As a teenager, I felt I was always letting people down. I was rebellious( 叛逆的) outside, but I wanted to be liked inside.

     Once I left home to hitch-hike to California with my friend Penelope. The trip wasn't easy, and there were many times I didn't feel safe. One situation in particular kept me grateful to still be alive. When I returned home, I was different, not so outwardly sure of myself. 

     I was happy to be home. But then I noticed that Penelope, who was staying with us, was wearing my clothes. And my family seemed to like her better than me. I wondered if I would be missed if I were not there. I told my mom, and she explained that though Penelope was a lovely girl, no one could replace me. I pointed out, " She is more patient and neater than I have ever been." My mom said these were wonderful qualities, but I was the only person who could fill my role. She made me realize that even with my faults--- and there were many--- I was a loved member of the family who couldn't be replaced.

      I became a searcher, wanting to find out who I was and what made me unique. My view of myself was changing. I started to resist pressure to act in ways that I didn't like any more, and I was delighted by who I really was. I came to feel much surer that no one can ever take my place.

      Each of us holds a unique place in the world. You are special, no matter what others say or what you may think. So forget about being replaced. You can't be.

59. Which word can describe the writer's trip to California with Penelope?

    A. Wonderful.        B. Easy.        C. Dangerous.        D. Exciting.

60. What's the Chinese meaning of the underlined word "replace" in the third paragraph?

    A. 位置              B. 放置         C. 重新設(shè)置          D. 取代

61. What does the underlined sentence mean?

    A. I wanted to find out who I was and what made me unique.

    B. I wanted to study hard.

    C. I lost something, and I wanted to find it.

    D. I wanted to find out whether I could go out again.

62. What is the writer trying to tell us?

    A. As a teenager, you can go for a trip with your friend.

    B. Parents like a girl better if she is more patient and neater.

    C. Each of us is unique in the world and can't be replaced.

    D. The writer was not loved by her family.

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科目：高中英語 來源：高考三人行·英語 題型：050

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　　When the mills and mines were still open around Hebden Bridge, a northern English town, playing children showered the streets with sparks from the iron plates on their woodenclogs (木底鞋), the only shoos they could afford.

　　“At one time, they were the cheapest kind of footwear, ”said master clog-maker John Merrick, 62. “They used to use clogs in the mills. You would walk to Work in the morning and all you could hear was the chick-clock of the sales.”

　　Merrick, who has been making clogs since he started as a teenage apprentice (學(xué)徒) 47 years ago, can remember when he was paid just 1.50 pounds (US $ 2) for a dozen pairs of the shoos, whose leather tops and iron bottoms are nailed to wooden soles. Three decades ago, he sold 500 pairs of metal tipped industrial clogs a week to the Ford Motor Company for workers to wear in their factories.“That’s before they got all those robots,(機(jī)械設(shè)備)” he said, swinging his arms to imitate automation (自動(dòng)控制). “We used to be really, really busy.”

　　Today, clogs cost 30 pounds (US $ 42) to 50 pounds a pair. Merrick, who can nail together a shoe in minutes, makes about 100 pairs a week.

　　One of the last clog-makers in Britain-he knows of only two others-Merrick says he does not know when he retires. He will have to train his successor (繼承者)at Walkley’s Clog Factory in Hebden Bridge how to pull leather over wooden soles an tap on the traditional horseshoe-shaped irons underneath.

　　In his workshop by a canal, Merrick sells wooden-soledpatent leather (漆皮) clogs, open-toed sandals (涼鞋),industrial steel-toed work boots and mini-clogs that customers can hang over the dashboards (汽車的儀表板) of their cars. Enthusiasts can pick up a clog purse or even a pair of clog earrings(耳飾). Merrick said he still gets orders from brickyards(磚廠)and glass companies for industrial clogs.

1．When Merrick was an apprentice, a pair of clogs cost ________.

[　　]

A．1.50 pounds
B．a(chǎn)bout 1 pounds
C．a(chǎn)bout 0.1 pounds
D．2 pounds

2．The word“shower” ( in Para. 1)most probably means ________.

[　　]

A．heavy rain
B．display
C．fill
D．shock

3．Today, Merrick sells his clogs to ________.

[　　]

A．successor
D．workers
C．children
D．All the above

4．Comparing to 3 decades ago, the different situation in making clogs is ________.

[　　]

A．more and more people become enthusiastic about clogs

B．Merrick becomes busier and busier

C．clogs cost more and mare

D．Merrick got mare. and more orders from brickyard

5．which of the following statements is true?

[　　]

A．Merrick is the only one who masters the skill of clog-making.

B．Merrick will give way to his successor very soon.

C．Merrick can make different kinds of clogs.

D．The children in the past liked clogs more than the children today.

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第二節(jié)：完型填空（共20 小題；每小題1分；滿分20分）

She was a four-year-old girl with very fine golden hair when I first met her. She was carrying a bowl of soup. I was 29 at that time and   11   from the flu.

