In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory____course about 20 years ago.
The professor ____the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans（豆）, and invited the students to _ _how many beans the jar contained. After ____shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the ____ answer, and went on saying,” You have just ___an important lesson about science. That is Never____ your own senses.”
Twenty years later, the ___could guess what the professor had in mind. He ____himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting____into an unknown world
Invisible（无形的）to the ,which can be discovered only through scientific .But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even the invitation. She was just to understand the world. And she that her firsthand experience could be the .The professor, however, said that it was .he was taking away her only for knowing and was providing her with no substitute. “I remember feeling small and ,”the women says, “and I did the only thing I could do. I the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.”
| 小题1: | | A．art | B．history | C．science | D．math |
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| 小题2: | | A．searched for | B．looked at | C．got through | D．marched into |
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| 小题3: | | A．count | B．guess | C．report | D．watch |
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| 小题4: | | A．warning | B．giving | C．turning away | D．listening to |
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| 小题5: | | A．ready | B．possible | C．correct | D．difficult |
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| 小题6: | | A．learned | B．prepared | C．taught | D．taken |
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| 小题7: | | A．lose | B．trust | C．sharpen | D．show |
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| 小题8: | | A．lecturer | B．scientist | C．speaker | D．woman |
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| 小题9: | | A．described | B．respected | C．saw | D．served |
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| 小题10: | | A．voyage | B．movement | C．change | D．rush |
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| 小题11: | | A．professor | B．eye | C．knowledge | D．light |
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| 小题12: | | A．model | B．senses | C．spirit | D．methods |
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| 小题13: | | A．hear | B．make | C．present | D．refuse |
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| 小题14: | | A．suggesting | B．beginning | C．pretending | D．waiting |
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| 小题15: | | A．believed | B．doubted | C．proved | D．explained |
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| 小题16: | | A．growth | B．strength | C．faith | D．truth |
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| 小题17: | | A．firm | B．interesting | C．wrong | D．acceptable |
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| 小题18: | | A．task | B．tool | C．success | D．connection |
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| 小题19: | | A．cruel | B．proud | C．frightened | D．brave |
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| 小题20: | | A．dropped | B．started | C．passed | D．missed |
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小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:C
小题6:A
小题7:B
小题8:D
小题9:C
小题10:A
小题11:B
小题12:D
小题13:A
小题14:B
小题15:A
小题16:D
小题17:C
小题18:B
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文章大意：本文主要讲述了一位女士对大约20年前第一次接触自然科学课程的经历。在那堂课上，教授告诉学生不要相信自己的感官。这深深地刺痛了当年只有17岁的她，因为她认为自己正开始了解世界，感官是她唯一依赖的工具，而教授却把它拿走了。这使她很害怕，当天下午就放弃了这门课程，至今也没再走近科学。
小题1:选C。考查上下文连串。本段上文出现了名词education，以及根据下文，可知这位女士记起的是一堂自然科学课程。
小题2:选D。考查动词词组。此处指教授走进演讲大厅。search for“寻找”；look at“ 看”；get through“完成，打通电话”；march into“（大步）走进”。
小题3:选B。考查动词。根据下一句中的After 39 shouts of wildly wrong guesses可知此处指教授让学生猜有多少豆子。故选B。
小题4:选D。考查动词。根据句子结构可以看出第39个空中的动作应是教授发出的。句意：听了学生的瞎猜之后，教授露出一个干瘪的笑。由此可知选D。
小题5:选C。考查形容词。根据前面的wildly wrong guesses可知此处指教授给出正确的答案。correct正确的。
小题6:选A。考查动词。learn an important lesson表示“学到很重要的一堂课”。 该动作是学生对课程做出的，那么自然是在学习课程。
小题7:选B。考查动词。根据这个故事可知，教授让学生不要相信自己的感官。所以故用动词trust相信。
小题8:选D。考查名词。此处的the woman就是指第一段中的a woman。根据下文也可推断出，因为她提到20年前自己是一个17岁的女生。
小题9:选C。考查动词。句意：他可能把自己看作是在邀请学生去探索未知世界。describe…as…“把……描述为”；respect…as…“把……尊为”；see…as…“把……看作”；serve as“充当”。
小题10:选A。考查名词。学生对未知世界开启的是一次航程，而非“运动”、“改变”亦或者“匆忙冲进”。此处应指“邀请学生开始令人激动的对未知世界的探索之旅”。voyage航行。
