1、 完形填空 One day, when I was working as a psychologist in England, a boy named David 1 in my office. He kept walking up and down restlessly, his face 2 , and his hands shaking slightly. His head teacher had 3 him to me. “This boy has lost his family, ”he wrote. “He is understandably very sad and
2、4 to talk to others. Can you help him? ” I looked at David and showed him to a 5 . How could I help him? There are problems psychology doesn’t have the answer 6 . Sometimes the best thing one can do is 7 openly and sympathetically. The first two times we met, David didn’t say a word. I 8 we play
3、a game of chess. He nodded. After that he played chess with me every Wednesday afternoon—in complete silence and without 9 me. Usually, he arrived 10 than agreed. It seemed as if he enjoyed my 11 . But why did he never look at me? “Perhaps he 12 needs someone to share his pain with, ”I thought.
4、Perhaps he 13 that I respect his suffering. ”Some months later, 14 we were playing chess, he looked up at me suddenly. “It’s your 15 , ”he said. After that day, David started 16 . He got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. Now he had really started to 17 his own life. Maybe I
5、gave David 18 . But I also learned that one—without any words—can 19 to another person. All it 20 is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, and an ear that listens. 【文章大意】本文作者用亲身经受说明, 一个人无需用语言也能触及到另一个人的心灵, 所需要的只不过是一个拥抱, 一个哭泣时可以依靠的肩膀, 一次友好的摩挲和一只情愿倾听的耳朵。 1. A. showed up B. put up C. we
6、nt up D. took up 【解析】选A。词语辨析题。show up毁灭, 露面; put up张贴, 举起; go up爬上, 上升; take up从事, 占据。 2. A. red B. pale C. serious D. angry 【解析】选B。规律推理题。依据上下文, David焦躁地在房间里走来走去, 手略微地颤抖, 可知他的脸色变得苍白。故选B。 3. A. offered B. asked C. referred D. preferred 【解析】选C。习语搭配题。refer sb. to sb. 把某人介绍给某人; Davi
7、d的校长曾经向“我”介绍过David的状况。 4. A. likes B. refuses C. forgets D. decides 【解析】选B。规律推理题。依据后文可知, 由于家庭的变故, David变得缄默寡言, 拒绝与其他人进行沟通。 5. A. book B. note C. pen D. chair 【解析】选D。背景常识题。“我”看了看David, 示意让他坐在椅子上。 6. A. of B. in C. to D. at 【解析】选C。短语搭配题。the answer to sth. ……的答案。 7. A. do B. a
8、sk C. listen D. read 【解析】选C。词汇复现题。依据文章最终一句话可以得出, 此处指有时候敞快乐扉和抱着怜悯心去倾听是能够做的最好的事情。 8. A. thought B. hoped C. demanded D. suggested 【解析】选D。词语辨析题。think认为; hope期望; demand要求; suggest建议, 后接虚拟语气。 9. A. looking for B. listening to C. looking at D. talking of 【解析】选C。词汇复现题。依据下文可知, 最初David和“
9、我”下棋的时候, 没有抬头看“我”一眼。 10. A. later B. earlier C. early D. late 【解析】选B。规律推理题。David格外宠爱和“我”下棋, 故来得比较早。 11. A. companion B. communication C. company D. community 【解析】选C。词语辨析题。David比预定的时间来得早, 好像格外情愿和我在一起。companion伙伴; communication沟通; community社区; company陪伴, 符合题意。 12. A. easily
10、 B. luckily C. immediately D. simply 【解析】选D。规律推理题。“我”认为或许他仅仅需要有人来分担他的苦痛。simply仅仅。 13. A. reacts B. senses C. wishes D. tells 【解析】选B。规律推理题。或许他能感觉我怜悯他。 14. A. when B. after C. before D. since 【解析】选A。规律推理题。几个月之后, 当我们在下象棋的时候, 他突然抬头看我。 15. A. fault B. turn C. help
11、 D. right 【解析】选B。规律推理题。David说轮到我下棋了。 16. A. crying B. reading C. playing D. talking 【解析】选D。规律推理题。依据上文可知, David从最初缄默寡言, 变得开头讲话了。 17. A. devote B. live C. cost D. benefit 【解析】选B。短语搭配题。他开头按自己的方式生活。live. . . life过……的生活。 18. A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing 【解析】
12、选A。规律推理题。或许“我”给了David一些重要的东西。 19. A. put out B. reach out C. arrive at D. come up 【解析】选B。词语辨析题。put out扑灭; arrive at到达; come up走近, 靠近; reach out伸出。一个人无需用语言也能触及到另一个人的心灵。 20. A. gets B. puts C. takes D. shows 【解析】选C。规律推理题。所需要的只不过是一个拥抱……, take需要, 符合题意。 阅读理解。阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A
