【正文】 ve had a ___9___ day.可知這位年輕的女士在回答。根據(jù)“Out loud I said, ‘Do I look that old and tired?’ 可知這里意思是就在那時(shí)，一位年輕的女士帶著她的孩子站起來，給我提供座位。故選D。 （4）考查形容詞。作者以此經(jīng)歷告訴我們即使在我們最低谷的時(shí)候，我們?nèi)匀豢梢詭椭鷦e人。with a smile on the face, You look like you39。s house, I was 4 空前說1到12年級的免費(fèi)公共教育如今已經(jīng)遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠了，但我們還沒有做出調(diào)整使我們的制度適應(yīng)當(dāng)前實(shí)際，故答案為B。根據(jù)本空后的“from Australia39。A. at play 起作用；B. under control 在控制之下；C. in use在使用中；D. on show展出。 （6）句意：然而，歧視只是這種情況的一小部分原因。排除；D. exposed揭露、使顯露。根據(jù)本空后的“Today, the United States has less equality of opportunity than almost any other advanced industrial country.”可知，今天，美國的機(jī)會平等程度幾乎低于任何其他發(fā)達(dá)工業(yè)國家，這說明理想與現(xiàn)實(shí)之間的差距沒有縮小，故答案為A。 （1）句意：我們堅(jiān)信，一個(gè)出生在貧困家庭的小女孩知道她和其他人一樣有成功的機(jī)會。our system to contemporary realities. Now Americans are ing to realize that without extensive policy changes, their long cherished belief is only a myth. It is unreasonable that a rich country like the United States has made 11 the myth that America is a land of opportunity. A way of looking at equality of opportunity is to as to what extent the life chances of a child are 4 s second Inaugural Address used soaring language to stress America39。A. unusual”不同尋常的“；B. best”最好的“；C. easiest”最容易的“；D. rare”稀有的“。故選A。句意:我們笑著談?wù)撋妮喕?死亡意味著什么,真正活著意味著什么。根據(jù)下文”this experience of the spider building her web, we were both just quite happy.“可知作者和女兒分享了蜘蛛織網(wǎng)的經(jīng)歷。 （14）考查動(dòng)詞。A. normally”正常地“；B. simply”簡單地“；C. fluently”流利地“；D. independently”獨(dú)立地“。故選D。A. knocked”敲擊“；B. moved”移動(dòng)“；C. hit”打擊“；D. hurt”傷害“。根據(jù)上文可知女兒不怕蜘蛛,反而欣喜地看著蜘蛛。 （6）考查形容詞。句意:我女兒首先注意到的是——在我們游泳池周圍新粉刷過的藍(lán)色柵欄的底部,有一只蜘蛛正在結(jié)網(wǎng)。A. hear of”聽說“；B. talk about”談?wù)摗埃籆. argue about”爭論“；D. plain of”抱怨“。這樣做，你會有特別的時(shí)刻和特殊的記憶，將持續(xù)一生。me. I had lost the track of 10 . I honestly didn39。it first — a spider was spinning her web at the bottom of the freshly painted blue fence that 5 （20）句意：有時(shí)候它是一些重要的小事。C. mean意味著。B. without沒有。 A. though盡管。 A. had擁有。 A. difficult困難的。根據(jù)前文提到的She thought about 根據(jù)本句中的a piece of paper可知，她的丈夫?qū)懴铝艘痪湓?。D. moved感動(dòng)。C. excited興奮的。B. trade貿(mào)易。A. looked at看著。A. noon正午。 （7）句意：有一次他們兩個(gè)一起熬夜。故選C。C. never絕不。B. it它。A. friend朋友。 （2）句意：我的一個(gè)好朋友在飛機(jī)事故中去世了。A. books書。, she walked out on the loft (樓閣), 9 A、doubt“懷疑”；B、wonder“想知道”；C、know“直到”；D、guess“猜想”。A、ready“樂意的，有準(zhǔn)備的”；B、likely“可能的”；C、free“自由的，免費(fèi)的”；D、able“有能力的”。A、appearance“外表，出現(xiàn)”；B、look“表情”；C、words“話語”；D、speech“演講，報(bào)告”。句意：作者被他的話感動(dòng)了。句意：爸爸說他獲得了家人的愛。 B. anything“ 任何事（物）” ； 選C。 故選B。故選C。A. impossible“ 不可能的”； 故選D。A. tired “疲倦的”；（1）考查副詞。 I was also 14 I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. 1 , he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was 2 and ill. by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated (惱怒的) at someone, I 句意：但是，當(dāng)他強(qiáng)健的時(shí)候，他沒有教我學(xué)習(xí)接受生活。 ”虛弱的” ；C. poor“ 貧窮的”；（4）考查動(dòng)詞。 B. difficult“困難的”； （7）考查名詞。（8）考查狀語從句。（10）考查動(dòng)詞。 C. nothing“一無所有” ； “每件事（物）”。A. had “有” ； “被觸動(dòng)，被感動(dòng)”；選C。be able to do固定短語，“能做.......”