some of the world’s most beautiful animals-whales (鲸鱼)in the North Atlantic Ocean.
After a long trip by train and bus, we got on the ship called the “Privateer”. On our way to see the
whales on that beautiful sunny day, I grew more and more excited. After a while we stopped, and everyone on the ship started to shout because we’d seen whales. It was wonderful!
While we were watching the whales, a guide was giving us information about them. She told us we were seeing only two kinds of whales - 50-foot whales (singing whales) and 70-foot whales (the second largest whales on the earth). She also said we could easily tell the different kinds of whales by their tales(尾巴),
since every whale has a different tail, just as people have different fingerprints(指纹).
They all have names as well. On this trip, we saw “Salt” and “Pepper”, two whales named by a scientist and a fisherman. They swam together all the time. Sometimes whales came so close to the ship that we thought we could touch them.
I took twenty-seven photos, which was a really hard job because they moved so quickly, and stayed on the surface of the ocean for such a short time. Having seen the whales was one of the chances few people ever got. I was lucky enough to have that chance.
1. The passage is mainly about _________.
A. the different kinds of whales
B．the different kinds of animals in the ocean
C．a trip to study ocean animals
D．a trip to see whales
2. Which of the following transport did the author NOT use during the trip?
A．The train.
B．The plane.
C．The bus.
D．The ship
3. We can learn from the third paragraph that _________.
A．there were only two kinds of whales
B．70-foot whales are the largest in the world
C．whales all have different tails
D．whales have fingerprints as people do
4. What did the author do when she saw the whales?
A. She gave them the names “Salt” and “Pepper”.
B. She swam with them.
C．She got close to touch them
D．She took photos of them.
Jean"s father was a farm plane pilot in the little farming community in Northern California where she
was raised, and Jean was totally _1_ by airplanes and flying.
In her senior year of high school, her English teacher was a Mrs. Dorothy Slaton. Mrs. Slaton was a
_2_, demanding teacher with high standards and a low _3_ for excuses. She refused to treat her students
like _4_, instead expecting them to behave like the _5_ adults they would have to be to succeed in the
real world after graduation. Jean was _6_ of her at first but grew to respect her firmness and fairness
gradually.
One day Mrs. Slaton gave the class a written _7_. "What do you think you"ll be doing 10 years from
now?" Jean"s dream was to be a pilot like her father, but as the years went by, she had been beaten
down by the _8_ and negative words she got whenever she talked about her career, so she unwillingly
gave it up and wrote something else. Mrs. Slaton collected the papers and nothing more was said. Two
weeks later, the teacher handed back the assignments, _9_ the students to face it down on the desk, and
asked this question: "If you had enough finances and unlimited 10 , what would you do? Please write it
on the 11 of your previous assignment paper."
When the students stopped writing, the teacher asked, "How many of you wrote the same thing on
12 sides of the paper?" Not one hand went up.
The next thing that Mrs. Slaton said changed the course of Jean"s life. The teacher leaned forward
13 her desk and said, "I have a little secret for you all. You do have unlimited abilities and talents. You
do have access to the finest schools, and you can arrange unlimited finances if you want something 14
enough. This is it! When you leave school, 15 you don"t 16 your dreams, no one will do it for you.
You can have 17 you want if you want it enough."
What her teacher said touched Jean so much! In the following years, she tried her best to realize her
dream of becoming a pilot. Although it didn"t happen 18 , she finally became one of the first three
female pilot trainees ever 19 by United Airlines. Today, Jean Harper is a Boeing 737 captain for
United.
It was the power of one well-placed 20 word that gave that uncertain young girl the strength and
faith to pursue her dream.
