He has been called the “missing link”.Half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world—Mount Everest.
He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The 1 of Snowman has been around for
2 .Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mount Everest. The native people said they 3 this creature and called it the “Yeti”,and they said that they had 4 caught Yetis on two occasions 5 none has ever been produced as evidence.
Over the years, the story of the Yetis has 6 . In 1916, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not 7 the tracks of a monkey or bear and 8 that the Abominable Snowman might really 9 .
Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were 10 footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than 11 animal tracks, which had been made 12 as they melted and refroze in the snow. 13 ,in 1964,a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was 14 and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But, 15 ,no evidence has ever 16 been produced.
These days, only a few people continue to take the story of Abominable Snowman 17 ,but if they ever 18 catching one, they may face a real 19 : Would they put it in a 20 or give it a room in a hotel?
1.A.event B.story C.adventure D.description
2.A.centuries B.too long C.some time D.many years
3.A.heard from B.cared for C.knew of D.read about
4.A.even B.hardly C.certainly D.probably
5.A.as B.though C.when D.until
6.A.developed B.changed C.occurred D.continued
7.A.entirely B.naturally C.clearly D.simply
8.A.found B.declared C.felt D.doubted
9.A.exist B.escape C.disappear D.return
10.A.clearer B.more C.possible D.rare
11.A.huge B.recent C.ordinary D.frightening
12.A.strange B.large C.deep D.rough
13.A.In the end B.Therefore C.After all D.However
14.A.imagined B.real C.special D.familiar
15.A.so B.besides C.again D.instead
16.A.rightly B.actually C.normally D.particularly
17.A.lightly B.jokingly C.seriously D.properly
18.A.succeed in B.insist on C.depend on D.join in
19.A.decision B.situation C.subject D.problem
20.A.zoo B.mountain C.museum D.laboratory
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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从下列各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Every year on my birthday, a white gardenia (栀子花) was 31 to my house. But no card or note came with it. Calls to the flower shop were always 32 -it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to 33 the sender’s identity and just 34 in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical,perfect white flower lying in 35 pink paper.
But I never stopped 36 who the giver might be.My mother 37 to these imaginations.She asked me if there was someone for whom I had done a special 38 who might be showing appreciation.I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I fell in love with or one who had 39 me even though I didn’t know him.
One month 40 my high-school graduation.my father died.My feelings 41 from sorrow to fear and 42 :my dad was missing some of the most important events in my life.I became completely 43 in my coming graduation,the senior-class play and the ball.But my mother would not hear of my 44 any of those things.Mother and I had gone shopping and found an impressive dress,but it was the 45 size.When my father died,I forgot about the dress.
The day before my ball,I found that dress——in the right size——over the living room sofa.It was 46 to me so lovingly.I didn’t 47 if I had a new dress or not.But my mother did.She wanted her children to feel 48 ,filled with a sense that there was a beauty even in the face of 49 .In truth,my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia——lovely,strong and perfect——with an aura of magic and perhaps a bit of mystery.
My mother died ten days after l was married.The following year the gardenia stopped50 .
A.delivered B.taken D.given
A.helpful B.useless C.hopeful D.useful
A.realize B.check C.discover D.recognize
A.pleasant B.pleasing C.satisfied D.delighted
A.tough B.soft C.light D.hard
A.remembering B.imagining C.recalling D.considering
A.asked B.preferred C.contributed D.refer
A.job B.thing C.happiness D.kindness
A.watched B.noticed C.hated D.observed
A.before B.later C.ago D.after
A.differed B.suffered C.judged D.ranged
A.happiness B.depressing C.anger D.shock
A.interested B.unhappy C.disappointing D.uninterested
A.disappearing B.losing C.lost D.lacking
A.false B.proper C.right D.wrong
A.presented B.introduced C.awarded D.provided
A.wonder B.desire C.care D.doubt
A.loved B.respected C.honored D.loving
A.difficulty B.hardship C.sorrow D.sorry
A.appearing B.following C.presenting D.coming
完形填空(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
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David, my neighbor, has two young kids who are five and seven. One day he was 36 his seven-year-old son Kelly how to push the lawn mower(割草机) around the yard. As he was telling him how to turn the mower 37 , his wife, Jan, called to him to ask a question. As David answered the question, Kelly pushed the lawn mower 38 through the flower bed at the edge of the lawn — 39 a two-foot wide path leveled to the ground!
