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I felt tense and shaking. I drew my violin from under my coat like a gun. It was here, in Southampton, with trains passing overhead, that I was about to prove myself.
The first notes I played were loud and raw, and then they settled down and began to run more smoothly and to stay more or less in tune. To my surprise I was neither arrested nor told to shut up. Indeed, nobody took any notice at all.
I walked the streets of Southampton for several days, gradually knowing how to try and get money by being a street artist. It was not a good thing, for instance, to let the hat fill up with money — the sight could discourage the people; nor was it wise to empty it completely, which could also confuse them, giving them no hint as to where to drop his money. Placing a couple of pennies in the hat to start the thing going soon became a good idea. Before I played another tune, I took off the big money, but always left two pennies behind.
Old ladies were most generous, and so were women with children, shop girls, and typists. As for the men: Heavy drinkers were always generous too and so were big young with muscles. But never a man with a hat, briefcase or dog; respectable types were the meanest of all, except retired army officers, who would bark “Why aren’t you working, young man?” and then threw much money into the hat to hide their confusion.
小题1:The underlined phrase “have a go” in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.
A.have a try | B.run away |
C.change a place | D.commit a crime |
A.he could make a lot of money | B.he had chosen the wrong place |
C.he would get into trouble | D.people would stop and listen to him |
A.let the hat fill up with money first |
B.leave a small amount of money in the hat |
C.make sure that the hat was always empty |
D.choose the best place to play more smooth tunes |
A.Most of the ladies were willing to give him money. |
B.Retired army officers seldom gave him money. |
C.Drinkers were generous with their money. |
D.Not all the people would feel pity for street-violinists. |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:B
解析
试题分析:本文主要讲述了作者在经历第一次街头小提前演奏的紧张不安之后,逐渐适应并很快学会鼓励人们往帽子里放钱的技巧,观察到哪些人很大方,哪些人爱说教也会给钱的故事。
小题1:推理题:根据后文作者站在那里开始演奏,开始的时候音调不稳,可知作者很紧张,是第一次街头演奏,因此have a go 在此处是尝试一下的意思。故选A。
小题2:推理题:根据第三段中“To my surprise I was neither arrested nor told to shut up”令我惊讶的是既没有人抓我也没有人叫我闭嘴,由此可知作者还以为会有麻烦。故选C。
小题3:细节题:根据第四段中“ I took off the big money, but always left two pennies behind”我拿走大钱,但总是留下两个硬币,由此可知在帽子里留少量的钱才是让人们给钱的好办法。故选B。
小题4:推理题:根据最后一段最后一句“ then threw much money into the hat to hide their confusion”。然后扔下许多钱到帽子里来掩饰他们的疑惑,由此可知退役的军官也会给钱的,因此B错误。故选B。
核心考点
试题【I got up and dressed, stuck my violin under my jacket, and went out into the str】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
Henry Edwards Huntington was born in 1850 in Oneonta,New York.In 1872 he went to work for his uncle,one of the owners of the Central Pacific Railroad.Twenty years later, Huntington moved to San Francisco at his uncle"s request to share management of the Southern Pacific Railroad.On the way to San Francisco,he visited San Marino,and later bought it,which is home to his collections today.
In 1902,Huntington moved his business operations to Los Angeles,where he developed the street railway system that created the structure of the Los Angeles area.He greatly expanded the existing electric railway lines,creating an extensive inter-urban system providing the transportation necessary.Huntington’s business interests continued to grow particularly in the areas of water,power,and land development;at one time he served on as many as 60 corporate boards throughout the United States.
At the age of 60,he announced his decision to retire in order to devote time to his book and art collections and the landscaping of the 600一acre farm.In 1911 the large Beaux Arts building,in the charge of the architect Myron Hunt,was completed.
In 1913,Huntington married Arabella Duval Huntington.She shared his interests in collecting.As one of the most important art collectors of her generation,she was highly influential in the development of the art collection now shown in the former building.
In 1919,Henry and Arabella Huntington signed the agreement that conveyed their San Marino property and collections to a nonprofit educational trust,creating the Huntington,one of the world’s great cultural,research,and educational centers.
