1 . Once an old man went to see a doctor. The doctor looked him over carefully and said,“ Medicine won’t help you. You must have a good rest. Go to bed early, drink milk, walk a lot and smoke one cigar (雪茄烟) a day. Go to the country place for a month.”
After a month the man came to the doctor again,“ How are you?” said the doctor. “ I’m glad to see you again. You look much younger” “Oh, doctor! I feel quite well now,” said the man “I had a good rest. I went to bed early, drank a lot of milk and walk a lot. Your advice certainly helped me, but that you told me to smoke one cigar a day almost killed me first.”
1. The doctor told the man ________| A．to go to bed early | B．to drink milk | C．to walk a lot | D．all above |
| A．The doctor told the man to visit a beautiful city of the country for a month. |
| B．The doctor didn’t tell him what to do. |
| C．After a month, the old man felt better. |
| D．The old man was younger than before after a month. |
| A．to get worse | B．to smoke less than before |
| C．to help him | D．to start smoking |
2 . When I was little, my mom put her love into making traditional Chinese soups for me. I’m talking Ching bo leung (清凉补), with a lot of herbal(中草药的) ingredients that give the soup a
As a kid, I never
First, she would state all the health benefits that the soup has.
“How can this strange water improve my
Then, she’d tell me it tasted
Lastly, she’d bribe (贿赂) me with a piece of candy.
And somehow that would
I
She’d always say, “I
When I was young, I
But as I got older, I
Recently, I recalled (回忆起) this
My daughter was
I told her, “Because I love eating them.”
1.| A．good | B．real | C．strange | D．natural |
| A．enjoyed | B．minded | C．regretted | D．stopped |
| A．teach | B．promise | C．allow | D．encourage |
| A．skill | B．grade | C．health | D．situation |
| A．common | B．different | C．cheap | D．cold |
| A．disappear | B．work | C．happen | D．increase |
| A．advise | B．forget | C．begin | D．avoid |
| A．wondered | B．understood | C．realized | D．explained |
| A．buy | B．prepare | C．stand | D．find |
| A．keep | B．love | C．imagine | D．consider |
| A．honestly | B．hardly | C．secretly | D．eagerly |
| A．doubted | B．hoped | C．agreed | D．knew |
| A．dream | B．plan | C．memory | D．show |
| A．threw | B．cut | C．planted | D．ate |
| A．angry | B．surprised | C．excited | D．ready |
My father and I disagreed about my curfew (晚间在家的时间). He would say I had to be in by 9:30 on weekdays, and 11:00 on weekends, and there was no exception. One day, I took courage to first show my opinion on my curfew. I told him it made me feel like a junior high school kid. He explained that though a curfew might sound like a restriction, it was really about people looking out for one another.
The very next Friday after that exchange, my dad and I had tickets to see our own town’s professional football game. On that day he was driving his car to a nearby city to meet some major clients and told me that his getting home and our leaving for the game would be tight.
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I was beside myself with extreme anxieties, assuming the worst had happened.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The heavy stone in my heart finally fell to the ground.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4 . An expensive car speeding down the main street of a small town was soon caught up with by a young motorcycle policeman. As he started to make out the ticket, the woman behind the wheel said proudly, “Before you go any further, young man, I think you should know that the mayor of this city is a good friend of mine.” The officer did not say a word, but kept writing. “I am also a friend of chief of police Barens,” continued the woman, getting more angry each moment. Still he kept on writing. “Young man,” she persisted, “I know Judge Lawson and State Senator (参议员) Patton.” Handing the ticket to the woman, the officer asked pleasantly , “Tell me, do you know Bill Bronson.”
“Why, no,” she answered.
“Well, that is the man you should have known,” he said, heading back to his motorcycle, “I am Bill Bronson.”
