I"m glad you showed great interest in what is happening in China. You are right. I am very 21 of the great achievement that the Long March-2F carrier rocket successfully sent China"s manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft into space on June 16, 2012. Now, China is the third country in the world to use its own 22 to send a female into space.
I agree with you that if we work together and 23, the future will be ours, the two old civilizations will rejuvenate(焕发青春). The last thirty years has 24 great changes that have taken place in both India and China. We are lucky we are living in this great period.
You wanted to know more about Xi’an. Let me tell you: Xi’an is the biggest city in the 25 of China, with a population of over 9 million. Xi"an 26 the capital of China for over 13 dynasties. It was perhaps the most 27 and culturally advanced city in the entire world. 28 this place silk roads went westwards through Asia to Europe and Africa. Along one of the silk roads, over 1300 years ago, a great thinker called XuanZang 29 all the way from Xi"an to India with the 30 of getting true spirit of Buddha(佛). He succeeded after many 31 difficulties. After that, some new ideas from India spread over China, Japan and Korea. A 65-meter-high 32 called Dayan Pagoda was built for him for what he had done for the nation after he died, which 33 stands in the south of Xi"an, the most famous 34 of the city.
Xi"an is a city with splendid 35. A lot of historical interests attract millions of visitors from both China and all over the world, 36 which the Terra Cotta Warriors and the Old City Walls are the most well-known, whose details you can 37 find through the Internet.
Today"s Xi"an is modern and even more beautiful, 38 to film-makers, IT experts, and business people of every description. Here in this city, famous for calligraphy(书法), a new chapter in China"s history is being 39
I think you may have some idea of where I"m living. If you want to know more, come to China, I"ll be your 40.
Tell me more about your city. Maybe my next long journey is India.
Hope to get your reply.
Liu Shaowen
| 小题1: | | A．proud | B．happy | C．sorry | D．excited |
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| 小题2: | | A．money | B．machines | C．technologies | D．information |
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| 小题3: | | A．cooperate | B．trade | C．devote | D．believe |
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| 小题4: | | A．found | B．spotted | C．saw | D．discovered |
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| 小题5: | | A．southeast | B．northeast | C．northwest | D．southwest |
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| 小题6: | | A．being | B．has been | C．was | D．is |
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| 小题7: | | A．rich | B．quiet | C．fast | D．open |
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| 小题9: | | A．walked | B．climbed | C．drove | D．ran |
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| 小题10: | | A．demand | B．need | C．want | D．hope |
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| 小题11: | | A．hard | B．fierce | C．violent | D．unbearable |
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| 小题12: | | A．museum | B．temple | C．tower | D．pyramid |
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| 小题13: | | A．still | B．yet | C．therefore | D．then |
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| 小题14: | | A．brand | B．trade-mark | C．landmark | D．footmark |
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| 小题15: | | A．scenery | B．landscape | C．history | D．location |
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| 小题16: | | A．for | B．from | C．among | D．beyond |
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| 小题17: | | A．barely | B．hardly | C．rarely | D．easily |
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| 小题18: | | A．habitat | B．home | C．birthplace | D．residence |
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| 小题19: | | A．written | B．recorded | C．composed | D．painted |
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| 小题20: | | A．leader | B．teacher | C．adviser | D．guide |
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通过文章作者介绍了西安的一些相关情况。
小题1:形容词辨析。根据上下文可知I很自豪中国取得的航空成就。
小题2:名词辨析。A钱；B机器；C技术；D信息。这里是指中国使用自己的技术实现这成就。
小题3:上下文串联。根据work together可知这里是指相会合作，协作。
小题4:动词辨析。A发现；B找出；C见证；D发现。这里指过去的30年见证了巨大变化发生。
小题5:考察常识。西安位于中国的西北部，故C正确。
小题6:考察时态。西安是13个朝代的首都这是过去的事情，所以使用过去时。
小题7:形容词辨析。根据下文内容是古代丝绸之路的出发点，可知西安是非常开放的。
小题8:介词辨析。解析同上。西安是丝绸之路的出发地。
小题9:动词辨析。这里是指玄奘法师带着取回真经的希望步行万里去印度。故A正确。
小题10:名词辨析。解析同上。
小题11:形容词辨析。句意是指：他经过了难以忍受的困难以后最终成功了。
小题12:考察常识。在西安有一座塔是为了纪念玄奘法师而建的。
小题13:副词辨析。这里是指那座塔仍然屹立在西安南部。
小题14:名词辨析。A品牌；B商标；C地标，标志；D脚印。这里是指这座塔现在仍然是西安的标志。
小题15:上下文串联。根据下文的historical interests可知是指西安有悠久的历史。
小题16:考察定语从句的介词。这里是指在那么多的历史古迹中the Terra Cotta Warriors and the Old City Walls最为出名。
小题17:副词辨析。正因为这两个地方是如此的有名，在网上很容易就能找到他们的细节。
小题18:考察固定词组。Home to…所在地；
小题19:动词辨析。古迹上下文可知是这样的文章正在被写。
小题20:上下文串联。这里是指我做你的导游。 |
核心考点
试题【I"m glad you showed great interest in what is happening in China. You are right.】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
Frankenstein is one of the world’s most famous horror stories. It’s about a doctor who creates a new man from the body parts of dead people and brings it to life. But the experiment goes wrong and the monster(怪兽) kills the doctor and many others. The story has been read by millions since it was first published and in the last hundred years it has been made into dozens of movies. Many people are surprised to learn its writer was a 19-year-old woman, called Mary Shelley.
