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阅读理解。
When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her
mother told her,
and take a typing course so
when this show business thing doesn't work out,
you'll
have something to rely responded in
typical teenage fashion. From that moment
on,
recalls.
The show business thing
worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won
many awards.
Only recently, when she began to
write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring
her
morn,
Unlike her 1995
autobiography, After All, her second book is less
about life
as an award-winning actress and
more about living with diabetes (糖尿病). All the
money from the book is intended for the
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF),
an organization she serves as international
chairman.
a book like this,he other diabetics
to know that things get better when we're
self-controlled and do our part in managing
the disease.
But she hasn't always
practiced what she teaches. In her book, she
describes
that awful day, almost 40 years ago,
when she received two pieces of life-changing
news. First, she had lost the baby she was
carrying, and second, tests showed that
she
had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the
hospital and treated herself to
a box of
doughnuts (甜甜圈). Years would pass before she
realized she had to grow
u p ---again---and
take control of her diabetes, not let it control
her. Only then
did she kick her three-pack-a-
day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to
alcohol,
and begin to follow a balanced diet.
Although her disease has affected her
eyesight and forced her to the sidelines
of
the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-
pity.
'why me?' about something or
other,
is immune (免疫的) to heartache, pain, and
disappointments. Sometimes we can make
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things better by helping others.
I've come to realize the importance of that as
I've
grown up this second time. I want to
speak out and be as helpful as I can be.
( )
1. Why did Mary feel regretful?
A. She
didn't achieve her ambition.
B. She didn't
take care of her mother.
C. She didn't
complete her high school.
D. She didn't follow
her mother's advice.
( ) 2. We can know that
before 1995 Mary
A. had two books
published B. received many career awards
C. knew how to use a computer D. supported
the JDRF by writing
( ) 3. Mary's second
book Growing Up Again is mainly about her
.
A. living with diabetes B.
successful show business
C. service for an
organization D. remembrance of her mother
( ) 4. When Mary received the life-changing
news, she .
A. lost control of
herself
C. Med to get a treatment
B. began a balanced diet
D. behaved
in an adult way
( ) 5. What can we know from
the last paragraph?
A. Mary feels pity for
herself.
B. Mary has recovered from her
disease.
C. Mary wants to help others as
much as possible.
D. Mary determines to go
back to the dance floor.
【语篇解读】本文为人物介绍说明文。主要介绍了玛丽·摩尔的职业生涯及抗病之争。
1.
答案D。考点：细节理解题。
解析：根据第二段“Only recently，when she
began to write Growing Up Again，did she
regret
ignoring her mom，‘I don’t know how to use a
computer,’ she admits.”可
判断选D项。
2.
答案B。考点：细节理解题。
解析：根据第二段“The show business thing
worked out，of course. In her career，
Mary won
many awards.”可判断选B项。
3. 答案A。考点：细节理解题。
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解析：根据第三段“her second book is
less about life as an award winning actress and
more about living with diabetes (糖尿病).”可判断选A项。
4. 答案A。考点：细节理解题。
解析：根据第四段“In a childlike
act，she left the hospital and treated herself to
a box of doughnuts (甜甜圈).Years would pass
before she realized she had to grow up
again—and take control of her diabetes，not let
it control her.”可判断选A项。
5. 答案C。考点：推理判断题。
解析：根据最后一段中的Mary Moore 所说的话“I’ve come to
realize the importance of
that as I’ve grown
up this second time. I want to speak out and be as
helpful as
I can be.”可推断她想尽可能地去帮助他人，故选C项。
阅读理解。
Every day we experience
one of the wonders of the world around us without
even realizing
it. It is not the amazing
complexity of television, nor the impressive
technology of
transport. The universal wonder
we share and experience is our ability to make
noise
without mouths, and so transmit ideas
and thoughts to each other's minds. This ability
comes so naturally that we tend to forget what
a miracle (奇迹) it is.
Obviously, the ability
to talk is something that marks humans off from
animal. Of course,
some animals have powers
just as amazing, Birds can fly thousands miles by
observing
positions of the stars in the sky in
relation to the time of day and year. In Nature's
talent show, humans are a species of animal
that have developed their own special act.
If
we reduce it to basic terms, it's an ability for
communicating information to others,
by
varying sounds we make as we breathe out.
Not
that we don't have other powers of communication.
Our facial expressions convey
our emotions,
such as anger, or joy, or disappointment. The way
we hold our heads can
indicate to others
whether we are happy or sad. This is so-called
Bristling (直立的) fur is an unmistakable warning
of attack among many animals.
Similarly, the
bowed head or drooping tail shows a readiness to
take second place in
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any
animal gathering.
Such a means of
communication is a basic mechanism that animals,
including human beings,
instinctively acquire
and display. Is the ability to speak just another
sort of instinct?
