More Than I Had Dreamed Of
From the time I was seven, I had a dream of becoming a member of the Students Union. I always 36 my school leaders for taking responsibility for all of us. So I dreamed of being a leader.
Years flew by, and soon I was able to participate in the elections, 37 I would win. But the reality struck that I hadn’t had a chance. I wasn’t pretty. Girls across the school hardly knew me. I just did not have what it 38 to win a school election. I was 39 .
As I cried in my room that evening, I 40 took a deep breath and decided I wouldn’t stop dreaming. I decided that I would 41 elections again in my final year at school—and I would win.
I recognized that my 42 had a lot of things in their favor. What were the 43 that would work in my favor? I had good grades, and I was friendly and helpful. And my biggest 44 was the faith I had. I would not allow my 45 appearance to hold me back from putting my best foot forward. That evening, I 46 my election plans a whole year in advance.
I realized that girls would have to get to know me and recognize that I had the ability to 47 them. I loved making friends and I liked being helpful, 48 I decided that perhaps I could use these qualities to work to my advantage. In order to learn how to present a great election 49 , I also attended a course on effective public speaking.
The day after the election, when the principal(校长) announced I won the second highest number of votes, the students 50 . That joy on the faces of all my friends showed me that my victory was 51 theirs.
Suddenly, I realized that I had 52 much more than I had dreamed of. I had made many new friends and had helped people 53 the way. I had won the 54 and love of my school-mates and they knew me as somebody who would stand by them. I was able to put a smile on their faces and 55 their day.
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| 小题1: | | A．remembered | B．admired | C．praised | D．believed |
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| 小题2: | | A．planning | B．praying | C．calculating | D．judging |
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| 小题3: | | A．took | B．assessed | C．provided | D．meant |
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| 小题4: | | A．concerned | B．surprised | C．depressed | D．confused |
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| 小题5: | | A．gradually | B．immediately | C．impatiently | D．suddenly |
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| 小题6: | | A．attend in | B．enter | C．join | D．participate |
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| 小题7: | | A．companions | B．enemies | | C．schoolmates | D．competitors |
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| 小题8: | | A．points | B．cases | C．methods | D．examples |
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| 小题9: | | A．problem | B．dream | C．strength | D．worry |
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| 小题10: | | A．plain | B．young | C．personal | D．special |
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| 小题11: | | A．announced | B．discussed | C．began | D．cancelled |
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| 小题12: | | A．recommend | B．encourage | C．support | D．represent |
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| 小题14: | | A．speech | B．campaign | C．ceremony | D．promise |
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| 小题15: | | A．nodded | B．cheered | C．gathered | D．cried |
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| 小题16: | | A．only | B．also | C．still | D．almost |
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| 小题17: | | A．devoted | B．accelerated | C．accomplished | D．developed |
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| 小题19: | | A．appointment | B．reputation | C．election | D．acceptance |
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| 小题20: | | A．rich | B．bless | C．expand | D．brighten |
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小题10:A
小题11:C
小题12:D
小题13:B
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文章讲述了我如何通过努力赢得学生会竞选的事情。
小题1:动词辨析。A记得；B羡慕；钦佩；C表扬；D相信；根据句意可知B正确，我很钦佩学校的领导者。
小题2:动词辨析。根据句意可知：祈祷我能赢得这个竞选。表明我的渴望。
小题3:固定句型。It takes sb sth to do sth;
小题4:形容词辨析。我没有赢得竞选，所以我很沮丧。
小题5:副词辨析。A逐渐地；B立刻；C没有耐心地；D突然地；根据下文的可知我突然停止哭泣，决定继续梦想。
小题6:动词辨析。A项应该去掉in; join参加组织，党派，团体成为其中的成员；D项应该加in.
小题7:名词辨析。A同伴；B敌人；C校友；D对手；根据句意可知是我的竞争对手有很多优势。
小题8:名词辨析。A关键点；B案例；C方法；D例子；根据上下文可知这里作者谈论的是自己的优势，是自己获胜的关键点。
小题9:名词辨析。A问题；B梦想；C优势，力量；D担忧；根据句意可知我的优势是我有很强大的优势。我不会让我普通的外貌阻止我前进。
小题10:形容词辨析。A普通的；B年轻的；C个人的，私人的；D特殊的；解析同上。
小题11:动词辨析。A宣布；B讨论；C开始；D取消；根据上下文的意思可知是我提前一年开始准备竞选的计划。
小题12:动词辨析。A推荐；B鼓励；C支持；D代表；根据上下文可知我让那些女孩子知道我有能力代表她们。
小题13:上下文串联。根据上下文可知这里是因果关系。
小题14:上下文串联。根据下文的effective public speaking可知A正确。
小题15:上下文串联。根据下一句That joy on the faces of可知学生对于我的获胜非常开心。就好像我的胜利也是他们的一样。
小题16:上下文串联。解析同上。
小题17:动词辨析。A致力于；B使增速；C完成,实现,达到；D发展；根据上下文可知我实现了比我梦想的还要多的。
小题18:介词辨析。along the way一路上；by the way顺便说一下；in the way妨碍；由上下文可知在这一路上我交了很多朋友，帮助了很多人！
小题19:名词辨析。A约会，约定；B名誉，声誉；C选举；D接受；根据句意可知我已经得到了校友的接受和他们的爱戴。
小题20:词义辨析。A使…富有；B为...祝福；C扩张；D明亮,变明亮;闪亮；根据上下文可知校友们热爱我，我能让他们的生活变得光明。 |
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试题【More Than I Had Dreamed OfFrom the time I was seven, I had a dream of becoming a】；主要考察你对
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After attending a conference, I returned to my hotel room late one evening．The overhead light out- side my door was burned out and I had 36 finding the keyhole．When I 37 to open the door, I 38 around the wall for a light switch．I found a plate where a switch was 39 installed… but no switch!
