Daughter: I can't hear you, Mum. It's a really bad line. Mother: Sorry, dear. I said how a
A.Glad to hear it
B.Don't worry
C.Take your time
D.Take care
A.Glad to hear it
B.Don't worry
C.Take your time
D.Take care
Harry was worried. He remembered【24】the woman a return ticket. After he【25】the Jersey timetable for May 22nd, he knew she was right. However, had he made【26】mistake?【27】what to do, he smiled at the child, "Did you have a nice holiday in Jersey?" he said to her. "Yes," she answered shyly. "The seashore was【28】and I can swim【29】!"
"That's fine," said Harry. "My little girl can't swim a bit yet. Of course, she's only three..."
Harry turned to the mother, "I remember your ticket, madam," he said. "30 you didn't get one for your daughter,【31】you?"
"Well," the woman looked at the child. "I mean she hasn't started【32】yet. She is only four. "
"A four-year-old child【33】have a ticket, madam. A child's return ticket to Jersey costs $13.50. So if the railway pays your hotel bill, you will【34】. $1.50. The law is the law, but since the mistake was【35】..."
Saying nothing, the woman stood up, took the child's hand and left the office.
(41)
A.bought
B.sold
C.got
D.paid
听力原文:Daughter: Dad,dad. What's for breakfast?
Dad:
[Dad mumbles something. ]
Daughter: Dad?
Dad: What?
Daughter: What's for breakfast?
Dad: Uh,there's a banana on the kitchen counter. Enjoy.
Daughter: Dad,that banana's all bruised,and it looks like the eat took a bite out of it last night…dad. Wake up.
Dad: Okay. Uh,there's some cereal in the cupboard. Help yourself.
Daughter: But there's no milk.
Dad: Well,just mix up some powered milk.
Daughter: Ah,no way. That stuff is nasty and warm. Come on,dad。
Dad: Uh,okay. I guess I could make some pancakes.
Daughter: Uh,no. The last time you made pancakes,they were as hard as rocks. Even the dog wouldn't touch them
Dad: That bad?[Yeah. ]Alright. Wait!Why in the world are we having this conversation anyway? You're 19 years old. Make your own breakfast. I'm going back to bed.
Daughter: Because you love me…plus you said that you'd make something for me if I cleaned the dishes last night.
Dad: Okay. How about some eggs and bacon?I can't go wrong there.
Daughter: Okay,but don't put any of that funny stuff in it…you know,those weird mushrooms like you did last time.
Dad: Okay,okay. So,you want me to keep things simple,right?
Daughter: Exactly. But,please hurry. My friend is picking me up in a few minutes.
Dad: On a Saturday morning?
Daughter: Yeah. He's taking me fishing.
Dad: Fishing?Since when did you start liking fishing?
Daughter: Since Dirk gave me this ring!What do you think?
Dad: What?Wait. I'm not going to ask. Let me get breakfast on the table…Then,we'll have a long chat.
Daughter: Oh,he's here. I'll just take the $20 bill out of your wallet. I can buy breakfast on the way. Bye.
Dad: Oh,no!
(26)
A.The banana is still green.
B.Their pet ate part of it.
C.The daughter hates bananas.
D.The banana smells weird.
The angry woman sat in the station office.“The railway should pay me $12.”She said to Harry the man who sold the ticket."My ticket was121May 22nd, and there was 122 train from Jersey that night. My daughter and I had to stay in a hotel.It cost me $12."
Harry was worried. He remembered123the woman a return ticket. After he checked the Jersey timetable for May 22nd, he knew she was right.However had he made 124mistake?125 what to do, he
smiled at the child. “Did you have a nice holiday in Jersey?”he said to her."yes"she answered shyly.“The seashore was 126andIcanswim 127!”
"That’s fine”said Harry. "My little girl can’t swim a bit yet. Of course, she’s only three... Harry turned to the mother. “ remember your ticket, madam”he said,"But you didn’t get one for your daughter, 128 you?"