小题11:选B。考查名词。an unknown world invisible to the eye指眼睛看不到的未知的世界。对于什么而言是无形的，形状自然是眼睛看到的。
小题12:选D。考查名词。肉眼无法识别的无形未知世界的绝不是“感觉”或者“精神”。此处指能通过科学的方法去发现眼睛看不到的未知的世界（而不是通过感官）。
小题13:选A。考查动词。even是一个强烈的递进关系词。句意：但是这个17岁的女生不愿意接受邀请或者甚至听到这样的邀请。
小题14:选B。考查动词。此处指她自己正开始了解世界。我们知道，女孩十七岁，正是刚开始认识世界的年纪。
小题15:选A。考查动词。与之相关的是后句的内容：“她的第一感觉会是正确的”，对这件事情她没有“证明”或者“解释”，自然可排除C、D，无关选项。（因为她自己正开始了解世界）所以她相信直接得到的经验就是真实的。
小题16:选D。考查名词。女孩认为第一感觉是正确的。选D。growth成长 strength力量faith信念。根据第50个空的解析可知，此处表示“事实真相”。
小题17:选C。考查形容词。根据上一段可知，教授认为不要相信感官，因为感官带来的答案是错误的。所以此处选C。
小题18:选B。考查名词。为了知道未知世界，我手中唯一的是工具，于是选择B。其他选项不合理。她认为教授把她依赖的唯一的工具即感官拿走了。故选B。
小题19:选C。考查形容词。and提示文章此处是并列关系，而与感觉渺小并列的是感觉害怕，cruel的含义是“残忍的”，语义自然不合适，排除。根据女士的描述可知，她当时认为自己很渺小，很害怕。
小题20:选A。考查动词，被教授伤害后，我对这个科目能做的动作显然不是“开始学习”或者“通过”，于是排除B、C；而missed的含义是“失去”，无关选项；drop在此表示“丢弃，中断，停止”。 |
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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of _____ and what color red is. It would be _____ to see again, but a (n) ____ can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would ____ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had ____.
My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a ____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with ___.
The ____ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of ____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I _____ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being ____, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things. _____ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was ____. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words _____ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could ____ where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ___ before; playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I ___ a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my ___. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was ____ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, _____ on the average I made progress.
| 小题1: | | A．sky | B．cloud | C．sunshine | D．mist |
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| 小题2: | | A．helpful | B．wonderful | C．hopeful | D．successful |
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| 小题3: | | A．disaster | B．environment | C．incident | D．wonder |
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| 小题4: | | A．manage | B．try | C．want | D．prefer |
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| 小题5: | | A．lost | B．left | C．used | D．cared |
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| 小题6: | | A．purpose | B．potential | C．pressure | D．preparation |
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| 小题7: | | A．energy | B．happiness | C．luck | D．blindness |
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| 小题8: | | A．hardest | B．dullest | C．simplest | D．easiest |
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| 小题9: | | A．self-respect | B．self-control | C．self-confidence | D．self-defence |
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| 小题10: | | A．think | B．consider | C．guess | D．mean |
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| 小题11: | | A．imperfect | B．perfect | C．unfair | D．fair |
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| 小题12: | | A．Later | B．Soon | C．Once | D．Then |
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| 小题13: | | A．worried | B．encouraged | C．shocked | D．hurt |
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| 小题14: | | A．stuck | B．impressed | C．occupied | D．held |
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| 小题15: | | A．see | B．hear | C．notice | D．observe |
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| 小题16: | | A．important | B．unimportant | C．possible | D．impossible |
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| 小题17: | | A．invented | B．discovered | C．instructed | D．directed |
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| 小题18: | | A．experience | B．advantages | C．knowledge | D．limitation |
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| 小题19: | | A．hardly | B．wildly | C．highly | D．deeply |
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It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plan for the future. “I"m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it,” Deluca recalls saying, “Buck said, ‘you should open a sandwich shop.’”
