When I was little, my mother sold flowers at Camden Market in London, She couldn"t leave me at home on my own, so I had to go to the market with her. As I grew older, I began to give my mom a hand and I really enjoyed it.
Things changed when I was 14. My grandma gave me a book for Christmas, which was all about making candles . I loved it so much that I spent all my free time making candles of all shapes and sizes. I made hundreds of them.
One day, my mother was ill so I had to go to the market on my own. I decided to take some candles with me and see if I could sell them. To my surprise, they were sold out in 20 minutes! The next week, my mom gave me some money to buy some wax (蜡) to make more candles. They sold out really quickly, too.
Nine months later, we decided to stop selling flowers. My mom and I couldn"t make enough candles during the week, so some of my school friends started to help us. I paid them one pound for every candle, and we used to sell them for three or four times that. It was fun. and my friends worked with me in the market.
When I was 22, my uncle lent me some money and I opened my first shop on Portobello Road. Since then, I"ve never looked back, even in difficult times. At the first store, we only sold candles, but now we sell everything from designing furniture to paintings.
小题1:The sentence "I began to give my mom a hand" means" ".| A．I began to give my mom some gifts | | B．I began to help my mom sell flowers | | C．I began to wash my hands before working | | D．I began to get along better with my morn |
小题2:What did the writer do in her free time when she was 14？| A．She talked with her mother at the market. | | B．She played with her school friends at home. | | C．She read all kinds of books about Christmas | | D．She made candles of different shapes and sizes. |
小题3:The right order of the following things is
a. The writer"s morn stopped selling flowers.
b. The writer went to the market with some candles.
c. The writer bought candles from her friends and sold them well.
d. The writer"s morn fell ill.
e. The writer"s candles sold well.| A．bdeac | B．bedac | C．adbec | D．dbeac |
小题4:The writer’s uncle helped her open a shop by when she was 22.| A．buying her a shop | B．teaching her basic skills | | C．lending her some money | D．working together with her |
小题5:From the passage you can learn that you should .| A．spend all your free time on developing your interests | | B．have your own idea and work hard to make it succeed | | C．get as much support as you can from your family | | D．hold on to your dreams and never give up |
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小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:B |
试题分析：本文讲述作者跟随母亲去市场卖花，无意中看到一本书，学会制作蜡烛，当母亲生病时，他所做的蜡烛销售一空，由此开始自己的事业。
小题1:B 细节理解题。根据第一段提到She couldn"t leave me at home on my own, so I had to go to the market with her. As I grew older, I began to give my mom a hand and I really enjoyed it.很小便跟随母亲去市场，是由于不想单独留我在家，当我大一点时，就能帮到母亲，并且真心的喜欢上这件事，故选B项。
小题2:D 细节理解题。根据第二段提到Things changed when I was 14. My grandma gave me a book for Christmas, which was all about making candles . I loved it so much that I spent all my free time making candles of all shapes and sizes.14岁时，外婆给我本关于如何制作蜡烛的书，我喜欢上这个，并且做了很多 的蜡烛，所以选 D项。
小题3:D 排序题。根据文中事情发展的脉络，先是母亲生病同，作者去市场卖自己做的蜡烛，销售一空，作者的妈妈停止卖花，作者从朋友那卖蜡，再去卖，根据这个顺序，选D项。
小题4:C 细节理解题。根据最后一段提到When I was 22, my uncle lent me some money and I opened my first shop on Portobello Road.当我22岁时，我的叔叔借给我钱，我开办自己的第一家店，故选D项。
小题5:B 主旨大意。本文讲述作者在帮妈妈的过程中找到属于自己的兴趣，在一次妈妈生病时，自己的产品 销售一空，很受鼓舞，坚持的做下去，最终在叔叔的帮助下，开了自己的第一家店，给我们提示，有自己的想法，努力把想法变成现实，做成功，故选B项。 |
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My teenage son Karl refused to communicate with others after his father died. As a parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card during his junior year, it said that he had been 95 times from classes and had six grades for the year. At this rate he never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even him. Nothing worked.
One night I felt so that I got down on my knees and prayed for help. “Please God, I can’t do anything for my son. I"m at the end of my rope. I"m giving the whole thing up to you.”
I was at work when I got a phone call. A man himself as the headmaster. “I want to talk to you about Karl’s absences.” he could say another word, I choked up and all my disappointment and sadness over Karl came out into the ears of this stranger. “I love my son but I just don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has . It’ s out of my hands.” For a moment there was on the other end of the line. The headmaster said, “Thank you for your time, ” and hung up.
