I grew up in Jamaica Plain, an urban community lo?cated on the outskirts (郊區(qū))of Boston, Massachu?setts. My best friend Rose and I used to dream about raising a family of our own some day. We had it all planned out to live next door to one another.
Our dream remained alive through grade school, high school, and even beyond. Rose was my maid of honour when I got married in 1953 to the love of my life, Dick. Meanwhile, Dick longed to be an officer in the Marines and I fully supported his ambitions. T real?ized that he might be stationed far away from Jamaica Plain, but I told him I would relocate (重新安置）and adjust.
So, in 1955 Dick was stationed in Alaska and we relocated. Rose was sad to see me leave, but wished me the best of luck. Rose and I remained in touch for a few years via periodic phone calls but after a while we lost track of one another.
Now here I am at the doorstep to my 80th birthday and I received a random phone call on a Wednesday af?ternoon. "Hello?" I said. "Hi Natalie, it's Rose," the voice on the other end replied. "It's been so long. 1 don't know if you remember me, but we used to be best friends in Jamaica Plain when we were kids," she said.
We haven't seen each other yet, but we have spent countless hours on the phone catching up on 52 years of our lives. The interesting thing is that even after 52 years of separation our personalities and interests are still extremely similar.
Real friends have two things in common ： a compat?ible (相容的)personality and a strong-willed character. The compatible personality is what makes the connec?tion begin between two people and a strong-willed char?acter at both ends is what maintains the connection. If those two ingredients are present in a friendship, the friendship is for real, and can thus sustain the tests of time and prolonged absence without faltering (動搖).
5.The writer had to leave her best friend because
A.she hoped to get more chances
B.she wanted to change her living situation
C.her husband was sent to another place
D.she had a quarrel with her best friend
6.When the writer was 80 years old, .
A.she and her best friend Rose met again
B.she and Rose got in touch again
C.she found she had nothing in common with Rose
D.she and Rose spent countless happy hours together
7.According to the writer, the reason why the friendship be-
tween her and Rose can last long is that .
A.they often share their happy and sad moments with each other
B.their relationship is based on mutual trust
C.Rose is always there when she is in trouble
D.both of them have a compatible personality and a strong-willed character
8.Which can be the best title of the passage?
A.The story of two best friends
B.A friend in need is a friend indeed
C.The definition of a friendship
D.Ingredients in a friendship
【文章大意】本文是一篇夾敘夾議的文章。友誼是什么？什么樣的友誼才能持久不衰，不受時間、空間等其他客觀因素的影響呢？本文作者的個人經(jīng)歷或許會給我們一些啟迪。
C推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第二段最后一句"I realized that he might be stationed far away from Jamaica Plain, but I told him I would relocate (重新安置）and adjust."可推知，由于作者丈夫的工作調(diào)動，作者不得不離開自己的家鄉(xiāng)和好朋友，故選C項。
B推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第三段最后一句"...but after a while we lost track of one another."和對第四段的整體理解可推知，在作者80歲生日時，作者和曾經(jīng)失去聯(lián)系的兒時的這個好朋友又重新取得了聯(lián)系，故選B項。
D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章最后一段的第一句"Real friends have two things in common: a compatible (相容的)personali?ty and a strong-willed character."和對整段的整體理解可知， 作者認(rèn)為她和Rose的友誼之樹之所以常青是因為志趣相投以及堅持不懈地維持友誼。故選D項。
D主旨大意題。根據(jù)對文章的整體理解，尤其是最后一段的總結(jié)"If those two ingredients are present in a friendship, the friendship is for real* and can thus sustain the tests of time and prolonged absence without faltering(動搖)."可推知，本文主要通過作者和兒時好友幾十年如一日的友誼總結(jié)出持久友誼的必備要素，故選D項。
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B [2015 •鄭州高中畢業(yè)年級第一次質(zhì)檢]
Foxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused of killing farm ani?mals. They are officially classified as harmful and farmers try to keep their numbers down by shooting or poisoning them.
Farmers can also call on the services of their local hunts to control the fox population. Hunting consists of running af?ter a fox across the countryside, with a group of specially trained dogs, followed by men and women riding horses. When the dogs eventually catch the fox, they kill it or a hunt?er shoots it-People who take part in hunting think of it as a sport. They wear a special uniform of red coats and white trousers, and follow strict codes of behaviour. But owning a horse and hunting regularly are expensive, so most hunters are wealthy.
