Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawyers. Some years later, they 16 after having dinner together. They discussed the 17 they gave their elderly mother who lived far away in another city. The first said, “I had a 18 house built for Mama.” The second said, “I had my Mercedes-Benz dealer（经销商）send a 19 to her.” The third said, “I built a beautiful 20 for Mama.” The fourth said, “You know 21 Mama loved reading poems and you know she can’t read anymore because she can’t 22 very well. I met a 23 who had a parrot（鹦鹉）that can recite many poems. It took him 12 years to 24 it to speak and he earns his living by renting it out. I had to pay him $100,000 a year for twenty years, 25 it is worth it.” On hearing that, the other brothers were 26 by his good thought.
After the holidays their mother 27 her thank-you notes, which read:
“Milton, the house you built is so huge. I only live in one room, but I have to 28 the whole house. It’s a tiring job. Thanks anyway.”
“Marvin, I am too old to 29 . I stay home and have my foods delivered, so I’ll 30 use the car. The 31 was good, although not practical. Thanks.”
“Michael, you gave me an expensive building for 50 people to 32 plays or watch movies in it, but all my friends are dead. I’ve almost 33 my hearing and I’m nearly blind. I won’t use it. Thank you all the same.”
“Dearest Melvin, you were the 34 son to have the good sense to give a little thought to your gift. The chicken tasted so 35 . I liked it very much. Thank you.”
| 小题1: | | A．fought | B．talked | C．studied | D．slept |
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| 小题2: | | A．gifts | B．chances | C．wishes | D．challenges |
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| 小题3: | | A．warm | B．big | C．safe | D．lonely |
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| 小题5: | | A．station | B．museum | C．library | D．theater |
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| 小题7: | | A．listen | B．feel | C．see | D．walk |
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| 小题8: | | A．nurse | B．writer | C．businessman | D．lawyer |
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| 小题9: | | A．protect | B．beat | C．raise | D．teach |
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| 小题10: | | A．but | B．so | C．unless | D．although |
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| 小题11: | | A．treated | B．impressed | C．threatened | D．hurt |
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| 小题12: | | A．sent out | B．put up | C．took out | D．picked up |
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| 小题13: | | A．sell | B．borrow | C．clean | D．visit |
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| 小题14: | | A．learn | B．work | C．exercise | D．travel |
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| 小题15: | | A．never | B．often | C．regularly | D．sometimes |
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| 小题16: | | A．future | B．hobby | C．idea | D．program |
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| 小题17: | | A．create | B．enjoy | C．bring | D．record |
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| 小题18: | | A．lost | B．admired | C．remained | D．discovered |
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| 小题20: | | A．strange | B．unpleasant | C．bitter | D．delicious |
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小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:D
小题6:B
小题7:C
小题8:C
小题9:D
小题10:A
小题11:B
小题12:A
小题13:C
小题14:D
小题15:A
小题16:C
小题17:B
小题18:A
小题19:D
小题20:D |
试题分析：文章讲诉了四个儿子为母亲准备礼物的故事，每个人都花费心思和金钱给妈妈买最好的礼物，特别是其中一个儿子花重金给妈妈买了个鹦鹉，但妈妈最后却把鹦鹉给吃了。
小题1:考查动词：A. fought争吵B. talked谈论C. studied研究D. slept睡觉，从后面的discussed可知他们晚饭后讨论。选B
小题2:考查名词：A. gifts礼物B. chances机会C. wishes 希望D. challenges挑战，他们讨论给住在遥远城市的妈妈的礼物。选A
小题3:考查形容词：A. warm温暖的B. big大的C. safe安全的D. lonely孤单的，第一个人说，我给妈妈建个大房子。选B
小题4:考查名词：A. book书B. bike自行车C. car汽车D. bag包，从前面的Mercedes-Benz可知是汽车。选C
小题5:考查名词：A. station车站B. museum博物馆C. library图书馆D. theater剧院，从下文的plays or watch movies in it 可知是送个漂亮的剧院给妈妈。选D
小题6:考查疑问词：A. what什么B. how怎样C. why为什么D. when什么时候，句意：你知道妈妈多么喜欢读书。选B
