An 11-year-old boy from Germany has caused a domestic incident by claiming he's the victim of forced labor because his mother asks him to do the housework.
Not everyone is so aa1aa about housework.
The youngster even called a police emergency line to aa2aa he was being treated like a aa3aa after his mother told him to clean the home and balcony.
Household aa4aa such as washing up, dusting and hovering (吸塵) are aa5aa for all but the tidiest people among us. But this young boy's actions have made it clear just how much he aa6aa housework.
Police say the youth from Aachen, who has not been identified, spoke to an officer on the 110 number. Clearly aa7aa to carry out dull and aa8aa jobs, he said: "I have to work all day long. I haven't any free time."
His mum replied: "He plays all day long and when told to tidy up what he's done, he says he is being aa9aa." She also revealed that he’d been threatening to call the aa10aa and repeatedly complained about having to lend a helping hand around the house during the summer holidays.
Lots of kids are unwilling to help when it comes to aa11aa, but how can they be motivated so parents don't aa12aa working their fingers to the bone? Perhaps pocket money is a good encouragement. A aa13aa reward is often a good way to aa14aa people to put a bit of effort into their jobs.
Or maybe if he aa15aa the true meaning of 'forced labor' he'd stop complaining about being treated like a slave! (280words)
1. A. crazy B. happy C. curious D. sad
2. A. complain B. declare C. announce D. insist
3. A. criminal B. slave C. worker D. housewife
4. A. articles B. facilities C. tasks D. actions
5. A. common B. dirty C. familiar D. hard
6. A. loves B. avoids C. fears D. hates
7. A. unwilling B. unhappy C. dissatisfied D. discouraged
8. A. time-saving B. breath-taking C. soul-destroying D. money-wasting
9. A. cheated B. forced C. discouraged D. hurt
10. A. ambulance B. office C. police D. teachers
11. A. schooling B. financing C. cleaning D. serving
12. A. turn up B. put up C. come up D. end up
13. A. practical B. financial C. mental D. physical
14. A. help B. force C. warn D. encourage
15. A. understood B. accepted C. heard D. forgot
5. 完形填空
In eighth grade, I thought Jennifer Fever, the dark-haired girl who sat behind me, was an alien(外星人). Our class had aa1aa a reading competition to raise money for the library, and, aa2aa, Jennifer read 34 books in one month. I couldn’t believe it. It seemed to me that she was from some faraway planet populated by creatures that didn’t own aa3aa. Who had time to read? In addition to my daily cartoon programme, I had a baseball that required throwing and a bike that needed aa4aa. Besides, reading was boring. And if I wanted to be aa5aa, it would be much easier just to pay attention during Mr. Kearly’s history class.
Therefore, after high school, my education became very aa6aa: computer engineering, aa7aa, physics, and not much else. If you were struggling with a math assignment, I was a good friend to have. But there was a world of knowledge outside aa8aa and engineering. I decided I would become a aa9aa and I dived into book after book. Soon, though, my aa10aa weakened. Halfway through a book, I’d start skipping paragraphs, pages, and, sometimes, entire aa11aa.
Then something changed. While reading a collection of essays by Stephen Leacock, the late Canadian aa12aa, I found myself laughing out loud. However, the next book I picked up, Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance, a aa13aa tale of three friends in India, brought me into tears. In short, the bookworm within me had aa14aa. Today, I carry a book with me wherever I go. A delay at my dentist’s office no longer frustrates me. It’s aa15aa extra time to enjoy another essay.
1. A. praised B. organized C. opposed D. sponsored
2. A. surprisingly B. repeatedly C. undoubtedly D. carefully
3. A. refrigerators B. telephones C. televisions D. radios
4. A. beating B. keeping C. handling D. riding
5. A. bored B. worried C. delighted D. concerned
6. A. complicated B. simple C. narrow D. professional
7. A. history B. biology C. literature D. mathematics
8. A. technology B. science C. computer D. internet
9. A. dreamer B. businessman C. typist D. reader
10. A. creation B. instruction C. determination D. imagination
11. A. chapters B. sentences C. words D. phrases
12. A. socialist B. physicist C. humorist D. dentist
13. A. meaningless B. painful C. fair D. useful
14. A. died B. awakened C. left D. disappeared
15. A. legally B. unfortunately C. officially D. simply
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Being content with yourself and optimistic about you r future is not difficult. Whatever is in the past is 36 .Learn from it and move on. When you are 37 enough to do this, you will see that moving ahead is the best definition of living 38 .
What can you do now? Sure it is 39 for me to tell you to forget the past， 40 it is a whole 41 to actually do it. Life is a complex set of events, much of which 42 is real, but a large amount is just your 43 of what really happened.