Not discouraged easily, I remembered 40 a lamp by the bed when I deposited my luggage 41 in the day．I found the bed in the 42 and then the lamp, but when I switched it on ,nothing 43 ! I thought that perhaps if I opened the curtains I might be able to use whatever light comes in from the 44 to find another lamp．So I 45 my way slowly across the room to the curtains and …no drawstring! I finally stumbled （跌跌撞撞地） around 46 I found a desk lamp which actually 47 !
That evening I discovered in a whole new way just how dark the world 48 be and how-necessary light is! But even more necessary than 49 light is the light that shines from people—the light of 50 and faith．Because, for many people, the world is a dark and 51 place．For someone today just may be stumbling in discouragement or sadness or fear and in 52 of some light．So let your light shine．Whatever light you 53 may be a beacon of hope and encouragement．And if you feel that your light is 54 a candle in a forest remember there isn’t enough darkness in all the world to 55 the light of one small candle．
| 小题1: | | A．respect | B．admiration | C．difficulty | D．confidence |
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| 小题2: | | A．failed | B．managed | C．wished | D．meant |
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| 小题3: | | A．touched | B．sensed | C． felt | D．looked |
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| 小题4: | | A．once | B．never | C．still | D．already |
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| 小题5: | | A．equipping | B．producing | C．removing | D．spotting |
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| 小题6: | | A．earlier | B．later | C．lower | D．upper |
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| 小题7: | | A．light | B．room | C．dark | D．corner |
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| 小题8: | | A．developed | B．operated | C．fired | D．happened |
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| 小题9: | | A．street | B．machine | C．room | D．car |
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| 小题10: | | A．wound | B．forced | C．lost | D．made |
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| 小题11: | | A．after | B．while | C．until | D．since |
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| 小题12: | | A．worked | B．affected | C．helped | D．inspired |
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| 小题14: | | A．mental | B．physical | C．electrical | D．psychological |
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| 小题15: | | A．love | B．existence | C．truth | D．wisdom |
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| 小题16: | | A．colourful | B．lonely | C．friendly | D．complex |
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| 小题17: | | A．short | B．favor | C．need | D．face |
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| 小题18: | | A．offer | B．make | C．take | D．contribute |
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| 小题19: | | A．not more than | B．other than | C．no more than | D．rather than |
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| 小题20: | | A．get over | B．give out | C．put out | D．set up |
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A student went to college(大学) after 36__ all his school examinations. There he put his name down for world geography, 37_ after the first day, he did not go to 38_ any more. The teacher noticed that this student was 39_ absent (缺课) and thought that he had changed to 40 class. He was very 41_ when he saw the boy"s name on the list(名单) of students 42_ wanted to take the geography examination 43_ the end of the year.
The teacher had prepared a difficult examination paper, which covered 44 he had taught, and he was eager(急切) to see 45 this student answered the questions. He expected that his answer would be very 46_; but when he examined his paper carefully, he found only one small mistake in them.47_ this surprised him very much, he went through the paper 48_, but was still not able to find 49 one mistake, so he sent 50 the student to question him about his work..
When the student had 51 the room, the teacher said to him, “I know that you came to my class only once on the first day and that you have been absent from all the others. Yet I have found only one small mistake in your paper. 52_ is that?”
“Oh, I"m sorry about that mistake, sir,”answered the student. “After the examination, I realized 53 I ought to have written. I would not have made that mistake 54 I had not been confused(弄糊涂) by your 55_ lecture.”
| 小题1: | | A．having | B．taking | C．passing | D．failing |
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| 小题3: | | A．it | B．lesson | C．college | D．class |
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| 小题4: | | A．always | B．once | C．never | D．sometimes |
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| 小题5: | | A．another | B．the other | C．other | D．others |
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| 小题6: | | A．angry | B．happy | C．sorry | D．surprised |
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| 小题9: | | A．everything | B．something | C．anything | D．nothing |
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| 小题13: | | A．two rimes | B．twice | C．once | D．again once |
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| 小题14: | | A．more than | B．another | C．the other | D．second |
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| 小题16: | | A．reached to | B．arrived to | C．arrived into | D．come into |
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| 小题19: | | A．unless | B．if | C．because | D．as |
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| 小题20: | | A．first | B．last | C．latest | D．certain |
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My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking. Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.
We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.
For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.
We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.
Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.
