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人物传记类阅读的试题100
Yousuf Karsh,the Canadian portrait artist who photographed many of the most influential figures of the 20th century,died in a Boston hospital on July l3 th,20I often read of incidents of misunderstanding or conflict. I'm left . Why do these people create mistrust and problems, especially with those from other ? I The idea for the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone came to Joanne Kathleen Rowling in 1990. It took her seven years to finish writing it. During tIf you think you are sick, you areno matter what anyone else says. On the other hand, if you believe in your, and if he tells that you are going to feel better,She once said: "When people ask me if writing has been a hard or easy road I always answer with the famous saying, "the end is nothing; the road is all.'” TNot long ago, few little girls imagined they could grow up to become astronauts. For years in the United States, on1y men had that opportunity . In 1983, that A month went by in this manner , but a month was all I could bear .The memory of Marguerite accompanied me wherever I went . I had loved that woman --- still lI wanted to be just like those big kids I saw wearing their medals and carrying their ribbons(绶带). So I____the cross­country team at my school. However,I have been applying, interviewing, etc since July with no prospects(前景). I have been told mostly that I am overqualified, or they need fulltime etc. I had bJohn Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He lookedWishing to encourage her young son’s progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a Paderewski concert. After they were, the mother spotted a friend in the I drove to a local supermarket the other day. My shopping list was _____ and my wallet was light. Still, I needed to get a week’s worth of groceries for my faThe Christmas gift when I was seven years old has been a pleasant memory. other gifts, it came without wrap(包装).On September 11ththat year, Mum gaveto RicharBrenda Bongos was a happy, artistic girl. She had one big dream—to play the drums in a band. But one big problem lay in her way. To be good enough to play in 阅读下面短文.从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。When my brother and l were growing up, we mowed(割)yards during the summer to earn pocket chanIt was the last day of July and the long hot summer was drawing to a close As for me.1 was out of spirits,and,if the truth must be told, out of money as well,When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write my own books. Half the students smiled, and even worse, the rest nearly fell out oOne year our family decided to have a special celebration of Mother’s Day, as a token of appreciations for all the sacrifices that Mother had made for us. AfteWhenever you want to make a decision, just make sure to think twice and confirm it. This is what we learn from the following story. While two old beggars were Several years ago, while attending a communication course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list in our past that we felt of, reI was very sympathetic with world leaders burdened with resolving conflicts between nations. When my three children were young, in most days it was hard to keepWhen Steve Jobs was born on Febuary24,1955, in San Francisco , California, his unmarried mother decided to put him for adoption because she wanted a girl. So inAbout a month ago, while in the drive through at Starbucks, I noticed a woman in a car behind me who appeared to be having a bad day. There were two kids in theWhile going to the office, I found an old man lying by the side of the bus stop.He seemed very sick and poor.Instinctively.I gave him some money.After a few minu阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项。Tom was a businessman and he suffered many failures in his career, which made himLast Christmas while staying with my parents, I across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all pilled up in a basket, One day, when I was working as a psychologist in England, an adolescent boy showed up in my office. It was David. He kept walking up and down restlessly, his f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。The other night as I was leaving my son's room. IJesse Owens was born in Alabama in the USA, in 1913. There were ten children in his family. Jesse was the youngest. He went to school in the city of ClevelandWhen Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more____ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, Immediately I got up and dressed, I stuck my violin under my jacket and went out into the streets to try my. I wandered about for an hour, looking for a likely For a few years, I have been wearing a ring on my right hand. It’s not always the ____ ring, but it’s always a ring that has ____ on it so that when I look atHelen Thomas, the pioneering White House reporter known for putting presidents on the hot seat, died at 92. To those who regularly watch presidential press confeA friend of mine met with an accident driving in darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t move. What was thewas he found himself unable to ask for helThey think they're lucky and it's Christmas again. They can't see that we live on a dirty street in a shabby house among people who aren't much good. JohnnThe Johnson family from England believe they are lucky to be alive after surviving an incredible incident off the coast of Australia. The Johnsons had been thatWhen Jean Calment entered the world in 1875, telephones and automobiles still lay in the future. Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso were not yet born. The EiffeFather’s GardenMy father was always a good(酷爱的) gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled(翻耕的) soil, my handsIt seemed that ever since Amanda started her school, kids often made fun of her, which made her feel very helpless and lonely. One day before her birthday, she Instead of staying at home to care for the kids, many mothers work to help support their families. But what does a mother do when her child is sick? Sophia FowOur tolerating ability is indeed beyond our imagination. But not until the very critical moment will we realize ourtolerating ability. There was a woman in the阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 When I was in high school, my father retired and set up a food stand on thA ship was damaged during a storm at sea and only two of the men aboard were able to swim to a small island. Not knowing what else to do, the two survivors deciAfter 17 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, “I love you, but I know the other woman loves you and wHow often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, impolite waiter, rude boss, or an insensitive employee your day?One daComputer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank ready to let him have a credit card(信用卡). InsteaBorn in 1963 in Sierra Visa, Arizona, USA, Jessica learned to live her life with her feet. Born without arms, she faced many .There were many questions at the Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who rose to fame during Hollywood's golden age as the star of several Alfred Hitch.cock classics, died from natural causes Letting go of success I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I've____ that the best way to do it is to let go of past failures. But that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。 