From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital（独奏演唱会）. A recital ______I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I _____ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he would shake his head, muttering（嘀咕） _______about build self-confidence and working toward a _______.
So it was with really great______that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and ______my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt ______rising to play the piano in his very first recital.
My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t _______lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, _______too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t _______there. When he retired three years ago, he ______ his church music director to take him as a student.
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he ______stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the ______? I worried, remembering those split seconds______ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would _______. But then came the beautiful melody（旋律）, from the ______fingers that once baited（装饵于）my fishing lines. And I______he had been doing what music teachers always stress: _______the music and pretend the others aren’t there.
“I’m ________of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff.
“Yeah, and doing it so_______,” Jeff added.
With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.
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【小题2】A
【小题3】D
【小题4】A
【小题5】B
【小题6】C
【小题7】D
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解析试题分析：本文是记叙题材。主要讲了作者本来很反感练琴，但是父亲的行为感动了自己。父亲一直渴望弹钢琴，但是由于家庭贫穷，没有学成琴，而68岁的他，并没有放弃自己的梦想，成功演奏出了美妙的乐曲，在他那个年龄，还能开始新的东西，我为此感到骄傲。作者认为他的实际行动比30多年以前说的话更有感染力。
【小题1】C考查动词词义辨析及语境理解。reflected 反射；explained 解释；Meant意味着；proved证明。从我2年级开始，就一直有一件事情让我很害怕：独奏演唱会；独奏演唱会意味着我要在很多陌生人前面弹奏这一首乏味的乐曲。根据I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers.可知这里意思是独奏会意味着我必须练习一首无聊的乐曲 ，故选C项。
【小题2】A考查情态动词词义辨析。Awould会，过去常常；Bcould能够；Cmight也许；Dshould应该；每年我都请求爸爸我是否可以不参加这一次的独奏演唱会，但是每年爸爸都拒绝我的要求。本句中的would表示过去常常请求爸爸，故选C项。
【小题3】D考查代词词义辨析及上下文串联。Anoting没有事情；Beverything所有事情；Canything任何事情；Dsomething一些事情；当我请求的时候，他总是嘀咕着一些话，如要有自信，要朝着目标而努力等等。这些都是爸爸嘀咕的一些话。根据下文about building self-confidence and working towards a可知父亲嘴里嘀咕了一些事情，故选D项。
【小题4】A查名词辨析及语境理解。Agoal目标；Bstage舞台，阶段；Cjourney旅途；D chance机会；本句是父亲拒绝我的请求时所提出的理由，要求我朝着目标进行努力，不要放弃每一次锻炼的机会。根据build self-confidence and working toward a ________.可知这里意思是建立自信，朝着一个目标努力，故选A项。
【小题5】B考查名词词义辨析及上下文串联。Atruoble麻烦事；Bsatisfaction满意；C stength力气，优点；Ddisappointment失望；根据下文可知这次是爸爸进行独奏演唱会，对于爸爸在台上因紧张儿流汗，我很高兴。他也体会到我小时候的情况，所以本题B项符合上下文。
【小题6】C考查动词词义辨析及上下文串联。A kept 保持；Bsent 派，送；Cwatched观看，注视；D felt感觉；看着68岁的父亲在站起来谈钢琴之前流汗，我感觉很满意，因为他也体会到我当年的心情了，故C正确。
【小题7】D 考查介词辨析。Athrough通过；B from来自…；C against 违背，与…相反；逆着…；D before在…之前；在正式演奏之前，表演的人通常都要起立向观众示意。本句表示父亲在站起来谈钢琴之前流汗。故D正确。
【小题8】B考查动词词义辨析及语境串联。A miss错过，思念；B afford承受得起，买得起；C select精选；D understand理解；我父亲从小就想学习钢琴，但是他家很穷，承担不起钢琴课的费用，所以他一直没有实现自己学习钢琴的愿望。
【小题9】A考查连词辨析。A as 正如，因为；B once 曾经，一旦；C if 如果；D while当…时；然而；他本可以继续为自己小时候没有能够学习钢琴而遗憾，正如我们中很多人一样。本句是一个非限制性定语从句，指很多人都会为以前没有做过的事情遗憾，但是不是采取行动。而父亲不是这样的人，在退休以后，他实现了自己的钢琴梦，故A正确。
【小题10】C考查动词辨析 A educated教育；B protected 保护；C be stuck被困住，被卡住；D spoilt惯坏的；educated 教育；protected保护；Stuck粘贴；spoilt变质。根据But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t ________there.可知这里意思是尽管他生根于过去，却没有被粘在那里，故选C项。
