When growing up, I hadn't the slightest curiosity about the authors of books I read; it was the _ that was important. My mother, and sometimes my father. read _ to us every night. I could hardly wait I could read and write my own books. But in the first grade,
I would sit with a group of while the teacher turned over large sheets of paper. had been written in crayon and seemed to have something to do with in one corner-a cat or dog or a tree in autumn. One by one the other children read aloud those black while I sat unhappy. One day I decided that perhaps was just making stories up. So the next time when the teacher to the words, I eagerly _ a story about a dog attacking a cat a tree in autumn. The teacher looked sad and-shook her _ , and I knew that I still had not discovered the magic secret.
By the time I fifth grade, "writing books" was still my favorite hobby. I rushed home from school each day to write down had been forming in my head. At sixteen my first story was in a church magazine. In college, where I was studying to be a psychologist, was able to pay my by writing stories. When I got my bachelor's degree, I decided to write more than anything else, so I began writing . I have since published books for both children and _ . I'm not happy unless I spend some time writing. Usually I write about six hours each day. I spend three months to a year on a children's book. how well I know the before I begin. A neovel for adults takes a year or two. When my work is going well. I wake early in the mornings, hoping it is time to get up.
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解析試題分析：作者小時候很難領(lǐng)會老師圖畫上的含義，但是她有一種想寫點什么的沖動感，從六年級的時候，便開始每天寫下點什么。到大學(xué)畢業(yè)時，她已經(jīng)能為兒童和成年人寫小說了。
【小題1】 B�？疾槊~：我認為故事更重要，而不是小說的作者。根據(jù)上一句的the authors of books可知選story。Experience經(jīng)歷；story故事；process過程；class課程。
【小題2】 A。考查副語：母親，有時是父親晚上給我讀故事書。Aloud與read ,think連用時，表示“出聲“，loud用于talk, speak, shout, laugh等動詞之后，意為“響亮地”、“大聲”。所以選擇A。
【小題3】 C�？疾檫B詞：非常渴望讀書和自己寫書。該句式考查了not…until結(jié)構(gòu)。
【小題4】 C�？疾槊~：下文的the other children說明，作者是這些孩子中的一個，因此選children。Teachers教師；parents父母；children孩子們；writers作者。
【小題5】 D。考查名詞：下文提及孩子們正在讀紙上用蠟筆寫的東西，因此選sentences。Lectures演講；Rules規(guī)章；Meanings意思；Sentences句子。
【小題6】C�？疾槊~：后面的解釋a cat or dog or a tree in autumn說明這里指圖片。Words詞；news新聞；pictures圖片；promises承諾。
【小題7】 B�？疾槊~：本句中的those black marks只寫在紙上的句子，因此選marks。Pages頁；marks痕跡；dots點；grades階段。
【小題8】 A�？疾閯用~：有一天，我認為讀句子則是編故事。上文的the other children read aloud暗示著這里的答案。Reading閱讀；listening聽；speaking說；playing玩。
【小題9】 C。考查動詞：老師指著寫在圖片上的字，讓學(xué)生讀，因此選point。 point to表示“指著”。
【小題10】 C。考查短語：根據(jù)上文的making stories up可知，作者看著圖畫便開始編故事，故選made up。set up建立；made up組成；put up張貼，所以選擇C。
【小題11】 A�？疾榻樵~：作者在看圖編故事，圖片顯示狗在追逐藏在樹下的貓。Beneath表示“在…….的下方�！� Beneath在……的下方；over超過；above在上邊；inside里面。
【小題12】 B�？疾槊~：根據(jù)下文的I still had not discovered the magic secret可知，老師對作者的回答不滿意，故選head。Arm臂；head頭；leg腿；ruler統(tǒng)治者。
【小題13】C。考查動詞：我到五年級的時候，寫書依然是我的嗜好。Reach表示“達到，進入某一階段”。Arrived來；finished完成；managed完成。
【小題14】 C�？疾橘e語從句：到家后我會寫下來我所想到的內(nèi)容。Whichever無論哪個；however然而；whatever無論什么；wherever無論那里。
【小題15】 B�？疾閯釉~：十六歲時，我寫的第一個故事在一本教會雜志上發(fā)表。根據(jù)句中的magazine可知，小說發(fā)表了。Rewarded報酬；published出版；recalled使想起；received收到。
【小題16】 D�？疾槊~：上大學(xué)時，我通過寫小說掙自己的學(xué)費。因為在大學(xué)，需要付出高昂的學(xué)費。故選tuition。Family家庭；work工作；child孩子；tuition學(xué)費。
【小題17】 B。考查形容詞：根據(jù)I decided to write more than anything else可知，作者決定做一個職業(yè)作者，故選full-time。part-time兼職；full-time全職；sometime從前的；in time及時。
【小題18】 A�？疾槊~：下文的a novel for adults表明，她為孩子和成年人寫書，故選adults。Adults成年人；men男人；women女人；students學(xué)生。
【小題19】 C。考查短語：我要花費三個月到一年的時間寫一本兒童書，根據(jù)寫書之前對人物的了解而定。figuring out計算出；carrying on 繼續(xù)進行；depending on隨……而定；bringing out出版。
【小題20】 B�？疾槊~：因為作者在談些小說，小說中要涉及到當然是人物，故選characters。Readers讀者；characters人物；topics題目；chapters章。
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科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：完型填空
