I used to be ashamed of my grandma.I know that’s a ____ thing to say,but it was true until today,so I have to ___ it.
The ____ started when my friend Katy found Grandma’s false teeth floating in a glass on the bathroom sink.I was so used to seeing them that I ____ took notice of them.But Katy shouted,laughing and ___to talk to them.I had to get down on my knees and ___ her to shut up so my grandma wouldn’t ___ and get hurt.
After that happened,I ____ there were a million things about Grandma that were embarrassing.
Once she took Jill and me out to Burger King.____ ordering our hamburgers welldone,she told the person behind the counter,“They’ll have two Whoppers(巨无霸) welltodo.” Jill burst out laughing,but I almost ____.
After a while,I started wishing I could ___ Grandma in a closet.I even complained to my parents.Both my parents said I had to be careful not to make Grandma feel ____ in our home.
Then last Wednesday,something happened that ____ everything completely.My teacher told us to help find interesting old people and ____ them about their ____ for a big Oral History project.I was trying to think of someone when Angie pushed me gently.
“Volunteer your grandmother,” she whispered.“She’s ___ and rich in experience.”
That was the last thing I ever thought Angie would say about my grandma.
This is how I ended up on ____ today interviewing my own grandmother before the whole school assembly(集合).All my friends and teachers were listening to her ____ she was a great heroine.I was ____ of my grandma and hoped she would ____ know that I had been ashamed of her.
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解析【小题1】 C
解析 根据第一句“I used to be ashamed of my grandma.”以及后文可知,作者过去对奶奶错误的看法或态度是一件羞于启齿的事情。funny滑稽可笑的;common常见的;clear清晰的。
【小题2】 A
解析 虽然这种事情说出来不好,但却是一个事实,作者不得不承认。
【小题3】 C
解析 后文所列举的例子,是作者认为由奶奶引起的麻烦事。另外后文没有出现作者与Katy争吵,故排除A项;accident事故;adventure冒险。
【小题4】 D
解析 根据句意可知此处应为否定的语气。
【小题5】 B
解析 根据动词的用法可排除A、C两项;再根据后文作者担心奶奶会听见受到伤害可以推断出Katy只是假装要宣扬这件事。
【小题6】 D
解析 此处作者应为恳求的语气。
【小题7】 B
解析 根据上下文及词意可知B项最合题意。
【小题8】 C
解析 联系上下文可知,作者意识到有许多关于奶奶的令人窘迫的事情。expect盼望,期望;declare宣告,宣称;doubt怀疑。
【小题9】 D
解析 根据常识可知,买汉堡包应该买已经做好的,而奶奶却让他们做一个“巨无霸”汉堡包。
【小题10】 A
解析 根据前文but可知,作者的态度应与弟弟的态度相反,再结合作者对奶奶的态度可排除B项。disappear消失; suffer受苦,遭受,不符语意。此处用die表示作者十分生气失望的心情。
【小题11】 D
解析 作者希望把奶奶藏起来,不让奶奶出来引起麻烦。
【小题12】 C
解析 inconvenient不便利的,不方便的,主语不能为人,故排除;结合语意可知父母不希望让奶奶感到在家里不受欢迎。
【小题13】 A
解析 此处为本文的转折点,根据下文可知,作者对奶奶的看法发生了根本性的改变。finish结束;stop停止; prepare准备。
【小题14】 A
解析 由最后一段第一句中的interviewing可知答案。
【小题15】 B
解析 根据下一段中空后面的rich in experience可知此处为生活经历,故选lives。
【小题16】 C
解析 根据上一段第二句“My teacher told us to help find interesting old people...”可知此处应选C项。
【小题17】 B
解析 作者在全体师生面前采访奶奶,让她讲述自己的经历,所以应在舞台上。on stage在舞台上,符合语境。on show在展览;on duty在上班;on time按时。
【小题18】 D
解析 as if好像。
【小题19】 B
解析 联系上文可知,作者对奶奶的看法已经转变。be proud of对……感到自豪;be sure of确信;be ashamed of以……为耻;be afraid of害怕。
【小题20】 A
解析 作者希望奶奶永远不会知道自己原来对她的看法,不让她因此受到伤害。
科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
A little boy almost thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world because a disease made his leg lame. He ____ played with his classmates. When the teacher asked him to answer questions, he always ____ his head without a word.
One ____ the boy's father asked for some saplings (树苗) from the neighbor. He wanted the ____ to plant a sapling each person in front of the house. The father said, “Whose sapling grows best, I will buy him or her a favorite ____.” Seeing his brothers and sisters watering the trees, however, the boy had an idea. He hoped that the tree he planted would ____ soon. So, after watering it once or twice,he never ____ it.
