One day a farmer"s donkey (驴) fell down into a well (井). The animal cried 1 for hours as the farmer
tried to find a 2 way to save him. But finally the farmer decided the animal was 3 and the well needed
to be 4 up anyway, so the donkey just wasn"t 5 saving.
He 6 all his neighbours to come over and help him. They all grabbed (握起) a shovel (铁铲) and began
to shovel 7 into the well. At first, the donkey 8 what was happening and cried loudly. Then, to everyone"s
surprise, he was 9 .
A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked 10 and was shocked at what he 11 . With every shovel of
dirt that 12 his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would 13 it off and take a step up.
As the farmer"s neighbors 14 to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take another
15 up. Pretty soon, everyone was surprised as the donkey stepped up over the entrance of the 16 and
ran off.
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The best way of 17 out of the well is to shake it off
and take a step up. Each of our 18 is a stepping-stone. We can get out of the 19 wells just by not stopping.
20 give up! Shake it off and take a step upward! |
( )1. A. sadly
( )2. A. foolish
( )3. A. strong
( )4. A. thrown
( )5. A. important
( )6. A. invited
( )7. A. water
( )8. A. encouraged
( )9. A. noisy
( )10. A. down
( )11. A. touched
( )12. A. attracted
( )13. A. shake
( )14. A. decided
( )15. A. base
( )16. A. field
( )17. A. holding
( )18. A. troubles
( )19. A. hottest
( )20. A. Already | B. recently
B. good
B. old
B. discovered
B. possible
B. refused
B. pain
B. suggested
B. quiet
B. around
B. heard
B. collected
B. burn
B. continued
B. station
B. office
B. getting
B. speeds
B. widest
B. Always | C. easily
C. difficult
C. healthy
C. covered
C. necessary
C. allowed
C. stone
C. realized
C. angry
C. for
C. saw
C. moved
C. take
C. stopped
C. step
C. house
C. pushing
C. successes
C. shortest
C. Never | D. usually
D. careless
D. powerful
D. kicked
D. worth
D. forbade
D. dirt
D. regretted
D. ashamed
D. after
D. tasted
D. hit
D. eat
D. volunteered
D. breath
D. well
D. pulling
D. differences
D. deepest
D. Often | | 完形填空。 | One afternoon I went to an art museum and I was looking forward to a quiet view of the masterpiece
(名作). A young couple looking at the paintings ahead of me talked 1 between themselves. I watched
them a moment and 2 she was doing all the talking.
I admired his patience for 3 up with he talktiveness. Annoyed (恼怒) by her noise. I moved on.
I 4 with them several times as I moved through the different rooms of art. 5 I heard her continouse
talking, I moved 6 quickly. I was at the counter of the gift shop when I 7 the couple going to the exit.
Before they left, the man took out a walking stick and then tapped his 8 into the coatroom to get his wife"s
jacket.
"He"s a(n) 9 man," the clerk at the counter said. "Most of us would 10 if we blinded at such a young
age. During his recovery, he said his wife wouldn"t change. So, as before, he and his wife come in 11 there
is a new art show."
"But 12 does he get out of the art?" I asked. "He can"t see."
"Can"t see! You"re 13 . He sees a lot. More than you or I do." The clerk said. "His wife 14 each painting
so he can see it in his 15 ."
I 16 something about patience, courage and love that day. I saw the 17 of a young wife describing
paintings to a person without 18 and the courage of a husband who would not allow 19 to change his life.
And I saw the love 20 by two people as I watched this couple walk away hand in hand. | ( )1. A. continously
( )2. A. heard
( )3. A. keeping
( )4. A. met
( )5. A. As though
( )6. A. on
( )7. A. watched
( )8. A. way
( )9. A. patient
( )10. A. give in
( )11. A. whenever
( )12. A. when
( )13. A. right
( )14. A. paints
( )15. A. eyes
( )16. A. learned
( )17. A. kindness
( )18. A. stop
( )19. A. blindness
( )20. A. shown | B. carefully
B. suggested
B. staying
B. quarrelled
B. Now
B. away
B. considered
B. road
B. unlucky
B. give up
B. wherever
B. if
B. wrong
B. buys
B. ears
B. found
B. word
B. sight
B. ability
B. valued | C. sadly
C. decided
C. coming
C. watched
C. Each time
C. in
C. realized
C. door
C. brave
C. give away
C. however
C. whether
C. foolish
C. admires
C. head
C. judged
C. courage
C. hearing
C. care
C. shared | D. happily
D. insisted
D. putting
D. hated
D. Ever since
D. out
D. noticed
D. direction
D. clever
D. give back
D. whoever
D. what
D. careless
D. describes
D. mouth
D. considered
D. patience
D. mind
D. carelessness
D. received | | 完形填空。 | Last autumn I spent a week at a big hotel in London. It was one of those modern hotels 1 every room
is the same size 2 has the same furniture looking just like 3 other room.
My room was 311. One 4 , I got back to the 5 after a dinner with some friends. When I opened the
door to my room I saw a(n) 6 scene. A man was pointing a handgun 7 a woman sitting in a chair, and
the woman was saying in a terrible voice: "Please don"t shoot me!" I turned round, ran down the stairs-I
daren"t wait for the 8 -and found a waiter in the hall. "Quick," I cried, "someone is being 9 in my room."