If so, how did human beings
acquire this amazing skills ? Biologist can
readily indicate
that particular area of our
brain where speech mechanisms function, but this
doesn't
tell us how that part of our bodies
originated in our biological history.
本文是介绍关于人类使用语言的能力的说明文, 主要阐述人区分动物的特殊能力及其相似性。
( ) 1. According to the passage, the wonder
we take for granted is .
A. our
ability to use language
B. the miracle of
technology
C. the amazing power of nature
D. our ability to make noises with mouth
答案：A
考点：细节理解题。
题目: 根据文章, 我们认为理所当然的奇迹是:
A: 我们使用语言的能力
B: 技术的奇迹
C: 自然的惊人力量
D: 我们用嘴制造噪音的能力。
解析：根据第一段倒数第二句话The
universal wonder we share and experience is our
ability
to make noise without mouths, and so
transmit ideas and thoughts to each other's
minds.
可知: 我们把使用语言的能力这个奇迹当做理所当然。B, C选项与文章不符,
在第一段第二句
话中可得知。D选项易误导学生, 在文章中虽然有原话, 但一句话没有说完,
关键是通过嘴巴
发出的声音去给其他人传递信息。故D选项也是错误的。
( ) 2.
What feature of
human an animals?
A.
Lifting heads when sad.
B. Keeping long faces
when angry.
C. Bristling hair when ready to
attack.
D. Bowing heads when willing to obey.
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答案：D
考点：细节理解题。
题目: 文章中提到的肢体语言的什么特征对于人类和动物都是共同的:
A: 伤心时抬头
B: 愤怒时拉长脸
C: 准备攻击时直立毛皮
D: 乐意服从时低头
解析： 根据第三段最后一句话
可知答案。A和B选项描绘的是人的肢体语言特征。C
选项描绘的是动物的肢体语言。
( ) 3. What can be inferred
from Paragraph 3?
A. Body language is unique
to humans.
B. Animals express emotions just as
humans do.
C. Humans have other powers of
communication.
D. Humans are no different from
animals to some degree.
答案：D
考点：推理判断题。
题目: 从第三段可以推段出:
A: 肢体语言是人类独一无二的
B:
动物和人类一样表达情感
C: 人类有其他交流的能力
D:
人类在某种程度上和动物是相同的
解析： 根据第三段后三句话可知:
人类在某种程度上和动物没有不同。从段落中可得知A, B,
C 均与文章不符。
(
) 4. This passage is mainly about .
A. the development of body language.
B.
the special role humans play in nature
C. the
power to convey information to others
D. the
difference between humans and animals in language
use
答案：C
考点：主旨大意题。
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题目: 这篇文章主要讲述什么？
A: 肢体语言的发展
B:
人类在自然中扮演的特殊角色
C: 给他人传递信息的力量
D:
人类和动物在语言使用中的差异
解析： 整篇文章谈论的都是给他人传递信息的力量,
使用语言的能力。A, B选项文章未提及.
D选项较片面,
文章第三段中提到了相似点和差异二种。
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In my
early childhood, my parents and teachers taught me
to be persistent(执
着的)in every task I devoted
myself to. I was 1 that persistence is the only
way
towards success. But a small 2 made me
change my mind.
One day my two-year-old
son, 3 at a dozen of“stood”color marker-pens,
cheered excitedly, “Mummy, look! I did it.
”Afterwards, he collected some ballpoint
pens,
4 to do the same. Hard though he tried, the
ballpoint pens just lay 5 .
He turned to me
for help. Noticing they had either sharp or round
ends, I said 6 ,
“Mummy can’t help you. ”To my
surprise, he wouldn’t listen and continued trying.
. .
I was dumbfounded by his persistence.
My son’s behaviour reminded me of George who
was always 7 in his work and rarely
talked to
anyone. To him, 8 , there was no such thing
called weekends or holidays.
Our boss praised
9 about him and 10 us to look up to him as a role
model.
One day I met George. “Gonna work
late again tonight? ”
“Probably I can’t leave
till midnight, ”he said.
“How many hours have
you put in here each week, eighty or ninety? ”
“ 11 . ”
“Don’t you have time to be with
your family at all? ”
He shook his head
slowly and 12 a sigh. “It’s not what I wanted. But
I have
worked on it for so long. It’s much too
13 to even think about letting go. ”
A year
later I resigned. The 14 thing I heard about him
was that his wife
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divorced him. Since then I’ve never
seen him. But occasionally his aged 15 would
come to my mind.
Until that day, 16
knowing why the ballpoint pens couldn’t stand up,
the
two-year-old son had 17 the impossibility
after many failures. He put aside all
the
ballpoint pens and kept only those marker-pens for
his“game”. 18 , he already
learned to let go
of his previous 19 attempts.
In our daily
life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how
to 20 them and
then decisively let them go
immediately.
