One day, a boy found the cocoon(茧) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small in the cocoon. He sat and watched for several hours as a butterfly struggled to make body through that little hole. Suddenly it stopped. So the boy to help the butterfly, thinking the butterfly might be .He took a pair of scissors and cut the hole .The butterfly came out of the cocoon but it a little different. It had a weak body and small, thin . The butterfly didn’t start to fly. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling(爬行) around with a weak body and thin wings. It was never able to fly.
The boy acted with but he didn’t understand why it could be like this. When a butterfly crawls out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of out of the cocoon makes the fluid(液体) from the butterfly’s body into its wings. It helps the butterfly be to fly. If the butterfly never has to squeeze(挤压) itself out of the cocoon, its wings will never get the fluid and it can never fly.
struggles are what we need in our lives. If we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be we could have been and we would never fly.
In our lives, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, and sometimes even growth, without it , there"s no way of life. We can"t avoid or problems. So, next time you are a problem or difficulty, remember the butterfly. Struggle a little—then fly!
| 小题1: | | A．hole | B．worm | C．tall | D．snake |
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| 小题2: | | A．it | B．it"s | C．itself | D．its |
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| 小题3: | | A．decided | B．asked | C．showed | D．ordered |
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| 小题4: | | A．afraid | B．interested | C．surprised | D．grateful |
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| 小题5: | | A．slimmer | B．bigger | C．shorter | D．smaller |
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| 小题6: | | A．touched | B．sounded | C．looked | D．smelt |
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| 小题7: | | A．wings | B．feet | C．eyes | D．head |
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| 小题8: | | A．success | B．excitement | C．kindness | D．humour |
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| 小题9: | | A．get | B．getting | C．to get | D．got |
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| 小题10: | | A．ready | B．quiet | C．glad | D．used |
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| 小题11: | | A．Somewhere | B．Something | C．Some time | D．Sometimes |
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| 小题12: | | A．as helpful as | B．as weak as | C．as strong as | D．as creative as |
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| 小题13: | | A．repeats | B．recommends | C．requires | D．represents |
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| 小题14: | | A．happiness | B．difficulties | C．pleasure | D．hope |
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| 小题15: | | A．served with | B．growing into | C．bringing in | D．faced with |
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小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:B
小题6:C
小题7:A
小题8:C
小题9:B
小题10:A
小题11:D
小题12:C
小题13:D
小题14:B
小题15:D |
试题分析：短文大意：本文通过一只蝴蝶遇到困难时少挣扎了一点，而是通过小男孩的帮助从茧里出来的故事。告诉我们一个道理：当我们遇到问题或困难时，多挣扎一下，就能起飞。
小题1:靠查名词及语境理解。hole 洞；worm 虫；tall 高的； snake蛇。根据上下文意思，句意：那小男孩发现茧子上有一个小洞。以及第一段的最后一行“through that little hole”。故选A。
小题2:考查代词及语境理解。It它；it’s =" it" is它是；itself它自己；its它的。句意：让它的身体通过那个小洞。在这里要修饰“body”，用形容词性物主代词。故选D。
小题3:考查动词及语境理解。decided 决定； asked 问；showed给…看；ordered命令。句意：它停止了，因此小男孩决定帮助它。根据后一句：他拿出剪刀剪开洞。故选A
小题4:考查形容词及语境理解。afraid 害怕的；interested感兴趣的；surprised惊讶的；grateful感激的。句意：小男孩决定帮助它，他认为蝴蝶会感激他。故选D。
