Eleven-year-old Angela had something wrong with her nervous system. She was unable to ______. In fact, she could hardly make any ______. Although she believed that she had a______chance of recovering, the doctors said that ______, if any, could come back to normal after getting this disease. Having heard this, the little girl was not ______. There, lying in her hospital bed, she______that no matter what the doctors said, her going back to school was ______.
She was moved to a specialized health center, and whatever method could be tried was used. Still she would not ______. It seemed that she was ______. The doctors were all fond of her and taught her about______that she could make it. Every day Angela would lie there, ______doing her mental exercise.
One day,___ ___she was imagining her legs moving again, it seemed as though a miracle happened: The bed began to _____! “Look, what I’m doing! Look! I can do it! I moved! I moved! "she ______.
Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was ____. More importantly, they were running______safety.
People were crying, and equipment was ____. You see, it was an earthquake. But don’t____that to Angela. She has______that she did it, just as she had never doubted that she would recover. And now only a few years later, she’s back in school. You see, to such a person who can____the earth, such a disease is a small problem, isn’t it?
小題1:
A．seeB．hearC．talkD．walk
小題2:
A．progressB．differenceC．movementD．a(chǎn)chievement
小題3:
A．poorB．goodC．littleD．special
小題4:
A．fewB．a(chǎn)llC．someD．most
小題5:
A．satisfiedB．delightedC．surprisedD．discouraged
小題6:
A．insistedB．sighedC．fearedD．promised
小題7:
A．trueB．doubtfulC．certainD．impossible
小題8:
A．get up B．give upC．turn upD．stand up
小題9:
A．disappointedB．proudC．troubledD．undefeatable
小題10:
A．thinkingB．expectingC．pretendingD．imagining
小題11:
A．sadlyB．madlyC．carefullyD．faithfully
小題12:
A．a(chǎn)sB．sinceC．a(chǎn)fterD．before
小題13:
A．flyB．moveC．rollD．speak
小題14:
A．jumpedB．wonderedC．screamedD．recovered
小題15:
A．frightenedB．pleasedC．a(chǎn)nnoyedD．encouraged
小題16:
A．inB．byC．forD．with
小題17:
A．risingB．fallingC．missingD．gathering
小題18:
A．tellB．doC．giveD．show
小題19:
A．noticedB．supposedC．believedD．discovered
小題20:
A．pushB．shockC．shakeD．save

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:A
小題5:D
小題6:A
小題7:C
小題8:B
小題9:D
小題10:D
小題11:D
小題12:A
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小題14:C
小題15:A
小題16:C
小題17:B
小題18:A
小題19:C
小題20:C

