passed by and we heard one of them say, "Never seen that dog around here before."
We looked down the hill and saw an old black dog stumbling(蹒跚) painfully up the hill. We
bent down, talked gently to the dog and patted it. I checked and there was a collar. There was a
phone number on the collar, but no one answered.
The dog was painfully thin. It didn"t have many teeth left and, well, it just seemed done.
Julie ran home to get some of our dog"s food while I tried to encourage the dog to come along with
me. Julie got home and back again when I was only half way there. So, we sat down on the sidewalk
while our new friend made short work of the food.
Eventually we got her home. We gave her a blanket, more food, kept her warm and wondered
what to do next.
After trying for many times we got a response from the number. A lady came around with a bunch
of flowers for us. She explained that Tara had been her father"s dog. She was very old and should
probably be put to sleep, but the lady just couldn"t bring herself to do it. So, Tara was safely returned
home.
Here is the truth of the story:
Actually Julie and I were out that morning because I was leaving. She was trying to persuade me
to come back, but I wasn"t hearing anything that made that sound likely.
I was about to turn and go when an old, worn out dog walked between us and collapsed. Suddenly
we had something more important than our problem to worry about. There was a creature in need
right before us and we had to work together to help it.
We did help it. And here am I writing the story in my own home, in my own family.
In the song "Love Is Not a Fight" Warren Barfield talks about marriage. At one point he sings, "And
if we try to leave, may God send angels to guard the door."
Sometimes angels come disguised (伪装) as dogs.
B. The old black dog was sick and weak and couldn"t walk.
C. After finding the dog, the writer phoned its owners.
D. Most of the dog"s teeth had been pulled out by someone.
B. the writer had his own pet dog
C. the dog didn"t go with the writer
D. the dog didn"t eat any of the food
B. took good care of the dog
C. found out that its owner was a lady
D. found it hard to get to sleep
B. Julie disagreed with the writer"s travel on business
C. an old and worn out dog appeared in front of them
D. the couple had some trouble with their marriage
B. An Angel Dog.
C. Saving the Dog.
D. A Famous Song.
As she waited at the edge of the ice for her music to start, Peggy took a quick look at her father
standing nearby with a group of parents and teachers. He smiled at her. Then she __1 _out at the
audience, __2_to see her mother. These two, Alvert and Doris Fleming, had _3_ all the way from
California more than 2,000 miles away, to see their _4_ compete in this sports meet in Cleveland,
Ohio.
The music _ 5_ and Peggy moved onto the ice, letting the music _6_ her along into her turns, and
she began skating with much _7_ in herself. The cold fear she always had in the _8_ seconds before
skating onto the ice was _9 . She was feeling the movement of the _10_and letting it carry her. She
skated easily, 11_ did some jumps, a final turn and her performance was _12 .
The crowd loved it and cheered _13_ she skated off the ice. "Nice job," said one of the other _14_.
It was the remark that _15_ came after a free-skating performance. But what would the _16_ say ?
Standing beside her father, Peggy _17_ for the scoring to be finished. On all sides were other young
skaters, some waiting _18_alone, others with a parent. Shortly before 10 o"clock the results were _19 .
The newUni-ted States Women"s Skating Champion was Peggy forming of Padena, _20 !
