There was a man who had a little boy that he loved very much. Every day after work the man would come home and 36 with the little boy. He would always 37 all of his extern) time with the little boy.
One night. while the man was at work, he __38 that he had extra work to do for the evening, and that he wouldn’t be able to play with his little boy. 39 he wanted to be able to give the boy something to keep him 40 . So, looking around his office, he saw a magazine with a large 41 of the world on the cover. He got a(n) 42 . He removed the map, and then patiently tore it up into small pieces. Then he put all the 43 in his coat pocket.
When he got home, the little boy came __44 to him and was ready to play. The man __45 that he had extra work to do and couldn’t play just now. He 46 the little boy into the dinning room, and 47 all the pieces of the map. He spread them on the table. He explained that it was a map of the world, and that by the time he could 48 together, his extra work would be 49 , and they could both play. Surely this would keep the child busy for hours, he thought.
About half an hour later the boy came to the man and said, “Okay, it’s finished. Can we play now?”
The man was 50 , saying, “That’s impossible. Let’s have a look.” And 51__enough, there was the picture of the world, all put together, every piece in its 52 .
The man said, “That’s amazing! How did you do that?” The boy said, “It’s 53 . On the 54 of the page is a(n) 55 of a man. When I put the man together the whole world fell into place.”
A．play B．watch C．share D．enjoy
A．take B．spend C．spare D．have
A．recognized B．realized C．knew D．expected
A．However B．Or C．For D．But
A．happy B．excited C．busy D．silent
A．map B．picture C．figure D．image
A．information B．chance C．advice D．idea
A．world B．pieces C．paper D．magazine
A．shouting B．expecting C．running D．meeting
A．explained B．persuaded C．shouted D．discussed
A．asked B．led C．ordered D．showed
A．did up B．dealt with C．put out D．took out
A．looked it up B．got it around C．put it back D．turned it over
A．finished B．wasted C．delivered D．filled
A．shocked B．surprised C．satisfied D．tired
A．beautiful B．sure C．right D．quite
A．way B．position C．side D．place
A．funny B．difficult C．simple D．interesting
A．cover B．back C．top D．front
A．picture B．impression C．sculpture D．shade
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We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are , one by one. "There is my grandmother's house," I say, across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lisa, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯) memory for me. Lisa was one of the mobile children, from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of , and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors for 200 years.
We soon by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the where I was once so gloriously a child. It still a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk the rooms in memory. Here, my mother in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lisa attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I ; where I belong. "
She has her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the of "I". We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The Fitting-in of Suzy Khan
The first time I saw Suzy Khan, I knew I had to help her. She was really small for her age of 12. The boy in my class often about her and laughed their heads off. She would open a book, pretending to read, with tears dropping on the open page.
All I knew was that she was an orphan (孤儿) from Africa. She had just been adopted by a family in town who that the best way for her to learn American ways of life was to be with american kids. I looked down at this girl and promised myself that somehow I would help her.
But how could I help her in with us? There had to be a .
One day, when I went into the classroom, I saw that Suzy had her geography book to a picture of a train, and in her notebook, she had made a(n) copy.
I was surprised and thought that she could do something in the coming show. So, I took her to see the art teacher, Miss Parker, and showed her what Suzy had . “why, it’s wonderful,” said Miss Parker, who then showed us a poster she had painted the talent show. “I need more of these, but I just don’t have enough . Could you help me, Suzy?”
On the day of the talent show, Suzy’s were everywhere ---- all over the hall and all over the school, each one different.
“And finally,” said Mr Brown, the schoolmaster, at the end of the show, “we have a (n) award. I’m sure you’ve all noticed the wonderful posters.” Everyone nodded. “One of our own students them.”
I could hear everyone whispering. “Who in our school could draw well?”
Mr. Brown waited a while before saying, “ this student worked so hard on the posters, she deserves a ,too. Our mystery(神秘) artist is our new student ---- Suzy Khan!”
Mr. Brown thanked her for all the wonderful posters and gave her a professional artist’s set. “Thank you,” she cried.
I , at that time when I was looking at her excited face, she’d probably never anything in her whole life.
Everyone started to their hands. Suzy Khan gave them a shy smile and the applause was defening. I knew then Suzy was going to ne all right.
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From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏演唱会). A recital _____I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I _____ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he would shake his head, muttering(嘀咕) _________about build self-confidence and working toward a ________.
So it was with really great_____that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and ______my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt ______rising to play the piano in his very first recital.
My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t ________lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, _______too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t ________there. When he retired three years ago, he ____ his church music director to take him as a student.
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he _____stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the ______? I worried, remembering those split seconds____ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would ______. But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the _____fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I______he had been doing what music teachers always stress:________the music and pretend the others aren’t there.
“I’m _______of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff.
“Yeah, and doing it so_______,” Jeff added.
With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.
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Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing ____ was something she picked up by herself. After her first____, teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM. ____, writing stories was simply a ____ interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher. ____, they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long ____ and paid Tracy a $ 15,000 advance. “A pretty money,” said the publisher, “for ____ writer.”
____ Tracy’s characters are interesting, her stories sometimes ____ readers uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could ____ the afterlife world,” she told a close friend. “She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago.”
“Can I ? I don’t think I can,” Tracy said with a laugh. “But I do have ____ when things come to me ____. “Once, she was wondering how to complete a ____ set in ancient China. ____ the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese ____. It came without her having ____ it.
Though she has published 45 books, Tracy has remained ____ by her fame. She lives in the same ____ she lived 27 years ago — although in a more comfortable home. There’s more room for ____ in her life — and it wasn’t just __ __.
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The famous British inventor George Stephenson was born in 1781 and died in 1848. One of his important inventions was the train. He his first train when he was forty-four years old. When he was experimenting with the engine on the train, he met with from the government, the newspapers and the gentlemen in the country. They said that the noise and the smoke would cows, horses and sheep, that the would burst or that the hot coals from it would their houses. At that time, people believed what they said.
George Stephenson the people that the train could go on small , could pull carriages goods and passengers and there was to them. It was a very matter for him to them believe. However, after , he was able to do it; and the first train that by Stephenson himself what he had said.
The first day the people along the way the noises of the train and saw it running quickly to them, they ran back home as quickly as they could and closed their doors tightly, for they thought it a genius(妖怪).They did not dare to come out until it had passed.
A．very B．a lot C．much D．most
A．bought B．made C．introduced D．did
A．electrical B．atomic C．oil D．steam
A．troubles B．success C．people D．pleasure
A．buy B．kill C．interest D．take away
A．smoke B．noise C．engine D．driver
A．pull down B．blow away C．pass D．set fire to
A．few B．most C．only a few D．the rich
A．said B．spoke C．warned D．told
A．roads B．rivers C．rails D．steam
A．full of B．short of C．empty of D．without
A．dangerous B．no great danger C．a lot of danger D．few danger
A．difficult B．easy C．pleasant D．light
A．get B．cause C．force D．make
A．some time B．sometime C．a few times D．sometimes
A．was driven B．was sold C．was pulled D．helped
A．believed B．seemed C．proved D．sensed
A．when B．of C．while D．for
A．caught sight of B．listened to C．thought D．heard
A．in the distance B．nearby C．on the far D．from the distance
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