When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the
Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born. I loved this bird; I would 1 him for
hours. He would 2 effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the 3 and
float there beautifully. Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move
4 into the grasses. We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language 5 "pink-colored feet";
meksikatsi and I became very good friends.
The bird had a very particular significance to me 6 I desperately wanted to be able to fly too. I felt
very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where 7 was impossible.
And most of the things that I 8 about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other
people.
When I was ten years old, something unexpected 9 my life suddenly. I found myself become an 10
child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a 11 position that many native Americans find
themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but 12 two cultures.
A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is
what 13 people have called that bird for thousands of years. Meksikatsi, he said, was really "duck". I was
very 14 with English. I could not understand it. First of all, the bird did not look like "duck", and when it
made a 15 , it did not sound like "duck", I was even more 16 when I found out that the meaning of the
verb "to duck" came from the bird.
As I 17 to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of 18 , but I never forgot
that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning. I 19 that languages are not just different words for the
same things but totally different 20 , totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world. |
( )1.A. keep
( )2.A. jump
( )3 .A. nest
( )4.A. quickly
( )5.A. means
( )6.A. though
( )7.A. communication
( )8.A. dreamed
( )9 .A. improved
( )10.A. educated
( )11.A. weak
( )12.A. between
( )13.A. most
( )14.A. desperate
( )15.A. noise
( )16.A. ashamed
( )17.A. tried
( )18 .A. evidence
( )19.A. identified
( )20.A. concepts | B. watch
B. dive
B. hill
B. naturally
B. reads
B. because
B. imagination
B. worried
B. enriched
B. adopted
B. comfortable
B. against
B. few
B. bored
B. call
B. confused
B. came
B. distinction
B. confirmed
B. regulations | C. follow
C. circle
C. water
C. freely
C. shows
C. while
C. belief
C. knew
C. changed
C. outgoing
C. terrible
C. without
C. their
C. uncomfortable
C. decision
C. embarrassed
C. determined
C. profit
C. realized
C. messages | D. search
D. wander
D. road
D. quietly
D. states
D. until
D. flight
D. argued
D. ruined
D. independent
D. central
D. beyond
D. my
D. disappointed
D. choice
D. frightened
D. expected
D. sense
D. predicted
D. evaluations |
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试题【完型填空。 When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies o】；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。 | My 8-year-old daughter is experimenting with kindness and smiles. She has been making her own colourful
smile cards and 1 packs her pockets with them when we go out. She makes them very 2 . And she takes
great pride in her 3 , which she really loves.
Last Sunday, I 4 her shopping with me. My daughter packed her pockets with 20 of her 5 smile cards.
She was 6 to see John, who is an elderly man. We see him from time to time and he is very happy and 7 .
So we can"t help feeling good 8 to him. John wasn"t at the store on Sunday, so my daughter 9 it would be
a good idea to distribute her smile cards to others in the shop.
As much as I have taught her about stranger danger, I have also talked to her about strangers being potential
10 . So, after asking my 11 , she proceeded to give her cards to various people.
The biggest 12 I think she got from our shopping trip came when she had run out of cards. She was 13
by a woman with two babies. Then the babies were crying and the woman was looking 14 . My daughter
smiled at her and the young mother smiled back. She came to me and said, "Mom, I just realized 15 . You don"t
need cards to make someone 16 . All you need to do is make eye contact and smile into their 17 and they will
smile back."
What a beautiful lesson my daughter 18 me of. It is so 19 for us to make eye contact with people every
day. To make a joke or to 20 a friendly words or two to a stranger or to say hello to a stranger …… and you
are never too young (or old) to experiment with kindness and smiles. | ( )1. A. barely
( )2. A. simply
( )3. A. reward
( )4. A. took
( )5. A. homemade
( )6. A. coming
( )7. A. shy
( )8. A. waving
( )9. A. suggested
( )10. A. relatives
( )11. A. expectation
( )12. A. lesson
( )13. A. running
( )14. A. satisfied
( )15. A. everything
( )16. A. joke
( )17. A. eyes
( )18. A. reminded
( )19. A. popular
( )20. A. speak | B. never
B. equally
B. work
B. brought
B. complex
B. learning
B. friendly
B. shouting
B. discovered
B. friends
B. goal
B. prize
B. jumping
B. tired
B. nothing
B. smile
B. clothes
B. thought
B. different
B. lend | C. sometimes
C. carefully
C. remark
C. carried
C. rough
C. hoping
C. rich
C. turning
C. promised
C. enemies
C. permission
C. wonder
C. walking
C. shocked
C. anything
C. respond
C. ears
C. asked
C. funny
C. offer | D. often
D. directly
D. appearance
D. made
D. famous
D. pretending
D. strict
D. talking
D. decided
D. competitors
D. instruction
D. trouble
D. sitting
D. worried
D. something
D. hide
D. fingers
D. convinced
D. easy
D. write | | 阅读理解。 | Slowly I climbed into the driver"s seat of the old brown pontiac. "Hi, Miss Caroline!" cried the three
passengers, my friend Annie and her two children. No, I"m not Annie"s driver. I"m just a friend.