When David turned back and saw what had happened, he began to lose 40 . David had put a lot of time and 41 into making those flower beds the 42 of the neighbourhood. As he began to 43 his voice to his son, Jan walked quickly over to him, put her hand on his shoulder and said, “David, please remember we are raising children, not 44 !”
Jan 45 me how important 46 is as a parent to remember our priorities (things that need attention before others). The window shattered(打碎) by a 47 , a lamp knocked over by a careless child, or a plate dropped in the kitchen are already 48 . The flowers are already dead. We must remember not to 49 to the destruction by breaking a child’s spirit and deadening his 50 .
A few weeks ago Mark Michaels, the owner of a store, and I were together 51 parenting. He told me while his family were out for dinner, his daughter knocked over her water glass. 52 the water was cleaned up without any blaming remarks from her parents, she looked up and said, “I 53 want to thank you for not being like other parents. Most of my friends’ parents 54 have shouted at them and given them a lecture about paying more attention. Thanks for not 55 that!”
A.teaching B.helping C.looking at D.asking
A.up B.around C.down D.over
A.nearly B.even C.almost D.right
A.leaving B.staying C.remaining D.finding
A.hope B.control C.mind D.heart
A.strength B.effort C.power D.courage
A.pride B.respect C.envy D.honor
A.rise B.expand C.improve D.raise
A.flowers B.trees C.grass D.vegetables
A.called B.reminded C.warned D.told
A.this B.that C.it D.one
A.mower B.baseball C.chair D.book
A.broken B.shabby C.torn D.worn
A.attend B.tend C.add D.see
A.happiness B.liveliness C.bravery D.humor
A.talking B.speaking C.telling D.discussing
A.Before B.After C.Until D.Since
A.really B.actually C.eventually D.especially
A.should B.need C.would D.must
A.saying B.doing C.thinking D.Showing
完形填空 (共 20 小题; 每小题 1.5 分, 满分 30 分)
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Jerry is a restaurant manager who is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.
One day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get 36 ! You can’t be a __37__ person all of the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself you have two __38__ today. You can choose to be in a good mood 39 you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. It’s your choice __40__ you live life.”
Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never __41__ to do in the restaurant business…. He __42__ the back door open one morning and was held up at __43__ point by three armed robbers. He was shot by them while trying to fight back. __44__, Jerry was found relatively quickly and __45 to the local trauma(外伤) center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released 46
the hospital with fragments of the bullets 47in his body.
I saw Jerry about six months after the __48 . Jerry told me something happening in the ER( 急诊室). He said, “… the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the 49 on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really 50 . In their eyes, I 51 ‘he’s a dead man.’ I knew I needed to take 52 .” “What did you do?’ I asked. “Well, there was a nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. “She asked 53 I was allergic to anything. ‘ Yes’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘BULLETS!’ Over their 54 , I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead’.” Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.
Attitude, 55 , is everything.
A.that B.those C.one D.it
A.brave B.good C.positive D.bad
A.causes B.choices C.things D.goals
A.and B.or C.but D.then
A.how B.what C.that D.when
A.supposed B.expected C.encouraged D.suggested
A.came B.left C.broke D.knocked
A.sword B.stick C.arrow D.gun
A.Hopefully B.Delightedly C.Luckily D.Disappointedly
A.pushed B.rushed C.stepped D.followed
A.to B.towards C.from D.down
A.even B.ever C.once D.still
A.trouble B.accident C.difficulty D.trick
A.expressions B.smiles C.cries D.tears
A.attracted B.touched C.scared D.warned
A.mix B.hope C.ask D.read
A.care B.action C.turns D.apart
A.what B.that C.if D.why
A.laughter B.disappointment C.excitement D.joy
A.after all B.at all C.in all D.for all
完型填空(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,然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
Robby was 11 years old when his mother (a single mom) dropped him off for his first piano lesson. I prefer students begin at an earlier age, which I explained to Robby. 21 Robby said that it had always been his mother’s 22 to hear him play the piano. So I took him as a student.
