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A middle-aged woman took a seat opposite me . She was crying.Not speaking to anyone in particular,she 27 told her story.
She had come to the city to visit her daughter.On the way to the terminal(终点站),a thief had _28_ one of her bags.It had contained half of the money she’d brought with her.The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she _29_ still had some money left.The bus conductor,driver,and other passengers listened to her tale.
At this time, an old man _30_got on the bus.He sat in the seat directly in front of the woman.After a few minutes, all seats were __31__.The driver started the engine.The bus conductor collected tickets and began asking us where we were _32__.When he came to the old man’s seat,he became __33__ and asked the old man whether he had any money.The old man _34__ that he did not.He explained that he _35_ all his money this morning when he’d accidentally got on the wrong bus and now he was trying to go home.
Upon hearing this,the bus conductor _36_ the old man to get off the bus.The old man was almost in tears as he begged the bus conductor to let him take that bus _37_ he could get home before dark.The bus driver approached the old man,and repeated the conductor’s _38__ to get off the bus.
“Stop troubling him! Can’t you see he’s only trying to get home?”she interrupted.“He doesn’t have any money!”the driver shouted.“Well, that’s no _39_ to throw him off the bus,”she insisted.Then she said,“How much is his fare?”The bus conductor mumbled the amount.“Fine.”said the woman.She _40_ inside her blouse, took out her __41__ money,and handed the fare to the bus conductor.“Here’s his fare and mine.Just stop giving him a hard time.”
All eyes turned _42__ the woman,who,just minutes before,had been crying over the money she’d lost.“It’s only money,” she shrugged.
By the time the bus pulled out of the terminal,she had given the old man some bread and a dollar.She rode the rest of the way home _43__ a Mona Lisa smile of peace and grace,and the money she’d lost _44_was forgotten.
On the road of life,the politeness and smiles of _45__ can lighten our loads and lift our spirits.How much sweeter the journey when we make it a little smoother and richer for others !
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小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:D
小题7:C
小题8:B
小题9:C
小题10:C
小题11:B
小题12:A
小题13:B
小题14:C
小题15:D
小题16:D
小题17:B
小题18:B
小题19:A
小题20:C
解析
小题1:C 名词辨析。A回答;B协议;C迹象;D意义;这里是指司机没有开车的迹象。
小题2:A 副词辨析。A流泪地;B兴奋地;C无助地;D自豪地。这里是指她留着眼泪说自己的钱被偷了。
小题3:B 动词辨析。解析同上。
小题4:D 副词辨析。A惊讶地;B和平地;C自然地;D幸运地;这里是做她很幸运,仍然有钱回家。
小题5:A 词义辨析。A衣衫褴褛地;B害羞地;C开心地;D混乱地;这里指那个老人衣着破旧。
小题6:D 动词辨析。Take占据;这里是指所有的位置都被坐了。
小题7:C 短语辨析。A上车;B下来,写下;C下车;D收割;这里是指售票员让老人下车。
小题8:B 形容词辨析。A有意识的;B怀疑的;C好奇的;D焦虑的。这里指售票员怀疑老人没有钱。
小题9:C 动词辨析。Admit承认。这里指老人承认自己没有钱。
小题10:C 考察时态。根据句意老人解释在上午就把钱用完了。上午用了过去时,那么应该用完成时。
小题11:B 动词辨析。Order命令;这里指司机命令老人下车。
小题12:A 连词辨析。老人请求他们宾语让他下车,以便他在天黑之前到家。
小题13:B 名词辨析。Command要求。根据上文可知这里是售票员对老人的要求。
小题14:C 名词辨析。这里是指没有任何理由让老人下车。
小题15:D 动词辨析。这里指那个女的伸手拿钱,帮助老人付车费。
小题16:D 形容词辨析。Remaining剩下的;这里是指她取出剩下的钱帮助老人付车费。
小题17:B 固定词组。Turn to sb转向某人。
小题18:B 动词辨析。带着表情使用wear.