That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1,000. Deluca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn"t cover their startup costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000.
But business didn"t go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, “After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn"t know how badly, because we didn"t have any financial controls.” All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.
Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They"d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. “We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, ‘We are so successful; we are opening a second store.’” And they did—in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error.
But the partners" learnasyougo approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca would drive around and handdeliver the checks to pay their supplies. “It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn"t necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out,” Deluca says.
And having a goal was also important. “There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal,” Deluca adds.
Deluca ended up founding Subways Sandwich, the multimilliondollar restaurant chain.
小题1:Which of the following is true of Buck? | A．He put money into the sandwich business. | | B．He was a professor of business administration. | | C．He was studying at the University of Bridgeport. | | D．He rented a storefront for Deluca. |
小题2:What can we learn about their first shop? | A．It stood at an unfavorable place. | | B．It lowered the prices to poor management. | | C．It made no profits due to poor management. | | D．It lacked control over the quality of sandwich. |
小题3:They decided to open a second store because they ________. | A．had enough money to do it | | B．had succeeded in their business | | C．wished to meet the increasing demand of customers | | D．wanted to make believe that they were successful |
小题4:What contributes most to their success according to the author? | A．Learning by trial and error. | | B．Making friends with supplies. | | C．Finding a good partner. | | D．Opening chain stores. |
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My father was a St. Bernard (圣伯纳犬), and my mother was a collie (科利牧羊犬). This was what my mother had told me. I did not know these nice differences myself. My mother like to say them and see other dogs look surprised and jealous(嫉妒的), wondering how she got so much education. But, indeed, it was not real education.
She got the words by listening in the dining room and the sitting room when there were people talking, and by going with the children to school and listening there. Whenever she heard a word showing great knowledge, she said it to herself many times so that she could keep it until there was a meeting in the neighbourhood. Then, she would show off her knowledge and surprise them all, from small-sized dogs to large-sized dogs.
If there was a stranger being doubtful and getting his breath to ask her what it meant, she always explained to him in detail. He had never expected this but thought he would make fool of her. However, in the end, he was the one who was fooled. The others knew what was going to happen, because they had experienced that. When she explained the meaning of a big world, no dogs doubted if it was right. It was natural, because, for one thing, she answered very quickly and confidently, and for another, there were no knowledgeable dogs pointing out the answer was wrong.
When I was older, she brought home the word, “unintellectual”, and worked on it very hard all the week at different meetings. It was at this time that I realized she made up a fresh meaning of the same word every time. It showed that she was more calm than knowledgeable.
(From A Dog’s Tale, by Mark Twain)
小题1:Why were other dogs jealous of “my” mother?| A．Because her child was not a dog. | | B．Because “my” mother knew everything. | | C．Because they knew nothing about “me”. | | D．Because they thought “my” mother was educated. |
小题2:Where did “my” mother learn the words?| A．She made up the words by herself. | | B．She learnt the words studying at school. | | C．She listened and memorized when others were talking. | | D．She attended meetings to learnt the words from other dogs. |
小题3:How could “my” mother always fool other dogs?| A．Other dogs all liked to be fooled. | | B．She could explain anything in detail correctly. | | C．She learnt a lot of tricks to make fool of others. | | D．Other dogs were not knowledgeable enough to find out her mistakes. |
小题4:What words can be used to describe “my” mother?| A．friendly and clever | B．calm and confident | | C．quick and experienced | D．devoted and knowledgeable |
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Nelson Mandela was a figure of international fame, and many details of his life and career were public knowledge. But here are four things you may not have known about the late South African leader.
1. He was a boxing fan.
In his youth, Nelson Mandela enjoyed boxing and long-distance running. Even during the 27 years he spent in prison, he would exercise every morning. "I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was curious by how one moved one"s body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match," he wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.
2. His original name was not Nelson.
Rolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name “Nelson” in accordance with the custom to give all school children Christian names.
3. He forgot his glasses when he was released from prison.
Mr. Mandela"s release on 11 February 1990 followed years of political pressure against apartheid(种族隔离). Mr. Mandela"s reading glasses stayed behind in prison Mr. Mandela and his then-wife Winnie were taken to the centre of Cape Town to address a huge and exciting crowd. But when he pulled out the text of his speech, he realized he had forgotten his glasses and had to borrow Winnie"s.
