On a sunny Sunday, ten fully well-dressed people were standing at the airport waiting for the parachute(降落伞)training. Suddenly, with the help of a guide dog, a blind man was coming with a parachute on his back.
“Do you also come for the parachute training?” someone asked.
“Yes!” the blind man answered in a loud voice.
“Ah-” the people cried in surprise.
“I know. Are you wondering how a blind man can parachute?” the blind man said cheerfully, “It’s not difficult. I’ll parachute like you.”
“But how do you know when to jump?” someone asked.
“Although I’m blind, I can hear! When the bell for the training rings. I’ll carry my dog to follow you.” the blind man replied.
“Then how do you know when to open the parachute?” someone asked again.
“The coach says, counting to five from the moment I jump down. I can open it.” replied the blind man.
“But when you are about to fall to the ground, how do you know when to fall to the ground? It is the most dangerous moment.”
“It’s a simpler. When my dog is scared into crying and the rope in my hands becomes light, I’ll prepare for falling to the ground.” They looked at each other, all silent.
At the end of the training, the coach told everybody, “In this training, Robert gets the highest score for his most standard and perfect action.”
“Who is Robert?” they asked.
“He,” the coach replied, pointing at the blind young man.
1. When asked by others, the blind man felt ________.| A．confident | B．shy | C．sad | D．angry |
| A．He would open it when the coach told him to. | B．He would open it when his dog was scared into crying. |
| C．He would open it when he counted to five after jumping down. | D．He would open it the moment he jumped down from the plane. |
| A．The blind man always scored the highest in the training. | B．Opening the parachute was the most dangerous. |
| C．The blind man jumped down without his dog. | D．There were 11 people in the training except the coach. |
| A．we shouldn’t laugh at blind people | B．we should never say “I can’t.” to ourselves |
| C．we are supposed to do what we can’t | D．we should try our best to keep healthy |
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【推荐1】DIY, which means Do It Yourself, is quite popular in the UK. Lots of stores and supermarkets sell DIY things. TV programmes show people how to DIY.
English people like DIY. There is a saying in UK-“As Englishman’s home is his castle”. A huge number of people spend their holidays making their homes beautiful “castles”. If there is anything that needs fixing around their homes, such as painting the walls or putting in a new shower, they will do the jobs themselves. They share DIY experience with their friends. More and more people have discovered the joy of DIY. Sometimes people also DIY for saving money. With the economic downturn at present, many people cannot afford a big house. They are looking at how they can make their house better without spending a lot of money. It is not surprising that DIY is so popular.
DIY can be difficult. There is a huge market for DIY furniture which people need to get together themselves with a few basic tools. However, people often find it not easy to build a piece of furniture because they can’t understand the instructions. Sometimes the instructions are simple and clear, but the furniture itself is difficult to build. One thing is for sure, though most DIY projects are started with the best intentions. Many of them may not get finished. DIY can also be dangerous. For example, anything electrical should be done by a professional worker. Unluckily, many people don’t care about this warning and put themselves in danger. It is reported that in just one year over 230, 000 people were hurt while doing DIY in UK, including 41, 000 who fell off ladders.
Therefore, DIY can bring us fun and help us save money, but it is not always as easy as it is thought to be if we bite off more than we can chew. Maybe factories should make products that are easier and safer for us to DIY.
1. How do many English people spend their holidays according to the passage?| A．Making their homes beautiful. | B．Visiting their friends. |
| C．Travelling all over the world. | D．Making a lot of money. |
| A．Many stores sell DIY things. | B．DIY can bring them fun. |
| C．TV programmes teach them to DIY. | D．All DIY projects are easy. |
| A．We can eat everything we like | B．We should do something difficult |
| C．We do something that is too difficult | D．We eat too much food that is not safe |
| A．easier and safer DIY | B．DIY in the UK |
| C．the joy of DIY | D．how to DIY |
There is an apple tree, and it loves a little boy. The boy also likes to come and play around it. One day, he needs a toy, but he has no money, so the tree asks him to sell all the apples on the tree.
