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There once lived a young man who was always unhappy and complained about his poverty. One day, he went to see a fortune teller to inquire how to become_____1____. The fortune teller said, "Young man, you are already wealthy now."

"Where is my wealth?" the young man asked _______2____.

"It is with you. Your _______3___ is (are) your wealth. You use them to see this world. You use them to see all the ______4______things in this world. You can read, study and learn. Your hands are your wealth. You can use them to work. You can use them to hug your beloved ones. Your ____5_____are your wealth. You can go to any places..." the fortune teller said.

"You call these wealth? Everyone has them," the young man said.

"These are wealth. What you have now are not what others can luckily have. Are you ______6___ to give your eyes to me? I am willing to give you a lot of money to _____7_____ for them," the fortune teller said.

"No, are you crazy? I am not going to exchange my eyes for money! They are _____8____ to me!" the young man ____9_______.

"Precisely, these are wealth to you. You will not exchange them for money. Furthermore, although a lot of people have their wealthy things, they do not ____10_____ them or treasure them. They are not_____11____ to Heaven for giving them their wealth. They even complain that Heaven is unfair to them. Do you want to _____12_____one of them before you will treasure them?" the fortune teller said.

Everyone is wealthy. But we should not ____13______it for granted. We need to treasure our wealth, take care of it and use it _____14_____. We should not overuse it because once it is ____15____, it is gone forever. Remember it is our wealth that we do not want to lose.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

There once lived a young man who was always unhappy and complained about his poverty. One day, he went to see a fortune teller to inquire how to become_____1____. The fortune teller said, "Young man, you are already wealthy now."

"Where is my wealth?" the young man asked _______2____.

"It is with you. Your _______3___ is (are) your wealth. You use them to see this world. You use them to see all the ______4______things in this world. You can read, study and learn. Your hands are your wealth. You can use them to work. You can use them to hug your beloved ones. Your ____5_____are your wealth. You can go to any places..." the fortune teller said.

"You call these wealth? Everyone has them," the young man said.

"These are wealth. What you have now are not what others can luckily have. Are you ______6___ to give your eyes to me? I am willing to give you a lot of money to _____7_____ for them," the fortune teller said.

"No, are you crazy? I am not going to exchange my eyes for money! They are _____8____ to me!" the young man ____9_______.

"Precisely, these are wealth to you. You will not exchange them for money. Furthermore, although a lot of people have their wealthy things, they do not ____10_____ them or treasure them. They are not _______11____ to Heaven for giving them their wealth. They even complain that Heaven is unfair to them. Do you want to _____12_____one of them before you will treasure them?" the fortune teller said.

Everyone is wealthy. But we should not ____13______it for granted. We need to treasure our wealth, take care of it and use it _____14_____. We should not overuse it because once it is ____15____, it is gone forever. Remember it is our wealth that we do not want to lose.

1. A. happy        B. young       C. wealthy       D. poor

2. A. anxiously     B. sadly        C. quietly        D. patiently

3. A. knowledge    B. skills        C. brain         D. eyes

4. A. ugly         B. beautiful      C. strange       D. useful

5. A. legs         B. cars          C. jewels        D. banknotes

6. A. lovely        B. optimistic     C. angry        D. willing

7. A. charge        B. buy          C. exchange     D. change

8. A. precious      B. useless        C. extra        D. special

9. A. wept         B. demonstrated   C. smiled       D. yelled

10. A. see         B. realize         C. keep        D. hold

11. A. grateful      B. careful        C. meaningful   D. faithful

12. A. get          B. grasp         C. have        D. lose

13. A. take         B. make         C. set          D. sell

14. A. wrongly      B. wisely        C. naturally     D. really

15. A. old          B. used         C. gone         D. dead

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In a city of south India lived a young man who was always dreaming of becoming rich. He often heard about some traders in his city who gathered a great deal of   1    in the course of their travels across the world. He believed he could also make a great achievement although he didn’t have any   2   in business at all. So, one fine day, the young man set out on a long   3

in search of trade opportunities.

4    though, he did not become as rich as he had thought he would. Worse, he spent more money on his travels than he   5    in the course of his trade. All this made him feel confused and   6   , but he refused to return home without   7   .

One day, while he was wandering on the shore in a seaside town, his eyes   8    on　an object which he thought should be a large ship at a distance.

