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Somebody Loves You
One miserable rainy night, a man named Mark decided to end his life. In his mid-fifties, Mark had never been married, ____ the joy of having children or spent holidays with his family. Wet and unhappy, he walked along the streets, feeling as if there was ____ in the entire world that cared whether he lived or died. ____, I was sitting in my room watching the rain hit my window. When I heard the doorbell ring, I jumped from my chair and ____ out. But my mother was already at the door. Opening it, she found herself face-to-face with a very dirty-looking man with tears streaming down his face. My mother, overcome by ____，invited the man inside, and he sat with my parents in our living room．
___，I walked secretly downstairs so that I could get a better look. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but the ____ of the man, holding his head in his hands and crying, made my chest ache. I raced back upstairs to my room and ___ my hand into my money jar. Pulling out my only half-dollar coin, I ran back downstairs.
When I_____ the door of the living room, I walked right in. The three adults looked at me in ___ as I quickly made my way over the stranger. I put the half-dollar in his hand and told him that I wanted him to have it. Then I gave him a _____, turned and ran as fast as I could out of the room and back upstairs. I felt excited but happy.
Downstairs, Mark sat quietly with his head ____. Tears streamed down his face as he tightly held that coin. Finally looking up at my parents, he said, "It’s ____ that I thought nobody cared. For the last twenty years, I have been so ____ . That is the first hug I have ever got
. It’s hard to believe that somebody _____”
Mark's life changed that night. When he left our house, he was ____ to live instead of die._____we never saw Mark again, we received letters from him every once in a while, letting us know that he was doing fine.
My life changed that night, too, as I witnessed the huge healing power of ____．even if it’s only a gift of fifty cents.
Before Mark left, my parents asked him why he had knocked on our door. Mark said that ___ he'd walked along the streets that rainy night, helpless and ready to ___, he had noticed a sticker on the car. It read: SOMEBODY LOVES YOU.
1.A. believed B. noticed C. experienced D. understood
2.A. everybody B. somebody C. anybody D. nobody
3.A. Later B. First C. Afterwards D. Meanwhile
4.A. looked B. raced C. spoke D. broke
5.A. pity B. anxiety C. guilty D. fear
6.A. Worried B. Curious C. Puzzled D. Annoyed
7.A. sense B. thought C. sight D. look
8.A. shook B. put C. pushed D. forced
9.A. answered B. fixed C. found D. reached
10.A. anger B. delight C. peace D. surprise
11.A. hug B. kiss C. smile D. handshake
12.A. held B. turned C. bowed D. raised
13.A. just B. still C. also D. even
14.A. anxious B. stressed C. lonely D. bored
15.A. cares B. gets C. makes D. knows
16.A. lucky B. proud C. hesitant D. ready
17.A. Since B. When C. Although D. Unless
18.A. receiving B. giving C. loving D. taking
19.A. if B. as C. until D. before
20.A. die B. cry C. leave D. Regret
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One rainy night many years ago ,an elderly couple entered the hall of a small hotel in Philadephia. The couple walked to the front desk hoping to get some 21 for the night. “Could you give us a 22 here?” the husband asked.
The waiter, a 23 man with a bright smile, looked at the couple and 24 that there were three meetings in town. “All of our rooms are taken,” the waiter said. “ 25 I can’t send a nice couple like you out into the rain at one o’clock in the morning. Would you be 26 to sleep in my room? It’s not 27 a suite(套房)，but it will be good enough to make you 28 for the night.”
When then couple refused 39 , he explained, “Don’t worry about me.”So the couple 30 . The next morning, the elderly man said to the waiter, “you are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best 31 in America. Maybe someday I’ll 32 one for you.” The waiter looked at them and 33 .Then they drove away.
Two years passed. The waiter had almost 34 it when he received a letter from the old man. It recalled（提起）that 35 night and enclosed（附上）a round-trip to New York, asking the young man to pay them a visit.
The old man 36 knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose 37 him in New York and led him to Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. He 38 to a great new building there.
“That is the hotel I have just built for you,” said the elderly man.
“You must be 39 ,” the young man said.
“I’m not,” said the elderly man.
The elderly man was William Waldor-Aster, and that 40 building was the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young waiter who became its first manager was George Boldt.
