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When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write my own books. Half the students sneered(冷笑), the nearly fell out of their chairs laughing. “Don’t be silly, only can become writers, ” the English teacher said, “And you are getting a D this term. ” I was so that I burst into tears.
That night I wrote a short poem about broken dreams and mailed it to the newspaper. To my , they published it and sent me two dollars. I was a published and writer. I showed my teacher and fellow students. They . “Just plain dumb luck. ” the teacher said. I tasted and I’d sold the first thing I’d ever written. That was more than any of them had done and if it was just dumb luck, that was with me.
During the next two years I sold dozens of , letters, jokes and recipes. By the time I from high school, with a C minus average, I had scrapbooks(剪貼簿) filled with my published works. I mentioned my writing to my teachers, friends or my family again. They were dream killers and people must choose between their friends and their dreams, they must always choose their .
I had four children at the time, and the oldest was only four. I wrote what I felt. It nine months, just like a pregnant woman. I mailed it without a self addressed stamped and without making a copy of the manuscript(原稿).
A month later I received a(n) , and a request to start working on another book. The worst year I earned two dollars. In my best year I earned 36, 000 dollars. years I earned between five thousand and ten thousand. No, it isn’t enough to live , but it’s still more than I’d make working part time. People ask what college I , what degrees I had and what qualifications I have to be a writer. The answer is: “None. ” I just write. I’m not a genius.
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【小題6】C
【小題7】D
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【小題10】D
【小題11】C
【小題12】B
【小題13】A
【小題14】D
【小題15】C
【小題16】B
【小題17】A
【小題18】C
【小題19】B
【小題20】D
解析試題分析:文章講述了當作者十五歲時,他向班里宣布要寫書。這讓老師和同學(xué)感到意外,并得到了同學(xué)的恥笑。在作者收到稿酬時,老師和同學(xué)仍然不以為然,作者下定決心,不會再告訴老師和同學(xué)有關(guān)自己的夢想的事情。作者選擇了堅持自己的夢想。
【小題1】Half the students sneered(冷笑), the nearly fell out of their chairs laughing有一半的學(xué)生在冷笑,剩下的幾乎要要笑趴下了。A整個;B其他;后加名詞復(fù)數(shù);C大多數(shù);D剩下的。故選D。
【小題2】only can become writers只有天才才能成為作家,根據(jù)“And you are getting a D this term.”可知,老師也不相信作者。A將軍;B發(fā)言人;C天才;D間諜。故選C。
【小題3】I was so that I burst into tears.我感到如此的羞恥,以至于大哭起來。A高興的;B焦急的;C羞恥的;D煩惱的。老師和同學(xué)都嘲笑作者,這讓作者感到尷尬和羞恥。故選C。
【小題4】根據(jù)“about broken dreams”可知,作者寫了一首關(guān)于破碎的夢想的短詩。A難過的;B清白的;C令人失望的;D困惑的。故選A。
【小題5】根據(jù)“To my , they published it and sent me two dollars.”可知,報社出版了那首詩,這讓作者感到驚訝。A開心;B驚訝;C舒服;D幸福。故選B。
【小題6】根據(jù)“published it and sent me two dollars”可知,作者現(xiàn)在也是有出版作品和報酬的作家了。A借入;B借出;C支付,買;D花費。故選C。
【小題7】Just plain dumb luck. 只是純粹的運氣罷了,老師和同學(xué)都笑了。A哭泣,叫喊;B同意;C發(fā)誓;D大笑。故選D。
【小題8】I tasted and I’d sold the first thing I’d ever written. 我嘗到了成功(的味道),賣掉了寫的第一份作品。A失;B成功;C寒冷,冷漠;D擠,壓迫。故選B。
【小題9】根據(jù)“That was more than any of them had done and if it was just dumb luck, that was 44 with me.”可知,作者不在乎他人的看法,就算是運氣,也很滿足。A好的;B混合的;C比較;D飽的,滿的。故選A。
【小題10】During the next two years I sold dozens of , letters, jokes and recipes.在接下來的兩年里,作者賣掉了幾十份的詩歌、信件等作品。A書;B詩人;C小說;D詩歌。故選D。
【小題11】By the time I from high school,到作者高中畢業(yè)時。A退出;B離開;C畢業(yè);D解雇。故選C。
【小題12】I mentioned my writing to my teachers, friends or my family again. 作者沒有再次向老師和同學(xué)提起他的作品。A曾經(jīng);B從未;C很少;D甚至。故選B。
【小題13】 people must choose between their friends and their dreams, they must always choose their 49 .如果人們必須在朋友和夢想之間做出選擇,他們必須選擇他們的夢想。A如果;B除非;C直到;D在......以前。故選A。
【小題14】作者沒有再次向同學(xué)和老師提起作品的事情,因為作者認為他們是夢想的謀殺者。作者在朋友和夢想之間做出選擇,選擇了堅持夢想。A教師;B家人;C朋友;D夢想。故選D。
【小題15】考查近義詞辨析。spend的主語是人,cost花錢,take花時間。根據(jù)nine months可知,用took。A花費,度過;B花錢;C花時間;D浪費。故選C。
【小題16】I mailed it without a self addressed stamped 作者用不帶地址的信封郵寄作品。A信;B信封;C作家;D封面。故選B。
【小題17】A month later I received a(n) , and a request to start working on another book. 一個月后,作者收到了一份協(xié)議和要求,讓作者開始寫一本書。A協(xié)議;B版本;C交易;D專利。故選A。
【小題18】 years I earned between five thousand and ten thousand.大多數(shù)年份,作者掙的錢在五千到一萬之間。A最近;B值得紀念的;C大多數(shù)的;D幾個。故選C。
【小題19】5000-10000并不夠繼續(xù)生活,但仍然比打零工掙得多。live with和......住一起;live by以......為生;live on繼續(xù)生活;live in住在。A和;B在;C通過;D在......里。故選B。
【小題20】根據(jù)college(大學(xué))和degrees(學(xué)位)可知,這里是問作者上的什么大學(xué),attend college上大學(xué)。A值得;B介紹;C建立;D參加。故選D。
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I grew up poor-living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still to have a dream.
