(2013·高考天津卷)As I held my father’s hands one night，I couldn’t help but notice their calluses(老繭)and roughness.His hands tell the story of his life as a ____，including all his struggles.
One summer，I remember，a drought (旱災) hit Ontario，turning it into a ____ desert.On one of those hot mornings I was picking sweet corn with my dad to fill the last ____ from the grocery store.Fifty dozen was all we needed，which ___ took twenty minutes.That morning，however，the process didn’t ___ quickly.After forty minutes of aimlessly walking in the field，we ____needed twenty dozen.I was completely frustrated and ___.Dropping the basket heavily，I declared, “If the store wants its last twenty dozen，they can pick it themselves！”Dad ____，“Just think，my little girl，only ten dozen left for each of us and then we’re ____.” Such is Dad－whatever problem he ____，he never gives up.
____，the disastrous effects of the drought were felt all over our country.It was a challenging time for everyone，____ Dad remained optimistic.He ____ to be grateful for other things like good health and food on our plates.Only then did I truly begin to ___ Dad and his faith that guided us through the hard times.
Dad is also a living example of real ____.From dawn to dusk，he works countless hours to___ our family.He always puts our happiness ____ his own，and never fails to cheer me on at my sports games ___ his exhaustion after long days.His loving and selfless nature has inspired me to become more sympathetic and ____，putting others first.
Dad，the life ____ I have learned from you will stay with me forever.You are my father，teacher，friend and，most importantly，my hero.
小題1:
A．teacherB．gardener
C．farmerD．grocer
小題2:
A．stormyB．lively
C．disappearingD．burning
小題3:
A．orderB．form
C．gapD．position
小題4:
A．repeatedlyB．normally
C．finallyD．really
小題5:
A．goB．begin
C．occurD．change
小題6:
A．yetB．still
C．evenD．nearly
小題7:
A．surprisedB．nervous
C．a(chǎn)ngryD．frightened
小題8:
A．a(chǎn)pologizedB．cried
C．complainedD．laughed
小題9:
A．lostB．done
C．goneD．touched
小題10:
A．meets withB．brings up
C．works outD．thinks about
小題11:
A．ThankfullyB．Hopefully
C．UnfortunatelyD．Strangely
小題12:
A．orB．for
C．soD．but
小題13:
A．happenedB．seemed
C．continuedD．a(chǎn)imed
小題14:
A．faceB．a(chǎn)ppreciate
C．examineD．question
小題15:
A．loveB．pride
C．friendshipD．honesty
小題16:
A．supportB．settle
C．start D．impress
小題17:
A．a(chǎn)fterB．before
C．besideD．under
小題18:
A．in spite ofB．in terms of
C．in control ofD．in place of
小題19:
A．carefulB．regretful
C．considerateD．humorous
小題20:
A．historyB．motto
C．patternsD．lessons

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:B
小題5:A
小題6:B
小題7:C
小題8:D
小題9:B
小題10:A
小題11:C
小題12:D
小題13:C
小題14:B
小題15:A
小題16:A
小題17:B
小題18:A
小題19:C
小題20:D
　本文是一篇夾敘夾議的文章。文章以第一人稱的方式進行記敘和議論，主要講述了在作者和父親為雜貨店所接甜玉米訂單配貨的過程中，作者中途想放棄，但是父親鼓勵她要堅持下去。文中還講述父親在遇到困難時，總是以積極、樂觀的態(tài)度面對生活，這讓作者受益終生。
小題1:解析：選C。根據(jù)上文“their calluses (老繭) and roughness”和20空后的“After forty minutes of aimlessly walking in the field...”可以判斷出作者的父親是一個農(nóng)民。teacher老師；gardener花匠，園藝師；farmer農(nóng)民；grocer食品雜貨店店主/店員。所以C項符合句意。
小題2:解析：選D。根據(jù)上文“a drought (旱災) hit Ontario，turning...”和17空后的“On one of those hot mornings...”可以推斷出干旱將安大略變成了一個滾燙的沙漠。stormy暴風雨的；lively活潑的，生動的；disappearing消失的；burning燃燒的，滾燙的。所以D項符合句意。
小題3:解析：選A。根據(jù)此句中fill the last________from the grocery store(雜貨店)和22空后的“If the store wants its last twenty dozen...”可以推斷出空格處填“訂單”。order訂購，訂單，訂貨，fill the last order為最后一個訂單配貨；form表格，形式，形狀；形態(tài)；gap間隙，缺口，空白；position位置，職位。所以A項符合句意。
