D Sitting in her yard in Hartford, Connecticut, nine-year-old Alice Cogswell watched the children playing games. From their faces she could tell that they were laughing. But she couldn’t hear their voices. Alice had been deaf, living in a quiet world since a serious illness took away her hearing when she was 2. The year was 1814, and few opportunities were given to children like Alice. Unable to hear or talk, she didn’t attend school. There were no teachers to teach deaf children across America. In those days, most people believed that deaf children couldn’t learn at all. One day, her neighbor, Thomas Gallaudet, noticed that Alice wasn’t playing with other kids. When he tried to speak to her, he realized that she couldn’t hear. But he couldn’t miss her bright and curious eyes. Placing his hat on the ground, he spelt the letters h-a-t. Alice understood, and soon Gallaudet became her teacher. Gallaudet had learnt about schools for the deaf in Europe. He thought, “Why shouldn’t Alice and other deaf children in the United States have such a school? Encouraged by Alice’s progress, Gallaudet decided to go to Europe to learn their ways. After 15 months there, Gallaudet returned to Connecticut, together with Laurent Clerc, a teacher from a famous school for the deaf in Paris, France. Gallaudet and Clerc opened the country’s first deaf school in 1817. There were 33 teachers and students at the very beginning, including Alice. They created the American Sign Language, which was based partly on the French sign language and partly on signs the students invented. Deaf students could now learn subjects like reading, history and math, as well as skills like shoemaking and cabinetmaking for boys and housekeeping for girls. 47. Which of the following about deaf children in the US before 1814 is TRUE? A. They were treated as normal kids in schools. B. They communicated with others with the help of a sign language. C. It was almost impossible for them to receive an education. D. They weren’t allowed to play games with normal kids. 48. Gallaudet taught Alice to learn the first word by . A. using a sign language B. combining a thing with a word C. playing games together with her D. telling her how to write the letters on her own 49. What can be learned from the passage? A. Alice made some progress in her studies. B. Alice was deaf when she was born. C. Laurent Clerc created the American Sign Language. D. Only boys were allowed to learn the skill in making shoes in America. 50. The passage is mainly about . A. American people’s concern about deaf kids B. the life of an American girl Alice Cogswell C. the development of the American Sign Language D. the founding of the first school for deaf children in America 查看更多

 

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A woman saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard, hungry. She did not know them but invited them in. “ We do not go into a house together,” they replied. And she asked why.

One of the old men explained: “His name is Wealth,” pointing to one of his friends, “ and he is Success, and I am Love.” Then he added, “ Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home.”

The woman went in and told her husband what had happened. Her husband was overjoyed. “How nice!” he said. “Since that is the case, let Wealth come in and fill our home with wealth!” His wife disagreed, “My dear, why not invite Success?” Their daughter-in-law gave her own suggestion: “Wouldn’t it be better to invite Love? Our home will be filled with love then.” “Let’s heed our daughter-in-law’s advice,” said the husband to his wife. “ Go out and invite Love to be our guest.”

Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and followed him. Surprised, the woman asked Wealth and Success: “ I only invited Love, why are you coming in?”

The old men replied together. “ If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would have stayed out. But since you invited Love, wherever he goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!”

The underlined word “ heed” means “     ”.

A. give         B. refuse        C. follow         D. offer

What’s the best title of the passage?

A. The importance of Love.        B. An old couple and Love.

C. Which one is the best choice?    D. Wealth, success and love.

From the story, we can know that the daughter-in-law is full of     .

A. care         B. imagination    C. love         D. cleverness

Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Without love, there won’t be anything.  

