One winter during college in New York, I took an 8 AM history class to fulfill a requirement.It was
__1__ to get up for that class, but every morning I would __2__ the cold winds and went to the lecture.
The professor for the class would step __3__ into the room.He was terribly nervous about the class and
always fixed his eyes on his book, never __4__ us.
I felt that I needed to do something to __5__ the boredom, so I tried to find something in his lecture
to ask him, __6__ me to pay attention rather than letting my eyes close.The first time I raised my hand,
he was surprised but was obviously pleased to have a question to answer.In fact, his answers were
always __7__.
I continued to do this every day.The professor seemed to become a bit more relaxed and some
students even joined in.In this way, I learned quite a lot and realized the professor was indeed a(n)
__8__ in his field.
On the last day of class we __9__ our books and headed out.The professor stepped directly in front
of me, with obvious effort, putting out his hand.He said, " __10__ you for making my class so interesting, " shaking my hand and smiling.I was so __11__.To me, it had been a pleasant way to __12__ the time
in his lesson.I had no idea that my __13__ had any effect on him or the others at all.
That __14__ has stayed with me for 30 years, I don"t recall the facts I learned in his class, but I"ll
never forget the professor who taught me a lesson about the __15__ of acts of kindness, intended or not. |
( )1. A. natural
( )2. A. slow
( )3. A. shyly
( )4. A. looking down at
( )5. A. ignore
( )6. A. forcing
( )7. A. boring
( )8. A. farmer
( )9. A. read
( )10. A. Thank
( )11. A. honest
( )12. A. save
( )13. A. stories
( )14. A. moment
( )15. A. concept | B. traditional
B. brave
B. happily
B. looking up at
B. delay
B. allowing
B. interesting
B. fool
B. copied
B. Forgive
B. nervous
B. forget
B. questions
B. opinion
B. reward | C. possible
C. lower
C. proudly
C. getting along with
C. stop
C. advising
C. puzzling
C. expert
C. ordered
C. Blame
C. surprised
C. spare
C. appearance
C. suggestion
C. price | D. hard
D. warm
D. hurriedly
D. getting in touch with
D. understand
D. persuading
D. worrying
D. actor
D. gathered
D. Praise
D. disappointed
D. pass
D. care
D. wish
D. power |
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试题【完形填空 One winter during college in New York, I took an 8 AM history class to 】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 完形填空 | I was doing some cleaning and my kids were helping.Suddenly, I found a small box with a __1__
inside.I looked at it and was immediately __2__ to another time.
In 1991, I spent five months in Niger, an African country.There were many things I found __3__
about this place-the terrible climate and beggars who noisily shouted "Cadeau!Cadeau!"It means a gift.
But something even __4__ happened.One day, a friend and I __5__ neighboring Burkina Faso.
Arriving by taxi at our destination in Burkina, we began to unload (卸下) our luggage.However, out of
the darkness, a motorbike with two men __6__ slowly, and without warning, one of the men __7__ my
package as the motorbike came close by.Within seconds, the pair were out of sight, swallowed up by
the __8__.In the bag there was my passport, money, an airline ticket and some other things.I was in
deep __9__.In the weeks that followed, I protected the rest of my valuables and disbelieved in all
__10__.
All I wanted was to leave this place.Another day, I was stopped by an old woman."Cadeau!
Cadeau!"she cried.I"d had enough!I told her __11__, "I have no money.Two thieves took away all
my money and how I can"t get out of your country."The beggar listened carefully and __12__ my
words.
"Then I will give you a cadeau, "she said.Kindly, she __13__ an old brown coin in my hand.I
looked at it in shock.Although living in poorness, she was still able to give me something that was
__14__ to her!I saw then the __15__ beauty of the people of Burkina Faso and appreciated deeply
the quiet dignity (尊严) of the poor.With one small coin, she turned my thought upside down. | ( )1. A. coin
( )2. A. welcomed
( )3. A. difficult
( )4. A. luckier
( )5. A. headed for
( )6. A. continued
( )7. A. seized
( )8. A. sunshine
( )9. A. debt
( )10. A. plans
( )11. A. confidently
( )12. A. repeated
( )13. A. threw
( )14. A. useless
( )15. A. uncertain | B. stone
B. transported
B. cruel
B. stranger
B. talked about
B. failed
B. broke
B. motorbike
B. love
B. friends
B. kindly
B. used
B. put
B. beautiful
B. unimpressed | C. camera
C. exchanged
C. curious
C. happier
C. searched for
C. approached
C. borrowed
C. driver
C. trouble
C. men
C. angrily
C. considered
C. made
C. familiar
C. unreal | D. ticket
D. expected
D. enough
D. worse
D. looked around
D. dropped
D. fixed
D. night
D. thought
D. locals
D. hopefully
D. changed
D. discovered
D. precious
D. unexpected | | 完形填空 | I took up skydiving in my twenties.At the time the accident happened, I"d done just 30 jumps.The
airfield was quiet when I __1__.On board were Chris, who was taking a tourist, and Ants, the
cameraman.Chris indicated I should exit first and the other three would __2__.Later I knew it was this
__3__ that saved my life.
At 12,000 feet Chris rolled up the door and nodded that it was time for my exit.I put my foot on a
step just beside the door, and in a(n) __4__ the propeller blast (螺旋桨气流) threw me against the
__5__ of the plane, half in, half out.I pushed and got my other leg out of the door, but in doing so I
found myself __6__ the body of the plane towards the tail.My parachute (降落伞) got caught and my
__7__ and legs were pushed backwards, powerless, in the strong wind.
I was strangely __8__.To a skydiver, being at 12,000 feet is a good thing.Altitude is your friend；
being close to the ground is deadly and will kill you.
