The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.―Thomas MacaulaySome thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs. Nanette O’Neil gave an arithmetic(算術(shù))  ___ 36 ___  to our class. When the papers were  ___ 37 ___  she discovered that twelve boys had made the same mistakes throughout the test.

  There is really nothing new about  ___38___  in the exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs. O’Neill  ___39___  even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to  ___40___  after class. I was one of the twelve. Mrs. O’Neill asked  ___41___  questions, and she didn’t  ___42___  us either. Macaulay, she wrote on the blackboard the  ___43___  words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to  ___44___  these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.

  I don’t  ___45___  about the other eleven boys. Speaking for myself I can say: it was the most important single  ___46___  of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay’s words, they  ___47___  seem to me the best yard-stick(準(zhǔn)繩), because they give us a  ___48___  to measure ourselves rather than others. ___49___  of us are asked to make  ___50___  decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called  ___51___  daily to make a great many personal decisions.  ___52___  the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket or turned over to the policeman? Should the  ___53___  change received at the store be forgotten or  ___54___? Nobody will know except ___55___. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always better to live with someone you respect.

 

36. A. test  

B. problem

C. paper

D. lesson

37. A. examined

B. completed  

C. marked  

D. answered

38. A. lying  

B. cheating  

C. guessing

D. discussing

39. A. didn’t  

B. did

C. would  

D. wouldn’t

40. A. come

B. leave

C. remain

D. apologize

41. A. no

B. certain

C. many  

D. more

42. A. excuse

B. reject

C. help

D. scold

43. A. above  

B. common

C. following  

D. unusual

44. A. repeat  

B. get

C. put

D. copy

45. A. worry  

B. know

C. hear

D. talk

46. A. chance  

B. incident  

C. lesson

D. memory

47. A. even

B. still

C. always

D. almost

48. A. way

B. sentence

C. choice

D. reason

49. A. All

B. Few

C. Some

D. None

50. A. quick

B. wise

C. great

D. personal

51. A. out

B. for  

C. up

D. upon

52. A. Should

B. Must

C. Would

D. Need

53. A. extra  

B. small

C. some

D. necessary

54. A. paid  

B. remembered

C. shared

D. returned

55. A. me  

B. you

C. us

D. then

36. A

解析：選項(xiàng)B和C與下一句中 papers在數(shù)上不一致，選項(xiàng) D不合文意。根據(jù)文意及 papers 、test 兩詞的提示可決定選A，表示一次算數(shù)測(cè)驗(yàn)。

37.C

解析：that從句所表示的情況只有在評(píng)卷時(shí)才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)，故選C. paper作為可數(shù)名詞可表示“試卷”，mark the papers意為“評(píng)卷”， answer the papers 意為“答卷”，complete the papers意為“答完試卷”,examine與the papers不能搭配。

38.B

解析： 下一句末尾的it指的就是本題要填的詞，而這個(gè)詞所表示的事情顯然與這十二位男生有關(guān)。從上文已知道這十二位男生在考試中所出的錯(cuò)誤完全一樣，那么這是件什么性質(zhì)的事情呢？顯然是“作弊行為”，根據(jù)詞義，應(yīng)選B。本句的意思是：“考試中的作弊確實(shí)沒有什么新招�！�

39.A

解析：正因?yàn)镸rs O’Neill了解學(xué)生一般怎樣在考試中作弊的，所以她對(duì)此什么話也沒說。根據(jù)文意及下一句中的only可以決定本題應(yīng)用否定形式。這里強(qiáng)調(diào)的是一個(gè)事實(shí)而不是一個(gè)意愿，故選A，而不選D。

40.C

解析：下一段是包括作者在內(nèi)的十二位同學(xué)課后留下來(lái)的情況，故選C。文中沒有apologize

的內(nèi)容，故應(yīng)排除D。

41.A

解析：第二分句的either一般用于否定一個(gè)情況后又否定一個(gè)情況的場(chǎng)合，因此，本題必須用否定詞。四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中只有A適合。

42.D

解析：首先排除B、C兩項(xiàng)。表示“原諒”時(shí)excuse常與me連用，excuse me表示“對(duì)不起”、“請(qǐng)?jiān)彙�，作為客套語(yǔ)，常用于要走開、詢問、插話、表示異議等場(chǎng)合。表示這一意思時(shí)，excuse通常不用與句中與其他人稱代詞連用，故排除A。scold符合句意，故選D，句意是：“既沒問問題，也沒有訓(xùn)斥”。

43.A

解析：Thomas Macaulay的名言已出現(xiàn)在本文的開頭,故選A。above作定語(yǔ)是可位于被修飾名詞的前面，也可位于后，The above words = the words above意為“以上的話”。

44.D

解析：A、B、C三項(xiàng)中的動(dòng)詞都不能使麥考萊的話進(jìn)入練習(xí)本，只有copy這一動(dòng)作得以完成，

故選D。指語(yǔ)言時(shí)，repeat通常指口頭重復(fù)。麥考萊這句名言的意思是：“衡量一個(gè)人的真

正為人，要看他在知道永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)被人發(fā)現(xiàn)的情況下做些什么�！�

45.B

解析：下文所述內(nèi)容主要是作者學(xué)習(xí)了麥考萊這句名言以后的感受及對(duì)他以后性格的影響，

但至于另十一位同學(xué)的感受，作者不了解，故選B。

46．C

解析：指自己日后受益匪淺的“教訓(xùn)”，incident與句子主語(yǔ)it一致，指這件事，但incident一詞沒有反映出下文作者所敘述的思想變化，故應(yīng)排除。A、D兩項(xiàng)與文意不符。47．B 雖然時(shí)隔三十年，時(shí)間那么長(zhǎng)久，但麥考萊的名言對(duì)于作者來(lái)說仍然是記憶猶新，是生活準(zhǔn)繩，選B。本題用still與前面的Thirty years構(gòu)成時(shí)間上的對(duì)比。

48．A

解析：這里是指衡量自己的一種方法，故選A。

49．B

解析：根據(jù)下一句But all of us，這里應(yīng)用否定詞，故排除A、C。我們當(dāng)中總要有人作出象國(guó)家是否參加戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)、軍隊(duì)是否去打仗這樣的重大決定，但做出這樣重大決定的人畢竟為數(shù)不多，故排除D而選B。

50.C

解析：這樣的決定當(dāng)然是重大決定，故選C。

51．D

解析：call on sb. to do sth.表示“要求某人做某事”。call sb. out意為“把某人叫出去”，call sb. up意為“給某人打電話”，兩者雖然能接不定式，但不符合語(yǔ)境。call for sb.雖也有“要求某人”之意，但不能接不定式。   

52．A

解析：下一問句已有提示。A項(xiàng)表示“應(yīng)該或不應(yīng)該做某事”。  

53．A

解析：change在這里作“零錢”解。把這一題和余下一題結(jié)合起來(lái)理解，不難選出extra與returned這兩詞相符答案，本題選A。

54．D

解析：多余的找頭應(yīng)該歸還，故選D。   

55．B

解析：根據(jù)下一句中的主語(yǔ)，這里應(yīng)選B。意思是 ：“這樣的事只有你知道”。這里的you是泛指，指任何人。 
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