( )2.A. hard-working
( )3.A. interest
( )4.A. children
( )5.A. responsible
( )6.A. bored
( )7.A. lecture
( )8.A. approving
( )9.A. requiring
( )10.A. work
( )11.A. title
( )12.A. same
( )13.A. in
( )14.A. hardly
( )15.A. if
( )16.A. make for
( )17.A. that
( )18.A. overnight
( )19.A. realized
( )20.A. objective
B. kind
B. tolerance
B. boys
B. notable
B. frustrated
B. assignment
B. inspiring
B. suggesting
B. chances
B. back
B. different
B. on
B. badly
B. unless
B. refer to
B. what
B. some day
B. received
B. blank
C. strict
C. courage
C. girls
C. knowledgeable
C. tired
C. paper
C. indifferent
C. hoping
C. money
C. right
C. neither
C. over
C. impossibly
C. weather
C. go for
C. which
C. the other day
C. accepted
C. pessimistic
D. lazy
D. help
D. students
D. capable
D. scared
D. work
D. discouraging
D. allowing
D. problems
D. front
D. both
D. under
D. likely
D. until
D. go through
D. when
D. fortnight
D. accomplished
D. positive
The weather was cold and wet and it was bad for their ___2___.There was only a primary school in
the town and ___3___ people were so poor that they couldn"t send their children there.
Mr Morgan,___4____father was the headmaster, was sent to a university in the capital. He ___5___
law there and knew much. He usually ___6___ to his hometown during his holidays and a lot of his
friends wanted to ___7___ him. They asked a lot about the capital and hoped to be given some
advice on their own ___8___．The young man was warm-hearted and was ___9___ to help them.
He was busy there but he didn"t ____10___ it.
Mr Waley, one of Mr Morgan"s neighbours, had a shop in the centre of the town. He had been a
soldier in France and always ___11__ he knew more and liked to talk with others. But he got into
trouble and ___12___ Mr Morgan could help him. But before the young man said a ___13___，
he talked on and on in a flow of eloquence（口若悬河）. Mr Morgan ___14__him for nearly an
hour and then he began to pour（倒）him a cup of tea. The cup was full but he didn"t ___15__and
went on pouring. The shopkeeper felt ___16__and said, “Haven"t you found the cup is full? You can"t
pour any tea into it.”
“You"re ___17___ , Mr Waley,”the young man stopped to say. "Your brain has been full of all
kinds of ___18___ like the full cup. How can I help you ___19___I give you an empty one? You
come here to ask me for ___20__ , you know! "
( )1.A. education
( )2.A. health
( )3.A. most
( )4.A. his
( )5.A. educated .
( )6.A. returned
( )7.A. play with .
( )8.A. studies
( )9.A. ready .
( )10.A. forget .
( )11.A. advised
( )12.A. made
( )13.A. story
( )14.A. heard
( )15.A. stop
( )16.A. sorry
( )17.A. wrong
( )18.A .opinions
( )19.A. when
( )20.A. saving
B. lives
B. few
B. which
B. discussed
B. agreed
B. fight with
B. business
B. successful
B. remember
B. thought
B. ordered
B. word
B. talked with
B. rest
B. angry
B. right
B. questions
B. after
B. money
C. crops
C. a few
C. that
C. studied
C. replied
C. offer
C .farming
C. proper
C. like
C. described
C. expected
C. passage
C. reported
C. sit down
C. strange
C. polite
C. problems
C. if
C. advice
D. government
D. animals
D. no
D. whose
D. explained
D. wrote
D. visit
D. science
D. impossible
D. mind
D. discovered
D. suggested
D. reason
D. listened t
D. find
D. happy
D. wise
D. projects
D. unless
D. wish
The rock rolled down from the mountain and stopped in the middle of the main road in the village.
It was very big and shaped more or less like a ball. The village decided to move it since it was
blocking（阻塞）the street. Several of the strongest men in the village came to try to lift it out of
the road. No matter how hard they tried though, they couldn"t move it.
All of this time a young boy was watching the men trying to move the rock. “Excuse me,” he said,
“but I think I could move the rock.”
“You?”they shouted. "What are you talking about? All of us have just tried, and even together
we can"t move it a bit." They all laughed at the boy.
The next morning some villagers came into the street. To their great surprise, the rock was gone!
More people ran out to see for themselves. It was true the rock wasn"t in the road any more.
The little boy stood in the street, smiling. “I told you I could move it,” he said. “I did it last night.
