There was once a young ballerina (芭蕾舞演员) who had taken ballet lessons all through her childhood.
She wanted to be a leading ballet dancer, but she won"t to be 1 about this.
When a ballet company came to town, she went backstage after the 2 and spoke to the ballet master,
"I want to be a great ballet dancer but I don"t know if I have the 3 at all." The master said, " 4 for me."
After a minute or two, he shook his head and said, "No, no, no, you don"t have what takes to be a 5
ballerina."
The young woman went home 6 . She threw the ballet slippers into the closet and never wore them
again. 7 she got married and had children. When the kids were 8 enough, she took a part-time job 9
a cashier at a corner shop.
10 later, the same ballet company came to town. She 11 the performance and on the way out she 12
the same old ballet master who was then in his eighties. She 13 him that they had spoken before. She 14
him photos of her children and told him about the corner shop job that she was doing now. And then she
asked, "There is just one thing that really 15 me for many years. 16 could you tell me that I don"t have what
it takes to be a great ballerina?"
"Oh, I 17 looked at you when you danced. That"s what I told all of them who 18 to me," he said. "But...
but, that"s unforgivable! You have 19 my life; I could have been a great ballet dancer!" she cried. "No, no...
I don"t think so. If you have what it takes, you wouldn"t have paid any 20 to what I said," the old ballet master
said.
Well, whose fault is it anyway? |
( )1. A. careful
( )2. A. performance
( )3. A. choice
( )4. A. Work
( )5. A. great
( )6. A. puzzled
( )7. A. However
( )8. A. clever
( )9. A. like
( )10. A. Years
( )11. A. played
( )12. A. ran into
( )13. A. promised
( )14. A. awarded
( )15. A. interested
( )16. A. How
( )17. A. secretly
( )18. A. contributed
( )19. A. ruined
( )20. A. money | B. sorry
B. discussion
B. freedom
B. Prepare
B. serious
B. excited
B. Therefore
B. old
B. with
B. Months
B. canceled
B. quarreled with
B. advised
B. showed
B. encouraged
B. Why
B. immediately
B. came
B. improved
B. effort | C. anxious
C. lesson
C. talent
C. Wait
C. beautiful
C. hungry
C. Instead
C. lovely
C. for
C. Weeks
C. hated
C. believed in
C. reminded
C. sold
C. frightened
C. When
C. hardly
C. replied
C. experienced
C. visit | D. sure
D. crowd
D. chance
D. Dance
D. patient
D. heartbroken
D. Otherwise
D. dependent
D. as
D. Days
D. attended
D. glared at
D. cheated
D. mailed
D. bothered
D. Where
D. proudly
D. wrote
D. controlled
D. attention |
| 1-5: D A C D A 6-10: D C B D A 11-15: D A C B D 16-20: A C B A D |
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试题【完形填空。 There was once a young ballerina (芭蕾舞演员) who had taken ballet lessons 】；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。 | On a cold January morning in a Washington, DC Metro Station, a man with a violin played for about an
hour. During that time approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to
work.
After 3 minutes a middle-aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He stopped for a few seconds
and then hurried on. Four minutes later the violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in
the hat without stopping and continued to walk. After 6 minutes, a young man leaned against the wall to
listen to him, then looked at his watch and walked away. After 10 minutes, a 3-year-old boy stopped but his
mother dragged him along hurriedly. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent,
without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.
Finally only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money, but continued to walk
at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $ 32. When he finished playing, no one applauded.
The violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most
intricate(复杂的) pieces ever written, with a violin worth $ 3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell
sold out a theatre in Boston where the seats averaged $ 100 each.
The program was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste,
and people"s priorities. In a common place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do
we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
If we do not take a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of
the finest music ever written, how many other things are we missing? | | 1. The first paragraph intends to tell us _____. | A. the man chose a bad place for playing
B. few people showed interest in music
C. how busy people were that morning
D. what background the story was set in | | 2. Compared to their parents, the children seemed to _____. | A. have more spare time
B. be more easily touched by music
C. be better at playing the violin
D. have more music knowledge | | 3. We call infer from the passage that _____. | A. none of the passers-by were fond of music
B. beauty can only be enjoyed in particular places
C. Joshua Bell first played the violin in the station
D. in a way, the violinist was mistaken as a beggar | | 4. According to the writer, people should _____. | A. listen to as many great musicians as possible
B. try to create beautiful things for others to enjoy
C. show kindness to anyone whether they"re rich or not
D. notice and appreciate what"s going on in their daily life | | 完形填空。 | Recently, my husband and I had the opportunity to do something good for two people who were complete
stranger to us. It made us feel so good to be able to do it that I thought I should 1 . We were traveling down
to Mexico for Thanksgiving week with our family. 2 we sat in the 3 first two seats in the first row of first
class waiting for the plane to take off. I 4 heard one of the flight attendants (乘务员) telling 5 that there
was a couple sitting in the 6 of the plane who had just been married the previous day and were on their 7 .
