I often think of my childhood, during ________I lived on my uncle’s farm.
A. which B. when C. where D. who
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I often think of my childhood, during ________I lived on my uncle’s farm.
A. which B. when C. where D. who
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Whenever I think of my childhood, I'll always feel that the period of free time seem to have passed ________
| A．for ever | B．by and by | C．little by little | D．in a flash |
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On a number of drives throughout my childhood, my mother would suddenly pull over the car to examine a flower by the side of the road or rescue a beetle from tragedy while I, in my late teens and early twenties, sat impatiently in the car.
Though Mother’s Day follows Earth Day, for me, they have always been related to each other. My mom has been “green” since she became concerned about the environment. Part of this habit was born of thrift (节俭). Like her mother and her grandmother before her, mom saves glass jars, empty cheese containers and reuses her plastic bags.
Mom creates a kind of harmonious relationship with wildlife in her yard. She knows to pick the apples on her trees a little early to avoid the bears and that if she leaves the bird feeders(给食器) out at night, it is likely that they will be knocked down by a family of raccoons (浣熊). Spiders that make their way into the house and are caught in juice glasses will be set loose in the garden.
I try to teach my children that looking out for the environment starts with being aware of the environment. On busy streets, we look for dandelions (蒲公英) to fly in the wind; we say hello to neighborhood cats and pick up plastic cups and paper bags. This teaching comes easily, I realize, because I was taught so well by example. Mom didn’t need to lecture; she didn’t need to beat a drum to change the world. She simply slowed down enough to enjoy living in it and with that joy came mercy and an instinct for protection.
I am slowing down and it isn’t because of the weight of my nearly forty years on the planet, it is out of my concern for the planet itself. I’ve begun to save glass jars and reuse packing envelopes. I pause in my daily tasks to watch the squirrels race each other in the trees above my house.
Last summer, in the company of my son and daughter, I planted tomatoes in my yard. With the heat of August around me, I ate the first while sitting on my low wall with dirt on my hands. Warm from the sun, it burst on my tongue with a sweetness I immediately wanted to share with my mom.
1.. Why does the author say Earth Day is connected with Mother’s Day?
A. Because Mother’s Day falls shortly after Earth Day.
B. To stress that all the older women in her family are environmentalists.
C. To stress how much her mother cares about the environment.
D. Because her mother shows her how to be friendly to nature on Mother’s Day.
2.. Which of the following is NOT related to Mom’s “green life”?
A. Rescuing a beetle from a certain tragedy.
B. Saving glass jars, empty cheese containers.
C. Setting a caught spider free in the garden
D. Picking dandelions on busy streets.
3.. We can infer from the article that ______.
A. the author realizes that she should teach her children by example as well
B. the author’s mother knows how to get rid of the wildlife in her yard
C. the author believes that only by learning to slow down can we enjoy life
D. the author’s mother used to lecture her to protect the environment.
4.. What can be learned from the last paragraph?
A. Tomatoes make the author think of her mother.
B. The author likes eating tomatoes planted by herself.
C. Planting tomatoes is a way of protecting environment.
D. The author really appreciates her mother’s teaching.
5.. The writer’s attitude towards her mom’s behavior changed in the order of ______.
A. understanding — critical — approving
B. approving — doubtful — negative
C. negative — understanding — approving
D. doubtful— critical— positive
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My father grew up in Oklahoma during the early years of the Great Depression. He was the only living child of a hard-working farmer and a ________ mother. When Dad completed eighth grade, my grandfather believed his only son would work on the farm. My grandmother, ________, understood the door that education could open even in ________ economic times. She persuaded grandfather to ________ Dad to finish high school.
Dad worked hard and completed high school at the age of 16. At last, grandpa was to have his wish. Dad would work on the farm, easing the economic and physical ________ grandpa carried. But grandmother again ________ grandpa to permit my father to go to college.
