My nephew"s 10-year-old son came for a visit one hot，July weekend. I persuaded him to inside and joined him in a game. After for an hour, I suggested that we relax for a while. I fell into my favorite recliner（躺椅）to let my neck muscles relax. He"d slipped out of the room and I was catching a few enjoyable moments of peace and quiet.
"Look，Alice，”he said as he ran over to the chair where I was sitting"I found a kite. Could we go outside and it?"
Glancing out a nearby window, I noticed it was outside.“I"m sorry, Tripper,.” I said, sad to see his eyes. "The wind is not blowing today. The kite won"t fly.”
The 10-year-old replied,“I think it"s windy enough. I can get it to fly,”he answered as he ran out to the back door Up and down in the yard he ran, pulling the kite to a small length of string. He ran back and forth，as hard as his ten year-old legs would carry him, looking back at the kite behind. After about ten minutes of unsuccessful determination, he came back in.
I asked, "How did it go?"
"Fine，”he said, not wanting to admit ．“I got it to fly some”
As he walked past me to return the kite to the closet shelf, I heard him say under his breath, "I guess I"ll have to wait for the ．”
At that moment I heard another Voice speak to my . "Alice, sometimes you are just like that. You want to do it your way instead of waiting for the Wind.，，
And the voice was right. We usually want to use our own efforts to what we want to do. We wait for the Wind only after we have done all we can and have exhausted（耗尽） our own ．We must learn how to rely on Him in the first place!
| 小题2: | | A．playing | B．resting | C．challenging | D．arguing |
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| 小题3: | | A．casually | B．enthusiastically | C．stubbornly | D．deliberately |
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| 小题4: | | A．decorate | B．drop | C．hang | D．fly |
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| 小题5: | | A．hot | B．still | C．noisy | D．fine |
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| 小题6: | | A．bright | B．disappointed | C．dull | D．satisfied |
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| 小题7: | | A．clever | B．talented | C．determined | D．fearless |
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| 小题8: | | A．hurriedly | B．curiously | C．suddenly | D．unwillingly |
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| 小题9: | | A．adapted | B．added | C．attached | D．devoted |
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| 小题10: | | A．angrily | B．nervously | C．doubtfully | D．hopefully |
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| 小题11: | | A．win | B．defeat | C．mistake | D．luck |
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| 小题12: | | A．wind | B．order | C．news | D．sunshine |
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| 小题13: | | A．heart | B．memory | C．dream | D．world |
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| 小题14: | | A．imagine | B．decide | C．apply | D．accomplish |
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| 小题15: | | A．courage | B．patience | C．strength | D．knowledge |
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小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:B
小题6:B
小题7:C
小题8:A
小题9:C
小题10:D
小题11:B
小题12:A
小题13:A
小题14:D
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试题分析：文章介绍作者的侄子在没有风的时候孩子努力的放风筝，失败后，意识到自己应该等待风的到来，由此引发感想，我们往往会按照自己的意愿行事，而不管条件是否允许。
小题1:考查动词：A. live生活，B. study学习，C. stay保持，D. lie撒谎，我说服他呆在家里和他玩游戏，选C
小题2:考查动词：A. playing玩，B. resting休息，C. challenging挑战，D. arguing争论，从前面的句子：I persuaded him to 1 inside and joined him in a game.可知是玩了一个小时，选A
小题3:考查副词：A. casually随意地，B. enthusiastically热情地，C. stubbornly固执地，D. deliberately故意的，从后面的句子："I found akite. Could we go outside and 4 it?"可知作者的侄子是热情的说。选B
小题4:考查动词：A. decorate装饰，B. drop滴落，C. hang悬挂，D. fly飞行，放飞，因为看见的是风筝，所以是出去放风筝，选D
小题5:考查形容词：A. hot 热的，B. still不动的，C. noisy嘈杂的，D. fine好的，从后面的"The wind is not blowing today. The kite won"t fly.”可知外面没有风，是平静的，选B
小题6:考查形容词：A. bright明亮的，B. disappointed失望的，C. dull枯燥的，D. satisfied满意的，不能放风筝侄子一定是失望的，选B