Mary was born into a rich London family in August 1797. She was educated by her parents and when she was 13 she decided to become a writer. In 1812, she met the famous writer Percy Shelley and they soon got married. Sadly for Mary, their first child died soon after birth in Italy. In her diary, Mary wrote about a dream：“I dreamt that my little baby came to life again---that it had only been cold and that we rubbed it before the fire and it lived.”
In 1816, Percy Shelley and 19-year-old Mary visited the poet Lord Byron at his home in Switzerland. Because of the bad weather they stayed indoors reading horror stories. On night, Byron asked everyone to write their own story. Mary thought of her dream and wrote the story of Frankenstein
Frankenstein was published when Mary was 21, and became a huge success. Many people didn’t think a 19-year-old woman could write so well and believed her husband was the real writer.
Although famous, Shelley’s life was full of sadness. Only one of her four children lived and in 1822 her husband died in a swimming accident. Mary was broken-hearted and decided not to marry again. She devoted herself to her child and continued to write until her death in 1851.
小题1:Where was Mary Shelley when she wrote the story Frankenstein ? | A．In England | B．In Italy | C．In Switzerland | D．In France |
小题2:In which order do the following take place?
a. Bad weather made everyone stay indoors reading horror stories.
b. The story Frankenstein was first published.
c. Mary wrote about a dream in her diary.
d. Mary met the famous writer Percy Shelley.
e. Movies based on the story of Frankenstein were made.| A．a,c,b,e,d | B．d,c,a,b,e | C．c,a,b,d,e | D．b,a,d,c,e |
小题3:How old was Mary Shelley when she died? |
A mouse looked through a crack(缝隙) in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!
Running to the farmyard, the mouse shouted, warning everyone, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house.”
The chicken, with her head high, glared at the mouse and said, “Shut up. Little Ugly. This is a great concern to you, but it has nothing to do with me; I can’t be troubled by it.
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so sorry, Mr. Mouse,” said the pig sympathetically, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; you are always in my prayers.”
The mouse turned to the cow, who relied, “ A mouse trap, am I in great danger, huh?”
Now the mouse had to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.
The very night a sound was heard through the house, like that of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a big poisonous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. It is said that drinking fresh chicken soup will help treat fever, so the farmer took his sharp knife to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer killed the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow killed to provide for all of them to eat.
So next time when someone is facing a problem, don’t say that it has nothing to do with you. Remember: when the least of us is threatened, we all might be at risk.
小题1:We could see from the passage that the mouse was _____.| A．good at cheating others | B．honest | | C．kind and warm-hearted | D．foolish |
小题2:Which of the following is False according to the passage? | A．The others help the farmer kill the cow. | | B．The mouse trap was very practical | | C．The pig is more friendly than the other animals. | | D．The farmer’s family was very poor and they had no friends |
小题3:What can we learn from the story?| A．Better safe than sorry | | B．Traps can always cause chain reactions | | C．To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us all | | D．What you think impossible to happen to you might come at you unexpectedly |
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Around twenty years ago I was living in York. 36 I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree, I could not find 37 work.
I was 38 a school bus to make ends meet and 39 with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat. I had 40 five interviews (面试) with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not 41 the job. “Why has my life become so 42 ?” I thought painfully.
As I pulled the bus over to 43 a little girl, she handed me an earring 44 I should keep it 45 somebody claimed (认领) it. The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”.
At first I got angry. Then it 46 me – I had been giving all of my 47 to what was going wrong with my 48 rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a 49 of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to 50 more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for 51 from a lady who was a director at a larger 52 . She asked me if I would 53 a one-day lecture on stress (压力) management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.
