1 . “What if I told you that I murdered Basil?”
“You couldn’t murder anyone, Dorian. He probably fell into the Seine from a bus. By the way, where’s that wonderful portrait he did of you? Oh! I remember now. You told me years ago that you sent it to Selby Manor and that it got lost or stolen on the way. What a pity! I wanted to buy it. I wish I had now.” Lord Henry said.
“I never really liked it,” said Dorian.
“How have you kept your youth, Dorian? You must have some secret. I’m only ten years older than you are, and I’m wrinkled and old. Please, tell me your secret. To get back my youth, I’d do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
When Dorian arrived home that night, he sent his servant to bed, and sat down on the sofa in the library. Then he began to think about his life.
“I’ve been an evil influence on my friends, and I’ve ruined the lives of many good young people,” he thought, “Ah! Why did I pray for the portrait to grow old, and for me to stay young? I worshiped beauty and eternal youth, but they ruined me. It’s better not to think of the past. Nothing can change that. I must think of the future. James Vane is dead. Alan Campbell is dead, too. He shot himself one night in his laboratory.”
“I’m safe now,” he continued. “Basil painted the portrait that ruined my life. I can’t forgive him for that. Everything is the portrait’s fault.”
He began to wonder about the portrait. “If I’m good, maybe the portrait will become beautiful again,” he thought. “I’ll go and look.”
He took the lamp from the table and went upstairs. As he unlocked the door, he smiled. “Yes, I’ll be good,” he thought, “I won’t be frightened of this portrait any more.”
He went upstairs to the room and locked the door. Then he pulled the purple cloth off the portrait. He gave a cry of pain. The portrait was more horrible. His face looked more evil. There was new blood on the hand and on the feet.
Dorian trembled with fear. Dorian looked round the room and saw the knife that stabbed Basil Hallward. It was bright and shining.
“This knife killed the artist, and now it will kill the artist’s work,” he thought.
He grabbed the knife, and then he stabbed the portrait with it.
1. What do we know about Lord Henry from the passage?| A．He doubted slightly whether Dorian murdered Basil. |
| B．He would do whatever he could to get back his youth. |
| C．The portrait he wanted to buy was stolen by Selby Manor. |
| D．The truth about how Dorian kept his youth was hidden from him. |
| A．Dorian admitted he was badly affected by his friends. |
| B．Alan Campbell shot himself one night in his laboratory. |
| C．Dorian blamed his sufferings on the portrait and Basil. |
| D．Dorian wanted to kill himself so that the portrait could become normal. |
| A．Admired. | B．Deserved. | C．Maintained. | D．Ignored. |
| A．Because the portrait aroused too much curiosity of his friends. |
| B．Because the portrait reflecting his soul made him suffer great pain. |
| C．Because he was jealous of the portrait which would never grow old. |
| D．Because he thought the portrait would take his youth and beauty away. |
2 . Hugely ambitious in scope, The Lord of the Rings occupies an uncomfortable position in 20th century literature. This book of J.R.R.Tolkien’s poses a challenge to modern literature and its defenders. (Tolkien on his
It seems that the key point lies in Tolkien’s wholehearted rejection of modernity and modernism. This is what so powerfully
“However fanciful Tolkien’s creation of Middle earth was,” Shippey writes, “he did not think that he was entirely
The book is also deeply grounded in Tolkien’s linguistic expertise （语言专长） —he
Tolkien himself often spoke of his work as something ‘found’ or ‘discovered’, something whose existence was
| A．books | B．critics | C．readers | D．ambitions |
| A．dislike | B．challenge | C．review | D．prefer |
| A．common | B．possible | C．missing | D．funny |
| A．annoys | B．influences | C．attracts | D．concerns |
| A．recovery | B．designing | C．analysis | D．questioning |
| A．taking it down | B．making it up | C．turning it down | D．looking it up |
| A．remained | B．struck | C．moved | D．existed |
| A．spoke | B．invented | C．neglected | D．recalled |
| A．put aside | B．set up | C．look into | D．get along |
| A．style | B．tension | C．success | D．tradition |
| A．decision | B．request | C．struggle | D．refusal |
| A．representative | B．independent | C．conscious | D．thoughtful |
| A．clear | B．weird | C．unfair | D．pitiful |
| A．As a result | B．On the contrary | C．Even so | D．What’s worse |
| A．ancient | B．broken | C．imaginary | D．foreign |
3 . 18-year-old Alison Sanger is an amazing student. Maybe too amazing— the book opens with Alison lying to her mother about having food poisoning so she can take a test on Shakespeare. More than getting good grades, her true motivation is to beat her opponent, Ethan Molloy.
Ethan has gone toe-to-toe with Alison on everything throughout school. They’re both honors students. They are co-vice presidents of the senior class. They both hope to get into Harvard. The fact that Ethan and Alison seem to always do everything at the same time turned into a competition a long time ago. Whoever does worse on an exam must do an unpleasant task of the winner’s choosing. If someone misses the exam, they forfeit.
