my son joey was born with club feet. the doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk, but would never run very well. the first three years of his life was __1___in hospital.
by the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he has a problem when you saw him __2___
children in our neighborhood always ran around __3___their play, and joey would jump and ran and play, _4___we never told him that he probably wouldn’t be __5___to run like the other children. so he didn’t know.
in __6___grade he decided to join the school running team. every day he trained. he ran more than any of the others, _7___only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the __8___we didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.
he ran four to five mile every day—even when he had a fever. i was __9___so i went to __10___him after school. i found him running __11___i asked him how he felt.
“okay,” he said. he has two more miles to go. yet he looked straight ahead and kept __12___
two weeks later, the names of the team __13___were out. joey was number six on the list. joey had __14___the team.
he was in seventh grade — the other six team members were all eighth graders. we never told him he couldn’t do it … so he didn’t know. he just __15___it.
1. a. spent b. taken c. cost d. paid
2. a. talk b. sit c. study d. walk
3. a. after b. before c. during d. till
4. a. either b. too c. though d. yet
5. a. able b. sorry c. glad d. afraid
6. a. sixth b. seventh c. eighth d. ninth
7. a. so b. if c. then d. because
8. a. neighborhood b. family c. school d. grade
9. a. excited b. tired c. pleased d. worried
10. a. think about b. hear from c. agree with d. look for
11. a. alone b. away c. almost d. already
12. a. riding b. walking c. playing d. running
13. a. jumpers b. runners c. doctors d. teachers
14. a. got b. kept c. made d. found
15. a. did b. had c. left d. took
fashion not only in clothes
for most people，the word “fashion” means “clothes”. but people may ask the question，“what __1___are in fashion?” and they use the adjective “fashionable” in the same way:
“she was wearing a __2___coat.” his shirt was really a fashionable color.”
but of course there are fashions __3___many things，not only in clothes. there are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. there are __4___fashions in school subjects, jobs…and in languages.
fashions __5___as time goes. _6___you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions h**e always changed. an english house of 1750 was different __7___one of 1650.
a fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1850.
today fashions change very quickly. we hear about things __8___more quickly than in the past. news*****s, radios, telephones and televisions send information from one country __9___another in a few hours.
new fashions mean that people will __10___new things, so you see there is money in fashion.
1. a. color b. clothesc. foodd. money
2. a. nice b. beautiful c. expensive d. fashionable
3. a. atb. byc. ind. with
4. a. even b. justc. onlyd. already
5. a. change b. changes c. are changed d. changed
6. a. where b. whenc. ifd. as
7. a. onb. forc. withd. from
8. a. very b. muchc. tood. quite
9. a. inb. byc. tod. with
10. a. buy b. sellc. getd. use
答案与解析】
1. a。2.
d。3. c。
4. b。5.
a。6. b。
7. d。8.
c。9. d。
10. d。11.
d。12. d。
13. b。14. c。15. d。
1. b。根据首句“时髦意味着衣服”，很容易推测出要问的是“衣服”。
2. d。根据上文“用同样的方法使用形容词 fashionable”，下文自然是含有fashionable的句子。
3. c。根据下文中的in holidays，in restaurants等，运用语感感知法立刻就能锁定正确选项。
4. a。上句“假期时髦、餐馆时髦……”和本句的“学科时髦、工作时髦……”之间是进一步说明的关系，因此，要选表示递进关系的副词。这四个副词中只有even表示递进关系。
5. a。“时髦随着时间的推移发生变化”，属于客观事实和普遍真理，因此，要用一般现在时(from
6. c。“看过去的像片或物品”和“看到时髦总是在变化”是条件与结果的关系，因此，本句应选引导条件状语从句的连词。
7. d。表示“与……不同”，要用固定词组be different from。根据下句中的different from，运用就地发现法，也能立马锁定选项。
8. b。从句子结构方面来看，这是一个表示两者进行比较的句型。根据语法规则“修饰比较级时要用程度副词much”，就可以排除其他选项。
9. c。此处是指“从一个国家，到另一个国家”。表达这一意思时，要用连词词组from...to...
10. a。根据后半句“明白钱的时髦”，运用科学推理法可知“只有买东西才能知道”，因此，应是“买新东西”。
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