It is estimated that up to 100,000 people watch or take part in fox-hunting. But over the last couple of decades the number of people who are against fox-hunting, because they think it is brutaK殘暴的)，has risen sharply. Nowadays it is rare for a hunt to pass off without some kind of conflict be?tween hunters and hunt opponents (反對者).Sometimes these incidents lead to violence, but mostly opponents dis?courage the hunt by misleading riders and disturbing the trail of the fox's smell, which the dogs follow.
Noisy conflicts between hunters and opponents have be?come so common that they are almost as much a part of hun?ting as the pursuit of foxes itself. But this year supporters of fox-hunting face a much bigger threat to their sport. A La?bour Party Member of Parliament(英國議會），Mike Foster, is trying to get Parliament to approve a new law which will make the hunting of wild animals with dogs illegal. If the law is passed, wild animals like foxes will be protected under the ban in Britain.
5. Wealthy people in Britain have been hunting foxes to .
A. benefit the farmers
B. get entertainment
C. show off their wealth
D. limit the fox population
6. The opponents of fox-hunting often discourage the game
by_________ .
A. using violence
B. taking legal action
C. seeking help from farmers
D. confusing the fox hunters
7. A new law may be passed by the British Parliament to
A. protect wild animals like foxes
B. control fox-hunting on a large scale
C. prohibit farmers from hunting foxes
D. standardize the behaviour of fox-hunting
8. What can be inferred from this passage?
A. Limiting the fox population is unnecessary.
B. Killing foxes with poison is not allowed by law.
C. Hunting foxes with dogs is considered cruel and vio?lent.
D. Fox-hunting often causes conflicts between hunters and farmers.
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Ⅱ.語法填空[20〗5 •九江市第二次高考模擬]
閱讀下面材料，在空白處填人適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（1個單詞）或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。
Learning to speak English well may be the best thing you can do to improve your life. Almost all international conferences and competitions 9._____(conduct) in English.Diplomats(夕卜交官)and politicians from different 10. ________(country) also use English to communicate with each other freely. If you can communicate in English,you can:
Contact people from all over the world. Talk about your ideas on Internet with your interesting people, send e-mail to
11. ________ ,and learn about their life and culture.
Travel more easily. Communicate with people 12.______ you go―English is spoken in more than 100 countries. Introduce yourself, have a
conversation, or…ask for help.
Push your career forward. If you want 13. ___________ good job in business, technology* or science, get out of that armchair andset out 14. ___________ (learn) English now！
Knowing English will let you:
Gain technical knowledge. English is the language of technology, 15. _____________ (especial) high technology like computer science, genetics(遺傳學(xué))，and medicine. If you're going to read about technology, you'll probably have to do it 16. English.
Be a world-class businessman. All business today is international. So if you want to play, you have to know English a lot, contact other business people, 17. ______________ read international business newspapers and magazines, etc.
Use your computer more effectively. Most computer applications are in English ， so you will understand them 18. _________ (good).
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B [2015 .山東威海一中高三模擬] Coral reefs(珊潮ft) are not just beautiful to look at,but also very useful. They shelter nearly 25 % of ocean life and provide food for billions of people. However, like many other species,this amazing ecosystem(生態(tài)系統(tǒng))is in danger of dy?ing out ！
There are two main reasons for the destruction—the ris?ing carbon dioxide levels caused by global warming as well as human influences like bottom operation. While not much can be done about the former, the loss caused by the latter can be reduced.
Bottom operation involves dropping nets to the ocean bed and then dragging them up when filled with fish. This action damages the ocean floor, causing the coral branches to sepa?rate from the reefs. While that is very discouraging, the good news is that if these branches are found quickly, they can be saved. At present,that work is being performed by volunteer divers. But the method has only limited success because they cannot stay long underwater, nor reach depths of over 200 metres where some of the deep-sea coral grows.
However,this is not the case for coralbots―the robots that can constantly seek out broken branches. A team of 'cor-albots', each individually working to simple rules will piece together damaged bits of coral, allowing them to regrow. They are programmed to be able to distinguish between other things and the coral. The robots work together in groups,sim?ilar to bees. If one coralbot is damaged then the others will still be able to complete the task.
Dr Lea-Anne Henry said,"The project of using coralbots offers us the possibility to restore (修復(fù))the function of reefs. It is in the final stage of testing. Once ready? the re?searchers hope to build hundreds of them and use them effec?tively in the waters off Scotland and then hopefully in the o-ceans across the world."
