1 . It had been a long drive to the Veteran’s hospital. My brother and I had gone to
As I sat by his
That 80-year-old angel reminded me again of what is
A.invite | B.amuse | C.visit | D.watch |
A.refused | B.admitted | C.hurt | D.wounded |
A.family | B.patient | C.nurse | D.doctor |
A.sad | B.small | C.bored | D.calm |
A.work | B.illness | C.failure | D.loneliness |
A.related to | B.strange to | C.far away from | D.different from |
A.bed | B.chair | C.table | D.window |
A.broke | B.walked | C.turned | D.looked |
A.looks | B.strength | C.wealth | D.energy |
A.delivering | B.showing | C.selling | D.collecting |
A.hurt | B.guilty | C.sick | D.bored |
A.forced | B.watched | C.pushed | D.followed |
A.thanked | B.questioned | C.forgave | D.blamed |
A.hand | B.head | C.spirits | D.dreams |
A.love | B.present | C.time | D.information |
A.nurse’s | B.doctor’s | C.patient’s | D.women’s |
A.hard | B.easy | C.initial | D.essential |
A.surprise | B.joy | C.security | D.wonder |
A.within | B.beyond | C.around | D.before |
A.meant | B.ordered | C.asked | D.attracted |
I got the call at work, and I headed home quickly. Mom and Dad lived on a small farm that they had owned since I was seven. I hated going there every weekend. There was nothing for a young girl to do but watch the one station on the old TV set, if the weather allowed reception.
My mom, on the other hand, loved the peace and quiet of the land. The place was rustic, with no indoor plumbing or heat. We had a big wood stove in the kitchen that did its best to heat the little farmhouse, but it always seemed cold and too quiet to me.
In the evenings, my mom and I would sit for hours singing in the little kitchen. I sang the melody and Mom harmonized. Her favorite song was "Moon River" and we sang it over and over. Mom told me stories about how when I was a little girl, I could sing before I could talk.
As time passed, I had my own children and went to visit them every week or two. The kids loved the farm and the tractor rides with my dad. Me, well, I still hated the silence of the farm. While my mom loved to sit at her kitchen table and look out at her garden and flowers and retell all the old stories, I missed the hustle and bustle(喧闹) of my life at home. But I sat there listening quietly as she reminisced.
Now, I sat back in the silence and the silence was deafening so I finally leaned over to turn on an old radio. Music always comforted me.
My heart skipped a beat. “Moon River” was playing on the radio. I sat there stunned, with a tear running down my cheek, as I listened to every familiar note.
Then the radio announcer came on. “Here’s one we haven’t heard in a while,” and an unfamiliar song began. I began to cry harder as I heard the words sung over the airwaves. “Come down, come down from your Ivory Tower…”
1. The writer didn’t like staying in the farm for the following reasons Except that ________.
A.it was too cold and quiet |
B.she could only sing one song in the small farm |
C.there was nothing more that could make her excited |
D.the place was rustic, with no indoor plumbing or heat |
A.left the small farm with Lord |
B.passed away four years ago |
C.left for Lord to live her own way |
D.preferred to be with Lord |
A.shouted | B.comforted |
C.recalled | D.sighed |
A.Mom’s music | B.Cherish(珍惜) life |
C.My happy childhood | D.Our small farmhouse |
When a 14-year-old boy from Atlanta, Georgia disappeared earlier this year, his mother turned to her Smartphone for clues using an app(应用程序) called Family Tracker that helped track his location.
“You can see where your loved ones are without having to call or bother them. ”said Roberto Franceschetti of LogSat, the creators of the Family Tracker, which has more than 100,000 users and is available worldwide.
Parents can track the location of their child on a map, send messages, and even sound an alarm on the phone in a long distance.
“We have an option for the sender to make a very unpleasant, noisy sound. It’s a loud alarm and we repeat that sound every two minutes until the person picks it up, ”he said.
Parents don’t need to own a Smartphone to track their children. The service is also accessible through the web, as long as the phone that is being tracked is running the app.
Family Tracker has an additional service that keeps records of all data from the app for a two-week period, which the company calls GPS breadcrumbs.
