Five years ago, I was sent to a better middle school. For me, everything there was new and strange. After I had been there for two months, there was an important test in the middle of the term. It covered all my courses. In that test, I didn’t get a good grade, but most of my classmates got an A.
It made me upset for a long time. I felt everything in the world was changing. I thought my classmates were all better than me. During those days I was very unhappy.
One day, my aunt, after talking with my teachers, talked to me. She told me to think about what I had done in the past and what I should do in the future. I was shocked by her words. I thought about what I had done during the past months, and I found I had done nothing to improve my grades. I thought I should work harder.
After that, I paid more attention to the teachers’ talking in the classes, and I asked my teachers or my classmates when I didn’t understand something. I studied very late at night when I met with difficult problems. Most of all, I came to understand the importance of taking notes in class. As a result, I did better in some tests.
About three months later, the most important test came at the end of the term. This time, I stood out not only in my class but also in the grade. From then on, I have tried to do my best when I do something because I know if I want something, I should work hard for it.
【小题1】Why did the writer fall behind in the new middle school? _________
A.Because the teachers didn’t treat him well enough. |
B.Because the subjects were becoming more difficult. |
C.Because he hated the life in the new school. |
D.Because he didn’t put his heart into study. |
A.She punished him for not working hard. |
B.She helped him find out the reasons for his poor performance. |
C.She forced him to work harder. |
D.She asked his teachers to talk with him about his problems. |
A.Asking teachers for help when in difficulty. |
B.Working deep into the night every day. |
C.Making notes in class. |
D.Listening to every word his teachers said. |
A.The writer failed again in the exam. |
B.The writer did very well in the exam. |
C.The writer became the cleverest in the class. |
D.The writer was very proud of his progress. |
【小题1】D
【小题2】B
【小题3】C
【小题4】B
解析试题分析:文章介绍作者刚到一个学校考试就没考好,阿姨帮助他找到表现差的原因,是因为没有认真的学习,通过认真努力学习,作者很快在班级甚至年级脱颖而出。
【小题1】细节题:从第三段的句子:I thought about what I had done during the past months, and I found I had done nothing to improve my grades.可知作者考试失利是因为没有认真的学习,选D
【小题2】细节题:从第三段的句子:She told me to think about what I had done in the past and what I should do in the future. I was shocked by her words.可知作者的阿姨帮助他找到表现差的原因,选B
【小题3】细节题:从第三段的句子:Most of all, I came to understand the importance of taking notes in class. 可知帮助作者最多的是上课记笔记的习惯,选C
【小题4】句意理解题:这句话的意思是:作者不仅在班级而且在年级也很突出,就是说他考得很好,选B
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Galaxy saw a man and a woman who communicated with the sign language at the train station when she was on the way home one evening. She noticed that the woman asked the man for the direction. He told her that he did not know. Galaxy decided to help them. She had learned the sign language when she served as a volunteer in the deaf and mute (聋哑) school. Then she showed the woman the direction and left her email address to them in case they needed her help later.
She received an email from that man the next day. Kazrim was his name. Galaxy replied his mail sincerely. They both started chatting online soon after and began seeing each other. Although they only communicated with the sign language, it never bothered her.
Galaxy was fond of him gradually. Obviously, Kazrim was the same too. He presented Galaxy with a bunch of sunflowers and asked her sincerely. “Are you willing to be my girlfriend?”
Galaxy was pleasantly surprised. She requested him to give her some time to persuade her parents.
As she had expected, her parents were very angry after they had learned of their love story.
Galaxy explained, “Kazrim is an excellent and a very optimistic person. He has a very positive attitude towards life and work. He cares for others always. He is 100% better than the normal. Moreover, the mute is still a human. He should possess a perfect and wonderful love.”
Her parents asked to see him, then. The very worried Galaxy took Kazrim home a few days later. When they were on the train, Kazrim told her, “I’m going to tell your parents that I’ll be looking after you well with all my life!” Galaxy was deeply moved.
