题目
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In the dining room of my grandfather"s house stood a heavy grandfather"s clock.Meals in the dining
room were a __1__for our four generations to become one.The grandfather"s clock always stood like a
trusted old family friend,__2__us playing jokes and telling stories,which was already a __3__of our life.
As a child,the old clock interested me.I watched and listened to it during __4__.I was surprised how at __5__times of the day,the clock would strike three times,six times or more,with a wonderful great __6__
that echoed(回音)throughout the house.The clock chimed year after year,a part of my __7__,a part of my heart.
Even more __8__to me was my grandfather"s special action each day.He carefully __9__the clock with a special key each day.The key was magic to me.It __10__our family"s magnificent clock ticking and
__11__all year round.
After my beloved grandfather died,it was several days after the __12__before I remembered the
clock!"Mama!The clock has wound down!"The __13__washed my cheeks when I entered the dining
room.The clock stood hopelessly as serious and __14__as the funeral ceremony had been.Not quite as
magnificent without my grandfather"s __15__touch.I couldn"t bear looking at it.
Years later,it worked again.In the movement of the hands of the clock,my grandfather lived again.
( )2. A.seeing
( )3. A.start
( )4. A.stories
( )5. A.busy
( )6. A.shock
( )7. A.memories
( )8. A.comfortable
( )9. A.opened
( )10. A.made
( )11. A.singing
( )12. A.funeral
( )13. A.tears
( )14. A.attractive
( )15. A.brave
B. hearing
B. part
B. jokes
B. urgent
B. sound
B. minds
B. hopeful
B. wound
B. controlled
B. standing
B. death
B. sweats
B. quiet
B. special
C. watching
C. signal
C. periods
C. happy
C. song
C. comfort
C. wonderful
C. turned
C. kept
C. knocking
C. generation
C. hair
C. noisy
C. kind
D. looking
D. mark
D. meals
D. different
D. music
D. information
D. skillful
D. started
D. fixed
D. striking
D. ceremony
D. water
D. magnificent
D. strong
答案
核心考点
举一反三
limits nor her attitude __1__ me, a 9yearold Jewish girl growing up in Berlin in the 1950s.I needed those
visits.The books were filled with stories in which, however __2__ things seemed, everything __3__ well
in the end, __4__ justice, bravery, and wisdom-a striking contrast to my everyday experiences.
Thirty years later, I, a recent immigrant to the US with a daughter aged 13, stood in front of another librarian.This librarian was __5__.
"What did she say?"I asked my daughter, who already knew a little English and often __6__ as my
interpreter.
"She said "Can I help you?""
"Ask if they have any books in German, "I requested.
"No, they don"t."translated my daughter.
While hunting for a job, I was told that the library needed people to __7__ books.The interview was
short-the job didn"t require much English, just a __8__ of the alphabet.I started the next day.Every day, I
handled hundreds of books whose meaning was __9__ from me, mentally dividing them by size and color.
One day, while shelving, I found English for Beginners and began studying it on my own.Step by step
English letters started forming words I could __10__, words combined into phrases, and-oh, __11__!-I
was reading.It was a slow process, supported by dictionaries and __12__ by tears, but it was progress.
Afterwards I got promoted to the front desk-__13__ books in and out and answering simple questions.
Every day I receive dozens of people.Sometimes I spot new immigrants.They come from all over the
world, so they look different, but the hesitant expression on their faces and their __14__ manners are
similar.My heart goes out to them, for they are people like me.I fully understand the __15__ roads on
which they have stepped."They"ve come to the right place, "I think to myself.Then I smile and say-just the
way a librarian said to me a long time ago-"Can I help you?"
