When our restaurant business failed,we headed north in a camping truck to Texas,hoping to have a “fresh start”.
At the of Palo Duro Canyon (峡谷)State Park,I a job advertisement hiring park hosts. The position offered a ,permanent campsite in the park, and , the hosts served as a link between the park’s guests and the rangers (护林人). It was the perfect solution: a rent-free place to reorganize our lives. We entered the park and I made an for the following day.
The park was , so it took us some time to find an available site. That evening, as we finished our dinner, my wife saw two large skunks (臭鼠由)walking toward our table. We climbed onto the table and, for the next four hours, waited for them to our camp.
Having survived that night, we were that everything else would be all right. The next day we met with the people who ran the park. They explained our and gave us a beautiful campsite.
That evening, , we learned about the canyon . They were strong and cold, rocking our little camping truck violently,and we lay in the dark until the winds died away.
the weeks that followed, we learned to survive in our truck and the little money my wife by substitute teaching. Building a successful business and then losing it had left very little time for building a successful For a time after our business I thought I might lose my family as well.
Living in the tiny with no television, we sat close together reading and talking. One evening, standing under a jeweled sky,I found myself for all the hardships. We had walked the trails and climbed the canyon walls. We had become a family!
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解析【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文。作者在生意失败后和妻子一起前往Texas希望能有一个新的开始。在帕罗杜洛峡谷州立公园找到一份作为护林人的工作,通过在此期间生活经历的种种深悟家庭的重要,也顺利地从生意失败的阴影中走出,勇敢地面对生活。
【小题1】D上下文串联及语境理解。此段的最后有“We entered the park and…”可知我们走进公园,所以一开始是在入口处。A 后面;B 边缘;C 中央;D 入口。
【小题2】C 动词辨析及语境理解。空格后面是一工作广告,所以是作者看见,注意到。A是“赞助”;B“出版”;D“回答”
【小题3】B上下文串联及语境理解。后面有“a rent-free place…”,所以这儿直接用 “free”表“免费的”。
【小题4】A 介词短语辨析及语境理解。句意上这儿需要的是“公园提供免费的永久的露营地但需要做相应的工作”。A项“作为回报”适合;B “及时”;C简短;D “ 轮流,反过来”。
【小题5】D 名词辨析与搭配及语境理解。根据下文作者是应征了这份工作并对于接下来的生活有了自己的计划安排。这儿考的是形近词的辨析,A表示“尝试”;B “同意”;C “吸引”;D是“安排,计划”在这类似于“plan”与前面的“make”搭配使用。
【小题6】A 形容词辨析及语境理解。根据后面的内容“so it took us some time to find an available site ”表示“我们花了一段时间找到合适的地方”所以A “拥挤的”适合。B表示“危险的”;C是“理想的”;D是“安静的”。
【小题7】B 副词辨析及语境理解。根据前面的内容,有臭鼬过来人是吓的立即爬上了桌子,所以B“立刻地”适合。A表示“重复地”;C表示“最终地”;D是“镇定地”。
【小题8】B 动词辨析及语境理解。根据上文是吓得爬上桌子几个小时所以是等臭鼬离开。A表示“攻击”;C是“经过”;D是“搜寻”之意。
【小题9】C形容词辨析及语境理解。根据句意,经过了一晚上除了臭鼬的事情没有别的事,所以是感觉其它的都好,只有C符合。A表示“满意的”;B是“意志坚定的”;D是“意识到”。
【小题10】A 名词辨析及语境理解。根据上文人们向我们阐述我们所要承担的什么样的责任或任务。B是“要求”;C是“状况”;D是“条件”。
【小题11】D上下文串联及语境理解。前面刚提到“a beautiful campsite”,后面出现了冰冷的寒风,所以这儿是转折的概念。A表示递进;B表示因果;C表示并列。
【小题12】A名词辨析及语境理解。下文有“until the winds died away.”,属于上下文原词一栏。D是“小径,小道”的意思。
【小题13】A 动词辨析及语境理解。根据上下文冰冷的暴风刮了一夜,所以我们躺的地方一直是摇摇晃晃的感觉。B表示“争吵”;C是“哀悼”之意;D是“疼痛”。
【小题14】C 介词搭配及语境理解。句意上在接下来的几个星期内,所以应该是C项的During;D表示“超越”之意。
【小题15】C 短语辨析及语境理解。上下文来看是关于用钱的问题,指得是靠不多的钱生活。A表示“捐赠,泄露”;B是“交出”之意;C是“以…为生”;D表示“放在一旁”。
【小题16】B 动词辨析及语境理解。与money的搭配是make或earn,这儿指的是妻子挣到的钱。A表示“借”;C是“张贴”而D是“抚养,筹集,举起”之意。下文有“by substitute teaching”,所以应该是挣钱。
【小题17】C 名词辨析及语境理解。根据文章最后作者表达的最终建立家庭的情况来看,这儿只能用family,上下对应。A是”生意“;B是 “事业”;D表示的是“形象”。
【小题18】B 动词辨析及语境理解。根据文章一开始作者介绍的背景知道是生意上的失败。A表示“开始”;C是“扩大”之意;D是“下降,拒绝”。
【小题19】A 名词辨析及语境理解。上文一直在提到是在我们的卡车里,所以这儿是作者对于这样生活的感受。
【小题20】D 形容词辨析及语境理解。作者最后对于这样行的生活有感而发,虽然生意失败了,但是却给了作者一个温暖的家,所以这儿的情感更是对困难的一种感激与敬意。A表示“绝望”;B是“准备好了”C表示“适合的”。
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:单选题
— Must I pay the fine, sir?
