Over dinner a few weeks ago.the novelist Lawrence Naumoff told a troubling story.He 1 students in his introduction to creative writing course at UNC Chapel Hill if they had 2 Jack Kerouac.Nobody raised a hand. 3 he asked if anyone had ever heard of Jack Kerouac.There are more blank 4 . Naumoff began 5 the legend of the literary wild man.One student offered that he had a teacher who was just as 6 .Naumoff asked the professor's name.The student said 7 didn't know.Naumoff then asked this oblivious scholar.“Do you know my 8 ? After a long pause.the young man replied.“No. “I guess I've always known that many students are just 9 my course to get a requirement out of the way. Naumoff said.“But it was 10 to see that some couldn't even go to the trouble of 11 the name of the person teaching the course. The other UNC professors at the 12 began sharing their own stories about the troubling state of curiosity on 13 .All of them have noted that such ignorance isn't 14 -students have always possessed far less knowledge than they should.But in the past. 15 tended to be a source of shame and motivation.Students were far more likely to be 16 by not­knowing.far more eager to fill such gaps by learning. 17 .nowadays as one reviewer once said.“It's that they don't 18 what they don't know. In our increasingly complex world.the amount of information required to master any 19 discipline-puters.life insurance.medicine-has expanded geometrically.We are forced to 20 specialists.people who know more and more about less and less.Curiously.in a world where everything is worth knowing.nothing is. 1.A.helped B.greeted C.taught D.asked 2.A.read B.recognized C.visited D.wrote 3.A.But B.Or C.Then D.So 4.A.puzzles B.expressions C.smiles D.feelings 5.A.describing B.drawing C.showing D.painting 6.A.ugly B.handsome C.crazy D.angry 7.A.he B.she C.they D.we 8.A.story B.name C.address D.work 9.A.getting B.putting C.taking D.making 10.A.excited B.interested C.pleased D.disappointed 11.A.finding out B.looking for C.putting up D.pointing to 12.A.class B.dinner C.room D.house 13.A.train B.bus C.campus D.literature 14.A.old B.short C.long D.new 15.A.ignorance B.curiosity C.knowledge D.gaps 16.A.troubled B.moved C.touched D.respected 17.A.Therefore B.Otherwise C.However D.Anyway 18.A.go through B.take in C.meet with D.care about 19.on B.simple C.particular D.easy 20.A.act B.become C.call D.want 答案与解析: 本文是一篇夹叙夹议文.小说家劳伦斯·诺莫夫在北卡莱纳大学教堂山区教文学创作时发现了学生对文学的无知.他在饭桌上将这件烦心事告知了他的朋友.他的朋友们也讲述了他们遭到的类似的事情.并分析了相关原因.最后作者发出感慨:在这个万事都值得知道的世界.再没有什么真的值得去知道了. 1.D 小说家劳伦斯·诺莫夫在北卡莱纳大学教堂山区教文学创作时.“问 (ask)学生有没有“读过 杰克·克鲁亚克.help 帮助.greet 问候.teach 教授.均不合句意. 2.A 结合上题的解析可知.此处是--有没有“读过 杰克·克鲁亚克.用read符合语境.而recognize 辨认.visit 拜访.write 写.均不合句意. 3.C 没人举手.“然后 他又问--then表示递进关系.符合语境.而but表转折关系.or表选择关系.so表因果关系.均不合句意. 4.B 形容学生们脸上茫然的“表情 应用expressions.其他三项puzzles 困惑.smiles 微笑.feelings情感.都是表情的具体形式.不符合语境. 5.A 诺莫夫开始“描述 这个文学界狂人的传奇故事.draw 画.show 展现.paint 刷油漆.均不合语境. 6.C 有个学生提出.他以前有个老师跟此人一样“疯狂 .crazy与上文的wild吻合. 7.A 学生说“他 (he)不知道.此处与上文的人称要一致且由下文the young man replied...可推知是位男生. 8.B 你知道我的“名字 吗?根据上文的暗示Naumoff asked the professor's name以及下文的...the name of the person teaching the course可知. 9.C 我想很多学生“选修 我的课只是为了拿学分--take one's course 选修某人的课.其他动词搭配无此含义. 10.D 有的学生会连授课老师的名字都懒得“弄清楚 .这也实在令人“失望 .excited 兴奋的.interested 感兴趣的.pleased 高兴的.均不合语境. 11.A 结合上题解析知此处选finding out.look for 寻找.put up 张贴.point to 指向.均不合句意. 12.B “餐桌上 其他北卡莱纳大学的教授们也开始讲述自己的遭遇.根据文章首句的信息Over dinner a few weeks ago可知.这些教授们是在餐桌上谈论此事的. 13.C 教授们感慨着“校园 内好奇心是多么令人不安.campus符合上下文语境.而train 火车.bus 公交车.literature 文学.均不合语境. 14.D 他们指出.这种无知并不“新鲜 (new).old 旧的.short 短的.long 长的.均不合句意. 15.A 但在过去.“无知 往往让人惭愧并催人奋进.curiosity 好奇心.knowledge 知识.gaps 间隙.均不符合句意. 16.A 过去的学生更会由于不知道某些东西而“感到苦恼 .更会去刻苦学习以弥补差距.moved 被感动的.touched 受感动.感激.激动.respected 被尊重的.均不合句意. 17.C “而 如今.像一位书评家所说的--therefore 因此.otherwise 否则.anyway 无论如何.均不合句意. 18.D 像一位书评家所说的.“问题是他们对此还满不在乎. 用care about表示“关心.在乎 .符合语境.go through 经历.经受.take in 接受.吸收.meet with 偶遇.遭受.均不合句意. 19.C 我们的世界越来越复杂.掌握任何一门有“特殊 规律的学科--如计算机.人寿保险.医学--所需要知道的信息都呈几何级数增长.common 普通的.simple 简单的.easy 容易的.均与下文的...has expanded geometrically不吻合. 20.B 我们被迫要“成为 专家--用become符合语境.act 扮演--角色.call 称呼.want 想要.均不合句意. 查看更多

