ruean everything, not just houses and shops and grown-ups, but colors and flowers and joumeys,
especially journeys which seemed endless. "Are we there yet, Daddy?"
Funfairs(游乐场) were huge things that spread for miles around you with noise and lights
and exciting danger. Rainy days at home when you were ill seemed to last for ever. Being a
grown-up yourself was an un- thinkable distant possibility. Every sound was louder, every
game was grander, every pain was unbearable.
As I"ve grown old, life has become smaller. Tastes have dulled. Surprises have turned into
shocks. Days go by unnoticed. How can I regain childhood when it was an illusion?
I have only one repeatable and wonderful way and even in this way I can regain only part
of that larger world.l can play upon the stage like a child and make the crowd laugh with them,
sonletimes helplessly like a child, and then, even though I"m a sixty-one-year-old man, I can almost
catch the colors and sounds and stillness of those bigger years when I was little.
B. It was unpleasant.
C. He is glad that it is over.
D. He misses it as a grown-up.
B. children were cunous and eager about life
C. things appeared really big in children"s eyes
D. to grow up seemed so long for children
B. time goes by too fast
C. he has had too many surprises
D. foods no longer taste delicious
B. live an unusual life
C. make the crowd laugh
D. regain his childhood
sounds. Streaks (条纹,线条) of light cast by the blinds of the tall 1 send shafts (杆状物)
of light through the dusty air. I take a 2 and the concrete and paint 3 tickle my nose. I
4 everything about this room.
Some of the 5 times of my life have been spent here. It"s ironic (讽刺的) , but the 6
is the only place where I feel that I don"t have to 7 to be someone I"m not. Like many
teenager, I almost 8 think that people are judging me, but when I act, that feeling disappears.
People only look at your 9 ability, not your clothing, money, choice of friends, or any of the
other ways people are usually 10 .
When I" m on stage, everything else vanishes (消失). All the worries and 11 of the outside
world are put on hold. Nervousness is still present, 12 it"s the excited and tingly kind, not the
queasy (不稳定的) 13 of being different and alone.
I 14 love to work backstage and on lighting. I 15 you could find another girl who would
work on a ladder 16 her elbows in cables and dust and love every second of it. It makes me
unique and gives me a sense of 17 to know that I succeed in an area where 18 others and
virtually (事实上的) no girls do.
High school is a difficult atmosphere, to put it 19 . Like others, I" m often insecure (不安的) ,
not 20 who I am or where I " m going in life. Wherever that may be, I will always have the
confidence I get from theater.
( )2.A. last look
( )3.A. smells
( )4.A. hate
( )5.A. worst
( )6.A. room
( )7.A. pretend
( )8.A. hardly
( )9.A. acting
( )10.A. thought of
( )11.A. happiness
( )12.A. and
( )13.A. feeling
( )14.A. seldom
( )15.A. hope
( )16.A. up for
( )17.A. pride
( )18.A. few
( )19.A. cruelly
( )20.A. fond of
B. long walk
B. tastes
B. love
B. tiring
B. office
B. expect
B. seriously
B. speaking
B. judged
B. anxieties
B. however
B. idea
B. almost
B. doubt
B. out at
B. duty
B. many
B. tensely
B. afraid for
C. short breath
C. sounds
C. miss
C. best
C. building
C. want
C. constantly
C. moving
C. taken care of
C. chances
C. but
C. hope
C. relatively
C. think
C. up to
C. humor
C. a few
C. friendly
C. sure of
D. deep breath
D. looks
D. forget
D. better
D. stage
D. decide
D. happily
D. repeating
D. feeling
D. pressures
D. though
D. fact
D. absolutely
D. suspect
D. down to
D. sight
D. some
D. mildly
D. interested in
I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. 1 , he did not teach me acceptance when he was
strong and healthy, but rather when he was 2 and ill.
My father was 3 a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness 4 all that away. Now he
can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is 5 . One night, I went to
visit him with my sisters. We started 6 about life, and I told them about one of my 7 . I said that we
must very often give things up 8 we grow----our youth, our beauty , our friends-but it always _9 that
after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father 10 up. He
said ,"But, Peter. I gave up 11 ! What did I gain?" I thought and thought , but I could not think of
anything to say. 12 he answered his own question: "I 13 the love of my family." I looked at my sisters,
and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
I was also 14 by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated (愤怒的)at someone, I 15
remember his words and become 16 .If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others,
then I should be 17 to give up my small irritations. In this 28 , I learned the power of acceptance
from my father.
Sometimes I 19 what other things I could learn from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a
boy. For now, though, I am gratetful for this one 20 .
