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Boy: “Lady, can you give me the job of cutting your lawn (草坪)?”
Woman (at the other end of the phone line): “No, thank you. I already have someone to cut my lawn.”
Boy: “Lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price the person who cuts your lawn now.”
Woman: “I’m very satisfied with the person who cuts my lawn.”
Boy (with more perseverance 执着) : “Lady, I’ll even sweep the floor and the stairs of your house for free.”
Woman: “No, thank you.”
With a smile on his face, the little boy hung up the phone. The store owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy.
Store owner: “Son... I like your attitude (态度). I like that positive (积极的) spirit and would like to offer you a job.”
Boy: “No, thanks.”
Store owner: “But you were really asking for one.”
Boy: “No, Sir. I was just checking my performance (表现) at the job I already have. I am the one who is working for that lady I was talking to.”
小题1:In fact, how many people are mentioned (提及) in the story? _____________.
| A．2 | B．3 | C．4 | D．5 |
| A．he wanted her to let him continue his job |
| B．he thought that the lady was too poor |
| C．the lady thought the money she paid the boy was too much |
| D．he wanted to know if he did his job well enough and couldn’t be replaced (取代) by others. |
| A．The boy was angry with the lady. |
| B．The store owner wasn’t kind-hearted. |
| C．The lady wanted to find another person to do the boy’s job. |
| D．The boy was happy to know that the lady was satisfied with his performance. |
| A．Asking for a job | B．Self-appraisal (自我测评) |
| C．The lady and the boy | D．The boy and the store owner |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:D
小题4:B
解析
试题分析：本文介绍一个小男孩儿在电话亭打电话，降低价格并且免费为雇主扫地，雇主都没有雇佣他。商店老板觉得他很执着，决定聘用他，但是被他拒绝，因为实际上他正在为雇主家工作，他只是想用这个办法来检测自己的工作被不被认可。
小题1:细节理解题。通过阅读可以知道，文中提到The store owner，boy，Woman (at the other end of the phone line)，而电话那边的女士所提到现在正在为她尖草坪的工人，实际上就是这个男孩儿。所以文中提到3个人。故选B。
小题2:细节理解题。根据原文最后一句I was just checking my performance (表现) at the job I already have. I am the one who is working for that lady I was talking to.可知这个男孩儿就是电话那头女士不愿意辞掉的工人，所以男孩儿甚至愿意提供免费扫地的服务来检测自己做的是不是足够好。故选D。
小题3:细节理解题。根据原文With a smile on his face, the little boy hung up the phone.这个男孩儿微笑地挂了电话。可知他知道雇主对他的工作非常满意，他很高兴。故选D。
小题4:细节理解题。根据原文I was just checking my performance at the job I already have.可知男孩儿用这样的办法来检测自己工作的好不好，所以题目可以叫作自我检测。故选B。
核心考点
试题【A little boy went to a telephone booth (电话亭) at the cash counter of a store and 】；主要考察你对人物故事类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Gary then asked his brother Gavin, “Did you see that twenty-dollar bill on the cash register?” Gavin said that he had not. But Gary did not let it go and kept questioning. “Twenty-dollar bills can’t get up and walk away by themselves! Surely you must have seen it.” There was accusation in Gary’s voice. Tempers began to rise and anger grew. “I said I didn’t see it!” Gavin raised his voice.
The quarrel divided the young men and they could no longer work together. Later, a wall was built in the center of the store. For twenty years, they never said a word to each other.
One day, a strange man came to the store. He walked in and asked Gary, “How long have you been here?” Gary replied that he’d been there all his life. “Then you are the person I’m looking for, since I must tell you the truth,” the customer said emotionally. “Twenty years ago, I was totally broke and hungry. I entered this store from the back door and saw a twenty-dollar bill on the cash register. And I took it. All these years I hadn’t been able to forget that. I had to come back and ask for your forgiveness(宽恕).”
The stranger felt very surprised when seeing tears come to the eyes of the middle-aged man in front of him. “Would you please go next door and tell the same story to the man in the store?” Gary asked. Then something surprised the stranger even more --- after hearing his story, the two middle-aged men hugged each other and cried together in the front of the wall of the store.
