A man hired a taxi outside the airfield. The cab had a woolen carpet with 26 lace edges. On the glass partition that 27 the driver's seat was a copy of a famous painting. Its windows were all clean.The customer was very much 28 and said to the driver, “I've never seen a nicer 29 .”“Thank you for your praise.”the driver answered 30 .
“The car isn't mine,” said the driver. “It belongs to the company. I used to be a 31 of cabs. When they returned, all of them were as 32 as garbage cans with cigarette butts and rubbish 33 here and there. On the seats and door-handles could be found something 34 like peanut sauce or, chewing gum.Why so? I thought if the car itself were very clean the passengers would most 35 be considerate and refrain from littering.”
“So when I got a 36 to be a taxi-driver, I began 37 my idea into practice-to tidy and 38 the car. Now before a new passenger gets on my car, I'd make a cheek and be sure it is in good order.When my car 39 after a day's work, it always remains 40 .”
When doing a thing, one makes efforts and wants to see the result. To change others, one has to make twice the 41 but get half the result. To change oneself is the other way round-more fruit with less effort. One had better ask oneself why one makes 42 on others much more than on oneself. 43 you take enough care to do as best you can for other people's sake, your efforts will yield results, If you 44 the inner world of your own, examine yourself and wipe out the dust and dirt, instead of fixing your eyes on other people, you will find a cheerful 45 for yourself and create a pleasant environment for others.
1.A．ugly B．exciting C．brilliant D．favorite
2.A．separated B．covered C．protected D．prevented
3.A．moved B．annoyed C．disappointed D．surprised
4.A．seat B．carpet C．garage D．cab
5.A．naturally B．smilingly C．hopefully D．firmly
6.A．driver B．cleaner C．repairer D．customer
7.A．attractive B．pleasant C．dirty D．clean
8.A．spread B．extended C．dotted D．1eft
9.A．funny B．busy C．sticky D．clumsy
10.A．likely B．willingly C．extremely D．regularly
11.A.permit B.1icense C.certificate D.passport
12.A.put B.take C.make D.get
13.A.provide B.drive C.decorate D.describe
14.A.speeds B.leaves C.arrives D.returns
15.A.spotless B.pretty C.bright D.dirty
16.A.progress B.effort C.attempt D.trial
17.A.suggestions B.comments C.demands D.decisions
18.A.Though B.While C.As D.If
19.A.look into B.look for C.look up D.look through
20.A.spirit B.mood C.mind D.sense
1.C
2.A
3.D
4.D
5.B
6.B
7.C
8.D
9.C
10.A
11.B
12.A
13.C
14.D
15.A
16.B
17.C
18.D
19.A
20.B
【解析】
试题分析：文章通过一件与出租车有关的事情揭示了一个深刻的生活道理。作者遇到一个精心呵护自己的出租车的司机，他想通过自己的行动来感染乘客，从而不让他们乱丢垃圾。生活中，我们常常会从他人身上找原因，而忽视自身存在的问题。如果我们都能做到经常自我反省，那么我们自己也会变得很开心，也会把开心带给周围的人。
1.考查形容词辨析。The cab had a woolen carpet with 26 lace edges.出租车有一个带有鲜艳的蕾丝边的毯子，A丑陋的；B令人兴奋的；C明亮的；D最喜爱的。故选C。
2.考查动词辨析。that 27 the driver's seat was a copy of a famous painting把驾驶位和乘客位分开的是一幅名画，A分开，隔开；B覆盖；C保护；D阻止。故选A。
3.考查动词辨析。根据“I've never seen a nicer 29 .”可知，作者看到这样的出租车感到很惊讶，A感动；B使恼怒；C使失望；D使惊讶。故选D。
4.考查名词辨析。作者认为这是他见过的最好的出租车，A座位；B毛毯；C车库；D出租车。故选D。
5.考查副词辨析。出租车司机微笑着向作者示以感谢，A自然地；B微笑着；C满怀希望地；D坚定地。故选B。
6.考查名词辨析。I used to be a 31 of cabs.我曾经是一个出租车清洁员，A司机；B清洁工；C修理工；D顾客，乘客。故选B。
7.考查形容词辨析。all of them were as 32 as garbage cans with cigarette butts and rubbish出租车回到公司之后，都像装着烟蒂和垃圾的垃圾箱一样脏，A有吸引力的；B令人愉快的；C脏的；D干净的。故选C。
8.考查动词辨析。with cigarette butts and rubbish 33 here and there烟蒂和垃圾被（乘客）扔得到处都是，A传播；B延伸，扩大，持续；C散布于；D离开。故选D。
9.考查形容词辨析。根据“like peanut sauce or, chewing gum”可知，是一种很黏的东西，A有趣的，滑稽的；B忙碌的；C粘性的，棘手的；D笨拙的，难懂的。故选C。
10.考查副词辨析。if the car itself were very clean the passengers would most 35 be considerate and refrain from littering.如果出租车很干净，乘客就可能会很贴心，有所克制而不会乱扔垃圾，A可能的，可能；B愿意地；C极其；D定期地。故选A。
