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On a hot day, I decide to mow our extremely hilly lawn. It was likely to 21 a jungle（丛林）with weeds growing wildly. I need to mow it at once.

After several false 22 , I had to examine it and finally got our old lawn mower 23 . I was mowing and trying hard to push the machine uphill, which was really a hard job, for the machine was too old to work well. I was so 24 that I complained under my breath, so I decided to take a short break.

At the top of a rise, I 25 to see my 12-year-old John Thomas standing there, with a smile on his face and a glass of 26 in his hand. "Here, Mom, "he said, "have a drink, Want me to help you? Dad 27 me work on hte flat places."

I 28 the ice water and went to sit in the 29 of a tall tree. As I took my drink, I 30 my son. To my surprise, he didn't seem to be 31 the normal mowing pattern. And he kept smiling at me 32 he worked. I wondered 33 made him so happy? I thought to myself.

After a while, he 34 mowing and looked in my direction. "Hey, Mom. Could you 35 here? " "He's always　naughty like this, lazy again?" I said to myself 36 . Then I stood up and walked across the lawn, noticing that he had missed a sizable spot. "John, you didn't..." My angry words gradually became 37 , for the spot I thought he'd missed had been 38 mowed into the shape of a（an） 39 , suddenly I felt something warm and gentle rising from inside.

"Like it, Mom? It's mine and it's for you." he asked with a big 40 .

"Now I'll finish the job."

21. A. turn on B. turn into C. turn down D. turn up

22. A. starts B. words C. ends D. behavior

23. A. work B. move C. going D. flying

24. A. cheerful B. tired C. cared D. boring

25. A. looked through B. looked over C. looked after D. looked up

26. A. hot tea B. chocolate C. milk D. ice water

27. A. asks B. allows C. lets D. agrees

28. A. drank B. heated C. accepted D. received

29. A. shade B. leaves C. root D. top

30. A. saw B. watched C. observed D. noticed

31. A. feeling B. finding C. following D. feeding

32. A. if B. since C. whether D. as

33. A. what B. that C. all D. it

34. A. continued B. went on C. stopped D. finished

35. A. go over B. turn over C. driver over D. come over

36. A. happily B. angrily C. eagerly D. anxiously

37. A. heavier B. thicker C. louder D. quieter

38. A. carefully B. carelessly C. casually D. comfortably

39. A. heart B. apple C. hand D. foot

40. A. sign B. smile C. surprise D. sigh

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On a hot day, I decide to mow our extremely hilly lawn. It was likely to 21 a jungle（丛林）with weeds growing wildly. I need to mow it at once.

After several false 22 , I had to examine it and finally got our old lawn mower 23 . I was mowing and trying hard to push the machine uphill, which was really a hard job, for the machine was too old to work well. I was so 24 that I complained under my breath, so I decided to take a short break.

At the top of a rise, I 25 to see my 12-year-old John Thomas standing there, with a smile on his face and a glass of 26 in his hand. "Here, Mom, "he said, "have a drink, Want me to help you? Dad 27 me work on hte flat places."

I 28 the ice water and went to sit in the 29 of a tall tree. As I took my drink, I 30 my son. To my surprise, he didn't seem to be 31 the normal mowing pattern. And he kept smiling at me 32 he worked. I wondered 33 made him so happy? I thought to myself.

After a while, he 34 mowing and looked in my direction. "Hey, Mom. Could you 35 here? " "He's always　naughty like this, lazy again?" I said to myself 36 . Then I stood up and walked across the lawn, noticing that he had missed a sizable spot. "John, you didn't..." My angry words gradually became 37 , for the spot I thought he'd missed had been 38 mowed into the shape of a（an） 39 , suddenly I felt something warm and gentle rising from inside.

"Like it, Mom? It's mine and it's for you." he asked with a big 40 .

"Now I'll finish the job."

21. A. turn on	B. turn into	C. turn down	D. turn up
22. A. starts	B. words	C. ends	D. behavior
23. A. work	B. move	C. going	D. flying
24. A. cheerful	B. tired	C. cared	D. boring
25. A. looked through	B. looked over	C. looked after	D. looked up
26. A. hot tea	B. chocolate	C. milk	D. ice water
27. A. asks	B. allows	C. lets	D. agrees
28. A. drank	B. heated	C. accepted	D. received
29. A. shade	B. leaves	C. root	D. top
30. A. saw	B. watched	C. observed	D. noticed
31. A. feeling	B. finding	C. following	D. feeding
32. A. if	B. since	C. whether	D. as
33. A. what	B. that	C. all	D. it
34. A. continued	B. went on	C. stopped	D. finished
35. A. go over	B. turn over	C. driver over	D. come over
36. A. happily	B. angrily	C. eagerly	D. anxiously
37. A. heavier	B. thicker	C. louder	D. quieter
38. A. carefully	B. carelessly	C. casually	D. comfortably
39. A. heart	B. apple	C. hand	D. foot
40. A. sign	B. smile	C. surprise	D. sigh

