阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I was hard at work on a museum project when the client(客户) suddenly canceled it. In January, my __ told me I was no longer needed. I had just $1,000 in savings.
I one interview after searching the Internet for architecture jobs, but came of it. Finally, I took a job as a in a restaurant. I knew I’d have to find a place to live that less than the $500 a month I was paying.
I went to see a bedroom for rent. The landlord(房东) me $500 for it, but he said I could have it for $350 if he maintained control of the closet for storage, I told him later,“I don’t want the bedroom, I’m interested in the closet” I suggested that I pay $150 a month for it. He thought I was .
The closet measured just 5.5 feet 14 feet. With my experience, I was I could make it into a great living space. I it for three days. I measured old pieces of wood that people donated. It was like putting together a .
In March, I moved in. It was a legal rental. The landlord a door so I’d have access to a kitchen and bathroom, which I with three other tenants(租客). I had a mini-fridge, a microwave, and a storage bin for dry goods. I a loft(阁楼) for my bed, TV, and DVD player.
On my website, I’ve posted of my new home, and that’s some freelance(自由职业的) design work. A few more and I’ll be able to afford a new place. That’s definitely a(an) thing: My girlfriend, Susan, and I are engaged, and once we’re married next March, I’m sure I’ll leave my little closet .
But now I know that I don’t need much to live well.
| 小题1: | | A．teacher | B．officer | C．doctor | D．boss |
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| 小题2: | | A．ordered | B．acquired | C．watched | D．prepared |
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| 小题3: | | A．nothing | B．something | C．anything | D．everything |
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| 小题4: | | A．worker | B．player | C．waiter | D．student |
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| 小题5: | | A．cost | B．earned | C．saved | D．spent |
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| 小题6: | | A．proved | B．charged | C．named | D．called |
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| 小题8: | | A．joking | B．quarreling | C．bargaining | D．talking |
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| 小题10: | | A．negative | B．confident | C．afraid | D．curious |
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| 小题11: | | A．mended | B．painted | C．covered | D．designed |
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| 小题12: | | A．secret | B．problem | C．puzzle | D．game |
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| 小题13: | | A．cut out | B．cut off | C．cut up | D．cut in |
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| 小题14: | | A．worked | B．studied | C．played | D．shared |
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| 小题15: | | A．took | B．made | C．drew | D．imagined |
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| 小题16: | | A．pictures | B．desks | C．windows | D．books |
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| 小题17: | | A．brought out | B．brought up | C．brought in | D．brought down |
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| 小题18: | | A．chances | B．jobs | C．items | D．gifts |
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| 小题19: | | A．unique | B．challenging | C．genuine | D．excellent |
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| 小题20: | | A．behind | B．forward | C．ahead | D．upside |
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小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:A
小题6:B
