题目
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It was the old lady"s eightieth birthday. She was sure Myra wouldn"t forgot her mother"s birthday,
even if she was busy. After all, eighty was a special birthday. Perhaps Myra might come. Even if Myra
did not come, she would send a present. The old lady was sure of that. Two spots of colour brightened
her cheeks. She was excited like a child.
Mrs. Morrison had brought a card and a bunch of flowers when she came to do the breakfast. Mrs.
Grant downstairs had made a cake. Johnnie, the little boy next door, was now up with her with a packet
of sweets.
"I guess you"ll get lots and lots of presents, " he said. "I did last week when I was six."
What would she like? A pair of slippers, perhaps. A blue new cardigan. Or a table lamp. Or a little
clock, with clear black numbers. So many lovely things.
She stood by the window, watching. The postman turned round the corner on his bicycle. Her heart
beat fast. Johnnie had seen him too and ran to the gate.
"Granny, granny, " Johnnie returned. "I"ve got your post!"
He gave her four envelopes. Three were from old friends. The fourth was in Myra"s writing.
"No parcel(包裹), Johnnie?"
"No, granny."
Almost reluctantly, she tore the fourth envelope open. Folded in the card was a check. Written on the
card was a message: Happy Birthday-Buy yourself something nice with the check, Myra and Harold.
The six-figure check fell to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. Slowly the old lady bent to pick it
up. Her present, her lovely present. With trembling fingers she tore it into little bits.
B. the friends sent the old lady many lovely presents by post
C. Myra was stopped by her husband from seeing her mother
D. the neighbours cared little about the old lady in daily life
B. happy
C. disappointed
D. impatient
B. The Check
C. The Birthday
D. The Daughter
B. she didn"t notice there were six figures on the check
C. she didn"t think the check was large enough for a present
D. she would prefer a present with love from her daughter
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试题【阅读理解。 It was the old lady"s eightieth birthday. She was sure Myra wouldn"t f】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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change in him. In fact, he didn"t even seem like the 1 person.
When I first knew Bill, back in 2 , he was one of the most carefree (无忧无虑) people I had
ever 3 . He was always ready to have a party. He thought 4 of going out for beer at three
o"clock in the morning or driving 50 miles to see an old 5 he really liked. Bill and I were in the same
class in college, and 6 was never dull when he was 7 . With him there was one wild 8 after
another. Sometimes I wonder how we 9 to study for our exams.
Last week I was in <<Houston>> on business and I ran into Bill in the bar at the hotel. 10 , I
wasn"t even sure it was 11 . Was this short-haired businessman really the same person? I wasn"t really
sure until I came near him but it indeed was Bill. Now he works for a bank. He 12 most of the
evening about his job, his new car and his house. How he had changed! Back when we were in college,
the 13 thing Bill cared about was possessions. Now they seemed to be his main 14 . Although I
have changed quite a bit myself, somehow, I never 15 Bill changing so much. My image of him 16
the one I had formed 17 the time when we were college students together.
I suppose it"s 18 to expect people to remain the same, especially 19 I have changed so much
myself. But I must say that I enjoyed the old Bill much more than the new Bill. Maybe he 20 the same
way about me.
| ( )1. A. proper ( )2. A. childhood ( )3. A. considered ( )4. A. nothing ( )5. A. man ( )6. A. learning ( )7. A. in ( )8. A. adventure ( )9. A. decided ( )10. A. First of al ( )11. A. that ( )12. A. thought ( )13. A. first ( )14. A. interest ( )15. A. forgot ( )16. A. remained ( )17. A. since ( )18. A. unnecessary ( )19. A. because ( )20. A. felt | B. same B. the army B. supposed B. much B. hospital B. life B. out B. mistake B. intended B. At first B. us B. talked B. last B. event B. minded B. reminded B. from B. foolish B. that B. acted | C. usual C. his thirties C. met C. most C. movie C. work C. away C. chance C. managed C. Now and then C. there C. argued C. next C. subject C. liked C. suggested C. at C. common C. how C. looked | D. right D. college D. expected D. none D. country D. fun D. around D. joke D. hoped D. All the time D. him D. spent D. only D. problem D. imagined D. became D. till D. unusually D. when D. discovered |
| 阅读理解 | |||
| A man was on the side of the road hitchhiking（搭便车）on a very dark night in the middle of a terrible rainstorm, with no cars on the road. The storm was so strong that the man could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly, he saw a car come towards him and stop. The man, without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door and only then did he realize that there was nobody behind the steering wheel（方向盘）! The car started to move very slowly. The man looked at the road and saw a curve （拐弯处） coming his way. Terrified, he started to pray, begging for his life. He had not come out of shock when, just before the car hit the curve, a hand suddenly appeared through the window and moved the wheel. The man, paralyzed with fear, watched how the hand appeared every time the car was drawing near a curve. Finally, although terrified, the man managed to open the door and jump out of the spooky car. Without looking back, the man ran through the storm all the way to the nearest town. In a state of complete horror, the man walked into a nearby bar and asked for two glasses of Scotch whisky. Then, still shaking with fright, he started telling everybody in the bar about the horrible experience he just went through in the spooky car. Everyone in the bar listened in silence and became frightened, with hair standing on end, when they realized the man was telling the truth because he was crying and he was certainly not drunk! About half an hour later, two other young men walked into the same bar and one said to the other, "Hey, there"s a stupid man who jumped into the car while we were pushing it!" | |||