"Well,"the woman looked at the child. "I mean she hasn’t started school yet. She is only four."
"A four-year-old child 129have a ticketmadam.A child’s return ticket to Jersey costs $13.5. so if the railway pays your hotel bill, you will owe $1.50.The law is the law, but since the mistake was130 Saying nothing, the woman stood up took the child’s hand and left the office.
第二节 完型填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
My wife and I had just finished the 150-mile trip home from our daughter's college. Actually, it was the first time in our lives that she would go away for any length of 【B1】.0We wondered how other people had【B2】it.
Later in bed, I 【B3】the time I started college. My father had driven me, too. My mother had to stay 【B4】to keep the cattle from getting into the crops. I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to 【B5】college.
The truck was slow, and I was glad. I didn't want to get to 【B6】 too soon. I shook hands with my father in the truck and he didn't say a word. But I knew he was going to make a little【B7】 He finally said, "You know, I never went to college and 【B8】of your brothers did. I can't say don't do this or that, because everything is 【B9】and I don't know what is going to 【B10】, but I think things will work out. When you get a job, be sure to be 【B11】 and work hard." I knew that soon I would be 【B12】in the
big town and I would be 【B13】the life at home.
Then my father brought out the Bible(圣经) that he had read so【B14】. I knew that he would miss it and I must 【B15】 it. He just said, "This can help you if you will let it."
When I finished school I took the Bible back to my father. But he said he wanted me to【B16】 it.
Now, too late, I remember. It would have been so 【B17】 to give it to my daughter when she got out of the car. But I didn't. I could give her 【B18】. My father could give me only a Bible. But I don't really believe now that I gave her 【B19】 as much as my father gave me. So the next morning I 【B20】up the book and sent it to her. I wrote a note. "This can help you," I said, "if you will let it."
【B1】
A.time
B.distance
C.way
D.direction
B: Yes. They made him stop working after 50 years at sea. He's pretty upset about it, but what can you do? He has to accept that.
A: He's all alone, isn't he?
B: Yes. His wife's been dead for years. They had one daughter, Doris, but she went off to town as soon as she left school, and he hasn't heard from her since. I hear she's making good money as a model.
A: Maybe someone should get in touch with her, get her to come back for a bit to help?
B: I don't suppose she'd come. She never got on with her father. He's a bit of a tough character, and she's as selfish as before. Oh, I expect old Jake will get by. He's healthy at least, comes into the clinic for a check regularly.
A: Are you his doctor?
B: No. My colleague, Dr. Thomas is.
A: That bad-tempered old man?
B: Oh, no. Dr. Thomas is not really bad-tempered. He just looks like it. He's an excellent doctor. He teaches me a lot. And he has a very nice family--his wife invites me over there to supper every week, very pleasant.
A: I know his daughter, a bit careless but bright and popular with her age-group.
B: I like that little girl, too.
(20)
A.Two.
B.Four.
C.Six.
D.Five.
M: Yes. They made him retire after fifty years at sea. He is pretty upset about it, but what can you do? He really is past it. W: He is all alone, isn't he?
M: Yes, his wife has been dead for years. They had one daughter. Dories. But she went off to town as soon as she left school. And he hasn't heard from her since. I hear she is making good money as a model.
W: Maybe someone could get in touch with her. Get her to come back for a while to help?
M: I don't suppose she'll come. She never got on with her father. He is a bit of a tough character and she is rather selfish. Oh, I expect old Jake will get by. He is healthy at least, comes into a clinic for a check regularly.
W: Are you his doctor?
M: No, my partner doctor Johnson is.
W: That bad-tempered old thing?
M: Oh, he isn't really bad-tempered. He just looks it. He is an excellent doctor, taught me a lot, and he has a very nice family. His wife invites me over there to supper every week. Very pleasant.
W: Yes. I teach the daughter Pen at school. She is a bit careless and lazy about her school work, but a bright little thing and very popular with her age group.