Let me explain. I"m 68, retired and live alone. Annie"s 27, works as a part-time bank teller and is married
with two kids. We"re different, but we have one very important need in common-a car. I couldn"t afford to
fix my own car and the bus didn"t go everywhere I needed to go.
A friend had a suggestion. "My daughter Annie"s been using my old pontiac while her husband job-hunts,"
he said, "He got laid off and I know they could use help with gas. Maybe you two could share the car."
Share a car? We Americans are pretty territorial about our automobiles. Still, need overrode (压倒)
nervousness and I gave Annie a call. We quickly worked out a schedule. Three days a week for me, the rest
for her.
Having wheels again was a huge help. Soon the car brought something more. Driving each other home
on the days we switched, Annie and I talked about everything.
She had plenty of worries. Besides her finances, her dad"s health was failing. However, she lifted my spirits!
She once said, "Life doesn"t always turn out the way I want, but I trust things will work out. And they do.
Just like this car!"
Annie and her family moved to Los Angeles. I still borrow the pontiac from her dad, who is healthy once
again. Now, whenever I drive the car, I think about Annie, and about how a simple exchange born of economic
need can become such a blessing. Like Annie says, life doesn"t always turn out the way we want. But that
doesn"t mean it doesn"t turn out good. | | 1. What did the writer have in common with Annie? | A. They were both in financial difficulty.
B. They both lacked love and care in life.
C. They had both been searching for a job.
D. They were both too poor to own a car. | | 2. Who was the real owner of the old brown pontiac? | A. The writer.
B. Annie.
C. A bank teller.
D. Annie"s father. | | 3. Annie impressed the writer much mainly because _____. | A. she had a deep love for her dad
B. she had many worries in her life
C. she had a positive attitude to life
D. she knew how to lift others" spirits | | 完型填空。 | It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen 1 in almost a month. Every day,
my husband would 2 about the hard process of trying to get water to the fields. 3 we didn"t see some
rain soon. we would lose everything.
On this day that I learned the true lesson of 4 and witnessed a great miracle. I was in the kitchen 5
I saw my son, Billy, walking toward the 6 . He was walking with 7 , trying to be as quiet as possible.
Minutes after he 8 into the woods, he came running back, I went back to make sandwiches, 9 that
whatever he had been doing was completed. Moments later, 10 , he was once more walking slowly toward
the woods. This activity went on for an hour. 11 , I couldn"t help following him and saw the most amazing
12 . Several large deer stood in front of him. Billy walked right up to them. I almost 13 for him to get away.
A huge deer was 14 close. 15 the deer didn"t even move as Billy knelt down. I saw a tiny deer lying on the
ground, obviously suffering from 16 , and lifting its head to lap up the water cupped in Billy"s hands. When
the water was 17 , Billy ran back to get more. It then became 18 to me.
I stood on the edge of the woods, watching the 19 boy working so hard to save another life. As my tears
began to hit the ground, they were suddenly joined by other drops. It was as if the God himself was 20 with
pride. The rain that day saved our farm just like the actions of one little boy who saved another. | ( )1. A. water
( )2. A. set
( )3. A. Before
( )4. A. determination
( )5. A. while
( )6. A. fields
( )7. A. care
( )8. A. jumped
( )9. A. thinking
( )10. A. though
( )11. A. Actually
( )12. A. sign
( )13. A. reminded
( )14. A. mildly
( )15. A. And
( )16. A. pain
( )17. A. gone
( )18. A. upset
( )19. A. honest
( )20. A. raining | B. storm
B. think
B. Unless
B. interest
B. after
B. woods
B. respect
B. rushed
B. wondering
B. besides
B. Finally
B. scenery
B. screamed
B. powerfully
B. Otherwise
B. illness
B. shallow
B. acceptable
B. clever
B. weeping | C. deer
C. know
C. Until
C. love
C. when
C. house
C. doubt
C. wandered
C. worrying
C. however
C. Quietly
C. sight
C. made
C. dangerously
C. Thus
C. heat
C. less
C. clear
C. naughty
C. singing | D. rain
D. talk
D. If
D. freedom
D. that
D. garden
D. courage
D. disappeared
D. learning
D. therefore
D. surprisingly
D. screen
D. burst
D. surprisingly
D. But
D. thirst
D. small
D. puzzling
D. kind
D. appearing | | 阅读理解。 | Between the innocence of babyhood and the seriousness of manhood we find a delightful creature called
a "boy" Boys are found everywhere-on top of, under, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around,
or jumping to. Mothers spoil them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers love them, and God protects
them. A boy is TRUTH with dirt on its face, BEAUTY with a cut on its finger, WISDOM with chocolate in its
hair, and the HOPE of the future with a snake in its pocket.
