Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus (马戏团).
This is about the family standing ahead of us.
The family had eight children. Their clothes were not expensive but 1 .
The children were well behaved. They stood in line, two by two behind their parents, holding hands.
They were excitedly talking about the clowns (小丑), elephants and other acts they would see that night.
You could 2 that they had never been to the circus before.
The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He 3 replied, "I want eight children"s tickets
and two adult tickets please, so I can take my 4 to the circus."
The ticket lady quoted (报) the price. The man"s wife let go of his hand. The man"s lip started to quiver
(颤抖).He leaned (靠) toward 5 and asked again, "How much did you say?" The ticket lady quoted the price
again. The man didn"t have 6 money. How was he supposed to tum and tell his eight kids that he couldn"t
take them to the circus?
My dad put his hand into his pocket, pulled out a $20 bill and 7 it on the ground. (And we weren"t rich!)
Then he 8 down, picked up the bill, tapped the man on the shoulder and said, ""Excuse me, sir, this 9 out of
your pocket."
The man knew 10 was going on. He looked into my dad"s eyes, held my dad"s hand in his, and took the
$20 bill. With a tear in his eye, he replied,"Thank you, thank you, sir. This really 11 a lot to me and my
family."
My father and I went back to our car and drove home. We didn"t get to see the circus that night, but we
didn"t 12 . |
( )1. A. clean
( )2. A. find
( )3. A. suddenly
( )4. A. wife
( )5. A. her
( )6. A. much
( )7. A. missed
( )8. A. got
( )9. A. moved
( )10. A. what
( )11. A. takes
( )12. A. worry | B. large
B. agree
B. proudly
B. children
B. him
B. any
B. lost
B. reached
B. broke
B. how
B. costs
B. care | C. thick
C. tell
C. safely
C. team
C. them
C. enough
C. passed
C. went
C. fell
C. when
C. owns
C. know | D. warm
D. decide
D. quietly
D. family
D. us
D. some
D. dropped
D. looked
D. took
D. who
D. means
D. show |
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试题【完形填空。 Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to b】；主要考察你对 人物故事类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 完形填空。 | I still remember Father spent plenty of time teaching me how to pronounce a word, how to understand
something that I saw for the first time and how to be polite to others. And I will never 1 one sentence my
father used to say to me, "I love you, son. Say you love me, son." Naturally, I would scream, "I love you,
Dad."
When I was growing up, I found that I had little in 2 with my father gradually. Sometimes we often
argued about something sharply and then the argument changed into a quarrel (争吵). I knew there was a gap
between us. I didn"t 3 hearing the words "I love you" from my father the last time. To tell you the truth, I
couldn"t honestly remember when I had last said those words to him, either.
Now Father was in hospital. The doctor said it was 4 and he needed an operation at once, 5 he wasn"t
sure whether my father was able to survive (幸免于, 经受得住) if. Everything in my childhood 6 in my
mind. Then I called and said," Dad, I love you!"
There was a 7 at the other end and then he replied coldly, "Well, I love you, too!"
I cried and said, "Dad, I know you love me, and when you are 8 , I know you will say what you want to
say."
Fifteen minuets later, my mother called and nervously asked, "Paul, is every thing OK?"
A few weeks later, I was working when I received my father"s call, "Paul, I love you." I was so 9 that
my tears rolled down my cheeks. Perhaps both of us 10 that this special moment had taken our relationship
to a new level.
