I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.
Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed. As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible (负责任) for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.
Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her use my pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had cheated on the test.
【小题1】The story took place exactly ____ .

A．in the teacher’s office	B．in an exam room
C．in the school	D．in the language lab

【小题2】The girl wanted to borrow a pen, because ____ .

A．she had not brought a pen with her

B．she had lost her own on her way to school

C．there was something wrong with her pen

D．her own had been taken away by someone

【小题3】The teacher saw all this, so she asked the boy ____ .

A．to go on writing his paper

B．to stop whispering

C．to leave the room immediately

D．to stay behind after the exam

【小题4】The thing(s) emphasized in the teacher’s talk was (were) ____ .

A．honesty	B．sense of duty
C．seriousness	D．all of the above

【小题5】The boy knew everything ____ .

A．the moment he was asked to stay behind

B．when the teacher started talking about honesty

C．only some time later

D．when he was walking out of the room

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。   

Year after year my brothers, sister and I would lie in bed awake on Christmas morning. We were just  36    to hear my father’s voice saying it was all right to    37    . Usually I was the first one jumped out of bed. I can still    38    my growing eagerness(渴望) for the    39    every year.

Even now as I    40    the boxes of Christmas decorations(装饰品) I can see the familiar ones: the presents with our birth years on them, our five stockings, four for the    41    , one for the dog. It used to be easy for us to    42    when to put up the decorations. But now since we all have    43    and social lives, it is usually a hurried activity.

As we get older, the season almost brings a    44    to a little place in our hearts. The worst was year after my grandparents had    45    . We couldn’t go to their house to celebrate the holiday anymore.    46    , we just had a get-together in my house. Now when I    47    to it, I miss the special    48    my grandfather gave me for Christmas. I even miss him    49    me “Jessie”, even though I can’t    50    when people call me that.

Things change, not always for the good,    51    not always for the bad either. And the things that don’t    52    have the most important meaning to us, and I am sure they will be there for the    53    of our lives. After all, every time I hear my father’s    54    “All right you guys, come on down, nice and slow” and we go down the stairs, first my brother, then me, then my sister, then my older brother, I still    55    the true Christmas spirit.

1.A．advising        B．starting          C．wishing           D．forgetting

2.A．come up         B．come down         C．come on           D．come out

3.A．discover        B．understand        C．receive           D．remember

4.A．year            B．season            C．habit             D．result

5.A．throw away B．set down               C．look through      D．give up

6.A．kids            B．girls             C．boys              D．babies

7.A．wonder          B．get               C．record            D．decide

8.A．toys            B．balls             C．jobs              D．candies

9.A．surprise        B．pain              C．joy        D．disappointment

10.A．died           B．failed            C．succeeded         D．married

11.A．Possibly       B．Indeed            C．Instead           D．Luckily

12.A．move back B．turn back              C．step back         D．think back

13.A．gifts          B．news              C．replies           D．tools

14.A．bringing       B．calling           C．telling           D．introducing

15.A．follow         B．listen            C．watch             D．stand

16.A．and            B．so                C．but               D．thus

17.A．change         B．grow              C．appear            D．happen

18.A．beginning B．rest                   C．truth             D．happiness

19.A．letters        B．dreams            C．promises          D．words

20.A．need           B．hate              C．feel              D．doubt

 

                                                                                              Dec. 24, 1848

Dear Johnston,

Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to satisfy now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you have said to me, “We can get along very well again,” but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can only happen by some fault in your behavior. What that fault is, I think I know. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler(游手好闲). I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day’s work, in any other day. You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it.

This habit of uselessly wasting time is the whole difficulty; it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break this habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it, easier than they can get out after they are in.

You are now in need of some ready money; and what I suggest is, that you shall go to work hard, for somebody who will give you money for it.

Let father and your boys take charge of your things at home-prepare for a crop, and make the crop, and you go to work for the best money wages, or to pay back any debt you owe. And to secure you a fair reward for your labor, I now promise you that for every dollar you will, between this and the first of May, get for your own labor, I will then give you one other dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work.

Now if you will do this, you will soon be out of debt, and what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, next year you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give your place in Heaven for $ 70 or $80. Then you value your place in Heaven cheaply, for I am sure you can with the offer I make you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months’ work. You say if I furnish you the money you will deed(抵押) me the land, and if you don’t pay the money back, you will deliver possession-Nonsense! If you can’t now live with the land, how will you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not now mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow my advice, you will find it worth more than eight time eighty dollars to you.

Affectionately

Your brother

A. Lincoln

1.Abraham Lincoln wrote the letter to Johnston mainly to ________.

