阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并涂在答题卡上。
My mother used to ask me what was the most important part of the body. Through the years I would 21 what I thought was the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought 22 was very important to us as humans, so I said, “My ears, Mommy”. She said, “No. Many people are 23 . But you keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon.”
Several years passed 24 she asked me again. Since making my first 25 , I had often thought of the correct answer. So this time I told her， “Mommy, sight is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes.” She looked at me and told me, “You are 26 fast, but the answer is not correct because there are many people who are blind.”
27 the years, Mother asked me a couple more 28 and always her answer was, “No, but you are getting 29 every year, my child.” Then last year, my Grandpa died. Everybody was crying when it was our 30 to say our final good-bye to Grandpa. Mom asked me, “Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?”
I was 31 when she asked me this now. I always thought this was a 32 between her and me. She saw the 33 on my face and told me, “This question is very important. It shows that you have really 34 your life.” I saw her eyes well up with tears. She said, “My dear, the most important body part is your 35 .” I asked, “Is it because it holds up your head?” She replied, “No, it is 36 on them a crying friend or loved one can rest their head. I only hope that you have enough 37 and friends that you will have a shoulder to cry 38 when you need it.” Then and there I knew the most important body part is not a 39 one. It is sympathetic to the pain of 40 .
| 小题1: | | A．notice | B．believe | C．doubt | D．wonder |
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| 小题2: | | A．love | B．health | C．sound | D．sight |
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| 小题3: | | A．blind | B．deaf | C．lame | D．foolish |
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| 小题4: | | A．while | B．once | C．after | D．before |
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| 小题5: | | A．discovery | B．decision | C．attempt | D．suggestion |
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| 小题6: | | A．learning | B．thinking | C．growing | D．changing |
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| 小题7: | | A．Before | B．Till | C．Beyond | D．Over |
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| 小题8: | | A．ways | B．things | C．questions | D．times |
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| 小题9: | | A．stronger | B．taller | C．smarter | D．nicer |
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| 小题10: | | A．duty | B．turn | C．pity | D．chance |
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| 小题11: | | A．shocked | B．satisfied | C．interested | D．excited |
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| 小题13: | | A．worry | B．puzzlement | C．regret | D．pain |
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| 小题14: | | A．enjoyed | B．found | C．disliked | D．lived |
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| 小题15: | | A．shoulders | B．feet | C．hands | D．hair |
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| 小题16: | | A．how | B．because | C．why | D．whether |
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| 小题17: | | A．respect | B．favor | C．love | D．fun |
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| 小题19: | | A．valuable | B．useful | C．selfish | D．precious |
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| 小题20: | | A．others | B．the deaf | C．Grandpa | D．the blind |
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小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:C
小题6:A
小题7:D
小题8:D
小题9:C
小题10:B
小题11:A
小题12:A
小题13:B
小题14:D
小题15:A
小题16:B
小题17:C
小题18:B
小题19:C
小题20:A |
小题1:随着时间流失，作者一直认为自己的答案是正确的。故选B。
小题2:根据“My ears”可知，作者的回答与耳朵有关。sound“声音”。故选C。
小题3:妈妈的回答是否定的，因为很多人是聋的。deaf“聋的”。故选B。
小题4:距离妈妈再次问作者，已经是几年后的事情了。before“在......之前”。故选D。
小题5:自从第一次尝试着回答之后，作者一直在寻找正确的答案。Attempt“尝试”。故选C。
小题6:妈妈说作者勤于思索，学习得很快。故选A。
小题7:over the years“几年来”。故选D。
小题8:在随后的几年里，妈妈又问了作者几次。Time作“次数”来讲，是可数的。故选D。
小题9:妈妈夸作者越来越聪明伶俐了。smart“聪明是”。故选C。
小题10:考查固定句型。It’s one’s turn to do sth.“轮到某人做某事”。故选B。
小题11:妈妈这个时候问作者，令作者感到吃惊。故选A。
小题12:作者以前认为这是他和妈妈之间的游戏。故选A。
小题13:puzzlement“困惑”。妈妈看到了作者脸上的困惑。故选B。
小题14:考查固定短语。live one’s life“生活”。故选D。
小题15:根据作者的疑问可知，妈妈说的正确答案是shoulders“肩膀”。故选A。
小题16:根据“Is it because...”这是因为......可知，此处用because。故选B。
小题17:根据妈妈的回答可知，肩膀可以给爱人和朋友依靠。故作者的妈妈希望作者有足够多的爱人和朋友。故选C。
小题18:根据“it is because on them...”可知，“在肩膀上”用介词on。故选B。
小题19:selfish“自私的，个人的”。至此，作者知道了，人体最重要的部分不是局限于单个人身上。故选C。
小题20:作者认识到要对他人抱以同情心。others泛指“其他人”。故选A。 |
核心考点
试题【阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并涂在答题卡上。My mother used to ask me what was the 】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is.
