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There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists _____1_____. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he ____2_____
liked and he had to choose between them.
One picture was of a ___3___ lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peaceful towering ___4____ were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a _____5_____ picture of peace.
The other picture had mountains too. But there were rugged and ____6____. Above was an ____7____ sky from which rain fell, in which lightening ____8____. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look ____9____at all.
But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny ____10____growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her ____11____. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, ____12____ the mother bird on her nest…perfect peace.
Which picture do you think won the prize?
The King ____13____ the second picture.
Do you know why?
“Because,” explained the king, “peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, ___14___, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your ____15___. That is the real meaning of peace.”
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In the last years of the Warring States period, the State of Qin attacked the State of Wei on a large scale repeatedly and occupied large areas of land, for the State of Wei was too weak to defend itself. In 273 B.C., the Qin army launched a more serious attack upon the State of Wei than ever. The king of the State of Wei gathered his officials, and asked with a worried look if anyone could propose a way to defeat the Qin army. After years of chaos caused by the wars, the officials trembled when fighting was mentioned, and no one dared to speak of resistance.
At the critical moment when a large enemy force was bearing down upon the border, most of the officials persuaded the king to sue for peace, at the cost of giving away to the State of Qin the large area of land north of the Huanghe River and south of the Taihang Mountain. However Su Dai, a counselor, did not agree. He hurried up to the king and said, "Your Majesty, they don't think about the interests of the country at all. It is just because they are afraid of death that they ask you to sue for peace by betraying the country. Of course you can temporarily satisfy the ambition of Qin, but it will never stop attacking us until our land is totally given away."
He added,“Once there was a man whose house was on fire. People told him to put out the fire with water, but he would not listen. Instead, he carried a faggot to put out the fire, only to make the fire fiercer. Isn't it similar to carrying faggots to put out a fire if you agree to sue for peace at the cost of the land of the State of Wei?”
Though Su Dai's argument was very convincing, the king accepted the suggestion of those officials and gave away to the State of Qin a large area of the land of the State of Wei. As might be expected, the Qin army attacked the State of Wei in 225 B.C. again, surrounding the capital city Daliang and flooding it by digging open the dykes (堤防) of the Huanghe River. The State of Wei was finally destroyed.
1.When asked how to defeat the Qin army, most officials _______.
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A．were scared and at a loss what to do |
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B．looked worried and turned to Su Dai for help |
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C．asked a large enemy force to bear down upon the border |
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D．were extremely frightened and decided to give up fighting back |
2.The underlined phrase“sue for”in Paragraph 2 probably means _______.
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A．demand |
B．beg for |
C．search for |
D．negotiate for |
3.Su Dai used the example of“carrying faggots to put out a fire”to show _______.
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A．the ambition of the State of Qin |
B．the serious results of giving in |
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C．the loss of the land of the State of Wei |
D．the trembling consequences of defense |
4.The story is mainly developed by _______.
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A．time |
B．logic |
C．making comparison |
D．cause and effect |
5.The attitude of the writer towards Su Dai is _______.
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A．approval |
B．praise |
C．neutral |
D．disapproval |
Zigfried, a little mouse, blew his breath on the frosty window of the farmhouse and rubbed it to see the outside. Still nobody came. Maybe today, he thought 31 . It was only a few days before Christmas and he was watching for a miracle (奇迹).
This farmhouse had been 32 too long. It needed a family. Zigfried’s 33 made a noise. He realized that he hadn’t eaten anything since yesterday. He jumped from the windowsill (窗沿), grabbed a 34 from his home, and went next door to Farmer Mike’s.
Farmer Mike’s house had been a great place for the little mouse 35 the farmer married a wife who had a cat. Zigfried 36 when he thought of it. He looked around cautiously as he 37 into the room where grain was stored and was quite 38 as he filled his bag with wheat. He was turning to leave when suddenly he 39 a hot breath about his ear. His heart beat 40 , and without thinking he started to run and luckily 41 the cat’s paws (爪子).
The next afternoon Zigfried heard some good news: a 42 family would be moving into the farmhouse soon. Zigfried’s granny would arrive on Christmas Eve to 43 with him. He hoped that the family would come before his granny came. Before long, a car came 44 the road leading to the house, with butter sandwiches, cheese and chocolate.
Zigfried’s Christmas miracle did arrive!
The house came 45 the next few days. Zigfried 46 every single hour of them. 47 , the day before Christmas when he was drinking hot chocolate with a 48 smile at the door of his home, he heard the 49 of the children of the family about what they might get for Christmas. What? A cat? The 50 froze on his face； his mouth fell wide open. After a long while, he at last found his voice: “Hey! Whose Christmas miracle is this?”
1. A．carefully B．excitedly C．hopefully D．proudly
2. A．shabby B．noisy C．messy D．empty
3. A．mouth B．nose C．stomach D．throat
4. A．bag B．stick C．bowl D．coat
5. A．although B．until C．whereas D．unless
6. A．leapt B．sniffed C．trembled D．withdrew
7. A．broke B．marched C．paced D．stole
8. A．curious B．nervous C．pitiful D．sensible
9. A．took B．released C．felt D．drew
10. A．strongly B．irregularly C．slowly D．wildly
11. A．escaped B．seized C．rubbed D．scratched
12. A．close B．happy C．new D．young
13. A．celebrate B．communicate C．compete D．compromise
14. A．across B．from C．off D．up
15. A．alive B．loose C．open D．still
16. A．counted B．enjoyed C．missed D．wasted
17. A．However B．Instead C．Moreover D．Therefore
18. A．bitter B．forced C．polite D．satisfied
19. A．introduction B．discussion C．comment D．debate
20. A．blood B．smile C．tear D．sweat
There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage（孤儿院）turned me into an old man．
I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.
After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes scattered around the orphanage.
I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings，pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet．
How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes，all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head，face and hands so I could look at them up close.
When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement（水泥）step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out．It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin．Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled.
I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back．But it would not stay on him.
1.The author set the living butterfly free because_______.
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A．he liked it very much |
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B．he had sympathy for the beautiful butterfly |
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C．he couldn’t bear a butterfly dying in his favorite bushes |
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D．its wing broke off |
2.According to the passage，the author’s life in the orphanage was_____.
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A．dull and full of strict rules |
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B．simple and easy |
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C．happy and full of hope |
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D．hard and busy |
3.What is the author’s attitude towards the house parent’s pinning some butterflies on the cardboard?
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A．tolerant |
B．unconcerned |
C．disgusted |
D．discouraged |
4.We know from the passage that_________.
A. the author lived alone in the dormitory
B. there were one hundred butterflies living in the bushes
C the cardboard paper was left on the step so as to be watched
D. the author failed to stick the worn wing onto the butterfly with his spit
5.Which of the following is right according to the passage?
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A．I found beauty meant nothing special to me. |
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B．The house parent helped the children handle the quilt. |
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C．The house parent chased the butterfly in order to show it to the children. |
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D．I thought it cruel to catch the butterfly. |
The mother felt herself____ cold and her hands trembled as she read the letter from the battlefield.
A.grow B.grew C.grown D.to grow
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