"So teach him to close the door", my daughter Emma responded after listening to me 1 , again, about the
dog coming in from the back door, bringing with him a blast of Buffalo January 2 air.
Teach a dog to close a door behind him? That has got to be a really, really 3 thing to do.But then she took
it a step 4 . "Come on Kolby", she said, grabbing (抓住) some treats and 5 him in front of the open door.
"Touch." And "touch" he did, which moved the door to a 6 position. She 7 him with a treat, smiled, looked
at me, and said "see!" And I saw and became 8 . Over the last few days I have been consistent (一致的) with
Kolby. Each time he comes in I 9 him back to the open door patiently and ask him to close.There have been
10 in the beginning, but lately more and more successes.
However, there remains much work to be done.I have to get him follow my hand signal again and again 11
he will close the door from a distance. But, I now realize, as long as you keep to the 12 , the task will be
completed, and, with the way things are progressing, 13 quickly.
What a 14 treat to have a dog that can close the door after himself! Even more wonder can be found in
the 15 I learned so clearly from both Emma and Kolby.
A wish is just a wish until you decide to take 16 . Once you 17 the belief that it is"too hard", then it remains
"too hard" and out of 18 . Once you decide to accomplish a goal, and 19 that it is"easy", then it becomes
"easy" to do what needs to be done. Just 20 doing it. |
( )1. A. complain
( )2. A. thin
( )3. A. last
( )4. A. again
( )5. A. pushing
( )6. A. stopped
( )7. A. rewarded
( )8. A. persuaded
( )9. A. bring
( )10. A. pleasures
( )11. A. in case
( )12. A. interest
( )13. A. determined
( )14. A. wonderful
( )15. A. knowledge
( )16. A. patience
( )17. A. hold on to
( )18. A. date
( )19. A. prove
( )20. A. imagine. | B. scream
B. fresh
B. funny
B. further
B. tying
B. fixed
B. provided
B. convinced
B. pull
B. experiments
B. even if
B. focus
B. taught
B. small
B. skills
B. part
B. pay attention to
B. touch
B. decide
B. start | C. worry
C. dirty
C. hard
C. deeper
C. seating
C. closed
C. offered
C. inspired
C. drag
C. failures
C. as if
C. progress
C. bought
C. different
C. lessons
C. delight
C. come up with
C. reach
C. conclude
C. keep | D. scare
D. cold
D. possible
D. backward
D. positioning
D. locked
D. thanked
D. puzzled
D. call
D. pauses
D. so that
D. harmony
D. completed
D. simple
D. experience
D. action
D. get used to
D. power
D. realize
D. enjoy |
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试题【完形填空。 "So teach him to close the door", my daughter Emma responded after lis】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 完形填空。 | Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, an old woman waited beside door with her hand
outstretched. Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met. She never failed to 1 smile, my grasp,
and my greeting.
On the last day of our visit, I found myself 2 on a busy corner across the street from our hotel.
Bicycles and motorbikes rushed in front of me. We had been advised to walk 3 through the crowded
traffic without looking right or left. Let them 4 us.
5 tonight I was by myself and felt uncertain to 6 the flood of vehicles. As I 7 on the roadside.
I felt a hand on my elbow and looked 8 to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me.
She nodded her head toward the street 9 that she would take me across. Together, we moved slowly
into the disorder.
When we 10 the corner of the crossing, I looked down at her again, and couldn"t help saying, "You
have the most beautiful smile in the world."
She 11 knew little English, but must have 12 the tone, for she threw both arms around me in a big
hug while the 13 streamed by us on both sides. Then we 14 moved on toward the sidewalk, where she
pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then walked away, 15 smiling and waving
back to me.
I had not given her a single 16 . But we had 17 something much more important-a warming of hearts
in friendship. This 18 reminded me of something Mother Teresa once said, "If you cannot do great things,
you can do small things with great 19 ." I will always remember this 20 . | ( )1.A. receive
( )2.A. alone
( )3.A. purposefully
( )4.A. miss
( )5.A. And
( )6.A. see
( )7.A. moved
( )8.A. up
( )9.A. explaining
( )10.A. covered
( )11.A. actually
( )12.A. recognized
( )13.A. customers
( )14.A. suddenly
( )15.A. yet
( )16.A. gift
( )17.A. owed
( )18.A. exploration
( )19.A. love
( )20.A. aspect | B. acce pt
B. away
B. straight
B. avoid
B. So
B. meet
B. wandered
B. back
B. marking
B. reached
B. obviously
B. required
B. strangers
B. continuously
B. even
B. present
B. owned
B. experience
B. feeling
B. idiom | C. return
C. off
C. actively
C. separate
C. But
C. face
C. hesitated
C. down
C. meaning
C. touched
C. generally
C. misunderstood
C. traffic
C. luckily
C. already
C. cake
C. shared
C. adventure
C. courage
C. sentence | D. answer
D. aside
D. carefully
D. dismiss
D. Therefore
D. witness
D. wondered
D. forward
D. expressing
D. hit
D. personally
D. achieved
D. passengers
D. unwillingly
D. still
D. coin
D. seized
D. interview
D. pity
D. lesson | | 完形填空。 | In the United States there was an unusual story telling of the daughter of a mechanic (技工). One day while
walking along the bank of a lake, the girl 1 to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose. After some time the girl 2
the mother would not return to her eggs and she 3 to take them home. There she carefully 4 the eggs in
the heat of a lamp. Several days 5 the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the 6 .
