One morning more than thirty years ago, I entered the Track Kitchen, a restaurant where everyone from the humblest(卑微的) to the most powerful came for breakfast. I notice an empty chair next to an elderly, unshaven man, who looked somewhat disheveled. He was wearing a worn-out hat and was alone. I asked if I might join him. He agreed quietly and I sat down to have my breakfast.
We cautiously began a conversation and spoke about a wide range of things. We never introduced ourselves. I was concerned that he might have no money and not be able to afford something to eat. So as I rose to go back to the counter and buy a second cup of coffee, I asked.
“May I get you something?” “A coffee would be nice.”
Then I bought him a cup of coffee. We talked more, and he accepted another cup of coffee. Finally, I rose to leave, wished him well, and headed for the exit. At the door I met one of my friends. He asked, “How did you get to know Mr. Galbreath?”
“Who?”“The man you were sitting with. He is chairman of the Board of Churchchill Downs. ”
I could hardly believe it. I was buying, offering a free breakfast, and feeling pity for one of the world’s richest and most powerful men!
My few minutes with Mr. Galbreath changed my life. Now I try to treat everyone with respect, no matter who I think they are, and to meet another human being with kindness and sincerity.
小题1:What does the underlined word “disheveled” mean?| A．Unfriendly. | B．Untidy. | C．Gentle. | D．Kind. |
小题2:The author bought coffee for the old man because ______.| A．he thought the old man was poor | | B．he wanted to start a conversation | | C．he intended to show his politeness | | D．he would like to thank the old man. |
小题3:How did the author probably feel after he talked with his friend?| A．Proud. | B．Pitiful. | C．Surprised. | D．Regretful. |
小题4:What is the passage mainly expressed in the story?| A．We should learn to be generous. | | B．It is honorable to help those in need. | | C．People in high positions are not like what we expect. | | D．We should avoid judging people by their appearances. |
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小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:D |
试题分析：作者通过自己在餐厅里遇见了一个衣冠不整的人，我和他聊的很好，很担心他没有钱来付账。但结果却发现他是世界上最富有的人之一，通过这个故事告诉我们不要以貌取人。
小题1:B 猜词题。根据前一句I noticed an empty chair next to an elderly, unshaven （未剃须的）man。这个人胡须都没有剃，说明他有点不过整洁。故B项最符合句意。
小题2:A 细节题。根据第二段2,3行I was concerned that he might have no money and not be able to afford something to eat.可知我担心他没有前买吃的东西。说明我认为他可能很穷，故A正确。
小题3:C 推理题。根据文章倒数第二段I could hardly believe it. I was buying, offering a free breakfast, and feeling pity for one of the world’s richest and most powerful men!我竟然给世界上最富有的最有权力的人买了一杯免费的咖啡！说明我对对方的身份感觉非常地惊讶，没有想到对方是如此著名的一个人。故C正确。
小题4:D 主旨大意题。作者通过自己在餐厅里遇见了一个衣冠不整的人，我和他聊的很好，很担心他没有钱来付账。但结果却发现他是世界上最富有的人之一，通过这个故事告诉我们不要以貌取人。故D正确。 |
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试题【One morning more than thirty years ago, I entered the Track Kitchen, a restauran】；主要考察你对
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In 1943, during the Second World War the body of an English man, William Martin, was discovered off the Spanish coast. The papers he had been carrying were returned to England, where they were carefully examined. They had clearly been changed and that was exactly what the British had hoped would happen, for Martin was a trick designed to fool the Germans.
Martin did not exist. The body was that of a sailor who looked as though he had died when his boat sank, but in fact he had been ill and died. Leaving the boat to go down, his parents allowed the dead body to be put into the sea near Spain. It was hoped that the Germans would find it and read the fake(假的)papers he carried.
The papers said that the British would attack the island of Sardinia, when in fact they planned to attack the island of Sicily. The trick was successful. When the British landed on Sicily, most of the heavy German guns had been moved to defend(保卫) Sardinia.
