Alone in the light at the dining room table, I sat in tears.
Finally, I"d succeeded in getting both kids to bed. I got them both washed, __1__ by cries of
delight, crazy running around, laughing and throwing things. __2__ calmed down, they lay in their
beds as I gave each the five minutes" back rubs as usual. Then I began the night time routine of a song,
both kids" __3__. I sang it over and over until they seemed fully engaged in __4__.
A recently __5__ man with full custody (监护权) of his children, I was determined to give them as
__6__ and stable a home life as possible. I __7__ a happy face for them. Everything was just as it had
always been with the exception __8__ their mother was now missing. There, another night successfully
__9__.
I rose slowly, tiptoed out of their room and went downstairs.
Sitting at the 10 room table, I realized that this was the first time since I came home from work
that I"d been able to 11 sit down.
Then it all crowded in on me:the fatigue(疲惫), the 12 of the responsibility, the worry about bills
I wasn"t sure I pay that month. And 13 . I felt as though I was at the bottom of a great sea of loneliness.
I sat there, silently sobbing. Just then, a pair of little arms went around my middle and a little face
peered up at me. I looked down into my fiveyearold son"s 14 face.
I was 15 to be seen crying by my son. "I"m sorry, Ethan, I didn"t know you were still awake.
I"m sorry, I"m just a little 16 tonight. "
"It"s okay, Daddy. It"s okay to cry, you"re just a 17 . "
I can"t express how happy he made me, who gave me 18 to cry. He seemed to be saying that I
didn"t have to always be 19 , that it was occasionally possible to allow myself to feel weak and 20
my feeling. Somehow, it was possible for me to get to sleep that night. Thank you, my son. |
( )1. A. excited
( )2. A. Sooner or later
( )3. A. favor
( )4. A. sleep
( )5. A. disabled
( )6. A. ordinary
( )7. A. put on
( )8. A. which
( )9. A. arrived
( )10. A. dining
( )11. A. almost
( )12. A. pleasure
( )13. A. satisfaction
( )14. A. puzzled
( )15. A. embarrassed
( )16. A. tired
( )17. A. human
( )18. A. need
( )19. A. sad
( )20. A. give out | B. accompanied
B. Or rather
B. favorite
B. bed
B. married
B. common
B. looked on
B. that
B. celebrated
B. sitting
B. just
B. lack
B. fun
B. suspected
B. delighted
B. sad
B. father
B. time
B. happy
B. let out | C. encouraged
C. On time
C. entertainment
C. joy
C. divorced
C. regular
C. got on
C. if
C. dismissed
C. bed
C. ever
C. absence
C. loneliness
C. surprising
C. disappointed
C. anxious
C. parent
C. permission
C. strong
C. make out | D. affected
D. More or less
D. hobby
D. imagination
D. discovered
D. normal
D. had on
D. whether
D. concluded
D. study
D. hardly
D. weight
D. worry
D. sympathetic
D. terrified
D. unlucky
D. grown?up
D. order
D. weak
D. carry out |
| 1-5: BDBAC 6-10: DABDA 11-15: BDCDA 16-20: BACCB |
核心考点
试题【完形填空 Alone in the light at the dining room table, I sat in tears. 】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 阅读理解 | The way we do things round here
Some years ago, I was hired by an American bank. I received a letter from the head of the
Personnel Department that started, "Dear John, I am quite pleased that you have decided to join us.
"That "quite"saddened me. I thought he was saying "we"re kind of pleased you decided to join us although
I wish we had hired someone else. "Then I discovered that in American English "quite"sometimes means
"very", while in British English it means "fairly".
So the first lesson about working in other countries is to learn the language and by that I don"t just
mean the words people speak. It is body language, dress, manners, ideas and so on. The way
people do things highlights many of the differences we see between cultures(文化).
Some of these differences may be only on the surface-dress, food and hours of work-while others
may be deeper and take longer to deal with. Mostly, it is just a question of getting used to the differences and accepting them, like the climate(气候), while getting on with business.
Some of the differences may be an improvement. People are more polite; the service is better; you
ask for something to be done and it happens without having to ask again. However, other differences
can be troubling, like punctuality(准时). If you invite people to a party at 7 o"clock your guests will
consider it polite to turn up exactly on time in Germany, five minutes early in the American Midwest,
an hour early in Japan, 15 minutes afterwards in the UK, up to an hour afterwards in Italy and some
time in the evening in Greece. I prefer not to use the word "late" because there is nothing wrong with the
times people arrive. It is simply the accepted thing to do in their own country.