小题19:A 上下文串联。句意是指早些时候丢钱的事情都已经被他忘记了。
小题20:C 名词辨析。A风俗;B朋友;C陌生人;D售票员。这里是指陌生人的礼貌和微笑可以照亮我们的人生之路,可以振奋我们的精神。
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试题【It was a warm March evening,and I’d just taken a seat on the bus that would take】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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I argued,pointing to a very large belly(肚子) of mine,“I am married.I am having a baby.Why should I have to have someone sign for me to drive?”He answered coldly.“It’s the law,madam.”
Henry encouraged me to calm down,just go ahead and get the license and be done with it.“No,”I said.I refused to have him sign for me.So I left without a Maryland license.
I called the North Carolina Motor Vehicle office and renewed my NC license by mail--using my name Susan Brown.And thus it was for the next twelve years.Since Henry was in the army I could drive under my home state license.By the time Henry left the army we were once again living in Maryland,and I had to take the Maryland driver’s exam.Since then I just go in and renew every four years--sign the name Susan Brown,have my new picture taken, and walk out with a license to drive.
小题1:Susan got her first driver’s license_______.
A.before she got married to Henry |
B.when she was twenty years old |
C.after she finished high school |
D.when she just moved to Maryland |
A.she was forbidden to drive by Maryland law |
B.she lacked driving experience in Maryland |
C.she was to give birth to a baby soon |
D.she insisted on signing for herself |
A.American males should serve in the army |
B.different states may have different laws |
C.people have to renew their licenses in their home states |
D.women should adopt their husbands’ family names after marriage |
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me--a potential to live, you might call it--which I didn"t see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn"t been able to do that, I would have collapsed (崩溃) and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance(确信) that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate(错综复杂的) pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. "I can"t use this." I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." The words stuck in my head. "Roll it around! "By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia"s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
小题1:We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______
A.the author lost his sight because of a car crash. |
B.the author wouldn"t love life if the disaster didn"t happen. |
C.the disaster made the author appreciate what he had. |
D.the disaster strengthened the author"s desire to see. |
A.How to adjust himself to reality. |
B.Building up assurance that he can find his place in life. |
C.Learning to manage his life alone. |
D.How to invent a successful variation of baseball. |
A.would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life. |
B.would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair. |
C.would lose his will to struggle against difficulties. |
D.would sit in a chair and stay at home. |
A.hurt the author"s feeling. |
B.gave the author a deep impression. |
C.directly led to the invention of ground ball. |
D.inspired the author. |
A.A Miserable Life | B.Struggle Against Difficulties |
C.A Disaster Makes a Strong Person | D.An Unforgetable Experience |
But George Eastman is not how he died, and the Eastman Kodak Company is not how it is being killed. Though the ends be needless and premature, they must not be allowed to overshadow the greatness that came before. Few companies have done so much good for so many people, or defined and lifted so profoundly the spirit of a nation and perhaps the world. It is impossible to understand the 20th Century without recognizing the role of the Eastman Kodak Company.
Kodak served mankind through entertainment, science, national defense and the stockpiling of family memories. Kodak took us to the top of Mount Suribachi and to the Sea of Tranquility. It introduced us to the merry old Land of Oz and to stars from Charlie Chaplin to John Wayne, and Elizabeth Taylor to Tom Hanks. It showed us the shot that killed President Kennedy, and his brother bleeding out on a kitchen floor, and a fallen Martin Luther King Jr. on the hard balcony of a Memphis motel. When that sailor kissed the nurse, and when the spy planes saw missiles in Cuba, Kodak was the eyes of a nation. From the deck of the Missouri to the grandeur of Monument Valley, Kodak took us there. Virtually every significant image of the 20th Century is a gift to posterity from the Eastman Kodak Company.
In an era of easy digital photography, when we can take a picture of anything at any time, we cannot imagine what life was like before George Eastman brought photography to people. Yes, there were photographers, and for relatively large sums of money they would take stilted pictures in studios and formal settings. But most people couldn’t afford photographs, and so all they had to remember distant loved ones, or earlier times of their lives, was memory. Children could not know what their parents had looked like as young people, grandparents far away might never learn what their grandchildren looked like. Eastman Kodak allowed memory to move from the uncertainty of recollection, to the permanence of a photograph. But it wasn’t just people whose features were savable; it was events, the sacred and precious times that families cherish. The Kodak moment, was humanity’s moment.
