蓝裕勤 Neil 周杨 李治中 陈芷琦 覃朝姣
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
(一)
I’m on Facebook, and find it useful to keep up with my friends. But no number of texts, tweets(推文)or Facebook posts will ever____1____to having a real conversation. A person can be flooded with____2____communication and still feel alone. People have a need to be treated like they____3____.
One restaurant chain understands this. New____4____are required to watch a short training video of one of their restaurants. When the camera____5____an actor playing a customer or staff member, a caption gives a brief____6____of one aspect of that person’s life before moving on to the next person.
The information ranges from____7____to heartbreaking. One caption for an older male customer reads‘After years of battling cancer, he is finally____8____of the disease. Another for a(n)____9____lady sitting by herself reads:‘Husband died one month ago. This would have been their 50th anniversary.
It doesn’t____10____much to brighten the day of a____11____. To smile. To____12____a friendly greeting. To engage in a brief conversation. And it makes me feel so good!
So don’t be____13____if one day a white-haired man____14 you smiling and says‘Hello, there!And how are you____15____?’It might just be me!
(二)
I knew I had it easier than most single mothers. I was fortunate enough to have the____1____covered for my daughters and me, but it was the unexpected costs that kept me____2____at night. If something broke in our home, it was probably going to____3____broken.
I thought I was doing a good job____4____my worries from my children, but I wasn’t. Children are very____5____to their parents’moods(心情), and they are often listening when we are not____6____. A neighbour had been____7____me to share the cost of a new fence, and I was talking about it with my sister on the phone,____8____how I would cover the cost. After I got off the phone, my six-year old daughter____9____me and said ‘Mom, please don’t worry!We may not have everything we want, but we do have everything we____10____.’
This statement, made by an innocent but____11____child, changed my perspective(觀点). Whenever I found myself overcome by____12____about finances, I would remember her words. I would focus on being____13____for food on our table and____14____over our heads. I’m thankful to my little girl for reminding me that we often____15____wants with needs. Listen closely to children; it is from their hearts that we may learn great wisdom.
(廣东省佛山市南海区石门中学 蓝裕勤 Neil)
(三)
Accidental injuries are the fourth leading cause of death in the USA. Nearly 200,000 people____1____every year from fires, falls, car crashes... Their stories are____2____, but what we don’t often hear about are the stories from people who cause those____3____— and survive. One of those people is John Vargas.
In 2017, John was____4____for work when?he hit a?pedestrian?in Chicago. He wasn’t____5____with a crime; it was just a terrible accident. And after that, he couldn’t find anyone to____6____who knew what he was going through —____7____he found a Facebook support group for?people who have accidentally____8____other people.“It was like magic,”he told me.“I’m not____9____.”I also spoke with Theresa Ruf, who is in charge of the group, about why she decided to____10____it in the?years after she hit and killed a motorcyclist. Unlike John, Theresa’s case did enter the____11____system — and in that time, aimless and full of____12____, Theresa wanted to do something to help other people who were in the kind of____13____she was.“Maybe this is something I could do to feel a little____14____about myself by helping other people,”she told me.“It____15____me, too.”
(广东省湛江市第二中学 李治中 广东省湛江市二中海东中学 陈芷琦)
(四)
A man got annoyed with life. Despite all his efforts,____1____was what he learnt.?Feeling____2____by life, he wandered aimlessly and accidentally met a hermit(隐士). The____3____man shared his failure. Then, the hermit pointed towards two plants,“Do you see that fern(蕨类)and bamboo there? ”
“Yes”, the man nodded.
“When I planted the seeds, I took very good____4____of them. Soon the fern quickly grew from the____5____. But though the bamboo seed was____6____and fertilized(使肥沃) for years, it didn’t grow even an inch. In fact, nothing____7____in the first year. But, I did not____8____it and continued to water and nurture it. By the fifth year, a tiny shoot appeared and then it grew a hundred feet tall.”
