I am a person who doesn’t like waiting. I don’t like to wait in line, being put on hold when making a phone call, or arriving at an apartment to find that my companion will be . And of course, I don’t like waiting rooms.
, I realize that my agony(痛苦) will not be good for me, as an crowded world can only mean one thing – more waiting.
this, I have taken an action and decide to turn my frustration to productive ends. In short, I am looking for what I call “waiting-in-line” .
These are volumes that contain materials for being read in shortened words, so there is no extended story line to lose track of. Another is that they be enough to slip neatly into my back pocket.
The other day I went to the supermarket. that the rain would keep most people away, I was to see that the place was filled with . Every checkout was open – and jammed! But I can my pocket book and go to work.
The more the world demands that I , the more I learn from my waiting library. Look at the followings: One Hundred Things Every American Should Know; The Poetry of Robert Frost; Living Thoughts of Leading Thinkers; Still More Toasts. I have learned interesting and enriching things and much from these books.
On a recent visit to the general store, I placed my order at the along with six or seven people. The old female employee seemed to have her hands full as she rushed . “Young man, just be ,” she said to me.
No problem. I quietly opened my dictionary prose(散文) and poetical quotations. Perhaps the other customers me as a bookish, lonely soul. But did they realize that I was enjoying the of Shakespeare, Thoreau, Homer and Ben Johnson.
| 小题1: | | A．dismissed | B．delayed | C．disappeared | D．delighted |
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| 小题2: | | A．Furthermore | B．However | C．Despite | D．Besides |
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| 小题3: | | A．actually | B．importantly | C．increasingly | D．accurately |
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| 小题4: | | A．Instead of | B．Apart from | C．Rather than | D．Owing to |
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| 小题5: | | A．rooms | B．goods | C．reasons | D．books |
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| 小题6: | | A．searched | B．afforded | C．designed | D．charged |
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| 小题7: | | A．convenience | B．requirement | C．agreement | D．distinction |
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| 小题8: | | A．small | B．pretty | C．active | D．vivid |
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| 小题9: | | A．Believed | B．Determined | C．Puzzled | D．Convinced |
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| 小题10: | | A．surprised | B．worried | C．excited | D．satisfied |
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| 小题11: | | A．shoppers | B．readers | C．employees | D．volunteers |
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| 小题12: | | A．put out | B．set down | C．send for | D．take out |
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| 小题13: | | A．suffer | B．wait | C．watch | D．read |
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| 小题14: | | A．advantage | B．benefit | C．knowledge | D．patient |
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| 小题15: | | A．counter | B．pocket | C．market | D．service |
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| 小题16: | | A．about | B．away | C．over | D．across |
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| 小题17: | | A．polite | B．patient | C．careful | D．helpful |
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| 小题18: | | A．thought | B．looked | C．regarded | D．treated |
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| 小题19: | | A．certainly | B．obviously | C．secretly | D．hardly |
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| 小题20: | | A．relation | B．moment | C．company | D．novel |
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小题1:B
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:D
小题5:D
小题6:C
小题7:B
小题8:A
小题9:D
小题10:A
小题11:A
小题12:D
小题13:B
小题14:C
小题15:A
小题16:A
小题17:B
小题18:C
小题19:D
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试题分析：文章介绍作者不喜欢等待，但是现在的拥挤的社会要等待的时候越来越多，作者想到一个好办法，在等待的时候看书，既不觉得时间漫长，也能够获取很多知识。
小题1:考查动词辨析：A. dismissed解雇，B. delayed拖延，C. disappeared消失，D. delighted高兴，根据上文的内容：I am a person who doesn’t like waiting. I don’t like to wait in line, being put on hold when making a phone call,可知作者不喜欢等待，不喜欢约会的时候，朋友被耽搁了，选B.