Travis laughed as he tore at the wrapping (包装) pLast Sunday, I sat with Tony, my college classmate, in a well-known coffee shop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As we our coffee, two men entered and sat on an emptRobert Ballard was born in 1942. From an early age, he loved the sea. Ballard grew up in Southern California. He spent his free time at the beach near his homWith the help of Gloria ,his wife ,Tom Peterson worked for many years to build a solid business selling television sets, stereo systems, and home appliances. To阅读下列短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项中,选出最佳选项。I believe in miracles(奇迹)because I've seen so many of them.One day,a patient was referredThe day of my holiday arrived, but I wasn’t looking forward to it. I had little money and had only been able to afford to stay with my Aunt Rosa in Spain. So,When Mr. Smith was walking one evening, he met four of his old friends. To be polite, he invited them to come home with him to . He hoped that they would say Two weeks before Christmas, Mother told me we were going to my grandmother's house for the holiday. Grandma and Uncle Henry lived on a farm some 15 miles out oOnce, long ago, there was a man who traveled from Persia to India on foot. He had been to India before. When he arrived at a village, he happened upon a fruit When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished old case fastened to the wall. The shiny reJay Wilson was my English teacher at Lake Forest High School. It was him realized my potential in writing, and his made me a writer eventually. He was kind to This was my grandmother's first Christmas without grandfather, and before he passed away we had promised grandfather that we would make this her best Christmas Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in the blank with the word or phrase that best fiIt was a perfect day, just the right kind of day to go fishing My 13-year-old son Jonathan and I had been this trip for weeks, and now we were sitting on the shoI always remembered the first time I took part in an English composition competition. “Right! Dean would be the of our class to participate in the English compo“How lucky you are to be a doctor…” Anyone who’s a doctor is right out of luck, I thought. Anyone who’s studying medicine should have his head examined. You Like any good mother, when Karen found out that anotherwas on the way, she did what she could to help her three-year-old son, Michael, for a new life. They founThe Albinas married when Mr. Albina was 30, and they spent the early marriage in Argentina. Then they decided to move to Chile, which meant they had to cross t“Look,it's Baldy!”A boy shouted in my direction across the playground.Even though I was used to regular insults(侮辱)because of the____on my head,it was____ When 19-year-old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make-A-Wish Foundation (基金会),nobody understood what she was talking about.BMy mind went blank when I saw the gun pointing against the car window as we pulled out of the garage. This can't be happening to me. Then I felt the gun, coldAs I held my father's hands one night,I couldn't help but notice their calluses(老茧) and roughness.His hands tell the story of his life as a ___,including Born in America,I spoke English,not Chinese,the language of my ancestors.When I was three,my parents flashed cards with Chinese ____ at my face,but I pusheHe was driving home one cold evening on a country road when he saw an old lady,stranded on the side of the road.He stopped to give her a ____.“Why don’t you I never thought I would have a life­changing experience at Wal­Mart.Although my thoughts were only on speed,the checkout line I was standing in wasn’Could the Internet be totally free and should it be?Should the Internet be regulated?The recent disorder in the Arab world ____ by a disputed(有争议的) video damAmong professional basketball players,Jeremy Lin’s background is not typical.He graduated from Harvard University,which sends few players to the NBA,and he Tyler was a troubled student.He was in my senior class last year.It was __1__ to his former teachers that he had made it to his senior year.He sat in the backFrench novelist Jules Verne (1828~1905) is often called the father of science fictions.Although he was not a great traveller himself,his characters journeyed tOne of the world’s richest men has taken a close interest in one of man’s most basic functions:visiting the toilet.Bill Gates’s charitable organization,the William Henry Bragg was born at Westward,Cumberland,on July 2,1862.He was educated at Market Harboroagh Grammar School and afterwards at King William’s ColleAbout a year ago,if you had asked who Dinara Safina was,the answer would have been,“She is Marat Safin’s younger sister.” She was overshadowed by her wonderOur children grew up on jelly(果酱) sandwiches.Even my husband and I sometimes have one late at night with a glass of milk.I wasn’t the jelly maker in this __One day I was doing a big clean­up when I ____ a knotted handkerchief with an old dark brown coin inside.I took one look and immediately ___ a forgettable Janice Fialka showed a new documentary (纪录片) about her cognitively (认知地) disabled son at schools and seminars across the country.Everyone seemed to enjoy I have two really good friends,Nancy and Richard.They both believe in the ____ of positive thinking.However,though their personalities are ____,they are totPeanuts to ThisProudly reading my words,I glanced around the room,only to find my classmates bearing big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes.ConfuseI used to be ashamed of my grandma.I know that’s a ____ thing to say,but it was true until today,so I have to ___ it.The ____ started when my friend Katy foOne day in 1965,when I worked at View Ridge School in Seattle,a fourth­grade teacher approached me.She had a student who finished his work before all theRocky Lyons was five years old when his mother,Kelly,was driving along the country road with him.He was asleep on the front seat of their truck,with his feetWe come by business naturally in our family.Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father’s store.As we worked and watched,we ____ that work When Frida Kahlo’s paintings were on show in London,a poet described her paintings as “a ribbon(丝带) around a bomb”.Such comments seem to suggest Kahlo had a One of the worst feelings you have as a professional athlete is the feeling after losing a game to a team that you should have beaten. That happened last night A mother from Colorado who doctors said had died while giving birth to her son, has said it is a Christmas miracle that both she and the boy are alive.Tracey HeWhen Joe was about to start school, all signs pointed to success. Yet things turned out to be quite. The fourth grade even found him at theof the class. Joe sOne morning more than thirty years ago, I entered the Track Kitchen, a restaurant where everyone from the humblest(卑微的) to the most powerful came for breakfasIn 1943, during the Second World War the body of an English man, William Martin, was discovered off the Spanish coast. The papers he had been carrying were retu阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,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。My husband Jeff and I moved into our new home in ScottsblufSally jumped up the moment she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She asked, “How is my little boy?”The surgeon said, “I’m ____. We did all we cIt was in October. I was aimlessly wandering down the street, heading into a most gloriously beautiful sunset. I had an urge to speak to someone on the street Have you ever not wanted to do something so badly? Well,that’s how Iabout joining Madcaps,a mothers and daughters’club assisting charity. ,my feeling chan
