1 . I grew up one of ten children on a farm in Wyoming. After my dad’s service in World War II, he was
On our occasional trips to town, I
When I wasn’t daydreaming, my
Starting at a very young age, my siblings (兄弟姐妹) and I sometimes got jobs to earn money — to put more food on the family table. We
Mom grew vegetables, raised chickens, and baked bread, so we seldom went hungry, even when supper was only a pot of beans.
Hunger motivated my brothers and sisters to achieve much
Now I’m
A.drafted | B.dismissed | C.invited | D.involved |
A.well | B.plenty | C.enough | D.heavily |
A.search | B.provide | C.hope | D.leave |
A.brought | B.checked | C.gave | D.carried |
A.remind | B.help | C.devote | D.find |
A.memory | B.favor | C.possession | D.need |
A.reality | B.fantasy | C.satisfaction | D.affection |
A.refusing | B.pretending | C.attempting | D.preparing |
A.whether | B.how | C.when | D.why |
A.something | B.anything | C.nothing | D.everything |
A.as | B.with | C.for | D.at |
A.sent | B.delivered | C.published | D.released |
A.But | B.And | C.Then | D.Otherwise |
A.above | B.around | C.within | D.beyond |
A.right | B.mean | C.wrong | D.nice |
A.more | B.further | C.greater | D.better |
A.in | B.for | C.of | D.on |
A.ambition | B.dream | C.enthusiasm | D.education |
A.fond | B.proud | C.aware | D.confident |
A.hunger | B.suffering | C.desperation | D.poverty |
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删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
One day, when I lived in Germany, I decided to go shopping and I drive into downtown. I was very pleased because I found out a parking space immediately. It was rather unusual. I did my shopping, that only took half an hour and I went back to my car. To my absolutely horror, it was no longer on the ground but it was in air. I really did not know what to do at that point but I went to the police station. The policeman were very kind to me. They told me I parked into the entrance to a car park and as a result, everybody could get out of the car park. Then I wanted to laugh and cried at the same time. It made me embarrassing.
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧ ),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\ )划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:I.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
When I was seven-years-old, my family drove to the countryside to visit my aunt. At one point, my favorite postcard fly out of the window and was gone, that made me very sad. Short afterwards, we stopped at service station for lunch. I was about to eat my sandwich where a group of bikers pulled into the station. A tall man in grey hair came up to us and asked, “Is that blue car your?” My mom nodded. The man took out my postcard and gave it to my mom. He then returned back to his bicycle. I ran up and thanked him by gave him my sandwich.
4 . One morning, Ann’s neighbor Tracy found a lost dog wandering around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if she could keep an eye on the dog. Ann said that she could watch it only for the day.
Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers (传单), and put them in mailboxes. Meanwhile, Ann went to the dollar store and bought some pet supplies, warning her two sons not to fall in love with the dog. At the time, Ann’s son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was recovering from a heart operation, was 21 years old.
Four days later Ann was still looking after the dog, whom they had started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog threw itself against the screen door and barked madly at her. As soon as she opened the door, Riley dashed into the boys’ room where Ann found Jack suffering from a heart attack. Riley ran over to Jack, but as soon as Ann bent over to help him the dog went silent.
“If it hadn’t come to get me, the doctor said Jack would have died,” Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to claim the dog, so Ann decided to keep it.
The next morning Tracy got a call. A man named Peter recognized his lost dog and called the number on the flier. Tracy started crying, and told him, “That dog saved my friend’s son.” Peter drove to Ann’s house to pick up his dog, and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After a few moments Peter said, “Maybe Odie was supposed to find you, maybe you should keep it.”
1. What did Tracy do after finding the dog?A.She looked for its owner | B.She gave it to Ann as a gift. |
C.She sold it to the dollar store. | D.She bought some food for it. |
A.By breaking the door for Ann. | B.By leading Ann to Jack’s room. |
C.By dragging Jack out of the room. | D.By attending Jack when Ann was out. |
A.Sympathetic | B.Doubtful |
C.Tolerant | D.Grateful |
A.To help her friend’s son. | B.To interview Tracy |
C.To take back his dog. | D.To return the flier to her. |
A.It would be given to Odie. | B.It would be kept by Ann’sfamily. |
C.It would be returned to Peter. | D.It would be taken away by Tracy. |
5 . When I was in middle school, I tried my best to be popular. However, one afternoon, I had a(n)
We were sitting in the dining area of a local restaurant. I told her that I wanted to be
My mother told me a story. My grandmother made her several
At that time, the information was too much for a thirteen-year-old girl to
I thought long and carefully, and then I
The conversation I had with my mother was a
A.appointment | B.conversation | C.celebration | D.argument |
A.popular | B.generous | C.cautious | D.polite |
A.Fortunately | B.Similarly | C.Surprisingly | D.Anxiously |
A.merely | B.suitably | C.completely | D.temporarily |
A.expensive | B.fashionable | C.perfect | D.comfortable |
A.pretended | B.loved | C.refused | D.afforded |
A.weaving | B.drawing | C.wearing | D.selling |
A.trend | B.campaign | C.project | D.fight |
A.shock | B.embarrassment | C.charm | D.benefit |
A.release | B.mix | C.deliver | D.chew |
A.mistaken | B.right | C.rude | D.patient |
A.color | B.light | C.rule | D.shadow |
A.rang | B.shouted | C.shook | D.fled |
A.remembered | B.denied | C.wondered | D.realized |
A.difficulty | B.truth | C.explanations | D.limitation |
A.got rid of | B.fit in with | C.looked back on | D.put up with |
A.upset | B.please | C.hurt | D.honor |
A.respecting | B.regretting | C.caring | D.hating |
A.curious | B.puzzled | C.disappointed | D.relieved |
A.simple | B.creative | C.common | D.valuable |
6 . Following the old saying of “early to bed and early to rise” I used to go to bed at 10 pm and get up early at 6 am to get ready for school. But that day, as it was cloudy, I continued to sleep for long, thinking it to be the early hours of the day.