小题2:考查副词辨析：A. Furthermore 还有，B. However然而，C. Despite虽然，D. Besides此外，根据下文的：I realize that my agony(痛苦) will not be good for me,可知作者的痛苦对他没有好处，所以和上文是转折关系，选B
小题3:考查副词辨析：A. actually实际上，B. importantly重要地，C. increasingly日益增加的，D. accurately精确地，越来越拥挤的世界只能意味着更多的等待，选C
小题4:考查词组辨析：A. Instead of相反地，B. Apart from除了，此外，C. Rather than而不是，D. Owing to由于，因为，根据下文的句子：I have taken an action and decide to turn my frustration to productive ends.可知因为上文提到的原因，作者已经采取行动，决定将自己的挫折变成多产的结果，选D
小题5:考查名词辨析：A. rooms房间，B. goods商品，C. reasons 原因，D. books书，根据下文的内容：These are volumes that contain materials 41 for being read in shortened words,可知作者寻找的是等待时候看的书，选D
小题6:考查动词辨析： A. searched寻找，B. afforded负担，C. designed设计，D. charged要价，有的书中含有材料是为用缩短的句子而设计的。选C
小题7:考查名词辨析：A. convenience 方便，B. requirement要求，C. agreement 同意，D. distinction辨别，识别，区分，另外一个要求是他们应该是足够小可以放进我的后面的口袋。选B
小题8:考查形容词辨析：A. small小的，B. pretty漂亮的，C. active积极的，D. vivid生动的，根据下文要可以放进后面的口袋那就是要小了，选A
小题9:考查动词辨析：A. Believed相信，B. Determined决定，C. Puzzled困惑的，D. Convinced相信的，几天前，我去超市，相信很多人因为雨会不出来。这里用形容词convinced做状语，believe应该是现在分词，选D
小题10:考查形容词辨析：A. surprised惊讶的，B. worried担心的，C. excited兴奋的，D. satisfied满意的，上文说作者以为因为下雨，人们会不出来，现在看见超市挤满了人一定是惊讶了，选A
小题11:考查名词辨析：A. shoppers购物者，B. readers 读者，C. employees雇员，D. volunteers志愿者，超市里面肯定是挤满了购物者，选A
小题12:考查动词短语辨析：. A. put out扑灭，B. set down记下，C. send for派人请，D. take out拿出，我可以拿出书去看，选D
小题13:考查动词辨析：. A. suffer遭受，B. wait等待，C. watch观看，D. read读，这个时间要求我等的越多，我就可以从阅读中获得越多的知识。因为作者都是等待的时候看书的，选B
小题14:考查名词辨析：A. advantage 优势，B. benefit利益，C. knowledge知识，D. patient病人，我从这些书中学到了很多方法的知识。选C
小题15:考查名词辨析：A. counter柜台，B. pocket 口袋，C. market市场，D. service服务，我和六七个人将订单放在柜台上，选A
小题16:考查介词辨析：A. about关于，B. away离开，C. over超过，D. across穿过，上年纪的女职员在四处跑的时候好像手里都是拿满了东西。选A
小题17:考查形容词辨析：A. polite礼貌的，B. patient耐心的，C. careful仔细的，D. helpful有帮助的，因为要等待，女职员让作者要耐心些，选B
小题18:考查动词辨析：A. thought想，B. looked看，C. regarded 认为，D. treated对待，可能其他顾客认为我是书呆子，选C
小题19:考查副词辨析： A. certainly当然，B. obviously 显然地，C. secretly秘密地，D. hardly几乎不，但是他们几乎不能意识到我在享受Shakespeare, Thoreau, Homer 和 Ben Johnson的陪伴，选D
小题20:考查名词辨析：A. relation关系，B. moment时刻，C. company公司，陪伴，D. novel小说，因为作者在看书，所以是与这些作者为伴，选C |
核心考点
试题【I am a person who doesn’t like waiting. I don’t like to wait in line, being put 】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
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A tent can be one of the more costly items on your camping equipment shopping list. It is definitely something that you need to consider carefully.
