完形填空。
A phone call reached me one cold winter day. I was ______ that my father was seriously ill.I had not seen my father since his divorce from my mom, and he had lived alone in a small trailer (拖车式活动房)in California, 100 miles away from me. The real ______ between us seemed much greater. I was in no hurry to change that, but ______ I promised to be there the next day.
The whole drive down, ______ flashed through my mind. I remembered my father, the proud Marine (海军陆战队队员). He snatched off the Christmas tree all the decorations the rest of us had put up and rehung them so there was ______ the same spacing between them. But we needn't ______ those military orders. I remembered clearly the battles he had with my mother. I remembered ______ to hear my father say just once, “I love you, Patty”, only to have him ______ at me, “You can't do anything right!”
Standing outside his trailer, I tried to ______ my courage to face him one more time. Slowly,I took a few steps inside, my hand and my whole body shaking, too ______ to believe my eyes. Sitting on the sofa, my father looked confused and frustrated. This wasn't the angry and ______ man I had known growing up. This man was ______ and seemed broken. Part of me felt sorry for him, but another part of me was thinking this was exactly the fate he ______.
“God, what am I supposed to do now?” I wondered. But as soon as the words ______ me, a sense of sorrow ______ me, and I knew that I had to take him to my home.
It was the ______ part I struggled with. The days of looking after my father turned into weeks, then months. All the pain, the conflicted feelings I'd been ______ over the years came rushing out. One night, I sat there, talking to God, begging him to help me let go of the ugly feelings I had toward my father. When I was finished, I felt an incredible peace, as if every ______ had been lifted from me. ______ had cleaned all that from me and I felt free to start living the joyful life God wanted me to live.
It has been eight years since father died. Now when I think of him, those are the moments I remember, which are, as I put on Dad's headstone, God's amazing ______.
1.A. reminded B. confirmed C. informed D. warned
2.A. difficulty B. challenge C. pain D. distance
3.A. somehow B. therefore C. otherwise D. somewhat
4.A. messages B. memories C. thoughts D. images
5.A. exactly B. vaguely C. generally D. roughly
6.A. admit B. recite C. master D. observe
7.A. attempting B. longing C. promising D. hesitating
8.A. stare B. aim C. laugh D. yell
9.A. strengthen B. support C. gather D. distribute
10.A. shocked B. puzzled C. worried D. disappointed
11.A. selfish B. sensitive C. controlling D. fascinating
12.A. fragile B. awkward C. cautious D. stubborn
13.A. grasped B. deserved C. determined D. expected
14.A. inspired B. failed C. escaped D. followed
15.A. absorbed B. defeated C. ruined D. overtook
16.A. physical B. emotional C. religious D. material
17.A. keeping up B. looking back C. holding back D. picking up
18.A. interference B. crime C. disaster D. burden
19.A. Forgiveness B. Sadness C. Kindness D. Awareness
20.A. virtue B. grace C. appreciation D. conscience
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In the United States, there were 222 people 1.（report） to be billionaires（亿万富翁） in 2003．The 2.（rich） of these is Bill Gates, worth at least $ 41 billion, 3.made his money 4. starting the company Microsoft．Mr．Gates was only 21 years old 5.he first helped to set up the company in 1976．He was a billionaire by the time he was 31 years old．6., there are still some other people who have made lots7. money at even younger ages．Other young people who have struck it rich include Jackie Coogan and Shirley Temple．8. of these child actors made over a million dollars 9. （act） in movies before they were 14．But _10. youngest billionaire is Albert von Thurn und Taxis of Germany, who, in 2001, inherited （继承） a billion dollars when he turned 18!
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The writings of Shakespeare are today little read by young people in Britain. His young readership is limited to those who choose to study literature at university.
Shakespeare’s work, together with most other classics, is seen as remote, and written in a 400-year-old version of English that is about as inviting as toothache.
Still, in Britain schools, it is compulsory to study the bard (诗人), and when something is made compulsory, usually the result is boredom, resentment (憎恨)or both.
