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I remember my mother as a strong woman. She came to America when she was 12—old enough to remember her language, she achieved scores and grades high enough to be admitted to Duke University. With a degree in computer science, she finally became the manager of a company in New York. My mother could give fluent speeches, say “wolves” correctly.
It was my mother who always stressed the importance of language. From the time I was born, I was read to. I would fall asleep to the sounds of my parents’ voices, whether it was my dad’s softly accented, or my mother’s clear English. The flow of language was unbroken, and whether in Chinese or English, the stream of communication flowed through our house.
One October morning in sixth grade, after my mother had left to catch the train to the city, I left the house for the bus stop. I was surprised when I saw our car, the door hanging open. As I drew closer, I saw my mother lying on the ground.
In the hospital, it was hard to believe that the lady who lay before me was my mom. My mother could not remember my name. As the leaves changed colors, it became clear that the stroke had created a wall between my mother’s mind and mouth: her mind was not any less clear, but the words she spoke were not what she meant.
The battle my mother faced taught me the importance of language. Without it, identity does not exist; relationships cannot be formed; stories cannot be told; directions cannot be given, and knowing anything about anyone is impossible. Without language, communication cannot take place. Without language, one cannot express the beauty of a sunset or the kindness of a stranger. The world would pass us by in silence.
小题1: From where might the author’s mom come to America?
A.ChinaB.EnglandC.RussiaD.Canada
小题2:From the second paragraph, we can know ________.
A.the author was taught to read since she was born
B.the author’s father spoke English poorly
C.the author couldn’t fall asleep without being read to
D.the author’s parents taught her language by talking a lot
小题3:According to the last two paragraphs, the author’s mom was unable to _______.
A.think clearlyB.express herself well
C.speakD.open her mouth
小题4:The underlined word “stroke” in the 4th paragraph most probably refers to ______.
A.an accidentB.a hitC.an illnessD.a robbery
小题5:This passage is mainly about _________.
A.a strong mother
B.the importance of language
C.a family disaster
D.the significance of teaching language

答案

小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:B
解析

试题分析:作者的妈妈从中国来到美国,很快适应当地的语言,也非常重视对作者的语言教育,但是因为一次中风,作者的妈妈不能表达自己的想法,作者更加意识到语言的重要性。
小题1:细节题:从文章第二段的句子:The flow of language was unbroken, and whether in Chinese or English, the stream of communication flowed through our house.可知作者的妈妈可能是来自中国的,选A。
小题2:细节题:从文章第二段的句子:It was my mother who always stressed the importance of language. From the time I was born, I was read to. I would fall asleep to the sounds of my parents’ voices, whether it was my dad’s softly accented, or my mother’s clear English.可知作者的父母通过经常交谈教作者语言,选D。
小题3:推理题:从第四段的句子:her mind was not any less clear, but the words she spoke were not what she meant.可知作者的妈妈不能清楚的表达自己的想法。选B。
小题4:猜词题:从第四段的句子:In the hospital, it was hard to believe that the lady who lay before me was my mom在医院里面,我们很难相信躺在我前面的女士是我妈妈,可知“stroke”指的是“一种疾病”,选C。
小题5:主旨题:从全篇文章可知作者的妈妈从中国来到美国,很快适应当地的语言,也非常重视对作者的语言教育,但是因为一次中风,作者的妈妈不能表达自己的想法,作者更加意识到语言的重要性。从最后一段的句子:The battle my mother faced taught me the importance of language. 可知答案是B。
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Oprah Winfrey, born in 1954, is all American talk show host, best known for her multi-award-winning talk show. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world. It"s no surprise that her endorsement(认可)can bring overnight sales fortune that defeats most, if not all, marketing campaigns. The star features about 20 products each year On her “Favorite Things” show. There’s even a term for it: the Oprah Effect.
Her television career began unexpectedly. When she was 16 year old, she had the idea of being a journalist to tell other people’s stories in a way that made a difference in their lives and the world. She was on television by the time she was 19 years old. And in 1986 she started her own television show with a continuous determination to succeed at first.
TIME magazine wrote, “People would have doubted Oprah Winfrey’s swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white males, she is a black female of big size. As interviewers go, she is no match for Phil Donahue. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, she makes up for in plainspoken curiosity, rich humor and, above all understanding. Guests with sad[stories to tell tend to bring out a tear in Oprah’s eye. They, in turn, often find themselves exposing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience.”
“I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew. It doesn"t matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to fall if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you"re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages, you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction” as Oprah addressed graduates at Harvard on May 30, 2013.
小题1:The Oprah Effect refers to _______
A.the effect on a businessB.the power of Oprah’s opinions
C.the impact on talkshowsD.the assessment of Oprah’s talk show
小题2:What can be inferred about Oprah’s television career?
A.She once gave up on her choice
B.Her swift success has been expected.
C.It lives up to her parents’ expectation.
D.She must have been challenged by white males.
小题3:The message from Oprah to graduates at Harvard is that _______.
A.success comes after failure
B.failure is nothing to fear
C.there is no need to set goals too high
D.pushing physical limits makes no sense
小题4:Which of the following best describes Oprah Winfrey?
A.Dull and pushy.B.Honest but tough.
C.Caring and determined.D.Curious but weak.