By seeing a tent for real you will be able to get a better impression of its size and construction in the traditional shop. However，the downside is that，unless you are experienced，you may miss out some of the details that the manufacturer’s promotional material makes clear. Cheap tents often look similar to the quality models they are mimicking(模仿)，but you can be sure that they use inferior(次的) materials and probably have lower design standards.
Shop staff are often campers themselves. That means they usually can give lots of advice. If a shop assistant agrees with your own conclusions，that will be great；if they try to change your decision with a clear and reasonable argument，then that will be worth considering；if they just try to bamboozle(欺骗)，or even bully，you then walk away.
The Internet is a wonderful tool，and so long as you know how to make the most of search engines and put in a little effort，you really have the perfect answer waiting to be found. That answer will be different for every camper as each of us has different needs. Don’t be surprised to see your favorite criticized somewhere，but if you see too much criticism，then you had better start thinking again. No problem. You won’t have spent anything yet，so think of it positively as a large expense saved.
Probably the best approach，if you have the time，is to research tents online and make a short list. Then try to inspect those tents at nearby shops. Then you can make a final decision on where to buy your chosen model based purely on total cost.
小题1:The underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 2 means “________”．| A．disadvantage | B．instruction | C．argument | D．principle |
小题2:It can be concluded from the third paragraph that________.| A．shop assistants usually enjoy going camping | | B．shop assistants usually have practical advice | | C．you should consider your idea repeatedly | | D．it is impolite for you to trouble shop assistants |
小题3:You can make use of the Internet to________.| A．meet your different needs | | B．find the answer for every camper | | C．help you out of trouble | | D．find your favorite tent |
小题4:Which of the following would be the main idea of this passage?| A．It is good to buy your tent in the traditional shop. | | B．You’d better buy a tent with the help of the Internet. | | C．Better buy a tent combining seeing tents for real in shops and researching them online. | | D．Going camping is really beneficial to your health. |
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A person has to be sixteen to drive, seventeen to see certain movies, and eighteen to vote. People can get terrific discounts on all sorts of stuff－provided they’re over sixty-five. Everywhere we look there are age limits that define what people can and can’t do. But creativity has no boundaries, no limitations. Anyone can invent. And they do. Inventors are popping up at the youngest ages.
Sitting in the car waiting for her mom to return from shopping, Becky decided she might as well try to finish her math homework. But it was growing dark and getting hard to see the paper.
“I didn’t have a flashlight, and I didn’t want to open the car door because then the whole car would light up.” recalled Becky. “So I thought it would be neat to have my paper light up somehow, and that’s when the idea came to me.”
It isn’t every day that a ten-year-old invents a product eagerly sought by several businesses, but that’s exactly what Becky Schroeder did when she created a tool that enabled people to write in the dark. Her invention? The Glo-sheet.
That night Becky went home, trying to imagine different ways of making her paper glow in the dark. She remembered all sorts of glow-in-the-dark toys－like balls and Frisbees－and wondered how they were made. She was determined to find a solution. So they very next day, Beck’s dad took her on an outing to the hardware store. They returned with a pail (桶) of phosphorescent paint. She took the paint and stacks of paper into the darkest room in the house－the bathroom. There, she experimented.
“I’d turn on the light, turn it off, turn it on,” said Becky. “My parents remember me running out the room saying ‘It works, it works! I’m writing in the dark!’ ”
She used an acrylic board and coated it with a specific amount of phosphorescent paint. She took a complicated idea and made it work rather simply. When the coated clipboard is exposed to light, it glows. The glowing board then illuminates or lights up the paper that has been placed on top. Two years after her initial inspiration, in 1974, Becky became the youngest female ever to receive a U.S. patent.
She didn’t actively market her Glo-sheet. She didn’t need to. The New York Times wrote an article about an incredible invention－patented by a twelve-year-old, and the inquiries and orders streamed in.
