Carmen"s mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant her life
was in constant __1__.
Both the mother and the daughter knew that the chances were very __2__: finding a donor heart
that __3__ Maria"s blood type could take years. __4__, Carmen was determined to save her mother.
She kept __5__ hospitals all over the country.
Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble __6__ from one end of the room to the other.
Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a __7__ of the hospital, crying.
"Are you okay?" a man asked.
Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her __8__. This middleaged man was named Frank, whose
wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain
disease and wouldn"t __9__ it through the night. Suddenly, an idea came to Frank"s mind. He knew
Cheryl had always wanted to __10__ something from herself. Could her __11__ go to Carmen"s mother?
After reviewing the data, doctors __12__ Fank that his wife"s heart was by some miracle a perfect
__13__ for Carmen"s mother. They were able to __14__ the transplant.
That cold night, when Cheryl was __15__ dead, Frank came to knock at Maria"s door. She was
__16__ for Frank"s family as she had been doing every day recently. Though Maria had never met
Frank before, they both felt a strange __17__ as they hugged and cried. On New Year"s Eve, Carmen
attended Cheryl"s __18__ with Frank"s family, who were singing their favorite song"My heart will go on".
One day later, on New Year"s Day, Maria __19__ with Cheryl"s heart. Yes, Cheryl"s loving heart would
go on, for it was __20__ in another loving mother"s chest. |
( )1. A. change
( )2. A. small
( )3. A. matched
( )4. A. Certainly
( )5. A. finding
( )6. A. rolling
( )7. A. corner
( )8. A. mother
( )9. A. put
( )10. A.save
( )11. A.heart
( )12. A.informed
( )13. A.copy
( )14. A.give up
( )15. A.noticed
( )16. A.praying
( )17. A.belief
( )18. A.funeral
( )19. A.passed away
( )20. A.active | B. danger
B. distant
B. replaced
B. Otherwise
B. phoning
B. running
B. bed
B. story
B. support
B. recycle
B. brain
B. warned
B. fit
B. carry out
B. predicted
B. begging
B. love
B. operation
B. woke up
B. alive | C. disorder
C. hard
C. controlled
C. However
C. touring
C. walking
C. man
C. error
C. pass
C. donate
C. husband
C. celebrated
C. variation
C. search after
C. found
C. decorating
C. bond
C. performance
C. left behind
C. necessary | D. pain
D. precious
D. cooperated
D. So
D. interrupting
D. jumping
D. nurse
D. dream
D. make
D. separate
D. spirit
D. reminded
D. baby
D. put off
D. declared
D. singing
D. relief
D. anniversary
D. dressed up
D. changeable |
| 1-5: BAACB 6-10: CABDC 11-15: AABBD 16-20: ACABB |
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| 阅读理解。 | Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic!
Enthusiastic will take you further than any amount of experience."
How right they were! Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into
opportunity and strangers into friends.
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote
Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is
the inner voice that whispers, " I can do it! When others shout, "No, you can"t."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983
Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn"t let up on her experiments. Work was
such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
Author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do
what we love as the fulltime career, we can treat it as a part-time interest, like the head of state who
paints, the nun who runs marathons, and the official who handcrafts furniture.
We can"t afford to waste tears on "might-have-bees" we need to turn the tears into sweat as we go
after "what can be".
We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with our sense-finding pleasure in the fragrance of
a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old and the enchanging, beauty of a rainbow. It
is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lift in our steps and smoothes the wrinkles
from our souls. | | 1. What can be the best title of this passage? | A. Find pleasure in what you are doing
B. Wake up your life
C. To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul
D. No pains, no gains. | | 2.What conclusion does the writer draw though the experience of finding a job? | A. enthusiasm will take your further than any amount experience.
B Years wrinkle the skin, but no give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
C. We can"t afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens"
D. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers in to friends. | | 3. which of the following statements is wrong according to the passage? | A. No one can achieve great success without enthusiasm.
B. Enthusiasm will take a person further than any amount of his experience.
C. We should make great efforts to do the thing that can be done instead of regretting for the past.
D Barbara McClintock was generally accepted many years before she won the Nobel Prize. | | 4. Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase "let up"? | A. continue
B. make less effort
C. make great effort
D. stop | | 5. We can learn from the last paragraph that it is ____that makes our life meaningful? | A. love of garden.
B. love of drawing pictures with the crayon of a six-year old child
C. love of life
D. love of beautiful rainbow | | 完形填空 | One day, a poor boy Howard Kelly who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods
from door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to __1__ for a
meal at the next house.
However, he lost his nerve __2__ a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he
asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked __3__, so she brought him a large glass of milk. He
drank it __4__, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"
"You don"t owe me anything, " she __5__. "Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a __6__."
