The sun had gone behind a cloud. I was very tired and wanted nothing in the world so much as to be at home. At last I got to the gate of Hide Park. But this was worse than ever; there were buses there—high and terribly red cars, taxis and still more buses in an endless line. Everywhere there were people hurrying past or waiting to get into the buses, while I stood lost in the middle of them.
I was ready to cry. In despair, I crossed the street on to an “island”, where I found a policeman. I took my last bit of courage in both hands and said, “Please, sir, where is Addison Road?” He began to explain, but when he saw that I couldn’t understand he became helpless, too. “Are you French at school?” A few minutes later, he smiled and raised his hand. How wonderful! The traffic stopped. Even the red buses stood still and waited until I had crossed the road.
【小题1】That is the most probable reason why she was tired out.
A.it had been very hot by then |
B.the writer had been standing lost for a long time |
C.the writer had been completely lost |
D.the writer had been wandering in the park for a long time |
A.she wanted nothing on earth but her home |
B.she thought it perfect to stay at home |
C.she would never leave her home at all |
D.she didn't get to the park on time. |
A.a piece of land surrounded by water |
B.a raised place in a busy street where people may be safe from traffic |
C.a safe place that can only be used by policemen |
D.a safe place that nobody can use without permission |
A.all the drivers could understand French |
B.perhaps a certain driver had broken the traffic rules |
C.all the drivers knew the policeman very well |
D.the policeman was directing the traffic |
A.Switzerland. | B.France. | C.England. | D.A certain non-English speaking country. |
【小题1】D
【小题2】B
【小题3】B
【小题4】D
【小题5】C
解析试题分析:作者在海德公园游玩了一天后,精疲力竭,打算回家。但是当他到了公园门口时发现到处是川流不息的车辆,匆匆行路的人们,作者迷路了。他绝望之中找到了一名警察,尽管语言不通,最后警察还是帮助了他,指挥车辆停下来让作者穿过了马路。
【小题1】D。推理判断题。根据文章首段中At last I got to the gate of Hide Park.可以推测作者去逛公园了,所以感觉非常疲惫,故答案选D。
【小题2】B。细节理解题。从文章第一段中I was very tired and wanted nothing in the world so much as to be at home.可以判断作者如此的疲惫以至于希望一直在家里呆着,而没出来游玩,故答案选B。
【小题3】B。词义猜测题。根据对当时情景的描述可知作者处在了川流不息的车流中,由此判断作者是到了一个能避开车辆的地方,去找警察问路,故答案选B。
【小题4】D。细节理解题。根据文章第二段he smiled and raised his hand. How wonderful! The traffic stopped.可以判断警察让车辆停止了下来,以便让作者通过,故答案选D。
【小题5】C。推理判断题。根据文中出现的Hide Park(英国最大的皇家公园),可知作者在英国求学,故答案选C。
考点:考查故事类短文阅读。
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About ten years ago, a young and very successful businessman named Josh was traveling down a Chicago neighborhood street. He was going a bit too fast in his shiny, black, 12 cylinder Jaguar XKE, which was only two months old.
He was watching for kids rushing out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no child came out, but a brick sailed out and-WHUMP!-it hit the Jag’s shiny black side door! SCREECH...!!!! Immediately Josh stopped the car, jumped out, seized the kid and pushed him up against a parked car. He shouted at the kid, “What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing?!” Building up a head of steam, he went on. “That’s my new Jag. That brick you threw is going to cost you a lot of money. Why did you throw it?”
“Please, mister, please... I’m sorry! I didn’t know what else to do!” begged the youngster. “I threw the brick because no one else would stop!” tears were streaming down the boy’s face as he pointed around the parked car. “It’s my brother, mister,” he said. “He rolled of the curb (路沿)and fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t lift him up.” Sobbing, the boy asked the businessman, “Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair?” he’s hurt and he’s too heavy for me.”
Moved beyond words, the young businessman tried hard to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. Straining, he lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief and wiped the scrapers and cuts, checking to see that everything was going to be OK. He then watched the younger brother push him down the sidewalk toward their home.