Hard as Robby tried, he lacked the 23 of music. However, he persisted and at the end of each weekly 24 he’d always say, “My mom’s going to hear me play someday.” But it seemed 25 . I only knew his mother from a distance as she dropped Robby off or waited in her aged car to 26 him up. She always 27 and smiled but never visited my class. Then one day Robby 28 com
ing to our lessons. He telephoned me and said his mother was 29 .
A few weeks after that, I was 30 my students for the upcoming recital when Robby came and asked me 31 he could be in the recital. “Miss Hondorf… I’ll just go to play!” he insisted.
The night for the recital came. The high school gym was 32 with parents, friends and relatives. The recital 33 well. Then Robby came up on stage. I was 34 when he announced that he had chosen Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 in C Major. I was not prepared for what I had heard 35 his fingers were light on the keys. They even 36 on the keys… He played so well that everyone was on their 37in wild applause (鼓掌). In tears I ran up on stage. “Oh Robby! How 38 you do it?”
“Well Miss Hondorf… I 39 on practicing at home. Remember I told you my mom was sick? Well, 40 she had cancer and passed away this morning. She was born deaf so tonight was the first time she ever heard me play…”
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A.Although B.Because C.But D.Thus
A.idea B.dream C.desire D.imagination
A.feeling B.knowledge C.education D.sense
A.trial B.attempt C.performance D.lesson
A.helpless B.hopeless C.senseless D.worthless
A.put B.take C.make D.pick
A.waved B.listened C.stared D.watched
A.escaped B.avoided C.stopped D.refused
A.deaf B.lonely C.away D.sick
A.preparing B.arranging C.persuading D.taking
A.that B.whether C.when D.how
A.filled B.covered C.crowded D.connected
A.went on B.turned on C.carried on D.kept on
A.delighted B.proud C.confused D.surprised
A.until B.while C.before D.since
A.danced B.tapped C.hit D.flew
A.heads B.feet C.ears D.eyes
A.should B.would C.could D.might
A.went B.kept C.continued D.stuck
A.unfortunately B.suddenly C.strangely D.actually
完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
My grandmother became a widow in 1970. Shortly after that, we went to the 21 shelter to pick out a dog to keep her 22 . Grandma decided on a little dog with a reddish-brown spot above each eye. 23 these spots, the dog was named Penny.
Grandma and Penny quickly became very 24 to each other, but that attachment grew much stronger about three years later 25 Grandma had a stroke(中风). Grandma could no longer 26 , so when she came home from the hospital, she and Penny were 27 companions.
After her stroke, it became a real 28 for Grandma to let Penny in and out because 29 was at the bottom of a flight of stairs. So a mechanism(机械装置)using a rope and pulley(滑轮)was 30 from the door to a handle at the top of the stairs. Grandma just had to pull the handle to open and close the door. If the store was 31 Penny’s favorite dog food, Grandma would make one of us 32 Penny browned beef with potatoes in it. I can remember 33 my grandmother by saying that she loved that dog better than she loved her family.
As the years passed, it was not 34 for Grandma and Penny to separate each other. If Grandma went to take her nap(打盹), Penny stayed by her side until she 35 . As Penny aged, she could no longer jump up on the bed, so she 36 on the rug (垫子)beside the bed. If Grandma went into the 37 , Penny would walk along beside her, wait outside the door and accompany her 38 to the bed or chair. Grandma never went anywhere without her 39 companion by her side.
The time came when both my grandmother’s and Penny’s 40 were failing fast. After fifteen years of loving companionship, Grandma and Penny passed away within a few hours of each other.
A.animal B.toy C.fish D.bird
A.business B.firm C.company D.friend
A.In spite of B.Because of C.Instead of D.In front of
A.linked B.fastened C.attached D.tied
A.before B.while C.until D.when
A.think B.speak C.work D.study
A.contrary B.content C.confident D.constant
A.problem B.question C.practice D.rule
A.the door B.Grandma C.the window D.Penny
A.repaired B.fixed C.bought D.loaded
A. out of B.ahead of C.away from D.apart from
A.show B.hand C.borrow D.cook
A.drawing attention to B.making use of C.breaking away from D.making fun of
A.necessary B.possible C.important D.convenient
A.recovered B.awoke C.slept D.screamed
A.rolled B.stood C.waited D.lay
A.reading room B.bedroom C.shop D.bathroom
A.back B.up C.off D.down
A.splendid B.remote C.faithful D.legal
A.smell B.health C.habit D.living