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:C
小题10:B
小题11:D
小题12:C
小题13:A
小题14:D
小题15:B
小题16:A
小题17:C
小题18:B
小题19:D
小题20:A |
试题分析：作者在没有有多少积蓄的情况下失业了，这对作者来说，是一个严重的打击，但也正是这样的机会，才使他从困难中站起来，从而对未来充满了憧憬。
小题1:my _ told me I was no longer needed我的老板告诉我，公司不再需要我了。A老师；B官员；C医生；D老板。故选D。
小题2:I one interview after searching the Internet for architecture jobs在网上搜索建筑方面的工作之后，我得到了一个面试的机会。A命令，点菜；B获得，得到；C观看，注视；D准备。故选B。
小题3:考查不定代词。Finally, I took a job as a in a restaurant最后，我找到了一个餐馆服务员的工作。据此可知，面试没有什么结果。nothing什么也没有，故选A。
小题4:根据in a restaurant可知，是在饭店做服务员。A工人；B运动员；C服务员；D学生。故选C。
小题5:A花费钱；B挣得；C节省；D(人)花费。作者想找一个每月花费（cost）少于500美元的地方。故选A。
小题6:The landlord(房东) me $500 for it房东收500美元的费用，A证明；B收费；C命名；D打电话，叫。charge sb money for sth. “出租…收费多少”。故选B。
小题7:考查并列连词。作者对卧室不感兴趣，但是对储藏室有兴趣。A和；B因此；C或者；D但是。这里是转折关系，故选D。
小题8:He thought I was .作者要花150美元租壁橱，房东认为作者在开玩笑。A开玩笑；B吵架；C讨价还价；D谈话。故选A。
小题9:考查介词。储藏室的面积是5.5 feet乘14 feet，by有“乘”的意思。故选C。
小题10:With my experience根据经验，说明作者有经验也很有信心。A消极的；B有信心的；C害怕的；D好奇的。故选B。
小题11:I it for three days.作者设计了三天。A修理；B粉刷；C覆盖；D设计。故选D。
小题12:It was like putting together a .作者测量了旧木头，就像是在堆积木一样。A秘密；B问题；C智力游戏，积木；D游戏。故选C。
小题13:考查动词短语。A剪下；B切除，切断；C切碎；D插嘴。房东在墙上开出（cut out）一扇门。故选A。
小题14:which I with three other tenants(租客)作者和其他三个住户共用厨房和浴室。share sth with sb和某人共用。故选D。
小题15:I a loft(阁楼) for my bed, TV, and DVD player.作者做了一个阁楼，放床、DVD播放器。A带走；B做；C画；D想象。故选B。
小题16:On my website, I’ve posted of my new home,作者把新家的图片贴到网上。A图片；B课桌；C窗户；D书。故选A。
小题17:that’s some freelance(自由职业的) design work这些图片给作者带来了一些设计方面的工作。A带来，激发；B培养，提出；C带来，赚钱；D降低。故选C。
小题18:A few more 48 and I’ll be able to afford a new place.再有一些工作，作者就能租得起新地方了。A机会；B工作；C项目，条款，一篇报道；D礼物。故选B。
小题19:My girlfriend, Susan, and I are engaged作者和女朋友订了婚，由此可知，这绝对是一件好事。A独一无二的；B有挑战的；C真正的，真诚的；D极好的，优秀的。故选D。
小题20:I’m sure I’ll leave my little closet 50 .作者肯定，将会离开那个储藏室。A在......后面；B向前；C向前，预先；D颠倒。leave…behind 永久离开，抛下；留下。故选A。 |
核心考点
试题【阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。I was hard at work on a museum pro】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
Angela at the age of 11years old was badly ill and she was attacked by a rare disease influencing her nerve system(神经系统). She was unable to and her movement was limited (限制) in other ways as well．The doctors did not hold much of her recovering from this illness. They said she would the rest of her life in a wheelchair. They also said that few were able to come back to their level after suffering from this disease. However, the little girl was . There, lying in her hospital bed, she that she was going to be walking again someday.
Angela was moved to a(an) hospital in San Francisco, where she could get better after the illness．All the treatments(治疗)that could be used to her disease were . The doctors praised her, she never once thought of giving up. They taught her about seeing herself walking. If it would do else, it would at least give her hope and something optimistic(乐观的)in the long waking hours in her bed. Angela worked as hard as possible in physical treatment，and in exercise periods. Also she worked hard when she lay there, herself moving，moving, moving!
One day， she was trying，with all her determination, to imagine her legs moving again，it seemed as though something happened: the bed moved! it began to move around the room! She out, “Look what I"m doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved! I moved!”
Of course，at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was crying aloud and running for .Everything started to .People felt that the floor moved back and forth a bit like being on a boat on gentle waves(浪)．You see，it was the San Francisco earthquake．Angela didn’t know that．Instead，she felt that she did it.
