For several years, we lived at the end of a long Texas country road. Every evening when I was away from home on business, my little boy would ask permission of his mother to take his black and his daddy’s walking stick, to make the half-mile from the house to the fence which the beginning of the dirty driveway.
One day, I was busy with my business and was for about an hour, completely forgetting about the little boy down the road who might be for his daddy.
On my way home, the rain was so thick that I could not ten feet in front of me. All I could was finishing my journey and getting out of the rain. , the downpour began to abate(减弱). It was only a drizzle(细雨) by the time my car turned the last and approached the final street between me and a warm home and nice meal.
, I caught sight of my little boy, who was an umbrella in one hand, a walking stick in the other, and was wearing the biggest and most beautiful smile ever to lighten the of a little boy.
As I stopped the car and the door, he ran into my arms and held me long and hard. He was wet and with cold, but he never the rain, nor the hour-long wait. He simply said, “Daddy, I missed you. I am so glad you are home.”
Last year, we to a wonderful new home provided for a special season in our lives. We no longer have a long country road. , I have never forgotten the rainy day and the little boy and his black dog. Often, perhaps a thousand times, that has occurred in my mind. all events in our lives, it happens once, and must be treasured.
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解析试题分析:文章讲述作者的小儿子每天都在路口等作者回来,甚至一个大雨的傍晚,孩子依然忠诚的等待在路口,那个场景让作者时常想起,一生珍惜。
【小题1】考查名词辨析:A. Bag包,B. Dog狗,C. Umbrella伞,D. Toy玩具,从下文的:I have never forgotten the rainy day and the little boy and his black dog.可知儿子会带上黑狗去路口等他出差回来,选B。
【小题2】考查名词辨析:A. journey旅程,B. flight航班,C. effort努力,D. ride骑车,乘车,从作者的家到路口有半英里的路程,此处 make a journey 为固定短语。选A。
【小题3】考查动词辨析:A. discovered发现,B. explained解释,C. marked标志,D. described描述,driveway 通常指从自家车库通向大路的车道,而大路通常用栅栏围起来,所以栅栏就“标志着”通向家这段脏路的开始。选C。
【小题4】考查动词辨析:A. controlled控制,B. trained训练,C. delayed推迟,D. bothered麻烦,根据下文的大约一个小时判断,他是被生意耽误了,从下文的“nor the hour-long wait”也可看出该答案。如选其他选项,与前面的 one day 语义不符。选C。
【小题5】考查形容词辨析:A. hopeful有希望的,B. grateful感激的,C. careful小心的,D. faithful忠诚的,,孩子每天傍晚都去路口“等”他。所以是很忠诚的,选 D。
【小题6】考查动词辨析:A. waiting等待,B. sending送,派,C. searching寻找,D. calling打电话,叫,作者忙着生意,也就“完全”忘了孩子等他的这件事情。选A。
【小题7】考查动词辨析:A. drive看车,B. see看见,C. feel感觉,D. hear听见,此处意为“雨下得很大,看不到前面 10 英尺远的地方”。选B。
【小题8】考查词组辨析:A. stick to坚持,B. think of想到,C. pick up捡起,D. hold on别挂断,此处用“我只想……”与前面的“完全忘记”相呼应。选B。
【小题9】考查词组辨析:A. In fact事实上,B. In surprise惊讶地,C. At once立刻,D. At last最后,前面提到雨下得很大,后面提到雨下得小了起来,所以用“最终;最后”。选D。
【小题10】考查名词辨析: A. moment时刻,B. corner角落,C. street街道,D. way道路,根据动词 turn 判断,他转了最后一个“弯”。由于路是用栅栏围着,所以用 corner。选B。
【小题11】考查词组辨析:A. All of a sudden突然,B. Believe it or not信不信由你,C. To my pleasure使我高兴的是, D. For seconds有几秒钟,突然我看见了小儿子,选A。
【小题12】考查动词辨析:A. holding举着,B. taking带走,C. folding折叠,D. carrying携带,儿子一只手举着伞,一只手拿着爸爸的拐杖,选A。
【小题13】考查名词辨析:A. body身体,B. head头,C. face脸,D. hand手,从前面的句子:was wearing the biggest and most beautiful smile可知是脸上的微笑点亮了他的脸,选C。
【小题14】考查动词辨析:A. closed关闭,B. locked锁,C. knocked敲,D. opened打开,根据后面的“ran into my arms”判断,此处作者“打开”了车门。选D。
【小题15】考查形容词辨析:A. worrying令人担心的,B. nervous紧张的,C. trembling颤抖的,D. anxious焦虑的,由于下雨,而孩子的身上又淋湿了,所以孩子冷得“发抖”。选C。
【小题16】考查动词辨析:A. noticed注意到,B. doubted怀疑,C. judged判断,D. mentioned提到,根据下文的“只是说”可知,孩子没有“提到”下雨和等了那么长时间。选D。