When I walk through the streets of San Francisco’s business districts, white people stare at me as if I were a circus clown.
Their staring eyes don’t see that I get ________ A’s in school, or that I am a captain of the football team, or that I belong to ______youth organizations. All they see is that I am 6-foot-4, young, black, and male---a potential _______to them.
White men look at me as if I am up to no good, or as if they are ________to me. White women just look at me with________, say, sometimes they cross the street when they see my friends and me coming, or walk in the street and only get back on the sidewalk after we ________.
Many people come to San Francisco to get away from the stereotypes(成見) of the cities they were born and ________ in. The majority of the blacks and Latinos who live in this city don’t have that luxury.
How can you feel at home when people are__________telling you to get back to Africa or Mexico ----or just back to “where you belong”?
My way of dealing with this kind of thing has ________over the years. In the past, when my friends and I would walk the streets and a hundred pairs of white eyes would look at me as if we were the lowest form of dirt, it would make us angry enough to hurt or _______them.
Now I’m more likely to use ________ to defend myself against those eyes. To women who clutch their purse in terror, I’ll say, “Man, I ain’t gonna do anything to you, I got money in my pocket!” My cousin has even started wearing a T-shirt _______ in big letters, “NO, WHITE LADY, I DON'T’ WANT YOUR PURSE.”
The most painful thing is when we get those______ stares from black people, especially elderly ones. I want o say to them, “We’re black, too. Why would we do something to you?”
Usually I react more _______to all of this than a lot of my friends do. Some of them, so brainwashed, just think it’s part of life and that there is nothing you can do.
But for me, that’s not good enough. I just can’t stand it when every day a hundred pair of eyes tell you you’re not__________.
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科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：完型填空
Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age five with her family. While her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(an) in medicine. At 18 she married and a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a . Her husband supported her decision.
, Canadian medical schools did not women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to her medical degree.
Upon graduation, Charlotte to Montreal and set up a private . Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte herself operating on damaged limbs and setting bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.
But Charlotte had been practicing without a license. She had a doctor’s license in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was . The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887, she appeared to the Manitoba Legislature to a license to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte to practice without a license until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73.
In 1993, 77 years after her , a medical license was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman.”
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科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：完型填空
To celebrate the end of our exams, my friends and I went to a fast food restaurant. We ____ hamburgers and Coca Cola at the counter. When our ____ came, I started walking towards an empty table. By bad luck, my purse strap(帶子) got ____ on a chair and the tray(托盤) that I was holding slipped ___ my hands and went flying in the air. The tray, and its contents, ____ on a man who was just about to ____ a bite of his sandwich. I stared, greatly ____， as the drinks soaked(浸濕) his white shirt.
