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The good doctor had some 38 theories on planting trees. He believed in “No pains, no gains”. He never 39 his new trees, which was 40 many people. Once I asked why. He 41 that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you water them, each following tree generation will 42 weaker and weaker. So you have to make things 43 for them. He talked about how watering trees 44 shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in 45 of water. I came to understand that he meant deep roots were to be 46 . I planted a couple of trees a few years back and I took good care of them. Two years of 47 has resulted in trees that expect to be waited on hand and foot. Whenever a cold wind blows, they 48 and tremble their branches. Funny things about those trees of Dr. Gibbs’. The lack of water seemed to 49 them in ways comfort and ease never could.
I used to 50 for my sons that their lives will be easy. But 51 I’ve been thinking that it’s time to 52 my prayer. I know my children are going to meet 53 , and I’m praying they will be strong. The prayer for comfort is seldom met. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, 54 when the winds blow, we won’t be 55 away.
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小题1:副词辨析。A甚至；B曾经；C从未；D几乎不；根据句意：他不像我曾经认识的任何一个医生。
小题2:动词辨析。由上文Dr. Gibbs和He didn"t look like any doctor可知他是个医生，是来救人性命的。
小题3:形容词辨析。由下文可知他对于种树有一些有趣的理论。
小题4:上下文串联。由下文所介绍的他的种树的理论可知他从不给树浇水。
小题5:介词辨析。beyond 介词，超过。由下文可知他的做法超过了其他人。
小题6:动词辨析。由下文He answered可知作者问他为什么。
小题7:动词辨析。根据句意：由上文的watering plants spoiled them和下文shallow roots可知，他认为给树浇水会使树木的根扎的很浅，所以会变得越来越弱。
小题8:上下文串联。根据句意：由上文可知他认为应该使树的生长环境艰苦些，从而刺激树木生长的更好。
小题9:短语辨析。make for 导致。根据上文他的理论和下文how trees that weren"t watered had to grow deep roots可知给树浇水会导致根系很浅。
小题10:短语辨析。in search of 寻找。由句意可知树木的根系向下生长来寻找水。
小题11:动词辨析。treasure 重视。对于树木来说深深的根系是非常重要的。
小题12:名词辨析。根据上文的理论可知作者对于树木的精心照顾导致树木想要得到尽心尽意的问候。
小题13:由上文可知，作者种植的树木比较虚弱，所以当刮风时，树木颤抖。
小题14:由作者的例子可知缺少水会使根系比较发达，从而对树木有好处。
小题15:根据上下文可知，作者过去祈祷儿子们的生活能轻松些
小题16:副词辨析。根据上下文可知，最近作者祈祷的内容发生了改变。
小题17:动词辨析。解析同上。
小题18:由上文的种树的理论可知，作者知道恶劣的环境会有利于孩子的成长。
小题19:上下文串联。根据上下文串联
小题20:由pray for deep roots可知作者认为只有将根扎的很深，我们才不会被风吹走。
核心考点
试题【When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look lik】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The 12-year-old Knight developed a safety mechanism that made it impossible for a shuttle to leave the loom. The design was so effective, soon virtually every new power loom carried her invention, saving countless workers from injury or death. Being so young, she didn’t bother to patent the device, so she never received payment.
Knight wouldn’t make the same mistake later in life when she invented a machine that could produce flat-bottomed paper bags. Knight had built a small wooden model in her home, but she needed a metal version to show it could hold up to the stress of mass production. So she hired Charles Annan to make the full-sized machine for her, only to have him try to claim the patent for himself. When Knight sued（起诉）, Annan’s argument was that the design had to be his, because no woman could possibly understand the complex mechanics. Knight proved him wrong when she brought back her wooden prototype and explained how every part worked. She won the case in 1871, making her the second woman to hold an American patent. Over a hundred years later, her design is still used as the basis for many modern flat-bottom bag machines.
But that wasn’t the last the world heard of Mattie Knight. During her lifetime, she made about 90 inventions and received 26 patents, becoming one of the most productive female inventors of the 19th century.
小题1:We can learn from Paragraph 1 that ________.
| A．Knight behaved like boys | B．Knight had an unhappy childhood |
| C．Knight did a poor job of making toys | D．Knight liked inventing things as a child |
| A．It is still used today. | B．It brought her great profit. |
| C．It was made when he was 20. | D．It reduced injuries at textile plants. |
| A．stole the wooden model for the machine she invented. |
| B．failed to make the full-sized machine for her |
| C．tried to patent her invention for himself |
| D．kept the metal version for himself |
| A．Mattie Knight’s fight for her patent | B．A great woman in the 19th century |
| C．“The female Edison”, Mattie Knight | D．Great inventions, great woman |
My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a __41____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with _42____.
The __43___ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of __44____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I __45___ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being __46____, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things. __47____ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was __48____. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words __49___ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could _50_____ where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought _51____ before playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I _52___ a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my _53____. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was __54___ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, __55___ on the average I made progress.
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The 2-year-old cat was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia (痴呆) unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where the facility treats people with Alzheimer"s, Parkinson"s disease and other illnesses. After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He"d smell and observe patients, then sit beside people who would end up dying in a few hours. Dosa said Oscar seems to take his work seriously. "This is not a cat that"s friendly to people," he said.