Her mom and I had been friends for years.   12   that friendship grew into care, from care into   13   and marriage. Marriage brought the three of us together as a   14  . At first I was afraid to be a “stepfather”. Therefore, I tried not to come   15   my future daughter and her   16   father. I acted in that way in order to be liked. However,   17   she was growing up, I found it increasingly hard to   18   with her.

Once her school required the parents to individually(個(gè)別的) write an open and   19   letter to our children. I wrote a letter about a little golden-haired girl who had   20   me a bowl of soup when I needed   21  .

A week later,  all the parents   22   together with our children. The students were allowed to make a few statements. I was   23   to hear what my daughter would say.

Finally my daughter   24   make her way up to the microphone. She said something like others and then   25  , “At this very moment, I just want to say …I love you, Father.”

Immediately people around me started   26   at me. For a teenage girl to say  27   in front of so many people, “I love you,” took a great deal of courage.

Since then I have   28   to understand I didn’t need to have any   29   about being a stepfather. I can still   30   honest love with the same little girl I met so many years before － carrying a bowl full of what turned out to be kindness. I can also be friends with the girl － my dear daughter.

11. A. hurting               B. attacking           C. suffering           D. experiencing

12. A. Immediately        B. Finally              C. Especially         D. Generally

13. A. like                    B. pleasure            C. excitement         D. love

14. A. union                 B. group                C. family               D. whole

15. A. between                 B. among                     C. from                 D. for

16. A. natural                B. following          C. untrue               D. old

17. A. after                   B. as                     C. with                  D. before

18. A. connect               B. share                 C. communicate     D. argue

19. A. honest                B. formal                     C. powerful           D. responsible

20. A. taken                 B. shown               C. shared               D. brought

21. A. cure                   B. care                  C. help                  D. friend

22. A. presented            B. invited                     C. gathered            D. asked

23. A. glad                   B. hopeful             C. serious              D. anxious

24. A. determinedly          B. independently    C. patiently            D. unexpectedly

25. A. lasted                 B. declared            C. continued          D. responded

26. A. hugging                     B. smiling             C. kissing              D. celebrating

27. A. quietly                B. openly                     C. brightly             D. attractively

28. A. used                   B. stepped             C. desired              D. come

29. A. courage                     B. fear                  C. happiness          D. idea

30. A. exchange            B. send                  C. expect               D. fall

 

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第二節(jié) 完型填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從21—40各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

One day a small group of young people were at a wildlife park on a field trip.

“Oh, look at her, she's so beautiful.” All of us   21   a cheetah（印度豹）named Subira in respect－except a teenage boy called Cory in the back row, who seemed to be   22   to himself in impatience. When several members of the group turned in his   23  , he brushed the front of his T-shirt as though to   24   dust, and, in a gesture clearly meaning to   25   us, rolled up the right sleeve (袖子）of his shirt, further showing his well-developed   26  .

Cory had   27   of playing professional baseball someday. No one doubted Cory's   28  . But that was before the car accident. Not only did Cory lose a   29    in the accident but his hope and his spirit.

Seeing such a large audience, Subira couldn’t wait to give the crowd a   30   of her skills. “How fast she runs!” one shouted. “But she only has three legs.” one cried.

No one was more   31   than Cory. He stared at the animal with the missing leg and he smiled, tears of hope in his   32  .

Looking   33   into Cory' s face, the organizer explained “It was soon after she came to us that she showed her own worth－a   34    gift of love and spirit. In the past few years, the gift of Subira has   35   people around the world，and without words Subria has become our most persuasive   36  , and the most priceless gift.”

Cory asked   37  , “Can I touch her?”

As the rest of the group looked on in amazement, the boy wheeled himself over to the large gate and   38   to push it open. The expression on his face was one of great   39  . It was clear that Cory had   40   the gift of Subira.

21. A. listened to   B. laughed at C. smiled at    D. stared at

22. A. talking      B. wondering  C. sitting     D. lying

23. A. face          B. direction    C. way        D. attitude

24. A. clear         B. feel         C. remove      D. catch

25. A. amuse       B. impress     C. satisfy     D. frighten

26. A. fingers      B. body       C. hands      D. muscles

27. A. talked       B. dreamed     C. decided      D. expected

28. A. smartness     B. speed      C. ability       D. mind

29. A. leg               B. arm        C. hand       D. promise

30. A. memory           B. speed      C. show     D. quality

31. A. astonished    B. interrupted C. terrified     D. disappointed

32. A. heart        B. face        C. expression  D. eyes

33. A. bravely     B. frankly       C. directly     D. immediately

34. A. unique      B. common     C. right       D. difficult

35. A. excited     B. warned       C. described   D. touched

36. A. newspaper    B. spokesman  C. program   D. teacher

37. A. calmly            B. softly            C. bitterly       D. proudly

38. A. wished      B. decided      C. begged       D. struggled

39. A. puzzle      B. disappointment  C. satisfaction       D. shame

40. A. received       B. refused       C. seen        D. found

 

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He's definitely NOT James Bond—nor even Austin Powers.And now the world's worst spy, codenamed Piglet,is facing 14 years in prison after bungling (辦槽)an attempt to sell secrets to the Russians.