1. The author was unhappy as mentioned in Paragraph 1 because he thought________.
A. the American bank didn"t think much of him
B. the American bank might hire another person
C. it"s difficult to get used to American culture
D. it"s easy to misunderstand Americans
2. The word"highlights"in Paragraph 2 probably means________.
A. encourages
B. helps to narrow
C. increases
D. draws attention to
3. According to the author, what should we do with most cultural differences?
A. Ask the native people for help.
B. Understand and accept them.
C. Do things in our own way.
D. Do indepth research.
4. When invited to a party the people who are usually punctual are________.
A. Italians
B. Germans
C. Greeks
D. the British | | 完形填空 | That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, __1__
home at one in the morning after a(n) __2__ practice at the theatre. With __3__ night only a week
away, I was still learning my __4__. I was having __5__ dealing with my parttime job at the bank
and my acting at theatre at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about __6__ both acting
and San Francisco. __7__ had become too much for me.
As I walked down empty streets under tall buildings, I felt very __8__ and cold. I began running,
both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robber(抢劫犯). Very few people were
still out except a few sadlooking homeless people under blankets.
About a block from my apartment, I heard a __9__ behind me. I 10 quickly, half expecting
to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was 11 . All I saw was a streetlight. 12 , the
noise had made me nervous, so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and
unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been my 13 falling to the sidewalk.
14 I wasn"t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I"d heard the noise.
Although I searched the sidewalk 15 for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.
Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard the garbage truck(垃圾车) 16 to the sidewalk
next to me. When a voice called from the inside, "Alisa Camacho?" I thought I was 17 . How could
this man know my name? The door opened, and out jumped a small redhaired man with a(n) 18
look in his eyes. "Is this what you"re looking for?" he asked, holding up a small square shape.
It was nearly 3 am by the time I got into bed. I wouldn"t get much sleep that night, but I had gotten
my wallet back. I also had gotten back some 19 of city life. I realized that the city couldn"t be a bad
place 20 people were willing to help each other. | ( )1. A. flying
( )2. A. exciting
( )3. A. opening
( )4. A. lines
( )5. A. ability
( )6. A. picking up
( )7. A. City life
( )8. A. sad
( )9. A. shout
( )10. A. ran
( )11. A. empty
( )12. A. Still
( )13. A. note
( )14. A. Surprisingly
( )15. A. anxiously
( )16. A. pull up
( )17. A. awake
( )18. A. surprising
( )19. A. comfort
( )20. A. as a result | B. driving
B. tiring
B. closing
B. positions
B. trouble
B. turning up
B. Performances
B. happy
B. cry
B. turned
B. quietly
B. But
B. cap
B. Suddenly
B. nervously
B. turn over
B. dreaming
B. surprised
B. enjoyment
B. as far as | C. moving
C. fascinating
C. dancing
C. orders
C. possibility
C. thinking of
C. Accountant
C. small
C. song
C. jumped
C. noisy
C. Also
C. key
C. Ridiculously
C. whole?heartedly
C. pass by
C. beaten
C. amused
C. pressure
C. as long as
| D. walking
D. enjoyable
D. important
D. characters
D. worry
D. giving up
D. Job searching
D. great
D. noise
D. stepped
D. deserted
D. Furthermore
D. wallet
D. Absurdly
D. sadly
D. go away
D. stolen
D. amusing
D. excitement
D. as if | | 阅读理解 | Goldie"s Secret
She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No
way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. "We"re
moving house." "No space for her any more with the baby coming." "We never really wanted her, but
what could we have done?She was a present." People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an
animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.
I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more
creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such
an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven
knows what had happened to her at her previous owner"s. But eventually at the end of the first week
she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the
fire.
That"s why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a
walk. We were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually
I couldn"t hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as
fast as she could.
By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking
(舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. "We didn"t know what had
happened to her," said the woman at the door. "I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies
were born, and she just disappeared." "She must have tried to come back to them and got lost,"
added a boy from behind her.
I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I"ve got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And
I"ve learnt a good lesson: not to judge people. | | 1. How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house? | A. Shocked.
B. Sympathetic.
C. Annoyed.
D. Upset. | | 2. In her first few days at the author"s house, Goldie________. | A. felt worried
B. was angry
C. ate a little
D. sat by the fire | | 3. Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she ________. | A. saw her puppies
B. heard familiar barkings
C. wanted to leave the author
D. found her way to her old home | | 4. The passage is organized in order of ________. | A. time
B. effectiveness
C. importance
D. complexity | | 完形填空 | She walked into the room and his eyes lit up.
She didn"t have to say a word. Just being there was a proof enough to show that she __1__ him.
They had both __2__ someone they loved. So this day, of all days, was a __3__ one. She wanted
to make this work. She was hurt, __4__ and afraid. It wasn"t supposed to be this way.