小題4:解析：選B。根據(jù)下文“That morning，however，the process didn’t________quickly.After forty minutes of...”可以推斷出這一過程(花費了40分鐘)正常情況下只需20分鐘。repeatedly反復地，再三地；normally正常地，通常地；finally最后，終于；really實際上，事實上。所以B項符合句意。
小題5:解析：選A。根據(jù)上下文可推測空格處所在句的句意：然而，那個早上，過程________不快。go進行，進展；begin開始；occur發(fā)生；change變化；零錢。所以A項符合句意。
小題6:解析：選B。根據(jù)上文“Fifty dozen was all we needed”和下文“If the store wants its last twenty dozen，they can pick it themselves！”可以推斷21空所在句的句意為“漫無目的地在田地里走了40分鐘后，我們?nèi)孕枰?0打”。yet然而，可是；still仍然，還；even甚至；nearly幾乎，差不多。所以B項符合句意。
小題7:解析：選C。根據(jù)關鍵詞frustrated和下文“Dropping the basket heavily...”可以推斷出作者生氣了。surprised感到吃驚的；nervous緊張的；angry生氣的；frightened感到害怕的。所以C項符合句意。
小題8:解析：選D。根據(jù)下文“whatever problem he________，he never gives up”可以推斷出作者的父親對待生活的態(tài)度是非常積極、樂觀的，故此處選D項，laugh“笑”。apologize道歉；cry哭，哭泣；complain抱怨，均與語境不符。
小題9:解析：選B�？崭裉幩诰涞木湟鉃椤啊覀兠總�人就只剩下10打了，然后我們就完成了”。lost迷路的；done已完成的；gone過去的，用完了的；touched感動的。所以B項符合句意。
小題10:解析：選A。meet with碰到，遇見；bring up養(yǎng)育，提出，談到，嘔吐；work out計算出，弄明白；think about考慮，思考。根據(jù)上下文可推測空格處所在句的句意為“這就是父親——無論遇到什么問題，他從不放棄”。所以A項符合句意。
小題11:解析：選C。根據(jù)下文the disastrous effects of the drought were felt all over our country“干旱所帶來的災難性影響席卷全國”可以推斷出本空填的詞應意為“不幸的是”。thankfully高興地，感激地；hopefully有希望地，有前途地；unfortunately不幸的是；strangely奇怪的是。所以C項與語境相符。
小題12:解析：選D。根據(jù)上文“It was a challenging time for everyone...”和下文的關鍵詞optimistic可以推斷出前后兩句具有轉(zhuǎn)折關系。or或者，否則；for為了；so因此；but但是。所以D項符合題目要求的轉(zhuǎn)折關系。
小題13:解析：選C。happen to...碰巧/恰巧……；seem to...好像/似乎……；continue to...繼續(xù)……；aim to...打算……上文提到干旱所帶來的災難性影響席卷全國，但父親仍然保持著樂觀的態(tài)度。所以可推測本空所在句的意思是“他一如既往地感激其他事情，如健康的身體和我們盤中的食物”。故C項符合句意。
小題14:解析：選B。根據(jù)上下文可推測空格處所在句的句意為“直到那時我才真正地開始欣賞父親以及父親引導我們度過困難時期的信念”。face面對；appreciate欣賞，感激；examine檢查，測驗；question質(zhì)疑，問問題。所以B項符合句意。
小題15:解析：選A。根據(jù)下文“His loving and selfless nature has inspired...”可以推斷出父親也是一個能夠付出真愛的活生生的例子。love愛；pride自豪，驕傲；friendship友誼；honesty誠實。所以A項符合句意。
小題16:解析：選A。support支持，維持，供養(yǎng)，資助；settle定居，安定；start開始；impress給……留下印象。根據(jù)上下文可推測空格處所在句的句意為“他從早到晚工作了無數(shù)個小時是為了養(yǎng)活我們一家人”。所以A項符合句意。
小題17:解析：選B。根據(jù)下文“His loving and selfless nature...putting others first.”可以推斷出父親總是把別人放在第一位，也就是說總是把我們的幸福放在他自己的幸福的前面。after在……之后；before在……之前；beside在……旁邊；under在……下面。所以B項符合語境。
小題18:解析：選A。in spite of盡管；in terms of在……方面，依據(jù)，按照；in control of控制，管理，掌握；in place of代替，取代。根據(jù)上下文可推測空格處所在句的句意為“他總是把我們的幸福放在他自己幸福的前面，即使……精疲力竭，父親也從未忘記在體育比賽中為我加油鼓勁”。所以A項符合句意。
小題19:解析：選C。根據(jù)下文“putting others first”可以推斷出“父親是具有同情心的、體貼他人的”。careful仔細的，細心的；regretful遺憾的，后悔的；considerate考慮周到的，體貼的；humorous幽默的。所以C項considerate符合語境。
小題20:解析：選D。根據(jù)下文“You are my father，teacher，friend and，most importantly，my hero.”可以推斷出空格處是指從父親那里學到的關于生活的經(jīng)驗與教訓。history歷史；motto座右銘；pattern模式；lesson教訓，經(jīng)驗，課。所以D項符合語境。
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Several months ago I was racing to catch a bus. As I breathlessly put my handful of cash across the Greyhound counter，the sales agent said with a broad smile，"Oh that bus left five minutes ago." Dreams of head-cutting！
It’s not the news that makes someone angry. It’s the unsym pathetic attitude with which it’s delivered(遞送). Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and winning professionals do it with the proper attitude. A doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring way . A boss informing an employee he didn’t get the job takes on a sympathetic tone. Big winners know, when delivering any bad news, they should share the feeling fo the receiver.