小题1:______ put the papers on the dead man.| A．The British | B．German spies | C．Spanish soldiers | D．William Martin |
小题2:When the Germans found William Martin they probably thought he _________.| A．was a British spy with important information about the war | | B．was killed by the British soldiers | | C．died of an illness | | D．had the fake papers of the British Army |
小题3:When the British found out the papers were changed they concluded _________.| A．Martin did exist | B．Martin was a German spy | | C．the Germans had read the papers | D．they should attack Sardinia |
小题4:Which of the order is right according to this passage? __________.
a. The Germans found the dead at sea.
b. The British decided to use the dead body to fool the Germans.
c. The British planned to attack Sicily.
d. The papers on Martin were brought to London to be examined.
e. The Germans found the fake papers on the dead body.
f. The Germans decided to defend Sardinia.
g. The Germans believed the papers.| A．c.b.a.e.g.f.d. | B．c.a.b.d.g.f.e. | C．a.c.b.g.f.e.d. | D．b.c.a.g.e.f.d. |
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阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My husband Jeff and I moved into our new home in Scottsbluff last year just before Christmas. I did not have the or energy to carry out my traditional Christmas decorating and baking activities. What was the point, anyway? It was going to be a Christmas after all.
, the neighborly nature of west Nebraska residents started to trickle (陆续来临) in.
There was a on the door one evening. It was Jeff’s new colleague, John Smith, and his wife, Phyllis. The Smiths had stopped by to us to town with a loaf of homemade bread. They pointed out a on the porch (门廊). Apparently the doorbell wasn’t working in the cold snowy weather and we had a visit from the Browns, our across-the-street neighbors, who brought us a Christmas card and more Christmas cookies.
The feelings brought by these thoughtful gestures lasted longer than the food.
As Jeff and I were clearing pre-Christmas from our driveway, Ernie Guzman came over from next door to us to dig out.
Then, we received an invitation to a Christmas Eve meal with our neighbors, Ernie and Nancy Sommer, and their —a 90-year-old lady, who also had no family in the immediate area with whom to spend the holiday.
Our Christmas Eve was quite merry, thanks to our . Our Christmas morning was special, thanks to the Smiths’ gift of bread. I was so for these gestures of welcome, especially during the holidays.
This year, we were again unable to be with our families for Christmas. The and work schedules just made things too difficult. that sense of Christmas isolation (孤立) all too well, we decided to try to round up some other folks who were in the holidays.
Lonely people are all around us, but most of us notice them. Just take a look around you. Sometimes, the smallest gesture can make a world of difference.
| 小题1: | | A．chance | B．anxiety | C．time | D．ability |
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| 小题2: | | A．lonely | B．free | C．merry | D．usual |
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| 小题3: | | A．Therefore | B．However | C．Somehow | D．Meanwhile |
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| 小题4: | | A．sign | B．knock | C．card | D．note |
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| 小题5: | | A．invite | B．welcome | C．drive | D．send |
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| 小题6: | | A．tree | B．flower | C．mail | D．package |
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| 小题7: | | A．forgot | B．missed | C．arranged | D．received |
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| 小题8: | | A．warm | B．deep | C．true | D．mixed |
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| 小题9: | | A．rubbish | B．snow | C．dust | D．leaves |
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| 小题10: | | A．teach | B．urge | C．help | D．forbid |
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| 小题11: | | A．prepare | B．share | C．taste | D．exchange |
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| 小题12: | | A．guest | B．aunt | C．maid | D．partner |
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| 小题13: | | A．folks | B．relatives | C．neighbors | D．colleagues |
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| 小题14: | | A．call | B．greeting | C．meeting | D．breakfast |
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| 小题15: | | A．sorry | B．eager | C．grateful | D．ready |
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| 小题16: | | A．season | B．expense | C．distance | D．situation |
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| 小题17: | | A．Knowing | B．Showing | C．Studying | D．Discovering |
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| 小题18: | | A．happy | B．busy | C．alone | D．active |
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| 小题19: | | A．always | B．usually | C．finally | D．seldom |
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| 小题20: | | A．careful | B．kind | C．pretty | D．patient |
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Sally jumped up the moment she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She asked, “How is my little boy?”