人物传记类阅读的试题200
Ashok Gadgil has spent the past three decades helping people in need—and he has no plans to stop .On May 2, Gadgil won the$100.000 Lemelson-MIT Award for GlobalI sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice. As weour coffee, a man came in and sat at a(n)table beside us. He called the I knew I could sing but I had to prove it. I don’t care what life gives me; I’llit. It was my ninth timein front of a music executive to try to get a recordIt is really a happy thing to look back on the days I spent with Jennie. We met in night school. After Jennie and I had completed the required courses, we starMy first full-time job after high school was selling vacation packages via the telephone for a well-known company. One day, I was put through to a man who soundAn 80-year-old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45-year-old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow(乌鸦)perched on the tree near their windThe sun had gone behind a cloud. I was very tired and wanted nothing in the world so much as to be at home. At last I got to the gate of Hide Park. But this w When I was about 13, my father would take me on short outings on Saturdays. On the way home, Dad stopped at the Dairy Queen for lO-cent ice creams. I couldn'I’ve often wondered if I might do more good as a travel agent rather than as a psychologist. It seems that I have been more dramatically affected by certain ki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。This morning, I arrived at my office earlier to catThe park bench was deserted as I sat down to read beneath an old willow tree.Not ______with life, I was down.A young boy out of breath _____me, all tired from plJust two years before her 100th birthday, Sensei Keiko Fukuda has become the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt --- the highest rank in the martialI was fifteen when I walked into Black Stump Bookstore in Liverpool. As I was looking at on the shelves, the shop owner asked if I’d like . I needed to startfI am a mom of two young children whom we home-school. This that they are with me almost constantly. Whenever possible I will random acts of kindness; things lI firmly believe in the power of forgiveness and I have got a lot of pleasure from it.Last year, I was at the traffic lights on my way to work when my car was hA huge shire horse in Australia has been declared the biggest horse in the world by its owner , beating the current Guinness World Record(吉尼斯记录) by several There was once a boy who was very rich and clever but nothing could make him feel happy. He had almost everything a boy could ever want, so he was only ____ in What a busy day! The three boys were fed, bathed and changed into their nightclothes.Mary had them a story and finally they were asleep. “Babysitting (照看) thAdrian’s “Amazing Race” started early when his parents realized that he, as a baby, couldn’t hear a thing, not even loud noises. In a special school for the hWould you jump off the Great Wall of China for 300 pounds a day? A stunt (特技表演)person is a man or woman who does all the dangerous bits of acting work in fiJenny was a pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl (珍珠) necklace priced The composing career (作曲生涯) of Albert Roussel got off to a changeable start, and received one of its biggest successes from a lie.Roussel became an orphan (When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny’s house, she wasn’t nervous. She was certainly not afraid of the dark. ______, it was only a 15-minute ride home.Tasha Tudor(August 28,1919 — June 18,2008) was an American illustrator(插画家)and writer of children’s books. She received many awards and honors for her conIn a land far away, once upon a time there was great poverty, and only the rich could manage without great problems.It is said that one day three of those rich mA very wealthy man was standing thoughtfully on a bridge.Despite all his riches,he could feel none of happiness but and emptiness in his heart.He to commit suicIn December of l 992.I was a happy husband and father of two young children.A month later,I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia(急性白血病).After twAn old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and 4-year-old grandson. The old man’s hands, his eyesight was not clear, and hisunsteady(不稳定的). ThShort and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis, Cricket—anything with a round ball, I was useless." Jayne Fisher watched anxiously as her 17-year-old daughter Katie pulled her lamb(羊羔) into the Madison County Junior Livestock for sale. Katie was battling canLulu has been my closest and best friend in the past five years. In fact, he always follow my order especially when I look after other animal friends in our .TCarlos had been in New York for five months now, and he detested it. He would never forget the day when the plane landed. His parents had big smiles on their fIn his lowest days when few people bought his records, Taiwan singer Steve Chou (周传雄) lived alone in Canada and did little. One day, he passed by a local CD Once there was a man who liked to eat mangoes. One day he decided to get the sweetest mango from the very top of the tree. Mangoes which are exposed to the sunA HALF - EMPTY BASKET Once there was a poor farmer and his farm belonged to(属于) a rich man. One day he brought a basket of apples to the rich man’s house. OIf you ask me when I became a mom, I can tell you that the day I became a mom was not the day my daughter was born, but seven years later when I did the best thiA lady and her husband stepped off the train in Boston.They walked without an appointment(预约)into the outer office of Harvard’s president.But they were by hisOne day,some of the girls in our neighborhood started acting a bit strangely towards me.Theytalking to me.After a day or so of this,I finallywhat was going on.Barefoot and dirty,the girl just sat and watched the people go by.She never tried to speak.Many people passed,but never did one person stop.The next day I deciWhile watching the Olympics the other night,I came across an unbelievable sight.It was not a gold medal,or a world record broken,but a show of courage.The eveComing home after working out for a whole day I had my purse lost.Iit had slipped out my backpack as I was being.While it was probably very close to my apartmentStreit was an experienced safecracker who never used force—either against people or safes.He was a realof his trade and it took him only 19 minutes to open the mI lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head.Now I am thirty two.I can slightly rLightning flashed through the darkness over Donald Lubeck’s bedroom skylight.The 80-year-old retired worker was shaken by a blast of thunder.It was 11 p.m.The sCameron thought of himself as merely organized.He certainly did not consider that he took great pains over anything ,he did just enough to get it right.Exactly rMy wife Julie and I were out on the road that______around where we live, when we saw a(n)______ worn-out dog stumbling (蹒跚) painfully up the road. We stopped,I hadn’t even got a chance to enter the store before an African American woman approached me and asked if I would help her return an item. The item she has ___Tony Hawken, 57, is divorcing his wife Xiu Li, 51, Britain’s wealthiest woman entrepreneur(企业家), because he says he doesn’t like being rich and is ‘not in Wallet Back This is a story about a learning experience that had a big effect on the way I live my life.The ______in the story did not