The day was Thankful Thursday. It"s a weekly 1 that my two little girls and I began years ago.
Thursday has become our day to go out and make a positive 2 .
My girls shouted "McDonald"s, McDonald"s" as we 3 along a busy Houston road. Suddenly I 4
that almost every crossing I passed through was 5 by a panhandler (乞丐). And then it hit me! All
these panhandlers must be hungry, too. Perfect! After we ate, I ordered a(n) 6 15 lunches and we set
out to deliver them. We would pull 7 a panhandler, make a contribution, and tell him or her that we
hoped things got better. Then we"d say, "Oh, 8 , here"s lunch."
We handed our final contribution to a small woman and then immediately 9 back in the opposite
direction for home. 10 , the light caught us again and we were stopped at the same crossing where this
small woman stood. I was 11 and didn"t know quite how to behave.
She made her way to our car, "No one has ever done 12 like this for me before," she said with 13 .
Feeling uneasy, and wanting to move the conversation along, I asked, "So, 14 do you think you"ll eat
your lunch?"
She just looked at me with her huge, tired brown eyes and said, "Oh honey, I"m not going to eat this
lunch." I was 15 , but before I could say anything, she continued, "You see, I have a little girl and she just
loves McDonald"s, but I don"t have the money. But you know 16 tonight if she is going to have
McDonald"s!"
I don"t know if the kids 17 the tears in my eyes. So many times I had questioned whether our acts of
kindness were too 18 or insignificant to really affect change. 19 in that moment, I recognized the 20
of Mother Teresa"s words:"We cannot do great things-only small things with great love." |
( )1. A. tradition
( )2. A. decision
( )3. A. walked
( )4. A. reminded
( )5. A. crowded
( )6. A. additional
( )7. A. close
( )8. A. in fact
( )9. A. faced
( )10. A. Unfortunately
( )11. A. excited
( )12. A. something
( )13. A. amazement
( )14. A. what
( )15. A. shocked
( )16. A. whether
( )17. A. realized
( )18. A. many
( )19. A. Therefore
( )20. A. promise | B. ceremony
B. choice
B. ran
B. realized
B. occupied
B. expensive
B. across
B. to tell the truth
B. headed
B. Luckily
B. embarrassed
B. everything
B. fear
B. how
B. confused
B. if
B. felt
B. small
B. Although
B. oath | C. custom
C. contribution
C. wandered
C. understood
C. discovered
C. cheap
C. alongside
C. generally speaking
C. turned
C. Unexpectedly
C. frightened
C. anything
C. sorrow
C. where
C. pleased
C. what
C. noticed
C. big
C. Meanwhile
C. truth | D. habit
D. plan
D. drove
D. thought
D. laid
D. special
D. throughout
D. by the way
D. looked
D. Hopefully
D. annoyed
D. nothing
D. amusement
D. when
D. worried
D. that
D. recognized
D. simple
D. Yet
D. spirit |
1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. D 9. B 10. A
11. B 12. C 13. A 14. D 15. B 16. C 17. C 18. B 19. D 20. C |
核心考点
试题【完形填空。 The day was Thankful Thursday. It"s a weekly 1 that my two little 】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 阅读理解。 | The most frightening words in the English language are, "Our computer is down." You hear it more and
more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and
the girl in the ticket office said, "I"m sorry, I can"t sell you a ticket.Our computer is down."
"If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket."
"I can"t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so."
I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring
at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people do?"
"We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us
or not."
"So when it goes down, you go down with it."
"That"s good, sir."
"How long will the computer be down?" I wanted to know.
"I have no idea. Sometimes it"s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There"s no way we can
find out without asking the computer, and since it"s down it won"t answer us."
After the girl told me they had no backup (备用) computer, I said. "Let"s forget the computer. What
about your planes? They"re still flying, aren"t they?"
"I couldn"t tell without asking the computer."
"Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he"s flying to Washington," I suggested.
"I wouldn"t know what gate to send you to.Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn"t take
you if you didn"t have a ticket."
"Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?"
"I wouldn"t know," she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only it knows. It can"t tell me."
By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that
the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their
luggage. | | 1. The best title for the article is _____. | [ ] | A. When the Computer Is Down
B. The Most Frightening Words
C. The Computer of the Airport
D. Asking the Computer | | 2. What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer? | [ ] | A. She could sell a ticket.
