1. Where does this conversation probably take place?
| A．In a zoo. | B．In a supermarket. | C．In an amusement park. |
| A．A white shirt. | B．Black shorts. | C．A black T-shirt. |
| A．Make an announcement. | B．Go to the police station. | C．Search for the boy. |
2 . One day Marilla said, “Anne, your new teacher, Miss Stacy, spoke to me yesterday. She says you must study for the examinations for Queen’s College in two years’ time. Then if you do well, you can study at Queen’s in Charlottetown for a year, and after that you’ll be a teacher!”
“That doesn’t matter, Anne. When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago, we decided to look after you as well as we could. Of course, we’ll pay for you to study.” So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school, and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work. Diana didn’t want to go to Queen’s, so she went home early, but Gilbert stayed. He and Anne still never spoke and everybody knew that they were enemies, because they both wanted to be first in the examination. Secretly, Anne was sorry that she and Gilbert weren’t friends, but it was too late now.
For two years, Anne studied hard at school. She enjoyed learning, and Miss Stacy was pleased with her. But she didn’t study all the time. In the evenings and at weekends she visited her friends, or walked through the fields with Diana, or sat talking to Matthew.
“Your Anne is a big girl now. She’s taller than you,” Rachel Lynde told Marilla one day. “You’re right, Rachel!” said Marilla in surprise.
“And she’s a very good girl now, isn’t she? She doesn’t get into trouble these days. I’m sure she helps you a lot with the housework, Marilla.”
“Yes, I don’t know what I’d do without her,” said Marilla, smiling.
“And look at her! Those beautiful grey eyes, and that red-brown hair! You know, Marilla, I thought you and Matthew made a mistake when you adopted her. But now I see I was wrong. You’ve looked after her very well.”
“Well, thank you, Rachel,” replied Marilla, pleased.
That evening, when Matthew came into the kitchen, he saw that his sister was crying.
“What’s the matter?” he asked, surprised. “You haven’t cried since… well, I can’t remember when.” “It’s just… well, I was thinking about Anne,” said Marilla. “I’ll…I’ll miss her w hen she goes away.” “When she goes to Queen’s, you mean? Yes, but she can come home at weekends, on the train.”
“I’ll still miss her,” said Marilla sadly.
In June the Avonlea boys and girls had to go to Charlottetown to take their examinations.
“Oh, I do hope that I’ve done well,” Anne told Diana when she arrived back at Green Gables. “The examinations were very difficult. And I’ve got to wait for three weeks before I know! Three weeks! I’ll die!”
Anne wanted to do better than Gilbert. But she also wanted to do well for Matthew and Marilla. That was very important to her.
Diana was the first to hear the news, she ran into the kitchen at Green Gables and shouted, “Look, Anne! It’s in Father’s newspaper! You’re first… with Gilbert… out of all the students on the island! Oh, how wonderful!” Anne took the paper with shaking hands, and saw her name, at the top of the list of two hundred. She could not speak.
“Well, now, I knew it,” said Matthew with a warm smile.
“You’ve done well, I must say, Anne,” said Marilla, who was secretly very pleased.
For the next three weeks Anne and Marilla were very busy. Anne needs new dresses to take to Charlottetown.
1. Why are Anne and Gilbert enemies?| A．Because they were competitors in school. | B．Because they didn’t like each other. |
| C．Because it wasn’t mentioned in the passage. | D．Because their parents were enemies. |
| A．paragraph ③ and ④ | B．paragraph ⑦ and ⑧ |
| C．paragraph ① and ② | D．paragraph ⑨ and ⑩ |
| A．Anne’s summer holiday. | B．What will Anne talk about her college life with Diana |
| C．How will Miss Stacy help Anne study. | D．What will Anne do before attending college. |
| A．Anne studied day and night. |
| B．Rachel was a teacher of Anne’s. |
| C．Marilla cried because Anne would leave forever. |
| D．When Anne became a teacher, she would have lived in the family for six years. |
3 . My first job at KCRW was Ruth Seymour’s assistant. Soon after, I became Assistant General Manager and worked closely with her for 16 years. Therefore, I have had the opportunity to observe her and the enormous impact she had on KCRW and the other radio stations.