give me tests or even gradThe morning had been a disaster. My tooth was aching, and I’d been in an argument with a friend. Her words still hurt: “The trouble with you is that you won’One Saturday, I got a phone call about electrical problems.Since I am not an electrician, I quickly that the woman on the line had the wrong number.The woman oThe day before Mother’s Day, Mrs. Berry asked her students to make a card for their mothers. She passed out paper and pieces of cloth.Mary looked for a whileI was puzzled! Why was this old woman making such a fuss about an old copse(矮林) which was of no use to anybody? She had written letters to the local paper, evA man, who sometimes takes my bus, is in rags. His life seems different from that of the others. He looks exhausted and carries nothing. He appears along a doI never knew how well Mother could keep a trust until I was going through her things after she died.I discovered something I had forgotten, something that happenOne Friday, a businessman decided to ask his boss for a salary raise. Before going to , he told his wife about it. All day long he felt and uneasy. Finally, iHow often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, impolite waiter,rude boss,or an insensitive employee your day?One daIt was only a few weeks after my surgery, and I went to Dr. Belt's office for a checkup. It was just after my first chemotherapy(化学疗法) treatment. My scarFor years I wanted a flower garden. I would spend hours thinking of the different things I could that would look nice together.But then I had five lovely childMost of us know about the Nobel Prize, especially the Nobel Peace Prize, but few of us know anything about the man who set them up. His name was Alfred Nobel. Don’t Wait Until Flowers FadeEach spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches (路沟) along the highway I travel daily to work.There is one blue fWhile waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I noticed a man coming toward me carrying two light bags. He stopped right next to me to hMatt Haimovitz is 42 and a renowned cellist (大提琴手) in the world. He rushed into the classical music scene at the age of 12 after Itzhak Perlman, the famed vMy tire was flat. And I was on a country road. When I with the tire, a car pulled off the road behind me. I saw a male and said, “Hey, do you need any help?”This place was darker than I expected, and, in spite of the rain, dirtier. Used to the life of rural Puerto Rico(波多黎各), I had to adjust to the similarly arrIt was her giggling(咯咯的笑)that drew my attention. Note taking really wasn’t all that funny.Walking over to the offender, I asked for the. Frozen, she refuWhen Julio Diaz stepped off the subway after work one night, he was simply planning to go to his favorite local diner for a meal. But when a teenage boy _______A time capsule buried by Apple founder Steve Jobs 30 years ago has been discovered after its location was long forgotten.In 1983, the young tech innovator was aIn the lobby(休息室) after a long day at work, I found myself standing next to a handsome young man with a nice smile. A __ showed what we had in common: I had On arrival in the downtown El Paso, I came across an old man, a bum(流浪汉) on the street corner. He me and asked if I was running away from home. I him, “Not My mom only had one eye. I hated her. She was such an _. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market(跳蚤市场). She collected little weeds and such to sell anytHank Viscardi was born without legs. He had—not legs but stumps(残肢) that could be fitted with a kind of special boots. People stared at him with cruel intereThe first day our professor challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t know. I looked around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to fi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。A teacher teaching math to seven-year-old Laiq askeA man who failed to return more than 700 children’s books to five different libraries in the county was put into prison. Yesterday he was set free after a book“Tell me again how you learned to ride a horse,” I would ask my father when I was a little girl in Denmark. I was no more than four years old—too little to learA house of cards? Sounds unbelievable, doesn’t it? Not if the architect is 31-year-old Bryan Berg. He’s made a career out of building fantastic card houses,My three-year-old granddaughter, Tegan, went with her parents to a family gathering at the home of her other grandparents. Everyone was having a wonderful time Travis laughed as he tore at the wrapping paper on his birthday present. He was so ! Finally, he would have the coolest pair of name-brand basketball shoes. Al阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从文后所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出一个可以填入空白处的最佳答案。My friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makesIt had been three months since Ms Miller had started teaching. She was gradually being able to understand all her students, except one, Bob. Bob was the only bSo tired as I was, I bothered myself to open up my cafe shop on the cold morning. With many consumers streaming in, I knew another long business day began. AndI arrived in the classroom,ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English literature class.Having taught in the US for 17 yWhen I was fourteen, I earned money in the summer by cutting lawns (草坪), and within a few weeks I had built up a body of customers. I got to know people by thThe 16 operations W.Mitchell received after the motorcycle accident burned more than 65% of his body at age 46 left him unable to pick up a fork,dial a telephonMy brother and I were brought up in a town in Scotland. Our father was a struggling , but I always knew he was . He never criticized us, but used to bring out Mary Brown from East county in Scotland, she had the accident that had scarred(留下创伤) her for life when she was only one and a half years old. The curious chAre you a man or a mouse? When people ask this question they want to know you think you are a person or a coward (懦夫). But you will never really know the ansHe met her at a party. She was outstanding; many guys were after her, but nobody paid any attention to him. After the party, he invited her for coffee. She wBob was a life insurance salesman. Try he might, he was still unable to get a couple to sign up for a policy. “I certainly don’t want to frighten you into a ”Practice,practice,and practice! That’sTiger Woods became a champion golfer.Tiger Woods golf when he was very young. with other children of his age,he showeStanding alone at Browns party,Anna Mackintosh thought about her husband Edward,establishing him clearly in her mind’s eye. He was a thin man,forty-one yearFor over one hundred and fifty years, Americans of all social classes have worn blue jeans.小题1:Whether they are worn for work or for fashion today.Strauss' in阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。My First DayI was still shy in the presence of a crowd.And my first day at English was always my favorite subject. In my freshman year of high school, I could write a killer composition. In my second year, my teacher me to give spellHow far would you walk to learn about something that interested you? When he was young, Jacob Lawrence often walked more than sixtyfrom his home in the Harlem sHenry Ford grew up on an un-electrified farm, and as a young man he followed Edison's career as the inventor became a national role model.Ford took a job at theWhen I stopped by to get a newspaper, a tall, sincere man came over to me asking for help with directions. With a printout of Google maps, he was looking for aoSherlock Holmes was the greatest detective in history. His astonishing power of observation and analysis meant that he was able to solve cases which left the re通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在各题所给的A、 B、C、D四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案。One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for