Ants appeared and __9__ slowly towards me, his legs held by Chris in the door.Ants reached out
and got hold of my foot.With the weight partly off, I found myself falling away from the plane, __10__
freed.I waved and smiled to indicate I was fine.
It was actually very __11__.If any one of a number of factors had been different, I would have
__12__.I could have hit the plane with my head.If I had been the last to exit, the pilot alone would have
been unable to free me, and even if he had been aware that I was __13__ underneath the plane, he
would still have had to land at some point.
Blue Skies, Black Death is the skydivers" mantra (咒语)．On the one hand, there"s the freedom
and __14__ of the open sky.But in order to __15__this joy, you must accept that there is usually only
one result if something goes wrong. | ( )1. A. jumped
( )2. A. follow
( )3. A. trouble
( )4. A. minute
( )5. A. left
( )6. A. sliding down
( )7. A. body
( )8. A. frightened
( )9. A. ran
( )10. A. really
( )11. A. funny
( )12. A. died
( )13. A. attached
( )14. A. pride
( )15. A. observe | B. arrived
B. escape
B. effort
B. way
B. right
B. knocking over
B. arms
B. anxious
B. moved
B. hopefully
B. ordinary
B. laughed
B. adjusted
B. confidence
B. experience | C. woke
C. leave
C. chance
C. instant
C. top
C. crashing into
C. head
C. excited
C. stepped
C. certainly
C. clear
C. stopped
C. covered
C. excitement
C. imagine | D. dove
D. fly
D. decision
D. sense
D. side
D. leaning against
D. fingers
D. calm
D. rushed
D. finally
D. serious
D. returned
D. connected
D. willingness
D. discover | | 阅读理解 | Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson tells us at the beginning of his long (but never boring)new
biography(传记), "is the founding father who winks at us."By that, Isaacson explains, he means
Franklin is the most human-and most modern-of the men who shaped the American republic.We
admire Washington, Jefferson and Adams, but they remain creatures of the 18th century.The man
we encounter in"Benjamin Franklin"-funny, pragmatic and selfaware-seems like one of us, or at least
someone we"d like to be.
Unlike Washington"s cherry tree, Franklin"s kite was real.His experiments with electricity made
him one of the great scientists of his day.He was a middleclass businessman whose success as a printer
and a journalist allowed him to retire at 42-and he devoted the rest of his life to his country.He was
diplomat who persuaded the French to back the American Revolution and the author of the first great
American autobiography.He was an excellent swimmer.There was almost nothing he couldn"t do well,
except write poetry.But what truly distinguished Franklin was his talent of being great and human at the
same time.He owned slaves as a younger man, but in his last years became an abolitionist(废奴主义者). When he fathered an illegitimate(私生的) son, he acknowledged his fatherhood and took the
responsibility of raising the boy.
He seems strange today in the joy he took in compiling and creating all those selfimprovement
maxims he published in Poor Richard"s Almanac(年鉴)- "early to bed, early to rise"and so on.
Generations of lazy boys could have been happier without that.But he was no hypocrite.Isaacson tells
us Franklin practiced what he preached, and often laughed at himself while he did so.
By a happy accident, this is the second excellent biography of Franklin to appear in two years, after
Edmund S. Morgan"s inspiring"Benjamin Franklin."
1. What type of literature does this passage belong to?
A. Research paper.
B. Book review.
C. Biography.
D. Short story.
2. The underlined word"maxims"in Paragraph 3 probably means________.
A. proverbs
B. standards
C. requests
D. orders
3. With the fact that Franklin shouldered the responsibilities of raising his illegitimate son, the
author wants to prove that________.
A. Franklin had made a big fortune in his business before he got devoted to polities
B. Franklin might be the only parent to support the child at that time
C. Franklin was a great man who seems human to us
D. Franklin was improving his character when he got on in ages
4. The underlined word"himself"in Paragraph 3 refers to________.
A. Richard"s Almanac
B. Walter isaacson
C. anyone of the readers.
D. Benjamin Franklin
5. In which part of a magazine can we most probably find this article?
A. Society and the Arts.
B. World Affairs.
C. Business Report.
D. Advertisement. | | 完形填空。 | It was her giggling that drew my attention.Note taking really wasn"t all that funny.
Walking over to the offender, I asked for the__1__.Frozen, she refused to give it to me.I waited, all
attention in the classroom on the quiet__2__between teacher and student.When she finally__3__it over
she whispered, "Okay, but I didn"t draw it."