The surgeon said, “I’m ____. We did all we could, but your boy didn’t ____ it.”
Sally ____into the chair. The surgeon asked, “Would you like some time with your son before he was transported to the ____?” Sally nodded. While saying goodbye, she ran her fingers ____ through his thick curly hair. “Would you like a lock of his hair?” the surgeon asked. Sally nodded yes. The surgeon cut a few hairs, and handed them to Sally. The mother said, “It was Jimmy’s idea to ____ his body to the university for study. He said it might ____ somebody else. “I said no at first, ____ Jimmy said, ‘Mom, I won’t be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom.’”
“My Jimmy had a heart of ____, always thinking of someone else, always wanting to help others if he could.” she went on.
Sally walked out of the hospital. She put the bag with Jimmy’s ____ on the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was ____. It was even harder to enter the ____ house. She carried Jimmy’s belongings, and the lock of his hair to her son’s room. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room ____ where he had always kept them. She lay down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, ____ herself to sleep.
It was around midnight when Sally ____. Lying beside her on the bed was a letter. The letter said,
“Dear Mom,
I know you’re going to ____ me, and me too. I will always love you, Mom, even more ____ each passing day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to ____a little boy so you won’t be so lonely, that’s OK with me. He can have my room and old toys to play with.
Don’t be sad thinking about me. I don’t hurt any more. The cancer is all ____. I don’t have to stand that ____any more. The angels in Heaven are so tender. They say I’m a Special Angel! I love you, Mom.”
| 小题1: | | A．worried | B．sorry | C．happy | D．grateful |
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| 小题3: | | A．knocked | B．looked | C．sank | D．got |
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| 小题4: | | A．house | B．church | C．hospital | D．university |
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| 小题5: | | A．anxiously | B．lovingly | C．patiently | D．angrily |
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| 小题6: | | A．donate | B．move | C．show | D．lend |
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| 小题7: | | A．affect | B．help | C．protect | D．impress |
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| 小题9: | | A．gold | B．stone | C．wisdom | D．bravery |
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| 小题10: | | A．toys | B．clothes | C．belongings | D．letters |
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| 小题11: | | A．long | B．smooth | C．difficult | D．dangerous |
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| 小题12: | | A．empty | B．familiar | C．big | D．old |
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| 小题13: | | A．roughly | B．exactly | C．especially | D．possibly |
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| 小题14: | | A．put | B．sent | C．cried | D．buried |
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| 小题15: | | A．wrote | B．spoke | C．slept | D．awoke |
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| 小题16: | | A．understand | B．forgive | C．leave | D．miss |
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| 小题18: | | A．save | B．host | C．visit | D．adopt |
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| 小题19: | | A．lost | B．gone | C．cured | D．spotted |
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| 小题20: | | A．depression | B．sadness | C．pain | D．stress |
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It was in October. I was aimlessly wandering down the street, heading into a most gloriously beautiful sunset. I had an urge to speak to someone on the street to share that beauty, but it seemed everyone was in a hurry.
I took the next-best action. Quickly I ducked into a department store and asked the lady behind the counter if she could come outside for just a minute. She looked at me as though I were from some other planet. She hesitated, and then seemingly against her better judgment, she moved toward the door.
When she got outside I said to her, “Just look at that sunset! Nobody out here was looking at it and I just had to share it with someone.”
For a few seconds we just looked. Then I said, “God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.” I thanked her for coming out to see it; she went back inside and I left. It felt good to share the beauty.