Controlling his surprise he came back with me, 10 when we opened the door of 311, the room was 11 .
The waiter looked at me 12 and said: "I think, sir, you 13 go to bed," and left. I was 14 puzzled to say
anything, and thinking that I must have had too much to 15 , I followed his 16 . The next morning, I asked
about the matter, and the 17 was simple, I had gone to Room 411, where a famous 18 and his wife had
been practising a scene from their new 19 . When I told them that it was I who had rushed into their room,
they laughed and gave me a 20 to see the play for the opening night. | ( )1. A. which
( )2. A. and
( )3. A. all
( )4. A. time
( )5. A. building
( )6. A. exciting
( )7. A. on
( )8. A. waiter
( )9. A. beaten
( )10. A. though
( )11. A. empty
( )12. A. nervously
( )13. A. must
( )14. A. much
( )15. A. wonder at
( )16. A. words
( )17. A. explanation
( )18. A. actor
( )19. A. film
( )20. A. prize | B. where
B. so
B. either
B. afternoon
B. room
B. surprising
B. to
B. police
B. killed
B. so
B. noisy
B. strangely
B. would rather
B. so
B. drink
B. instructions
B. excuse
B. player
B. novel
B. present | C. for
C. or
C. some
C. night
C. hall
C. inspiring
C. at
C. manager
C. acted
C. thus
C. dirty
C. sadly
C. may
C. too
C. eat
C. order
C. saying
C. dancer
C. story
C. ticket | D. as
D. but
D. every
D. moment
D. hotel
D. interesting
D. against
D. lift
D. practised
D. but
D. crowded
D. excitedly
D. had better
D. rather
D. worry about
D. advice
D. cause
D. artist
D. play
D. note | | 阅读理解。 | A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a box by his feet. He held up a sign which read, "I am blind,
please help." There were only a few coins in the box. The boy felt sad.
A man walked by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the box.Then he took the
sign, turned it around and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would
see the new words.
Soon the box was full. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who
had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you
the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"
That man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way." What he had written
was, "today is a beautiful day and I can not see it." Do you think the first sign and the second sign were
saying the same thing? Of course both signs told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
Great men say, "In the journey of life, if you want to travel without fear, you must have the ticket of a
good conscience (良心)."
It"s a beautiful thing to see a people smiling!And it"s even more beautiful to know that you are the reason
of a person"s smiling! | | 1. When did the man pass by and change the blind boy"s sign? | | [ ] | A.In the morning.
B.At noon.
C.In the afternoon.
D.At night. | | 2. Why did the second sign have a better effect? | | [ ] | A.It told the truth in a straight way.
B.It told the passing people a lie.
C.It told people to buy some tickets for the boy.
D.It told people to feel lucky for not being blind. | | 3. What do the first three paragraphs tell us? | | [ ] | A.No pains, no gains.
B.Different ways, different results.
C.The early bird cathches the worm.
D.When the cat"s away, the mice will play. | | 4. According to the last paragraph, the most beautiful thing is _____. | | [ ] | A.to know the reason of a person"s smiling
B.to see a person smiling.
C.to be the reason of a person"s smiling.
D.to be a person smiling. | | 阅读理解。 | I was waiting for the bus to take me down from the Janiculum Hill into the city of Roma when I turned
and saw black smoke rising into the sky. It seemed to be coming from my studio, a small, cabin-like study
built up against the ancient Roman wall. I"d arrived there three weeks before with my most important thing:
the first draft (手稿) of my new novel.
The smoke? I thought of the electric coil (电热棒) I"d been using to heat water for the endless cups of tea
I need to fuel my writing. What if I had started heating water and forgotten about it? I supposed the coil had
turned over from the cup and started a fire that would not only destroy the studio but also the pages of work
I had spent years on and I could never rewrite.
I hurried back, but soon saw that the smoke came from the old leaves and branches in the neighbor"s
garden. I felt relieved (轻松的). But since I was now so close, I went into my study to have a look anyway.
The electric coil was red, and the water I"d meant to use for tea before I left had all boiled out of the cup
that had already turned over and the red-hot coil had toppled (倾斜) onto the desk and was burning the wood.
My pages that might have burnt in a second were only inches away.
Drawn by the smoke, I"d come back just in time. "Thank God" I said. Of course, thank my luck. | | 1. The author was leaving for ______. | | [ ] | A. the Janiculum Hill
B. his cabin-like study
C. the ancient Roman wall
D. the city of Rome | | 2. We can infer (推断) from the passage that the author ______. | | [ ] | A. drank tea to work well
B. stayed there for months
C. often forgot what he had done
D. wrote a number of books | | 3. In fact, the smoke the author saw was rising from the ______. | | [ ] | A. author"s studio
B. neighbor"s garden
C. author"s apartment
D. author"s kitchen | | 4. The author was worried about that ______. | | [ ] | A. the electric coil couldn"t work
B. his valuable things would be burnt
C. the fire would burn down the neighbor"s house
D. his first draft would be burnt. |
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