This was my experience of the classics at school. But when I reached my late teenage years, I had a change of heart. Like every other young person since the dawn of time, the world confused me. I wanted answers, so I turned to books to find them.
I went on to take a PhD in literature and have taught it in Britain and China. I have never regretted it. There is something in literature that people want, even if they don’t read books. You see this in the popularity of TV and movie adaptations of great works, the recent film version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice being a case in point. These popular adaptations may help increase people’s interest in the classics.
Reading a simplified Romeo and Juliet may perhaps lead to a reading of Shakespeare’s actual play. If that is the case, then I welcome the trend. But do not make the mistake of thinking that it is the same thing. Shakespeare is a poet. His greatness is in his language. Reading someone else’s rewriting of his work is like peeling a banana, throwing away the fruit, and eating the skin. Take on the original. It really is worth the effort.
1.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The language used in classics is no longer in use today.
B. British students usually find compulsory reading dull.
C. Only those studying literature read Shakespeare’s works.
D. For British people, Shakespeare’s works are no longer classics.
2.According to the passage, the writer ________.
A. has liked literary classics since an early age
B. was forced to read the classics for a PhD
C. turned to literature to seek answers in his teens
D. thinks only people who read books like literature
3.The popularity of TV and movie adaptations of great works may help people ______.
A. learn more about tradition
B. get a PhD in literature
C. seek their answers about the world
D. become more interested in the classics
4.What does the writer intend to tell us in the last paragraph?
A. The fruit of a banana is more useful than its skin.
B. The rewriting trend does more harm than good.
C. Readers should try to read the original versions.
D. Readers need to learn the language in the classics.
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For Kim LeBlanc, knowing that her son Tyler’s organs, eyes and other tissues have given life or healing to others is helping her cope with the loss of her child, who was struck by a truck in Guelph on May 31.
Tyler was believed to have been texting a friend when he stepped onto a high-traffic road against the green light and was struck by the truck. Then he was sent to a Hamilton hospital. Surgery was performed to ease the pressure in his brain, but .the family was told he would not recover.
“With all of his injuries, I just prayed all night for a miracle. And I was granted a miracle, but not in the way I’d expected,” says LeBlanc, her voice choked by emotion.
The family decided to donate Tyler’s organs, a choice she believes her kind and considerate son would have made on his own. It’s also a choice that transplant programs wish would be made more often, because the need for donor organs is far more than the supply worldwide. More than 1,500 people in Ontario are on the waiting list for life-saving organs, and one dies every day because an organ has not become available in time. Across Canada, the gap between donations and the need for organs continues to widen. At the end of 2010, more than 4,400 Canadians were on the waiting list for donor organs, including 3,362 needing a kidney. That year, 229 died before the organs they needed became available.
LeBlanc recalls the morning when her son was taken off life support and his organs were removed. Despite living what she calls a parent’s absolute worst nightmare, LeBlanc says she has got the strength to bear such an unbearable loss. “He’s still there. He’s still living. And he’s still breathing. And he’s brought so much joy to families,” she says. “He’s my hero. He really is my hero.”
1.Tyler was struck by the truck mainly because________.
A. he broke the traffic rule
B. he was talking with his friends
C. the truck ignored him
D. the truck ran at a high speed
2.The figures in paragraph 4 show that ________.
A. more people begin to donate their organs
B. more people are dying during organ transplant operations
C. many people don’t know how to donate their organs
D. many people are in great need of organ transplant worldwide
3.It is implied in the last paragraph that ________.
A. LeBlanc was desperate about Tyler’s death
B. LeBlanc will never forget Tyler’s contribution
C. LeBlanc felt relieved with Tyler’s organ donated
D. LeBlanc has never thought that Tyler will be a hero
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Nowadays more and more people are talking about genetically modified foods ( GM foods). GM foods develop from genetically modified organisms (有机体), which have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are much more precise where an organism is exposed to chemicals to create a non-specific but stable change. For many people, the high-tech production raises all kinds, of environmental, ethical(伦理的), health and safety problems. Particularly in countries with long farming traditions, the idea seems against nature.