小题7:考查形容词：A. clever聪明的，B. talented有才能的，C. determined有决心的，D. fearless无畏的，从后面的“I think it"s windy enough. I can get it to fly,”可知侄子很有决心，选C
小题8:考查副词：A. hurriedly匆忙地，B. curiously好奇地，C. suddenly突然地，D. unwillingly不愿意地，他匆忙的跑到后门，选A
小题9:考查动词：A. adapted适应，B. added增加，C. attached 附上，黏上，D. devoted投入，风筝上面粘着一小段绳子，选C
小题10:考查副词：A. angrily生气地，B, nervously 紧张地，C. doubtfully怀疑地，D. hopefully有希望地，满怀希望地看着身后的风筝，选D
小题11:考查动词：A. win赢得，B. defeat击败，C. mistake错误，D. luck幸运，从后面的“I got it to fly some”可知孩子不想承认被打败，选B
小题12:考查名词：A. wind风，B. order命令，C. news 消息，D. sunshine阳光，从前面的句子："The wind is not blowing today. The kite won"t fly.”可知孩子要等风来，选A
小题13:考查名词：A. heart心，B. memory记忆，C. dream梦想，D. world世界，我听见内心有个声音在说，选A
小题14:考查动词：A. imagine想象，B. decide决定，C. apply 申请，D. accomplish完成，我们有时想要自己的努力完成想做的事情，选D
小题15:考查名词：A. courage勇气， B. patience耐心，C. strength力量，力气，D. knowledge知识，我们的力气都耗尽了才开始等着风，选C |
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She may have lacked a home, but now this teen has top honors.
A 17-year old student who spent much of high school living around homeless shelters and sometimes sleeping in her car-today graduated and spoke on behalf of her class at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County, Ga.，just outside of Atlanta.
Chelsea Fearce, who held a 4.466 GPA and scored 1，900 on her SATs despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night.
"I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on cushions on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her graduation ceremony. Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day. "I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore, she told WSBTV.
Fearce，one of five children, grew up in a family that sometimes had an apartment to live in, but at other times had to live in homeless shelters or even out of their car, if they had one. "You"re worried about your home life and then worried at school. Worry about being a little hungry sometimes and go hungry sometimes. You just have to deal with it, You eat what you can, when you can.”
To our surprise, Fearce overcame the difficulties and even tested high enough to be ad- mitted into college halfway through her high school career. She starts college next year at Spelman College as a junior where she is planning to study biology, pre-"med（医学预科），"Don"t give up. Do what you have to do right now so that you can have the future that you want,”Fearce said.
小题1:Which of the following is the best title of the passage?| A．So Many Homeless Students in America | | B．How Does a Homeless Student Live in Society? | | C．The Hardship of Fearce and Her Family in America | | D．Homeless Teen Graduates as a Speaker of High School Class |
小题2:How did Fearce go on with her study without access to lights?| A．By the car light. | B．By her cellphone. | | C．By lights out of shelters. | D．By moonlight. |
小题3:When Fearce starts college at Spelman College, she will＿__．| A．have graduated earlier from high school than normal | | B．be a 17-year-old student from a poor family | | C．have a home without sleeping in her car or shelters | | D．have raised enough money to go to college |
小题4:From the passage, we can learn that＿__．| A．SAT is easy for the students of high schools | | B．Fearce"s parents have six children to support | | C．Fearce often had to struggle with starvation | | D．Fearce gave a speech at a ceremony of Spelman College |
小题5:What can we learn from Fearce"s experience?| A．Knowledge can change your fate. | | B．Don"t give up, and tomorrow will be better. | | C．Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well. | | D．He that will not work shall not eat. |
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Back in the 15th century, in a tiny village in Germany, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order to keep food on file table, the father, a goldsmith（金匠）by , worked almost eighteen hours a day at his trade. Despite their seemingly condition, two of the eldest children had a dream. They both wanted to pursue their talent for art, they knew well that their father would never be able to either of them to study at the Academy.