( )2.A. tried
( )3.A. flown
( )4.A. friend
( )5.A. started
( )6.A. allow
( )7.A. thought
( )8.A. last
( )9.A. lost
( )10. A. ice
( )11. A. so
( )12. A. satisfied
( )13. A. becaus
( )14. A. skater
( )15. A. seldom
( )16. A. player
( )17. A. looked
( )18. A. comfortably
( )19. A. cried out
( )20. A. California
B. hoped
B. driven
B. children
B. played
B. set out
B. belief
B. following
B. present
B. fear
B. or
B. finished
B. until
B. parents
B. always
B. audience
B. wished
B. anxiously
B. let out
B. Cleveland
C. hoping
C. hoped
C. son
C. develop
C. carry
C. success
C. recent
C. string
C. music
C. before
C. unsatisfactory
C. as
C. judges
C. again
C. parents
C. waited
C. hurriedly
C. declared
C. Ohio
D. looking forward
D. prepared
D. daughter
D. sang
D. support
D. design
D. past
D. gone
D. audience
D. then
D. welcome
D. before
D. audiences
D. hardly
D. judges
D. asked
D. happily
D. announced
D. England
One day, I happened to meet an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be astonished. Gently shaking his head,
shrugging his shoulders, he said, "You don"t say!" "You don"t say!" I was puzzled. I thought, perhaps this is not an appropriate topic (适当的话题). "Well, I"d better change the topic." So I said to him. "Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? By the way, have you ever been there?" "Certainly, everyone back home
will laugh at me if I leave China without seeing it. It was magnificent." He was deep in thought when I
began to talk like a tourist guide. "The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. We are very proud
of it." Soon I was interrupted again by his words:"You don"t say!" I couldn"t help asking, "Why do you ask me not to talk about it?" "Well, I didn"t request you to do so, " he answered, greatly surprised. I said, "
Didn"t you say" you don"t say?" Hearing this, the Englishman laughed to tears. He began to explain, "You
don"t say" actually means "really!" It is an expression of surprise. Perhaps you don"t pay attention to English
idioms." Only then did I know I had made a fool of myself. Since then I have been more careful with
idiomatic expressions. Remember: what the English teachers said is always right to us students.
B. I was not careful with English idioms
C. my teacher didn"t emphasize the importance of them
D. I had no interest in them
A. he was not interested in the topic
B. he was only interested in the Great Wall
C. I had talked too much
D. I had to stop talking
B. important
C. terrible
D. unlucky
B. The Englishman wanted to see the Great Wall after I talked about it.
C. The Englishman wanted me to act as his guide.
D. The Englishman visited the Great Wall and thought it worth visiting.
B. the Englishman became a real fool.
C. I felt very silly
D. I became more carefully in everything
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wanted to find out whether they deserved his help.
In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed 3 very large stone. Then he 4 (hide)
himself behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow.
"Who put this stone in the centre of the road?" said the old man,but he did not try to remove the
stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued 5 his way. Another
man came along and did the same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained
about the stone but not tried to remove 6 . Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He
saw the stone, 7 (say) to himself: "The night 8 (be) very dark. Some neighbors will come along
later in the dark and will fall against the stone."
Then he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his 9 (strong) to move it,only
10 (find) a bag of money under the stone. Imagine how surprised he was!
Nikki spent a very small amount of time with her mum and sister when she was about 6 years old, but
soon after contact stopped when communication broke down between her parents.
She never felt she wanted to find her family while she was growing up. But now with a husband and
a son, she decided it was the right time.
Nikki didn"t know where to start, but her husband"s mum had used 192. com for finding people
before and recommended it to her. With the help of her son, she started by searching for her sister"s
full name on the electoral roll (选民登记册) without a location, because she had no idea where she
lived, even her date of birth. From that one search, the site returned two results listed in the area they
used to live.
Nikki decided to call the first number. To her absolute surprise, it was her long lost sister! So after
20 years, it was one phone call that helped her contact her sister! Her sister then passed her number
on to her mother, who called Nikki straight away, and it was like they had never been apart.
Her mum was so glad to find out Nikki was well that they arranged to meet everyone that Saturday
(3 days after the phone call) where she was reunited with her sister and met her two nephews for the
first time. Nikki also found out she had a half (同父异母的) sister and brother.
When talking about the reunion, Nikki said, "192.com made finding my long lost family very easy.
I was not on any social networking sites before and surprisingly neither was my sister or mum, so we
would never have found each other that way."
Nikki will be spending her first Christmas tighter with the other side of her family this year.