B. Without wealth, the husband has nothing.

 C. Without success, you have to love others.

 D. Without carelessness, you will get everything.

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第二节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She said, “I don’t think I      36    you, but you must be hungry. Please   37    and have something to eat.”
“Is the man of the house    38   ?” they asked. “No,” she replied, “He’s out.” “Then we cannot come in,” they replied. In the evening when her    39    came home, she told him what had happened. “   40     them I am home and invite them in!” The woman went out and invited the men in. “We do not go into a house    41    ,” they replied. “Why is that?” she asked.
One of the old men explained, “His name is Wealth,” he said    42     one of his friends, “and he is Success, and I am Love.” Then he added, “Now go in and    43     your husband which one of us you want in your home.”
The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was    44    . “How nice!” he said. “Since that is    45     , let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!” His wife    46    . “My dear, why don’t we invite Success?” Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own    47    , “Wouldn’t it be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love.” “Let us    48     our daughter-in-law’s advice,” said the husband to his wife. “Go out and invite    49     to be our guest.” The woman went out and asked the three old men, “Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our    50    .”
Love got up and started walking toward the house.
The other two also got up and    51     him.    52    , the lady asked Wealth and Success, “I only invited Love. Why are you coming in?”
The old men replied together, “If you    53     Wealth or Success, the other two of us would have stayed out, but    54     you invited Love, wherever he goes, we go with him.    55     there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!”
36. A. like                    B. know                C. recognize          D. need
37. A. go out                B. get away           C. get up               D. come in
38. A. home                  B. room                C. family               D. office
39. A. friend                 B. father                C. brother              D. husband
40. A. Go tell            B. Do tell                     C. Go ask                     D. Do ask
41. A. one by one          B. one after anotherC. alone                D. together
42.A. laughing at          B. looking at          C. pointing to        D. staring at
43. A. argue with          B. discuss with       C. debate with        D. quarrel with
44. A. overjoyed           B. surprised           C. excited              D. worried
45. A. the situation     B. the position              C. the case             D. the point
46. A. agreed                B. appreciated        C. nodded              D. disagreed
47. A. suggestion           B. plan                  C. solution             D. explanation
48. A. discuss            B. take                  C. consider            D. ignore
49. A. Success           B. Wealth                     C. Love                 D. them
50. A. friend                 B. relative             C. son-in-law         D. guest
51. A. followed             B. stopped             C. honored            D. pleased
52. A. Pleased           B. Surprised          C. Delighted          D. Disappointed
53. A. invited            B. Invite                C. had invited        D. have invited
54. A. when                  B. while                C. if                      D. since
55. A. Wherever            B. However          C. Whenever          D. Whatever

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It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks in school were miserable and, the thing was, I didn’t know enough to really care. My older bother and I lived with Mom in a dingy multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses’ hoofs from “Wagon Train” or “Cheyenne”, and laughter from “I Love Lucy”, or “Mister Ed”. After supper, we’d sprawl on Mon’s bed and stare for hours at the tube.
But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But, she was much brighter and smarter than we boys know at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses she cleaned books. So she came home one day, snapped off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. “You boys are going to read two books every week,” she said. “And you’re going to write a report on what you read.”
We moaned and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn’t have any books in the house other than Mom’s Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: “I’ll drive you to the library.”
So pretty soon there were these two peevish boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly among the children’s books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.
The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this verbal visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.
It didn’t dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip of a page.
Soon I began to look forward to visiting this hushed sanctuary form my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get home to my books.
Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can’t believe my life’s journey, from a failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery.
But I know when the journey began the day Mom snapped off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.
46. We can learn form the beginning of the passage that ___________.
A. the author and his brother had done well in school
B. the author had been very concerned about his school work
C. the author had spent much time watching TV after school
D. the author had realized how important schooling was
47. Which of the following is not true about the author’s family?
A. He came from a middle-class family.
B. He came from a single-parent family.
C. His mother worked as a cleaner.
D. His mother had received little education.
48. The mother was ____________ to make her two sons switch to reading books.
A. hesitant               B. unprepared        C. reluctant                   D. determined
49. How did the two boys feel about going to the library at first?
A. They were afraid                                    B. They were reluctant.
C. They were impatient.                               D. They were eager to go.
50. The author began to love books for the following reasons EXCEPT that ___________.
A. he began to see something in his mind
B. he could visualize what he read in his mind
C. he could go back to read the books again
D. he realized that books offered him new experience

