When Mom looked back on the early days of their marriage, she wondered how they had managed with ______ money.
A. so few B. such few C. so little D. such little
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When Mom looked back on the early days of their marriage, she wondered how they had managed with ______ money.
A. so few B. such few C. so little D. such little
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When I was a freshman, on Christmas break I went home and looked through the bags of clothes Mom intended to give away. I took a baggy red shirt, for I needed something to wear in art class. Mom was surprised. She wore that when she was pregnant with my younger brother.
The red shirt became a part of my college wardrobe. After graduation, I wore the shirt the day I moved into my new apartment and on Saturday morning when I cleaned. When I became pregnant, I wore the red shirt during big-belly days. I missed Mom and the rest of my family. But that shirt helped. I smiled, remembering that Mother had worn it when she was pregnant, 15 years earlier. That Christmas, thinking of the warm feelings the shirt had given me, I wrapped it in holiday paper and sent it to Mom. When Mom wrote to thank me for her “real” gift, she said the red shirt was lovely. She never mentioned it again. The next year, when my husband and I moved the kitchen table, I noticed something red taped to its bottom. It was the shirt! And so the pattern was set.
On our next visit home, I secretly placed the shirt under Mom and Dad’s mattress. Two years passed before I discovered it under the base of our living-room floor lamp. The red shirt was just what I needed now while refinishing furniture. The walnut stains added character.
Years later, my husband and I divorced. With my three children, I prepared to move back to Illinois, depressed. Suddenly I saw the stained red shirt. I smiled. After unpacking in our new home I visited her, and I hid it in her bottom dresser drawer. Meanwhile, I found a good job at a radio station. A year later I discovered the red shirt hidden in a rag bag in my cleaning closet. The shirt was Mother’s final gift. Mother died three months later.
I was tempted to send the red shirt, faded but in decent shape, with her to her grave. But I’m glad I didn’t, my older daughter is in college now, majoring in art. And every art student needs a baggy red shirt to wear to art class.
1.Where did the author get the shirt for the first time?
A. In art class in college. B. In unwanted bags of clothes.
C. In her college wardrobe. D. In the kitchen.
2.How did the shirt help the author?
A. The shirt relieved homesickness from the author.
B. The shirt made her find a good job at a radio station.
C. The shirt was the only clothes that the author had for art class.
D. The shirt was the cheapest gift to give to her Mom tor Christmas.
3.What does the underlined phrase “the pattern” refer to in the text?
A. Visiting the parents regularly.
B. Moving the kitchen table regularly.
C. Secretly giving and receiving the shirt.
D. Often tapping something to the bottom of the table.
4.What is the important reason for the author’s valuing the shirt so much?
A. That her daughter needs it in art class.
B. That it is from her dead Mom.
C. That it is still in decent shape though faded.
D. That it symbolizes mother’s love.
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When I was a freshman, on Christmas break I went home and looked through the bags of clothes Mom intended to give away. I took a baggy red shirt, for I needed something to wear in art class. Mom was surprised. She wore that when she was pregnant with my younger brother.
The red shirt became a part of my college wardrobe. After graduation, I wore the shirt the day I moved into my new apartment and on Saturday morning when I cleaned. When I became pregnant, I wore the red shirt during big-belly days. I missed Mom and the rest of my family. But that shirt helped. I smiled, remembering that Mother had worn it when she was pregnant, 15 years earlier. That Christmas, thinking of the warm feelings the shirt had given me, I wrapped it in holiday paper and sent it to Mom. When Mom wrote to thank me for her “real” gift, she said the red shirt was lovely. She never mentioned it again. The next year, when my husband and I moved the kitchen table, I noticed something red taped to its bottom. It was the shirt! And so the pattern was set.
On our next visit home, I secretly placed the shirt under Mom and Dad’s mattress. Two years passed before I discovered it under the base of our living-room floor lamp. The red shirt was just what I needed now while refinishing furniture. The walnut stains added character.
Years later, my husband and I divorced. With my three children, I prepared to move back to Illinois, depressed. Suddenly I saw the stained red shirt. I smiled. After unpacking in our new home I visited her, and I hid it in her bottom dresser drawer. Meanwhile, I found a good job at a radio station. A year later I discovered the red shirt hidden in a rag bag in my cleaning closet. The shirt was Mother’s final gift. Mother died three months later.
