One Friday morning, Andrew announced to his wife that he finally decided to ask his boss for a salary raise. All day Andrew felt worried --- what if Mr. Larchmont refuses to grant his request? Andrew had worked so hard and of course, he deserves a wage increase.
The thought of walking into Larchmont’s office left Andrew weak in the knees. Late in the afternoon he finally mustered up the courage to approach his superior. To his delight and surprise, the ever-frugal Harvey Larchmont agreed to give him a raise!
Andrew arrived home to a beautiful table set with their best china, and candles lit. His wife, Tina had prepared a fine meal including his favorite dishes. Immediately he figured someone from the office might have broken the good news to her!
Next to his plate Andrew found a lettered note, reading: "Congratulations, my love! I knew you'd get the raise! I prepared this dinner to show just how much I love you. I am so proud of your accomplishments!" He read it and stopped to reflect on how sensitive and caring Tina was.
After dinner, Andrew was on his way to the kitchen when he observed a second card had slipped out of Tina's pocket onto the floor. He picked it up. He read: "Don't worry about not getting the raise! You deserve it anyway! You are a wonderful provider and I prepared this dinner to show you just how much I love you even though you did not get the increase."
Suddenly tears swelled in Andrew's eyes. Total acceptance! Tina's support for him was not conditional upon his success at work.
The fear of rejection is often softened when we know someone loves us regardless of our success or failure.
【小题1】Why was Andrew worried about asking for a salary raise?
| A．He was afraid of being turned down. |
| B．He didn’t think he ought to get a raise. |
| C．He wife didn’t support him in this. |
| D．His superior had refused him once. |
| A．To gather something. |
| B．To make use of something . |
| C．To create something. |
| D．To consume something |
| A．angry | B．disappointed | C．relaxed | D．moved |
| A．because she knew her husband would make it |
| B．because she wanted to comfort her husband |
| C．but she didn’t know what the result would be |
| D．and she wrote a letter to her husband. |
【小题1】A
【小题2】A
【小题3】D
【小题4】C
解析试题分析：本文讲述了安德鲁决定向他的老板提出加薪要求，但他并不知道是否成功过。在要求被满足之后，回到家中看到妻子准备的一桌丰盛的晚餐，还以为妻子已经知道了结果。但在厨房看到妻子第二张纸条后，安德鲁深受感动，妻子并不知道自己加薪成功的事，妻子不管他工作是否成功都会爱着他，支持他。
【小题1】推理题：根据第一段中“All day Andrew felt worried --- what if Mr. Larchmont refuses to grant his request?”一整天安德鲁感到很担心，如果Larchmont 先生拒绝他涨薪的要求怎么办。故选A。
【小题2】推理题：划线部分的句意是下午晚些时候,他终于鼓起勇气走向他的上级。由此可知 mustered是聚集，鼓起的意思，只有A符合语境。故选A。
【小题3】细节题：根据倒数第二段第一句“Suddenly tears swelled in Andrew's eyes.”突然眼泪溢满安德鲁的眼睛，可知安德鲁很受感动。故选D。
【小题4】推理题：根据Tina的两张纸条可知她当时并不知道丈夫的要求是否被满足，加薪的事是否成功。故选C。
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A huge shire horse in Australia has been declared the biggest horse in the world by its owner , beating the current Guinness World Record（吉尼斯记录） by several inches .
The huge five-year-old , from Pakenham , S. E Australia , measures an amazing 20.1 hands , or 2.057m tall . He weighs over 1.3 tons ( 1,300kg) — about the same as a small car — and is still growing . His owner , horse trainer Jane Greenman , 47 , says the only time the horse runs is when there is food on offer . “ He eats an unbelievable amount . I would hate to run a team of eight horses his size—it would send you broke . ” she says .
The massive horse , whose name is Noddy , was born in Australia with its parents imported from England . Noddy’s grandfather , Ladbrooke Edward (UK) was the world’s tallest horse during the 1980’s .But Jane had no idea that the horse she raised from the age of six months would grow this big . Noddy immediately began to rocket and soon overtook both his parents in size .