1.A.food B.shelter C.light D.space
2.A.room B.help C.bed D.chair
3.A.serious B.patient C.friendly D.careful
4.A.decided B.thought C.suggested D.explained
5.A.So B.And C.But D.If
6.A.ready B.glad C.grateful D.natural
7.A.clearly B.nearly C.exactly D.simply
8.A.calm B.special C.successful D.comfortable
9.A.easily B.politely C.give D.know
10.A. left B.agreed C.complained D.happened
11.A.hotel B.shop C.school D.restaurant
12.A.build B.keep C.find D.invent
13.A.checked B.excused C.smiled D.changed
14.A.expected B.realised C.discovered D.forgotten
15. A.bright B.warm C.cloudy D.stormy
16.本题有误A.ticket B.map C.form D.travel
17.本题有误A.met B.thanked C.missed D.watched
18.A.waved B.pointed C.moved D. returned
19.A.laughing B. arguing C.joking D.reporting
20.A.small B. common C. simple D.beautiful
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One cold, rainy night in 1979, staying on the deck of the nuclear attack submarine(核攻击潜艇) USS Birmingham entering Hampton Roads Harbor, a soldier who was called Jeff Harris was suddenly hit by a huge wave that took away his ship’s ball cap.
Months later, while walking along Chesapeake Boulevard beach in Hampton, Will Miller, a Vietnam veteran(退伍军人) and Navy(海军) commander, happened to find Harris’ cap which was half-buried in the sand then. Knowing how important a ship’s cap was to its owner, Miller saved the hat, hoping one day to find its owner. The cap was packed away for years but recently appeared again at Miller’s home in Florida.
“It suddenly fell out of a box onto my computer keyboard, right in front of me,” said Miller. “I guessed it was telling me, ‘It’s time to get me home.’”
An extensive Internet search led Miller to a USS Birmingham website and finally to Harris. The two sent e-mails back and forth, and one night Miller’s phone rang.
“This is Jeff Harris,” the voice on the phone said. “You have my hat!”
The two sailors talked for almost half an hour, telling sea stories to each other and thinking of the common relationship between seamen.”
“Most non-seagoing people wouldn’t understand how much a sailor likes his hat,” Miller said. “Your hat protects you from sun, wind, salt and cold, and when you lose it, especially one with your ship’s name on it, it’s a big thing. I’m delighted to get it back to Jeff.”
1.What is the main idea of the story?
A．A sailor looked for his hat for years.
B．Hats are important for sailors.
C．A sailor reunited with his hat years after losing it.
D．Friendship was based on a hat.
2.Jeff Harris’s hat dropped off into the sea because of ______.
A．a sudden wave B．his carelessness
C．a strong wind D．something wrong with his hat
3.Will Miller kept the hat for years because ______.
A．he wanted to leave it to his child
B．it was valuable as a gift
C．he wanted to return it to its owner
D．he wanted to sell it one day
4.From the passage we can know Jeff Harris and Miller ______.
A．had been friends before the story happened
B．didn’t know the importance of the hat
C．often told sea stories to each other
D．once worked at sea
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On a rainy night three years ago my dear mom went to accompany her Lord. She did it her way.
I got the call at work, and l headed home quickly. Mom and Dad lived on a small farm that they had owned since I was seven. I hated going there every weekend. There was nothing for a young girl to do but watch the one station on the old TV set, if the weather allowed reception.
My mom, on the other hand, loved the peace and quiet of the land. The place was rural, with no indoor plumbing or heat. We had a big wood stove in the kitchen that did its best to heat the little farmhouse, but it always seemed cold and too quiet to me.
In the evenings, my mom and I would sit for hours singing in the little kitchen. I sang the melody and Mom harmonized. Her favorite song was “Moon River” and we sang it over and over. Mom told me stories about how when I was a little girl I could sing before I could talk.
As time passed, I had my own children and went to visit them every week or two. The kids loved the farm and the tractor rides with my dad. Me, well, I still hated the silence of the farm. While my mom loved to sit at her kitchen table and look out at her garden and flowers and retell all the old stories, I missed the hustle and bustle of my life at home. But I sat there listening quietly as she reminisced.
Now, I sat back in the silence and the silence was deathly so I finally leaned over to turn on an old radio. Music always comforted me. My heart skipped a beat. “Moon River” was playing on the radio. I sat there wordless, with a tear running down my cheek, as I listened to every familiar note.
1. From the first paragraph, we know that the writer’s mother ________.
A. passed away three years ago
B. left the small farm with Lord
C. left for Lord to live her own way
D. preferred to be with Lord
2. The underlined word “reminisced” in the last but one paragraph probably means ________.
A. recalled B. comforted
C. shouted D. sighed
3.The writer didn’t like staying on the farm for the following reasons EXCEPT that ________.
A. it was too cold and quiet
B. she could only sing one song on the small farm
C. there was nothing more that could make her excited
D. the place was rural, with no indoor plumbing or heat
4.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?
A. Cherish Life B. My Happy Childhood
C. Our Small Farmhouse D. Mom’s Music
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It was a rainy night in New Orleans. At a bus station in the town, I watched a young girl__1.__(cry) as her baggage was taken down. It seemed that she had lost her ticket. She cried and __2.__(beg) them not to leave her there.