Karl’s next report card showed a marked in his grades. Finally, he even made the honor roll. In his fourth year, I a parent-teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, “Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?” I . “That was me. I thought I’d play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really me how much I was hurting you. That"s I knew I had to make you proud.”
| 小题1: | | A．confident | B．wise | C．single | D．busy |
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| 小题2: | | A．arrived | B．finished | C．returned | D．proved |
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| 小题3: | | A．naughty | B．troublesome | C．absent | D．present |
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| 小题4: | | A．failing | B．satisfying | C．disappointing | D．surprising |
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| 小题5: | | A．must | B．need | C．would | D．should |
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| 小题6: | | A．convinced | B．forced | C．persuaded | D．begged |
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| 小题7: | | A．powerless | B．useless | C．homeless | D．meaningless |
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| 小题8: | | A．better | B．worse | C．less | D．more |
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| 小题9: | | A．described | B．regarded | C．introduced | D．explained |
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| 小题10: | | A．Before | B．When | C．After | D．While |
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| 小题11: | | A．speaking | B．pouring | C．running | D．putting |
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| 小题12: | | A．continued | B．operated | C．affected | D．worked |
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| 小题13: | | A．silence | B．anger | C．sadness | D．surprise |
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| 小题14: | | A．painfully | B．happily | C．seriously | D．jokingly |
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| 小题15: | | A．progress | B．advance | C．improvement | D．encouragement |
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| 小题16: | | A．attended | B．joined | C．arranged | D．organized |
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| 小题17: | | A．concerned | B．disturbed | C．embarrassed | D．astonished |
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| 小题18: | | A．shook | B．nodded | C．smiled | D．replied |
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| 小题19: | | A．beat | B．hit | C．frightened | D．confused |
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He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the rescue workers that they called him “our baby.” In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby"s grave, carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child.” He has rested there ever since.
But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “This is our baby,” says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great aunt named Maria Panula, 42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Maria gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino, from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. "We thought they were all lost in the sea," says Schleifer.
Now, using the teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby"s grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the unknown child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now, the family sees no need for a new grave. "He belongs to the people of Halifax," says Schleifer. "They"ve taken care of him for 100 years."
小题1:The baby travelled on the Titanic with his_______.| A．mother | B．parents | C．aunt | D．relatives |
小题2:What is probably the boy"s last name?| A．Schleiferi | B．Eino. | C．Magda. | D．Panula. |
小题3:Some members of the family went to Halifax and put flowers at the child"s grave on Nov. 5 _______.| A．1912 | B．1954 | C．2012 | D．2004 |
小题4:Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word recover?| A．uncover | B．find | C．bury | D．gather |
小题5:This text is mainly about how______________.| A．the unknown baby"s body was taken from the north Atlantic | | B．the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia | | C．people found out who the unknown baby was | | D．people took care of the unknown baby for 100 years |
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In the kitchen of my mother"s houses there has always been a wooden stand with a small notepad and a hole for a pencil.
I’m looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can"t be the same pencil. The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.
“I"m just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.” I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. “You still use a pencil. Can’t you afford a pen?”
My mother replies a little sharply. “It works perfectly well. I"ve always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen these days. ”
Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, “One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on.”
This story—which happened before I was born—reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is also a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible exhibits at every meal.
小题1:Why has the author"s mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?| A．To leave messages. | | B．To list her everyday tasks. | | C．To note down maths problems. | | D．To write down a flash of inspiration（灵感）. |
小题2:What is the author"s original opinion about the wooden stand?| A．It has great value for the family. | | B．It needs to be replaced by a better one. | | C．It brings her back to her lonely childhood. | | D．It should be passed on to the next generation. |
小题3:The author feels embarrassed for ______.| A．blaming her mother wrongly | | B．giving her mother a lot of trouble | | C．not making good use of time as her mother did | | D．not making any breakthrough in her field |
小题4:What can be inferred from the last paragraph?| A．The mother is successful in her career. | | B．The family members like traveling. | | C．The author had little time to play when young. | | D．The marks on the breadboard have disappeared. |
小题5:In the author"s mind, her mother is ______.| A．strange in behavior | | B．enthusiastic about her research | | C．fond of collecting old things | | D．careless about her appearance |
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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．China | B．England | C．Russia | D．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 clearly | B．express herself well | | C．speak | D．open her mouth |
小题4:The underlined word “stroke” in the 4th paragraph most probably refers to ______.| A．an accident | B．a hit | C．an illness | D．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 |
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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 business | B．the power of Oprah’s opinions | | C．the impact on talkshows | D．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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