”Then he walked over to where the rock had been and uncovered some dirt with a shovel（铁锹）．
“You see,”he said, “I dug a deep hole next to the rock, and the rock rolled down into the hole of
itself. Then I covered it with dirt.”
B. it was completely useless.
C. it was more or less badly shaped.
D. it was in the middle of the road.
B. didn"t understand him.
C. didn"t believe him.
D. got angry with him.
A. give the villagers a surprise.
B. work faster and better.
C. dig a hole for himself.
D. find a way to move the rock.
B. burying it in a hole.
C. breaking it with a shovel.
D. lifting it out of the road.
by the railway station, he saw a young man and
asked, “________ do you want to go, sir?” “To the 1.______________
Star Hotel,” the young man _______ . Hearing that, 2.______________
the driver didn’t f_______ happy. The young man 3.______________
would give him only 3 dollars b_______ the hotel 4.______________
was not far from the railway station. But ________ 5.______________
(突然), he had an idea. He took the passenger
through many streets and after a long time, the car
finally ____________ (到达) at the hotel. “Fifteen 6.______________
dollars,” the driver said. “What! Fifteen dollars?
Do you think I’m a ______ (傻瓜) ? Only last week 7.______________
I took a car from the railway station to this s______ 8.______________
hotel and I only gave the driver 13 dollars. I know
how much I have to pay for the t________. I won’t 9.______________
pay you one dollar _______ than I paid to the other 10.______________
car driver last week.”
point 1 , he used an illustration.
As he stood in front of the group, he said, "Okay, time for a quiz." He then pulled out a wide-mouth
jar and set it on the table. Then he 2 placed about a dozen fist-sized rocks, one by one, into the jar.
When the jar was filled to the 3 and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is this jar 4 ?"
Everyone in the class said, "Yes."
"Really?" Then he 5 under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel (沙砾,石子), dumped some
in and 6 the jar, causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the space 7 the big rocks.
Then he asked the group the same question. "Probably not." One of them answered. "Good!" he replied.
He reached under the table and 8 a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it
went into all the 9 left between the rocks and the gravel. 10 he asked the question. "No!" the class
shouted. "Good!" Then he grabbed a can of water and began to pour it in 11 the jar was filled to the
brim.
Then the expert in time-management looked at the class and asked, "What is the 12 of this
illustration?" It is such a seemingly easy question that one 13 student raised his hand and said, "It is,
however full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always 14 some more things in it."
"No," the speaker replied, "The truth it teaches us is that you will 15 get them in at all if you don"t put
the big rocks in first. 16 the big rocks in your life are, do things that you love and 17 for yourself.
In your schedule if you value the little stuff then you"ll fill your life with 18 things and you will never
have the real quality time you need to spend on the big, important stuff. So, tonight, or in the morning,
when you are 19 on this short story, ask yourself what are the "big rocks" in your life? Then put those in
your 20 first."
( )2. A. carefully
( )3. A. edge
( )4. A. full
( )5. A. sent
( )6. A. delivered
( )7. A. beneath
( )8. A. put out
( )9. A. spaces
( )10. A. At last
( )11. A. unless
( )12. A. meaning
( )13. A. calm
( )14. A. add
( )15. A. never
( )16. A. Whether
( )17. A. conclude
( )18. A. more
( )19. A. reflecting
( )20. A. packet
B. firmly
B. bottom
B. pure
B. reached
B. shook
B. across
B. came out
B. caves
B. Shortly after
B. until
B. opinion
B. awkward
B. fit
B. even
B. However
B. encourage
B. little
B. counting
B. can
C. actively
C. wall
C. enough
C. managed
C. dropped
C. beyond
C. brought out
C. blanks
C. Later on
C. before
C. point
C. nervous
C. include
C. still
C. Whatever
C. fresh
C. much
C. deciding
C. jar
D. unwillingly
D. top
D. smooth
D. felt
D. held
D. between
D. set out
D. holes
D. Once more
D. while
D. comment
D. eager
D. collect
D. ever
D. Which
D. time
D. less
D. insisting
D. luggage
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