It was Mother"s Day. John was so busy with his work that he had ___1___time to return home. When he passed by a flower shop in the evening, he got an idea. "I"ll send Mum some roses ."
___2___John was picking his flowers, another young man went inside. "How many roses can I get for only five dollars, Madam?" he asked. The assistant Nancy was trying to tell him roses were as ___3___as forty dollars a dozen . Maybe he would only buy some carnations.
"No, I have to have red roses. " He said, "My mum was badly ill last year and I didn"t spend much time with her. Now I want to get something special, it has to be roses ___4___rose is her favorite. "
After hearing it, John said he would pay the rest of the money for the young man. When the young man took the roses, he almost jumped into the air and ran out of the shop. John was quite excited to see that. Then John took out his money and___5___his roses and asked the assistant to send them to his mother.
As he walked out, he saw the young man crossing the street and going into a___6___. But soon he found it was not a park but a cemetery. Crying, the young man___7___put down the roses," Mum, oh, Mum, why didn"t I tell you how much I loved you? God, please help ___8___find my mum and tell her I love her..."
___9___thinking anything, John turned and quickly walked back to the shop. He would take the __10____home himself.
| 小题2: | | A．After | B．Just | C．While | D．Before |
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| 小题3: | | A．cheap | B．beautiful | C．expensive | D．awful |
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| 小题5: | | A．looked after | B．took away | C．paid for | D．got out |
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| 小题6: | | A．shop | B．park | C．train station | D．hospital |
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| 小题7: | | A．loudly | B．happily | C．carefully | D．hardly |
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| 小题10: | | A．carnations | B．money | C．scarf | D．flowers |
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小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:C
小题6:B
小题7:C
小题8:C
小题9:C
小题10:D |
试题分析：本文主人公约翰是个很善良的人，但是由于工作忙，一直顾不上回家。一天路过花店时，想起给自己的母亲买些鲜花。在此期间遇到一个贫穷的年轻人来给母亲买鲜花。约翰慷慨的帮助了他。后来约翰发现这个年轻人的母亲已经去世，让自己体会到了子欲孝而亲不在的痛苦，决定自己亲自把鲜花送给母亲。
小题1:根据上文John was so busy with his work 可知他没有时间。故选A。
小题2:本题从句中为进行时态，可知动作正在进行，故选C，当他正在挑选他的鲜花时，另一个年轻人进来了。
小题3:根据as forty dollars a dozen 联系这个年轻人的五美元，可知价格是昂贵的。故选C。
小题4:联系上下文可知前后是因果关系，so后面句子指的是结果，故选A，因为玫瑰花是她最喜欢的。
小题5:联系上文Then John took out his money 取出他的钱，可知是为鲜花付款，故选C，为……付款。
小题6:联系下文But soon he found it was not a park 可知此时他认为年轻人是去了公园，故选B。
小题7:词义辨析。Loudly大声地；happily 高兴地；carefully小心地；hardly几乎不。结合语境可知他小心地把鲜花放下。故选C。
小题8:结合语境可知句意是：帮助我找到我的母亲，故选C。
小题9:联系下文John turned and quickly walked back to the shop.可知他什么其它的也没想，故选C，没有。
小题10:联系上文可知他要自己把鲜花带回家。故选D。
点评：这篇短文内容比较简单，理解不难。各小题与上下文联系比较紧密，答题中一定要注意联系上下文。答完后多读几遍，看看是否符合逻辑，适当修改。个别小题可以当做单独的词义辨析题来做，区分词义，选出最能使语句通顺的答案。 |
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试题【It was Mother"s Day. John was so busy with his work that he had ___1___time to r】；主要考察你对
人生百味类等知识点的理解。
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A teacher was giving a lesson to his students on stress management (压力). He raised a glass of 1 and asked the students, “How 2 do you think this glass of water is?”
The students’ 3 ranged from 20g to 500g.
“It does not matter on the absolute weight. It depends on how long you 4 it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour , I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it 5 a day, you will have to call an ambulance(救护车). It is the exact same weight, but the 6 I hold it, the heavier it becomes.
“If we 7 our burdens all the time, sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on, the burden becoming increasingly heavier.
“__8_you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up _9_.”
We have to 10 the burden from time to time, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on.
So 11 you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don’t carry it 12 home. You13 pick it up tomorrow. 14 burdens you are having now on your shoulders, let it down for a moment if you can.
Life is 15 , enjoy it.
| 小题1: | | A．coffee | B．drink | C．juice | D．water |
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| 小题2: | | A．heavy | B．much | C．soon | D．long |
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| 小题3: | | A．questions | B．say | C．answers | D．ask |
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小题6:A better B. fewer C. longer D. more
| 小题7: | | A．have | B．carry | C．don’t have | D．don’t carry |
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| 小题9: | | A．still | B．also | C．too | D．again |
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| 小题10: | | A．put on | B．put down | C．put off | D．put up |
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| 小题11: | | A．in front of | B．behind | C．before | D．ago |
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| 小题13: | | A．must | B．can | C．have to | D．need |
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| 小题14: | | A．Whenever | B．Whatever | C．However | D．Wherever |
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| 小题15: | | A．short | B．long | C．wide | D．thin |
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One day a poor boy, who was selling newspapers in a town, found that he had only ten pennies（便士）left, and he was hungry. He decided to ask for a 小题1: at the next house. However, he had another idea when a young woman opened the door.
Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. But as he looked 小题2: , she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it, and then asked, “How much do I own（欠）you?”
“My mother teaches me that I should 小题3: get money for any kindness,” she replied. “So you don’t owe me 小题4: .”
Many years later, the woman became seriously ill. Then she was sent to a famous hospital in London. Dr Kelly was called in to study her illness. When he heard the name of the 小题5: which she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. As soon as he walked into her room, he got to know her at once. He did his best to 小题6: her. Then he gave special attention to her. After some time she got well.
Dr. Kelly asked for her final bill before she left hospital. He 小题7: it, then wrote something on it 小题8: it was sent to her. She was afraid to open it, for she believed it would cost the rest of her life to 小题9: for it all. But 小题10: she opened it, and read these words on it: Paid in full with one glass of milk.
小题11:A．banana B．drink C．meal
小题12:A．excited B．thirty C．hungry
小题13:A．always B．never C．sometimes
小题14:A．anything B．everything C．nothing
小题15:A．country B．house C．town
小题16:A．protect B．remember C．save
小题17:A．looked at B．looked after C．looked for
小题18:A．after B．before C．when
小题19:A．take B．pay C．spend
小题20:A．finally B．quickly C．happily |
通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
About ten years ago when I was a student at college, I spent my summer holidays1 at a museum. 2 was hard for me then. Dad had lost his job and Mum was sick3. I was4 if I would be able to go on with my study the next term.
One day while I was working, I saw an old man come in with a little girl5 a wheelchair. As I looked 6 at this girl, I found that she had no arms7 legs. She was wearing a little white dress and she 8had a hat on.
As the old man pushed the wheelchair up to me, I was busy with my work. I9my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼). When I took the money from her grandfather, I looked back at the girl, 10was giving me the prettiest, largest smile I have 11 seen. Suddenly her handicap(生理缺陷) 12 and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile almost gave me a better understanding of what life is all about. She 13 me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her14of smiles, love and warmth.
I’m now a successful business and15I get down and think about the trouble of the world, I think about that little girl and the unforgettable lesson about life that she taught me.
| 小题1: | | A．to work | B．worked | C．work | D．working |
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| 小题2: | | A．Work | B．Life | C．Business | D．School |
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| 小题3: | | A．in the bed | B．in a hospital | C．in bed | D．in the hospital |
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| 小题4: | | A．wondering | B．guessing | C．hoping | D．checking |
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| 小题6: | | A．longer | B．nearer | C．further | D．closer |
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| 小题8: | | A．too | B．either | C．as well | D．also |
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| 小题9: | | A．held | B．turned | C．lifted | D．gave |
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| 小题11: | | A．ever | B．never | C．almost | D．even |
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| 小题12: | | A．was driven | B．was lost | C．was gone | D．was covered |
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| 小题13: | | A．saved | B．took | C．helped | D．taught |
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| 小题14: | | A．place | B．mind | C．earth | D．world |
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| 小题15: | | A．whatever | B．whenever | C．whoever | D．however |
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Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find the whole world smiles to you.
While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine. Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the concert that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is what we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”
Attitude decided everything. With an optimistic(乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
小题1:People sometimes complain_______.| A．the sky is always dark | | B．their studies are successful | | C．they see the world with their heart | | D．life is tiring |
小题2:If there is a timely rain, ______.| A．you want to go out | | B．you can listen to the concert | | C．crops in the fields will grow better | | D．farmers can’t have a good harvest |
小题3:When we face failure, we _________.| A．must be confident in ourselves | | B．shouldn’t be afraid of it | | C．shouldn’t give up hope | | D．All of the above |
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通读下面短文，掌握其大意。然后在各小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。
Mrs. Yuan is a writer. She’s 1 and often helps the poor person. It was very cold one snowy morning. On the way to her office, she saw an old man 2 on the ground. She came to him and help him to 3 and bought some porridge and bread for him. The old man ate up the food quickly and 4 her very much. Then she asked. “Where do you live, Grandpa?”
“I have no 5 , madam,” said the old man. “ I have to sleep outside 6 .”
“How old are you?” “Ninety-two.” Mrs Yuan became 7 and went on asking, “Why not live in the old people’s house?” “ 8 I have a son,” said the old man. “they’ve 9 admitted(接纳) a person who has children.”
“Do you have any children?”
“Yes,” answered the old man. “I have a son.”
“Where is your son, then?”
“He has no children, 10 the old people’s house admitted him.”
“It’s unfair!” said Mrs. Yuan. She overcame several difficulties and at last helped him to live in the old people’s house.
| 小题1: | | A．strange | B．kind | C．terrible | D．healthy |
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| 小题2: | | A．walking | B．running | C．jumping | D．lying |
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| 小题3: | | A．stand up | B．look up | C．sit up | D．get up |
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| 小题4: | | A．thanked | B．hated | C．liked | D．looked at |
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| 小题5: | | A．farm | B．trees | C．clothes | D．house |
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| 小题6: | | A．at noon | B．at night | C．every day | D．in the morning |
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| 小题7: | | A．sad | B．sorry | C．surprised | D．happy |
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| 小题8: | | A．As | B．Because | C．Since | D．While |
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| 小题9: | | A．never | B．always | C．often | D．sometimes |
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