After ________, grandpa made the most difficult decision of his lifetime. He walked to the chicken coop(鸡笼子), where he did his ________. Taking a shovel in his work-worn hands, grandpa ________ a jar that held all the family’s savings. He offered the jar and its precious ________ to Dad, saying, "Here boy, go make something of yourself."
Realizing that his family was ________ all their savings by investing in his education, Dad became a steward of those funds. He ________ his bachelor’s degree and then went on to the University of Oklahoma, where he graduated second in his ________ school class in 1936. Jobs were hard to ________ when Dad graduated, so he opened his own practice and lived in a home with a dirt floor. He worked long hours, but I remember him ________ the great books he discovered in the course of his education with me.
Our family was changed by the long walk grandpa took to the chicken coop. Education is ________ an investment in our family. It is a treasure. I ________ my father to college and law school, and all of my children have also ________ higher education. We have been transformed by a sacrifice made two ________ ago by a loving, if not fully convinced, grandfather and a persistent grandmother and that has made all the ________.
1.A. beautiful B. curious C. capable D. devoted
2.A. so B. however C. otherwise D. thus
3.A. tough B. great C. peaceful D. competitive
4.A. permit B. take C. ask D. force
5.A. pains B. troubles C. burdens D. activities
6.A. refused B. begged C. ordered D. required
7.A. graduation B. work C. reflection D. permission
8.A. cooking B. cleaning C. farming D. banking
9.A. picked up B. dug up C. broke up D. cut up
10.A. books B. contents C. bills D. coins
11.A. sacrificing B. storing C. treasuring D. wasting
12.A. failed B. received C. offered D. needed
13.A. maths B. education C. economics D. law
14.A. come off B. come about C. come by D. come on
15.A. making B. writing C. protecting D. sharing
16.A. more than B. rather than C. other than D. less than
17.A. joined B. followed C. advised D. accompanied
18.A. sought B. insisted C. favored D. considered
19.A. years B. centuries C. decades D. generations
20.A. sense B. difference C. use D. effect
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My father grew up in Oklahoma during the early years of the Great Depression. He was the only living child of a hardworking farmer and a____mother.When Dad completed the eighth grade, my grandfather believed his only son would work on the farm. My grandmother, however, understood the door that education could open even in____economic times. She persuaded grandfather to____Dad to finish high school.
Dad worked hard and completed high school at the age of 16. At last, grandpa was to have his wish. Dad would work on the farm, easing the economic and physical ____grandpa carried. But grandmother again begged grandpa to permit my father to go to college.
After____, grandpa made the most difficult decision of his lifetime. He walked to the chicken coop (鸡笼子), where he did his____. Taking a shovel in his work-worn hands，grandpa dug up a jar that held all the family’s savings. He offered the jar and its precious____to Dad, saying, “Here boy, go and make something of yourself.”
Realizing that his family was sacrificing all their savings by in his education, Dad became a steward(管家) of those funds. He____his bachelor’s degree and then went on to the University of Oklahoma，where he graduated second in his____school class in 1936. Jobs were hard to come by when Dad graduated, so he opened his own practice and lived in a home with a dirt floor. He worked long hours, but I remember him____the great books he discovered in the course of his education with me.
Our family was changed by the long walk that grandpa took to the chicken coop. Education is more than an investment in our family. It is a treasure. I____my father to college and law school, and all of my children have also____ higher education. We have been transformed by a sacrifice made two generations ago by a loving. If grandfather had not been convinced by my persistent(固执的) grandmother, he would not have made the____.