It was a handdrawn__4__of me, teeth blackened and the words "I"m stupid" coming out of my mouth.
I managed to fold it up calmly.My mind,__5__, was working angrily as I struggled not to__6__.I figured
I knew the two most likely candidates for drawing the picture.It would do them some__7__to teach them a lesson, and maybe it was high time that I did it!
Thankfully, I was able to keep myself__8__.
When there were about six minutes remaining, I showed the class the picture.They were all silent as I
told them how__9__this was for me.I told them there must be a reason__10__and now was their chance
to write down anything they needed to tell me.Then I let them write silently while I sniffed in the back of
the classroom.
As I__11__the notes later, many of them said something like, "I"ve got nothing against you," or "I"m
sorry you were hurt." Some kids said, "We"re__12__of you." But two notes, from the girls who I__13__
were behind the picture, had a list of issues.I was too__14__, too strict…
Reading those notes, I realized that over the course of this year, instead of__15__my students, I had
begun commanding them to__16__.Where I thought I was driving them to success I was__17__driving
them away.
I had some apologizing to do.But the next day in the classroom, one boy and one girl each handed me
a card.The one__18__by all the boys expressed sincere regret for the ugly joke.The one from the girls
asked for__19__.
This was a lesson for both the kids and me.Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge
the__20__. | ( )1．A.note
( )2．A.battle
( )3．A.took
( )4．A.statue
( )5．A.otherwise
( )6．A.leave
( )7．A.good
( )8．A.amused
( )9．A.meaningful
( )10．A.aside
( )11．A.wrote
( )12．A.proud
( )13．A.figured
( )14．A.talkative
( )15．A.forcing
( )16．A.appreciate
( )17．A.actually
( )18．A.decorated
( )19．A.thankfulness
( )20．A.friendship | B．advice
B．competition
B．thought
B．graph
B．however
B．cry
B．harm
B．controlled
B．forgetful
B．above
B．finished
B．fond
B．promised
B．mean
B．encouraging
B．apologize
B．normally
B．offered
B．forgiveness
B．education | C．reason
C．argument
C．turned
C．picture
C．therefore
C．explain
C．favor
C．uninterested
C．regretful
C．beneath
C．read
C．afraid
C．concluded
C．clumsy
C．comforting
C．compromise
C．immediately
C．signed
C．compensation
C．knowledge | D．help
D．conversation
D．handed
D．poster
D．besides
D．argue
D．punishment
D．relaxed
D．hurtful
D．behind
D．collected
D．ashamed
D．confirmed
D．considerate
D．teaching
D．achieve
D．generally
D．bought
D．communication
D．future | | 完形填空 | One famous artist Sheikh went back to his hometown. He hadn"t seen one of his friends for many
years, who was a __1__and needy man. When Sheikh asked about him, he was told by people that
the man he was__2__was a rich man and no longer poor. Sheikh__3__to pay a visit to his friend.
__4__talking with his friend, Sheikh asked him the __5__for the change in his situation. The man
replied that he had been so poor that he was forced to__6__some properties(财产)that belonged to
him, like furniture(家具). By selling these things, he had__7__some money enough to start a __8__
with.
As he was on his way back to his house with the__9__, he saw a poor lady__10__by the road.
The man asked the lady the reason, and she__11__that her husband died and her children were__12__.
Hearing this, the man felt__13__for her, and on seeing that she__14__the money more than himself, he
gave all the money to her. He__15__home and spent the night, sad and__16__for his family.
The next morning, __32__he was summoned(召唤) to the house of a rich man. He was told by the
rich man that he had six thousand bags of__33__which he wanted to sell quickly and the man could buy
it at a__34__price on loan(借用) from him. The poor man did so and sold the rice__35__. He took
some more bags several days later and in this way he was able to make much more money. Soon he
became rich. | ( )1. A. clever
( )2. A. living with
( )3. A. decided
( )4. A. Until
( )5. A. message
( )6. A. sell
( )7. A. saved
( )8. A. travel
( )9. A. money
( )10. A. crying
( )11. A. believed
( )12. A. hungry
( )13. A. sadness
( )14. A. took
( )15. A. drove
( )16. A. worried
( )17. A. happily
( )18. A. rice
( )19. A. low
( )20. A. slowly | B. rich
B. waiting for
B. forgot
B. Before
B. reason
B. make
B. collected
B. business
B. news
B. walking
B. explained
B. dangerous
B. interest
B. needed
B. returned
B. pleased
B. surprisingly
B. meat
B. fair
B. quickly | C. lazy
C. asking about
C. refused
C. After
C. time
C. keep
C. paid
C. family
C. hope
C. sleeping
C. shouted
C. crazy
C. shame
C. owned
C. left
C. excited
C. carelessly
C. vegetables
C. high
C. hardly | D. poor
D. listening to
D. tried
D. While
D. plan
D. find
D. wasted
D. lesson
D. furniture
D. standing
D. imagined
D. angry
D. pity
D. earned
D. stayed
D. frightened
D. unluckily
D. clothes
D. right
D. finally |
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