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Walking around the corner and into the hall at three in the morning, lost in thought and dragging a mop bucket, I raised my eyes to the front counter in indifference. A man, looking to be in his mid 40’s, stood in a pink dress. A wide-edged hat stuck out over his massive frame resembling an umbrella that was a little too shabby and worn-out, making him look like a woman. The shock at seeing such a strong proud man in a cheap disgusting dress broke my heart, as well as frightened me.
Dropping my mop on the floor in surprise and picking up my face that had temporarily fallen off, I confidently walked over to the desk.
“I’m sorry,” I began to say but was confused on whether sir or madam was appropriate. “Can I help you?”
“I need a room,” he said in a gruff (粗哑的) powerful voice.
“Sure thing,” I said bringing up the registry. “Can I get your last name?”
“Hurgan,” he said briefly.
“And your first name?”
“Amanda.”
Suddenly I had to direct all of my concentration on holding back a smile. A ten second pause of silence passed while I tried to stay calm.
“Okay,” I said getting back to the job, “can I get your phone number, Amanda?”
All of the information was acquired and stored and Amanda received her room key for the night. All was well as I returned to the neglected mop bucket. Suddenly a low throaty cough drew me out of my temporary mental disorder. Looking over at the desk where Amanda stood touching her thick biceps (二头肌) I once again dropped the mop in shock.
“I’m sorry about that,” I said coming around to the desk. Amanda stared with unease twisting her sleeve with her right index finger.
“I have a cat,” she said in a low voice.
“I’m sorry you what?” I asked leaning in closer. She drew back a bit as if I was some kind of threat.
“I have a cat.”
Looking up into her tall frame, I replied, “That’s fine. We just need to add an extra $10 fee.” She handed me her credit card once again. I swiped it, returned it, and grabbed the printing receipt.
“You just need to sign here,” I said handing over the pen. She hesitantly grabbed it from my hand and signed. As she began to return it, my hand came a bit too close to connecting with hers. Scared and possibly a little disgusted she dropped the pen, causing it to bounce off the counter and onto the floor.
“Sorry,” she said, looking down. “I have to go get my cat.”
While Amanda was getting her cat, an unpleasant thought was circling around my head. Here I was just doing my job and this, this WO-MAN was acting as if I was the monster! He was wearing a pink dress! And I was the monster? Was he even still a man? The sliding doors opened and in came Amanda passing the front desk without even giving me a polite nod. 
小题1: The story most probably happened at a ________.
A.pubB.hotelC.hospitalD.shop
小题2:We can conclude that the author’s attitude towards the man is _______.
A.objectiveB.indifferentC.criticalD.considerate
小题3: Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A.The author was on the edge of smiling when he heard the man’s first name.
B.When the man checked in, he tipped the author $10.
C.After signing, the man grasped the author’s hand and thanked him.
D.The man gave the author a friendly nod while going toward his room.
小题4: What might be the best title of this passage?
A.A disgusting catB.A considerate waiter
C.A fierce monsterD.A strange-looking WO-MAN

答案
小题1:B小题1:C小题1:A小题1:D
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试题【Walking around the corner and into the hall at three in the morning, lost in tho】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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完形填空(共20小题,每小题1.5分,满分30分)阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各小题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Life is not always smooth. There was a man who had    36   numerous failures in his life. But he said, "One success is    37   for me!"
When he was five years old, his father died of illness without leaving him any    38    . Since then, his mother worked outside  39  he had to stay at home and take care of his siblings, He learnt cooking since then.
When he was fourteen, he dropped  40  and began his life of roving.
When he was eighteen, he married a girl, who,   41  , sold out all his properties and went back to her home several months after their marriage.
When he was twenty, he    42  his job from electrician to ferry staff to railway worker. All his jobs were   43  for him.
When he was thirty-five, misfortune again   44  on him. When he was driving across a huge bridge, the steel ropes along the edge of the bridge were broken and he fell into the river with his car. He suffered such severe injuries that he could no longer continue his   45  .
When he was    46   , he opened a gas station in a town. However, he   47 dispute(争端)because he beat his competitors    48  the billboard hanging problems.
When he was forty-seven, he   49 his second wife, which had    50   stricken his three children.
When he was sixty-six, he made a living by   51  his chicken-frying techniques to various restaurants in different places.
When he was seventy-five, he felt  52 to maintain his company, so he transferred his brand and patent to others. The new owner suggested giving him ten thousand stock shares as part of the purchasing price. But he   53  the suggestion. Later the price of the stocks of the company soared and he lost the chance of being a billionaire.
When he was eighty-eight, he achieved great success and became well-known to the whole world.
He was exactly the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ha Lunde Sandoz. He often said, "People always complain about the bad  54  . Actually it is not bad at all. As long as you are   55 and confident all the time, you will have a good weather every day."
小题1:
A.achievedB.undergoneC.triedD.undertook
小题2:
A.greatB.importantC.valuableD.enough
小题3:
A.wordsB.moneyC.propertyD.families
小题4:
A.whileB.butC.whenD.so
小题5:
A.inB.outC.downD.up
小题6:
A.meanwhileB.moreoverC.howeverD.therefore
小题7:
A.startedB.tookC.lostD.changed
小题8:
A.fitB.toughC.unusualD.adequate
小题9:
A.fellB.hitC.putD.rested
小题10:
A.lifeB.majorC.jobD.education
小题11:
A.fortyB.thirty-fiveC.fifty-threeD.seventy
小题12:.
A.went throughB.came intoC.came aboutD.went against
小题13:
A.contributing toB.judging fromC.owing toD.leading to
小题14:
A.changedB.marriedC.missedD.divorced
小题15:
A.deeplyB.highlyC.generallyD.thickly
小题16:
A.learningB.promotingC.developingD.teaching
小题17:
A.powerlessB.depressedC.disappointedD.hopeless
小题18:.
A.turned upB.turned toC.turned downD.turned in
小题19:.
A.difficultiesB.misfortuneC.lifeD.weather
小题20:.
A.hard-workingB.braveC.cautiousD.optimistic

