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One of the best-known American writers of children’s books is Alfred Strong, or Doctor Strong, as he is better known to readers everywhere. Now, an art show called “Doctor Strong from then to now” is traveling around the United States. The pictures and drawings show the history of Doctor Strong.
Doctor Strong first became famous almost fifty years ago when his first children’s book was published. Since then, he has written forty-five books that have sold more than hundred million copies around the world.
Doctor Strong’s books are known for their easy use of words and colorful, hand-drawn pictures. These drawings bring life to his imaginary creatures. The Cat in the Hat, Horton the elephant, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and hundreds of others.
The San Diego Museum, in California, organized the art show. It included about three hundred Doctor Strong’s original(最早的) drawings and some of his writings.
Most of Doctor Strong’s books, although written in a funny way, have serious messages. For example, in Mc Elligot’s Pool, he describes the danger of pollution. He discusses the arms race in The Butter Battle Book, written in 1984.
Doctor Strong is almost eighty-four years old now. He says he never planned to write stories just for children. He says he uses easy words so that everyone, even a child, can understand.
小题1:Alfred Strong is a famous __________ in the United States.
A.doctorB.artistC.writerD.reader
小题2: Doctor Strong first became famous in __________.
A.his eighties when an art show was traveling around the United States
B.his fifties when his drawings and writings were published
C.1984 when his book McElligot’s Pool was published
D.his thirties when his first book was published
小题3:Doctor Strong’s books are very popular in America because _________.
A.they are stories about animals such as cats, elephants and so on
B.they are written in easy words with colorful pictures
C.he organized the art show in California
D.they are written in a funny way
小题4:His purpose in writing many such books is _________.
A.to show his original pictures and drawings
B.to organize a special art show of his own
C.to make his readers laugh or smile when they read his books
D.not only to interest people but to expose(揭露) some serious social problems

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小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:D
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There was a story many years ago of a school teacher----Mrs.Thompson. She told the children on the first day that she loved them all the same. But that was a lie. There in the front row was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. He didn"t play well with the other children and he always needed a bath. She did not like him.
Then Mrs. Thompson got to know that Teddy was actually a very good boy before the death of his mother. Mrs. Thompson was ashamed of herself. She felt even worse when, like all her other students, Teddy brought her a Christmas present too. It was his mother"s perfume(香水).
Teddy said, "Mrs.Thompson, today you smell just like my Mom used to." After the children left she cried for at least an hour. On that very day, she stopped teaching reading, writing and math. Instead, she began to teach children.
Mrs.Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy.The boy"s mind seemed to come alive. The more she encouraged him, the faster he improved. By the end of the sixth grade, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class.
Six years went by before she got a note from Teddy. He wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in his whole life. He went to college. Mrs.Thompson got two more letters from him with the last signed, Theodore F. Stoddar, M. D. (医学博士).
The story doesn"t end there. On his wedding day, Dr.Stoddard whispered in Mrs.Thompson"s ear," Thank you, Mrs. Thomson, for believing in me. You made me feel important and showed me that I could make a difference."
Mrs. Thompson , with tears in her eyes, whispered back,"Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didn"t know how to teach until I met you.
小题1:What did Mrs.Thompson do on the first day of school?
A.She made Teddy feel ashamed
B.She asked the children to play with Teddy.
C.She changed Teddy"s seat to the front row.
D.She told the class something untrue about herself.
小题2: What did Mrs. Thompson find out about Teddy?
A.He often told lies.B.He was good at math
C.He needed motherly careD.He enjoyed playing with others
小题3:In what way did Mrs. Thompson change?
A.She taught fewer school subjects.
B.She became stricter with her students.
C.She no longer liked her job as a teacher.
D.She cared more about educating students.
小题4:Why did Teddy thank Mrs.Thompson at his wedding?
A.She had kept in touch with him.
B.She had given him encouragement.
C.She had sent him Christmas presents.
D.She had taught him how to judge people.