It was a long walk back to the black, shining, 12 cylinder Jaguar XKE — a long and slow walk. Josh never did fix the side door of his Jaguar. He kept the dent (凹痕)to remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at him to get his attention. Feel for the bricks of life coming at you.
【小题1】The boy threw a brick at the businessman’s car because ________.
A.the businessman drove at a high speed |
B.he envied the brand-new car very much |
C.he wanted to ask for some money |
D.he wanted to get help from the driver |
A.b, a, e, c, d | B.a, c, d, b, e | C.b, a, c, e, d | D.a, c, b, e, d |
A.Josh would accept the money from the kids. |
B.The two kids were Josh’s neighbors. |
C.Josh was a kind-hearted man. |
D.Josh’s new car broke down easily. |
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They were going to Fort Lauderdale — three boys and three girls — and when they boarded the bus, they were carrying sandwiches and wine in paper bags, dreaming of golden beaches and sea tides as the gray, cold spring of New York went behind them.
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Deep into the night, outside Washington, the bus pulled into Howard Johnson’s, and everybody got off except Vingo. The young people began to wonder about him. When they went back to the bus, one of the girls sat beside him and introduced herself.
“Want some wine?” she said. He smiled and took a swig from the bottle. He thanked her and became silent again. After a while, she went back to the others, and Vingo nodded in sleep.
In the morning, they awoke outside another Howard Johnson’s, and this time Vingo went in. The girl insisted that he join them. He ordered black coffee and some cookies as the young people talked about sleeping on beaches. When they returned to the bus, the girl sat with Vingo again, and after a while, slowly and painfully, he began to tell his story. He had been in prison in New York for the past four years, and now he was going home.
“Are you married?”
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?” she said.
“Well, when I was in prison I wrote to my wife,” he said, “I told her that I was going to be away for a long time, and that if she couldn’t stand it, if the kids kept asking questions, and if it hurt her too much, well, she could just forget me. I’d understand. Get a new man, I said — she’s a wonderful woman. I told her she didn’t have to write me. And she didn’t. Not for three and a half years.”
“And you’re going home now, not knowing?”
“Yeah. Well, last week, when I was sure the parole (假释) was coming through, I wrote her again. We used to live in Brunswick, just before Jacksonville, and there’s a big oak (橡树) just as you come into town. I told her that if she didn’t have a new man and if she’d take me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and I’d get off and come home. If she didn’t want me, forget it — no handkerchief and I’d go on through.”
“Wow,” the girl exclaimed, “Wow.”
She told the others, and soon all of them were in it, looking at the pictures Vingo showed them of his wife and three children.
Now they were 20 miles from Brunswick, and the young people took over window seats on the right side, waiting for the approach of the great oak. Vingo stopped looking, tightening his face, as if protecting himself against still another disappointment.
Then Brunswick was ten miles, and then five. Then, suddenly, all of the young people were up out of their seats, shouting and crying.
Vingo sat there astonished, looking at the oak. It was covered with yellow handkerchiefs — 20 of them, 30 of them, maybe hundreds, flying in the wind. As the young people shouted, Vingo slowly rose from his seat and made his way to the front of the bus to go home.
【小题1】At the beginning of the story, the young boys and girls ______.
A.showed a great interest in Vingo | B.didn’t notice Vingo at all |
C.wanted to offer help to Vingo | D.didn’t like Vingo at all |
A.bus station | B.apartment | C.hospital | D.restaurant |
A.Ashamed. | B.Relaxed. | C.Nervous. | D.Disappointed. |
A.Vingo’s experience in prison |
B.the young people’s travel to Fort Lauderdale |
C.Vingo’s three lovely children |
D.the dialogue between Vingo and his family |
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Would you jump off the Great Wall of China for 300 pounds a day?
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Sarah finished the course in just five months and applied to the office which decides whether you’re accepted as a professional stunt person or not. Two weeks after she was accepted, Sarah was throwing off the Great Wall of China in Superman IV.