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The moment happened 30 yours ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had up most of the night before laughing and talking with friMy parents influenced us with the concepts of family, faith and love for one’s motherland when l was young.Even though we struggled to make ends meet, they streI grew up in Jamaica Plain. My best friend Rose and I used to dream about raising a family of our own someday and living next door to one another.Our dream remOver the last six years I have learned what patience is. Growing up I did not have this virtue(优点)and it is a very important virtue to have. Now I can see thRobeson was born in a very poor family. At seven, he had to pick coal in a deserted mine near his home, and then he sold__he had picked and earned a few coins tAfter a terrible electrical accident,which caused him to become both blind and deaf,the whole world became completely dark and quiet for Robert Edwards for almWhen I was little, my mother sold flowers at Camden Market in London, She couldn't leave me at home on my own, so I had to go to the market with her. As I grewMy teenage son Karl refused to communicate with others after his father died. As a parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the moreHe was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the rescue workersIn the kitchen of my mother's houses there has always been a wooden stand with a small notepad and a hole for a pencil.I’m looking for paper on which to note I remember my mother as a strong woman. She came to America when she was 12—old enough to remember her language, she achieved scores and grades high enough to bOprah Winfrey, born in 1954, is all American talk show host, best known for her multi-award-winning talk show. She is also, according to some assessments, the mOnce I invited a group of friends round to my house, telling them that I was going to record their speech. I said I was interested in their regional accents, anWorking Christmas Day It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25.I was a nurse that day, sighing about having to work on Christmas.Just then fivOn Nov.18,1995,Itzhak Perlman,the violinist,came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. If you have ever been toOne evening I was resting in a cafe. I a pair of newly bought white leather shoes, which were rather expensive. Then a boy came to me.He was in a(n) shirt, lo“A” for Attitude English was always my favorite subject. In my freshman year of high school, I could write a killer composition. In my second year, my teacher I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be but a failure.” After five years of jobs, I fell When I was a child, I was shocked at the idea that my sisters could be my best friends. Now, I wouldn’t have it any other way. At the time, the idea of my twoThere were a young couple who led a very happy life. The only thing they worried about was whether their would last forever. One day, they heard a wise man hadI have forgotten the name of an old lady who was a customer on my paper route when I was a twelve-year-old boy back in 1954. Yet it seems like just yesterday thI drove to a local supermarket the other day. My shopping list wasand my wallet was light. Still, I needed to get a week’s worth of groceries for my family. Born in America in 1898, William was an extraordinary boy, gifted with an amazing IQ between 250 and 300. The genius went to a grammar school when he was only A little boy almost thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world because a disease made his leg lame. He ____ played with his classmates. WhenA 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 waWhen I was thirteen, one day my mom told my family that she had to tell us something. So my dad, my brother and I all sat down on the sofa to begin the discussioGift IdeaThe other day I was shopping for Grandma when I realized I had no gift ideas at all.It was not a birthday gift or anything like that.It was simply sort It’s a sad and familiar voice that we often hear in big cities: “Can you spare some change?”Usually, when faced with that particular , I have feelings of guilt“Father, do you see Mother in your dreams?” the young girl asks. “You know sometimes I do.”“Mother comes to see me a lot, you know. We sit and talk.” The faIn a small open courtyard, outside a school building, there were flowers here and there. In the sunshine,a was lying on the grass,reading a book with concentr阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。As of Monday, Amy Carrickhoff’s video “Spoiled deer On 23rd December, 2013, Michael Schumacher — the famous Formula-One race car driver — received serious brain injuries after hitting his head on a rock while downOne sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods she realized that she was lost.Sitting on a roOne summer I was driving from my hometown of Tahoe City, California, to New Orleans. In the middle of the desert, I came upon a young man standing by the roadsiWhen I was two years old, something happened which I have never forgotten. It was early spring, and there was a light mist over the trees and fields. The otherWhen Frida Kahlo’s paintings were on show in London, a poet described her paintings as “ a ribbon (丝带)around a bomb”. Such comments seem to suggest Kahlo hadPhil White has just returned from an 18,000-mile, around-the-world bicycle trip. White had two reasons for making this epic journey. First of all, he wanted toHave you ever gone hungry? I did after a day of hard work. When I woke next morning, I was dying of ___. I seemed to have a hole instead of a ___. I dressed When I arrived in Hamburg Germany, my colleague who worked there arranged a welcome party for me in a . We noticed a few customers including several old ladies,Istopped ata grocerystore the other day because I wasabout to go on a long driveand I wanted to buy my favorite for the trip.It wasn’t the store I go to, just It was a sunny day. A city man was driving along a country road with a new wagon(马车)and a beautiful pair of horses. He didn’t pay a lot ofto where he was goI have a friend who had a stammer (口吃) in his childhood, but he dreamed of becoming a missionary(传教士). When he told his own desire to his friends and relatI was shopping at my local supermarket, as I normally have for years. One particular day, I had done about 2 weeks worth of shopping andtoward the register to pWatson entered Mr. Smith's office. The boss was a hard man. He fired people who didn't do well without giving them a second chance."Watson," said Mr. SmIt is Sunday and lunch has, as usual, come to a hurried end.My wife and I are still sitting at the table.My wife likes to be in the life of her child, but I someRecently I came in contact with the true meaning of love. That would have been, Kane, a boy. Kane was the two-year-old son of Jolene, my new neighbor. At a glancJoke l:A man was sitting reading his papers when his wife hit him round the head with a frying pan. “What was that for?” the man asked. The wife replied, “That Shirley Temple, who died on February 10, 2014, was that rare example of a Hollywood child star who, when the cameras stopped