Questions:
Why does old Jake look terribly depressed?
What do we learn about Jake's wife?
What does the man say about Jake's daughter?
What does the man say about Jake's doctor?
(23)
A.His health is getting worse.
B.He can no longer work at sea.
C.His past life upsets him a good deal.
D.He has not got the expected pension.
The following passage contains TEN errors, one in each numbered line. Underline the errors and put the corrections in the blanks.(标红句子为无错误句,大家把改好的词写在答案区就可以了,忽略具体哪个行哪个词。) Last week I had a disagreement in a matter of principle with a man at work. When I got home, I gave my daughter a blow-by-blow account of the bust-up, expected her loyal support. Instead she rolled her eyes. “Poor X,” she said, sided with my adversary. “You can be very difficult,” she explained, “I don’t think you realize it.” She is right about the second point. I do not see myself as difficult—I am perfectly reasonable. To check this was the consensus view, the following morning I conducted a survey. I bearded first colleague I saw and demanded: “Am I difficult?” He looked uncomfortable at be put on the spot when he had barely put his coat off. “Yes,” he said. I asked three more people. All gave the same answer. To be difficult at work is not generally thought to be a good thing. On Amazon there are 1,387 titles on how to deal with difficult people with titles such as Since Strangling Isn’t an Option. I failed finding a single volume called What to Do When the Difficult Person Is Me or How to Be Difficult and Influence People. As a columnist, being difficult is part of the job—if you do not enjoy sometimes get up the noses of readers, you are too bland to be any good. Indeed, as a journalist, be personally difficult can serve you rather well.
Harry was worrieD. He remembered selling the woman a return ticket. “ Come into the office, madam,” he said, “ I’ll just check the Jersey timetable for May 22nd .”
The woman and her little girl followed him inside. She was quite right, as Harry soon discovereD. There was no sailing on May 22nD. How ever had he made such a big mistake? Wondering what to do, he smiled at the chilD. “You look healthy,” he said to her. “ Did you have a nice holiday in Jersey?”
“ Yes,” she answereD. “ The beach was beautiful. And I can swim too!”
“ That’s fine,” said Harry. “ My little girl can’t swim a bit yet. Of course, she’s only three-----”
“ I’m four,” the child said proudly. “ I’ll soon be four and a half.”
Harry turned to the mother. “ I remember your ticket, madam,” he saiD. “ But you didn’t get one for your daughter, did you?”
“ Er, well-----” The woman looked at the chilD. “ I mean-----she hasn’t started school yet. She’s only four.”
“ A four year old child must have a ticket, madam. A child’s return to Jersey costs----let me see----£13.50.So if the railway pays your hotel bill, you will owe £1.50.The law is the law, but since we have made a mistake-----”
The woman stood up, took the child’s hand and left the office.
9.The angry woman went to the station __________.
A. to buy a ticket for her daughter
B. to ask the railway to pay her hotel bill
C. to have a friendly talk with the booking clerk
D. to buy the Jersey timetable
9.Harry had a talk with the girl in order to _________.
A. please the girl and her mother
B. find out how old the girl was and whether the girl had been to Jersey
C. get some information about Jersey
D. find out how many days they spent in Jersey
9.The hotel bill is __________.
A. more than the cost of a child’s ticket
B. exactly the same as the cost of a child’s ticket
C. less than the cost a child’s ticket
D. more than the cost of a woman’s ticket
9.The child is ___________ years old.
A. two
B. four
C. three
D. five
9.A girl of _________ should buy a ticket according to the law of the railway.
A. three
B. four
C. five
D. six
My dad was aplumber for the public works department in our town, so from time to time he came into my school. Can you imagine sitting in class and seeing your dad peek through the door of your classroom and wave at you? In junior high? One girl in our classalways made fun of me becausemy dad was a plumber and hers was a lawyer, and shewould say things like, “ that is gross! ” I must admit I was sometimes embarrassed by what my dad did, especially in my early teens, when the only thing I really cared about was what the other girls thought.
