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the closet (衣橱)?"Jessica asked."A skeleton in the closet?" her mother paused thoughtfully.
"Well, it"s something that you would rather not have anyone else know about.For example,
if in the past, someone in Dad"s family had been arrested for stealing a horse, it would be"a
skeleton in his family"s closet".He really wouldn"t want any neighbor to know about it."
"Why pick on my family?" Jessica"s father said with anger."Your family history isn"t so
good, you know.Wasn"t your greatgreatgrandfathe
r a prisoner who was transported to Australia for his crimes?""Yes, but people these days say that you are not a real Australian
unless your ancestors arrived as prisoners.""Gosh, sorry I asked.I think I understand now."
Jessica cut in before things grew worse.
After dinner, the house was very quiet.Jessica"s parents were still quite angry with
each other.Her mother was ironing clothes and every now and then she glared at her
husband, who hid behind his newspaper pretending to read.When she finished, she
gathered the freshly pressed clothes in her arms and walked to Jessica"s closet.Just as
she opened the door and reached in to hang a skirt, a bony arm stuck out from the
dark depths and a bundle of white bones fell to the floor.Jessica"s mother sank into a
faint (晕倒), waking only when Jessica put a cold, wet cloth on her forehead.She
looked up to see the worried faces of her husband and daughter.
"What happened? Where am I?" she asked."You just destroyed the school"s skeleton,
Mum." explained Jessica."I brought i
t home to help me with my health project.I meantto tell you, but it seemed that as soon as I mentioned skeletons and closets, it caused a
problem between you and Dad." Jessica looked in amazement as her parents began to
laugh madly."They"re both crazy." she thought.
rding to Jessica"s mother, "a skeleton in the closet" means________.B．a family secret
C．a family story
D．a family treasure
B．They were the earliest people living in Australia.
C．They were involved in some crimes in Australia.
D．They were not regarded as criminals in their days.
B．frightened
C．injured
D．surprised
B．She planned to keep it for fun.
C．She needed it for her school task.
D．She intended to scare her parents.
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试题【阅读理解。 "Mum, what does it mean when someone tells you that they have a skelet】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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in computers, she in special education."Teaching means everything to us." Tim would say.In
April 1998, he learned he would need a heart operation.It was the kind of news that leads to
some serious thinking about life"s purpose.
Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program
started by Dolly Parton"s foundation (基金会) that mailed a book every month to children
from birth to age five in the singer"s hometown of Sevier, Tennessee."I thought, maybe Linda
and I could do something like this when we retire." Tim recalls.He placed the
brochure onhis desk as a reminder.
Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on
imaginationlibrary.com.The program had been opened up to partners who could take
advantage of book and postage discounts.
The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters.Rather than sig
n up online, they went to Dollywood for a looksee."We didn"t want to give the children rubbish."
says Linda.The books-reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists, and Dollywood
board members-included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats"s The Snowy Day and newer
books like Anna Dewdney"s Llama Llama series.
Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work.Since 2004,
they have shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their area.Megan Williams,
a mother of four, is more than appreciative:"This program introduces us to books I"ve
never heard of."
The Richters spend about $400 a month sending books to 200 children."Some people
sit there and wait to die." says Tim."Others get as busy as they can in the time they
have left."B．His love for teaching.
C．The influence of his wife.
D．The news from the Web.
B．Do something similar.
C．Write books for children.
D．Retire from being a teacher.
B．a mother of a fouryearold
C．a singer born in Tennessee
D．a computer programmer
B．To meet Dollywood board members.
C．To make sure the books were the newest.
D．To see if the books were of good quality.
In early autumn I applied for admission to college.I wanted to go nowhere but to Cornell University,
but my mother fought strongly against it.When she saw me studying a photograph of my father on the
sports ground of Cornell, she tore it up.
"You can"t say it"s not a great university, just because Papa went there."
"That"s not it at all.And it is a top university.” She was still holding the pieces in her hand.“But we
can"t afford to send you to college."