小题5:考查形容词及语境理解。slimmer 较苗条的；bigger较大的；shorter较短的，较矮的；smaller较小的。因为一开始那洞太小，蝴蝶才半天没爬出来，所以小男孩用剪刀把洞剪大来B
小题6:考查动词及语境理解。touched 触摸；sounded听；looked 看；smelt嗅，闻。句意：蝴蝶出来了，它看起来有点不同。“It had a weak body and small, thin”都是用眼睛看出来的。故选C。
小题7:考查名词及语境理解。wings 翅膀； feet脚； eyes眼睛； head脑袋。根据后一句“a weak body and thin wings”，前后照应。故选A。
小题8:考查名词及语境理解。Success成功；excitement兴奋；kindness善良； humour幽默。句意：虽然小男孩不理解为何会这样，但他还是用好心行动。故选C。
小题9:考查动词及语境理解。work of中“of”是介词，介词后加动名词。故选B。
小题10:考查形容词及语境理解。ready 准备好的； quiet 安静的；glad 高兴的；used用过的。根据上下文意思：努力地离开茧子让蝴蝶身体的液体进入他的翅膀。它帮助蝴蝶准备飞行。be ready to “准备”，故选A。
小题11:考查副词及语境理解。Somewhere 某地；Something某事，某物； some time 表示"一些时间"或“一段时间”，可以用作名词或副词短语。sometimes用作副词，表示“有的时候”，可以把它放在句首，句尾或句中。句意：有的时候奋斗/挣扎是我们生活中必须的。故选D。
小题12:考查形容词及语境理解。Helpful有帮助的； weak 虚弱的； strong 强壮的；creative 有创造力的。根据句意：我们将没有原本有的强大，我们将永远不会飞。上下文：如果我们挣扎了，我们就会有原本的能力，没有挣扎，反倒落后了。故选C。
小题13:考查动词及语境理解。repeat“重复”， recommend“介绍，推荐”， require“要求”， represent“象征，代表”。句意：疼痛和苦难是所有窗户的钥匙，有时，甚至代表着成长。没有它，生活没有路。故选D。
小题14:考查名词及语境理解。happiness 幸福；difficulties困难； pleasure快乐；hope希望。根据下一行“problem or difficulty”，故选B。
小题15:考查动词短语及语境理解。served with 供应，供给；growing into 成为，长成；bringing in把…拿进来，搬进，收获；faced with面临，面对。句意：下次你面对一个难题或困难时，记得那只蝴蝶。根据意思，故选D。 |
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[详细]举一反三
A king had a wonderful talent for growing flowers. He became old and didn’t want to deal with big things anymore. So he began to look for someone to take his place. But who could he trust for the job? He thought for a while and got an idea. He would let the flowers decide. He gave everyone a little seed (种子). The one who could grow the most beautiful flower from the seed would be the next leader.
A girl called Serena was very beautiful and wanted to grow the most beautiful flower. She planted it in a nice pot and took great care of it, but nothing would grow.
The next year she saw everyone come to the palace with pots full of beautiful flowers. She was disappointed but also went to the meeting with her empty pot. The king looked through all the flowerpots and then stopped at hers.
“Why is your pot empty?” he asked.
“Your Majesty (陛下), I did everything to make it grow, but I have failed,” she answered.
“No, you didn’t,” he said.
“You see, the seeds I’ve given out were all roasted (烤过的), so nothing could come out of them. I have no idea where all these flowers come from. But you have been honest and by being so, you will become my successor (继承人).”
小题1:The king wanted to choose a person to _____.| A．be the next leader | B．grow beautiful flowers for him | | C．be his daughter or son | D．make friends with him |
小题2: How did the little seed show who was the right person?| A．It had some special power. | | B．The king knew nothing could grow from it. | | C．A special flower could grow from it. | | D．Only a good person could grow beautiful flowers from it. |
小题3:The king knew that those with pots of beautiful flowers _____.| A．worked hard | B．cheated him | | C．were kind to plants | D．were good at growing flowers |
小题4:In this passage the underlined word “given out” means ______.小题5:From the story, we learn that _____ is a good quality.| A．Kindness | B．carefulness | C．honesty | D．politeness |
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I went back to China as soon as school was over at the end of June. And I returned to Canada on August 17th.
It’s to go back to China this summer, because of the A（H1N1）flu. Everybody seemed to be . The easiest thing for us to do was to wear masks（口罩）on the plane, as my mom suggested. However, it was not to wear a mask for ten hours. I decided to put the masks into my bag wearing them.