 

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—I’m going to travel to America. Would you consider telling me about your experiences there?

         —______. Let’s discuss it over dinner.

   A. That’s all right     B. By all means       C. Go ahead        D. It just depends

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Dear Susan,
I'm very gladly to hear you are coming to visit me the next Friday. Unfortunately, I won't be able to meet you at the airport although I have classes in the afternoon. You won't find difficult to get to the city center. The airport bus leaves every 30 minute and will take you rightly to the Friendship Hotel. My classes will be over by then or I will pick you up there. I will take you together to a hot pot restaurant for dinner and we'll talk with our plan for the weekend over dinner. Having a pleasant trip and see you Friday.
Yours,
Zhang Ming

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—I’m going to travel to America. Would you consider telling me about your experiences there?

—______. Let’s discuss it over dinner.

A. That’s all right     B. By all means       C. Go ahead        D. It just depends

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单词拼写(10分,每词一分)根据首字母提示或句意拼写出完整的单词。

1.  We all_______(钦佩)her for the way she saved the child from the fire.

2.  Just to satisfy my_______(好奇心),how much did you pay for your house?

3.  The ______(氛围)over dinner was warm and friendly.

4.  You are only ______(稍稍)underweight for your height.

5.  Several _______(十年)have passed since I graduated from the college.

6.  Let’s get something to eat ; I’m s________.

7.  Medals were a_______ to the best speakers on the debating team.

8.  It’s said Yoga is of great b_______ to human health.

9.  I’ll come tomorrow if weather p________.

10. The s_______ of the disease frightened the villagers.

 

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My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking. Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.
We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.
For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.
We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.
Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.
“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.
【小题1】Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

A.Friends of the Road
B.The Silent Woman on the Bus
C.Going to Work by Bus
D.Different Kinds of Friendship
【小题2】All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.
A.poorB.warm -heartedC.silentD.cold
【小题3】The underlined word “establish” in the third paragraph probably has the same      meaning as              
A.keepB.discoverC.set upD.accept
【小题4】Why did the woman usually keep silence while taking the bus?
A.She was worried about her disabled son.
B.She was sad to see the happy Mexican couple us a single mother.
C.She had difficulty in expressing herself.
D.She was only interested in the bus driver.
【小题5】The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.
A.they both disabled people
B.they both had some difficulty in expressing
C.they both liked bus travel
D.they both brought interest to the passengers

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