"Oscar is better at predicting death than the people who work here," said Dr. Joan Teno of Brown University, who treats patients at the nursing home and is an expert on care for the terminally ill. She was convinced of Oscar"s talent when he made his 13th correct call. While observing one patient, Teno said she noticed the woman wasn"t eating, was breathing with difficulty and that her legs had a bluish color, signs that often mean death is near. Oscar wouldn"t stay inside the room, though, so Teno thought bis streak was broken. Instead, it turned out the doctor"s prediction was roughly 10 hours too early. Sure enough, during the patient"s final two hours, nurses told Teno that Oscar joined the woman at her bedside.
Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet-faced, gray-and-white cat are so ill that they probably don"t know he"s there, so patients aren"t aware he"s a predictor of death. Most families are grateful for the advance warning, although one wanted Oscar out of the room while a family member died. When Oscar is put outside, he paces and meows his displeasure.
No one"s certain if Oscar"s behavior is scientifically significant or points to a cause. Teno wonders if the cat senses mysterious scents or reads something into the behavior of the nurses who raised him. Nursing home staff aren"t concerned with explaining Oscar, so long as he gives families a better chance at saying goodbye to the dying. The staff recently gave Oscar a wall sign publicly praising his "sympathetic care."
小题1:What makes Oscar the cat so special?
| A．He observes the cases of dying patients. |
| B．He curls up next to the patients. |
| C．He calls family members to the hospital. |
| D．He senses when patients are to die. |
| A．would go round and observe patients |
| B．may sometimes fail to predict death |
| C．is friendly and liked by every nurse |
| D．was born and grew up in the hospital |
| A．his bones were severely injured |
| B．his magic power stopped working |
| C．his devotion to work got changed |
| D．his friendship with patients ended |
| A．Oscar"s behavior is scientifically significant |
| B．Oscar can read something of the nurses" behavior |
| C．Oscar might like to stay with the dying patients |
| D．Oscar is sympathetic to the dying patients |
| A．Cats Can Be Used for Looking After Patients |
| B．Oscar, the Sweet-Faced, Gray-and-White Cat |
| C．As Death Comes Calling, So Does Oscar the Cat |
| D．Oscar the Cat, the Best Helper of Our Hospital |
Researchers presented their newest studies last month at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The latest evidence shows that being bilingual does not necessarily make people smarter. But researcher Ellen Bialystok says it probably does make you better at certain skills.
Ellen Bialystok said, “Imagine driving down the highway. There’re many things that could capture your attention and you really need to be able to monitor all of them. Why would bilingualism make you any better at that?”
And the answer, she says, is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention — a function called the executive control system.
Ms. Bialystok is a psychology professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. She says the best method to measure the executive control system is called the Stroop Test. A person is shown words in different colors. The person has to ignore the word but say the color. The problem is that the words are all names of colors.
Ellen Bialystok said, “So you would have the word blue written in red, but you have to say red. But blue is so salient(显著的), it’s just lighting up all these circuits(电路) in your brain, and you really want to say blue. So you need a mechanism(机制) to override that so that you can say red. That’s the executive control system.”
Her work shows that bilingual people continually practice this function. They have to, because both languages are active in their brain at the same time. They need to suppress(抑制) one to be able to speak in the other.
This mental exercise might help in other ways, too. Researchers say bilingual children are better able to separate a word from its meaning, and more likely to have friends from different cultures. Bilingual adults are often four to five years later than others in developing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
小题1:What’s the best title of the text?
| A．Bilingual People, Smarter |
| B．Monolingual People, Smarter |
| C．Bilingual People, Longer Lives |
| D．Bilingual People, Better at Some Skills |
| A．pay attention to | B．take no notice of |
| C．take an interest in | D．take care of |
| A．white | B．yellow | C．blue | D．red |
| A．People who can speak only Chinese. |
| B．People who can speak only Japanese. |
| C．People who can speak more than one language. |
| D．People who can speak only English. |
| A．A bilingual child is better at separating a word from its meaning. |
| B．A bilingual child can more easily make friends with a foreign child. |
| C．Bilingual people are more able to monitor several things at the same time. |
| D．It’s not possible for bilingual people to develop Alzheimer’s disease. |
"Where is my wealth?" the young man asked 17 .
"It is with you. Your 18 is (are) your wealth. You use them to see this world. You use them to see all the 19 things in this world. You can read, study and learn. Your hands are your wealth. You can use them to work. You can use them to hug your beloved ones. Your 20 are your wealth. You can go to any places..." the fortune teller said.
"You call these wealth? Everyone has them," the young man said.
"These are wealth. What you have now are not what others can luckily have. Are you 21 to give your eyes to me? I am willing to give you a lot of money to 22 for them," the fortune teller said.
"No, are you crazy? I am not going to exchange my eyes for money! They are 23 to me!" the young man 24 .
"Precisely, these are wealth to you. You will not exchange them for money. Furthermore, although a lot of people have their wealthy things, they do not 25 them or treasure them. They are not 26 to Heaven for giving them their wealth. They even complain that Heaven is unfair to them. Do you want to 27 one of them before you will treasure them?" the fortune teller said.
Everyone is wealthy. But we should not 28 it for granted. We need to treasure our wealth, take care of it and use it 29 . We should not overuse it because once it is 30 , it is gone forever. Remember it is our wealth that we do not want to lose.
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