Then I ____ my eyes and prepared myself for his burst of ____. Instead, he said “It's OK” to ____ me before he disappeared into the washroom.
Still shaky and unsure ____ to do next, my friends and I went to a table and sat there, trying our best to look ____. A moment later, the man came out of the washroom and ____ our table. My heart almost stopped ____. I thought he was going to ask for my father's ____ and call him.
To my surprise, he merely smiled at us, handed us some cash and said, “____ yourself new hamburgers.” He then walked ____ without even finishing his food.
He could have made what was already an uncomfortable situation worse, ____ he chose a different way and gave us a reason to believe that there is still ____ in this world. I'll never ____ his actions.
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科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：完型填空
The tale of a heroic pet
Luke has always been my closest companion these past five years. In fact, he is very obedient to me ____ when I take care of other furry friends in our shelter.
As you already know, there have been a lot of forest fires during the ____ season. Many forests are badly ____ by fire each year. Not far from our shelter, a forest caught fire during this hot summer and a heat wave has been going on for three days.
Luke rushed towards the forest where flames gave out a fierce heat. There's no longer any ____ at the moment to wait for Luke to come back to the shelter. ____， I was waiting for the fireman to ____ me his death in the forest. Suddenly, a fireman burst into my office and ____ me that my dog Luke succeeded in saving four kittens that were ____ by the flames. According to the fireman, Luke seized the kittens, one by one moving them to a(n) ____ place.
I ____ accompanied the firemen to the forest to pick up the rescued kittens. Once on the ____ of the incident, Luke was not there. Then we heard the sound of a dog came from the forest barking furiously. I ___ the sound of my dog Luke. The firemen followed the tracks of the dog ____ they found him barking loudly by the side of a(n) ____ fireman who was lying on the ground and desperately waiting for ____.
Thanks to Luke, four kittens and a fireman were saved. That day, I was very proud of Luke for his heroic ____. Luke showed much compassion for both animals like him and for a man trying to put out the fire with his ____. Honestly, my happiness is great and immeasurable.
I visited the fireman in his house accompanied with Luke. What a ____ scene when the fireman hugged Luke ____ to his chest! “One thousand thanks, Luke, for saving my life，” the fireman said.
This true story of love and compassion shows us that pets are loving and caring. We should love and protect them, for little animals can make enormous things for ____.
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科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：完型填空
Last November, Nick heard a disorder at a party. A group of people had ____ outside, pointing at something floating in the Bay. As he ran to ____， he soon saw what was wrong: Two kids in a boat were caught in the ____ and being pulled out to sea.
Tim and Jack had climbed into a boat anchored nearby and had rowed out to ____ a football. Reaching beyond the calm waters, the ____ fitted to the boat caught the wind and pulled it into open water. They tried to row back. But they were no ____ for the wind and turned around in circles. Nick dashed to the farthest of land. The boat was already just a ____ on the sea. He knew that the ____ boat would soon be overtaken by the huge waves, and that it was 2 degrees. Nick jumped into the ____ cold water. Every 90 yards, he raised his head to assess his ____. At one point, he considered turning back before managing to yell to them, “Take down the umbrella！”
Tim battled with the ropes holding the umbrella. Finally he loosened the ropes and ____ the umbrella. Then Nick caught up, but soon waves crashed over the boat, which began to sink. Nick ____ it would be faster to pull them toward the nearest bank. They ____ wore life jackets , which Nick held in one hand, swimming ____.“Are we there？” they asked repeatedly. “Yes，” Nick ____ them each time. It was 30 minutes before they got to the bank and stayed as close as possible for ____. Worn out, Nick had hardly arrived when he ____.It was an hour later when he found himself in a hospital that he came to. Asked what it took him to make the ____ move, he replied:
It is ____ to step out of the comfort zone. Being an onlooker is a cautious existence, but ____ we should never be stuck in. Stand by or stand up.
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科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：完型填空
This was my grandmother's first Christmas without grandfather, and before he passed away we had promised grandfather that we would make this her best Christmas ever. When my parents and I at her house, we found she had waited up all night for us. The house did seem a little without grandfather.