小题1:From Paragraph 1 , we can draw a conclusion that _________.| A．it is illegal for one to drive under sixteen | | B．people enjoy privileges when over sixty-five | | C．one is never too old or too young to invent | | D．people hate the limitations that define our behavior |
小题2:What caused Becky to invent Glo-sheet?| A．She was trying to do homework when it got dark. | | B．She was having trouble with math problems. | | C．She was trying to earn some money. | | D．She was working on a school project. |
小题3:What is the meaning of the underlined words “phosphorescent paint” in paragraph 5?| A．paint that acts as a glue | | B．paint that covers a mark | | C．paint that becomes hard | | D．paint that glows in the dark |
小题4:What does it mean that Beck “didn’t actively market her Glo-sheet” according to paragraph 8?| A．She kept the original one for her own use. | | B．Other people came to her for the Glo-sheet. | | C．Becky’s father tried to sell the Glo-sheet. | | D．She gave away patent to the government. |
小题5:With which statement would Becky most likely agree?| A．Experience is needed to be a good inventor. | | B．Only by inventing things can you know what people need. | | C．Always try to sell patent rights to large companies. | | D．You never know what you can do unless you try. |
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Many people believe the glare from snow causes snow-blindness. Yet, dark glasses or not , they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes, and even snow-blindness, when exposed to several hours of “snow light”. The United States Army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snow-blindness in troops in a snow-covered country. Rather, a man"s eyes frequently find nothing to focus on in a broad expanse of barren (少植被的) snow-covered terrain (地形). So his gaze continually shifts and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at. Finding nothing, hour after hour, the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become sore and the eye muscles ache. Nature eases this irritation by producing more fluid which covers the eyeball. The fluid covers the eyeball in increasing quantity until vision blurs (模糊), then is obscured (遮蔽), and the result is total, even though temporary, snow-blindness.
Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. Scouts ahead of a main body of troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow-covered landscape. Even the scouts themselves throw lightweight, dark colored objects ahead on which they too can focus. The men following can then see something. Their gaze is arrested. Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop scouring the snow-blanketed landscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time, the men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snow-blind or lost. In this way the problem of crossing a solid white terrain is overcome.
小题1:To prevent headaches, watering eyes and blindness caused by the glare from snow, dark
glasses are _________.| A．indispensable and essential | B．useful | C．ineffective | D．available |
小题2:When the eyes are sore tears are produced to _________.| A．balance the pain | B．treat snow-blindness | | C．clear the vision | D．loosen the muscles |
小题3:Snow-blindness may be avoided by _________.| A．concentrating on the solid white terrain | | B．searching for something to look at in snow-covered terrain | | C．providing the eyes with something to focus on | | D．covering the eyeballs with more fluid |
小题4:The scouts shake snow from evergreen bushes in order to _________.| A．prevent the men behind losing their way | | B．beautify the landscape of the terrain | | C．warm themselves in the severe cold | | D．give the men behind something to see |
小题5:A suitable title for this passage would be _________.| A．nature"s cure for snow-blindness | | B．snow-blindness and how to overcome it | | C．soldiers marching in the snow | | D．snow vision and its effect on eyesight |
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For my daughter"s 19th birthday, we bought her tickets to go and see Linkin Park, as they were playing in our city. We didn"t really have the ____ but we knew how much this band meant to her.
The night before she was like a ____ at Christmas. Every so often she got up and came to ____ with us, because she couldn"t ___. On the night of the ____ it was good to see her so ____ and excited, as she and her boyfriend set off.
Needless to say when they ____ after midnight, with Tshirts and lots of pictures of the band, ____ her telling about how fantastic they had been, we knew the money had been well ____. This will be a memory she would ____ forget, and nor would we.
____ full of excitement from the night before, the following day they ___ to go shopping on the other side of the city. My husband and I ____， loving the fact that she had not ____ that quality as she grew up.
