I was shopping in the supermarket when I heard a young voice boom from across the aisle.
“Mom, come here! There’s this lady here my size!”
The mother rushed to a boy she called Mickey; then she turned to me to apologize.
I smiled and told her, “It’s okay.” Then I talked to the boy, “Hi, Mickey, I’m Darry Kramer. How are you?”
He studied me from head to toe, and asked, “Are you a little mommy?”
“Yes, I have a son.”I answered.
“Why are you so little?” he asked.
“. . . It is the way I was born. ” I said. “ Some people are little. Some are tall. I’m just not going to grow any bigger. ” After about five more minutes of answering questions, I shook Mickey’s hand, and say doodbye to them.
My life as a little person is filled with stories like that. I enjoy talking to children and explaining why I look different from their parents. It has taken many years to develop my confidence to be able to do that.
It takes only one glance to see my uniqueness. I stand three feet, nine inches tall. I was born an achondroplasia dwarf（侏儒）. Despite this, my parents encouraged me to do all the things the kids around me did when I was growing up. When my neighbors got two-wheel bikes, I got a two- wheel bike. When they roller-skated, I roller-skated. I didn’t realize how short I was until I started school. There, a few kids picked on me, calling me names. Then I knew. After that, I began to hate the first day of school each year. I didn’t know who was new and would stare at me as I struggled to climb the school bus stairs.
As time went on, I just tried to smile and accept the fact that I was going to be noticed my whole life. I was determined to make my uniqueness an advantage rather than a disadvantage. What I lacked in height, I made up for in personality.
I’m 47 now, and the stares have not diminished as I’ve grown older. People look in disbelief when they see me get out of my car off the driver’s side. During those times, I try to keep a good attitude. When people are rude, I remind myself, “Look what else I have—a great family. Nice friends. ”
And it’s the children’s questions that make my life special. When I talk with children, they leave content that their questions have been answered. My hope is that in taking time with them, I will encourage them to accept their peers whatever size and shape they come in, and treat them with respect.
81. How was the author brought up? （no more than 9 words）(2 marks)
82. Why does the author enjoy talking to children? （no more than 12 words）(3marks)
83. When did the author realize that she was short? （no more than 4 words）(2 marks)
84.Please use several words to describe the author’s personalities. (no more than 6 words(3marks) |
小题1:By being encouraged to do whatever other kids did.
小题2:Because she wanted them to accept and respect all their peers.
小题3:Until she started school.
小题4:Independent, optimistic, confident, helpful and satisfied/ content. |
小题1:根据文章倒数第四段2,3行Despite this, my parents encouraged me to do all the things the kids around me did when I was growing up.说明父母一直鼓励着我。
小题2:根据文章最后三行. My hope is that in taking time with them, I will encourage them to accept their peers whatever size and shape they come in, and treat them with respect. 说明他这样做是为了让他们接受并尊敬他。
小题3:根据倒数第四段第五行I didn’t realize how short I was until I started school.说明直到上学的是时候，他才发现自己与别人的不一样。
小题4:通读全文可知他很独立，乐于助人，很多事情都是自己完成很乐观很自信，接受自己是一个侏儒的现实， |
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Despite being tall, Michelle Obama is much smaller than she appears on television． And she seemed a little short by her surroundings in the great hall of Christchurch College as she spoke quietly without a microphone because of a technical mistake． Her audience were 40 young girls from a London state school where 50 languages are spoken．
“I remember how well-meaning but misguided people questioned whether someone with my background could succeed at an elite （精英） university,” she said． “When I was accepted, I had all kinds of worries and doubts． I wouldn’t be as well prepared as students from privileged families and I wouldn’t fit in． But you are just as capable and have just as much to offer as anyone else．”
This was Mrs． Obama’s only solo outing during the state visit and part two of an unusual relationship which she has struck up with Anderson College in Islington． Two years ago on her first visit to the UK she visited the school．
Yesterday she returned to meet the pupils but this time at Christchurch College where they were taking part in an open day run to improve Oxford’s still poor record on diversifying student intake．
Mrs． Obama was asked why she married her husband, what it was like being First Lady and when there would be a female President in the White House． Her message—which she repeated time and again—was work hard, have self-belief, and don’t be afraid to fail． It was very un-British, but rather effective． Afterwards there were hugs for everyone and a photo with her．
And watching the group of multicultural young Britons surround her among the splendor of the college building one thought stood out． Had Mrs． Obama been born in Britain, she would almost certainly not have made it to Oxford as she did to Harvard． But now—thanks in part to her—some of these children just might．
小题1:According to the passage, Michelle Obama ____________．| A．graduated from Anderson College | | B．paid her first visit to the UK this time | | C．was confident when she entered the college | | D．came from a family without good background |
小题2:It is implied in the passage that these 40 young girls ____________．| A．were all from the United States | | B．were students of Oxford University | | C．came from different cultural backgrounds | | D．stayed with Mrs． Obama because of hard work |
小题3:Michelle Obama thinks success may come from the following EXCEPT ____________．| A．working hard | B．believing in yourself | | C．good opportunities | D．facing failure without fear |