B. She could write out a ticket.
C. She could answer the passengers" questions.
D. She could do nothing. | | 3. Why do you think they had not a backup computer? | [ ] | A. Because it was easy down
B. Because it was very expensive.
C. Because it was not advanced enough.
D. Because it was not as big as the main computer. | | 4. The last paragraph suggests that _____. | [ ] | A. a modern computer won"t be down.
B. computers can take the place of humans
C. sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people
D. there will be great changes in computers | | 完形填空。 | Two men on a touring holiday were injured by an explosion in their motor van (车) yesterday.
Shoppers, traders and businessmen in Red Lion Street were 1 by a loud bang, and seconds later the
two men jumped over from the van, which had stopped outside Barclays Bank. Several people rushed to
give 2 and helped to put out the fire 3 the van. A light American truck changed the 4 to provide living
accommodation room (躺的地方), 5 firemen arrived.
The men, Mr. Cary House, who was driving, and his 6 Mr. Charlie Lynn were taken to hospital with
slight 7 . They were allowed to leave after 8 . "I heard this explosion. It was 9 loud. I thought it could
have been a(n) 10 ." said Mr. Leslie Webster, manager of the market, who was working in his office in Red
Lion Street. "I looked out of the window and saw this lad jump from the van and 11 on the ground. Then
another lad came out of the van. He seemed to be in a 12 state-parts of his trousers were hanging below his
knees."
"I came downstairs to get a fire extinguisher (灭火器), but 13 the time I got outside someone from the
bank was in the 14 with an extinguisher."
Mr. Webster said both men were shocked. One was taken into the market"s office to wait for a(n) 15 .
"The second man 16 going back into the van to see if everything was 17 , and five minutes later he came
out with a drawer that was blazing (burning)." he added.
18 inside the van was mainly superficial (表面的), 19 a plastic window was blown out.
The two men have spent the last six months 20 . At the time of the incident their wives were shopping in
the city. | ( )1. A. disappointed
( )2. A. call
( )3. A. inside
( )4. A. plan
( )5. A. after
( )6. A. wife
( )7. A. wounds
( )8. A. operation
( )9. A. much
( )10. A. bomb
( )11. A. lie
( )12. A. good
( )13. A. at
( )14. A. van
( )15. A. rescue
( )16. A. kept on
( )17. A. in order
( )18. A. Equipment
( )19. A. although
( )20. A. touring | B. excited
B. warning
B. outside
B. mind
B. before
B. passenger
B. sickness
B. treatment
B. pretty
B. fire
B. die
B. poor
B. for
B. office
B. doctor
B. insisted on
B. in all
B. Suffering
B. since
B. repairing | C. frightened
C. report
C. around
C. direction
C. when
C. visitor
C. burns
C. recovery (复原)
C. usually
C. truck
C. roll
C. easier
C. after
C. market
C. firefighter
C. cared for
C. all right
C. Damage
C. because
C. moving | D. shocked
D. assistance
D. towards
D. nature
D. until
D. guest
D. hurts
D. examination
D. actually
D. accident
D. fall
D. worse
D. by
D. room
D. ambulance (救护车)
D. gave up
D. all over
D. Condition
D. so that
D. cleaning | | 完形填空。 | Last week I was invited to a doctor"s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a
patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn"t long to
1 , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.
"Frank!" I cried in astonishment. He couldn"t 2 , as I knew, but all the time 3 his foot against mine.
My 4 raced back more than thirty years to the 5 days of 1941, when I was a student in London.
The 6 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the
regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.
7 wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to 8 each other very well. Frank West 9 me because
he wasn"t 10 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had 11 of a mind than a baby
has. His " 12 " consisted of rough sounds-sounds of pleasure or anger and 13 more. Mrs. West, then about
75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank 14 on her entirely. He needed
all the 15 of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She
16 nearly everything she owned.
When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the 17 ones. So before we 18 that morning, I
stood beside Frank and 19 my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took
a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot
against mine. After that, his 20 to me was always the same. | ( )1.A. work
( )2.A. answer
( )3.A. covering
( )4.A. minds
( )5.A. better
( )6.A. cave
( )7.A. Discussing
( )8.A. learn from
( )9.A. needed
( )1O.A. normal
( )11.A. more
( )12.A. word
( )13.A. not
( )14.A. fed
( )15.A. attention
( )16.A. lost
( )17.A. troublesome
( )18.A. separated
( )19.A. pushed
( )20.A. nodding | B. stay
B. speak
B. moving
B. memories
B. dark
B. place
B. Solving
B. talk to
B. recognized
B. common
B. worse
B. speech
B. no
B. kept
B. control
B. needed
B. unlucky
B. went
B. tried
B. greeting | C. live
C. smile
C. fighting
C. thoughts
C. younger
C. sight
C. Sharing
C. help
C. interested
C. unusual
C. fewer
C. sentence
C. something
C. lived
C. treatment
C. destroyed
C. angry
C. reunited
C. showed
C. meeting | D. expect
D. laugh
D. pressing
D. brains
D. old
D. scene
D. Suffering
D. know
D. encouraged
D. quick
D. less
D. language
D. nothing
D. depended
D. management
D. left
D. unpopular
D. returned
D. measured
D. acting | | 完形填空。 | Recently, one of my best friends, whom I"ve shared just about everything with since the first day of
kindergarten, spent the week- end with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we"ve both
always 1 the few times a year when we can see each other.