“When I become rich, I shall buy a ship just like that one and   9    around the world,” he said ambitiously. Then he waited to see the ship enter the harbor. As the ship got closer, it lost its   10    dimensions(规模) and looked more like a small boat. When the boat reached the   11   , the young man let out a big heavy sigh because he discovered that it was only a bunch of logs tied together. He was terribly   12   to see such a raft(木筏).

Finally he understood. Just as he   13    a lot of time on fruitless speculation(猜想) about the “ship”, his expectations of getting   14    was also without any real basis. Therefore, he decided to return home and    15     up a more practical job.

1. A. energy               B. knowledge            C. resource                 D. fortune

2. A. expectation        B. experience             C. interest                   D. ambition

3. A. journey             B. partnership           C. vacation                 D. period

4. A. Unreasonably      B. Unbelievably         C. Unconsciously         D. Unfortunately

5. A. begged             B. borrowed            C. earned                   D. adopted

6. A. uncertain            B. excited                 C. patient                    D. indifferent

7. A. hesitation           B. success                 C. problem                 D. income

8. A. depended          B. focused                 C. insisted                D. lived

9. A. show                 B. turn                      C. sail                   D. fly

10. A. correct          B. formal                C. real                     D. grand

11. A. bank              B. shore                    C. ocean                   D. bottom

12. A. disappointed     B. pleased                 C. puzzled               D. astonished

13. A. saved               B. valued                C. wasted                       D. created

14. A. rich               B. learned                 C. smart                D. strong

15. A. set                B. gave                     C. made                     D. took

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短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

Once there lived a man who was such lazy that no job was fit him. In order to make a living he went to the neighbor of his for help one day. The neighbor advised to him to be a grave caretaker as it is the easiest job one could find. The lazy man was delighting and soon became a grave caretaker. And to everybody’s surprise he gave up his job three days before he got it. “It’s unfair.” He said to the neighbor angry. “In the grave all the others are lying still when I am the only one who has to stand.”

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Once upon a time, there was an old man who lived alone in a small shack (棚屋). Every day at _________, when the birds were singing from branches in the treetops, as the sun set and the sky grew _________, the old man would sit outside his shack and tell _________ to the dandelion that grew in his garden. So _________ were the tales that no one could remember if they really happened.

One day, a group of _________ walked past the shack. They heard the old man talking and telling a story. They found it to be _________. The children remained standing there _________ until the old man finished telling another old tale. One of the girls _________, “Granddad! Who are you telling your stories to?” “I tell them to this dandelion growing down here, _________ next to me,” the old man replied. The children looked and for the first time ______________ the small dandelion growing in the old man’s garden. How ______________, they thought -telling stories to a dandelion. Why?

“He knows how to listen,” answered the old man, responding to the children’s ______________ look.

So, day after day, the children ______________ and listened to Granddad’s stories until one morning, when the dandelions were noticed to have ______________.Its small yellow petals disappeared and in their place were fuzzy (毛茸茸的) white hairs. A sudden ______________ dispersed the fuzzy white hairs off the dandelion and scattered its seeds in ______________ direction. Children looked at the white hairs ______________ in the air.

As the children ______________ adults, they left their homes and built new homes here or there. Granddads stories, just like the dandelion’s ______________ from which dozens of new dandelions ______________, were scattered along with the children who grew up.

1.A.dawn B.night C.noon D.dusk

2.A.bright B.blue C.white D.dark

3.A.lies B.tales C.messages D.news

4.A.old B.interesting C.mysterious D.good

5.A.people B.children C.scholars D.students

6.A.dull B.scary C.fascinating D.instructive

7.A.telling B.sharing C.debating D.listening

8.A.called out B.gave in C.called back D.asked for

9.A.right B.fully C.seldom D.even

10.A.heard B.noticed C.felt D.praised

11.A.amusing B.strange C.boring D.pleasant

12.A.confused B.determined C.thrilled D.worried

13.A.left B.played C.returned D.arrived

14.A.grown B.changed C.improved D.died

15.A.storm B.rain C.snow D.wind

16.A.another B.one C.every D.no

17.A.fighting B.dropping C.diving D.flying

18.A.took care of B.looked up to C.grew up into D.got along with

19.A.seeds B.petals C.hairs D.leaves

20.A.planted B.withered C.blossomed D.faded

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Once a man and his wife worked for a businessman. There was a big box in the businessman’s living room. The businessman pointed at the box and said, “There’s only one thing you mustn’t do. Don’t open the box.” After saying this, he 　　 　　 the living room.

