My teenage son Karl refused to communicate with others after his father died. As a parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card during his junior year, it said that he had been 95 times from classes and had six grades for the year. At this rate he never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even him. Nothing worked.
One night I felt so that I got down on my knees and prayed for help. “Please God, I can’t do anything for my son. I'm at the end of my rope. I'm giving the whole thing up to you.”
I was at work when I got a phone call. A man himself as the headmaster. “I want to talk to you about Karl’s absences.” he could say another word, I choked up and all my disappointment and sadness over Karl came out into the ears of this stranger. “I love my son but I just don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has . It’ s out of my hands.” For a moment there was on the other end of the line. The headmaster said, “Thank you for your time, ” and hung up.
Karl’s next report card showed a marked in his grades. Finally, he even made the honor roll. In his fourth year, I a parent-teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, “Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?” I . “That was me. I thought I’d play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really me how much I was hurting you. That's I knew I had to make you proud.”
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解析试题分析:青少年的人生会因为一些事而改变。我十几岁的儿子卡尔在他的父亲去世后就好像变了一个人,拒绝和我沟通、逃课、考试不及格。我尝试了各种办法都无济于事几乎感到绝望。 但是一次和校长的电话改变了儿子,因为那位校长竟然是儿子装扮的。他了解了自己给妈妈带来的伤害,决心改变自己,让妈妈以他为骄傲。他真得做到了。
【小题1】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。根据第一句话:我十几岁的儿子卡尔在他的父亲去世后就拒绝和别人沟通。可知这句话的意思是:作为一个单亲的母亲,我想尽力跟他说话。A. confident信心的;B. wise明智的;C. single单一的;D. busy.忙的。 故选C。
【小题2】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. arrived抵达;B. finished完成;C. returned返回;D. proved.证明。这里是说明父亲去世对孩子学业的影响:当他的初中成绩报告送来时,……。故选A。
【小题3】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. naughty淘气的;B. troublesome麻烦的;C. absent缺席的;D. present在场的。结合语境可知:上面写道他逃课95次。故选C。
【小题4】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. failing失败的;B. satisfying令人满意的;C. disappointing令人失望的;D. surprising令人惊讶的。结合语境可知:经常逃课,还有6门功课不及格。故选A。
【小题5】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. must必须;B. need需要;C. would会;D. should 应该。结合语境可知句意:这样下去,他永远不会毕业了。故选C。
【小题6】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. convinced.深信;B. forced强迫;C. persuaded说服;D. begged乞求。结合语境可知句意:我甚至乞求他。但是毫无效果。 故选D。
【小题7】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. powerless无能为力的;B. useless无用的;C. homeless无家可归的;D. meaningless毫无意义的。结合语境可知句意:一天夜里,我感到如此无助,所以才会跪下来祈求上帝帮助。故选A。
【小题8】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. better更好;B. worse更糟糕;C. less更少;D. more更多。根据后面的话(妈妈快没希望了。)可知句意:我再也不能为我的儿子做些什么了。故选D。
【小题9】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. described描述;B. regarded认为;C. introduced介绍;D. explained解释。这里电话那头是校长的自我介绍。故选C。
【小题10】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。 A. Before在……之前;B. When当……的时候;C. After 在……之后;D. While当……的时候,虽然。结合下文可知,还不知道对方要说什么,妈妈就开始按原来的情况推断孩子的状况了。故选A。
【小题11】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。 A. speaking说话;B. pouring倾倒;C. running运行、跑;D. putting放。根据语境可知句意:所有关于卡尔的失望和悲伤都倾倒进这个陌生人的耳朵。用pour更能表达一个母亲的痛苦和无助的表述,故选B。
【小题12】 考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. continued继续;B. operated经营;C. affected影响; D. worked工作,起作用。结合上文可知句意:我什么方法都试过了,但是都没有。故选D。
【小题13】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. silence沉默;B. anger愤怒;C. sadness悲伤;D. surprise惊喜。结合下文可以理解句意:电话那一头有片刻的沉默。故选A。
【小题14】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。 A. painfully痛苦地;B. happily快乐地;C. seriously严肃地;D. jokingly开玩笑地。结合上文可以理解句意:校长说谢谢你时的心情很严肃。故选C。
【小题15】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. progress进展;B. advance 发展;C. improvement改进;D. encouragement鼓励。根据下文可知句意:卡尔的下一个报告单显示他的成绩有了显著的进步。故选C。
【小题16】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. attended出席,到处场;B. joined参加一个组织成为其中的一员;C. arranged安排;D. organized组织。甚至在第四年时我还和他一起出席了家长会。故选A。
【小题17】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. concerned关心;B. disturbed打扰;C. embarrassed使……尴尬;D. astonished使…..吃惊。根据语境可知句意:我注意到他的老师们都惊奇于他的转变。故选D。
【小题18】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. shook震惊;B. nodded点头;C. smiled微笑;D. replied 回答。前一句话话是儿子问妈妈是否记得去年和校长的一次通话。我当然记得,故选B。
【小题19】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。A. beat打败;B. hit 打,打击;C. frightened吓走、害怕;D. confused困惑。根据语境可知句意是:儿子扮成校长想给妈妈一个惊喜,但是妈妈的话令儿子感到很受打击。他认识到他给妈妈带来的伤害有多大。故选B。
【小题20】考查动词的辨析和对语境的理解。 A. when当……的时候;B. how如何;C. why为什么; D. where哪里。代入四个选项可知句意是:从那时起儿子懂得了要让妈妈以他为骄傲。这里when引导的从句做表语。故选A。
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
A certain good woman one day said something that hurt her best friend of many years.She____immediately and would have done anything to have taken the words back.____she said hurt the friend so much that this good woman was herself hurt____the pain she caused.____to cancel what she had done,she went to an older,wiser woman in the village,explained her situation,and asked for____.