Geese are known to take the first living thing they see as their mother. 7 , to these young geese, the girl
was their mother.
As they 8 , the girl was able to 9 her birds to run across the grass, but she could not teach them to
10 .The girl became increasingly worried about this, both when 11 and in her dreams. Later, she had an
12 : She would pilot a plane to guide them in 13 . She asked her father for a plane and he assembled (组装)
a small aircraft for her.
Caring about 14 safety, the father decided to pilot the plane himself. However, the birds did not 15 or
follow him, and 16 slept in the grass.
One day, the girl 17 into the plane, started it and soon left the 18 . Seeing their mother take to the air, the
birds 19 flapped(拍打) their wings and 20 . She flew the plane freely in the sky, her young birds following. | ( )1. A. managed
( )2. A. realized
( )3. A. helped
( )4. A. placed
( )5. A. ago
( )6. A. family
( )7. A. But
( )8. A. increased
( )9. A. ask
( )10. A. fly
( )11. A. asleep
( )12. A. idea
( )13. A. sky
( )14. A. his
( )15. A. respect
( )16. A. so
( )17. A. climbed
( )18. A. house
( )19. A. secretly
( )20. A. looked away | B. attempted
B. expected
B. decided
B. protected
B. out
B. lake
B. Also
B. improved
B. lead
B. race
B. away
B. opinion
B. space
B. her
B. remember
B. instead
B. looked
B. floor
B. disappointedly
B. set out | C. happened
C. imagined
C. afforded
C. treated
C. later
C. home
C. Thus
C. rose
C. want
C. swim
C. around
C. explanation
C. flight
C. their
C. recognize
C. hardly
C. reached
C. water
C. patiently
C. went by | D. supposed
D. admitted
D. meant
D. examined
D. long
D. world
D. Still
D. grew
D. allow
D. sing
D. awake
D. excuse
D. plane
D. its
D. receive
D. too
D. fell
D. ground
D. eagerly
D. turned back | | 完形填空。 | I ran across an old photo of him-my pet dog-the other day, thinking of some old things. He"s been dead for
25years. His name was Rex.
1 was his favorite recreation. He had so much 2 in the water as any person I have known. You didn"t
have to throw a stick in the water to 3 him to go in. Of course, he would bring back a stick to you if you 4
throw one in.
That 5 me of that night, when he brought back a small 6 that he found somewhere- how 7 nobody
ever knew. Since it was Rex, it 8 easily have been half a race. The box wasn"t a good one. It was just a(n)
9 old piece that somebody 10 . Still it was something he wanted, probably 11 there was some difficulty in
transportation. And that he thought could test his courage. We first knew about his achievement when, deep in
the night, we 12 him trying to get the box up onto the porch. It sounded 13 two or three people were trying
to tear the house 14 . We came downstairs and turned on the 15 light. Rex was on the top step trying to pull
the thing up, but it had 16 somehow. And he was just holding his own. I suppose he would have held his own
17 dawn if we hadn"t helped him. The next day we carried the box miles away and threw it out. If we had
thrown it out in a 18 place, he would have brought it home again, as a small token (象征) of his strength in
such matters. 19 , he had been taught to carry heavy wooden objects about and he was 20 of his skill. | ( )1. A. Fighting
( )2. A. fun
( )3. A. stop
( )4. A. will
( )5. A. reminds
( )6. A. card
( )7. A. far
( )8. A. could
( )9. A. priceless
( )10. A. kept
( )11. A. because
( )12. A. saw
( )13. A. like
( )14. A. up
( )15. A. hall
( )16. A. rolled
( )17. A. at
( )18. A. distant
( )19. A. In all
( )20. A. proud | B. Swimming
B. trouble
B. make
B. do
B. warns
B. lamp
B. long
B. can
B. worthless
B. forgot
B. only if
B. heard
B. that
B. in
B. kitchen
B. stopped
B. before
B. nearby
B. As a result
B. tired | C. Barking
C. danger
C. get
C. did
C. tells
C. candy
C. old
C. should
C. valuable
C. deserted
C. even if
C. watched
C. as if
C. away
C. bedroom
C. caught
C. till
C. silent
C. At last
C. ashamed | D. Running
D. diffuculty
D. have
D. would
D. suggests
D. box
D. heavy
D. would
D. important
D. remained
D. in case
D. caught
D. at least
D. down
D. porch
D. broken
D. during
D. busy
D. After all
D. doubtful | | 完形填空。 | A LESSON FROM A FROG TALE
A group of frogs were jumping through the woods when two of them fell into a deep hole. All of the other
frogs 1 around the hole to see what could be done to help their 2 . When they saw how deep the hole was,
the rest of the group 3 that it was hopeless and told the two frogs in the hole that they should prepare
themselves for their fate (命运), because they were as good as 4 .