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One day in my class,Maria shared her feelings about money,“Money worries me.I think I want to live without money because I hate it.I HATE MONEY.”We were all touched by Maria"s words as they reminded us of the spiritual burdens that money managing can bring to us.After class I offered to help Maria deal with her financial problems.She hesitated to accept my offer,and I could see from the expression on her face that she was afraid of what it might involve.I quickly promised her that I wouldn"t make her do more than she was able to.I told her frankly that I didn"t enjoy managing my money any more than she did hers and wouldn"t burden her with guilt,judgments,or impossible tasks.All I would ask her to do was to let me help her look at her fears and try to make some sense of them.
Maria still resisted my offer,and I can remember the excuses she gave me as they were the repeated complaints I had heard from so many people.“I"ll never understand money,”she said.“My facts are meaningless.”“I don"t deserve to have money.”“I never have enough.”“I have too little to manage.”“My financial position isn"t worth looking at.”and the most devastating one of all,“I just can"t do it.”
Going home that day,I couldn"t get Maria out of my mind:her attitude conveyed the same negativity and  fear that I believed annoyed many people.I was sure it was this attitude that prevented people from managing their money effectively.My counseling(咨询)has taught me that these anxieties are inseparably connected to our self­doubts and fear for survival.Many of us are terrified of handling our money because we don"t believe we can do it well,and to do it wrong would put our very existence at risk.
On a deeper level we know that money is not the source of life,but sense of worth drives us to act as if it were.It locks us up in self­doubts and prevents us from tapping into the true source of our management power,our spirit.
小题1:The underlined word“devastating”in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.
A.convincingB.interestingC.shockingD.valuable
小题2:Maria"s words moved the author and others because they were ________.
A.in the same financial troubleB.in the same financial condition
C.of the same family backgroundD.of the same feeling over the issue
小题3:As for money managing,the author intended to tell Maria how to ________.
A.overcome her fearsB.make wise decisions
C.avoid making mistakesD.learn the necessary skills
小题4:Maria wouldn"t take the author"s offer of help for fear of________.
A.being forced to share her money with others
B.having to do something beyond her reach
C.being found guilty of making impossible errors
D.showing her judgment about money
小题5:According to the author,people"s anxieties about managing money result from their understanding of money as the only source of ________.
A.lifeB.valuesC.spiritD.power