The woman said to her husband, “There must be something expensive in the box. Let’s 　　 　　 it, shall we?” Her husband said no to her.

The woman didn’t give up her 　　　　 . One day, she decided to find out what was in it. Her husband didn’t stop her. She opened the box and looked 　　 .She found nothing in the box and tried hard to close it, 　　 　　 she failed.

That evening the businessman came home and found the box was 　 　　 .He was very angry and asked the woman and her husband to leave his home．

“But there was nothing in the box,” the woman said. “We haven’t taken anything 　 　 .” The businessman shouted at them, “The box is not important. I cannot believe you. That’s important!”

1.A．left　　　　　　　 B．entered　　　　　 C．went to

2.A．open　　　　　　 B．close　　　　　　 C．clean

3.A．work　　　　　　 B．advice　　　　　 C．idea

4.A．inside　　　　　 B．outside　　　　　 C．down

5.A．so　　　　　　　 B．and　　　　　　　 C．but

6.A．lost　　　　　　　 B．open　　　　　　 C．empty

7.A．at once　　　　　 B．at last　　　　　　 C．at all

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There was once a man who met with a shipwreck(船只失事) and landed on a deserted island.Every day he prayed，____ someone could pass and rescue him，but to his ____，no one ever came.

Months went by and this man learned to ___ food and firewood from the island and stored them in a hut(棚屋)　 that he constructed，which helped him ____ on the deserted island.One day when he ____ his hut after hunting for food，____，he saw his hut was on fire，along with everything else he had!

All of his ____ were going up in smoke！The only thing ____ was the clothes on his back.At first he was ___，frozen there and then he was filled with ____！He threw a fist into the air and began yelling, “How unfair！How could this ____ to me？I’ve been praying every day for months but now everything that I have is on fire！”

Later the man grew so ____ that he fell on his hands and knees weeping heavily when he happened to look up and ____ a ship coming in his direction.The man was ____.As they were heading back to civilization，the man asked the captain, “How were you able to ____ me？” The captain ____，“We were voyaging across the ocean when a cloud of ____ going up caught our attention.We ____ to go check it out and that’s when we found you！”

In life we will always be ___ with challenges，problems，and disasters.Always keep in mind that a disaster can sometimes be good ____ in disguise(掩盖)．

1.A.realizing　                             B．imagining

C．hoping　                             D．doubting

2.A.excitement　                             B．disappointment

C．amazement　                         D．embarrassment

3.A.collect　                             B．receive

C．order　                             D．share

4.A.survive　                             B．suffer

C．adapt                              D．develop

5.A.visited　                             B．put up

C．returned to　                         D．passed

6.A.naturally　                             B．unexpectedly

C．instead　                             D．anyway

7.A.preparations　                         B．preferences

C．feelings　                             D．possessions

8.A.left　                                 B．valued

C．lost　                             D．moved

9.A.touched　                             B．shocked

C．bored　                             D．confused

10.A.anger                                  B．pain

C．fear　                             D．shame

11.A.open                                  B．object

C．happen　                             D．appeal

12.A.unreasonable　                         B．tired

C．weak　                             D．desperate

13.A.spotted　                             B．sought

C．caught　                             D．searched

14.A.rescued　                             B．protected

C．rewarded　                         D．welcomed

15.A.trust　                 B．keep　         C．seize　         D．find

16.A.declared　                             B．explained

C．analysed　                         D．added

17.A.light　             B．smoke　         C．water　         D．sound

18.A.forgot　                         B．continued

C．pretended　                     D．decided

19.A.supplied　                         B．satisfied

C．faced　                         D．equipped

20.A.experience　                     B．luck

C．information　                     D．progress

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Once upon a time, there was a poor fisherman who always dreamed of becoming rich. He wished to become a millionaire, and 1. did his wife. He had heard from some old men before that several ships 2. (load) with diamonds and gold 3. (sink) in the nearby seashore. Because of this, for a long time he kept searching that whole area 4. this treasure. One day, while he was sitting on the boat daydreaming, he suddenly felt that the fishing rod 5. (weigh) down by a heavy object. He 6. (excite) pulled hard at it, and 7. he saw made him exclaim, “Wow! A big, shiny gold chain!” He pulled hard at the gold chain to get it into the boat, but 8. seemed to be no end to it. His boat started to get over-loaded and the sea water filled his boat. However, he had begun dreaming of a big house, a big piece of land and buying horses and 9. (ox)... He kept pulling in the chain 10. the boat kept sinking. The boat was finally submerged and he struggled to stay afloat. Unfortunately his feet were entangled in the gold chain and he drowned.

