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Peter worked very hard in order to ____ his aged parents who had retired as restroom cleaners with ____ savings left after putting Peter and his sister through school. Peter was the only ___， for his sister, Beth, was often in poor health.
One day, as Peter was walking home from ACE Supermarket where he ____， he stumbled(绊脚) upon a small brown packet on the pavement. The package was slightly ____.
So he picked it up to examine it more closely. To his ____， it contained fiftydollar bills. Peter knew it was not his to keep and that the ____ might urgently need the money.
Without ____， Peter walked quickly to the nearest police station and handed it over to Mr. Roberts who was the police officer ____ for that night. Surprised to see someone hand in such a large amount of cash ____，the police officer said that Peter was indeed a role model others could ____.
“It"s nothing really...I was doing what ____ would have done，” Peter"s face turned red as the officer continued to ask for his name and contact number so that the owner could ____ thank him. The next day, Peter received a ____. The owner of the lost money was none other than Peter"s ____ at the ACE Supermarket! He had found out about Peter from Roberts and had decided to ____ Peter to the position of manager with a handsome increase in salary. He had also decided to pay for Beth"s ___.Peter was overjoyed.
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:C
小题6:B
小题7:C
小题8:B
小题9:C
小题10:D
小题11:C
小题12:B
小题13:C
小题14:B
小题15:C
小题16:B
小题17:C
小题18:B
小题19:C
小题20:D
解析
文章大意：好人有好报。此言确实不假。看看彼得的遭遇，你一定会生出如此感慨。
小题1:C “日间”作为私立幼儿园的教师助理，他工作得很勤奋。此处与空后的at night和parttime(兼职)反义照应。
小题2:A 晚上他要在“超市”兼职收银员三个小时。后文47空前ACE Supermarket与此处照应。
小题3:D 当彼得拖着沉重的脚步回到家时，常常已经接近“半夜”了。midnight“半夜”；morning“早上”；noon“中午”；evening“晚上”
小题4:C 彼得工作非常刻苦是为了“赡养”他年迈的老人。support“供养，赡养”；settle“解决，安排，定居”；impress“使印象深刻，使铭记”；treat“招待，对待”。
小题5:C 他的父母是厕所清洁工，让彼得和他的妹妹上完学后，两人都已经退休，“没什么积蓄”。
小题6:B 他的妹妹经常生病，所以彼得就是唯一的“养家糊口的人”。breadwinner“养家糊口的人”。
小题7:C 彼得在ACE超市“工作”。此处与42空照应。
小题8:B 从后文内容可知，钱包是“裂开了口的”。
小题9:C 让彼得感到“震惊”的是，钱包里有很多钱。to one"s shock“令人震惊的是”；to one"s joy“令人高兴的是”；to one"s disappointment“令人失望的是”；to one"s relief“令人如释重负的是”。
小题10:D 彼得知道“失主”可能急需这笔钱。owner“失主”；leader“领导”；assistant“助手”；boss“老板”。
小题11:C 没有一丝“犹豫”，彼得赶到了最近的警局，把钱包交给了当晚“值班”的警官。hesitation“犹豫”；success“成功”；fear“恐惧，害怕”；doubt“怀疑”。
小题12:B 见上题解析。on duty“值班”；on behalf of“代表”；on watch“警戒，监视”；on purpose“故意地”。
小题13:C 吃惊地看到有人把这么一大笔钱“原封不动的”上交了，警官说彼得是其他人“尊敬”的道德模范。untouched“未触动过的，原样的”；unfinished“未完成的”；unused“未使用的”；unexpected“出人意料的”。
小题14:B 见上题解析。look up to“尊敬”；look at“看”；look down on“瞧不起”；look forward to“盼望，期盼”。
小题15:C 没什么．.....我只是做了“任何人”都会做的事。
小题16:B 警官继续问他的姓名和联系电话以便失主“亲自”感谢他。personally“直接，亲自地”；independently“独立地”；cautiously“小心谨慎的”；regularly“有规律地”。
小题17:C 第二天，彼得接到了一个“电话”。此处与空前的contact number照应。
小题18:B 失主恰恰正是彼得工作的ACE超市的“老板”。
小题19:C 老板早就决定“提升”彼得为经理。promote“提升”；introduce“介绍，引进”；expose“暴露”；lead“带领”。
小题20:D 老板还决定为彼得妹妹的“医疗治疗”买单。此处与46空后often in poor health照应。
核心考点
试题【Peter Wiggins grew up in a poor family. He worked diligently at his ____ job as 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
For four centuries, historians have guessed why Elizabeth never married.In her own day, her decision to remain single was considered absurd and dangerous.A queen needed a husband to make political decisions for her and to organise and lead her military campaigns.More important, she needed male heirs to avoid a civil war after her death.