A few days later, when the little boy went to see his tree again, he was ____ to find that it didn't wilt (枯萎) but grew some fresh leaves. ____ the trees of his brothers and sisters, his tree was even greener. His father kept his ____, bought the little boy his favorite gift and said that from the tree he planted, he would become an outstanding ____ when he grew up.
Since then, the little boy slowly became ____. One night, he lay on the bed but could not sleep. Then he got up and came to the ____. To his surprise, his ____ was splashing something onto his tree.____, he understood—his father had been ____ fertilizing his small tree!
He returned to his room,____ running down.
____ passed. The little boy didn't become a botanist, but he was elected President of the United States. His name was Franklin Roosevelt.
Love is the ____ nourishment (营养) of life. ____ it is just a drop of clear water, it can still help the tree of life thrive (茁壮成长).
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
One Saturday, I got a phone call about electrical problems. Since I am not an electrician, I quickly that the woman on the line had the wrong number. The woman on the phone sounded extremely as her electricity wasn’t working. Her tried to replace a wall switch(开关), but now some of their lights wouldn’t be on, and the heat had .
The woman thought she was an electrician who had done work for her in the past. I had just recently changed my and she got me instead. I’m not an electrician but I do work with .
I her that she had the wrong number, and I didn’t know what her old electrician changed his number to. She , and we said goodbye. After I hung up the phone I thought I could help her so I dialed back and found out she was just one town over.
When I got to her house, I told her I would help her, but I would not any money. This confused(使迷惑)her and she asked I would bother if I wasn’t getting paid. I told her it was an act of and to “pay it forward”. The couple, who were both retired, seemed and said they had never met anyone like me.
Her husband had fixed the switch which was causing a short(短路). After I was done, they thanked me and tried to give me some . I told them I wouldn’t accept anything, and that the best would be to find someone else to help out. I said that if they can’t find someone else to repay then just be extra nice to each other. They were both unbelievably happy that I to solve their electrical problems quickly, but I think I was even at the opportunity to help them.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
Coming home after working out for a whole day I had my purse lost.I it had slipped out my backpack as I was being .While it was probably very close to my apartment it still failed to come into and I had no but to cancel my debit cards.
I’d had the purse for more than a decade as it was a Christmas present ,which was a bright, red leather, Cheeky Monkey purse ,so probably not entirelyfor a 36-year-old but I was very upset to have lost it!
Everyone I spoke to I might get the purse back but the money and vouchers in it would very likely disappear.I had written off the of the purse and was even considering whether to move on and go “grown-up” when I was seeking a .
I came home late the following night and my monkey purse was on my mat! I checked the contents and everything was including anything of cash value.I was astounded when I read the note which read, “I came across this last night.It was too dark to it then ,so I came back tonight.I got your from your license.Sorry.Iain.”
Not only had this man returned my purse but he thought he me an apology for not bringing it back sooner!
I have told almost all my acquaintances, who almost responded with a similar standard answer, “It restores your in human nature” and it lots of stories about similar experiences.
There were no contact so I am unable to get in touch to say thank you to Iain, but I hope he will be of how grateful I am!
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
There was once a boy who was very rich and clever but nothing could make him feel happy. He had almost everything a boy could ever want, so he was only ____ in the rarest objects. One day his parents bought him a very strange _____ .When the boy went to see his reflection (映像) in it, he looked very ____. He tried smiling, ____ his reflection continued with its sad expression.
____ , the boy went off to buy sweets and lots of toys. He came home as happy as he could be, but he _____ looked sad in that mirror.
“What a(n) _____ mirror! It’s the first time I’ve seen a mirror that didn’t _____ properly!”
That afternoon he went out to buy some toys and on his way he saw a little girl who was ______.The boy went over to see what had____ to her. The little girl said that she couldn’t find her parents.
Together the two children set off _____ them. As the little girl wouldn’t stop crying, the boy spent all of his money buying her sweets to _____ her up. After much walking, they _____ her parents who were looking for her, very worried.
Then the boy said ____ to the family. When seeing the time, he ____ to head for home, without toys and without____. In his room, to his great surprise, he found a(n) ______ face in the mirror. And so he understood the ____ of that mirror. The mirror could only reflect the _____ feelings of its owner. He felt really happy at having _____ that little girl.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
Have you ever not wanted to do something so badly? Well,that’s how I about joining Madcaps,a mothers and daughters’club assisting charity. ,my feeling changed finally. Now I believe if you adopt an attitude.you might just enjoying it.