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Once I invited a group of friends round to my house, telling them that I was going to record their speech. I said I was interested in their regional accents, and that it would take only a few minutes. Thus, on one evening, three people turned up at my house and were shown into my front room. When they saw the room they were a bit alarmed, for it was laid out as a studio. In front of each easy chair there was a microphone at head height, with wires leading to a tape-recorder in the middle of the floor. I explained that all I wanted was for them to count from one to twenty. Then we could relax and have a drink.
I turned on the tape-recorder and each in turn seriously counted from one to twenty in their best accent. When it was over, I turned the tape-recorder off and brought round the drinks, and for the rest of the evening there was general cheerful conversation—interrupted only by the fact that I had to take a telephone call in another room, which unfortunately lasted some time.
Or at least that was how it would appear. For, of course, the microphones were not connected to the tape-recorder in the middle of the room at all but to another one, which was turning happily away in the kitchen. The participants, having seen the visible tape-recorder turned off, paid no more attention to the microphones which stayed in front of their chairs, only a few inches from their mouths, thus giving excellent sound quality. And my lengthy absence meant that I was able to obtain as natural a piece of conversation as it would be possible to find.
I should add, perhaps, that I did tell my friends what had happened to them, after the event was over, and gave them the choice of destroying the tape. None of them wanted to—though for some years afterwards it always seemed to be my round when it came to the buying of drinks. Linguistic research can be a very expensive business.
小题1:The writer asked his friends to count from one to twenty because _______. 
A.he wanted to record the numbers for his research
B.he wanted to find out whether the tape recorder was working
C.he wanted to make his friends relax before real recording started
D.he wanted his friends to think that was all he wanted to record
小题2:The writer went into another room to ________.
A.get a natural recording of his friends’ conversation
B.stay away from too much drinking with his friends
C.bring a telephone into the front room
D.answer a long distance phone call
小题3:The writer turned off the tape-recorder because _______.
A.he had to answer a phone call
B.he wanted his friends to enjoy some drinks
C.he thought the tape-recorder might bother his friends
D.he wanted to make his friends believe he had finished the recording
小题4:Which one is true according to the passage?
A.The writer destroyed the tape.
B.The writer’s friends destroyed the tape.
C.The writer did tell his friends what had happened.
D.The writer’s friends like to drink.

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Working Christmas Day
It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25.I was a nurse      that day, sighing about having to work on Christmas.Just then five bodies showed up at my      ,a pale woman and four small children.
“Are you all     ? ” I asked doubtfully.
“Yes.”the woman said     and lowered her head.
But when it came to the     of their problems,things got a little strange.Two of the chlidren had headaches,      weren’t accompanied by the normal symptoms of being ill.Two children had earaches,but only one could tell me which ear was     .The mother complained of a      but seemed to work to produce it.
“It may be a little while      a doctor sees you.” I explained.
“Take your time;it’s warm here.”She      
Whne they were waiting,I checked the chart.They had no      —they were homeless.The waiting room was warm.I looked out at the      by the Christmas tree.The youngest one was saying      to her mother.The oldest one was looking at the Christmas tree.
I went back to the nurses’ station and      the homeless family in the waiting room.The nurses,complaining about the working Christmas,began to feel pity for a family just trying to get      on Christmas.The team went into action,as we do when there’s a      emergency, but this was a Christmas emergency.
We      a simple dinner for our Christmas guests in the hospital cafeteria.They needed     ,so we collected from different departments candies and other things     that could be presents.
As the family walked to the door to leave,the four-year-old came running     , gave me a hug and whispered,” Thanks for being our angel today.”
小题1:
A.on businessB.on holidayC.on dutyD.on purpose
小题2:
A.deskB.bookC.computerD.chair
小题3:
A.coldB.wellC.sickD.poor
小题4:
A.highlyB.secrecyC.happilyD.weakly
小题5:
A.treatmentsB.descriptionsC.suggestionsD.solutions
小题6:
A.orB.butC.andD.thus
小题7:
A.controlledB.reflectedC.attackedD.affected
小题8:
A.breakB.troubleC.mistakeD.cough
小题9:
A.beforeB.afterC.untilD.unless
小题10:
A.hesitatedB.announcedC.respondedD.regretted
小题11:
A.identityB.addressC.moneyD.problem
小题12:
A.nursesB.doctorsC.patientsD.family
小题13:
A.somethingB.nothingC.everythingD.anything
小题14:
A.informedB.mentionedC.rejectedD.criticized
小题15:
A.relaxedB.busyC.freeD.warm
小题16:
A.mentalB.physicalC.medicalD.vital
小题17:
A.sharedB.enjoyedC.preparedD.delivered
小题18:
A.medicineB.courageC.housesD.presents
小题19:
A.cheapB.availableC.healthyD.convenient
小题20:
A.backB.forwardC.aroundD.away

