Of all the things our wisdom tells us will make life entirely happy, the greatest is the possession of friendship. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed.
On the first Sunday in August, it’s time to recognize your friends and their contribution to your life. The first Sunday in August was fixed as National Friendship Day by the U.S. Congress in 1935, and remains a tradition observed in many countries and cultures. In 1997, the United Nations named Winnie the Pooh as the world’s Ambassador of Friendship.
Apparently, there are several friendship holidays, all of which fall on fixed dates.
National Friendship Day is on the first Sunday in August
Women’s Friendship Day is on the third Sunday in September
International Friendship Month is February
Old Friends, New Friends Week is the third week of May
People show their appreciation for friendship in various ways. Some expressions may be practical ones, such as flowers, particularly the pink friendship roses, cookies, chocolates, souvenirs from their vacations, a tape of favorite songs, farewell dinners, and welcome balloons.
Recipe for Friendship 2 cups of patience, 1 heart full of love, 2 handfuls of generosity, 2 cups of loyalty, 1 cup of understanding, A dash of laughter. Mix them all well. Spray generously over a lifetime and serve everyone you meet.
Friendship helps to bring peace and positivity to the globe, another great reason to celebrate! Although our friends certainly deserve thanks on more than just one day of the year, what better day to honor them than Friendship Day!!
小题1:Which of the following proverbs supports the main idea of the first paragraph?| A．Friendship cannot stand always on one side. | | B．A friend in need is a friend indeed. | | C．A friend without faults will never be found. | | D．A life without a friend is a life without a sun. |
小题2:Which of the holidays happens first in a year?| A．National Friendship Day. | B．Women’s Friendship Day. | | C．International Friendship Month. | D．Old Friends, New Friends Week. |
小题3:What is most needed to make friendship grow, develop and last?| A．Inviting your friends over for a party. | | B．Looking on your friends as relatives. | | C．Honoring your friends on Friendship Day. | | D．Being loyal and generous to your friends. |
小题4:“Recipe for Friendship” here actually means .| A．a prescription for curing friends | B．a method of keeping a friendship | | C．the pleasure of having friends | D．the importance of friendship |
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小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:D
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小题1:推理题，由第一段的主要意思“友谊是稀有的珍宝，友谊非常重要”，谚语意思“人生没有朋友，犹如人生没有太阳”，所以选D
小题2:细节题，由第三段National Friendship Day is on the first Sunday in AugustWomen’s Friendship Day is on the third Sunday in SeptemberInternational Friendship Month is FebruaryOld Friends, New Friends Week is the third week of May可以知道，国际友谊月是最早开始的，所以选C
小题3:推理题，由第一段的第二行One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.可以推出对朋友最重要的是要忠诚和大方，所以选D
小题4:推理题，由倒数第二段讲述了友谊的方法可以答案，所以选B
点评：本文主要讲述了朋友的重要性和怎样维持好友谊的方法，首先要通读全文，然后带着问题，再读全文，找出答题所需要的依据，完成阅读。 |
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One rainy night many years ago ,an elderly couple entered the hall of a small hotel in Philadephia. The couple walked to the front desk hoping to get some 21 for the night. “Could you give us a 22 here?” the husband asked.
The waiter, a 23 man with a bright smile, looked at the couple and 24 that there were three meetings in town. “All of our rooms are taken,” the waiter said. “ 25 I can’t send a nice couple like you out into the rain at one o’clock in the morning. Would you be 26 to sleep in my room? It’s not 27 a suite(套房)，but it will be good enough to make you 28 for the night.”
When then couple refused 39 , he explained, “Don’t worry about me.”So the couple 30 . The next morning, the elderly man said to the waiter, “you are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best 31 in America. Maybe someday I’ll 32 one for you.” The waiter looked at them and 33 .Then they drove away.
Two years passed. The waiter had almost 34 it when he received a letter from the old man. It recalled（提起）that 35 night and enclosed（附上）a round-trip to New York, asking the young man to pay them a visit.
The old man 36 knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose 37 him in New York and led him to Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. He 38 to a great new building there.
“That is the hotel I have just built for you,” said the elderly man.
“You must be 39 ,” the young man said.
“I’m not,” said the elderly man.
