藍裕勤 Neil 周楊 李治中 陳芷琦 覃朝姣



閱讀下面短文,從短文后各題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中,選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。
(一)
I’m on Facebook, and find it useful to keep up with my friends. But no number of texts, tweets(推文)or Facebook posts will ever____1____to having a real conversation. A person can be flooded with____2____communication and still feel alone. People have a need to be treated like they____3____.
One restaurant chain understands this. New____4____are required to watch a short training video of one of their restaurants. When the camera____5____an actor playing a customer or staff member, a caption gives a brief____6____of one aspect of that person’s life before moving on to the next person.
The information ranges from____7____to heartbreaking. One caption for an older male customer reads‘After years of battling cancer, he is finally____8____of the disease. Another for a(n)____9____lady sitting by herself reads:‘Husband died one month ago. This would have been their 50th anniversary.
It doesn’t____10____much to brighten the day of a____11____. To smile. To____12____a friendly greeting. To engage in a brief conversation. And it makes me feel so good!
So don’t be____13____if one day a white-haired man____14 ? ?you smiling and says‘Hello, there!And how are you____15____?’It might just be me!
(二)
I knew I had it easier than most single mothers. I was fortunate enough to have the____1____covered for my daughters and me, but it was the unexpected costs that kept me____2____at night. If something broke in our home, it was probably going to____3____broken.
I thought I was doing a good job____4____my worries from my children, but I wasn’t. Children are very____5____to their parents’moods(心情), and they are often listening when we are not____6____. A neighbour had been____7____me to share the cost of a new fence, and I was talking about it with my sister on the phone,____8____how I would cover the cost. After I got off the phone, my six-year old daughter____9____me and said ‘Mom, please don’t worry!We may not have everything we want, but we do have everything we____10____.’
This statement, made by an innocent but____11____child, changed my perspective(觀點). Whenever I found myself overcome by____12____about finances, I would remember her words. I would focus on being____13____for food on our table and____14____over our heads. I’m thankful to my little girl for reminding me that we often____15____wants with needs. Listen closely to children; it is from their hearts that we may learn great wisdom.
(廣東省佛山市南海區石門中學 藍裕勤 Neil)
(三)
Accidental injuries are the fourth leading cause of death in the USA. Nearly 200,000 people____1____every year from fires, falls, car crashes... Their stories are____2____, but what we don’t often hear about are the stories from people who cause those____3____— and survive. One of those people is John Vargas.
In 2017, John was____4____for work when?he hit a?pedestrian?in Chicago. He wasn’t____5____with a crime; it was just a terrible accident. And after that, he couldn’t find anyone to____6____who knew what he was going through —____7____he found a Facebook support group for?people who have accidentally____8____other people.“It was like magic,”he told me.“I’m not____9____.”I also spoke with Theresa Ruf, who is in charge of the group, about why she decided to____10____it in the?years after she hit and killed a motorcyclist. Unlike John, Theresa’s case did enter the____11____system — and in that time, aimless and full of____12____, Theresa wanted to do something to help other people who were in the kind of____13____she was.“Maybe this is something I could do to feel a little____14____about myself by helping other people,”she told me.“It____15____me, too.”
(廣東省湛江市第二中學 李治中 廣東省湛江市二中海東中學 陳芷琦)
(四)
A man got annoyed with life. Despite all his efforts,____1____was what he learnt.?Feeling____2____by life, he wandered aimlessly and accidentally met a hermit(隱士). The____3____man shared his failure. Then, the hermit pointed towards two plants,“Do you see that fern(蕨類)and bamboo there? ”
“Yes”, the man nodded.
“When I planted the seeds, I took very good____4____of them. Soon the fern quickly grew from the____5____. But though the bamboo seed was____6____and fertilized(使肥沃) for years, it didn’t grow even an inch. In fact, nothing____7____in the first year. But, I did not____8____it and continued to water and nurture it. By the fifth year, a tiny shoot appeared and then it grew a hundred feet tall.”