After twenty years, the wall of anger that set them apart finally came down.
小题1:After the twin’s father died, the department store was managed by ________.
| A．Gary | B．Gavin |
| C．the twins | D．a stranger |
| A．his neighbour | B．Gavin |
| C．a stranger | D．nobody |
| A．They still did business together. |
| B．They still loved each other. |
| C．They didn’t work together any longer. |
| D．They were as good brothers as before. |
| A．没钱的 | B．破旧的 |
| C．破碎的 | D．冲突的 |
| A．buy something from the store | B．borrow some money |
| C．return the money | D．say sorry and ask to be excused |
| A．the wall in the center of the store fell down by itself. |
| B．the stranger pulled down the wall in the center of the store. |
| C．the twin brothers pulled down the wall in the center of the store. |
| D．the twin brothers didn’t hate each other any longer. |
She said, “Hi, young man! I"m Rose. I’m 87 years old. Can I give you a hug? ”
I said , “Of course!”
“Why are you in college at such an age?” I asked.
She joked, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children, and then travel around the world.”
“No, seriously,” I asked.
“I always dreamed of having a college education. Now I’m getting one!” she told me.
After a year, Rose became . She could easily get along well with others wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from others.
At the end of the term we invited Rose to at our party. I’ll never forget what she taught us.
“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. Here are the secrets of staying young. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you your dreams, you die!” she said.
“There is a big between growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow old. That doesn’t take any talent,” she added. “But to grow up, you have to find the chance in change. Have no regrets(遗憾). We usually don’t have regrets for what we did, rather for things we did not do.”
Finally we graduated from the college with Rose. One week after graduation, she died peacefully in her sleep. She taught us by example that it’s never too late to be all you can possibly be.
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One day, Jim woke up at 3 in the morning as usual. When Joy was sleeping alone, Jim left their little house to deliver newspapers. As he did so, he found something unusual. One man was sitting in front of Jim’s house. Jim was so surprised that he stopped to look at him closely. It was an icy morning and he looked very old.
The poor old man didn’t have anything to cover himself with. Jim went into his house to get the old man a blanket(毯子). However, there were no extra blankets, so Jim thought hard and took his father’s coat. It was the only thing of his father’s that he had left. Jim wrote a short note. “Sir, I found you sleeping in front of my house. This is my father’s coat. I hope it fits you well.” He put the note in a pocket of the coat, and covered the old man with the coat. Then he went to work. When he came back three hours later, both the man and the coat were gone. Jim thought that it was the best thing he could have done with his father’s coat.
That afternoon, Jim hurried home after school because Joy was at home alone. However, Joy and the old man were standing in front of the house, and Joy shouted to Jim, “Brother！He’s our grandfather!”
The grandfather smiled and said, “Jim, I have been looking for you all around the country for eight years. I’m not rich. But I can take care of you two. Thank you for giving me the coat and letting me know what a good person my grandson is. This coat was the very one that I gave my own son, a long time ago.”
小题1:Jim looked after his little sister by himself because ________.
| A．they were too poor | B．their grandfather left them |
| C．he was old enough | D．their parents had died |
| A．take care of his sister | B．deliver newspapers |
| C．sit in front of the house | D．find something unusual |
| A．He took a blanket and gave it to him. |
| B．He took his father’s coat to cover him. |
| C．He stopped and talked to him. |
| D．He wrote a letter to the police. |
| A．the old man was their grandpa |
| B．the old man and the coat were gone |
| C．their grandpa was looking for them |
| D．she couldn’t find their father’s coat |
| A．He was happy to find his grandchildren. |
| B．He thought Jim was a good boy. |
| C．He was poor and could not take care of them. |
| D．The coat helped the old man find his grandchildren. |
| A．Jim and Joy | B．A newspaper boy |
| C．An icy morning | D．Father’s coat |
Harry was worried. He remembered selling the woman a return ticket. “Come into the office, Madam,” he said politely, “I’ll just check the Jersey timetable for May 22nd.”