Unfortunately，many people are not aware of this. When you're tired from a long flight，has a hotel clerk cheerfully said that your room isn't ready yet？When you had your heart set on the toast beef，has your waiter merrily told you that he just served the last piece？It makes you as traveler or diner want to land your fist right on their unsympathetic faces.
Had my neighbor told me of the upcoming rainstorm with sympathy（同情），I would have appreciated his warning. Had the Greyhound salesclerk sympathetically informed me that my bus had already left，I probably would have said，"Oh，that's all right I'll catch the next one." Big winners，when they bear bad news，deliver bombs with the emotion the bombarded（被轟炸的）person is sure to have.
小題1:In Paragraph 1，the writer tells the story of the pharaoh to ____.   
A．make a comparisonB．introduce a topic
C．describe a sceneD．offer an argument
小題2:In the writer's opinion，his neighbor was ___.   
A．friendlyB．warm-heartedC．not considerateD．not helpful
小題3:From "Dreams of head-cutting！"（Paragraph3），we learn that the writer___.   
A．was mad at the sales agent
B．was reminded of the cruel pharaoh
C．wished that the sales agent would have had dreams
D．dreamed of cutting the sales agent's head that night.
小題4:What is the main idea of the text？   
A．Delivering bad news properly is important in communication.
B．Helping others sincerely is the key to business success.
C．Receiving bad news requires great courage.
D．Learning ancient traditions can be useful.

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There are a great number of people in the world while few people are great.I think there is probably only one great person out of 10，000 at best，and most probably much less than that.
The reason why there are only few of them is that most people do not pay the price of greatness.There are so many people who want to be great，why only very few of them actually pay the price? The answer to the question explains the difference between the almost 100% people who want to be great and the much less than 0.01% who actually be so.The reason is that the road to greatness is full of pains.
Greatness requires sacrifices and there is no sacrifice without pain.The kind of sacrifices required for greatness is the ones that make the process continuously painful for long time.If you only want to be good it may be painful just every now and then，and many people can still handle it.But being great is a total difference.The pain is much deeper and it is continuous，so very few people can endure this kind of pain.Most people naturally choose things that bring pleasures to them.It's unnatural to choose pain over pleasure，let alone doing it continuously for long time.But that's what I believe is the secret to greatness: The secret to greatness is choosing pain over pleasures continuously for long time.
小題1:What is the purpose of Paragraph 1?
A．To compare.　　　　　　　　　B．To list statistics.
C．To lead up to the topic.D．To give information.
小題2:If one person only wants to be good，what will he/she face?
A．Occasional pains.B．Continual work.
C．Constant pains.D．Various difficulties.
小題3:What is the main idea of the passage?
A．Pleasures mean greatness.
B．Greatness equals sacrifices.
C．What's greatness.
