One day, my father drove his employer to another city for a business meeting. On the outskirts(郊区)of town, they for a sandwich lunch. While they ate, several boys playing in the street passed by their . One of the boys limped(跛行).Looking more closely, my father’s boss that the boy had a clubfoot(畸形足).He stepped out of the car and the boy, saying that he was able to help get that foot fixed. The young boy was .The businessman wrote down the boy’s name before the boy joined his friends down the street.
The man and said to my father, “Woody, the boy’s name is Jimmy. Find out where he and do your best to get his parents to let him have his foot operated on. I’ll pay all the costs.” They finished their sandwiches and went on their .
It didn’t take long for my father to Jimmy’s house, a small one that needed paint and repair. For almost an hour, my father explained the plan to Jimmy’s parents. , they looked at each other. When my father they still weren’t quite sure about the generous offer from an unknown benefactor (捐助者).
Later, my father’s employer got in touch with the local government with a to send someone to Jimmy’s home to the family that this was a lawful offer. Soon, with permission papers signed, my father took Jimmy to an excellent in another state. After five operations, his limp disappeared.
His parents watched in as the returned boy stepped lightly toward them. They still could not that a man they had never seen would pay a large sum of money to have a foot corrected for their son.
The benefactor was Mr. Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company. He always said it’s more fun to do something for people they don’t know who did it.
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【小题4】D
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【小题6】C
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【小题8】B
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【小题10】D
【小题11】A
【小题12】A
【小题13】D
【小题14】C
【小题15】D
【小题16】B
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【小题18】D
【小题19】A
【小题20】B
解析试题分析:本文讲述了福特公司创始人匿名帮助一个叫吉米的残疾孩子治好脚的故事。
【小题1】考查动词。Waited等待;paid付钱;prepared准备;stopped停止。根据上文可知作者父亲和老板正在开车,因此此处时停下来吃午饭。故选D。
【小题2】考查名词。Car汽车;town小镇;office办公室;restaurant饭店。根据上文提到停下车来吃三明治,并没有说作者父亲和他老板下车去哪吃饭,因此可推测是在车里吃。故选A。
【小题3】考查动词。Thought想;observed注意到;doubted怀疑;worried担心。根据常识可知走得近了,就会看的清楚,会注意到某事。故选B。
【小题4】考查词组。 took care of照顾;got hold of 抓住;hung out with与...闲逛;caught up with赶上。根据句意:他从车里走出来,赶上了那个男孩,说他可以帮助把脚固定好。故选D。
【小题5】考查形容词。Delighted高兴的;satisfied感到满意的;interested有兴趣的;relaxed放松的。根据常识可知残疾孩子听到有人说可以帮助自己一定会很高兴。故选A。
【小题6】考查动词。Laughed大笑;apologized道歉;returned返回;nodded点头。根据句意:那个人往回走,对我父亲说。故选C。
【小题7】考查动词。Plays玩;studies学习;lives居住;stays待着。根据常识可知这个男人既要帮助这个孩子就要知道他住在哪里。故选C。
【小题8】考查名词。Determination决心;permission许可;help帮助;plan计划。根据句意:得到他父母让他做脚部手术的许可。故选B。
【小题9】考查名词。Chat聊天;ride路途;meeting会见;holiday假期。根据上文可知他们准备去开商业会议,因此他们继续旅程。故选B。
【小题10】考查动词。Build建立;decorate装饰;paint粉刷;find寻找。根据句意:没多久我的父亲找到吉米的房子。故选D。
【小题11】考查副词。Patiently耐心地;briefly短暂地;proudly傲慢地;calmly冷静地。根据句意:近一个小时,我父亲耐心地向吉米的父母解释那个计划。故选A。
【小题12】考查形容词。Confused困惑的;Excited兴奋的;Ashamed惭愧的;Tired疲倦的。根据常识可知突然有人跑到家里说要帮助你们残疾孩子,都会很困惑。故选A。
【小题13】考查动词。Visited参观;finished完成;refused拒绝;left离开。根据句意:当我父亲离开时他们仍然不很确定未知捐赠者的慷慨提供。故选D。
【小题14】考查名词。Purpose目的;decision决定;request请求;promise许诺。根据句意:之后,我父亲的老板联系上了当地政府要求派人来吉米的说服家人。故选C。
【小题15】考查动词。Warn警告;remind提醒;argue争论;convince说服。根据句意:我父亲的老板联系上了当地政府要求派人来吉米的说服家人。Convince符合语境。故选D。
【小题16】考查名词。 Hotel旅馆;hospital医院;school学校;store商店。联系上下文可知给孩子治病需要去医院。故选B。
【小题17】考查名词。Anger生气;fear恐惧;amazement惊愕;disappointment失望。根据句意:他的父母很吃惊的看着男孩走轻轻朝他们走回来。故选C。
【小题18】考查动词。Agree同意;admit承认;prove证明;believe相信。根据句意:他们仍然不相信从未见过的男人为他们的儿子矫正脚支付了一大笔钱。故选D。
【小题19】考查名词。Secret秘密的;polite有礼貌的;humorous幽默的;cautious谨慎的。根据句意:秘密的恩人是亨利·福特先生。故选A。
【小题20】考查连词。Until直到...时候才;when当...时候;unless除非;Whom谁。此处是引导时间状语从句,故排除C、D两项。when引导的句子的谓语部分可以是短暂性的也可以是持续性的动词或结构。until肯定形式表示的意思是“做某事直至某时”,动词必须是延续性的,否定形式表达的意思是“直至某时才做某事”,动词为延续性或非延续性都可以。根据句意:他总是说做为人们做不知道是谁干的些事情更有趣。故选B。
考点:考查故事类短文
科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so that I decided to write an article about her.
I Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career. She and told me to come to her Studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of mind. I I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.
I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…?” I soon realized that Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The was almost unbearable. I struggled for days draft(草稿)after draft. Finally I put my manuscript(手稿)into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.
It didn’t take long. My manuscript . How stupid of me! I thought. How could I in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.
Five years later, I was moving to California. While my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in :
Ms Profit,
Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to your story soon.
Shocked, it took me a long time to . Fear of rejection cost me greatly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and the chance of having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of writing. Today, I have become a full-time writer. Looking back on this , I learned a very important lesson: You can’t to doubt yourself.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
Letting go of success
I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I've____ that the best way to do it is to let go of past failures. But that's not all. One can never fully ____ today while thinking too much about past successes, either. People never ____ while resting comfortably on their laurels (荣誉). The ___ is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!
I once ____ a story about the Oscar owner, actor Clark Gable. A friend ____ Gable one afternoon at the actor's home. She brought along her ____ son, who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He____ he was racing those cars around a great track, which in ____ was an imaginary circle around a golden statue (雕像). The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable ____ for his performance in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night.
When his mother told him the time had come to ____, the little boy asked the actor, “Can I have this?” ____ to the Oscar.
“Sure, ” he smiled. “It's yours.”
The horrified mother ____. “Put that back immediately!”
Giving the child the golden statue, Clark Gable said, “Having the Oscar around doesn't mean anything to me; ____it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a ____ hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to____, rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start.
You may have learned to let go of past ____ and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the ____? Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock?
“I like the ____ of the future better than the history of the past,” said Thomas Jefferson. I ____. After all, the future, not the past, is where the rest of your life will be lived.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
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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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
A few weeks ago,our dog,which we had kept for more than ten years,had to be put down.First,a tumor on her stomach got worse,and she was very ____.Then,the pain in her back got so bad that sometimes she ___ lie down in the middle of a walk and couldn't take another ____.
When I first found out,I was very sad and cried a lot.She was more like a sister to me than a ___.But I was also angry at my stepfather,Steve,who told us the ___ a week after it happened.He ____ because he didn't want to worry us,and he didn't want me to get depressed (抑郁的)and fail my exams.I just thought she was ____ at the animals' hospital.
I think you know all the ____ that went through my head:She was my dog!Why didn't he tell us earlier?I didn't even get to say goodbye.
People in my family have a ____ of keeping things from me to protect me,such as only telling me that my aunt had cancer ____ she had already improved.All I could think was:Not again!
I ____ to my mum,and she said,“I know.I'm ____,too.”I opened my mouth to shout.And then she added,“I'm so angry with Steve that he had to ____ through all this on his own.”Hearing my mum's words,I shut up my mouth.I had been so ____ on myself.I hadn't thought about ____ Steve was going through.That dog was his baby.He'd had her for longer than he'd had us—and he had to make the decision to ____ her life,and then kept in silence for an entire ____.All my anger melted away,and all I felt was ____.
It makes me realize that we focus so much on ourselves that we ____ the pain of others.At that moment,my mum's words were an incredible ____ that I'll never forget.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
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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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
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
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
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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