题目
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I was born disabled. A difficult birth, feet first, my head stuck.By my first birthday, I couldn"t stand or
walk.
When I was three, the doctor told dad I had cerebral palsy (脑瘫).A loss of oxygen to my brain had
destroyed brain signals to the right side of my body.
But no son of my dad" s was going to be disabled. Every morning before breakfast and every evening
before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floor to exercise my right leg. The muscles were shrunk
and twisted together. Back and forth up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles into shape.
But my dad" s exercise of passion didn"t stop there. For my 13th birthday, he threw me a special party. When everybody was gone, he brought me to open a large box, it was a-set of boxing gloves. We put
them on. My dad kept on beating me mercilessly. Each time I tried to get up, leather kissed my nose,
eyes and jaw. I "begged him to stop. He said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world.
That same year, I was the only kid in my neighborhood that wasn"t picked for Little League. Two
weeks later. Dad started the Shedd Park Minor League, and every kid played. Dad coached us and
made me a pitcher (棒球投手).
The power of my dad" s love guaranteed I walked and more. In high school, I became a football star.
In 1997, a brain surgeon in San Jose told me I didn"t t have cerebral palsy after all. He explained how and where the doctor" s forceps (镊子) at birth had damaged my brain.
My dad never knew the whole truth since he passed away years ago. But all that counts is the bottom
line. After all his madness, on this Father" s Day, like every Father" s Day, I" m no longer disabled.
B. The doctor"s forceps.
C. An accident in a game.
D. Shrunken and twisted muscles.
B. The author achieved a lot thanks to his father" s love.
C. The author became a baseball star with the help of his father.
D. The author doesn"t think his father should be so strict with him.
B. believed his son was a normal child
C. blamed the doctors for his son" s disability
D. couldn"t accept the truth that his son was disabled
B. encourage disabled children
C. show the difficulty the disabled face
D. give advice to the parents of disabled children
答案
核心考点
举一反三
A man had a little daughter-an only and much-loved child. He lived for her-she was his whole 1 . He
was so happy to hear his girl"s voice that he hardly 2 what he would do 3 her. But unfortunately one
day, his daughter became seriously ill. He was very 4 . He tried all he could to 5 her.
At last, his 6 proved useless and the child passed away. The father became a bitter recluse (隐士)
after that, 7 himself away from his friends and refusing every activity that might 8 him back to his
normal self. But one night he had a dream.
He was in heaven, seeing a group of little child angels. They were dressed in white and 9 in a line
passing by the Great White Throne. Every angel 10 a candle. He noticed that all the candles were bright
except one. Then he found that the child with the 11 candle was his own little daughter. 12 to her, he
held her in his 13 , hugged her gently, and then asked, "Why is it, darling, that your candle 14 is unlighted?" His daughter said, "Daddy, they often relight it, but your 15 always put it out." Just then he 16 .
The lesson was very clear, and its 17 were immediate. From that hour on he was not a recluse, but
socialized (交际)freely and 18 with his former friends and colleagues. No longer would his darling"s
candle be put out by his 19 tears.
We can"t avoid having a sad 20 during lifetime, but we should remember not to let our beloved
person"s candle off.