【小题11】D考查动词词义辨析及上下文串联。A allowed允许；B invited 邀请；C inspired鼓励；D persuaded说服；退休以后他说服了教堂里的音乐老师收他为学生，开始学习钢琴。根据上文可知他参加演奏会，说明他参加了钢琴的学习，故D正确。
【小题12】B考查副词辨析A.roughly粗略地； Ｂ. Simply仅仅；C.merrily快乐地；Ｄ.curiously好奇地。：根据Has he forgotten the ______?可知父亲坐在琴键前，仅仅向下盯着自己的手指，故选B项。
【小题13】C考查名词辨析 A words话；B videos录像；C notes音符；D lessons功课。根据I worried, remembering those split seconds______ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would _______.可知这里意思是他忘记音符了吗？ 故选C项。
【小题14】A考查名词辨析 A Decades十年；B weeks几星期；C hours几小时；D moments片刻根据最后一句话作者认为他的行动比30多年以前说的话更有感染力。可知作者想起了自己十多年前，我的思想一片空白，故选A项。
【小题15】B考查动词词义辨析。A play 玩耍，弹奏；B freeze 冷冻，僵住；C click点击；D adjust 调整；我在想他是不是和我表演时一样头脑空白，手指僵硬。什么都弹奏不出来呢？根据上下文串联可知B正确。
【小题16】A考查形容词词义辨析及上下文串联。A same 同样的；B warm 温暖的；C different 不同的；D dirty脏的；但是很快，优美的旋律就被那只给我装钓鱼的饵料的同样的手弹奏了出来。本句是指现在弹奏钢琴的手和之前给我装钓鱼的饵料的手是同样的手，故A正确。
【小题17】B考查动词词义辨析及上下文串联。A predicted 预测；B realized 意识到；C imagined 想象；D insisted 坚持认为/要求；我突然意识到他在做老师一直要求我们做的事情; 根据________the music and pretend the others aren’t there. 我意识到了他做了音乐老师总是强调的事情，故B正确。
【小题18】D考查动词短语辨析及上下文串联。A pass over 忽视，去世；B turn up 出现，调高；C bring in 介绍，引进；D concentrate on 集中注意力于…；我突然意识到他在做老师一直要求我们做的事情：把注意力集中到音乐，假装认为别人都不在，故D正确。
【小题19】D考查形容词词义辨析及语境串联。A ashamed 羞愧的；B aware 意识到的，知道的；C tired 疲惫的；D proud 自豪的；我为他感到很自豪，在如此的年龄能够尝试新的事情。根据With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.可知在他那个年龄，还能开始新的东西，我为此感到骄傲，故选D项。
【小题20】C考查副词词义辨析及上下文串联。A casually 随意地；B anxiously 焦虑地；C nicely 令人满意地，很好地；D frequently 频繁地；Jeff说：是的，而且他做得很好。根据But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the _____fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines.可知完成的是那样漂亮。
考点：故事类短文。
科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
You must have heard these words like how happy it is to be a child． But would you 16 change places with a child? Think of the years at school: the years 17 living in constant fear of examinations and school 18 ． Every movement you make, every thought you think is 19 by some adults． Think of the 20 you had to go to bed early, you had to eat 21 thing that was supposed to be good for you． Remember 22 “gentle” pressure was given to you with words like “If you don’t do as I say, I will…”． I’m sure you will never forget!
23 these are only part of child’s 24 ． No matter how kind and loving parents may be, children often 25 from some terrible and illogical 26 since they can’t understand the world around them． They often have such fears in the dark or in the dream． Adults can 27 their fears with other adults 28 children have to face their fears alone．
But the most 29 part of childhood is a period when you 30 to go out of it, the period when you go into adolescence（youth）．Teenagers start to be 31 their parents and this causes them great 32 ． There is a complete lack of self-confidence during this time． Adolescents pay much attention to their 33 and the impression they make on others．They feel shy, awkward and clumsy（笨拙的）． Feelings are strong and hearts 34 broken． Teenagers 35 moments of great happiness or black despair． And through this period, adults seem to be more unkind than ever．
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
You heard about the sign posted on a farmer's fence? On the other side of the resides the biggest, meanest looking you can imagine．The sign is intended to strike into the hearts of would-be trespassers．It reads, "Don't attempt to this field unless you can do it in 9．9 seconds．The bull can do it in 10 flat!"
