完形填空
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Smith, an old man, lived in the middle of the town. One day he found his watch ___________ in his own store. It ___________ a lot to him because it was from his wife. After searching ___________ in the store for a long while, he ___________ to ask for help from a group of children playing outside the store. He ___________ them that the person who found it would be rewarded. ___________ this, the children hurried inside the store, went through and around the ___________ store, but still could not find the watch.
Soon the man felt hopeless and wanted to ___________ . A little boy went up to him and asked for another ___________. The man looked at him and thought, “ Why not? ___________ , this kid looks sincere enough.” ___________ the man sent him back in the store. After a while the boy___________ with the watch in his hand! The man was very ___________ , and he asked the boy how he found it while the others had ___________ . The boy replied, “I did nothing but sat on the ground and ___________.Then I heard the ticking (嘀嗒声) of the watch and just looked for it in that ___________ .”
We usually do something in a hurry and don’t think about our own needs, which can’t bring peace into our mind. ___________ we need to think about ourselves and keep peaceful for a while, which can produce a ___________ result. So allow a few minutes of ___________ to your mind every day, and see how it helps you deal with your work and make ___________ as you expect to!
1.A. broken B. lost C. hidden D. fixed
2.A. meant B. learned C. performed D. bargained
3.A. young and old B. heavy and light C. black and white D. up and down
4.A. forgot B. agreed C. decided D. pretended
5.A. promised B. taught C. worried D. warned
6.A. Seeing B. Hearing C. Wearing D. Feeling
7.A. secure B. dusty C. busy D. whole
8.A. set off B. calm down C. give up D. show off
9.A. chance B. reason C. meeting D. date
10.A. So far B. After all C. At first D. As usual
11.A. But B. Or C. Unless D. So
12.A. ran away B. fell down C. came out D. went back
13.A. amazed B. proud C. nervous D. angry
14.A. finished B. failed C. regretted D. doubted
15.A. played B. waited C. watched D. listened
16.A. station B. situation C. direction D. darkness
17.A. Instead B. Possibly C. Besides D. Luckily
18.A. clear B. straight C. good D. natural
19.A. exercise B. silence C. pleasure D. conversation
20.A. noise B. sense C. mistake D. progress
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。(注意：若选E，请涂AB；若选F，请涂AC；若选G，请涂AD)
How to Find Yourself
Do you often feel lost? Do you think you are living somebody else’s life? If yes, discover ways to find yourself by going through the following article.
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If you are thinking, “how to find yourself when you are lost?”, then the first thing to do is to have a rest from everything—work, personal life and all worldly things. Give time to yourself to think why you seem lost. Is it because of overwork? Is it because you are not leading a life that you want to? Or is it because you are not satisfied with the people or things around you? Try to find answers to these questions to determine the cause behind your restless.
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For once, instead of being the way others want you to be, be yourself. Look within and find yourself in you. Think about the things that you would want to do if you didn’t have any family responsibility or any money issue. If you really want to know how to find inner peace, then think, what you would want others to describe you as—an honest person? Or loving, or realistic? 3.
Think about yourself
Thinking deeply about the past, the time or situations when you were the happiest, is another way to find yourself. 4. This will help you to identify things that you want to do in life and that make you happy and also certain people whose company you enjoy.
Maintain a diary
Knowing yourself and determining what you want to do with your life, will not come to you in a day or two. Discovering oneself is an ongoing process and it can take months or sometimes even years to truly find yourself. So it’s important that you keep a written record of all your feelings and thoughts. 5. And then you may find yourself.
A. Accept yourself
B. Focus on yourself
C. Give yourself a break
D. Pour all your emotions and feelings about life in it.
E. Think what you were doing or when you were the happiest
F. It is very important for you to truly find yourself before it is too late.
G. Once you look within, you will know the answer and then try to be exactly that.
Do you often lose things? Don’t worry. Now a new tool that can be connected to any object you might lose may be the way to solve your problem. The Tile, a small square linked up to your iphone or ipad by means of Bluetooth, lets you see how close you are to your missing item, within a 50-to-150-foot range. If the item goes out of your phone’s 150-foot range, it can still be found on other smart phones with the same app.
When you drive the app on your phone, it shows you, with green bars that increase or decrease, how close or far away you are from the Tile. You can also program it to make a sound when you get close to the Tile. And you can link up your phone with up to ten Tiles. And if your lost object—a dog, for example, or a stolen bike—go out of your own phone’s 150-foot Bluetooth range, you can set it as a “lost item”. If any of the phones with the Tile app comes within range of your lost item, a message will be sent to your phone, telling you its position. The Tile app also has the function to remember where it last saw your Tile, so that you can easily find where you left it.
Since the Tiles use Bluetooth rather than GPS, they are never out of battery or needn’t to be charged, and they work for one year before needing to be replaced. And the app works with all generations of iPhones and iPads.
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1.What can the Tile app help you ?
A. To use your phone more wisely
B. To find your missing items
C. To save your phone’s power
D. To find other phone users
2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The Tile needs to be charged after a year of use.