Although she says that she is not interested in the Guiness Book of World Records , nevertheless Jane has carried out her own research and is sure that Noddy comes top . “ The nearest is a horse in Texas , at 20 hands ,” says Jane . “ Noddy is already an inch taller than that . The frightening thing is he still hasn’t finished—shire horses aren’t fully grown until they’re about six or seven .”
Jane has said that Noddy could be sold overseas , possibly even fetching a record price to match his height . She is unwilling to sell , but to fund the high cost of keeping him she needs to put him to work . “ He needs a job . It’s very hard to find jobs for such a big horse in Australia . I wish he could stay here but I’ve tried everywhere , ” she says regretfully . “ I just want people to enjoy this beautiful animal as much as I do .”
【小题1】How old is the horse now ?
| A．Six months old . | B． Five years old . |
| C．Two years old . | D．Six years old . |
| A．run fast | B．eat a lot | C．grow fast | D．get strong |
| A．She doesn’t know how to apply for the Guinness World Record . |
| B．She has to feed eight big horses at the same time . |
| C．Another horse in Texas is growing even faster than hers . |
| D．There is not enough money to cover（支付） the cost of raising the horse . |
| A．Noddy won’t grow any taller |
| B．Noddy’s growth can be genetically（基因） explained |
| C．many people are willing to buy Noddy |
| D．no job will be available for Noddy at all |
| A．Jane Greenman becomes famous for her horse |
| B．New world record for the biggest horse |
| C．Large size means no job for a big horse |
| D．Jane Greenman , an excellent horse trainer |
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Instead of staying at home to care for the kids, many mothers work to help support their families. But what does a mother do when her child is sick?
Sophia Fowkes worked as a computer programmer before, but she was fired for taking too much time off to care for her very sick child. Although she lost her job, she took an opportunity to turn her hobby into a business: creating “baby cakes”, a combination of diapers (尿布) and baby products artfully arranged to look like a cake. Inside, it contains blankets, towels, bottles and toys — things that can be used for babies. They are perfect gifts.
However, the idea of making “baby cakes” came from one of her experiences. When her child was born, she received a gift called diaper cake. It was made of diapers, but it was small and unusable. So she decided to create her own style of it to give her friends as a gift. Her friends liked these gifts very much and advised her to make and sell “baby cakes”.
She thought that it would be turned into a full-time business. In 1998, she started Baby-Cakes.com. After several years, her business grew and expanded in a way that even she had never expected. She sold her products online at first. Three years after her own website was created, demand for her products was so great that in August, 2001 she opened a real store. She is ready to combine the online store with the traditional store.
【小题1】Sophia was out of work because .
| A．she wanted to start her own business |
| B．she lost interest in computer programming |
| C．she failed to design computer programs |
| D．she couldn’t balance her work and family |
| A．Her unemployment. | B．Her family’s support. |
| C．Her friends’ suggestion. | D．Her market research. |
| A．b, c, d, a. | B．b, d, a, c. | C．a, c, b, d. | D．a, d, c, b. |
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She once said: "When people ask me if writing has been a hard or easy road I always answer with the famous saying, "the end is nothing; the road is all.'” That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never faced the type-writer (打字机) with the thought that one more task had to be done."
Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her, but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing. Her works were, like her, simple and full of the vigor (活力) of her days in Nebraska, where she grew from childhood to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the Great Plains with its wild flowers, wheat fields and rivers.
"It's a rather strange thing about the flat country," she wrote later. "It takes hold of you, or it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it very dull; they like a church tower, an old factory, a waterfall country all made to look like a German, Christmas card... But when I come to the open plains, something happens. I'm home. I breathe differently."