1.A. beautiful B. devoted C. lazy D. curious
2.A. tough B. great C. peaceful D. competitive
3.A. permit B. take C. ask D. force
4.A. pains B. troubles C. burdens D. activities
5.A. graduation B. work C. reflection D. permission
6.A. cooking B. cleaning C. farming D. banking
7.A. books B. bills C. savings D. coins
8.A. investing B. storing C. treasuring D. raising
9.A. failed B. received C. offered D. needed
10.A. maths B. educat C. economics D. law
11.A. making B. writing C. protecting D. sharing
12.A. joined B. followed C. advised D. accompanied
13.A. sought B. insisted C. favored D. considered
14.A. toughly B. kindly C. rudely D. fully
15.A. sense B. use C. difference D. effect
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The photo of my brothers and me __________ my childhood.
| A．calls for | B．calls on | C．calls up | D．calls in |
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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all． It was, of course, a miserable childhood． The happy childhood is hardly worth your while． "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood． And worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood．" That was Frank McCourt reading the opening lines of his book Angela's Ashes, released in nineteen ninety-six．
This Irish American author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Angela's Ashes that recorded his poor upbringing, died of cancer on Sunday, The New York Times reported． He was 78．
Born in New York City, he was the eldest of seven children born to Irish immigrant parents． Angela's Ashes was a memoir that captured an irresponsible, drunkard father with a gift for story-telling． When not drunk, his father was absent, turning his back on a family so poor, McCourt wrote, that they were reduced to burning the furniture in their rented hut to keep warm． His mother struggled to raise her many children after his father left the family．
Already struggling when the Great Depression hit, the family moved back to Limerick, where they slipped ever deeper into poverty in the 1930s．
Three of McCourt's siblings died of diseases worsened by hunger and the wretchedness of their surroundings． McCourt himself almost died of typhoid（伤寒的） fever as a child．
In Angela's Ashes, he wrote of hunger, a home flooded with rainwater and the unbearable humiliation of seeking handouts from charities in the Irish city． But he told the story in a way that is expressive, warm and light-hearted．
Frank McCourt left Ireland at the age of nineteen to return to New York City where he was born． He earned a degree in- English education and taught creative writing for nearly thirty years． After retiring in nineteen eighty-seven, he decided to write about his childhood． "Angela's Ashes" became a huge success and brought McCourt a 1997 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and other honors． Millions of copies of the book were sold worldwide and it was adapted into a 1999 movie starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle．
1.What's the text mainly about?
A．A brief introduction to Frank McCourt and one of his works．
B．A literary review on Frank McCourt's book Angela's Ashes．
C．An account of Frank McCourt's miserable childhood.
D．A comment on Frank McCourt's life experience．
2.By saying "The happy childhood is hardly worth your while", the writer really means that ．
A．a lot of readers don't deserve happy childhood
B．his childhood is not worth of others' sympathy
C．his childhood is mixed with happiness and misery
D．smooth childhood surely will not draw readers' attention
3.From the passage, we know Frank McCourt's father is ．
A．humorous and trustworthy B．alcohol-addicted but loves his family
C．poor but warm-hearted D．irresponsible but gifted in telling stories
4.What does the underlined word "handouts" mean in the 6th paragraph?
A．Reliefs． B．Compensations．
C．Leaflets． D．Teaching materials．
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John was part of my childhood growing up in the 1970s and a link to sunny, fun-filled days spent on the beach at Bangor in Northern Ireland where we went for our summer holidays. To many, he was a mystery. Every afternoon John would wander to the end of the pier (码头) where he fed the seagulls and delighted in the sound of their excited cries as they flew around his head.
Often I asked my family questions regarding John. Eventually I gave up as no one could tell me anything about him. As I grew up, my visits to the beach became less frequent, and my memories of John buried in a child's imagination.
Last year memories came flooding back as I walked along the coastline, where I noticed a lady feeding the seagulls on the pier, and I decided to introduce myself. Then I came to know that the lady was John's daughter, and after John left this world she carried out the ritual, which had held such importance for her father.
In some strange way I felt we shared a bond, each needing to remember. In return, Lucy told me of John's life, his days in the British Navy during World War I and how he almost lost hope when his ship was attacked by a German U-boat in the North Sea and he found himself in a lifeboat with five others.
