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Unit 5What were you doing when the rainstorm came ？ 一、阅读理解 It was a cold winter day. Bob and two of his friends went into the mountain. They first put up their tents under the trees and then rode horses to a forest to see how the trees were growing. In the afternoon when they were about ten kilometers away from their camp, it started to snow. Soon they could not even see their hands clearly before their faces. They could not find the way. They felt frightened. Bob knew there were two roads. One road led to their camp, and the other led to his house. But everything was the same white as snow. How could he take his friends back to the camp? Bob had an idea. The horses! Bob thought, “Let the horses take us back. But what would happen if the horses took the road to my home? That would be a trip of thirty-five kilometers in such cold weather. We’d better find our tents.” But he didn’t have a better idea. It was getting late. They rode on and on. At last, the horses stopped. Where were they? None of them could tell. Bob looked around and found a small white “hill” under the tree. How wonderful! They found one of their tents! 1．How many people went into the mountain on the cold winter day? A．One. B．Two. C．Three. D．Four. 2．What does the underlined word “frightened” mean in Paragraph 2? A．Crazy. B．Excited. C．Scared. D．Happy. 3．In the afternoon when they were far away from their camp, it started to ______. A．snow B．be windy C．rain D．be sunny 4．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A．Bob and his friends put up their tents under the trees beside a river. B．Bob and his friends got lost because it was too dark to find the road. C．Bob and his friends went to a forest to see the trees by horse. D．Bob was sure the horses could take them back to their tents. 5．Where did the horses take Bob and his friends at last? A．To Bob’s house. B．To their tents. C．To a small hill. D．To the forest. These days, women go to space. They go around the world by ship. They have all kinds of ideas and make them come true. This wasn’t true hundreds of years ago. Back then, women were expected to stay at home. But that didn’t stop these three women from doing big things. Jeanne Baret (1740—1807): Baret was a scientist in France. She studied plants. And she was the first woman to go on a tour around the world. In 1766, Baret wanted to go to sea with a group of scientists. But Baret had to dress up like a man to travel on French ships. Hester Stanhope (1776—1839): Stanhope was from England. She wanted to travel. She traveled throughout the Middle East by herself. And she led a team to do archeological (考古学的) work there. She was the first woman to do this. Nellie Bly (1864—1922): Bly was a reporter in America. In 1887, she wrote a story about hidden problems at a hospital. She dressed up like a sick person at the hospital. Then she wrote an excellent six-part report. The story made Bly famous. Two years later, Bly set a world record. She traveled around the world in seventy-two days! 6．How do women go around the world now according to Paragraph 1? A．By ship. B．By plane. C．By car. D．By train. 7．What did Jeanne Baret do in order to travel on French ships? A．She hid herself on the ship. B．She went to the Middle East alone. C．She dressed up like a sick person. D．She dressed up like a man. 8．Where did Hester Stanhope lead a team? A．In France. B．In England. C．In the Middle East. D．In America. 9．When did Bly travel around the world? A．In 1766. B．In 1887. C．In 1889. D．In 1902. 10．Where is this passage most probably from? A．A magazine. B．A travel guide. C．A city map. D．A school notice. That year, I was a Junior 2 student. Falling off the stairs hurt me in the head. Almost everyone thought I was dead. But they were wrong. However, it was difficult to get back to normal(正常的) life. I had to leave school and learn everything, walking, talking, and yes, maths. To help me with that task, Mrs. Pillar volunteered to come to the hospital and later to my house once a week. We began with basic maths skills. As time passed by, I made progress. I remember very vividly how she came to my home on Sundays, sat with me at the kitchen table, and threw different coins on the table. She asked me to show her 38 cents, 17 cents, 63 cents. It was challenging, but she also