，故選D。故選B。 They were in their late forties when he died, and she began talking about a time almost twenty years earlier. She had given up her job to get her master39。him over the railing (欄桿), and just thought about how much she loved him. She knew how important this 10 was to his career, and she was feeling 11 B. hugs擁抱。A. saved救。B. place地方。C. them他們。D. even甚至。 （6）句意：他一邊要做自己的工作，一邊要在她學(xué)習(xí)的時(shí)候做飯，打掃和做其它家務(wù)。A. （stay）up熬夜。B. afternoon下午。B. called at拜訪。C. meeting會議。D. embarrassed尷尬的。聯(lián)系上文可知，她的丈夫要去參加重要會議，但卻中途折回，這讓她很吃驚很意外，符合語境。故選B。B. strange奇怪的。B. used使用。B. because因?yàn)?。C. with有。D. appreciate感謝，欣賞。A. little小的。doing something great.（真愛不一定意味著一起做偉大的事情）可知，此處應(yīng)該用little things和前文進(jìn)行對照。 My daughter and I were swimming in our pool one summer day. This day was like any of the other days, so I had no way of knowing that this one would go down in our family history as a 1 our pool. It surprised me that she saw this, and it surprised me even more that she wasn39。t know how long we had been just staying there and 11 What we had done was to spend time together and 16 （1）考查名詞。根據(jù)下文”from time to time“可知是被人時(shí)不時(shí)談起。A. remembered”記住“；B. imagined”想象“；C. watched”看著“；D. noticed”注意到“。句意:讓我吃驚的是她看到了這一切,更讓我吃驚的是她竟然不怕蜘蛛。instead表示與上文提到的情況相反,不害怕反而高興地看,故選D。hit 除打,打擊之意外,還有使忽然意識到的意思。 （11）考查動(dòng)詞短語。作者和女兒只是簡單地看著蜘蛛織網(wǎng)。句意:我們沒有拯救世界,也沒有買到最新最昂貴的玩具。故選A。A. story”故事“；B. quality”質(zhì)量“；C. end”結(jié)束“；D. circle”圓圈，輪回“。 （19）考查動(dòng)詞。結(jié)合文章內(nèi)容可知,蜘蛛和蜘蛛網(wǎng)都是生活中簡單的事情,而從這些簡單的事情當(dāng)中,作者明白了應(yīng)當(dāng)停下來享受生活,可知作者想要表達(dá)簡單的事情是生活中最好的事情,即使它們包括了蜘蛛和蜘蛛網(wǎng)。s mitment to the dream of equality of opportunity: 39。the education and ine of his parents. Is it just as likely that a child of poor or poorly educated parents gets a good education and rises to the middle class as someone born to middleclass parents with college degrees? Even in a more democratic society. The answer would be no.How do we explain this? Some of it has to do with discrimination (歧視). Latinos and AfricanAmericans still get paid less than whites, and women still get paid less than men, 5 to higher education so difficult for those at the bottom and middle. There are many 12 A. prejudice偏見；B. inferior下級；C. poverty （3）句意：一項(xiàng)又一項(xiàng)研究揭露了美國是一片充滿機(jī)遇的土地是不真實(shí)的。根據(jù)本空后的“the myth that America is a land of opportunity.”可知，一項(xiàng)又一項(xiàng)研究揭露了真相，故答案為D。A. photograph照片；B. picture圖畫；C. atmosphere 氣氛；D. condition情況?？蘸笳f富裕家庭的孩子更多地接觸到閱讀，他們的家庭可以負(fù)擔(dān)得起豐富的體驗(yàn)，他們還能得到更好的營養(yǎng)和保健，這些都是起作用的因素，故答案為A。s inecontingent loan program to the nearfree system of universities in Europe.”可知，從澳大利亞的收入掛鉤貸款計(jì)劃到歐洲近乎免費(fèi)的大學(xué)體系，有很多別的途徑可以為更多的人提供接受高等教育的機(jī)會，故答案為B。 （15）句意：然而，更重要的是，我們不能讓我們的國家離大多數(shù)美國人所共有的理想越來越遠(yuǎn)。quite untidily (邋遢). Boarding the 5 ve had a 9 （1）考查名詞。A. dressed“穿的”；B. seated“就座的”；C. decorated“裝飾的”；D. shown“表現(xiàn)”。 （6）考查形容詞。故選C。故選B。根據(jù)下文You look like you39。A. pointed“指出”；B. passed“通過”；C. offered“提供”；D. lent“借給”。根據(jù)下文“A moment later a man ___10___ from his seat at the back of the bus”可知這里意思是登上公共汽車回家。故選B。A. because of“因?yàn)椤?