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阅读理解。

     "Mom, can I bake some bread?" We were 15; my best friend, Hanna, and I, determined to try our hands
at creating some beautiful bread.
     "It"s not worth the trouble," my mother said."It takes lots of time and makes a big mess. Our bakery
bread
is delicious without all that effort."
     Begging was useless. Mom"s"no" meant"No!"
     But several weeks later, opportunity knocked. My parents were going out for the evening. I immediately
invited Hanna to be my partner in bread-baking crime.
     We studied the recipe. That was easy. "Mix oil into flour then beat in four eggs, one at a time, with
remaining sugar and salt."
     We were not good at breaking eggs. I tried to learn from my mother.
     "Gradually add eight cups of flour. When dough (面团) holds together, squeeze it."
     We took turns working like that. "Is the dough "holding together"?" we asked each other.
      I remembered my neighbor"s instructions: "If it"s too sticky, add some flour; if too dry, add water."
      We added water. Then more flour. Then more water. By then, the mass of our dough had grown very
much. "Place dough on floured surface and squeeze till smooth," the recipe instructed.
     We took turns burying our hands in the damp dough, pinching, squeezing, and feeling it leak between
fingers. "Clean and oil bowl, and then return dough to bowl. Cover and let dough rise in a warm place for
one
hour."
     This was good news-we"d have a break. On the dirty kitchen chairs, we dreamed about our beautiful
bread. "See?" we would tell my mom. "Isn"t it worth the work?"
     Hanna and I couldn"t help glancing at the rising process every few minutes. But nothing happened.
     "Maybe something will happen in the hot oven," I said.
     Unfortunately, when we removed the loaves from the oven, they were like hard stones.
     Mom was right; it takes time and effort. It sometimes makes a mess. But still it feels good, somehow, to
be part of that long, ongoing chain of bread bakers. Since that night, both Hanna and I have learned to do it
right.

1. To the writer, what her mother said was _____. A. law
B. rubbish
C. advice
D. warning 2. Which of the following can best describe the children"s feelings while making their first bread?

A. Confident; hopeful; proud
B. Curious; hopeful; disappointed
C. Interested; excited; satisfied
D. Worried; satisfied; proud

3. Which of the following did the writer do without referring to the instructions? A. Placed dough on floured surface.
B. Added eight cups of flour to eggs.
C. Returned dough to a cleaned bowl.
D. Placed the dough into the hot oven.4. The passage mainly tells us _____. A. the process of making bread
B. the conflict between mother and daughter
C. the first experience of making bread
D. the way of doing housework

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1-4: ABDC

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阅读理解。     In Britain, in a population of 60 million, there are 13 million grandparents, many of whom live alone a
long way from their grandchildren.The loneliness of these older people has become an issue that schools
are trying to teach children about.
     On a popular teacher"s website, there is a classroom activity to help make children aware of the
implications of the different generations of the same family living far from each other. It"s a story about Mrs.
Eiderdown, an elderly lady whose grandchildren have moved to Australia with their parents. She lives alone
and rarely sees her family.
    First of all, the children speculate about Mrs. Eiderdown"s life. What does she have for breakfast? what
does she do all day?how does she feel about her life?
     One day, Mrs. Eiderdown decides that she wants a pet to keep her company and puts an advertisement
in a local shop window. Then she waits at home to see if anyone will answer her advertisement.
     A tall thin man rings her doorbell. he is holding a cardboard box. Mrs. Eiderdown chats with the man for
ten minutes before she realizes that she hasn"t looked in-side the box to see what the pet is. She can hear a
his-sing sound. The children guess what is in the box (a snake). Mrs. Eiderdown thanks the man but says
she doesn"t think the snake is a good idea.
     The next time the doorbell rings, there"s a lady on the doorstep, also carrying a cardboard box. In the
bottom of the box, Mrs. Eiderdown sees something black and hairy with eight legs. Again, the children say
what they think it is (a spider). Mrs. Eiderdown thanks the lady for her kindness but says that a spider is not
the sort of pet she has in mind.
     At last, the little girl next door brings her a dog.Mrs. Eiderdown"s life improves a lot because of the dog.
more importantly, of course, the little girl, whose own granny lives a long way away, starts to visit Mrs.
Eiderdown more often. This interactive classroom idea has led to a greater awareness among children about
the possible loneliness of older people who live quite near them.1. What"s the main idea of the passage?A. children get to know about the trouble of the elderly
B. neighbors help select pets for Mrs. Eiderdown
C. society helps the lonely people in the UK
D. school send pets to the lonely elderly 2. What does the underlined sentence in the third paragraph mean? A. they talk about how she feels about being old
B. they try to experience her loneliness
C. they try to imagine how she lives
D. they write about her life story3. What can we infer from the passage?A. the little girl often visits her own granny
B. the people who offer pets are lady"s neighbors
C. the farther the elderly live, the lonelier they feel
D. the little girl begins to care more about Mrs. Eiderdown

