题目
题型:不详难度:来源:
If I close my eyes,I can still have a clear picture in mind of my first home.I walk in the door and see a brown sofa surrounding a low glasstop wooden table.To the right of the living room is my first bedroom.It’s empty,but it’s where my earliest memories are.
There is the dining room table where I celebrated birthdays,and where I cried on Halloween-when I didn’t want to wear the skirt my mother made for me.I always liked standing on that table because it made me feel tall and strong.If I sit at this table,I can see my favorite room in the house,my parents’ room.It is simple:a brown wooden dresser lines the right side of the wall next to a television and a couple of photos of my grandparents on each side.Their bed is my safe zone.I can jump on it anytime-waking up my parents if I am scared or if I have an important announcement that cannot wait until the morning.
I’m lucky because I know my first home still exists.It exists in my mind and heart,on a physical property(住宅) on West 64th street on the western edge of Los Angeles.It is proof I lived,I grew,and I learned.
Sometimes when I feel lost,I lie down and shut my eyes,and I go home.I know it’s where I’ll find my family,my dogs,and my belongings.I purposely leave the window open at night because I know I’ll be blamed by Mom.But I don’t mind,because I want to hear her say my name,which reminds me I’m home.
小题1:Why does the author call her parents’ bed her “safe zone”(Paragraph 3)?
A.It is her favorite place to play. |
B.Her needs can be satisfied there. |
C.Her grandparents’ photos are lined on each side. |
D.Her parents always play together with her there. |
A.The old furniture is still in the author’s first bedroom. |
B.The author can still visit her first physical home in Los Angeles. |
C.The author’s favorite room in her first home is the dining room. |
D.Many people of the author’s age can still find their first physical homes. |
A.open the window at night |
B.lie down in bed to have a dream |
C.try to bring back a sense of home |
D.go to Los Angeles to visit her mom |
A.To express how much she is attached to her home. |
B.To declare how much she loves her first house. |
C.To describe the state of her family. |
D.To look back on her childhood. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A
解析
小题1:解析:选B。细节理解题。由第三段最后两句Their bed is my safe zone.I can jump on it anytime-waking...until the morning.可知,她的需要能在那儿得到满足,所以B项符合题意。A、D两项文中都没得到,而C项只是对房间摆设的介绍,而不是题***原因,所以这三项均可排除。
小题2:解析:选B。细节理解题。文章第一段讲到,作者回到了她的第一个家,以及倒数第二段中的...on a physical property(住宅)on West 64th street on the western edge of Los Angeles.可知,作者现在仍然能够参观她在洛杉矶的第一个家,故B项正确。由第二段的最后两句可知,作者的第一个卧室里面空了,所以A项错误;由第三段中的If I sit at this table,I can see my favorite room in the house,my parents’ room.可知,作者最喜欢的房间是父母的房间,而不是餐厅,故C项错误;D项文中没有提及。
小题3:解析:选C。细节理解题。由最后一段可知,当作者感到迷茫的时候,她会躺下,闭上眼睛,然后想象着回家的情景。所以C项“尽量找回一种家的感觉”符合题意。A项只是作者想象情景中的一个片段;B项“躺在床上做一个梦”,其实作者并不是真的做梦;D项“去洛杉矶看她的妈妈”文中没有提及。
小题4:解析:选A。推理判断题。通读全文可知作者写本文的目的是想表达自己对家的依恋之情。而B、C、D三项只是对文章内容的表述,不是写本文的目的。故选A项。
核心考点
试题【Home to me means a sense of familiarity and nostalgia(怀旧).It’s fun to come home.】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
One morning, I got into three different taxis and announced,“Well,it"s my first day back in New York in seven years.I"ve been in prison.”Not a single driver replied,so I tried again.“Yeah,I shot a man in Reno.”I explained, hoping the driver would ask me why, but nobody asked.The only response came from a Ghanaian driver,“Reno? That is in Nevada?”
Taxi drivers were uniform sympathetic when I said I"d just been fired.“This is America,”a Haitian driver said.“One door is closed.Another is open.”He argued against my plan to burn down my boss" s house.A Pakistani driver even turned down a chance to profit from my loss of hope;he refused to take me to the middle of the George Washington Bridge—a $20 trip.“Why do you want to go there? Go home and relax.Don"t worry.Take a new job.”
One very hot weekday in July, while wearing a red ski mask and holding a stuffed pillowcase with the word “BANK” on it, I tried calling a taxi five times outside different banks.The driver picked me up every time.My ride with a Haitian driver was typical of the superb assistance I received.