This unfriendly competition is so famous that everyone at Fairview knows about it, students and staff. They’re even more annoyed by it than Alison. The principal takes matters in hand by asking the two to co-plan a previous class’s ten-year reunion after someone else dropped the ball. As you might imagine, tensions arise and passion is aroused. In a certain way, What’s Not to Love is a little like The Hunger Games. Like Katniss with Peeta, Alison is constantly evaluating her own emotions against Ethan’s supposed strategy.
While reading this book, I was forced to wonder exactly how healthy this relationship was. I assumed everyone’s intentions in the book were honorable—the authors themselves turned out all right in the end, and I’m incredibly glad for that. Wibbroka fans will not be disappointed—What’s Not to Love is story of soulmates and passion; its short chapters and tight pacing carry the reader along all the way to the satisfying conclusion. Despite its faults—which the text itself calls to attention—fans of enemies-to-lovers stories like How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days will feel right at home here.
1. Why does Alison lie to her mother?| A．To treat her food poisoning. |
| B．To prove that she’s also amazing. |
| C．To be able to be tested on schedule. |
| D．To please her friend with good grades. |
| A．Compete. | B．Withdraw. |
| C．Cooperate. | D．Succeed. |
| A．They prove their abilities separately. |
| B．They get the final result of their competition. |
| C．They set up a better relationship between them. |
| D．They use it as another chance to continue the competition. |
| A．Worth reading. | B．Useless. |
| C．Unreasonable. | D．Perfect. |
4 . Literature not only describes reality but also adds to it.
It is through reading great literary and poetry works that one gets his own understanding of life.
| A．Some of the great literary works, like “the Bibles”, provide society with the guiding principles of life. |
| B．They help a person take a closer look at the different aspects of living. |
| C．Literary works are reflections of the thinking patterns and social rules in society. |
| D．Biographies of great people, real-life stories of courage, sacrifice, and other good values never fail to inspire readers. |
| E．Thus, literature has always served as a believable source of inspiration. |
| F．Readers tend to connect themselves with the emotions contained in these works and become emotionally involved in them. |
| G．Several ancient scriptures relating stories of human evolution have been of great help to mankind. |
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作者：孟郊（唐）
慈母手中线，游子身上衣。
临行密密缝，意恐迟迟归。
谁言寸草心，报得三春晖。
注意：
1. 字数100字左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
6 . Over the centuries Shakespeare’s plays have gained a reputation for being difficult to understand. But if his work is experienced on stage as Shakespeare intended, then it can become much clearer. In fact 95% of the words used in Shakespeare’s plays are the same words we use today.
The meanings of some words have altered significantly,
So what can Shakespeare’s plays tell us about how people really spoke at this time? And did anyone really speak like his characters? The lines spoken by Corin to Rosalind and Celia in As You Like It probably weren’t
The first thing to remember about Shakespeare’s work is that he wrote plays to entertain. They are
For instance, in As You Like It when Corin, the shepherd, talks of love, his lines are beautiful and poetic – but
Another example of how the theatrical style enriched Shakespeare’s text can be seen in the structure of his lines. According to the practice of the time, Shakespeare wrote his poems in iambic pentameter(抑扬格五音步) so it was
We can come close to this thanks to “original pronunciation” which is a system of
So through Shakespeare’s plays we can
| A．otherwise | B．furthermore | C．however | D．hence |
| A．creative | B．significant | C．limited | D．practical |
| A．critical | B．typical | C．proud | D．afraid |
| A．valuable | B．outstanding | C．efficient | D．dramatic |
| A．reflect | B．mean | C．sign | D．signal |
| A．luckily | B．essentially | C．generally | D．naturally |
| A．construct | B．produce | C．function | D．illustrate |
| A．easier | B．worse | C．wiser | D．slower |
| A．Falling into | B．Varying from | C．Agreeing to | D．Sticking to |
| A．By contrast | B．For example | C．What’s more | D．In consequence |
| A．structure | B．style | C．rhythm | D．form |
| A．speech | B．writing | C．communication | D．symbol |
| A．fit | B．devote | C．apply | D．input |
| A．keep up | B．find out | C．take on | D．bring about |
| A．lost | B．difficult | C．ongoing | D．global |
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2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
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8 . When the novelist Luis Alberto Urrea was 14 or 15, he took a trip deep into Mexico. He was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and a white American mother before moving just across the border and eventually into the San Diego suburbs. But his father thought he was becoming “too American”, and took him on a 27-hour journey to Mazatian. Along the way, his father gave him a paperback copy of The Godfather and told him it would change his life. “I don’t think he was trying to make a case for us being criminals,” Urrea says, “but he really felt this incredible connection to the family and the traditions and the honor for the old country, as people were making their way in the U.S.”
In his new novel The House of Broken Angels, Urrea has written his own take on the Godfather story with a Mexican-American Don Corleone figure at its center. The story takes place over two days, as Big Angel de la Cruz buries his mother and celebrates his final birthday party on earth; he knows he’s dying, and he’s gathered his extended family around him for a noisy and lively goodbye.