Let me 44 with an example. I know not everyone is a football fan, but I am 45 most have watched at least 46 of a game on TV. Most games and almost all the important games are 47 over and over on the TV screen right after the game happened.
When you watched a game, you were 48 of the outcome, saying the player 49 the ball. Then while watching the instant replay, you realized you were 50 wro ng. The player dropped the pass. What you were certain of never happened.
In order to 51 on your future, you should try to minimize the effects of your past. Try to find out how m uch of the past that you are certain are just 52 . For example, as a teenager, you tried to build a piece of furniture in your father's work-shop. The piece of furniture looked 53 when you finished, but it fell apart before you could 54 it to your father. The reality was that the wood you used was faulty. It was not your building ability. So don't think yourself to be a 55 carpenter (木匠) and avoid building anything. Forget the past and move on.
36.A.on B.out C.down D.over
37.A.ambitious B.bitter C.sad D.desperate
38.A.work B.life C.death D.leisure
39.A.boring B.surprising C.easy D.hard
40.A.so B.as C.yet D.after
41.A.practice B.theory C.order D.pleasure
42.A.in all B.of course C.on time D.at last
43.A.mind B.plan C.fact D.view
44.A.explain B.deny C.admit D.prove
45.A.deciding B.remembering C.noticing D.guessing
46.A.none B.all C.part D.series
47.A.studied B.played C.wanted D.sold
48.A.doubtful B.unsure C.conscious D.certain
49.A.passing B.catching C.getting D.breaking
50.A.seldom B.slightly C.totally D.fortunately
51.A.keep B.concentrate C.put D.get
52.A.mistakes B.successes C.measures D.preparations
53.A.weel B.good C.bad D.bi g
54.A.promise B.feed C.offer D.show
55.A.handsome B.hardworking C.terrible D.helpful
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A young student was one day taking a walk with a professor. As they went along, t hey saw 21 in the path a pair of old shoes, which they 22 belonged to a poor man who was employed in a field close by.
The student turned to the professor, saying, “Let us play the ma n a 23 : we will hide his shoes and wait to see his 24 when he cannot find them.”
“My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never amuse ourselves at the 25 of the poor. But you are rich, and may give yourself a much greater pleasure 26 the poor man. Put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch 27 the discovery affects him.”
The student did so, and they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by.
The poor man soon finished his work, and came 28 the field to the path where he had left his shoes. While 29 his foot into one of his shoes, he 30 something hard, 31 he bent down and found the coin. Astonishment and 32 were seen upon his face. He then looked around himself on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He now put the money into his pocket, and went on to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was 33 on finding the other coin. His feelings 34 him; he fell upon his
35 , looked up to heaven and thanked God aloud.
The student stood there 36 affected, and his eyes filled with tears. “Now,” said the professor, “are you not much better 37 than if you had played your 38 trick?” The youth replied, “You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget. I feel now the 39 of those words, whic h I never understood before: It is more blessed to 40 than to receive.”
21. A. sitting B. lying C. hiding D. laying
22. A. imagined B. expected C. supposed D. recognized
23. A. trick B. role C. part D. game
24. A. impatience B. puzzlement C. pity D. disappointment
25. A. expense B. risk C. need D. poverty
26. A. in reply to B. in response to C. by means of D. by way of
27. A. why B. when C. where D. how
28. A. across B. around C. through D. towards
29. A. rising B. rushing C. slipping D. sliding
30. A. found B. noticed C. kicked D. felt
31. A. but B. so C. as D. for
32. A. wonder B. admiration C. guilt D. anxiety
33. A. advanced B. improved C. progressed D. doubled
34. A. grasped B. overcame C. inspired D. sank
35. A. knees B. hands C. feet D. legs
36. A. generally B. fairly C. deeply D. naturally
37. A. excited B. satisfied C. touched D. pleased
38. A. intended B. required C. wanted D. interested
39. A. fact B. truth C. reality D. faith
40. A. reward B. win C. give D. send
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I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12 and 3) and have recently completed my college degree. The last 36 I had to take was Sociology and the last project of the term was called “Smile”. The class was asked to go out and smile at three people and note down their 37 .
Soon after we were 38 the project, my husband, youngest son and I went out to McDonald’s. We were standing in line, waiting to be 39 . When all of a sudden everyone around us began to back away. As I turned around, I smelled a 40 “dirty body”smell and there 41 me stood two poor homeless men. As I looked down at the short gentleman close to me, he was “ 42 ” — his beautiful sky blue ey es were full of the light as he searched for 43 .
He said“Good day”as he 44 the few coins he had been holding. The young lady at the counter asked him what they wanted. He said,“Coffee is 45 , Miss,” because that was what they could afford. To sit in the restaurant and 46 up, they had to buy something.