( )1. A. However ( )2. A. tired ( )3. A. already ( )4. A. put ( )5. A. impossible ( )6. A. worrying ( )7. A. decisions ( )8. A. before ( )9. A. suggests ( )10. A. summed ( )11. A. something ( )12. A. Surprisingly ( )13. A. gained ( )14. A. warned ( )15. A. would ( )16. A. quiet ( )17. A. able ( )18. A. case ( )19. A. doubt ( )20. A. award | B. Therefore B. poor B. once B. threw B. stressful B. talking B. beliefs B. since B. promises B. turned B. anything B. Immediately B. accepted B. astonished B. could B. calm B. likely B. way B. guess B. word | C. Afterwards C. weak C. only C. sent C. difficult C. caring C. ambitions C. as C. requires C. spoke C. everything C. Naturally C. had C. attracted C. shoud C. relaxed C. free C. method C. know C. lesson | D. Meanwhile D. slow D. still D. took D. hopeless D. asking D. experience D. till D. seems D. opened D. nothing D. Certainly D. enjoyed D. touched D. might D. happy D. ready D. form D. wonder D. gift |
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Stop wasting your time thinking of reasons for your failures and shortcomings. Instead, realize | |||
1. People with low self-esteem are compared to leaves because they_________. | |||
A. are ready to change their minds B. are easily affected by windy weather C. don"t have the power to face their fate D. can"t exercise control over themselves | |||
2. Losers would think that____________. | |||
A. success is the result of hard work B. working hard will lead to success C. their failure is only because of bad luck D. they don"t make efforts to succeed | |||
3. It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that____________. | |||
A. whether we will succeed depends on our attitudes B. developing confidence is the key to future success C. thoughts and beliefs are the result of creative mind D. setting our expectations is essential before taking action | |||
4. The last paragraph serves as ___________. | |||
A. the proof of the author"s points B. the conclusion of the argument C. an introduction to another topic D. a comparison between two views | |||
5. Which is the best title for the text?________. | |||
A. Success is a choice B. The secrets of success C. Develop our confidence D. How to achieve success | |||
完形填空。 | |||
If I Were a Boy Again If I were a boy again.I would practice perseverance(毅力)more often,and never give up a thing.If we want__1__,we must conquer(征服)darkness.Perseverance can sometimes __2__genius in its results."There are only two__3__,"says a proverb,"Who can surmount (到……顶)the pyramids-the eagle and the snail." If I were a boy again,I would school myself into a habit of__4__;I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand.I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two__5__at once. The habit of attention becomes part of our__6__,if we begin early enough.I often hear grownup people say,"I could not__7__attention to the book,although I wished to do so". The reason is that the habit was not__8__in youth. If I were to__9__my life again,I would pay more attention to the cultivation(培养)of the__10__.It takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately,but memory soon__11__itself,and gives very little trouble.It only needs early__12__to become a power. If I were a boy__13__,I"d cultivate courage.Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage; nothing is so cruel and pitiless as cowardice(怯懦).Life is very much like a__14__:If you smile upon it,it smiles back upon you;but if you frown(皱眉)and look doubtful on it,you will get a__15__look in return. Finally,if I were a boy again,I would look on the cheerful side.I"d still try harder to make others happy. | |||
( )1.A.success ( )2.A.explore ( )3.A.creatures ( )4.A.attention ( )5.A.ways ( )6.A.perseverance ( )7.A.focus ( )8.A.formed ( )9.A.enjoy ( )10.A.lifestyle ( )11.A.loses ( )12.A.habit ( )13.A.over again ( )14.A.fire ( )15.A.familiar | B.hope B.equal B.birds B.studies B.feet B.result B.gather B.got B.plan B.memory B.helps B.education B.over there B.song B.similar | C.light C.overcome C.persons C.customs C.shoes C.genius C.give C.schooled C.live C.personality C.wastes C.cultivation C.over and over C.poem C.different | D.freedom D.bury D.heroes D.mind D.directions D.life D.pay D.gained D.consider D.perseverance D.takes D.courage D.again and again D.mirror D.bad |
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As the United States continues to argue over the future of the illegal immigrants traveling across its borders ,I went on a joumey to discover what hardships people crossing the border from Tijuana, Mexico must face. I worked at a soup kitchen, where I came into contact with many poor citizens who had recently arrived in Tijuana. One of the people I served was a Guatemalan named Juan , who washed cars for low pay in the US. After we spoke for 10 minutes,Juan introduced me to his girlfriend,a local stripper who offered to give me a free lap dance if I ever decided to visit the club across the street. I certainly didn"t need to respond to this. I also visited a shelter for the recently deported and those who have recently arrived in Tijuana from other Mexican states. Tijuana is home to more than l.5 million people and is populated by many migrants who arrive and leave mostly for reasons of unemployment. Having dinner at the shelter,l talked with those who planned to stay the night. Seated at my table was a man in his 40s. He had recently been deported from Los Angeles for not having the proper legal documentation. The only belongings he carried with him were a few clothes and an album filled with pictures of his wife and three daughters in Los Angeles. I was surprised by how open he was in sharing his story. I feel bad for not learning his name before I left. Returning to my country on the final day of my trip awakened a strange feeling inside me. I went on this trip with an open mind and heart and was given the chance to communicate with so many different people that I wouldn"t have met in my everyday life. I felt guilty for taking so many things for granted, while people a few hundred miles away are already satisfied with the simpler things that they have. | |||
1. The strange feeling inside the writer is that_________. | |||
A. he didn"t value the chance to communicate with those people in the shelter | |||
2. From the selection we know that_________. | |||
A. the writer served soup the anyone arriving in Tijuana B. the United States has decided to take in more immigrants C. Tijuana has a population of 1.5 million D. Juan"s girlfriend was a dancing girl | |||
3. The illegal immigrants met with the following hardships FXCEPT_________. | |||
A. having to be strippers B. getting low pay C. finding no work D. being deported | |||
4. We can infer from the selection that__________. | |||
A. washing cars in the US brings in low pay |