“I was very lucky to get work so quickly. I had a small part, playing a traveler who fell off the Wall after an earthquake. The traveler’s life was saved by Superman, of course! Actually, I fell forty-five feet into a pile of cardboard boxes! You can’t use anything softer than that or you will be brought back into view of the cinema. Instead you just have to learn to fall properly. It’s quite dangerous but I enjoy it.”
【小题1】Quite a number of people want to do dangerous acts in films because___________.
A.they are mad | B.they don’t think them dangerous |
C.no training is needed | D.they can earn much money |
A.her father persuaded her to do stunt work |
B.she could not go on dancing forever |
C.she had to work hard every day |
D.she was often out of work |
A.an earthquake took place near the Great Wall |
B.she fell off the Great Wall and hurt herself |
C.she was asked to act in Superman IV |
D.she learned how to fall properly |
A.Healthy | B.Adventurous | C.Skillful | D.Successful |
A.draw the readers’ attention to the whole passage |
B.invite you to try jumping off the Great Wall for money |
C.ask you to be a stunt person |
D.raise a question for the readers to think about |
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Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk,” she’d said again, “it’s for Elizabeth.”
I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.
They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional(易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface”.
As years passed I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me.
I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.
My hope turned to disappointment, then little interest and, finally, peace— it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.
Now the present of her desk told, as she’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside —a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded and refolded many times.
Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.
【小题1】The passage shows that ______.
A.mother cared much about her daughter in words |
B.mother was too serious about everything her daughter had done |
C.mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter |
D.mother wrote to her daughter in careful words |
A.different ideas between the mother and the daughter |
B.deep understanding between the old and the young |
C.free talks between mother and daughter |
D.part of the sea going far in land |
A.She had never received the letter. |
B.For years, she often talked about the letter. |
C.She read the letter again and again till she died. |
D.She didn’t forgive her daughter at all in all her life. |
A.My letter to Mother | B.Mother and Children |
C.Talks between Mother and Me | D.My mother’s Desk |
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One day in 1965,when I worked at View Ridge School in Seattle,a fourthgrade teacher approached me.She had a student who finished his work before all the others and needed a challenge.“Could he help in the library?” she asked.I said, “Send him along.”
Soon a slight,sandyhaired boy in jeans and a Tshirt appeared.“Do you have a job for me?” he asked.
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He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher opened the door and announced,“Time for break!”He argued for finishing the finding job;she made the case for fresh air.She won.
The next morning,he arrived early.“I want to finish these books,”he said.At the end of the day,when he asked to be a librarian on a regular basis,it was easy to say yes.He worked untiringly.
After a few weeks I found a note on my desk,inviting me to dinner at the boy’s home.At the end of a pleasant evening,his mother announced that the family would be moving to a neighbouring school district.Her son’s first concern,she said,was leaving the View Ridge library.“Who will find the lost books?” he asked.
When the time came,I said an unwilling goodbye.I missed him,but not for long.A few days later he came back and joyfully announced,“The librarian over there doesn’t let boys work in the library.My mother got me transferred back to View Ridge.My dad will drop me off on his way to work.And if he can’t,I’ll walk!”
I should have had an idea such focused determination would take that young man wherever he wanted to go.What I could not have guessed,however,was that he would become a genius of the Information Age:Bill Gates,tycoon(企业巨头) of Microsoft and America’s richest man.
【小题1】What was the author when the story happened?
A.A teacher. | B.A librarian. |
C.A detective. | D.A student. |
A.He failed to finish his work on time. |
B.He challenged the teacher in the class. |
C.He disturbed all the other students in the class. |
D.He needed something to do to challenge himself. |
A.To rearrange the books according to the new system. |
B.To put those overdue books back to the shelves. |
C.To find out the books with wrong cards in them. |
D.To put the cards back in the longoverdue books. |
A.he didn’t get along well with the librarian in the new school |
B.he was not allowed to work in the new school’s library |
C.he missed his old schoolmates and teachers |
D.he had to walk a long way to go to school |
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One morning more than thirty years ago, I entered the Track Kitchen, a restaurant where everyone from the humblest(卑微的) to the most powerful came for breakfast. I notice an empty chair next to an elderly, unshaven man, who looked somewhat disheveled. He was wearing a worn-out hat and was alone. I asked if I might join him. He agreed quietly and I sat down to have my breakfast.