There was no shortage of suitors for the Queen, both English courtiers (朝臣) and foreign princes, and it was confidently expected for the best part of 30 years that Elizabeth would eventually marry one of them.Indeed, although she insisted that she preferred the single state, she kept these suitors in a state of permanent expectation.This was a deliberate policy on the Queen"s part, since by keeping foreign princes in hope, sometimes for a decade, she kept them friendly when they might otherwise have made war on her kingdom.
There were, indeed, good political reasons for her avoiding marriage.The disastrous union of her sister Mary I to Philip II of Spain had had an unwelcome foreign influence upon English politics.The English were generally prejudiced against the Queen taking a foreign husband, particularly a Catholic one.Yet if she married an English, jealousy might lead to the separation of the court.
There were other, deeper reasons for Elizabeth"s unwillingness to marry, chief of which, I believe, was her fear of losing her autonomy as Queen. In the 16th century, a queen was regarded as holding supreme dominion(统治权)over the state, while a husband was thought to hold supreme dominion over his wife.Elizabeth knew that marriage and motherhood would bring some harm to her power.
She once pointed out that marriage seemed too uncertain a state for her. She had seen several unions in her immediate family break down, including that of her own parents.
Some writers, based on very fragile evidence, have argued that Elizabeth was frightened or incapable of the sex act, but it is more likely that she feared childbirth. Two of her stepmothers, her grandmother and several acquaintances had died in childbed.
Elizabeth"s father, Henry VIII, had had her mother, Anne Boleyn, killed; her stepmother Catherine Howard later suffered the same fate. When Elizabeth was 14 she was all but attracted by Admiral Thomas Seymour, who also went to the prison within a year. Witnessing these terrible events at an early age, it has been argued, may have put Elizabeth off marriage.
Elizabeth had to decide her priorities. Marriage or being single? Elizabeth was far too intelligent.The choice she made was courageous and revolutionary, and, in the long run, the right one for England.
小题1:To the suitors including English courtiers and foreign princes，Elizabeth ________.
| A．held back the truth |
| B．gave a definite answer “no” |
| C．kept them expecting deliberately |
| D．said she preferred the single state |
| A．prejudice against her |
| B．separation of the court |
| C．jealousy among English courtiers |
| D．a negative impact on English politics |
| A．Queen Elizabeth was not a Catholic. |
| B．Some foreign princes made war on Britain. |
| C．Catherine Howard was killed by Anne Boleyn. |
| D．Admiral Thomas Seymour was killed by Henry VIII. |
| A．Pitiful. | B．Approving. |
| C．Negative. | D．Neutral. |
It"s all not so ___ about being a teenager though. We don"t have to have our ____ take us to somewhere we want to go or we couldn"t go before. We can have ____ with friends or even alone, which we couldn"t have because we were too ___ to know what pleasure is! It"s a very enjoyable time of life. During this age, we are old enough to ____ what is good for us, and make decisions without ____ others.