Later that day they returned, with faces full of happiness and warmth. They presented my husband and me with a ____ each. On each present were the words “Because you are the ____ mum/dad in the world”. When we said our thankyous and told her she didn"t have to, we asked her ____ she had bought us gifts. Her ____ was simply “Just because I love you”．
This wasn"t something ____ from our daughter; she had always given us a gift when she wanted to express her ____， and each gift was always a welcome surprise. It could have been anything, it wouldn"t have mattered, and it was the act itself and the feelings behind it.
| 小题1: | | A．money | B．time | C．interest | D．news |
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| 小题2: | | A．worker | B．baby | C．kid | D．parent |
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| 小题3: | | A．dance | B．learn | C．walk | D．sit |
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| 小题4: | | A．speak | B．sleep | C．stand | D．leave |
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| 小题5: | | A．concert | B．holiday | C．party | D．travel |
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| 小题6: | | A．healthy | B．happy | C．pretty | D．surprised |
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| 小题7: | | A．stayed | B．left | C．returned | D．turned |
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| 小题8: | | A．worrying about | B．caring for | C．looking at | D．listening to |
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| 小题9: | | A．lent | B．earned | C．saved | D．spent |
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| 小题10: | | A．ever | B．never | C．often | D．neither |
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| 小题11: | | A．Still | B．Only | C．Just | D．Also |
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| 小题12: | | A．continued | B．tried | C．decided | D．struggled |
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| 小题13: | | A．refused | B．cried | C．shouted | D．laughed |
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| 小题14: | | A．kept | B．lost | C．realized | D．discovered |
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| 小题15: | | A．gift | B．prize | C．ticket | D．picture |
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| 小题16: | | A．richest | B．oldest | C．best | D．cleverest |
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| 小题18: | | A．way | B．answer | C．suggestion | D．idea |
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| 小题19: | | A．important | B．ordinary | C．new | D．valuable |
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| 小题20: | | A．feelings | B．concerns | C．understandings | D．opinions |
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Most city parks are places where you can escape from big, ugly structures of metal and stone. The Manhattan High Line is different. Raised 25 feet above the ground, this massive metal structure once supported a rail line. The line opened in 1934 to bring trains directly into factories and warehouses. It was hardly used after the 1960s, and much of it was torn down. However, one section remained in an area of Manhattan called Chelsea. Chelsea was becoming more and more valuable as restaurants, art galleries and apartments were built, but the ugly railway structure remained as a dead weight. Everyone knew that at some time, it would have to be removed.
But the High Line was not destroyed. In fact, now the old rail line serves as one of the most peaceful places in the city. It holds an elevated park, with beautiful gardens, a sidewalk and great views of the city. The idea to change the rail line into a park came from Joshua David and Robert Hammond. In 1999, they attended a community meeting to decide the fate(命运) of the High Line. David and Hammond were the only people at the meeting interested in saving the structure for its historical significance. Later on, when they asked railway officials to take them up to look at the High Line, they saw a mile and a half of wild flowers growing in the middle of the city, and they realized that the High Line had potential to become a park. There was growing interest in improving urban centers, and so the project quickly won support and funds for construction were easily obtained.
The first section of the High Line opened in 2009 and immediately became popular with tourists and locals alike. Each part of the park has a different atmosphere. Some areas are like balconies (阳台)with wonderful city views. Where the rail line goes between buildings, trees are thickly planted. Other sections have wide walkways planted with wild flowers. Only the final section remains the way it has been for the last fifty years – a railway line overgrown with weeds.
小题1:The underlined phrase “a dead weight” in Paragraph 1 means_____.| A．something with potential to be better. | | B．something with historical interest. | | C．something which is a danger to people. | | D．something useless which slows progress. |
小题2:According to Paragraph 2, David and Hammond wanted to save the High Line because they_____.| A．thought it had historical value | | B．wanted to reopen the train line | | C．thought it would bring them money | | D．were interested in improving the city |
小题3:From the last paragraph, we can learn that the park ______.| A．is different in its design | | B．is covered with trees | | C．didn’t change at all | | D．became a natural countryside |
小题4:Which of the following is NOT true about the High Line?| A．It is situated above ground level. | | B．Only part of the line remains. | | C．It is now a popular park. | | D．Trains still use the line. |
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