“Did the bamboo lie sleeping for four years only to grow____9____in the fifth?”the hermit asked.?____10____by the question, the man kept quiet.?
The hermit explained,“It was developing a root system to____11____its growth in the fifth year and beyond. Without the____12____, it would not have sustained its life later.”
“The time you had been____13____, you were growing strong roots.”____14____the hermit.
That day, the man learnt the value of____15____and hard work, and felt confident to continue his dreams.
(廣東省深圳市高級中學 周 楊)
(五)
A hockey(曲棍球)fan helped the assistant equipment manager identify a cancerous mole(痣)on his neck in the middle of a game.
Last October, 22-year-old Nadia Popovici was____ 1____ the Seattle Kraken game against the Vancouver Canucks in Seattle. She was sitting behind the Canucks bench that day when she____2____an irregularly shaped mole on the back of staffer Hamilton’s neck.
Popovici, who is going to medical school next year, said the mole____3____ her eye as Hamilton walked across the____ 4____ between periods.
“I____5____some of the classic signs, you know,____ 6____borders, a little bit of discoloration and a pretty large shape,” Popovici told CBC News.“I thought, you know, it can’t____ 7____just to say something.”
Hamilton was in the middle of moving____8____in between periods when he noticed Popovici____9____him to look at her phone. The____10____on her phone was written in a large font(字體)and expressed her____11____about the mole.
Though Hamilton says he____ ?12____ ?ignored the note, he later had the team____ 13____ check it out and discovered that it could have had life-threatening consequences if it was left____14____.
“She saved my life,”he said during a news conference. “She didn’t take me out of a burning car, but she took me out of a____15____fire.”
(廣西柳州地區民族高級中學 覃朝姣)
(一)本文主要講述盡管現在有臉書和推特等電子交流,但也無法等同真實交流的重要性。接著用一家連鎖餐廳培訓新員工的事例,說明真實交流的重要。
1. D 由空前“無論發多少條短信、發多少推文、發多少臉書帖子”可知,此處應為“也不能等同于(amount to)真實的交談“。
2. D 由空前句可知,指通過Facebook或tweets等電子(electronic)交流。
3. A 根據常識,人們需要被認可自己的價值或重要(count=be valuable or important)。
4. B 空前句提到一家連鎖餐廳,根據常識可知,“被要求觀看他們其中一家餐廳的短培訓視頻”的應當是新的員工(employees)。
5. A 鏡頭應當是“聚焦在(focuses on)”扮演顧客或工作人員的演員身上。
6. B 根據常識,影視錄像中的文字說明應是“簡要地描述(description)那個人生活的一個方面”。
