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War Horse is a historical story by Michael Morpurgo. It is written for kids ages 8 to 12. Now just sit and get through the introduction to the plot.
In 1914, a young horse named Joey is sold to a farmer. The farmer' s son, Albert, is thrilled. He cares for Joey. When the family begins to feel the financial impact of war, Albert' s father secretly sells Joey to an army officer named Captain Nicholls. Albert begs the captain to let him join the army. Albert is too young, but Nicholls promises to take good care of Joey for him.
Nicholls treats Joey well. Though Joey still remembers Albert, he grows to like his new master. He develops a friendship with another horse, Topthorn., who belongs to Nicholls' friend, Captain Stewart. The horses and men are shipped overseas for battle. They soon face their own battle in France, and Captain Nicholls is killed.
A young soldier named Warren becomes Joey’s new owner. Joey and Topthorn do well in battle, but the Germans capture Warren and Stewart and their horses. The horses' duty of pulling carts full of wounded German soldiers earns them praise. An old farmer and his granddaughter, Emilie, dote on the horses as well. When the German army moves out of the area, Emilie and her grandfather keep the two horses. Joey and Topthorn are content to work the farm until another band of soldiers takes them. They become workhorses under bad conditions. Joey is very upset when Topthorn dies of exhaustion.
Alone and frightened, Joey wanders into "no-man's-land” between the German and English camps. An English soldier takes him back to camp.
Joey is reunited with Albert. As the war ends, Albert' s officer announces the horses will be sold in France. An old Frenchman buys Joey. The man, Emilie' s grandfather, tells Albert how Emilie lost the will to live after the horses were taken. However, he eventually sells Joey to Albert for one penny, as long as Albert promises to share Emilie' s story so her life will not be in vain. Joey and Albert return home.
1.Why does Albert's father secretly sell Joey?
A．Because he’s in need of money.
B．Because Captain Nicholls is fond of Joey.
C．Because Albert is too young to care for Joey.
D．Because he believes Joey will contribute to the country.
2.Which of the following is TRUE about Captain Nicholls?
A．He’s a rich man.
B．He’s a Frenchman.
C．He’s a man of his word.
D．He doesn’t win Joey’s trust.
3.The underlined phrase "dote on" in Paragraph 4 probably means ____.
A．train B．ride C．raise D．love
4.Which of the following words can be used to describe Emilie’s grandfather?
A．Brave. B．Generous. C．Hardworking. D．Humorous.
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
请阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的A, B, C，D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。
It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were 【小题1】 .The rivers were long gone back into the 【小题2】 .If we didn’t see some rain soon, we would lose everything. It was on this day that I learned the true 【小题3】 of sharing and 【小题4】 the only miracle I had seen with my own eyes.
I was in the kitchen making lunch when I saw my six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. Minutes after he 【小题5】 into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house.
I went back to make sandwiches, 【小题6】 that what he had been doing was completed. Moments later, 【小题7】 ,he was once again toward the woods. This 【小题8】 went on for an hour—walked 【小题9】 to the woods, and ran back to the house.
【小题10】 I couldn’t take it any longer, so I went out of the house quietly and 【小题11】 him on his journey. As I leaned into spy on him. I saw the most 【小题12】 sight. Several large deer were in front of him. Billy walked right up to them. And I saw a tiny young deer lying on the ground 【小题13】 suffering from dehydrateion (脱水) and heat exhaustion, lifting its head with 【小题14】 effort to drink up the water in my beautiful boy’s 【小题15】 .
When the water was 【小题16】 ,Billy jumped up to run back to the house. I followed him back to a tap that we had 【小题17】 .Billy opened it all the way up and a small trickle(细流) began to creep out. When he stood up and began to 【小题18】 ,I was there in front of him. His little eyes were just filled with tears.
“I’m not 【小题19】 ,”was all he said.
As the tears that rolled down his face began to hit the ground,they were suddenly 【小题20】 by other drops…more drops…and more.
All I can say is that the rain that came that day saved our farm, just like one little boy saved deer.
【小题21】.
| A．dying | B．producing | C．harvesting | D．drying |
| A．sea | B．gas | C．earth | D．land |
| A．skill | B．lesson | C．impression | D．opinion |
| A．found | B．expected | C．noticed | D．witnessed |
| A．disappeared | B．broke | C．turned | D．looked |
| A．admiring | B．thinking | C．imagining | D．desiring |
| A．consequently | B．eventually | C．however | D．therefore |
| A．experience | B．activity | C．exercise | D．arrangement |
| A．hurriedly | B．secretly | C．worriedly | D．carefully |
| A．Immediately | B．Finally | C．Fortunately | D．Unexpectedly |
| A．stopped | B．caught | C．followed | D．urged |
| A．amusing | B．interesting | C．appealing | D．amazing |
| A．anxiously | B．disappointedly | C．naturally | D．obviously |
| A．no | B．brave | C．great | D．poor |
| A．hands | B．face | C．eyes | D．legs |
| A．gone | B．cool | C．running | D．faded |
| A．put out | B．taken away | C．shut off | D．set up |
| A．stop | B．leave | C．smile | D．run |
| A．washing | B．drinking | C．throwing | D．polluting |
| A．melt | B．added | C．attached | D．joined |
A friend of mine met with an accident driving in darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t move. What was the 1 was that he found himself unable to ask for help—his mobile phone went out of 2 as a result of exhausted battery (无电) . Nothing could be done but to 3 in cold wilderness (荒野). It was eight hours later that day broke, and then 4 of the rescue (援救).