They had 8 their flight eight months in 9 but, owing to some schedule changes, had not been able to get
10 together, and no one else on the plane was 11 to move and the bride was in 12 .
I turned to my husband and told him what I heard. We 13 agreed and I called the flight attendant 14 to tell
her that we"d be happy to give up our seats to this couple. The flight attendant seemed amazed and said "Really?
Are you sure?" We said "Absolutely!"
So, we 15 to the back of the plane in separate seats. The flight attendants were extremely 16 and took
good care of us even though we were no longer sitting in first 17 , and we both made friends with the people
sitting around us, who, as it 18 didn"t know why the young woman was crying or that they were newly
married, and had a great flight. I had to go back to the front of the plane to 19 up a forgotten item at one point
during the flight and 20 that the couple were sitting very close together, happily enjoying champagne. It really
made my day and Thanksgiving week get off to such a wonderful start! | ( )1. A. share
( )2. A. Since
( )3. A.quite
( )4. A. carelessly
( )5. A. others
( )6. A. front
( )7. A. business
( )8. A. fixed
( )9. A. air
( )10. A. seats
( )11. A. interested
( )12. A. comfort
( )13. A.immediately
( )14. A. up
( )15. A.left
( )16. A. beautiful
( )17. A. class
( )18. A. went on
( )19. A.pick
( )20. A. told | B. show
B. After
B. same
B. accidentally
B. us
B. middle
B. honeymoon
B. booked
B. time
B. champagnes
B. willing
B. surprise
B. differently
B. off
B. looked
B. careful
B. flight
B. turned out
B. give
B. informed | C. say
C. Before
C. very
C. happily
C. them
C. head
C. research
C. checked
C. church
C. foods
C. eager
C. tears
C. finally
C. over
C. returned
C. thoughtful
C. seat
C. got along
C. clean
C. observed | D. prove
D. Though
D. just
D. sadly
D. everyone
D. back
D. expedition
D. got
D. advance
D. tickets
D. friendly
D. fear
D. unbelievably
D. out
D. moved
D. grateful
D. plane
D. took off
D. look
D. heard | | 完形填空。 | Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a 1 of about eighty miles. It was late and I was
in a hurry. However, if anyone asked me how fast I was 2 , I"d say I was not over-speeding. Several times
I got 3 behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road, and I was holding my fists tightly with 4 .
At one point along an open highway, I 5 a crossroad with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now,
but as I 6 the light, it turned red and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right and behind me. Nothing. No cars,
no suggestion of headlights, but there I sat, waiting for the light to 7 , the only human being for at least a mile
in any 8 .
I started 9 why I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of being 10 , because there was obviously no
policeman around, and there certainly would have been no 11 in going through it.
Much later that night, after I 12 a group of my friends in Lewisburg and climbed into bed near midnight,
the question of why I"d stopped for that light 13 me. I think I stopped because it"s part of a contract (合同)
we all have with each other. It"s not only the 14 , but it"s an arrangement we have, and we trust each other to
15 it: we don"t go through red lights. Like most of us, I"m more likely to be 16 from doing something bad by
the social convention that 17 it than by any law against it.
It"s amazing that we ever 18 each other to do the right thing, isn"t it? And we do, too. Trust is our 19
preference.
I was so 20 of myself for stopping for the red light that night. | ( )1. A. flight
( )2. A. thinking
( )3. A. stopped
( )4. A. horror
( )5. A. ran off
( )6. A. passed
( )7. A. stop
( )8. A. way
( )9. A. wondering
( )10. A. abused
( )11. A. danger
( )12. A. met with
( )13. A. turned out to
( )14. A. virtue
( )15. A. honor
( )16. A. stopped
( )17. A. speaks of
( )18. A. suspect
( )19. A. only
( )20. A. sorry | B. distance
B. driving
B. changed
B. strength
B. came to
B. watched
B. change
B. side
B. suspecting
B. fined
B. sign
B. got over
B. came back to
B. suggestion
B. solve
B. protected
B. stands by
B. trust
B. first
B. doubtful | C. road
C. complaining
C. stuck
C. understanding
C. passed by
C. approached
C. turn
C. city
C. struggling
C. injured
C. time
C. got rid of
C. referred to
C. law
C. break
C. rejected
C. takes in
C. teach
C. lucky
C. sure | D. length
D. running
D. lost
D. impatience
D. left behind
D. found
D. die
D. direction
D. regretting
D. killed
D. record
D. called back
D. occurred to
D. order
D. judge
D. frightened
D. disapproves of
D. care
D. living
D. proud | | 完形填空。 | A little boy invited his mother to attend his school"s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy"s 1 , she
said she would go. This 2 be the first time that his classmates and teacher 3 his mother and he felt 4 of
her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar (疤痕) that 5 nearly the entire
right side of her face. The boy never wanted to 6 why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were 7 by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother 8 the scar, but the
little boy was still embarrassed (尴尬) and 9 himself from everyone. He did, however, get within 10 of a
conversation between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked 11 , "How did you get the scar on your face?"