小题4:What can we learn from the underlined sentence?| A．The British pupils couldn’t understand her message． | | B．Her message reached the British pupils successfully． | | C．Repetition is not the British way to give a message． | | D．All effective messages are not conveyed in British． |
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Terry was a middle-aged businessman. He was 36 in career and often complained that he had been fooled (欺骗) by others. One day he told his wife he was 37 disappointed with the city that he had to 38.
So his family moved to another city. It was Saturday 39. When Terry and his wife were busily putting their things in their new home, the lights suddenly 40 and they were forced to stop work. Terry was sorry to have 41 to bring along some candles. Just then he heard light 42 on his door.
“Who is it?” he wondered. Terry knew 43 else in the new city, and this was the moment he especially hated to be 44. He opened the door impatiently (不耐烦地). At the door was a little 45, shyly asking, “Sir, do you have 46? I’m your neighbor.” “No,” answered Terry angrily. He shut the door 47.
After a while the door was knocked again. He opened it and 48 the same little girl outside. But this time she was 49 two candles radiating (放光) red light. She said, “My grandma told me the 50 neighbor downstairs might need candles. She sent me here to51 you these.”
At that moment Terry suddenly realized what 52 his failure in life. It was his indifference (冷漠) and 53 to other people. The person who had fooled him in life was actually nobody else 54 himself, for his eyes had been covered by his 55 mind.
| 小题1: | | A．experienced | B．unsuccessful | C．interested | D．unlucky |
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| 小题2: | | A．very | B．so | C．such | D．rather |
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| 小题3: | | A．leave | B．travel | C．stay | D．choose |
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| 小题4: | | A．morning | B．afternoon | C．noon | D．evening |
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| 小题5: | | A．went down | B．went out | C．went by | D．went on |
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| 小题6: | | A．wanted | B．decided | C．forgotten | D．remembered |
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| 小题7: | | A．knocks | B．calls | C．strikes | D．sounds |
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| 小题8: | | A．everybody | B．anybody | C．somebody | D．nobody |
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| 小题9: | | A．troubled | B．followed | C．liked | D．learned |
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| 小题10: | | A．boy | B．girl | C．postman | D．shopper |
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| 小题11: | | A．candies | B．toys | C．lights | D．candles |
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| 小题12: | | A．easily | B．worriedly | C．happily | D．heavily |
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| 小题13: | | A．found | B．met | C．touched | D．knew |
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| 小题14: | | A．bringing | B．seeing | C．holding | D．drawing |
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| 小题16: | | A．buy | B．give | C．borrow | D．sell |
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| 小题17: | | A．made | B．caused | C．developed | D．stopped |
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| 小题18: | | A．laziness | B．sadness | C．unkindness | D．unhappiness |
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| 小题19: | | A．besides | B．except | C．but | D．than |
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| 小题20: | | A．open | B．right | C．warm | D．cold |
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A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers．“last week, ” said he, “my umbrella was stolen from a London church．As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn"t get it back．”
“How did you write your advertisement?”asked one of the listeners, a merchant．
“Here it is, said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper．The other man took it and read, “Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella．The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No．10 Broad Street．”
“Now, ”Said the merchant, “I often advertise, and find that it pays me well．But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of extreme importance．Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it </PGN0332.TXT/PGN>fails, I"ll buy you a new one．”
The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote：“If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn"t wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No．10 Broad Street．He is well known．”
This appeared in the paper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door．In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colours that had been thrown, and his own was among them．Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter．
小题1:The result of the first advertisement was that ______________.| A．the umbrella was found somewhere near the church | | B．the man got his umbrella back | | C．the man wasted some money advertising | | D．nobody found the missing umbrella |
小题2:The merchant suggested that the man should _______________.| A．buy a new umbrella | | B．write another and better advertisement | | C．go on looking for his umbrella | | D．report the police |
小题3:“If it fails, I’ll buy you a new one,” suggested that the merchant
_______________.| A．wanted to buy him a new umbrella | | B．didn’t know what to do | | C．was rich enough to buy one | | D．was quite sure of success |
小题4:The story is mainly about _________________.| A．a useless advertisement | | B．how to make an effective advertisement | | C．what the merchant did for the umbrella owner | | D．how the man lost and found his umbrella |
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When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very 1 . Some stories are told 2 they were true. Real people who live in a normal world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not 3 . They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be 4 for us.