D．Greatness lies in continuous pains.

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In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some hold an optimistic attitude. They value it highly, believing that it is a natural outcome of social progress and prosperity（繁榮）and that anyone who wants to be outstanding has to keep the pace. Others think otherwise. They say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that the unfriendly relationship between people because of competition.
I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth depended on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit（追求）of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.
However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others have an opposite opinion. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. They have no choice. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really didn’t try”. What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one’s self-respect relies on how well one performs compared with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear is overcome can discover a new meaning in competition.
小題1:What does this passage mainly talk about?
A．Competition helps to set up self-respect.
B．Opinions about competition are different among people.
C．Competition is harmful to personal quality development.
D．Failures are necessary experience in competition.
小題2:Why do some people favor competition according to the passage?
A．It pushes society forward.
B．It builds up a sense of duty.
C．It improves personal abilities.
D．It encourages individual efforts.
小題3:The underlined phrase “the most vocal” in Paragraph 3 means      .
A．those who try their best to win
B．those who value competition most highly
C．those who are against competition most strongly
D．those who rely on others most for success
小題4:What is the similar belief of the true competitors and those with a “desire to fail”?
A．One’s worth lies in his performance compared with others.
B．One’s success in competition needs great efforts.
C．One’s achievement is determined by his particular skills.
D．One’s success is based on how hard he has tried.
小題5:Which point of view may the author agree to?
A．Every effort should be paid back.
B．Competition should be encouraged.
C．Winning should be a life-and-death matter.
D．Fear of failure should be removed in competition.

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Ever wonder how this season’s celebrations affect the environment? Guest blogger Krista Fairles takes an amusing look at this very topic:

The holidays are a wonderful, cheerful time when most people wait for Santa to bring them presents. But I’m not like most people. I spend my time wondering just what the environmental impacts of Santa Claus and his reindeer are, and more importantly, how I can calculate those impacts.
Lately I’ve been particularly curious as to whether Santa’s old sled is a clean green flying machine, or if he should be replacing his 8 reindeer with an environmentally-friendly car.
I should mention that, surprisingly, I was unable to find statistics specific to Santa’s magical flying reindeer, so these calculations use numbers from various sources and may not represent actual pollution caused by Santa and his animals. In other words, don’t complain to the government about the damage Santa is causing the environment based on this article.
Santa’s yearly trip around the globe is 44,000km long, twice the average of a North American driver. If we assume that the magic provides the altitude for this trip, then reindeer power only needs to push Santa’s sled forward. To complete the trip in 12 hours, I estimate they must travel at a speed of about 3100km/h. To travel at this speed, for this length of time, the reindeer need to eat an incredible 980 million calories each!!
So the next question is: how much food is in 980 million calories? Well, if they’re eating corn, they’d need to eat 16,500 lbs each — or 1.6 acres of food. Growing 12.8 acres of corn has its own implications for the environment that we’ll leave for another calculation.
We now need to consider that during the global trip the reindeer are “l(fā)etting out” some of that corn in the form of methane (甲烷，沼氣). A resting cow produces 110 kg of methane per year, so flying reindeer would each let out about 4.8 tons. With methane causing 20 times the global warming damage of CO2, and the altitude increasing that damage by 1000% that another 20 times, we can put Santa’s round-trip emissions at 15,488 tons. This is much more than the 100 tons an environmentally-friendly car would release on the same trip!
Bad Santa.
小題1:Which aspect does the writer NOT include in her analyses about reindeer’s influence on environment?
A．Distance covered.B．Calories consumed.
C．Tons of waste let out.D．Money spent on food.
小題2: According to Paragraph 6, how many acres of corn would Santa need to feed 10 reindeer?
A．1.6.B．16.C．12.8.D．128.
小題3:Which of the following statements would the writer most probably agree with?
A．Christmas celebrations are really a waste of money.
B．Vegetarians are more likely to survive than meat-eaters.
C．Raising animals has a negative influence on environment.
D．The car industry does less harm to environment than farming.
小題4:Which of the following words best describes the language style of the passage?
A．Humourous and concerned.B．Cheerful and friendly.
C．Academic and formal.D．Serious and boring.
小題5:Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A．Is Santa driving clean and green?
B．Santa, watch where you’re going!
C．Santa Claus is coming to town!
D．Let’s reduce waste on Christmas celebrations!

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