He said, "Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only
felt __7__ stronger, but it also increased his faith in God and human race. He was about to give up a nd
quit before this point.
Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her
to a big city, where specialists can be called __8__ to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now
__9__, was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a
strange light 10 his eyes. Immediately, he 11 and went down through the hospital hall into her
room.
12 in his doctor"s gown he went in to see her. He 13 her at once. He went back to the
consultation room and 14 to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave 15 attention
to her case.
After a long 16 the battle was won. Dr. Kelly 17 the business office to pass the final bill to him
for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She
was afraid to open it because she was 18 that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she
looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her 19 . She read these words.
"Paid in full with a glass of milk.
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly
Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she 20 silently. "Thank you, God. Your love has spread through
human hearts and hands." | ( )1. A. call
( )2. A. while
( )3. A. thirsty
( )4. A. slowly
( )5. A. shook
( )6. A. reward
( )7. A. physically
( )8. A. up
( )9. A. poor
( )10. A. fixed
( )11. A. rose
( )12. A. Dressing
( )13. A. recognized
( )14. A. desired
( )15. A. special
( )16. A. decision
( )17. A. compressed
( )18. A. negative
( )19. A. presentation
( )20. A. praised | B. make
B. when
B. lazy
B. unexpectedly
B. announced
B. kindness
B. mentally
B. for
B. famous
B. concentrated
B. raised
B. Having
B. knew
B. declared
B. ordinary
B. preparation
B. requested
B. uncertain
B. preference
B. pretended | C. beg
C. though
C. tired
C. steadily
C. replied
C. hand
C. normally
C. off
C. cruel
C. filled
C. got
C. Putting
C. spared
C. determined
C. normal
C. struggle
C. confused
C. positive
C. attention
C. pressed | D. prepare
D. unless
D. hungry
D. sadly
D. doubted
D. value
D. properly
D. in
D. vivid
D. consulted
D. come
D. Dressed
D. regained
D. declined
D. usual
D. debate
D. ordered
D. obvious
D. arrangement
D. prayed | | 完形填空 | In my dual (双重的) profession__1__an educator and health care provider, I have worked with
many children infected with HIV. They have taught me so many things, but I have especially learned
that great__2__can be found in the smallest individuals. Let me tell you about Tyler.
Tyler was__3__infected with HIV； his mother was also infected. From the very beginning of his
life, he was dependent on medications to__4__him to survive. When he was five, he had a tube
inserted in a vein(静脉) in his chest. At times, he also needed extra oxygen to support his__5__.
Tyler wasn"t__6__to give up one single moment of his childhood to this deadly disease. It was not
__7__to find him playing and racing around his backyard, wearing his medicineloaded backpack and
__8__his tank of oxygen behind him in his little wagon(小手推车). All of us who knew Tyler were
impressed by his pure__9__in being alive and the energy it gave him. Tyler"s mom often 10 him by
telling him that he moved so 11 that she needed to dress him in red. That way, when she peered
through the window to check on him playing in the yard, she could quickly 12 him.
This deadly disease eventually 13 down Tyler. He grew quite ill and, unfortunately, 14 did his
HIVinfected mother. When it became 15 that he wasn"t going to survive, Tyler"s mom talked to him
about 16 . She comforted him by telling Tyler that she was dying too, and that she would be with him
soon in heaven.
A few days before his death, Tyler 17 to me to come to his hospital bed and 18 , "I might die
soon. I"m not 19 . When I die, please dress me in 20 . Mom promised she"s coming to heaven,
too. I"ll be playing when she gets there, and I want to make sure she can find me." | ( )1. A. in
( )2. A. pleasure
( )3. A. seriously
( )4. A. cause
( )5. A. breathing
( )6. A. happy
( )7. A. common
( )8. A. dragging
( )9. A. character
( )10. A. comforted
( )11. A. slowly
( )12. A. know
( )13. A. tore
( )14. A. neither
( )15. A. apparent
( )16. A. life
( )17. A. waved
( )18. A. whispered
( )19. A. excited
( )20. A. red | B. for
B. pain
B. born
B. enable
B. living
B. willing
B. unusual
B. carrying
B. joy
B. scolded
B. happily
B. spot
B. broke
B. so
B. hopeless
B. dream
B. said
B. shouted
B. surprised
B. white | C. as
C. sorrow
C. unlucky
C. make
C. running
C. daring
C. surprised
C. pushing
C. moment
C. teased
C. quickly
C. stop
C. wore
C. such
C. sure
C. future
C. signed
C. cried
C. scared
C. bright | D. on
D. courage
D. disappointingly
D. lead
D. walking
D. discouraged
D. ordinary
D. taking
D. excitement
D. praised
D. fast
D. observe
D. kicked
D. nor
D. terrible
D. death
D. explained
D. spoke
D. sad
D. beauty | | 阅读理解。 | I closed my eyes as tight as they could go.
The lights went off, and I unbolted the door of memory. I remember driving home by myself for
the first time. I looked into the future and imagined that I was walking on the stage to receive my college
diploma. I looked at the bleachers packed with families and friends. I saw my parents smile with pride,
and I looked to their side for Katie and Kevin"s approval. But Katie, my elder sister, was not there. I
cou7ld hold back my tears.