And now only a few years later, she’s back in school, on her own . No wheelchair, no sticks to help her. You see, anyone who can shake the earth can a little disease, can’t they?
| 小题1: | | A．speak | B．watch | C．smell | D．walk |
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| 小题2: | | A．breath | B．hope | C．position | D．power |
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| 小题3: | | A．lose | B．spend | C．share | D．bring |
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| 小题4: | | A．usual | B．exact | C．local | D．low |
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| 小题5: | | A．careless | B．fearless | C．harmless | D．selfless |
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| 小题6: | | A．introduced | B．wondered | C．dreamed | D．requested |
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| 小题7: | | A．language | B．experiment | C．performance | D．recovery |
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| 小题8: | | A．needed | B．conquered | C．guided | D．viewed |
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| 小题10: | | A．admitting | B．imagining | C．suggesting | D．considering |
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| 小题11: | | A．nothing | B．anything | C．something | D．everything |
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| 小题12: | | A．mirroring | B．streaming | C．picturing | D．cornering |
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| 小题13: | | A．until | B．after | C．before | D．while |
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| 小题14: | | A．annoying | B．frightening | C．disappointing | D．surprising |
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| 小题15: | | A．cried | B．pointed | C．spoke | D．read |
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| 小题16: | | A．distance | B．order | C．shelter | D．space |
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| 小题17: | | A．shake | B．escape | C．return | D．avoid |
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| 小题18: | | A．stupid | B．certain | C．sorry | D．comfortable |
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| 小题19: | | A．hands | B．eyes | C．legs | D．arms |
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| 小题20: | | A．develop | B．treat | C．catch | D．beat |
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Richard’s father died when he was five. Later on he his mother again. The poor boy had to live on his own, so he went to work for a rich farmer, who paid him nothing except food and clothes. An old woman felt for him and often helped him. The boy wanted to go to very much, but he had no money. But he never gave up and found some old books near the school and himself to read and write.
There was a narrow path（小路） between two mountains which connected the village and the town. One morning people there was a big stone on the path. It brought them difficulty: they had to cross the mountains to the town, or they had to move it away. the stone weighed at least thirty tons and even the strongest young man couldn’t move it. They for a long time, but nobody knew what to do.
Richard looked at it carefully for a while and said, “I have a to move it away.” But people believed him. Some villagers even laughed at him. The night fell and people went back. Only the boy stayed there. To their surprise, the villagers found the stone was the next morning. They didn’t know who had moved it away. The old woman said Richard had done it all by himself.
“How could he?” the rich farmer called out, “He’s fifteen! He couldn’t move it at all!”
“He dug(挖掘) a big hole beside the stone.” said the old woman, “and then he could push it into the hole!”
Looking at each other, the villagers couldn’t say a word.
| 小题1: | | A．lost | B．loved | C．supported | D．helped |
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| 小题2: | | A．angry | B．proud | C．sorry | D．excited |
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| 小题3: | | A．town | B．mountain | C．school | D．bed |
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| 小题4: | | A．asked | B．taught | C．agreed | D．caused |
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| 小题5: | | A．found | B．believed | C．asked | D．counted |
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| 小题7: | | A．cried | B．stayed | C．played | D．discussed |
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| 小题8: | | A．book | B．question | C．text | D．way |
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| 小题10: | | A．broken | B．heavier | C．gone | D．smaller |
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| 小题11: | | A．mainly | B．only | C．nearly | D．already |
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| 小题12: | | A．excitedly | B．easily | C．luckily | D．happily |
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I will never forget the lesson about my window. Four years ago, I moved to a house in a large town. One of my new neighbors’ house was only a few feet away from mine. There lived a woman. Through one of my windows, I could see her reading by her window every afternoon.
Several months later, I found I couldn’t see the woman clearly. I thought her window was too dirty. I said to myself, “Why doesn’t she clean her window? It looks terrible!”
One afternoon, I decided to clean my house including the window. I felt tired after three hours of hard work. So I sat down by the window for a rest. What a surprise! I could see the woman reading there clearly again! By that time, I realized that my own window was too dirty, not hers! I really felt ashamed for myself. I had been watching her through my dirty window in the past days!
The experience is very important for me. So I try to clean the window of my heart before judging others.