| 1. When the car was first drawing near a curve, the man ________. | |||
| A. felt very curious B. was extremely frightened C. cried for help D. remained as calm as possible | |||
| 2. According to the passage, what made the man"s experience believable? | |||
A. His reasonable behavior. | |||
| 3. We can infer from the passage that ________. | |||
| A. it is unsafe for people to take a free ride B. the man was telling a lie to his listeners C. the car probably broke down on the way D. the two young men were familiar with the man | |||
| 完形填空 | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| I climbed the ladder, heard my dive announced, and began the moves that would push me into the air. Pushing off the diving board with my legs, I lifted my arms and shoulders back, and knew immediately I would be close to the board and might hit my hands. I tried to correct myself as I turned, spreading my hands wide apart. Then I heard a strange sound and my body lost control. Moments later I realized I had hit my head on the board. At the beginning, I felt embarrassed. I wanted to hide, to get out of the pool without anyone seeing me. Next I felt intense fear. Had I cut my head? Was I bleeding? Was there blood in the pool? Swimming to the side, I noticed many shocked faces. People were worried about my head; I was worried about something far more threatening. An official examined my head. In a hurry, I pushed him away, and everyone else who approached me. "Don"t touch me!" I felt like screaming. "Get away from me!" These were the trials (选拔赛) for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea. Until this dive, I had been ahead. But now, something else was more significant than winning. I might have endangered other divers" lives if I had spilled blood in the pool. For what I knew--- that few others knew - was that I was HIV-positive. According to my mother, my natural parents were Samoan (萨摩亚人) and only teenagers when I was born, so they gave me up for adoption. When I was only eighteen months old, I started gym classes. At ten, I explored doing gym exercises off the diving board at the pool. Because of my dark skin, kids at school called me names. My diving made me feel good about myself when my peers made me feel stupid. At sixteen, I knew I had a shot at the 1976 Olympics. Everyone was alarmed when I hit my head on the board in Seoul. Regardless, I made it to the finals. During my last dive in the finals, I enjoyed for the last time the quietness underwater and then swam to the side of the pool. The crowd cheered, and I knew I"d won-two gold medals. AIDS forced me to stop diving; I had to give up diving professionally after the Olympics. | |||
| 1. Immediately before he hit his head on the board, the writer ______. | |||
A. climbed the ladder | |||
| 2. The writer pushed away everyone who came near to him because ______. | |||
| A. he hated them B. he was HIV- positive and feared that others would be infected if they touched his bleeding head C. he felt embarrassed and wanted to hide without anyone seeing him D. he felt like screaming | |||
| 3. The writer"s natural parents put him up for adoption because ______. | |||
| A. they were too young to raise him B. they were too poor to raise him C. they didn"t love him D. they were Samoan | |||
| 4. According to the passage, the writer"s diving gave him the sense of being ______. | |||
| A. stupid B. strong C. successful D. lonely | |||
| 5. After he hit his head on the board at the trails, the writer ______. | |||
| A. practiced less B. was scared and gave up diving forever C. lost the chance to compete at the finals D. still got the chance to compete at the finals | |||
| 完形填空 | |||
| Mr. Glen is a millionaire. Five years ago, after returning from abroad to his motherland, he 1 up his small company. Speaking of success, Glen often tells us a story about his 2 expensive "school" fee. He always owes his success to it. At that time, Glen, who already got a Ph. D. degree, decided to return to the homeland, starting a company. Before 3 , he bought a Rolex watch with the 4 made through years of work after school and the scholarships. At the airport he had to accept the routine customs check. The watch on his wrist was also demanded to be 5 down for inspection. Glen knew that carrying the 6 goods out had to pay the tax. And he worried about paying 7 for his watch. So when he was checked, he told a lie that his watch was a worthless 8 . When he was 9 of his "smarts", immediately, 10 the presence of Glen, the officers hit the watch, which 11 nearly 100,000, into pieces on hearing Glen"s words. Glen was amazed, 12 he understood why, he was taken to the office to be 13 strictly. For many times of entry-exit 14 he knew that only those people in the "blacklist" would "enjoy" this special treatment. The officers looked out every thing carefully in the box, and warned him no matter 15 time of entry and exit he must accept the check and if 16 reusing and carrying fake and shoddy(劣质的) goods, he would be charged according to law! Suddenly, his face turned red, and he had nothing in mind after 17 the plane for long. After returning to the homeland, he often told the story to his family, and his employees, too. He said that this made a deep 18 on him, because the additional high "school" fee that he had ever paid made him realize the value of 19 , which he would 20 as the secret of his success forever. | |||