【小题1】What did Cather mean by "the end is nothing; the road is all"?
| A．Writing is the only path to success. |
| B．I feel happy when I finish writing a book. |
| C．I enjoy writing whether it is hard or easy. |
| D．Writing itself, not its result, is important. |
| A．It was cold, plain and without a church. |
| B．It was a colorful world of wild flowers. |
| C．It was like a German Christmas card |
| D．It was vast, open, flat and wild. |
| A．you either love the place or hate it |
| B．you decide either to stay or to leave |
| C．some find the place warm; others find it cold |
| D．some find the place peaceful; others find it wild |
| A．She breathes differently from others: |
| B．She wants to make the place her home. |
| C．She finds the place similar to her home. |
| D．She feels completely comfortable |
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It was the last day of July and the long hot summer was drawing to a close As for me．1 was out of spirits，and，if the truth must be told, out of money as well，During the past year I had not managed my finances as carefully as usual；and 1 was now limited to spending the autumn economically between my mother’s cottage at Hampstead and my own in town.
My father had been dead for some years，and my sister and 1 were the sole survivors of a family of five children. My father was a drawing-master before me He had been highly successful in his profession and my mother and sister were left economically independent after his death.
The view of London below me had sunk into the black shadow of the cloudy night, when I stood before the gate of my mother’s cottage I had hardly rung the bell．When the house door was opened violently．My worthy Italian friend，Professor Pesca，appeared in the servant’s place，and rushed out joyously to receive me．
I had first become acquainted(熟悉)with my Italian friend at certain great houses，where he taught Italian and I taught drawing What I then knew of the history of his life was that he had left Italy for political reasons and that he had been respectably established for many years in London as a teacher of languages It once happened that I saved him from certain death by drowning while we
were swimming in the sea at Brighton Afterwards he overwhelmed(淹没)me with the wildest expressions of affection and exclaimed passionately, that he would hold his life at my disposal from then on, and declared that he should never be happy again until he had had the opportunity of proving his gratitude．Little did I think that the occasion to serve me was soon to come．
Pesca dragged me in by both hands into the parlor, where my mother sat by the open window, laughing and fanning herself．Pesca was one of her especial favorites，and his wildest strange acts were always pardonable in her eyes．
“Now, my good dears．”began Pesca．“listen to me The time has come I recite my good news．I speak at last…'Hear, hear!”said my mother, humoring the joke“I go back into my life，and I address myself to the noblest of men，who found me dead at the bottom of the sea，and who pulled me up to the top. What did I say when l got into my own life and my own clothes again? I said that my life belonged to my dear friend，Walter, for the rest of my days Now,”cried the enthusiastic little mall at the top of his voice．“happiness bursts out of me at every pore of my skin．For I have found a job for you”
【小题1】The first two paragraphs of the passage serve as an introduction to——
| A．the financial situation the writer then faced |
| B．the season that the story was set in |
| C．the family members of the writer |
| D．the successful profession of the writer’s father |
| A．main | B．only | C．lucky | D．possible |
| A．used to be a politician |
| B．was a successful drawing-master |
| C．was quite close to the mother |
| D．wanted to give the writer some money in return |
| A．he went back into his life |
| B．he met his dear friend again |
| C．his friend ever saved his life |
| D．he had done something good for his friend |
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Yousuf Karsh，the Canadian portrait artist who photographed many of the most influential figures of the 20th century，died in a Boston hospital on July l3 th，2002．He was 93．
Working from a studio in Ottawa，Karsh produced famous portraits of such subjects as Winston Churchill，John F．Kennedy，Ernest Hemingway and Albert Einstein．Actually he has become almost as famous as his legendary subjects．In the latest edition of Who’s Who，which listed the most notable people of the last century，Karsh was the only Canadian of the 100 famous people listed——51 0f whom Karsh had photographed．
As a master portraitist，often working in black and white．Karsh was famous for talking to his subjects as he was getting the shot’s composition just right，asking them questions and putting them at ease．In preparation，he read as much as he could about the sitters，but avoided having the idea beforehand of how he would photograph them．He sought, as he wrote in Karsh Portfolio in 1967，to capture the “essential element which has made them great，” explaining，“All I know is that within every mall a secret is hidden，and as a photographer, it is my task to reveal it if I can．”
Karsh was born in America in 1908，and his uncle，George Nakash，brought him to John Garo，all outstanding photographer，to teach him in 1928．Four years later，Karsh set up his own studio in Ottawa．
In December of 1941，his memorable portrait of Winston Churchill brought Karsh into international fame．Canada’s Prime Minister Mackenzie King arranged for him to photograph Churchill following Churchill’s speech in the House of Commons．Not told，Churchill lit up a cigar, “Why was I not told of this?’’ Karsh asked him to remove the cigar and，when he didn’t，stepped forward and gently removed it with the comment，“Forgive me，Sir．”Churchill glowered (怒目而视) as the shot was taken，then permitted Karsh to take still another,；jokingly commenting，“You can even make a roaring lion stand still to be photographed．” The Churchill portrait has since appeared in publications all over the world．
Karsh traveled to London in 1943 with his portable studio —— an 8-by-10 view camera and many studio lamps to photograph such notables as George Bernard Shaw and the royal family．All these portraits fully illustrate Karsh’s ability．
【小题1】What did Karsh seek to do most in working?
