When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write my own books. Half the students smiled , and even worse, the rest nearly fell out of their chairs laughing. “Don’t be . Only geniuses can become writers.” the English teacher said, “And you are getting a D this term.” I was so that I burst into tears. That night I wrote a short poem about broken dreams and mailed it to the newspaper. To my , they published it and sent me two dollars. I was a published and paid writer. I showed my teacher and fellow students. They laughed, “Just plain dumb luck,” the teacher said. I tasted ; I’d sold the first thing I’d ever written. That was more than any of them had done and if it was just dumb luck, that was fine with me.
During the next two years, I sold dozens of poems and letters. By the time I graduated from high school, I had scrapbooks (剪贴簿) with my published works. I never my writing to my teachers, friends or my family again because they were dream .
I had four children at the time. While the children slept, I typed on my ancient typewriter. I wrote what I felt. It took nine months. I chose a and mailed it. A month later I received a contract, an advance on payments, and a request to start another book. Crying Wind, which became a best seller, was translated into fifteen languages and sold worldwide. My first book also became required in native American schools in Canada.
In the year I ever had as a writer I earned two dollars. In my best year I earned 36,000 dollars. People ask what college I , what degrees I have and what qualifications I have to be a writer. The answer is: “None.” I just write. I’m not a genius. I use an electric typewriter that I paid a hundred and twenty nine dollars for six years ago. I do all the housework and fit my writing in a few minutes here and there. I’ve written eight books. To all those who dream of writing, I’m shouting at you: “Yes, you can. Don’t listen to them.” I don’t write right but I’ve succeeded. Writing is ; it’s fun and anyone can do it. Of course, a little dumb luck doesn’t hurt.
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解析试题分析：文章讲述了当作者十五岁时，他向班里宣布要写书。这让老师和同学感到意外，并得到了同学的耻笑。在作者收到稿酬时，老师和同学仍然不以为然，作者下定决心，不会再告诉老师和同学有关自己的梦想的事情。作者选择了坚持自己的梦想。
【小题1】考查副词词义和上下文辨析。A. unkindly不友好的，B. happily快乐地，C. willingly愿意地，D. crazily发疯地，这里指那些冷淡的嘲笑我的学生，选A
【小题2】考查形容词和上下文辨析。A. curious好奇的，B. depressed压抑的，C. excited兴奋的，D. silly愚蠢的，剩下的学生都嘲笑我：别傻了，只有天才才能成为作家。选D
【小题3】考查形容词和上下文辨析。A. unlucky不幸运的，B. ashamed羞愧的，C. moved感动的，D. unconfident不自信的， 由上文老师说我得了“D”可知，这里应指我很羞愧的哭了。故选B
【小题4】考查形容词和上下文辨析。A. sad悲伤的，B. innocent无辜的，C disappointing失望的，D. puzzling令人困惑的，由上下文可知，老师和同学都不赞同我，甚至嘲笑我。 我的梦想破灭了。所以这里应指：我写了一首很悲伤的诗。故选A
【小题5】考查名词和上下文辨析。A. puzzlement困惑，B. expectation期待，C. astonishment惊讶，D. disappointment失望，根据上下文可知，这里指我没有料到我的诗会发表。所以这里应是惊讶的。故选C
【小题6】考查名词和上下文辨析。A. coldness冷淡，B. failure失败，C. success成功，D. prejudice歧视，从下文，I’d sold the first thing I’d ever written.可知作者品尝到成功的滋味，选C
【小题7】考查动词和上下文辨析。A. furnished装饰，B. linked连接，C. combined结合，D. filled填满，到我高中毕业的时候为止，我的剪贴薄上充满了出版的作品。Be filled with“填满”，选D
【小题8】考查动词和上下文辨析。A. remembered记得，B. concluded总结，C. described描述，D. mentioned提到，根据上文老师和同学对我的不认同和嘲笑，这里应指我再也没向他们提起过我写诗。故选D
【小题9】考查名词和上下文辨析。A. killers杀手，B. makers制造者，C. designers设计者，D. creators创造者，因为老师和同学嘲笑作者的梦想，作者认为他们会扼杀人的梦想，选A
【小题10】考查名词和上下文辨析。A. writer作家，B. reporter记者，C. publisher出版商，D. manager经理，从下文的：A month later I received a contract, an advance on payments,可知作者选择了一个出版商，将自己的作品寄给了他，选C
【小题11】考查动词短语和上下文辨析。A. working on从事，B. going on进行，C. turning on打开，D. putting on穿上，播放，几个月后，我收到一份合同，预支的费用和请求我开始写另外一本书。选A
【小题12】考查动名词和上下文辨析。A. writing写，B. reading阅读，C. selling卖，D. buying买，我的第一本书也成为加拿大美国学校中学生必须阅读的材料。选B