Unwilling to accept this terrible fate, the two frogs began to jump with all of their 5 . Some of the frogs
shouted into the hole that it was 6 , and that the two frogs wouldn"t be in that 7 if they had been more
careful.
The other frogs continued 8 shouting that they two should save their 9 and give up, since they were
already as good as dead. The two frogs 10 jumping as hard as they could, and after several hours of hopeless
11 they were quite tired.
Finally, one of the two frogs followed the calls of his fellows. Disheartened, he lay down at the 12 of the
hole, and died as the others looked on in helpless sorrow. The other frog continued to jump with every bit of
energy he had, 13 he was completely worn out.
His companions began a new shouting to him to accept his fate, stop the pain and 14 die. The frog jumped
harder and harder and, wonder of wonders, finally jumped so 15 that he sprang from the hole. 16 , the other
frogs celebrated his unbelievable freedom and then gathering around him asked, "Why did you continue jumping
when we told you it was impossible?" 17 their lips, the astonished frog explained to them that he was deaf, and
that when he saw their gestures and shouting, he thought they were 18 him on. What he had got as 19
inspired him to try harder and finally succeeded.
This simple story contains a powerful lesson. Your encouraging words can 20 someone up and help him
or her make it through the day. | ( )1. A. jumped
( )2. A. relatives
( )3. A. agreed
( )4. A. alive
( )5. A. mind
( )6. A. harmless
( )7. A. action
( )8. A. sorrowfully
( )9. A. time
( )10. A. stopped
( )11. A. climb
( )12. A. top
( )13. A. while
( )14. A. just
( )15. A. great
( )16. A. Pleased
( )17. A. Looking
( )18. A. cheering
( )19. A. treatment
( )20. A. hold | B. hung
B. companions
B. added
B. dead
B. skill
B. endless
B. situation
B. angrily
B. resource
B. continued
B. wait
B. edge
B. however
B. still
B. well
B. Satisfied
B. Reading
B. praising
B. entertainment
B. lift | C. rushed
C. neighbors
C. quarreled
C. awake
C. strength
C. careless
C. direction
C. carefully
C. energy
C. avoided
C. fight
C. bottom
C. therefore
C. yet
C. far
C. Amazed
C. Seeing
C. persuading
C. achievement
C. bring | D. gathered
D. families
D. doubted
D. calm
D. force
D. hopeless
D. competition
D. helpfully
D. supply
D. started
D. effort
D. side
D. although
D. even
D. high
D. Amused
D. Checking
D. supporting
D. encourageme nt
D. build | | 阅读理解。 | Imagine yourself on a boat looking out at the horizon and all you can see is the water meeting the sky
with no land in sight and you are sailing straight ahead to meet the world. Jesse Martin does not have to
imagine: he is living in it.
On Dec. 7, 1998, at 17 years old, Jesse set sail from Melbourne, Australia on his boat, attempting to
become the youngest person to sail alone and nonstop around the world. He sailed south of New Zealand,
through the South Pacific, around South America, north on the Atlantic, back south past Africa, through
the Indian Ocean and back to Melbourne.
Even as a young child, Jesse had been an adventurer who traveled all over Europe and Asia with his
parents. Born in Munich, Germany in 1981, he moved to Australia with his family when he was only two
years old. They moved close to a rainforest in Cow Bay, about 3500kms north of Melbourne, where they
built a small house with no electricity or running water. Jesse grew up at the beach enjoying the outdoors
to its fullest.
At 14, he sailed for the first time with his father and brother, Beau. It was after this trip that he began
to dream about sailing around the world.
Jesse"s family played an important role. "I was made to believe I could do anything." he says. Although,
he says, there were others that were not so encouraging or supportive, "People that I looked up to, respected
and trusted told me I couldn"t. Thankfully, I trusted myself. There were people that said that the boat
couldn"t be ready by the time I had to leave." However, through perseverance and belief in himself he was
able to do what many told him was impossible.
On Oct.31, 1999, more than 10 months after he set sail, Jesse Martin went down in history as the
youngest person to sail around the world alone, nonstop and unassisted. | | 1. What"s the author"s purpose in encouraging the reader to imagine a sailing experience? | A. To show how difficult it is to be a sailor.
B. To show how wonderful Jesse"s sailing is.
C. To describe what Jesse"s sailing is like.
D. To describe what a sailor"s life is like. | | 2. Jesse Martin was at the end of his voyage when he ______. | A. sailed on the South Pacific.
B. sailed on the Indian Ocean.
C. sailed past Africa.
D. sailed past South America. | | 3. Which of the following made Jesse decide to sail alone around the world? | A. His childhood adventure experiences.
B. His journeys to Europe.
C. His first sailing trip with his family.
D. His love for outdoor activities. | | 4. What can we learn from Jesse Martin"s story? | A. Interest leads to success.
B. A strong belief will make a person stronger.
C. Life is an unusual adventure we should enjoy.
D. Failure is the mother of success. |
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