The elderly man was William Waldor-Aster, and that 40 building was the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young waiter who became its first manager was George Boldt.
| 小题1: | | A．food | B．shelter | C．light | D．space |
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| 小题3: | | A．serious | B．patient | C．friendly | D．careful |
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| 小题4: | | A．decided | B．thought | C．suggested | D．explained |
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| 小题6: | | A．ready | B．glad | C．grateful | D．natural |
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| 小题7: | | A．clearly | B．nearly | C．exactly | D．simply |
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| 小题8: | | A．calm | B．special | C．successful | D．comfortable |
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| 小题9: | | A．easily | B．politely | C．give | D．know |
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| 小题10: | | A．left | B．agreed | C．complained | D．happened |
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| 小题11: | | A．hotel | B．shop | C．school | D．restaurant |
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| 小题12: | | A．build | B．keep | C．find | D．invent |
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| 小题13: | | A．checked | B．excused | C．smiled | D．changed |
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| 小题14: | | A．expected | B．realised | C．discovered | D．forgotten |
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小题15: | A．bright | B．warm | C．cloudy | D．stormy |
小题16:本题有误| A．ticket | B．map | C．form | D．travel |
小题17:本题有误| A．met | B．thanked | C．missed | D．watched |
| 小题18: | | A．waved | B．pointed | C．moved | D．returned |
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| 小题19: | | A．laughing | B．arguing | C．joking | D．reporting |
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| 小题20: | | A．small | B．common | C．simple | D．beautiful |
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Thid is a true story of a mother’s sacrifice(牺牲) in an earthquake.
When the rescuer reached the ruins of a young man’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. Her pose was somehow strange—she knelt(跪) on the ground like a person who was worshiping(祷告);her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supported by an object. However, the cold and stiff body told them that she had passed away for sure.
The rescuers left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reason, the team leader was driven by a strong force to go back to the ruined house. Again, he knelt down to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement, “A child! There is a child1”
The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3-month-old little boy wrapped in a blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made great sacrifice in order to save her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.
A doctor came quickly to examine the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cellphone inside the blanket.There was a text massage on the screen. It said, “If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Everybody that read the massage cried
小题1:Why did the young woman kneel on the ground?| A．To protect herself from the earthquake | | B．To show respect for God | | C．To ask God for help | | D．To protect her baby |
小题2:After reading the text massage, everyone felt quite ______.| A．shocked | B．excited | C．moved | D．afraid |
小题3:What’s the writer’s purpose in writing this passage?| A．To prove that a cat has nine lives. | | B．To show the power of a mother’s love. | | C．To express his thanks to the rescuers. | | D．To give advice on how to rescue others. |
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Last year, I met a little boy to whom my heart went out. He would talk to me every single day, and always seemed to have a smile on his face. His problem was that he stuttered (口吃) extremely badly when he tried to talk. It was really hard to understand what he was saying, although he loved to tell big tales!
One morning, I was talking to the teachers who ran the school store. The boy stopped by and said hello to all of us. Afterwards they told me that the boy would stop every day to ask if they would be there the next day. But of course, he never had money to buy anything.
I decided that I would get him a little something just as a surprise. So I picked out a pencil, a rubber, and a small notebook for just $1.00. I cannot describe the look on his face when I gave him the three little things. Then, without a stutter, he loudly said, "Thank you so much!" and just kept repeating, "Thank you! Thank you!" He gave me a big hug before going off to class.
I was touched to see someone appreciate something that much. As he walked off, he was showing his new stuff to other kids walking to class. I have to say that I have never spent a dollar that would mean so much to me.
小题1:Why did the boy never buy anything from the store?| A．Because he couldn’t make himself understood. | | B．Because the teachers were unwilling to sell him anything. | | C．Because he couldn’t afford anything. | | D．Because he could never decide what to buy. |
小题2:What do we learn from the third paragraph?| A．Actually the boy had no stutter at all. | | B．The boy was too excited to stutter at the moment. | | C．What the author had bought helped the boy speak normally. | | D．The author wanted to find out whether the boy really had a stutter. |
小题3:Which would be the best title for the passage?| A．A Stuttering Boy | | B．Kindness Can Do Wonders | | C．One Dollar Can Buy Anything | | D．The Best Dollar I Have Spent |
小题4:What is the boy’s attitude to his life?| A．active | B．passive | C．disappointed | D．fearful |
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The last time I saw my mother, she didn’t know who I was. Although having 36 from dementia(老年痴呆症) for many years, mother was never 37 . All our family came to the hospital to spend time with her. She didn’t 38 them either, but we wanted to be there with her.
I have just flown back from Texas. Mother 39 looked at me, or past me, and said “Yeah”. That’s 40 she responded to 41 around her. In spite of this, I held her hand and talked to her.
I told her about the big old house in Highland where I 42 . When we first 43 there from Mascoutah when I was 5 years old, I was 44 of that house. The yard was full of 45 and the house was falling apart. But my father and mother were intelligent and 46 and we eight kids helped to turn it into a home. All of a sudden, I wasn’t frightened any more.