| A．Capture the essence and greatness of the character． |
| B．Present the true and vivid expression of the subject． |
| C．Make the photograph more colorful and expressive． |
| D．Reveal the idea he has got in preparing for the shot． |
| A．characters seated | B．subjects questioned |
| C．models photographed | D．photographs taken |
| A．following time order | B．providing examples |
| C．making comparisons | D．giving causes and effects |
| A．Churchill was asked to stand still when Karsh took a photograph of him |
| B．Churchill’s portrait hanging in the House of Commons gave Karsh great fame |
| C．Karsh was listed as one of the 100 notables by Who’s Who in the last century |
| D．Karsh could skilfully adjust the subjects’ mood when photographing them |
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
I got up and dressed, stuck my violin under my jacket, and went out into the street. I wandered about for an hour, looking for a likely place, feeling as if I were about to commit a crime. Then I stopped at last under a bridge near the station and decided to have a go.
I felt tense and shaking. I drew my violin from under my coat like a gun. It was here, in Southampton, with trains passing overhead, that I was about to prove myself.
The first notes I played were loud and raw, and then they settled down and began to run more smoothly and to stay more or less in tune. To my surprise I was neither arrested nor told to shut up. Indeed, nobody took any notice at all.
I walked the streets of Southampton for several days, gradually knowing how to try and get money by being a street artist. It was not a good thing, for instance, to let the hat fill up with money — the sight could discourage the people; nor was it wise to empty it completely, which could also confuse them, giving them no hint as to where to drop his money. Placing a couple of pennies in the hat to start the thing going soon became a good idea. Before I played another tune, I took off the big money, but always left two pennies behind.
Old ladies were most generous, and so were women with children, shop girls, and typists. As for the men: Heavy drinkers were always generous too and so were big young with muscles. But never a man with a hat, briefcase or dog; respectable types were the meanest of all, except retired army officers, who would bark “Why aren’t you working, young man?” and then threw much money into the hat to hide their confusion.
【小题1】The underlined phrase “have a go” in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.
| A．have a try | B．run away |
| C．change a place | D．commit a crime |
| A．he could make a lot of money | B．he had chosen the wrong place |
| C．he would get into trouble | D．people would stop and listen to him |
| A．let the hat fill up with money first |
| B．leave a small amount of money in the hat |
| C．make sure that the hat was always empty |
| D．choose the best place to play more smooth tunes |
| A．Most of the ladies were willing to give him money. |
| B．Retired army officers seldom gave him money. |
| C．Drinkers were generous with their money. |
| D．Not all the people would feel pity for street-violinists. |
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Like any good mother,when Karen found out that another baby was on the way,she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son,Michael,prepare for a new baby.Day after day,night after night,Michael sang to his mommy’s tummy(肚子).