The mother replied, " 12 my son was a baby, he wad in a room that caught fire. Everyone was 13 afraid
to go in because the fire was 14 , so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood
coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked 15 but fortunately, a fireman
came in and saved both of us." She 16 the burned side of her face. "This scar will be 17 , but to this day, I
have never 18 what I did."
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms
and felt a great 19 of the sacrifice (牺牲) that his mother had made for him. He held her hand 20 for the rest
of the day. | ( )1. A.enjoyment
( )2. A.would
( )3. A.noticed
( )4. A.sick
( )5. A.included
( )6. A.talk about
( )7. A.impressed
( )8. A.in sight of
( )9. A.hid
( )10. A.understanding
( )11. A.carefully
( )12. A.As
( )13. A.so
( )14. A. out of control
( )15. A.helpless
( )16. A.pointed
( )17. A.ugly
( )18. A.forgot
( )19. A.honor
( )20. A.quietly | B. disappointment
B. could
B. greeted
B. ashamed
B. passed
B. think about
B. surprised
B. by means of
B. protected
B. reminding
B. seriously
B. When
B. much
B. under control
B. hopeless
B. showed
B. lasting
B. recognized
B. sense
B. slightly | C. surprise
C. should
C. accepted
C. afraid
C. covered
C. care about
C. excited
C. by way of
C. separated
C. hearing
C. nervously
C. Since
C. quite
C. in control
C. senseless
C. wiped
C. serious
C. considered
C. happiness
C. tightly | D. excitement
D. must
D. met
D. tired
D. shaded
D. hear about
D. comforted
D. in spite of
D. escaped
D. learning
D. anxiously
D. While
D. too
D. over control
D. useless
D. touched
D. frightening
D. regretted
D. pride
D. suddenly | | 阅读理解。 | When 47-year-old volunteer Susan Boyle stepped onto the stage of Britain"s Got Talent and announced she
was unemployed, had never been married and "never been kissed, actually", few in the audience would have
wondered why. This Ms Boyle, looking unfashionable, from a village in Scotland, shocked the three judges and
the audience with the song I dreamed a dream from the musical Les Miserables on a show of Britain"s Got
Talent, one of the hottest reality shows in Britain.
She couldn"t hide the awkwardness when walking to the center of the stage in a housedress, and everyone-
including the judges- seemed laughing at her when she said she wanted to be as successful as Elaine Paige. As
soon as she began singing, however, everyone in the auditorium fell silent, then rose within seconds to applaud
her incredible voice as the celebrity judges sat open-mouthed, and remained standing to the end.
After her performance, one of the judges Piers Morgan said, "Without doubt that was the biggest surprise
I"ve had in three years of this show. When you stood there everyone was laughing at you. No one is laughing
now. That was amazing." Actress Amanda Holden followed, "I"m so thrilled because I know that we everybody
were against you. I honestly think that we were all being very cynical (愤世嫉俗的) and I think that" s the
biggest wake-up call ever."
Susan obviously won over the hearts of millions around the world with sensation spreading across the
Atlantic. Hollywood actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore-who between them have nearly 1.5 million
followers-speak highly of her. Kutcher posted a link to the video clip (片段). The Scottish talent made her live
American debut via satellite connection on CBS"s The Early Show, doing an interview and singing live from her
room. And she already accepted an invitation from talk show host Oprah Winfrey.
Now Boyle has become one of the world" s hottest celebrities. The video clip of her performance has been
viewed more than 50 million times on Youtube, becoming a hit on the Internet. | | 1. We learn from the passage that Susan Boyle ____. | A. rose from a low social class
B. had an unhappy marriage
C. lived with a dog alone on a farm
D. won the championship in the Britain"s Got Talent show | | 2. At the beginning of the show, almost everybody ____. | A. looked forward to her wonderful performance
B. was attracted by her beautiful dress
C. looked down upon her
D. placed great hope on her | | 3. We can infer that ____. contributed most to her global popularity. | A. the judges
B. the internet
C. the newspaper
D. the advertisement | | 4. The 4th paragraph is intended to tell us ____. | A. how Susan Boyle achieved her success
B. the comment made by American actor Ashton Kutcher
C. Susan Boyle"s influence in the USA
D. Oprah Winfrey"s invitation to Susan Boyle |
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