“Let"s go across the park,” I said.“I just robbed the bank there.I got $25,000.”
“$25,000?” he asked.
“Yeah,you think it was wrong to take it?”
“No, man.I work 8 hours and I don"t make almost $70.If I can do that,I will do it too.”
As we approached 86th and Lexington, I pointed to the Chemical Bank.
“Hey,there is another bank,”I said,“Could you wait here a minute while I go inside?”
“No,I can"t wait.Pay me now.” His unwillingness may have had something to do with money—taxi drivers think the rate for waiting time is too low—but I think he wanted me to learn that even a bank robber can"t expect unconditional support.
小题1:From the Ghanaian driver"s response, we can infer that________.
A.he was afraid of the author |
B.he thought the author was crazy |
C.he looked down upon the author |
D.he was indifferent to the killing |
A.Because he was able to help the author to find a new job. |
B.Because he wanted to go home and relax. |
C.Because he thought that the author would commit suicide. |
D.Because it was far away from his home. |
A.the driver thought it wrong to support a taxi rider unconditionally |
B.the driver was frightened and wanted to leave him as soon as possible |
C.the driver did not want to help a suspect to escape from a bank robbery |
D.the driver thought that the rate for waiting time was too low |
A.They are ready to help you do whatever you want to. |
B.They are sympathetic with those who are out of work. |
C.They refuse to pick up those who would kill themselves. |
D.They work only for money. |
A.the way to please taxi riders |
B.the way to deal with taxi riders |
C.taxi drivers" attitude to riders in personal trouble |
D.taxi drivers" attitude to troublesome taxi riders |
Every day she at 4 o’clock in the morning, and then works till dark. One day I called her at 7:30 in the evening. She told me she was in the vineyard and hadn’t had supper yet. Tears ran down my cheeks.
Dear mum, I’ll study hard in the university because I am your . I’ll look after myself because I am to you. I promise you so much but I want you to promise me you will tend yourself and Dad because you are like my blood. I cannot without you.
Mum has ever said that the happiest time for Dad and her is when my sister and I come home. We play cards in the room, watch TV or do else we like, with Dad and Mum delicious food in the kitchen. It is the happiest time for me. I could all the difficulties and unhappiness. The thing to do is to enjoy the time with my parents.
, sometimes, doesnt need many words. Love your parents as they love you. Give them a and tell them you them.
小题1: |
|
小题2: |
|
小题3: |
|
小题4: |
|
小题5: |
|
小题6: |
|
小题7: |
|
小题8: |
|
小题9: |
|
小题10: |
|
小题11: |
|
小题12: |
|
小题13: |
|
小题14: |
|
小题15: |
|
小题16: |
|
小题17: |
|
小题18: |
|
小题19: |
|
小题20: |
|
Sometimes people ____ themselves as one thing and then when you get deep into it you realize that they’re something completely different. Either there was some good marketing ____ to a terrible book, or the story was only explained in a(n) ____ way and once you reach the middle of the book, you realize there’s so much more to this book than anyone could ever have told you.
You start off slow. The story is beginning to ____. You’re unsure. It’s a big commitment reading this tome(巨著). Maybe this book won’t be that great but you’ll feel ____ about putting it down. Maybe it’ll be so awful you’ll set it down immediately and never pick it up again. Or maybe you’ll come back to it some night, drunk or lonely—needing something to ____ the time, but it won’t be any better than it was when you first started reading it.
Maybe you’re ____. You’ve read tons of books before. Maybe you’ve taken some time off from reading because the last few books you read just weren’t ____ it. Do they even write new, great works of literature anymore? Maybe it’s a once in a lifetime feeling and you’re never going to find it again.
Or something ____ could happen. Maybe this will become your new favorite book. There’s always a possibility, right? That’s the ____ of risk. You ____ your time and your brain power in the words and what you get back is a new understanding and pure wonder.
How could someone possibly know you like this? Some stranger, some author, some character. It’s like they’re seeing inside your ____. This book existed inside some book store, on a shelf, maybe handled by other people and really it was just ____ for you to pick it up. It was waiting to speak to you. To say, “You are not ____.”
You just want more of the story. You want to keep reading, maybe everything this author has ever ____. You wish it would never end. The closer it gets to the smaller side of the pages, the ____ you read, wanting to savor(品味) it all. This book is now one of your favorites forever. You will always wish you could go back to ____ having read it and pick it up fresh again, but also you know you’re better for having this close, inside you, ____ your heart and mind.
Reading a book is just like falling in love. Once you get in deep enough, you know you could never put this book down.