A holy man in India may think  that happiness is in himself. It is in needing nothing from outside himself. If wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. We westerners, however, are taught that the more we have from outside ourselves, the happier we will be, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. Advertising, one of our major industries, exists not to satisfy these desires but to create them---and to create them faster than any man’s money in his pocket can satisfy them. Here, obviously someone is trying to buy the dream of happiness and spending millions upon millions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers.
I doubt the holy man’s idea of happiness, and I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market, too. Whatever happiness may be, I believe, it is neither in having nothing nor in having more, but in changing --- in changing the world and mankind into pure states.
To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties. As Yeats, a great Irish poet once put it, happiness we get for a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties.
It is easy to understand. We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. And a game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are man-made difficulties. When the player ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.
The same is true to happiness. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem to have lost their sense of the pleasure of difficulty. Heaven knows what they are playing, but it seems a dull game. And the Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.
The western weakness may be in the dreams that happiness can be bought while eastern weakness may be in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect happiness in man himself. Both of them forget a basic fact: no difficulty, no happiness.
小题1:Who shares the same idea of happiness with the author?| A．The Indian holy man | B．The great Irish poet Yeats | | C．Advertisers | D．The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market |
小题2:What does “happiness-market” mean in the second paragraph?| A．It means a place in which people can buy things happily | | B．It means a market which lacks happy customers | | C．It means a pure state for the world and mankind | | D．It means a market where people try to buy happiness with money. |
小题3:According to the passage, which of the following is Right?| A．The Indian holy man is much happier than westerner. | | B．The westerners understand happiness better than the Indian holy man. | | C．There is no fun without playing by the rules | | D．Both the eastern weakness and western weakness are the same. |
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He lost his arms in an accident that claimed his father’s life who was the main 36 of support for the family. He had to _37__ the arms of his younger brother，and his younger brother became his ___38 _ ，never leaving him alone for years. Except for writing with his toes，he was completely unable to do _39_ in his life.
One late night，his younger brother accompanied him into the toilet and went back to __40__ . But being so 41___，his younger brother fell asleep，leaving him on the toilet for two hours. As the two brothers grew up together，they had their share of problems and they would often __42__ . His younger brother wanted to live _43__ from him，living his own life，as many normal people do. So he was 44 __ and didn’t know what to do.
A _45__ misfortune befell(降临) a girl. One night her mother，who suffered from mental illness ___46_ . So her father went out looking for her mother，leaving her alone at home. She tried to prepare a __47_ for her parents，only to overturn the stove， _48 __ in a fire which took her hands away.
Though her elder sister who was studying in another city，showed her _49__ to take care of her，she was determined to be completely _50__ . At school，she always studied hard.
One day，the boy and the girl were both invited to appear on a television interview program. They were both asked to write something on a piece of paper with their toes. The boy wrote： My younger brother’s arms are my arms； 51_ the girl wrote: Broken wings，flying heart.
