When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more__ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him____much in repairs that he decided that he had better ____it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly____to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so___of them had any desire to buy it. Dave"s friend Sam saw that he was ____ when they met one evening, and said, “What"s____， Dave？”
Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may ___more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement！” Thinking that Sam"s____was sensible(合理的)，he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car，____ very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no ____.But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问)．A man rang up and said he would like to___ him about the car. “All right，” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o"clock the next morning would be____or not. “Fine，” the man said, “and I"ll____ my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to ____ it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, ____ to wait there for the people who had____ his advertisement. Even Dave had to ____that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸)．Then, soon after he had got the car as clean____ it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave"s car and then said, “Have you reported this ____ to us yet, sir？”
| 小题1: | | A．directly | B．safely | C．properly | D．easily |
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| 小题3: | | A．keep | B．repair | C．sell | D．throw |
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| 小题4: | | A．anxious | B．lucky | C．ashamed | D．generous |
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| 小题5: | | A．some | B．neither | C．none | D．most |
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| 小题6: | | A．delighted | B．upset | C．calm | D．astonished |
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| 小题9: | | A．message | B．advice | C．request | D．description |
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| 小题10: | | A．uses | B．loses | C．has | D．spends |
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| 小题11: | | A．doubt | B．help | C．trouble | D．answer |
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| 小题13: | | A．exact | B．suitable | C．early | D．late |
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| 小题14: | | A．follow | B．meet | C．bring | D．introduce |
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| 小题15: | | A．recognize | B．gain | C．admire | D．test |
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| 小题16: | | A．happening | B．meaning | C．turning | D．failing |
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| 小题17: | | A．read | B．inserted | C．answered | D．placed |
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| 小题18: | | A．forget | B．show | C．disagree | D．admit |
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| 小题20: | | A．bargain | B．sale | C．accident | D．result |
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小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:C
小题6:B
小题7:B
小题8:C
小题9:B
小题10:A
小题11:D
小题12:B
小题13:B
小题14:C
小题15:D
小题16:B
小题17:C
小题18:D
小题19:A
小题20:C |
小题1:答案 D [easily表达更容易，他买车的主要目的是为了上下班方便。]
小题2:答案 A [so much...that...，如此多……以致于……，这是一个固定结构。too much不能和that连用，我们经常使用too...to。]
小题3:答案 C [根据上文修理花费太多，所以就决定卖掉，而且下文也就是围绕卖车而展开的。]
小题4:答案 A [be anxious to do sth急着干……，Dave想了解是否有人急着买车，他想卖掉车。]
小题5:答案 C [前面已经提到“it was falling to pieces”车很快要成碎片，所以没有人愿意买。neither主要于两个人中没有一个，所以在这不合适。]
小题6:答案 B [upset表示“伤心的，难过的”。因为没人愿意买车，所以他很伤心。]
小题7:答案 B [“what"s up”表示“怎么回事，发生了什么”。]
小题8:答案 C [“get”表示“得到”，在这儿是表示“你将得到的要比广告花费的多”。]
小题9:答案 B [advice表示“建议”，因为前面有一句“what about advertising it in the newspaper？”这本就是一种建议“在报纸上登广告怎么样？”]
小题10:答案 A [uses表示“使用”，在这里表示车很省油。loses表示“丢失”；has表示“有”；spends表示“花费时间、金钱、精力”。]
小题11:答案 D [no answer表示“回应”，表示广告登出去以后无人问津。doubt表示“怀疑”；help表示“帮助”；trouble表示“麻烦”。]
小题12:答案 B [这里表示来看车。]
小题13:答案 B [suitable表示“合适的”，在这里是问第二天早上十点钟是否合适。]
小题14:答案 C [bring my wife表示把妻子带来。recognize表示“认出”；gain表示“获得，得到”；admire表示“羡慕”。]
小题15:答案 D [“test”表示“测试”，买车的人将和妻子一道来测试一下车子。]
小题16:答案 B [“mean to”表示“打算做……”在这儿是打算等买车的人。]
小题17:答案 C [“answer”在这里表示“回应”，就是指那个看了广告以后准备来看车的人。]
小题18:答案 D [“admit”表示“承认”在这里表示他自己也不得不承认自己的车看起来太旧了。]
小题19:答案 A [这里是一个固定结构“as...as”。]
小题20:答案 C [“accident”表示“事故”。] |
核心考点
试题【When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could trav】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