Aircraft engineer Ian Parr,46,tried to pass on secrets of seven sensitive projects for￡l30. 000 to a man he thought was a Russian agent called Aleksey.

But it turned out that Parr—once nicknamed "Hazard" by colleagues-actually handed over the secrets to all M15(軍情五處)agent. As the father-of-two sat in the pub drinking a pint of lager to celebrate the￡25,000 he had just been given,police swooped and arrested him for spying.

But his troubles were not over. While in Belmar's Prison,he,who had given himself the codename Piglet,tried to kill himself.He wired his spectacles to the mains to try to electrocute himself-but he only succeeded in leaving an outline of his glasses bummed on to his face.

Parr had a reputation for being a bungler long before his spying exempt.

As a teenage he joined the Army,where he earned his nickname"Hazard".

An excolleague said."If you wanted a job doing,Hazard would do it badly.He blew up the barracks washing machine by overloading it."

"He was forever injuring himself when loading shells(炮彈)into the gun turret(炮塔)of the tank. I lost count of the number of times I saw him with bandages and plasters on his fingers."

"You'd hear him clanging around and there'd be a yelp and he'd squeal,'Oh,my bloody fingers.'He's very lucky to have all his fingers left."

Parr eared ￡25,000 a year at BAE(bachelor of aeronautical engineering(航空工程學(xué)士) Systems.It is thought that he tried to make money from spying because of worries about being dismissed at the firm.

73. According to the passage,the world's worst spy Is________.

      A. James Bond       B. Austin Powers    C. lan Parr      D. Aleksei

74. Piglet actually passed the secrets on to________. 

      A. Aleksei,the Russian agent        B. an agent

      C. nobody             D. somebody whose nickname was"Hazard"

75. The underlined word"swooped"in paragraph 4 most probably means________.

      A. attacked suddenly and unexpectedly       B. at tack evincing crowds

      C. cameos planned               D. walked slowly and secretly

76. If he had succeeded in selling the secrets,he would have earned________.

      A. ￡25,000   B. ￡155,000 C. ￡130,000 D. ￡105,000

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Guan Yifan, 90, the father of Nobel prize winner, Mo Yan, in front of Mo’s childhood home.
 
On a brisk day in mid-October, Nobel prizewinner for literature Mo Yan'' s 62-year-old brother, Guan Moxin, stands outside their childhood home in Ping'' an village, Shandong coastal province, posing for photographs with a steady stream of brightly dressed tourists. He smiles as a

teenage girl in a pink sweater puts her hand on his shoulder

and flashes a peace sign at the camera.

"Everybody wants to understand what Mo Yan'' s life used to be like, when we were young," says Guan, lead-ing a small crowd inside the abandoned house to a dusty room where Mo, now 57, was married. A broken antique radio – a wedding gift, Guan says – sits on a crumbling concrete bed, untouched for decades.

Gaomi people are extremely proud of their Nobel prizewinner, whom they fondly refer to as "Teacher Mo Yan". Long red banners（橫幅）congratulating Mo hang from the sides of concrete homes along major streets.

Guan Moxin recalls one tourist who ate a bean from a vine（騰）near their childhood home, threw his arms in the air, and declared that he had consumed a tiny piece of Mo’s Nobel miracle.

“Mo Yan’s works have elements from Gaomi’s culture，”says Mao Weijie，an official who over-sees the newly-built Mo’Yan museum in a local high school．“He writes about Gaomi paper-cutting，for example，and sometimes he writes using our Gaomi dialect．”

Guan Yifan，Mo’s father，says that Mo does not come hack home often，but when he does，“we just talk about what’8 happening our home hew the tomatoes are growing，that type of thing．”Inside the house，faded family pictures hang on newspaper-covered walls；outside，his courtyard over-flows with corn，the fruits of a good harvest．

Although Guan says that he has never read his son’s books，he is proud of Mo’s achievements．“We’re all just happy，”he says．“Very，very happy．”

66．How many years younger is Mo Yan than his brother according to this news item?

A．28 years    B．5 years    C．8 years D．10 years

67．The teenage girl in a pink sweater is most probably_________________.

A．Guan Moxin’s daughter    B．Mo Yah’s daughter

C．a(chǎn) tourist D．a(chǎn) news reporter

68．Which of the following best describes the house where Mo Yah got married?

A．Shabby．    B．New．    C．Large．D．Clean．

69．Which of the following is true according to the passage？

A．Few people asked Guan Moxin about his brother’s childhood life．

B．The tourist who ate a bean near Mo Yan’s home went crazy．

C．Mo Yan often talks about his writing with his relatives

D．Someone gave Mo Yan a radio as a gift when he got married．

70．From this news item we can learn________________________．

A．Mo Yan’s father and brother are now very rich farmers

B．Mo Yan’s home town has obvious influence on' his writings

C．Mo Yan received a very good education as a child

D．Mo Yan’s father does not like reading his son’s books

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