In fact, GM foods are already very much a part of our lives. They were first put on the market in 1996. A third of the corn and more than half the cotton grown in the US last year was the product of biotechnology, according to the Department of Agriculture. More than 65 million acres of genetically modified crops will be planted in the US this year. The genetic genie is out of the bottle.
However, like any new product entering the food chain, GM foods must be subjected to careful testing. In wealthy countries, the debate about biotech is not so fierce by the fact that they have a large number of foods to choose from, and a supply that goes beyond the needs. In developing countries desperate to feed fast-growing and under fed populations, the matter is simpler and much more urgent: do the benefits of biotech outweigh the risks?
The statistics on population growth and hunger are disturbing. Last year the world’s population reached 6 billion. The UN states that nearly 800 million people around the world are unhealthy. About 400 million women of childbearing age don’t have enough iron, which means their babies are exposed to various birth defeats. As many as 100 million children suffer from vitamin A deficiency, a leading cause of blindness.
How can biotech help? Genetic engineering is widely used to produce plants and animals with better nutritional values. Biotechnologists have developed genetically modified rice and they are working on other kinds of nutritionally improved crops. Biotech can also improve farming productivity in places where food shortage are caused by crop damage attributable to drought, poor soil and crop viruses.
1.The passage mainly talks about _______.
A. the world’s food problem
B. the development in biotech
C. the genetically modified foods
D. the way to solve food shortage
2.According to the passage, GM foods ________.
A. will replace naturally grown foods
B. are far better than naturally grown foods
C. may help to solve the problem of poor nutrition
D. can cause serious trouble in developing countries
3.The underlined sentence “The genetic genie is out of the bottle.” in paragraph 2 probably means that _______.
A. GM foods are available everywhere
B. the technology in producing GM foods is advanced
C. genetic technology may have uncontrollable powers
D. genetic technology has come out of laboratories into markets
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1.less red meat and more fibre, less saturated fat (饱和脂肪) and more fruit and vegetables, right? Wrong, according to a controversial new book by nutritionist Zoe Harcombe. In the book, Harcombe charts her careful journey of research into studies that underpin (巩固) dietary advice—and her myth(误区)—breaking conclusions are surprising.
Myth2..
“Real fat is not bad for us,” says Harcombe. It’s man-made fats that we should be demonizing. Why do we have this idea that meat is full of saturated fat? In a 100g pork chop, there is 2.3g of unsaturated fat and 1.5g of saturated fat.
Myth: We should eat more fibre.
For three decades, we have eaten fibre into our bodies to help us feel full and keep our digestive systems moving. 3. , says Harcombe. The advice to eat more fibre is put forward along with the theory that we need to clean our digestive systems. But essential minerals are absorbed from food while it is in the intestines(肠道), so why do we want to wash everything out? Concentrate on not putting bad food in.
Myth: You need to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. “Five-a-day is the most well-known piece of nutritional advice,” says Harcombe. “You’d think it was based on firm evidence of health benefit. 4. .” Five-a-day started as a marketing campaign by 25 fruit and vegetable companies and the American National Cancer Institute in 1991. There was no evidence for any cancer benefit.
Myth: Fruit and vegetables are the most nutritious things to eat.
Apparently not. Harcombe allows that vegetables are a great addition to the diet—if served in butter to deliver the fat-soluble(dissolved) vitamins they contain—but natural sugar in fruit, goes straight to the liver and is stored as fat.
5., says Harcombe, who adds, “Vitamins and minerals in animal foods—meat, fish, eggs and dairy products—beat those in fruit.”
A. Want to lose weight? Don’t trust these
B. We think we know what to eat
C. This is not a good idea
D. Fat is bad for us
E. Think again
F. We need to take more exercise
G Fruit is best avoided by those trying to lose weight
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