小题1: |
|
小题2: |
|
小题3: |
|
小题4: |
|
小题5: |
|
小题6: |
|
小题7: |
|
小题8: |
|
小题9: |
|
小题10: |
|
小题11: |
|
小题12: |
|
小题13: |
|
小题14: |
|
小题15: |
|
小题16: |
|
小题17: |
|
小题18: |
|
小题19: |
|
小题20: |
|
"Previous research has shown that paying people more than they expect may elicit reciprocity(相互作用) in the form of greater productivity," notes Deepak Malhotra, a Harvard business-administration professor who worked on the study. What he and his colleagues found, however, was that the connection between more pay and extra effort depends on presenting the increase "as a gift—that is, as something you"ve chosen to do purely as a nice gesture, with no strings attached."
Malhotra and his team studied 267 people hired by oDesk, a global online network of freelancers, to do a one-time data-entry project for four hours. All of the new hires were people in developing countries, for whom hourly wages of $3 and $4 were higher than what they had been making in previous jobs.
The researchers split the group up into three equal parts. One group was told they would earn $3 an hour. A second group was initially hired at $3 an hour but, before they started working, they got a surprise: The budget for the project had expanded unexpectedly, they were told, and they would now be paid $4 an hour. The third group was offered $4 an hour from the start and given no increase.
Even though the second and third groups were eventually paid the same amount, the second group worked harder and produced more—about 20% more—than either of the other two. People in the second group also showed the most stamina, maintaining their focus all the way through the assigned task and performing especially well toward the end of the four hours. Interestingly, the more experienced employees in the high-performing group were the most productive of all, apparently because their previous work experience led them to appreciate the rarity of an unexpected raise.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Malhotra points out that higher pay, in and of itself, didn"t promote productivity: People who made $4 an hour from the beginning worked no harder than those who were hired at $3 and were then paid $3.
To get the most impact from their pay plans, he adds, companies might consider not only what to pay new hires, but when to pay it.
"The key thing is how you present [the reason for an increase]," he says. Doling out extra money could promote productivity most "if you make it clear that the pay raise is something you"re choosing to do just because you can. Our theory is that people will reciprocate. If you do something nice, they"ll do something nice back."
小题1:Which of the following is true about the research?
A.None of the participants earned more than $4 an hour in previous jobs. |
B.89 of the participants got a $1 wage raise for their high productivity. |
C.It was so important that the budget for it was increased in the process. |
D.Stamina shown in it was positively related to the amount of money paid. |
A.The quality of being intelligent or clever. |
B.The quality of doing something difficult or dangerous. |
C.The physical or mental energy needed to do a tiring activity for a long time. |
D.A particular method of doing an activity, usually involving practical skills. |
A.Because they thought they were better paid than the other groups. |
B.Because they were experienced employees from developing countries. |
C.Because an unexpected raise reminded them of their previous work. |
D.Because they felt they were nicely treated and tried best to repay it. |
A.No pains, no gains. |
B.It matters not what we give but how. |
C.Honesty is the best policy. |
D.Actions speak louder than words. |
Now, what have kids done? ___________B____________. Well, Anne Frank touched millions with her powerful account of the Holocaust (大屠***), Ruby Bridges helped end segregation(隔离) in the United States, and, most recently, Charlie Simpson helped to raise 120,000 pounds for Haiti on his little bike. So, as you can see evidenced by such examples, age has absolutely nothing to do with it. We are called childish so often by adults that we should abolish this age-discrimination when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.
Then again, who"s to say that certain types of irrational thinking aren"t exactly what the world needs? Maybe you"ve had grand plans before, but stopped yourself, thinking: That"s impossible or that costs too much or that won"t benefit me. For better or worse, we kids aren"t hampered as much when it comes to thinking about reasons why not to do things. ___________C____________. Kids can be full of inspiring aspirations and hopeful thinking, like my wish that no one went hungry or that everything were free kind of utopia(乌托邦). How many of you still dream like that and believe in the possibilities? Sometimes a knowledge of history and the past failures of utopian ideals can be a burden. On the other hand, we kids still dream about perfection. ___________D____________. And that"s a good thing because in order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
Now, our inborn wisdom doesn"t have to be insiders" knowledge. Kids already do a lot of learning from adults, and we have a lot to share. I think that adults should start learning from kids. Now, I do most of my speaking in front of an education crowd, teachers and students, and I like this analogy. It shouldn"t just be a teacher at the head of the classroom telling students to do this, do that. The students should teach their teachers. Learning between grown ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it. Now, if you don"t trust someone, you place restrictions on them, right. If I doubt my older sister"s ability to pay back the 10 percent interest I established on her last loan, I"m going to withhold her ability to get more money from me until she pays it back.