B. One smart phone can only be linked up with one Tile.
C. A missing item can’t be found if it goes out of your phone’s Bluetooth range.
D. The Tile cannot be linked up with a phone without Bluetooth.
3.What does the second paragraph mainly tell us?
A. What the Tile app is.
B. The advantages of the Tile app.
C. How the Tile app works.
D. Why the Tile app was created.
4.Where does the passage probably come from?
A. A health report. B. An advertisement.
C. A personal diary D. Science fiction.
How to Be a successful person
Gary Hall Jr
Winner of 5 Olympic Gold Medals
“In 1997 I was found to have developed diabetes(糖尿病) . Believing my career was over, I felt extremely low. Then one of the specialists said there was no reason why I should stop training and competing. That was it—the encouragement I needed. I could still be a winner if I believe in myself. I am not saying that it isn’t difficult sometimes. But I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn’t finished yet. Nothing is to stand in my way.”
Karen Pickering
Swimming World Champion
“I swim 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. I manage that sort of workload by putting it on top of my diary. This is the key to success—you can’t follow a career in any field without being well-organized. List what you believe you can achieve. Trust yourself, write down your goals for the day, however small they are, and you’ll be a step closer to achieving them.”
Kirsten Best
Poet & Writer
“When things are getting hard, a voice inside my head tells me that I can’t achieve something. Then, there are other distractions, such as family or hobbies. The key is to concentrate. When I feel tense, it helps a lot to repeat words such as ‘calm’, ‘peace’ or ‘focus’, either out loud or silently in my mind. It makes me feel more in control and increases my confidence. This is a habit that can become second nature quite easily and is a powerful psychological tool.”
1.What does Gary Hall Jr. mainly talk about?
A. He overcame the shadow of illness to win.
B. Specialists offered him medical advice.
C. Training helped him defeat his disease.
D. Difficulties influenced his career.
2.What does Karen Pickering put on top of her diary?
A. Her achievements B. Her daily happenings
C. Her sports career D. Her training schedule
3.What does the underlined word “distractions” probably refer to?
A. Ways that help one to focus.
B. Words that help one to feel less tense.
C. Activities that turn one’s attention away.
D. Habits that make it hard for one to relax.
4.According to the passage, what do the three people have in common?
A. Courage B. Devotion
C. Self-confidence D. Hard work.
Many young students consider their friends as the most important people in their lives. They believe that their family members, especially their parents, don’t know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for advice. It is very important for young students to have one good friend or many friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone. This communication is very important in children’s growing up, because friends can discuss something difficult to say to their family members.
However, parents often try to choose friends for their children. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. The question of “choice” is an interesting one.
Have you ever thought of the following questions?
Who chooses your friends?
Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?
Have you got a good friend your parents don’t like?
1.Many young students think their _________ know them better than their parents do.
A. teachers B. friends
C. brothers and sisters D. classmates
2.When young students stay alone, the usual way of communication is to _________.
A. talk with their friends on the phone
B. talk with their parents
C. have a discussion with their family
D. go to their friends
3.Which of the following sentences is TRUE?
A. In all families, children can choose everything they like.
B. Parents should like everything their children enjoy.
C. Parents should try their best to understand their children better.
D. young students can only go to their friends for help.
4.The main idea of this passage is that _________.
A. Good friends can communicate with each other
B. Friends can give good advice
C. Parents often choose friends for their children
D. young students need good friends
My friend Jim was a well-known radio host, who worked at a radio station all his life. All his colleagues knew him about one characteristic: If he’s on-air, he is always wearing a suit and a tie. They laughed at him, saying, “No one ever sees you. Why do you dress like that?” But he always turned that into a joke.
One day Jim was invited to appear on the TV. There was a show for the oldest radio employees. For the first time his fans, who only knew Jim by his voice, would see him. Before the recording of the show, the director came to Jim and asked, “Usually you arrive on time, but today you are 10 minutes late. It’s not terrible, but I still want to know why.”
“You see,” Jim answered, “at the last moment when I was already dressed up, I noticed that I didn't have new socks. For the first time I was invited to the television, and I thought that simply wearing clean socks was not enough. So I needed to go to the store for new socks.”
The director was surprised. He asked, “Why do you need new socks? You could have come without the socks because we will be filming you only over the waist.”
“ You see, to be perfect, I need to feel myself perfect in everything, starting with the shirt and finishing with the pen in my pocket,” Jim said. “And if my socks have holes in them or my shoes are dirty, I’m not spotless anymore. And it may make me less confident.”
1.From Para. 1 we can learn that when Jim is on-air, he______.
A. likes telling jokes
B. behaves strangely
C. always wears the same clothes
D. is careful about his dress
2.Jim was late for the TV show because______.
A. he went to buy new socks
B. he didn’t like to be filmed
C. he had to clean his clothes
D. he was too nervous
3.For Jim, being perfect in everything ______.
A. brings him success
B. makes him popular
C. gives him confidence
D. is difficult but necessary
