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   It was Thanksgiving morning. I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags(衣衫褴褛)on the top step.

"Any old papers,lady?" asked one of them.

I was busy. I wanted to say "no" until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals(凉鞋),wet with heavy snow.

"Come in and I'll make you a cup of hot coffee."

They walked in and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks on the floor. I served them coffee and bread to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started cooking.

The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands,looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice,"Lady,are you rich?"

"Am I rich?Pity,no!"

I looked at my worn-out slipcovers(家具套).The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟)carefully and said,"Your cups match your saucers." They left after that,holding their papers against the wind. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful.

Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.

I tasted the potatoes and stirred(搅动)the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup,a roof over our heads,my man with a regular job,these matched,too.

I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy marks of the little sandals were still wet on my floor. Let them be for a while,I thought,just in case I should begin to forget how rich I was.

【小题1】Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Lady,Are You Rich?
B.A Story of Thanksgiving Day
C.The Meaning of Helping Others
D.Do Cups and Saucers Match Well?
【小题2】The writer let the two children come in and served them well because __________.
A.she wanted to sell old papers to them
B.she wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving party
C.she showed great pity on them
D.she had the same experience as them in the past
【小题3】The writer left the muddy marks of the little sandals on the floor for a while to __________.
A.show that she was a kind-hearted lady
B.remind her not to forget how rich she was
C.leave room to think about what being rich is
D.prove that she had understood what meant being rich
【小题4】It can be inferred from the passage that whether you are rich depends on __________.
A.how much money you have made
B.what attitude you have towards life
C.the way you communicate with others
D.your social relationship
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同类题1

   When I first arrived in Australia at the age of 16 to go to high school for one year and live with a host family,I was completely over the moon about everything. I had been planning for many months. And,even though we exchange students participated in a one-day preparatory meeting,culture shock couldn't be avoided.

Those first weeks are so-called "honeymoon phase I" where you are happy to be in that culture.

However,this feeling didn't last forever. After about two months,differences became more evident. I started missing my friends and family more and more. Frustrating thoughts increasingly occupied my head—Nobody really understands me,and my English is not good enough. I wish people would just be able to speak German for one day!I wish public transportation would work the same way as at home!And so on. I knew it was "honeymoon phase Ⅱ".

Over the next few months,though,I slowly and unknowingly entered the "adjustment(适应)phase". I developed my own little routine,learned to adapt to stress through various techniques,and made many new friends. My English improved dramatically!

I understood Australian culture better and better. That was a major breakthrough for me personally. Every day I felt more and more comfortable with my new home. I adopted many new traits(特征)while also keeping earlier ones from my home country. I would often refer to myself as "having a second nationality". This process which happened over my last few months abroad is called the "mastery phase". My happiest moment was when my dear friend one day said during a conversation,"You are Australian now,Jude!You sound just like us!"

I want to point out that the effects of culture shock are different for everyone and can result in different behavior and feelings. The timing of the different phases also varies a lot from person to person. One thing is for sure though —Culture shock is unavoidable and acceptance is the first step towards adjusting better to a foreign culture.

【小题1】According to the passage, which phase is the most difficult to go through?
A.Honeymoon phase I.
B.Honeymoon phase Ⅱ.
C.Adjustment phase.
D.Mastery phase.
【小题2】From the passage, we can know about the following facts except that ________.
A.in "honeymoon phase I", the author felt excited about everything
B.the culture is different between Australia and Germany
C.the author didn't realize he entered the "adjustment phase"
D.the happiest moment appeared in the "adjustment phase"
【小题3】What happened in the "mastery phase"?
A.The author got rid of his earlier habits.
B.The author quitted his nationality.
C.The author adjusted to the culture better.
D.The author made many new friends.
【小题4】What's the most important thing to deal with culture shock?
A.Ignoring it.B.Avoiding it.
C.Accepting it.D.Changing it.

同类题2

   The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has welcomed home two paintings by the Dutch master, more than 14 years after they were ripped (扯) off the museum’s wall in a nighttime theft. Museum director Axel Rueger called their return “one of the most special days in the history of the museum”. The paintings were discovered last year by Italian police while they were searching an Italian criminals’ farmhouse near Naples for evidence of drug dealing. They were in a box and hidden behind a wall in a toilet when they were found.

The paintings were considered among the artworks most searched for in the world. After years in darkness, they can now shine again. They are back on display at the museum before being taken to the conservation studio for repair. Fortunately, they suffered surprisingly little damage as thieves who had climbed up a ladder and broken a window to get into the museum in 2004 ripped them out of their frames.

“It is not only a surprise that the works have been recovered but it’s even more surprising they are in relatively unharmed condition,” Rueger said.

The museum director was on vacation when the call came last year from Italian authorities who believed they had recovered the paintings. He didn’t celebrate right away. He’d had calls like this before.

“I was hopeful but also a little hesitant. Over these years, we had so many occasions when people phoned us, contacted us, claiming that they knew something about the whereabouts (下落) of the works and each time it was false, the trace went cold,” he said. “So… the way has been full of disappointment.” But museum experts sent to Italy to check the authenticity (真实性) of the works quickly turned Ruegers doubts into delight.

Rueger said the paintings are now back at the museum, which is home to dozens of works by Van Gogh. “I’m very confident that everything is safe in the museum from now on,” he said.