"I wouldn"t dream of asking you for money.Do you want me to get a job to help support you and
Papa? Things aren"t that bad, are they？"
"No," s
he said."I don"t expect you to help support us."
Father borrowed money from his rich cousins to start a small jewellery shop.His chief customers
were his old college friends.To get new customers, my mother had to help.She picked up a long
forgotten membership in the local league of women, so that she could get to know more people.Whether
those people would turn into customers was another question.I knew that my parents had to wait for quite a long time before their small investment (投资) could show returns.What"s more, they had not wanted 
enough to be rich and successful; otherwise they could not possibly have managed their lives so badly.
I was torn between the desire to help them and change th
eir lives, and the determination not to repeat
their mistakes.I had a strong belief in my power to get what I wanted.After months of hard study I won
a full college scholarship (奖学金)．My father could hardly contain his pride in me, and my mother
eventually gave in before my success.
A. his father graduated from the university
B. his mother did not think it a great university
C. his parents needed him to help support the family
D. his parents did not have enough money for him
2. The father started his small shop with the money from _____.
A. a local league
B. his university
C. his relatives
D. his college friends
3. Why did the mother renew her membership in the league?
A. To help with her husband"s business.
B. To raise money for her son.
C. To meet her longforgotten friends.
D. To better manage her life.
4. According to the text, what was the author determined to do in that autumn?
A. To get a wellpaid job for himself.
B. To improve relations with his mother.
C. To go to his dream university.
D. To carry on with his father"s business.
freshman and had ___1__up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends.
Now just before my first __2__of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and
my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a __3__. A few minutes nap
(小睡)time before class couldn"t __4__, I thought.
BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked
around with my __5_beating wildly trying to find the cause of the __6__. My young
professor was looking at me with a boyish(孩子气的)smile on his face. He had __7__
dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. "Good morning!", he said still __8__.
"I am glad to see everyone is __9__. Now let"s get started. "
For the ne
xt hour I wasn"t sleepy at all. It wasn"t from the __10__of my professor"stextbook alarm clock either. It was instead from the __11__discussion he led. With
knowledge and good __12__
he made the material come __13__. His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness.
And the enthusiasm and joy that he __14__with were contagious(有感染力的). I __15__
the classroom not only wide awake, but a little __16__and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not __17__in class that day too. I learned
that if you are going to do something in this life,do it well,do it with __18__. What a
wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don"t
sleepwalk(梦游)your way through __19__then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work.
Life is too __20__not to live it well.
( )2．A. class
( )3．A. platform
( )4．A. benefit
( )5．A. heart
( )6．A. trouble
( )7．A. angrily
( )8．A. smiling
( )9．A. active
( )10．A. sound
( )11．A. fascinatin
( )12．A. gesture
( )13．A. strange
( )14．A. taught
( )15．A . decorated
( )16．A. clearer
( )17．A. discussing
( )18．A. joy
( )19．A. work
( )20．A. hard
B. test
B. pillow
B. help
B. mind
B. noise
B. carelessly
B. talking
B. curious
B. shock
B. convincing
B. sense
B. natural
B. spread
B. filled
B. smarter
B. speaking
B. speed
B. life
B. complex
C. task
C. carpet
C. last
C. thought
C. failure
C. deliberately
C. complaining
C. present
C. interruption
C. puzzling
C. humor
C. handy
C. combined
C. left
C. quieter
C. cheating
C. aim
C. journey
C. short
D. lecture
D. wall
D. hurt
D. head
D. incident
D. accidentally
D. shouting
D. awake
D. blow
D. encouraging
D. design
D. alive
D. started
D. entered
D. stronger
D. sleeping
D. de termination
D. college
D. simple
On my way to school I wondered what sort of questions the other boys would ask me and
practiced all the answers: "I am nine years old. I was born here but I haven"t lived here since
I was two. I was living in Farley. It"s about thirty miles away. I came back to London two
months ago." I also wondered if it was the custom for boys to fight strangers like me, but
I was tall for my age. I hoped they would decide not to risk it.