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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
The night started out ordinarily enough. Jack and Tara, our   36  , were in their small beds surrounded by toy animals. My husband, Pat, and I went to sleep   37 .
  38  after midnight, Jack quietly touched me. “Mommy, I want to stay with you. I promise I won’t take much room.” I shifted   39  to make room. My son soon fell asleep.
An hour later, Tara cried and I carefully went downstairs. “Mommy, my   40  is all stuffed up(堵住). I can’t really breathe very well. Will you please   41  with me a little while?” Tara doesn’t often get up at night,   42  I decided to be there for her. She soon fell asleep. I returned to my own bed. I was determined to sleep. But to my   43  , I found Jack sleeping on my side of the bed. He looked so   44  that I couldn’t remove him. Quietly and carefully, I lay down between  45  and Jack.
I did manage to get some sleep   46  I heard Tara’s voice again. I returned to   47 Tara. “Mom, please lie down with me a little bit, I had a bad dream, and I’m so   48 .” “Of course, honey. It was only a dream. Mommy’s here and   49  is okay.” We fell asleep   50  each other’s arms.
Even in my sleepy state, I thought of   51  these nights of merry-go-round(一连串的繁忙活动)beds will be over. In their place, my twins will be grown.   52  before I’m ready, our children’ rooms will be much too   53  and empty. So it is especially on days when I’m worn out after a night on this mom’s merry-go-round that I remind   54  that these very days and nights are, in fact. “the good old days”, ever so   55 .
小题1:
A.sonsB.twinsC.daughtersD.students
小题2:
A.downstairsB.inC.outD.upstairs
小题3:
A.SometimesB.Some timeC.SometimeD.Some times
小题4:
A.gentlyB.kindlyC.rudelyD.impatiently
小题5:
A.noseB.mouthC.heartD.eye
小题6:
A.comeB.stayC.talkD.play
小题7:
A.even thoughB.soC.no matter whenD.however
小题8:
A.joyB.angerC.disappointmentD.surprise
小题9:
A.deeplyB.soundC.contentD.deep
小题10:
A.my fatherB.TaraC.PatD.my mother
小题11:
A.beforeB.whenC.afterD.until
小题12:
A.show offB.look afterC.watch outD.take care
小题13:
A.scaredB.excitingC.excitedD.scaring
小题14:
A.somethingB.anythingC.everythingD.nothing
小题15:
A.overB.onC.byD.in
小题16:
A.how oftenB.how soonC.how longD.how much
小题17:
A.No doubtB.No wonderC.No problemD.No worry
小题18:
A.noisyB.quietC.stillD.calm
小题19:
A.my childrenB.my husbandC.my friendD.myself
小题20:
A.potentialB.preciseC.preciousD.previous

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通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在各题所给的A,B,C,D四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案。
I was in the queue for the supermarket checkout(付款台) earlier today.All of the checkouts were    36  , and the woman behind me was not happy! Every word that came from her mouth was a(n)    37  ! She wasn’t happy with the number of checkouts      38   ; she wasn’t happy with the amount of shopping some people had in their baskets; she wasn’t happy because this supermarket didn’t have a stand where she    39   scan her own shopping.
I listened to her    40  looking around as I loaded my stuff onto the conveyor belt (传送带).I didn’t want    41   to do with that kind of attitude, and if ever I’d felt like letting someone go     42    of me, it wouldn’t be such a woman!
But then I    43  back.Standing beside the woman was a five-year-old girl,    44   her granddaughter.The girl’s part of the shopping    45  of some comic books.
I couldn’t    46  it.I pushed my shopping back to the end of the conveyor belt,     47   a space.“After you,” I said to the woman and the girl, and    48   them to a big    49   .The woman was delighted, and even    50   to complain ---- until she was walking away.
So,  51  bother having helped? It was because that little girl was probably taking in her granny’s complaint like a sponge(海绵).She was learning how to    52   situations like that by listening to her granny.I’d seen that I could interrupt that complaining, and put a smile and some   53   into the middle of it.
We can all complain; we can all react    54   , but it doesn’t have to be like that.And, even if only for a few     55    , I wanted to leave that little soul with just a glimpse of another way.
小题1:
A.busyB.big C.freeD.empty
小题2:
A.quarrel B.argumentC.praiseD.complaint
小题3:
A.opened B.closedC.leftD.hired
小题4:
A.wouldB.needC.couldD.must
小题5:
A.beyondB.withoutC.withD.by
小题6:
A.somethingB.nothingC.everythingD.anything
小题7:
A.aheadB.behindC.besideD.back
小题8:
A.wentB.glancedC.focusedD.jumped
小题9:
A.merelyB.surelyC.possiblyD.luckily
小题10:
A.containedB.includedC.consistedD.made
小题11:
A.thinkB.helpC.believeD.forget
小题12:
A.takingB.leavingC.bringingD.occupying
小题13:
A.returnedB.pleasedC.treatedD.served
小题14:
A.smileB.mealC.jokeD.room
小题15:
A.thankedB.paidC.checkedD.forgot
小题16:
A.howB.whatC.whyD.who
小题17:
A.face withB.put withC.deal withD.do with
小题18:
A.truthB.kindnessC.courageD.money
小题19:
A.actively B.correctlyC.negativelyD.patiently
小题20:
A.hoursB.chancesC.yearsD.seconds