— __________. You shouldn’t have driven drunk.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
The family had just moved.The young woman was feeling a little .It was Mother's Day—and 800 miles separated her from her parents.
She had called them that morning,and her mother had how colorful their backyard was spring had arrived. Later,she told her husband how she those lilacs(丁香)in her parents’yard.“I know where we can find some,”he said.“Get the and come on.”So off they went.
Some time later,they stopped at a hill and there were lilacs all round.The young woman rushed up to the nearest and buried her face in the flowers.Carefully,she some.Finally,they returned to their car for the home.The woman sat smiling,surrounded by her .
When they were near home,she shouted“stop”,got off quickly and to a nearby nursing home.She went to the end of the porch(门廊),where a(n) patient was sitting in her wheelchair,and put the flowers into her lap.The two ,bursting into laughter now and then.Later the young woman turned and ran back to her .As the car pulled away,the woman in the wheelchair with a smile,and held the lilacs .
“Mom,”the kids asked,“ did you give her our flowers?”“It is Mother's Day,and she seems so while I have all of you.And anyone would be by flowers.”
This satisfied the kids,but not the husband.The next day he some young lilacs around their yard.
I was the husband.Now,every May,our yard is full of lilacs.Every Mother’s Day our kids purple lilacs.And every year I remember that smile of the lonely old woman.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
Brownie and Spotty were neighbour dogs who met every day to play together. Like pairs of dogs you can find in any ____, these two dogs loved each other and played ____ so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their own houses.
One evening, Brownie’s family ____ that Brownie hadn’t returned home. They went looking for him with no ____. Brownie didn’t appear the next day, and, despite their ____ to find him, by the next week he was still missing.
Curiously, Spotty ____ at Brownie’s house alone, barking. Busy with their own lives, they just ignored the ____ little neighbour dog.
Finally, one morning Spotty ____ to take “no” for an answer. Spotty followed Ted about, barking strongly, then running towards a nearby wood, as if to say, “____ me! It’s urgent!”
Ted followed the anxious Spotty. The little dog led the man to a ____ spot a half mile from the house. There Ted found his beloved Brownie ____, one of his hind legs stuck in a steel leg hold trap. Horrified, Ted now wished he’d taken Spotty’s earlier requirement ____. Then Ted noticed something quite remarkable.
Spotty had done more than simply ____ Brownie’s owner to his trapped friend. In a circle around the ____ dog, Ted found some dog food---which was later ____ as the remains of every meal Spotty had been fed that ____!
Spotty had been visiting Brownie ____, in a single-minded quest to keep his friend alive by offering his own comfort. Spotty had obviously stayed with Brownie to protect him from being hurt, snuggling (依偎) with him at night to keep him ____ and touching him gently with its nose to keep his spirits up.
Brownie’s ____ was treated by a veterinarian and he recovered. For many years afterwards, the two families watched the faithful friends frolicking (嬉戏) ____ chasing each other down that well-worn path between their houses.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
Now, I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know you have a lot of _ in your lives right now that can make it hard to on your schoolwork.
I get it. I know what it’s like. My father my family when I was two years old ,and I was by a single mom who had to work and who struggled to pay the hills and wasn't always to give us the things that other kids had. There were times when I having a father in my life. There were times when I was and I felt like I didn't fit in.
So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I'm not of, and I got in more trouble than I should .And my life could have taken a turn for the worse.
But I was ,I got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my .
Some of you might not have those . Maybe you don't have adults in your life who give you the that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there's not enough money to the daily expenses. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don't feel safe, or have friends who are you to do things that you know aren't right.
But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life are, of those is an excuse for ignoring your homework or having a bad in school. That's no excuse for talking back to your , or dropping out of school. There's no excuse for not trying.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
School was over and I was both mentally and physically tired. I sat at the very front of the bus because of the to get home. Sitting at the front makes you out like a shiny coin in a pile of dull pennies.
Janie, the driver, tried to the uncomfortable atmosphere by striking the match of a conversation.