As soon as they had entered the house, Galaxy introduced him to her parents. She said, “This is Kazrim.” Just right after her speech, an unbelievable thing happened. Kazrim threw the gift away and held her in his arms tightly.
He said, “YOU CAN TALK?” It was the same question that Galaxy wanted to ask, too.
The four people were shocked all of a sudden. As a matter of fact, Kazrim always believed that Galaxy was a mute and he still fell in love with her deeply.
【小题1】How did Galaxy and Kazrim get to know each other?
A.They met each other by chance. |
B.They were introduced to each other. |
C.They once studied at the same university. |
D.They both served in a deaf and mute school. |
A.Writing words on paper. |
B.Using the sign language. |
C.Judging from his expression. |
D.Speaking her native language. |
A.To have a talk with Kazrim. |
B.To prepare for her marriage. |
C.To treat Kazrim as a normal man. |
D.To accept Kazrim as her boyfriend. |
A.They fell in love at the first sight. |
B.They cheated each other to win love. |
C.They mistook each other for being mutes. |
D.They ignored the anger of Galaxy’s parents. |
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I looked at David and showed him to a chair. How could I help him? There are problems psychology doesn’t have the answer to, and which no words can describe. Sometimes the best thing one can do is to listen openly and sympathetically.
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Usually, he arrived earlier than agreed, took the chess board and pieces from the shelf and began setting them up before I even got a chance to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my company. But why did he never look at me?
"Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with," I thought. "Perhaps he senses that I respect his suffering.”Some months later, when we were playing chess, he looked up at me suddenly.
"Is your turn," he said.
After that day, David started talking. He got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. He wrote to me a few times about his biking with some friends, and about his plan to get into university. Now he had really started to live his own life.
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【小题1】When he first met the author, David .
A.felt a little excited |
B.looked a little nervous |
C.walked energetically |
D.showed up with his teacher |
A.was able to describe David's problem |
B.was skeptical about psychology |
C.was ready to listen to David |
D.was sure of handling David's problem |
A.wanted to ask the author for advice |
B.bear the author many times in the chess game |
C.liked the children’s drawings in the office |
D.need to share sorrow with the author |
A.He recovered after months of treatment. |
B.He liked biking before he lost his family. |
C.He went into university soon after starting to talk. |
D.He got friends in school before he met the author. |
A.His teacher’s help. |
B.The author’s friendship. |
C.The author’s silent communication with him. |
D.His exchange of letters with the author. |
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Over the years, I missed Linda very much. I wanted to share happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.
One day, I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman—Linda’s married name.“There must be thousands of Wagmans.”I thought, but I still wrote to her.
She called as soon as she got my letter.“Mrs. Tobin!”she said excitedly,“Linda Evans Wagman is my mother.”
Minutes later I heard a voice that I recognized at once, even after 40 years. We laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is fil1ed. And there’s one thing that Linda and I know for sure: We won’t lose each other again!
【小题1】The writer went to piano lessons with Linda Evans .
A.at the age of 13 |
B.before she got married |
C.before the writer’s family moved away |
D.after they moved to new homes |
A.got married |
B.had little time to do so |
C.didn’t like writing letters |
D.could see each other on special times |
A.was in trouble |
B.didn’t know Linda’s address |
C.received the card that she sent |
D.didn’t have a friend like Linda |
A.read the newspaper |
B.heard Linda’s voice on the phone |
C.met a young woman who looked a lot like Linda |
D.wrote to the woman whose 1ast name was Wagman |
A.for about 40 years |
B.for about 27 years |
C.since they got married |
D.since the writer’s family moved away |
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【小题1】The underlined word fractured here probably means ___________.
A.shaken | B.broken | C.abandoned | D.touched |
A.she didn't hear it | B.she was seriously hurt |
C.she was angry with him | D.she had her phone broken |
A.gentle and devoted | B.brave and handsome |
C.rough and selfish | D.intelligent but silly |
A.love is happy and love is pain |
B.trust is important between lovers |
C.one should express his love in time |
D.one should love a person who is brave |
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The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms Mitchell lived with her husbanD. John Marsh.They trade fun of the small apartment by calling it "The Dump".