“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.
小题1:Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?| A．Friends of the Road | | B．The Silent Woman on the Bus | | C．Going to Work by Bus | | D．Different Kinds of Friendship |
小题2:All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.| A．poor | B．warm -hearted | C．silent | D．cold |
小题3:The underlined word “establish” in the third paragraph probably has the same meaning as | A．keep | B．discover | C．set up | D．accept |
小题4:Why did the woman usually keep silence while taking the bus?| A．She was worried about her disabled son. | | B．She was sad to see the happy Mexican couple us a single mother. | | C．She had difficulty in expressing herself. | | D．She was only interested in the bus driver. |
小题5:The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.| A．they both disabled people | | B．they both had some difficulty in expressing | | C．they both liked bus travel | | D．they both brought interest to the passengers |
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When Julie was a child, she was a very big fan of animals. As a result, 36 she ever heard growing up was “Julie, you should be a vet. You’re going to be a great vet. That’s what you should do.” 37 when she got to the Ohio State University, she started studying to be a vet.
A scholarship allowed her to spend her 38 year studying abroad in Manchester, England. Away from the family 39 back home, she found herself one day sitting at her desk, surrounded by biology books and staring out the window, when it suddenly hit her: “I’m in total 40 . I don’t want to be a vet!”
41 she thought back over all the things she’d done in her life and what had made her happy. And then it hit her—it was all of the youth leadership conferences that she had volunteered 42 , and the communications and leadership courses she had taken as elective courses back at Ohio State. “How could I have been so 43 ? Here I am in my fourth year at school and just finally realizing I’m on the 44 path. I just never took the time to 45 it until now, ” she thought.
Inspired by her new 46 , Julie spent the rest of her year in England taking courses in communications and media studies. When 47 to Ohio State, she was eventually able to 48 the administration to let her create her own program in “leadership studies”, 49 it took her 2 years longer to finally graduate. She 50 to become a senior management consultant in leadership training and development for the Pentagon. She 51 founded a drug-prevention organization that 52 the message “Lead your own life with the skill and the 53 to say no.”
So, never live someone else’s 54 . If you limit your 55 only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want.
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| 小题3: | | A．final | B．usual | C．next | D．past |
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| 小题4: | | A．routines | B．warnings | C．complaints | D．pressures |
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| 小题5: | | A．confidence | B．silence | C．misery | D．surprise |
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| 小题6: | | A．Perhaps | B．Instead | C．Then | D．Often |
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| 小题8: | | A．internal | B．innocent | C．intellectual | D．intelligent |
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| 小题9: | | A．clear | B．wrong | C．short | D．wide |
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| 小题10: | | A．acknowledge | B．accomplish | C．include | D．criticize |
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| 小题11: | | A．discovery | B．information | C．understanding | D．research |
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| 小题12: | | A．returning | B．referring | C．relating | D．responding |
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| 小题13: | | A．prepare | B．convince | C．forbid | D．force |
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| 小题15: | | A．hesitated | B．failed | C．retired | D．continued |
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| 小题16: | | A．still | B．again | C．also | D．only |
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| 小题17: | | A．leaves | B．promotes | C．confirms | D．acquires |
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| 小题18: | | A．will | B．chance | C．fact | D．pride |
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| 小题19: | | A．promises | B．decisions | C．successes | D．dreams |
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| 小题20: | | A．choices | B．reasons | C．smiles | D．mistakes |
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Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through Europe. I had been abroad a couple of times，but I could hardly claim to know my way around the continent. Moreover, my knowledge of foreign languages was limited to a little college French.
I hesitated. How would I, unable to speak the language, totally unfamiliar with local geography or transportation systems, set up interviews and do research? It seemed impossible, and with considerable regret. I sat down to write a letter begging off. Halfway through, a thought ran through my mind： you can"t learn if you don"t try. So I accepted the assignment.
There were some bad moments. But by the time I had finished the trip I was an experienced traveler. And ever since，I have never hesitated to head for even the most remote of places，without guides or even advanced bookings, confident that somehow I will manage.
The point is that the new, the different, is almost scary by definition. But each time you try something, you learn, and as the learning piles up, the world opens to you.
I"ve learned to ski at 40, and flown up the Rhine River in a balloon. And I know I"ll go on doing such things. It"s not because I"m braver or more daring than others. I"m not. But I"ll accept anxiety as another name for challenge and I believe I can accomplish wonders.
小题1:The author accepted the assignment because _____| A． he had never travelled abroad before | | B． he hardly knew any foreign languages | | C． he was familiar with any other country in Europe | | D． he would learn something new and different by trying |
小题2:Which of the following statements is TRUE?| A． The author had been abroad only twice. | | B． The author thought the trip was hard but worthwhile. | | C． The author admitted that anything different was terrible. | | D． The author must be good at doing research and making interviews. |
小题3:We can infer from the text that the author is _____.| A．awkward | B．generous | C．stubborn | D．brave |
小题4:What"s the best title of the text?| A．An Interesting Trip Abroad | B．My First Writing Assignment | | C．Ready to Try and Challenge | D．How to Be Daring and Brave |
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