My husband, Bob, died in January 2004. His death was unexpected as well. I __1__ condolences
(哀悼)from people I hadn"t heard from in years: letters, cards, flowers, calls, and visits. I took a bad
knock with __2__. I was so struggling to __3__ the whys and hows of this terrible thing that had
happened to my family, knowing in my heart that there really were no __4__. It"s just all so sad.
One message __5__ me deeply. I received a letter from my best friend from sixth __6__ through
high school. We had drifted somewhat since __7__ in 1959, as she stayed in our home town and I did
not.__8__ it was the kind of friendship that could quickly resume even if we __9__ touch for five or ten
years.
Her husband, Pete, had died perhaps 20 years ago at a young age, __10__ her with deep sorrow
and heavy __11__: finding a job and raising three young children.She and Pete, __12__ Bob and I, had
shared one of those rare, close, "love－of－your－life－you－can－never－forget"__13__.
In her letter she __14__ an anecdote about my mother who had passed away years ago. She wrote, "When Pete died, your dear mother __15__ me and said, "Trudy, I don"t know what to say...so I"ll just
say I love you.""
She closed her letter to me repeating my mother"s words of so long __16__, "Bonnie, I don"t know
what to say...so I"ll just say I love you."
I felt I __17__ almost hear my mother speaking to me now. What a __18__ message of sympathy!
How dear of my friend to cherish it all those years and then __19__ it on to me. I love you.__20__
words. A gift. A legacy(遗赠物). |
( )1. A. received
( )2. A. disappointment
( )3. A. ask
( )4. A. answers
( )5. A. impressed
( )6. A. grade
( )7. A. marriage
( )8. A. Instead
( )9. A. kept
( )10. A. moving
( )11. A. opportunities
( )12. A. including
( )13. A. contacts
( )14. A. shared
( )15. A. met
( )16. A. after
( )17. A. must
( )18. A. powerful
( )19. A. deliver
( )20. A. Unnecessary | B. wrote
B. relief
B. experience
B. skills
B. touched
B. class
B. graduation
B. Therefore
B. lost
B. returning
B. responsibilities
B. as well as
B. backgrounds
B. combined
B. kissed
B. away
B. should
B. serious
B. pass
B. Perfect | C. sent
C. grief
C. explain
C. explanation
C. appreciated
C. sense
C. quarrel
C. But
C. got
C. staying
C. services
C. like
C. interests
C. achieved
C. hugged
C. apart
C. would
C. bitter
C. return
C. Curious | D. showed
D. regret
D. understand
D. information
D. affected
D. week
D. settlement
D. However
D. engaged
D. leaving
D. chances
D. except for
D. relationships
D. remembered
D. shook
D. ago
D. could
D. sincere
D. remind
D. Abstract |
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试题【完形填空 My husband, Bob, died in January 2004. His death was unexpected as well】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
"Grandma, Grandma, tell us a story!" Four darling children sat by my feet, looking up at me
expectantly.
Suddenly, we were interrupted clapping. "Terrific," the director said, stepping up the stage from the
aisle(过道). "Except, could you kids face the audience a bit more?"
The kids shifted to face the empty seats, which would be filled in a few days for the church play.
"Perfect," the director said. "Now, Grandma, read to your grandchildren." A pang of sadness hit me.
If only I could read to my real grandchild!
I had a granddaughter, but I"d never met her. Sixteen years earlier my son was involved in a
relationship that ended badly. But out of it came a blessing: a baby girl named Lena. I hoped to be a
grandmother to her-but shortly after the birth, the mother moved without any address left. Over the
years, I asked around town to try and find my son"s exwife(前妻), but it seemed that she didn"t want
to be found.
I"d just joined this new church a week earlier, and was at once offered the part of Grandma in the
play. At least now I could pretend to be a grandma. The rehearsals went well, and finally the day of the
show arrived. The performance was great. "You all looked so natural up there," one of my friends said.
Afterward, we went to the church basement for refreshments(茶点). I walked over to one of the girls
in the play, Rehearsals had been such a whirlwind(一片忙乱) that we never really got to talk. "How"s
my granddaughter?" I joked.
"Fine!" she answered. Just then, someone else walked up and asked the girl her name.
I wasn"t sure I heard the girl"s answer correctly. But it made me ask her another question. "What"s
your mother"s name?"
She told me, I was still in shock. "And what"s your father"s name?" I asked. She told me. It was my
son.
She"d only started going to that church a week before I did. Since that day of the play, we"ve stayed
close. Not long ago, she even made me a great grandma. | | 1. What was the author doing at the beginning of the story? | A. Telling a story.
B. Playing a game.
C. Preparing for a play.
D. Acting in a movie. | | 2. Why did the author feel "A pang of sadness" at the words of the director? | A. The director"s words reminded her of her lost granddaughter.