After many long discussions at night in their bed, the two boys finally worked out an agreement. They would toss（掷）a coin. The would go down into the nearby mines and, with his earnings, his winning brother for the academy. Then, in four years, he would support the other one. Then Albrecht Durer won the toss and to Nuremberg. Albert went down into the dangerous mines and, for the next four years, his brother, whose work at the academy was almost an immediate sensation（轰动）- By the time he graduated, he was beginning to considerable fees for himself.
When the young artist home and said to his brother, “And now, Albert, blessed brother of mine, now it is your . Now you can go to the Academy to pursue your dream, and I will you. ”Albert rose and wiped tile from his cheeks. “No, brother. I cannot go to Nuremberg. It is too for me. Look…look what four years in the mines have done to my ! I cannot even hold a glass, much less make delicate lines on canvas （画布） __ a pen or a brush.”
More than 450 years have . By now, among Albrecht Durer’s hundreds of masterful portraits, “The Praying Hands” is one creation that can catch the world’s hearts.
| 小题1: | | A．fully | B．merely | C．completely | D．entirely |
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| 小题2: | | A．heart | B．profession | C．method | D．words |
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| 小题3: | | A．hopeless | B．promising | C．demanding | D．careless |
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| 小题5: | | A．study | B．give | C．send | D．offer |
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| 小题6: | | A．crowded | B．separated | C．new | D．unusual |
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| 小题7: | | A．winner | B．old | C．loser | D．younger |
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| 小题8: | | A．expect | B．advertise | C．support | D．require |
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| 小题9: | | A．flew away | B．left behind | C．set aside | D．went off |
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| 小题10: | | A．deserted | B．financed | C．desired | D．envied |
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| 小题11: | | A．earn | B．save | C．draw | D．spend |
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| 小题12: | | A．arrived | B．returned | C．regained | D．got |
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| 小题14: | | A．take care of | B．make up for | C．make use of | D．take charge of |
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| 小题15: | | A．smiles | B．tears | C．sweats | D．laughs |
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| 小题16: | | A．tense | B．nervous | C．tiring | D．late |
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| 小题17: | | A．eyes | B．pictures | C．hands | D．mines |
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| 小题19: | | A．changed | B．kept | C．remembered | D．passed |
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| 小题20: | | A．strange | B．surprising | C．touching | D．terrible |
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Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important : giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You needn’t worry if you money.
This is how I with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store in my mind, I step in and make the to the storekeeper. If an accident takes place, the of which I think the local police could use, I him up and tell him about it, though I am not in here. I found a rule about this world is to give getting something back, though the often comes in an unexpected form.
One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important special letter to my home, though it was to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of . More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was . I was told at the window that there were boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long list. As I was about to be , the postmaster appeared in the . “Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering an delivery to your home?” I said it was. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office we make one specifically for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get but complaints.”
| 小题1: | | A．difference | B．research | C．speech | D．discovery |
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| 小题2: | | A．earn | B．lack | C．spend | D．steal |
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| 小题3: | | A．experienced | B．connected | C．cooperated | D．experimented |
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| 小题4: | | A．strikes | B．flashes | C．happens | D．attempts |
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| 小题5: | | A．appeal | B．request | C．suggestion | D．demand |
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| 小题6: | | A．story | B．damage | C．challenge | D．material |
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| 小题7: | | A．call | B．hold | C．cheer | D．pick |
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| 小题8: | | A．possession | B．trouble | C．place | D．charge |
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| 小题9: | | A．plus | B．without | C．for | D．before |
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| 小题10: | | A．process | B．goal | C．return | D．concern |
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| 小题11: | | A．replied | B．addressed | C．driven | D．brought |
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| 小题12: | | A．invitation | B．apology | C．complaint | D．appreciation |
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| 小题13: | | A．discussing | B．providing | C．applying | D．starting |
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| 小题14: | | A．enough | B．extra | C．no | D．other |
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| 小题15: | | A．admitting | B．relating | C．buying | D．waiting |
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| 小题16: | | A．positive | B．shocked | C．discouraged | D．optimistic |
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| 小题17: | | A．doorway | B．window | C．home | D．yard |
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| 小题18: | | A．unfamiliar | B．unexpected | C．unknown | D．uncertain |
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| 小题19: | | A．in case | B．now that | C．even if | D．rather |
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| 小题20: | | A．nothing | B．something | C．anything | D．everything |
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My favorite English teacher could draw humor out of the driest material. It wasn’t forced on us either. He took Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, Addison’s essays, and many other literary wonders from the eighteenth century and made them hilarious, even at eight o’clock in the morning. The thing that amazed me most was that the first time I read these works on my own, some of them seemed dead, but the second time, after his explanation, I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t seen the humor. The stories and poems and plays were suddenly filled with allusions(典故) and irony and hilarious moments. I learned more from him than from any other teacher.
