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阅读理解。     Wishing to encourage her young son to make more progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to
a Paderewski concert. After they were seated, the mother spotted a friend in the audience and walked
down the aisle to greet her. Seizing the opportunity to explore the wonders of the concert hall, the little
boy rose and eventually found his way through a door marked "NO ADMITTANCE." When the house
lights dimmed and the concert was about to begin, the mother returned to her seat and discovered that
the child was missing.
    Suddenly, the curtains parted and spotlights focused on the impressive Steinway on stage. To her
horror, the mother saw her little boy sitting at the keyboard, innocently picking out Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star.
     At that moment, the great pianist made his entrance, quickly moved to the piano, and whispered in
the boy"s ear, "Don"t quit. Keep playing." Then leaning over, Paderewski reached down with his left hand
and began filling in a bass part. Soon his right arm reached around to the other side of the child and he
added a melody. Together, the old master and the young beginner transformed a frightening situation into
a wonderfully creative experience. The audience was amazed and, as it finished, they cheered.
    That"s the way it is in life. What we can accomplish on our own is hardly noteworthy. We try our best,
but the results aren"t exactly graceful flowing music. But when we put our trust in the hands of a Greater
Power, our life"s work can be truly beautiful. Next time you set out to accomplish great feats, listen
carefully. You can hear the voice of the Master, whispering in your ear, "Don"t quit, and keep playing."1. The reason why the boy went to the piano was that ________.A. he was encouraged to explore
B. his mother forced him to have a look
C. he was invited by the pianist
D. he was exploring the concert hall2. What the famous pianist did at the beginning of the concert showed ________.A. what a great pianist he was
B. what a skilled pianist he was
C. what an upright man he was
D. what a strong man he was3. What did the author really want to tell us in the last paragraph?A. Not being interrupted by others is important.
B. Life needs one"s own effort combined with guidance and cooperation.
C. It is necessary for us to keep doing everything.
D. It is important for us to get help from a famous person.

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完形填空。     "Imagine you are walking along the road. Suddenly you fall over and all the passers-by burst into
laughter. You feel very 1 and think the world is laughing at you . But in fact, five minutes later, they
have 2 it ever happened." The other day when I came across these words in an article, I didn"t agree
with the 3 .
      The author thinks the best thing to do in this kind of  4 is to pretend nothing has happened, and so
avoid 5 trouble.
     I admit that we should keep 6 because "Your tears will only remind others of what happened, while
your 7 can let them forget it." But this is far from satisfactory. We should do   8 to make things better.
     I used to be a(n)  9   girl and not very good at maths. Our new maths teacher asked me a question
and I still remember how I hung my head in  10 when I couldn"t answer it.
     "If you don"t know the answer, just tell me." the teacher said, "If you don"t how can I know   11   you
know the answer or not?" All of my classmates burst into laughter. My face turned red but the teacher 12
me to go to the blackboard and 13 what I knew. If I had 14 the words in the article, I would have given
up. But I tried my best. And to everyone"s  15 , I succeeded! The teacher smiled and said, "Well done! I
16 you could do it!"
     Since then, I have become active in maths as  17 as in other subjects. I used to think doing maths
exercises was a waste of time. But now, I know 18 I do can make things better. Everyone is the 19 of his
own fate.
    If we make mistakes, we should take on an active 20 . Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep
(哭泣), and you weep alone.

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(     )1.A. nervous
(     )2.A. realized
(     )3.A. speaker
(     )4.A. environment
(     )5.A. ordinary
(     )6.A. confident
(     )7.A. smile
(     )8.A anything
(     )9.A. shy
(     )10.A. joy
(     )11.A. what
(     )12.A. forced
(     )13.A. bring up
(     )14.A. obeyed
(     )15.A. expectation
(     )16.A. hoped
(     )17.A. long
(     )18.A. whoever
(     )19.A. architect
(     )20.A. position

B. excited
B. recognized
B. reader
B. surrounding
B. extra
B. smart
B. worry
B. something
B. energetic
B. pride
B. that
B. invited
B. put down
B. doubted
B. disappointment
B. knew
B. far
B. whenever
B. owner
B. attitude

C. afraid
C. forgotten
C. author
C. condition
C. common
C. calm
C. courage
C. nothing
C. happy
C. shame
C. when
C. asked
C. think about
C. refused
C. surprise
C. doubted
C. soon
C. wherever
C. host
C. value

D. embarrassed
D. remembered
D. announcer
D. situation
D. usual
D. strong
D. satisfaction
D. everything
D. clever
D. surprise
D. whether
D. pushed
D. show off
D. understood
D. delight
D. regretted
D. well
D. whatever
D. controller
D. response

阅读理解。

     A mouse looked through a hole in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what
food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!
    Running to the farmyard,the mouse shouted,warning everyone,"There is a mouse trap in the house,
there is a mouse trap in the house."The chicken,with her head high,glared at the mouse and said,"Shut up.
Little Ugly.This is a great concern to you,but it has nothing to do with me:I can"t be troubled by it."
    The mouse turned to the pig and told him."There is a mouse trap in the house.""I am so sorry,Mr Mouse,"said the pig sympathetically,"but there is nothing I can do about it but pray;you are always in my prayers."
    The mouse turned to the cow,who said,"A mouse trap,am I in great danger,huh?"
    Now the mouse had to face the farmer"s mouse trap alone.
    That very night a sound was heard through the house,like that of a mouse trap catching its prey.The
farmer"wife rushed to see what was caught.In the darkness,she did not see it was a big poisonous snake
whose tail the trap had caught.The snake bit the farmer"s wife.The farmer rushed her to the hospital.She
returned home with a fever.It is said that drinking fresh chicken soup will help treat fever,so the farmer
took his sharp knife to the farmyard for the soup"s main ingredient.His wife"s sickness continued,so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.To feed them,the farmer killed the pig.The farmer"s
wife did not get well,in fact,she died,and so many people came for her funeral.The farmer had the cow
killed to provide for all of them to eat.
    So next time when someone is facing a problem,don"t say that it has nothing to do with you.

1.We could see from the passage that the mouse was .

A. good at cheating others
B. dishonest
C. kind and warm-hearted
D. foolish

2.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A. The others help the farmer kill the cow.
B. The mouse trap was very practical.
C. The pig is more friendly than the other animals.
D. The farmer"s family had no friends at all.

3.What can we learn from the story?

A. Traps can always cause chain reactions.
B. It is better to be safe than to be sorry.
C. Sometimes when the least of us is threatened,we all might be at risk.
D. To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us all.

完形填空。

     You must know the "ding dong ditch". Person A rings Person B"s doorbell, and then quickly runs away
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.

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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