A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting （诱人的）apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater,  41 a bar of chocolate if given the choice,     42   , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the    43   he felt and the more he wanted that apple.

44  as high as he could , but even at his tallest  45  he was unable to touch it. He began to  46 up and down , as high as he could, at the  47 of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple . Still it remained out of  48 .

Not giving up , he thought , if only he had something to  49 on . His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to  50  the things inside , like his lunch box , pencil case , and Game boy . Looking  51 , he hoped he might find an old box , a rock , or ,   52 luck , even a ladder , but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use .

He had tried everything he could think to do .   53  seeing any other choices , he gave up and started to walk   54 . At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his 55 , and how he really wanted that apple . The more he  56 like this , the more unhappy he became.

57   ,the boy of our story was a pretty smart guy, even if he couldn’t always get what get he wanted .He started to say to himself .,This isn’t   58    , I   don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well. There’s  59  more I can do to get the apple_that is unchangeable-but we are supposed to be able to  60 our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better?

1.                A．preferring      B．offering         C．receiving D．allowing

 

2.                A．so             B．then           C．but  D．or

 

3.                A．sadder         B．angrier         C．hungrier  D．tastier

 

4.                A．expanding      B．stretching       C．swinging  D．pulling

 

5.                A．strength        B．length          C． range   D．height

 

6.                A．jump           B．look           C．walk D．glance

 

7.                A．tip            B．stage           C．top  D．level

 

8.                A．hope          B．hand           C． sight    D．reach

 

9.                A．put            B．stand           C．get D．hold

 

10.               A．break          B． shake         C．take  D．strike

 

11.               A．up            B．forward        C．down     D．around

 

12.               A．for            B．with           C．on   D．of

 

13.               A．After          B．Through        C．Without   D．Upon

 

14.               A．back           B． away          C．up   D．down

 

15.               A．wishes         B． beliefs        C．efforts    D．goals

 

16.               A．thought        B． imagined       C．tried  D．claimed

 

17.               A．Therefore      B．However       C．Moreover D．Otherwise

 

18.               A．skillful         B．cheerful        C．harmful   D．helpful

 

19.               A．something      B．anything        C．everything D．nothing

 

20.               A．change         B．express        C．forget D．describe

 

 

This is a story  that happened 15 years ago but it has always stayed with me since then.On the way back from work every evening,more often than not there would be a homeless man standing at the exit of the freeway.He always waved at every car,he was always happy and smiling and sometimes almost dancing.Every day after work when I got there，I would quickly roll down my window and give him the coins.Occasionally the red light would be on for a minute and we would ask each other about our day.His answer would always be the same，“I’m blessed！”.

It amazed me that even in his situation of being homeless he was so positive，and his answer would remind me of how blessed I was.A single mother of four amazing kids,with a place to call home and with a job to provide for my kids.Then one day I was called into my boss’s office and was told that I was being laid off due to the economy.Needless to say that on my was home that day I was very sad and upset.I didn’t remember to look for my spare change and keep it ready like I usually did.I wasn’t feeling the joy as I got off the ramp where the homeless man would be.Yet there he was as alway，as l turned the ramp.He set his eyes on me，while still smiling and waving at others.

While I was waiting for the red light to turn，he strolled over to my car.He had a big smile he looked me straight in the eyes and said “today I will give you a dollar”.He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a dollar bill.I was blown away.I burst into tears.I wanted to jump out of my car and hug him！

You see that day he gave me more than a dollar bill，he taught me a valuable lesson.No matter  what material things are taken  from you，no one can take away your choice to be joyful.

1.What is the passage mainly concerned？

A.A dollar bill from a homeless person.

B.A blessing coming from a homeless person.

C.A woman who lost her job due to the economy.

D.A homeless man standing at the exit of the freeway.

2.From the lst paragraph，we know the homeless man is         .

A.optimistic         B.brave         C.Iazy          D.kind-hearted

3.After leaving the boss’s office，the author         .

A.felt relaxed to get rid of the tiring job

B.still felt joyful when coming off the ramp

C.took it for granted that she was fit for her job

D.didn’t put some change aside to give to the man

4.The underlined phrase“blown away”in the 3rd paragraph most probably  means

         .

A.completely defeated                B.wholly blown down

C.really amazed                      D.murdered by gunfire

5.It can be inferred from the passage that         .

A.material things are the most important in life

B.people should be encouraged to beg by smiling

C.the author’s ride home that dog was smooth sailing

D.we should wait others’help when faced with challenges

 

(2009安徽蚌埠二中月考) ______ smoking, he would not have got cancer in the lung.

