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I was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance(保险业)company. I told him honestly why I wanted the job —I needed to keep my family in Boston. My wife recently died of a heart attack. A job in Boston would help me reduce some of the extreme trauma(精神创伤) and pain of the loss for my 16-year-old daughter. It was important for me to keep her in her present high school. I could still hardly talk about the loss of my wife. Bruce, the interviewer, was politely empathetic, but he didn’t probe(彻底调查) any further. He admitted (接受)my loss and, with great respect, moved on to another subject. After the next round of the interview, Bruce took me to lunch with another manager. Then he asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he, too, had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also been married 20 years and had three children. In his sharing, I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had —a pain that was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a beloved one. He offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, if I need help or just want someone to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call. Whether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I ever needed help. When he had no idea if we would ever see each other again, he helped our family deal with one of the greatest losses. He turned the normally cold business interview into a caring support for another person in need.
小题1:The author took part in the interview because _______.
A.he had lost his job and wanted to find a new one
B.he had to support his family in Boston
C.his wife had recently died of a heart attack
D.his daughter needed money for schooling
小题2: The underlined word "empathetic “in the second paragraph means _____.
A.kindB.easy-goingC.smartD.understanding
小题3: Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Bruce invited the author to lunch later.
B.Bruce shared his life experience with the author.
C.Bruce was willing to help the author.
D.Bruce finally gave the job to the author.
小题4: We can infer from the last paragraph that ________.
A.Bruce and the author saw each other often
B.the author got little help from Bruce
C.the author learned much from the job interview
D.the author had a better life afterwards
小题5: What is the best title for the passage?
A.An act of kindness
B.A pleasant interview
C.The same experience
D.An important lesson