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As I was thinking about language learning the other day, the image of baking bread came into my mind. I compared some of the exercises and drills that we put ourselves through in order to learn a language to the various ingredients (原料) that go into baking a loaf of fresh bread.
Real language learning takes place in human relationships. No one sits down and eats a cup of flour, even if he is hungry and in a hurry. You don" t become bilingual (双语的) by learning lists of vocabulary. You don" t become a speaker of a language by memorizing grammatical rules. You become bilingual by entering a community that uses that other language as its basic means of communication.
I am not suggesting that we can make bread without ingredients. Flour is necessary, as are yeast (酵母), salt, water and other ingredients. Vocabulary is part of any language and will have to be learned. Grammatical rules exist in every language and cannot be ignored. But merely combining the appropriate ingredients in the recommended proportions does not result in bread. At best, you only end up with a ball of dough (面团).
In order to get bread, you have to apply heat to the dough. And in language learning, that heat comes from the community. Anyone who has learned a second language has experienced that heat. It creeps up your neck when you ask the babysitter, “Have you already been eaten?” when you meant to say, ‘‘Have you already eaten?” When you try to say something quite innocent and the whole room bursts into laughter, you are experiencing the heat that turns raw dough into good bread.
Remember the old saying, “If you can’ t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen". This is where language learning often breaks down because we find the heat uncomfortable and we stop the baking process. In other words, we can" t stand the heat, so we get out of the kitchen.
However, the language learner who stays in the kitchen—in the heat—until the combined
ingredients are thoroughly transformed will enjoy the richness of a quality loaf of bread. He is glad that he did not "get out of the kitchen” at the important moment when the oven seemed too hot.
Now the baker enjoys good bread, seated at the table with family members and guests. However, he does not focus on "bread" but rather on enjoying the whole feast: fine salads, pastas, fresh vegetables, rich desserts and so on. And the language learner has arrived when he no longer needs to focus on language. Language merely becomes one element in the "feast" of membership in his chosen community.
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完形填空 (共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将其涂黑。
IF and WHEN often had lunch together. Their conversation always  16 on the things they hoped to achieve and they loved to talk about them. 
This particular Saturday when they met for lunch, WHEN  17 IF wasn’t in a great mood(心情). After they sat at the usual table  18 for them, WHEN asked IF, “You don’t seem your usual  19  self?” IF replied,“Yesterday I saw a course I wanted to take. If only I  20  the time.”
WHEN knew exactly how IF felt and said, “I too saw a   21  and I’ m going to register when I get   22  money.” WHEN then questioned IF, “What about the new job you were going to apply for?” IF answered, “I would have applied, but my  23 broke down. I couldn’t type my resume(简历).”
“Don’t worry. I’ve been thinking about looking for another job also,  24  I’ll wait and when the weather gets  25  I will look then. I hate this awful weather.”
The man sitting nearby heard them talking about when this and if that. When he couldn’t 26  it anymore, he went to them and said, “I think I know  27  you could solve your problems.”
IF smiled and thought that even if he knew the  28  they faced, there was no way he could help!   29 , IF asked the man for advice. The man said, “Your conversation reminds me of an old   30 : IF and WHEN were planted, and nothing   31  .”
IF and WHEN both looked surprised and began to feel   32  of living their life for the “ifs” and “whens”. Finally they came to a(n)   33 : next time they met, there would be no “ifs” or “whens”; they would   34  talk about what they had  35 
小题1: A. agreed
小题2: A. sensed
B. centered
B. insisted
C. relied
C. declared
D. took
D. guessed
小题3:
A.cleaned
B.made
C.ordered
D.reserved
小题4:
A.sensitive
B.honest
C.cheerful
D.clumsy
小题5:
A.had
B.spent
C.seized
D.valued
小题6:
A.notice
B.job
C.course
D.chance
小题7:
A.lucky
B.pocket
C.enough
D.paper
小题8:
A.computer
B.fridge
C.camera
D.recorder
小题9:.
A.or
B.but
C.for
D.so
小题10:.
A.drier
B.colder
C.wilder
D.nicer
小题11: A. take
小题12: A. when
B. decline
B. where
C. support
C. why
D. watch
D. how
小题13:
A.changes
B.expenses
C.challenges
D.possibilities
小题14:
A.Anxiously
B.Curiously
C.Surprisingly
D.Stubbornly
小题15:
A.saying
B.story
C.habit
D.fiction
小题16:
A.rose
B.grew
C.removed
D.remained
小题17:
A.tired
B.proud
C.ashamed
D.aware
小题18:
A.ambition
B.conclusion
C.description
D.agreement
小题19:
A.even
B.only
C.still
D.thus
小题20:
A.discussed
B.promised
C.arranged
D.accomplished
 
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I first visited hutong as part of a tourist group several years ago. We rode on a trishaw(脚踏三轮车) with a guide explaining the history, architecture and lifestyle of the local inhabitants.
Having visited the "must-sees" of Beijing, like the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Drum Tower and the Summer Palace, going into the hutong home of some famous ancient families gave the “Beijing experience” a human element.
My curiosity has sharpened over the years from reading about them at every opportunity. During the preparation for the Olympics I was eager to learn that some siheyuan courtyards in hutong were turned into accommodations(食宿) for visitors. I wished to stay in one someday.
Preparing for a recent trip to the capital, I eagerly sought one out. On my limited teacher’s salary, I settled on an affordable option, though I looked longingly at the more upscale courtyard accommodations.
As usual, I ended up having something closer to a true experience. A real family still lives in the courtyard, which is closer to the original. The rooms all opened into the central courtyard. Flowers were blooming, beans and peas were climbing up the bamboo fence, and the cat was napping in the sun. Every day after exploring the city, I"d hurry back to the hutong, take a quick shower and join the cat – snoozing(小睡) in a bamboo-made chair with a book ready nearby.
As the other guests came back we’d greet one another. There was a mother and young daughter from France, a guy from Canada, a mother and teenage daughter from the Netherlands, a teacher from England and several guests from various parts of China.
Coming and going through the narrow alleys(小巷) of the hutong, the residents would smile and give cheery “ni hao” (hello). Laughing children were playing under the watchful eyes of the neighbors. I felt right at home in this friendly neighborhood.
小题1: The main idea of the passage is about ______________.
A.hutong days realize my desires to live local life
B.Trishaw is the only way to visit the hutong
C.living in the hutong with other visitors
D.exploring the deeper of Beijing
小题2: When did the author have the idea to visit Beijing hutong?
A.As early as he was a little child
B.when he was reading the text books at school
C.during the preparation for the Olympics
D.the author doesn’t mention it specifically
小题3: The underlined word “upscale” in the fourth paragraph means _________.
A.inexpensiveB.high-classC.appropriateD.secondary
小题4: What is the impression of the author about the people in hutong?
A.They came from all over the world.
B.They all wanted to enjoy the old life of Beijing.
C.They are living together in harmony.
D.They are living in a heavenly peace life.

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