B. The director"s words hurt her so badly.
C. She wished that she had a real grandchild.
D. The director wasn"t content with her performance. | | 3. What happened in the church basement after the play? | A. The author played a joke on Lena.
B. Lena treated the author as a friend.
C. The author got to know who Lena was.
D. Lena mistook the author for her grandmother. | | 4. This passage is mainly organized in the pattern of ________. | A. time and events
B. contrast and conclusion
C. cause and effect
D. questions and answers | | 完形填空 | Lucky to have him
When I met him, I had a lot of anger inside of me. I never had a father, though in my neighborhood
that"s not__1__. I know some kids just like me. You have to__2__yourself. There are fights and killings
all the time. I have friends who ended up in jail or pregnant. I could have ended up that way, too, __3__
Mr. Clark and my mom wouldn"t let that happen.
Mr. Clark worked long hours, making sure I did my work. My grades rose. In fact, I did so well
that in sixth grade, I entered the__4__class, and Mr. Clark was the teacher. I felt so__5__to have him
for a second year!
He took our class to see The Phantom of the Opera. Before the show, he__6__us to dinner at a
restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths full. We didn"t want to let him__7__, so we listened
to him attentively.
__8__of us were surprised when Mr. Clark was selected as Disney"s 2000 Teacher of the Year.
When he learned he"d won, he said he would__9__three names out of a hat; he would go to Los
Angeles to get the__10__with those students. But__11__it came time to draw names, Mr. Clark said,
"You"re all going."
He got__12__to fly all 37 of us out to Disneyland in California and put us up at the Hilton. People
were__13__, but Mr. Clark really cared about us. There"s no way I can__14__ most teachers doing
that. No way. But he saw something in us that nobody else saw.
On graduation day, there were a lot of tears. We didn"t want his class to__15__. In the new school
year, we were all happy when Mr.Clark__16__in our class once again. He"s been a __17__in our lives.
In 2003, Mr. Clark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to__18__school supplies and visit
orphanages. It may be the most amazing__19__of my life. It"s now my__20__to one day start a group
of women"s clubs, helping people from all backgrounds. | ( )1. A. common
( )2. A. encourage
( )3. A. but
( )4. A. local
( )5. A. sudden
( )6. A. treated
( )7. A. off
( )8. A. Some
( )9. A. give
( )10. A. reward
( )11. A. after
( )12. A. donations
( )13. A. excited
( )14. A. suggest
( )15. A. end
( )16. A. picked up
( )17. A. colleague
( )18. A. deliver
( )19. A. adventure
( )20. A. turn | B. normal
B. watch
B. therefore
B. general
B. lucky
B. directed
B. out
B. Any
B. draw
B. bonus
B. when
B. suggestions
B. satisfied
B. advocate
B. start
B. showed up
B. sponsor
B. collect
B. experience
B. conclusion | C. real
C. comfort
C. otherwise
C. gifted
C. annoyed
C. showed
C. up
C. None
C. enter
C. diploma
C. before
C. requests
C. ashamed
C. imagine
C. continue
C. rang up
C. success
C. display
C. vacation
C. dream | D. unusual
D. tolerate
D. or
D. sacred
D. anxious
D. swapped
D. down
D. Many
D. register
D. award
D. since
D. messages
D. amazed
D. complain
D. last
D. packed up
D. constant
D. recommend
D. interview
D. demand | | 阅读理解 |  | I used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so small as she muscled her way through
the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would
often watch the kids as they played during break. I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball.
I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just
over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one could. I began to notice
her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone.
One day I asked her why she practiced so much. Without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want
to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I
want to be the best. My daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don"t count. "Well, I had to
give it to her-She was determined. I watched her through those junior high years and into high school.
Every week, she led her school team to victory.
One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head in her arms.I walked across the street
and sat down in the cool grass beside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. "Oh, nothing," came a soft
reply, "I am just too short." The coach told her that at 5"5" she would probably never get to play for a
top ranked team-much less offered a scholarship. So she should stop dreaming about college. She was
heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had
talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did
not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she truly wanted a scholarship and that nothing
could stop her except one thing-her own attitude.
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was
offered a scholarship and on the college team. She was going to get the college education that she had
dreamed of. | | 1. The author was probably the girl"s __________. | A. neighbor
B. friend
C. mother
D. teacher | | 2. Why was the girl heartbroken? | A. She was considered too short to be a top player.
B. Her coach stopped her training because of her height.
C. She couldn"t be on a college basketball team.
D. She wouldn"t be admitted by an ideal college. | | 3. We can learn from the passage that__________. | A. her family wouldn"t like to pay her college fees
B. her father forced her to play basketball in college
C. being a top basketball player can win you a scholarship for college
D. she wouldn"t like to turn to his father for help when in difficulty | | 4. Which word can best describe her father? | A. Encouraging.
