sadness-闲适
（一）
巧用文章信息及逻辑关系
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I took up
skydiving in my twenties. At the time the accident
happened, I'd done just 30 jumps. The
airfield was quiet when I __1__. On
board were Chris, who was taking a tourist, and
Ants, the cameraman.
Chris indicated I
should exit first and the other three would __2__.
Later I knew it was this __3__ that saved
my life.
At
12,000 feet Chris rolled up the door and nodded
that it was time for my exit. I put my foot on a
step
just beside the door, and in an
instant the propeller blast
(
螺旋桨气流
) threw me against the
side of the plane,
half in, half out. I
pushed and got my other leg out of the door, but
in doing so I found myself __4__ the body
of
the
plane
towards
the
tail.
My
parachute
(
降落伞
)
got
caught
and
my
__5__
and
legs
were
pushed
backwards, powerless, in the strong
wind.
I was strangely __6__.
To a skydiver, being at 12, 000 feet is a good
thing. Altitude is your friend; being
close to the ground is deadly and will
kill you.
Ants appeared and
moved slowly towards me, his legs held by Chris in
the door. Ants reached out and
got hold
of my foot. With the weight partly off, I found
myself falling away from the plane, __7__ freed. I
waved and smiled to indicate I was
fine.
It was actually very
__8__. If any one of a number of factors had been
different, I would have __9__. I
could
have hit the plane with my head. If I had been the
last to exit, the pilot alone would have been
unable
to free me, and even if he had
been aware that I was __10__ underneath the plane,
he would still have had to
land at some
point.
Blue
Skies,
Black
Death
is
the
skydivers'
mantra(
咒语
).
On
the
one
hand,
there's
the
freedom
and
__11__ of the open sky. But in order to
__12__ this joy, you must accept that there is
usually only one result
if something
goes wrong.
1. A.
jumped
2. A. follow
3. A. trouble
B. arrived
B. escape
B.
effort
C. woke
C. leave
C. chance
D. drove
D.
fly
D. decision
4. A. sliding down
B. knocking
over
C. crashing into
D. breaking
down
5. A. body
B.
arms
B.
anxious
C. head
D.
fingers
D. calm
D. finally
D.
serious
D.
returned
D.
connected
6. A. frightened
7.
A. really
8. A. funny
9. A. died
C. excited
C. certainly
C. clear
B.
hopefully
B.
ordinary
B.
laughed
B.
adjusted
C. stopped
C. attached
10.
A. covered
11. A. pride
B.
confidence
B.
experience
C.
excitement
D. willingness
C.
imagine
1
12. A. observe
D. discover
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8
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I was
driving home from a meeting this freezing evening
at about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd,
and my car started to choke and then
died.
I barely managed to
walk into a gas station, hoping that I would not
be blocking traffic and would have
a
somewhat __1__ spot to wait for the tow truck
(
拖车
). Before I could make
the __2__ , I saw a woman
walking out
of the “quickie mart” building, and it looked like
she __3__ on some ice and fell onto a gas pump!
So I got out to see if she was okay.
When I got there, it looked more like she had been
overcome by sobs than
that she had
__4__. She was a young woman who looked really
worn out with __5__ circles under her eyes.
I asked her if she was okay
and if she needed help, and she just kept saying
“
I don't want my kids to
see me
__6__
，
”
so we
stood on the other side of the pump from her car.
She said she was __7__ to California
and that things were extremely __8__
for her right now.
So, I
asked,
“
And you were
praying
？”
That made her back
away from me a little, but I __9__ her I
was not a crazy person and said, “He
heard you, and He sent me.”
I took out my __10__ and swiped it
through the card reader on the pump so she could
__11__ her car
completely. Then I
hurried to the next door McDonald's and bought two
big bags of food. She gave the food
to
the
__12__ in the car who
attacked it like wolves, and we stood by the pump
eating fries and talking a
little.
1. A.
warm
B. safe
C. empty
C. bills
D.
large
D. call
D. walked
D.
imagined
D.
frozen
D. crying
D. walking
D.
tight
D.
convinced
D. car
D. get over
D.
boys
2. A. preparations
3. A. stepped
B.
decision
B.
slipped
C.
waited
C. fallen
C.
colorful
C. walking
C. driving
C. sharp
C. showed
C.
card
4. A. expected
5.
