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。
Richard's father died when he was five. Later on he lost his mother. An old woman felt sorry for the poor boy and often helped him. Of course he had no money to go to school. He had to work for a rich farmer. The man paid him nothing except food and clothes. 1. He found some old books near the school and taught himself to read and write.
2. It connected the village and the town. One morning people found there was a big stone on it. It stopped them from going to town. They had to move it away, or they had to cross the mountain if they had something to do in the town. But the stone weighed thirty tons at least and the strongest young men couldn't do that. 3.
Richard looked at it carefully for a while and said, “I have a way to move it away.” But few men believed him. 4. Night fell and people went home. Only the boy stayed there.
To their surprise, the villagers found the stone was gone the next morning. They didn't know which spirit had moved it away. 5.
“How could he ？” the rich farmer called out. “He's only fifteen! He couldn't move it at all！”
“He dug a big hole beside the stone” , said the old woman, “And then he could easily pull it into the hole！”
Looking at each other, the farmers couldn't say a word.
A. There seemed to be nothing strange in the village.
B. The old woman said Richard had done it all.
C. There was a narrow path between two mountains.
D. But the boy didn't lose heart.
E. Some farmers even laughed at the boy.
F. The boy hoped he could do something for the villagers some day.
G. They discussed for a long time, but nobody knew what to do.
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
An American woman Anna Jarvis was the first person to decide the mothers should have a holiday in their honor each year. Miss Jarvis started her campaign in 1906 in her home city Philadelphia. She wrote thousands of letters to congressmen(国会议员), city officials, teachers and newspaper publishers, proposing an official holiday for mothers. She traveled all over America, trying to get support for the idea. Her battle went on for years.
In 1914, the Congress declared the second Sunday in May each year as Mother's Day. Anna Jarvis wanted Mother's Day to be a simple event. She thought children could honor their mothers by spending some time with them as an act of love and respect. However, the holiday turned out to be a major event for department stores, flower shops and greetingcard industry, which Miss Jarvis didn't like.
Americans spend millions of dollars on gifts for their mothers on this day. Younger children often try to prepare and serve breakfast for their mothers. Fathers may offer to take care of children so that mothers can enjoy themselves. The holiday becomes an important time for family gathering.
1.What can be inferred from the text is that ________.
A. the Congress didn't accept Anna's suggestion until the whole country supported her
B. the battle lasted 8 years
C. Jarvis didn't enjoy the usual way Americans spend Mother's Day
D. Mother's Day is an important day for Americans
2.Miss Jarvis proposed Mother's Day in order that people could show their love and respect to their mothers ________.
A. by spending some time with them
B. by offering them precious gifts
C. by eating in restaurants together
D. by taking children for them
3.On Mother's Day ________.
A. all women, young and old, receive gifts
B. families gather together
C. all people stay at home
D. no one goes to work
4.Miss Jarvis proposed Mother's Day, but she didn't like ________.
A. flower shops selling flowers
B. department stores earning money from greetingcards
C. greetingcard industry
D. the way people spend Mother's Day
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
It all started when my sister was invited to speak at a threeday conference in Budapest. Mom and I thought we would join her because she was not able to take her husband or daughter. After all, how often does a trip to Budapest come along? We began planning a week long trip to Budapest. It was the first visit to Europe for all three of us, and there was so much we wanted to see that we couldn't narrow our base destinations down any further than Venice, Budapest, Rome, Sorrento and Florence.
We immediately applied for passports. We looked over maps and through books trying to decide exactly where to stay. I spent hours and days researching hotels, transportation, museums. We waited and waited to book tickets so we had a starting point on our dates. Finally everything fell into place and we decided our plans. The excitement continued to build day by day.
I researched packing tips online and my list of necessities grew. Mom and I compared notes for weeks trying to decide what to wear, what to bring, what to buy ... in the end, however, we just chose whatever was comfortable and to be honest, mainly wore the same couple of clothes day after day, washing them in the hotel as necessary. The only good clothes we took were for the ballet in Budapest. And thank goodness for that — I can't imagine lugging (携带) a larger suitcase on and off during the journey to Florence, and some other places.