| ( )1. A. surprised ( )2. A. attractive ( )3. A. went out ( )4. A. rewarding ( )5. A. chatting ( )6. A. introduced ( )7. A. shelve ( )8. A. list ( )9. A. vague ( )10. A. recognize ( )11. A. challenge ( )12. A. inspired ( )13. A. checking ( )14. A. rough ( )15. A. difficult | B. comforted B. dull B. turned out B. affecting B. staring B. instructed B. register B. knowledge B. simple B. realize B. wonder B. accompanied B. classifying B. elegant B. smooth | C. puzzled C. terrible C. ended in C. deserving C. reading C. guided C. record C. line C. hidden C. define C. opportunity C. blocked C. borrowing C. polite C. endless | D. shocked D. strange D. came up D. denying D. smiling D. served D. mark D. competence D. clear D. interpret D. news D. excited D. lending D. shy D. straight | ||||
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| My dad loved pennies, especially those with the elegant stalk(茎) of wheat curving around each side of the ONE CENT on the back. Those were the pennies he grew up with during the Depression(大萧条). As a kid, I would go for walks with Dad, spying coins along the way-a penny here, a dime(一角硬币) there. Whenever I picked up a penny, he"d ask, "Is it a wheat?" It always thrilled him when we found one of t hose special coins produced between 1909 and 1958, the year of my birth. One gray Sunday morning in winter, not long after my father"s death in 2002, I was walking down Fifth Avenue, feeling bereft. I found myself in front of the church where Dad once worked. I was warmly shown in and led to a seat. Hearing Dad"s favorite "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God", I burst into tears. We"d sung that at his funeral. After the service, I shook the pastor"s(牧师) hand and stepped onto the sidewalk-and there was a penny. I bent to pick it up, turned it over, and sure enough, it was a wheat. A 1944, a year my father was serving on a ship in the South Pacific. That_started_it. Suddenly wheat pennies began turning up on the sidewalks of New York everywhere. I got most of the important years: his birth year, my mom"s birth year, the year he graduated from college, the year he met my mom, the year they got married, the year my sister was born. But alas, no 1958 wheat penny-my year, the last year they were made. The next Sunday, after the service, I was walking up Fifth Avenue and spotted a penny in the middle of a crossing. Oh, no, it was a busy street；cabs were speeding by-should I risk it? I just had to get it. A wheat! But the penny was worn, and I couldn"t read the date. On arriving home, I took out my glasses and took it to the light. There was my birthday! I found 21 wheat pennies on the streets of Manhattan in the year after my father died, and I don"t think that"s a coincidence. 1. The writer"s father loved pennies with wheat because ________. A. when he first saw it, he began to love it B. when he saw the wheat, he thought of his time during the Depression C. when he was young, he had a lot of pennies with wheat D. when he was a child, he never got a coin with wheat 2. The underlined word "bereft"(in Para.3) means ________. A. alone B. disappointed C. upset D. discouraged 3. Which of the following statements about the author is NOT true? A. He was born in 1958. B. He went to church because of his father. C. He once worked in a church. D. He knew the church well. 4. The underlined sentence (in Para.5) suggests ________. A. the author"s father began to serve on a ship B. the author picked up many wheat pennies since then C. the author began to love wheat pennies since then D. the author started to look for wheat pennies with 1958 5. The best title for the passage would probably be ________. A. Pennies from Heaven B. My father"s life story C. My father"s hobby D. Living in New York | |||||||
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| Give Love Wings There was once a lonely girl who longed so much for love.One day while she was walking in the woods. , she __1__ two starving birds.She took them home and put them in a small __2__.She cared for them with __3__ and the birds grew strong.Every morning they __4__ her with a wonderful song.The girl felt great love for the birds. One day the girl left the door to the cage __5__.The larger and stronger of the two birds flew from the cage.The girl was so __6__ that he would fly away.As he flew close. , she __7__ him wildly.Her heart felt glad at her __8__ in catching him.Suddenly she felt the bird __9__ limp(四肢无力的)．She opened her hand and stared in __10__ at the dead bird.Her desperate love had killed him. She noticed the other bird moving back and forth on the __11__ of the cage.She could feel his great need for __12__.He needed to fly into the blue clear sky.She lifted him from the cage and threw him __13__ into the air.The bird circled once. , twice. , three times. The girl watched __14__ at the bird"s enjoyment.Her heart was no longer concerned with her loss.She wanted the bird to be happy.Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder.It sang the sweetest __15__ that she had ever heard. The fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tight.The best way to keep love is to give it wings! | |||||||
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