試題分析：11歲的安吉拉患有神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)方面的疾病，著導(dǎo)致她不能行走，連移動幾乎都是不可能的。所有的醫(yī)生都告訴她不可能恢復(fù)，但她始終相信自己能夠重新返校。后來，地震發(fā)生了，安吉拉誤以為自己能活動了。正如安吉拉相信的那樣，她最后回到了學校。
小題1:考查動詞辨析。A看到；B聽到；C談?wù)�；D行走，散步。根據(jù)第二段“she was imagining her legs moving again,”可知，Angela因神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)出現(xiàn)問題而不能行走，故選D。
小題2:考查名詞辨析。A進步；B不同；C運動，移動；D成就。In fact, she could hardly make any ______.實際上，她幾乎不能移動一下，故選C。
小題3:考查形容詞辨析。A可憐的，貧窮的；B好的；C少的，小的；D特殊的。she had a______chance of recovering,她相信自己很有可能會康復(fù)，chance在此意為“可能性”，故選B。
小題4:考查不定代詞。A很少；B所有；C一些；D大多數(shù)。 ______, if any, could come back to normal很少人，如果有的話，能恢復(fù)正常，根據(jù)any可知，前面不是否定，且指人，故選A。
小題5:考查形容詞辨析。A滿意的；B高興的；C驚訝的；D泄氣的。根據(jù)下句“no matter what the doctors said, her going back to school was ____.”可知，她并沒有因醫(yī)生的話而泄氣，故選D。
小題6:考查動詞辨析。A堅持；B嘆氣；C害怕；D承諾。she______that ... her going back to school was ______.她堅持認為自己能重返校園，故選A。
小題7:考查形容詞辨析。A真正的，真實的；B懷疑的；C肯定的；D不可能的。her going back to school was ____.她堅信自己重返校園的信念會成真，故選C。
小題8:考查動詞短語辨析。A起床；B放棄；C調(diào)高，出現(xiàn)；D站起。whatever method could be tried was used. Still she would not ______.能用的方法都嘗試了，然而，她還是不愿放棄，故選B。
小題9:考查形容詞辨析。A失望的；B自豪的；C麻煩的；D不可戰(zhàn)勝的。It seemed that she was ____.Angela意志堅定，她似乎是不可戰(zhàn)勝的，故選D。
小題10:考查動詞辨析。A認為；B期望；C假裝；D想象。根據(jù)下句“doing her mental exercise”可知，醫(yī)生教她想象自己站起來的情景，故選D。
小題11:考查副詞辨析。A悲傷地；B瘋狂地；C小心地；D忠實地。Every day Angela would lie there, ______doing her mental exercise.Angela每天躺在病床上，虔誠地想象著自己能站起來的場景，故選D。
小題12:考查連接詞辨析。A當，正如；B因為；C在......之后；D在......之前。One day,___ ___she was imagining her legs moving again一天，正當她在想象自己重新站起來的時候，故選A。
小題13:考查動詞辨析。A飛；B移動；C滾動，轉(zhuǎn)動；D說，演講。The bed began to ______!病床開始移動起來，她以為自己能動了，故選B。
小題14:考查動詞辨析。A跳；B想知道；C尖叫；D恢復(fù)。Look! I can do it! I moved! I moved! "she ____.她激動地尖叫著，故選C。
小題15:考查形容詞辨析。A恐懼的；B滿意的；C生氣的；D鼓勵性的。根據(jù)下段“You see, it was an earthquake.”可知，地震發(fā)生了，醫(yī)院里的人都十分恐懼，故選A。
小題16:考查介詞辨析。A在......里；B通過；C為了，給；D和，帶有。More importantly, they were running______safety.所有的人都在往安全的地方跑，故選C。
小題17:考查動詞辨析。A上升；B下降，落下；C失蹤；D聚集。and equipment was ___儀器設(shè)備開始掉落下來，故選B。
小題18:考查動詞辨析。A告訴；B做；C給；D展示。But don’t____that to Angela.但是不要告訴Angela發(fā)生地震了，tell sth to sb告訴某人某事，故選A。
小題19:考查動詞辨析。A注意到；B假設(shè)；C相信；D發(fā)現(xiàn)。She has______that she did it, just as she had never doubted that she would recover.她相信自己做到了，就像她從未懷疑過她能康復(fù)一樣，故選C。
小題20:考查動詞辨析。A推；B震驚；C搖晃；D拯救。to such a person who can____the earth,Angela的意志撼動了整個地球，故選C。
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I had asked my brother to_   ___me at the bus stop. But he was running late and it was already 9:45 before I reached the bus stop.__   __, I caught my first bus and had to wait at another stop for the second one.
Then, in front of my__   __, a little girl (who may have been a beggar) was hit by a car!The car drove off without__   __. The girl was badly hurt in her hands and legs. She was _   ____heavily and was screaming in pain. After a few seconds she fainted(昏厥).
People standing nearby didn’t seem to know_   ___ to do. I ran over and called for an auto. A_   ____, who seemed to be the girl’s grandpa, ran towards us with _  ____steaming down his cheeks. I took them both to ______ in the auto. They admitted the girl and _   ___ to start her treatment. Happily, she was well__   ___ and soon came back to consciousness. She smiled at me and hugged her grandpa. I _   ____ the bill, gave them a little money, then I __   ___ for my interview.
It was 1:30p.m. Before I got home. I was __   __hours late! The one interview who was still there asked what had__   __ me. I told him, and then gave him one of our Smile cards and _   ____ about the project. He was very impressed!
It would be __   ___ to say I got the job.      ___, because I was so late he could not pass me on to the next level.
Getting the job might have made me happy, but helping that young girl and her grandpa made me even __   ____! I really thank God for giving me that__   ___ to help.
小題1:
A．dropB．sendC．takeD．deliver
小題2:
A．ActuallyB．LuckilyC．SurprisinglyD．Gradually
小題3:
A．busB．seatC．eyes D．feet
小題4:
A．noticingB．speedingC．knockingD．stopping
小題5:
A．cryingB．bleedingC．sleepingD．trembling
小題6:
A．howB．whereC．whoD．what
小題7:
A．beggarB．driver C．policemanD．gentleman
小題8:
A．wordsB．sweatC．tearsD．blood
小題9:
A．homeB．interviewC．busD．hospital
小題10:
A．preparedB．intendedC．rushedD．promised
小題11:
A．cared aboutB．looked afterC．dealt withD．carried out
小題12:
A．boughtB．a(chǎn)cceptedC．paid D．donated
小題13:
A．set aboutB．set off C．set outD．set up
小題14:
A．twoB．threeC．fourD．five
小題15:
A．delayedB．happenedC．hitD．terrified
小題16:
A．complainedB．explainedC．debated D．introduced
小題17:
A．niceB．shamefulC．hopelessD．unbelievable
小題18:
A．a(chǎn)ndB．soC．butD．or
小題19:
A．prouderB．greaterC．happierD．harder
小題20:
A．courageB．opportunityC．positionD．situation