“Did the bamboo lie sleeping for four years only to grow____9____in the fifth?”the hermit asked.?____10____by the question, the man kept quiet.?
The hermit explained,“It was developing a root system to____11____its growth in the fifth year and beyond. Without the____12____, it would not have sustained its life later.”
“The time you had been____13____, you were growing strong roots.”____14____the hermit.
That day, the man learnt the value of____15____and hard work, and felt confident to continue his dreams.
(广东省深圳市高级中学 周 杨)
(五)
A hockey(曲棍球)fan helped the assistant equipment manager identify a cancerous mole(痣)on his neck in the middle of a game.
Last October, 22-year-old Nadia Popovici was____ 1____ the Seattle Kraken game against the Vancouver Canucks in Seattle. She was sitting behind the Canucks bench that day when she____2____an irregularly shaped mole on the back of staffer Hamilton’s neck.
Popovici, who is going to medical school next year, said the mole____3____ her eye as Hamilton walked across the____ 4____ between periods.
“I____5____some of the classic signs, you know,____ 6____borders, a little bit of discoloration and a pretty large shape,” Popovici told CBC News.“I thought, you know, it can’t____ 7____just to say something.”
Hamilton was in the middle of moving____8____in between periods when he noticed Popovici____9____him to look at her phone. The____10____on her phone was written in a large font(字体)and expressed her____11____about the mole.
Though Hamilton says he____ 12____ ignored the note, he later had the team____ 13____ check it out and discovered that it could have had life-threatening consequences if it was left____14____.
“She saved my life,”he said during a news conference. “She didn’t take me out of a burning car, but she took me out of a____15____fire.”
(广西柳州地区民族高级中学 覃朝姣)
(一)本文主要讲述尽管现在有脸书和推特等电子交流,但也无法等同真实交流的重要性。接着用一家连锁餐厅培训新员工的事例,说明真实交流的重要。
1. D 由空前“无论发多少条短信、发多少推文、发多少脸书帖子”可知,此处应为“也不能等同于(amount to)真实的交谈“。
2. D 由空前句可知,指通过Facebook或tweets等电子(electronic)交流。
3. A 根据常识,人们需要被认可自己的价值或重要(count=be valuable or important)。
4. B 空前句提到一家连锁餐厅,根据常识可知,“被要求观看他们其中一家餐厅的短培训视频”的应当是新的员工(employees)。
5. A 镜头应当是“聚焦在(focuses on)”扮演顾客或工作人员的演员身上。
6. B 根据常识,影视录像中的文字说明应是“简要地描述(description)那个人生活的一个方面”。