The bus driver had a face of stone__3._no sign of wanting to help, and his heart was__4.__(sure) the same. “Losing your ticket is like losing your money，” he said, leaving the girl in the rain. Then an old Indian stood__5._and blocked the driver's way, and would not let him pass__6.__he said what he had to say. “How can you leave that girl out there? You can't leave her alone. You will meet your schedule，__7.__she might meet her end.” The driver still didn't care about the young girl's problem. Then the old gentleman bought__8._a ticket and helped her put away the baggage. “How can I repay for_9.__ kindness？” the girl said. “We are strangers and we won't meet again. A mere ‘thank you’ doesn't seem enough.” He replied, “What goes around comes around.”
This is what I've learned—Whatever you give, you will get it back. Always be_10.__(help) and kind to others, and we'll be helped in the future.
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When one loves one’s Art, no service seems too hard.
Joe was a man with a genius(天才) for art. Delia did things in six octaves(音阶) promisingly.
Joe and Delia became in love with one of the other, or each of the other, as you please, and in a short time were married – for (see above), when one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
They began housekeeping in a flat. It was a lonesome(无人迹的) flat, but they were happy; for they had their Art, and they had each other.
Joe was learning painting in the class of the great Magister – you know his fame. His fees are high; his lessons are light – his high-lights have brought him fame. Delia was studying under Rosenstock – you know his reputation as a disturber of the piano keys.
They were mighty(非常地) happy as long as their money lasted.
After a while, Art flagged(减退). Everything going out and nothing coming in, money was lacking to pay Mr. Magister and Rosenstock their prices. When one loves one’s Art, no service seems too hard. So, Delia said she must give music lessons to make the ends meet.
For two or three days she went out looking for pupils. One evening she came home overjoyed.
“Joe, dear,” she said, cheerfully, “I’ve a pupil. And, oh, the loveliest people! General – General Pinkney’s daughter Clementina – on Seventy-first street.”
“That’s all right for you, Dele,” said Joe, “but how about me? Do you think I’m going to let you work while I play in the regions of high art? ”
Delia came and hung about his neck.
“Joe, dear, you are silly. You must keep on at your studies. It is not as if I had quit my music and gone to work at something else. While I teach I learn. I am always with my music.”
“All right,” said Joe. “But I may sell some of my pictures as well.”
The next few weeks, they both busied themselves with their own business and brought back a ten, a five, a two and a one – all legal tender notes – and laid them beside each others’ earnings.
One Saturday evening Joe reached home first. He spread his $18 on the table and washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands.
Half an hour later Delia arrived, her right hand tied up in a shapeless bundle(束) of wraps and bandages(绷带).
“How is this?” asked Joe. Delia laughed, but not very joyously. “Clementina,” she explained, “insisted upon a Welsh rabbit(一种奶酪) after her lesson. In serving the rabbit she spilled a great lot of it, boiling hot, over my wrist. Nothing serious, dear.”
“What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Dele?”
“Five o’clock, I think,” said Dele. “The iron – I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time.”
“Sit down here a moment, Dele,” said Joe. “What have you been doing for the last few weeks, Dele?” he asked.
She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, but at last down went her head and out came the truth and tears.
“I couldn’t get any pupils,” she wept. “I got a place ironing shirts in that big Twenty-fourth street laundry(洗衣店). A girl in the laundry set down a hot iron(熨斗) on my hand this afternoon. I think I did very well to make up both General Pinkney and Clementina. What made you ever suspect that I wasn’t giving music lessons?”
“I didn’t,” said Joe, “until toni
ght. And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron. I’ve been firing the engine in that laundry for the last few weeks.”
“And then you didn’t …” said Delia
And then they both looked at each other and laughed, and Joe began:
“When one loves one’s Art no service seems …”
But Delia stopped him with her hand on his lips. “No,” she said – “just ‘When one loves.’”
1.What can we know about the couple from the story?
A. They both became famous for their talents in art.
B. They turned out to be working at the same laundry.
2.What qualities of the couple’s are best conveyed in the story?
A. intelligent and economical B. faithful and romantic
C. considerate and giving D. hardworking and loyal[
3.Which of the following does NOT give readers a clue(线索) that the couple were telling white lies?
A. Delia said she must give music lessons to make the ends meet.
B. Joe washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands.
C. Delia’s right wrist was tied up in a shapeless bundle of wraps and bandages.
D. “The iron – I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time” said Dele.
4.Why does the author repeat “When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.”?
A. To reveal the theme of the story.
B. To explain the author’s writing purpose.
C. To indicate the sad mood of the story.
D. To assist with the development of the story.
5.What can serve as the best title of this story?