But like the saying goes, “All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue ___.” During this period, we are having much ____ for our studies. If we don"t pass, we won"t get jobs, and things will take a turn for the ____. With the present world economy in ___， we have to do really, really well in our ____ for a job. Adults say that their ____ is the hardest part of life. But I think the transition from a kid to an adult is much ____ than being already an adult. What we do in our teenage years will ____ what we become and how we lead our life in the future.
In conclusion, it is quite ____ that parents put much pressure on an already stressed out teenager. If they realized that, living condition for teenagers would be much better. ____ for the teens ourselves we should get to know what is best for us. What"s more, we should understand the right ____ of life we choose at this age can make us happy for the rest of our existence.
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“Another bad day at school？” my father asked as I came into the room.
“How could you tell? I didn"t shut the door heavily or anything，” I replied. Over the past two months I had either done this or thrown my backpack across the room every time I came home from school. Papa thinks it has something to do with moving to a new house.
“I know this move has been hard on you. Leaving your friends and cousins behind is tough，” Papa said, as he put his arm around my shoulder. “What you must remember is that, with a lot of hard work and some time, you will make new friends.”
“You don"t know how hard it is. This year my baseball team would have won the championship. They won"t even give me a chance to pitch (投球) here. All I get to play is right field, and that"s the worst！”
Papa turned toward me. “Things will get better, I promise you. Let me ask you, do you know why you were named David Lorenzo？”
“Yes, your name is David and grandfather"s name is Lorenzo.”
“Very good, and what makes your grandfather so important？”
“He was the first in the family to come to this country and all that，” I answered.
“That is only partly correct. Your grandfather was a very great man. In Mexico, he had been a teacher. When he came to America he could only get lowpaid labor jobs because he didn"t speak the language. It took him two years before he spoke English well enough to be allowed to teach here, but he did it. He never complained because he knew change could be difficult. Did he ever tell you that？” my father asked.
I looked down at my feet, ashamed at my behavior. “No. That must have been hard，” I said sheepishly.
“Your grandfather taught me that if you let people see your talent, they will accept you for who you are. I want you to always remember what my father taught me, even if it takes a few years for people to see who you are，” said Papa.
All I could say was, “Okay.” Then I asked, “What should I do now？”
Laughing, Papa said, “How about you pitch a few to me? You need some work.”
小题1:Why was the author unhappy that day?
| A．Because he moved to a new country. |
| B．Because his baseball team lost the game. |
| C．Because he wasn"t offered a chance to pitch. |
| D．Because he quarreled with his friends at school. |
| A．asking him to train harder |
| B．playing baseball with him |
| C．telling his grandfather"s story |
| D．introducing him some new friends |
| A．shyly | B．patiently |
| C．clumsily | D．cautiously |
| A．He thinks his father lives in the past. |
| B．He"d rather live with his grandfather. |
| C．He will continue to dislike school and everything. |
| D．He will try his best to adapt to the new environment. |
According to The New York Times, over the past 15 years, Glafira Rosales fooled two local commercial art galleries into buying 63 false works of art for more than $30 million.She passed off fake paintings as works by 20th century modernist masters such as American artists Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock.But in fact, these so called “newly discovered works” were all produced by a single man, a Chinese immigrant named Qian Peishen.
The art world was shocked by Rosales" deception.But to the public, it was amusing and most satisfying to see wealthy people get tricked.
So what decides the value of a piece of art? Is it beauty? Is it the artist"s talent and craftsmanship? Or is it just because the artist is famous?
We should take beauty out. If the buyers were buying paintings only for their beauty, they"ll be content displaying good fakes on their walls. They wouldn"t be so upset when a forgery is exposed.
The art market claims that great artists are inimitable, and that this inimitability justifies the absurd price of their works. We can"t deny that most famous artists are good at what they do, but forgers like Qian show that their works are imitable.Otherwise, the difference between the original and the copycats would be obvious and Rosales would not be able to fool anyone.
According to an article in the Economist, expensive paintings are what economists call positional goods. They are valuable because other people can"t have them. With other goods, a higher price reduces demand.But art turns down the laws of economics. “When the goods that is really being purchased is evidence that the buyer has paid a lot, price increases cause demand to boom，” explained the article.