Four years later my situation changed greatly. I came to the end of a twenty-year marriage. I was alone and on my own for the first time in my life. I lived in a trailer park which, at the time, I considered a real come-down, and I had to do my wash in the community laundry room.
One day, while my clothes were going around, I picked up a magazine and read an article about a woman who had been in similar circumstances. She had come to the end of a marriage, moved to a strange community, and the only job she could find was one she disliked: clothing sales in a department store.
Then something that happened to her changed everything. She said a woman came into her department store and asked her to step outside to look at a sunset. The stranger had said, “God is in his heaven and all is right with the world,” and she had realized the truth in that statement. From that moment on, she turned her life around.
小题1:The author asked the woman to go outside to ______.| A．admire the sunset | B．cheer her up | C．offer some help | D．have a chat |
小题2:Four years later, the author ______.| A．found her dream job | B．put an end to her marriage | | C．worked in a laundry room | D．lived in the same community |
小题3:After reading the article in the magazine, the author was probably______.| A．disappointed | B．puzzled | C．inspired | D．overjoyed |
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Have you ever not wanted to do something so badly? Well，that’s how I about joining Madcaps，a mothers and daughters’club assisting charity. ，my feeling changed finally. Now I believe if you adopt an attitude．you might just enjoying it.
Six months ago，my mom told me the club asked us to work as at Saint Vincent de Paul Homeless shelter．That meant I had to in the dirty homeless shelter for at least 20 hours.
The first lime we went there，a lady led us to the kitchen where we my five fellow Madcaps classmates- they also wore the same mark .Since I′m usually awkward， I had never talked with any of them .Worse still，my mom was asked to help outside the kitchen，leaving me totally to serve food with them. Soon large numbers of homeless families in like rushing river．A little girl，around 5 years old，walked up to me I her a sandwich. She took it and joined her family quickly．As she walked away, I she was wearing a coat．Clearly too big for her, hanging on her thin body, and couldn’t help thinking how much I had with her．It suddenly struck me that how I am.
After that moment I had a of heart Now I love Madcaps and don’t miss one meeting I have awkwardness when communicating and have many friends. And this year I am sure I will do more than the 20 hours of charity.
So that is how I have made a by doing one thing I do not want to do .If you have an open about things you can accomplish more and become a well-rounded（全面的）person.
| 小题1: | | A．heard | B．worried | C．felt | D．brought |
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| 小题2: | | A．otherwise | B．However | C．Therefore | D．Besides |
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| 小题3: | | A．optimistic | B．accurate | C．aggressive | D．passive |
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| 小题4: | | A．keepup | B．giveup | C．endup | D．takeup |
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| 小题5: | | A．members | B．volunteers | C．friends | D．clerks |
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| 小题6: | | A．wander | B．stay | C．teach | D．serve |
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| 小题7: | | A．raninto | B．caredabout | C．lookedfor | D．passedby |
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| 小题8: | | A．painfully | B．socially | C．naturally | D．hopelessly |
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| 小题9: | | A．afraid | B．doubtful | C．alone | D．patient |
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| 小题10: | | A．joined | B．broke | C．dropped | D．poured |
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| 小题11: | | A．awarded | B．showed | C．handed | D．bought |
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| 小题12: | | A．discovered | B．guessed | C．suspected | D．concluded |
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| 小题13: | | A．neatly | B．broadly | C．tightly | D．loosely |
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| 小题14: | | A．compared | B．connected | C．covered | D．competed |
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| 小题15: | | A．eager | B．lucky | C．calm | D．miserable |
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| 小题16: | | A．relief | B．loss | C．surprise | D．change |
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| 小题17: | | A．remembered | B．realized | C．overcome | D．ignored |
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| 小题18: | | A．allowed | B．required | C．included | D．finished |
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| 小题19: | | A．difference | B．promise | C．sacrifice | D．conclusion |
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| 小题20: | | A．study | B．plan | C．mind | D．question |
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