The man sits down and the tree is glad and smiles tears.
| A．Can you help me? |
| B．At last, the boy gets the toy happily. |
| C．So the man gets the house. |
| D．One summer day, the man returns and the tree is very happy. |
| E．The apple tree is like his parent. |
| F．But he doesn’t go to see the tree for a long time. |
| G．The apple tree is very happy. |
【推荐3】Days ago, I made a skirt for a friend’s daughter. Today, when I walked in the door, I noticed the light shining on my answering machine. It was my friend saying, “I know you worked hard on the skirt and it looks very nice, but Janet doesn’t like all those flowers. Could you change them?”
I was angry and wanted to call her back. Then I suddenly thought of Grandma and what she had once done for me long ago.
It was a summer when I was eight. One day, Grandma decided to curl （使卷曲） my hair. She spent a long time on each curl, and I could tell she enjoyed doing that.
When she was finished, she was so proud. She made me stand on a chair to look in the mirror. My heart went cold.
“You can go out and play now,” Grandma said, smiling.
I nodded and slowly walked toward the door. I looked out of the small window in the door and could see some kids playing outside. My best friend, Ducky, saw me and waved for me to come outside, but I couldn’t move. I knew everyone would laugh at the curls. At the same time, I couldn’t go back and tell Grandma how I felt.
Finally I went into Grandma’s room and said in a scared voice, “Grandma, my hair’s too curly.”
She didn’t say a word. She placed a comb （梳子） in water, combed out all my curls, and then stood me back on the chair so I could see in the mirror. Then I went off to play.
It was when Grandma took out my curls that I knew she loved me. She had put my feelings before hers. And that is the kind of love I try to pass on today.
I called my friend back. “I’d be glad to change the flowers,” I said.
1. How did the writer feel when she heard the telephone message?| A．Sad. | B．Unhappy. | C．Excited. | D．Surprised. |
| A．The writer felt a little cold. | B．The writer started to be silent. |
| C．The writer had a heart problem. | D．The writer wasn’t satisfied with the curls. |
| A．her grandma was busy | B．her grandma wasn’t at home |
| C．she feared that her grandma would be angry | D．she wanted to comb out all her curls by herself |
| A．To introduce her kind-hearted grandma. | B．To encourage us to make more changes. |
| C．To show her great communication skills. | D．To tell us to put others first if we love them. |
【推荐1】The moon was behind a cloud and there weren’t many stars in the sky.
It was a dark night. I saw a glow(光，光亮) in my neighbour’s kitchen. I thought he was having a night meal so I went back to my bed.
Soon, there was a smell of burning (烧东西的焦糊味) in the air and I thought there was probably something wrong. I jumped out of the bed quickly and went out to make sure. I saw a fire coming out of my neighbour’s kitchen. Then I shouted "Fire! Fire!" But no one in the neighbourhood heard my shouts for help.
I ran into my house, called the fire department (消防队) and went back to my neighbour’s house. I banged（猛敲）on the door and called out my neighbour’s name, but there was no answer. Finally I got into the house and rescued a cat and a dog.
I tried to pour water through the kitchen window but it was no use. It was a big fire. Luckily, the firemen arrived soon and stopped the fire.
When my neighbour came back, he was sad for his kitchen but he thanked me for calling the fire department and for saving his pets. He wanted to give me some money but I did not accept it.
Weeks later, my neighbour had a new kitchen. He invited me to see his new kitchen and we enjoyed a big meal there. It made me very happy.
1. When did the fire happen?| A．In the morning. | B．In the afternoon. | C．At noon. | D．At night. |
| A．In his bedroom. | B．In his kitchen. |
| C．In his neighbour’s kitchen. | D．In his neighbour’s living room. |
| A．saw | B．called | C．thanked | D．saved |
| A．His pets. | B．His kitchen. | C．The firemen. | D．The fire department. |
| A．He gave the writer some money. | B．He gave the writer his pet dog. |
| C．He invited the writer to a big meal. | D．He asked the writer to see a movie. |
【推荐2】June 5th is World Environment Day. This makes us pay more attention to our environment. When Wang Boxuan, a Beijing high school student, uses up his exercise books, he does not throw them away. Each one is kept at his school with hundreds of exercise books that are given by other students. Then they are sold to a Beijing paper-making factory.
