Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn't think there would be any difficulty in getting it mended, as there are a whole lot of antique(古董) shops near my home. So I left home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception (接待). I was quite wrong. The man wouldn't even look at my chair.
The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just the same, and the third and the fourth－so I decided that my approach must be wrong.
I entered the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper, "Would you like to buy a chair?" He looked it over carefully and said, "Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you want for it, sir?" "Twenty pounds," I said. "OK," he said, "I'll give you twenty pounds." "It's got a slightly broken leg," I said. "Yes, I saw that, it's nothing."
Everything was going according to plan and I was getting excited. "What will you do with it?" I asked. "Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done." "I'll buy it," I said. "What do you mean? You've just sold it to me," he said. "Yes, I know but I've changed my mind. I am sorry. I'll give you twenty-seven pounds for it." "You must be crazy," he said. Then, suddenly the penny dropped. "I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair." "You're right," I said. "And what would you have done if I had walked in and said, ' Would you mean this chair for me?' "I wouldn't have agreed to do it," he said. "We don't do repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble. But I'll mend this for you, shall we say for five pounds?" He was a very nice man and was greatly amused (感到有趣) by the whole thing.
56. We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer _____.
A. was rather impolite B. was warmly received
C. asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair D. asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair
57. The underlined word "approach" in the second paragraph means _____.
A. plan for dealing with things B. decision to sell things
C. idea of repairing things D. way of doing things
58. The expression "the penny dropped" in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper ___.
A. changed his mind B. accepted the offer
C. saw the writer's purpose D. decided to help the writer
59. How much did the writer pay?
A. ￡5. B. ￡7. C. ￡20. D. ￡27.
60. From the text, we can learn that the writer was _____.
A. honest B. careful C. smart D. funny
字詞句段篇系列答案科目：高中英語 來源：2012-2013學年湖北省荊州市沙市六中高一上學期期中考試英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解
Young people and older people do not always agree. They sometimes have different ideas about living, working and playing. But in one special program in New York State, adults and teenagers live together in a friendly way.
Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as members of a special work group. Everyone works several hours each day. They do so not just to keep busy but to find meaning and fun in work. Some teenagers work in the forests or on the farms near the village. Some learn to make things like tables and chairs and to build houses. The adults teach them these skills.
There are several free hours each day. Weekends are free, too. During the free hours some of the teenagers learn photo-taking or drawing. Others sit around and talk or sing. Each teenager chooses his own way to pass his free time.
When people live together, they should have rules. In this program the teenagers and the adults make the rules together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. They talk about it and ask, “Why did it happen? What should we do about it?”
One of the teenagers has said something about it, “You have to stop thinking only about yourself. You learn how to think about the group.”
【小題1】In one special program in New York State, young and older people_______.
| A．don’t work well together |
| B．are friendly to each other |
| C．teach each other new ways of building houses |
| D．spend eight weeks together, working as farmers |
| A．lead a busy life |
| B．learn new skills of farming |
| C．get used to the life on the farms |
| D．find useful things and pleasure in work |
| A．the teenagers don’t have to obey the rules |
| B．the members have to obey the rules the adults make |
| C．the members have no free time but on weekends |
| D．the members should not break the rules they make together |
| A．The Rules of Living Together |
| B．Life in New York State |
| C．Teenagers and Adults Together |
| D．Free Hours in the Special Work Group |
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In the 60s, people asked about your astrological (about star) sign. In the 90s, they want to know your website. 【小題1】 Your website is an electronic meeting place for your family, friends and potentially, millions of people around the world. Best of all, you may not have to spend a cent. The web is filled with all kinds of free services and all it takes is some time and creativity.
【小題2】 Like the table of contents of a book or magazine, the home page is the front door. Your site can have one or more pages, depending on how you design it.
While web pages vary greatly in their design and content, most use a traditional magazine layout (版面設計). At the top of the page is a banner (橫幅). Next comes a greeting and a short description of the site. Pictures, text, and links to other websites follow.
【小題3】 Think about whom the site is for and what you want to say. Next, gather up the material that you want to put on the site.
While there are no rules you have to follow, there are a few things to keep in mind: 【小題4】 If you are too much at the beginning, you may never get the site off the ground. You can always add to your site.
Less is better. Most people don’t like to read a lot of long text online. 【小題5】 . Smaller is better. Since it can take a long time to download large image files, keep the file sizes small.
Have the rights. Don’t put any material on your site unless you are sure you can do it legally. Always remember to get the permission from the writer first.
Now it’s time to roll up your sleeves and start building
| A．Start simply. |
| B．Break it into small pieces. |
| C．Draw a rough layout on a sheet of paper. |
| D．Many websites are considered very interesting. |
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Question: Why is it so hard for some people to apologize after they’ve done something wrong? I have made every effort to persuade my uncle to be nice to people that he knows he’s hurt. 【小題1】 How I wish things would be better if he’d just say he’s sorry and ask them to forgive him.
Answer: 【小題2】 It’s just easier for him to pretend nothing happened than to face the embarrassment of admitting he was wrong. You’ve probably done the same thing yourself at some time. In fact, most of us have. Furthermore, what if others won’t forgive him even if he apologizes?
【小題3】 Pride blinds us to our mistakes or faults. Or at least it makes us pay less attention to their seriousness.
Pride also makes us unwilling to admit to others that we were wrong. Perhaps we’re afraid they will look down on us if we admit it. 【小題4】
But others see through our pride. And things would be far better if we admitted our faults and asked for forgiveness. 【小題5】
Now you know why your uncle refuses to apologize, talk to him again. Help him to learn how to apologize and ask for forgiveness from others.
| A．But a deeper reason is pride. |
| B．But he just refuses to do that. |
| C．We may even hope that somehow they will overlook it. |
| D．As a result, you would offend others and hurt their feelings. |
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Every evening after dinner, if not ______from work, I will spend some time _____ my dog.
A. tired; walking B. tiring; to walk
C. being tired; walked D. to be tired; walk
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An amazing teacher
Years ago a John Hopkins professor gave a group of graduate students this task: Go to the slums（貧民窟）. Took 200 boys, between the ages of 12 and 16, and 31 their background and environment, then 32 their chances for the future.
The students, after consulting social statistics, talking to the boys, and collecting much data， concluded that 90 percent of the boys would 33 some time in prison.
Twenty-five years later 34 group of graduate students was given the job of 35 the prediction. They went back to the same area. Some of the boys---by then 36 ---were still there, a few had died, some had moved away, but they got in touch with 180 of the 37 200.They found that only four of the group had ever been sent to 38 .
Why was it that these men, who had lived in a breeding place of crime, had such a surprisingly good record? The researchers were 39 told,“Well, there was a teacher…”
They pressed（追問）further, and found that in 75 percent of the cases it was the same woman. The researchers went to this teacher, now living in a home for retired teachers. How had she had this brilliant 40 on that group of children? Could she give them any reason why these boys should have remembered her?
“No,” she said,“No，I really couldn’t.”And then， thinking back 41 the years, she said musingly（沉思地）,42 to herself than to her questioners,“Ｉloved those boys…”
1. A．look into B．make up C．show up D．result in
2. A．control B．arrange C．desert D．predict
3. A．cost B．spend C．take D．waste
4. A．others B．the other C．another D．other
5. A．cursing B．convincing C．applying D．testing
6. A．teachers B．students C．men D．professors
7. A．native B．rare C．recorded D．discouraged
8. A．slums B．society C．prison D．school
9. A．continually B．optimistically C．curiously D．officially
10. A．reflection B．harmony C．effect D．existence
11. A．before B．after C．in D．over.
12. A．less B．more C．better D．worse
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