The woman and her little girl followed him inside. She was quite right, as Harry soon discovered. There was no sailing on May 22nd. How could he have made such a careless mistake? He shouldn’t have sold her a ticket for that day. Wondering what to do, he smiled at the child. “You look sun burnt,” he said to her, “Did you have a nice holiday in Jersey?”
“Yes,” she answered, shyly, “The beach was lovely. And I can swim, too!”
“That’s fine,” said Harry. “My little girl can’t swim a bit yet. Of course, she’s only three…”
“I’m four,” the child said proudly, “I’ll be four and a half.”
Harry turned to the mother. “I remember your ticket, Madam,” he said, “But you didn’t get one for your daughter, did you?”
“Er, well…”woman looked at the child, “I mean… she hasn’t started school yet. She’s only four.”
“A four-year-old child must have a ticket, Madam. A child’s return ticket to Jersey costs…let me see…￡13.50. So if the railway pays your hotel, you will owe￡1.50. The law is the law, but since the fault was mine…”
小题1:What happened to the woman?
| A．She had to buy the return ticket in Jersey. |
| B．She had to return home a day earlier. |
| C．She had to stay in a hotel for one night. |
| D．She couldn’t use the ticket for the round trip. |
| A．Harry’s daughter could swim very well. |
| B．The Jersey timetable was totally wrong. |
| C．Actually, the little girl didn’t need a ticket. |
| D．The little girl was satisfied with the holiday. |
| A．did not know what to do |
| B．wanted to be friendly to her |
| C．had a little girl about the same age |
| D．wanted to find a way out from her |
| A．careful | B．hard-working |
| C．serious | D．smart |
| A．The woman would ask the police for help. |
| B．The woman would see the head of the station. |
| C．The woman would insist on getting back￡12. |
| D．The woman would stop arguing and leave. |
Shirley Jane Temple was born on April 23, 1928, in Santa Monica, California. When Temple was just 3 years old, she began her first low-budget movie Baby Burlesques. Temple’s mother was aware of her girl’s talents by enrolling her in dance classes at the age of 3, so her father became her agent and financial adviser.
When the cute actress was 6 years old, she appeared in her first Hollywood film, Carolina. With Fox Film Corporation, Temple made an additional 8 films. The little actress, singer and dancer with the dancing golden curls became a top earner for the studio.
In 1934, she became a world-famous star in Bright Eyes, whichwas designed especially for her talents. The young performer showed many wonderful pictures during 1934. She received a special Children Academy Award in February 1935 for her outstanding contribution. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Temple “Little Miss Miracle” for raising the public’s confidence during times of economic hardship. He even said, “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.” By 1940, Temple had 43 films under her early acting career.
After Temple grew up, she made guest appearances on television shows in the early 1960s and filmed a Comedy that was never released. Temple acted 46 films in her whole life. In 1969, her life got a great change——she began her diplomatic（外交的） career and worked successfully till her late life. During her political career, Temple had visited China in April, 1977. In 1988, she published her autobiography, a book about her life, Child Star.
Shirley Temple died of natural causes on February 10, 2014, at her home near San Francisco California. She was 85 years old.
Following her death, Temple’s family and friends published a statement that read, “We pay her respects for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife of 55 years.”
小题1:How did Temple’s parents help her step into the entertainment world?
| A．Temple’s mother discovered her talents. |
| B．Temple’s mother taught her how to dance. |
| C．Temple’s father took charge of all her life. |
| D．Temple’s father took away all her money. |
| A．8 | B．43 |
| C．46 | D．85 |
| A．Bright Eyes | B．Heidi |
| C．Baby Burlesques | D．Carolina |
| A．Because Temple was an adorable child star. |
| B．Because Temple gave hopes to people in difficult times. |
| C．Because Temple had great achievement in her acting life. |
| D．Because Temple was a very successful diplomat for the country. |
a. Temple died of natural causes.
b. Temple became a diplomat for her country.
c. Temple visited China during her political career.
d. Temple published her autobiography, Child Star.
e. Temple made her first acting in a series of low-budget movies.
f. At the age of six, Temple became well-known for her successful acting.
| A．f, e, c, d, b, a | B．e, f, b, d, c, a |
| C．e, f, b, c, d, a | D．f, e, d, b, c, a |
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