Then I really felt it — the 47 was so great that I almost reached out and embraced the little man with the blue eyes. That was when I noticed all eyes in the restaurant were 48 me, judging my every action. I smiled and asked for two more breakfast meals on a 49 tray. I then walked to the table that the men had chosen as a 50 spot, put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the blue eyed gentleman’s cold hand. He looked 51 at me, with tears in his eyes, and said,“Thank you.” I patted his hand and said, “I did not do this for you. God is here working 52 me to give you hope.”
I returned to college with this story in hand. I 53 “my project”and later the instructor read it to the class. In this way I had 54 my classmates and the people around me. And I graduated with one of the most meaningful lessons in my life — 55 acceptance.
36. A. class B. school C. work D. degree
37. A. attitude B. thought C. mind D. reaction
38. A. arranged B. assumed C. assigned D. suggested
39. A. greeted B. served C. cheated D. seated
40. A. familiar B. pleasant C. terrible D. strange
41. A. around B. besides C. behind D. beyond
42. A. eating B. drinking C. crying D. smiling
43. A. agreement B. recognition C. acceptance D. welcome
44. A. counted B. showed C. grasped D. made
45. A. little B. some C. any D. all
46. A. cheer B. warm C. dress D. take
47. A. urge B. anger C. sickness D. sadness
48. A. lighted on B. stared at C. fixed on D. looked at
49. A. separate B. big C. single D. special
50. A. relying B. pleasing C. staying D. resting
51. A. up B. down C. around D. aside
52. A. over B. out C. through D. across
53. A. turned over B. handed out C. turned out D. handed in
54. A. pleased B. confused C. frightened D. touched
55. A. conditional B. unconditional C. emotional D. devoted
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Life got hard when I was 14. My mother and I moved to New York to 36 my father, who’d moved there to find 37 work when I was three years old. He had a job at a restaurant and only visited us 38 every couple of years.
Before I moved, I knew that people in the US spoke English. But honestly, I didn’t stop to analyze the 39 when I was 40 to leav e. Just like I assumed I could easily become a doctor or a lawyer. I assumed that I had the skills to learn English i n a few weeks.
When I 41 in the US and started 8th grade at Ditmas Middle School in Brooklyn, everyone was speaking a(n) 42 language I couldn’t understand. I 43 that life had subtitles, like in foreign movies. School was such a serious place here. Sometimes I felt like I was in a geek class. The teachers were always 44 my moves so I couldn’t even throw a paper ball at a classmate’s head. And the worst thing was having to read 45
46 after almost seven months of complaining about everything, I re alized that complaining didn’t change things. 47 just made my life worse. If I was going to 48 in this new concrete jungle, I had to 49 . I began to learn English by reading newspapers on my own 50 school. After about four months, I started enjoying reading the crime and sports stories. After six months of studying, my teachers 51 my improvement and moved me into a more 52 English class. I could go to the store and ask for things that I wanted to buy without 53 frustration. For the first time I felt like I was living on earth again 54 .I didn’t hear alien talk. I 55 understand people.
36. A. find B. join C. see D. help
37. A. good-looking B. well-dressed C. better-paying D. highly-thought
38. A. once B. other C. each D. only
39. A. case B. condition C. situation D. state
40. A. packing B. trying C. managing D. arranging
41. A. reached B. entered C. got D. arrived
42. A. strange B. unusual C. standard D. alien
43. A. hoped B. wished C. expected D. demanded
44. A. staring B. looking C. checking D. watching
45. A. texts B. newspapers C. English D. poems
46. A. Although B. Even if C. But D. Since
47. A. It B. They C. I D. Things
48. A. live B. study C. survive D. continue
49. A. adapt B. adopt C. adore D. admire
50. A. for B. in C. after D. at
51. A. made B. noticed C. concerned D. remember
52. A. modern B. advanced C. difficult D. convenient
53. A. even B. ever C. some D. any
54. A. if B. though C. ever D. because
55. A. could B. should C. would D. might
【答案】
(1)1－5 BDACA 6－10 CBDAC 11－15 BCDAC
(2)1－5 BADAA 6－10CBAAC 11－15BCCDB
(3)1~5. DABBC 6~10. ACBCA 11~15 DBDCA
(4) 1－5 BABCA 6－10 DACBC 11－15CDBDA
(5)1－5 BACDA 6－10 CDBDC 11－15 ACBBD
（6）36—40 DABCC 41—45 ABDAD 46—50 CBDAC 51—55 BABDC
（7）21-25 BCABA 26-30 CDACD 31-35 BADBA 36-40 CDABC
（8）36-40 ADCBC 41-45 CDCAD 46-50 BACAD 51-55 ACDDB
（9）36-40BCACA 41-45 DDBDB 46-50 CACAC 51-55BBDDA
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