【小题1】How were the stolen paintings found?
A.The police found them by accident.B.The arrested thieves gave information.
C.Some drug dealers offered clues.D.The police knew the hidden place.
【小题2】What surprised Rueger most about the lost paintings?
A.They were stolen at night.B.They were found at last.
C.They suffered little damage.D.The search took 14 years.
【小题3】When Rueger got the call, he ________.
A.didn’t believe it at allB.felt quite satisfied
C.planned to celebrateD.doubted the news
【小题4】What does the underlined part in Paragraph 6 probably mean?
A.Rueger gradually lost interest in the search.
B.The number of false calls was greatly reduced.
C.Rueger felt cold because of too many false calls.
D.The chance to find the paintings became small.

同类题4

William Herschel was born on November 15th, 1738 in Hanover in a family of musicians. In 1757,he fled to England and began earning a living as an organist and later composer and conductor. In 1772, he convinced his sister Caroline to join him as a singer. In their spare time the brother-sister team became occupied in astronomy. William died at his home in Slough, near Windsor on August 25th,1822,and Caroline on September 1st,1848.
Herschel’s first major discoveries were to show that Mars and Jupiter exhibit axial rotation(绕轴自转). Herschel struck fame in 1781,when on March 13th he discovered the planet Uranus(天王星) while engaged in work aimed at determining stellar parallax(恒星视差).This being the first new planet discovered since ancient times, Herschel, until then a mere amateur astronomer relatively unknown even in England, became world-famous. Adopting a historically proven strategy, Herschel named the new planet Georgium Sidum,in honor of the then ruling English king GeorgeⅢ. The trick worked once again, as King GeorgeⅢ gave William and Caroline the titles of“The King’s Astronomer”and“Assistant to the King’s Astronomer”, an honor which came with a life’s pension for both. In 1782 they moved to Bath, and shortly thereafter to Slough, and from this point on William and Caroline could devote themselves entirely to astronomy. The Herschels went on to discover two moons of Uranus in 1787.
While Caroline became increasingly occupied with the search for comets at which she was quite successful, William became for a time interested in the Sun. Inspired by Wilson’s 1774 work, he put forth the theory of sunspots(太阳黑子),an opinion that continued to exist well into the nineteenth century. In 1800,he became interested in the solar spectrum(太阳光谱),and uncovered the first evidence for solar energy output outside of the visible spectrum, in what is now known as the infrared(红外线).In 1801, he published two papers that effectively started the field of solar influences on Earth’s weather.
【小题1】Herschel made himself known to the world mainly by .
A.discovering the planet Uranus
B.determining stellar parallax
C.discovering two moons of Uranus
D.uncovering the evidence for the infrared
【小题2】It can be inferred from the passage that George Ⅲ .
A.liked science and technology
B.liked Herschel’s naming of the new planet
C.was interested in astronomy
D.gave Herschel a lot of useful suggestions
【小题3】What do we know about Caroline from the passage?
A.She was successful in music.
B.She was given the title of“The King’s Astronomer”.
C.She died later than her brother.
D.She published two papers.
【小题4】This passage mainly tells readers .
A.some information about Herschel and his sister
B.how Herschel and his sister discovered the planet Uranus
C.Herschel and Caroline got along well with each other
D.Herschel and Caroline’s major scientific publications

同类题5

   Just several days ago, a violent storm hit our community. I looked out of the window and witnessed a tree being _____ by the fierce winds. The branches bent, and swayed(摇摆) back and forth, thanks to their _____ to avoid breaking. The leaves desperately stuck to the branches because their life _____ the tree. The powerful trunk that _____ the tree upright bent slightly backwards from the force in a battle to _____ its position.
After the storm had passed, the tree gracefully returned to its _____ position standing tall in chaos. It managed to _____ the storm.It didn't look the same as leaves had been shed from its branches and the soil had loosened a bit, but what _____ was that the tree won the fight for its life.
For a long time I couldn't understand why this tree _____ my attention the way it did. As time passed, it became ______ that it wasn't just about the tree but about the roots, which, although unseen, dug deep into the soil providing ______ and nutrition. The roots allowed the tree to be able to take a ______ because they were there to support it.
I can't but ask myself how deep the roots are in my life. ______, the next time you catch your kids ______, when the job is driving you crazy, when you are underpaid and the ______ is tight, and when the storms of life are heavy, go back to your roots. Life is full of ______. They will make you sway, make you ______ and make you lose some leaves. But the deeper your roots are, the stronger you stand.
Faced with ______ you might bend but don't break. No matter how hard the wind blows don't let life ______ you into an uncomfortable position. Your ______ lies in your roots.
【小题1】
A.graspedB.abusedC.brokenD.removed
【小题2】
A.heightB.thicknessC.flexibilityD.appearance
【小题3】
A.answered forB.depended onC.catered forD.turned on
【小题4】
A.heldB.tiedC.pulledD.raised
【小题5】
A.achieveB.reachC.establishD.maintain
【小题6】
A.currentB.finalC.originalD.comfortable
【小题7】
A.exploreB.avoidC.causeD.survive
【小题8】
A.countedB.differedC.concernedD.showed
【小题9】
A.fixedB.changedC.escapedD.caught
【小题10】
A.strangeB.obviousC.possibleD.reasonable
【小题11】
A.surroundingsB.resourcesC.probabilityD.stability
【小题12】
A.beatingB.standC.chanceD.turning
【小题13】
A.HoweverB.AccordinglyC.ThereforeD.Additionally
【小题14】
A.misbehavingB.strugglingC.cryingD.misunderstanding
【小题15】
A.scheduleB.deadlineC.moneyD.relation
【小题16】
A.surprisesB.choicesC.stormsD.battles
【小题17】
A.smileB.bendC.hesitateD.advance
【小题18】
A.opportunitiesB.challengesC.tasksD.differences
【小题19】
A.trickB.argueC.forceD.admit
【小题20】
A.courageB.ambitionC.valueD.strength