Suddenly, I heard a loud voice which startled me up and made me sit upright. It was my mother’s voice who was knocking and shouting, “Get up honey. It’s 6:45 am already! You are getting late for school!” As it was a cloudy day, I hadn’t realized that it was almost 7 and continued dozing for long!
But thank fully that day our pick-up person who generally used to come at 6:50 am got late due to the showers and arrived just in the nick of time when I was ready. By the time we reached school it was a quarter to eight and the drizzle from previous night had finally stopped. I entered the classroom fearing the teacher’s anger, but saw only a few students had made it to school. Therefore, the principal declared a holiday. “Hurray!” We all cheered in a chorus at the unexpected holiday and decided to walk back home.
As it had been continuously drizzling since the previous night there was water all over the place and the roads were impassable. Just then, at a distance my sister and I saw little kids playing in knee-deep water in the streets which touched the play button in us. We quickly approached them and merrily jumped and hopped in the pool of water with them. With shoes in our hands we continued parading on the muddy streets. We were thrilled and our hearts were filled with joy at the sight of the green and fresh leaves on the trees; the frogs drew our attention as we tried to catch butterflies.
We finally reached home busily playing and laughing with mud-spattered uniforms and shoes. We hurriedly changed our outfits, washed up and sat watching TV with a bowl of hot soup! No doubt, I thoroughly enjoyed this day and secretly prayed for many such days in the future! To this day when it pours, the memories of that eventful rainy day bring a smile on my face!
1. Which title can best summarize the main idea of the text?A.An Unforgettable Rainy Day | B.When You Are Late for School |
C.Childhood Memories | D.Games We Used to Play |
A.He didn’t set an alarm clock. | B.He didn’t awake at six o'clock. |
C.His mother forgot to remind him. | D.The cloudy weather made him mistake the time. |
A.The teacher was very angry with his being late. |
B.The principal declared a holiday unexpectedly. |
C.All of his classmates were having classes as usual. |
D.He remembered that the school didn’t have classes on that day. |
A.He doesn’t want a rainy day. |
B.The rainbow after rain makes him happy. |
C.That rainy day helped him keep good memories. |
D.He wants to have more rainy days in the future. |
For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s wife tried to strike Mumbet’s sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.
While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.
Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants(后裔). One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founder of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.
Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part: “She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.”
1. What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1?
A.She was born a slave |
B.She was a slaveholder |
C.She had a famous sister |
D.She was born into a rich family |
A.She found an employer |
B.She wanted to be a lawyer |
C.She was hit and got angry |
D.She had to take care of her sister |
A.She should always obey her owners’ orders |
B.She should be as free and equal as whites |
C.How to be a good servant |
D.How to apply for a job |
A.She chose to work for a lawyer |
B.She found the NAACP |
C.She continued to serve the Ashleys |
D.She went to live with her grandchildren |
A.A story of a famous writer and spokesperson |
B.The friendship between a lawyer and a slave |
C.The life of a brave African American woman |
D.A trial that shocked the whole world |
Movie theaters were one of the few places you could sit all day and—most important—sit in air conditioning. In those days, you could buy one ticket and sit through two movies. Then, the theater would show the same two movies again. If you wanted to, you could sit through them twice. Most people did not do that, but the manager at our theater. Mr. Bellow did not mind if you did.
That particular day, my brother and I sat through both movies twice, trying to escape the heat. We bought three bags of popcorn and three sodas each. Then, we sat and watched The Music Man followed by The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. We’d already seen the second movie once before. It had been at the theater since January, because Mr. Bellow loved anything with John Wayne in it.
We left the theater around 8, just before the evening shows began. But we returned the next day and saw the same two movies again, twice more. And we did it the next day too. Finally, on the fourth day, the heat wave broke.
Still, to this day I can sing half the songs in The Music Man and recite half of John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart’s dialogue from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! Those memories are some of the few I have of the heat wave of 1962. They’re really memories of the screen, not memories of my life.
1. In which year did the author first live in a place with an air conditioner?A.1952. | B.1962. | C.1972. | D.1982. |
A.The heat |
B.The theater. |
C.The Music Man |
D.The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
A.He loved children very much. |
B.He was a fan of John Wayne. |
C.He sold air conditioners. |
D.He was a movie star. |
A.The two movies were really wonderful. |
B.They wanted to avoid the heat outside. |
C.The manager of the theater was friendly. |
D.They liked the popcorn and the soda at the theater. |
A.The author turned out to be a great singer. |
B.The author enjoyed the heat wave of 1962. |
C.The author’s life has been changed by the two movies. |
D.The author considers the experience at the theater unforgettable. |