My 54 there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of 55 that I completely changed my life.
| 小题2: | | A．successful | B．extra | C．satisfying | D．convenient |
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| 小题3: | | A．driving | B．repairing | C．taking | D．designing |
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| 小题4: | | A．working | B．travelling | C．discussing | D．living |
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| 小题5: | | A．prepared for | B．attended | C．asked for | D．held |
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| 小题7: | | A．hard | B．busy | C．serious | D．short |
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| 小题8: | | A．wave at | B．drop off | C．call on | D．look for |
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| 小题9: | | A．ordering | B．promising | C．saying | D．showing |
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| 小题10: | | A．in case | B．or else | C．as if | D．now that |
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| 小题11: | | A．hurt | B．hit | C．caught | D．moved |
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| 小题12: | | A．feelings | B．attention | C．strength | D．interests |
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| 小题13: | | A．opinions | B．education | C．experiences | D．life |
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| 小题14: | | A．list | B．book | C．check | D．copy |
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| 小题15: | | A．connect | B．turn | C．keep | D．add |
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| 小题16: | | A．her | B．a passenger | C．me | D．my friend |
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| 小题17: | | A．hospital | B．factory | C．restaurant | D．hotel |
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| 小题18: | | A．listen to | B．review | C．give | D．talk about |
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| 小题19: | | A．plan | B．choice | C．day | D．tour |
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| 小题20: | | A．operation | B．speaking | C．employment | D．thinking |
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Barditch High School decided to hold an All-School Reunion. Over 450 people came to the event. There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers were on hands to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for fifty years, was wheeled to the Park.
Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans(嘟囔声)when Ms.Yates was about to speak. Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers combined.
Then Ms. Yates started to speak:
“I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here. I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven’t appeared in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the birth your children, in my imagination.”
Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:
“It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful in you chosen path.”
“There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.”
There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar(呼喊). Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.
小题1:What activity was organized for the school reunion?| A．Sightseeing in the park. | | B．A picnic on the school playground. | | C．Telling stories about past events. | | D．Graduates’ reports in the old building. |
小题2:What can be inferred from Paragraph 2? | A．Some graduates were too busy to listen to Ms. Yates’ speech. | | B．Many graduates disliked Ms. Yates’ ways of teaching. | | C．Some people got tired from the reunion activities. | | D．Most people had little interest in the reunion. |
小题3:We can learn from Ms. Yates’ speech that she _____________.| A．kept track of her students’ progress | | B．gave her students advice on their careers | | C．attended her students’ college graduations | | D．went to her students’ wedding ceremonies |
小题4:What was Ms.Yates’ belief in teaching teenagers?| A．Teachers’ knowledge is the key to students’ achievements. | | B．Pressure on students from teachers should be reduced. | | C．Hard-pushed students are more likely to succeed. | | D．Students’ respect is the best reward for teachers. |
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“Mama, when I grow up, I’m going to be one of those!” I said this after seeing the Capital Dancing Company perform when I was three. It was the first time that my dream took on a vivid form and acted as something important to start my training. As I grew older and was exposed to more, my interests in the world of dance certainly varied but that little girl’s dream of someday becoming a dancer in the company never left me. In the summer of 2005 when I was 18, I received the phone call which made that dream a reality: I became a member of the company dating back to 1925.
As I look back on that day now, it surely lacks any sense of reality. I believe I stayed in a state of pleasant disbelief until I was halfway through rehearsals (排练) on my first day. I never actually expect to get the job. After being offered the position, I was completely astonished. I remember shaking with excitement.
Though I was absolutely thrilled with the chance, it did not come without its fair share of challenge. Through the strict rehearsal period of dancing six days a week, I found it vital to pick up the material fast with every last bit of concentration. It is that extreme attention to detail (细节) and stress on practice that set us apart. To then follow those high-energy rehearsals with a busy show schedule of up to five performances a day, I discovered a new meaning of the words “hard work.” What I thought were my physical boundaries were pushed much further than I thought possible. I learned to make each performance better than the last.
Today, when I look at the unbelievable company that I have the great honor of being a part of, not only as a member, but as a dance captain, I see a tradition that has inspired not only generations of little girls but a splendid company that continues to develop and grow-and inspires people every day to follow their dreams.
小题1: How many years has the Capital Dancing Company existed when the author received the phone call from it?小题2:How did the author feel when she look back on that day now?| A．strange | B．unrealistic | C．indifferent | D．lucky |
小题3: Which of the following statement can best interpret the underlined sentence in paragraph 3?| A．Though I was excited, I should share the chance with others. | | B．Though I was excited, it’s fair to share the chance when there is challenge. | | C．Though I was excited, it’s a challenge for me to share the chance with others. | | D．Though I was excited, I know clearly where there is chance there is challenge. |
小题4:What conclusion could be drawn from the passage?| A．The company values practice most. | | B．The company extremely focus on intelligence. | | C．The company has an inherited tradition of inspiring its members break their limits. | | D．The company sets the members apart in order to extremely stress detail and practice. |
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