A short while after this special moment, my father finally narrowly escaped death following the heart
operation. I can"t 11 that ifI did not take the first 12 and Dad did not survive the surgery, what kind of life I
would lead now. | ( )1.A. forget
( )2.A. heart
( )3.A. expect
( )4.A. difficult
( )5.A. but
( )6.A. appeared
( )7.A. happiness
( )8.A. free
( )9.A. touched
( )10.A. required
( )11.A. conclude
( )12.A. advice | B. practice
B. manner
B. remember
B. serious
B. because
B. opened
B. surprise
B. ready
B. bored
B. realized
B. infer
B. step | C. understand
C. common
C. enjoy
C. important
C. so
C. kept
C. silence
C. happy
C. encouraged
C. reported
C. imagine
C. word | D. say
D. danger
D. think
D. sad
D. for
D. reached
D. luck
D. excited
D. educated
D. got
D. decide
D. world | | 阅读理解。 | Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed that the boy ahead of him had tripped and
dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape
recorder. Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up the scattered articles. Since they were going the same
way, he helped to carry part of the burden. As they walked, Mark discovered that the boy"s name was Bill, that
he loved video games, basebaii and history, that he was having a lot of trouble with his other subjects and that
he had just broken up with his close friend.
They arrived at Bill"s home first and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some television. The
afternoon passed pleasantly with a few laughs and some shared small talks, and then Mark went home. They
continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, and then both graduated from
junior high school. They ended up in the same high school where they had brief contacts over the years. Finally
the long last year came, and three weeks before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could have a talk.
Bill reminded him of the day years before when they had first met. "Do you ever wonder why I was
carrying so many things home that day?" asked Bill. "You see, cleaned out my locker because I didn"t want to
leave a mess for anyone else. I decided to drop out of school. But after we spent some time together talking and
laughing, I realized that if I had left school, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow.
So you see, Mark, when you picked up my books that day, you did a lot more. You helped me out." | 1. Which of the following is the correct order of the events that happened to Bill?
a. Bill tripped and dropped all of his books he was carrying.
b. Bill broke up with his close friend.
c. Bill graduated from junior high school.
d. Bill cleaned his locker.
e. Bill decided to drop out of school. | A. d-e-a-b-c
B. e-d-b-a-c
C. b-d-e-a-c
D. b-e-d-a-c | | 2. We can learn from the passage that _____. | A. Bill loved video games, baseball and geography
B. Bill and Mark studied at the same senior school
C. because they were good friends, Mark picked up Bill"s books
D. Mark knew Bill was having a lot of trouble before he was told | | 3. The author"s purpose in writing this passage is to _____. | A. remind us that we should pick up the articles others dropped
B. tell people schoolboys are easy to get along with each other
C. tell us that everybody can be great if he has a heart full of love
D. tell us that schoolboys should make as many friends as they can | | 阅读理解。 | There was a man who had a little boy that he loved very much. Every day after work the man would come
home and play with the little boy. He would always spend all of his spare time playing with the little boy.
One day, while the man was at work, he realized that he had extra work to do for the evening, and that he
wouldn"t be able to play with his little boy. But, he wanted to be able to give the boy something to keep him
busy. So, looking around his office, he saw a magazine with a large map of the world on the cover. He got an
idea. He removed the map, and then patiently tore it up into small pieces. Then he put all the pieces in his coat
pocket.
When he got home, the little boy came running to him and was ready to play. The man explained that he
had extra work to do and couldn" t play with him, but he led the little boy into the dining room. He took out all
the pieces of the map and spread them on the table. He explained that it was a map of the world, and that by
the time he put it back together, his extra work would be finished and they could both play. Surely this would
keep the child busy for hours, he thought.
About half an hour later the boy came to the man and said, "Okay, it"s finished. Can we play now?" The
man was surprised, saying, "That" s impossible. Let"s go and see." And sure enough, there was the picture of
the world; all put together, every piece in its place.
The man said, "That"s amazing! How did you do that?" the boy said, "it was simple. On the back of the
page was a picture of a man. When I put the man together, the whole world fell into place." | | 1. The man told his son to put a map back together because _____. | A. he had little time to play with his son
B. he was tired of playing with his son
C. he had to overwork in the office
D. he wanted his son to play alone | | 2. The son spent _____ putting the map back together. | A thirty minutes
B. several hours
C. the whole evening
D. the whole day | | 3. What can you infer from this story? | A. Children often make adults mad.
B. Adults know little about children.
C. Sometimes children surprise adults.
D. Adults always care for their children. | 阅读短文，还原句子。
阅读下面的短文，从文章后所给的A-E五个句子中，选择四个句子填入文中空缺处，使短文内容完整、
意思通顺。 | My aunt Edith, working as a secretary, was a single mother. Doctors discovered that she got a very serious
heart disease when she was 50.