Around 1926,Margaret Mitchell had stopped working”a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it~time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
【小题1】The book Gone with the Wind was___.
A.first published in a newspaper | B.awarded ten Academy Awards |
C.written in "The Dump" | D.adapted from a movie |
A.be very pleased with | B.show great respect for |
C.be much taller than | D.show little interest in |
A.Because she was rich enough. |
B.Because she was injured then. |
C.Because her husband didn't like it |
D.Because she wanted to write books. |
A.A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell |
B.Gone with the Wind:A Huge Success |
C.An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House |
D.Margaret Mitchell:A Great Female Writer |
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I have only once been in trouble with the law.The whole process of being arrested and taken to court was a rather unpleasant experience at the time, but it makes a good story now. What makes it rather disturbing was the arbitrary (随意的) circumstances both of my arrest and my subsequent (随后的) fate in court.
It happened in February about twelve years ago.I had left school a couple of months before that and was not due to go to university until the following October.I was still living at home at the time.
One morning I was in Richmond, a suburb of London near where I lived.I was looking for a temporary job so that I could save up some money to go traveling.As it was a fine day and I was in no hurry, I was taking my time, looking in shop windows, strolling in the park, and sometimes just stopping and looking around me.It must have been this obvious ainilessness that led to my downfall.
It was about half past eleven when it happened.I was just walking out of the local library, having unsuccessfully sought employment there, when I saw a man walking across the road with the obvious intention of talking to me.I thought he was going to ask me the time.Instead, he said he was a police officer and he was arresting me.At first I thought it was some kind of joke.
But then another policeman appeared, this time in uniform, and I was left in no doubt.
'But what for?" I asked.
‘Wandering with intent to commit an arrestable offence,' he said.
‘What offence?' I asked.
'Theft,' he said.
'Theft of what?' I asked.
'Milk bottles,' he said, and with a perfectly straight face too!
'Oh,' I said.
It turned out there had been a lot of petty thefts in the area, particularly that of stealing milk bottles from doorsteps.
Then I made my big mistake.At the time I was nineteen, had long untidy hair, and regarded myself as pan of the sixties' 'youth counterculture'.As a result, I wanted to appear cool and unconcerned with the incident, so I said, 'How long have you been following me? in the most casual and conversational tone I could manage.I thus appeared to them to be quite familiar with this sort of situation, and it confirmed them in their belief that I was a thoroughly disreputable (品行不端的) character.
A few minutes later a police car arrived.
'Get in the back,' they said.'Put your hands on the back of the front seat and don't move them.'
They got in on either side of me.It wasn't funny any more.
At the police station they questioned me for several hours.I continued to try to look worldly and familiar with the situation.When they asked me what I had been doing, I told them I'd been looking for a job.'Aha,' I could see them thinking, 'unemployed'.
Eventually, I was officially charged and told to report to Richmond Magistrates' Court the following Monday.Then they let me go.
I wanted to conduct my own defense in court, but as soon as my father found out what had happened, he hired a very good solicitor (律师) .We went along that Monday armed with all kinds of witnesses, including my English teacher from school as a character witness.But he was never called on to give evidence.My 'trial' didn't get that far.The magistrate (法官) dismissed the case after fifteen minutes.1 was free.The poor police had never stood a chance.The solicitor even succeeded in getting costs awarded against the police.
And so I do not have a criminal record.But what was most shocking at the time was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on.I had the 'right' accent, respectable middle-class parents in court, reliable witnesses, and I could obviously afford a very good solicitor.Given the obscure nature of the charge.I feel sure that if I had come from a different background, and had really been unemployed, there is every chance that I would have been found guilty.While asking for costs to be awarded, my solicitor's case quite obviously revolved (回转) around the fact that I had a 'brilliant academic record'.