No one took any notice of me before school. I stood in the center of the playground,
expecting someone to say "hello", but no one spoke to me. When a teacher called my name
and told me where my classroom was, one or two boys looked at me but that was all.
My teacher was called Mr. Jones. There were 42 boys in the class, so I didn"t stand
out there, either, until the first lesson of the afternoon. Mr. Jones was very fond of Charles
Dickens and he had decided to read aloud to us from David Copperfield, but first he asked
several boys if they knew Dickens" birthplace, but no one guessed right. A boy called Brian,
the biggest in the class, said: "Timbuktu", and Mr. Jones went red in the face. Then he asked
me. I said: "Portsmouth", and everyone stared at me because Mr. Jones said I was right.
This didn"t make me very popular, of course.
"He thinks he"s clever," I heard Brian say.
After that, we went out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian"s team, and he
obviously had Dickens in mind because he told me to go in goal. No one ever wanted to be
the goalkeeper.
"He"s big enough and useless enough." Brian said when someone asked him why he
had chosen me.
I suppose Mr. Jones, who served as the judge, remembered Dickens, too, because
when the game was nearly over, Brian pushed one of the players on the other team, and
he gave them a penalty (惩罚). As the boy kicked the ball to my right, I threw myself down
instinctively (本能地) and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare knees were
injured and bleeding. Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.
"Do you want to join my gang (帮派)?" he said.
At the end of the day, I was no longer a stranger.
B. Where are you from?
C. Do you want to join my gang?
D. When did you come back to London?
B. the writer was not greeted as he expected
C. Brian praised the writer for his cleverness
D. the writer was glad to be a goalkeeper
B. welcome
C. important
D. foolish
A. he threw himself down and saved the goal
B. he pushed a player on the other team
C. he was beginning to be accepted
D. he was no longer a newcomer
by a truck．He decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take the
trucking
company (which caused the accident)to court. In court the trucking company"slawyer was questioning Farmer Joe. "Didn"t you say, at the same scene of the accident,
"I"m fine"?" said the lawyer．
Farmer Joe responded, "Well, I will tell you what happened. I had just loaded my
favorite mule(骡子) Bessie into the ．．．" "I didn"t ask for any details," the lawyer
interrupted, "Just answer the question．Did you not say, at the scene of the accident,
"I"m fine? ""
Farmer Joe said, "Well, I had just got Bessie into the cart and I was driving down
the road．．．"
The lawyer interrupted again and said, "Judge, I am trying to make clear the fact that,
at the scene of the accident, this man told the police on the scene that he was just fine．
Now several weeks after the accident he is trying to cover the fact．I believe he is telling
lies．Please tell him to simply answer the question."
By this time the Judge was fairly interested in Farmer Joe"s answer and said to the lawyer,
"I"d like to hear what he has to say about his favorite mule Bessie."
Joe thanked the Judge and went on, "Well, as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie,
my favorite mule, into the cart and was driving her down the road when this huge truck
ran into the stop sign and pushed my cart right in the side．I was thrown into one side
and Bessie was thrown into the other."
"I was hurt so badly that I didn"t want to move．However, I could hear old Bessie
breathing loudly and groaning (***)．I knew she was in great pain．Shortly after the
accident a traffic policeman came to the scene．He could hear Bessie groaning so he
went over to her．After he looked at her, he took out his gun and shot her between
the eyes．Then the patrolman came across the road with his gun and looked at me．
He said, "Your mule was in such pain that I had to shoot her. How are you feeling?"
B. just on their way when the truck hit a sign on the roadside and then hit them
C. going to stop by the road when they were hit by the truck
D. going so fast that they ran into a truck
B. so as to prove that Farmer Joe was a man who could not tell right from wrong
C. because he believed Farmer Joe could not remember what he had said at the scene
D. because he believed the answer should be in his favor
B. couldn"t have said "I"m fine." at the scene of the accident
C. could not remember whether he had said "I"m fine." at the scene of the accident
D. tried to cover the fact in the court but no one would believe him
B. As the mule"s
groan was too loud C. Thinking it was the best way to stop the mule from suffering
D. To make Farmer Joe feel better
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