5. Which of the following is a cause of the clanger that coral reefs are facing?
A. The appearance of new creatures.
B. The seriously polluted sea water.
C. The activities of volunteer clivers.
D. Human activities like bottom operation.
6. Compared with volunteer divers,coralbots__________ .
A. can stay longer underwater
B. must work as bees do
C. can distinguish what is coral
D. can never be damaged
7. What does the underlined word "them" in the last para?graph refer to?
A. Coralbots. B. Broken branches.
C. Working bees. D. Bits of coral.
8. We can infer from the passage that ____________ ，
A. bottom operation has affected most underwater crea?tures
B. broken branches of coral can regrow if saved in time
C. hundreds of the coralbots have worked well in the oceans
D. with the coralbots all damaged coral reefs can be re?stored
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Ⅲ.語法填空[2015 •甘肅天水市第5次檢測]
閱讀下面材料，在空白處填人適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。
What is the most popular communication tool today? 14.______ your answer is QQ or MSN, I must say you're a bit old-fashioned. Today, a new form of communication "WeChat" ， which 15. ___________ (own) a Chinese name Weixin, is becoming the most influential text and voicing tool all over the world.
What advantages do WeChat have? First, WeChat is 16._____ relative cheap way of communication; that is to say, it uses network traffic instead of telephone fare. Next. we can know 17._____ is going on at any time.And we can have 18. ___________ (easy) access to information available than other messaging tools.
What roles does it play 19. __________ our daily life? According to the latest report, the number of the registered users on WeChat platform has topped 200 million and it has expanded its business to overseas market. Can you imagine that a mobile phone 'appJ is so 20. ____________ (appeal) that it reaches 200 million users within 8 months? WeChat itself has become the most popular mobile chat application in the world, A large 21._____________of people have become " WeChataholic，"， which means they keep staring at the mobile phone all the time and can't live without 22.______However, while enjoying its great convenience, people should not ignore the danger of 23. ______________ (cheat), for information on WeChat is publicly known.
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Ⅱ.完形填空[2015 •河北普通高中高三教學(xué)質(zhì)量監(jiān)測]
The former Smiths singer Morrissey has been in hospital on several occasions during the last 18 months. He has an?nounced that he is being 9 for cancer in the hospital now,10 he hasn't revealed what type of cancer he has.
Despite his diagnosis, the 55-year-old songwriter, whose first name is Stephen, 11 he isn't afraid of death. He ac?cepts that it is 12 that comes to us all. Though knowing that he has a severe 13 ， he has a 14 attitude. "If I die, then T die. And if I don't, then I don't. Right now I feel 15 ." aware that in some of my recent photos I look somewhat 16 , but that's what illness can do, I'm not going to 17 about that because I'll sit when I'm dead. " He also says.
Morrissey's 2012 tour performance 18 in South America and continued through Asia and North America. Morrissey's recent health issues 19 him to cancel his US tour. After knowing that he cancelled a number of 20 ， fans have been worried about the state of Morrissey's health for a few years.
Morrissey also 21 he's at an age when he should have stopped making music, and he thinks he may 22 from songwriting and performing once he has completed his first novel about himself. At that time he can do what he enjoyed most while working.Shortly after the 23 of his 10th studio album in July,
he said, "Many composers of classical music died at age 34. And I'm still 24 ， and nobody knows what to do with me.
Because my novel is coming along well, my task is 25 ，that is, it can be published next year before I die."
Life is all about 26 Facing the illness, it's your choice that 27 how you live life. Morrissey sets a good 28 for us to follow.
9.A. treated B. discovered
C. obtained D. noticed
10. A. so B. but
C. still D. however
11. A. suspects B. hopes
C. insists D. advises
12.A. nothing B, anything
C. everything D. something
13.A. operation B. performance
C. interest D. illness
14. A. powerful B. mad
C. positive D. terrible
15.A. crazy B. cool
C. handsome D. good
16. A. unfair B. unkind
C. unknown D. unhealthy
17. A. complain B. set
C. worry D. learn
18. A. performed B. started
C. paused D. interrupted
19. A. forced B. allowed
C. dragged D. pushed
20. A. shows B. tours
C. parties D. meetings
21.A. required B. claimed
C. ordered D. warned
22. A. remove B. survive
C. retire D. escape
23.A. display B. change
C. revision D. release
24.A. alive B. wealthy
C. busy D. weak
25. A. difficult B. simple
C. necessary D. helpful
26.A. experiences B. lessons
C. choices D. decisions
27. A. affects B. makes
C. shares D. raises
28.A. tip B. figure
C. goal D. example
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Some years ago when I was in my second year in university, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome's 5 filled the room and brought the theatre to life. I was so 6 that I decided to write an article about her.