Listening to her,the older woman___the younger woman’s distress and knew she must help her.She also knew she could never____her pain,but she could teach.She knew the____would depend only on the character of the younger woman.She said,“Tonight,take your best feather pillows and put a single feather on the doorstep of each house in the town____the sun rises.”
The young woman hurried____to prepare for her chore,even though the feather pillows were very____to her.All night long,she labored alone in the cold.Finally the sky was getting____,she placed the last feather on the steps of the last house.Just as the sun rose,she returned to____.
“Now,” said the wise woman,“Go back and____your pillows with the feather you have put on the steps.Then everything will be____it was before.”
“You know that’s____!The wind blew away each feather as fast as I placed them on the____!” The younger woman was surprised.
“That’s true,” said the older woman.“Never forget.Each of your____is like a feather in the wind.Once spoken,no amount of effort,____how heartfelt or sincere,they can never return to your mouth.Choose your words well and____them most of all in the presence of those you love.”
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I grew up poor-living with six brothers, three sisters and my mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still a dream.
My dream was . By the time I was sixteen, I could throw a ninety-mile-per- hour baseball and anything that moved on the field. I was also : my high school coach was John, who not only me, but also taught me how to believe in myself. He me the difference between having a dream and showing conviction(信念). One particular incident with coach John changed my life forever.
A friend me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket — money for a new bike, new clothes and the of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.
When I told John, he was as as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,”he said,“Your days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.”I stood before him with my head , trying to think of the that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his in me.
“Well,”he asked,“is $ 3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”
That simple question made to me the difference between something right now and having a goal. I myself in sports that summer and the year I was drafted(选拔) by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and a $ 20,000 contract. Later, I bought my mother the house of my dream!
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting (诱人的)apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater, a bar of chocolate if given the choice, , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the he felt and the more he wanted that apple.
He stood on tiptoe(脚尖), as high as he could, but even as his tallest he was unable to touch it. He began to up and down, as high as he could, at the of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple. Still it remained out of .
Not giving up, he thought, if only he had something to on. His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to the things inside, like his lunch box, pencil case, and Gameboy. Looking , he hoped he might find an old box, a rock, or, luck, even a ladder, but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use.
He had tried everything he could think to do. seeing any other choices, he gave up and started to walk . At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his , and how he really wanted that apple. The more he like this, the more unhappy he became.
, the boy of our story was a pretty smart guy, even if he couldn’t always get what he wanted. He started to say to himself. This isn’t . I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well. There’s more I can do to get the apple—that is unchangeable—but we are supposed to be able to our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better?
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When I arrived in Hamburg Germany, my colleague who worked there arranged a welcome party for me in a . We noticed a few customers including several old ladies, were having their meal. When a dish was , the waiter would distribute the food for them, and they would every bit of the food on their plates.
As I was hungry, my local colleague much food for me. Since there were other things to do, we did not much time dining. When we planned to leave, there was still about one third of unconsumed(没吃光的) food left. When we were the restaurant, we someone calling us. When the old ladies spoke to us in English, we understood that they were about us wasting so much food.
“We for our food; it is none of your how much food we left behind”, my colleague told the old ladies. They got angry and one of them made a call to someone. After a while, an officer in arrived. Upon knowing what had happened, he issued us a 50-euro . The officer told us in a stern(严厉的) voice, “Order you can consume. Money is yours, the resources belong to the society. You have no wasting them.” Our faces turned red. We all agreed with him in our colleague took out a 50-euro note and repeatedly to the officer.
My colleague copied the fine ticket and gave a copy to each of us as a souvenir. We all it to remind us that we should never be .
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There were a young couple who led a very happy life. The only thing they worried about was whether their would last forever.
One day, they heard a wise man had , who could solve all kinds of . So they visited him and told him their source of . The wise man told them, “ Travel around the and seek a couple who are happy. When finding such a couple , ask them for a piece of cloth from the man’s , then keep it with you, and you always remain happy.”