When you are busy, a boy is a trouble - maker and a noise. When you want him to make a good impression,
his brain turns to jelly or else he becomes a wild creature bent on destroying the world and himself with it.
A boy is a mixture-he has the stomach of a horse, the digestion (消化力) of stones and sand, the energy of
an atomic bomb, the curiosity of a cat, the imagination of a superman, the shyness of a sweet girl, the brave
nature of a bull, the violence of a firecracker, but when you ask him to make something, he has five thumbs (拇
指) on each hand.
He likes ice cream, knives, saws, Christmas, comic books, woods, water (in its natural habitat), large
animals, Dad, trains, Saturday mornings, and fire engines. He is not much for Sunday schools, company,
schools, books without pictures, music lessons, neckties, barbers, girls, overcoats, adults, or bedtime.
A boy is a magical creature-he is your headache but when you come home at night with only shattered
pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words, "Hi, Dad!" | | 1. The whole passage is in a tone of _____. | A. humor and affection
B. respect and harmony
C. ambition and expectation
D. confidence and imagination | | 2. Could you figure out the meaning of the underlined sentence? | A. He has altogether five fingers.
B. He is slow, foolish and clumsy.
C. He becomes clever and smart.
D. He cuts his hand with a knife. | | 3. According to the writer, boys appreciate everything in the following EXCEPT _____. | A. ice cream
B. comic books
C. Saturday mornings
D. Sunday schools | | 4. What does the writer feel about boys? | A. He feels curious about their noise.
B. He is fed up with these creatures.
C. He is amazed by their naughtiness.
D. He feels unsafe staying with them. | | 完形填空。 | It was half an hour before midnight on December 24th last year. I was a ticket-counter supervisor (主管)
for a major airline and was looking forward to the 1______ of my shift (轮班) at Stapleton International Airport
in Denver. My wife was waiting up for me at home so that we could 2______ our gifts for Christmas.
Just then, a very 3______ gentleman went up to me: He asked how he could get to Cheyenne, Wyoming. He
had just arrived from Philadelphia and 4______ his connecting flight. I pointed him to the ground transportation
area, where he could rent a 5______. And then I called ray wife to let her know I would be home 6______
About fifteen minutes later, the gentleman 7______ and informed me that all the buses were full and there
were no cars 8______. I told him that he had to stay for a night ai the airport. Hearing that, he burst into
9______.
I tried to make him calm down. He explained that his name was Tom, and that his only son was 10______
ill at home and was not expected to 11______ another year, He expected that this would likely be the 12______
Christmas with his son. I told Tom to 13______ his luggage and wait for me at the gate. I was driving to
Cheyenne. I called my wife Kathy, telling her about it and not to wait up for me. I drove fast 14______ and we
arrived in Cheyenne around 2:30 a.m.
Kathy was still 15______ me when I got home in the early morning. We traded gifts and then our conversation
16______ Tom. For Kathy and me, there was no 17______ that driving Tom to Cheyenne was the 18______
choice.
A couple of days later, I 19______ a Christmas card with a picture of Tom and his family. In it, Tom thanked
me for the special 20______ lie had received that holiday season, but I knew the best gift was mine. | ( )1.A. end
( )2.A. expect
( )3.A. kind
( )4.A. mistook
( )5.A. bus
( )6.A. soon
( )7.A. left
( )8.A. reliable
( )9.A. laughter
( )10.A. really
( )11.A. suffer
( )12.A. last
( )13.A. hand
( )14.A. for a while
( )15.A. waiting for
( )16.A. remembered
( )17.A. idea
( )18.A. main
( )19.A. received
( )20.A. drive | B. turn
B. get
B. helpless
B. missed
B. flight
B. late
B. moved
B. present
B. tears
B. slightly
B. live
B. best
B. find
B. all around
B. caring for
B. recalled
B. doubt
B. only
B. sent
B. help | C. role
C. exchange
C. sad
C. caught
C. room
C. early
C. came
C. available
C. anger
C. seriously
C. share
C. happiest
C. pack
C. all the way
C. thinking of
C. concerned
C. point
C. nice
C. saved
C. deal | D. change
D. make
D. worried
D. continued
D. car
D. lately
D. returned
D. acceptable
D. sorrow
D. unluckily
D. grow
D. hardest
D. collect
D. from time to time
D. depending on
D. contained
D. problem
D. great
D. discovered
D. gift |
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