Tina and Thomas Sjogren were the fourth and fifth people to reach the earth"s three poles. Years ago, the
couple were 1 across the North Atlantic on their way to Europe. Tina looked out of her window and was
2 by the vast amount of space in Greenland. "The sky outside the window burst into different 3 , and
auroras (极光) flew all around us. I 4 what it would be like to step down there and start walking 5 , all
alone in such a place." She thought, "If this is what Iceland and Greenland are like, how 6 then must the
Arctic be?" She turned to her husband, 7 him awake and said, "Honey, let"s go to the Poles!"
Tina"s 8 would not be their first adventure. They had already climbed Mount Qomolangma. The pair
soon made a 9 to visit both the North and South Poles on skis, travelling 10 .
On February 2, 2002, they reached the South Pole. Their journey 11 2 000 kilometres. After just 35 days
of recovery and preparation, they 12 again. "You are so 13 after the long expedition to the South Pole, so
you don"t know if you could do 14 right away."
On May 29, after travelling for the whole morning, as the couple watched with weak 15 , the numbers on
their GPS showed that their goal had 16 been achieved. They had made it.
Without the 17 of dogs or supplies dropped from planes, it was only their strength and willpower that 18
them to ski and swim their way. They got valuable experience but that did not come without a 19 . If you go
on an adventure, there"s always the risk of something going wrong. 20 , you will learn from it. |
( )1.A. flying
( )2.A. frightened
( )3.A. shapes
( )4.A. remembered
( )5.A. carefully
( )6.A. cold
( )7.A. shook
( )8.A. idea
( )9.A. suggestion
( )10.A. non-stop
( )11.A. covered
( )12.A. broke down
( )13.A. excited
( )14.A. more
( )15.A. torchlight
( )16.A. surprisingly
( )17.A. reward
( )18.A. attracted
( )19.A. price
( )20.A. Therefore | B. exploring
B. bored
B. colors
B. wondered
B. quickly
B. bright
B. knocked
B. advice
B. plan
B. unsupported
B. included
B. settled down
B. disappointed
B. another
B. sunlight
B. luckily
B. burden
B. allowed
B. success
B. Instead | C. swimming
C. amazed
C. sounds
C. enjoyed
C. aimlessly
C. wonderful
C kept
C. order
C. proposal
C. unreturned
C. lasted
C. set out
C. confused
C. one
C. breath
C. accidentally
C help
C. taught
C. mistake
C. Otherwise | D. sailing
D. amused
D. waves
D. doubted
D. freely
D. terrible
D. beat
D. offer
D. change
D. unprepared
D. crossed
D. came back
D. tired
D. others
D. eyesight
D. eventually
D. company
D. forced
D. change
D. However |
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| Cloze test. | Lulu is a brave pet in our shelter. As you know, there are a lot of forest fires during the summer season.
Many forests are badly damaged by fire each year. Not far from our shelter, a forest caught fire during this
hot summer. We were in a heat wave which had been 1 for three days.
Lulu rushed towards the forest where flames sent out a terrible 2 . I no longer had any hope that Lulu
would come back to the shelter. In fact, I was waiting for the firemen to announce his 3 in the forest,
when suddenly, a fireman burst into my shelter and 4 me that my dog Lulu had 5 to save four kittens
who were trapped by the flames. According to the fireman, Lulu seized the kittens, one by one moving them
to a safe place. I immediately accompanied the fireman to the forest to 6 the rescued kittens. When we
arrived at the 7 of the incident, we found Lulu was not there. Then we heard the 8 of a dog from the
forest barking furiously. I recognized it was my dog Lulu. The fireman followed the tracks of the dog until
we found him barking 9 by the side of an injured fireman who was lying on the ground and desperately
waiting for rescue. Thanks to Lulu, four kittens and a fireman were saved.
That day, I was very proud of Lulu for his two heroic 10 towards the kittens and the fireman Lulu showed
much compassion (同情) for both animals like him and for a human being who was trying to 11 the fire with
his colleagues.
This true story of genuine love and compassion shows us that pets are loving, 12 and considerate. We
should love and protect them. One day they could do us a good turn. | ( )1. A. taking on
( )2. A. heat
( )3. A. return
( )4. A. warned
( )5. A. tried
( )6. A. pick out
( )7. A. scene
( )8. A. voice
( )9. A. heavily
( )10. A. things
( )11. A. put off
( )12. A. caring | B. coming on
B. energy
B. honor
B. informed
B. wanted
B. pick up
B. position
B. noise
B. strongly
B. actions
B. put away
B. careless | C. going on
C. fever
C. action
C. communicated
C. managed
C. bring on
C. situation
C. accent
C. loudly
C. barks
C. put up
C. careful | D. keeping on
D. burn
D. death
D. gave
D. failed
D. bring up
D. view
D. sound
D. softly
D. reactions
D. put out
D. carefree | | Cloze test. | When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A student. I believed
I could 1 tough subjects and really learn something. One such course was World Literature given by
Professor Jayne. I was extremely interested in the ideas he 2 in class.
