |
| D.Grandma had a deep long-lasting love for Jenny. |
| A.Jenny's Antique | B.A Story of Antiques |
| C.A Tour of Antiques | D.Grandma's Antique |
Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own.My mother was one of those people.
My father died when I was one-year-old.While I was growing up, we led a very hard life, but my mom gave me a lot of love.Each night, she seated me on her lap and, spoke the words that would change my life, "Kemmons, you are sure to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it."
At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said that I would never walk again.Every night my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me whatever those doctors said, I could walk again if I wanted to.She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her.A year later, I walked on my own to school!
When the Great Depression broke out, my mother lost her job.Then I left school to support the two of us.At that moment I decided never to be poor again.
Over the years, I experienced a lot of business success.But the real turning point happened on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951.I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels available for families and was very angry that they charged an extra $2 for each child.That was too expensive for an ordinary American family.I told my wife that I was going to open a motel (汽车旅馆) for families that would never charge extra money for children.Many people did not believe me at that time.
Not surprisingly, mom was my strongest supporter.As in any business, I experienced a lot of difficulties.But with my mom's words in my heart, I never doubted I would succeed.Fifteen years later, I had the largest hotel system in the world—Holiday Inn.In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $l billion a year.
You may not have started out life in the best situations.But if you find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.
【小题1】What Kemmon's mother often told him during his childhood was____.
| A.caring | B.moving | C.encouraging | D.interesting |
| A.Doctors. | B.Nurses. | C.His friend. | D.His mom. |
| A.His terrible experience in the hotel. | B.His wife's suggestion. |
| C.His previous business success. | D.His mom's support. |
| A.Modest, helpful and hard-working. |
| B.Loving, supportive and strong-willed. |
| C.Careful, beautiful and helpful. |
| D.Strict, sensitive and supportive. |
| A.Self-confidence, hard work, higher education and a poor family. |
| B.Mom's encouragement, clear goals, self-confidence and hard work. |
| C.Clear goals, mom's encouragement, a poor family and higher education. |
| D.Mom's encouragement, a poor family, higher education and opportunities. |