The couple began their . They visited many countries, cities, towns and villages didn’t find what they were looking for.
One day they a shepherd in the desert, who was grazing (放牧) his sheep when his wife and child came along. The shepherd his wife and gently patted the child. The wife laid a mat and they started to eat contentedly. The came to ask them, “ Are you the happiest couple?”
The shepherd and his wife replied, “ Nobody is unhappier than the king. ” The young couple immediately they were the happiest couple and a piece of the shepherd’s shirt. The shepherd said, “ If I give you a piece of cloth, I’ll be without any clothes since I just one”.
The young couple at once understood it was too to find perfect happiness anywhere in the world. They to the wise man and related all that had taken place.
The wise man laughed and said, “ Did you learn something from it?”
The young couple replied, “Yes, after this trip we have learnt in this world is perfectly happy. In order to be happy, we should be thankful and with whatever we have.”
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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
My First Day
I was still shy in the presence of a crowd.And my first day at the new made me a laughing stock of the classroom. I was sent to the blackboard to write my .I knew my name, and knew how to write it, but standing at the blackboard with the ____ of so many pupils on my back made me inside and I was unable to write a single letter.
"Write your name," the teacher called to me. I the white chalk to the blackboard and, as I was about to write, my mind went blank; I could not remember my name, the first letter.
Somebody laughed and I became "Just forget us and write your name," the teacher called and walked to my side, at me to give me confidence.
"What’ s your name?" she asked. "Richard," I ____ . "Then write it."
I turned to the blackboard and lifted my hand to write, but then I was again. I tried to ___ my senses but I could remember nothing.I realized how totally I was and I grew weak and leaned my hot forehead the cold blackboard. The room burst into a loud and my muscles froze. I sat and myself.Why did I always appear so dumb I was called upon to perform in a crowd? I knew how to write as well as any other pupil in the classroom, and there was no I could read better than any of them, and I could talk when I was sure of myself. Then why did strange make me freeze? I sat with my ears and neck __, hearing the pupils around me whisper, hating myself.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
The day before Mother’s Day, Mrs. Berry asked her students to make a card for their mothers. She passed out paper and pieces of cloth.
Mary looked for a while at the blue cloth and began to cut it. Then she her paper in half and began writing. When Mary finally looked at the message the teacher gave on the paper, she noticed something else. She felt her grow hot---she hadn’t heard that anyone who didn’t have a mother could make one for a grandmother or an aunt.
As her teacher to her, Mary tried covering her card with her arm, but Mrs. Berry gently lifted it so that she could it. Mary sat , waiting for her to say something, but she saw a roll down Mrs. Berry’s face. She had never made Mrs. Berry so .
When school was over, Mary until all the other kids left so that she could apologize . “I’m sorry for not listening. I’ll make another card you want. I’ll do it at home and it tomorrow.”
“ are you talking about?” asked Mrs. Berry.
“My Mother’s Day card. I know you’re sad because I didn’t do it .”
“Mary, that was the card in the whole class. It was so that it made me cry. ”
Mary was so that she ran out of the classroom.
When her father came home from work that night, Mary to give him the card early .
On the front of the card was a of Mary’s father, with a blue piece of cloth cut like his hair. Inside the card she had written:
Dear Dad,
I know you work really hard to be both a and a father. I want to thank you and you a Happy Mother’s Day!
Love
Mary
When her dad read the card he started , just like Mrs Berry did.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
As I held my father's hands one night,I couldn't help but notice their calluses(老茧) and roughness.His hands tell the story of his life as a ___,including all his struggles.
One summer,I remember,a drought(旱灾)hit Ontario,turning it into a____desert.On one of those hot mornings I was picking sweet corn with my dad to fill the last ___from the grocery store.Fifty dozen was all we needed,which____took twenty minutes. That morning,however,the process didn't____ quickly.After forty minutes of aimlessly walking in the field,we____ needed twenty dozen.I was completely frustrated and ____.Dropping the basket heavily,I declared,“If the store wants its last twenty dozen,they can pick it themselves!”Dad____,“Just think,my little girl,only ten dozen left for each of us and then we're____.”Such is Dad—whatever problem he ____,he never gives up.
____,the disastrous effects of the drought were felt all over our country.It was a challenging time for everyone,____Dad remained optimistic.He____to be grateful for other things like good health and food on our plates.Only then did I truly begin to____Dad and his faith that guided us through the hard times.
Dad is also a living example of real____.From dawn to dusk,he works countless hours to ___our family.He always puts our happiness ____his own,and never fails to cheer me on at my sports games___his exhaustion after long days.His loving and selfless nature has inspired me to become more sympathetic and____,putting others first.
Dad,the life____I have learned from you will stay with me forever.You are my father,teacher,friend and,most importantly,my hero.
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