题目
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Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office,a street urchin (顽童) was walking around the shining car.
"Is this your ear, Paul?"he asked. Paul answered,"Yes,my brother gave it to me for Christmas."The boy was
surprised. "You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn"t cost you nothing? Boy, I wish…"He hesitated.
(犹豫)
Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he had a brother like that.
But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly.
"I wish," the boy went on,"that I could be a brother like that."Paul looked at the boy in surprise, then he
said again, "Would you like to take a ride in my ear?"
"Oh, yes. I"d love that."
After a short ride,the boy turned and with his eyes shining, said,
"Paul, would you mind driving in front of my house?" Paul smiled a little.He thought he knew what the
boy wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big car.But Paul was wrong again.
"Will you stop where those two steps are?" the boy asked.
He ran up to the steps.Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back,but he was not coming fast. He
will carrying his little crippled (残疾) brother.He sat him down on the step and pointed to the car.
"There she is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs.His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn"t
cost him a cent (美分). And some day I"m going to give you one just like it…then you can see for yourself
all the nice things in the Christmas window that I"ve been trying to tell you about."
Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside
him and the three of them began an unforgettable holiday ride.
B. Paul told him about the car
C. he saw the shining car
B. wanted Paul"s brother to give him a car
C. wished he could have a brother like Paul"s
B. to show he had a rich friend
C. to tell his brother about his wish
B. the urchin had a deep love for his brother
C. the urchin wished to have a rich brother
B. A Street Urchin
C. A Brother Like That
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive ear from his brother】；主要考察你对人物故事类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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went to her 14-year-old song room.Tom 1______(sit) in front of a bright computer screen on which a
motorbike was running fast.
"Oh, Tom.. How long 2______ you ______ (play) on that computer? You must stop now.it"s half past
eleven.If you don"t go to bed soon, you"ll be very tired tomorrow," said Mrs. Green.
"But I"ve nearly won the game," said Tom to Mrs. Green. She 3______ (see) the excitement on his face.
She 4______ (sit) down beside him.You"re always playing on the computer. You 5______ (spend) more time
on this machine than on your homework.
Today more and more families have computers. Parents hope computers can help their children 6______
(improve) their study at school.But, many of their children use computers to play games, to watch videos,
instead of 7______ (study). We often see that computer game houses 8______ (crowd) with people, especially
young boys.They spend a lot of money competing with the computerized machines.
The more they lose, the more they want 9______ (win). The result is that they don"t want to work or study.
In some other countries, even scientists hate computers. They say computers cause millions of people to
lose their jobs or cause them a lot of trouble. Computer game addiction 10______ (be) a serious problem in
social life. Something has to be done to solve the problem.
One day when she was giving an English lesson, she found Mr. Li, the headmaster, sitting at the back of the
classroom. After class, Mr.Li told her that he came to her class to find out how much English and Chinese she
was using in class. The result was about half English and half Chinese. She was using Chinese when she gave
instructions (指示) and explained some grammar rules to her students. Mr..Li suggested that she should use
English as much as she could in class:
So Miss Wang made the following plans:
△ Join an English club and practice speaking English.
△ Learn more English teaching expressions by heart.
△ Have a five-minute talk with students in English before class.
She used body language to make herself understood if students could not follow. One year later, she found
she could speak English fluently in class.
B. is a teacher of Chinese
C. loves her job
D. is angry with the headmaster
B. make Miss Wang understood
C. give instructions to the students
D. find out how much English and Chinese Miss Wang was using in class
B. use more English
C. use half English and half Chinese
D. use body language
B. completely
C. clearly
D. recently
B. Talking with the students before class.
C. Speaking more English in English classes.
D. Learning more English teaching expressions.
意义相符的单词。
One day, the weather was very hot. The 1_____ was shining brightly in the sky. A crow flew
over, he was very 2_____. He saw a bottle on the 3_____. There was only a little 4_____ in it. But
the neck of the bottle was too 5_____. He couldn"t touch the water with his beak [(鹰等的)嘴].
How could he 6_____ the water? Suddenly, he saw some stones 7_____ the bottle. He came up
with a(n) 8_____. He picked 9_____ the stones one by one and put them into the bottle. More and
more stones in and the water rose up. Finally the crow drank the water. How 10_____ he was!
He worked hard there. Soon he had more money than his friends because of his hard work. It seemed that
he would have a 2 future.
When he was 25 years old, however, he began to be 3 his job. He wanted a more exciting one, so he
left the post office. Two months 4 , he found a new job in a big 5 . Workers in this company 6 traveled
a lot. At first he really enjoyed the traveling. But after a year, he began to 7 it. He had to move around and
he was always in a car or on a train. The 8 thing was that he couldn"t make any new friends. Even so, his
boss was not satisfied with him. Two years later he 9 the company.
He was so 10 at that time that he sold his house. He had to accept a part-time job in a 11 shop. He
was surprised to find that he loved it! He made new friends every day and he 12 reading books. Three
years later, he
13 the shop owner"s daughter. Soon they had their first child. In the next ten years, they had another three
14 and four more book shops! He became very rich indeed.
"Life is wonderful," he told me."The most 15 thing is that you should always try your best. Never give
up!"
| ( )1. A. While ( )2. A. bad ( )3. A. tired of ( )4. A. ago ( )5. A. factory ( )6. A. hardly ( )7. A. like ( )8. A. worst ( )9. A. reached ( )10. A. happy ( )11. A. cloth ( )12. A. enjoyed ( )13. A. married ( )14. A. sisters ( )15. A. difficult | B. When B. bright B. crazy about B. before B. shop B. usually B. prefer B. happiest B. called B. energetic B. fruit B. finished B. knew B. brothers B. important | C. Until C. coming C. interested in C. later C. school C. seldom C. hate C. best C. left C. rich C. book C. began C. met C. cousins C. amazing | D. If D. interesting D. afraid of D. afterwards D. company D. never D. practice D. strangest D. started D. poor D. dress D. forgot D. visited D. children D. boring |
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| Mr Turner liked fishing. It was his favorite sport. He often fished for hours without catching anything. But this did not worry him. Some fishermen couldn"t catch fish. Sometimes they caught old boots or rubbish. Mr Turner was even worse than the fishermen. He never caught anything - not even old boots. After he spent whole morning on the river, he always went home with an empty bag. "You must give up fishing!" his friends said, "It"s a waste of time." "But they don"t realize one important thing. I"m not really interested in fishing. I am only interested in sitting in a boat and doing nothing at all. It can make me forget the noise of the city and live quietly for some time." he always said to himself. | |||
| 1. Mr Turner always went fishing because ________. | |||
| A. he could sell the fish and get some money B. he thought it was a good sport C. he could cook the fish for supper D. he could sit in a boat | |||
| 2. Mr Turner liked to fish ________. | |||
| A. by the river B. in a boat on the river C. in the river D. with the fishermen | |||
| 3. He always went home with an empty bag because ________. | |||
| A. he couldn"t fish at all B. there weren"t any fish in the river C. he gave the fish to the fishermen D. he didn"t pay attention to fishing at all | |||
| 4. His friends told him ________ when they knew he couldn"t catch anything. | |||
| A. to learn how to fish B. to change the way of fishing C. not to fish any more D. to buy fish to eat | |||
| 5. From the story we knew Mr Turner ________. | |||
| A. lived in the country B. was a good fisherman C. was interested in fishing D. disliked the noise of the city |