I tried to mind my manners and listen, but I was too busy thinking about my day. On this day, , her conversation was worth listening to.
“ My father’s sick, ” she said to no one in . I could see the anxiety and fear in her eyes. With a sudden of attitude and interest, I asked, “ What’s wrong with him?”
With her eyes wet and her voice tight from the tears, she responded, “Heart trouble.” Her eyes as she continued. “I’ve already lost my mum, so I don’t think I can losing him. ”
I couldn’t respond. I was shocked . My heart for her. I sat on the old, smelly seat thinking of the great my own mother was thrown into when my father died.
I saw how hard it was, still is, for her. I wouldn’t like anyone to go through that .
Suddenly I realized Janie wasn’t only a bus driver. That was just her job. She had a world of family and concerns too. I had never thought of her as anything but a driver.
I suddenly felt very . I realized I had only thought of people as as what their purposes were in my life. I paid no attention to Janie because she was a bus driver. I had judged her by her job and her as unimportant.
For all I know, I’m just another person in else’s world, and may not even be important. I should not have been so selfish and self-centred. Everyone a place to go to, people to see and appointments to . Understanding people is an art.
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
It was during those hard days in a small community. Food was in short supply. I used to stop by Mr.Miller's stand for
One particular day, while Mr.Miller was some potatoes for me I noticed a small boy admiring a basket of green peas. Soon I was also to the fresh green peas.
The boy left. Mrs.Miller _ to me and said, "There are two other such boys in our _, all from poor families. Jim always offers to our produce for their marbles(弹珠). He somehow makes them believe he likes red marbles .Sometimes he even sends them home with some peas for ." I left the stand, with this man.
Years later, I went back to visit some in that community and while I was there I learned Mr.Miller had died. I agreed to my friends to see Mrs.Miller. Upon our arrival, we offered whatever words of . Ahead of us were three young men. They moved to the casket(棺椁). Mrs.Miller's eyes followed them each young man placed his own hand over the cold pale hand and then left.
Our turn came to meet Mrs.Miller.I told her who I was and mentioned the of the marbles. She said, "Those three young men were the boys. They told me how they Jim's kindness."
"We've never had much ," she said, "but right now, Jim would consider himself the man." Then she lifted her husband's lifeless fingers. beneath the hand were three shining, red marbles !
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
Do you feel upset when you hear that your school might not allow cell phones? Do you break into a cold sweat when your cell phone battery(电池) dies? If you live without your cell phone, you might have a .
A recent study found that some people could be to their cell phones. The study was conducted at Staffordshire University in England. About 40 percent of students said they couldn’t do without their cell phones. About 90% said they took their with them everywhere. One third of students surveyed said they used cell phones to themselves up.
The study also asked students 18 to 25 questions designed to addictive behavior. The results found that one in six cell phone users have a lot in with gambling addicts (赌瘾). Some people said they sometimes lied about their cell phone use. admitted stealing to pay for their cell phone habit.
Dr David Sheffield, conducted the study, said he wasn’t surprised by the . “Students use their phones , and this has both positive such as staying in touch with friends and family, and negative ones too, such as costs and social costs,” he told Weekly Reader. “The most finding was that a number of people reported they had a relationship or job because they spent too much time on mobile phones .”
part of the study, some students agreed to take a from their cell phones. After three phone-free days, students reported feeling less about their daily lives. That might be a reason to hang up the phone!
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:完型填空
Yu Bingbing is a 28yearold market research manager. When she is ____ her way to work each morning, she cannot help feeling ____ about whether she has locked the door of her apartment and ____ off the gas.
“I'm usually ____ with these feelings for the entire day,” Yu said. Working at an international pharmaceutical(制药的) firm, Yu looks older than she is and her heavily madeup face always has a(n) ____ look. “Since I have been ____ to a managerial position, I lose my temper with my parents and husband more frequently just because of some ____ things,” she said, adding that ____ wrinkles and acne(粉刺) on her face have irritated her even more, and even luxury cosmetics cannot ____ her.
“I have to work six days a week and don't even have extra offtime when I'm sick,” she said. “I have to ____ myself to become a workaholic since the competition in my company is really ____ and I also have to pay a 5,000 yuan monthly mortgage, besides saving a certain amount of money for my ____ baby.”
Life is like riding on a ____ for Yu and many other members of China's post80s generation, the first generation ____ after the ____ of the familyplanning policy and the group to benefit ____ from the country's opening up policy and its booming economy.
Being the only child in their family, and without much to trouble them during their youth, most of them were taken good care of or even ____ by their parents and grandparents.
Having such a ____ carefree youth—when this generation reached ____ and had to ____ with soaring(猛增的) prices, the high cost of raising children and intense competition in the workplace—they suffered a rude awakening.
According to statistics, the population of China's post80s generation is over 200 million. The media usually refers to them as “slaves” to property, credit cards, children and marriage.
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