made it fun. After a year and a half, I had progressed a lot, both in body and mind, to return to school. Seven years later, I graduated from the University of Texas at the top of my class. As years went by, I always kept in touch with Mrs. Pillar. Unluckily, one day my parents told me that Mrs. Pillar had been in hospital because she suffered a stroke(中风). Now it was my turn to help her. Mrs. Pillar lay in bed, unable to speak or know anybody around. I pulled some coins out of my pocket, dropped them on her bed, and asked her to show me 12 cents. The nurse thought that my action was very strange until one day Mrs. Pillar smiled happily as I began working with her—just as she had worked with me years before. She made progress everyday and was moved out of ICU(重症监护室) and finally out of hospital. One day, I called to wish her a happy New Year. She spoke into the phone excitedly, “Happy New Year to you and your family, Michael. Thank you for everything you’ve done for me.” I quickly said, “Thank you for everything you’ve done for me.” Mrs. Pillar was one of my Junior 2 teachers, but she taught me so much more about life than only maths. 11．Which of the following is the correct order of what happened in the story? a. Mrs. Pillar suffered a stroke and was in hospital. b. I fell off the stairs and had to leave school. c. I returned to school with Mrs. Pillar’s help. d. Mrs. Pillar got better with my help. A．b-c-d-a B．c-a-d-b C．b-c-a-d D．b-d-c-a 12．What does the underlined word “vividly” mean in Paragraph(段落) 3? A．模糊地 B．清晰地 C．彻底地 D．感激地 13．What does the writer mean by saying “I graduated from the University of Texas at the top of my class” in Paragraph 4? A．He was cleverer than his classmates. B．He worked very hard on maths. C．His classmates failed to graduate. D．Mrs. Pillar’s help greatly influenced him. 14．The writer asked Mrs. Pillar to show him 12 cents in the hospital in order to ________. A．help Mrs. Pillar just as Mrs. Pillar helped him B．play an interesting game with Mrs. Pillar C．see whether Mrs. Pillar was getting better D．make the nurse in the hospital feel strange 15．What is the best title for the passage? A．A Great Teacher B．Always Have A Dream C．Never Give Up D．Kindness Makes Wonders On a cold early morning, an old woman was carrying a big basket of cabbages in her hand to the market. She hoped to sell them to the people from town. The mountain road was narrow（窄的）and the old woman was walking carefully, because she did not want to have an accident and lose her cabbages. Suddenly she heard a loud bell, and a bicycle came round the corner. It passed her and went very fast down the hill. The old woman had to jump to one side of the road so quickly that the basket of cabbages nearly fell into the valley（山谷）. She looked up and saw that a young boy was on the bicycle. He was riding on without even looking round to see whether the old woman was all right. The old woman began to shout, “Come back, young man! You dropped something!” When he heard this, the boy stopped the bicycle so suddenly that he nearly fell off. Then he turned and began to push the bicycle back up to the hill. “What is it?” he asked. “What did I drop?” “Little boy,” the old woman answered, “you dropped your manners.” 16．What was the old woman carrying? A．A basket of eggs. B．A basket of pears. C．A basket of potatoes. D．A basket of cabbages. 17．Why did the woman go to town? A．Because she went to see her son. B．Because she went to sell her cabbages. C．Because she went to buy cabbages. D．Because she went to buy a bicycle. 18．What was the mountain road like? A．It was wide. B．It was narrow. C．It was long. D．It was untidy. 19．Which one is RIGHT according to the passage? A．The boy stopped to buy some cabbages. B．The boy stopped to take the old woman to town. C．The boy stopped to pick up the cabbages. D．The boy stopped to ask the old woman what he dropped. 20．What did the boy drop? A．He dropped his cabbages. B．He dropped his money. C．He dropped his manners. D．He dropped his bicycle. Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, destroying fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged (破坏) that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was killed, several were badly hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether (总共) over two hundred people were homeless after the storm. A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour. “I was eating with my wife and children,” he said, “when we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him safe but very frightened.” Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children. “There was no time to take anything,” she said, “A few minutes later, the roof came down.” Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded (水淹的) area and the welfare department (福利机构) brought them food, clothes andshelter. 21．How many homes altogether were damaged in the storm? A．Fourteen. B．Twenty-one. C．Twenty-nine. D．Thirty-six. 22．Where was Mr. Tan when the storm first began? A．He was in bed. B．He was inside the house. C．He was outside the house. D．He was on the roof. 23．Mrs. Woo and her family didn’t get hurt because ________. A．her husband knew there would be a storm B．they were all outside the house when the storm became worse C．she felt the house moving and they ran out immediately D．the welfare department helped her 24．The underlined word “shelter” in the last paragraph means ________. A．something to eat B．something to wear C．somewhere to study D．somewhere to stay 25．Which of the following may be the best title for this passage? A．A Terrible Storm B．A Lucky Woman C．Good Soldiers D．Clever People It was our last class before summer break. I was finishing up the first year of an MFA program in poetry (诗歌). I was tired and puzzled. “Was I good enough to be in the program?” When a professor (教授) asked about our summer plans, I panicked. I didn’t want to appear idle (闲散的). “Gardening.” I responded immediately. In fact, I knew nothing about plants! My professor nodded, saying, “What a good idea, Mari! Emily Dickinson loved gardening.” Emily Dickinson had lived in the countryside, studying plants as a child. I was in my late twenties living in the city without gardening experience. A few days later, I bought a jalapeno seedling (青辣椒秧苗). At least I could say I’d tried gardening. I watered and changed the dirt for my little plant. I even talked to it. And over the summer, it grew bigger and bigger. I was proud. Maybe I didn’t have a black thumb after all. I started the second year of my MFA, and then it was almost December and my jalapeno was suffering. It was brown in some places, many of its leaves had fallen off. Would my little guy make it? I prayed, “Please be okay.” As if its survival were closely linked to mine. I worked hard in school. Spring came. My jalapeno plant came back to life. It grew bigger, with new leaves. And then it flowered. I handed in my graduate paper -a book of poems -in May. “Your poems are strong,” my professor said. A huge weight lifted. I’d done it! At that time, I found the flowers on my jalapeno plant were gone. I watched closer. Where a flower had been a tiny green fruit pushed through. I smiled. I had succeeded in my MFA program, and my jalapeno plant had grown right beside me! 26．Why did the author begin gardening? A．Just by accident. B．For the love for gardening. C．To respect(尊敬) Emily Dickinson. D．Because of the professor’s words. 27．When did the author begin her first gardening? A．In her childhood. B．In one of her summer breaks. C．In her teens. D．In her first year of MFA program. 28．What does the underlined phrase “a black thumb” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? A．A talent to grow plants. B．A dirty finger to touch plants. C．A good luck to do everything. D．An inability to do gardening. 29．What can we infer from the passage? A．The author was talented in writing poems. B．The author had some hard time growing the jalapeno. C．The professor liked Emily Dickinson very much. D．The professor played an important role in the author’s success. 30．Which proverb(谚语)can best describe the story above? A．Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. B．Easier said than done. C．It’s never too old to learn. D．Do not teach fish to swim. 参考答案 1．C 2．C 3．A 4．C 5．B 本文讲述了鲍勃和他的两个朋友在森林中迷了路，最后靠着马的识路能力，回到了他们的营地。 1．细节理解题。根据“Bob and two of his friends went into the mountain.”可知，鲍勃和他的两个朋友进了山，一共三个人，故选C。 2．词义猜测题。根据“it started to snow. Soon they could not even see their hands clearly before their faces. They could not find the way.”可知，天开始下雪了，很快，他们甚至连自己的手都看不清了。他们找不到路。这时他们应该很害怕，故选C。 3．细节理解题。根据“In the afternoon when they were about ten kilometers away from their camp, it started to snow”可知，下午，当他们远离营地时，天开始下雪了。