题目
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As an English teacher. I"ve been lucky enough to travel to many countries. I"ve seen people celebrating everything from the arrival of new babies to the delivery of new cars. I"ve attended weddings, parties and religious celebrations in countries as far apart as Argentina and Japan, and I"ve noticed that gold - the metal or the colour is almost always part of cultural events, traditions and celebrations.
From "mashallah" gold tokens(纪念品) that people give to babies in Turkey, to the gold stars that primary teachers stick on their students" exercise books. to the gold coffin that the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson was buried in. it makes me wonder: Why do people love gold?
For some people, gold seems to be a status symbol. Indian businessman Datta Phuge loves gold so much that he"s even bought a shirt made of the stuff-at a cost of $ 250,000. Datta Phuge has his reasons. He explains : "Some elite (杰出人物)people want to own an Audi or Mercedes(奔驰) and have big cars. I chose gold. "
For other people, gold is an investment. The price of gold generally increases over time-and in European markets it reached over $ 1,500 per ounce in 2011.
And for many people, the family heirloom(传家宝)brings together status and investment. My mother has a gold bracelet that was given to her by her grandmother-who, in turn. inherited it from her own grandmother. It"s quite a heavy piece and probably worth quite a lot of money. But its sentimental value is greater than its value in dollars: It " s a beautiful object that holds many family memories. When the time comes, my mum will give the bracelet to me.
So, status and investment are good reasons to value gold. But, I think that the real reason people love gold is because it can be made into beautiful objects. Think about Tutankhamen" s death mask. People love gold because it captures our minds, our imaginations and. above all, our hearts.
小题1: What did the writer observe while travelling in different countries7 ( No more than 15 words)
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小题2:Why did Indian businessman Datta Phuge buy a gold shirt? (No more than 7 words) (3 marks)
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小题3:What does the writer think of her mother"s gold bracelet? (No more than 7 words) (2 marks)
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小题4: In the writer"s opinion, why do people love gold? (No more than 17 words) (3 marks)
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答案
小题1:She observed that gold is almost always part of cultural events, traditions and celebrations.
小题2:He chose gold as a status symbol.
小题3:She believes that it holds many family memories.
小题4:Because it can be made into beautiful objects, and because it captures our minds, our imaginations and our hearts.
解析
试题分析：文章介绍作者在旅行的时候，发现：金子是很多活动，传统，庆祝活动的一部分，通过多年的生活阅历，作者发现很多人喜欢金子是因为他可以被做成美丽的东西，而且它可以捕获我们思想，想象力和心。
小题1:细节题：从第一段的句子：I"ve noticed that gold - the metal or the colour is almost always part of cultural events, traditions and celebrations.可知作者在旅行的时候，发现：金子是很多活动，传统，庆祝活动的一部分： She observed that gold is almost always part of cultural events, traditions and celebrations.
小题2:推理题：从第三段的句子：He explains : "Some elite (杰出人物)people want to own an Audi or Mercedes(奔驰) and have big cars. I chose gold. "可知 Datta Phuge选择了一个金色的衬衫，因为他认为景色是身份的象征。He chose gold as a status symbol.
小题3:细节题：从倒数第二段的句子：It " s a beautiful object that holds many family memories. 可知作者认为妈妈的金手镯承载了很多家庭的记忆。She believes that it holds many family memories.
小题4:细节题：从最后一段的句子：But, I think that the real reason people love gold is because it can be made into beautiful objects. People love gold because it captures our minds, our imaginations and. above all, our hearts.可知作者认为很多人喜欢金子是因为他可以被做成美丽的东西，而且它可以捕获我们思想，想象力和心： Because it can be made into beautiful objects, and because it captures our minds, our imaginations and our hearts.
核心考点
试题【Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the. questions according to the 】；主要考察你对词法等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
【1】 One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime(10分硬币) left. He was hungry so he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.
【2】 However, he lost his courage when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, “How much do I owe you?”
【3】 “You don’t owe me anything,” she replied. “Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a kindness.” He said, “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but it also increased his faith in God and the human race. He was about to give up and quit before this point.
【4】 Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called in to study her rare disease. Dr Howard Kelly, now famous, was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town __________, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately, he rose and went down through the hospital hall into her room.
【5】Dressed in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room and determined to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave special attention to her case.
【6】After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was positive that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words…
“Paid in full with a glass of milk”
(Signed) Dr Howard Kelly
【7】Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she prayed silently, “Thank you, God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands.”
小题1:What is the best title of the passage? (No more than 8 words.)
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小题2:When Dr. Howard Kelly heard the name of the town, what did he do?
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小题3:Please fill in the blank in the fourth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (No more than 5 words.)
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小题4: When the young woman read the note, what was her feeling? (No more than 4 words.)
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小题5:What does the underlined word “it” (Sentence3, Paragraph 6) refer to?
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A 10-year-old boy decided to study judo despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a terrible car accident.
The boy began lessons with an old Japanese judo master. The boy was doing well, so he couldn"t understand why, after three months of training, the master had taught him only one move. "Sensei," the boy finally said, "shouldn"t I be learning more moves?" "This is the only move you know, but this is the only move you"ll ever need to know," the sensei replied. Not quite understanding, but believing in his teacher, the boy kept training.
Several months later, the sensei took the boy to his first tournament.
Surprising himself, the boy easily won his first two matches. The third match proved to be more difficult, but after some time, his opponent became impatient and charged; the boy deftly used his one move to win the match. Still amazed by his success, the boy was now in the finals.
This time, his opponent was bigger, stronger, and more experienced. For a while, the boy appeared to be overmatched. Concerned that the boy might get hurt, the referee called a timeout. He was about to stop the match when the sensei intervened.
