根据 he was laughing at me，可知被人嘲笑是很受伤的 ，故选B。
（10）句意： 他的话在我脑子里生了根。 A来，B闪烁，C卡住，D出现，be stuck in，陷入，卡住不动，困住 ， 故选C。
（11）句意：通过滚动球，我可以听到球往哪里去了。A听，B看到，C感觉，D触摸，根据 By rolling the ball，可知失明的人只能听到滚动的声音，故选A。
（12）句意：这给了我一个想法，如何实现一个我认为不可能打棒球的目标。A困难的，B很可能的，C合适的，D没可能的，根据 playing baseball 可知失明的人打棒球是不可能的，故选D。
（13）句意：在我的一生中，我已经设定了一系列的目标，然后试图一次实现一个。A保持，B制作，C树立，D计划，set，set goals，设定目标，故选C。
（14）句意：不管怎样，我有时会失败，但平均来说，我取得了进步。A经过，B失败，C成功，D掉下，根据 but on the average, I made progress 可知失败是成功之母，故选B。 （15）句意：我只是说她们的小姑娘让我更加感激我留下的一切。A考虑，B感激，C意识到，D相信，本文讲述在亲人朋友的帮助下，找回了自信，学会了如何面对困难，故是感激，故选B。
【点评】考查词汇在篇章中的运用能力，答题时首先要跳过空格通读文章掌握其大意，然后细读文章字斟句酌逐一作答，注意考虑句型、语法、搭配、语境等因素。最后通读一遍检查验证。
18．通读短文，掌握大意，在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
One morning, when I was leaving for my business, a middle-aged man came up and asked me for help. He said he had no money to get food for his large family. \you work?\want?\
I decided to find out if he really meant what he said. \2 a brick under your arm and walk around the square for five hours without stopping.\\
I found a brick and started him on his walk before I went to my 3 . I never thought he would do he had said.
When I came back five hours later, I saw him still 4 with the brick under his arm. I stopped him and gave him five pounds. He thanked me and told me that some people had 5 to help him when they knew why he was doing all this. He would go and ask them for work 6 .
Before leaving, he asked if I would give him the 7 . I did.
Several years later, a well-dressed man greeted me on a train. Seeing I was not sure who he was, he 8 that he was the brick man and had his own business now. \brick and always consider it as the most 9 thing I have as it has brought me luck and success.\
In fact, it was not the brick that made the man successful, but his faithfulness（坚定） in doing 10 a very little thing. 1. A. strong 2. A. break 4. A. crying 6. A. exactly 7. A. bread
B. young B. carry B. talking
C. smart C. fix C. doing
D. honest D. hide D. walking D. completely D. job
3. A. business B. home C. bookshop D. office
5. A. continued B. forgotten C. offered D. refused
B. directly C. rapidly B. pay
C. brick
8. A. explained B. imagined C. realized D. supposed 9. A. beautiful B. important C. expensive D. interesting 10. A. ever
B. nearly
C. never
D. even
【答案】 （1）A；（2）B；（3）A；（4）D；（5）C；（6）B；（7）C；（8）A；（9）B；（10）D；
【解析】【分析】文章大意：文章主要介绍了一个贫穷的人因一块砖而逆袭的故事，告诉我们，无论我们做什么事情，态度非常关键。
（1）考查形容词辨析。句意：你看上去很强壮，你为什么不工作？A强壮的；B年轻的；C聪明的；D诚实的；根据后面Why don't you work？你为什么不工作？应该是看起来很强壮，故选A。
（2）考查动词辨析。句意：如果你在胳膊下面夹着一块砖走五个小时不停下来，我一个小时给你一英镑。A打破；B携带；C混合；D隐藏；根据后面a brick （砖） under your arm and walk round the square for five hours without stopping，在你的胳膊底下_____一块砖走5个小时不停，应该是携带，故选B。
（3）考查名词辨析．句意：在我离开去做生意之前我找到了一块砖让他开始走。A. 生
意；B. 家；C书店；D. 办公室；根据前面when I was leaving for my business当我离开去做生意的时候，可知这里是去做生意，故选A。
（4）考查动名词。句意：当我五个小时后回来时，我看到他仍然在胳膊下夹着砖走着。根据 walk around the square for five hours without stopping.\和still仍然可知他依然在走着，故选D。
（5）考查动词辨析。句意：他感谢了我并告诉我当他们知道他为什么做这些时，一些人已经主动提出要帮助他。A. 继续；B. 忘记；C. 主动提出；D. 拒绝；根据 He would go and ask them for work 6 . 可知是一些人主动提出要帮助他，故选C。
（6）句意：他会走过去，直接要求他们工作。A 准确地；B 直接地；C 讯速地；D 完全地；根据go and ask，可知要求工作的时候非常直接，没有犹豫，故选B。
（7）考查名词。句意：在离开之前，他问我是否可知把那块砖给他。A. 面包；B. 工资；C. 砖；D. 工作；根据下文l still keep that brick我仍然保留着那块砖，可知这里应该是要了那块砖，故选C。
（8）考查动词辨析．句意：看到我不确定他是谁，他解释说他就是那个砖匠，现在拥有了自己的公司。A解释；B想像；C意识；D支持；根据Seeing I was not sure who he was ，he（13）that he was the brick man and had his own business now．看到我不确定他是谁，他（13）说他是个砖匠，现在有了自己的生意．应该是解释说，故选A。
（9）考查形容词辨析。句意：我仍然保存着那块砖，因为它带给我幸运和成功。A漂亮的；B重要的；C昂贵的；D有趣的；根据后面 I have as it has brought me luck and success，我给它带来了好运和成功，应该是最重要的东西，故选B。
（10）考查副词辨析。句意：实际上，使这个人成功的不是砖头，而是他在做甚至是一件小事时的坚定。根据上下文可知此处是加强语气，故选D。
【点评】考查完型填空，根据所给的短文对意思有所了解，然后根据短文的大体意思，选择每个符合题意的答案，使短文更通顺。
19．先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
British people are famous for apologizing （道歉） in almost every situation. 1 we are apologizing for asking a question, for our bad weather or we sneeze before others （打喷嚏）,we are probably the number-one nation for apologies.