I 7 Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career. She 8 and told me to come to her studio
next Tuesday. When I hung up， I was scared out of my mind. 1 9 1 was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn't even written a grocery list.
I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there 10 ， taking notes and asking questions that be?gan with "Can you tell me " I soon realized that
11 Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The 12 was almost unbearable (不可容忍的).I struggled for days 13 draft after draft. Finally I put my manu?script (手稿)into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.
It didn't take long. My manuscript 14 . How stupid of me ！ I thought. How could I 15 in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn't 16 the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.
Five years later, I was moving to California. While 17 my apartment, I came across the unopened enve?lope. This time 1 opened it and 18 the editors' letter in disbelief: Dear Ms Pro fit
Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet ive need some 19 materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We •would like to 20 your sto?ry soon.
Shocked, it took me a long time to 21 Fear of rejection cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and the chance of having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly， I lost years of
22 writing. Today, I have become a full-time writ?er. Looking back on this 23 ， I learned a very im?portant lesson: you can't 24 to doubt yourself.
5.A. joy B. speech
C.voice D. smile
6.A. active B. moved
C.satisfied D. proud
7.A. visited B. e-mailed
C.phoned D. interviewed
8.A. refused B. agreed
C.hesitated D. paused
9.A. replied B. discovered
C.knew D. explained
10.A. seriously B. patiently
C.nervously D. quietly
11.A. fooling B. blaming
C.inviting D. urging
12.A. hardship B. failure
C.pressure D. comment
13.A. on B. with
C.by D. in
14.A. disappeared B. returned
C.spread D. improved
15.A. compare B. survive
C.compete D. struggle
16.A. ignore B. deliver
C.receive D. face
17.A. repairing B. cleaning
C.decorating D. leaving
18.A. read B. saw
C.found D. noticed
19.A. memorial B. private
C.relevant D. reliable
20.A. broadcast B. publish
C.create D. assess
21.A. prepare B, escape
C.recover D. concentrate
22.A. enjoyable B. energetic
C.typical D. endless
23.A. success B. experience ,
C.benefit D. accident
24.A. attempt B. pretend
C. afford D. expect
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I.閱讀理解
A [2015 .山東省滕州高三模擬]
As I grew older, my dad and I grew further apart. We al?ways had totally different opinions. He thought that college was a waste of time, but for me it was important to finish col?lege. He wanted me to work my way to the top as he had done in his field, but I wanted a different life. There was a time when we did not talk with each other.
A few months ago, I heard that my 84-year-old dad was in poor health. When he called and asked whether I could move from Colorado back to Tennessee to help him, I knew he was seriously ill. I am his only child and so it was time to meet my father's requirement.
Two weeks after moving back, we bought a boat and started fishing again. Fishing was one of the few things that we did while I was young and that we both enjoyed. It is strange but true that as we are fishing we are able to put things that have kept us apart for so many years behind us. We are able to talk about things that we have never talked about before. Fishing has been healing the old wounds that have kept us apart.
It is not important how many fish we catch. It is about enjoying the relationship that we have not had for years. I' m 62 and he is 84. When we are on the lake fishing, it is like two kids enjoying life. It is far better to find a way to put the un?happy past behind. I am so lucky to spend the happy time with my father in his last years. Now my heart is filled with love. A smile always graces my lips.
1. The author and his father became further apart because
A. they lived very far from each other
B. they seldom went to see each other
C. they only communicated by phone
D. they had different views on things
2. Why did the author come back to Tennessee?
A. Because his father invited him to work there.
B. Because he decided to live in a different city.
C. Because his father was ill and needed caring.
D. Because he regretted being rude to his father.
3.For the author, fishing with his old father___________ .
A. helps cure his father's disease
B. makes him realize the importance of relaxation
C.is a good way to get close to nature
D. provides a chance for them to communicate
4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Fishing brings us together
B.Forgiving is difficult
C. Memories of old days
D.My beloved father
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