B. Her birthday.
C. Her name.
D. Her telephone number.
B. Nikki is about 26 years old now
C. Nikki"s sister lives with her mum together
D. Nikki dialed another phone number to contact her mum
B. Her sister has not got married so far.
C. Her mum got birth to four children in all.
D. She got in touch with her mum on Monday.
B. 192.com
C. her son
D. her mother-in-law
B. a wonderful Christmas
C. how important the electoral roll is
D. a family reunion thanks to 192.com
and angry way, "Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man" nose from a Roman to pug." "It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one," said the tall man, "you"ve been under arrest for
ten minutes. Silky Bob. Chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and phones us she wants to
have a word with you. Going quietly, are you? That"s sensible. Now before we go to the station here"s a
note I was asked to hand you. You may read it here at the window. It"s from Patrolman Wells.?" The man from the West opened the little piece of paper handed him. His hand was steady when he began to read,
but it trembled a little by the time he finished. The note was rather short. Bob: I was at the right place on
time. When you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face wanted in Chicago. Somehow I
couldn"t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man (便衣) to do the job.
B. in New York
C. in his hometown
D. somewhere else
tall man ____.
B. had a different nose from his friend"s
C. was his another old friend
D. said "Chicago wants to talk with you.?"
B. arm in arm
C. face to face
D. both A and B
B. got another man to help him when necessary
C. had an appointment with Bob 20 years ago
D. had something else to do and couldn"t come himself
- 1【题文】已知全集,集合,则
- 2如果一个精原细胞核的DNA分子都被15N标记,如只供给该精原细胞含14N的原料,则其减数分裂产生的四个精子中,含有15N
- 3中小学生的意外危险主要集中在校外的意外伤害,如交通事故、溺水等六个方面。为此,青少年应 ( )①注意外出的安全事项
- 4下列说法错误的是( )A.降水概率为100%,表示肯定有雨B.污染指数小,对人体的健康有害C.世界第一张天气图的诞生,
- 5如下图,a、b是石墨电极,通电一段时间后,a极附近溶液显红色。下列说法不正确的是[ ]A. X极是电源负极,Y极
- 6电流通过家用带照明灯的电扇,在1s内产生光能85J,动能90J,则在这1s内电流做的功为( )A.85JB.90JC.
- 7以下成为组织培养条件的是①CO2 ②有机物 ③生长素 ④细胞分裂素 ⑤水 ⑥矿质元素[ ]A.①③⑤⑥B.②③⑤
- 8下表是《改革开放30年流动农民工统计表》,表中数字所反映的这一现象A.与国家政策密切相关B.由于人口快速增长,农村人多地
- 9十一届全国人大代表共有2987名,他们职业不同、经历各异,来自各个民族、各条战线,既有德高望重、经验丰富的老代表,也有朝
- 10如图,梯形ABCD中,AD∥BC,EF是梯形的中位线,对角线AC交EF于G,若BC=10cm,EF=8cm,则GF的长等
- 1已知U为全集,集合P∩Q,则下列各式中不成立的是 [ ]A.P∩Q=P B.P∪Q=Q C.P∩(CUQ)
- 2生于忧患,死于安乐《孟子》 舜发于畎亩之中,傅说举于版筑之间,胶鬲举于鱼盐之中,管夷吾举于士,孙叔敖举于海,
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- 42011年9月29日,我国自主研制的天宫一号目标飞行器成功发射,我国向空间站时代迈出了坚实的一步。胡锦涛主席指出,这是中
- 5远古时代的人获取食物的最重要方式,就是____和____。在此过程中就已经涉及了有关生物的____、____和行为的基本
- 6为了提高农作物的产量,应该[ ]A.使农田中的农作物尽可能密集B.使农田中的农作物互不遮挡,充分利用阳光C.种植
- 7While Jennifer was at home taking an online exam for her bus
- 8中、高纬度地区东西走向山脉的南北两侧,由于光照时间长短不同,出现了明显的温度差异,即阳坡温度高于阴坡。读中纬度某内陆地区
- 9A、B、C三物块质量分别为M、m和m0,作如右图所示的连接,绳子不可伸长,且绳子和滑轮的质量、绳子和滑轮的摩擦均可不计,
- 10There are two roads and either to the station