Grandfather had always said that the Christmas was the most important decoration of all. So we immediately set to work on the beautiful artificial tree that was stored in grandfather's closet (壁櫥). Through our efforts, we finally stepped back to our handiwork. It looked beautiful. something was missing.
"Where's your star?" I asked.
The star was my grandmother's favorite part of the tree.
"Why, it be here somewhere," she said, starting to sort through the boxes again. "Your grandfather always everything so carefully when he took the tree down."
As we emptied the boxes and no star, my grandmother's eyes filled with tears. Grandfather had given it to grandmother some fifty years ago on their first Christmas together. It brought them great happiness. Now, on her first Christmas without him, the star was , too.
"Don't worry, Grandmother," I her. "We'll find it for you."
My mother and I formed a search . "Let's start in on the closet where the ornaments (裝飾品) were," Mother said. "Maybe the star just fell out of the box."
That sounded , so I began to search the closet. I thought I tried every , but no star. I could see grandmother was , although she tried not to show it.
"What’s in this wrapped box?” Mother suddenly called out. "It was at the bottom of father’s closet."
Grandmother took the box in and opened it. Her face when she unfolded the paper and pulled out a golden star. There was a(n) attached.
Don't be angry with me, dear. I broke your star while packing the decorations, and I couldn't to tell you. Thought it was time for a new one. I hope it brings you as much as the first one. Merry Christmas!
Love,
Bryant
So grandmother's tree had a star after all, a star that expressed their everlasting love for one another. And we were glad we were able to make this Christmas for her.
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科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：完型填空
I stopped at a grocery store the other day because I was about to go on a long drive and I wanted to buy my favorite for the trip. It wasn’t the store I go to, just one I passed along the way.
As I walked up to the entrance, I a man and a boy who was about 10 or 12 years old at the front of the store. The man handed half-sheets of white paper as customers walked past. I walked up to them with , wondering what cause they . As I got closer, I saw that they had two carts (購物車) starting to fill with .
I said hello and the man greeted me and me one of the pieces of paper, that they were collecting donations for the homeless. On the paper was a simple of food items: peanut butter, noodles, pasta sauce, canned fruits and vegetables. It also included a short story about the boy and his to collect food donations since the age of 8.
I was really that someone so young would be so interested in helping others. I told him it was a(n) idea and that he should be proud of himself. He smiled.
Then, I went inside to get my drink. , the store didn’t have it. , I wasn’t upset, because by then I felt I had another mission. I went through the store, things from the list, then brought them back out to the boy and put them in the cart. They thanked me and offered me a(n) (candy, I think).
As I walked back to my car, the boy’s well-intentioned spirit with me. How inspiring to a young boy with a resolve to do good deeds, and the courage to act on it.
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科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：完型填空
In the lobby(休息室) after a long day at work, I found myself standing next to a handsome young man with a nice smile. A __ showed what we had in common: I had ____ in New York city from Germany while he had ____ from South America.
We exchanged stories about the ____ of starting a new life in a new country. “I’ve been ___an apartment within walking distance from my ____. And what I want is to have a good ____ of Central park! But I’m dreaming. I can’t ____ to rent a room like that myself and I haven’t found a roommate to share in expenses.” The young man wrote a ___ down on a piece of paper. “Her name’s Carol and she is a good girl,” he said. “You’ll ____ her, and she needs a roommate.”
I called her right away. “I’ve been ___ to hear from you,” said Carole, who lived near Central Park. ___, she became my best roommate, and has been my ___ for 34 years.
“We were sure lucky to ____ each other,” Carole said to me recently. “But I wondered what took you so ____ to call.” I said. “I called right after I ____ your South American friend.” Carole looked amazed. “Not a friend, ___ I met him only once, and he told me about you. But that was a whole week before you finally ____.” “But I don’t understand; I didn’t know him until that afternoon.” “Maybe he know of you before because you were ____ known in the company for your achievement.”
Though you are a small potato, if you work hard and do ___, people will find you sooner or later.
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