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I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language — the way it can evoke(唤起) an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all — all the Englishes I grew up with.
Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I"ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as "broken" English. But I feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than "broken", as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked certain wholeness. I"ve heard other terms used, "limited English," for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people"s perceptions(认识) of the limited English speaker.
I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother"s "limited" English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.
I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won"t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for a lack of a better term might be described as "broken", and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal (内在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure: I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show; her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
46. 小题1:By saying "Language is the tool of my trade", the author means that ______.
A.she uses English in foreign tradeB.she is fascinated by languages
C.she works as a translatorD.she is a writer by profession
47. 小题2:The author used to think of her mother"s English as ______.
A.impoliteB.amusingC.imperfectD.practical
48. 小题3:Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?
A.Americans do not understand broken English.
B.The author"s mother was not respected sometimes.
C.The author" mother had positive influence on her.
D.Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.
49. 小题4:The author gradually realizes her mother"s English is _____.
A.well structuredB.in the old style
C.easy to translateD.rich in meaning
50. 小题5:What is the passage mainly about?
A.The changes of the author"s attitude to her mother"s English.
B.The limitation of the author"s perception of her mother.
C.The author"s misunderstanding of "limited" English.
D.The author"s experiences of using broken English.

答案

小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:A
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There was a sweet, wonder-filled little girl who was hurt over and over again. She  36 that she was so bad that others just couldn’t be  37  to her.
She asked many wise people to help her  38 why she was so bad that even her mother hurt her, and why she was unable to be  39 so that others wouldn’t hurt her. So she was on a  40  that she thought was to help her be “better”, but she carried a big  41  with her everywhere she went.  42  was all the hurt she had experienced. During the trip she willingly  43  what the wise people said about forgiving(宽恕).
After 50 years, she decided to  44  the bag up and just see what happened. When she looked inside it was filled with bits of paper. Once they had  45 on then, detailing the hurt. But as time went on, the words  46 slowly. She had been carrying this bag that held nothing  47  the image(印象)of something that once was.
The little girl had now become an almost-old woman. She  48  the silliness of carrying that bag around. She started  49 and dancing and she felt free!
She was able to see that her  50 loved her child, but was  51  that her little girl felt unloved. By throwing away the bag of paper and forgiving those who  52  her, she looked in the mirror and said, “I am clever, interesting and kind.” But most  53 , she was able to say “I am lovable.”  54 it took many years, she was finally open to bringing  55 into her life.
She finally saw the sweet, wonder-filled little girl that she had always been.
小题1:
A.decidedB.consideredC.promisedD.hoped
小题2:
A.badB.sorryC.thankfulD.nice
小题3:
A.guessB.understandC.expectD.invent
小题4:
A.betterB.worseC.angrierD.harder
小题5:
A.holidayB.dateC.tripD.path
小题6:
A.bowlB.basketC.bagD.purse
小题7:
A.BeneathB.AboveC.OutsideD.Inside
小题8:
A.agreed withB.fought againstC.gave upD.suffered from
小题9:
A.pickB.openC.putD.break
小题10:
A.picturesB.memoriesC.wordsD.dreams
小题11:
A.disappearedB.appearedC.showedD.changed
小题12:
A.andB.withC.amongD.but
小题13:
A.refusedB.forgotC.realizedD.preferred
小题14:
A.cryingB.laughingC.shoutingD.worrying
小题15:
A.daughterB.motherC.teacherD.friend
小题16:
A.sadB.happyC.excitedD.hopeful
小题17:
A.likedB.hurtC.educatedD.ignored
小题18:
A.surprisinglyB.terriblyC.nervouslyD.importantly
小题19:
A.AlthoughB.IfC.BecauseD.So
小题20:
A.troubleB.loveC.moneyD.future