Finally,Michael’s little sister was born.But she was in serious condition.With sirens (警报) howling in the night,the ambulance rushed the baby to St.Mary’s Hospital.The days inched by.The little girl became worse.The pediatric(儿科的) specialist told the parents to prepare for the worst.
Michael kept begging about singing to his sister,but kids are not allowed in pediatric department at St.Mary’s Hospital.Karen made up her mind to take Michael to see his sister.She dressed him in an oversized suit and marched him into the hospital.He looked like a walking laundry basket,but the head nurse recognized him as a child and shouted,“Get that kid out of here now!”Karen rose up strong,and the usually mild-mannered lady glared steel-eyed into the head nurse’s face.“He is not leaving until he sings to his sister!”
Karen towed Michael to his sister’s bedside.He gazed at the tiny baby losing the battle to live.And he began to sing.In the pure-hearted voice of a 3-year-old,Michael sang,“You are my sunshine,my only sunshine.You make me happy when skies are grey.”Instantly the baby girl responded.Her pulse rate became calm and steady.Her strained breathing became smoother.
“Keep on singing,Michael.”“The other night,dear,as I lay sleeping,I dreamed I help you in my arms…”Michael’s little sister relaxed as healing rest seemed to sweep over her.“Keep on singing,Michael.”Tears conquered the face of the nurse.“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.Please don’t take my sunshine away.”
The next day—the very next day—the little girl was well enough to go home!
【小题1】Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
| A．It’s Hard to Raise a Baby | B．Mother’s Love |
| C．The Miracle of a Brother’s Song | D．An Unforgettable Day |
| A．mothers often pay much attention to their newly-born babies |
| B．it often takes some time for a child to accept his/her newly-born brother or sister. |
| C．it is good for children to learn to sing songs to babies |
| D．mothers often tell their children how to look after their younger brothers or sisters |
| A．unnatural | B．exciting | C．deep | D．blocked |
| A．Naughty and annoying. | B．Strong and brave. |
| C．Active and careless. | D．Concerned and determined. |
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
(2013·高考北京卷，B)Two dolphins race around in a big pool in the Ocean Park.The smaller dolphin，Grace，shows off a few of her tricks，turning around and waving hello to the crowd.The most amazing thing about her，however，is that she’s even swimming at all.She doesn’t have a tail.
Grace lost her tail as a baby when she got caught up in a fish trap.When the dolphin arrived at the Ocean Park in December 2005，she was fighting for her life.“Is she going to make it？”Her trainer，Abbey Stone，feared the worst.Grace did make it—but her tail didn’t.She ended up losing her flukes and the lower part of her peduncle.
Over the past six years，she has learned to swim without her tail.Dolphins swim by moving their flukes and peduncle up and down.Grace taught herself to move another way—like a fish! She pushed herself forward through the water by moving her peduncle from side to side.
The movements put harmful pressure on Grace’s backbone.So a company offered to create a manmade tail for her.The tail had to be strong enough to stay on Grace as she swam but soft enough that it wouldn’t hurt her.
The first time Grace wore the artificial tail，she soon shook it off and let it sink to the bottom of the pool.Now，she is still learning to use the tail.Some days she wears it for an hour at a time，others not at all.“The new tail isn’t necessary for her to feel comfortable，”says Stone，“but it helps to keep that range of motion (动作) and build muscles (肌肉)．”
Now，the dolphin is about to get an even happier ending.This month，Grace will star in Dolphin Tale，a film that focuses on her rescue and recovery.Her progress has inspired more than just a new movie.Many people travel from near and far to meet her.Seeing Grace swim with her manmade tail gives people so much courage.
【小题1】When Grace first arrived at the Ocean Park，her trainer worried about her________.
| A．physical build |
| B．potential ability |
| C．chance of survival |
| D．adaptation to the surroundings. |
| A．let her recover faster |
| B．make her comfortable |
| C．adjust her way of swimming |
| D．help her perform better tricks |
| A．stick to their dreams |
| B．treat animals friendly |
| C．treasure what they have |
| D．face difficulties bravely |
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