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My mother was a household servant. Through her work, she observed that successful people spent a lot more time reading than they did watching television. She announced that my brother and I could only watch two to three pre-selected TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and write book reports. She would mark them up with check marks. Years later we realized her marks were a ruse. My mother had only received a third-grade education. Although we had no money, between the covers of those books, I could go anywhere, do anything and be anybody.
When I entered high school, I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went form being an A- student to a B- student to a C-student, but I didn’t care.
One night my mother came home and I complained about not having enough shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you all the money I make this week cleaning floors and bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With everything left over, you can have all the shirts you want.”
I was very pleased with that arrangement but once I got through allocating(分配) money, there was nothing left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a roof over our heads and any kind of food on the table, much less buy clothes.
I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. Success required intellectual(理智的) preparation. I went back to my studies and became an A-student again. I dreamed of becoming a doctor when I was just a kid. And now I have achieved my dream.
Over the years my mother’s changeless faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I found myself faced with my own medical illness. A few years ago I discovered I had a very serious cancer; I was told it might have spread to my spine(脊柱). My mother believed in God very much. She never worried. She said that God would never throw me away forever; there was no way that this was going to be a major problem. The abnormality in spine turned out to be not bad; I was able to have surgery and am cured.
My story is really my mother’s story -a woman little formal education or worldly goods who used her position as a parent to change the lives of her children.
小题1: The underlined word “ruse” in the first paragraph probably means           .
A.discoveryB.successC.trickD.pleasure
小题2:When the author asked his mother to buy him shirts, she           .
A.advised him to earn money by himself
B.asked him to try to manage their money
C.persuaded him not to buy them patiently
D.agreed to buy them for him immediately
小题3: What do we learn about the author?
A.He now works as a doctor.
B.He disliked watching TV as a kid.
C.He received little formal education.
D.He often did housework when young.
小题4:The underlined word “this” in the last but one paragraph refers to        .
A.God’s throwing me away
B.my own medical illness
C.the operation on my spine
D.my mother’s changeless faith in God
小题5:In writing the passage, the author mainly shows us         .
A.the happy relationships in his family
B.the benefits of reading for young children
C.the importance of formal education for adults
D.his mother’s great influence on his development

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情景对话:(5‘)
--The plane is late, isn’t it?
--Yes,it is
--____小题1:___
--No, I don’t.I ‘m just a tourist.
--_____小题2:___
--Yes.I have been here twice before.
--_____小题3:____
--Mount Gu,Xichan Temple,Jiangbin Park and so on.
--What do you think of Fuzhou?
--It’s beautiful.______ 小题4:______ That’s why I am here again.
--How do you like food in Fuzhou
--Very much._____ 小题5:____I must go now
--Wish you a happy journey!
--Thanks. Bye!
A.I don’t think so.
B.Do you work here in Fuzhou?
C.Oh,here’s my plane at last.
D.What places have you been to?
E.How long have you stayed in Fuzhou?
F.Have you everr been here before?
G.Great changes have taken place these years.
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