Disasters can 52_ at any time. If you choose only to complain and 53 from the ordeal(苦难的经历)，it will always follow you wherever you go. But if you decide to be ___54 ，the hardship will turn out to be a(n) 55 on which new hopes will arise.
| 小题1: | | A．cause | B．strength | C．source | D．course |
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| 小题2: | | A．live on | B．take on | C．turn on | D．depend on |
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| 小题3: | | A．shadow | B．volunteer | C．bodyguard | D．servant |
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| 小题4: | | A．something | B．anything | C．nothing | D．everything |
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| 小题6: | | A．tired | B．angry | C．impatient | D．unfair |
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| 小题7: | | A．support | B．separate | C．quarrel | D．avoid |
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| 小题8: | | A．lonely | B．different | C．separated | D．divided |
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| 小题9: | | A．heartless | B．heart-broken | C．kind-hearted | D．heart-warming |
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| 小题10: | | A．same | B．similar | C．simple | D．strange |
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| 小题11: | | A．died | B．disappeared | C．dismissed | D．failed |
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| 小题12: | | A．meal | B．medicine | C．heating | D．plan |
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| 小题13: | | A．leading | B．resulting | C．taking | D．bringing |
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| 小题14: | | A．willingness | B．anxiety | C．contribution | D．respect |
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| 小题15: | | A．independent | B．relaxed | C．disabled | D．energetic |
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| 小题16: | | A．since | B．while | C．as | D．though |
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| 小题17: | | A．strike | B．afford | C．form | D．return |
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| 小题18: | | A．hide | B．remain | C．survive | D．escape |
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| 小题19: | | A．careful | B．strong | C．healthy | D．polite |
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| 小题20: | | A．difficulty | B．fortune | C．occupation | D．attitude |
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He never believed that true love existed.
His parents divorcedwhen he was young and he didn’t think that true love was able to survive in today’s world.
He was 36 wrong.
His grandparents were always supportive to the kids and tried to help them when their parents 37 . He knew they loved each other, he just wasn’t sure it was true love. He had 38 heard them say, “I love you” or they hadn’t shown any affection 39 hugging. They had been married for over fifty years and he thought that their true love was gone.
But again he was wrong. His grandfather, Ralph, was struck ill in his junior year of college and he didn’t know how serious it was until he fell and hurt his hip (臀). While in the hospital, the doctors 40 a tumor (瘤) in his lungs. They told him that he had lung cancer and due to previous illnesses, they could not operate and he was too 41 for chemotherapy (化疗).
It was around Thanksgiving and by Christmas his condition worsened. The cancer spread and in late January his sister away at college too, called him crying and said she was on her way home because the doctors told their family that their 42 had only a week to live, that by the weekend he would 43 be with them. Their family came in from around the country and stayed next to his side.
It was not until then that he 44 that true love did exist and would survive beyond death. Every night as his grandfather grew more fragile, he would 45 sweet words to grandmother, Madge. The night before he died grandmother was walking out of his room and he said to her “I love you Madgie baby”.
The next morning he received a phone call at work that grandfather had passed during the night. Throughout his short battle 46 cancer, he realized how much two people can love each other and he realized how much it means to be loved and give love. It is the greatest 47 on earth and it lasts beyond life because you never forget your one true love.
| 小题1: | | A．believed | B．proved | C．asked | D．realized |
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| 小题2: | | A．died | B．married | C．divorced | D．fought |
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| 小题3: | | A．ever | B．never | C．even | D．often |
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| 小题4: | | A．other than | B．less than | C．rather than | D．better than |
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| 小题5: | | A．took out | B．found out | C．set out | D．put out |
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| 小题6: | | A．strong | B．fat | C．short | D．weak |
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| 小题7: | | A．grandfather | B．grandmother | C．father | D．mother |
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| 小题8: | | A．no better | B．no worse | C．no less | D．no longer |
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| 小题9: | | A．realized | B．said | C．saw | D．mentioned |
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| 小题10: | | A．speak | B．shout | C．whisper | D．talk |
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| 小题12: | | A．smile | B．battle | C．gift | D．surprise |
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I have a painfully vivid memory of my first homecoming from college, in December 1983. After three whole months away, I was back home with my brand new opinions, attitudes and tastes. How could they watch such terrible television programs? I, the English Literature major with Shakespeare and Milton and James Joyce, could hardly bear to sleep under the roof of a house whose few bookshelves held thrillers and bound editions of the Reader’s Digest. I’m sure my family was glad to see the back of me when, at the end of the holiday, I packed up my books and headed back up to university in the north of England.
