I always felt sorry for the people in wheelchairs. Some people, old and weak, can not get around by themselves. Others seem perfectly healthy, dressed in business suits. But whenever I saw someone in a wheelchair, I only saw a disability, not a person.

Then I fainted (晕倒) at Euro Disney due to low blood pressure. This was the first time I had ever fainted, and my parents said that I must rest for a while after First Aid, I agreed to take it easy but, as I stepped towards the door, I saw my dad pushing a wheelchair in my direction. Feeling color burn my cheeks, I asked him to wheel that thing right back to where he found it.

I could not believe this was happening to me. Wheelchairs were fine for other people but not for me, as my father wheeled me out into the main street, people immediately began to treat me differently.

Little kids ran in front of me, forcing my father to stop the wheelchair suddenly. Bitterness set in as I was thrown back and forth. "Stupid kids… they have perfectly good legs. Why can't they watch where they are going?" I thought. People stared down at me, with pity in their eyes. Then they would look away, maybe because they thought the sooner they forgot me the better.

"I'm just like you!" I wanted to scream. "The only difference is you've got legs. and I have wheels. "

People in wheelchairs are not stupid. They see every look and hear each word. Looking out at the faces, I finally understood; I was once just like them. I treated people in wheelchairs exactly the way they did not want to be treated. I realized it is some of us with two healthy legs who are truly disabled.

1. The author once ________ when she was healthy.

    A. showed respect to disabled people

    B. looked down upon disabled people

    C. imagined herself sitting in a wheelchair

D. saw some healthy people moving around in wheelchair

2. Facing the wheelchair for the first time, the author_________ .

    A. felt curious about it

    B. got ready to move around in it right away

    C. refused to accept it right away

    D. thought it was ready for her father

3.The experience of the author tells us that "_________".

    A. life is the best teacher

    B. people often eat their bitter fruit

    C. life is so changeable that nobody can foretell

    D. one never does to others what he would not like others do to him

4.Which is the best title for this passage?

    A. How to Get Used to Wheelchairs

    B. Wheelchairs Are as Good as Two Legs

    C. People with Two Legs Are Truly Health

    D. The Difference between Healthy People and the Disabled

5.How did the author feel when the little kids forced her father to stop the wheelchair suddenly?

    A. Stupid.     B. Calm.     C. Excited.       D. Bitter.

Last year, on report card day, my son and a bunch of his 13-year-old friends piled into the back seat of my car, ready for the last-day-of-school party at McDonald’s. “Jack got a laptop for getting straight A’s, and Laurie got a cellphone,” one boy said. “Oh, yeah, and Sarah got an iPod Nano, and she’s only in third grade,” said another. “And how about Brian? He got $ 10 for each A.”

I suddenly became concerned. These payoffs might get parents through grammar school, but what about high school and beyond? What would be left after the electric guitar, the cellphone, and the portable DVD player?

I saw the road ahead: As the homework load increased, my income would decrease. I saw my comfortable lifestyle vanish before my eyes-no more of those $ 5 bags of already-peeled organic carrots. No more organic anything!

I started to feel surprised and nervous. Would every goal attained by my two children fetch a reward? A high grade point average? A good class ranking? Would sports achievements be included in this reward system: soccer goals, touchdowns, runs-batted-in? What about orchestra? Would first chair pay more than second? I’d be penniless by eighth-grade graduation.

“We never paid anything for good grades,” said my neighbor across the street, whose son was recently accepted at MIT. “He just did it on his own. Maybe once in a while we went out for pizza, but that’s about it.”

Don’t you just hate that? We’re all running around looking for the MP3 player with the most updates, and she’s spending a few dollars on pizza. She gets motivation; we get negotiation.

1.The sentence “As the homework load increased, my income would decrease.” in the third paragraph probably means _____________.

       A.taking care of the children would influence my work

       B.I would spend more money on my children’s homework

       C.reducing children’s homework load would cost me a lot

       D.more rewards would be needed as the children grew up

2.We can tell from the passage that the author’s son was in ___________.

       A.primary school B.junior middle school   C.high school        D.university

3.It can be inferred from the passage that ____________.

       A.if you pay the children for good grades, they would take it for granted

       B.if you buy children pizza for good grades, they would work harder

       C.children would not ask for rewards when they enter high school

       D.children would not ask for rewards when they enter university

4.The example of the author’s neighbor shows that ____________.

       A.pizza is the best way to motivate children

       B.reward is not the only way to motivate children

       C.the author’s neighbor was very poor

       D.the author’s neighbor’s son didn’t like reward

5.What is the author’s attitude toward paying children reward for good grades?

       A.Favorable B.Ambiguous      C.Disagreeable    D.Unknowable

第三部分:书面表达(共三节,满分45分)

第一节:阅读表达(共5 小题;每小题2分,满分10 分)

阅读下面的短文,并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的字数要求)。

Researchers found that women are overcome by a burning desire to share gossip( 流言蜚

语)as soon as they hear it. They will typically tell the secret to at least one other person in 47 hours. Depending on who the gossip is about, their boyfriend, husband, best friend or mother is most likely to be the recipients of the information.

    The study of 3000 women aged between 18 and 65 also found that out of ten admitted they were unable to keep a secret. --- No matter how personal or secret the news was. It was also found that alcohol usually gives us a helping hand to let out secrets --- with more than half admitting a glass or two of wine could get them to dish the dirt.

Michael Cox, UK Director of Wines of Chile, said, “It’s official women who can’t keep secrets. We are really eager to find out with this survey how many secrets people are told. What we don’t count on is how quickly these are passed on by those we trust. No matter how precious the piece of information is, it often comes out within 48 hours.”

Three quarters say they are able to keep quiet about a secret, and 83 percent consider themselves 100 percent reliable within each group of friends. Yet, four in ten admit gossiping to a close friend from another friendship group. Nearly half (45 percent) disclose secrets just for the weight to be lifted from their shoulders. More than four in ten think it is acceptable to share a friend’s secret with someone who doesn’t know him or her.

Private issues, true cost of purchases and affairs emerged top of the secret-keeping list, with girls most likely to share a secret chatting face-to-face, on the phone or via a text message. Fortunately, over a quarter (27 percent) said they forgot what they were told the following day.

56. Please explain the underlined words “dish the dirt” in English.(No more than 5 words.)

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57. What makes women more likely pass on gossip? (No more than 3 words.)

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58. What kinds of secrets are women most interested in? (No more than 10 words.)

___________________________________________________________________________

59. Why do about half women tell secrets to others? (No more than 10 words.)

___________________________________________________________________________

60. Should women tell secrets to others or keep secrets? Please give your reasons. (No more than 30 words.)

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