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On Nov.18,1995,Itzhak Perlman,the violinist,came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City.
If you have ever been to a Perlman concert,you know that getting on stage is no small achievement for him.He was stricken with polio(小儿麻痹症)as a child,and so he has braces(支架)on both legs and walks with the aid of two crutches(双拐).
He walks painfully, yet majestically, until he reaches his chair.Then he sits down,slowly, puts his crutches on the floor, undoes the clasps on his legs,tucks one foot back and extends the other foot forward.Then he bends down and picks up the violin, puts it under his chin,nods to the conductor and proceeds to play.
But this time,something went wrong.Just as he fmished the first few bars(小节),one of the strings on his violin broke.You could hear it snap(嘣断)---it went off like gunfire across the room.There was no mistaking what that meant.There was no mistaking what he had to do.
We figured that he would have to get up,put on the clasps again,pick up the crutches and limp his way off stage-to either find another violin or else find another string for this one.But he didn’t.Instead.he waited a moment,closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again.
The orchestra began,and he played from where he had left off.And he played with such passion and such power and such purity as they had never heard before.
When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room.And then people rose and cheered.He smiled,wiped the sweat from this brow, raised his bow to quit us,and then he said in a quiet tone.“You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.’’
小题1:By saying “getting on stage is no small achievement for him”, the author really means     .
A.it’s very difficult for Itzhak Perlman to play the violin with three strings
B.it’s not easy for Itzhak Perlman to get on the stage because he is disabled
C.it’s not easy for ltzhak Perlman to face such a large audience
D.it’s really great achievements for ltzhak Perlman to play the violin with three strings
小题2:When one of the strings broke,people thought Itzhak Perlman would         .
A.go on playing with the remaining three strings
B.give up playing
C.change or repair his violin
D.get off the stage with shame
小题3:Itzhak Perlman   when one of the strings of the violin broke.
A.gave up playing
B.didn’t know what to do
C.went on playing the same piece of music
D.went on playing a different piece of music
小题4:What did the audience feel when Itzhak Perlman finished playing?
A.Surprised.B.Disappointed.C.Moved.D.Satistied.
小题5:Itzhak Perlman can be best described as a man who is    
A.cleverB.strong willedC.humourousD.quite skilled

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One evening I was resting in a cafe. I       a pair of newly bought white leather shoes, which were rather expensive. Then a boy came to me.
He was in a(n)          shirt, looking pale and about eleven. No sooner had I begun to speak than he opened the        i n his hand and took out the tools of shoe-polishing. He       down, took off my leather shoes, and began to shine them. 
He was busy doing his work        heavy rain began to pour down.People rushed to the café for        from the rain.More and more people crowded        and gradually separated the boy from me.
Hours passed, and it turned     .I had no shoes on my feet and          where the boy had been.I thought he would not         my shoes, and I would have to go home on my bare feet.
When it was near midnight the        ended, and there were fewer and fewer people in the café. The café was to be       .I had to move to the door, head       . just as I went to the gate, I       found that a boy of about eleven, looking very familiar, was sleeping at the        with his head leaning against a boxand his upper body being       . he held a package made of his shirt tightly in his arms.
I shook him slightly and woke him up. He       up and rubbed his eyes for a while before he recognized me.Then he opened the package      , gave me my leather shoes, and apologized to me shyly.I        him and wrapped him with his unfit shirt, which had wrapped my leather shoes. On my way home, the        of the boy stayed in my mind.
小题1:
A.tookB.woreC.mendedD.owned
小题2:
A.oldB.unfitC.smallD.dirty
小题3:
A.bagB.packageC.boxD.suitcase
小题4:
A.seatedB.bentC.putD.looked
小题5:
A.whenB.afterC.becauseD.since
小题6:
A.protectionB.rest C.hideD.preparation
小题7:
A.outB.awayC.inD.off
小题8:
A.darkB.lightC.dimD.bright
小题9:
A.thoughtB.wonderedC.guessedD.imagined
小题10:
A.shineB.keepC.returnD.carry
小题11:
A.rainB.coffeeC.timeD.work
小题12:
A.openedB.lockedC.stopped D.closed
小题13:
A.loweredB.droppedC.raisedD.held
小题14:
A.shortlyB.surprisedlyC.sadly D.immediately
小题15:
A.tableB.door C.bedD.cafe
小题16:
A.wetB.bareC.paleD.cold
小题17:
A.stayedB.sayC.jumpedD.got
小题18:
A.finally B.suddenly C.unfriendlyD.hurriedly
小题19:
A.recognizedB.forgaveC.paidD.inspired
小题20:
A.featureB.shirt C.imageD.form

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