The big day arrived and with bags packed and repacked, it was off to the airport for our first European adventure!
1.The first paragraph mainly tells the readers ________.
A. the author's sister would attend a conference in Budapest
B. how the author planned their trip to Budapest
C. where the author's family would go to travel
D. the author and her mom and sister would visit Europe
2.The author planned to ________ in Budapest.
A. watch a ballet
B. buy some good clothes
C. attend the conference
D. visit her sister
3.They made the following preparations for the travel EXCEPT that they ________.
A. applied for passports
B. booked hotels online
C. searched for advice on travel online
D. wrote down what they would carry along
4.We can learn from the text that ________.
A. they would carry a larger suitcase during the journey
B. the author's sister lived in some European country then
C. they would certainly visit Venice, Budapest, Rome, Sorrento and Florence
D. the preparation for the journey cost them hours
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
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 halfwritten 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, on 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_secondhand_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.
1.Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?
A. She enjoyed removing others' drinks.
B. She became more and more forgetful.
C. She preferred to do everything by herself.
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 ________.
A. she had already finished them
B. my mother had taken them away
C. she forgot where she had left them
D. someone in my family was holding them
3.The underlined part in the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister ________.
A. is happy to clean windows
B. loves to clean used windows
C. is fond of cleaning used windows
D. likes cleaning windows as my mother did
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
Long, long ago, there were a lot of donkeys. The donkeys worked hard every day. They had no time to play or to relax, but they never felt appreciated for the work they did.
One day two donkeys got bored. They wanted to live a comfortable life. So the donkeys went to see a wise old man. They told him their problem. The wise old man agreed that they worked too hard, and he wanted to help the donkeys. “I have an idea，” he said.
“What is your idea？” asked the donkeys.
“I will paint you and no one will know you are donkeys，” said the man.
The man went off to find some paint and he returned in just a few minutes. He had two pots of paint. One pot was filled with white paint, and the other black paint.
The old man first painted them white, and then painted black stripes (条纹) over the white paint. When he finished, the donkeys did not look at all like donkeys. “You no longer look like donkeys，” the old man said. “Everyone will be fooled. I will call you something else, zebras.”
The zebras went to a field to eat grass. Now they did not have to work.
Soon, other donkeys saw the zebras. They asked the zebras where they came from. When the zebras told the donkeys their secret, the donkeys all rushed to see the old man.
“Make us into zebras, too，” they pleaded. So the wise old man painted more donkeys. As he did, more and more donkeys came.
The old man could not paint fast enough. Soon the donkeys became impatient. They began to kick about, and they knocked over the paint pots.
There was no more paint. The painted donkeys ran off to become zebras. The unpainted donkeys, because of their impatience, had to return to work.
This is why it is important to be patient.
1.The two donkeys went to see a wise old man in order to ________.
A. tell him their problem B. ask him for help
C. change into zebras D. get some grass
2.When the two donkeys returned, why didn't they have to work?
A. Because they didn't eat enough grass.
B. Because they didn't want to work.
C. Because no one knew they were donkeys.
D. Because they were no longer donkeys.
3.What does the underlined word “pleaded” mean?
A. Advised. B. Ordered.
C. Agreed. D. Begged.
4.Many donkeys were not painted by the old man because ________.
A. no more paint was left
B. all the paint was used up
C. they couldn't wait any longer
D. he was too tired to paint
现在，很多中学生每天长时间用耳机听音乐、学英语。你的英语笔友李平也是如此。最近他在来信中提到感觉头痛、注意力不集中、记忆力减退。请你就此回信谈谈你的观点和建议。
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2．分析过度使用耳机的危害；（至少两点）
3．提出你的建议。(至少两条)
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过度使用耳机overuse earphone; 注意力不集中less concentration; 记忆力减退bad memory
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