We cautiously began a conversation and spoke about a wide range of things. We never introduced ourselves. I was concerned that he might have no money and not be able to afford something to eat. So as I rose to go back to the counter and buy a second cup of coffee, I asked.
“May I get you something?” “A coffee would be nice.”
Then I bought him a cup of coffee. We talked more, and he accepted another cup of coffee. Finally, I rose to leave, wished him well, and headed for the exit. At the door I met one of my friends. He asked, “How did you get to know Mr. Galbreath?”
“Who?”“The man you were sitting with. He is chairman of the Board of Churchchill Downs. ”
I could hardly believe it. I was buying, offering a free breakfast, and feeling pity for one of the world’s richest and most powerful men!
My few minutes with Mr. Galbreath changed my life. Now I try to treat everyone with respect, no matter who I think they are, and to meet another human being with kindness and sincerity.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “disheveled” mean?
A.Unfriendly. | B.Untidy. | C.Gentle. | D.Kind. |
A.he thought the old man was poor |
B.he wanted to start a conversation |
C.he intended to show his politeness |
D.he would like to thank the old man. |
A.Proud. | B.Pitiful. | C.Surprised. | D.Regretful. |
A.We should learn to be generous. |
B.It is honorable to help those in need. |
C.People in high positions are not like what we expect. |
D.We should avoid judging people by their appearances. |
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Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank ready to let him have a credit card(信用卡). Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18. The 16yearold works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David' s firm releases(推出) two new games for the fast growing computer market each month.
But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money. Even though he earns a lot, he cannot drive a car, take out a mortgage(抵押贷款),or get credit cards. David got his job with the Liverpoolbased company four months ago, a year after leaving school with six Olevels and working for a time in a computer shop.“I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs,”he said. David spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother 50 pounds a week. But most of his spare time is spent working.
“Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school,”he said.“But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway.”David added:“I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement(退休) is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear.”
【小题1】In what way is David different from people of his age?
A.He often goes out with friends. |
B.He lives with his mother. |
C.He has a handsome income. |
D.He graduated with six Olevels. |
A.He is too young to get a credit card. |
B.He has no time to learn driving. |
C.He has very little spare time. |
D.He will soon lose his job. |
A.He had done well in all his exams. |
B.He had written some computer programs. |
C.He was good at playing computer games. |
D.He had learnt to use computers at school. |
A.He received lots of job offers. |
B.He was eager to help his mother. |
C.He lost interest in school studies. |
D.He wanted to earn his own living. |
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Cliff House
Top of the world
Near the North Pole
Christmas, 1925
My dear boys,
I am dreadfully busy this year一it makes my hand more shaky than ever when I think of it一and not very rich; in fact awful things have been happening, and some of the presents have got spoilt, and I haven't got the North Polar Bear to help me, and I have had to move house just before Christmas, so you can imagine what a state everything is in, and you will see why I have a new address, and why I can only write one letter between you both.
|K] It all happened like this: one very windy day last November my hood blew off and went and stuck on the top of the North Pole. I told him not to, but the North Polar Bear climbed up to the thin top to get it down一and he did. The pole broke in the middle and fell on the roof of my house, and the North Polar Bear fell through the hole it made into the dining room with my hood over his nose, and all the snow fell off the roof into the house and melted and put out all the fires and ran down into the cellars where I was collecting this year's presents, and the North Polar
Bear's leg got broken.
He is well again now, but I was so cross with him that he says he won't try to help me again一I expect his temper is hurt, and will be mended by next Christmas.
I send you a picture of the accident and of my new house on the cliffs above the North Pole(with beautiful cellars in the cliffs).
That's all. Good Bye!
【小题1】Why can the writer only write one letter to the two boys?
A.His hand is more shaky than ever. |
B.He is extremely busy. |
C.He has got a new address. |
D.He has to help the North Polar Bear. |
A.the hood | B.the pole | C.the hale | D.the bear |
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