题目
题型:同步题难度:来源:
before an eating-house, and remained regaling (享受) his nose with the smell of the victuals. The master of the
shop told him several times to go away, but the sweeper could not leave savory smell, though unable to purchase
the taste of the food. At last the cook came out of the shop, and taking hold of the sweeper, declared that, as he
had been feeding upon the smell of his victuals, he should not go away without paying half the price of a dinner.
The poor fellow said that he neither could nor would pay, and that he would ask the first person who should
pass, whether it was an unreasonable and unjust demand.
The case was referred to a policeman, who happened to pass at that moment. He said to the sweeper:"As you
have been feasting one of your senses with the odor (气味) of this man"s meat, it is but just you should make
him some recompense; therefore you shall, in your turn, regale one of his senses, which seems to be more
insatiable than your appetite. How much money do you have?"
"I have but two pence in all the world, sir, and I must buy me some bread."
"Never mind," answered the officer. "Take your two pence between your hands; now rattle them loudly."
The sweeper did so, and the officer, turning to the cook, said, "Now, sir, I think he has paid you: the smell
of your victuals regaled his nostrils; the sound of his money has tickled your ears."
This decision gave more satisfaction to the bystanders than to the cook, but it was the only payment he could
obtain.
B. he was hungry and he wanted to have dinner
C. he was hungry but he had no enough money to buy a meal
D. he wanted to smell if the food was delicious
B. not fair
C. logical
D. proper
B. kind
C. clever
D. stupid
B. the master of the shop and the cook were cool-hearted
C. the cook was cruel
D. the sweeper got what he wanted
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 A poor chimney-sweeper, who had not enough money to buy a meal, stoppe】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
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 | |||||||||||||||
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. | ||||||||||||||||||
|