A year ago I paid no attention to English idioms, 36 ___my teacher said again and again that it was important.
One day, I happened to 37 ___an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to 38____. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner shook his head, saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!” I was 39 ____, I thought, perhaps this is not a 40 topic. Well, I’d 41____ change the topic. So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? 42 ___the way, have you ever 43 ____ there?”
“Certainly, everyone back home will 44 ___me if I leave China without seeing 45 ___” It was great. I said, “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. It is a place of 46 ____.” Soon I was interrupted again by his words, “ 47 _____ !” I couldn’t 48 ____asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t ask you to do 49___”, he answered, gently surprised.
I said, “Didn"t you say "You don’t say"?”
Hearing this, the Englishman 50 ____to tears. He began to 51 ____, “"You don"t say" actually means "really?". It is an 52 ___of surprise. Perhaps you don"t pay attention 53____ English idioms.”
Then I knew I had made fool of 54____. Since then I have been more 55 ____with idioms.
| 小题2: | | A．look | B．meet | C．pick up | D．find out |
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| 小题4: | | A．pleased | B．angry | C．afraid | D．surprised |
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| 小题5: | | A．proper | B．strange | C．safe | D．polite |
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| 小题8: | | A．gone | B．visited | C．seen | D．been |
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| 小题9: | | A．look at | B．think of | C．send for | D．laugh at |
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| 小题10: | | A．it | B．them | C．anything | D．something |
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| 小题11: | | A．fun | B．interest | C．business | D．mountain |
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| 小题12: | | A．Really | B．Good | C．You don"t say | D．You are right |
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| 小题14: | | A．this | B．so | C．anything | D．me a favor |
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| 小题15: | | A．laughed | B．cried | C．moved | D．came |
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| 小题16: | | A．explain | B．shout | C．prove | D．say |
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| 小题17: | | A．experience | B．expression | C．explanation | D．example |
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| 小题19: | | A．me | B．myself | C．him | D．somebody |
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| 小题20: | | A．helpful | B．popular | C．careful | D．satisfied |
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小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:B
小题7:D
小题8:D
小题9:D
小题10:A
小题11:B
小题12:C
小题13:B
小题14:B
小题15:A
小题16:A
小题17:B
小题18:B
小题19:B
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试题分析：文章讲述虽然我的老师一遍又一遍说英语习语重要，我都不注意它，一次和英国人的对话让我对英语习语有了新的认识，让我对习语不敢掉以轻心。
小题1:考查连词：A. though虽然，B. when当…时候，C. if 如果，D. as正如，因为，虽然我的老师一遍又一遍说英语习语重要，我都不注意它，这两句话是转折关系，选A
小题2:考查动词和动词短语：A. look看，B. meet遇见，C. pick up收听，接送，捡起，D. find out弄清，查明，有一天我碰巧在街上遇到一个英国人，选B
小题3:考查动词：A. walk步行，B. talk谈话，C. play玩，打比赛，D. go去，从后面的句子：As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner shook his head,可知他们很快谈起话来，选B
小题4:考查形容词：A. pleased高兴的，B. angry生气的，C. afraid害怕的，D. surprised惊讶的，从后面的句子：perhaps this is not a 40 topic.可知作者很惊讶，选D
小题5:考查形容词：A. proper适合的，B. strange 奇怪的，C. safe 安全的，D. polite礼貌的，英国人说：“You don’t say! You don’t say!”作者还以为这是不适合的话题，选A
小题6:考查词组：A. to去，B. better 更好，C. not不是，D. like喜欢，象，我最好换一个话题。Had betterdo“最好做…”选B
小题7:考查介词：A. On在…上面，B. In在…里面，C. All所有的，D. By通过，by the way顺便说一下，选D
小题8:考查动词：A. gone去，B. visited参观，C. seen看见，D. been是，你去过长城吗？have been to曾经去过，have gone to已经去了，选D
小题9:考查动词短语：A. look at看，B. think of想到，C. send for派人请，D. laugh at嘲笑，如果我离开中国没有去过那里，人们会嘲笑我的，选D
小题10:考查代词：A. it它，B. them他们，C. anything 任何事，D. something某件事，这里用it代替the Great Wall，选A
小题11:考查名词：A. fun乐趣，B. interest兴趣，C. business 商业，D. mountain山，a place ofinterest名胜，长城是世界奇观之一，是一个名胜，选B
小题12:考查上下文串联：A. Really真地，B. Good 好，C. You don"t say真的？D. You are right你是对的，从前面的句子：“You don’t say! You don’t say!”可知这次又被这句话打断了，选C
小题13:考查动词：A. be是，B. help帮助，C. think思考，D. do做，couldn’t help doing情不自禁的做…，选B
小题14:考查上下文串联：A. this这个，B. so因此，C. anything任何是，D. me a favor帮忙，英国人说，“我没有让你这么做”，选B
小题15:考查动词：A. laughed笑，B. cried哭，C. moved感动，D. came来，从后面的to tears可知英国人眼泪都笑出来了，.选A
小题16:考查动词：A. explain解释，B. shout叫喊，C. prove 证明，D. say说话，后面是“"You don"t say" actually means "really?".这是英国人的解释，选A
小题17:考查名词：A. experience经历，B. expression表达，表情，C. explanation解释，D. example例子，这是惊讶的表达，选B
小题18:考查词组：A. for为了，B. to给，C. at在…地方，D. in，pay attention to注意，选B
小题19:考查代词：A. me我，B. myself我自己，C. him他，D. somebody有人，我知道我很傻，选B
小题20:考查形容词：A. helpful有帮助的，B. popular流行的，C. careful仔细的，D. satisfied满意的，be careful with小心（做/处理）某物，经过这次教训作者对英语习语很小心，选C |
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I was working as a consultant(顾问) in a beer company, helping the president and senior vice-presidents with something important. It was a big 16 . At the same time, my mother was in the 17 stages of cancer. .
