完形填空（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become nervous unless things went a certain way. Happiness was “____ the cookie”. If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn’t have the cookie, life wasn’t worth ___. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. Sometimes it was money, sometimes power, sometimes a new car. A year and a half ___ he had a cancer, he sits shaking his head, “It’s like I stopped learning ____ to live after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is ____. But he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It’s taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long. The ____ you have the cookie, you start to worry about it. You know, you have to ____ a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from breaking and be sure that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it ___ you are so busy just trying not to lose it. Having the cookie is not what life is about.”
My patient ____ and says cancer has changed him. For the first time he is happy. No matter if his business is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. “Two years ago, cancer asked me, ‘Okay, what’s important? What is really important?’ Well, ____ is important. Life any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to do with the cookie; it has to do with being alive. Before, who made the time?” He pauses(停顿) thoughtfully. “Damn(该死), I guess life is the cookie.
A．cooking B．buying C．making D．having
A．everything B．anything C．nothing D．something
A．before B．after C．when D．since
A．how B．where C．which D．when
A．excited B．bored C．surprised D．unhappy
A．place B．way C．minute D．reason
A．look up B．send up C．give up D．set up
A．because B．so C．and D．but
A．cries B．laughs C．worries D．shouts
A．life B．cookie C．cancer D．time
I used to watch a little girl playing basketball every day. One day I asked her why she practiced so 1. She said, “I like basketball and I want to be the 2player. My dad told me, ‘If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.’”
She never changed her mind. She practiced basketball every day. 3one day before she graduated from high school, I saw her sitting on the grass 4. I asked her what was wrong. She told me that her coach said she was 5short to be a good basketball player. She was heartbroken. Then her father said to her, “If you 6want to be a good basketball player, nothing but you 7can stop your dream.” He told her 8 , “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”
The next year, she and her team went to a big match. She was 9by a coach of a famous team and was given a chance to the 10basketball team.
【小9】 A. allowed B. taught |
C. much D. hardly C. well D. best C. So D. First of all C. sadlyD. noisily C. quiteD. too C. badly D.successfully C. herself D. yourselves C. always D. ever C. refusedD. noticed C. children’s Dadults’ |
In 1608 an Englishman called Thomas travelled in Italy. He liked the country and 2 down everything interesting. But he found one thing 1 interesting than others. In his diary Thomas wrote, “ 3 Italians eat meat, they use small forks. They don’t eat with hands because, as they say, people don’t always have 4 hands.” Before he went home, Thomas bought a few 5 . One day he invited his friends to dinner at home. He took out a fork and wanted to6 the steak(牛排) as Italians did. His friends were very 7 . Thomas told them what the fork was. But they all thought the fork was not easy to use at all. Thomas tried to prove that his friends were 8 . But the first 9 he took with the fork fell onto the floor. His friends began to 10 at him and he had to take the forks away. Fifty years later, people in England began to use forks.
| A. broke A. less A. Why A. clean A. knives A. use A. worried A. honest |
B. wrote B. much B. When B. big B. dishes B. eat B. bored B. correct |
C. went C. even C. Which C. dirty C. forks C. make C. tired C. wrong |
D. climbed D. more D. Where D. free D. place D. take D. surprised D. clever |
A．piece of meat B．kilo of meat C．Fork D．meat
A．scream B．look C．shout D．laugh
完型填空
We were going to play a game with a country school. They didn’t come until the game began. They looked 1 than we had thought. They were wearing dirty blue jeans and looked like farm boys. We even thought that they had never seen a basketball before.
We all sat down. We felt that we didn’t 2 any practice against a team like that. It was already so late that no 3 could be given to them for a warm-up(准备动作).
The game began. One of our boys 4 the ball and he shot(投) a long pass to our forward(前锋). From out of nowhere a boy in a dirty T-shirt 5 the pass and with a beautiful form(姿势) he shot and got two points. They 6 us. Then they got another two points in a minute.
Soon it was all 7 . The country team 8 us. We certainly learned that even though a team is good, there is usually another 9a little better. But the important lesson learned was: One can’t tell a man, or a team, by the 10 .
A．stronger B．younger C．worse D．less
A．get B．try C．use D．need
A．basket B．space C．ball D．time
A．got B．played C．missed D．carried
A．caught B．changed C．started D．stopped
A．surprised B．kept C．broke D．hit
A．out B．away C．over D．off
A．won B．saved C．beat D．joined
A．just B．already C．about D．almost
A．T-shirts B．clothes C．places D．points
完型填空
What’s your plan for the holidays? When July comes, children know they’ll have __1__ examinations and the school year will end soon. Boys and girls will have a nearly two months’ holiday, and some of them will __2_ to see their parents _3__ train or car.
The summer holidays are the _4__ time of the year for most children. The weather is usually good, so one can __5__ most of his time playing outside. If one lives in the country, he can __6__ into the woods and in the fields. If one lives in a big town, he can usually go to a park to play. The best place for a summer holiday is the __7__. Some children are __8__ enough to live near the sea. But for the others who do not, if they have the chance to stay at one of the big seaside towns for a week or two, they will talk about it all the following school year.
__9__ makes children like the seaside so much? I think it is the sand, the sea and the sun. Of course, there are __10__ new things to see, nice food to eat and interesting things to do. But the feeling of sand under their feet and the feeling of the warm sun on their backs make them happier.
A．they B．them C．theirs D．their
A．go to town B．return to school C．leave home D．return home
A．on B．by C．in D．at
A．best B．better C．worst D．worse
A．take B．use C．spend D．waste
A．go out B．go on C．go back D．go away
A．village B．seaside C．city D．park
A．lucky B．sad C．worried D．quiet
A．Why B．Which C．Who D．What
A．little B．much C．lots of D．no
完型填空
No visitor was left in the museum now, and John was walking around to check if everything was all right. __1__ he saw a beautiful painting lying on the floor. John _2_ and gave it to the curator (馆长).
The curator called several museums to check if it was a stolen painting _3_ no one claimed (认领) it. So the curator decided to hang it. __4__ said it was beautiful and had a very deep meaning. The curator was __5__ to have such a painting in his museum and congratulated John on his discovery.
Some weeks later a woman and her __6__ came to the museum. While they were looking at that painting, the little boy began to __7__. The curator went over and asked what was making him so sad.
The child pointed to __8__ and said, “That’s my painting and I want it back.”
“Yes,” said his mother. “He __9__ it on the floor a few weeks ago. If you look carefully, you can see the name on the painting.” The curator __10__ believe his ears when he heard the truth.
A．Suddenly B．Actually C．Usually D．Quickly
A．set it up B．picked it up C．tried it out D．put it down
A．because B．so C．or D．but
A．Everyone B．Someone C．No one D．None
A．nervous B．lucky C．proud D．worried
A．husband B．son C．daughter D．friends
A．cry B．shout C．smile D．laugh
A．John B．his mother C．the painting D．the curator
A．put B．drew C．found D．left
A．might B．could C．might not D．couldn’t