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There was once, in a little market-town not far from Upsala (瑞典一城市), a peasant who lived there with his family, digging the earth during the week and singing in the choir on Sundays. This peasant had a little daughter to whom he taught the musical alphabet before she knew how to read. Daae was a great musician, perhaps without knowing it. Not a violinist in Scandinavia played as he did. His reputation was widespread and he was always invited to set the couples dancing at weddings and other festivals. His wife died when Christine was entering upon her sixth year. Then the father, who cared only for his daughter and his music, sold his land and went to Upsala in search of fame and fortune. He found nothing but poverty.

He returned to the country, wandering from fair to fair, playing his Scandinavian music pieces, while his child, who never left his side, listened to him in delight or sang to his playing. One day, at Ljimby Fair, Professor Valerius heard them and took them to Gothenburg. He insisted that the father was the first violinist in the world and that the daughter had the making of a great artist. Her education and instruction were provided for. She made rapid progress and charmed everybody with her prettiness, her grace of manner and her real eagerness to please.

When Valerius and his wife went to settle in France, they took Daae and Christine with them. "Mamma" Valerius treated Christine as her daughter. As for Daae, he became ill with homesickness. He never went out of doors in Paris, but lived in a sort of dream which he kept up with his violin. For hours at a time, he remained locked up in his bedroom with his daughter, playing and singing, very, very softly.

Daae seemed not to recover his strength until the summer, when the whole family went to stay at Perros-Guirec, in a far-away corner of Brittany, where the sea was of the same color as in his own country. Often he would play his saddest tunes on the beach and pretend that the sea stopped its roaring to listen to them. And then he persuaded Mamma Valerius to allow him to leave for a while. At the time of the "pardons," the village festivals and dances, he went off with his violin, as in the old days, and was allowed to take his daughter with him for a week. They gave the smallest villages music to last them for a year and slept at night in a barn, refusing a bed at the inn, lying close together on the straw, as when they were so poor in Sweden. At the same time, they were very neatly dressed, refused the halfpence offered to them; and the people around could not understand the behaviour of this country violinist, who walked heavily on the roads with that pretty child who sang like an angel from Heaven. They followed them from village to village.

1. When he was in the countryside, Daae did NOT __________.

2.The 3rd sentence “He insisted …” in the 2nd paragraph showed Professor Valerius’ ______.

3. While Daae was in Paris, he never went out of doors because he was ________.

4. What made people curious about the father and daughter was that _______.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Once upon a time in a land far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything：animals, spiders, insects．．．

One day while walking through the woods, the nice old man found a cocoon（茧）of a butterfly．He took it home．A few days later, a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole．Then it seemed to stop making any progress．It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther．Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon．

The butterfly then appeared easily．

But it had a swollen body and small, fragile wings．The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would be smaller in time．Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling （慢慢爬行）around with a swollen body and fragile wings．

It never was able to fly．

What the man in his kindness and hurry did not understand was that the limited cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Nature's way of forcing fluid （液体）from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon．

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life．If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles and difficulties, it would disable us．We would not be as strong as what we could have been．And we could never fly．

【小题】The butterfly could never fly because ________．

A．it was too fat and strong．

B．it loved crawling around．

C．it got out of the cocoon easily．

D．it didn’t get through the cocoon ．

【小题】The text is most likely to be found in a book about__________．

A．popular science                  B．humorous stories．

C．successful people                D．philosophy events ．

【小题】What is the implied meaning of the passage?

A．Life without any obstacles and difficulties is perfect．

B．Obstacles and difficulties contribute to success．

C．Never help a butterfly to get out of the cocoon．

D．A butterfly can never fly without going through the cocoon．

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