小题7:考查动词：A. listen听B. feel感觉C. see看见D. walk走，句意：你知道她不能再看了，因为她看不见。选C
小题8:考查名词：A. nurse护士B. writer作家C. businessman商人，D. lawyer律师，从后面的he earns his living by renting it out.可知是个商人。选C
小题9:考查动词：A. protect保护B. beat击败C. raise提高D. teach教，他花了20年的时间教它说话。选D
小题10:考查连词：A. but但是B. so因此C. unless除非D. although虽然，前面说花了很多钱，后面说是值得的，表示转折关系，选A
小题11:考查动词：A. treated对待B. impressed 给…印象深刻C. threatened 威胁D. hurt伤害，听到他的话，其他的兄弟对他的好主意印象深刻，选B
小题12:考查词组：A. sent out送出去B. put up 张贴C. took out拿出来 D. picked up捡起，节日后，妈妈送出了感谢信，上面写到…..选A
小题13:考查动词：A. sell卖了B. borrow 借C. clean打扫D. visit参观，我要打扫整个房子。选C
小题14:考查动词：A. learn学习B. work工作C. exercise锻炼D. travel旅行，我太老了，不能旅行了，选D
小题15:考查副词：A. never 从不B. often经常C. regularly定期的D. sometimes有时，所以从不用车。选A
小题16:考查名词：A. future将来B. hobby习惯C. idea主意D. program节目，主意是好的，虽然不实用。选C
小题17:考查动词：A. create创造B. enjoy享受C. bring带来D. record记录，你给我一个昂贵的大楼可供50个人欣赏戏剧和看电影。选B
小题18:考查动词：A. lost失去了B. admired羡慕C. remained仍然D. discovered发现，我也失去了听力，选A
小题19:考查形容词：A. same同样的B. last最后的C. next下一个D. only只有，你是唯一的思考礼物的人，选D
小题20:考查形容词：A. strange奇怪B. unpleasant不愉快的C. bitter痛苦的D. delicious可口的，这个鸟很好吃。选D
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试题【Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawy】；主要考察你对
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In his lowest days when few people bought his records, Taiwan singer Steve Chou lived alone in Canada and did little. One day, he passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.
“My heart tells me that music is the thing I truly want to do, not for fame or money,” Chou said. That’s how we luckily have such a music genius, who has since then composed lots of hits for the pop music charts (排行榜).
“Sometimes we need to get close to nature to look deeply into our souls and see what we really want to follow,” he said.
Recently he has made public his latest work Lovers Genesis. In this album he explores human relationships in the Internet age.“Technology itself is a good thing, but it depends on how you’re going to use it,”is Chou’s advice to teenagers.
Chou often gets his music ideas from trips. He has traveled to many places around the world and believes that learning a country’s language is the fastest way of experiencing the culture behind it.
Chou has worked hard on learning English to push forward his music career. He has flown to the UK to attend months-long English training schools three times. There he lives with local families and practices daily conversations.
“So I could easily read the English instructions on recording machines and communicate with the local music producers,” said Chou, “The music reviews of the US or British singers that I appreciate could help me learn and grow with them.”
小题1:Which of the following about Steve Chou is the correct order?
a. He made public his work Lovers Genesis.
b. He passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.
c. He composed lots of hits for the pop music charts.
d. Few people bought his records.小题2:Why has Chou flown to the UK to learn English?| A．Because he wants to live in the UK. | | B．Because his record company asks him to. | | C．Because he wants to sell his album in the UK. | | D．Because he thinks it will be helpful for his music career. |
小题3:Steve Chou may agree with the following except that __________.| A．taking trips gives him some ideas of music | | B．what we really want to follow is the most important | | C．music is a thing that can bring him fame and money | | D．in International age, technology itself is not a bad thing |
小题4:What is Steve Chou like according to the passage?| A．Kind and helpful. | B．Proud and confident. | | C．Active and hard-working. | D．Calm and disappointed. |
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We spent a day in the country, picking wild flowers. With the car full of flowers we were going home. On our way back my wife noticed a cupboard outside a furniture shop. It was tall and narrow. “Buy it,” my wife said at once. “We’ll carry it home on the roof rack(行李架), I’ve always wanted one like that.”