A. bright
6. A. talking
7. A. flying
8. A. rough
B.
estimated
B.
dark
B. falling
B.
hurrying
B.
typical
9. A.
astonished
10. A. money
B. approved
B. food
B. fill up
11. A. start
out
12. A. kids
C. pull up
C. husband
B.
passers?by
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8
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After a
hard struggle, I was accepted by a university.
Taking pride in myself, I
felt as though I had a
__1__
in social
status, just like Napoleon, who claimed in
vanity(
自负
) after he climbed
up the Alps, “I'm
even higher than the
Alps”
．
As a
consequence,
the whole
family considered me as a bright moon outshining
the dim stars around,
I was allowed to
have my own
__2__
in everything. And soon I
got used to squandering (
挥霍
)
money
at university, I drank, __3__
and went to dance. In other
words
，
I could enjoy milk and
bread at __4__
.
The family was reunited in the
vacation. __5__
had I sat
down when I took out a package of cigarettes.
Of course I asked Dad to
__6__
one out first. He was a
“cigarette addict”. Although he had announced
hundreds of times that he would give up
smoking, he never
__7__
his
promise. When I was admitted
to the
university, he said, smiling, “I will stop
smoking”. Well, I knew he
__8__
to save
for my tuition,
but it was just another
“rubber check”
，
I
__9__
secretly.
However, I was mistaken this time. With
a smile, Dad said, “It is three months since I
stopped smoking.”
I was dumbfounded and
__10__
at him with astonishment.
His face had become thinner. There were
more wrinkles on his forehead than I
had
__11__.Tears were about
to rush out of my eyes, but I had to keep
them back because Dad might be
__12__. Hard as our life
was, Dad never shed tears. I am determined to
stop smoking.
1.
A. raise
B. situation
C. rise
D.
fall
2. A. order
B. behavior
C. way
C.
smoked
C. present
C.
Little
C.
let
D.
idea
D. suffered
D. ease
D.
Just
D. pick
D. showed
D.
started
D.
recognized
D.
laughed
3. A. picnicked
B. cheated
4.
A. length
5.
A. Hardly
6.
A. hold
B.
once
B. Only
B. hand
B.
kept
7. A. broke
8. A. failed
9. A. understood
10.
A. shouted
11. A. expected
12. A. angered
C.
made
C. meant
C. moved
C. stared
B.
stopped
B. thought
B. wondered
B. imagined
B. panicked
C. appeared
D. judged
C.
worried
D.
confused
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（二）词语知识考查
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(
原创
)Rodd was
chosen to go and see Santa Claus himself up at the
North Pole. Everything he __1__
was
never in his wildest dreams and he excitedly
waited to see that loveable __2__ figure who had
spent so
many years bringing him gifts
every Christmas.
Suddenly,
Santa Claus appeared, and the large desk became
covered with all the __3__ he had ever
wanted. How
__4__
！
Rodd went
over to the bicycle he had __5__ dreamed of
having. But Santa was only
there for a
few seconds and disappeared before Rodd had even
looked at him. Rodd felt like he'd __6__ his
great good fortune. He cried and
complained.
From that day
on, every time Rodd saw a toy, he would instantly
look around to see what else of __7__
he was missing. And in this way he came
to see the sad eyes of the lonely, the __8__ of
children whose
greatest gift would be a
piece of bread, or the suffering of others who had
gone for years without __9__ “I
love
you”. And, unlike that night at the North Pole,
when he hadn't known how to choose, Rodd learned
to
help those who had nothing, give
love to those who almost never received it, and
put __10__ on the faces of
the
unhappy.
All by himself, he
managed to change the atmosphere of his town, and
no one could know him without
being
__11__ to him. And, one Christmas, while he was
__12__
，
he felt
someone touching his leg. Rodd
opened
his eyes and saw the long white beard and the soft
red suit.
1. A. came
across
B. came through
2. A. white
3. A. bread
B. red
C. got across
C. black
C. toys
D. got through
D.
blue
D. bicycles
D. exciting
D.
never
D. spent
D. usage
D.
poverty
D.
reading
D. glare
D. satisfied
D.
laughing
B.
fortune
4. A. annoying
5.
A. still
6. A. wasted
7. A. interest
8. A. coldness
B. frightening
B. always
B. passed
C. surprising
C. ever
C. lacked
C. importance
C. happiness
C. hearing
C. doubt
B.
necessity
B.
excitement
9.
A. understanding
B. speaking
10.
A. smiles
B. tears
B. grateful
B.
sleeping
11. A. cheerful
12.
A. walking
C. delighted
C.
playing
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