That"s why scarcity and authenticity are so important in the art market. Artists sometimes forget this.Demien Hirst, the British pop artist, is famous for his spot paintings. But they dropped in value when it became clear that they had been produced in quantities so vast that nobody knew how many were out there.The art market lost faith in these paintings because no one could be sure which of them were authentic and which were fake.
小题1:The first paragraph is meant to tell the readers that ________.
| A．movies and literature will be popular with art involved in them |
| B．art crimes are as interesting and exciting in reality as in movies |
| C．Gambit is a good movie with art forgery as the major theme |
| D．real art crime in reality can be adapted into popular films |
| A．The public. |
| B．Glafira Rosales. |
| C．Qian Peishen. |
| D．Mark Rothlo and Jackson Pollock. |
| A．Those who buy only for its beauty. |
| B．Those who buy for its inimitability. |
| C．Those who "buy for its authenticity. |
| D．Those who buy for its scarcity. |
| A．They are valuable goods. |
| B．High prices reduce the demand of art goods. |
| C．High prices increase the demand of art goods. |
| D．They are produced in quantities to satisfy people. |
Sian Beilock: “They start worrying about the consequences. They might even start worrying about whether this exam is going to prevent them from getting into the college they want. And when we worry，it actually uses up attention and memory resources. I talk about it as your cognitive horsepower that you could otherwise be using to focus on the exam.”
Professor Beilock and another researcher，Gerardo Ramirez，have developed a possible solution. Just before an exam，highly anxious testtakers spend ten minutes writing about their worries about the test.
Sian Beilock: “What we think happens is when students put it down on paper，they think about the worst that could happen and they reappraise the situation. They might realize it"s not as bad as they might think it was before and，in essence(本质上)，it prevents these thoughts from popping up when they"re actually taking a test.”
The researchers tested the idea on a group of twenty anxious college students. They gave them two short math tests. After the first one, they asked the students to either sit quietly or write about their feelings about the upcoming second test.
The researchers added to the pressure. They told the students that those who did well on the second test would get money. They also told them that their performance would affect other students as part of a team effort.
Professor Beilock says those who sat quietly scored an average of twelve percent worse on the second test. But the students who had written about their fears improved their performance by an average of five percent.
Next, the researchers used younger students in a biology class. They told them before final exams either to write about their feelings or to think about things unrelated to the test.
Prefessor Beilock says highly anxious students who did the writing got an average grade of B＋，compared to a B－ for those who did not.
Sian Beilock: “What we showed is that for students who are highly testanxious，who"d done our writing intervention(排解)，all of a sudden there was no relationship between test anxiety and performance. Those students most likely to worry were performing just as well as their classmates who don"t normally get nervous in these testing situations.”
But what if students do not have a chance to write about their fears immediately before an exam or presentation? Professor Beilock says students can try it themselves at home or in the library and still improve their performance.
小题1:Which of the following is TRUE?
| A．The result in the math test agrees with that in the biology test. |
| B．In the first math test, students who sat quietly performed better. |
| C．In the second math test, students who wrote about their feelings did worse. |
| D．Some college students are highly anxious testtakers while others are not in the tests. |
| A．Test anxiety is sure to cause students to fail the test. |
| B．Test anxiety can improve students" performance to some degree. |
| C．Students" attention and memory resources run out when worried. |
| D．Students may not be admitted into their favorite college if worried. |
| A．proper amount of burden may turn out to be a good thing |
| B．facing the fears bravely may help one to achieve more |
| C．avoiding facing the problem may contribute to relaxation |
| D．taking no action before difficulty may result in success |
| A．It is important for students to overcome test anxiety. |
| B．Anxious students overcome test anxiety by writing down fears. |
| C．It is a common practice for students being worried before a test. |
| D．Being worried before tests does harm to students" performance. |
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