My dream was . By the time I was sixteen, I had started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and anything that moved on the football field. I was also : My high school coach was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me to believe in myself. He me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular _ with Coach John changed my life forever.
A friend recommended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket-money for a new bike, new clothes and the of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.
When I told John, he was as as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” He said. “Your days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.” I stood before him with my head , trying to think of the to explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his in me.
“How much are you going to make at this job?” He asked. “3.5 dollars an hour,” I replied.
“Well,” he asked, “is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”
That simple question made for me the difference between something right now and having a . I devoted myself to sports that summer and the year I was chosen by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was a $20,000 contract. My baseball scholarship got me through university and in 1984 I signed with Denver Broncos for $1.7 million and bought my mother the house of her dreams.
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:完型填空
閱讀下面短文.從短文后各題所給的四個選項A、B. C和D中,選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項,并在答題卡上將該項小涂黑。
One day Reuben saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But he couldn’t it at that moment.
However, he opened the shop’s door and went inside. Standing and straight, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted and asked him to it for some time. The shopkeeper .
Reuben walked out into the sunlight and thought he would the five dollars and not tell anybody. Hearing the sound of hammering (敲打), he had a (n) . People built their own homes using nails (釘子) and nail bags outside. He could sell them back to the nail factory for five cents a piece. That day he sold two bags and hid the .
It was evening when Reuben got home. Dora was at the kitchen, ready to serve as Reuben sat at the table. He looked at his and smiled.
Every day after school, Reuben the town, collecting nail bags. On the day the school closed for the summer holiday, Reuben was happier than anyone he would have more time for his . Finally, the time had come! He the coins. It was five dollars in all. Then he headed for the shop. “I have the money,” he told the owner. And he got his .
Racing home, Reuben as he ran to his mother, “Here, Mum! Here!” He a small box in her big hand. She it carefully and saw the golden word “Mother” inside the box. It was Mother’s Day. Dora had never received such a . She smiled happily and held her son in her arms.
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I ran into a stranger as he passed by. “I’m so sorry!” was my . Then he said, “Excuse me too ... I didn’t even you.” We were very , the stranger and I. Then we went on our ways after saying .
But at home, a different is told. How we treat our ones, the young and the old. Later, in the kitchen, as I cooked our supper, my entered, very still. When I turned, I nearly knocked her down. “Get out of the way!” I at her. She left, with her little heart broken. I didn’t how hard I’d spoken.
That , as I lay awake in bed, God’s quiet voice to me and said, “While with strangers, you are polite, with those you love, you didn’t do it properly. Go and look right now on the floor, you’ll find some flowers there by the door. Those are the flowers she __ for you. She picked them herself—pink, yellow and blue.”
By this time, I felt and small and now my own fell. I quietly went to her bed, “ up, my dear daughter.” I said. “Are these the flowers you picked for me?” She smiled, “I found them on the tree. I knew you’d like them, the blue.” I said, “I’m so __ that I missed them today ... And I shouldn’t have shouted at you that way.” She whispered(低聲說), “Mommy, that’s okay. I still you anyway.” I hugged her and said, “I love you too and love your flowers, especially the blue.”
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:完型填空
完形填空(共20小題;每小題1分,滿分20分)
閱讀下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后從36~55各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中,選出最佳選項。
You Did More Than Carry My Books
Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed a boy ahead of him had dropped all of the books he was , along with a baseball bat and several other things. Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up these articles. They _____ be going the same way, so Mark helped to carry some of them for him. As they walked, Mark the boy's name was Bill, that he computer games, baseball and history, that he was having a lot of with his other subjects and that he had just broken with his girl friend.