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     After Mom died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was frail and moved
slowly, but he always had a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with
an unsigned note reading, "Drink your juice." Such a gesture, I knew, was as far as Dad had ever been
able to go in expressing his love. In fact, I remember, as a kid I had questioned Mom "Why doesn't Dad
love me!" Mom frowned. "Who said he doesn't love you!" "Well, he never tells me," I complained. "He
never tells me either," she said, smiling. "But look how hard he works to take care of us, to buy us food
and clothes, and to pay for this house. That's how your father tells us he loves us."
     I nodded slowly. I understood in my head, but not in my heart. I still wanted my father to put his arms
around me and tell me he loved me. Dad owned and operated a small scrap(片)metal business and after
school I often hung around while he worked. I always hoped he'd ask me to help and then praise me for
what I did. He never asked. His tasks were too dangerous for a young boy to attempt, and Mom was
already worried enough that he'd hurt himself. Dad hand fed scrap steel into a device that chopped it as
cleanly as a butcher chops a rack of ribs. The machine looked like a giant pair of scissors, with blades
thicker than my father's body. If he didn't feed those terrifying blades just right, he risked serious injury.
"Why don't you hire someone to do that for you?" Mom asked Dad one night as she bent over him and
rubbed his aching shoulders with a strong smelling liniment. "Why don't you hire a cook?" Dad asked,
giving her one of his rare smiles.
     Many years later, during my first daily visit, after drinking the juice my father had squeezed for me, I
walked over, hugged him and said, "I love you, Dad." From then on I did this every morning. My father
never told me how he felt about my hugs, and there was never any expression on his face when I gave
them.
1. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. I just couldn't understand my father
B. My father never loved me
C. Silent fatherly love
D. My hard-working father
2. The author's father always prepared a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice for him because _______.
A. that was the author's favorite
B. he was sure the author would be thirsty
C. the author was always complaining
D. that was a gesture of love
3. When the author complained in the first paragraph, his mother __________.
A. tried to comfort him
B. told him that his father loved him with action
C. tried to defend his father
D. got a bit angry with him
4. The author's father didn't hire a helper because __________.
A. his job was too dangerous
B. his job required high skills
C. he wanted to save money
D. he was not good at communicating with others
5. We may infer from the passage that __________.
A. the author's father lacked a sense of humor
B. the author quite understood his father as time went on
C. the author's father didn't love him very much
D. the author's father was too strict with him

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任务型阅读。
以下是几个寓意和寓言，第1至5题是有关的信息，请从A、B、C、D、E和F中为它
们选出最合适的项目。选项中有一项是多余选项。

1. ______We pay more attention to what we want to hear. (Bad news travels fast. / Bad news has
wings.)
2. ______Know which way the wind blows. (People act according to their interests.)
3. ______No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. (An act of kindness is never wasted. /
Even the weak have something to offer the strong.)
4. _____A man is known by the company he keeps. (You are known by the company you keep.)
5. _____Do not attempt too much at once.
     A. A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. His
master put a bell about his neck so that the dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went.
Thinking it a mark of distinction, the dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the
market-place. One day an old dog said to him, "Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That
bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a public notice to all men to
avoid you as a bad-mannered dog."
     B. A man once stood up at a market-place in the east and said, "I have been ordered by the king to
collect all the well-born and well-bred and bring them before him, since he wishes to reward them."
Everybody that heard him joined him, and he went towards the palace, surrounded by the whole town.
Then he suddenly turned round and said, "The king has just sent me word that he means to help only
those that have been ill-born and ill-bred to make up for their misfortunes." The crowd lingered behind
for a while, and then one after another joined the man as ill-born and ill-bred to receive the king's gifts.
The man said, "The world goes as the wind blows!"
     C. A lion was awakened by a mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, the lion caught the
mouse and was about to kill him, when the mouse begged, "If you would only spare my life, I would be
sure to repay your kindness." The lion laughed at the idea of the mouse being able to repay a favor, but
let him go in the end. Later, the lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him with strong ropes to
the ground. The mouse, recognizing the lion's roar, came and gnawed the rope with his teeth and set him
free.
     D. A fox had long been the dread of the village poultry yard. One day, he was found lying breathless
in a field. The report went abroad that, after all, he had been caught and killed by someone. In a moment,
everybody in the village came out to see the dead fox. The village cock, with all his hens and chicks, was
also there, to enjoy the sight. The fox then got up and said, "I ate a number of hens and chicks last night.
So I must have slept longer than usual." The cock counted his hens and chicks, and found several chicks
were missing. "Alas!" said he, "how is it that I do not know of it?" "My dear sir," said the fox, as he ran
back to the wood, "it was last night that I had a good meal of your hens and chicks, yet you did not
know of it. A moment ago they found me lying in the field, and you knew of it at once."
     E. A boy put his hand into a pitcher (大罐) full of nuts. He grasped as many as he could possibly
hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher.
Unwilling to lose his nuts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears, crying with
disappointment. A person who was passing by said to him, "Be satisfied with half the quantity and you
will draw out your hand at once."
     F. A man wished to purchase an ass (a donkey), and decided to give the animal a test before buying
him. He took the ass home and put him in the field with his other asses. The new ass moved away from
the others to join the one that was the laziest and the biggest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man led
him back to his owner. When the owner asked how he could have tested the ass in such a short time,
the man answered, "I didn't even need to see how he worked. I knew he would be just like the one he
chose to be his friend."

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My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $ 1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.

It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. More important, I earned my pay; it never entered my mind to say I was sick just because I didn’t want to work.

I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $ 18 a week. Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person can have.

When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dreamt of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.

The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb(番石榴树枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity. I learned working in the field — except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.

1. The writer’s first job was _______.

　 A. to stand down the fairway at a golf course

　 B. to watch over the sugar-cane plantation

　 C. to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields

　 D. to spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them

2. The writer learned that_______ from his first job.

　A. he should work for those who he liked most

　B. he should work longer than what he was expected

　 C. he should never fail to say hello to his owner

　 D. he should be respectful and faithful to the people he worked for

3. _______ gave the writer self-esteem.

A. Having a family of eight people

　 B. Owning his own golf course

　 C. Bringing money back home to help the family

　 D. Helping his father with the work on the plantation

4. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

　 A. He wanted to be a successful golfer.

　B. He wanted to run a golf course near his house.

　C. He was satisfied with the job he got on a plantation.

　D. He wanted to make money by guiding oxen with a broomstick.

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