True story, by the way. Now, adults seem to have a prevalently restrictive attitude towards kids from every "don"t do that," "don"t do this" in the school handbook, to restrictions on school internet use. Kids have no, or very little, say in making the rules, when really the attitude should be reciprocal(相互的), meaning that the adult population should learn and take into account the wishes of the younger population.
Adults, you need to listen and learn from kids. The world needs opportunities for new leaders and new ideas. Kids need opportunities to lead and succeed. Are you ready to make the match?
小题1:Where should the sentence “This really bothers me.” be put in the passage?
A. In blank A. B. In blank B.
C. In blank C. D. In blank D.
小题2:What does the speaker think is the root cause why adults call kids childish?
A.That kids like being called that way. |
B.That adults are more irresponsible than kids. |
C.That kids often make irrational demands. |
D.That adults are driven by age-discrimination against kids. |
A.Younger age. | B.Irrational thinking. |
C.Knowledge of history. | D.Excess restrictions. |
A.Don’t Be Childish again, Adults! |
B.Time to Listen and Learn from Us! |
C.Don’t Do That, Don’t Do This! |
D.We Are Not Young Any More! |
最新试题
- 1下图显示某国1951—2000年每10年的人口变化 读图完成以下2题1.1951——2000年,该国[ ]A.是
- 2如图是甲、乙两种固体物质在0°C—50°C之间的溶解度随温度变化的曲线图,某同学从图中获得如下几条信息:①30°C时两种
- 3下列有关营养成分与人体健康关系叙述中,错误的是A.缺铁元素会患贫血症B.缺钙元素会导致骨质疏松C.微量元素在人体内虽然含
- 4 游之日,风日清和,湖平于熨,时有小舫往来,如蝇头细字,着鹅溪练上。取酒共酌,意致闲淡。亭午风渐劲,湖水汩汩
- 5将相同质量的NaOH固体和NH4NO3固体,分别同时放入2个装有100mL水的烧杯中,用仪器测出溶液温度随时间变化情况,
- 6医生的主要责任是治病救人;教师的主要责任是教书育人;学生的主要责任是好好学习。这说明了 [ ]A、不同的社会角
- 7— Who _____ be phoning us at this time of night? — It might
- 8戏剧大师莎士比亚说过这样一句话:“适当的悲伤可以表示感情的深切,过度的伤心却可以证明智慧的欠缺。”这句话告诉我们 [
- 9瑞瑞同学勤学好问,善于观察和思考.寒假期间,他乘如图所示的火车去北京时,观察到所乘坐的火车共有16节车厢(包括火车头)
- 1008年北京奥运会上,22岁的大连小将张文秀在女子链球比赛中收获了第二块铜牌,尽管只是铜牌,但是这已经是一个突破--填补了
热门考点
- 1下列词语没有错别字的一项是A.烦躁昧良心人才荟萃怨气充天B.爆响白内障中流砥柱天气郁热C.窥伺水笼头与心不忍不即不离D.
- 2探月卫星沿地月转移轨道到达月球附近,在P点进行第一次“刹车制动”后被月球捕获,进入椭圆轨道绕月飞行,如图所示。若卫星的质
- 3材料一 :(右图)2008年8月8日,北京2008奥运会开幕式上,当一幅精美的巨型画卷徐徐拉开,呈现给观众的是代表中国古
- 42005年10月12日9时,我国“神舟”六号载人飞船在酒泉卫星发射中心由长征2F运载火箭成功发射升空.若长征2F运载火箭
- 5化合物A、B、C、D各由两种元素组成,甲、乙、丙是前两周期元素的三种单质。这些常见的化合物与单质之间存在如下关系(已知化
- 6下列选项能直接体现以经济建设为中心的是[ ]A、通过《汶川地震灾后恢复重建总体规划》B、国家对三鹿奶粉事件彻查C
- 7若2xm+1y4与3x3yn﹣1是同类项,则m+n=( ).
- 8My friend Mary"s lifestyle is the same _____ mine. [ ]
- 9材料一 “中国一部历史,是乡愿与大盗结合的记录。大盗不结合乡愿,做不成皇帝;乡愿不结合大盗,做不成圣人。所以我说,真皇帝
- 10北京2008年奥运会的奥运火种来源于“古代西方文明的摇篮”。“古代西方文明的摇篮” 是[ ]A.古代爱琴文明