Meanwhile, just outside the courtroom, one of the policemen who had arrested me was gloomily complaining to my mother that another youngster had been turned against the police. 'You could have been a bit more helpful when we arrested you,' he said to me reproachfully (责备地) .
What did he mean? Probably that I should have looked outraged (暴怒)and said something like, 'Look here, do you know who you're talking to? I am a highly successful student with a brilliant academic record.How dare you arrest me!' Then they, probably, would have apologized perhaps even taken off their caps, and let me on my way.
【小题1】Judging from the first paragraph, the writer's attitude towards his story is _______.
A.angry | B.sad |
C.amused | D.more than just one of the above |
A.a uniformed policeman | B.a policeman in plainclothes |
C.not a policeman | D.a good joker |
A.the time for the trial was limited to fifteen minutes only |
B.the author wanted to conduct his own defense in court |
C.the case was dismissed before the trial reached that stage |
D.he was found to be unqualified as a character witness |
A.the magistrate had been less gentle |
B.he had really been out of work |
C.he had been born in a lower—class family |
D.both B and C |
A.he had protested strongly at the time |
B.he had begged to be allowed to go home |
C.he hadn't wandered aimlessly |
D.he had tried to look cool |
A.has broken the law only once |
B.has never broken the law |
C.has broken the law on more than one occasion |
D.once broke the law without knowing it |
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The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.
Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ”
The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump ” .
Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
【小题1】 The book Gone with the Wind was _________.
A.first published on a newspaper |
B.awarded ten Academy Awards |
C.written in “The Dump” |
D.adapted from a movie |
A.be very pleased with |
B.show great respect for |
C.be much taller than |
D.show little interest in |
A.Because she was rich enough. |
B.Because she was injured then. |
C.Because her husband didn’t like it. |
D.Because she wanted to write books. |
A.Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success. |
B.Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer. |
C.An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House. |
D.A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell. |
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Lying in the sun on a rock, the cougar(美洲豹)saw Jeb and his son, Tom, before they saw it. Jeb put his bag down quickly and pulled his jacket open with both hands, making himself look big to the cougar. It worked. The cougar hesitated, ready to attack Jeb, but ready to forget the whole thing, too.
Jeb let go of his jacket, grasped Tom and held him across his body, making a cross. Now the cougar’s enemy looked even bigger, and it rose up, ready to move away, but unfortunately Tom got scared and struggled free of Jeb.
“Tom, no!” shouted his father.
But Tom broke and ran and that’s the last thing you do with a cougar. The second Tom broke free, Jeb threw himself on the cougar, just as it jumped from the rock. They hit each other in mid-air and both fell. The cougar was on Jeb in a flash, forgetting about Tom, which was what Jeb wanted.
Cougars are not as big as most people think and a determined man stands a chance, even with just his fists. As the cougar’s claws(爪子)got into his left shoulder, Jeb swung his fist at its eyes and hit hard. The animal howled and put its head back. Jeb followed up with his other fist. Then out of the corner of his eye, Jeb saw Tom. The boy was running back to help his father.
“Knife, Tom,” shouted Jeb.
The boy ran to his father’s bag, while Jeb started shouting as well as hitting, to keep the cougar’s attention away from Tom. Tom got the knife and ran over to Jeb. The cougar was moving its head in and out, trying to find a way through the wall Jeb was making out of his arms. Tom swung with the knife, into the cougar’s back. It howled horribly and ran off into the mountains.
The whole fight had taken about thirty seconds.
【小题1】Why did Jeb pull his jacket open when he saw the cougar?
A.To get ready to fight. | B.To frighten it away. |
C.To protect the boy. | D.To cool down. |
A.They are afraid of noises. |
B.They hesitate before they hit. |
C.They are bigger than we think. |
D.They like to attack running people. |
A.The cougar jumped from the rock. |
B.Tom struggled free of his father. |
C.Jeb asked Tom to get the knife. |
D.Jeb held Tom across his body. |
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