A. A Service of Love B. A Service of Art
C. No Art No Love D. The Love for Art
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When one loves one’s Art, no service seems too hard.
Joe was a man with a genius(天才) for art. Delia did things in six octaves(音阶) promisingly.
Joe and Delia became in love with one of the other, or each of the other, as you please, and in a short time were married – for (see above), when one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
They began housekeeping in a flat. It was a lonesome(无人迹的) flat, but they were happy; for they had their Art, and they had each other.
Joe was learning painting in the class of the great Magister – you know his fame. His fees are high; his lessons are light – his high-lights have brought him fame. Delia was studying under Rosenstock – you know his reputation as a disturber of the piano keys.
They were mighty(非常地) happy as long as their money lasted.
After a while, Art flagged(减退). Everything going out and nothing coming in, money was lacking to pay Mr. Magister and Rosenstock their prices. When one loves one’s Art, no service seems too hard. So, Delia said she must give music lessons to make the ends meet.
For two or three days she went out looking for pupils. One evening she came home overjoyed.
“Joe, dear,” she said, cheerfully, “I’ve a pupil. And, oh, the loveliest people! General – General Pinkney’s daughter Clementina – on Seventy-first street.”
“That’s all right for you, Dele,” said Joe, “but how about me? Do you think I’m going to let you work while I play in the regions of high art? ”
Delia came and hung about his neck.
“Joe, dear, you are silly. You must keep on at your studies. It is not as if I had quit my music and gone to work at something else. While I teach I learn. I am always with my music.”
“All right,” said Joe. “But I may sell some of my pictures as well.”
The next few weeks, they both busied themselves with their own business and brought back a ten, a five, a two and a one – all legal tender notes – and laid them beside each others’ earnings.
One Saturday evening Joe reached home first. He spread his $18 on the table and washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands.
Half an hour later Delia arrived, her right hand tied up in a shapeless bundle(束) of wraps and bandages(绷带).
“How is this?” asked Joe. Delia laughed, but not very joyously. “Clementina,” she explained, “insisted upon a Welsh rabbit(一种奶酪) after her lesson. In serving the rabbit she spilled a great lot of it, boiling hot, over my wrist. Nothing serious, dear.”
“What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Dele?”
“Five o’clock, I think,” said Dele. “The iron – I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time.”
“Sit down here a moment, Dele,” said Joe. “What have you been doing for the last few weeks, Dele?” he asked.
She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, but at last down went her head and out came the truth and tears.
“I couldn’t get any pupils,” she wept. “I got a place ironing shirts in that big Twenty-fourth street laundry(洗衣店). A girl in the laundry set down a hot iron(熨斗) on my hand this afternoon. I think I did very well to make up both General Pinkney and Clementina. What made you ever suspect that I wasn’t giving music lessons?”
“I didn’t,” said Joe, “until tonight. And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron. I’ve been firing the engine in that laundry for the last few weeks.”
“And then you didn’t …” said Delia
And then they both looked at each other and laughed, and Joe began:
“When one loves one’s Art no service seems …”
But Delia stopped him with her hand on his lips. “No,” she said – “just ‘When one loves.’”
1.What can we know about the couple from the story?
A. They both became famous for their talents in art.
B. They turned out to be working at the same laundry.
C . Art helped them out of the poverty they were faced with.
D. Studying from famous teachers contributed most to their poverty.
2.What qualities of the couple’s are best conveyed in the story?
A. intelligent and economical
B. faithful and romantic
C. considerate and giving
D. hardworking and loyal
3.Which of the following does NOT give readers a clue(线索) that the couple were telling white lies?
A. Delia said she must give music lessons to make the ends meet.
B. Joe washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands.
C. Delia’s right wrist was tied up in a shapeless bundle of wraps and bandages.
D. “The iron – I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time” said Dele.
4.Why does the author repeat “When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.”?
A. To reveal the theme of the story.
B. To explain the author’s writing purpose.
C. To indicate the sad mood of the story.
D. To assist with the development of the story.
5.What can serve as the best title of this story?
A. A Service of Love B. A Service of Art
C. No Art No Love D. The Love for Art
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What does the man mean?
A. He agrees with the woman.
B. It will be cold and rainy this autumn.
C. Not every autumn is beautiful.
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Why do rainy days make the man feel sad?
A. He can’t play football.
B. He can’t watch TV.
C. He can’t play computer games.
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Tom, you _______ to watch the singing program named I’m a Singer last night, for your eyes are red.
A. could stay up B. can have stayed up
C.must have stayed up D.should stay up
. It’s hard to believe that somebody _____”
ght. And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron. I’ve been firing the engine in that laundry for the last few weeks.”