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When Julie was a child, she was a very big fan of animals. As a result, 36 she ever heard growing up was “Julie, you should be a vet. You’re going to be a great vet. That’s what you should do.”  37  when she got to the Ohio State University, she started studying to be a vet.
A scholarship allowed her to spend her  38  year studying abroad in Manchester, England. Away from the family  39  back home, she found herself one day sitting at her desk, surrounded by biology books and staring out the window, when it suddenly hit her: “I’m in total  40 . I don’t want to be a vet!”
 41  she thought back over all the things she’d done in her life and what had made her happy. And then it hit her—it was all of the youth leadership conferences that she had volunteered  42 , and the communications and leadership courses she had taken as elective courses back at Ohio State. “How could I have been so  43 ? Here I am in my fourth year at school and just finally realizing I’m on the  44  path. I just never took the time to  45  it until now, ” she thought.
Inspired by her new  46 , Julie spent the rest of her year in England taking courses in communications and media studies. When  47  to Ohio State, she was eventually able to  48  the administration to let her create her own program in “leadership studies”,  49  it took her 2 years longer to finally graduate. She  50  to become a senior management consultant in leadership training and development for the Pentagon. She  51  founded a drug-prevention organization that  52  the message “Lead your own life with the skill and the  53  to say no.”
So, never live someone else’s  54 . If you limit your  55  only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want.

【小题1】
A.whichB.allC.thatD.where
【小题2】
A.SoB.ButC.OrD.For
【小题3】
A.finalB.usualC.nextD.past
【小题4】
A.routinesB.warningsC.complaintsD.pressures
【小题5】
A.confidenceB.silenceC.miseryD.surprise
【小题6】
A.PerhapsB.InsteadC.ThenD.Often
【小题7】
A.ofB.withC.on D.at
【小题8】
A.internalB.innocentC.intellectualD.intelligent
【小题9】
A.clearB.wrongC.shortD.wide
【小题10】
A.acknowledgeB.accomplishC.includeD.criticize
【小题11】
A.discoveryB.informationC.understandingD.research
【小题12】
A.returningB.referringC.relatingD.responding
【小题13】
A.prepareB.convinceC.forbidD.force
【小题14】
A.asB.ifC.onceD.though
【小题15】
A.hesitatedB.failedC.retiredD.continued
【小题16】
A.stillB.againC.alsoD.only
【小题17】
A.leavesB.promotesC.confirmsD.acquires
【小题18】
A.willB.chanceC.factD.pride
【小题19】
A.promisesB.decisionsC.successesD.dreams
【小题20】
A.choicesB.reasonsC.smilesD.mistakes

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A woman came out of her house and saw three old men sitting in her front yard. She said, "I don’t think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat." 
"Is the man of the house home?” they asked. "No", she replied, "He’s out." "Then we cannot come in", they replied.
In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go to tell them I am home and invite them in!" The woman went out and invited the men in. "We do not go into a house together," they replied. "Why is that?" she asked. 
One of the old men explained that their names were Wealth(财富), Success and Love. Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home." 
The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed and he suggested inviting Wealth to fill their home with wealth. And his wife wanted to invite Success; but their daughter-in-law suggested they should invite Love so that their home would be filled with love. At last the husband said to his wife. "Go out and invite Love to be our guest."
The woman went out and asked the three old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest." 
Love got up and started walking toward the house. 
The other two also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?" 
The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would have stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!" 
【小题1】The best title for this passage would be __________.

A.A Woman and Three MenB.Wealth, Success and Love
C.A Strange Thing Happened to a WomanD.A Husband and his Wife
【小题2】The woman asked the three men to come in and have something to eat because _________.
A.she was a warm-hearted womanB.they were her neighbors
C.they asked her to doD.they were her friends
【小题3】Who does the underlined word “the man” in the second paragraph refer to?
A.The woman’s son.B.The woman’s father.
C.The woman’s son-in-law(女婿)D.The woman’s husband.
【小题4】It can be inferred(推断)from the passage that __________.
A.The three old men are brothers and they can’t be separated.
B.The husband will refuse them in.
C.The wife will be scolded by the husband.
D.If a person has love, he will own everything.

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