One Friday night in the eighth grade, I really ___30___ things to the limit. A neighborhood girl had persuaded me to ___31___ out of the house with her to meet some boys. I put Advil(镇痛药) in my parents’ drinks after dinner, ___32___ it would make them sleepy. Wow! I’d never seen them so ___33___. “Now they would surely send me back”, I thought. Instead they said. “Ashley, we are family, we have nowhere to send you back to, we must ___34___ this like a family.”
I ran in ___35___ to my bedroom, where I spent the weekend. Seeing how much I’d disappointed them made me ___36___. No one had ever cared for me like that. I didn’t deserve this ___37___.
Sunday night, Gay came into my room. She ___38___ down and kissed my cheek. “Love you, sweetie,” she said. For the first time ever, I kissed her back. “Love you too,” I said. That word-love-sounded so ___39___, yet felt so true. I was discovering that love is what makes a(n) ___40___. 21. A. fortnight 22. A. cruel 23. A. moved persuaded 24. A. family 25 A. possibly certainly 26. A. point 27. A. started 28. A. happily 29. A. mad 30. A. dragged 31. A. run 32. A. discovering 33. A. nice 34. A. deal with down
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B. week B. mad B. discovered
C. month C. angry C. adopted
D. decade D. strange D.
B. kindness B. finally
C. love C. truly
D. reason D.
B. choice B. refused B. painstakingly B. relaxed B. proved B. jump B. observing B. angry B. put down
C. difference C. wanted C. willingly C. content C. pulled C. slide C. seeing C. different C. look through
D. evidence D. agreed D. easily D. shocked D. pushed D. break D. thinking D. cruel D. write
35. A. joy laughters 36. A. ashamed satisfied 37. A. service 38. A. bent 39. A. different 40. A. group
B. tears C. anger D.
B. annoyed C. excited D.
B. honor B. took B. popular B. family
C. honesty C. put C. strange C. adult
D. kindness D. broke D. familiar D. union
【答案】21. D 22. A 23. C 24. D 25. C 26. C 27. B 28. B 29. A 30. D 31. C 32. D 33. B 34. A 35. B 36. A 37. D 38. A 39. C 40. B 【解析】
本文是一篇记叙文。作者在将近十年的时间里,穿梭于收养家庭和集体家庭之间。她一直怀疑是否有真爱,直到12岁时,终于在盖伊和菲尔科特这对夫妇获得了真爱。 【21题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。A. fortnight两星期;B. week星期;C. month月;D. decade十年。根据下文I’d been lied to by adults so many times in the past years.提示可知,近十年来,我在收养家庭和集体家庭之间穿梭。故选D。 【22题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。A. cruel残忍的;B. mad疯狂的;C. angry愤怒的;D. strange奇怪的。根据后文like evils in a dark fairy tale可知,另一些家庭很残忍,就像黑暗童话中的恶魔。故选A。 【23题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。A. moved感动;B. discovered发现;C. adopted收养;D. persuaded劝服。12岁时,我终于被盖伊和菲尔科特这对夫妇收养了。故选C。 【24题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。A. family家庭;B. kindness善意;C. love爱;D. reason原因。根据后句and we believe that reason is you.可知,我们活着是有原因的,我们相信原因就是你。故选D。 【25题详解】
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考查副词词义辨析。A. possibly可能地;B. finally最终;C. truly真地;D. certainly当然。根据前句I’d been lied to by adults so many times in the past years.可知,我被大人们骗了很多次,故我不确定他们是否真的爱我。故选C。 【26题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。A. point观点;B. choice选择;C. difference区别;D. evidence证据。根据后一句All those parents were pretty much the same可知,所有的父母都差不多,故这一句是说没有区别,故选C。 【27题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。A. started开始;B. refused拒绝;C. wanted想要;D. agreed同意。根据后文的描述可知,我拒绝叫他们爸爸妈妈。故选B。 【28题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。A. happily快乐地;B. painstakingly煞费苦心地;费力地;C. willingly情愿地;D. easily容易地。我特别喜欢盖伊精心准备的家常菜。故选B。 【29题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。A. mad生气的;B. relaxed放松的;C. content满足的;D. shocked震惊的。我想让他们生气,这样他们才会露出真面目。故选A。 【30题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。A. dragged拖;B. proved证明;C. pulled拉;D. pushed推。八年级的一个周五晚上,我真的把事情推到了极限。故选D。 【31题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。A. run跑;B. jump跳;C. slide滑,溜;D. break打破。一个邻家女孩说服我和她一起溜出房子去见几个男孩。故选C。 【32题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。A. discovering发现;B. observing观察;C. seeing看见;D. thinking思考。晚饭后,我把镇痛药放在我父母的饮料,看到它让他们昏昏欲睡。故选D。 【33题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。A. nice美妙的;B. angry生气的;C. different不同的;D. cruel残酷的。我会从未见过他们如此生气。故选B。 【34题详解】
考查动词短语词义辨析。A. deal with处理;B. put down记下;C. look through浏览;D.