I worked during the day and 18 40 miles home to be with her every night. It was 19 and stressful, but it was what I wanted to do. My promise was to continue to do excellent consulting during the day, 20 my evenings were very hard. I didn’t want to 21 the president with my situation. 22 I felt someone at the company wanted to 23 what was going on. So I told the vice-president of Hunan Resources, asking him not to 24 the information with anyone.
A few days 25 , the president called me into his office. I 26 he wanted to talk to me about one of the many issues we were 27 on. When I entered, he asked me to sit down. He faced me from across his large 28 , looked me in the eye and said, “I 29 your mother is very ill.”
I was totally 30 by surprise and burst into tears. He just looked at me, let my 31 subside(平息)，and then he 32 said a sentence I will never forget: “Whatever you need.” That was it. His 33 and willingness to both let me be in my pain and to offer me 34 were qualities of compassion(同情) that I 35 with me to this day.
| 小题1: | | A．honour | B．success | C．challenge | D．task |
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| 小题2: | | A．previous | B．final | C．fine | D．developing |
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| 小题3: | | A．walked | B．rode | C．ran | D．drove |
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| 小题4: | | A．tiring | B．exciting | C．boring | D．frightening |
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| 小题5: | | A．as if | B．after all | C．even though | D．now that |
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| 小题6: | | A．help | B．puzzle | C．cheat | D．bother |
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| 小题8: | | A．know | B．realize | C．hear | D．announce |
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| 小题9: | | A．enjoy | B．learn | C．share | D．hide |
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| 小题10: | | A．after | B．ago | C．before | D．later |
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| 小题11: | | A．knew | B．figured | C．doubted | D．found |
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| 小题12: | | A．working | B．getting | C．living | D．going |
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| 小题13: | | A．room | B．office | C．desk | D．computer |
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| 小题14: | | A．guess | B．hear | C．believe | D．think |
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| 小题16: | | A．crying | B．explaining | C．talking | D．worrying |
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| 小题17: | | A．suddenly | B．sadly | C．gently | D．carefully |
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| 小题18: | | A．happiness | B．understanding | C．excitement | D．sadness |
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| 小题19: | | A．everything | B．anything | C．nothing | D．something |
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| 小题20: | | A．take | B．bring | C．help | D．carry |
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My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn"t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking. Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn"t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.
We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.
For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.
We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.
Over dinner, we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained. “I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.” The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.
小题1:All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.| A．poor | B．warm -hearted | C．silent | D．cold |
小题2:The underlined word “establish” in the 3th paragraph has the same meaning as_________.| A．keep | B．discover | C．set up | D．accept |
小题3:The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.| A．they both disabled people | | B．they both had some difficulty in expressing | | C．they both liked bus travel | | D．they both brought interest to the passengers |
小题4:Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?| A．Friends of the Road | B．The Silent Woman on the Bus | | C．Going to Work by Bus | D．Different Kinds of Friendship |
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Like lots of small-business owners, Lola Gonzalez had to decide to cut down her company’s nine-person staff (员工) when the economic recovery began to fail last spring. Unlike other companies, she picked an unlikely employee to lay off (解雇): herself.
Her business began to have problems in 2008 after going through her books (账簿)
One day, her husband, Marcos, told her she had to reduce her payroll（薪金总额）by one person. Gonzalez said at a meeting, “I want you all to know that I have to lay somebody off and it’s been a very difficult decision. And that person is me.” Employees first froze in amazement and then burst into laughter until they realized she was serious. Gonzalez ’s employees said they were grateful for her kindness.
Her reason was simple. Although she ran the business and her employees did the legwork (跑腿), she thought she could find work more easily than her staff. Sure enough, she soon got a job as a social worker for a non-profit organization called Devereux Kids. She enjoys her social-worker job now, but the salary (薪水) cut has required some lifestyle changes. She and Marcos no longer eat out daily; they no longer pay for their son’s car and mobile phone, and they changed their car to a smaller one to save $300 a month.