What could I do? Ten minutes later I was 20 pounds poorer, and the cupboard was tied onto the roof rack. It was six inches long and eighteen inches square, quite heavy too.
In the gathering darkness I drove slowly. Other drivers seemed unusually polite that evening. The police even stopped traffic to let us through. Carrying furniture was a good idea.
After a time my wife said, “There’s a long line of cars behind. Why don’t they overtake, I wonder?”
In fact a police car did overtake. The two officers inside looked at us seriously as they passed. But then, with great kindness, they led us through the rush-hour traffic. The police car stopped at our village church. One of the officers came to me.
“Right, sir,” he said. “Do you need any more help?”
I was a bit puzzled. “Thanks, officer,” I said. “You have been very kind. I live just on the road.”
He was staring at our car: first at the flowers, and then at the cupboard. “Well, well,” he said, laughing. “It’s a cupboard you’ve got there! We thought it was, something else.”
My wife began to laugh. Then the truth hit me like a stone between the eyes. I smiled at the officer. “Yes, it’s a cupboard, but thanks again.” I drove home as fast as I could.
小题1:It can be inferred from the passage that______. | A．other drivers let the couple go first, because the husband did not drive fast | | B．the cupboard cost less than 20 pounds | | C．the husband, in fact, would rather not buy the cupboard | | D．all the cars followed the couple’s |
小题2:The police will be more polite to those who are______.| A．in great sorrow | B．driving in the gathering darkness | | C．driving with wild flowers in the car | D．carrying furniture |
小题3:What did the police officer think of the cupboard?| A．It was so expensive that it needed their help | | B．It was a box for a dead person to be buried in. | | C．There might be something stolen in it. | | D．It was a big box with some bomb in it. |
小题4:What did the husband think of the whole matter?| A．It was very strange. | B．He took great pride in it. | | C．He was puzzled at it | D．He felt embarrassed. |
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My husband Mike hated Christmas. He didn’t hate the true meaning of ___36___, but the commercial aspects (方面) of it. Knowing he felt this ____37__, I decided one year to__38__the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so on. I reached for something __39_just for Mike. The idea came in an unusual way.
Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was____40__at the junior level at the school he attended and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match___41____a team sponsored（资助） by a church.
These youngsters from the church, dressed in shoes so____42___that shoestrings(鞋带) seemed to be the only thing holding them together,___43_____our son’s team were in their beautiful new wrestling shoes.
As the match began, I was___44___to see that the other team was wrestling without a helmet(头盔) designed to___45____a wrestler’s head. They clearly could not____46___ them. Well, our son’s team ended up defeating them and took every weight class. But as the other team ____47__up from the mat(垫子), they walked around with a sense of pride that couldn’t admit___48____.
Mike, seated beside me, shook his head___49___, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential(潜力), but___50___like this could take the heart right out of them.” Mike loved__51____and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball. That’s when the __52____for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and ___53____some wrestling helmets and shoes and sent them to the church.
On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mike what I had done and that this was his____54___from me. His smile was the____55___ thing about Christmas that year.
| 小题1: | | A．the gift | B．an envelope | C．the wrestling | D．Christmas |
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| 小题3: | | A．buy | B．avoid | C．wear | D．give |
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| 小题4: | | A．beautiful | B．expensive | C．special | D．new |
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| 小题5: | | A．wrestling | B．weightlifting | C．shooting | D．boxing |
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| 小题7: | | A．big | B．small | C．worn | D．cheap |
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| 小题8: | | A．because | B．if | C．so | D．while |
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| 小题9: | | A．frightened | B．disappointed | C．pleased | D．surprised |
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| 小题10: | | A．cover | B．surround | C．protect | D．hide |
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| 小题11: | | A．carry | B．afford | C．design | D．expect |
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| 小题12: | | A．got | B．dressed | C．turned | D．cheered |
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| 小题13: | | A．defeat | B．evidence | C．charge | D．mistake |
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| 小题14: | | A．gently | B．sadly | C．nervously | D．gladly |
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| 小题15: | | A．running | B．winning | C．losing | D．shaking |
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| 小题16: | | A．workmates | B．parents | C．friends | D．kids |
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| 小题17: | | A．invitation | B．idea | C．care | D．money |
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| 小题18: | | A．return | B．sold | C．bought | D．left |
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| 小题19: | | A．gift | B．warning | C．praise | D．love |
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| 小题20: | | A．brightest | B．funniest | C．ugliest | D．darkest |
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There is an old Chinese tale about a woman whose only son died. Sadly, she went to the holy man and asked, “What magical things do you have to bring my son back to life?”
