The summer of 1975 I’d just graduated from college in Southern California and received a Ford Car for a   36  present. I had my first job, in Los Angeles. One Sunday night, thinking myself a very   37  gown-up, I   38  my uncle’s place in South Laguna after a visit,   39 admitting to him that I had less than an eighth of a tank of gas and no   40  to buy more on the way to L.A. I pulled onto the Pacific Coast Highway and watched the   41  move down as I headed north. When the engine started giving off strong smells, I   42   into a gas station. There was no self-serve then; there were no credit cards, no ATMs.
I   43   the guy at the station. I could write him a check for gas, I said, or I could   44 in my car and try to walk to a town with a   45   the next morning. As he was informing me that I could sleep in my car but he’d have me arrested, a station wagon pulled up to the next 46 . The driver—a thin, plain, middle-aged guy—overheard the tail end of my   47   request. As the attendant went to   48  him, he nodded at me. “  49   her tank first,” he said.
“Really?” I said.   50   bloomed. “Oh, thank you. Thank you. But please. I just need two 51   worth. I just need to get home.”
“Fill it,” he   52  to the attendant. Then he turned to me, “You’ll do the same one day, for someone else.”
I keep looking for someone unlucky, hoping to save her   53   on the road. Meanwhile, in case she never shows up, I try for other acts of   54   kindness. That quiet driver is always at the pump a few feet away, instructing the attendant to fill mine   55 .
小題1:
A．graduationB．birthdayC．ChristmasD．wedding
小題2:
A．independentB．honestC．politeD．confident
小題3:
A．reachedB．leftC．witnessedD．took
小題4:
A．a(chǎn)fterB．withoutC．onD．by
小題5:
A．timeB．chanceC．placeD．cash
小題6:
A．sunB．windowC．needleD．clock
小題7:
A．jumpedB．walked C．lookedD．pulled
小題8:
A．seizedB．pushedC．beggedD．warned
小題9:
A．sitB．sleepC．breakD．fight
小題10:
A．bankB．stationC．hotelD．restaurant
小題11:
A．doorB．garageC．pumpD．town
小題12:
A．plannedB．failedC．pretendedD．suggested
小題13:
A．serveB．a(chǎn)ttackC．chargeD．treat
小題14:
A．OpenB．Start C．FillD．Heat
小題15:
A．AnxietyB．NervousnessC．CautionD．Hope
小題16:
A．miles’B．hours’C．liters’D．dollars’
小題17:
A．explainedB．repeatedC．threatenedD．ordered
小題18:
A．nightB．carC．gasD．money
小題19:
A．unwillingB．unnecessaryC．randomD．extra
小題20:
A．immediatelyB．quicklyC．nextD．first5

小題1:A
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:B
小題5:D
小題6:C
小題7:D
小題8:C
小題9:B
小題10:A
小題11:C
小題12:B
小題13:A
小題14:C
小題15:D
小題16:D
小題17:B
小題18:A
小題19:C
小題20:D

