I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a person.
I think my started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really . It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So tried a(n) . I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I to help. That was really a big for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of are still my best friends today.
A bigger cause of my new , however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my . Every time I came into her room, she was so because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never her, so I took her place. She let me that making others feel good make me feel good, too, when she died, I was , but I was very grateful to her.
I think I am a much person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not these experiences. They have me to care about other people more than about myself. I who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.
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解析试题分析:作者讲述了自己从一个自私的人变成现在能为他人着想的人的感受和过程。上大学时一心只想着拿学位而拼搏,结果一个朋友都没有感到很孤单。后来作者在Vista 护理之家,结识了一位改变了她、把她当作女儿的重病缠身的老妇人。老人告诉她:只有别人感到高兴自己才快乐。
【小题1】考查连词辨析。A. since自从; B. or或者; C. before在…之前, D. unless除非;表示的含义是在考虑自己之前先考虑别人,对应前边的改变自我为中心。选C。
【小题2】考查形容词辨析。A. famous著名的; B. simple 简单的; C. different不同的; D. skilled有技巧的。句意:做出改变,变成了不同于以前的人。选C。
【小题3】考查名词辨析。A. education教育; B. change变化,C. tour 旅行; D. career 事业;改变,这个单词贯穿全文。选B。
【小题4】考查名词辨析A. balance平衡; B. homework家庭作业; C. degree,学位,级别; D. interest兴趣。因为对应前文中的在大学里,只想取得学位。balance homework degree interest选C。
【小题5】考查动词辨析。A. reported 报道,B. wrote写;C. lied说谎;D. talked谈论; talk to sb和某人谈话,因为前文说是自己认为比别人聪明,因此几乎不和别人说话。talked wrote lied reported选D。
【小题6】考查形容词辨析。A. careful 细心的; B. lonely孤独的; C. curious 好奇的; D. guilty有罪的,内疚的。孤独的,没有朋友,正好对应下文的It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun.选B。
【小题7】考查名词辨析。A. experiment实验; B. game运动; C. argument争论; D. defence防御。词义“实验”的含义,引申为一种突破,一种改变,对应下文开始做的事情。选A。
【小题8】考查动词辨析。A. dared敢; B. offered提供; C. hesitated犹豫; D. happened发生。offer to do sth表示主动提出做某件事情,更能体现出想改变的决心。选B。
【小题9】考查名词辨析。A. dream梦想; B. problem问题; C. duty责任; D. step台阶、步骤。表示一种进步。紧接着,对应下文的具体的进步之处。选D。
【小题10】考查代词辨析。A. us 我们; B. them他们; C. which 哪一个; D. whom谁,who的宾格。注意and这个连词的作用,引文是并列句,因此注意语法的作用,使用them。选B。
【小题11】考查名词辨析。A. hope希望; B. hobby爱好; C. attitude态度; D. luck幸运。由首句可知,作者之前是个self-centered person,通过一次经历发生了变化并对比自己的今昔,所以可得出是Attitude(态度)的变化,选C。
【小题12】考查名词词义辨析,A. friend朋友,B. partner伙伴; C. guide向导; D. guest客人。通过文章的became.可推测出old lady是作者的friend(朋友)。选A。
【小题13】考查形容词词义辨析,A. polite礼貌; B. happy快乐; C. strange奇怪; D. confident自信。通过空格后面的because she thought I was her daughter可推测出old lady是非常高兴的。选B。
【小题14】考查动词词义辨析,A. bothered打扰; B. answered回答; C. visited参观;看望,D. trusted信任。通过文中信息得知old lady是一个病人,所以可推测出是来看望(visit)自己,选C。
【小题15】考查动词词义辨析。A. explain 解释; B. see看, C. declare宣称; D. guess猜测。see观察;选B。
【小题16】考查复合形容词辨析。A. homeless无家可归的,B. hopeless没希望的,C. bad-tempered坏脾气的,D. heartbroken心碎的;
she died, but I was also very grateful to her.可知作者当时的心情肯定是悲伤的。选D。
【小题17】考查动词词义辨析。A. quieter更安静;B. busier更忙;C. better更好; D. richer更富有。作者通过这次经历使自己变得更好。选C。
【小题18】考查动词词义辨析,A. improve改进; B. face面对; C. forget t忘记; D. analyze分析。作者通过这次的experience发生了好的变化,可推测作者想记住这次经历,所以选will not forget,其他均不符合语境。选C。
【小题19】考查动词词义辨析,A. forced强迫; B. preferred更喜欢; C. ordered命令; D. taught教。作者通过这次经历使自己变得更好,所以可推测这次经历“教会”了自己什么。选D。
【小题20】考查动词词义辨析,A. like 喜欢; B. miss想念、错过;C. wonder 想知道,D. expect期待。通过文章可推测出与之前比较作者更“喜欢”现在的自己,选like,其他选项均不符合语境。选A。
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
Born in America,I spoke English,not Chinese,the language of my ancestors.When I was three,my parents flashed cards with Chinese ____ at my face,but I pushed them ____.My mom believed I would learn ___ I was ready.But the ____ never came.