7. A 由空格前后ranges from...to...来看,是指从一种状况到另一状况的变化范围,所填词应与heartbreaking(令人心碎的)相对,即“令人开心的(joyful)”。
8. C 由前文“在与癌症抗争多年之后”可知,终于“摆脱(be clear of)”了这种疾病。
9. D 由空后句中的“50年结婚纪念”可推知,是“年老的(elderly)”女士。
10. C 这是It takes sb some time to do sth句型。
11. C 由上下文举的例子可推断出这里指的是stranger(陌生人)。
12. C 举例说明怎么点亮陌生人的一天,由微笑到主动友好问候他人,应是offer(主动提供)。
13. B 前段“使一个陌生人快乐起来并不花费我们什么时间。只需微笑、问候、交谈。这些会使我感觉良好。”是作者对生活中的真实交流的总结和自己的感受。既然感受如此良好,所以作者也会身体力行,問候他人,故“当一个白发苍苍的老人向你走来问候时,你不要感到惊讶(surprised)”。
14. D 由后文中的smiling and says(微笑并跟你说话)可知,此空是指“向你走过来(approaches you)”。
15. A 由前面的Hello可知,是问候语,“How are you doing(你好吗)?”。
(二)作者是一位单身妈妈,虽然衣食无忧,但有时候也要为意想不到的费用忧虑。小女儿的一席话,让她豁然开朗,感恩生活。
1. C 由前文easier, fortunate enough可知,作者和女儿有“基本的生活保障(basics)”。
2. B 由but可知,意外的花费会让作者“夜不能寐(kept me up at night)”。其中,up=not in bed不睡觉。
3. B 由前句可知,“如果我们家里有什么东西坏了,它可能会一直坏下去(remain broken)。”
4. D 由前文I was doing a good job(我做得很好)可知,作者“不让孩子知道自己的忧愁(keeping my worries from my children)”。词组keep sth from sb意为“把某事瞒着某人”。
5. A 由前句中的but I wasn’t可知,作者没有瞒住她的孩子;结合后文的they are often listening可知,孩子们对父母的心情是很“敏感的(sensitive)”。
6. D 前文中已说作者是瞒着孩子的,所以孩子们倾听应是在父母“无意识的或不知道的(not aware)”时候。
7. A 由上文作者的忧愁可知,这里应是指一位邻居一直在迫使(pressuring)作者分担修新栅栏的费用。
8. C 依然围绕作者的忧愁去思考,这里应是“不知道(wondering)”该怎么支付这笔费用。
9. B 根据常识,应是孩子走向(approached)作者来安慰作者。
10. D 由but可知,是与want相对的词语;又由下段,特别是其中的wants with needs可知,应是need或其近义词,故选require。本句句意:我们可能没有我们想要的一切,但是我们的确拥有我们所需要的一切。
11. C 从这番话“改变了我的观点”及下文可知,孩子是“有智慧的(wise)”。文尾句“仔细倾听孩子说话;从他们的内心,我们可以学到伟大的智慧(wisdom)。”也明显提示,孩子是有智慧的。
12. A 本文一直是在讲费用方面的忧愁,因此,此处应是“财务上的焦虑(anxieties)”。
13. B 孩子的那句话“我们的确拥有需要的一切”提醒作者知足常乐,此处应是对所拥有的一切表示“感激(grateful)”。
14. B 空前的food on our table说明“有吃”,与之相对的应是“有住”,即shelter over our heads。即“感恩我们桌上的食物和头顶上的庇护”。
15. D 由上文可知,我们常常把想要的与所需的混淆(confuse)了。
(三)本文主要介绍了造成意外事故并幸存下来的人的故事。
1. A 由前句中的cause of deaths可知,本句是指每年有近20万人死于(die)火灾、跌倒、车祸等。故选A。
2. C 由but的“不经常听到”可知,与之相反的是,常听到,即熟悉的(familiar)故事。
3. A 造成伤亡的应该是事故(accidents),本段首句中的Accidental injuries是明顯提示。
4. D 由上段末句可知,本段讲造成事故的人John Vargas;又由空后hit a pedestrian和a terrible accident可知,约翰应是开车上班(driving)。
5. C 他没有被指控犯罪。短语be charged with意为“被指控”。
6. D 他找不到任何了解他经历的人倾诉(talk to)。
7. D 约翰在之前找不到交谈的对象,直到(until)在Facebook上找到一个支持组织。
8. A从本文首句可知,整篇文章都是描写意外致死事件,因此,这里指意外导致他人死亡(killed)的人。
9. B 由上文约翰在Facebook上找到了组织可知,他不孤单(alone)。
10. C 句中it指代组织,意思是组建(form)该组织。