Six months ago,my mom told me the club asked us to work as at Saint Vincent de Paul Homeless shelter.That meant I had to in the dirty homeless shelter for at least 20 hours.
The first lime we went there,a lady led us to the kitchen where we my five fellow Madcaps classmates- they also wore the same mark .Since I′m usually awkward, I had never talked with any of them .Worse still,my mom was asked to help outside the kitchen,leaving me totally to serve food with them. Soon large numbers of homeless families in like rushing river.A little girl,around 5 years old,walked up to me I her a sandwich. She took it and joined her family quickly.As she walked away, I she was wearing a coat.Clearly too big for her, hanging on her thin body, and couldn’t help thinking how much I had with her.It suddenly struck me that how I am.
After that moment I had a of heart Now I love Madcaps and don’t miss one meeting I have awkwardness when communicating and have many friends. And this year I am sure I will do more than the 20 hours of charity.
So that is how I have made a by doing one thing I do not want to do .If you have an open about things you can accomplish more and become a well-rounded(全面的)person.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
“Look,it's Baldy!”A boy shouted in my direction across the playground.Even though I was used to regular insults(侮辱)because of the____on my head,it was____ horrible to hear.I sighed as I headed back to the class.
When I was just 20 months old,I suffered serious____ after a bowl full of hot oil fell on my head.I was____ to hospital and had to stay there for weeks,while the doctors___ to save my life.“Holly's very____to be alive,” they told Mum and Dad.“But she'll be____ with scars on her head,and of course her hair won't grow there.”
As a child,I cared much about my scars ,so I____wore a scarf to cover them up when I left home.____I didn't,people would call me horrible names like Baldy.Although my friends were always comforting me, they never____understood how it felt.
Then through the hospital I was____ to a children's burns camp,where children like me can get any help.There,I____14-year-old Stephanie,whose burns are a lot more serious than mine.But she is so __ that she never lets anyone put her down.“You shouldn't____what people say about what you look like because we're not different from anyone else,Holly,”she____me.“And you don't need to wear a scarf because you look great ____ it!”For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who'd been through something____.So weeks later,at my 13th birthday party,____by her bravery,I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars.It felt amazing not having to____away behind my scarf.
Now,I am____ of what I look like and much happier,because I have realized it is your personality(个性)that decides who you truly are.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
For a few years, I have been wearing a ring on my right hand. It’s not always the ____ ring, but it’s always a ring that has ____ on it so that when I look at it, I’m ____ or reminded of something important. I have made a ____ of buying rings like this whenever I see one in a store. Sometimes I give them away as ____ to someone like Jennie.
I first met Jennie in the ____ waiting room and we had talked several times. One night I sat down beside her and ____ how her son was doing because I knew that he was in very ____ condition. She told me that she didn’t know what to do more because it seemed none of the ____ from the doctors was good. They weren’t at all sure her son was going to ____ the accident that had hurt him so badly. With ____ in her eyes she said, “They’re ____ my hope.”
I knew then that it was ____ just a coincidence(巧合)that I was wearing the ring that I had on that day. As she ____ to talk, I ____ slipped the ring off my finger and placed it in Jennie’s hand. I told her to wear it to remember that God loved her and He would be with her ____ all of this. ____ Jennie looked down at the ring, she got excited and then held it tightly, ____ the word written on the ring was “HOPE”.
The last day I was at the hospital, I saw Jennie in the distance as I got on the lift. She ____ and held up the hand with the ring on it as she called out to me saying, “Look, I ____ have Hope!”
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.
"Any old papers, lady?" asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say “no” __ __looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin scandals (凉鞋),wet with heavy snow.
“Come in and I'11 you a cup of hot cocoa.”
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet shoes left on the floor.I __ them cocoa and toast with jam the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget. The silence in the front door __ __me. I looked in. The girl__ the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat ," Lady ... are you rich?"
"Am I rich? Mercy, !" I looked at my shabby slipcover(家具套).The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟) .
“Your cups match your saucers.”
Her voice was ___ __with a need that no amount of food could supply.They left after that, holding their against the wind.They hadn't said thank you.
They didn’t to. They had done more than that. Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they __ __.
I tasted the potatoes and stirred(搅动)the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a __ over our heads, my man with a good steady job—these things matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and the living room.The muddy prints of small scandals were still on my floor. “ them be for a while,” I thought. Just I should begin to forget how I am.
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