rolling, carved out a new career.FoI can never wipe off the memory that I met my current stepmom for the first time.After I parted with my father for ages, I moved to America and was with him. ILang Lang is a world-class young pianist who grew up in Shenyang. He went to a piano school in Beijing when he was just eight. “You need,” his father said. “BAbout a year ago, I went to stay at a Detroit hotel.I didn’t want totoo much money with me, so I the desk clerk to put a hundred-dollar bill in the for me.TheOne day an ant was drinking at a small stream and fell in. She made desperate efforts to reach the side, but made no progress at all. The poor ant almost exhauEvery school has an ugly girl. In my primary school, it was me.From first grade through fourth, I had to wear heavy orthopedic(整形外科的)shoes because of my wJohnny the ExplorerJohnny was three when he ran away from home for the first time. Somebody left the garden gate open. Johnny wandered out, crossed some fieldsI recently heard a story about a famous scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs(突破). He was being interviewed by a reporter who as I was walking down a dimly (昏暗) lit street late one evening when I heard coming from behind bushes. , I slowed down to listen and panicked when I realized thOnce, there was a woman who had so many problems, so many worries, so many troubles… that at times she felt she had more troubles than anyone else in the world! It’s known that the 62-year-old Jim Bevier has a great passion. This former FedEx pilot wasn’t ____ on his horse farm, teaching his grandkids to ____. In hisMom’s birthday present? It may be a difficult thing for some people, but for me, it is an easy thing. Mom loved flowers, so every year I sent her flowers. AcHenry Ford grew up on an un-electrified farm, and as a young man he followed Edison's career as the inventor became a national role model. Ford took a job at tA few days ago,I went to school with lots of books,hoping to get a locker (锁柜).Suddenly,it started raining heavily. I hurried to pay for my locker,but I wWhen I started riding a bike a couple of years ago, I didn't think my involvement would ever be more serious than the occasional short ride. But as I built strOne day I met a man in the hospital, who needed blood to save his daughter. He was struggling to get blood for her and curiously my blood type. My blood type wAs a boy I was always small for my age. I was also five years younger than one of my brothers and seven years younger than the other. As a result I often felt O. Henry was the name used by William Sidney Porter.He was in Greensboro, North Carolina in eighteen sixty-two.His mother died when he was three years old.HeI grew up poor-living with six brothers, three sisters and my mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I wasand energetic. I understood William Herschel was born on November 15th, 1738 in Hanover in a family of musicians. In 1757,he fled to England and began earning a living as an organist and l“Check it again, you need to be sure.”This culture rule may sound, but it is one of the most powerful culture rules. I took a lot of things for granted. In faNight after night, she came to tuck me in (给…掖被子), even long after my childhood years. Following her long-standing custom, she’d and push my long hair out Mrs. Goff is a math teacher at Lincoln High School. Mrs. Goff and I met my freshman year. Zach Howe and I were on our way to a baseball game when he said he I had a job interview this morning at 10:30 in a place which was quite far from my house.I had asked my brother to_ ___me at the bus stop. But he was running lToday, we are talking about money. I can share a bit about my history with money and my new view when it comes to using green paper.I made a web page with linkA couple of weeks ago,my friend offered to sell some of our things for us. I thought it was a good opportunity to my 7 year old son’s room and some toys that The owner of an Alabama Chinese restaurant named “Good Friend” shot at a customer who complained about a fly in her eggroll Thursday night. The bullet narrowly My good friend and neighbor is dying. She hasmore health problemsthrough the years than anyone should have to tolerate. Now as she approachesher 57th birthday My mother and I started our morning by rushing into the local grocery store. I waited in line at the Starbucks counter while she around to pick up a few things.One of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift. Unlike other gifts, it came without wrap(包装).On September 11th. 1958. Mum gave birth to Richard. ASurfing: It's Not Just for Boys Anymore If you asked high school girls to name their favorite sports, most would probably say basketball or volleyball. I happeFamily traditions were important in our house, and none was more appreciated than the perfect Christmas tree "Dad, can we watch when you trim(修剪)the tree?" Sure. you know their names, possibly better than you know the name of the street you live on.When the need comes, these names roll off our tongues like they we"How was school, Ben?" I asked myafter he began kindergarten(幼儿园) this year. "The work is tooand there's not enough time to play." he replied with a dWhen us teenager Jake Olson isn’t playing football or golf for his high school, he’s often offering inspiration through his new book about his own life. TheseEleven-year-old Angela had something wrong with her nervous system. She was unable to ______. In fact, she could hardly make any ______. Although she believedCohn Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked阅读下面短文,从短文后所给的各题的四个选项(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。As soon as I saw the cat in our yard, I knew he wProfessor Williams lived alone and he was very .He used to arrive at the university to give a lecture and find that he had forgotten to bring his notes.Or he wouA Wonderful Christmas GiftAnn and her mother had lived in a small cottage as long as Ann could .Christmas was so close.Ann wished she could get a new with lace aJenny found her old bicycle at the back of the garage.It was a lot smaller than she remembered.When she sat on it and put her feet on the pedals,her knees nearlRobert Capa is a name that has for many years been associated with war photography.Born in Hungary in 1913,Capa was forced to leave his native country after hisA man was bitterly envious of his neighbour.He spent long hours in prayer,wanting to be to his neighbour in every aspect of life.One night,God appeared before The family had just moved.The young woman was feeling a little .It was Mother's Day—and 800 miles separated her from her parents.She had called them that morninI break off a piece of candy and take pleasure in its sweet outside and the bitter, dark chocolate inside, thinking of my own life. Being raised by a single par Like most Oregonians, Stephanie McRae was used to driving in bad weather. Although rain still beat the window of her car, the worst of the day’s storm seemed When growing up, I hadn't the slightest curiosity about the authors of books I read; it was the _that was important. My mother, and sometimes my father. readDo you have a Teddy Bear? The lovable teddy bear _____be found all around the world. You can find _____not only in toy stores, _____ on T-shirts, posters and mIt was the Year from Hell-September 1993 to September 1994-the dog died, my marriage of 24 years ended, and my house burned down. I had moved into a new rented Everyone in the apartment complex I lived in knew who Ugly was. Ugly was the resident tomcat. Ugly loved three things in this world: fighting, eating garbage, I grew up in Jamaica Plain, an urban community located on the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts. In the 1940's it was a wholesome, specific little community.Even as I write this story, I am still smiling. The past few weeks have been rather , but when a large number of smile cards arrived in my mailbox the other dayOne day, a boy found the cocoon(茧) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small _____in the cocoon, He sat and watched for several