1. The policeman stopped the car because ________.| A．it was an expensive car |
| B．the driver was a proud lady |
| C．the driver was driving beyond the speed limit |
| D．the driver was going to make trouble for the police |
| A．the policeman didn’t know her friends |
| B．the policeman didn’t accept her kindness |
| C．the policeman was going to punish her |
| D．she didn’t know the policeman’s name |
| A．an honourable fellow | B．a stupid fellow | C．an impolite man | D．a shy man |
| A．had no sense of humor (幽默) | B．had sense of humor |
| C．had no sense of duty | D．was senseless |
5 . My great-grandfather, my grandfather and my father are all farmers. My father expects me to become a farmer and
Three years ago, my father took me to an airport to visit one of his friends. His friend
Since then, if I had time, my father’s friend would teach me how to fly. He
At the age of 18, I had to tell my father what I wanted to do but I didn’t want to make him
| A．respect | B．join | C．remember | D．believe |
| A．introduced | B．examined | C．needed | D．owned |
| A．real | B．special | C．huge | D．popular |
| A．ordered | B．allowed | C．forced | D．trained |
| A．return to | B．look at | C．think about | D．care for |
| A．problem | B．custom | C．challenge | D．goal |
| A．even | B．still | C．never | D．already |
| A．for | B．through | C．after | D．against |
| A．sick | B．worried | C．angry | D．excited |
| A．waited | B．followed | C．left | D．ran |
| A．plan | B．love | C．excuse | D．explanation |
| A．terrible | B．amazing | C．important | D．encouraging |
| A．silence | B．sadness | C．surprise | D．anger |
| A．counting | B．searching | C．saving | D．changing |
| A．different | B．strange | C．lost | D．deep |
6 . Mr. Read was born in a small village with high mountains all around it. He has few fields and he can’t get enough food for his family. He’s often worried about it. So he works harder and harder and tries his best to get more money.
One afternoon, Mr. Read went out to look for some grass for his cows. It was very hot and he had to have a swim. Suddenly he saw a big tortoise in the water. He swam there and caught it. The next morning he went to the town to sell it in the markets. When he was walking in the street, a car hit him down and he was hurt. He was sent to hospital at once. The doctors looked him over and had an operation on him. Two weeks later he felt much better. The doctors were satisfied with the operation and said, “You’ll be fully recovered in a week. We’re sure you can write when you leave hospital.”
“It’s really a miracle (奇迹)!” shouted Mr. Read,“I could neither read nor write before!”
1. The Reads have little food because ________ .| A．they live in a small village |
| B．they have few fields |
| C．they’re too lazy to work |
| D．nobody would help them to get money |
| A．he wanted to get some grass in the water |
| B．he wanted to look for a tortoise in the water |
| C．he wanted to have a good rest in the water |
| D．he wanted to have a swim |
| A．head | B．leg |
| C．right hand | D．left hand |
| A．完全覆盖 | B．全部找回 |
| C．恢复疲劳 | D．恢复健康 |
| A．he did a very successful operation |
| B．the farmer was lucky enough to write after the operation |
| C．the accident helped the farmer to write |
| D．he taught the farmer to write while he was staying in hospital |
Jan Tchamani, an English teacher in the UK, had to quit her job due to her serious illness. At age 50, she found herself out of work and
Jan has started taking online classes
Do you think Jan’s life has been improved greatly by the Internet?
8 . One day when I was 5, my mother scolded (责骂) me for not finishing my breakfast and I got angry. I wanted to play outside and not to be made to finish eating my breakfast. When angrily opening the screen door with my foot, I kicked back about a 12-inch part of the lower left hand corner of the new screen door. But I had no remorse, for I was happy to be playing in the backyard with my toys.
Today, I know if my child had done what I did, I would have scolded my child, and told him about how expensive this new screen door was, and I would have delivered a spanking (打屁股) for it. My parents never said a word. They left the corner of the screen door pushed out, creating an opening, a breach (裂缝) in the defense against unwanted insects.
For years, every time I saw that corner of the screen, it would constantly make me think about my mistake. For years, I knew that everyone in my family would see that hole and remember who did it. For years, every time I saw a fly buzzing (嗡嗡) in the kitchen, I would wonder if it came in through the hole that I had created with my angry foot. I would wonder if my family members were thinking the same thing, silently blaming me every time a flying insect entered our home, making life more terrible for us all. My parents taught me a valuable lesson, one that a spanking or stern (严厉的) words perhaps could not deliver. Their silent punishment for what I had done delivered a hundred stern messages to me. Above all, it has helped me become a more patient person and not burst out so easily.