13、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。 It’s 5:00 in the morning when the alarm (闹钟) rings in my ears. I roll out of bed and walk blindly through the dark into the bathroom. I turn on the light and put on my glasses. The house is still as I walk downstairs while my husband and three kids sleep peacefully. Usually I go
14、for a long run, but today I choose my favorite exercise DVD insanity. Sweat pours down my face and into my eyes. My heart races as I face my body to finish each movement. As I near the end of the exercise, I feel extremely tired, but a smile is of my face. It’s not a smile because the DVD is over, b
15、ut a smile of success from pushing my body to its extreme limit. Some people enjoy shopping, smoking, food, work, or even chocolate. But I need exercise to get through each day. Some shake heads when they see me run through the town. Others get hurt when I refuse to try just one bite of their gra
16、ndmother’s chocolate cake. They raise their eyebrows, surprised by my “no thank you,” or by my choice to have a salad. Over the years, I have learned it’s okay to just say “no.” I shouldn’t feel sorry for refusing food that I don’t want to eat. So what drives me to roll out of bed at 5:00 a.m.? Wha
17、t gives me the reason to just say to ice cream? Commitment. A commitment to change my life with a way that reduces daily anxiety, increases self –confidence and energy, extends life and above all improve my body shape. This is the point where a smile appears on my face as I look at myself in the m
18、irror or try on my favorite pair of jeans that now fit just right. It’s through commitment and sweat that I can make a difference within myself inside and out. ( ) 1.Why is there a smile on the author’s face in the morning? A. Because she sees her family sleeping peacefully. B. Because she finis
19、hes her favorite exercise C. Because she enjoys the interesting DVD D. Because she feels a sense of achievement ( ) 2. Which of the following is true according to Paragraph 2? A. She doesn’t treat others politely B. She likes to make others surprised C. Others don’t understand what she does
20、 D. Others try to help her by offering her food ( ) 3. What does the underlined word “commitment” in the last paragraph mean? A. Good health B. Firm belief C.A strong power D.A regular half ( ) 4. What can we learn about the author from the text? A. She acts in a strange way B. She
21、wants to look different from others C. She aims to develop a good body shape D. She has difficult getting along with others 【答案与解析】 【要点综述】本文叙述了作者不辞辛苦地坚持熬炼,有时还不为他人所理解的故事;她只为自己的坚决信念,即通过熬炼来转变自己。 【参考答案】1---4、DCBC 阅读理解。 Diana Jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for
22、 her 21-year-old twin sons: a combination of savings, income, scholarships, and a modest amount of borrowing. Then her husband lost his job, and the plan fell apart. “I have two kids in college, and I want to say ‘come home,’ but at the same time I want to provide them with a good education,” say
23、s Jacobs. The Jacobs family did work out a solution: They asked and received more aid form the schools, and each son increased his borrowing to the maximum amount through the federal loan (贷款) program. They will each graduate with $20,000 of debt, but at least they will be able to finish school.