A. Was he given up                    B. Had he given up w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m

C. Did he give                           D. If he gave up

Poet Dean Young has dealt with impermanence（ 无常）a lot in his career, but it's a particularly strong theme in Young's latest collection, Fall Higher．The new collection was published in April, just days after the poet received a life-saving heart transplant （移植） after about a decade of living with a weakening heart condition．
Young, whose work is often frank and rich with twisted humor, tells NPR's Renee Montaigne that as he recovers from operation, he's also slowly returning to his everyday writing habits．
"I'm getting back to it," Young says．"Not with the sort of concentration and sort of flame that I look forward to in the future, but I am blackening some pages．"
And on those blackened pages you'll find poems like " How Grasp Green," which carries themes of springtime and rebirth．It's one of the first poems Young has written since his transplant．
It's easy to spot clues （线索） to Young's awful health situation in the lines of his poetry. Fall Higher's "Vintage" opens with, "Because I will die soon, I fall asleep, during the lecture on the ongoing emergency．" And the poem "-The Rhythms Pronounce Themselves Then Vanish—published in The /Vew Barker in February —opens with the CT scan that revealed Young's heart condition．
Young says "Rhythms" was written about the beginning of his illness．
"I had been having a lot of physical pain so that I could hardly walk a block．I got sent to a gastroenterologist and he did a series of tests, and then the tests came back to me and it was all heart related," he says．" And the outlook wasn't good．
Hearts tend to come up a lot in poetry, and that's especially true of Young's work, which has clearly been influenced by the troubles of his own heart,
"A lot of times, it's not just a metaphor （比喻） ," Young says．"For me, it's an actual concern because I've been living with this disease for over 10 years．My father died of heart problems when he was 49, so it's been a sort of shadowy concern for me my whole life．
But Young's poems also deal with more abstract matters of the heart．He wrote Fall Higher's, "Late Valentine" for his wife．"We've been married since late November and most of it has been spent in the hospital," Young says of his marriage to poet Laurie Saurborn Young, who says " 'Late Valentine' is very sweet．
Today, Young says, his friends can't help but comment on how pink his cheeks have become—the result of a new heart and better circulation （循环）．But Young wrote the poems of Fall Higher before the transplant, at a time when, at its weakest point, his old heart was pumping at 8 percent of what it should have been．
He was staring death in the face—but he was still able to look at his life and see art
in it.
Young's work also touches on themes of randomness and fate —two factors that contributed to him getting a second chance in the form of a new heart from a 22-year-old student．
"Everything in life is molecules （分子） bouncing against molecules," Young says, and having a successful transplant is no different．" Somebody had to die; it had to be a fit; my blood and his blood had to not have an argument; the heart had to be transported; I had to get it．"
There were, in short, an amazing number of variables （变量） that led to Young
being here today.
"I just feel enormous gratitude," he says of his donor （捐献者）．"He gave me a heart so I'm still alive-"I'm sure I'm going to think about this person for the rest of my life．"
【小题1】The poetry collection Fall Higher _______．

A．was published in February

B．refers darkness as its main theme

C．is Young's latest collection of poetry

D．was written after Young's heart transplant

【小题2】We can learn from the text that Young _______．

A．was born with heart disease

B．received a heart transplant in February

C．married a female poet after he wrote "Late Valentine"

D．wrote a poem for his wife in his collection

【小题3】What does the writer try to say in Paragraph 3?

A．The writer expected some bright future, but he was disappointed．

B．The writer had less enthusiasm than before, but he still kept on writing．

C．The writer devoted more time to poems, so he grasped a good chance．

D．The writer wrote poems with less enthusiasm, so he quitted for a while．

【小题4】Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．"How Grasp Green" is the first poem in Fall Higher．

B．Young began all his poems with his illness．

C．Young's father died when Young was 49 years old．

D．Young's health situation is mentioned in his poetry．

【小题5】What is the text mainly about?

A．Dean Young and his latest collection．

B．Dean Young and his heart problems．

C．The meaning of Fall Higher．

D．An analysis of Dean Young's poems．

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，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和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。

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However, I wouldn’t let my own self-consciousness    33  me. Not now, not when I had   34    so hard for so long to be given this opportunity. This was the kind of position I'd dreamed of for all these years.  “Mom,    35  me off on Jacob Street. I'm going to the    36  .”

“Honey, I don't think you should. You look...  37  ,” she said, ever so gently.

I knew she was   38  . But if I didn't, I'd always   39  if I could have gotten my dream job.

"No, Mom, take me there.”

40  , she took me where I wanted to go.

"Hello,” a gray-haired man sitting behind the large desk   41  me. “Miss Jenkins?”

“Yes. Please excuse me. I'm having a Bell's palsy attack. My doctor explained to me that it would last a few days. I came right from the   42  .”

“You're very    43  to come when you're in such a state,” he   44  , after a pause.

He spent a few minutes looking through my   45  . “Is everything on here   46  ?” he asked.

“Yes, but I    47  to mention I type seventy-five words per minute.”

“Well, you have an impressive background with related experience, you are    48  qualified. When are you    49  ?” he asked. 

I took a deep breath and asked, “You're hiring me?”

“Not only have you got the skills I'm looking for, you also have the   50  .” He gave me a big smile.

31.   A．forgive                    B．recognize               C．believe                    D．control

32.   A．chance                    B．advantage                C．courage                  D．sympathy

33.   A．pardon                     B．stop                        C．help                        D．transform

34.   A．driven                   B．turned                     C．prepared                 D．worked

35.   A．take                     B．pull                         C．drop                   D．send

36.   A．supermarket             B．interview                 C．doctor                    D．office

37.   A．weak                    B．annoying              C．angry                            D．strange

38.   A．right                        B．kind                        C．wrong                    D．sensitive

39.   A．regret                     B．believe                    C．wonder                   D．quit

40.   A．Hopefully                 B．Unwillingly              C．Fortunately             D．Unexpectedly

41.   A．doubted                   B．greeted                   C．examined                D．discouraged

42.   A．hospital                    B．home                   C．office                       D．work

43.   A．determined               B．crazy                      C．disrespectful           D．funny

44.   A．stressed                   B．interrupted              C．commented             D．complained

45.   A．face                        B．health                     C．application              D．situation

46.   A．correct                    B．normal                    C．incredible                D．contradictory

47.   A．pretended                 B．demanded               C．focused                 D．failed

48.   A．narrowly                  B．possibly                  C．impossibly              D．certainly

49.   A．accessible                      B．convenient              C．energetic                 D．available

50.   A．qualification             B．appearance              C．character                      D．disadvantage