The paper is recycled and used again by students and teachers in the school. At the same time, the money that is made from the sales goes to schools in Inner Mongolia（内蒙古）. The government there uses the money to plant more trees and grass. This place is one of the sources（源头）of the sandstorms（沙尘暴）that often attack Beijing during springtime.
Wang’s school is one of the schools in the capital that take part in the “green promise” environmental protection activity. So far, nearly 210,000 students have taken part in the activity, collecting more than 87 tons of waste paper.
1. Wang Boxuan and his schoolmates ________ waste exercise books.| A．throw away | B．keep and sell | C．cut up | D．give away |
| A．buy new exercise books | B．help poor students | C．plant trees and grass | D．be kept |
| A．many years from now, students will have no exercise books to use |
| B．many years from now, there will be no waste paper |
| C．many years from now, the sandstorms will be less serious in Beijing |
| D．many years from now, Beijing will be much dirtier |
| A．June 15th | B．July 15th | C．June 5th | D．July 5th |
| A．The paper is recycled and used again by students and teachers in the school. |
| B．So far, all students have taken part in the activity, collecting more than 87 tons of waste paper. |
| C．At the same time, the money that is made from the sales goes to schools in Beijing. |
| D．Each one is kept at his school with few exercise books that are given by other students. |
1. Miss Liu is______.
| A．a Chinese teacher | B．very old |
| C．an English teacher | D．not good |
| A．26 | B．40 | C．24 | D．50 |
| A．at work | B．at home |
| C．all happy | D．in the classroom |
| A．Miss Liu | B．Lucy and Simon |
| C．Sam and Mike | D．Jim and Bill |
| A．like Miss Liu | B．are running |
| C．are playing games | D．are jumping |
【推荐1】Two children stood outside the door with old coats. “Any old papers, Lady?” asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say no, but I saw that their shoes were broken and wet. “Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot tea.” They came in, saying nothing. Their shoes left snow on the floor. I gave them tea and bread to protect them from the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started my housework again.
The silence in the front room surprised me. I looked in.
The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked me in a low voice, “Lady, are you rich?”
Am I rich? Oh, no! I looked at my old things in my room.
The girl put her cup back in its saucer (茶碟) carefully. “Your cups match (匹配) your saucers.”
They left then, holding their papers against the wind. They hadn’t said thank you. They didn’t need to. They had done more than that. The blue cups and saucers were simple. But they said that they matched. The potatoes and meat before me, a roof over our hands, my husband with a job-these things matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The prints of their small shoes were still wet on my floor. I let them be. I wanted them there to remind (提醒) me how rich I was.
1. The writer let the two children in ________.| A．to offer them some warm clothes | B．to serve them tea and food |
| C．to sell them some old papers | D．to show them how rich she was |
| A．the writer was in fact not very rich |
| B．the children took away many old papers |
| C．the writer’s husband was out of work |
| D．the two children were looking for a job |
| A．it was snowing outside when the story happened |
| B．the two children thanked the writer and then left |
| C．the two children were not polite to the writer |
| D．the writer had a set of new furniture in her house |
| A．I dislike them | B．I didn’t want to see them |
| C．I cleaned them | D．I left them there |
| A．Any Old Papers? | B．Matching Cups and Saucers |
| C．Are You Rich? | D．Two Poor Children |
【推荐2】Five years ago, I worked for a few weeks as a doctor in a new dental clinic (牙医诊所) at Victor Harbour, to the south of Adelaide and an hour further away than my usual workplace. My first day there was a rush-driving to a new clinic and getting used to the clinical environment.
As it was all new to me, I took off my rings: my wedding ring, and one that was a gift from my husband. I put them in tissue (纸巾) and placed them beside my computer.
During my lunch break, I noticed the tissue and thought that it did not look very clean and threw it into the rubbish bin. I went about my work and my day went well; I met new patients and felt that I had been doing well at work.