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write down写下。我们必须像一家人一样处理这件事。故选A。 【35题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。A. joy喜悦;B. tears眼泪;C. anger生气;D. laughters笑。根据后文的描述可推知,我带着眼泪跑回我的卧室。故选B。 【36题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。A. ashamed羞愧的;B. annoyed恼怒的;C. excited激动地;D. satisfied满意的。根据Seeing how much I’d disappointed them made me ___16___.可知,看到我使他们多么失望,我感到羞愧。故选A。 【37题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。A. service服务;B. honor荣誉;C. honesty坦诚;D. kindness善意。我不配这样的善意。故选D。 【38题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。A. bent弯腰;B. took拿走;C. put放;D. broke折断。短语take down这里为“俯身”之意。她俯下身,吻了吻我的脸颊。故选A。 【39题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。A. different不同的;B. popular受欢迎的;C. strange奇怪的;D. familiar熟悉的。根据yet felt so true.可知,“爱”这个词听起来那么奇怪,却又那么真切。故选C。 【40题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。A. group团体;B. family家庭;C. adult成人;D. union联盟。我发现爱是组成一个家庭的要素。故选B。
第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
On Oct. 16, 2018, one of the two co-founders of Microsoft, Paul G. Allen, ___41___ (die)at age 65 from cancer.
When ___42___ comes to Microsoft, the first person we think of was Bill Gates, the other co-founder of the firm. ___43___, Allen was just as important to the ___44___ (create)of the company. Allen was, many people say, a much quieter person. He was content with the science side of things, while Gates has the ___45___ (good)head for business.
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When the pair started Microsoft in the mid-1970s, they focused on the microcomputer industry. Microcomputers were small computers ___46___ (design)to be used in the home. ___47___ they lacked, though, was an operating system, which is where Microsoft came in. The company’s big break came in 1980, ___48___ Microsoft created the MS-DOS operating system. Later came Windows.
After Allen passed away, Bill Gates made a statement ___49___ (praise)Allen, “Even in high school, before most people knew what a personal computer was, Paul predicted that chips would get super-powerful and would ____50____(eventual)give rise to a whole new industry. ” 【答案】41. died 42. it 43. However 44. creation
45. better 46. designed 47. What 48. when 49. to praise 50. eventually 【解析】 【分析】
这是一篇记叙文。文章主要悼念了过世的微软创始人之一--Paul G. Allen,讲述了他和Bill Gates之间的创业经历,同时提到了Bill Gates对他的赞赏。 【41题详解】
考查时态。句意:2018年10月16日,微软两位联合创始人之一保罗·g·艾伦(Paul G. Allen)因癌症去世,享年65岁。根据语境On Oct.16, 2018可知,应是一般过去时。故填died。 【42题详解】
考查固定句式。句意:说到微软,我们首先想到的是该公司的另一位联合创始人比尔·盖茨。when it comes to… 固定句式,意为“当谈及……”。故填it。 【43题详解】
考查副词。句意:然而,艾伦对公司的创立同样重要。分析可知,本句与前一句为转折关系,应用转折副词however。故填However。 【44题详解】
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