A．show his concern for him	B．recommend him to save money
C．decline his request and motivate him	D．introduce him a new job

2.What’s the problem with Johnston, according to Lincoln?

A．He was very lazy.	B．He wasted time a lot.
C．He couldn’t get much from work.	D．He disliked working.

3.In the letter Lincoln suggested that Johnston should ________.

A．keep himself from getting into trouble	B．go to work hard for somebody
C．manage well the things at home	D．keep the children out of the idle habit

4.If Johnston got one dollar for his work, Lincoln promised to _________.

A．reward him with labor	B．pay off his debt
C．hire him at 10 dollars a month	D．give him another dollar

5.In order to get 80 dollars from Lincoln, Johnston promised to ________.

A．take away his place in Heaven	B．deed Lincoln the land
C．live without the land	D．do good work every day

 

  I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble.

I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of

my pocket and put it on her desk.

    Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed. As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.

    Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her use my pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had cheated on the test.

The story took place（发生） exactly ____________ .

   A. in the teacher’s office                  B. in an exam room

   C. in the school                        D. in the language lab

The girl wanted to borrow a pen, because ____________ .

   A. she had not brought a pen with her   

   B. she had lost her own on her way to school

   C. there was something wrong with her own

   D. her own had been taken away by someone

The teacher saw all this, so she asked the boy ____________ .

   A. to go on writing his paper           

   B. to stop whispering

   C. to leave the room immediately       

   D. to stay behind after the exam

The thing(s) emphasized in her talk was(were) ____________ .

   A. honesty          B. sense of duty         C. seriousness      D. all of the above

The boy knew everything ____________ .

   A. the moment he was asked to stay behind   

   B. when the teacher started talking about honesty

   C. only some time later   

   D. when he was walking out of the room

When William, a 10-year-old boy planned to learn the piano, the music teacher was reluctant （不愿意）to accept him. She   31   her students to start their music lessons at a young age when their   32   were able to move quickly and easily.

“William, why do you want to learn the piano?” the teacher asked.

“I want to play for my mother.”

She noticed the   33   in his eyes as he answered her. She had no heart to   34   and accepted William as her student. But at each music lesson, William appeared to be in a hurry and played   35   “My mother is waiting outside for me,” he would tell the teacher. She was tempted to advise William not to   36   his time with lessons anymore as he   37   hit the right notes.  38   there was something about William — - she was fascinated with the tender look in his eyes   39   he mentioned “Mother”.

Suddenly, William stopped coming for his lessons. At the end of the semester year, the music teacher decided to   40   a piano recital (独奏会) for her students and she asked them to participate.

She was   41   to find William’s application to contribute a musical piece. She would place him last in the recital   42   he made mistakes.

The day came and William appeared.  43   it was his turn to play, William bowed before the audience and said he was thankful for the music teacher’s   44   with him. “Tonight I am dedicating (献)my music to my mother.” he said.

 Everyone later asked why William did not bring his mother as she would   45   be proud. William replied, “My mother was   46   and she could never  47   me play during her life time.   48   she sacrificed her time and money to let me learn the piano. This morning Mother passed away. I am sure she is now  49   as she can hear my piano recital. I chose a piece of piano music by Beethoven. As you all know, Beethoven was deaf by the end of his career. But music always symbolized his   50   for freedom and I would like to dedicate it to Mother.”

1.. A. hoped            B. persuaded        C. allowed          D. preferred

2.. A. fingers          B. brains           C. eyes         D. arms

3.. A. surprise         B. joys             C. tears    D. disappointment

4..  A. put him down B. turn him down   C. put him off      D. turn him off

5..  A. badly           B. nicely               C. carefully    D. patiently

6..  A. pass            B. take                 C. kill        D. waste

7..  A. ever            B. never                C. even         D. always

8..  A. Instead         B. Therefore            C. Then                 D. But

9..  A. at one time         B. from time to time    C. each time D. the first time

10..  A. support        B. take                 C. intend           D. organize

11..  A. delighted      B. surprised            C. curious          D. angry

12..  A. as far as      B. if only          C. in case          D. now that

13..  A. Until          B. Since                C. While        D. When

14..  A. patience       B. advice           C. guide            D. concern

15..  A. surely             B. gradually            C. finally      D. quickly

16..  A. blind          B. deaf                 C. ill          D. wounded

17..  A. watch          B. appreciate           C. teach        D. hear

18..  A. Besides        B. Then                 C. Yet              D. Otherwise

19..  A. happy          B. relaxed          C. free                 D. sad

20..  A. effort         B. struggle         C. belief           D. challenge