試題分析：
小題1:A試題分析：考察名詞辨析。作者剛大學畢業(yè)，應(yīng)該是收到一輛福特車作為畢業(yè)禮物.graduation畢業(yè)birthday生日Christmas圣誕wedding結(jié)婚
小題2:A試題分析：考察形容詞辨析。一個星期天的晚上，想到自己已經(jīng)是個獨立的成年人了，我在拜訪完叔叔之后，離開了叔叔在South Laguna的家。Independent 獨立的 honest誠實的  polite 禮貌的           confident自信的。
小題3:B試題分析：考察動詞辨析。我拜訪完叔叔離開叔叔那里。left離開. reach到達                     witnessed目睹  took帶走
小題4:B試題分析：考察介詞辨析。沒有向他承認我還剩不到八分之一油箱的油，也沒有錢在路上加油回洛杉磯。without沒有after在……之后 on在……上 by在……旁
小題5:D試題分析：考察名詞辨析。沒錢加油。cash現(xiàn)金time時間chance機會place 地方。
小題6:C試題分析：考察名詞辨析。我朝北開著車，一路上盯著油表的指針。needle針,指針sun太陽            window窗戶clock鐘
小題7:D試題分析：考察動詞詞組辨析。當發(fā)動機發(fā)出很強的味道時，我把車開進了一個加油站。pull into開向路邊，開進。jump into跳入 walk into走入look into調(diào)查
小題8:C試題分析：考察動詞辨析。beg請求seize抓住push推warn警告
小題9:B試題分析：考察動詞辨析。我可以給他開張支票來加油，或者睡在車上等第二天早上走路去一個有銀行的鎮(zhèn)里。sleep睡覺 sit坐break打破fight打架
小題10:A試題分析：考察名詞辨析。因為沒錢加油，所以應(yīng)該去銀行。bank銀行station車站hotel旅館restaurant餐館
小題11:C試題分析：考察名詞辨析。一輛旅行車停在了隔壁的加油泵那里。pump水泵，油泵door門            garage車庫town鎮(zhèn)。這是來加油的車，應(yīng)該是停在油泵那里。
小題12:B試題分析：考察動詞辨析。那車一停，加油站的職員要去加油了，便結(jié)束了我的沒有實現(xiàn)的要求。failed失敗的planned計劃好的pretended被假裝的suggested被建議的。
小題13:A試題分析:考察動詞辨析. serve為……服務(wù)attack襲擊 charge要價treat對待。服務(wù)員過去給他的車子加油，是為他服務(wù)，所以選A.
小題14:C試題分析:考察動詞辨析。他向我點點頭說：“先給她的油箱加油”fill裝，填充open打開start開始heat加熱。所以選C
小題15:D試題分析:考察名詞辨析。聽到有人要幫自己加油，終于見到了希望。hope希望anxiety焦急         nervousness 緊張caution小心。根據(jù)意思，選D。
小題16:D試題分析:考察名詞辨析。我只需價值兩美元的油。我能到家就行。要填單詞后有個worth,說明要填一個表示價錢的名詞,所以用 dollars美元。而miles’英里hours’小時liters’升。
小題17:B試題分析:考察名詞辨析。他開始對服務(wù)員說了一次，這里再次說，所以是重復，用repeat選B. explain 解釋threaten威脅order命令。
小題18:A試題分析:考察名詞辨析。作者曾經(jīng)受人幫忙為她加了油所以她現(xiàn)在一直在路上尋找不幸的人，希望能在路上也給需要幫助的人加油。所以用gas 汽油。night晚上car 小汽車 money錢
小題19:C試題分析:考察形容詞辨析。unwilling不愿意的unnecessary沒必要的random 任意的extra額外的。句意應(yīng)該是我還盡量去做任何其它的善事。所以選C。
小題20:D試題分析:考察副詞辨析。那個安靜的司機總在幾英尺遠的油泵出叫服務(wù)員先給我的油箱加油。first首先immediately立刻quickly迅速next接著。
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    Finally, I thought he realized I was too 42 , and I got my first big tip as a  43 . “Never, never go anywhere without a pen or paper. You never know what you’ll  44  into.” After a few days, I gave my oral report totally from memory in class. I got an A on the entire project.

    Years later, I was in college looking around for a new career, but with no success. Then I  45 Virginia DeView and my desire at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didn't  46  me. They just reminded me how  47  the field was and how I had run away from competition all my life. This was true. But journalism did something to me; it was in my  48 . And it gave me the freedom to go up to total strangers and ask what was  49 .
For the past fifty years, I’ve had the most satisfying reporting career,  50  stories from murders to airplane  51  and finally choosing my strongest area. When I went to pick up my phone one day, an incredible wave of memories  52  me and I realized that had it not been  53  Virginia DeView, I would not be sitting at that desk.
I get  54  all the time : “How did you pick journalism?”
“Well, you see, there was this teacher…” I always start out. I just wish I could 55  her.
小題1:
A．cautiousB．mad C．optimisticD．enthusiastic
小題2:
A．universitiesB．familiesC．professionsD．lives
小題3:
A．interviewB．describeC．a(chǎn)dmireD．face
小題4:
A．consideredB．rejectedC．expectedD．picked
小題5:
A．hardlyB．nearlyC．naturally D．eagerly
小題6:
A．preparationsB．newspapersC．drinkD．paper
小題7:
A．reliableB．grateful C．tenseD．a(chǎn)mazed
小題8:
A．student B．journalistC．candidateD．writer
小題9:
A．lookB．turn C．breakD．run
小題10:
A．called B．rememberedC．recognized D．evaluated
小題11:
A．a(chǎn)nswer B．urge C．stopD．persuade
小題12:
A．funnyB．competitiveC．ordinaryD．mysterious
小題13:
A．bloodB．bodyC．lifeD．opinion
小題14:
A．coming inB．coming outC．going upD．going on
小題15:
A．creatingB．recallingC．coveringD．writing
小題16:
A．flightsB．crashesC．budgetsD．schedules
小題17:
A．hitB．caughtC．impressedD．seized
小題18:
A．forB．with C．of D．to
小題19:
A．hurtB．realized C．a(chǎn)djustedD．a(chǎn)sked
小題20:
A．respectB．supportC．thankD．envy

