Itseasytotakeyourhearingforgra-优题课

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写相应位置上。
The most influential book in my life
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is the most influential book in my life. It __1__ (fill) with courage, struggle and faith throughout. Helen Keller was once in deep despair in her __2__ (child), but finally she decided to overcome her physical defects and live happily. Furthermore, she showed great patience, ___3___ (do) well in her long and hard learning period.
I have learned, above all, three lessons from her story. First, she taught me that often the road to success is to face hardships ___4____ (brave). Maybe you are born under an ill star yet you can stand a better chance ___5___ others. It is therefore important that you screw up your courage ____6____courage is needed. Second, the impairment of part of her senses did not prevent ___7___ from learning. On the contrary, she ___8___ (make) continual efforts to go deeper into the realm of knowledge her fortitude had thus helped her overcome many handicaps. ___9___, she advised that we should make the most of our sense-organs as if we ___10___ (lose) them soon because this way we would observe the world more carefully than ever before.

阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文后的第76至85小题的空格上填上适当的单词或短语。每空不超过3个单词。
The Gobi is one of the world’s great deserts. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded(边界限制) by the Altai mountains and the grasslands of Mongolia on the north and by the Tibetan Plateau(青藏高原) to the southwest.
The word Gobi means “desert” in Mongolian. The Gobi is most famous in history as part of the great Mongol empire, and as the area of several important cities along the Silk Road.
The Gobi measures over 1,600 km southwest to northeast and 800 km from north to south. The desert is widest in the west. It covers 1.3 million square kilometers in area, making it one the largest deserts in the world. Much of the Gobi is not sandy but is covered with rock. The desert holds so many animals, such as Gobi bear, the wild camel and the black-tailed gazelle(羚羊), and is sometimes visited by wolves. The Kerulen River is the Gobi’s largest stream. It flows into small salt lakes or disappears into the sand. Nearly all the soil here has been removed by the north-westerly winds. The sand and wind storms are common. The Gobi has cold winters and short, hot summers. The Gobi is crossed by a high way, which links Ulaanbaata with Jining, China.
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77	one of the world’s great deserts, the Gobi, 78by the Altai mountains and on the north and by the Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, lies in the northwest of China.
79	the word of its name came from Mongolian. It acted 80an important part in the history of great Mongol empire, which was famous for the Silk Road.
size	the west of the desert is widest. It covers1.3 million square kilometers, 81over 1,600 km southwest to northeast and 800 km from north to south.
animals	many animals live on the desert, such as Gobi bear, 82and the black-tailed gazelle, and is sometimes visited by wolves.
83	the Gobi 84rock mostly, and the soil has been moved by the north-westerly wind. The largest stream is Kerulen River, which flows into 85at last. The sandstorm, cold winters and short, hot summers are very common.

阅读下面短文，简要回答问题。
Baloney is a kind of sausage that many Americans eat often. The word also has another meaning in English. It is used to describe something—usually something someone says—that is false or wrong or foolish.
Baloney sausage comes from the name of the Italian city, Bologna. The city is famous for its sausage, a mixture of smoked, spiced meat from cows and pigs. But, boloney sausage does not taste the same as beef or pork alone.
Some language experts think this different taste is responsible for the birth of the expression baloney. Baloney is an idea or statement that is nothing like the truth...in the same way that baloney sausage tastes nothing like the meat that is used to make it.
Baloney is a word often used by politicians to describe the ideas of their opponents.
The expression has been used for years. Fifty years ago, a former governor of New York State, Alfred Smith, criticized some claims by President Franklin Roosevelt about the successes of the Roosevelt administration. Smith said, “No matter how thin you slice it, it is still baloney.”
A similar word has almost the same meaning as baloney. It even sounds almost the same. The word is blarney. It began in Ireland about 1600.
The lord of Blarney castle, near Cork, agreed to surrender the castle to British troops. But he kept making excuses for postponing the surrender. And, he made them sound like very good excuses, “this is just more of the same blarney.”
The Irish castle now is famous for its Blarney stone. Kissing the stone is thought to give a person special powers of speech. One who has kissed the Blarney stone, so the story goes, can speak words of praise so smoothly and sweetly that you believe them, even when you know they are false.
73.Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “baloney”.

74.According to Americans, what does baloney refer to? (回答词数不超过8个)

75.What do you know about the lord of Blarney castle, near Cork? (回答词数不超过6个)

I fell in love with England because it was quaint(古雅)—all those little houses, looking terribly old-fashioned but nice, like dolls’ houses. I loved the countryside and the pubs, and I love London. I’ve slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think it’s an ugly town now.
Things have changed. For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play and good manners. The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good manners—people shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.
I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. You’re forced to live indoors. In Paris I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.
As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public transport after 10 p.m. I used to use it, but now I’m afraid.
The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well united and that’s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbor who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone.
The writer doesn’t like London because she___.

A．is not used to the life there now	B．has lived there for seventeen years
C．prefers to live in an old-fashioned house	D．has to be polite to everyone she meets there

Where do people usually meet their friends in England?

A．In a café.

B．In a restaurant.

C．In a nightclub.

D．In a pub.

The underlined part “it” (in Para.4) refers to ___.

A．a taxi

B．the money

C．a bomb

D．public transport

The writer took her neighbor to France for Christmas because he ___.

A．felt lonely	B．had never been to France
C．was from a typically French family	D．didn’t like the British idea of family

A man spoke with the Lord about heaven and hell. The Lord said to the man, “Come, I will show you hell.” They entered a room ___1___ a group of people sat around a huge pot of meat. Everyone was skinny, desperate and starving. Each ___2___ (hold) a spoon that could reach the pot, but each spoon had a handle so much longer ___3___ their own arms ___4___ it could not be used to get the stew into their own mouths. The suffering was terrible.
“Come, now I will show you ___5___.” The Lord said after a while. They entered another room, similar __6___ the first—the pot of meat, the group of people, the same long-handle spoons. ___7___ there everyone was happy, healthy and satisfied.
“I don’t understand,” said the man. “___8___ are they happy here when they were miserable in the other room and everything was the ___9___?” The Lord smiled. “Ah, it is simple,” he said. “Here they have learned to feed each ___10___.”