Instead of sending her away or reasoning with her, he said to her, “Fetch me a mustard (芥菜) seed from a home that has never known sadness. We will use it to drive the sadness out of your life.” The woman happily went off at once in search of that magical mustard seed.
She first came to a splendid house, knocked at the door and said, “I am looking for a home that has never known sadness. Is it such a place? It is very important to me.”
They told her “You’ve certainly come to the wrong place” and began to describe all the tragic things that had happened to them recently.
The woman said to herself, “I have had misfortune of my own. Who is able to help these poor, unfortunate people?” She stayed to comfort them, and then went on in search of a home that had never known sadness. But wherever she went, she found one tale after another of sadness and misfortune. She became so involved in other people’s sorrow that finally she forgot about her search for the magical mustard seed, never realizing that it had, in fact, driven the sadness out of her life.
小题1:Which of the following does the story lead us to believe?| A．Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. | | B．Time passed cannot be called back again. | | C．You can’t feel happy unless compared with others. | | D．You can’t expect to know the result until you have tried. |
小题2:Instead of sending the woman away, the holy man .| A．asked her to help him first | | B．tried to comfort her with kind words | | C．asked her to look for a thing that didn’t exist at all | | D．tried to encourage her by talking with her |
小题3:Leaving the holy man, the woman .| A．was full of hope | B．was filled with sadness | | C．was determined to try again | D．became discouraged |
小题4:The best title for the text would be “ ”.| A．A woman’s misfortune | B．A nice surprise | | C．The holy man’s faith | D．Cure for sadness |
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Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She was known around the world for using poetry to increase understanding of black culture in America.
During the 1940’s and the 1950’s, Gwendolyn Brooks used her poems to describe conditions among the poor, racial (种族的) inequality and drug use in the black community. She also wrote poems about the struggles of black women.
But her skill was more than her ability to write about struggling black people. She combined traditional European poetry styles with the African American experience.
Gwendolyn Brooks once said that she wrote about what she saw and heard in the street. She said she found most of her materials through looking out of the window of her second-floor apartment in Chicago, Illinois.
In her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the South Side of Chicago, where many black people live. In her poems, the South Side is called Bronzeville. It was “A Street in Bronzeville” that gained the attention of literary experts in 1945. Critics praised her poetic skills and her powerful descriptions about the black experience during the time. The Bronzeville poems were her first published collection.
In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She won the prize for her second book of poems called “Annie Allen”. “Annie Allen” is a collection of poetry about a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and a mother. She experiences loneliness, loss, death and poverty (贫穷).
Gwendolyn Brooks said that winning the prize changed her life.
Her next work was a novel written in 1953 called “Maud Martha”. “Maud Martha” attracted little attention when it was first published. But now it is considered an important work by some critics. Its main ideas about the difficult lives of many women are popular among female writers today.
小题1:Gwendolyn Brooks became world-famous because .| A．she was an expert on the language of poetry | | B．she introduced black culture by writing poems | | C．she fought for black rights by writing poems | | D．her poems showed the lives of black women |
小题2:Which of the following can we learn from the text?| A．Gwendolyn Brooks’ poems focused on black people in Africa. | | B．Winning the Pulitzer Prize for Literature was important to Brooks. | | C．Gwendolyn Brooks used to suffer a lot from drugs. | | D．Gwendolyn Brooks was very strict with herself. |
小题3:How did Gwendolyn Brooks get ideas for most of her poems?| A．By observing life. | B．By having talks. | | C．By reading widely. | D．By traveling. |
小题4:We can infer that the book “Annie Allen” mainly deals with .| A．family life | B．inequality | C．adventure | D．failure |
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