题目
题型：0112 期中题难度：来源：
Jeanette, or even Jeanne. Just Jean. Did you know in France, they name boys Jean? It"s French for John.
And okay, I don"t live in France. But still, I"m basically a girl named John, If I lived in France, anyway.
This is the kind of luck I"ve had since before Mom even filled out my birth certificate. So it wasn"t any
big surprise to me when the cab driver didn"t help me with my suitcase. I"d already had to tolerate arriving
at the airport to find no one there to greet me, and then got no answer to my many phone calls, asking
where my aunt and uncle were. Did they not want me after all? Had they changed their minds? Had they
heard about my bad luck-all the way from Iowa-and decided they didn"t want any of it to rub off on them?
So when the cab driver, instead of getting out and helping me with my bags, just pushed a little button
so that the trunk (汽车后备箱) popped open a few inches, it wasn"t the worst thing that had ever happened
to me. It wasn"t even the worst thing that had happened to me that day.
According to my mom, most brownstones in New York City were originally single-family homes when
they were built way back in the 1800s. But now they"ve been divided up into apartments, so that there"s
one-or sometimes even two or more families-per floor.
Not Mom"s sister Evelyn"s brownstone, though. Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted Gardiner own all four floors
of their brownstone. That"s practically one floor per person, since Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted only have three
kids, my cousins Tory, Teddy, and Alice.
Back home, we just have two floors, but there are seven people living on them. And only one bathroom.
Not that I"m complaining. Still, ever since my sister Courtney discovered blow-outs, it"s been pretty frightful
at home.
But as tall as my aunt and uncle"s house was, it was really narrow-just three windows across. Still, it was
a very pretty townhouse, painted gray. The door was a bright, cheerful yellow. There were yellow flower
boxes along the base of each window, flower boxes from which bright red-and obviously newly planted,
since it was only the middle of April, and not quite warm enough for them.
It was nice to know that, even in a sophisticated (世故的) city like New York, people still realized how
homey and welcoming a box of flowers could be. The sight of those flowers cheered me up a little.
Like maybe Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted just forgot I was arriving today, and hadn"t deliberately failed to
meet me at the airport because they"d changed their minds about letting me come to stay.
Like everything was going to be all right, after all.
Yeah. With my luck, probably not.
I started up the steps to the front door of 326 East Sixty-Ninth Street, then realized I couldn"t make it
with both bags and my violin. Leaving one bag on the sidewalk, I dragged the other up the steps with me.
Maybe I took the steps a little too fast, since I nearly tripped and fell flat on my face on the sidewalk. I
managed to catch myself at the last moment by grabbing some of the fence the gardeners had put up.
B. She meant to stay with her aunt"s family.
C. She was homeless and adopted by her aunt.
D. She wanted to try her luck and find a job there.
B. the cab driver didn"t help her with her bags
C. her sister Courtney discovered blow-outs
D. nobody had come to meet her at the airport
B. play tricks on
C. put pressure on
D. throw doubt on
B. the author arrived in New York in a very warm season
C. her aunt"s family lived a much better life than her own
D. her aunt and uncle were likely to forget about her arrival
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 The thing is, my luck"s always been ruined. Just look at my name: Jean】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
the best picture of peace. Many artists 2 . The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he 3
liked, and he had to choose between them.
One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect 4 for peaceful towering mountains all around
it. 5 was a blue sky with fluffy (蓬松的) white clouds. All who saw this 6 thought that it was a perfect
picture of peace.
7 picture had mountains, too. But these were large, rough and 8 . Above was an angry sky, from which
rain fell and in which lightning 9 . Down the side of the mountain 10 a foaming (起泡沫的) waterfall. This
did not look 11 at all.
But when the king looked 12 , he saw behind the waterfall a tiny 13 growing in a crack in the rock. In the
bush a mother bird had built her 14 . There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her
nest- 15 perfect peace.
Which picture do you think won the prize? The king 16 the second picture. Do you know why?
"Because," 17 the king, "peace does not mean to be in a place 18 there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.
Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and 19 be calm in your heart. That is the real 20 of peace."
| ( )1. A. afforded ( )2. A. collected ( )3. A. hardly ( )4. A. bowl ( )5. A. Outward ( )6. A. prize ( )7. A. The one ( )8. A. bare ( )9. A. played ( )10. A. connected ( )11. A. hopeful ( )12. A. regularly ( )13. A. flower ( )14. A. house ( )15. A. of ( )16. A. protect ( )17. A. explained ( )18. A. which ( )19. A. thus ( )20. A. story | B. offered B. planned B. slightly B. mirror B. Indoors B. result B. Another B. fresh B. screamed B. floated B. peaceful B. suddenly B. ground B. business B. in B. forced B. described B. where B. even B. meaning | C. accepted C. tried C. really C. plate C. Overhead C. artist C. Other C. green C. wandered C. fell C. successful C. closely C. tree C. nest C. by C. depended C. reminded C. whose C. also C. source | D. canceled | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 完形填空。 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Several years ago, while attending a communication course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list 1 in our past that we felt 2 of, regretted, or incomplete about and read our lists aloud. This seemed like a very 3 process, but there" s always some 4 soul in the crowd who will volunteer. The instructor then 5 that we find ways to 6 people, or take some action to right any wrongdoings. I was seriously wondering how this could ever 7 my communication. Then the man next to me raised his hand and volunteered this story. Making my 8 , I remembered an incident from high school. I grew up in a small town. There was a Sheriff 9 of us kids liked. One night, my two friends and I decided to play a 10 on him. After drinking a few beers, we climbed the tall water tank in the middle of the town, and wrote on the tank in bright red paint: Sheriff Brown is an s.o.b. The next day, almost the whole town saw our glorious 11 . Within two hours, Sheriff Brown had us in his office. My friends told the truth but I lied. No one 12 found out. Nearly 20 years later, Sheriff Brown"s name 13 on my list. I didn"t even know if he was still 14 . Last weekend, I dialed the information in my hometown and found there was a Roger Brown still listed. I tried his number. After a few 15 , I heard, "Hello?" I said, "Sheriff Brown?" Paused. "Yes." "Well, this is Jimmy Calkins." "And I want you to know that I did it!" Paused. "I knew it!" he yelled back. We had a good laugh and a 16 discussion. His closing words were: "Jimmy, I always felt bad for you 17 your friends got it off their chest, but you were carrying it 18 all these years. I want to thank you for calling me…for your sake." Jimmy inspired me to 19 all 101 items on my list within two years, and I always remember what I learned from the course: It" s never too late to 20 the past wrongdoings. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|