It is almost 5 that he could stand （忍受）the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his 6 : “First of all, I checked up my 7 conditions and found myself not in mortal (致命的) danger. As there was no 8 to call for help, I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from 9 . In this way I dozed (瞌睡) off.”
His story put an end to my regret (遗憾) for the 10 of an exploration adventure (探险) that happened last year. A group of young men 11 to explore a mountain cave and got lost. 12 to find a way out in the dark cave they were frightened and ran anxiously without a sense of 13 . Finally they felt dead in fear and exhaustion. According to the 14 people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the 15 of the cave. If they stayed on the spot when they lost their way and tried to 16 themselves, they would probably sense a faint light glimmering (闪烁) not far away.
Don’t you think you can compare it with 17 itself? When you meet with difficulty in life and work, you are lost in darkness. 18 you it’s unclear yet and you needn’t put up struggle 19 . It seems to be a negative （消极）attitude, 20 a person who can afford to do so must have foresight (远见) as well as a great courage in the first place.
1. A．hopeless B．worst C．more D．best
2. A．service B．way C．control D．work
3. A．cry B．lie C．wait D．sleep
4. A．delay B．success C．team D．arrival
5. A．untrue B．unimaginable C．true D．useless
6. A．plan B．decision C．explanation D．excuse
7. A．physical B．mental C．working D．medical
8. A．energy B．way C．tools D．strength
9. A．rotting B．spreading C．hurting D．bleeding
10. A．loss B．failure C．disappointment D．sadness
11. A．had B．managed C．tried D．meant
12. A．Willing B．Unable C．Determined D．Deciding
13. A．hearing B．sight C．feeling D．direction
14. A．rescue B．village C．local D．brave
15. A．end B．top C．opening D．side
16. A．save B．help C．stop D．calm
17. A．adventure B．work C．life D．mankind
18. A．Mind B．Watch C．Imagine D．Warn
19. A．really B．immediately C．carefully D．hopefully
20. A．and B．so C．but D．while
Edward Sims was born in 1892. He was the fifth child and only son of Herbert and Dora Sims. Herbert was a blacksmith(铁匠), and had a thriving trade making horseshoes. He was determined that his first-born son would follow him into the blacksmith. For this reason, Edward had to leave school at the age of 12,and worked with his father.
However, Edward was not cut out to be a blacksmith. Although he has an athletic body, he didn't have strong arms like his father, and he felt dizzy in the heat of the smithy. When he tried to find alternative employment, he found it difficult because he had never learnt to read or write.
One day, he went for an interview at a solictior’s office. The job was a runner, taking documents from the office to other offices in the city. The solicitor was pleased to see that Edward was physically fit, but when he discovered that the young man couldn't read or write, he decided against employing him. "How can you deliver documents to other offices," he asked, "if you can't read the addresses on them?"
Bitterly disappointed, Edward left the building and went to wait for a tram to take him back to the suburb where his father’s smithy was. Next to the bus stop, a man was selling newspapers from a stand .
"Excuse me, son?" he said. "Would you look after my stand for a moment?"
For the next 20 minutes, Edward sold newspapers, lots of them. When the man came back, he was so delighted with his new assistant's honesty, that he offered him a job. Edward took it immediately.
In the next few months, the two men progressed from working on newspaper stands to selling newspapers, tobacco,confectionery（糖果点心）and other goods in a shop. Then they opened a second shop, and a third. Eventually, they had a chain of 25 shops in three cities.
Edward became very rich, so he employed a tutor to teach him to read and write. The tutor was amazed at what Edward had achieved. "Imagine what you could do if you’d been able to read and write when you were younger!" he said.
“Yes!” said Edward. “I could have run myself to exhaustion delivering documents for a solicitor!”
1.What would be the best title for the text?
A．Success of illiterate newsboy
B．Local blacksmith becomes famous
C．The thriving trade of the blacksmith
D．Reading and writing-the road to success
2.What can you infer from the underlined expression “not cut out to be” in the second paragraph?
A．Edward Sims did not like being a blacksmith.
B．Edward Sims did not like working with his father.
C．Edward Sims was not strong enough and it made him feel ill.
D．Edward Sims was good at it but wanted to do another job.
3.When Edward applied for the job as a runner for a solicitor, .
A．the solicitor turned him down because he wasn’t intelligent enough
B．the solicitor offered him the job because he was so fit
C．the solicitor gave him the job but told him he had to learn to read
D．the solicitor didn’t offer him the job because he couldn’t read
4.Which of the following is NOT ture about Edward Sims?
A．He was such a good salesman that he went on to own 25 newsagent shops with another man.
B．The newspaperman liked him so much he gave him a job.
C．He ran himself into exhaustion delivering papers.
D．He learnt to read and write.
The common cold is the world’s most widespread illness, which is plagues(疫病) that flesh receives.
The most widespread fallacy(谬误) of all is that colds caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches(战壕), cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds.
In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp(集中营), naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds. At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in Experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter？Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.
No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors(止痛片) such as aspirin, but all they do is relieve the symptoms(症状).
【小题1】 The writer offered _______ examples to support his argument.
| A．4 | B．5 | C．6 | D．3 |
| A．The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time. |
| B．Colds are not caused by cold. |
| C．People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors. |
| D．A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one. |
| A．they are working in the isolated arctic regions |
| B．they are writing reports in terribly cold weather |
| C．they are free from work in the isolated arctic regions |
| D．they are coming into touch again with the outside world |
| A．suffered a lot | B．never caught colds |
| C．often caught colds | D．became very strong |
| A．the experiments on the common cold |
| B．the cures about the common cold |
| C．the reason and the way people catch colds |
| D．the continued spread of common colds |
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