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Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But At the age of 16, Clara Barton was advised to become a teacher, since she was quite shy. She taught in Massachusetts for ten years, and was invited to BordentowI was now in my twenty third year of residence in this island and was accustomed to the place and to the manner of living. If it had not been the savages(野人)wBritish writer John Bunyan was born at Elstow, Bedfordshire, England, in November, 1628. His father was a maker and mender of pots and kettles, and the son follI still clearly remember that day. I was on the side of the road for almost four hours with my big Jeep. I put signs in the windows that said, “NEED A JACK(千斤My dad was never the kind to offer many words of love or encouragement. But we knew he loved us. He just had his own way of showing it. When I was a teen, we “Just ate chicken feet for lunch. ”These were the words I wrote on my blog yesterday. By the next day there were hundreds of comments from my friends. They inA group of graduates have highly been established in their careers. One day they got together to their old university professor. Shortly they arrived, their coOprah Winfrey,born in 1954,is all American talk show host,best known for her multi­award­winning talk show. She is also,according to some assessmeLast November, Nick heard a disorder at a party. A group of people had ____ outside, pointing at something floating in the Bay. As he ran to ____, he soon sawThe Great Barn AdventureOne morning when I was 11, I explored the town's abandoned round grain barn(谷仓). I found a chained sliding door that was wide enough While the presence of rats in homes may cause anxiety and annoyance, they rarely result in driving out the residents. But that is exactly what happened to the My father and I disagreed about curfew (晚间在家的时间). He'd say I was to be in by 9:30 on weekdays, and 11:00 on weekends, no exceptions without my first askThe stars have come together for the 2014 QUT Classic fun run on Sunday, May 4! This year's fun run around central Brisbane not only promises a fantastic familyJANE AUSTEN(1775—1817)is often regarded as the greatest of English women novelists on the strength of her six completed novels.Known particularly for their sociaThe first day at school has left a deep ___ on me.I'll never forget it.As soon as I rushed into the classroom,the bell rang.A young beautiful woman came in,When I entered Berkeley,I hoped to earn a scholarship.Having been a Straight­A student,I believed I could ____tough subjects and really learn something.Tim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York—he in computers, she in special education.“Teaching means everything to us,The young woman entered the pool where an injured dolphin(海豚) was swimming.Despite her fear, she felt strong wearing her new leg.In her second grade.Maja __When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more__ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, buI truly feel that my mother led me here, to Morzaine, and to my future as happy wife and business woman. When Mum ____ in October 2007, I was a cook. In DecembDiana Jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for her 21­year­old twin sons: a combination of savings, income, scholarships, aA person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work. He may have the belief that he is not capable (有能力的) of it. A child mayMy uncle has a very beautiful umbrella. He has had it ____ and he is very careful with it. It still looks as good as new. “That umbrella must have ____ you a In the fall of 1985,I was a bright­eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench soHere's an unusual story:a diamond ring was recently found in an egg. The magician,Liu Qian,discovered it,in front of an audience of millions at CCTV's SpriA certain good woman one day said something that hurt her best friend of many years.She____immediately and would have done anything to have taken the words backThe American newspaper publisher Arthur Sulzberger Sr died at the age of 86.Mr Sulzberger led The New York Times for more than three decades,before passing theLilly was a French Canadian girl who grew up in the farming community.When she was 16,her father____her to drop out of school to contribute to the family incomSuccess is often measured by the ability to overcome adversity.But,it is often the belief of others that gives us the courage to try.J.K.Rowling,author of tOn a trip to California,my family stopped for lunch.As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant,a man,with a____beard and dirty hair,jumped up from aSometimes pleasures of life are so simple that I take them for granted, things that I've considered as my right, instead of a blessing. I this after a friend oMr. Hungerton, her father, really was absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys, it would have been the thoughtMy sister and I were flying from our home in Kansas to a summer camp in Minnesota. Our plane had a two-hour at the airport in Omaha, where I saw a toy airplane Woman Uses Daughter's Key to "Steal" Car Charlie Vansant, a college student of Athens, Ohio who reported that his car was stolen, got a surprise when he learnIt is a wonderful morning, as I write this: hot, but without being too hot.Outside my window, I can see the sunniest sky of the year reflected in a huge natural When I was eight, I wrote my first poem.My mother read and cried, "Buddy, you didn't really write this beautiful poem!" Shyly, but ,I said yes.She poured out Beatrix Potter was a great English writer and artist, best known for her children's books featuring animal characters such as in the children's classic—The TalSteven Spielberg was not a scholar, and his classmates teased him. Rather than read, the kid really preferred running around with an 8mm camera, shooting home&sScientists in UK have grown a living human "brain". The team at Aston University created tiny bunch of cells which act like a mini nervous system.They believPhil Donahue,the former television talk show host,had something of a reputation for giving clergy(神职人员)a hard time,and he has said the reason he’s that wThe adolescent girl from Tennessee was standing on the stage of a drama summer camp in New York.But the girl didn’t feel joyful.She was not the leggy,attractivIT is safe to say that George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), the Irish-born writer, is more famous for being George Bernard Shaw than he is for his writings today. FBERLIN (Reuters)—Germany’s postal service has announced plans to explore improved service and help protect the environment by getting “fetch friends”—ordinary p Einstein's connection with the politics of the nuclear bomb is well known: He signed the letter to President Franklin Roosevelt that persuaded the United StateWhen I decided to quit my job as a wedding photographer, I was in my late twenties, fresh from my divorce from Bob who had left me empty and confused. I decidedHow to apologize properly is much more difficult than we think. Provided you want to