On a Chinese New Year's Eve,my uncle spoke to me in Chinese,but all I could do was ____ at him,confused,scratching my head.“ Still can't speak Chinese?”He____ me,“You can't even buy a fish in Chinatown.”
“Hey,this is America,not China.I'll get some ____ with or without Chinese.”I replied and turned to my mom for ____.
“Remember to ask for fresh fish,Xin Xian Yu,”she said,handing over a $20 bill.I ____ the words,running downstairs into the streets of Chinatown.
I found the fish ____ surrounded in a sea of customers.“I'd like to buy some fresh fish,”I shouted to the fishman.But he ____ my English words and turned to serve the next customer.The laugh of the people behind increased ____ their impatience.With every ____,the breath of the dragons(龙)on my back grew stronger—my blood boiling—____ me to cry out,“Xian Sheng Yu,please.”“Very Xian Sheng,”I repeated.The crowd erupted into laughter.My face turned ____ and I ran back home ____,except for the $20 bill I held tightly in my pocket.
Should I laugh or cry?They're Chinese.I'm Chinese. I should feel right at ____.Instead,I was the joke,a disgrace(丢脸)to the language.
Sometimes,I laugh at my fish ____,but,in the end.the joke is on ____.Every laugh is a culture ____;every laugh is my heritage(传统)fading away.
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Wishing to encourage her young son’s progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a Paderewski concert. After they were , the mother spotted a friend in the audience and walked down the passage to greet her.
Seizing the to explore the wonders of the concert hall, the little boy rose and explored his way through a door marked “NO ADMITTANCE.” When the house lights dimmed and the concert was about to begin, the mother returned to her seat and that the child was missing.
Suddenly, the curtains parted and spotlights focused on the impressive Steinway on stage. In , the mother saw her little boy sitting at the key-board, picking out Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
At that moment, the great piano master made his , quickly moved to the piano, and in the boy’s ear, “Don’t quit. Keep playing.”
Then over, Paderewski reached down with his left hand and began filling in a bass part. Soon his right arm reached around to the other side of the child and he added a running obbligato (伴奏). Together, the old master and the young novice (beginner) transformed a frightening situation into a wonderfully experience. The audience was strongly .
That’s the way it is in life. What we can accomplish (实现) on our own is hardly . We try our best, but the aren’t exactly graceful flowing music. But when we trust in the hands of a Greater Power, our life’s work can be beautiful.
Next time you set out to great achievements, listen carefully. You can hear the voice of the Master, whispering in your ear, “Don’t quit. Keep playing.”
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When my parents were alive,they were not very rich.Yet they helped their two older time after time.When Daddy passed away,his notebook showed debts from several of his children.I was not among them.I borrowed money and when I did,I set a repayment plan and to it.It was a matter of with me.I couldn’t stand owing my parents-or anyone else-mmoney because I watched them to help out my older sisters when they were in financial difficulties themselves.
These days,after the death of my parents,I am one of those people who can be to for help when they need it.Just as I can’t stand other people money,I can’t stand saying no to whoever needs help.I don’t helping others,but I would be more than glad if they would make a(n) to handle things themselves,perhaps by doing some planning-like planning not to speend money they don’t have!
Being ready to help others is a ,but sometimes the result will be to what you expect.I remember as a child what my father always said, “If at first you don’t succeed,try,try again!” Helping my children too often has them from learning to keep trying.Use your :who among my children will to walk if I supply the money to buy a car? Helped often,my children lost gradually the ability to problems themselves.
In most ,when people find you can help,they will ask you more and more.That's human,you know.
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I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought,“What would I say when the other kids asked what I'd ?” Just when I started to that there would not be a Christmas that year,three women at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn't .Somebody had thought of me to bring me a gift. Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my . Christmas there special and memorable, I _ remembered the woman’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of for as many children as I could possibly.
So I a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿)at the Christmas party. For every child,we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys,clothes,and school supplies, with a child's name. We wanted all of them to know they were .Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts,I them that they couldn't open their presents every child had come forward. Finally the they had been waiting for came as I called out,“One,two,three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages,their faces beamed and their bright smiles up the room. The in the room was obvious,and wasn't just about toys. It was a feeling —the feeling I knew that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn't forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
A few months ago, I was picking up the children at school. Emily, another mother that I knew well, rushed up to me. She was full of ____.
“Do you know ____ you and I are?” she asked. ____ I could answer, she gave out the reason for her question. She had just returned from renewing her driver’s license at a government office. The woman ____ desk asked her what her “occupation” was. Emily hesitated, ____ how to answer it. “What I mean is,” explained the woman, “do you have a job, or are you just a ...?” “Of course I have a job,” answered Emily. “I’m a (an) ____.” “We don’t ____ ‘mother’ as an occupation ... ‘housewife’ covers it,” she said.
I forgot all about her story ____ one day I found myself in the same situation. This time it was at our own Town Hall. The clerk was a woman.
“And what is your occupation?” she asked. What ____ me say it, I do not know. The words simply jumped out. “I’m ... a (an) ______ in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”
The clerk stopped, her ball-point pen _____ in mid-air. She looked up ____ she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly.