When I took the first exam, I was 3 to find a 77, C-plus, on my test paper, for English was my best
subject. I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained 4 .
I decided to try harder, although I didn"t know what that means 5 school had always been easy for
me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. Again, I 6 with Professor Jayne. Again, he
listened 7 but wouldn"t change his mind.
One more test before the final exam. One more 8 to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts
and, for the first time, learned the meaning of the word " 9 ". But my 10 did no good and everything
went as before.
The last hurdle was the final. No matter what grade I got, it wouldn"t cancel three C-pluses. I might as
well kiss the 11 goodbye.
I stopped working hard. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the
final, I even 12 myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I"d have fun with a test.
A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A I hurried into Professor Jayne"s office. He 13 to be
expecting me. "If I gave you the grade as you expected, you wouldn"t continue to work as hard."
I stared at him, 14 that his analysis and strategy were correct. I had worked my head off, as I had
never done before.
I was 15 when my course grade arrived: A-plus. It was the only A-plus given. The next year I received
my scholarship. I"ve always remembered Professor Jayne"s lesson: you alone must set your own standard
of excellence. | ( )1. A. take
( )2. A. sought
( )3. A. shocked
( )4. A. unchanged
( )5. A. when
( )6. A. quarreled
( )7. A. angrily
( )8. A. choice
( )9. A. tough
( )10. A. ambition
( )11. A. scholarship
( )12. A. helped
( )13. A. happened
( )14. A. remembering
( )15. A. anxious | B. discuss
B. presented
B. worried
B. unpleasant
B. because
B. reasoned
B. patiently
B. step
B. difficult
B. confidence
B. course
B. favored
B. proved
B. guessing
B. touched | C. cover
C. exchanged
C. scared
C. unfriendly
C. if
C. bargained
C. surprisedly
C. chance
C. final
C. effort
C. degree
C. treated
C. pretended
C. supposing
C. speechless | D. get
D. obtained
D. anxious
D. unmoved
D. though
D. chatted
D. naturally
D. measure
D. thorough
D. method
D. subject
D. relaxed
D. seemed
D. realizing
D. correct | | Reading comprehension. | My elder brother Steve, in the absence of my father who died when I was six, gave me important lessons
in values that helped me grow into an adult.
For instance, Steve taught me to face the results of my behavior. Once when I returned in tears from a
Saturday baseball game, it was Steve who took the time to ask me what happened. When I explained that my
baseball had soared through Mrs. Holt"s basement window, breaking the glass with a crash, Steve encouraged
me to confess to her. After all, I should have been playing in the park down Fifth Street and not in the path
between buildings. Although my knees knocked as I explained to Mrs. Holt, I offered to pay for the window
from my pocket money if she would return my ball.
I also learned from Steve that personal property is a sacred thing. After I found a shiny silver pen in my
fifth-grade classroom, I wanted to keep it, but Steve explained that it might be important to someone else in
spite of the fact that it had little value. He reminded me of how much I"d hate to lose to someone else the small
dog my father carved from a piece of cheap wood. I returned the pen to my teacher, Mrs. Davids, and still
remembered the smell of her perfume as she patted me on the shoulder.
Yet of all the instructions Steve gave me, his respect for life is the most vivid in my mind. When I was
twelve, I killed an old brown sparrow in the yard with a BB gun. Excited with my accuracy, I screamed to
Steve to come from the house to take a look. I shall never forget the way he stood for a long moment and
stared at the bird on the ground. Then in a dead, quiet voice, he asked, "Did it hurt you first, Mark?" I didn"t
know what to answer. He continued with his eyes firm, "The only time you should ever think of hurting a
living thing is if it hurts you first. And then you think a long, long time." I really felt terrible then, but that
moment stands out as the most important lesson my brother taught me. | | 1. What is the main subject of the passage? | | [ ] | A. The relationship between Mark and Steve.
B. The important lesson Mark learned in school.
C. Steve"s important role in Mark"s growing process.
D. Mark and Steve"s respect for living things. | | 2. In the story about the pen, which of the following lessons did Steve teach his brother? | | [ ] | A. Respect for personal property.
B. Respect for life.
C. Sympathy for people with problems.
D. The value of honesty. | | 3. According to the writer, which was the most important lesson Steve taught his young brother? | | [ ] | A. Respect for living things.
B. Responsibility for one"s actions.
C. The value of honesty.
D. Care for the property of others. | | 4. The underlined word "knocked" in the second paragraph means _____. | | [ ] | A. tapped
B. beat
C. struck
D. trembled | | 完形填空。 | I wouldn"t ask for a dressing room. My mom always asked for me.
The evening before I had 1 risen from my seat and piled on excess (过量) noodles. Then I licked (舔)
my bowl with the buttered garlic bread, 2 no evidence of the four servings I had eaten greedily. In the
morning I would be forced to lie on my bed and suck in my 3 just to button my jeans. I feared school 4 .
The sale rack, with its slender size markers, knew my number continued to grow.