故选A。 4．细节理解题。根据“They first put up their tents under the trees and then rode horses to a forest to see how the trees were growing.”可知，鲍勃和他的朋友们骑马去森林看树。故选C。 5．细节理解题。根据“How wonderful! They found one of their tents!”可知，这些马最后把鲍勃和他的朋友们带到他们的帐篷那里，故选B。 6．A 7．D 8．C 9．C 10．A 本文讲述了几百年前三位女性不受传统的束缚、航行世界的故事。 6．细节理解题。根据“These days, women go to space. They go around the world by ship. ”可知，她们乘船环游世界，故选A。 7．细节理解题。根据“In 1766, Baret wanted to go to sea with a group of scientists. But Baret had to dress up like a man to travel on French ships.”可知，为了乘坐法国船只她装扮成了男人，故选D。 8．细节理解题。根据“She wanted to travel. She traveled throughout the Middle East by herself. And she led a team to do archeological (考古学的) work there.”可知，她带领团队在中东进行考古工作，故选C。 9．细节理解题。根据“In 1887... Two years later, Bly set a world record. She traveled around the world in seventy-two days!”可知，她是1889年环游世界的，故选C。 10．推理判断题。本文讲述了几百年前三位女性不受传统的束缚、航行世界的故事，最可能出现在杂志上，故选A。 11．C 12．B 13．D 14．A 15．D 本文介绍了作者由于一次意外从楼梯上摔下来受了严重的伤，作者说话、走路都要从头开始，但是在老师的耐心指导下最终恢复正常。后来以优异的成绩考上了大学。后来不幸的是，他的老师得了中风，作者得知消息后马上赶往医院用当年老师耐心辅导他的方式帮助老师恢复了健康。 11．细节理解题。文章介绍了作者由于一次意外从楼梯上捧下来受了严重的伤，作者说话、走路都要从头开始，但是在老师的耐心指导下最终恢复了正常。后来以优异的成绩考上了大学， 不幸的是他的老师得了中风，作者得知消息马上赶往医院，用当年老师耐心辅导他的方式帮助老师恢复了健康。所以b排在第一位；c排在第二位；a排在第三位；d排在第四位。故选C。 12．词义猜测题。根据“sat with me at the kitchen table, and threw different coins on the table. She asked me to show her 38 cents, 17 cents, 63 cents.”可知作者对当时的情景依然记忆清晰，所以vividly表示“清晰地”。故选B。 13．推理判断题。根据“After a year and a half, I had progressed a lot, both in body and mind, to return to school. Seven years later, I graduated from the University of Texas at the top of my class.”（一年半后，我的身心都有了很大的进步，可以回到学校了。七年后，我以全班第一名的成绩从德克萨斯大学毕业。）可知作者在老师的帮助下，学习成绩越来越好以至于后来以优异的成绩考上了大学。故选D。 14．细节理解题。根据“until one day Mrs. Pillar smiled happily as I began working with her—just as she had worked with me years before.”可知作者这样做的方法和当时老师对他做的是一样的，所以他用当年老师耐心辅导他的方式帮助老师恢复了健康。故选A。 15．最佳标题题。本文讲述了老师对作者的善良的帮助使作者考上了大学，同时在老师生病的时候作者又对她善良的帮助使老师恢复了健康，所以是善良创造了奇迹。故选D。 16．D 17．B 18．B 19．D 20．C 本文主要讲述了一个不礼貌的男孩在山路上骑自行车，突然从拐角处驶来，让同样在山路上的老妇人不得不飞快地跳到路的一边，以至于一篮子卷心菜差点掉进山谷里的故事。 16．细节理解题。根据“an old woman was carrying a big basket of cabbages in her hand to the market.”可知老妇人手里拿着一大篮子卷心菜。故选D。 17．细节理解题。根据“She hoped to sell them to the people from town.”可知是因为她要去市场卖白菜。故选B。 18．细节理解题。根据“The mountain road was narrow（窄的）”可知山路很窄，故选B。 19．细节理解题。根据“Come back, young man! You dropped something”以及“When he heard this, the boy stopped the bicycle so suddenly...What did I drop”可知男孩停下来问老妇人他掉了什么。故选D。 20．细节理解题。根据“you dropped your manners”可知男孩把自己的礼貌掉了，故选C。 21．D 22．B 23．C 24．D 25．A 试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了一场严重的暴风雨造成的危害。描写了人们在遭到暴风雨袭击时的感受及灾后的救助。 21．归纳理解题。从第一段可知：“fourteen”+“Seven”+“fifteen”＝36，故选D。 22．推理判断题。根据第三段的叙述，可知当时他在房子里。故选B。 23．推理判断题。从第四段中when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.可知他们感到房子晃动，就跑了出去，故选C。 24．词义猜测题。从并列的这几项“brought them food, clothes and shelter”可猜测出shelter的意思可排除A、B。根据常识，受灾的人们无家可归，除了食物、衣服之外，最需要的是什么？是学习的地方，还是住的地方？当然是后者。故选D。 25．归纳理解题。短文讲到了几个人，但是关键还是围绕这场暴风雨，因此选A。 26．A 27．B 28．D 29．B 30．A 本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了自己的园艺经历和艺术硕士学业的经历。种青辣椒秧苗虽说只是自己脱口而出的一个假期计划，但是培育它的过程伴随着自己的求学经历，因为亲力亲为，不断努力，最后在学业上也画上了圆满的句号。 26．细节理解题。根据第一段五六七句“When a professor asked about our summer plans, I panicked. I didn’t want to appear idle…Gardening…””可知，当教授问起假期计划时，我回答的园艺只是想让自己的假期看上去不那么闲散，所以开始园艺是非常偶然的。故选A。 27．细节理解题。根据第一段一七、第二段一二句“It was our last class before summer break… Gardening…A few days later, I bought a jalapeno seedling.”可知，作者是暑假的最后一节课告诉教授自己的假期计划是园艺，几天后，买来了东西，开始种植的。所以作者第一次种植应该是在一个暑假，故选B。 28．词义猜测题。根据第二段三四五六句“I watered and changed the dirt for my little plant. I even talked to it And over the summer, it grew bigger and bigger. I was proud. Maybe I didn’t have a black thumb after all.”可知，作者很精心地照顾植物，它们也长得特别好。作者很骄傲，也许这样就不会被认为没有能力做园艺了。故选D。 29．推理判断题。根据第三段 “I started the second year of my MFA, and then it was almost December and my jalapeno was suffering. It was brown in some places, many of its leaves had fallen off. …As if its survival were closely linked to mine.”可知，在开始第二年的学习时，植物的叶子掉了，颜色也变了，作者很担心它，植物的生长和自己的命运紧密相连，可见，种植的过程不是一帆风顺的，也是遇到过困难的。故选B。 30．主旨大意题。A世上无难事只怕有心人；B说起来容易做起来难；C活到老，学到老；D不要班门弄斧。本文讲了作者自己在自己不熟悉的园艺道路上亲力亲为，种植植物的过程不是一帆风顺的，但是作者尽力尝试，培育它的过程伴随着自己的求学经历，最后在学业上也画上了圆满的句号。很好地说明了世上无难事，只怕有心人，坚持就会有收获。故选A。 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$