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Last week my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home in Tucson, Arizona. He moved there a few years ago, and I was eager to see his new place and meet his friends.
My earliest memories of my father are of a tall, handsome, successful man devoted to his work and family, but uncomfortable with his children. As a child I loved him; as a school girl and young adult I feared him and felt bitter about him. He seemed unhappy with me unless I got straight A’s and unhappy with my boyfriends if their fathers were not as “successful” as he was. Whenever I went out with him on weekends, I used to struggle to think up things to say, feeling on guard.
On the first day of my visit, we went out with one of my father’s friends for lunch at an outdoor café. We walked along that afternoon, did some shopping, ate on the street table, and laughed over my son’s funny facial expressions. Gone was my father’s critical(挑剔的) air and strict rules. Who was this person I knew as my father, who seemed so friendly and interesting to be around? What had held him back before?
The next day my dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own childhood. Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him at that moment. After so many years, I’m at last seeing another side of my father. And in so doing, I’m delighted with my new friend. My dad, in his new home in Arizona, is back to me from where he was.
1.Why did the author feel bitter about her father when she was a young adult?
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A．He was silent most of the time. |
B．He was too proud of himself. |
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C．He did not love his children. |
D．He expected too much of her. |
2.When the author went out with her father on weekends, she would feel ______.
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A．nervous |
B．sorry |
C．tired |
D．safe |
3.What does the author think of her father after her visit to Tucson?
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A．More critical. |
B．More talkative. |
C．Gentle and friendly. |
D．Strict and hard-working. |
4.The underlined words “my new friend” in the last paragraph refer to ______.
A. the author’s son B. the author’s father
B. the friend of the author’s father D. the café owner
—What fruit is in season now?
—Pears and apples, ______.
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A．I know |
B．I think |
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C．I see |
D．I feel |
—Would you like to join me for a quick lunch before class?
— ______, but I promised Nancy to go out with her.
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A．I’d like to |
B．I like it. |
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C．I don’t |
D．I will |
短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(\\)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词：在错的词下画一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
One day in the restaurant where I worked,I am serving a 76._______
table of four and each person had ordered the different 77._______
kind of fish.Three plate were already on the table when 78._______
the man closest to me pointing to one plate and asked me 79._______
the name of the fish on it.Before I could answer him,he 80._______
continued to ask me the name of the fish on another one 81._______
plate.I was about to answer him while I noticed that the 82._______
last plate on my tray(托盘) began to fall.They fell noisily 83._______
to the floor seconds late,spreading its contents on the 84._______
carpet.Everyone stared me and I stood there with a red face. 85._______
It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech.At some point in every speech,every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned.Fortunately,such moments are usually not obvious(明显的) to the listeners.Why?Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say.They hear only what the speaker does say.If you lose your place for a moment,wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences,or forget to pause at a certain point,no one will be any the wiser.When such moments occur,don’t worry about them.Just continue as if nothing happened.
Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech,that doesn’t really matter.If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech—“I Have a Dream”,you may notice that he stumbles(结巴) over his words twice during the speech.Most likely,however,you don’t remember.Why?Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.
People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication(交流).They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition.But,in fact,the listeners are not looking for a perfect performance.They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly.Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.
As you work on your speech,don’t worry about being perfect.Once you free your mind of this,you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.
1.The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will _______.
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A．be smarter than you |
B．notice your mistakes |
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C．do better than you |
D．know what you are talking about |
2.You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because _______.
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A．your attention is on the content |
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B．you don’t fully understand the speech |
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C．you don’t know what the speaker plans to say |
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D．you find the way of speech-making more important |
3.It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
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A．giving a speech is like giving a performance |
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B．one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad |
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C．the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made |
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D．the more mistakes a speaker makes,the more attractive he will be |
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
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A．How to Be a Perfect Speaker |
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B．How to Make a Perfect Speech |
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C．Don’t Expect a Perfect Speech |
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D．Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech |
All her life,my mother wanted busy children.It was very important that her house should remain at all times clean and tidy.
You could turn your back for a moment in my mother’s house,leave a half-written letter on the dining room table,a magazine open on the chair,and turn around to find that my mother had “put it back where it belonged,”as she explained.
My wife,one of her first visits to my mother’s house,placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink.When she returned,she found the packet had been removed.Confused(疑惑的),she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits,only to return to find that her drink had disappeared.Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks,so as not to make water rings on the end tables.Now she knows better.
These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family.We were all inclined to(有……的倾向) forgetfulness,and it was common for one of us,upon returning from the bathroom,to find that every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly.“Do you remember what I was doing?”was a question frequently asked,but rarely answered.
Now my sister has developed a second-hand love of clean windows,and my brother does the cleaning in his house,perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet.I try not to think about it too much,but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.
We have all become busy persons.
1.Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?
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A．She enjoyed removing others’ drinks. |
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B．She became more and more forgetful. |
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C．She preferred to do everything by herself. |
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D．She wanted to keep her house in good order. |
2.My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother’s house because _______.
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A．she had already finished them |
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B．my mother had taken them away |
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C．she forgot where she had left them |
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D．someone in my family was holding them |
3.The underlined part in the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister _______.
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A．is happy to clean windows |
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B．loves to clean used windows |
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C．is fond of clean used windows |
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D．likes clean windows as my mother did |
4.This passage mainly tells us that _______.
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A．my mother often made us confused |
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B．my family members had a poor memory |
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C．my mother helped us to form a good habit |
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D．my wife was surprised when she visited my mother |