Ruth did nothing conventionally and nothing she created was a reaction to anything. She created KCRW not to gain the most listeners or to win any awards but to be an intellectual force for arts, culture and smart ideas. She wanted to start the conversation, not just contribute to it.
Ruth had the highest artistic standards, which is why KCRW aired radio dramas like the 10-hour Babbitt and 30-hour Ulysses. She created Jewish Short Stories From Eastern Europe and Beyond in two audio collections that featured famous actors reading the work of Jewish authors like Sholem Aleichem, Philip Roth and Isaac Bashevis Singer. KCRW sold more of those collections than anything else in our history.
Ruth went to a newsstand every day and read articles from New York Times, word for word, on the air at noon because ordinary people couldn’t easily get that paper then. She discovered people who matched her intellect at dinners or parties and gave them on-air shows on journalism, literature, film, art, theater, travel, dance or music.
She said it best, “I wanted to do the program as an act of love and respect.”
When she came to KCRW in 1977, she found herself building the station in a junior high classroom right off the playground. Now KCRW could be heard across Los Angeles. Most powerfully, the radio format (总体安排) she created continues to be used by radio stations — news of the day, debates of ideas, art, artists, food, literature and film.
Outspoken and fearless women leaders were rare in the 1960s and 1970s — in fact, women couldn’t get credit cards apart from their husbands until 1974 — which is why her achievements are so singular.
1. Why did Ruth broadcast Ulysses and Babbitt?| A．The listeners loved them. |
| B．They were award-winning works. |
| C．The authors were her friends. |
| D．They were artistically important. |
| A．Ruth’s widely-felt influence |
| B．Ruth’s hard working conditions. |
| C．Inspiration of Ruth’s programs. |
| D．The variety of Ruth’s radio formats. |
| A．Strange. | B．Reproducible. | C．Remarkable. | D．Lasting. |
| A．By making comparisons. | B．By listing examples. |
| C．By following time order. | D．By conducting surveys. |
1. How did the woman’s parents know each other?
| A．Her father’s boss introduced them. |
| B．They worked in the same place. |
| C．Her father called her mother by mistake. |
| A．Beautiful. | B．Humorous. | C．Romantic. |
Cindy nervously glanced at the clock on the kitchen wall. Five minutes before midnight. Her parents were still out there celebrating their 15th anniversary.
“They should be home any time now,” she thought as she put the finishing touches on the chocolate cake. It was the first time in her 12 years she had tried to make a cake from zero, and to be honest, it wasn’t exactly an artistic success. The cake was... well, lumpy. And the coating was bitter, as if she had run out of sugar or something which, of course, she had.
And then there was the way the kitchen looked. Imagine a huge blender(食物搅拌器) filled with all the stuff needed for chocolate cake -including the bowls, plates and tools. Now imagine that the blender is turned on. High speed. With the cover off.
Do you get the idea?
But Cindy wasn’t thinking about the mess. She was anxious for her parents to return home from their date so she could present her anniversary gift to them. Picturing her parents’ surprised faces when they saw the cake, she could feel a wave of excitement washing over her. She turned off the kitchen lights and waited excitedly in the darkness, hoping to give her parents a big surprise. Time seemed to her to be crawling with feet of lead while she anxiously awaited her parents’ arrival. When at last she saw the flash of the car headlights, she positioned herself in the kitchen doorway, her heart thumping like a drum. By the time she heard the key sliding into the front door, she was THIS CLOSE to exploding.
Assuming Cindy was already sound asleep, her parents tried to steal in quietly, but Cindy would have none of that. She turned on the lights dramatically and trumpeted “Ta-daaa!” She gestured grandly toward the kitchen table, where a slightly off-balance chocolate cake awaited their inspection.
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Paragraph 1: But her mother’s eyes never made it all the way to the cake.
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Paragraph 2: “Wow, look at the beautiful chocolate cake,” her father exclaimed.
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| A．Store staff and customer. | B．Policeman and lost kid. | C．Brother and sister. |
7 . At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. The airline had announced her plane’s
She said, “Daddy, our life together has been more than enough. Your
I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to
Saying that brought back memories I had of expressing my love and
“Why is this a forever good-bye?” I asked.
“I am old and she lives too far away. And the
“When you were saying good-bye I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough’. What does that mean?”
