I love it at night. It’s peaceful. And when it cools down I sometimes do some ironing. I don’t really care for it. I work full-time and too busy for most housework. I remember the old woman who taught me to iron. I was about 15 and somehow got a live-in job taking care of a woman who had been an able-bodied, healthy woman until the accident that caused her to be paralyzed（瘫痪）.

The woman had an electric wheelchair. She could move her head and arms but not her hands or fingers. She had this clamp（夹子）attached to her arm and I’d have to open it and put a cup or a pencil in it and then she could move it. She would tell me how to do things. She would instruct me in great detail on the correct way to do things. Her home was perfect and beautiful. She would follow me around in her electric wheelchair to make sure I did everything exactly right. I’m sure she had been a perfect homemaker. She would have me fold everything, including socks and pillow cases. I would complain silently and wish terrible things on her. She taught me the right way to make the bed and tuck （塞）the corners. I know sometimes she’d get frustrated and impatient with me. I knew she wanted to grab it and do it herself. But she never yelled or scolded. Only insisted I do it right. I didn’t like it much, but I did it.

Today I can iron pretty well. I know where to start on a shirt, the right way to do the collar and sleeves. Now that I think about it, I don’t think she is an old lady. I think she might have been about my age now. Anyway, when I iron, I think of her and silently thank her for all the things I learned.

1.From the passage we can infer that the writer of the passage now is ________.

A．a housewife                           B．a full-time worker

C．a clothes maker                         D．a college student

2.The writer used to take care of the lady because ______.

A．she wanted to learn how to do housework

B．she was a relative of the disabled woman

C．she wanted to earn some money while sleeping and eating there

D．she had to do something in return to the lady for her kindness

3.When the lady taught the writer how to do housework, the little girl was ______.

A．eager to learn                          B．unwilling to learn

C．forced to learn                         D．careful to learn

4.What’s the writer’s attitude towards the lady now?

A．Sympathetic       B．Fearful            C．Hateful           D．Grateful

 

Hellen doesn’t know how much I spent in repairing the house. If she ever found out, I’m sure she         me.

A．will never forgive                  B．would never forgive

C．does not forgive           D．never forgives

 

 ---What an amazing film! It’s the most interesting film I’ve ever seen.

----But I’m sure it won’t interest ______.

A. somebody       B. anybody     C. everybody     D. nobody

完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

One day a few years ago we had a guest of the uninvited variety. In fact, it was a bird,   1 a sparrow.

“What’s that?” I asked when I first heard the gentle thumping(重击声). “It sounds like Joe is outside playing basketball,” my wife, Anita, said. She   2  and listened more devotedly. “It’s coming from the  3 .” she said. “Maybe it’s one of the little kids.”

We rushed out the door. Jonathan, our youngest, was  4 to make trouble. “If he’s making holes in the wall again…” I said as I searched there. No children       5  . But there was that  6  again, coming from right up there.

And that’s when I  7  the sparrow. It was flying  8 just inches below the ceiling. It was  9 trying to get out, but couldn’t see that the way out wasn’t up, but down 10  the open door. So the bird continued  11  its wings and hitting its head against the  12 .

“Poor thing,” Anita said. “It must be  13  .”  

“Well, maybe it’s because of us,” I said as I moved toward it. I tried to show the bird how to glide（滑翔） down to get outside, but that only seemed to  14   it more. “Why don’t we just 15 for a few minutes?” Anita suggested. “I’m sure he’ll    16 eventually.” So we went back into the house, where we continued to hear the ongoing  17  .Then suddenly, it was silent. We looked into the garage, and our uninvited guest was gone.

“See?” Anita said. “I told you he’d succeed.”

“Yeah,” I said. “But how many knocks on the head did it 18  him?”

I’ve thought about that little sparrow through the years. Just like that sparrow, we often meet situations we don’t know how to  19 . Born to go upward, we don’t even consider the possibility that something good might happen if we stop flapping（拍打）around and just glide  20 a little bit.    

1.                A．for example     B．rather than      C．or rather  D．as well

 

2.                A．hurried         B．paused         C．ignored   D．confirmed

 

3.                A．basement       B．kitchen         C．garage   D．hall

 

4.                A．easy           B．happy          C．sorry D．angry

 

5.                A．in all           B．at all           C．above all  D．after all

 

6.                A．guest          B．voice           C．noise     D．sound

 

7.                A．watched        B．found          C．realized  D．caught

 

8.                A．carefully        B．gently          C．patiently  D．anxiously

 

9.                A．eventually      B．unwillingly       C．obviously D．thoroughly

 

10.               A．through        B．over           C．below D．beyond

 

11.               A．shaking         B．breaking        C．striking    D．injuring

 

12.               A．wall           B．floor           C．door  D．ceiling

 

13.               A．clumsy         B．painful         C．amazed   D．terrified

 

14.               A．frighten        B．comfort        C．confuse   D．calm

 

15.               A．leave          B．scream         C．relax D．escape

 

16.               A．put it aside      B．leave it alone    C．give it up  D．figure it out

 

17.               A．accident        B．achievement    C．struggle   D．trouble

 

18.               A．cost           B．offer           C．earn  D．owe

 

19.               A．classify         B．handle         C．debate    D．conclude

 

20.               A．up            B．back           C．forth D．down

 

 

You should have been more patient ________ that customer；I’m sure that selling him the watch was a possibility.

A．of               B．with              C．for               D．at