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阅读理解。     I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant, and ancient for a sportsman.
Fifty is a nice number for the states in the US or for a national speed limit but it is not a number that I was
prepared to have hung on me. Fifty is supposed to be my father"s age, but now I am stuck with this number
and everything it means.
     A few days ago, a friend tried to cheer me up by saying, " Fifty is what forty used to be." He had made
an inspirational point, Am I over the hill? People keep telling me that the hill has been moved, and I keep telling
them that he high-jump bar has dropped from the six feet I once easily cleared to the four feet that is
impossible for me now.
     " Your are not getting older, you are getting better." says Dr. Joyce Brothers. This, however, is the kind
of doctor who inspires a second opinion.
     And so. as I approach the day when I cannot even jump over the tennis net. I am moves to share some
thoughts on aging with you. I am moved to show how aging feels to me physically and mentally. Getting older.
of course, is obviously a better change than the one that brings you eulogies (悼词). In fact, a poet named
Robert Browning considered it the best change of all:
     Grow old along with me!
     The best is yet to me.
     Whether or not Browning was right, most of my first fifty years have been golden ones, so I will settle for
what is ahead being as good as what has gone by. I find myself moving toward what is ahead with a curious
blend (混合) of both fighting and accepting my aging, hoping that the philosopher (哲学家) was right when
he said. " Old is always fifteen years from now." 1. The author seems to tell us in Paragraph 1 that _____. A. time alone will tell
B. time goes by quickly
C. time will show what is right
D. time makes one forget the past 2. When the author turned fifty, people around him ______. A. tried to comfort him
B. got inspiration with him
C. were friendlier with him
D. found him more talkative 3. The author considers his fifty years of life _____. A. peaceful
B. ordinary
C. satisfactory
D. regretful4. We can infer from the passage that _____.

A. the old should led a simple life
B. the old should face the fact of aging
C. the old should take more exercise
D. the old should fill themselves with curiosity

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1-4: BACB

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完形填空。     I was having my dinner at McDonald"s one evening when an old couple slowly walked in. They   1   their
meal, took a table near the window and started   2   food out of the plate. There was one hamburger, one order
of French fries (炸薯条) and one drink. The man   3   the food into two halves and carefully placed   4   before
his wife.
     He took a sip (一小口) of the drink. His wife also took one and then   5   the cup down between them.
"That   6   old couple! All they can   7   is one meal for the two of them," thought I   8   the man began to eat
his French fries. I   9 to my feet, went over and said that I was  10  to buy another meal for them. Bet he  11
refused me and said that they made it a  12  to share everything.
      13 , the lady didn"t take a bite, She sat there  14  her husband eat, and taking turns (轮流) sipping the drink.
Again I  15  to buy them something but was refused. When the man finished eating and was  16  his face with
a napkin (纸巾). I  17  no longer stand it. I made an offer to them a third time.  18  being politely refused, I
asked the lady  19 , "Madam, why aren"t you eating? You said that you share everything.  20  is it that you are
waiting for?" "The teeth," she answered.

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(     )1.A. served
(     )2.A. carrying
(     )3.A. divided
(     )4.A. it
(     )5.A. got
(     )6.A. funny
(     )7.A. afford
(     )8.A. While
(     )9.A. came
(     )10.A. anxious
(     )11.A. warmly
(     )12.A. way
(     )13.A. Surprisingly
(     )14.A. seeing
(     )15.A. wanted
(     )16.A. wiping
(     )17.A. should
(     )18.A. In
(     )19.A. curiously
(     )20.A. How

B. requested
B. taking
B. cut
B. this
B. settled
B. crazy
B. pay
B. Since
B. struggled
B. willing
B. proudly
B. habit
B. Sadly
B. noticing
B. asked
B. touching
B. could
B. Upon
B. carefully
B. Who

C. collected
C. fetching
C. changed
C. that
C. set
C. strange
C. demand
C. As
C. rushed
C. satisfied
C. kindly
C. case
C. Shockingly
C. watching
C. planned
C. bathing
C. might
C. After
C. naturally
C. Why

D. ordered
D. bringing
D. formed
D. one
D. turned
D. poor
D. choose
D. Until
D. rose
D. quick
D. seriously
D. model
D. Bitterly
D. finding
D. attempted
D. washing
D. would
D. With
D. plainly
D. What

完形填空。

     Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new
  1 in high school.
       2 , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts (选拔赛) for cheerleaders
(拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be   3 for her to
be selected. Two hours later, the   4 read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart   5 as the list
ended without her name. Feeling   6 , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
     Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was
  7 . She moved on to English and history, and was   8 to find that she didn"t have any trouble with those
subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to   9 math for the time being.
     The nest day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school 10 . Mrs. Biden wasn"t as  11
as Jenna. "I"m sorry, but we have enough  12 for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we"ll
talk then." Jenna smiled  13 and left. "Why is high school so 14 ?" she sighed.
     Later in  15  class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much 16 .
By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she"d
continue to try to  17   at her new school. She wasn"t sure if she"d succeed, but she knew she had to 18 .
High school was just as her mom had said: "You will feel like a small fish in a big pond  19 a big fish in a
small pond. The challenge is to become the  20 fish you can be."