Henry E.Huntington died in 1927,leaving his great treasures the Huntington,including the world—famous H untington Library,Art Gallery,and Botanical Gardens in San Marino,California to the public,which hosts more than 500,000 visitors each year.
小题1:What can you learn about Huntington from the first two paragraphs?
A.He worked in many fields before he came to Los Angeles. |
B.He built a house to store his art collection in San Marino. |
C.H e did a lot to the USA railway development. |
D.He founded the Central Pacific Railroad. |
A.He devoted himself to his personal interests. |
B.He worked part time for non—profit business. |
C.H e was in charge of an educational center. |
D.H e shared his wife’s interests with her. |
A.An excellent artist. | B.A talented architect. |
C.An ambitious educator. | D.A successful businessman. |
A.a science fiction | B.a newspaper report |
C.a novel | D.a biography |
I’d been travelling for long hours on a lonely country road when I had a flat tyre. So I had to and get the tools to fix the problem. It certainly wasn’t doing this with a white shirt and suit on.
Nightfall was approaching. Suddenly a car pulled up beside me. A man got out and offered to me. Seeing tattoos (纹身) on his arm, I became as thoughts of robberies flashed through my mind. But I could say anything, he had already begun to take the tools to change the . While watching him, I happened to look back at his car and noticed someone sitting in the passenger seat. This me.
Then, without warning, it began to rain. He suggested that I wait in his car because my car was unsafe. As the rain increased, I unwillingly agreed. When I settled into the back seat, a woman’s voice came from the front seat. I replied with much when seeing an old woman there. It must be his mother, I thought. To my surprise, the old woman was a neighbor of the man who was helping me. “Jeff insisted on stopping when he saw you the tyre.” “I am grateful for his help,” I said. “Me too!” she said with a smile. He helped drive her to see her husband twice a week in a nursing home. She also said that he at the church and taught disadvantaged students for free.
Finally, Jeff helped me change the tyre. I tried to offer him money and of course he refused it. As we shook hands to say goodbye I apologized for my stupid at the first sight of him, and this incident warned us that we shouldn’t judge people by the way they .
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The younger daughter of former New York Mayor Richard White has moved her wedding from New Year’s Eve to this Thursday so her mother, who has been fighting against cancer for 11 years, can take part in the ceremony, a family spokesman said on Wednesday, Oct, 12, 2013. Elizabeth Lally White, who turns 28 on Thursday, will marry Sam Peterson in Spiaggia, a restaurant on North Michigan Avenue. The reception also will be held at the restaurant, which had been previously scheduled to host the couple’s engagement party on Thursday.
Lally White’s mother, Maggie, 68, was reported to have caught breast cancer in 2002. She had an operation in her leg in April and she was hospitalized twice in the weeks following the procedure for treatment of flu-like symptoms that doctors said were not related to the cancer. Maggie, who has used a walker or a wheelchair during most public appearances in recent years, is well beyond the average survival time for someone with breast cancer.
“As the mayor himself has said, she had a pretty difficult summer.” said Jacquelyn Heard, who served Mayor White’s press secretary for years and followed him to the same international law firm that he joined after leaving office in May. “She was not able to get around the way that she normally would do. This year, she has had quite a few setbacks and they’ve been pretty well documented. Lally White decided to reschedule the wedding so that her mom can participate in the festivities (庆祝活动).” Heard said. Lally White is a doctoral candidate at De-Paul University and plans to work with autistic (孤独症) children, and Sam Peterson works in insurance, Heard said.
Richard and Maggie White married in 1972 and had three children in addition to Lally — Nora, Patrick and Kevin. But Kevin was born with a disease and died in 1981 at 33 months.
小题1:When was Elizabeth Lally White born?