Don't try to cross that field unless you are !And isn't that the way it is in life? We have to be ready when the arises or else we will have little chance of ．
Sixth-grade schoolteacher Ms Shelton believed in ．Students remember how she in on the first day of class and began writing of an eighth-grade caliber on the chalkboard．They protested that the words were not on their and they couldn't learn them．
Their teacher that the students could and would learn these words．She said that she would teach down to them．Ms Shelton ended by saying that one of the students in that classroom could go on to ．maybe even be president some day, and she wanted to prepare them for that day．
Ms Shelton spoke those words many years ago． did she know that someday one of her students - Jesse Jackson - would take them ．She believed that if they were well prepared, they could achieve goals．
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "People only see what they are prepared to see．" that's true, then it is also true that they only become what they are prepared to become． And a lot of is just about getting ready．
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
An increase in students applying to study economics at university is being attributed to the global economic crisis awakening a public 36 for knowledge about how the financial system 37 .
Applications for degree courses beginning this autumn were up by 15% this January, 38 UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. A spokesman for the Royal Economic Society said applications to do economics at A-level were 39 up.
Professor John Beath, the president of the society, and a 40 lecturer at St Andrews University, said his first-year lectures—which are open to students from all departments—were 41 crowds of 400, rather than the 42 250.
“There are a large number of students who are not economics 43 who would like to learn something about it. One of the things I have done this year is to 44 my teaching to contemporary events in a way that one hasn’t 45 done.” He added.
University applications 46 7% last year. But there were rises 47 average in several subjects. Nursing saw a 15% jump, with people’s renewed 48 in careers in the public sector, which are seen as more secure in economic crisis.
A 49 study showed almost two thirds of parents believed schools should do more to teach pupils about financial 50 and almost half said their children had asked them what was 51 , although a minority of parents felt they did not understand it themselves well enough to explain.
Zack Hocking, the head of Child Trust Funds, said: “It’s possible that one good thing to arise from the 52 will be a generation that’s financially 53 and better equipped to 54 their money through times of economic 55 .”
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Father’s secret
My father grew up in a fatherless home. At that time, the family struggled hard to _ _. The childhood experiences caused my father to be extremely mean.
When we children became knew that other children got spending money from their parents, we made the ______of ask our father from some.His face turned cold, “If you’re old enough to ask you’re old enough to_____” he shouted. And we went about the neighborhood seeking odd jobs.
There was a period of time when _ _of us had a car, so we had to ride the bus home. _ _the bus stopped more than two miles from home, Dad never met us. If someone _ _, he ‘d say in his loudest voice, “That’s what your _ _are for!” When I went to senior high school, I had to _ _a long way each time I came home. The walk didn’t _____me as much as the fear of walking alone. I also felt that my father didn’t care about my _ _. That feeling was _ _one spring evening.
It had been a quite difficult week at school. Tests and long hours in labs had left me _ _. As other students were __at their stops, I looked out of the window __. Finally ,the bus pulled into my stop, and I _ _off, beginning the long journey home.
On that evening, I saw something gray moving along the hedge(树篱) towards my house. Upon a closer watch, I __ it was the top of my father’s head. Then I knew, each time I ‘d come home, he had _ _behind the hedge, watching, until I arrived safely. He did __ after all.
After that, that spot of gray became my focus. I could hardly wait to watch for its ______movement on my way home. Upon reaching home I would find my father sitting in his chair. “So, it’s you !” he’d say, pretending to be _____.
I replied, “Yes, Dad, it’s me. I’m home.”
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
I went to India for a 2-week vacation to visit my relatives. We stopped on a red light, and as always, there were a lot of activities outside the cars near the . People walked in, between the cars newspaper, water and a number of kids looked for a bit of charity from the car owners. It’s a familiar in most poor developing countries.
While we were for the red light to turn green, I noticed a man outside a couple of in front of ours trying to sell bottles of water. It’s unusual at first. He was a man in his 40s with relatively clothes. But he walked around in a strange way. He kind of his way around the spaces. He was blind.
Carrying a couple of water bottles on one hand, he got to the outside of our car. Out of , my mum decided to buy one water bottle. As she gave the man the money, the light turned green. The car behind sounded loudly and , trying to get ahead of traffic. Seeing this, my mum kindly told the man to the change. However, with his sense of touch, he quickly went through his shirt pocket and threw the money at my mum’s . It was the exact change. The cars behind us were really getting out of control, we decided to go on our way.