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Johnny the Explorer
Johnny was three when he ran away from home for the first time. Somebody left the garden gate open. Johnny wandered out, crossed some fields and, two hours later, arrived in the next village. He was just able to give his name and address.
By the time he was seven, Johnny used to disappear from home two to three times a year. Sometimes he covered quite long distances on foot. Sometimes he got on a bus or even a train, and simply sat there until someone asked for his ticket. Generally the police brought him home. “Why do you do it?” they used to ask. “I just like seeing places,” Johnny told them.
Johnny continued to “see places” although everyone tried to stop him. His parents used to watch him closely, and so did his teachers; but sooner or later Johnny managed to slip away. As he grew older, his favorite trick was to hide on a long distance truck. Sometimes he travelled hundreds of miles before anyone discovered him.
It is hardly surprising that eventually Johnny managed to board a plane. He was twelve at the time. It was a cargo plane and, a few hours later, Johnny found himself in Cairo. How did he get on board? No one knows! According to Johnny himself, it was easy: he just went into the airport, walked along some passages and got on board the nearest plane.
In spite of all this, Johnny did well at school. He enjoyed mathematics and languages and, perhaps not surprisingly, he was especially good at geography. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” his teachers asked him. “An explorer!” he answered. “But it’s difficult to become an explorer in this modern age,” they tried to tell him. But it was no use: Johnny knew what he wanted!
Just before he left school, Johnny saw a notice in a daily paper. A long journey was about to go to Brazil to travel up the Amazon River. There were jobs for three young people “willing to work hard and with a sense of adventure”. Johnny applied, and two months later, he was on his way to Brazil.
小題1:At what age did Johnny board a plane for the first time?
A．ThreeB．SevenC．TwelveD．Not mentioned
小題2:Johnny frequently left home because ______.
A．he preferred to stay alone
B．he enjoyed seeing new places
C．he couldn’t do well at school
D．he didn’t get along well with his parents
小題3:People around Johnny ______.
A．tried to stop him from slipping away
B．kept following him to get him back
C．booked tickets for him if necessary
D．were clear about how he travelled abroad
小題4:From the passage, we can learn that ______.
A．Johnny worked for a daily paper
B．Johnny lacked a sense of adventure
C．Johnny went exploring along the Amazon River
D．Johnny went to Brazil two months after he finished school

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Once I invited a group of friends round to my house, telling them that I was going to record their speech. I said I was interested in their regional accents, and that it would take only a few minutes. Thus, on one evening, three people turned up at my house and were shown into my front room. When they saw the room they were a bit alarmed, for it was laid out as a studio. In front of each easy chair there was a microphone at head height, with wires leading to a tape-recorder in the middle of the floor. I explained that all I wanted was for them to count from one to twenty. Then we could relax and have a drink.
I turned on the tape-recorder and each in turn seriously counted from one to twenty in their best accent. When it was over, I turned the tape-recorder off and brought round the drinks, and for the rest of the evening there was general cheerful conversation—interrupted only by the fact that I had to take a telephone call in another room, which unfortunately lasted some time.
Or at least that was how it would appear. For, of course, the microphones were not connected to the tape-recorder in the middle of the room at all but to another one, which was turning happily away in the kitchen. The participants, having seen the visible tape-recorder turned off, paid no more attention to the microphones which stayed in front of their chairs, only a few inches from their mouths, thus giving excellent sound quality. And my lengthy absence meant that I was able to obtain as natural a piece of conversation as it would be possible to find.
I should add, perhaps, that I did tell my friends what had happened to them, after the event was over, and gave them the choice of destroying the tape. None of them wanted to—though for some years afterwards it always seemed to be my round when it came to the buying of drinks. Linguistic research can be a very expensive business.
小題1:The writer asked his friends to count from one to twenty because _______. 
A．he wanted to record the numbers for his research
B．he wanted to find out whether the tape recorder was working
C．he wanted to make his friends relax before real recording started
D．he wanted his friends to think that was all he wanted to record
小題2:The writer went into another room to ________.
A．get a natural recording of his friends’ conversation
B．stay away from too much drinking with his friends
C．bring a telephone into the front room
D．a(chǎn)nswer a long distance phone call
小題3:The writer turned off the tape-recorder because _______.
A．he had to answer a phone call
B．he wanted his friends to enjoy some drinks
C．he thought the tape-recorder might bother his friends
D．he wanted to make his friends believe he had finished the recording
小題4:Which one is true according to the passage?
A．The writer destroyed the tape.
B．The writer’s friends destroyed the tape.
C．The writer did tell his friends what had happened.
D．The writer’s friends like to drink.

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