Ron loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the following year. As Ron was walking to the game, a car hit him so hard that he was thrown three feet into the air. Ron woke up in a hospital room. When he learned that both his legs were broken, he realized his college basketball dreams were over. Ron did what the doctors told him, but his progress was slow. When he left the hospital, Ron was sent to a health center for physical treatment. A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny. Sunny was a coach.His legs were hurt paralysed(癱瘓的) from a skiing accident. Even though he couldn't move his legs, Sunny coached of a basketball team called the Suns. Everybody on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited Tony to join the game. Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself. After becoming a part of the Suns, Ron improved quickly. Basketball was like medicine for him. And whenever Ron became depressed or angry, Sunny was there to encourage and help him. The day before Ron left the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he managed to be generous and cheerful, even with his paralysis. Sunny smiled and said, “It’s really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadows(陰影) fall behind.” 【小題1】What happened to Ron on his way to a basketball game?
A.A car hit him.
B.He met his coach.
C.His doctor called him.
D.He fell down and cut his foot.
【小題2】The underlined word “depressed” means ___ in Chinese.
A.懶惰的
B.好奇的
C.沮喪的
D.激動(dòng)的
【小題3】What is the most important thing we can learn from the story?
Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses (吻). So, I really doubt (懷疑) whether (是否) there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to make money to pay the schooling for me. They don’t act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV, and sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even impossible. One day, my mother was sewing a quilt (被子). I asked her if there was love between them. She stopped her work and looked up with surprise. Then she bowed (彎下) her head and continued sewing the quilt. I was very worried because I thought I hurt her. But after a few minutes she said, “Look at this thread (線). Sometimes it appears, but most of the time it disappears in the quilt. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly (幾乎不) be seen anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there, and makes the quilt long-lasting.” I listened carefully but I couldn’t understand her until the next spring. My mother suddenly got sick seriously and had to stay in the hospital for a one-month treatment. Every morning and dusk (黃昏) after she returned from the hospital, my father helped my mother walk slowly on the country road. There were many beautiful flowers, green grass and trees, and the sun gently shone them through the leaves. All of these made up the most beautiful picture in the world. Reading their eyes, I knew they loved each other deeply. From this experience, I realized that love was just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm. 【小題1】The writer thought his parents’ life was not .
A.romantic
B.great
C.meaningful
D.true
【小題2】Valentine’s Day may be a day for .
A.parents
B.lovers
C.classmates
D.friends
【小題3】What do the sentences in the third paragraph show?
A.There is beautiful scenery (風(fēng)景) everywhere in the world.
B.There is true life anywhere in the world.
C.There is no love without beautiful flowers.
D.There is really love between the writer’s parents.
【小題4】What is the best title of this passage?
A.Love should appear every day.
B.Love means flowers.
C.Love is just the thread of a quilt.
D.True love.
【小題5】The writer did not understand their parents’ love until________.
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容和所給中文提示,寫出空白處各單詞的正確形式。每空限填一詞。 Thank you for joining in CCTV’s Around the World show. Today, we are in a famous park in 56__________(法國). It’s winter now. it’s cold, but 57_________(晴朗的). There are many people here. Some boys are 58_________(躺) on the 59____________(草地). Look at this group of girls. They are 60____________ (穿)red clothes, and they are reading under a tree. Oh! There are some 61_______ (年輕的)foreigners in the park. They are taking photos with their 62_______(相機(jī)). They think it’s really 63__________(放松的). This is a 64_________ (相當(dāng))interesting place. 65___________(每個(gè)人) is having a good time.
How would we travel without maps? It would be
a bit adventurous (冒險(xiǎn)的) to
set off from Oxford University to go to London Bridge if there wasn't a map of
the London Underground at each station. In fact, a lot of the early map-makers
were adventurers and explorers, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries.
So what did people do
before there were maps? Well, it was quite easy to use natural signs like
mountains and rivers if you were travelling on foot or riding a horse. People took
small boats down rivers and followed coastlines. And it was much more logical (合理的) to use time, not distance, to
measure (計(jì)量) journeys: the next village is a three-hour
ride, for example.
In fact, in the earliest
maps, people didn't draw landmarks. They drew the stars. It was very easy to
see the night sky and use it for navigation (航行). The sky was a lot clearer before the light pollution from
cities that we have today. When towns and cities were built, people drew road
maps which gave correct distances and directions.
The London Underground was
opened in 1863 and it also used a road map style. But a man called Henry Beck
realized that travelling by train wasn't the same as driving your car across
London. Passengers only needed to know which stations to change at. His new
design (設(shè)計(jì)) for the
Underground map wasn't very popular with the train companies at first. But the
passengers loved it and in 1933, 700,000 copies were printed.
These days, of course, you
can ride a bike, drive a car or go through a forest and know where you are
exactly, using a GPS. It's really difficult to get lost!
1.What was drawn in the earliest maps?
A. Stars.
B. Landmarks.
C. Cities and
towns,
D. Mountains and
rivers.
2.When did road maps come out?
A. Around 15th
and 16th centuries.
B. When people
began to travel by train.
C. When people
began to travel by sea.
D. When cities
and towns appeared.
3.Which of the following is true?
A. A GPS helped people to
travel long time ago.
B. Ancient people could
travel on a horse without maps.
C. The sky was polluted by
light before cities were built.
D. Henry Beck's map wasn't
popular with the passengers.
My father is tall and has short gray hair. He wears glasses with heavy black frames(框). Here is a picture of him from 1968. What a surprise! In the picture, he's 15 years old. He's short and he is wearing glasses with small round frames. He has short blond hair and it's really straight. He is wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt with the word "love" on it. I'm 15 years old now. I'm of medium height and I have short hair. My hair isn't blond. It's blue. My father thinks it's strange (奇怪的), but my friends think it's great. I wear glasses, but my glasses have bright red frames. They're so cool! I have an earring (耳環(huán)) in one ear, too. I never wear blue jeans. I' like big baggy pants (袋狀褲) and long T-shirts. Most of my T-shirts have pictures of my favorite rock bands on them.
1.
What kind of glasses is the writer's father wearing in the picture?