Over the 2 , we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she
was 3 around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented
with 4 and was into other 5 behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been 6 to her
parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn"t want her 7
him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she 8 better, she didn"t believe me. Her self-respect seemed
to have disappeared.
I tried to 9 her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting 10 .
I just couldn"t believe that she really thought it was 11 to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her
boyfriend.
By the time she left, I was really worried about her and 12 by the experience. It had been so frustrating,
I had come 13 to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to
14 our friendship-but I didn"t. I put the power of 15 to the ultimate test. We"d been friends for far too long.
The chance was that she 16 me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted
to believe that our friendship could 17 anything.
A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our 18 , and then she told me
that she had 19 with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running
down my face. It was one of the truly 20 moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend. | ( )1.A. worried about
( )2.A. weekend
( )3.A. working
( )4.A. books
( )5.A. self-destructive
( )6.A. explaining
( )7.A. on
( )8.A. did
( )9.A. told
( )10.A. somewhere
( )11.A. acceptable
( )12.A. exhausted
( )13.A. almost
( )14.A. stop
( )15.A. love
( )16.A. thought
( )17.A. mean
( )18.A. friendship
( )19.A. broke away
( )20.A. demanding | B. looked forward to
B. months
B. falling in love
B. girls
B. self-respecting
B. reasoning
B. beside
B. deserved
B. convince
B. everywhere
B. believable
B. surprised
B. nearly
B. continue
B. friendship
B. remembered
B. conquer
B. relationship
B. broke down
B. challenging | C. paid attention to
C. years
C. hanging
C. friends
C. self-confident
C. declaring
C. around
C. had
C. force
C. nowhere
C. reliable
C. satisfied
C. close
C. start
C. truth
C. valued
C. tell
C. quarrel
C. broke up
C. frustrating | D. think of
D. days
D. keeping in touch
D. drugs
D. self-defensive
D. lying
D. to
D. got
D. warn
D. anywhere
D. admirable
D. terrified
D. over
D. make
D. justice
D. hated
D. prove
D. conversation
D. broke out
D. rewarding | | 阅读理解。 | Robert was born in a small town in England. His father has a farm and can supply him enough money to
finish university where he is studying law. The young man studies hard and hopes to be a famous lawyer.
Last Monday their term was over. Robert said to his father on the telephone that he was going to travel in
a small country during his summer holiday. His father agreed to his plan and posted some money to him. So
he started four days ago. Their plane landed at the only airport of the country safely. He took a taxi and got to
a hotel in the center of the capital. He felt hungry and tired. So he had a dinner and then a good sleep. This
morning he was all right and was going to visit some places of interest. He met an English visitor while he was
having breakfast and the man told him to be careful of thieves.
Robert thanked the man and left. But he thought he was smart and strong and he decided to have a try. He
brought a piece of paper and wrote on it, "A pig has stolen my wallet!" Then he put the note into his empty
wallet. After that he put the wallet into a pocket and set off. He did all carefully and hoped to find out who
would steal it.
"Everything went well, "Robert thought to himself after he had returned to the hotel. He brought out his
wallet and put his money into it again. He had a look at the note. To his surprise, it was rewritten. It said,
"Your uncle has touched your wallet!" | | 1. Robert can study in the university because . | [ ] | A. he wants to be a lawyer
B. his father is a rich farmer
C. he"s smart and strong
D. he keeps his wallet well | | 2. Robert went to the small country to . | [ ] | | A. make fun of the thieves
B. catch some thieves
C. visit the places of interest
D. have a nice meal and a good sleep | | 3. The English visitor thought . | [ ] | A. there were a lot of thieves in the city
B. Robert could deal with the thieves
C. it was dangerous to travel in the city
D. Robert had to take good care of himself |
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