"No," the sensei insisted, "let him continue." Soon after the match resumed, his opponent made a big mistake: he dropped his guard. Instantly, the boy had won the match and the tournament. He was the champion.
On the way home, the boy and sensei reviewed every move in each and every match.
Then the boy gathered the courage to ask what was really on his mind. "Sensei, how did I win the tournament with only one move?" You won for two reasons," the sensei answered. "First, you"ve almost mastered one of the most difficult throws in all of judo. Second, the only known defense for that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm."
小题1:How did the judo master teach the boy? (no more than 8 words)
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小题2: Why did the referee call a timeout? (no more than 9 words)
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小题3:What were the reasons for the boy’s winning the champion? (no more than 20 words)
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小题4:What can we learn from the short story? (no more than 8 words)
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A 14-year-old girl was attacked by a grey bear while competing in a bike race. She managed to whisper the “bear” to her rescuer. The girl had serious head, neck and leg wounds. Now she is in a dangerous condition in hospital.
The girl was taking part in a 24-hour race through Bicentennial Park in Alaska when she was attacked by the bear. Bicentennial Park is next to Chugach State Park where some wild animals live.
The animal attacked the girl in a heavily wooded area at about 1:30 am. The girl called emergency services but she was unable to say any word. Another rider Peter Basinger found her lying unconscious on the ground. He told Anchorage Daily News that she managed to say the word “bear” when he stopped to help. Her helmet （头盔）had been knocked off in the attack and rolled into the woods. Mr Basinger waited with the girl for about 20 minutes until doctors arrived. Armed police travelled 3 km with doctors to pick up the girl.
Animal expert Rick Sinnot said something must be done as soon as possible to prevent the bear from attacking people again. “It was extremely terrifying,” he said.
Mr Sinnot told Anchorage Daily News that the bear might be a mother. It hurt two runners on a nearby path two weeks ago. He also said that the girl was lucky to have been wearing a bike helmet because the bear had bitten her head several times.
小题1:Who attacked the girl? (no more than 3 words)
小题2:What was the girl doing when she was attacked? (no more than 7 words)
小题3:What did the girl say to emergency services after the attack?
(no more than 1 word)
小题4:Who found the wounded girl in the woods first? (no more than 4 words)
小题5:What can we learn about bears from Mr Sinnot’s words in the last paragraph?
(no more than 10 words)
Ashley Power’s mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she was surfing the Internet regularly, but she couldn’t find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. And one day she thought, “If I had my own website, I’d make it a really interesting site for teenagers.”
So, when Ashley was sixteen, she launched her own website, called GooseHead. She had no idea how big a success it would be, but three years later, the site was the most successful teen site in the USA! It was getting 100,000 hits every day, and Ashley had about 30 employees.
After a few years, the website closed down. Then Ashley, who lives in Los Angeles, was asked to write a book called The GooseHead Guide to Life. The book is about how to design a website and start a business. It begins with a section called “All about Ashley,” where Ashley tells readers what it is like to be the boss of a company when you are only sixteen. “I was so happy. But it was crazy in a lot of ways. I got much stressed. I mean, I was only sixteen – I didn’t even have a car! If you were sixteen and you had your own company, you’d be stressed, too!”
In an interview Ashley gave advice to teenagers who wanted to start their own business, “Just be strong and have your dreams and work hard at them. And don’t listen when people tell you that you can’t do it, because I heard ‘no’ a lot. Just keeping until you hear ‘yes’!”
小题1:For what purpose did Ashley create GooseHead? （within 10 words）
小题2:What is the main idea of Paragraph 2? (within 6 words)
小题3:According to Paragraph 3, what did Ashley do after GooseHead closed down? (within 10 words)
小题4:How did Ashley feel as a young boss of a company? (within 5 words)
小题5:What is the key to success according to Ashley? (within 5 words)
[1] Alice Munro wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to take the award since it was founded in 1901.
[2] Munro,82, only the 13th woman given the award, was praised by the Swedish Academy during the Nobel announcement in Stockholm as the "master of the contemporary short story. " "We"re not saying just that she can say a lot in just 20 pages---more than an average novel writer can---but also that she can cover ground. She can have a single short story that covers decades, and it works, " said Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.
[ 3] Munro said she always viewed her chances of winning the Nobel as " one of those pipe dreams" that "might happen, but it probably wouldn"t. " Munro"s daughter woke her up to tell her the news. "It just seems impossible. A splendid thing to happen…More than I can say, " she said, overcome with emotion. " My stories have gotten around quite remarkably for short stories. I would really hope that this would make people see the short story as an important art, not something you play around with until you got a novel written. "
[4] Born in Ontario in 193I,Alice Anne Laidlaw studied journalism at the University of Western Ontario in London before dropping out to marry James Munro, a fellow student. She became a full-time housewife and mother of their children. She then moved to Victoria with her first husband and later returned to Ontario following their divorce. She married Fremlin in 1976.
[5] Three years ago, in an interview at Toronto"s International Festival of Authors, Munro said she had battled cancer, but did not provide specifics. In June, she told the National Post she was "probably not going to write anymore. " Asked on Thursday whether she would reconsider that statement, Munro said______, " because I am getting rather old. "
小题1:What is the text mainly about? ( no more than 15 words)
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小题2:What is Peter Englund mainly talking about in paragraph two? ( no more than 5 words)
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小题3:Please explain the underlined sentence in paragraph three.
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小题4:How did Alice Munro get the news that she won the Nobel Prize? ( no more than 10 words)
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小题5:Fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words. (no more than 5 words)
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