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Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria (巴伐利亚) in Europe in 1829. He emigrated(移居)to the United States of America when he was seventeen years old. His brothers sold cloth, and he worked for them even though he could not speak English very well. At this time many people were moving to California because gold was discovered there. Strauss went to look for gold, too.
Strauss took a lot of cloth with him to San Francisco. He thought that he could make tents out of the cloth and sell them to people working in the gold fields. But when he got there, he saw that people had a greater need for clothes than tents. Clothes did not last very long in the gold fields. At first Strauss made pants out of canvas(帆布). They were very strong ---- much stronger than other pants. Soon everyone was wearing them , so he decided only to make pants. He opened a small store and made a lot of money from selling pants.
After a while, Strauss found a material even stronger than canvas. It came from a town in France called Nimes. The French called the material serge de Nimes, which means “cloth from Nimes”. The Americans called it denim. Strauss also bought some cloth from Genoa, a town in Italy. To Americans this name sounds like “jeans”, so they called his pants jeans. The cloth that Strauss used was always blue, so people also called his pants blue jeans and blue denims. Other people called them Levi’s. Levi Strauss jeans are some of the best-selling jeans in the world today. They last a long time and are very comfortable.
56. 小题1:When Levi Strauss went to San Francisco for the first time, he wanted to ______.
A.find a strong material to make pants
B.work for his brothers
C.make money by selling tents
D.open a store to make pants
57. 小题2:In the beginning Strauss made pants from ______.
A.serge de NimesB.silk
C.denimD.canvas
58. 小题3:The name “jeans” was first used by ______.
A.BavariansB.Americans
C.ItaliansD.Frenchmen
59. 小题4:The story is about ______.
A.where cloth came from
B.the man who first made jeans
C.how to make lots of money
D.life on the gold fields

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“A child in the street is a child that has been exposed(暴露)to a lot of bad things. And this child has no love at all. This child has no respect(尊重)for himself or herself. He sees everybody as an enemy, and he can’t trust anyone.”
Who is Moses Zulu talking about? Are there even people who live like that? Sadly, in truth, there are. They happen to be the Zambian children that Moses Zulu helps to improve their lives. Zulu does his best to give many children the hope to live even though they might have AIDS. Without his continuous work through his organization called Children’s Town, many Zambian children would have been forced to survive(生存)in an African city by getting a job as a street vendor(街头小贩), or hurting other people.
In 1990, Moses Zulu founded Children’s Town in Zambia, where one million children have no parents, largely because of AIDS. Children’s Town teaches children the basic life skills needed for their future. Each child goes through a five-year training program where they’re taught responsibility(责任), values, and self-care. Zulu’s Children’s Town provides hope for less fortunate children.
As we all know, a hero is any person who is respected for their qualities and achievements. There are not many people who are willing to help others in need. Zulu’s contribution to today’s modern society teaches us to lend a helping hand to others who are not as lucky as we are. He teaches us to make a difference in the world by helping others.
And from now on, if ever you throw away your banana just because it looks bad, well, remember that a group of people suffering from AIDS, homelessness, or other causes, would fight each other just to get their hands on a single bad banana.
68. 小题1: Which of the following CANNOT describe Moses Zulu according to the passage?
A.DevotedB.Easy-going
C.DeterminedD.Kind-hearted
69. 小题2:In Children’s Town, children will learn ______.
A.how to fight against AIDS
B.how to get a job as a street vendor
C.how to survive by themselves
D.how to avoid fighting in the street
70. 小题3:In the opinion of the author, he considers Moses Zulu ______.
A.a teacherB.a doctorC.a heroD.a fighter
71. 小题4: In the last paragraph, the author advises us to ______.
A.plant more bananasB.make use of bad food
C.invent medicine for AIDSD.help poor people