But the next year must have been even more painful to my parents: I didn’t show up at all. Now, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with young people spending a little time away from their families and with their friends. It’s part of growing up, something you need to do if you are to become properly independent. However, if you’re not going to be home for the festival, you should at least have the decency to telephone and say you’re not coming.
In English we have an expression, “wet behind the ears.” A person who is wet behind the ears is so immature, that they don’t know how to dry the back of their head after a bath. Just before the following year’s holiday I fell ill, quite seriously so. I’m sure my own behavior contributed to my getting sick: staying out too late, not eating properly—perhaps you know someone like the person I was then. I lay in bed with a fever, feeling very sorry for myself.
I’m sure you can guess who came to my rescue. My long-suffering parents got in their car and sped up the motorway to rescue their son from the consequences of his own irresponsibility.
I hope I’m a better son now; if not, it’s getting a little late in the day if I want to change. I’ve worked in China for nearly 10 years and so I don’t get to see them as often as I like, but my parents are online all the time so we talk many times each week. And this Spring Festival I will be flying back to England for a visit.
I’m really looking forward to it.
小题1:What can we learn from the first paragraph? | A．The author liked reading thrillers and the Reading Digest. | | B．The author couldn’t fall asleep in a house with few books. | | C．The author thought his parents were happy to see him back. | | D．The author didn’t seem to share the same tastes with his parents. |
小题2:What can we learn from the second paragraph? | A．The next year the author’s parents were very happy to see him. | | B．The author went to see his parents during the second year in college. | | C．If you aren’t going to spent an important day with your family, inform them in advance. | | D．To leave away from family is not a proper way if you want to gain some independency. |
小题3:If you are a person who is wet behind the ears, you are . | A．old and experienced | B．young and inexperienced | | C．young and experienced | D．mature and experienced |
小题4:We can infer from the last two paragraphs that . | A．the author thinks he has become a good son | | B．the author will be with his family the next Spring Festival | | C．the author will not change himself to a better one because it is too late | | D．the author keeps in touch with his parents through the Internet regularly |
小题5:What would be the best title for the text? | A．Pleasant memories about Christmas | | B．Horrible things happened in the past | | C．Interesting memories about Christmas | | D．Share with you some of my Ghosts of Christmas Past |
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Recently, a professor of philosophy in the United States has written a book called Money and the Meaning of Life．He has discovered that how we deal with money in our day-to-day life has more meaning than we usually think．One of the exercises he asked his students to do is to keep a record of every penny they spend for a week．From the way they spend their money, they can see what they really value in life．
He says our relation with ot hers often become clearly defined when money enters the picture．You might have wonderful friendship with somebody and you think that you are very good friends．But you’ll know him only when you ask to lend you some money．If he does, it brings something to the relationship that seems stranger than ever before．Or it can suddenly weaken the relationship if he doesn’t．This person may say that he has a certain feeling, but if it is not carried out in the money world, there is something less real about it．
Since money is important to us, we consider those who possess a lot of it to be very important．The author interviewed some millionaires in researching his book．
Answer: The most surprising thing is why people give me so much respect．I’m nothing．I don’t know much．All I am is rich．
People just have an idea of making more and more money, but what is it for? How much do I need for any given purposes in my life? In this book, the professor uncovered an important need in modern society; to bring back the idea that money is an instrument rather than the end．Money plays an important role in the modern world, but expecting money to give happiness may be missing the meaning of life．
小题1:According to the first paragraph, people haven’t realized __________．| A．how important money is in their day-to-day life | | B．how one spends money shows what is important to him | | C．that money is more important than their philosophy of life | | D．that their understanding of life is more important than money |
小题2:What can we learn about the millionaire from his answer in the interview is that .| A．he does not feel that he is well -educated | | B．he does not consider himself to be very successful | | C．he does not think that he is a very important person | | D．he does not think being rich deserves so much attention |
小题3:What does the American professor of philosophy want to explain in his book?| A．Money is a means． | B．Money is everything． | | C．Money is an end． | D．Money is unimportant． |
小题4:Which of the following might the author disagree?| A．Money is important in modern society． | | B．Wealth will surely bring the owner happiness． | | C．The meaning of life doesn’t completely lie in money． | | D．Happiness is not necessarily the result of wealth． |
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