I learned 5 to eat from my dad: fast and without thinking. In our house, the dinner table involved 6
with the children on defense. One 7 move and our dinner would be snatched off our plates without warning
and eaten up by our father 8 than we could blink. We soon learned to keep a hand up while 9 our chicken,
and if mom decided to cook that night we needed to hurry and get 10 before it was gone.
Only one pair of jeans I tried on fit. I 11 and told my mother I could button every pair but only needed the
jeans that lay 12 in my hands. We walked to the checkout.
I kept my head down as we passed a group of girls. They 13 . I glanced up only long enough to know my
place. Their 14 cut at me, hands cupped over their mouths in secrecy.
The shop was about to close and I 15 two girls in my third grade class out.
"I like your pants. Where did you get them?" Marcy asked Alicia. I nodded in agreement, 16 they had
removed their cupped hands and I could hear the 17 .
"Really? I like yours better," Alicia replied.
"We should trade. What 18 are you?" Marcy asked.
"I don"t know..." Alicia said, finding the tag in the back of her pants. "Seven."
"Me too," Marcy said.
I 19 in line as I held the jeans, tag folded in so 20 could see the number on it was 12. I am not a size seven. | ( )1.A. hurriedly
( )2.A. leaving
( )3.A. stomach
( )4.A. uniforms
( )5.A. what
( )6.A. battle
( )7.A. big
( )8.A. harder
( )9.A. swallowing
( )10.A. excuses
( )11.A. ordered
( )12.A. closed
( )13.A. laughed
( )14.A. mouths
( )15.A. led
( )16.A. thankful
( )17.A. interview
( )18.A. number
( )19.A. jumped
( )20.A. everybody | B. hungrily
B. offering
B. legs
B. meals
B. how
B. game
B. unusual
B. further
B. biting
B. seconds
B. lied
B. guided
B. murmured
B. hands
B. followed
B. afraid
B. conversation
B. size
B. waited
B. anybody | C. repeatedly
C. collecting
C. waist
C. holiday
C. why
C. strike
C. false
C. earlier
C. tasting
C. opportunities
C. paid
C. guarded
C. shouted
C. eyes
C. invited
C. anxious
C. question
C. color
C. cried
C. nobody | D. worriedly
D. examining
D. hands
D. shopping
D. when
D. debate
D. bold
D. faster
D. cooking
D. demands
D. promised
D. satisfied
D. whispered
D. ears
D. walked
D. I excited
D. report
D. weight
D. hid
D. somebody | | 阅读理解。 | It was a cold grey day in late November. The weather had changed overnight, when a backing wind
brought a pale sky and a muzzling rain with it, and although it was now only a little after two o"clock in
the afternoon the gray of a winter evening seemed to have closed upon the hills, surrounding them in mist.
It would be dark by four. The air was cold, and for all the tightly closed windows it influenced the inside
of the coach. The leather seats felt damp to the hands, and there must have been a small crack in the roof,
because now and again little drips of rain fell softly through, polluting the leather and leaving a dark-blue
stain like a spot of ink. The wind came in, at times shaking the coach as it traveled round the bend of the
road, and in the exposed places on the high ground it blew with such force that the whole body of the
coach trembled and swayed, rocking between the high wheels like a drunken man.
The driver, muffled (裹住) in a great coat to his ears, bent almost double in his seat in a faint endeavor
to gain shelter from his own shoulders. The few passengers pressed together for warmth, exclaiming all
together when the coach sank into a heavier rut (车辙) than usual, and one old fellow, who had kept up
a constant complaint ever since he had joined the coach at Truro, rose from his seat in anger; and, feeling
with the window-frame, let the window down with a crash, bringing a shower of rain upon himself and
his fellow-passengers. He thrust his head out and shouted up to the driver, scolding him in a angry voice
for a rogue and a murderer; that they would all be dead before they reached Bodmin if he persisted in
driving at dangerous speed; they had no breath left in their bodies as it was, and he would never travel by
coach again. | | 1. What is the main image the author gives in this description? | | [ ] | A. In terrible weather, a coach was running fast in mud with complaining passengers on it.
B. On a cold and rainy day the coach broke and the driver was repairing it on the road.
C. On a cold night the driver and the passengers felt very cold and struggled in the rain.
D. The bad condition of the road resulted in the bad mood of the passengers. | | 2. Which of the following is correct according to the text? | | [ ] | A. The windows were tightly closed, so the cold air was kept outside the coach.
B. The spot of ink stained leather, so the seats felt damp to the hands.
C. Most probably the roof of the coach was broken.
D. There was a drunken man swaying constantly on the coach. | | 3. The expression "muffled in a great coat to... his own shoulders" implies _____. | | [ ] | A. the driver felt very cold and tried to change his seat
B. the driver felt comfortable by doing in that way
C. The driver felt very cold and tried to gain warmth
D. The driver tried to protect his ears and shoulders | | 4. We can learn from the text that _____. | | [ ] | A. the coach was running slowly due to the bad weather
B. an old passenger who got on the coach at Truro was angry about the windows
C. one of the passengers on the coach was a murderer
D. the few passengers let out exclamations as the coach moved violently |
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