A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house, reduced towaist-high ruins, smelly and dirty.
Before the trip, I’d had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill，she noticed my Louisiana license plate. “You from New Orleans?”she asked I said I was, “No charge.”She said, and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet. The next day I went for a haircut, and the same thing happened.
As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage (抵押貸款〉on our mined house. We looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. We’d began to accept that we*d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kemmedy in California. He’d read some pieces I’d written about our sufferings for State, the online magazine  and wanted to give us (""no conditions attached’）a new house across thelake from New Orleans.
It sounded too good to be true, but I replied, thanking him for his exceptional generosity, that we had no plan to go back. Then a poet at the University of Florida offered to let his house to me, while he went to England on his one-year paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet’s offer to James Kemdedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months.
Throughout this painful experience, the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity. It’s almost worth losing your worldly possessions to be reminded that people are really nice when given half a chance.
小題1:The garage employee’s attitude toward the author was that of          
A．unconcernB．sympathy
C．doubtD．tolerance
小題2:What do we know about James Kemnedy?
A．He was a writer of an online magazine.
B．He was a poet at the University of Florida
C．He offered the author a new house free of charge.
D．He learned about the author’s sufferings via e-mail
小題3:It can be inferred from the text that         
A．the author’s family was in financial difficulty
B．rents were comparatively reasonable despite the disaster
C．houses were difficult to find in the hurricane-stricken area
D．the mortgage on the ruined house was paid off by the bank
小題4:The author learned from his experience that         
A．worldly possessions can be given up when necessary
B．generosity should be encouraged in some cases
C．people benefit from their sad stories
D．human beings are kind after all.

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:D

試題分析：本文主要講述作者在遭遇颶風襲擊毀壞房屋之后受到很多陌生人仁慈的幫助，之后作者感悟到雖然遭遇了痛苦的經(jīng)歷，但是他們的愛心使他堅定了對人性的堅信。
小題1:推理判斷題。從第二段“No charge,” she said, and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet。。the same thing happened。可看出當知道作者來自災區(qū)后不收費，說明了車庫員工對作者的同情之心。
小題2:細節(jié)理解題。從文章第三段最后一句話。。。wanted to give us (“no conditions attached”) a new house across the lake from New Orleans可判斷C正確。
小題3:推理判斷題。從文章第三段第一句話As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage on our ruined house.可判斷A正確。
小題4:推理判斷題。從文章最后一段作者的感悟中the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity. It’s almost worth losing your worldly possessions to be reminded that people are really nice when given half a chance可看到D項正確。
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"I tell myself I can   34  it," wrote Callahan in his book．-Compared to what others have been through, I'm fortunate．I tell myself these things over and over,  35  up courage．．．"
I wrote that down after 1 read it．It   36  me as something important．And I've told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed   37  off or when my problems seemed too terrible．And every time I've said it, I have always come back to my   38  ．
The truth is, our circumstances are only bad   39  to something better．But others have been through the much worse, that is, in comparison with what others have been through, you're fortunate．Tell this to yourself over and over again, and it will help you   40  through the rough situations with a little more courage．
小題1:
A．fullB．richC．fewD．enough
小題2:
A．AndB．YetC．StillD．Thus
小題3:
A．thinnerB．strongerC．worse D．healthier
小題4:
A．a(chǎn)ttitudeB．a(chǎn)ssumptionC．instructionD．a(chǎn)ccount
小題5:
A．a(chǎn)ssistedB．tendedC．managedD．intended
小題6:
A．makeB．a(chǎn)bsorbC．selectD．replace
小題7:
A．a(chǎn)ttackedB．caughtC．frozeD．cheated
小題8:
A．operationB．tasteC．messageD．point
小題9:
A．firmlyB．completelyC．hardlyD．generally
小題10:
A．dealB．defendC．surviveD．observe
小題11:
A．similarlyB．differentlyC．graduallyD．commonly
小題12:
A．pullB．takeC．breakD．give
小題13:
A．for the lack ofB．in the face ofC．in exchange forD．a(chǎn)s a result of
小題14:
A．handleB．carryC．followD．inspect
小題15:
A．rollingB．usingC．buildingD．making
小題16:
A．defeatedB．recommendedC．introducedD．struck
小題17:
A．farB．longC．everD．even
小題18:
A．feelingsB．sensesC．ideasD．influences
小題19:
A．relatedB．measuredC．contributedD．compared
小題20:
A．seeB．cutC．getD．think

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