24、 With unemployment rising, financial aid administrators expect to hear more families like the Jacobs. More students are applying for aid, and more families expect to need student loans. College administrators are concerned that they will not have enough aid money to go around. At the same tim
25、e, tuition(学费)continues to rise. A report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education found that college tuition and fees increased 439% from 1982 to 2007, while average family income rose just 147%. Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade, “If we go on th
26、is way for another 25years, we won’t have an affordable system of higher education,” says Patrick M. Callan, president of the center. “The middle class families have been financing it through debt. They will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt.” Fina
27、ncial aid administrators have been having a hard time as many companies decide that student loans are not profitable enough and have stopped making them. The good news, however, is that federal loans account for about three quarters of student borrowing, and the government says that money will flow
28、uninterrupted. 1. According to Paragraph 1, why did the plan of Jacobs family fail? A. The twins wasted too much money. B. The father was out of work. C. Their saving ran out. D. The family fell apart. 2. How did the Jacobs manage to solve their problem? A. They asked their ki
29、ds to come home. B. They borrowed $20,000 from the school. C. They encouraged their twin sons to do part-time jobs. D. They got help from the school and the federal government. 3. Financial aid administrators believe that _______. A. more families will face the same problem as the Jacobses B.
30、the government will receive more letters of complaint C. college tuition fees will double soon D. America’s unemployment will fall 4.What can we learn about the middle class families from the text? A. They blamed the government for the tuition increase. B. Their income remained steady in the la
31、st decade. C. They will try their best to send kids to college. D. Their debts will be paid off within 25 years. 5.According to the last paragraph, the government will . A. provide most students will scholarships B. dismiss some financial aid administrators C. stop the companies from mak
32、ing student loans D. go on providing financial support for college students 【文章大意】这是一篇关于学费贷款的文章。 【参考答案】1---5、BDACD 阅读理解。 Tim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York--he in computers, she in special education. "Teaching means everything to us," Tim
33、 would say. In April1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life's purpose. Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program started by Dolly Parton' s foundation (基金会) that mai
34、led a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singer's home town of Sevier, Tennessee. “I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire," Tim recalls. He placed the brochure on his desk, "as a reminder." Five years later, now retired and with that
35、brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on imagination library .com. The program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts. The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richter. Rather than sign up online, they went to Dolly wood for a look-see. “
36、We didn’t want to give the children rubbish,” says Linda. The books-reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists and Dolly wood board members-included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day and newer books like Anna Dewdney’s Llama Llama series. Satisfied, the couple set up t
37、he Richter Family Foundation and got to work. Since 2004, they have shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their in their area. Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative: “This program introduces us to books I’ve never heard of.” The Richter spend about $400 a month s
38、ending books to 200 children. “Some people sit there and wait to die,” says Tim. “Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left.” ( ) 1.What led Tim to think seriously about the meaning of life? A. His health problem. B. His love for teaching. C. The influence o
39、f his wife. D. The news from the Web. ( ) 2.What did Tim want to do after learning about Imagination Library? A. Give out brochures. B. Do something similar. C. Write books for children D. Retire from being a teacher. ( ) 3.According
40、to the text, Dolly Parton is . A. a well-known surgeon B. a mother of a four-year-old C. a singer born in Tennessee D .a computer programmer ( ) 4.Why did the Richter go to Dolly wood? A. To avoid signing up online. B. To meet Dolly wood board mem
41、bers. C. To make sure the books were the newest. D. To see if the books were of good quality. ( ) 5.What can we learn from Tim’s words in the last paragraph? A. He needs more money to help the children. B. He wonders why some people are so busy. C. He tries to save those waiting to die. D. H
42、e considers his efforts worthwhile. 【文章大意】文章通过介绍Richter夫妇从接触一个名为Imagination Library的项目到成立自己的基金会的历程并找到生活的真正价值 61.答案A。细节理解题。由文章第1段的he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life's purpose.可知答案。 阅读理解。 People from East A
43、sia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions — and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why. Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly(均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterne
44、rs fix their attention on the eyes. "We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said. "Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽视) the mouth." According to J
45、ack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations. The researchers s
46、tudied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of. expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They comp
47、ared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies. It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they s
48、how is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said. "Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less." In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of hum
49、an emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation. ( ) 1. The disco
50、very shows that Westerners . A. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth B. consider facial expressions universally reliable C. observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways D. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions ( ) 2. What were the peo
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