“With a subscription(预定), we keep all the locations where people have been on our servers. You can see where your kid has been for the past two weeks. You can find out where someone was at a certain time or when that person was at a specific place, ”Franceschetti explained.
“When somebody gets abducted(劫持), usually whoever does this throws the phone away or takes the battery out. We were hoping that our app would at least provide information on where the person was abducted or where they had been in the past. ”
But will these types of apps let out personal secrets?
“The advantages are huge compared to the disadvantages. Let’s not forget that the person always has to give initial permission—no one can be tracked unless they allow someone to do it. ”said Franceschetti.
1. According to the passage, all of the following about “Family Tracker” are true EXCEPT that __________.
A.it can help parents know where their children are |
B.all parents don’t need to own a Smartphone to track children |
C.parents can use all the services of the app for free |
D.it has little to do with letting out personal secrets |
A.The app will enjoy a great popularity in the future. |
B.The loss of children won’t be a nightmare for parents any more. |
C.The app will repeat the loud alarm continuously whenever parents track children. |
D.The app can keep records of information for more than half a month. |
a. track location b. detect criminals c. send messages
d. protect privacy e. send remote alarm f. record information
A.a, b, c, e | B.a, c, e, f | C.a, c, d, e | D.a, d, e, f |
Years passed and as the man lay in his deathbed, he made a __20__ attempt to reconcile (和解) with his son, but __21__ he would not listen and so the father died with a heart full of __22__.
During this time the son too had a child who had now __23__ into a young adult. To this child he never __24__ his father and when the young man asked about his grandfather he __25__ tell him never to mention him again.
One day, they two were involved in a hot __26__ and his son fled away as he did many years ago. This made the man extremely__27__ and this time he had no __28__, but felt completely isolated. (孤立的)
He was afraid that he would__29__ his son forever and for the first time after many years he realized how his father must have__30__ many years back.
He remembered how he had __31__ his old man and only at that point he realized the extent of the hurt he had caused. The __32__ he thought the more he understood how unjust he was with his old father, the man who gave him everything __33__ his life.
With these sad thoughts he felt __34__ on the couch. The next morning when he opened his eyes he found __35__ lying in his bed and in front of him stood his son. The man could not believe his eyes, and the two hugged each other while they cried together.1.
A.bend | B.predict | C.apologize | D.seek |
A.stop | B.listen | C.chose | D.come |
A.brought about | B.gave up | C.got in | D.made up |
A.if | B.when | C.thought | D.because |
A.final | B.big | C.latest | D.useless |
A.still | B.ever | C.once | D.just |
A.anger | B.curiosity | C.sorrow | D.gratitude |
A.left out | B.grown up | C.put aside | D.turned up |
A.mentioned | B.hid | C.praised | D.forgave |
A.would | B.need | C.must | D.might |
A.imagination | B.room | C.argument | D.discussion |
A.sad | B.confused | C.annoyed | D.afraid |
A.thought | B.pride | C.laugh | D.guess |
A.throw | B.change | C.return | D.lose |
A.felt | B.done | C.watched | D.regretted |
A.hurt | B.abandoned | C.disappointed | D.scolded |
A.better | B.higher | C.more | D.older |
A.before | B.throughout | C.into | D.against |
A.painful | B.frightened | C.relaxed | D.asleep |
A.his father | B.his son | C.someone | D.himself |
As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was seated on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and the trunk of the human body. She was wearing a little white dress with the patterns of red roses and yellow dots.
As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼示意). As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the most beautiful, largest smile I have ever seen
All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. I immediately felt full of hope and confidence. She took me, a poor, unhappy college student, into her world, a world of smiles, love and warmth.
That was ten years ago, but I still remember it clearly as if it happened just yesterday. I'm a successful business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.
1. What was the writer a decade ago?
A.A worker working in a university. |
B.A teacher teaching in a college. |
C.A clerk working in a museum. |
D.A university student who had not yet taken a degree. |
A.Life difficulty. | B.Troublesome problem. |
C.Failure in work. | D.Physical disability. |
A.She felt full of hope. |
B.She was filled with confidence. |
C.She felt unhappy because of poverty. |
D.She felt life was beautiful. |
A.A Disabled Girl. | B.A Disabled Girl’s Smile. |
C.Full of Hope. | D.Full of Confidence. |
A man and his wife were very poor. They kept hoping for new clothes and good food. The man enjoyed eating, and he especially liked cakes. One night an old woman came to their house and told them she would let them have three wishes. They could wish for anything they wanted.