A.In 1983. | B.In 1987. | C.In 1985. | D.In 1984. |
A.Maggie, 68, is recovering now. |
B.Maggie caught breast cancer in 2002. |
C.The cancer caused some flu-like symptoms on Maggie. |
D.Average breast cancer patients lived a life shorter than Maggie. |
A.She was afraid that her mother couldn’t participate her wedding on New Year’s Eve. |
B.She was eager to work with autistic children after wedding. |
C.Her family will move out of New York. |
D.Her mother will accept operation because of her disease. |
A.3. | B.4. | C.5. | D.6. |
A.The political life of former Mayor. |
B.The brave wife of former Mayor. |
C.The wedding of former Mayor’s daughter. |
D.The family life of former Mayor. |
Top of the world
Near the North Pole
Christmas, 1925
My dear boys,
I am dreadfully busy this year一it makes my hand more shaky than ever when I think of it一and not very rich; in fact awful things have been happening, and some of the presents have got spoilt, and I haven"t got the North Polar Bear to help me, and I have had to move house just before Christmas, so you can imagine what a state everything is in, and you will see why I have a new address, and why I can only write one letter between you both.
|K] It all happened like this: one very windy day last November my hood blew off and went and stuck on the top of the North Pole. I told him not to, but the North Polar Bear climbed up to the thin top to get it down一and he did. The pole broke in the middle and fell on the roof of my house, and the North Polar Bear fell through the hole it made into the dining room with my hood over his nose, and all the snow fell off the roof into the house and melted and put out all the fires and ran down into the cellars where I was collecting this year"s presents, and the North Polar
Bear"s leg got broken.
He is well again now, but I was so cross with him that he says he won"t try to help me again一I expect his temper is hurt, and will be mended by next Christmas.
I send you a picture of the accident and of my new house on the cliffs above the North Pole(with beautiful cellars in the cliffs).
That"s all. Good Bye!
小题1:Why can the writer only write one letter to the two boys?
A.His hand is more shaky than ever. |
B.He is extremely busy. |
C.He has got a new address. |
D.He has to help the North Polar Bear. |
小题3:The underlined "him",refers to
A.the hood | B.the pole | C.the hale | D.the bear |
In these young men we saw the angry revolutionary spirit of the times. I had had some warning. On a visit with Winnie a few months before, she had managed to tell me through our coded conversation that there was a rising class of discontented youths④ who were violent and Africanist in beliefs. She said they were changing the nature of the struggle and that I should be aware of them.
The new prisoners were shocked by what they considered the inhuman conditions of the island, and said that they could not understand how we could live in such a way. We told them that they should have seen the island in 1964. But they were almost as sceptical of us as they were of the authorities. They chose to ignore our calls for discipline and thought our advice weak and unassertive(不果断).
It was obvious that they regarded us, the Rivonia Trialists⑤,as moderates⑥(温和派). After so many years of being branded a radical(激进的)revolutionary, to be seen as a moderate was a novel and not altogether pleasant feeling. I knew that I could react in one of two ways:I could scold them for their disrespect or I could listen to what they were saying. I chose the latter.
"then some of these men, such as Strini Moodley of the South African Students" Organization and Saths Cooper of the Black People"s Convention, came into our section, I __2____
Shortly after their arrival on the island, the commanding officer came and asked me as a favour to address the young men. He wanted me to tell them to behave themselves, to recognize the fact that they were in prison and to accept the discipline of prison life.I told him that I was not prepared to do that. Under the circumstances, they would have regarded me as a follower of the authorities.
(-adapted from "Long walk to freedom: The autobiography of Nelson Mandela")
小题1:Which of the following words fits best in Blank 1?
A.mild | B.aggressive | C.friendly | D.optimistic |
A.an angry massive revolution was probably on its way |
B.the author"s activities were strictly monitored |
C.many were concerned about the influence these young men could make |
D.these young men were willing to cooperate in face of difficulties |
A."I" asked them to tell us about their movement and beliefs. |
B."I" reported to the officers about their dissatisfaction. |
C."I" tried to calm them down and talked them into behaving. |
D."I" just turned a deaf ear to the young men. |
A.Conditions of the prison were far more unsatisfactory in 1964. |
B.Officers of the prison turned the island upside down to discipline the young men. |
C.The Rivonia Trialists felt honored to be regarded as moderates. |
D.The young men regarded the author as a follower of the authorities. |
A.①② | B.③④ | C.⑤③ | D.⑥① |
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