B. Optimistic.
C. Stubborn.
D. Cruel. | | 5. Which proverb best matches the story? | A. Practice makes perfect.
B. Rome was not built in a day.
C. Where there is a will, there is a way.
D. Pride comes before a fall. | | 完形填空 | When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it.But just as
I am about to do so, I find the article on the __1__ side is as much interesting.It may be a discussion of
the way to __2__ in good health, or __3__ about how to behave and conduct oneself in society.If I cut
the front article, the opposite one is likely to __4__ damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text
__5__ the title.Therefore, the scissors would __6__ before they start, __7__ halfway done when I find
out the __8__ result.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your __9__.You can only take up
one of them, the other has to wait or be __10__ up.
But you know the future is unpredictable-the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left
__11__.Thus you are __12__ in a difficult position and feel sad.How __13__ that nice chances and
brilliant ideas should gather around all at once?It may happen that your life __14__ greatly on your
preference of one choice to the other.
In fact that is what __15__ is like:we are often __16__ with the two opposite sides of a thing which
are both desirable like a newspaper cutting.It often occurs that your attention is drawn to one thing only
__17__ we get into another.The __18__ may be more important than the latter and give rise to divided
mind.I __19__ remember a philosopher"s remarks, "When one door shuts, another opens in life."So a
casual __20__ may not be a bad one. | ( )1. A. front
( )2. A. get
( )3. A. advice
( )4. A. suffer
( )5. A. on
( )6. A. use
( )7. A. or
( )8. A. satisfying
( )9. A. courage
( )10. A. given
( )11. A. near
( )12. A. filled
( )13. A. dare
( )14. A. improves
( )15. A. study
( )16. A. faced
( )17. A. before
( )18. A. following
( )19. A. still
( )20. A. treatment | B. same
B. keep
B. news
B. reduce
B. for
B. handle
B. but
B. regretful
B. strength
B. held
B. alone
B. attracted
B. come
B. changes
B. society
B. supplied
B. after
B. next
B. also
B. action | C. either
C. lead
C. a theory
C. prevent
C. without
C. prepare
C. so
C. surprising
C. attention
C. made
C. about
C. caught
C. deal
C. progresses
C. nature
C. connected
C. until
C. above
C. once
C. choice | D. opposite
D. bring
D. a report
D. cause
D. off
D. stay
D. for
D. impossible
D. patience
D. picked
D. behind
D. struck
D. do
D. goes
D. life
D. fixed
D. as
D. former
D. almost
D. remark
| | 阅读理解 | One day the employees of a large company in St Louis, Missouri returned from their lunch break
and were greeted with a sign on the front door. The sign said:"Yesterday the person who has been
hindering (阻碍) your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral(葬礼) in
the room that has been prepared in the gym."
At first everyone was sad to hear that one of their colleagues had died, but after a while they started
getting curious about who this person might be.
The excitement grew as the employees arrived at the gym to pay their last respects. Everyone
wondered: "Who is this person that was hindering my progress? Well, at least he"s no longer here."
One by one the employees got closer to the coffin(棺材) and when they looked inside it they
became speechless. They stood over the coffin, shocked and in silence, as if someone had touched the
deepest part of their soul.
There was a mirror inside the coffin:Everyone who looked inside it could see himself. There was
also a sign next to the mirror that said. "There is only one person who can set limits to your growth:it is
YOU."
You are the only person who can revolutionize(彻底改变) your life. You are the only person who
can influence your happiness, your realization and your success. You are the only person who can help
yourself.
Your life does not change when your family changes, when your friends change, when your boss
changes, and when your company changes.
Your life changes when YOU change, when you go beyond your limiting beliefs, when you realize
that you are the only one responsible for your life. | | 1. The writer"s purpose in writing the article is to tell us that __________. | A. the harder we work, the more successful we will become
B. our work and life are closely connected with others
C. changing our lives is down to us
D. we will have a better future if people do not hinder our development | | 2. People were speechless when they looked inside the coffin because __________. | A. there was nothing but a mirror inside
B. they could see their own souls inside
C. their closest colleague lay inside
D. what was inside told a great truth | | 3. Who probably wrote the sign on the front door? | A. The company boss.
B. A worker who liked to make fun of others.
C. The director in charge of production.
D. A worker who wanted to teach others a lesson. | | 4. What can we conclude from the article? | A. The employees went to the gym to join the funeral.
B. The lesson the employees learned would influence them greatly.
C. The employees" lives depended on the attitude of their boss.
D. The employees got angry after the funeral. |
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