【小题17】考查动词辨析: A. moved搬家,移动,B. turned转变,转弯,C. returned回来,D. traveled旅行,根据下文的“a wonderful new home”和“no longer have a long countryroad”可知,他们“搬家”了。选A。
【小题18】考查副词辨析:A. Therefore因此,B. Besides此外,C. Otherwise否则,D. However然而,根据语意判断,上下文是转折关系,所以用 however,意为“然而”。选D。
【小题19】考查名词辨析:A. time时间,B. scene 场景,C. act行为,D. sight视野,景色,儿子在雨中等他及对他说的话使作者难忘,所以他的“思绪”经常回到当时的情景。选 B。
【小题20】考查介词辨析:A. With和…一起,B. For为了,C. Like象,D. Among在…中间,就像人生中很多事情,发生过要永远珍惜。选C。
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She did all of this too while her health to grow worse and worse. My friend, , is not afraid of death. She has told me several times that she believes it will only be like a brief and then she will awaken in Paradise. I am as well that she will fit right in there because she already has a lot of paradise within herself. It is the paradise within her that she has so freely and beautifully given to us all.
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I don’t remember when it first started me----her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me, they felt work-worn and rough against my young skin. , one night, I shouted at her, “Don’t do that anymore ----your hands are too !” She didn’t say anything in reply. But never again did my mother close out my day with that expression of her love.
Time after time, with the passing years, my thoughts to that night. By then I missed my mother’s , missed her goodnight kiss on my forehead. Sometimes the incident very close, sometimes far away. But always it existed in the back of my .
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Now, my own children are grown and gone. Mom no longer has Dad, and on special , I find myself drawn next door to spend the night with her. So it was late on Thanksgiving Eve, as I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand ran across my face to brush the hair from my forehead. Then a kiss, ever so gently, my forehead.
In my memory, for the thousandth time, I the night my young voice , “Don't’ do that anymore----your hands are too rough!” Mom’s hand in my hand, I blurted out how sorry I was for that night. I thought she’d remember, as I did. But Mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had forgotten ---and ---long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with new appreciation for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.
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I into my back right pocket to take the money to pay and noticed that there was no money there. I started to get . I knew my purse was in the car and I was sure I had put the in my back right pocket. I looked at the cashier with wet eyes and a look not knowing what to do. There were people behind me on the line. She told me to speak with the courtesy counter (爱心柜台). I and said, “Really? It's , no one would hand that in!” But she me to. “You never know…” she said.
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It’s a sad and familiar voice that we often hear in big cities: “Can you spare some change?”
Usually, when faced with that particular , I have feelings of guilt if I pass by giving a coin or two.
I had that feeling in Venice while on a tour of Italy’s famous sites in 2006. I had taken refuge from the in a quiet café. Outside, there was an old woman kneeling on the hard, ancient paving stones, .
Steady of tourists were walking past her. A young backpacker stood away from the crowd, drinking in the vistas(景观、景色), but I noticed the young traveler was also the old woman.