【小题13】考查形容词和上下文辨析。A. busiest最忙的，B. unluckiest最不幸的，C. worst最糟糕的，D. highest最高的，从下文的：I ever had as a writer I earned two dollars. In my best year I earned 36,000 dollars.可知这是最糟糕的时候，选C
【小题14】考查动词和上下文辨析。A. worked工作，B. attended参加，C. admitted承认，D. participated参加，Attned college 上大学，这里指人们问我上了哪所大学。选B
【小题15】考查形容词和上下文辨析。A. easy容易的，B. hard困难的，C. convenient方便的，D. practical实际的，写作很容易，任何人都可以做。选A
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
Streit was an experienced safecracker who never used force—either against people or safes．He was a real of his trade and it took him only 19 minutes to open the most difficult he had ever met．In about 10 years， by his brother Stefan，he took about 33,000,000—from the safes of 28 banks in Austria．On his last job，he the safe door open and 80,000 behind．With the was a note，“We don't need all that much”．A witness his car and Streit was caught by the police．Then he was sent to Austria's Stein Prison to serve a six-year ．He boasted（吹嘘）at his trial that he would continue the law, “I'm a thief and I shall use every opportunity.” In spite of the prison officials moved Streit to the prison's blacksmith shop．One day during the week before Christmas，Streit ．Searchers found all his doors were well locked．Streit had to make a set of keys and let himself out．Not to ，though．After crossing into Bavaria，Streit the suspicion（怀疑）of German customs police on purpose and got himself ．“I want to be in a German prison, ”he to the surprised police．“As German coups give much milder（温和的）sentences for like mine and will the time I would otherwise have served in Stein Prison．”In prison，Streit his keepers to let him telephone his former keeper, Karl Schreiner of Stein Prison．“I'm sorry I caused trouble．I didn't want to anybody by escaping．Conditions weren't that bad．In fact the food was better than it is here．”
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
I always remembered the first time I took part in an English composition competition. “Right! Dean would be the of our class to participate in the English composition competition,” my classmates said. (Applauding)
I was too to speak when I heard what my classmates said. In order not to short of my classmates’ , I trained myself very hard for the hope of being the of the competition, which would take place a month later. I a lot of vocabulary, sentence structures and rules and read many good or renowned articles. Not having I pretty well, the day came. Every candidate me looked so well – prepared and . “Only 1.5 hours. Start,” a supervisor suddenly said. Seeing the “What do most teenagers concern nowadays?” I was nervous and got block. What’s worse, other candidates had begun writing. Moments later, I myself, took a deep breath, and began brainstorming ideas the topic. I quickly wrote down the composition structure, central theme, and necessary elements. As the finishing time was , I tried my best to accelerate my writing. Unfortunately, my failure of time management, I left my composition incomplete. My final draft looked like a robot legs were broken.
The result came out two weeks later. To my surprise, I got the second prize! All my classmates cheered for me. This encouraged me a lot. I was not the first prize winner, I could still the scent of pride and happiness spreading around me.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
This was my grandmother's first Christmas without grandfather, and before he passed away we had promised grandfather that we would make this her best Christmas ever. When my parents and I at her house, we found she had waited up all night for us. The house did seem a little without grandfather.