答案

小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:A
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试题分析:一家大型保险公司的高级经理询问我为什么想要这份工作,。我诚实地告诉他,我需要让我的家人住在波士顿。我的妻子最近一个心脏病发作去世。在波士顿的作业会帮我16岁的女儿减少一些极端的创伤和痛苦。这是重要的,我让她在她目前的高中。我仍然可以几乎不谈论我的妻子。布鲁斯,出于礼貌善解人意,但他并没有任何进一步探测。布鲁斯与另一名经理拉着我一起吃午饭。然后他问我跟他去散步。他告诉我,他也失去了他的妻子。而且,像我一样,他也已经结婚20年,有三个孩子。在他的分享,我意识到,他经历了同样的痛苦。
小题1:细节理解题,根据文中语句“I told him honestly why I wanted the job —I needed to keep my family in Boston.”理解可知。我做这份工作的主要目的就是维持家庭在波士顿,故选B
小题2:词义理解推断题,根据文中语句“”Bruce, the interviewer, was politely empathetic, but he didn’t probe(彻底调查) any further. He admitted (接受)my loss and, with great respect, moved on to another subject.理解可知。Empathetic可以理解为善解人意,故选D。
小题3:细节理解题,根据文中语句“He turned the normally cold business interview into a caring support for another person in need.”理解可知。Bruce没有接受作者故选D。
小题4:理解归纳题,根据文中语句“I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had —a pain that was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a beloved one.”理解可知。作者从这次谈话中学到很多东西,故选C。
小题5:标题理解归纳题,根据文中语句理解可知,此文主要介绍了Bruce的善举,故选A。
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When my grandmother was 89 years old ,she was having problems with her heart. My family went with her to the doctor, who told her that she needed an operation. However, the doctor said that because of my grandmother’s age, the operation could be dangerous. He went on to say that my grandmother would have a 40% chance of having a heart attack(心脏病) and a 30% chance of dying during the operation.
My grandmother, shocked ,quickly stopped the doctor and said,“Doctor, as long as you’re talking about statistics(数据),I have a statistic for you: there is a 100% chance of you not operating one me !”With these words, my grandmother got up and left the doctor’s office.
My grandmother might have been stubborn, but she was not a fool. So the next day she went to another doctor, and he also told her she needed an operation.
My grandmother asked the doctor. “If I were your mother, what would you suggest?” The doctor walked up to her, smiled, put his arm around her and said, “Mom, let’s do this operation!” She had the operation and came out fine.
My grandmother passed away(去世)a few weeks before her 97th birthday. However, because of her positive attitude(积极的态度),she gave us ,her family and friends almost eight years of life to enjoy sharing with her.
小题1:The grandmother didn’t choose the first doctor because           .
A. he was afraid to do the operation.
B. he talked too much about the risks
C. he had never done such an operation
小题2:The second doctor’s words might have made the grandmother          .
A. nervous           B. unhappy            C. relaxed
小题3:We can tell from the story that the grandmother          .
A. wanted to be the second doctor’s mother
B. celebrated her 97th birthday with her family
C. lived through the operation by the second doctor.
小题4:The underlined word“stubborn” probably means        in Chinese.
A. 执拗的             B. 严谨的            C. 无知的
小题5:What can we learn from the story?
A. It is better to depend on statistics.
B. A positive attitude can change a person’s life.
C. A good doctor only cares for his patients’ health.
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A woman saw three o1d men sitting in her front yard.She said,“I don’t think I know you,but you must be very hungry. Please come in and have something to eat. ”
“We don’t go into a house together,”they replied.
“Why is that?” she asked.
One of the old men answered.“His name is Wealth,this is Success, and I am Love.” Then he said,“Now go in and discuss with your family which one of us you want in your house.”
Then the woman went in and told her family what was said. She said “Let’s invite Wealth. Let him come in and bring us nice things.We have been so poor.”His husband disagreed,“My
dear,why don"t we invite Success? Don’t you want me to be a successful man?.”
Then the daughter asked,“Would it be better to invite Love? Our life will then be filled with 1ove!” “Let’s take our daughter"s advice(建议)s,” said the father and mother.
So the woman went out and asked, “Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our Guest. ”Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and followed Him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success, “I only invited Love. Why are you coming along?” The two o1d men answered,“If you had invited Wealth or Success, two of us would have stayed out, but since you have invited Love, wherever he goes, we go with him. Where there is Love, there is Wealth and Success.”
根据短文内容,判断以下句子的正误。你认为正确的在题前括号内写“T”,错误的写“F"。
小题1:This is a true story that happened a 1ong time ago.
小题2:Wealth could make the family very rich.
小题3:The family had different ideas and didn"t know whom to invite.
小题4:The three o1d men all went into the house to get something to eat.
小题5:The story tells us that 1ove is the most important of al1.
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When I was in Grade Three, I was chosen to the heroine in the school play.
For weeks my mother helped me  1  my lines(台词), But once on stage.  Every word disappeared   2  my head.  My teacher asked me to change   3 and be the narrator.
Although I didn’t tell my mother  4 had happened that day, she   5 my unhappiness and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the yard.
It was a lovely  6 day.  It was warm.  In the yard all the flowers came out.  We could see lots of dandelions dancing among the colorful flowers.  How beautiful they were! I watched my mother carelessly bend down by some flowers.  “I think I am going to   7 all the useless grass. ” She said.
“But I like dandelions,” I said, “All flowers are   8  — even dandelions”.
My mother looked at me   9 .  “Yes, every flower shines in its own way, doesn’t it?” she said.  I nodded.  “So that is  10  of people, too. ” She added.
She had guessed my   11 .  I started to cry and told her the truth.
“You will be a great narrator. ” She said.  Then she told me   12 I loved to read stories to her when I was in Grade 1.
Over the next few   13 I learned to take pride in the role.  The big day finally   14 .  A few minutes before the play, my teacher came over to me.  “Your mother asked me to give this to you,” she said, passing me a dandelion.  After the play, I took the flower home, laughing that I was perhaps   15 person who would keep such a common dandelion.
小题1:
A.writeB.practiceC.trainD.provide
小题2:
A.fromB.inC.onD.over
小题3:
A.namesB.characterC.rolesD.lines
小题4:
A.whichB.whenC.thatD.what
小题5:
A.sensedB.touchedC.reachedD.heard
小题6:
A.springB.summerC.autumnD.winter
小题7:
A.use upB.eat upC.dig upD.drink up
小题8:
A.perfectB.livelyC.attractiveD.natural
小题9:
A.sadlyB.carelesslyC.surprisinglyD.happily
小题10:
A.kindB.goodC.trueD.suitable
小题11:
A.worryB.stressC.nervousnessD.pain
小题12:
A.howB.how muchC.how manyD.how long
小题13:
A.daysB.weeksC.monthsD.years
小题14:
A.wentB.cameC.ranD.appeared
小题15:
A.the onlyB.the bestC.the lastD.the worst