7. A 由空格前后ranges from...to...來看,是指從一種狀況到另一狀況的變化范圍,所填詞應與heartbreaking(令人心碎的)相對,即“令人開心的(joyful)”。
8. C 由前文“在與癌癥抗爭多年之后”可知,終于“擺脫(be clear of)”了這種疾病。
9. D 由空后句中的“50年結婚紀念”可推知,是“年老的(elderly)”女士。
10. C 這是It takes sb some time to do sth句型。
11. C 由上下文舉的例子可推斷出這里指的是stranger(陌生人)。
12. C 舉例說明怎么點亮陌生人的一天,由微笑到主動友好問候他人,應是offer(主動提供)。
13. B 前段“使一個陌生人快樂起來并不花費我們什么時間。只需微笑、問候、交談。這些會使我感覺良好。”是作者對生活中的真實交流的總結和自己的感受。既然感受如此良好,所以作者也會身體力行,問候他人,故“當一個白發蒼蒼的老人向你走來問候時,你不要感到驚訝(surprised)”。
14. D 由后文中的smiling and says(微笑并跟你說話)可知,此空是指“向你走過來(approaches you)”。
15. A 由前面的Hello可知,是問候語,“How are you doing(你好嗎)?”。
(二)作者是一位單身媽媽,雖然衣食無憂,但有時候也要為意想不到的費用憂慮。小女兒的一席話,讓她豁然開朗,感恩生活。
1. C 由前文easier, fortunate enough可知,作者和女兒有“基本的生活保障(basics)”。
2. B 由but可知,意外的花費會讓作者“夜不能寐(kept me up at night)”。其中,up=not in bed不睡覺。
3. B 由前句可知,“如果我們家里有什么東西壞了,它可能會一直壞下去(remain broken)。”
4. D 由前文I was doing a good job(我做得很好)可知,作者“不讓孩子知道自己的憂愁(keeping my worries from my children)”。詞組keep sth from sb意為“把某事瞞著某人”。
5. A 由前句中的but I wasn’t可知,作者沒有瞞住她的孩子;結合后文的they are often listening可知,孩子們對父母的心情是很“敏感的(sensitive)”。
6. D 前文中已說作者是瞞著孩子的,所以孩子們傾聽應是在父母“無意識的或不知道的(not aware)”時候。
7. A 由上文作者的憂愁可知,這里應是指一位鄰居一直在迫使(pressuring)作者分擔修新柵欄的費用。
8. C 依然圍繞作者的憂愁去思考,這里應是“不知道(wondering)”該怎么支付這筆費用。
9. B 根據常識,應是孩子走向(approached)作者來安慰作者。
10. D 由but可知,是與want相對的詞語;又由下段,特別是其中的wants with needs可知,應是need或其近義詞,故選require。本句句意:我們可能沒有我們想要的一切,但是我們的確擁有我們所需要的一切。
11. C 從這番話“改變了我的觀點”及下文可知,孩子是“有智慧的(wise)”。文尾句“仔細傾聽孩子說話;從他們的內心,我們可以學到偉大的智慧(wisdom)。”也明顯提示,孩子是有智慧的。
12. A 本文一直是在講費用方面的憂愁,因此,此處應是“財務上的焦慮(anxieties)”。
13. B 孩子的那句話“我們的確擁有需要的一切”提醒作者知足常樂,此處應是對所擁有的一切表示“感激(grateful)”。
14. B 空前的food on our table說明“有吃”,與之相對的應是“有住”,即shelter over our heads。即“感恩我們桌上的食物和頭頂上的庇護”。
15. D 由上文可知,我們常常把想要的與所需的混淆(confuse)了。
(三)本文主要介紹了造成意外事故并幸存下來的人的故事。
1. A 由前句中的cause of deaths可知,本句是指每年有近20萬人死于(die)火災、跌倒、車禍等。故選A。
2. C 由but的“不經常聽到”可知,與之相反的是,常聽到,即熟悉的(familiar)故事。
3. A 造成傷亡的應該是事故(accidents),本段首句中的Accidental injuries是明顯提示。
4. D 由上段末句可知,本段講造成事故的人John Vargas;又由空后hit a pedestrian和a terrible accident可知,約翰應是開車上班(driving)。
5. C 他沒有被指控犯罪。短語be charged with意為“被指控”。
6. D 他找不到任何了解他經歷的人傾訴(talk to)。
7. D 約翰在之前找不到交談的對象,直到(until)在Facebook上找到一個支持組織。
8. A從本文首句可知,整篇文章都是描寫意外致死事件,因此,這里指意外導致他人死亡(killed)的人。
9. B 由上文約翰在Facebook上找到了組織可知,他不孤單(alone)。
10. C 句中it指代組織,意思是組建(form)該組織。