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I truly feel that my mother led me here, to Morzaine, and to my future as happy wife and business woman. When Mum ____ in October 2007, I was a cook. In December that year while I was working for a wedding, a pearl necklace Mum had left me ____. I was distraught(忧心如焚的). Some days later, I was ____ that a guy who was working with us that day “could probably have made a fortune ___ the necklace he found.” ____， he returned it. Hearing how I"d ____Mum for six months before her death, he said，” Christmas is going to be ___ —why not go out to the Alps for a couple of weeks？”
I come to Morzaine，a small，friendly village in the Alps and ____ fell in love with it. What was ____ to be a stopgap (权宜之计) trip turned into a new life. I kept travelling between London and here and felt ____ than I had in months.In December 2008, I was ____ as a hotel manager and moved here full time.
A month later, I met Paul, who was traveling here. We fell in love. In the beginning, I didn"t want to discuss ____， because the sadness of losing Mum ____ felt great. Paul understood that and never __49__ me but, by summer, we got married. A year later, we used his saving, and the money from the sale of Mom"s house, to build our own ____.
We want to give our guests a ____ feeling, so each room is themed(以……为主题) around memories from our lives. There are also style to remind me of Mom —a tiny chair which ___ be in her bedroom is set in one room.
We are having a wonderful life Mum ____ naturally part of it, ____ there"s no way we would be here if it wasn"t for the ____ she gave me. I know she"s here in spirit, keeping an eye on us.
| 小题1: | | A．died | B．came | C．returned | D．visited |
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| 小题2: | | A．burned | B．disappeared | C．broke | D．dropped |
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| 小题3: | | A．shown | B．comforted | C．persuaded | D．told |
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| 小题4: | | A．hiding | B．stealing | C．selling | D．wearing |
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| 小题5: | | A．Luckily | B．Naturally | C．Surely | D．Hopefully |
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| 小题6: | | A．nursed | B．cured | C．missed | D．guarded |
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| 小题7: | | A．long | B．hard | C．merry | D．free |
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| 小题8: | | A．suddenly | B．finally | | C．nearly | D．immediately |
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| 小题9: | | A．said | B．proved | C．supposed | D．judged |
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| 小题10: | | A．smarter | B．higher | C．firmer | D．lighter |
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| 小题11: | | A．honoured | B．hired | C．regarded | D．trained |
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| 小题12: | | A．travel | B．business | C．children | D．marriage |
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| 小题13: | | A．recently | B．once | C．still | D．firstly |
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| 小题14: | | A．left | B．pushed | C．surprised | D．interrupted |
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| 小题15: | | A．hotel | B．restaurant | C．home | D．shop |
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| 小题16: | | A．homely | B．lively | C．motherly | D．friendly |
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| 小题17: | | A．ought to | B．used to | C．might | D．could |
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| 小题18: | | A．takes | B．keeps | C．looks | D．feels |
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| 小题19: | | A．unless | B．while | C．because | D．though |
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| 小题20: | | A．money | B．chair | C．house | D．necklace |
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Diana Jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for her 21yearold twin sons: a combination of savings, income, scholarships, and a modest amount of borrowing. Then her husband lost his job, and the plan fell apart.
“I have two kids in college, and I want to say ‘come home"，but at the same time I want to provide them with a good education，” says Jacobs.
The Jacobs family did work out a solution: They asked and received more aid from the schools, and each son increased his borrowing to the maximum amount through the federal loan (贷款) program. They will each graduate with $20,000 of debt, but at least they will be able to finish school.