The idea was inspired by the final birthday party of Urrea’s elder brother three years ago. “Everybody was jammed in his backyard, and there was a DJ and people dancing and consuming a serious amount of American junk food — they didn’t want Mexican food, they wanted KFC and pizza. I thought, where are the tacos, dude? And my brother sat in his little chair in the middle of it. People were coming to him and kneeling, and they would thank him and kiss his hand or touch his head and tell him all the ways he had changed their lives.”
Urrea’s brother died of cancer within two weeks at 74, and the heartbreaking event haunted the author. He considered writing a memoir(回忆录)about it—“I was thinking about Truman Capote, when he did those tiny books about Christmas and Thanksgiving.” But his wife encouraged him to aim bigger. When he found himself seated next to the writer Jim Harrison at a dinner event, he shared the story, and Harrison said, “Sometimes God hands you a novel. You have to write it.” Urrea thought to himself “Marching orders from Jim Harrison―this is good stuff. A kid from Tijuana doesn’t get that very often.”
The House of Broken Angels is a celebration of the Mexican-American family, but it also includes moments of frustration with this country’s treatment of the immigrant group. Before he got too sick to work, Big Angel worked in an office and drank coffee from a cup that read BOSS. “Yeah, the employees all got the message,” Urrea writes. “The Mexican-American was calling himself their boss.” In a grocery store, a woman screams at two of his family members that they’ll be kicked out of the country soon. “I had to bite down on the bitterness of my rage(愤怒), man!” Urrea says. “I was having some pretty serious response to Donald Trump’s confusing and empty talk. But you know, it may have shocked a lot of the United States to hear this kind of empty talk and this bald-faced racialism of politics all of a sudden, but to us, this stuff isn’t a surprise?”
“I really wanted to write a tribute to my brother, to my family and to us, but it’s also a love song to the country,” Urrea says. “I think people have this weird, horrible view... that immigrants are evil snakes. People don’t understand that immigration is truly a statement of love for this country, whatever the country represents. People want to be here and work.” And with persistence, they become the boss.
1. Why did Urrea’s father give him the book The Godfather?| A．He wanted Urrea to enjoy the 27-hour journey. |
| B．He thought the book had changed his own life. |
| C．He tried to show Urrea a real case of criminals. |
| D．He hoped Urrea would feel connected to Mexico. |
| A．Mexican traditions have been left behind |
| B．the people like American junk food best |
| C．it is difficult to buy the Mexican food |
| D．the tacos are popular with everyone there |
| A．Capote was good at writing tiny books |
| B．Capote’s books are about Christmas |
| C．he intended to write a memoir |
| D．he liked reading Capote’s books |
| A．Jim Harrison | B．Luis Alberto Urrea |
| C．Truman Capote | D．Big Angel de la Cruz |
| A．Big Angel himself was the boss of his office |
| B．Mexican immigrants were treated unfairly |
| C．Urrea’s family were kicked out of the country |
| D．Urrea heard Trump’s talk ahead of time |
| A．love for the Mexican-American family |
| B．life in the Mexican-American family |
| C．mixed feelings towards American people |
| D．mature reflection on Mexican traditions |
Legends of the Condor Heroes《射雕英雄传》，
Jin Yong's Wuxia novels have been translated
“Contact between China and the West
His primary goal is that in the future Jin Yong's Wuxia novels will encourage more people to explore the Chinese language and the culture.
10 . The room in the workhouse where the boys were fed was a large stone hall. At one end the master, in his cook’s uniform, and two women served the food. This
The evening arrived: the soup was served, and the bowls were
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale. He looked at the little boy in front of him with
“What?” he asked at last, in a
“Please, sir,” replied Oliver, “I want some more.”
The master
“He asked for me?” Mr. Limbkins, the fattest board member, asked in
(Adapted from Oliver Twist《雾都孤儿》)
1.| A．belonged to | B．turned to | C．accounted for | D．consisted of |
| A．nothing | B．everything | C．anything | D．something |
| A．washing | B．cleaning | C．buying | D．changing |
| A．finished | B．starved | C．shone | D．slept |
| A．that | B．until | C．when | D．before |
| A．boy | B．master | C．bowls | D．spoons |
| A．big | B．bad | C．angry | D．hungry |
| A．hated | B．feared | C．believed | D．trusted |
| A．quarrel | B．bargain | C．argument | D．discussion |
| A．elected | B．chosen | C．determined | D．recognized |
| A．full | B．empty | C．broken | D．available |
| A．shy | B．brave | C．worried | D．frightened |
| A．pleased | B．hopeful | C．desperate | D．exhausted |
| A．amusement | B．amazement | C．intension | D．appreciation |
| A．calm | B．clear | C．faint | D．cautious |
| A．hit | B．treated | C．greeted | D．warned |
| A．begged | B．sent | C．shouted | D．asked |
| A．horror | B．sadness | C．curiosity | D．frustration |
| A．Besides | B．Therefore | C．However | D．Eventually |
| A．award | B．praise | C．reward | D．punishiment |