teach your children to apologize, you must be good at saying sorry yourself One of the most famous basketball players in the New Castle ' s history was paralyzed(瘫痪的) in a wheelchair one day and was walking the next. Citizens of Ne“Josie Metz’s father won’t live long enough to walk her down the aisle on her wedding day.But thanks to photographer Lindsey Villatoro,the 11-year-old girl waIn 2012, I had just recovered form a serious illness when I received an invitation to a writer's conference in Orlando, Florida. My family persuaded me that a(The Fitting-in of Suzy Khan The first time I saw Suzy Khan, I knew I had to help her. She was really small for her age of 12. The boy in my class oftenabout heThe Brown Bear My wife Laura and I were on the beach, with three of our children, taking pictures of shore birds near our home in Alaska when we spotted a bear.From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏演唱会). A recital _____I had to practice a boring piece of music and peIt was Mother’s Day morning last year and I was doing my shopping at our local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were leaving, we found thaSamuel Osmond is a 19-year-old law student from Cornwall, England. He never studied the piano. However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree, with honors, in English literatuJoe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people to climb the West Face of the Siula Grande in the Andes mountains. They reached the top _______, but on their ArrivinginSydneyonhisownfromIndia, my husband ,Rashid, stayedina hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children. During the first weekWhich boy hasn’t dreamed of being a cool secret agent (特工)? The wonderful fighting abilities and the world-saving adventures are much more colourful than mosIn the mid-1950s, I was a somewhat bored early-adolescent male student who believed that doing any more than necessary was wasted effort. One day, this approachDale Carnegie rose from the unknown of a Missouri farm to international fame because he found a way to fill a universal human need.It was a need that he first bThere was a pet store and the owner had a parrot. One day a walked in and the parrot said to the man ,“Hey you!” The man said, “What!?” The parrot said, “Your Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age five with her family. Whileher ill elder sister throughout the years, One morning, Ann’s neighbor Tracy found a lost dog wandering around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if she could keep an eye on the dog. Ann said tIt was one of those terribly hot days in Baltimore. Needless to say, it was too hot to do anything outside. But it was also scorching in our apartment. This wElizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John AshMy husband, Tom, has always been good with animals, but I was still amazed when he befriended a female grouse (松鸡). It's for a grouse to have any contact (接In 1943, when I was 4, my parents moved from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to Fairbanks, Alaska, where adventure was never very far away.We arrived in the summer, justA schoolgirl saved her father's life by kicking him in the chest after he suffered a serious allergic (过敏的) reaction which stopped his heart.Izzy, nine, resOne night, when I was eight , my mother gently asked me a question I would never forget. “Sweetie, my company wants tome but needs me to work in Brazil. This i“Dad,” I say one day …..take a trip. Why don’t you fly and meet me?”My father had just reired……….. His job filled his day, his thought, his life. While hAs more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,00阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(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。Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people tI had worried myself sick over Simon’s mother coming to see me. I was a new, and I gave an honest account of the students’ work. In Simon’s case, the gradesA city child’s summer is spent in the street in front of his home, and all through the long summer vacations I sat on the edge of the street and watched enviousI was never very neat, while my roommate Kate was extremely organized. Each of her objects had its place, but mine always hid somewhere. She even labeled(贴标签It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were , we realized that only minutes earlier an womanWhen I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when he was an editor if the Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big, and a lot of houses down below Anna’s were washed away. Anna’s house wasenough to esca阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21—40题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。I was in the ninth year at St Joseph’s High SchTom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long­handled brush. He stopped by the fence in front of the house where he lived with his aunMy nephew’s 10-year-old son came for a visit one hot, July weekend. I persuaded him to inside and joined him in a game. Afterfor an hour, I suggested that we My teeth(牙齿)screamed. I couldn’t them any longer. I finally my fear of dentists(牙医) and decided to get them fixed. But ? I was a college student(大学生)阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(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。I have always lived in Canada, and traveled from Ha阅读下面短文,从每小题所给四个选项A、B、C和D中,选出最佳选项。Jack Baines is a self-made millionaire(百万富翁,but his beginnings were very lowly. He was the yo阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从第31至40小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并将答案写到答题卡上。a popular French writer, Jules Verne is regarded as tWhen I walked into McCarley’s Bookstore in Ashland, Ore, I began to scan titles on the shelves. The man behind the counter, Mac McCarley, asked if I’d like. In my profession as an educator and health care provider, I have worked with numerous children infected with the virus that 1AIDS. The relationships that I haveAn 80-year-old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45-year-old highly educated son.Suddenly a crow perched on their window.The father askedMost teens can't wait to learn to drive. Not so with me. Driving made me nervous. I didn't get a license until I turned 24 years old. As a result, when I fOf course, she wasn't really my aunt and, out of fear, I never called her that to her face. 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Choices can be hard.”I got the to start Amazon 16 years ago.I the factI was never a starter for my high school football team.No matter how____I practiced I was always on the second string.A few of us backups(替补队员)even____callIt's baseball season again,and Hank Snydder is back on the field.He has been back from the accident that kept him out of the game for the season last year,anI first went to hear a live rock concert when I was eight years old.My brother and his friends were all ____ of a heavy metal group called Black Wednesday.WhenIt was about six years ago.We were at senior high school.Those days in school were gray to most Chinese students because of the college entrance examination prNight after night, my mother came to my bed, even long after my childhood years.She would ____ down and push my long hair out of the way, and then kiss my forehHerta Müller, the Romanianborn German writer, has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature.The award was announced in Stockholm.Ms Müller, 56, immigrated to GeWhat a busy day! 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