Grandfather had always said that the Christmas was the most important decoration of all. So we immediately set to work on the beautiful artificial tree that was stored in grandfather's closet (壁橱). Through our efforts, we finally stepped back to our handiwork. It looked beautiful. something was missing.
"Where' s your star?" I asked.
The star was my grandmother' s favorite part of the tree.
"Why, it be here somewhere," she said, starting to sort through the boxes again. "Your grandfather always everything so carefully when he took the tree down."
As we emptied the boxes and no star, my grandmother's eyes filled with tears. Grandfather had given it to grandmother some fifty years ago on their first Christmas together. It brought them great happiness. Now, on her first Christmas without him, the star was , too.
"Don' t worry, Grandmother," I her. "We'll find it for you."
My mother and I formed a search . "Let' s start in on the closet where the ornaments (装饰品) were," Mother said. "Maybe the star just fell out of the box. "
That sounded , so I began to search the closet. I thought I tried every , but no star. I could see grandmother was , although she tried not to show it.
"What's in this wrapped box?" Mother suddenly called out. "It was at the bottom of father's closet. "
Grandmother took the box in and opened it. Her face when she unfolded the paper and pulled out a golden star. There was a(n) attached.
Don' t be angry with me, dear. I broke your star while packing the decorations, and I couldn't to tell you. Thought it was time for a new one. I hope it brings you as much as the first one. Merry Christmas!
Love,
Bryant
So grandmother's tree had a star after all, a star that expressed their everlasting love for one another. And we were glad we were able to make this Christmas for her.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When I was in high school, my father retired and set up a food stand on the street near my school. He was particularly good at making . Every day after I finished school, my classmates and I would his food stand. But I really talking to him before his food stand, because I didn’t want my classmates to know my father was selling noodles on the street!
One night, I couldn’t it any more and shouted, “Dad, could you selling your annoying noodles? I don’t need a father who sells noodles on the street!” At that moment, my father was . He tried to say something but didn’t. When he turned , something happened that I would never . His eyes were filled with tears. I saw him for the first time. My mother later told me my father was selling noodles to money for my college education. Even today I still feel for what I did that night.
Time really flies. I finished and then left my home to work. During the past years, whenever I home, he was always there meeting me at the railway station. Whenever he saw me off, he never tried to hug me, although I always his hug. When I was away from home, he never wrote or telephoned me, he always pushed my mother to telephone me. Whenever my mother was telephoning me, he’d sit beside her with a list of questions. He’d my mother to talk to me for him. That’s the way he is, and that’s how he shows his to me.
My father is quiet, but I feel a , which is deep and powerful. It lives in a place far beyond , and it is something special－“a silent father’s love”.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。
Tom was a businessman and he suffered many failures in his career, which made him a depressed（沮丧的）man, he often complained that others had been playing tricks on him. One day he told his wife he was so with the city that he had to leave.
So his family moved to city. In the evening of a weekend, Tom and his wife were busy up their new home the light suddenly went out. So they had to ___ work. Tom was regretful to have forgotten to bring along candles and had to wait in a low mood. Just then he heard slight, hesitant knocks on his door that sounded clear in the night.
“Who’s it?” he wondered, since Tom had no in the new city. And this was the moment he especially disliked being disturbed. , he went reluctantly(不情愿地) to the door and opened it impatiently. At the door was a little girl, shyly asking, “Sir, do you have ? I’m your neighbor.” “No,” answered Tom in anger and shut the door violently. “What a nuisance（讨厌的人）!” he complained over it with his wife. “No sooner had we settled down the neighbor came to things.” After a while, the door was knocked . He opened it and found the same girl outside. But this time she was holding two candles, saying, “My grandma told me the new neighbor downstairs might need candles. She me here to give you these .” Tom was very __ by what he saw. When he became fully aware, he said, “Thank you and your . God bless you!”