My least favorite English teacher also made people laugh. Some students found him to be wonderfully funny. Many others did not. He assigned journals over a six-week period, to be written every day. At the end of the six weeks I had a notebook full of bits and pieces about my ideas, short stories, reactions to what we had read, and so on. Our teacher announced that we would be grading each other’s journals. Mine was passed to Joe, that class clown, who always behaved in a funny or silly way. He saw it fit to make a joke of and said, “This writing isn’t fit to line the bottom of a birdcage.” Our teacher laughed at that funny remark. It hurt me so much that the anger from it has driven my writing and teaching ever since.
So what makes the difference? Humor is one of the most powerful tools teachers or writers have. It can build up students and classes and make them excited about literature and writing, or it can tear them apart. It is true that humor is either productive or counter-productive and self-defeating.
小题1:The passage mainly discusses ________.| A．teaching | B．literature | C．humor | D．knowledge |
小题2:The underlined word “hilarious” in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.| A．funny | B．tiring | C．inspiring | D．brilliant |
小题3:The English teacher the writer disliked most ________.| A．was not able to make students laugh | B．hurt his student’s feelings | | C．didn’t let his students do the grading | D．had no sense of humor |
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Anna lived on the side of a valley．One summer, there was a very big , and a lot of houses down below Anna＇s were washed away．Anna＇s house was enough to escape the flood, so when the water had and the other houses were there with no roof and no walls and all covered with mud（泥）, her house was just all right．
Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children, Anna took in one of the families that had lost in the flood and she her home with them until it was for them to rebuild their house．
Anna＇s friends were when they saw Anna do this．They could not understand why Anna wanted to give so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to ．
“Well,” Anna her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very , because her husband had been killed in the and she had a lot of children I have now．The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for Christmas this year, so I’m going to only one present to all of us．Now I’ll go and get it．’ She came back with a who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents．‘Here’s our ,she said to her children．
The children were and happy to get such a present．They the little girl, and she grew up as their sister．Such was that Christmas present．”
| 小题1: | | A．accident | B．flood | C．fire | D．earthquake |
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| 小题2: | | A．below | B．big | C．high | D．small |
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| 小题3: | | A．reduced | B．come | C．disappeared | D．appeared |
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| 小题4: | | A．rising | B．standing | C．flowing | D．falling |
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| 小题6: | | A．nothing | B．anything | C．something | D．everything |
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| 小题7: | | A．gave | B．shared | C．found | D．built |
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| 小题8: | | A．necessary | B．important | C．obvious | D．possible |
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| 小题9: | | A．worried | B．disappointed | C．satisfied | D．puzzled |
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| 小题11: | | A．supply | B．grow | C．support | D．educate |
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| 小题12: | | A．asked for | B．talked with | C．turned up | D．explained to |
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| 小题14: | | A．storm | B．rain | C．war | D．flood |
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| 小题15: | | A．because | B．which | C．that | D．as |
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| 小题17: | | A．boy | B．student | C．teacher | D．girl |
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| 小题18: | | A．child | B．daughter | C．present | D．sister |
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| 小题19: | | A．angry | B．lovely | C．excited | D．sorry |
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| 小题20: | | A．disliked | B．gained | C．led | D．welcomed |
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