A tourist group walked along the street, the woman and walked on. group of tourists arrived and walked past the old lady. The backpacker watched everybody else went on their way, focused on the around them. Then, I was preparing to leave when I caught sight of the backpacker stepping forward and some money in the woman’s cup. He did this somewhat just before the arrival of another tourist group. As I , the leader of the group stopped and put some money in the cup. Having been shown the way, other tourists followed suit and some more coins to the cup.
His work done, the young man walked over to the old beggar-woman, patted her on the shoulder and said, “I hope that a little.”
I don’t know if the woman understood his English or what had just happened, but I did.
I placed some money in the woman’s cup and continued my travels, after witnessing such a act of kindness.
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通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在各题所给的A、 B、C、D四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案。
One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, he knew me. The man had a newspaper in front of him, which he was to read, but I could that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my the man was clearly confused by the way in which the waiter and I each other. He seemed even more puzzled as went on and it became that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the . When he came out, he paid his bill and without another glance in my direction.
I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had . “Well,” he said, “that man was a detective (侦探). He you here because he thought you were the man be . ” “What?” I said, showing my . The owner continued, “He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I say he looked very much like you! Of course, since we know you, we told him that he had made a ”. “Well, it’s really I came to a restaurant where I’m known,” I said. “ , I might have been in trouble. ”
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How far would you walk to learn about something that interested you? When he was young, Jacob Lawrence often walked more than sixty from his home in the Harlem section of New York City to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Jacob wanted to be a(n) ,and he believed that studying the famous paintings in that museum would help him.
It was 1930,when many people were out of work, money was and people suffered a lot.Still the streets were with energy and color.As he walked through Harlem, Jacob looked hard at the people, the churches, and barbershops and so on.He those images in his mind, along with the images of paintings he saw in the .
Jacob came from a poor family.His mother believed there was little chance her son could grow up to be a successful painter.She wanted him to aim for something more .But Jacob's teacher, Alston, in an art program saw that he was talented.Alston him how to use paints to make stage sets.
As time passed, Alston let Jacob rent work space in his own studio. That was an exciting place for a young black man to become an artist.Many creative people there to talk about art, literature and history.From their ,Jacob learned that history books often the accomplishments of African Americans.He decided to paint a sel1es of pictures describing the story of a black hero.He Toussaint, who had helped free his people French ruling.
Many people admired Jacob's pictures, but he needed admiration.To help his family, he often had to work at jobs that him away from painting.Then something encouraging happened.An artist named Augusta got Jacob a job.For eighteen months, Jacob was given a to paint pictures. For the first time, he felt like a artist.
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When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny’s house, she wasn’t nervous. She was certainly not afraid of the dark. ______, it was only a 15-minute ride home. But halfway there, she began to wish that she hadn’t been so ______.
As she rounded a sharp bend, it suddenly ______ cold — very cold. Alice’s breath became puffs of white cloud and her legs were so cold that it became hard to ride.
With her heart beating fast, she struggled so hard to move ____ that she didn’t hear the car which suddenly appeared beside her. She stopped by the road. The big black car also ______. Slowly, the passenger-window began to slide down. Alice held her breath. In the soft light inside the car, something ______. Then, the light brightened and Alice was staring at a sweet, grey-haired old lady. “Hello, dear, ” said the old lady. “I need ______. I’m afraid I’m lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes. ”
“Airport? You ______ are lost, ” Alice said. “You need to go back five kilometers ______ you reach the T-junction. Turn left and ______ for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway. From there, just follow the ______ to the airport. But I’m afraid there’s no ______ you’ll get there in five minutes!”
“Thank you very much, dear, ” replied the old lady. “Don’t worry — I’ll ____ in time. ”
The ______ moved up and the car started off. A little way ahead, it ______ and with headlights flashing, it drove past Alice. But then, something ______ happened. The car began changing. First, its color ______ from black to silvery-grey. Then, the wheels began disappearing, but the car continued to move forward, ______ just above the ground. As the car ______ into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and more brightly. With a faint whistling ______, the car was gone in seconds, leaving Alice shaking her head in disbelief…
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