At that moment he suddenly realized what caused his in life. It was his and harshness(刻薄)with other people. The person who had cheated him in life was nobody else but himself, for he had fallen for his unsympathetic .
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
I often read of incidents of misunderstanding or conflict. I'm left . Why do these people create mistrust and problems, especially with those from other ?
I was growing up in Kuala Lumpur in the early 1960s, children from different races and religions played and studied in harmony. At that time my family lived a stone's from Ismail's. And no one was bothered that Ismail was a Malay Muslim and I was an Indian Hindu—we just our differences. Perhaps，our elders had not filled our heads with unnecessary advice, well or otherwise.
We were nine when we became friends. During the school holidays, we 'd the countryside on our bicycles，hoping to the unexpected. At times Ismail would accompany my family as we made a rare shopping trip to town. We would be glad of his .
When I was twelve, my family moved to Johor. Ismail's family later returned to their village, and I touch with him.
One spring afternoon in 1983, I stopped a taxi in Kuala Lumpur. I my destination. The driver acknowledged my but did not move off. Instead, he looked at me. “Raddar?" he said, using my childhood nickname (绰号).I was astonished at being so addressed (称呼).Unexpectedly! It was Ismail! Even after two we still recognized each other. Grasping his shoulder, I felt a true affection, something to describe.
If we can allow our children to be without prejudice, they'll build friendships with people，regardless of race or religion, who will be their side through thick and thin. On such friendships are societies built and we can truly be, as William Shakespeare once wrote, “We happy few, We band of brothers".
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
I’m sitting in a quiet room at the Millcroft Hotel, a peaceful place hidden back among pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It’s just past noon, late July, and I’m the desperate (绝望的) sounds of a life-and-death going on a few feet away.
There’s a small burning out the last of its short life’s energies in a (an) to fly through the glasses of the window. , it’s not working. The great effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically (讽刺地), the struggle is part of the trap. It is for the fly to try hard enough to succeed in through the glass. This fly is doomed (注定失败). It will there on the windowsill.
Across the room, ten steps , the door is open. Ten seconds of flying time and this small creature could reach the outside world it . With only a small effort now being , it could be free of this self-set . The breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so .
Why doesn’t the fly try another approach, dramatically different? How did it get so locked in on the idea this particular route and determined effort offer the most promise for success?
No doubt this way makes to the fly. Regrettably, it is an idea that will kill it.
Trying hard isn’t necessarily the solution achieving your goal. It may not offer any real for getting what you want out of life. Sometimes, in fact, it is a big part of the problem.
If you your hopes like the fly for a break-through, you may your chances for success.
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
As I held my father's hands one night，I couldn't help but notice their calluses(老茧) and roughness.His hands tell the story of his life as a ____，including all his struggles.
One summer，I remember，a drought(旱灾)hit Ontario，turning it into a____desert.On one of those hot mornings I was picking sweet corn with my dad to fill the last ____from the grocery store.Fifty dozen was all we needed，which____took twenty minutes. That morning，however，the process didn't___ quickly.After forty minutes of aimlessly walking in the field，we____ needed twenty dozen.I was completely frustrated and ____.Dropping the basket heavily，I declared，“If the store wants its last twenty dozen，they can pick it themselves！”Dad____，“Just think，my little girl，only ten dozen left for each of us and then we're____.”Such is Dad—whatever problem he ____，he never gives up.
____，the disastrous effects of the drought were felt all over our country.It was a challenging time for everyone，____Dad remained optimistic.He__23__to be grateful for other things like good health and food on our plates.Only then did I truly begin to____Dad and his faith that guided us through the hard times.
Dad is also a living example of real____.From dawn to dusk，he works countless hours to ____our family.He always puts our happiness ____his own，and never fails to cheer me on at my sports games____his exhaustion after long days.His loving and selfless nature has inspired me to become more sympathetic and____，putting others first.
Dad，the life____I have learned from you will stay with me forever.You are my father，teacher，friend and，most importantly，my hero.
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