The man had just finished eating a piece of bread for his dinner, but he was still hungry. He said, “I wish I had a big cake!”
Suddenly a cake appeared on his plate.
“You fool!” His wife cried. “You could have wished for a house full of wonderful food, but you wished for a cake. I wish that cake was on the end of your foolish nose! ”
Immediately the cake stuck to the end of his nose.
Then the man and his wife started blaming each other. “It’s your fault!” she man cried. “No, it’s your fault!” she answered. What could they do? The cake was still stuck to the husband’s nose.
“Oh!” the wife cried. “I wish none of this had ever happened!”
Immediately the cake was gone, and the man was saying, “I’m still hungry. How I wish I had some cakes! ”
But of course nothing happened.
1. The man quarreled with his wife because ___.
A.he always enjoyed eating |
B.his wife hoped that he asked for a house |
C.the cake stuck to the end of his nose according to his wife’s wish. |
D.he didn’t want anything except cakes |
A.the man made his wishes before dinner |
B.the wife made two wishes, which worked |
C.the wife wanted her husband to wish for more than a big cake |
D.the man wished that the cake were not on his nose |
A.Because the old lady was angry with them |
B.Because this was the fourth wish. |
C.Because the man had made this wish before. |
D.Because the cake had been gone. |
7 . All the Lortons’ farm animals – the cows and the goats, the ducks and the chickens, got along well with Roger—a llama(美洲驼). But since llamas are used to thinking of animals like coyotes(土狼) and dogs as threats, it took Roger a few weeks to accept the family dog.
Roger protects the sheep and lambs in two ways. First, he keeps the sheep together. A hungry coyote will try to scatter(分散) the flock and then pick off a weak or small animal that has become separated from the rest. But when a coyote threatens the Lorton’s sheep, they all run to Roger, depending on him to defend them.
And he does, with his second defense: confronting(对抗) the coyote. Llamas are very curious and will run at top speed to investigate anything that looks interesting. When a coyote sees a three-hundred-pound llama rushing toward it, the coyote will not usually wait around to see what the llama wants.
And once a llama realizes that a coyote is threatening the flock, the llama will stand between the coyote and the sheep to defend them. Often, the llama will charge toward the coyote with its head down. As it runs, it will sometimes call out an alarm to the flock in a high-pitched voice. Since Roger’s arrival, coyotes haven’t gotten any sheep from the Lortons.
1. The purpose of the passage is to tell us that ________________.A.a llama helps guard sheep |
B.coyotes are sheep’s main enemy |
C.llamas are much smarter than coyotes |
D.some types of dogs can’t protect sheep |
A.protective | B.curious | C.brave | D.patient |
A.scientists studying llamas’ behavior |
B.farmers using a llama to guard sheep |
C.citizens keeping a llama as a pet |
D.businessmen selling llamas to farmers |
The other sailors were very
A.on | B.for | C.at | D.in |
A.fetched | B.took | C.had | D.got |
A.be | B.was | C.to be | D.being |
A.will be | B.were | C.is | D.should be |
A.look for | B.look in | C.look back | D.look after |
A.got | B.took | C.sent | D.made |
A.other | B.the other | C.another | D.other's |
A.something wrong | B.wrong something | C.anything wrong | D.wrong anything |
A.Before long | B.Once more | C.Suddenly | D.Certainly |
A.to drink some water | B.to eat something | C.to have a rest | D.to do more work |
A.pleased | B.sorry | C.angry | D.surprised |
A.more | B.much | C.lots of | D.little |
A.out | B.at home | C.present | D.appear |
A.At first | B.At the beginning | C.At last | D.At the end |
A.agreement | B.permission | C.permit | D.promise |
A.very | B.much | C.so | D.quite |
A.highest | B.high | C.higher | D.very high |
A.heard | B.heard of | C.realized | D.guessed |
A.cheating | B.cheat | C.cheated | D.to cheat |
A.worked | B.to work | C.work | D.works |