NO.5 (2014天津卷)
One night, when I was eight , my mother gently asked me a question I would never forget. “Sweetie, my company wants to 16 me but needs me to work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling that you’ve done 17 and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but you’ll have to 18 your friends. Would you say yes to your teacher?” She gave me a hug and asked me to think about it. I was puzzled. The question kept me 19 for the rest of the night I had said “yes” but for the first time, I realized the 20 decisions adults had to make.
For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I’d 21 wait for the phone to ring and then tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never replace her 22 and it was difficult not to feel lonely at times.
During my fourth-grade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large 23 apartment, I became 24 how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil herself. It was then 25 I started to appreciate the tough choices she had to make on 26 family and work. 27 difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn’t know whether you make the right choice, but you could always make the best out of the situation, with passion and a 28 attitude.
Back home , I 29 myself that what my mother could do, I could, too. If she 30 to live in Rio all by herself, I, too, could learn to be 31 . I learn how to take care of myself and set high but achievable 32.
My mother is now back with us. But I will never forget what the 33 has really taught me. Sacrifices 34 in the end. The separation between us has proved to be 35 for me.
16. A. attract B. promote C. surprise D. praise
17. A. little B. much C. well D. wrong
18. A. leave B. refuse C. contact D. forgive
19. A. explaining B. sleeping C. wondering D. regretting
20. A. poor B. timely C. final D. tough
21. A. eagerly B. politely C. nervously D. curiously
22. A. patience B. presence C. intelligence D. Influence
23. A. Comfortable B. Expensive C. Empty D. Modern
24. A. Interested in B. aware of C. doubtful D. satisfied with
25. A. when B. where C. which D. that
26. A. abandoning B. balancing C. comparing D. mixing
27. A. Depending on B. supplied with C. Faced with D. Insisting on
28. A. different B. friendly C. positive D. general
29. A. criticized B. informed C. warned D. reminded
30. A. managed B. offered C. attempted D. expected
31. A. grateful B. energetic C. independent D. practical
32. A. examples B. limits C. rules D. goals
33. A. question B. experience C. history D. occasion
34. A. pay off B. come back C. run out D. turn up
35. A. blessing B. gathering C. failure D. pleasure
NO.6 (2014广东卷)
Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Then again, teenagers have 1 feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. According to a recent research, the most common 2 between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks. On the one hand, parents go mad over 3 rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their children’s refusal to help with the 4 . On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for 5 the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room or refusing to do the shopping at the supermarket.
The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different 6 to these problems. However, some approaches are more 7 than others. For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but 8 clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s 9 . On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the 10 of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator, they are forced to 11 their actions.
Psychologists say that 12 is the most important thing in parent-child relationships. Parents should 13 to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to what they have to say. Parents may 14 their children when they are untidy but they should also understand that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is only by listening to and 15 each other that problems between parents and children can be settled.
1. A. natural B. strong C. guilty D. similar
2. A. interest B. argument C. link D. knowledge
3. A. noisy B. crowded C. messy D. locked
4. A. homework B. housework C. problem D. research
5. A. washing B. using C. dropping D. replacing
6. A. approaches B. contributions C. introductions D. attitudes
7. A. complex B. popular C. scientific D. successful
8. A. later B. deliberately C. seldom D. thoroughly
9. A. behavior B. taste C. future D. nature
10. A. failures B. changes C. consequences D. thrills
11. A. defend B. delay C. repeat D. reconsider
12. A. communication B. bond C. friendship D. trust
13. A. reply B. attend C. attach D. talk
14. A. hate B. scold C. frighten D. stop
15. A. loving B. observing C. understanding D. praising
Medium参考答案
NO.1 36-40 CABBD 41-45 AADBC 46-50 CBDAC 51-55 ABDCD
NO.2 41-45 ADCBA 46-50 DBCBD 51-55 ACBBD 56-60 AADCB
NO.3 36-40: ABCCD 41-45: CBDDC 46-50: BDAAB 51-55:DABCA
NO.4 21.C 22.B 23.D 24.A 25.B 26.D 27.C 28.D 29.A 30.C
31.A 32.B 33.C 34.D 35.B 36.D 37.A 38.C 39.A 40.B
NO.5 16-20 BCACD 21-25 ABCBD 26-30 BCCDA 31-35 CDBAA
NO.6 1-5 DBCBC 6-10 ADAAC 11-15 DADBC