I was tempted to send the red shirt, faded but in decent shape, with her to her grave. But I’m glad I didn’t, my older daughter is in college now, majoring in art. And every art student needs a baggy red shirt to wear to art class.
1.Where did the author get the shirt for the first time?
A. In unwanted bags of clothes. B. In art class in college.
C. In her college wardrobe. D. In the kitchen.
2.How did the shirt help the author?
A. The shirt made her find a good job at a radio station.
B. The shirt relieved homesickness from the author.
C. The shirt was the only clothes that the author had for art class.
D. The shirt was the cheapest gift to give to her Mom for Christmas.
3.What does the underlined phrase “the pattern” refer to in the text?
A. Visiting the parents regularly. B. Often tapping something to the bottom of the table.
C. Moving the kitchen table regularly. D. Secretly giving and receiving the shirt.
4.What is the important reason for the author’s valuing the shirt so much?
A. That her daughter needs it in art class. B. That it symbolizes mother’s love.
C. That it is still in decent shape though faded. D. That it is from her dead Mom.
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We first met Tom and Gee in the early days of our marriage. Jim and I worked full-time, and in the _______our garbage cans went out to the curb(路边), _______to wait the long, lonely 10 hours there until we returned to fetch them because we were busy. _______, we’d come home every garbage day to find them neatly_______ in their spot next to our garage. We_______who had done it for us, and then one day we_______ him: an elderly man who lived across the street from us.
I baked cookies and we left them on the bench outside the garage with a thank-you _______. When we got home from work that day, a typed letter had _______the gift. The letter was from Tom and _______how he had come to walk the________on garbage day, returning cans for people he ________knew. Back when he was ________in the army, his young wife Gee had to live by herself. In those ________days, neighbors had taken the time to ________her garbage cans so she didn’t have to. He never________ it, and now he paid it forward by doing it for all of us.
Over the next few years, we would ________Tom in their first-floor extra bedroom, where he spent his last days, still sharp and smiling.
We told Gee how________Tom had been to us, how we grieved(感到悲伤的) for his death and how________ we were to have known him. She wrote us back and told us she still talked to Tom every day. Sharing that ________our bond with her.
Tom and Gee, who opened up their hearts to us, made us realize that home doesn’t________at a property line. It extends to all the people in the neighbourhood.
1.A.morning B.afternoon C.evening D.lunchtime
2.A.advised B.pretended C.hoped D.supposed
3.A.Moreover B.Instead C.Therefore D.Meanwhile
4.A.exchanged B.repaired C.placed D.filled
5.A.wondered B.proved C.learned D.ignored
6.A.invited B.spotted C.praised D.wandered
7.A.pencil B.note C.book D.photo
8.A.become B.celebrated C.replaced D.shown
9.A.argued B.signed C.solved D.explained
10.A.garden B.countryside C.yard D.neighborhood
11.A.actually B.apparently C.barely D.seldom
12.A.serving B.showing C.winning D.talking
13.A.lonely B.frightening C.noisy D.interesting
14.A.take charge of B.deal with C.give up D.take off
15.A.minded B.refused C.forgot D.allowed
16.A.visit B.limit C.convince D.examine
17.A.optimistic B.polite C.strange D.special
18.A.curious B.successful C.thankful D.patient
19.A.prevented B.unlocked C.cut D.deepened
20.A.occupy B.end C.cross D.start
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D
My mom has eyes in the back of her head. She also taught me from an early age to be suspicious of strange men, especially when they give you presents. One day, a “nice man” bearing flowers managed to steal 20 euros from her purse, while she was holding it in her hands. “He said he was collecting for a church charity so I pulled out a euro,” she explains, “He said ‘no, no, that’s too much’ and offered to look in my purse to find a smaller coin. He must have slid out that 20 euro note at the same time. I did not even notice until an hour later. I felt so stupid.”