( )1. A. heart ( )2. A. decided ( )3. A. without ( )4. A. angry ( )5. A. help ( )6. A. efforts ( )7. A. leaving ( )8. A. put ( )9. A. wandering ( )10. A. carried ( )11. A. little ( )12. A. Smiling ( )13. A. hands ( )14. A. badly ( )15. A. tears ( )16. A. got up ( )17. A. effects ( )18. A. disappointedly ( )19. A. kind ( )20. A. aspect | B. life B. regretted B. by B. worried B. persuade B. words B. changing B. fetch B. marching B. picked B. beautiful B. Talking B. arms B. alone B. dreams B. turned around B. plans B. gladly B. noisy B. spirit | C. faith C. concluded C. through C. calm C. save C. care C. dividing C. hold C. speeding C. packed C. dark C. Rushing C. breast C. instead C. hopes C. went back C. aims C. excitedly C. happy C. feeling | D. mood D. imagined D. over D. satisfied D. serve D. strength D. shutting D. bring D. travelling D. delivered D. bright D. Jumping D. face D. above D. complaints D. woke up D. wishes D. hurriedly D. useless D. behavior | ||||||||||||||
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"Dr. Papaderos, what is the meaning of life?" The usual laughter followed, and people stirred to go. Papaderos held up his hand and stilled the room and looked at me for a long time, asking with his eyes if I was serious and seeing from my eyes that I was. "I will answer your question." Taking his wallet out of his hip pocket, he fished into a leather billfold and brought out a very small round mirror, about the size of a quarter. And what he said went like this: "When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a remote village. One day, on the road, I found the broken pieces of a mirror. A German motorcycle had been wrecked in that place. I tried to find all the pieces and put them together, but it was not possible, so I kept only the largest piece. This one, and, by scratching it on a stone, I made it round. I began to play with it as a toy and became fascinated by the fact that I could reflect light into dark places where the sun would never shine-in deep holes and crevices (裂缝) and dark closets. It became a game for me to get light into the most inaccessible places I could find. I kept the little mirror, and, as I went about my growing up, I would take it out in idle moments and continue the challenge of the game. As I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not just a child"s game but a metaphor for what I might do with my life. I came to understand that I am not the light or the source of light. But light-truth, understanding, knowledge-is there, and it will shine in many dark places only if I reflect it. I am a fragment (碎片) of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this world-into the black places in the hearts of men-and change some things in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life." | |||||||||||||||||
1. On hearing the author"s question, Dr. Papaderos _____ at first. | |||||||||||||||||
A. laughed at his foolishness B. wasn"t sure of the answer C. doubted his seriousness D. wasn"t interested at all | |||||||||||||||||
2. Why did Dr. Papaderos like the small round mirror so much as a child? | |||||||||||||||||
A. Because he was too poor to afford other toys. B. Because it could shine the places where the sun couldn"t reach. C. Because he believed it would bring good luck to him. D. Because it told him a lot about what life really meant to him. | |||||||||||||||||
3. The underlined "metaphor" in the 7th paragraph most probably means _____. | |||||||||||||||||
A. symbol B. source C. light D. purpose | |||||||||||||||||
4. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? | |||||||||||||||||
A. A Special Game in the Childhood B. A Broken Piece of Mirror C. Dr. Papaderos" Experience D. The Meaning of Life | |||||||||||||||||
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About ten years ago, I was on a plane going west, and a young woman 1 and sat across the aisle (过道) from me. I noticed her for two reasons. She was very attractive, and she was holding a teddy bear about half her 2 . I teased her by asking if she had a 3 for the bear.She laughed and said no. About halfway through the flight she 4 over and told me she was going to Tucson to enter rehab (康 复治疗). She 5 to share her life story with me. She had been working as a dancer in a nightclub. That 6 had led her down a dark 7 to drugs and alcohol. As I listened to her story, I was 8 at all she had gone through. I listened to all she shared and told her I was sure she was going to 9 it. At the end of the 10 , she thanked me for listening to her. A few years later, I got a 11 in the mail saying, "Wow, it"s been five years since we met on that plane. It is 12 how you touched my life." She went on to tell me that she had 13 to stay away from drugs, and had been working for a radio station. She felt she had achieved things she could not have 14 that day on the plane. We agreed to set up a time to get 15 . When I saw her, she was 16_ the attractive young woman I remembered. She told me that that little 17 we had had turned her life around. She had got on the plane 18 anything would work in her life, and my affirmation of her as a person and of her 19 had given her the last bit of 20 she needed to work through her problems. The young woman taught me it"s never too late to make a new start in life. | |||||||||||||||||
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