But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only 5 . How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter, we do seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than 6 . Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of 7 . When we read or write something, we do much more than simply look at words on a page. We use our 8 --- which is real --- and our imagination ---which is real in a different way --- to make the words 9 in our minds.
Both realism and fantasy use the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read 10 realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we know that we are real and they are not. It sounds 11 , but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and 12 about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by pretending that what we read is like real life. In a way, we are writing the book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our 13 when we are reading. We 14 a book and lose ourselves in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel 15 we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.
| 小题1: | | A．possible | B．easy | C．new | D．different |
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| 小题2: | | A．that | B．what | C．whether | D．as if |
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| 小题3: | | A．realistic | B．reasonable | C．moral | D．instructive |
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| 小题4: | | A．difficult | B．impossible | C．important | D．necessary |
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| 小题5: | | A．thinkable | B．designed | C．imagined | D．planned |
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| 小题6: | | A．lessons | B．dreams | C．experience | D．magic |
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| 小题7: | | A．working | B．thinking | C．understanding | D．living |
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| 小题8: | | A．knowledge | B．skill | C．words | D．grammar |
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| 小题9: | | A．come to life | B．come to light | C．come to the point | D．come to nothing |
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| 小题10: | | A．a newspaper | B．something | C．everything | D．a story |
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| 小题11: | | A．dangerous | B．serious | C．strange | D．terrible |
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| 小题12: | | A．talk | B．learn | C．read | D．think |
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| 小题13: | | A．mind | B．life | C．world | D．society |
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| 小题14: | | A．turn up | B．pick up | C．cook up | D．bring up |
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Susan Sontag (1933 ------ 2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything----- to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art. With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.
Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords (格言), but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poorly-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In Notes Camp, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. Notes on Camp, she wrote, represents “a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.
By conviction she was a sensualist (感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist, and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor ------published in 1978, after she suffered cancer ------ she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed (被压抑的) personalities, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.
In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.
“Sometimes,” she once said, “I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending… is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.” And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.
小题1:It is implied but not stated in the first paragraph that Sontag _________.| A．was a symbol of American cultural life | | B．developed world literature, film and art | | C．published many essays about world culture | | D．kept pace with the newest development of world culture |
小题2:She first won her name through _________.| A．publishing essays in magazines like Partisan Review | | B．her story of a Polish actress | | C．her explanation of a set of difficult understandings | | D．her book Illness as Metaphor |
小题3:From the works Susan published in the 1970s and 1980s, we can learn that ________.| A．she was more of a moralist than a sensualist | | B．she was more of a sensualist than a moralist | | C．she believed repressed personalities mainly led to illness | | D．she would like to re-examine old positions |
小题4:According to the passage, Susan Sontag would agree to the ideas except _________.| A．We should try hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art. | | B．Cancer can be defeated because it is a special problem of repressed personalities. | | C．‘Form’ should be over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ should be over ‘morals. | | D．We should defend the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness. |
小题5:What is the passage mainly about?| A．A lifelong watchword: seriousness | | B．Susan Sontag is the symbol of American culture | | C．How Susan Sontag became famous | | D．An introduction to Susan Sontag and her watchword |
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