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In a school some trouble was caused by the students. They are very naughty and didn’t obey the school rules.They often fought with each other and they didn’t forgive each other. One day a new teacher came to this school. When he heard that, he came up with a good idea.
He told each of his students to bring a clear plastic bag and a bag of potatoes to school. For every person they didn’t want to forgive in their lives, they chose a potato, wrote the person’s name on it, and put it in the plastic bag.
Some of their bags were very heavy. They were then told to carry this bag with them everywhere for one week. They would put it beside their bed at night, on the seat when sitting in a car or on a bus, and next to their desk at school. Days of carrying the bags around with them made students get to know what a weight they were carrying in their minds. And they had to pay attention to it all the time so they didn’t forget it or leave it in embarrassing (令人难堪的) places. As time passed by, the potatoes went bad and smelt nasty.
Too often we think of tolerance as a gift to other people, and it clearly is for ourselves! If we choose to keep our sadness and hatred (仇恨) in our hearts, we will have to carry them around all our lives. After that, the students got on well with each other and didn’t fight anymore. Learn to forgive , and you will be happier at the same time.
小题1:The new teacher asked the students to bring ________ to school.
A.a clear plastic bag of potatoes
B.a clear plastic bag and a potato
C.some clear plastic bags of potatoes
D.a clear plastic bag and a bag of potatoes
小题2:They wrote the person’s name on the potato, who________.
A.they likedB.they didn’t forgive
C.hated themD.liked them
小题3:The underlined word “tolerance” means________.
A.感恩B.宽容C.仇恨 D.悔恨
小题4:From this passage we can know that ________.
A.we should learn to forgive
B.we should know something about potatoes
C.we shouldn’t use plastic bags
D.we should take potatoes to school
小题5:Which of following is NOT true?
A.Tolerance is a gift for other people and ourselves.
B.Carrying a bag of potatoes made the students embarrassed.
C.The students had to take bags of potatoes with them everywhere.
D.The students had to take bags of potatoes with them for about two weeks.

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All the wisdom of the times, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us in books, but we must know how to make use of this treasure. The unluckiest people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
I’m very interested in people and finding out about them. Some of the most amazing people I’ve met could only  be found in a writer’s imagination, then in his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends and new worlds.
Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the writer’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate(分开的), in some way they are connected with each other. The same ideas, or related(相关的) ones, appear in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in books, but with different solutions(解决方法) according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other. They connect the past, the present and the future and have their own generations (age groups), like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the end, you not only find out about the world and the people in it, you find out about yourself, too.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on(专注于) books somebody tells you “ought” to read, you probably won’ t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time — and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t suffer during the process.
小题1:Which of the following ideas may the writer of this article agree with?
A.You will never meet amazing people in your life unless you read.
B.You think actively instead of getting facts passively(被动地)when reading.
C.You will get much delight from any book that you are told to read.
D.You can relax yourself by reading because it involves little thinking.
小题2:What can we learn from Paragraph 4?
A.We can often find something connected with ourselves in books.
B.Different writings at different times share the same characteristics.
C.The same problems will appear in different books with similar solutions.
D.Reading books which are written for your generation is more helpful to you.
小题3:What’s the writer’s purpose of writing this article?
A.To advise us to enjoy ourselves by reading.
B.To encourage us to make full use of libraries.
C.To encourage us to find out solutions in books.
D.To advise us to discuss books with other people.

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