阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself. And otherwise assigned（指定）a seat by the teacher, I always to sit at the back of the classroom.
All this after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher suggested I try out for the basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy because I didn’t have a good sense of balance, nor did I have the to keep pace with the others on the team and they would tease me. But for the teacher who kept insisting on my “ for it”, I wouldn’t have decided to give a try.
Getting up the to go to the tryouts was only the half of it! When I first started the practice sessions, I didn’t even know the rules of the game, much what I was doing. Sometimes I’d get and take a shot at the wrong direction—which made me feel really stupid. , I wasn’t the only one “new” at the game, so I decided to on learning the game, do my best at each practice session, and not be too hard on myself for the things I didn’t “just yet”.
I practiced and practiced. Soon I knew the and the “moves”. Being part of a team was fun and motivating. Very soon the competitive in me was winning over my lack of confidence. With time, I learned how to play and made friends in the — friends who respected my efforts to work hard and be a team player. I never had so much fun!
With my self-confidence comes more praise from teachers and classmates. I have gone from “ ” in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call attention to myself, raising my hand— even when I sometimes wasn’t and not 100 percent I had the right answer. Now I have more self-confidence in myself.
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Robert Frost was one of America’s best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came __ in his life. He was forty __ Americans began to read his poems and praise them. Once his __ was set up, however, it grew stronger and stronger during the rest of his long life. His success came from __ traditional forms of poetry with American words, in a clearly American way.
Frost the same speaker for many poems, so the poems formed a larger unity. He created this speaker carefully. He felt that his readers would believe his poems if he put the words into the mouth of a _ person who lived in the country, not the _ .
Many people thought the speaker was Frost himself. In fact, the speaker was （10 ）person. Frost, the , tried to become the imaginary person he for his poetry.
Robert Frost is always linked to the land of cold winters in the northeastern United States, the area called New England. he came from the other side of the country, San Francisco, California. He was born there in 1874. He lived in California during his early .
This man who was born in the and became linked with New England was named for the chief southern general in American’s Civil War. The general’s name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to the general.
Someone once asked another American , Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The _ thing, he said, was to have an _ childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost’s childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very writer.
A．soon B．late C．quickly D．early
A．since B．until C．before D．after
A．fame B．name C．poem D．family
A．working B．using C．putting D．uniting
A．spoken B．made C．built D．formed
A．thought of B．practiced C．used D．met
A．old B．separate C．famous D．excellent
A．common B．young C．wise D．grown-up
A．city B．village C．state D．continent
A．a famous B．a real C．an imaginary D．a historic
A．artist B．man C．lady D．officer
A．loved B．respected C．admired D．created
A．In this way B．Yet C．Though D．Therefore
A．childhood B．writings C．work D．paintings
A．East B．North C．West D．South
A．learn from B．know C．study D．honor
A．teacher B．writer C．painter D．leader
A．quickest B．worst C．best D．hardest
A．exciting B．interesting C．unlucky D．unhappy
A．good B．poor C．young D．able
In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally them and the job they do-although there are certain people who do not believe that the police
have the power that they do.
What does a policeman actually do? It is not job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in
. A policeman often has to control traffic, either
foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads. Indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, his time
up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop
motorists and help when there is an accident.
A policeman has to help keep the , too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we
the police to come and restore order. And they often have to
situation at great risk to their own
.
We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, he is not a detective, will often have to help
and arrest criminals.
And do we call when there is an emergency-an air crash, a
, a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police.
a policeman has to be
to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the
world.
The police do an absolutely, necessary job, they do it well and I support them, but I do not envy policeman, I do not think that I could
do the job of a policeman.
A. dislike B. joinC. appreciated D. admire
A. shouldB. wouldC. couldD. must
A. a funnyB. a pleasant C. an interesting D. an easy
A. ut B. oneC. hisD. them
A. onB. byC. underD. with
A. walkingB. driving C. wanderingD. searching
A. resting B. tired C. speedingD. drunken
A. peaceB. silence C. situationD. condition
A. wait for B. call C. think ofD. expect
A. turn toB. avoid C. deal withD. treat
A. safetyB. families C. futureD. friends
A. althoughB. as if C. howeverD. even if
A. get rid of B. question C. kook forD. sentence
A. howB. where C. whatD. who
A. power failure B. fire C. thunder stormD. thief
A. YetB. Then C. AsD. So
A. provided B. promised C. preparedD. presented
A. future B. modern C. realD. whole
A. extremely B. speciallyC. surprisinglyD. particularly
A. hardly B. forever C. everD. never
If you have a watch, don’t repair it! I know it __. Once I had a beautiful watch. And this watch __
perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to __
it up. The next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to __
by the exact time. The watchmaker examined my watch and said: “The regulator(校准器) is to be pushed up __
your watch is four minutes __
.”
I tried to stop him, and tried to __him understand that my watch kept perfect time, but he did not listen to me and pushed the regulator.
My beautiful watch began to gain time. It __faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it __
all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.