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阅读理解。

     As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. "The woods" was our part-time address,
destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friend"s house and found him not at home, his mother might
say, "Oh, he"s out in the woods," with a tone (语气) of airy acceptance. It"s similar to the tone people
sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I"m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even"
away from his desk." For us ten-year-olds, "being out in the woods" was just an excuse to do whatever we
feel like for a while.
     We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring (探索). Exploring was
a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations,
though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we
stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly
persuaded was an Italian burial mound.
    Often we got "lost" and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which
someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and
we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we
visited regularly----tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.
     It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has
reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence (青春期). In March, the month when we
usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and
all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that were really were rather big to be up in a tree.
Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.

1. The author and his fiends were often out in the woods to _______.

A. spend their free time
B. play gold and other sports
C. avoid doing their schoolwork
D. keep away from their parents

2. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

A. The activities in the woods were well planned.
B. Human history is not the result of exploration.
C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.
D. The author explored in the woods aimlessly.

3. The underlined word "skeptical" in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. calm
B. doubtful
C. serious
D. optimistic

4. How does the author feel about his childhood?

A. Happy but short.
B. Lonely but memorable.
C. Boring and meaningless.
D. Long and unforgettable.

完型填空。

     I was on a bus one March evening. The driver didn"t   1   to start the bus soon because it was not yet   2  .
A middle-aged woman got on. Tired and sad, she told her story   3  , not to anyone in particular. On her way
to the station, half of her   4   was stolen. The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she   5   still had
some left. A few minutes later, she stopped crying, but still looked   6  .
     When all the seats were taken, the driver started the engine. The conductor began to collect fares (车费).
When she came to an old man in worn-out clothes, he   7   that he had spent all his money when he had
accidentally got on a wrong bus and now he was trying to go home. On hearing this, she ordered the old man
to   8   the bus. The old man was almost in tears as he   9   her to let him take the bus home. The driver took
the conductor"s side and repeated the conductor"s  10 .
     The woman was watching the incident.  11  the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man,
she interfered (干预).
     "Stop  12  him! Can"t you see he"s only trying to get home?"
     "He doesn"t have any money!" the driver  13 .
     "Well, that"s no  14  to throw him off the bus," she insisted.
    Then she reached inside her blouse, look out her  15  money, and handed it to the conductor.
     "Here"s his fare and mine. Just stop giving him a  16  time."
     All heads turned to the woman. "It"s only money," she shrugged.
    She rode the rest of the way home  17  a happy smile, with the money she"d lost earlier  18 .
     On the road of life, the help of strangers can  19  our loads and lift our spirits. How much sweeter the  20
will be when we make it a little smoother for others!

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阅读理解。
I arrived at my mother"s home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt (被子) after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to fold and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box. I pulled it out. "What is this?" I asked. "Oh?" Mom said, "That"s Mama"s quilt." I spread the quilt. It looked at if a group of school children had pieced it together: irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked line on the right. "Grandmother made this?" I said, surprised. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This certainly didn"t look like any of the quilts she had made. "Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes," she said. "I"m still working on it. See, this is what I"ve done so far." I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had stitched (缝) a piece of cloth with these words:"My mother made many quilts. She didn"t get all lines straight. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt." "Ooh, this is so nice, Mom," I said. It occurred to me that by completing my grandmother"s quilt, my mother was honoring her own mother. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another.
1. Why did the author go to mother"s home?
A. To see her mother"s quilts. B. To help prepare for a show. C. To get together for the family dinner. D. To discuss her grandmother"s life.
2. The author was surprised because _____.
A. the quilt looked very strange. B. her grandmother liked the quilt. C. the quilt was the best she had seen. D. her mother had made some changes
3. The underlined wood "crooked" in the passage most probably means _____.
A. unfinished B. broken C. bent D. unusual
4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Quilt Show B. Mother"s Home C. A Monday Dinner D. Grandmother"s Quilt