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完形填空。     When I was 14, my family went on our first trip to the United States. My uncle moved there several years
ago to work in the    1 industry in California.
     Although we flew several times before. this trip seemed really    2   because I had never been to America
before. However, to our disappointment, the ride was    3 this time. People smoked and the air quality was
very poor.
     Moreover, it was    4 to see American money-it was very ugly and boring, all green and white, but what
it could    5 -freedom, Hollywood-was    6   . I didn"t see any movie stars in fur coats    7 their lovely dogs,
either. I   8   , "Is this California? Where are the beaches, the sun and the blonde girls?"    9   a land of
dark-haired people, seeing blondes was   10 one of the extremely   11 parts of the trip. However, I was
rather disappointed.    12 , the weather was really foggy, the city looked kind of old and the traffic was
terrible.
    We droved north to Sonoma where my   13   had his house. The wine industry to a  14   can be both
extremely boring and endless exciting. It was great to see my cousins and they   15 that they would take
me out when the weather was nicer. We rode for miles and miles and played in the hills where no one could
  16   us.
     By the time we   17   to see the city of San Francisco all my bad thoughts had been   18 . I was having
so much fun with my cousins that I wanted to move there.
     I saw neither blonde girls nor   19   on that trip, but I met a lot of nice People and   20   that wherever you
live it"s always a nice place if you like the people there. I hope I can travel back to California soon.

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(     )1. A. clothing
(     )2. A. interesting
(     )3. A. lovely
(     )4. A. surprising
(     )5. A. impress
(     )6. A. frightening
(     )7. A. walking
(     )8. A. explained
(     )9. A. Rounding up
(     )10. A. impossibly
(     )11. A. beneficial
(     )12. A. After all
(     )13. A. uncle
(     )14. A. native
(     )15. A. imagined
(     )16. A. hate
(     )17. A. spread out
(     )18. A. turned down
(     )19. A. beaches
(     )20. A. appreciated

B. wine
B. fearful
B. smooth
B. helpful
B. change
B. moving
B. marching
B. complained
B. Looking through
B. surely
B. wonderful
B. As a result
B. father
B. child
B. promised
B. help
B. held back
B. given away
B. cities
B. identified

C. service
C. boring
C. expensive
C. disappointing
C. realize
C. exciting
C. approaching
C. wondered
C. Resulting from
C. seriously
C. effective
C. First of all
C. brother
C. cousin
C. believed
C. bother
C. turned up
C. washed away
C. planes
C. realized

D. travel
D. common
D. terrible
D. meaningful
D. buy
D. depressing
D. fighting
D. announced
D. Coming from
D. fortunately
D. ordinary
D. Worse still
D. friend
D. worker
D. appealed
D. miss
D. got around
D. put forward
D. hills
D. imagined

阅读理解。

     I have been employed by a charity organization for less than a year now and I have the privilege of
finding foster homes for abandoned children. It has always been my dream to work with adopted children
because I myself was an adopted child.
     I was born in California in September of 1976 and was adopted in Ohio in March of 1977. I have no
memory of being told that I was adopted, however, I have always known. I have been told that I was
wanted and I was special.
     Even though my parents provided me with lots of love, I was always annoyed by the questions about
my origin and my feeling of being unwanted. I constantly scanned every crowd I was in for another human
that looked like me or laughed like me.
     I began searching for my birthparents in 1999 and I imagined every possible scene of my birth family.
     I went to a local agency for support and five days later I met my birth mother. The story unfolded. She
flew me to Los Angeles the next day and I spent the weekend connecting with another person who looked
just like me. We have had a worthwhile relationship over the past years although she could not give me any
information about my birth father.
     In June of last year a member of my birth father"s family contacted me. Now, he and I are just beginning
to get to know what it is like to be a birth child, Without the support of my parents who raised me I would
have never experienced the feeling of being truly wanted accepted. For that, I am forever grateful.