But the fact was that he knew how she felt. There was an obvious __5__ in his heart, too. So the
one thing that __6__ their love for each other was heartache-the most sorrowful kind.
Their eyes locked. He __7__ and she responded. He had a special way of __8__ a smile to her
face. She stood there in the doorway and he motioned(示意) to her to sit next to him. Not __9__ the
childish grin he now had on his face, she hesitated for a moment, but 10 . There was an awkward
moment of silence between them.
Then suddenly he 11 behind the pillow placed strategically nearby. He pulled out a large red
12 and nervously handed it to her. She snapped back with a look of 13 because she really hadn"t
expected this.
"Wait, this 14 with it, " he said. Then he handed her a small box, 15 perfectly in white tissue
paper of hearts and flowers.
"Now, " he said, " 16 the card. "
It reads as follows:
I know that Valentine"s Day is a 17 day for people in love. I am sure that you would rather
be out at a 18 dinner, I"m sorry. But I want you to know that…I love you. I am so sorry
that Dad 19 us, Mom. But I just wanted you to know we 20 have each other.
Happy Valentine"s Day!
Love,
Your son, Adam | ( )1. A. loved
( )2. A. remembered
( )3. A. hopeless
( )4. A. uneasy
( )5. A. puzzle
( )6. A. influenced
( )7. A. smiled
( )8. A. creating
( )9. A. recognizing
( )10. A. gave in
( )11. A. moved
( )12. A. letter
( )13. A. sympathy
( )14. A. remains
( )15. A. placed
( )16. A. accept
( )17. A. special
( )18. A. rich
( )19. A. deserted
( )20. A. still | B. doubted
B. found
B. difficult
B. angry
B. pain
B. broke
B. questioned
B. causing
B. trusting
B. spoke out
B. turned
B. envelope
B. delight
B. appears
B. covered
B. read
B. happy
B. fancy
B. missed
B. already | C. expected
C. lost
C. cloudy
C. bored
C. regret
C. blocked
C. joked
C. bringing
C. noticing
C. helped out
C. pulled
C. card
C. surprise
C. goes
C. hidden
C. open
C. precious
C. delicious
C. supported
C. even | D. respected
D. met
D. memorable
D. lonely
D. hope
D. strengthened
D. called
D. removing
D. enjoying
D. stepped up
D. reached
D. flower
D. horror
D. comes
D. wrapped
D. spread
D. fine
D. pleasant
D. left
D. otherwise | | 阅读理解 | When I was about 10, I was walking down the street with my mother. She stopped to speak to Mr
Lee. I knew I could see Mr Lee anytime around the neighborhood, so I just stood there. After we
passed him, my mother stopped and said something unforgettable, "You let that be the last time you ever
walk by somebody you know without opening your mouth to speak, because even a dog can wag its tail
when it passes you on the street." That sentence sounds simple but it made me become who I am.
At work, I used to say hello to the president of the company and ask him how our business was
doing. But I also spoke to the people in the caf? and people who cleaned the buildings, and asked them
how their children were doing, for every single person deserves to be accepted, no mater how humble
they are. I remember that after a few years of passing by the president, I had the courage to ask him for
a chat. We had a great talk. At some point, when I asked him how far he thought I could go in his
company, he said that if I wanted to, I could get all the way to his seat.
I"ve become vicepresident, but that hasn"t changed how I treat people. I speak to people wherever
I am. Speaking to people creates a pathway into their world, and it lets them come into mine, too.
The day you speak to someone who has his head down and then see him lift it up and smile, you will
realize how powerful it is just to open your mouth and say hello.
1. What is the best title of this passage?
A. The Power of Being Talkative
B. My Mother"s Influence on Me
C. The Power of Saying Hello
D. My Way to Become Vicepresident
2. It is implied in the first paragraph that ________.
A. the writer didn"t like Mr Lee
B. the writer didn"t say hello to Mr Lee on that occasion
C. the writer didn"t get along well with his mother
D.the writer"s mother stopped to say hello to everyone she met
3. What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A. The writer didn"t say hello to everyone in the company.
B. The writer made a very good impression on the president of the company.
C. The president of the company thought the writer was much better than him.
D. The president of the company actually didn"t like the writer at all.
4. For the writer, saying hello to others ________.
A. is a way to get what he wants
B. has become a habit and a way of life
C. is a way to show respect for his mother
D. is important in making him remembered
5. According to Paragraph 3, in the writer"s opinion, speaking to others can ________.
A. make our world much better
B. make people much happier every day
C. help people understand each other better
D. help people work much better |
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