Close to death, he thought he heard the sound of wings. He put up his hands, only to catch a seagull that had landed on the side of the boat. The seagull saved the lives of the six men as it was used to catch fish, which kept them alive until they reach land. This period of John's life was one he never talked about. But the ritual he first performed as a young man remained a part of him until he died.
Now I visit Lucy as often as I can, just to chat or very often walk along the beach to the pier end. We enjoy the comfortable silence, each lost in special memories.
1.Seeing John feeding the seagulls, the author might feel ______.
A.proud B.worried
C.curious D.guilty
2.The underlined word ''ritual" in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______.
A.law B.tradition
C.interest D.procedure
3.We can infer from the text that John ______.
A.once served in both World Wars B.was a man with a grateful heart
C.spent his childhood in Bangor D.joined the navy in the 1970s
4.What does the author mainly tell us in the text?
A.Her thanks to a seagull that saved her life.
B.The story of how she made friends with a lady.
C.Her childhood spent on the beach at Bangor.
D.Her memories of a man who fed seagulls.
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The story tells of a woman who during the war went to live with her husband in camp on the Mojave Desert. She 1. (simple) hated the place. The heat was almost 2. (bearable), 125 degrees in the shade. The wind 3. (blow) continually, and there was sand everywhere. At the beginning, she just tolerated it and expected to leave as early as possible.
Finally, in desperation she wrote to her parents in Ohio that she couldn’t stand 4. (live) there for another minute and was coming home.
Quickly came the reply by airmail from her father — just the two familiar lines: ＂Two men looked out from prison bars...one man saw the mud, while 5. other man saw stars.＂
The daughter did some real thinking, not only with the intelligence but also with her heart. She decided 6. (stick) to her post.
Making 7. (friend) with the natives, she learned to love the country, and eventually wrote a book 8. was based on her experiences in the country.
The desert didn’t change, 9. her attitude changed. Because she listened with her heart 10. the words her father sent, a whole new world opened up to her.
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As a child, I lived on a college campus with my parents. Their students often visited and did jigsaw puzzles (拼图) with me, for which I quickly discovered my_______.I would sit alone for hours_________building a puzzle. My college “friends” would be_________next time they came.
Soon I_______ up from 500-piece puzzles to my highest _______:a 3,000-piece one. I was so_______at the thought of tearing it apart that I moved the finished puzzle_______ onto a large board and kept it as it was until we moved away and I _______ playing with puzzles.
Recently I can't help but_______my old days, when I could spend hours looking at small, oddly shaped cardboard pieces and ________them into appropriately spaced positions, enjoying myself.
I now live in a world of divided________, constantly jumping from one form of entertainment to another.________，I dislike it when I open my phone to send a quick text, but only to find myself, an hour later, clicking on countless YouTube videos that leave no impression on me. I miss being someone who didn't________ to be bombed with so many flashy external stimuli to be ________ .
I think a puzzle or two would force me to be another version of myself, a less impatient one. When I get home this summer, I'll________ the box of old toys somewhere in our basement. Maybe I'll find what I'm looking for.
1.A.concern B.destination C.balance D.love
2.A.dreaming of B.concentrating on C.complaining about D.hesitating about
3.A.embarrassed B.impressed C.confused D.relieved
4.A.leveled B.mixed C.showed D.sped
5.A.challenge B.design C.achievement D.champion
6.A.guilty B.light-hearted C.silly D.heartbroken
7.A.at random B.with care C.on occasion D.step by step
8.A.quit B.continued C.escaped D.forbade
9.A.analyse B.regret C.recall D.doubt
10.A.placing B.rolling C.pushing D.dragging
11.A.attention B.communication C.information D.opinions
12.A.Thankfully B.Honestly C.Additionally D.Interestingly
13.A.fail B.afford C.need D.offer
14.A.admired B.connected C.disturbed D.entertained
15.A.take over B.breaks up C.search through D.put away
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