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or hides before Person B answers. Person B hurries to answer the door, only to find that no one"s there.
After the 1 thing is repeated several times, this is called "ding dong ditch".
Sharon Mardis, a single mother of four, told ABC News that she 2 a "ding dong ditch" when she 3
to her door at 1:00 am last night.
"My doorbell started ringing, 4 I came to the door," Sharon told ABC News. "There was 5 at the
door. I went back in the house. I got ten or twenty 6 and the doorbell started ringing again. I came back to the door, still nobody at the door." She got 7 and stepped outside, shouting, "Who"s that? What on
earth are you going to do?" There was just 8 .
But after Sharon returned to the house, she 9 something. Smoke! Sharon quickly 10 her kids and
the family pets and ran out of the house. Only then did she 11 how bad the fire was. The 12 of the
house fell down; the house was quickly 13 by flames. The smoke detectors (探测器) had never 14 :
they were out of batteries. Good thing for the doorbell.
The 15 is who had rung it. 16 found that the flames has fused (熔化) the wires of the doorbell
together, causing it to ring. But 17 , the fire had nothing to do with the doorbell wiring at all. It had
started in the bathroom, well down the hall. From there, the flames didn"t spread to the nearby 18 , where
the children and Sharon were sleeping. 19 , they surprisingly reached the doorbell first, making it ring
repeatedly, and 20 Sharon to avoid danger.
Sharon believes it happened that way thanks to an angel.
| ( )1. A. special ( )2. A. experienced ( )3. A. fell ( )4. A. though ( )5. A. somebody ( )6. A. miles ( )7. A. tired ( )8. A. cry ( )9. A. hit ( )10. A. gathered ( )11. A. wonder ( )12. A. paintings ( )13. A. covered ( )14. A. moved off ( )15. A. fact ( )16. A. Nurses ( )17. A. fortunately ( )18. A. kitchen ( )19. A. Instead ( )20. A. ordering | B. same B. followed B. turned B. but B. nobody B. centimeters B. angry B. noise B. touched B. settled B. dream B. roof B. separated B. left off B. opinion B. Firefighter B. strangely B. hall B. Therefore B. encouraging | C. important C. learned C. responded C. because C. something C. feet C. worried C. silence C. heard C. comforted C. realize C. lights C. blocked C. taken off C. mistake C. Teachers C. honestly C. bathroom C. Thus C. warning | D. serious D. practiced D. returned D. and D. nothing D. kilometers D. interested D. laugh D. smelled D. frightened D. agree D. floor D. stopped D. gone off D. question D. Doctors D. clearly D. bedroom D. Then D. advising | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1-5: BACDB 6-10L CBCDA 11-15: CBADD 16-20: BBDAC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| After my brother died in an accident, my mother was in deep sadness. I was only a four-year-old girl at the time, but I still understood the sudden shift in my mom"s attitude towards safety. Suddenly everything around us was potentially dangerous. Overnight, the world had gone from a playground to a dangerous zone. I grew up with a lot of limits and rules. I couldn"t walk home from school by myself, even though everyone I knew already did. I couldn"t go to summer camp because what if something happened to me? As I got older, the list of things of fear got longer. My whole life was divided into "things you should avoid", and "things you needed to do in order to have a good, long life." I became a natural worrier. I worry about things like getting cancer, losing my wallet, car accidents, earthquakes, and losing my job-disasters big and small, real and imagined. The funny part is that you"d never know it by looking at my life. In fact, I"ve developed a rule for myself: If it scares me, then I have to do it at least once. I"ve done lots of things that my mom would have worried about: I"ve ridden a motorcycle; I"ve traveled -a lot. I"ve performed stand-up comedy, and I"m planning my second wedding. There"s something else I don"t usually talk about, but it"s a cornerstone in my belief: When I was 14, my mother died suddenly in a car accident. At my mom"s funeral I remember making a choice. I could either live out the rest of my life trying to be "safe" or I could be brave enough to live out a fulfilling, exciting and, yes, sometimes dangerous life. I worry that I may have betrayed (背叛) my mother by writing her in this light, but she has been a driving force in my life and, in the end I think she would have been proud of me. Courage isn"t a natural character of human beings. I believe that using courage is like developing a muscle. The more often I do things that scare me or that make me uncomfortable, the more I realize that I can do a lot more than I originally thought I could do. Even though I inherited (继承) my mother"s cautious nature. I"ve also come to believe that fear can be a good thing, if we face it. Believing that has made my world a less scary place. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. In the writer"s childhood, the limits and rules were used to ______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. improve her behavior B. develop her independence C. be in memory of her dead brother D. protect her from possible danger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. How does the writer deal with the things that frighten her? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. She just ignores them. B. She faces up to them. C. She turns to her mother for help. D. She does them with her friends. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. From the passage, we can learn that ______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. the writer failed in her first marriage B. nothing can make the writer afraid now C. frightening things made the writer lose her self-confidence D. the writer"s mother felt annoyed with her | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. What does the passage mainly talk about? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. Mothers influence their children much. B. Fear is in fact not a bad thing. C. Facing fear bravely produces courage. D. The world is not as scary as people expect. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Driving to a friend"s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend"s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors. My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life. I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply. Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers. Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.The best title for the passage would be______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. The pleasures of modern life B. Touched by the moon C. A bottomless well of silence D. Break away from modern life | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. The nice moonlight B. Complete silence. C. No modern equipment D. The high mountains | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. show that the writer likes city life very much B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life C. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them D. explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. The author wrote the passage to_______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. advise modern people to learn to live B. show the love for the moonlight C. express the feeling of returning to nature D. want to communicate longing for modern life | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| When I was about 8 years old, I asked my mum to buy me a certain biscuit because it sponsored (赞 助)Flash Gordon. Gordon was a super-hero who 1 for good deeds (事情) in outer space. My mum would buy the 2 for me because I 3 the prize that came with it. The prize was a pair of glasses that Gordon 4 . However, in order to get the prize I had to 5 the whole box of biscuits out because it was at the 6 . I didn"t dare to think of 7 my way to the prize because I was too 8 . Yes, I wanted to be like Flash Gordon! 9 the glasses came out from the bottom, I put them on. I felt like my favorite 10 . I wore them everywhere my mum and I went. I even tried to wear them to 11 , but the teachers didn"t want a super-hero flying around the playground. Over the years there were other prizes from many 12 brands (牌子) of biscuits, but I was never really 13 the biscuits, only the 14 . When you think about it, 15 itself can be like a box of biscuits. Even as adults, we keep 16 that prize at all costs. Just 17 what we do at times. We become greedy (贪婪的) to get what we think is the prize. Try to look at it from a different view. Wouldn"t it be better to 18 the journey along the way ? In other words, don"t be impatient and pour the box. That will only spoil (破坏) the 19 meaning of the prize. Enjoy what you have and be grateful. I promise your prize will 20 , without having to push others out of the way to get it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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