The girl lived a few streets away from us, and a winter day---the day her elder sister got married---the toilet in their main upstairs bathroom cracked and there was water everywhere. Her father called every plumber in the yellow book but nobody would come out becauseof the major snowstorm. His daughter told her father that my father was a plumber, and he called. My dad went over andtook me with him(maybe he was hoping that the lawyer ’s daughter would be nicer to me.)
My father fixed the toilet, helped to clean up everything, and didn ’t take a dime for the trouble. But aswe were leaving, he told the girl“If I ever need a lawyer, I ’ ll be happy to call your dad.” As we walked to our car, he said to me, “ Doyou believe he didn ’t know where the main shut-off valve was?What a dumb ass! ”
From that point on, her dadwas known in school asAttorney Dumb Ass. When my husband and I bought our house,the first thing my dad showed him was the main shut-off valve. I have always been proud to say that I ’maplumber ’s daughter.
When her father came to her school and peeked through the classroom door, the writer might feel ________.
A.pleased
B.embarrassed
C.disappointed
D.proud
The girl ’s attitude towards the writer can be bestdescribed as________.A.unfriendly
B.doubtful
C.kind
D.gross
In her early teens,the only thing the writer careabout was _________.A.her study
B.her appearance
C.what her father did
D.what the other girls thought
Why couldn ’t the lawyer find anybody to fix the toilet on that winter day?A.He hadlittle money
B.All the plumbers were too busy to come
C.There was a major snowstorm and nobody would come out
D.One of his daughters was getting married and the house was in a mess
What might the writer ’s father think of the lawyer?A.Generous
B.Intelligent
C.Stupid
D.Respectful
第二节 完型填空
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I'll never forget that summer day in 1965 when my mother suddenly died of an unexplained illness at the age of 36. Later that afternoon, a police officer stopped by to ask for my father's 【B1】for the hospital to【B2】Mother's valve (心脏瓣膜). I was shocked. I ran into the house 【B3】. At 14 I just couldn't understand why anyone would take apart a person I【B4】. 【B5】my father told him, "Yes." "How can you let them do that to her?" I 【B6】him. "Linda," he said quietly, 【B7】his arms around me, "the greatest 【B8】you can give is a 【B9】of yourself. Your mother and I decided 【B10】that if we can make【B11】in just one person's life after we die, our death will have【B12】."
The 【B13】my father taught me that day became one of the most 【B14】in my life. Years passed. I married and had a family of my own. In 1986, my father became seriously ill.
He【B15】told me that when he died, he wanted to donate (捐献) 【B16】 was【B17】 good condition, especially his eyes. My father died and we donated his eyes as he had wanted. Three days later, my daughter said," Mom, I' m so 【B18】of what you did for Grandpa." At that moment I realized that my father gave much more than【B19】What he 【B20】behind sparkled in my daughter's eyes-pride.
【B1】
A.advice
B.suggestion
C.permission
D.speech
M: No, certainly not. Nor shall we name her after eleven hockey players if she's a girl.
W: But choosing even one name is difficult. Which names have you thought of?
M: Helen wants to call the child John after me. I don't want to. My name is too plain.
W: And if a girl comes, you won't like plain Jane any better. What about Jonathan or Janet?
M: Every Jonathan I know is called Jon for short, so that's no good. Helen's an opera-lover. So we might call a daughter Carmen.
W: You could name a boy after a poet. How would you like to know someone called Dante Brown, Shakespeare Robinson or Keats Thompson?
M: Those names are old-fashioned. But up-to-date names can be worse. Some people call their children after film stars or pop stars. How dreadful to be christened Clint, Elvis, Rod or Ringo!
W: Lots of children hate the names they have been given. Why not give a child a number instead? Then he can exchange his number for a name of his own choice when he is old enough to decide himself what he would like to be called.
What is the conversation mainly about?
A.Choosing names for children.
B.Family names.
C.Up-to-date names.
D.Names of famous writers.
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