Driving home at the end of the day, just moments before I reached my house, I noticed that my rings were missing. I felt heat in my body rise, my face burning red. I felt sick to my stomach.
I spent an hour or so making calls, trying to find my rings. The first people I called were my manager and clinical leader and they gave me a few phone numbers for cleaners. I got in touch with a lady who managed the cleaning service for the clinic, and she told me that the bins had already been collected.
I knew nothing could be done now. I had lost my rings. But after two hours or so, I received the most amazing phone call. The cleaner had gone through the bins and found my rings! I was so thankful to her who had taken the trouble to go through the bins—which is not a pleasant task—to find my priceless rings.
I worked at that clinic the following day, so I bought chocolates to thank this wonderful person. Unluckily, I did not get to meet her as she was not at work that day.
1. From the passage, we know the writer ________.| A．had a serious stomachache | B．made mistakes during work |
| C．threw her rings away carelessly | D．failed to finish her work in time |
| A．Tiring and boring. | B．Busy but good. |
| C．Disorganized but creative. | D．Relaxing and exciting. |
a. The writer received the most amazing phone call.
b. The writer bought chocolates to thank the cleaner.
c. The writer met new patients and did very well at work.
d The writer called her manager and clinical leader for help.
| A．c-d-a-b | B．c-d-b-a | C．a-c-b-d | D．a-d-b-c |
| A．Smiles can warm people up. | B．Strangers are usually of little help. |
| C．An act of kindness can mean a lot. | D．Where there is a will, there is a way. |
【推荐3】Little Women
Chapter I Four sisters
“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents, “ grumbled (嘀咕) Jo, lying on the rug (地毯) .
It’s so awful to be poor!” agreed Meg, looking down at her old dress.
“It’s not right for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and others to have nothing at all.” added little Amy, with a sad sniff (轻哼) .
“We’ve got father and mother and each other,” said Beth gently.
The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly. “We haven’t got father, and shall not have him for a long time. She didn’t say “perhaps never”, but each silently added it, thinking of father far away at the war in the South.”
Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said. “Mother advised not having any presents this Christmas because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we shouldn’t spend money for pleasure when our men are suffering (受难) in the army. We can’t do much, but we can make our little effort, and ought to do it gladly. But I am afraid I don’t.” Meg shook her head, thinking regretfully of all the pretty things she wanted.
“But I don’t think the little we should spend would do any good,” said Jo. “We’ve each got a dollar, and that won’t help the army much. I agree not to expect anything from mother or you. Let’s each buy ourselves what we want and have a little fun. We work hard to earn it.”
“I do, teaching those tiresome children nearly all day when I really want to enjoy myself at home.” complained Meg.
“You don’t have half such a hard time as I do.” said Jo. “How would you like to be shut up for hours with a nervous, fussy old lady, who is never happy, and worries you till you’re ready to fly out of the window or cry?”
“It’s naughty to fret: but I do think washing dishes and keeping things tidy is the worst work in the world. It makes me cross; and my hands get so stiff (僵硬的) to practice my music.” Beth looked at her rough hands with a sigh that anyone could hear.
“I don’t believe any of you suffer as I do.” cried Amy. “for you don’t have to go to school with rude girls, who laugh at your lessons or your dresses and say bad words because your father isn’t rich.”
1. According to the passage, who is the most pessimistic (悲观的) and who is the most optimistic (乐观的)?| A．Meg: Beth | B．Jo: Amy | C．Meg: Amy | D．Beth: Jo |
| A．Their father died when he was fighting with others. |
| B．The passage is a story about three girls and a boy in a family. |
| C．Their father is away at the war. leaving them at home with their mother. |
| D．The four children in the passage all work and make their own money. |
| A．Meg. | B．Jo. | C．Amy. | D．Beth. |
| A．They all agreed to the suggestion of not having any Christmas gifts. |
| B．They all agreed to save the money and buy a gift for each other. |
| C．They all agreed that giving the money to the army was of much help. |
| D．They all agreed that giving the money to the army was of little help. |