And it wasn’t just people whose features were savable; it was events, the precious times that familes cherish. Kodak let the fleeting moments of birthdays and weddings, picnics and parties, be preserved and saved. It allowed for the creation of the most egalitarian art form. Lovers could take one another’s pictures, children were photographed walking out the door on the first day of school, the person releasing the shutter decided what was worth recording, and hundreds of millions of such decisions were made. And for centuries to come, those long dead will smile and dance and communicate to their unborn progeny. Family history will be not only names on paper, but smiles on faces.
The cash flow not just provided thousands of people with job, but also allowed the company’s founder to engage in some of the most generous philanthropy in America’s history. Not just in Kodak’s home city of Rochester, New York, but in Tuskegee and London, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He bankrolled two historically black colleges, fixed the teeth of Europe’s poor, and quietly did good wherever he could. While doing good, Kodak did very well. Over all the years, all the Kodakers over all the years are essential parts of that monumental legacy. They prospered a great company, but they – with that company – blessed the world.
That is what we should remember about the Eastman Kodak Company.
Like its founder, we should remember how it lived, not how it died.
History will forget the small men who have scuttled this company.
But history will never forget Kodak.
小题1:According to the passage, which of the following is to blame for the fall of Kodak?
A.The invention of easy digital photography |
B.The poor management of the company |
C.The early death of George Eastman |
D.The quick rise of its business competitors |
A.died a natural death of old age. |
B.happened to be on the spot when President Kennedy was shot dead. |
C.set up his company in the capital of the US before setting up its branches all over the world. |
D.was not only interested in commercial profits, but also in the improvement of other people’s lives. |
A.no photos has ever been taken of people or events |
B.photos were very expensive and mostly taken indoors |
C.painting was the only way for people to keep a record of their ancestors. |
D.grandparents never knew what their grandchildren looked like. |
A.who took the photograph |
B.who wanted to have a photo taken |
C.whose decisions shaped the Eastman Kodak Company |
D.whose smiles could long be seen by their children |
A.Disapproving | B.Respectful | C.Regretful | D.Critical |
A.Great Contributions of Kodak | B.Unforgettable moments of Kodak |
C.Kodak Is Dead | D.History of Eastman Kodak Company |
That’s when Jack arrived on the scene. He was different from any other guy I’d dated. He could sit for hours on the piano bench with my mother, discussing some composers. My brother Rick loudly announced that Jack wasn’t a turkey like the other guys I’d brought home. Jack passed my family’s test. But what about Dad’s?
Then came my mother’s birthday. The day he was supposed to drive, I got a call. “Don’t worry,” he said, “but I’ve been in an accident. I’m fine, but I need you to pick me up.”
When I got there, we rushed to a flower shop for something for Mom. “How about gardenias?” Jack said, pointing at a beautiful white corsage(胸花). The florist put the corsage in a box.
The entire ride, Jack was unusually quiet. “Are you all right?” I asked. “I’ve been doing a lot of thinking,” he said. “I might be moving.” Moving? Then he added, “Moving in with you.” I nearly put the car on the sidewalk. “What?” I asked. “I think we should get married,” he said. He told me he’d planned his proposal in a fancy restaurant, but after the accident, he decided to do it right away. “Yes,” I whispered. We both sat dumbfounded, tears running down our cheeks. I’d never known such a tender moment. If only Dad were here to give his final approval.
“Oh, let’s just go inside.” Jack laughed. My mother opened the door. “Happy Birthday!” we shouted. Jack handed the box to her. She opened it up. Suddenly, her eyes were filled with tears. “Mom, what’s wrong?” I asked. “I’m sorry,” she said, wiping her eyes. “This is only the second gardenia corsage I’ve ever received. I was given one years ago, long before you kids were born.” “From who?” I asked. “Your father,” Mom said. “He gave me one right before we were engaged.” My eyes locked on Jack’s as I blinked away(眨掉) tears. Dad’s test? I knew Jack had passed.