I told her she must have been very 47 when I decided to go to college to study journalism 48 being a priest（牧师）, which she thought was the highest 49 for a family. But she didn’t show it. She just saw me 50 with my favorite chocolate chip cookies.
When I told her all about Texas, 51 she and father had been to visit me, mother seemed 52 by that Texas beach on which they had taken a 53 . She 54 the trip and kept the picture in the living room all the time.
We had too many stories to tell. It was time for me to say 55 to mother and I told her I’d see her again. “Yeah,” she answered. But I wasn’t able to.
| 小题1: | | A．recovered | B．suffered | C．damaged | D．lived |
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| 小题2: | | A．healthy | B．awake | C．unconscious | D．alone |
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| 小题3: | | A．see | B．understand | C．recognize | D．like |
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| 小题4: | | A．never | B．just | C．excitedly | D．seldom |
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| 小题5: | | A．because | B．when | C．how | D．what |
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| 小题6: | | A．somewhere | B．everywhere | C．something | D．everything |
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| 小题7: | | A．experienced | B．grew up | C．brought up | D．worked |
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| 小题8: | | A．moved | B．visited | C．left | D．withdrew |
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| 小题9: | | A．fond | B．afraid | C．curious | D．tired |
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| 小题10: | | A．weeds | B．flowers | C．trees | D．waste |
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| 小题11: | | A．fortunate | B．easy-going | C．hospitable | D．hard-working |
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| 小题12: | | A．disappointed | B．excited | C．surprised | D．anxious |
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| 小题13: | | A．as well as | B．instead of | C．except for | D．in spite of |
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| 小题14: | | A．praise | B．prize | C．honor | D．encouragement |
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| 小题16: | | A．which | B．that | C．where | D．when |
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| 小题17: | | A．delight | B．interested | C．happy | D．impressed |
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| 小题18: | | A．note | B．boat | C．picture | D．bath |
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| 小题19: | | A．enjoyed | B．hated | C．remembered | D．accounted |
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| 小题20: | | A．thanks | B．goodbye | C．sorry | D．hello |
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When I was a little girl, my father loved to play the game of “catch the ball” with me. I wasn’t good at it 21 he didn’t mind at all. He was always telling me to 22 my eyes on the ball; otherwise I would not be able to 23 it when he threw it to me.
As I got older, we didn’t play the game as 24 as before. If I had a 25 , I would go to my father and 26 his advice. He would try to make a joke and say, “Keep your eyes on the ball.” We would both laugh 27 that advice was not usually able to 28 the problem, but he would just try to make me 29 .
My father became 30 in 1995 when I was 23. There were not any more conversations, as he was 31 from a terrible disease. He couldn’t 32 ; he could only move his 33 without making a sound, which was sometimes 34 to understand. I seemed to be 35 good at reading his lips after a while, even better than the nurses that were 36 him.
During one of our last 37 I was telling him about a difficulty I was 38 . Once again, I could read his lips. “Keep your eyes on the ball,” he said. We both smiled. That was the last time I saw my father 39 he passed away.
Sometimes now, all those years later when I get into a 40 situation, I just tell myself, “Keep your eyes on the ball.”
| 小题2: | | A．keep | B．leave | C．find | D．hold |
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| 小题3: | | A．watch | B．feel | C．move | D．catch |
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| 小题4: | | A．quick | B．much | C．many | D．little |
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| 小题5: | | A．surprise | B．wound | C．danger | D．problem |
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| 小题6: | | A．pay for | B．send for | C．look for | D．ask for |
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| 小题7: | | A．because | B．unless | C．if | D．when |
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| 小题8: | | A．settle | B．produce | C．drop | D．realize |
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| 小题9: | | A．worry | B．smile | C．study | D．talk |
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| 小题10: | | A．advice | B．ill | C．busy | D．wealthy |
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| 小题11: | | A．recovering | B．thinking | C．suffering | D．preventing |
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| 小题13: | | A．lips | B．face | C．hands | D．eyes |
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| 小题14: | | A．interesting | B．boring | C．easy | D．hard |
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| 小题15: | | A．quite | B．nearly | C．hardly | D．still |
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| 小题16: | | A．waiting for | B．thinking about | C．caring for | D．worrying about |
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| 小题17: | | A．impressions | B．experiences | C．games | D．conversations |
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| 小题18: | | A．looking through | B．going through | C．coming up | D．getting along |
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| 小题19: | | A．before | B．after | C．until | D．as |
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| 小题20: | | A．shocking | B．puzzling | C．frightening | D．troubling |
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