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

When John Weston awoke that morning, he remembered that his mother was going into hospital. He hadn’t worked out quite what was wrong with her. He knew, though that she hadn’t been well for some time now, and it had become almost familiar to him to see her eyes narrowed in a sudden attack of pain, and her hand pressing against her heart. Their own doctor, who she had finally gone to for advice, had sent her to an expert who knew all about these things. He had told her that just as soon as there was a bed for her, she would have to come into his hospital where he could look after her himself.
During the weeks since then the pains had come even more frequently, and the narrowed eyes became an almost permanent part of her expression. Always rather sharp, she began losing her temper over little things so that John’s father kept his thoughts to himself more and more. John, as ready as possible to make allowances, tried to think what it would be like to have toothache all the time and how bad-tempered that would make you.
So his mother would go into hospital for a few days. He was going to stay with his Aunt Daisy till she came back, and his father would stay on at home by himself. John’s cousin, Mona, was to come in and make the bed and wash the pots and dust round now and again. That was the arrangement, and John didn’t care much for it. Apart from missing his mother(and he was glad she was going away because they would make her better), he wasn’t very fond of his Aunt Daisy because she was even more bad-tempered than his mother.
小題1:Mrs Weston went to see her doctor_________.
A．a(chǎn)s soon as she realized that something was wrong
B．only after her husband advised her to
C．a(chǎn) long time after the trouble began
D．when John asked what was wrong with her
小題2:what did Mrs Weston’s own doctor decide to do?
A．he decided to send her to hospital
B．he decided to get an expert to examine her
C．He decided to treat her himself
D．He advised her to wait for a few weeks.
小題3:how did John react to his mother’s bad temper?
A．he tried to imagine himself in her place.
B．He tried not to notice it.
C．He pretended that he had toothache.
D．He behaved himself as well as possible.
小題4:John regarded ______as most bad-tempered.
A．his fatherB．his motherC．his cousin MonaD．his aunt Daisy

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Mothers and daughters go through so much—yet when was the last time a mother and daughter sat down to write a book together about it all? Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be ideal co-writers as they examine their decades of motherhood, daughterhood, and the wonderful ways their lives have overlapped (重疊).
Perri notes with amazement how closely her own life has mirrored her mother’s: both have full-time careers； both have published books, articles, and stories； each has three children； they both love to read. They also love to travel—in fact, they often take trips together. But in truth, the harder they look at their lives, the more they acknowledge their big differences in circumstance and basic nature.
A child of the Depression (大蕭條), Sheila was raised in Brooklyn by parents who considered education a luxury for girls. Starting with her college education, she has fought for everything she’s ever accomplished. Perri, on the other hand, grew up privileged in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s. For Sheila, wasting time or money is a crime, and luxury is unthinkable while Perri enjoys the occasional small luxury, but has not been successful at trying to persuade her mother into enjoying even the tiniest thing she likes.
Each writing in her own unmistakable voice, Perri and Sheila take turns exploring the joys and pains, the love and bitterness, the minor troubles and lasting respect that have always bonded them together. Sheila describes the adventure of giving birth to Perri in a tiny town in Trinidad where her husband was doing research fieldwork. Perri admits that she can’t sort out all the mess in the households, even though she knows it drives her mother crazy. Together they compare thoughts on bringing up children and working, admit long-hidden sorrows, and enjoy precious memories.
Looking deep into the lives they have lived separately and together, Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story with honesty, humor, enthusiasm, and admiration for each other. A written account in two voices, Every Mother Is a Daughter is a duet (二重奏) that produces a deep, strong sound with the experiences that all mothers and daughters will recognize.
小題1:Why does Perri think that her own life has mirrored her mother’s?
A．They both have gone through difficult times.
B．They have strong emotional ties with each other.
C．They have the same joys and pains, and love and bitterness.
D．They both have experiences as daughter, mother and writer.
小題2:The word “l(fā)uxury” in Paragraph 3 means ______.
A．something rare but not pleasant
B．something that cannot be imagined
C．something expensive but not necessary
D．something that can only be enjoyed by boys
小題3: What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?
A．The content of the book.B．The purpose of the book.
C．The influence of the book.D．The writing style of the book.
小題4: How are women’s lives explored in this book?
A．In a musical form.B．Through field research.
C．With unique writing skills.D．From different points of view.

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