Everything seemed OK the flight. I saw only five people wear masks all the time. When we arrived in Beijing, some came into the plane and took our temperature. Fortunately, had a fever. Therefore, I was able to get home on time.
However, everything went wrong after I got home. I became sick, with a sore throat and a fever because I had not my mom’s words. Luckily, I just had a common . while I was sick in bed, I thought that if I had listened to my mom at first, I would have never caught the cold.
It’s always wise to listen to your mom’s suggestions.
| 小题1: | | A．difficult | B．impossible | C．easy | D．important |
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| 小题2: | | A．happy | B．nervous | C．excited | D．sad |
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| 小题3: | | A．necessary | B．healthy | C．unfair | D．comfortable |
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| 小题4: | | A．thanks for | B．instead of | C．because of | D．except for |
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| 小题5: | | A．before | B．by | C．after | D．during |
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| 小题6: | | A．policemen | B．doctors | C．engineers | D．reporters |
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| 小题7: | | A．somebody | B．anybody | C．nobody | D．everybody |
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| 小题8: | | A．followed | B．heard | C．known | D．understood |
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| 小题9: | | A．stomachache | B．toothache | C．cold | D．headache |
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| 小题10: | | A．differently | B．particularly | C．usually | D．probably |
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Have you ever complained (抱怨) why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes dark to you? Are your lessons sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find the whole world smiling to you..
Not long ago, a friend of mine decided to read a lot of books to get knowledge. So he went to the library and happily with several books. But after a few days, he felt bored. The idea of finishing all of the books seemed , because it was for him to sit quietly to read a whole book. He didn’t know what to do. Then one day, he suddenly thought of “Why not make reading fun?” It gave him again. Reading is a journey of spirit(心灵之旅). Every time when we a book, we are actually talking the writer. Since then, he tried to spend more time reading books, so he could feel all of the writer’s happiness and sadness. And reading is boring, but kind of interesting.
Attitude can make a great . Someone once said, “ the situation is bad, people are free to choose their attitude.” So, don’t complain about the situation. It helps . For example, one day the weather is fine. You and your friends want to go for a picnic. Just before you go, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very and start to complain about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature brings you? And with the timely rain, crops(庄稼) in the fields will grow better and farmers will have a good harvest (收成).
Attitude decides everything. With an optimistic (乐观的) attitude, life is easy and happy. Let’s smile to we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
| 小题1: | | A．seem | B．taste | C．sound | D．smell |
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| 小题2: | | A．cry | B．smile | C．complain | D．shout |
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| 小题3: | | A．more | B．less | C．many | D．a lot |
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| 小题4: | | A．sang | B．jumped | C．returned | D．danced |
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| 小题5: | | A．easy | B．unnecessary | C．possible | D．impossible |
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| 小题6: | | A．hard | B．interesting | C．happy | D．easy |
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| 小题7: | | A．money | B．hope | C．time | D．knowledge |
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| 小题8: | | A．buy | B．borrow | C．read | D．write |
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| 小题10: | | A．of course | B．no longer | C．as usual | D．in fact |
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| 小题11: | | A．decision | B．difference | C．discussion | D．problem |
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| 小题12: | | A．Even though | B．Because | C．As if | D．So |
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| 小题13: | | A．nothing | B．anything | C．everything | D．something |
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| 小题14: | | A．comfortable | B．nervous | C．sad | D．happy |
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| 小题15: | | A．wherever | B．whenever | C．however | D．whatever |
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Peter’s job was to examine cars when they crossed the frontier(边界) to make sure that they were not smuggling(走私) anything into the country. Every evening he would see a factory worker coming the hill towards the frontier, a bike with grass on it. When the bike the frontier, Peter would stop the man and him take the grass off. Then he would examine the straw very to see whether he could find anything, after which he would look in all the man’s pockets he let him tie(捆绑) the grass again. The man would then put it on his bike and go off down the hill with it. Although Peter was always to find gold or other valuable things hidden in the straw, he never found . he was sure the man was smuggling something, but he was not to think out what it could be.