He began to smile. “That’s a wish that has been
“When we said ‘I wish you enough’, we wanted you to have a life filled with enough good things to
“I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest
He then began to
| A．leaving | B．arrival | C．delay | D．cancel |
| A．grocery | B．wealth | C．reward | D．love |
| A．disturb | B．evaluate | C．shelter | D．pursue |
| A．temporary | B．separate | C．blank | D．forever |
| A．sympathy | B．appreciation | C．approval | D．greatness |
| A．precise | B．numerous | C．limited | D．wasted |
| A．Naturally | B．Gradually | C．Unexpectedly | D．Hopefully |
| A．dream | B．secret | C．chance | D．reality |
| A．carried out | B．handed down | C．worn down | D．sorted out |
| A．in detail | B．in action | C．on purpose | D．with regret |
| A．access | B．host | C．label | D．support |
| A．history | B．text | C．memory | D．childhood |
| A．sadness | B．misfortune | C．joy | D．mistake |
| A．abandon | B．possess | C．wonder | D．expect |
| A．smile | B．weep | C．freeze | D．shout |
1. Why does the author make this speech?
| A．To tell how to bond with family members. |
| B．To introduce how to organize a surprising picnic. |
| C．To explain why listening and caring are important. |
| A．Excited. | B．Worried. | C．Calm. |
| A．He organizes picnics every Wednesday. |
| B．He prepares regular lunch for his daughters. |
| C．He enjoys sitting outside the front steps of the house. |
| A．A picnic is sure to help form good family relationships. |
| B．Spending time together makes little difference to their kids. |
| C．It’s worthwhile to do small yet special things with their kids. |
My dad worked in construction. His day started early and ended late. All he wanted to do was crash on the couch and relax when he got home. For the most part that was what he did. No one complained; we were just happy when he was home.
But one hot and muggy summer, when my parents’ nineteenth anniversary was coming up, they made plans to go out, just the two of them. The big day finally arrived and Dad got home at seven. Mom had fed me early. She was dressed in her finest and wearing her favorite pair of high heels when he came in. He came through the kitchen and headed for the family room. It was obvious he was hot and tired.
“Honey, I just need a thirty-minute nap and then we will go out to eat,” he said as he sat down on the couch. Mom was already on her way over to the couch to give him a fresh cup of hot coffee. She bent over and kissed him on the head and said, “I’ll be ready whenever you are.”
I knew how important this evening was to my mother, but before long Dad was fast asleep. Then I watched my mother do the strangest thing. She reached into the refrigerator and took out eggs and bacon. Soon she had a batch of biscuits baking in the oven.
Before my eyes she piled a plate full of his favorite foods. As she set another fresh cup of coffee on the end table she bent down and kissed him while whispering in his ear. “It’s time to wake up.”
He sat up on the edge of the couch. As he looked up he found my mom standing in front of him with his dinner. “Honey, I promised you I would take you out to dinner and I meant it.” he said sincerely.
Mom sat down beside him on the couch as he took the plate of food. She said, “I know you would, but I also know you’ve had a hard day and you’re tired. What’s important is that we are together. We can go out any time for dinner.”
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My dad sat there, holding the plate of dinner prepared by my mom.
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Suddenly, the doorbell rang and I knew my special package for them came.
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10 . One thing my dad is good at is holding a grudge (怨恨). For most of my teen years, he didn’t
When I was nineteen, I got a
My dad had had a brain aneurysm (动脉瘤) and ended up in hospital for quite a while. My uncle
Thankfully, my dad
| A．hear from | B．speak to | C．agree with | D．think of |
| A．conflicts | B．vacations | C．businesses | D．functions |
| A．annoyed | B．familiar | C．impressed | D．honest |
| A．far | B．opposite | C．lower | D．same |
| A．letter | B．package | C．call | D．lesson |
| A．picked | B．brought | C．pulled | D．cheered |
| A．luckily | B．apparently | C．naturally | D．unbelievably |
| A．argued | B．stayed | C．chatted | D．bargained |
| A．forced | B．permitted | C．forbade | D．taught |
| A．refused | B．blessed | C．supported | D．blamed |
| A．ever | B．even | C．almost | D．never |
| A．calmed down | B．started over | C．pulled through | D．turned up |
| A．experience | B．relationship | C．discussion | D．conversation |
| A．close | B．modest | C．mature | D．similar |
| A．courage | B．confidence | C．patience | D．forgiveness |