11.考查名词辨析。So when I got a 36 to be a taxi-driver于是，当作者拿到出租车驾驶证时，A许可；B执照，许可证；C证明，证书；D护照。故选B。
12.考查动词辨析。put ...into practice把......付诸行动，A放置；B拿走；C制作；D得到。故选A。
13.考查动词辨析。to tidy and 38 the car作者开始清理并装饰出租车，A提供；B驾驶；C装饰；D描述。故选C。
14.考查动词辨析。根据“When my car 39 after a day's work”可知，应该是工作一天后返回，A加速；B离开；C到达；D返回。故选D。
15.考查形容词辨析。it always remains 40 经过一天的工作之后，作者的出租车仍然是一尘不染，A一尘不染的；B漂亮的；C明亮的；D脏的。故选A。
16.考查名词辨析。根据“one makes efforts and wants to see the result”可知，一个人付出努力，并想看到结果，要想改变他人，自己首先要付出双倍的努力。make efforts付出努力，A进步；B努力；C试图；D试验。故选B。
17.考查名词辨析。why one makes 42 on others much more than on oneself使我们一个人会总是要求他人比要求自己要多的多，make demands on sb要求某人，A建议；B评论；C要求；D决定。故选C。
18.考查连接词。根据“If you 44 the inner...”可知，这里是列举的两种情况，A尽管；B尽管；C随着，尽管；D如果。故选D。
19.考查短语辨析。If you 44 the inner world of your own, examine yourself如果你走进自己的内心世界，进行自我检查，A往里看，调查；B寻找；C查找；D浏览，仔细检查。故选A。
20.考查名词辨析。you will find a cheerful 45 for yourself如果你进行自我反省的话，就会找到一种欢乐的情绪，同时也为他人创造一种愉快的环境。A精神；B情绪；C思维，心思，大脑；D感觉。故选B。
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‘No, no, none at all,’ I answered quickly.
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I looked at Joe.
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【小题1】The underlined word “apprentice” in paragraph 1 means ____________.
| A．a very good friend and companion |
| B．someone who has no money but is very skilled at their job |
| C．a young person who is being trained for a particular job |
| D．a person with no education living with another family |
| A．show how Pip recalls Mr Jaggers |
| B．provide a description of Mr. Jaggers to the readers only |
| C．indicate that Mr. Jaggers remains indoors a lot and doesn’t get much sun |
| D．show Mr Jaggers often washes his hands to rid himself of his own bad deeds as a lawyer |
| A．he believes he can also help Joe become a gentleman |
| B．he is repaying money loaned to Joe previously by the benefactor |
| C．the secret benefactor wants Joe to be his personal blacksmith |
| D．Joe will have to hire a new worker |
| A．Joe is happy that Pip will go to London. |
| B．Mr. Jaggers does not want other people to know he is a lawyer. |
| C．Pip hopes Miss Havisham will help him become a gentleman |
| D．Pip will become very rich when he comes of age. |
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No one knows for sure when advertising first started.It is possible that it grew out of the discovery that some people did certain kinds of work better than others did them.That led to the concept of specialization，which means that people would specialize，or focus，on doing one specific job.
Let’s take a man we’ll call Mr.Fielder，for example.He did everything connected with farming.He planted seeds，tended the fields，and harvested and sold his crops.At the same time，he did many other jobs on the farm.However，he didn’t make the bricks for his house，cut his trees into boards，make the plows(犁), or any of the other hundreds of things a farm needs.Instead，he got them from people who specialized in doing each of those things.
Suppose there was another man we shall call Mr.Plowright.Using what he knew about farming and working with iron，Mr.Plowright invented a plow that made farming easier.Mr.Plowright did not really like farming himself and wanted to specialize in making really good plows.Perhaps，he thought，other farmers will trade what they grow for one of my plows.
How did Mr.Plowright let people know what he was doing？Why，he advertised，of course.First he opened a shop and then he put up a sign outside the shop to attract customers.That sign may have been no more than a plow carved into a piece of wood and a simple arrow pointing to the shop door.It was probably all the information people needed to find Mr.Plowright and his really good plows.