According to neuroscientists, the key requirement for a successful pickpocket is not having nifty (熟练的) fingers, it’s having a working knowledge of the loopholes (漏洞) in our brain. The most important of these loopholes is the fact that our brains are not set up to multi-task. Most of the time that is a good thing — it allows us to filter (过滤) out all but the most important features of the world around us. But a good trickster can use it to against you. This kind of trick involves capturing all of somebody’s attention with other movements. Street pickpockets often use this effect to their advantage by manufacturing a situation that can not help but overload your attention system. Other strategies are more psychological. Pickpockets tend to hang out a “beware of pickpockets” signs, because the first thing people do when they read it is check they still have their valuables, helpfully giving away where they are. And in my mom’s case, the thief’s best trick was not coming across like a pickpocket. “He was a very nice guy and very confident. Not someone that would cause you to suspect,” she says. Apollo Robbins, a stage pickpocket, said smart move, like moving your hand in an arc (弧) motion rather than a straight line, is another popular strategy employed by tricksters.
At last, it should be pointed out that most thefts are opportunistic. The skill level of most thieves is far less than you think. But they are opportunistic enough to keep up with new technology.
1.What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A. People’s brains are not designed to multi-task.
B. People’s brains can filter out all but the most important features.
C. Somebody’s attention can be distracted by a certain trick.
D. Somebody’s overload attention system.
2.According to the passage, all of the following are pickpocket strategies except _________.
A. having nifty fingers
B. hanging out “beware of pickpockets” sign
C. displaying confidence
D. moving hand in an arc motion
3.In the author’s opinion, _________.
A. people’s brains have many loopholes
B. thieves are more skillful than opportunistic
C. his mom’s losing money is nothing but a by-accident experience
D. signs reminding people of pickpockets can play a negative role in protecting valuables
4.What will the author probably talk about next?
A. Mom’s another suffering
B. Pickpockets concerning new technology
C. Pickpockets’ tricks
D. Apollo Robbins’ stage pickpockets
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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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My grandpa often looks back on those days in the countryside, where he for ages.
A.worked B.has worked C.had worked D.was working
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The old man often looked back on the past days ________ he worked hard to make a living.
A．which B．when
C．where D．that
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(2013·哈尔滨四校高三统一检测)The old man often looked back on the past days ________ he worked hard to make a living.
A．which B．when
C．where D．that
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When looking back at the scary situation that happened to him on Saturday, Patrick Canney said he couldn’t still believe that it was true. It was a situation that could have ended with a tragedy for Patrick, his father and his sister. But it didn’t really happen thanks to Patrick.
That morning, Patrick’s father was driving down busy Interstate 95 in Peabody, Massachusetts. The car started going really slowly, which seized Patrick’s attention. And then he realized that something was wrong. At that point, Patrick found his father was having a seizure （中风）.
“It was really scary,” he said. “It was unlike anything that had ever really happened to me.” But Patrick didn’t act scared. He took control of the situation and got behind the wheel of the SUV. He turned the key off and pulled the car over to the breakdown lane （车道）. He then stopped the SUV, grabbed a cell phone out of his dad’s pocket and called 911 for help.
Patrick’s 9-year-old sister was in the SUV, too. He told his little sister not to worry about it. Then he opened the door and stood right next to the guard rail. Thanks to Patrick’s description of their location during the 911 call, Massachusetts State Police were able to locate the Canneys within minutes -- and get them all to safety.
“A 12-year-old boy’s clear thinking and decisive action actually saved this family from a tragedy,” said state police spokesman David. “That’s Patrick. He is cool and collected. I couldn’t imagine what would be the result if he were panicked （惊慌失措）.”
Patrick’s father was expected to recover fully from the seizure. And thanks to Patrick, all of the Canneys are still alive. “The word hero may be overused in our society,” said David. “But Patrick is surely that -- and then some.”
1.As soon as he found his father had a seizure, Patrick ________.
A．told his sister not to worry B．called the police for help at once
C．tried his best to save his father D．managed to take control of the car
2.The underlined word “collected” in Paragraph 5 means “_________”.
A．confused B．positive C．calm D．serious
3.What did David think of Patrick?
A．Patrick should learn from real heroes in society.
B．Patrick was a cool boy who matched the word hero.
C．Patrick should be rewarded for his behavior.
D．Patrick should protect his family carefully in the future.
4.Which of the-following best expresses the main idea of the passage?
A．A kid made every effort to survive in a car crash.
B．A kid turned into a lifesaver after his father was ill.
C．A kid learned how to become a hero by using his wisdom.
D．A kid saved his sister when they drove on a highway.
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