They arrived at Bill's home first and Mark was in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed with a few laughs and some shared small talk, and then Mark went home. They to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, and then both ended up from the same high school. Just three weeks before , Bill asked Mark if they talk. Bill him of the day years ago when they had first met. “Do you ever __ why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill. “You see, I cleaned out my locker(儲物柜) I didn't want to leave a mess (臟亂 )for anyone else. I planned to leave this school and I was going home to my things. But after we spent some time together and laughing, I realized that I had done that, I would have a new friend and missed all the fun we would have together. So you see, Mark, when you picked up my books that day, you did a lot more. You my life.”
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:完型填空
The other day I was talking to a stranger on the bus; he told me that he had a good in Chicago and he wondered if, by any chance, I to know him. For a moment, I thought he might be , but I could tell from the expression on his face that he was not. He was . I felt that it was ridiculous (可笑的) to that I could possibly have ever met with his friend out of millions of people in Chicago. But, , I just smiled and reminded(提醒) him that Chicago was a very city. He nodded, and I thought he was going to be glad to drop the topic and talk about something else. But I was wrong. He was silent for a few minutes, and then he to tell me all about his friend.
His friend’s main in life seemed to be tennis. He was an excellent tennis player, and he had his own tennis court(網(wǎng)球場). There were a lot of people with swimming , yet there were only two people with private (私人的)tennis court; his friend in Chicago was one of them. I told him that I knew several like that, including my brother, who was doctor in California. He that maybe there were more private courts in the country than he but he did not know of any others. Then he asked me my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that was a coincidence (巧合) _ his Chicago friend also spent the summer in Sacramento last year and he lived next door to a who had a tennis court in his backyard. I said I felt that really was a coincidence because my next-door neighbour had gone to Sacramento last summer and had __ the house next to my brother’s house. For a moment, we stared at each other, but we did not say anything.
“Would your friend’s name happen to be Roland Kirkwood?” I asked finally. He and said, “Yes. Would your brother’s name happen to be Dr Rey Hunter?” It was my to laugh. “Yes,” I replied.
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:完型填空
When my mom came home from the hospital with twins, I was excited at the very beginning. I couldn’t __ to play with them and be the best big sister ever.
Everyone was coming over to our house to hold the babies and _ _ presents to the babies and talk how ____ the babies were. Then they’d pull out their cameras, and just ____ I was about to say “cheese”, they’d run over to my perfect little brothers and take _____ of them. At that time I was thinking, “Why can’t I be little again so I can be the one getting all the _____?”
When my aunt Camille got _____, my mom spent forever finding the perfect clothes for them. On the day of the _____, my twin brothers had the cutest and prettiest clothes. And then there was me, just sitting and watching in my _____ dress.
After the ceremony, all I ____ was how sweet and lovely the twins were.
I ____that they were wonderful, but I couldn’t help feeling ____. There was a big ____ after the wedding. Aunt Camille and her nice new ____ had the first dance, and then everyone started _____like crazy including me. I ____ my uncomfortable dress shoes, and I danced and danced and dances! It ____ one of the most fun times I’ve had in my whole life.
The very __ __ part was when my aunt and I took my twin brothers by the hands and ____ them some dance moves. Teaching them was such a cool thing. I ____then what a huge waste of time feeling jealous is when you can kick off your shoes and enjoy life!
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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:完型填空
I pulled into the driveway of my Mum’s house and saw my two-year-old daughter’s smiling face staring out the window at me. Vanessa had stayed with her grandma for a week, while her mommy, Georgia ,was in hospital 36 complications(并發(fā)癥) in her second pregnancy. Vanessa, who missed her room and toys, 37 awaited the arrival of daddy to pick her up and take her to see her mother. After the visit we’d go home where I had a surprise for her.
Vanessa and I spent an hour with Georgia and then 38 home.
I got Vanessa out of her snowsuit, 39 on the sofa and sat beside her. “Vanessa, you know you’re going to have a new brother or sister soon.”
“I know, Daddy. Mommy’s bringing it home with her.”
“That’s right .”I smiled. “well, the baby is going to need a 40 to sleep in. I hope you don’t mind, but I put your cradle in the new baby’s room.”
“Where will I sleep, Daddy?”
“ Follow me.” I led her down the hall to her room. “I have a 41 for you.”
When Vanessa turned the corner and screamed with pleasure. “It’s a bed ,Daddy! My very own bed!” She 42 up and down on the mattress with 43 happiness on her face.
“ I guess this means I’m growing up,” said Vanessa.
First beds are first milestones. For the first time we are free to get out of bed without 44 someone lift us from our cradles. We are trusted to handle the freedom with respect and are expected to 45 new rules. First days of school, first loves, firsts jobs,first homes or apartments, first child;they’re all 46 in life. Each comes with 47 and responsibilities and it all starts with the first bed..
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