“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “just what you do in your _____?” Coolly, I heard myself _____, “I have a continuing program of research in the laboratory and in the field. I’m working for my masters (the whole family) and already have ____ credits (令人增光的人或事物) (all daughters). I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). The job is more challenging than most jobs and the ____ are in satisfaction rather than just money.”
There was an increasing note of ____ in the clerk’s voice as she ____ in the form. As I drove into our driveway(私家车道), I was ____ by my lab assistants — ages 13, 7, and 3. Inside the house I could hear our new experimental model (six months) in the child-development program.
I felt successful. Motherhood...what a great ____.
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One afternoon in January in 1998, Susan Sharp, 43, and her 8-year-old son David, were walking across an icy square, Susan's cane(手杖) slipped on the ice. Her face first into the mud. David her mother's side, “Are you all right, Mom” , Susan pulled herself up, “I'm okay, Honey,” she said.
Susan was falling more since she had trouble walking. Every inch of ice was a danger for her. “I wish I could do something,” the boy thought. David, too, was having of his own. The boy had a speech problem, so at school he talked .
One day, David's teacher announced a homework. "Each of you is going to come up with an ," she said. This was for "INVENT AMERICA", a national competition to encourage creativity in children.
An idea David one evening. If only his mother's cane didn't slip on the ice. “What if I your cane to a nail coming out of the bottom” he asked his mother.
“ the sharp end would scratch(划破) floors,” Susan said.
“No, Mom, I make it like a ball-point pen. You take your hand off the button and the returns back up.” Hours later the cane was finished. David and his father as Susan used it to walk 50 feet about the . Happily Susan cried out, “It !”
In July 1999, David was national winner for the "INVENT AMERICA". David began to make public appearance. Thus he was forced to communicate .Today, David is nearly free of his speech problem, and his cane is becoming well accepted.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
(2013·高考北京卷)Leaping on a narrow balance beam(平衡木) is not easy.But Lola Walter,a 13yearold gymnast,is an expert at it.
To perfect her skills,Lola____for four hours a day,five days a week.At the state championships in March,she finished seventh out of 16 girls.
That’s especially impressive,____she is legally blind,born with a rare condition that causes her eyes to shift(移动)constantly.She often sees double and can’t____how far away things are.
When she was little,her mom____that even though she couldn’t see____,she was fearless.So her mom signed her up for gymnastics when she was three.She loved the____right away and gymnastics became her favorite.
Though learning gymnastics has been more____for her than for some of her teammates,she has never quit.She doesn’t let her____stop her from doing anything that she wants to.
She likes the determination it takes to do the sport.Her biggest____is the balance beam.Because she has double vision,she often sees to beams.She must use her sense of touch to help her during her routine.Sometimes she even closes her eyes.“You have to____your mind that it’ll take you where you want to go,”says Lola.
To be a toplevel gymnast,one must be brave.The beam is probably the most____for anyone because it’s four inches wide.At the state competition,Lola didn’t fall____the beam.In fact,she got an 8.1 out of 10—her highest score yet.
Lola doesn’t want to be____differently from the other girls on her team.At competitions,the judges don’t know about her vision____.She doesn’t tell them,because she doesn’t think they need to know.Her mom is amazed by her____attitude.
Lola never thinks about____.She is presently at level 7 while the highest is level 10 in gymnastics.Her____is to reach level 9.She says she wants to be a gymnastics coach to pass down what she’s learned to other kids____she grows up.
Lola is____of all her hard work and success.She says it’s helped her overcome problems in her life outside gymnastics too.Her____for others is “just believe in yourself.”
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出适合填入
对应空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
My job was to make classroom observations and encourage a training program that would enable students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this .
One day, I entered Donna’s classroom, took a seat in the back of the room and . All the students were working a task. The student next to me was filling her page with “I Can’ts.” “I can’t kick the soccer ball.” “I can’t get Debbie to like me.” Her page was half full and she showed no of stopping. I walked down the row and found was writing sentences, describing things they couldn’t do.
By this time the activity aroused my , so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on I noticed she too was busy writing. “I can’t get John’s mother to come for a parents’ meeting.” I felt it best not to .
After another ten minutes, the students were to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their “I Can’t” statements into an empty shoebox. Then Donna hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked it under her arm and headed out the door. Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna got a shovel from the tool house, and then marched the students to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to . The box of “I Can’ts” was placed at the of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. At this point Donna announced, “Boys and girls, please join hands and your heads.” They quickly formed a circle around the grave.
Donna delivered the eulogy (悼词). “Friends, we gathered here today to the memory of ‘I Can’t.’ He is by his brothers and sisters ‘I Can’ and ‘I Will’. May ‘I Can’t’ rest in . Amen!”
She turned the students and marched them back into the classroom. They celebrated the of “I Can’t”. Donna cut a large tombstone from paper. She wrote the words “I Can’t” at the top and the date at the bottom, then hung it in the classroom. On those rare occasions when a student and said, “I Can’t,” Donna pointed to the paper tombstone. The student then remembered that “I Can’t” was dead and chose other statement.
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