With unemployment rising, financial aid administrators expect to hear more families like the Jacobs. More students are applying for aid, and more families expect to need student loans. College administrators are concerned that they will not have enough aid money to go around.
At the same time, tuition(学费)continues to rise. A report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education found that college tuition and fees increased 439% from 1982 to 2007, while average family income rose just 147%. Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade.
“If we go on this way for another 25 years, we won"t have an affordable system of higher education，” says Patrick M. Callan, president of the center. “The middle class families have been financing it through debt. They will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt.”
Financial aid administrators have been having a hard time as many companies decide that student loans are not profitable enough and have stopped making them. The good news, however, is that federal loans account for about three quarters of student borrowing, and the government says that money will flow uninterrupted.
小题1:According to Paragraph 1，why did the plan of Jacobs family fail?| A．The twins wasted too much money. | | B．The father was out of work. | | C．Their saving ran out | | D．The family fell apart. |
小题2:How did the Jacobses manage to solve their problem?| A．They asked their kids to come home. | | B．They borrowed $20,000 from the school. | | C．They encouraged their twin sons to do parttime jobs. | | D．They got help from the school and the federal government. |
小题3:Financial aid administrators believe that ________.| A．more families will face the same problem as the Jacobses | | B．the government will receive more letters of complaint | | C．college tuition fees will double soon | | D．America"s unemployment will fall |
小题4:．What can we learn about the middle class families from the text? | A．They blamed the government for the tuition increase. | | B．Their income remained steady in the last decade. | | C．They will try their best to send kids to college. | | D．Their debts will be paid off within 25 years |
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A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work. He may have the belief that he is not capable (有能力的) of it. A child may think he is ___ because he doesn"t understand how to make the ____ of his mental faculties (才能). Older people may be mistaken that they are incapable of learning new things because of their ____.
A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real ____ because he feels that it would be useless. He won"t go at a job with the confidence necessary for ___， and he won"t work his hardest way, even though he may think he is doing so. He is ____ likely to fail, and the failure will ____ his belief in his incompetence (无能)．
Alfred Alder, a famous doctor, had ____ like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor ___ in maths. His teacher told his parents he had no ability in maths in order that they would not ____ too much of him. In his way, they two ____ the idea. He accepted ____ mistaken thinking of his ability, felt that it was useless ____ and was very poor at maths, ____ as they expected.
One day he worked at a problem which ____ of the other students had been able to solve.
Alder ___ in solving the problem. This gave him confidence. He now ___ with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became especially good at maths. He not only ____ that he could learn maths well, but luckily he learnt ____ in his life from his own experience that if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may ____himself as well as others by his ability.
| 小题1: | | A．clever | B．shy | C．useless | D．stupid |
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| 小题2: | | A．biggest | B．most | C．highest | D．deepest |
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| 小题3: | | A．ability | B．age | C．brain | D．knowledge |
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| 小题4: | | A．decision | B．success | C．effort | D．trouble |
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| 小题5: | | A．work | B．study | C．improvement | D．success |
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| 小题6: | | A．truly | B．really | C．however | D．therefore |
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| 小题7: | | A．lead to | B．strengthen | C．increase | D．add to |
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| 小题8: | | A．an experience | B．an example | C．a thought | D．a story |
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| 小题9: | | A．state | B．mind | C．start | D．ending |
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| 小题10: | | A．blame | B．expect | C．get | D．win |
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| 小题11: | | A．developed | B．organized | C．discovered | D．found |
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| 小题13: | | A．managing | B．succeeding | C．trying | D．acting |
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| 小题14: | | A．only | B．almost | C．just | D．then |
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| 小题15: | | A．none | B．no | C．no one | D．nobody |
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| 小题16: | | A．gave | B．succeeded | C．failed | D．believed |
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| 小题17: | | A．lived | B．worked | C．played | D．graduated |
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| 小题18: | | A．made | B．took | C．expected | D．proved |
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| 小题19: | | A．early | B．deeply | C．late | D．simple |
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| 小题20: | | A．encourage | B．love | C．astonish | D．disappoint |
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My uncle has a very beautiful umbrella. He has had it ____ and he is very careful with it. It still looks as good as new. “That umbrella must have ____ you a great deal of money, Uncle，” I said to him one day. “No，” he replied, “____.” “Was it a present？” I asked again. “No，” said he. “Then how did you get it？” I asked.