【文章大意】作者自小就被父母和老师教育: 做任何事都要执着,
但一次两岁的儿子试图将
圆珠笔竖起来, 结果却没能成功,
这让她想起一个名叫George的朋友, 他是个工作狂, 心中
只有工作, 没有家人,
结果妻子与他离婚。这让作者意识到生活中有许多自己不能做的事,
该放手时就放手,
这样生活才能有乐趣。作者欣慰地看到自己的儿子在玩笔的游戏中已经学
会了这一点。
1.
A. confident
C. conscious
B. consistent
D. convinced
【解析】选D。前后照应题。因为小时候,
父母和老师教育“我”做每件事时都要执着。所以
“我”一直相信(I was
convinced)执着是成功的唯一途径。
2. A. event
affair
【解析】选B。词义辨析题。event多指重要、有意义的大事件; incident指平常小事;
accident
指意外事故; affair泛指事件, 事务。此处语境指儿子玩记号笔,
应为平常小事。
3. A. pointing
C. screaming
B. shouting
D. laughing
B. incident C. accident D.
【解析】选A。前后照应题。一天我两岁的儿子指着(point at)一堆竖着的彩色记号笔,
兴奋
地欢呼着。
4. A. insisting
C. intending
B. requiring
D. urging
【解析】选C。前后照应题。后来, 儿子又拿了一些圆珠笔, 打算做同样的事,
即把圆珠笔也
竖起来。intend to do sth. 打算做某事。
5. A.
flat
B. silent C. still D.
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quiet
【解析】选A。背景知识题。根据Hard
though he tried(尽管他费了很大的劲试着将圆珠笔
竖起来)可知结果没有成功,
圆珠笔仍然没有竖起来。因为这些圆珠笔要么是尖头, 要么是圆
头。lie
flat意思是“平躺着”。
6. A. deliberately
C.
unintentionally
B. casually
D.
enthusiastically
【解析】选B。前后照应题。看到这些圆珠笔要么是尖头要么是圆头,
我不加考虑地(casually)
说: “妈妈帮不了你。”但儿子不听, 继续坚持做下去。
7. A. interested
C. devoted
B. busy
D. buried
【解析】选D。前后照应题。be buried in his
work专心致志地忙于他的工作。这由后文的
“他很少和任何人讲话”可知。
8. A.
therefore
C. otherwise
B. however
D. though
【解析】选A。逻辑推理题。因为他总是忙于自己的工作,
因此(therefore)对他来说没有周
末或假日这样的概念。
9. A. high
much
【解析】选B。固定搭配题。因为他一心扑在工作上, 所以老板对他高度赞扬。
10. A. promised
C. inspired
B. demanded
D. appealed
B. highly
C. well D.
【解析】选C。逻辑推理题。老板鼓舞我们把他当成模范榜样看待。
11. A. At random
C. At most
B. At times
D. At least
【解析】选D。前后照应题。因为作者的朋友George是个工作狂,
所以每周至少工作80或
90小时。
12. A. let off
out
【解析】选B。前后照应题。根据shook his head
slowly(慢慢摇头)可知此处他发出(let out)
一声叹息。
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B. let out C. sent off D. sent
13. A. encouraging
C. painful
B. comfortable
D. ashamed
【解析】选C。前后照应题。根据George讲的话可知“他心中只有工作, 没有家人”,
所以
“他认为即使想(在工作方面)放手也是很痛苦的(painful)”。
14. A.
latter
lately
【解析】选C。前后照应题。根据后面一句“Since
then I’ve never seen him. ”可知此
空填last,
说明“这是我听到有关他的最后一件事”。
15. A. picture B.
figure C. reflection D. image
B. later
C. last D.
【解析】选D。前后照应题。根据come to my
mind可知此处选image。虽然后来我再也没见
到过他,
但他年迈的形象还会出现在我的脑海中。
16. A. for
besides
【解析】选C。前后照应题。直到那一天, 我两岁的儿子虽然并不知道为何圆珠笔竖不起来,
但
是在多次失败后学会了接受这种不可能。
17. A. received B.
accepted C. refused D. rejected
B. with
C. without D.
【解析】选B。词语辨析题。accept指“主观接受”,
而receive指“客观上收到”。C、D
两项指“拒绝”。
18. A.
Generally
C. Additionally
B.
Eventually
D. Obviously
【解析】选D。前后照应题。儿子将不能竖起来的圆珠笔放在一边,
只留下可以站起来的记号
笔用来玩游戏。很明显(obviously),
他已经学会了对以前无用的(useless)尝试选择放弃。
19. A. useless
C. hopeful
B.
endless
D. meaningful
【解析】选A。逻辑推理题。上文中的many failures已提示,
可推知他做了一些无用的尝试。
useless无用的。
20. A. clarify
C. identify
B.
distinguish
D. acknowledge
【解析】选C。前后照应题。在我们的日常生活中, 很多令人头疼的事是可以避免的,
只要我
们知道如何鉴别(identify)它们并果断地做出放弃的决定。
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