Her business has picked up a bit recently and Marcos has begun to work part-time at Gonzalez’s company. Gonzalez says she has no plan to return to work at her company until the economic situation becomes better, perhaps in a year. Her employees, however, will get Christmas bonuses (奖金) this year.
小题1:How many workers are there in Gonzalez’s company at present?小题2:How did her employees feel at first when they heard Gonzalez’s decision?| A．Happy. | B．Grateful. | C．Surprised. | D．Unbelievable. |
小题3:After leaving her company, _____________. | A．Gonzalez sold her car and went to work by bus | | B．Gonzalez always had meals in a restaurant | | C．Gonzalez’s son helped her a lot | | D．Gonzalez changed her lifestyle a lot |
小题4:From the text, we can learn that ___________.| A．Gonzalez will not return to her company in future | | B．Gonzalez’s business has improved a little lately | | C．Gonzalez got her social-worker job with great difficulty | | D．Marcos lost his job and had to work at Gonzalez’s company |
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One day, a farmer’s donkey fell into a dried up well. The animal cried 16 for hours as the farmer tried to 17 what to do. Finally, he decided that the animal was 18 , the well needed to be covered up, and 19 the donkey just wasn’t worth the 20 , so he invited his neighbors to 21 and help him bury the donkey in the well. They all held shovels (铲) and begin to shovel 22 into the well. At first, the donkey 23 what was happing and 24 cried pitifully. Then, to everyone’s 25 , he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked 26 into the well and was 27 at what he saw. 28 each shovel load of dirt that hit his back, the donkey 29 something surprising. He shook it off and took a step up! As the farmer’s neighbors 30 to shovel dirt 31 the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. The donkey stepped 32 over the edge of the well! As with the donkey, 33 is going to shovel dirt 34 you, all kinds of dirt. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, by never giving 35 .
| 小题1: | | A．happily | B．hardly | C．sadly | D．greatly |
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| 小题2: | | A．carry out | B．think out | C．leave out | D．watch out |
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| 小题3: | | A．young | B．small | C．old | D．large |
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| 小题4: | | A．rescuing | B．killing | C．selling | D．buying |
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| 小题5: | | A．money | B．effort | C．praise | D．time |
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| 小题6: | | A．come around | B．come over | C．come down | D．come to |
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| 小题7: | | A．stone | B．earth | C．dirt | D．soil |
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| 小题8: | | A．realized | B．found | C．heard | D．saw |
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| 小题9: | | A．again | B．ever | C．never | D．once |
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| 小题10: | | A．joy | B．amazement | C．disappoint ment | D．excitement |
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| 小题12: | | A．astonished | B．sorry | C．worried | D．angry |
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| 小题14: | | A．did | B．had | C．made | D．considered |
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| 小题15: | | A．began | B．stopped | C．started | D．con tinued |
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| 小题16: | | A．at the top of | B．on top of | C．at the foot of | D．in front of |
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| 小题17: | | A．luckily | B．successfully | C．hard | D．easily |
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| 小题18: | | A．life | B．world | C．time | D．work |
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Once my friend Peterson bought a pack of chicken, the brand of which was very famous at that time. But when he got home he found that the chicken had gone bad. He took the chicken back to the shop and he was paid twice of the price. We may say now he should have been satisfied but my friend would not like to stop. He decided to write a letter to Frank, president of the company, who was also the founder of the chicken brand.
About a week later he received a letter written by the president himself. In the letter he apologized to my friend for it whole –heartedly .There was also a card in the envelope ,with which my friend could get another pack of chicken in any of the shops. In the end my friend was asked to answer some questions.
1. When and where did you buy the chicken?
2. What was the real problem of the chicken?
3. What did the shop ass istant say when you took the chicken back to the shop?
4. W hat do you think is the reason for the chicken to go bad?
5. What do you suggest we should do to get away from such problems?
Two days later, my friend also received a telephone call from the president’s office, asking whether he had received the letter as well as the card and then some other questions. Since then, my friend has always bought chicken of this brand whenever he wants to.
小题1:What did the friend get when he took the bad chicken back to the shop?| A．Another pack of chicken. | | B．Two packs of chicken. | | C．Double the price. | | D．A whole-hearted apology. |
小题2:What did the author’s friend do when he came back from the shop after he was paid back?| A．He felt satisfied with the result. | | B．He wrote a letter to the President of the US. | | C．He became very angry with the shop assistant. | | D．He wrote a letter to the president of the company. |
小题3:What is the author’s friend’s attitude towards the chicken brand?| A．He still believes in it. | | B．He doesn’t believe it at all. | | C．He will never buy it again. | | D．He has never been satisfied with it. |
小题4:What can we infer from the passage?| A．The company may still be a top brand now. | | B．The president of the company is a responsible person. | | C．The company must have closed down. | | D．The author may also believe in the chicken brand. |
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