1. When the author damaged the door, his parents ________.| A．gave him a spanking |
| B．left the door unrepaired |
| C．scolded him for what he had done |
| D．told him how expensive it was |
| A．regret | B．joy | C．anger | D．notice |
| A．to hide his anger away from others |
| B．not to go against his parents’ will |
| C．to have a better control of himself |
| D．not to make mistakes in the future |
| A．Adults should ignore their children’s bad behavior. |
| B．Parents are the best teachers of their children. |
| C．Patience is the key to becoming a better person. |
| D．One learns most when shown the result of his/her action. |
9 . My dad has watermelon-size muscles and enormous hands as if he’s always wearing baseball gloves. He doesn’t seem like the kind of person who bakes great bread, but he does. Every Saturday he bakes silently by himself. When he’s done, the whole house smells delicious. The rest of the week, he’s a car mechanic whose job involves complex lifting, tightening, shaking and hitting. People tend to think of cars as metallic members of the family, and Dad seldom lets them down.
I kind of understand Dad’s baking routine. Though he’s into the work, customers’ expectation and understaffing weigh him down. When working on the dough (生面团) he returns to a life of ease.
I had been feeling stressed out myself since I didn’t qualify for the swim team. I would have to wait a whole year, which was like a million years. I thought Dad had found that. He asked me how things were going last Saturday. I said OK. He looked at me for a moment, said it was time for me to help and headed to the kitchen.
Surprised though, I followed him. Dad took out his mixing bowl, telling me to mix materials while he added them. He isn’t big on measuring, knowing instinctively (凭直觉) how much to use. The bread is always great. Then he showed me how to process the dough — repeatedly stretching, pounding and folding it. It took ten minutes and a surprising amount of energy to finish. But what came next was harder and more surprising — doing nothing. We put the dough back into the bowl. It took an hour to rise. Then we pressed and stretched it, put it into pans and waited another hour for it to double. “It’s hard to resist putting the dough directly into the oven, but if you do, the bread will be tough,” Dad explained.
When the dough rose at its own pace, time seemed to slow down. We could do nothing to speed that. As I accepted that, I stopped watching the clock and started enjoying the time. My father taught me how to bake, but I learned something more — appreciate the slow pace of time and let the bread rise.
1. What can we learn about the author’s father?| A．He is not talkative. | B．He enjoys playing baseball. |
| C．He is expert at his work. | D．He doesn’t like fixing cars. |
| A．To get relaxed. | B．To kill the time. |
| C．To pursue his hobby. | D．To learn a new skill. |
| A．Measuring materials. | B．Waiting for the dough to rise. |
| C．Processing the dough. | D．Controlling the temperature of the oven. |
| A．Secrets of Baking | B．Influence of My Father |
| C．A Bread Lesson | D．A Surprising Leisure Time |
10 . One of the luckiest things in life is that someone offers help when you are in need. Such warm stories happen these days in our city.
We’ve never depended on deliverymen for our daily needs so heavily as we do now, when we work from home to stop the spread of the COVID-19. Some of the deliverymen were afraid that they would not be able to come out to work the next day if they went home and found an overnight lockdown (封锁) in their communities. So they chose to sleep under overpasses (天桥) or on park benches. Photos of them sleeping in those outdoor places were put online. The next day, the government took action and offered them free places to live in either at hotels, at schools or at courier stations (快递站).
Another recent case that shows ordinary people are cared for was about a bun (面包) seller. The man left a message below a post on the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission (市健康委员会)’s WeChat account. He said he had trouble running his store because of the recent spread of the COVID-19. Community workers in his area paid him a visit to see what they could do to help. On the night of the same day, the man received an unexpected large order from his community.
There is a long list of such small acts of kindness in almost every corner of the city. It tells us love and care is powerful to help us overcome the difficulties.
1. What does the underlined word “they” refer to?| A．stories | B．companies | C．communities | D．deliverymen |
| A．Their companies stopped them from going home. |
| B．They would like to come out to work the next day. |
| C．They wanted to stop the spread of the COVID-19. |
| D．They discovered a lockdown in their communities. |
| A．In hospitals. | B．At schools. |
| C．Under overpasses. | D．On park benches. |
| A．The community workers gave him a phone call. |
| B．The community workers left a message to him. |
| C．His community made an unexpected large order. |
| D．His community offered him free places to live in. |
| A．To tell us love and care can help us get through hard times. |
| B．To invite us to do some voluntary work when we have time. |
| C．To ask people to take action to fight against the COVID-19. |
| D．To encourage more people to help the deliverymen in need. |