4. He had his own law firm, but it took him years to get a law degree.
Mr. Mandela studied law on and off for 50 years from 1939, failing about half the courses he took. A two-year diploma(学位证书) in law on top of his university degree allowed him to practice, and in August 1952, he and Oliver Tambo set up South Africa"s first black law firm, Mandela and Tambo, in Johannesburg. He kept on studying hard to finally secure a law degree while in prison in 1989.
小题1:What is the main idea of the passage?| A．Nelson Mandela’s life in the prison. | | B．The achievements of Nelson Mandela. | | C．Nelson Mandela’s hobbies and career. | | D．Unknown things about Nelson Mandela. |
小题2: Why did Nelson Mandela love boxing?| A．Because he wanted to be a boxer. | | B．Because he enjoyed the violence of boxing. | | C．Because he appreciated the strategy in boxing. | | D．Because he had nothing else to do in the prison. |
小题3:What happened to Mandela when he was about to give the speech?| A．He broke his glasses into pieces. | | B．He had to use his wife’s glasses. | | C．He left his own glasses at home. | | D．His wife wanted to borrow his glasses. |
小题4:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?| A．Nelson Mandela was not his original name. | | B．Nelson Mandela was the name given by his teacher. | | C．Nelson Mandela had been studying the law nonstop for 50 years. | | D．Nelson Mandela had started his own law firm before he got a law degree. |
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The day I was 3 years old the beginning of my dream. On that day, after seeing the Capital Dancing Company performance, I , “Mama, when I grow up, I’m going to be one of those.”
As I grow older, my in the world of dance changed, but that little girl’s dream of someday becoming a in the company never left me. In 2005, aged 18, I received the phone making that dream come true: I became a member of the company.
When I looked on that day now, I believe I stayed in a state of disbelief until I was asked to rehearsal (排练). Though I was entirely excited with the offer, it did not come without . Through the strict and hard rehearsal, I found it important to myself to learning the skills fast with every bit of concentration(注意力集中). It is the extreme to detail (细节) and stress on practice that help us . Then comes a show schedule of up to five performances a day, I found a new of the words “HARD WORK”. The practice pushed me forward than I thought . I learnt to make each performance better than the last. Besides, the teachers not only teach us skills but help us a lot in daily life when we are in trouble.
Today, as a member and dance captain in the unbelievable company, I see a that has encouraged not only little girls but a wonderful company that to develop and grow and encourage people every day to their dreams.
| 小题1: | | A．when | B．which | C． that | D． on that |
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| 小题2: | | A．wrote | B． saw | C．read | D． talked |
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| 小题3: | | A．came out | B．went out | C．burst out | D． dug out |
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| 小题4: | | A．interest | B．feeling | C． duty | D． patience |
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| 小题5: | | A．certainly | B． never | C． hardly | D． entirely |
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| 小题6: | | A．singer | B． dancer | C． painter | D． teacher |
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| 小题7: | | A．before | B． up | C． down | D． back |
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| 小题8: | | A．pleasant | B． sorrowful | C． low | D． hopeful |
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| 小题9: | | A．poison | B． harm | C． challenges | D． means |
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| 小题10: | | A． bury | B． devote | C． take | D． reward |
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| 小题11: | | A． attention | B． opinion | C． worth | D． trial |
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| 小题12: | | A． defend | B． rebuild | C． fight | D． succeed |
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| 小题13: | | A． loose | B． busy | C． useful | D． acceptable |
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| 小题14: | | A． meaning | B． principle | C． expression | D． usage |
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| 小题15: | | A． necessary | B．perfect | C．frequent | D．possible |
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| 小题16: | | A． rescued | B． trapped | C． shocked | D． attacked |
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| 小题17: | | A． victory | B．style | C． tradition | D．trial |
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| 小题18: | | A． a number of | B． a great deal of | C． a large amount of | D． many a |
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| 小题19: | | A． stops | B． continues | C． goes | D． adds |
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| 小题20: | | A． follow | B． remove | C． design | D． Recognize |
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