I suddenly opened my eyes and returned to reality. I remember being called out of Spanish class in
the tenth grade and taken to the hospital to see Katie, who was dying of cancer. Katie"s room was
exactly the way she had left it on a Friday night in September, 1993,when she was got into the ambulance. She died just a few weeks in her freshman year at the University of Miami.
When Katie was six years old, she declared herself old enough to take care of her little sister and
brother, because she wanted to lighten our mother"s burden. Katie would always do up my hair and
go shopping with me. She would always tutor Kevin and buy him ice cream as a reward for his hard
work. Clearly, Katie was more than our elder sister.
A diploma is placed in my hand . "I do !" I cry. Katie said she loved me and hugged me tight on a
September afternoon in 1993. just before I step up my college auditorium stage, I look at the spectators
in the bleachers and see mother, father and Kevin. Katie is sitting right beside them , cheering me on. | | 1. What does the underlined word"unbolted mean? | A. Opened
B. Closed
C. Held
D. Ruined | | 2. When the author recalled her elder sister, she was most probably__. | A driving back to her home
B taking a rest in her bedroom
C. looking at her college diploma
D. driving for her college graduation | | 3. We can learn from the passage that the author"s sister died___. | A. mot long after she entered university
B. on a Friday night in September, 1993
C. when the author was about to finish high school
D. when the author was studying in the classroom | | 4. What can we know from the passage? | A.The author didn"t get enough care from her parents.
B. The author feels guilty because she can"t repay Katie.
C. Katie acted as the author"s mother as well as her elder sister.
D. There are four members in the author"s family including Katie | | 5. In the last paragraph the author intends to ___? | A tell us she finally graduated from college
B share with us her joy of getting the diploma
C. remember the special date of a September afternoon in 1993.
D. express her deep feeling of missing and appreciating Katie. | | 阅读理解 | As Mrs Thompson stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the
children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same.
But that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named
Teddy Stoddard.Mrs Thompson noticed that he didn"t play well with the other children, that his clothes
were messy and that he constantly needed a bath.And Teddy could be unpleasant. It got to the point
where Mrs Thompson would actually take delight in marking his papers with a broad red pen, making
bold Xs and then putting a big "F" at the top of his papers.
However, when she reviewed his file, she got a surprise.
Teddy"s first grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is a bright child with a ready laugh. He does his work
neatly and has good manners… He is joy to be around."
His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, well liked by his classmates,
but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle."
His third grade teacher wrote."His mother"s death has been hard on him.He tries to do his best but
his father doesn"t show much interest and his home life will soon affect him if some steps aren"t taken."
Teddy"s fourth grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is withdrawn and doesn"t show much interest in study.
He doesn"t have many friends and sometimes sleeps in class."
Now, Mrs Thompson was ashamed of herself and felt worse when her students brought her
beautifully wrapped Christmas presents.Teddy"s present, however, was clumsily wrapped in rough
brown grocery paper.Taking her time she opened it to reveal Teddy"s gifts, a shine stone bracelet with
stones missing and a quarter full perfume bottle.How the children laugh!"What a pretty bracelet! Mm,
lovely perfume! Perfect on my wrist." The children were silent.
Alone together, after school, Teddy told Mrs Thompson, "Today you smiled just like my Mom
used to."His teacher cried all right, and from that day, she stopped teaching reading, writing, and
arithmetic and began to teach children instead.
1. What is the best title of this text?
A. A Student"s Best Friend
B. How To Be a Good Student
C. The Story of a Good Teacher
D. A Teacher"s Lesson
2. Which of the following is true about Teddy?
A. He only bathed once a week.
B. He had no friends at school.
C. His clothes were usually untidy.
D. He was the worst student in the class.
3. How did Teddy"s behavior change between Grades 1 and 4?
A. He became better at making friends.
B. He became closer to his friends.
C. He paid less attention to school.
D. He stopped doing his homework.
4. Why did Mrs Thompson feel ashamed after she read Teddy"s file?
A. She didn"t treat Teddy fairly at first.
B. She was being unpleasant to Teddy.
C. She took delight in failing Teddy in the exam.
D. She disliked Teddy for all his problems. |
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