阅读理解。
Two children stood outside the door with old coats. “Any old papers, Lady?” asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say no, but I saw that their shoes were broken and wet. “Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot tea.” They came in, saying nothing. Their shoes left snow on the floor.
I gave them tea and bread to protect them against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started my housework again.
The silence in the front room surprised me. I looked in.
The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked me in a low voice, “Lady…are you rich?”
Am I rich? Oh, no! I looked at my old things in my room.
The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟) carefully. “Your cups match your saucers.”
They left then, holding their papers against the wind. They hadn’t said thank you. They didn’t need to. They had done more than that. The blue cups and saucers were simple. But they said that they matched. The potatoes and meat before me, a roof over our hands, my husband with a job—these things matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The prints of their small shoes were still wet on my floor. I let them be. I wanted them there to remind me how rich I was.
1.The writer let the two children in _________.
A. to offer them some warm clothes
B. to serve them tea and food
C. to sell them some old papers
D. to show them how rich she was.
2.We can learn from the passage that_______.
A. the writer was in fact not very rich
B. the children took away many old papers
C. the writer’s husband was out of work
D. the two children were looking for a job
3.It can be inferred(推断) from the passage that _______.
A. it was snowing outside when the story happened
B. the two children thanked the writer and then left
C. the two children were not polite to the writer
D. the writer had a set of new furniture in her house
4.The underlined sentence “I let them be” means “_________”.
A. I dislike them B. I didn’t want to see them
C. I cleaned the them D. I left them there
5.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Any Old Papers?
B. Matching Cups and Saucers
C. Are You Rich?
D. Two Poor Children
完形填空。
通读下面的短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
I was recently invited to dinner by a friend. During the meal, the manager came over and said that our meal was free. He stood there ______ at me, he seemed to know me. ______I asked if he knew me. He laughed and said I had probably ______ him, but I had changed his life. He said that twelve years ago he was in _______stress management class. I asked the group what their number one stress was and ______, including him, said it was their____ .
He said I listened carefully and then took a chair and placed it in the center of the room. I
_____ on the chair for a few minutes and then I invited everyone to do the same. I wanted them to look at the room from ______ there. After everyone had done it, I asked the group to think about how _____ the room looked when they changed their perspective(角度).
Then I asked them to ______ their bosses. Was this the same person who had seen their good ______ and hired them? Do they remember how happy they were to be ______for the job? How did these wonderful people become terrible bosses?
He said I looked at him and asked if he had _____ said thank you to his boss for the opportunity to make a living. He answered no.
He told me his ______ changed that night. He went back to work with a ______ card to his boss. He had been the manager for 8 years. He said he owed it all to me: I had taught him to look at life from different perspectives and I had taught him to express gratitude.
1.A. shouting B. smiling C. looking D. knocking
2.A. Suddenly B. Luckily C. Finally D. Firstly
3.A.remembered B. seen C. disliked D. forgotten
4.A. their B. our C. his D. my
5.A. more B. most C. few D. fewer
6.A. teachers B. wives C. bosses D. children
7.A. stood B. sat C. walked D. rested
8.A. down B. right C. left D. up
9.A. special B. different C. strange D. same
10.A. miss B. consider C. like D. thank
11.A.qualities B. tastes C. looks D. skills
12.A. found B. refused C. chosen D. trained
13.A. never B. always C. sometimes D. ever
14.A. life B. luck C. salary D. job
15.A. sorry B. post C. thank-you D. greeting
—________ exciting the movie is!
—Sure, I have seen it three times.
A. What B. What an
C. How D. How an
kind and helpful to the people around us, and we will make the world a nicer place to live in.
A. Be B. Being
C. To be D. Been
exciting movie it is!
A.What an B.How an
C.How D.What
We to start at once, or we will miss the train.
A. tell B. have told
C. are told D. told