11. A 本段第二句可知“约翰没有被指控犯罪”;又由与约翰不同可知,此处意为,特蕾莎的案件确实进入了法律(legal)体系。
12. C 造成他人死亡,应当是内心充满了内疚(guilt)。
13. B 特蕾莎想帮助处于她那种痛苦中(pain)的人们。
14. D 由上文可知,她想通过帮助别人来让自己心里好受点(feel a little better)。
15. B 由前文“特蕾莎成立该组织,希望通过帮助他人让自己好受些”可知,该组织也帮助了(help)她自己。
(四)对生活感到无望的年轻人,和一位隐士分享自己一切努力都无回报的苦楚,隐士通过蕨类植物和竹子的对比,让年轻人知道了努力和坚持到价值。
1. A 由Despite all his efforts(尽管做出了努力)可知,前后是转折,应当是依然“失败(falure)”。下文的shared his failure也是明显的提示。
2. C 由前文中的got annoyed和falure可知,男子感到被生活“打败了(defeated)”。
3. A 由前文可知,这是这位对生活失望的男子。顺便提提,annoyed, falure, wandered aimlessly与disappointed构成同一语义场。
4. B 由后文的Soon the fern quickly grew 可知,他对这些种子照料(take good care of)的很好。
5. C 由常识可知,蕨类很快从“泥土(earth)”中长出来。
6. B 由常识可知,播种后要“浇水(water)施肥”。后文中的continued to water and nurture也有明显提示。
7. D 由前文的it didn’t grow even an inch可知,事实上,第一年什么也没有发生(happened)。
8. A 由空后的and continued to water and nurture it.可知,虽然没有任何事情发生,但是“我”却没有对这些植物感到失望(give up on),仍然继续照顾。
9. D 前后对比,前四年处在休眠状态,第五年开始迅猛(rapidly)生长。
10. C 由the man kept quiet可知,这个男子感到被隐士的问题给难住了,感到疑惑不解(Puzzled)。
11. B 竹子发展根系,足够强大才能支撑(support)第五年及之后的成长。
12. C 对发展强大的根系进行同义转换表达,把根系看成竹子成长的基础(foundation)。
13. B 由下段中的the value of...hard work可知,“在你苦苦挣扎的时候,你正在茁壮成长。”
14. A 本句话是隐士对男子的评说(remarked)。
15. D 竹子前五年生长缓慢,却一直锲而不舍,由此推知,这里是指那个男子学到“耐心(patience)”和努力的价值。
(五)曲棍球粉丝Popovici在观看比赛过程中,辨认出设备经理助手Hamilton脖子上一个癌痣并提醒了他。多亏了Popovici,Hamilton得到了及时的救治。
1. B 根据本句及后句 She was sitting behind the Canucks bench that day可知, Popovici当时正在观看曲棍球比赛, 故选attending。
2. A 那天Popovici在观看比赛过程中,突然在Hamilton的脖子后面发现(noticed)了一个不规则形状的痣。
3. D 指Hamilton脖子上那颗痣吸引(caught)了她的注意力。
4. B 指Hamilton在比賽间歇时走过球场(field)。
5. D 由下文的“不规则的边缘和形状以及褪色”的情况可知,Popovici发现了(spotted)一些癌痣的典型症状。
6. A由第二段第二句话的irregularly以及本句语境可知,这颗痣的边缘不规则(irregular)。
7. D 根据语境可知,Popovici觉得提醒一下也没有什么坏处(hurt)。
8. B 由本文第一句 the assistant equipment manager可知Hamilton是一名设备经理,在比赛间歇时间应该是在搬运设备(equipment)。
9. A 指Hamilton在搬运设备的时突然发现Popovici在示意(signal)他看她手机上的信息。
10. C 空前说示意Hamilton看她的手机,根据常识,一定是看她手机上的信息(message)。
11. C 根据语境和常识,在她手机信息上表达了她对这颗痣的担忧(concern)。
12. A 由though可知,应选与later(后来)相对的initially(开始),意思是Hamilton起初(initially)不以为然。
13. D 由check及常识可知,应是请医生(doctor)检查。
14. B 后来发现如果不进行治疗(untreated),极可能会有危及生命的后果。
15. C 由上文可知Popovici给Hamilton指出问题所在时是来得及治疗的,因此Hamilton在新闻发布会上说,“她没有把我从‘燃烧的汽车’中救出来,但她把我从‘一场慢火’中救了出来。”
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