1_____ She began studying medical reports in the library and found an article in a magazine about a well-
known heart surgeon (外科医生), Dr Michael DeBakey, in Houston, Texas. He had saved the life of someone
with the same disease. The article said Dr DeBakey"s fees (诊疗费) were very high. 2_____ But could Dr
Michael tell her of someone whose fee she could pay?
So Aunt Edith wrote to him. She simply listed her reasons for wanting to be alive. She had three children,
and they would be on their own in three or four more years. 3_____ nere wasn"t a word of self-pity-only
warmth and humor and the joy of living. She mailed the letter, not really expecting an answer.
A few days later, my doorbell rang. Aunt Edith didn"t wait to come in. She stood in the hall and read aloud:"
Your beautiful letter moved me very deeply. If you can come to Houston, there will be no charge for either the
hospital or the operation. Signed-Michael DeBakey."
That was seven years ago. 4_____ Her three children are happily married. For her age, she is one of the
youngest, most alive people I know-all because of an open-heart surgeon who knew how to honor his
profession, and how to open his own heart. | A. Since then, Aunt Edith has been around the world.
B. Aunt Edith couldn"t possibly pay them.
C. Aunt Edith didn"t give up.
D. Aunt Edith decided to ask him to save her. | | 完形填空。 | There is a woman named Atsuko Saeki. When she wasa teenager, she dreamed of going to the United
States. Most of what she knew about American 1 was from the textbooks she had read. "I had a 2 in mind:
Daddy watching TV in the living room, Mummy baking cakes and their teenage daughter off to the cinema
with her boyfriend."
Atsuko 3 to attend college in California. When she arrived, however, she found it was not her 4 world.
"People had difficulty in doing something and often seemed uneasy," she said. "I felt very lonely."
One of her hardest 5 was physical education."We played volleyball," she said. "The other students were
good at it, but I wasn"t." One aftemoon,the instructor asked Atsuko to 6 the ball to her teammates so they
could knock it 7 the net. No problem for most people, but it frightened Atsuko. She was afraid of losing face
8 she failed.
A young man on her team realised what she was going through. "He walked up to me and said, Come on.
You can do that. "
"You will never understand how those words of 9 made me feel Four words: You can do that. I felt like
crying with happiness.
She made it through the class. Perhaps she thanked the young man; she is not 10 .
Six years has passed. Atsuko is back in her country, working as a salesclerk. "I have never forgotten the
words," she said. "When things are not going so well, I think of them."
She is sure the young man had no idea how much his kindness 11 to her. " He probably doesn"t even
remember it," she said. That may be the lesson. Whenever you say something to a person-cruel or kind - you
have no idea how long the word will 12 . She"s all the way over in Japan, but still she hears those four simple
words: You can do that. | ( )1. A. way
( )2. A. photo
( )3. A. managed
( )4. A. described
( )5. A. times
( )6. A. kick
( )7. A. through
( )8. A. before
( )9. A. suggestion
( )10. A. interested
( )11. A. meant
( )12. A. continue | B. life
B. painting
B. agreed
B. imagined
B. questions
B. pass
B. into
B. if
B. excitement
B. doubtful
B. took
B. stay | C. education
C. picture
C. liked
C. created
C. classes
C. carry
C. over
C. because
C. sadness
C. worried
C. seemed
C. get | D. spirit
D. drawing
D. accepted
D. discovered
D. projects
D. hit
D. with
D. until
D. encouragement
D. sure
D. happened
D. leave |
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