小题1:According to the text, we know the writer’s father was __________.
A.interested in observing things around |
B.good at judging one’s character |
C.strict with her boyfriend |
D.fond of challenges |
A.Jack got the family’s approval except Dad’s. |
B.Jack was different from any other boy. |
C.Jack was getting on well with Mother. |
D.Jack knew a lot about piano. |
A.piece of advice | B.wedding ceremony |
C.celebration of birthday | D.offer of marriage |
A.pleased | B.worried | C.surprised | D.disappointed |
A.The gift was the same as the one her husband gave her. |
B.She had never received such a beautiful gift. |
C.Her daughter found her life partner at last. |
D.The gardenia corsage was too expensive. |
It is hard for me to accept that many of my wonderful neighbors are growing old and won’t be around much longer. I have fond memories of the couple across the street, who sat together on their porch swing almost every evening, the widow next door who yelled at my brother and me for being too loud, and the crazy old man in a black suit who drove an old car. In contrast to those people, the people I see today are very old neighbors who have seen better days. The man in the black suit says he wants to die, and another neighbor just sold his house and moved into a nursing home. The lady who used to yell at us is too tired to bother any more, and the couple across the street rarely go out to their front porch these days. It is difficult to watch these precious people as they near the end of their lives because at once I thought they would live forever.
The “comings and goings” of the younger generation of my street are now mostly “goings” as friends and peers move on. Once upon a time, my life and the lives of my peers revolved around home. The boundary of our world was the gutter at the end of the street. We got pleasure from playing night games or from a breathtaking ride on a tricycle. Things are different now, as my friends become adults and move on. Children who rode tricycles now drive cars. The kids who once played with me now have new interests and values as they go their separate ways. Some have gone away to college like me, a few got married, two went into the army, and one went to prison. Watching all these people grow up and go away makes me long for the good old days.
Perhaps the biggest change on my street is the fact that the city is going to turn my precious hill into several lots for now homes. For sixteen years, the view out of my kitchen window has been a view of that hill. The hill was a fundamental part of my childhood life; it was the hub of social activity for the children of my street. We spent hours there building forts, sledding, and playing tag. The view out of my kitchen window now is very different; it is one of tractors and dump trucks tearing up the hill. When the hill goes, the neighborhood will not be the same. It is a piece of my childhood. It is a visual reminder of being a kid. Without the hill, my street will be just another pea in the pod.
There was a time when my street was my world, and I thought my world would never change. But something happened. People grow up, and people grow old. Places changes, and with the change comes the heartache of knowing I can never go back to the times I loved. In a year or so, I will be gone just like many of my neighbors. I will always look back to my years as a child, but the place I remember will not be the silent street whose peace is interrupted by the sounds of construction. It will be the happy, noisy, somewhat strange, but wonderful street I knew as a child.
小题1:The writer calls up the memory of the street _____________.
A.every year when autumn comes |
B.in the afternoon every day |
C.every time he walks along his street |
D.now that he is an old man |
A.many of his good neighbors are growing old |
B.the lady next door who used to yell at him and his brother is now a widow |
C.the life of his neighbors has become very boring |
D.the man in his black suit even wanted to end his own life |
A.continue to consider home to be the center of their lives |
B.leave the neighborhood they grew up in |
C.still enjoy playing card games in the evenings |
D.develop new interests and have new dreams |
A.removing the hill to make way for residential development |
B.the building of new homes behind his kitchen window |
C.the fact that there are much fewer people around than in the past |
D.the change in his childhood friends" attitude towards their neighborhood |
A.his street will be very noisy and dirty |
B.his street will soon be crowded with people |
C.his street will have some new attractions |
D.his street will be no different from any other street |
A.The Past of My Street will Live Forever |
B.Unforgettable People and Things of My Street |
C.Memory Street Isn"t What It Used to Be |
D.The Big Changes of My Street |
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