Then one evening, after he had looked ____ the grass and emptied the worker"s pockets ____ usual, he ____ to him, "Listen, I know you are smuggling things ____ this frontier. Won"t you tell me what it is? I"m an old man, and today"s my last day on the job. Tomorrow I"m going to retire (退休). I promise I shall not tell ____ if you tell me what you"ve been smuggling." The worker did not say anything for ____. Then he smiled, turned to Peter and said quietly, "Bikes."
| 小题2: | | A．filling | B．pulling | C．pushing | D．carrying |
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| 小题3: | | A．arrived | B．appeared | C．came | D．reached |
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| 小题5: | | A．carefully | B．quickly | C．silently | D．horribly |
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| 小题6: | | A．before | B．after | C．first | D．so |
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| 小题7: | | A．lucky | B．hoping | C．thinking | D．wondering |
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| 小题8: | | A．nothing | B．something | C．everything | D．anything |
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| 小题9: | | A．possible | B．strong | C．able | D．clever |
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| 小题10: | | A．through | B．thoroughly | C．upon | D．up |
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| 小题12: | | A．told | B．cried | C．ordered | D．said |
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| 小题13: | | A．cross | B．past | C．across | D．into |
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| 小题14: | | A．everyone | B．anyone | C．no one | D．someone |
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| 小题15: | | A．moment | B．long time | C．sometime | D．some time |
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Shaking It Off
One day, a farmer’s donkey fell into a dry well(井). The poor animal cried for hours before his finally found him. The farmer tried hard to pull him out from the well but failed. He felt for the donkey but after carefully thinking about the situation, he that he would save neither the donkey nor the well. Since the donkey was too and it was not worth（值得） the trouble of saving. So he invited his neighbors to help him bury(埋葬) the old donkey in the __ so that it would make him end his pain.
many people coming to help, the old donkey was excited at first. As they began to scoop the dirt into the well with shovels(铲子), he soon what was happening. He felt upset and cried sadly again. As the farmer and his neighbors continued throwing the dirt on his , he suddenly had a good idea. Some time later, when the farmer finally looked down into the well, he was surprised at what he saw: the dirt landed on his back, he would shake it off and take a step up!
Soon, everyone was amazed when the donkey stepped over the edge of the well and ran away quickly! It seemed that it would him at first, but it actually helped him later because of the manner in which he faced his adversity(逆境).
That is life! Just like the donkey, life is going to throw dirt on us, all kinds of dirt. we face our problems in an active way, and refuse to to any trouble, each dirt is like a stepping stone with which we get out of the deepest wells. This is a key one of the secrets of life. stop and never give up. Success is just in its way.
| 小题1: | | A．neighbor | B．owner | C．relative | D．kid |
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| 小题2: | | A．sorry | B．lucky | C．dangerous | D．worried |
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| 小题3: | | A．complained | B．decided | C．agreed | D．meant |
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| 小题4: | | A．strong | B．tall | C．old | D．poor |
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| 小题5: | | A．water | B．hole | C．well | D．house |
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| 小题6: | | A．Heard | B．Hearing | C．To hear | D．Hears |
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| 小题7: | | A．realized | B．remembered | C．discovered | D．found |
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| 小题8: | | A．leg | B．stomach | C．tail | D．back |
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| 小题9: | | A．any time | B．every time | C．one time | D．some time |
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| 小题10: | | A．angrily | B．heavily | C．proudly | D．sadly |
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| 小题11: | | A．save | B．bother | C．fill | D．bury |
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| 小题12: | | A．as soon as | B．as long as | C．as far as | D．as well as |
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| 小题13: | | A．give up | B．give out | C．give in | D．give off |
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| 小题15: | | A．Always | B．Never | C．Sometimes | D．Hardly |
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