11. A 本段第二句可知“約翰沒有被指控犯罪”;又由與約翰不同可知,此處意為,特蕾莎的案件確實進入了法律(legal)體系。
12. C 造成他人死亡,應當是內心充滿了內疚(guilt)。
13. B 特蕾莎想幫助處于她那種痛苦中(pain)的人們。
14. D 由上文可知,她想通過幫助別人來讓自己心里好受點(feel a little better)。
15. B 由前文“特蕾莎成立該組織,希望通過幫助他人讓自己好受些”可知,該組織也幫助了(help)她自己。
(四)對生活感到無望的年輕人,和一位隱士分享自己一切努力都無回報的苦楚,隱士通過蕨類植物和竹子的對比,讓年輕人知道了努力和堅持到價值。
1. A 由Despite all his efforts(盡管做出了努力)可知,前后是轉折,應當是依然“失敗(falure)”。下文的shared his failure也是明顯的提示。
2. C 由前文中的got annoyed和falure可知,男子感到被生活“打敗了(defeated)”。
3. A 由前文可知,這是這位對生活失望的男子。順便提提,annoyed, falure, wandered aimlessly與disappointed構成同一語義場。
4. B 由后文的Soon the fern quickly grew 可知,他對這些種子照料(take good care of)的很好。
5. C 由常識可知,蕨類很快從“泥土(earth)”中長出來。
6. B 由常識可知,播種后要“澆水(water)施肥”。后文中的continued to water and nurture也有明顯提示。
7. D 由前文的it didn’t grow even an inch可知,事實上,第一年什么也沒有發生(happened)。
8. A 由空后的and continued to water and nurture it.可知,雖然沒有任何事情發生,但是“我”卻沒有對這些植物感到失望(give up on),仍然繼續照顧。
9. D 前后對比,前四年處在休眠狀態,第五年開始迅猛(rapidly)生長。
10. C 由the man kept quiet可知,這個男子感到被隱士的問題給難住了,感到疑惑不解(Puzzled)。
11. B 竹子發展根系,足夠強大才能支撐(support)第五年及之后的成長。
12. C 對發展強大的根系進行同義轉換表達,把根系看成竹子成長的基礎(foundation)。
13. B 由下段中的the value of...hard work可知,“在你苦苦掙扎的時候,你正在茁壯成長。”
14. A 本句話是隱士對男子的評說(remarked)。
15. D 竹子前五年生長緩慢,卻一直鍥而不舍,由此推知,這里是指那個男子學到“耐心(patience)”和努力的價值。
(五)曲棍球粉絲Popovici在觀看比賽過程中,辨認出設備經理助手Hamilton脖子上一個癌痣并提醒了他。多虧了Popovici,Hamilton得到了及時的救治。
1. B 根據本句及后句 She was sitting behind the Canucks bench that day可知, Popovici當時正在觀看曲棍球比賽, 故選attending。
2. A 那天Popovici在觀看比賽過程中,突然在Hamilton的脖子后面發現(noticed)了一個不規則形狀的痣。
3. D 指Hamilton脖子上那顆痣吸引(caught)了她的注意力。
4. B 指Hamilton在比賽間歇時走過球場(field)。
5. D 由下文的“不規則的邊緣和形狀以及褪色”的情況可知,Popovici發現了(spotted)一些癌痣的典型癥狀。
6. A由第二段第二句話的irregularly以及本句語境可知,這顆痣的邊緣不規則(irregular)。
7. D 根據語境可知,Popovici覺得提醒一下也沒有什么壞處(hurt)。
8. B 由本文第一句 the assistant equipment manager可知Hamilton是一名設備經理,在比賽間歇時間應該是在搬運設備(equipment)。
9. A 指Hamilton在搬運設備的時突然發現Popovici在示意(signal)他看她手機上的信息。
10. C 空前說示意Hamilton看她的手機,根據常識,一定是看她手機上的信息(message)。
11. C 根據語境和常識,在她手機信息上表達了她對這顆痣的擔憂(concern)。
12. A 由though可知,應選與later(后來)相對的initially(開始),意思是Hamilton起初(initially)不以為然。
13. D 由check及常識可知,應是請醫生(doctor)檢查。
14. B 后來發現如果不進行治療(untreated),極可能會有危及生命的后果。
15. C ?由上文可知Popovici給Hamilton指出問題所在時是來得及治療的,因此Hamilton在新聞發布會上說,“她沒有把我從‘燃燒的汽車’中救出來,但她把我從‘一場慢火’中救了出來。”
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