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Strange things were happening in the  51 in northeast Hebei Province. For three days the   52  in the village wells rose and fell. Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep  53  in them. A smelly gas came out of the cracks. In the farmyards, the chickens and even the pigs were too nervous to eat. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out of ponds. People saw bright lights in the sky. The sound of planes could be heard outside Tangshan even when no  54  were in the sky. In the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst. But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, went to bed  55  that night.
At 3:42 am everything began to  56 . It seemed that the world was at an end! Eleven kilometers directly below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th century  57 . It was heard in Beijing, which is one hundred kilometers away. One-third of the nation felt it. A huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters   58  cut across houses, roads and canals. Steam burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In fifteen   59  seconds a large city lay in ruins. Two-thirds of the people died or were injured during the   60 . Thousands of families were killed and many children were left without parents. The   61  of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.
But how could the   62  believe it was natural? Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed. All of the city’s hospitals, 75% of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were gone. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves. No wind, however, could blow them away. Two dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were not safe for   63 . The railway tracks were now useless pieces of   64 . Tens of thousands of cows would never give   65  again. Half a million pigs and millions of chickens had died. Sand now filled the wells instead of water. People were   66 . Then, later that afternoon, another big quake shook Tangshan. Some of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins. More buildings fell down. Water, food, and electricity were   67  to get. People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.
All hope was not lost. The army sent 150,000   68  to Tangshan to help the rescue workers. Hundreds of thousands of people were   69 . The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. To the north of the city, most of the 10.000 miners were rescued from the coalmines. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. Fresh water was taken to the city by train, truck and plane. Slowly, the city began to   70  again.
小题1:
A.cityB.schoolC.bookstoreD.countryside
小题2:
A.fishB.waterC.pigsD.chicken
小题3:
A.cracks B.holesC.picturesD.colours
小题4:
A.carsB.truckC.shipD.planes
小题5:
A.as usualB.as followsC.as toD.as for
小题6:
A.runB.flyC.shakeD.stop
小题7:
A.endedB.continuedC.beganD.went
小题8:
A.highB.wideC.roundD.away
小题9:
A.terribleB.lovelyC.happyD.ordinary
小题10:
A.meetingB.classC.rainD.earthquake
小题11:
A.numberB.houseC.moneyD.goods
小题12:
A.workersB.teachersC.survivorsD.death
小题13:
A.playingB.diggingC.sleepingD.traveling
小题14:
A.woodB.plasticsC.steelD.paper
小题15:
A.milkB.waterC.ColaD.birth
小题16:
A.pleasedB.shockedC.frightenedD.interested
小题17:
A.hardB.easyC.readyD.expensive
小题18:
A.volunteers B.soldiersC.farmersD.students
小题19:
A.helpedB.killedC.injuredD.trapped
小题20:
A.shakeB.dieC.buildD.breathe

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A very strict officer was talking to some new soldiers whom he had to train. He had never seen them before, so began, “My name is Stone, and I’m even harder than stone, so do what I tell you or there’ll be trouble. Don’t try any tricks (诡计) with me, and then we’ll get on well together.”
Then he went to each soldier one after the other and asked him his name, “Speak loudly so that everyone can hear you clearly,” he said, “and don’t forget to call me ‘sir’.”
Each soldier told him name, until he came to the last one. This man remained silent, and so Captain Stone shouted at him, “ when I ask you a question, answer it! I’ll ask you again: What’s your name, soldier?”
The soldier was very unhappy, but at last he replied, “My name’s Stonebreaker, sir,” he said nervously (紧张地).
51. 小题1:The officer was strict _________.
A.because the soldiers were new.
B.with any of his soldiers, new or old.
C.because he was named Stone.
D.only when he was before soldiers.
52.小题2: According to what the officer said, _______________.
A.obeying his orders would sometimes bring no trouble.
B.trouble would come if anybody made tricks.
C.he always got on well with his soldiers.
D.he often had trouble with his soldiers.
53. 小题3:The last soldier remained silent because _______________.
A.he didn’t like the way the officer spoke to them.
B.he wanted to see what would happen if he disobeyed his order.
C.the question was difficult for him to answer.
D.he was afraid the officer would be angry when he heard his name.
54. 小题4:According to the officer, how to answer the question, “How old are you?”
A.(sadly) Twenty, sir.B.(clearly) Twenty.
C.(loudly)Twenty, sirD.(quickly)Ten years younger than you, sir

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