We pride ourselves on our polite 2 in public. As a result, we use the word \a lot—even when we don't really 3 it! Usually, if you want to ask someone for the time, you would start by saying \late for an appointment （约会）, you would generally 4 the person by saying \I'm late!\
We use the word \in so many different situations that the meaning of the word has slightly 5 over time. The two main dictionary definitions （定义） of \sad for someone else because of their problems or feeling regret because you've done something wrong. Usually, when you want to ask a stranger a question, you 6 with \you.\feel regret.
So what does \polite, especially to people who you don't know very well. It's also a very 8 way to get what you want. 9 , an actor asked different people on a rainy day if he could use their mobile phones. When he asked one group of strangers without apologizing first, he was only 9 per cent successful in borrowing their phones. 10 , when he apologized to another group about the bad weather before asking if he could use their mobile phones, he was 47 per cent successful. So maybe saying \what you want too! 1. A. When 3. A. mean 4. A. tell 6. A. start 7. A. history 8. A. safe 9. A. Finally
B. Whether B. enjoy B. face B. lead B. tradition B. clever B. Usually
C. Before C. accept
D. Though D. use
2. A. activities B. conversations C. manners D. discussions
C. remind D. greet C. improved D. changed C. reply C. brave
D. go D. true
C. culture D. habit C. Mostly D. Recently C. Instead D. Moreover
5. A. developed B. appeared
10. A. Otherwise B. However D；（10）B；
【答案】 （1）B；（2）C；（3）A；（4）D；（5）D；（6）A；（7）C；（8）B；（9）【解析】【分析】主要讲了英国人几乎在每个场合用到“对不起，及不同场合“对不起”的意思是不同的。
（1）句意：是否我们正在因为问问题、糟糕的天气还是在他人面前打喷嚏而道歉。A.当……时候；B.是否；C.在……之前；D.尽管。whether...or...是……还是……，故选B。 （2）句意：我们为自己公众场合里礼貌的举止行为自豪。A.活动；B.对话；C.举止行为；D.讨论。根据后文可知说对不起是礼貌的举止行为，故选C。
（3）句意：甚至当我们不真的意思是它时。A.意思，意味着；B.喜欢；C.接受；D.使用。根据句意可知我们说对不起时，我们的意思不是真的对不起，故选A。
（4）句意：你将通常通过说“对不起，我迟到了”来和那个人问候。A.告诉；B.面对；C.提醒；D.问候。根据前句可知是约会迟到，所以用对不起，我迟到了问候，故选D。 （5）句意：我们在单词已经改变的许多不同场合使用“对不起”。A.发展；B.出现；C.提高；D.改变。根据后文可知“对不起”的意思已经改变了，故选D。
（6）句意：你用“对不起打扰你”来开始。A.开始；B.导致；C.回复；D.去。start with…，用……开始，故选A。
（7）句意：在英国文化中说“对不起”是礼貌的。A.历史；B.传统；C.文化；D.习惯。根据句意可知说“对不起”是一种文化，故选C。
（8）句意：它也是得到你想要的的一种非常聪明的方法。A.安全的；B.聪明的；C.勇敢的；D.真实的。根据后文but it is also a good method to get what you want too!可知说“对不起” 是得到想要的一种好方法，即聪明的方法，故选B。
（9）句意：最近，一位演员在下雨天问不同的人是否他能够使用他们的手机。A.最后；B.通常；C.大部分；D.最近。根据句意可知讲了一个最近的事情，故选D。
（10）句意：然而当他再询问是否可以使用他们的手机时对另一个群体关于糟糕天气道歉时。A.否则；B.然而；C.相反；D.而且。根据句意可知前后表示转折，所以用however，故选B。
【点评】考查完形填空，首先通读一遍文章，跳过缺失的单词，再根据上下文来判断所缺单词的含义，最后对选项进行区别，选出正确的那一项。
20．请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A，B，C，D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch （牧场）.He has let me use his ranch to raise money for youth at risk programs.
The last time I was there he told me his story. When he was young, his family is too 1 to have a house to live in. When he was in high school, he was asked to write a paper about 2 he wanted to be and do when he grew up. That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday 3 a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great 4 and he even drew a picture to show a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch. The next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, \went to see the teacher and asked, \（an） 5 dream for a young boy like you. Having a horse ranch requires a lot of money. There's no way you could ever do it.\possible goal, I will reconsider your 6 .\
The boy went home and thought about it for a 7 and hard time. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, \Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no 9 at all. He told his teacher,\
Monty tells me this story because I am sitting in his 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of his 200-acre horse ranch. He said kids' dreams can be stolen. Don't let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.
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