小题1:How long has the writer lived in the house according to the passage?| A．One years | B．Two years. | C．Three years. | D．Four years. |
小题2:What did the woman do every afternoon?| A．Read by her window. | B．played tennis on the grass. | | C．Danced in her house. | D．sang in front of the house. |
小题3:The writer couldn’t see the woman clearly because ______________.| A．the writer’s window was dirty | | B．the woman’s house was too far | | C．the woman didn’t open her window | | D．there was something wrong with his eyes. |
小题4:The underlined word “ashamed” means _________________. 小题5: According to the passage, the writer has learnt how to __________________.| A．clean the house | B．judge others | C．help neighbors | D．learn English |
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When Ben Franklin was only a boy, he always wanted to know about things. He was always asking his father and brothers ‘What?’ and ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’
They couldn’t always tell him what he wanted to know．
When they couldn’t tell him, Ben tried to find out for himself．
Many times Ben did find out things that no one knew before. The other boys would say, ‘That is Ben Franklin! He’s always finding out something new!’
Ben lived close to the water. He liked to go there to see the boats. He saw how the wind blew them across the water．
One day Ben said to himself: ‘Why can’t the wind help me float across the water? And I’m going to try.’ Ben got his big kite．He took hold of the kite string and ran with it. The wind took the kite up into the air．Then Ben jumped into the water．
The wind blew the kite high into the air．Ben began to float across the water．Soon he was on the other side, and he had not worked at all．
One boy shouted, ‘Look at Ben floating across the water! His kite takes him to the other side without any work!’
‘Yes,’ said another. ‘He’s always finding new ways to do things.’
小题1: When he was only a child, Ben____________.| A．liked to fly a kite by himself | | B．always asked easy questions | | C．always liked to play with water | | D．always liked to find out how things worked |
小题2:His father and brothers_____________.| A．couldn’t answer all his questions | | B．could answer all his questions | | C．tried hard to find out something new for him | | D．were too busy to answer his questions |
小题3: How did Ben Franklin float across the water? _______________.| A．The other boy took him across it. | B．The water carried him across it. | | C．The flying kite took him across it. | D．A boat took him across it. |
小题4:He found out many things that______________.| A．children didn’t know | B．his father knew | | C．people didn’t know | D．most people knew |
小题5: From the story we can see that young Ben Franklin liked____________.| A．using his mind | B．using his hands | C．making kites | D．flying kites |
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The True Story of Treasure Island
It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson"s imagination. ____, recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.
Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived ____ for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a . With him were his American wife Fanny and his son ___.
Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long over the hills. They had been ___ _ this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days ____. To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some ____.
One morning , the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island. Robert __ that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of ___ . "What"s that?" he asked. "That"s the _ _ treasure," said the boy. Robert suddenly _ ___something of an adventure story in the boy’s _ _ . While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the _ _ a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate(海盗)?
Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the __ __ of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to ____ such a man in a story. _ __ Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was _ ___.
So, thanks to a___ ___ September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of greatest _ ____ stories in the English language.
| 小题1: | | A．However | B．Therefore | C．Besides | D．Finally |
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| 小题2: | | A．alone | B．next door | C．at home | D．abroad |
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| 小题3: | | A．meeting | B．story | C．holiday | D．job |
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| 小题4: | | A．Lloyd | B．Robert | C．Henley | D．John |
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| 小题5: | | A．talk | B．rest | C．walk | D．game |
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| 小题6: | | A．attempting | B．missing | C．planning | D．enjoying |
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| 小题7: | | A．quiet | B．dull | C．busy | D．cold |
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| 小题8: | | A．cleaning | B．writing | C．drawing | D．exercising |
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| 小题9: | | A．doubted | B．noticed | C．decided | D．recognized |
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| 小题10: | | A．the sea | B．the house | C．Scotland | D．the island |
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| 小题11: | | A．forgotten | B．buried | C．discovered | D．unexpected |
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| 小题12: | | A．saw | B．drew | C．made | D．learned |
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| 小题13: | | A．book | B．reply | C．picture | D．mind |
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| 小题14: | | A．star | B．hero | C．writer | D．child |
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| 小题15: | | A．help | B．problem | C．use | D．burden |
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| 小题16: | | A．praise | B．produce | C．include | D．accept |
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| 小题18: | | A．injured | B．born | C．hired | D．written |
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| 小题19: | | A．rainy | B．sunny | C．cool | D．windy |
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| 小题20: | | A．news | B．love | C．humorous | D．adventure |
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