I broke down and even when I got home. Here’s a blind man, born in , trying to sell water bottles on the streets to make ends meet. He our sympathy. Life hasn’t been to him, yet he’s giving it his best shot. I think that is what is all about facing life bravely.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
My parents had always prepared for hurricanes. It is what people do in Florida because “you never know”. For us, that a white metal cabinet (储藏柜) in our utility room (杂用间) filled with cans of food. We could eat anything out of the cabinet because “you never know” when a hurricane will come.
As a kid, I was about the white cabinet. I thought it was kind of strange to have food in the utility room. But, one look from my mother me from opening the door to glance inside.
One year, Channel 4 reported that Hurricane Dora was for the northern part of Florida. Soon the storm got and the wind blew. Then, the tall pine trees started to sway. And, “sway”, I meant “ fall over or crash down on anything in their way”. We were lucky, as the went other directions and didn’t take our power out.
However, when my mother started cooking, the power was out. I calculated it was time to crack open that white cabinet. But, Dad thought it was time to up the charcoal grill（烧烤架 ） outside where it was raining and windy. To this day, I never a man’s love for his grill.
Our power came back for a while. So, my mother began cooking everything she could and it away, to the neighbors, to friends without power, to anyone with . I was hoping that the fried chicken was going to find its way to our . But, it didn’t. And, just as the last of the food was sent out and she began to work on our dinner, yes, we lost our . It was time for 20 minutes’ eggs on the grill.
Oh, the white metal cabinet. No. We never it. We weren’t “that bad off” as I understand it. And, for years I how bad off we would have to be to eat out of that cabinet. Perhaps it was just the of it, the thought that it was there watching our backs we wanted a can of beans or some potted meat. I don’t know if that was what was in there. Anyway, I never looked inside.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
A group of people were in search of a home. After some time walking around, they finally found a place to down.
They needed some , and the chief (首领)sent out three groups of people to the surrounding areas. After a short discussion, the three groups went out in directions.
The first group explored the north. There, they saw large fields with crops, vegetables and fruits. They went back to report their . “We saw lots of vegetation (植物). We can be .”
The second group went southwest. There, they saw lots of . As they went back, they said, “We saw hundreds of animals. We can for our food, and rely on meat to sustain (维持) us.”
The last group went southeast. There, they reached the sea and saw hundreds of fish swimming. They returned and said, “We saw plenty of fish. We can go for our food.”
“We can eat meat alone!” shouted the second group.
“No! ! We did not see any animals at all!” said the first group.
The third group joined in, “Are you ? We did not see anything like you have . There was only water. We need to become fishermen!”
Each group got so with the others that they each went to the place they had explored. They were that they alone had the answer and that the others must have been wrong.
, each group of people only chose to believe themselves. 39 they had chosen to learn from one another and them, they could have had the best of everything.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
On a trip to California，my family stopped for lunch.As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant，a man，with a____beard and dirty hair，jumped up from a bench outside the restaurant and opened the door for us.Regardless of his____，he greeted us in a friendly way.
Once inside，my daughters whispered，“Mom，he ____.”After we ordered our lunch，I explained，telling the kids to look___the dirt.We then watched other customers approach the restaurant but many____him.Seeing this rudeness truly upset me.The day I became a mother，I had determined to set a good____to my children.Yet sometimes when things didn’t go right，being a good example was ____.When our meal arrived，I realized I had left the carsick pills in the truck.With the windiest trip ahead，the kids needed them，so I____myself from the meal and went to get them.
Just then，the “doorman” was opening the door for a couple.They rushed past him without even acknowledging his____.Letting them in first，I said a loud “thank you” to him as I____.
When I returned，we talked a bit.He said he was not allowed inside____he purchased food.I went back and told my family his____.Then I asked our waitress to add one soup and sandwich.The kids looked____as we had already eaten，but when I said the order was for the “doorman”，they smiled.When it was time to____ our trip，I found the “doorman” enjoying his meal.Upon seeing me，he stood up and thanked me heartily.He then____ out his hand for a handshake and I gratefully accepted.I suddenly____the tears in his eyes—tears of gratitude (感激)．What happened next drew great astonishment：I gave the “doorman” a____.He pulled away，with tears____down his face.
Back in truck，I fell into deep thought.While we can’t choose many things in life，we can choose when to show gratitude.I said thanks to a man who had____held open a door for me，and also said thanks for that ___ to teach my children by example.
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| A．reached | B．washed |
| C．raised | D．waved |
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