What did I have to do? To take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch immediately __he asked me to come in a week’s time. When at last I took my watch from him it began to __
down. And I began to be late for trains, business appointments and even missed my dinners.
Now I went to __watchmaker. While I waited for him to repair my poor watch, he __
it to pieces and said that he could finish this work __
three or four days. I could do nothing but __
. That time my watch went for half a day and then stopped.
So I kept __ my watch from one watchmaker to another for a considerable period of time.
And as a result of it the cleverest main in the world could not __ the time by my watch. The thing was getting __
. My watch had __
two hundred dollars originally but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy _
watch, which I did.
A.for reality B.for truthC.for certainD.for certainty
A.kept B.told C.observedD.struck
A.turn B.wind C.pick D.put
A.be turnedB.be taken C.be putD.be set
A.asB.as ifC.when D.if
A.fast B.slowly C.fasterD.slow
A.getB.persuade C.makeD.explain
A.gainedB.lost C.went D.won
A.had remained B.had leftC.had stayed D.had fallen
A.however B.andC.but D.therefore
A.go B.walkC.slow D.take
A.the thirdB.the secondC.the firstD.the forth
A.brokeB.took C.toreD.cut
A.afterB.beforeC.overD.in
A.to agree B.agreeC.agreeing D.agreed
A.takingB.bringing C.carryingD.fetching
A.recognizeB.tell C.know D.understand
A.seriouslyB.pleasant C.badly D.serious
A.spentB.took C.costD.paid
A.another B.the other C.oneD.one more
In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally them and the job they do-although there are certain people who do not believe that the police
have the power that they do.
What does a policeman actually do? It is not job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in
. A policeman often has to control traffic, either
foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads. Indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, his time
up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop
motorists and help when there is an accident.
A policeman has to help keep the , too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we
the police to come and restore order. And they often have to
situation at great risk to their own
.
We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, he is not a detective, will often have to help
and arrest criminals.
And do we call when there is an emergency-an air crash, a
, a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police.
a policeman has to be
to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the
world.
The police do an absolutely, necessary job, they do it well and I support them, but I do not envy policeman, I do not think that I could
do the job of a policeman.
A. dislikeB. joinC. appreciated D. admire
A. should B. wouldC. couldD. must
A. a funny B. a pleasant C. an interestingD. an easy
A. us B. oneC. hisD. them
A. on B. byC. under D. with
A. walking B. drivingC. wanderingD. searching
A. restingB. tiredC. speeding D. drunken
A. peaceB. silenceC. situation D. condition
A. wait for B. callC. think ofD. expect
A. turn to B. avoidC. deal withD. treat
A. safety B. familiesC. futureD. friends
A. although B. as ifC. howeverD. even if
A. get rid of B. questionC. kook forD. sentence
A. howB. where C. whatD. who
A. power failure B. fireC. thunder storm D. thief
A. YetB. ThenC. AsD. So
A. providedB. promisedC. preparedD. presented
A. futureB. modernC. realD. whole
A. extremely B. specially C. surprisinglyD. particular
A. hardlyB. forever C. everD. never
My friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other __that guests rarely realize that she’s __
anything.
One day, my six-year-old daughter Kayla went to play at her home.. When Kayla came home, she was very __about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was __
excited about her finger-painting project. “I learned how to __
colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle __
__ with us. She said she liked the way the paint felt through her fingers,” said Kayla.
Something about my child’s excitement caught my __, and I realized that I had never finger-painted with Kayla. As a result, my child had learned about __
from a blind friend.
I realized Kayla didn’t know that Michelle was blind. It had just never __in conversation. When I told her, she didn’t __
me at first. “But Mommy, Michelle understood exactly what was in my __
!”Kayla insisted. “Michelle told me that my picture showed joy, __
and a sense of accomplishment. She really __
what I was doing !” Kayla said she had never felt how good finger-painting was __
Michelle taught her. I knew my child was __
--Michelle had listened to Kayla when she __
her artwork. Michelle had also __
Kayla express her pride in her work, and her excitement at her __
of the way colors mix.
We were __for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did ‘see’ my picture. She just used my __
.”
Yes, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.
A.ways B.methods C.talentsD.senses
A.enjoyed B.succeeded C.missed D.found
A.satisfiedB.movedC.excitedD.enjoyed
A.hardlyB.especially C.reallyD.mostly
A.mixB.drawC.findD.talk
A.cooked B.played C.stayedD.painted
A.sightB.attentionC.interestD.observation
A.colorB.art C.finger D.fun
A.come around B.come acrossC.come through D.come up
A.agreeB.accept C.believeD.approve
A.attitudeB.picture C.worldD.life
A.regretB.sorrowC.prideD.achievement
A.heard B.saw C.touched D.felt
A.untilB.after C.when D.since
A.right B.wrongC.confusedD.clear
A.createdB.described C.designed D.produced
A.heardB.seenC.madeD.imagined
A.studyB.research C.knowledgeD.discovery
A.silentB.worriedC.confusedD.sad
A.hands B.eyes C.works D.feelings