“Well，” he answered, “it is a strange true story. About ten years ago I was walking along a quiet London street one evening ____ it suddenly rained. I had no ___ and no umbrella. No buses ____that street and there were no taxis in sight. As I was on my way to a party I didn"t want to get ___.So I stood in a doorway and waited for the rain to stop. By and by it grew quite ____， there wasn"t a person around，and still it rained and rained.____ a young man came to the place where I was standing, ____ a large umbrella over his head. As I hoped he would ____ me to walk to the next corner with him, ___ I could have got a taxi，I stepped ____ the dark doorway where I had been standing, and said, ‘____， where are you going with that umbrella？’
____ by my sudden appearance, the young man ____ the umbrella which I am afraid, he had just stolen, ran away, and ___ into the darkness. I picked up the umbrella and ____ my walk. I knew it would be ____ in this big city to try and discover the owner and so I"ve kept it ____.”
| 小题1: | | A．for months | B．for years | | C．since childhood | D．since then |
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| 小题2: | | A．used | B．cost | C．taken | D．spent |
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| 小题3: | | A．very little | B．only a few pounds | | C．not a penny | D．not a great deal |
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| 小题5: | | A．car | B．hat | C．raincoat | D．friend |
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| 小题6: | | A．moved through | B．ran through | | C．went across | D．passed across |
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| 小题8: | | A．dark | B．wet | C．late | D．helpless |
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| 小题9: | | A．At once | B．At last | C．Strangely | D．Secretly |
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| 小题10: | | A．raising | B．carrying | C．holding | D．lifting |
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| 小题11: | | A．allow | B．let | C．agree | D．promise |
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| 小题12: | | A．there | B．where | C．from which | D．in which |
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| 小题13: | | A．into | B．out of | | C．towards | D．from behind |
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| 小题14: | | A．By the way | B．Pardon | C．Excuse me | D．Sorry |
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| 小题15: | | A．Encouraged | B．Forced | | C．Warmed | D．Frightened |
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| 小题16: | | A．shut | B．took | C．dropped | D．forgot |
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| 小题17: | | A．disappeared | B．wandered | C．marched | D．came |
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| 小题18: | | A．stopped | B．started | C．continued | D．delayed |
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| 小题19: | | A．endless | B．interesting | C．exciting | D．hopeless |
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| 小题20: | | A．ever since | B．forever | C．long enough | D．in the end |
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In the fall of 1985，I was a brighteyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twentyone years later I am later I am still a brighteyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic...and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8！Our home was a complete zoo...a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college fulltime. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant talking as few as one class each semester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit.But I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!
I am not special, just singleminded. It always struck me that when you"re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you"re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won"t arrive in your life on one day. It"s a process. Remember；little steps add up to big dreams.
小题1:When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be ________.| A．a writer | B．a teacher | C．a judge | D．a doctor |
小题2:Why did the author quit school in her second year of college?| A．She wanted to study by herself. | | B．She fell in love and got married. | | C．She suffered from a serious illness. | | D．She decided to look after her grandma. |
小题3:What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?| A．She was busy yet happy with her family life. | | B．She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons. | | C．She wanted to remain a fulltime housewife. | | D．She was too confused to make a correct choice. |
小题4:What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?| A．Failure is the mother of success. | | B．Little by little，one goes far. | | C．Every coin has two sides. | | D．Well begun, half done. |
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