【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 thing，but it really helps.”51．Why does Eliza keep a large number of shoes at her house?A．She likes collecting things.B．She keeps them for herself.C．She raises money by selling them.D．She gives the shoes to people who need them.52．Most of the shoes Eliza collects are________.A．fit for teenagersB．new shoes from a shoe storeC．from the customers of a shoe storeD．donated by people from all over the world53．It can be learned from the passage that________.A．Eliza’s family give her a lot of supportB．the shoes mainly go to developing countriesC．Eliza collects and sorts shoes every weekendD．Eliza has sent more than 5,000 pairs of shoes54．Which of the following words can be used to describe Eliza?A．Honest and energetic. B．Determined and optimistic.C．Smart and hard173。working. D．Helpful and warm173。hearted.B(2009年宜昌第二次調(diào)研，C)Lisa，a 25173。year old from Beijing，recently places a number of very unpleasant statements on the Internet regarding the include things like “don’t rely on others”，“don’t expect others to help”，“don’t be talkative”，and “dont’t be so stubborn”．The underlying message was that elderly people should not take advantage of their old age to demand special favours from others，particularly from the of course flies_in_the_face_of the Chinese tradition of respecting the ，in my opinion，Lisa’s “requests” might not be totally people do sometimes behave like they’re “stubborn”and “talkative”．Still，the young woman is rudely insensitive to why the elderly behave that people get old，they bee increasingly weakened it’s natural for them to ask for more help from their memories decline，they tend to be talkative because they easily forget what has just been American psychologists D． and G．Hackett said that the brain is characterized by has the ability (most pronounced up to the age of 12) to change itself as a result of ，as the brain ages，this flexibility a result，the elderly are often inflexible in their ways.Therefore，old people need real care and deserve to be taken care have devoted most of their lives to the well173。being of the family or aging is no reason for showing prejudice (偏見) to to Chinese tradition，older people are to be are Westerners.I live in the US for eight years，and in Hong Kong for have I seen or heard anyone who would openly tell old people “to behave themselves”．We may encourage old people to be more self173。 rudely ’s where the difference lies.55．What does Lisa think of the elderly?A．The elderly hate to rely on the others.B．The elderly should take advantage of their old age.C．They are not talkative but stubborn.D．The elderly always demand special favors from the young.56．The underlined part in the first paragraph can be replaced by“________”．A．expresses the apparent meaning ofB．shows disagreement withC．deals with the surface meaning ofD．draws a conclusion from57．What’s the writer’s attitude towards this problem?A．The young woman is too sensitive to why the elderly behave that way.B．The elderly naturally ask for more help from others，because their brain is characterized by flexibility.C．The elderly are often inflexible in their ways，which makes the young suffer.D．The elderly deserve to be taken care of and we shouldn’t show our prejudice because of their aging.58．The last three paragraphs really want to show that________.A．we should respect the elderlyB．the people in the US or Hong Kong respect the older peopleC．old people should be encouraged to be more self173。reliantD．different ideas about the elderly are allowed to existC(2009年湖北重點(diǎn)中學(xué)聯(lián)考二，D)My brother173。in173。law opened the drawer of my sister’s cupboard and took out a said，“This is a new silk slip(襯裙)．Jane bought it in New York nine years never wore was saving it for a special guess this is the occasion.”It was an exquisite (精美的) handmade silk price tag on it was still attached.He took the slip from me and put it on the bed，with the other clothes we were taking to the morti