Many historians believe that the first outdoor signs were used about five thousand years ago.Even before most people could read，they understood such signs.Shopkeepers would carve into stone，clay，or wood symbols for the products they had for sale.
A medium，in advertising talk，is the way you communicate your message.You might say that the first medium used in advertising was signs with symbols.The second medium was audio，or sound，although that term is not used exactly in the way we use it today.Originally，just the human voice and maybe some kind of simple instrument，such as a bell，were used to get people’s attention.
A crier，in the historical sense，is not someone who weeps easily.It is someone，probably a man，with a voice loud enough to be heard over the other noises of a city.In ancient Egypt，shopkeepers might hire such a person to spread the news about their products.Often this earliest form of advertising involved a newly arrived ship loaded with goods.Perhaps the crier described the goods，explained where they came from，and praised their quality.His job was，in other words，not too different from a TV or radio commercial in today’s world.
1.What probably led to the start of advertising?
A．The discovery of iron.
B．The specialization of labor.
C．The appearance of new jobs.
D．The development of farming techniques.
2.To advertise his plows，Mr.Plowright________.
A．praised his plows in public
B．placed a sign outside the shop
C．hung an arrow pointing to the shop
D．showed his products to the customers
3.The writer makes up the two stories of Mr.Fielder and Mr.Plowright in order to________.
A．explain the origin of advertising
B．predict the future of advertising
C．expose problems in advertising
D．provide suggestions for advertising
4.In ancient Egypt，a crier was probably someone who ________.
A．owned a ship
B．had the loudest voice
C．ran a shop selling goods to farmers
D．functioned like today’s TV or radio commercial
5.The last two paragraphs are mainly about ________.
A．the history of advertising
B．the benefits of advertising
C．the early forms of advertising
D．the basic design of advertising
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One year our family decided to have a special celebration of Mother’s Day, as a token of appreciations for all the sacrifices that Mother had made for us. After breakfast we had arranged, as a surprise, to hire a car and take her for a beautiful drive in the country. Mother was rarely able to have a treat like that, because she was busy in the house nearly all the time.
But on the very morning of the day, we changed the plan a little, because it occurred to Father that it would be even better to take Mother fishing. As the car was hired and paid for, we might as well use it to drive up into the hills where the streams are. As Father said, if you just go driving without object, you have a sense of aimlessness, but if you are going to fish there is a definite purpose that heightens the enjoyment.
So we all felt it would be nicer for Mother to have a definite purpose . Father had just got a fishing rod the day before, which he said mother could use if she wanted to. Only Mother said she would much rather watch him fish than try to fish herself.
So we got her to make up a sandwich lunch in case we got hungry, though we were to come home again to a big festive dinner.
Well, when the car came to the door, it turned out that there was not as much space in it as we had supposed. It was plain that we couldn’t all get in.
Father said that he could just stay home and put in the time working in the garden. He said that there was a lot of rough dirty work that he could do, like digging a trench for the garbage, which would save hiring a man, and so he said that he’d stay home; he said that we were not to let the fact that he had not had a real holiday for three years stand in our way. He wanted us to go right ahead and not to mind him.
But of course we all felt that it would never do to let Father stay home, especially as we knew he would make trouble if he did. The two girls, Anne and Mary, would have stayed and helped the maid get dinner, only it seemed such a pity,for the two girls were eager to show their new hats on a lovely day like this. But they said that Mother had only to say the word and they’d gladly stay home and work. Will and I would have dropped out, but unfortunately we wouldn’t have been any use in preparing the dinner.
1.The author’s family decided to celebrate Mother’s Day specially to _______.
A. show love for their mother
B. show gratitude to their mother
C. show respect for their mother
D. to make up for a previous appointment
2.According to Paragraph 2, we know that the plan was changed because________.
A. Father proposed to go fishing out
B. we thought that driving out is boring
C. we failed to hire a car to go out
D. the car was not big enough
3.What problem did we find when the car arrived?
A. The car was too old to drive on mountain roads.
B. The car was larger than we expected.
C. The car was too small to accommodate us all.
D. The car was too plain looking.
4.Why didn’t the author drop out of the activity?
A. Because his sisters didn’t join in.
B. Because he needed to have dinner.
C. Because he couldn’t cook the dinner.
D. Because he hadn’t had a real holiday for three years.
5.Which of the following proverbs describes the text best?
A. Everything comes to him who waits.
B. Changes always go beyond plans.
C. Better late than never.
D. Once on shore, one prays no more.
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