1. What"s the author"s attitude towards working with adopted children?

A. He feels it is worth a try.
B. He is eager to work with them.
C. He is strongly against it.
D. He thinks it is painful. .

2. How does the author feel about his birth family?

A. He feels that he can"t forgive his birth parents.
B. He understands his birth parents.
C. He misses his birth parents very much.
D. He is afraid of being hurt by them again.

3. Why does the author writes this passage?

A. To complain about being abandoned by his birth parents.
B. To show how deep his desire to work with adopted children is.
C. To encourage other people to find their birth parents.
D. To show his love to his birth parents and his foster parents

完形填空。

     My 14-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat at the same time. It was hanging at a (an)   1   clothing
store. The coat had a black velvet collar, delightful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label (标签) and a (an)   2 price
of $ 28.
     We looked at   3 , saying nothing,   4 John"s eyes shone. Dark, woolen topcoats were popular just then
with   5   , but could   6   several hundred dollars now.
     John   7 the coat. He turned from side to side, eyeing himself in the mirror with a serious, studied   8
that soon changed into a smile. The   9 was perfect. John wore the coat to school the next day and came
home wearing a big smile. "How did the kids like your coat?" I asked. "They love it." He said, carefully 10
it over the chair and smoothing it flat.
     Over the next few weeks, the   11 came over John. Quiet, reasoned discussion was   12 argument. He
became more thoughtful and eager to 13 . "Good dinner, Mum," he would say every evening. One day when
I suggested that he might start on homework before dinner, John said, "You are right, and I guess I will."
     When I 14 this to one of his teachers and remarked that I didn"t know   15 caused the changes, she
said with laughter, "It must be his coat!" At the library, we 16   to meet a friend who had not seen our children
for a long time. "   17 this be John?" he asked, looking up to John"s new height, assessing the cut of his coat,
and extending his hand, one gentleman to another.
     John and I both knew we should never   18 a person"s clothes for the real person within them. But there
is something to be said for   19 a standard of excellence for the world to see, for practicing standards of excellence in thought, speech and behavior, and for  20   what is on the inside with what is on the outside.

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There was room for all of us, and the sleeping bags kept the night coldness away. We would listen to the sound of the river, and hear the coyotes (土狼) howling along the hills not far away. Those were the cool summer nights of the mid-nineties in Southern Alberta, Canada, when the four children were young and we would lie on the trampoline (蹦床) in the backyard late at night, for the sun would not set till late in July and August. We would look at the stars up above and never grow tired of it. These were the times when I would tell the stories of my own childhood and teach the kids life"s lessons that have been remembered to this day. I chuckle (轻声地笑), as I recall the time when we heard a coyote not far away, and then I started a story about a bear approaching the trampoline. The bear came close (in the story), and the kids snuggled up to mom and me, until suddenly I"d let out a howl and grab all the kids and they would be frightened and jump up and then all laugh, "Daddy, you scared us!" Now the children are in their mid and late teens, but they fondly remember the starry nights on that trampoline. Recently my oldest daughter on her wedding day sang a song for her parents, entitled "I"ll always be your little girl". She wrote the music and words and yes indeed: it included a memory of those starry nights. I have learned as a parent that one of the greatest gifts we can give our children as they are growing up is the time to tell them stories, or if telling stories is not that simple, perhaps read them a story. They can read their own books, but telling or reading them a story will create a close relationship with pleasant memories such as those late summer nights under the starry sky.
1. The passage is mainly about _____.
A. coyotes" effects on children B. the relationship between children C. the author"s unforgettable experiences D. the author"s memories of starry nights
2. The underlined part "snuggled up" probably means _____.
A. lay down B. got close C. gave in D. struggled forward
3. How do the children feel about their childhood?
A. Very enjoyable. B. A bit regretful. C. Rather busy. D. Sort of dull.
4. In the last paragraph, the writer mainly wants to express _____.
A. it is easy to tell stories to children B. kids should read stories themselves C. it is important to tell or read stories to kids D. it"s necessary to spend summer nights with kids