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语篇专练
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阅读理解
A
An elderly
carpenter was ready to told his
employer
，
a
contractor
，
of his plans to
leave
the
house-
building
business
and
live
a
more
leisurely
life
with
his
wife
enjoying
his
extended would miss the
paycheck
，
but he needed to
could get by.
The contractor was sorry
to see his good worker go and asked if he could
build just one more
house as a personal
carpenter said yes
，
but in
time it was easy to see that his heart was
not
in
his
resorted
to
shoddy
workmanship
and
used
inferior
was
an
unfortunate way to end his career.
When
the
carpenter
finished
his
work
and
the
builder
came
to
inspect
the
house
，
the
contractor handed the
front-
door key to the
carpenter.
“
This is your
house
，”
he
said
，“
my gift
to
you.
”
What a shock! What a
shame! If he had only known he was building his
own house
，
he
would have done it all so he had to
live in the home he had built none too well.
So it is with build our lives in a
distracted way
，
reacting
rather than acting
，
willing
to
put up less than the important
points we do not give the job our best with a
shock we look at the situation we have
created and find that we are now living in the
house we
have we had realized that we
would have done it differently.
Think
of yourself as the about your day you hammer a
nail
，
place
a
board
，
or erect a is the
only life you will ever if you live it for
only one more
day
，
that day deserves to be
lived graciously and with plaque on the
wall
says
，“
Life
is
a
do-
it-
yourself
project.
”
Your
life
tomorrow
will
be
the
result
of
your
attitudes and the
choices you make today.
1
．
What did the
carpenter plan to do after retirement?
A
．
Enjoy family
happiness.
B
．
Switch to
another field.
C
．
Start his own
business.
D
．
Build
a house of his own.
答案
A
解析
细节理解题。
根据第一段第二句
“He
told his employer
，
a
contractor
，
of his plans to
leave
the
house-
building
business
and
live
a
more
leisurely
life
with
his
wife
enjoying
his
extended
family.”
可知答案。
2
．
How did the
contractor plan to deal with the house he asked
the carpenter to build?
A
．
He planned to
sell it to one of his customers.
B
．
He planned to
send it to the carpenter as a gift.
C
．
He planned to
fill it with his favorites.
D
．
He planned to
send it to his partner.
答案
B
解析
细节理解题。根据第三段中的
“the
contractor
handed
the
front?door
key
to
the
carpenter.‘This is your
house
，
’ he
said
，
‘my gift to
you.’”
可知答案。
3
．
What can we
know about the last house the carpenter built?
A
．
It was of low
quality.
B
．
It did
not satisfy the contractor.
C
．
It was perfect
in workmanship and materials.
D
．
It was the best
of all the houses he had built.
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。根据第二段最后两句和第三段最后两句可知答案。
4
．
What does the
story intend to tell us?
A
．
We should focus
on the future life.
B
．
We should react
to life rather than act.
C
．
We should build
our houses in life.
D
．
We should
always do our best.
答案
D
解析
主
旨大意题。
根据本文的故事可知，
这个木匠一生都干活很认真，
在退休前的最后一
次却偷工减料，但这却是老板送给他的退休礼
物。这说明了一个人必须一直尽力做事。
B
Two mayors made
a bet on the outcome of the Vegetable
Bowl
，
the annual football
game
between
their
high
school
Arvada
’
s
team
lost
，
the
mayor
of
Arvada
would
send
the
mayor of Boulder ten pounds of sliced
potatoes
，
ready for
Boulder
’
s team
lost
，
the
mayor
would send ten pounds of sliced
tomatoes
，
ready for
sandwiches or salads.
Unfortunately
，
before the game
started
，
the mayor of Boulder
happened to hear the Arvada
mayor tell
someone:
“
They grow the
worst they lose and send us their tomatoes
，
I
’
m going to
give them all to my pig.
”
The mayor of Boulder was upset to hear
this
，
because he
thought Boulder
’
s
tomatoes were the best in the he gave the matter
some thought.
The following
week
，
the big game was r lost
its star quarterback in the first
half
when he tripped(
绊倒
) over a
cheerleader and hurt his big quarterback sadly
watched
the
rest
of
the
game
from
the
team
ended
up
losing,38
to
two mayors
shook
hands
after
the
game
，
and
the
Arvada
mayor
said
，“
I
’
m
really
looking
forward
to
those
tomatoes.
”
As
the
Boulder
team
left
the
stadium
，
some
unhappy
fans
threw
ripe
tomatoes
at
them.
A week later
，
the
mayor of Arvada received a package of beautifully
sliced took
them straight to his
pig
，
which ate them right
night the mayor of Boulder asked his wife if
Arvada
’
s mayor
had called.
“
No
，”<
/p>
she said.
“
Why
？”
“
Because I mixed a
pint(
品脱
) of
hot
sauce into the tomatoes and I wanted to know how
his pig
’
s
doing.
”
5
．
The underlined
word
“
They
”
in the second paragraph refers to
.
A
．
the mayor of
Arvada
B
．
the
mayor of Boulder
C
．
people in
Arvada
D
．
people
in Boulder
答案
D
解析
代词指代题。根据第一段最后一句
“If
Boulder’s
team
last
，
the
mayor
would
send
ten
pounds of sliced
tomatoes...”
及下文
“...he
thought Boulder’s tomatoes were the best...”
可知选
D
项。
6
．
Which of the
following statements is TRUE according to this
reading passage?
A
．
The mayor of
Arvada won the bet and got ten pounds of sliced
tomatoes from Boulder.
B
．
The star
quarterback on the Boulder
’
s
team was hurt by someone from Arvada.
C
．
A quarterback
was not a team member.
D
．
If his team
lost the game
，
the mayor of
Boulder would eat up ten pounds of sliced
potatoes.
答案
A
解析
细节理解题。由第三段及第四段
第一句可知
A
项正确。
7
．
How do you
think the pig was doing after it ate all the
sliced tomatoes?
A
．
The pig was
going to die from food poisoning.
B
．
The pig was not
doing quite well.
C
．
The pig would
have some trouble with its teeth.
D
．
The pig seemed
quite all right.
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。根据文中的
“Because I mixed
a pint(
品脱
) of hot sauce into
the tomatoes
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