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As a high school athletics coach, I gave a speech about football to students and parents, aiming at getting new team members :I talked  about how"everyone  can benefit from football. This year, a worried-looking couple approached me. Their son, who had a sickly childhood, really wanted to play football. They"d tried to talk him out of it, but he had his heart set on joining the team.
When they told me his name , my heart sank. Michael was short and thin. He was a lonely kid and the constant target of other kids" jokes. I knew Michael would never make it. But so close to my  "football is for everyone"  speech,  I told them we could give it a try.
On the opening day of practice, Michael was the first player on the field. We started a one-mile jog around the track. Repeatedly he fell, each time picking himself up. The same thing happened for weeks. But Michael put his whole heart into the training. Cradually, Michael gained strength both socially and physically. He began to laugh and most of the teammates became friendly. By the last week of practice Michael could run the mile without falling. He asked me to add a few more exercises he could work on his own. Soon ,  Michael ran the opening mile faster than anyone.
One day after practice, the team captain, Steve, came up to me. He was talented but lazy.He was popular with students even though he could be heartless. Steve pointed to the field where Michael was jogging all alone and asked me why he was still out there. I told Steve to ask him. The next night, I was surprised to see Steve exercising right next to Michael.
Finally our big game came-at first we were losing by twelve points. I could see that some kids  had already lost heart. But Michael was playing as hard as he could ,  begging the team to keep trying. Finally we won the game by one point in the final ten seconds.
At our celebration dinner, we always gave a big award to the most productive player. Steve had scored the most points that season,  and everyone cheered as he received his award. " There"s someone who deserves it more than I do,"  Steve said,  " Everything I accomplished,  and everything the team accomplished this season, is thanks to one person-Michael. " The entire team cheered as Steve turned the prize over to the player who had inspired them all.
小题1:The author gave a speech to the students and parents in order to ____.
A.bring in new team members
B.teach them how to play football
C.tell them about the benefits of playing football
D.help those parents who are worried about their children
小题2:How did the author react after the couple told him their son"s name?
A.He was very excited about accepting Michael on the team.
B.He refused to accept Michael because he had no talent for sports.
C.He decided to accept Michael though he was unwilling to do so.
D.He agreed to accept Michael because he was moved by his determination.
小题3: What happened to Michael after a few weeks" training?
A.He gave up training.
B.He began to laugh at others.
C.He often protected others in the football field.
D.He became strong both in friendly relations and in body.
小题4: Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A.The Road to SuccessB.Heart of a Champion
C.Steve, the Real WinnerD.A Player of Patience

答案

小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:B
解析

试题分析:文章介绍Michael虽然身体不好,但是他对足球的热爱让作者接受他做为队员,Michael的艰苦训练给自己带来进步,也感染其他队员。
小题1:细节题:从第一段的句子:As a high school athletics coach, I gave a speech about football to students and parents, aiming at getting new team members 可知作者给学生和家长做演讲是为了吸收更多的队员,选A
小题2:细节题:从第二段的句子:I knew Michael would never make it. But so close to my  "football is for everyone"  speech,  I told them we could give it a try.可知虽然作者不愿意但还是接受了Michael。选C
小题3:细节题:从第三段的句子:But Michael put his whole heart into the training. Cradually, Michael gained strength both socially and physically. 可知几个星期训练后,他在交友方面和身体方面都有增强,选D
小题4:标题确定题:从最后一段的句子:The entire team cheered as Steve turned the prize over to the player who had inspired them all. 可知球队赢得比赛是因为有Michael这样的核心激励着大家,所以选B
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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1:
A.liveB.studyC.stayD.lie
小题2:
A.playingB.restingC.challengingD.arguing
小题3:
A.casuallyB.enthusiasticallyC.stubbornlyD.deliberately
小题4:
A.decorateB.dropC.hangD.fly
小题5:
A.hotB.stillC.noisyD.fine
小题6:
A.brightB.disappointedC.dullD.satisfied
小题7:
A.cleverB.talentedC.determinedD.fearless
小题8:
A.hurriedlyB.curiouslyC.suddenlyD.unwillingly
小题9:
A.adaptedB.addedC.attachedD.devoted
小题10:
A.angrilyB.nervouslyC.doubtfullyD.hopefully
小题11:
A.winB.defeatC.mistake D.luck
小题12:
A.windB.orderC.newsD.sunshine
小题13:
A.heartB.memoryC.dreamD.world
小题14:
A.imagineB.decideC.applyD.accomplish
小题15:
A.courageB.patienceC.strengthD.knowledge

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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.fullyB.merelyC.completelyD.entirely
小题2:
A.heartB.professionC.methodD.words
小题3:
A.hopelessB.promisingC.demandingD.careless
小题4:
A.soB.butC.howeverD.and
小题5:
A.studyB.give C.sendD.offer
小题6:
A.crowdedB.separatedC.newD.unusual
小题7:
A.winnerB.oldC.loserD.younger
小题8:
A.expectB.advertiseC.supportD.require
小题9:
A.flew awayB.left behindC.set asideD.went off
小题10:
A.desertedB.financedC.desiredD.envied
小题11:
A.earnB.save C.drawD.spend
小题12:
A.arrivedB.returnedC.regainedD.got
小题13:
A.fateB.timeC.top D.turn
小题14:
A.take care ofB.make up forC.make use ofD.take charge of
小题15:
A.smilesB.tearsC.sweatsD.laughs
小题16:
A.tenseB.nervousC.tiringD.late
小题17:
A.eyesB.picturesC.handsD.mines
小题18:
A.withB.ofC.uponD.in
小题19:
A.changedB.kept C.rememberedD.passed
小题20:
A.strangeB.surprisingC.touchingD.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.differenceB.researchC.speechD.discovery
小题2:
A.earnB.lack C.spendD.steal
小题3:
A.experiencedB.connectedC.cooperatedD.experimented
小题4:
A.strikes B.flashesC.happensD.attempts
小题5:
A.appealB.requestC.suggestionD.demand
小题6:
A.storyB.damageC.challengeD.material
小题7:
A.callB.hold C.cheerD.pick
小题8:
A.possessionB.troubleC.placeD.charge
小题9:
A.plusB.withoutC.forD.before
小题10:
A.processB.goal C.return D.concern
小题11:
A.repliedB.addressedC.drivenD.brought
小题12:
A.invitation B.apologyC.complaintD.appreciation
小题13:
A.discussingB.providingC.applying D.starting
小题14:
A.enough B.extraC.noD.other
小题15:
A.admittingB.relating C.buyingD.waiting
小题16:
A.positiveB.shockedC.discouragedD.optimistic
小题17:
A.doorwayB.windowC.home D.yard
小题18:
A.unfamiliarB.unexpectedC.unknownD.uncertain
小题19:
A.in caseB.now that C.even ifD.rather
小题20:
A.nothingB.somethingC.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.teachingB.literatureC.humorD.knowledge
小题2:The underlined word “hilarious” in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.
A.funnyB.tiringC.inspiringD.brilliant
小题3:The English teacher the writer disliked most ________.
A.was not able to make students laughB.hurt his student’s feelings
C.didn’t let his students do the gradingD.had no sense of humor

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