That summer I drank every day, everywhere I went. I had a bottle in my drawer next to me and a bottle next to my bed. I never did another drug, but I drank so much that my family finally asked a priest for help. My father gave me a bottle of medicine for alcoholism that produces unpleasant symptoms when users drink alcohol. I drank while taking it, which made me very sick. And I still drank.
When the priest came, he said, "Jimmy, doctors said that with your diseases and the amount of drinking you’re doing, you’d be lucky to live another six months. So your choice is either to stop drinking and live or to continue drinking and die within six months.”
I said, "I know I can't stop, so guess I'll have to die." The priest told my family what I said. My little brother–who is like my soul mate, looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, "But we don't want you to die." All I could think of was how desperately I had to get out of that room at that moment and have a drink.
But I finally stopped drinking. I was on the care team of my dentist Russell. A lot of people in New York knew him. At the time he was the most famous dentist in the city. He drank heavily and was also with AIDS, so I was selected to be on his care team. Everybody on the team was sober (清醒) but me. He went through dementia (癡呆) and died so quickly before my eyes. I stopped drinking and I’ve been with the disease for 35 years now.
【小題1】 Why did the author’s father give him the bottle of medicine?
| A．He wanted him to cure his illness. |
| B．He was trying to keep him dying. |
| C．He thought the medicine could make him sick. |
| D．He believed it could prevent him drinking. |
| A．The author would die after six weeks. |
| B．The author was too lucky to live for six months. |
| C．The author could hardly live for six months. |
| D．The author’s luck was only six months. |
| A．The dentist Russell helped him to stop it. |
| B．He was persuaded by the dentist Russell’s death. |
| C．His care team managed to inspire him. |
| D．His little brother’s soul saved him. |
| A．Drinking heavily increases AIDS patients’ illness. |
| B．Priests can cure many AIDS patients’ illnesses. |
| C．Drug taking and heavily drinking can cure AIDS patients. |
| D．Team work and patience can cure AIDS patients. |
【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】B
【小題4】A
解析試題分析：本文敘述了作者由于整日酗酒，他的父親給他吃一種戒酒的藥，也沒有成功，后來神父給作者說他最多能活六個月，而他的選擇是還是繼續酗酒，后來作者看到著名的牙醫他也是一個酗酒的人，他在得了AIDS后還是繼續酗酒，作者親眼看到牙醫的死亡，他才下定決心戒酒。最后作者成功戒掉了酒癮。
【小題1】細節理解題。根據My father gave me a bottle of medicine for alcoholism that produces unpleasant symptoms when users drink alcohol. 給他一種阻止他喝酒的藥，故選D。
【小題2】細節理解題。根據So your choice is either to stop drinking and live or to continue drinking and die within six months 最多能活6個月，故選C。
【小題3】細節理解題。根據He went through dementia (癡呆) and died so quickly before my eyes. I stopped drinking 他看到牙醫的先是癡呆然后死亡，這件事使他認識到他不能再喝酒了，故選B。
【小題4】細節理解題。根據喝多了酒會增加了病情的，故選A。
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When I told Coach Jarvis, he was 44 as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work，” he said. “Your 45 days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.”
I stood before him with my head hanging, trying to think of the words that
would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his 46 to me.
“How much are you going to make at this job, son?” He demanded.
“3.5 dollars an hour.” I replied.
“Well,” he asked, “Is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”
That question, the plainness of it, laid bare for me the difference between wanting something right now and having a goal. I delicated myself to sports that summer and with the year I was hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was 47 a $20,000 contract. I signed with the Denver Broncos in 1998 for $1.7 million, and bought my mother the house of my dreams.
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【小題1】According to Susan Rose, _____.
| A．the fall colors are always in leaves |
| B．leaves make chlorophyll all the seasons |
| C．leaves’ changing color have nothing to with the weather |
| D．leaves begin changing color because they start making chlorophyll |
| A．reduces | B．increases | C．lasts | D．appears |
| A．genetic background | B．dry weather |
| C．global warming | D．low temperature |
| A．why leaves change color at fall |
| B．leaves change color at different time |
| C．the effects of the global warming on plants |
| D．different opinions on the lateness of leaves’ changing color |
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【小題1】The aim of the mother’s plan was to _________.
| A．take them to visit the museum |
| B．introduce them to the world of art |
| C．ask them to read about artists |
| D．show them different painting styles |
| A．She came to feel her mother’s love. |
| B．She liked many paintings. |
| C．She hardly enjoyed herself. |
| D．She could understand the pictures of fat babies. |
| A．One of Mary's paintings. |
| B．A strange way of painting. |
| C．Artists in the Middle Ages. |
| D．Her mother’s instruction. |
| A．the importance of curiosity |
| B．the effect of art |
| C．the value of learning |
| D．the power of family education |
| A．visit some art museums |
| B．go to Egypt for a visit |
| C．take drawing or painting classes |
| D．play with their friends. |
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Here is what I have been told of the matter.
In the spring of 1842, Marguerite was so weak, so different in her looks, that the doctors had ordered her to take the waters. She therefore set out for Bagneres.
Among the other sufferers there, was the Duke's daughter who not only had the same complaint but a face so like Marguerite's that they could have been taken for sisters. The fact was that the young Duchess was in the third stage of consumption and, only days after Marguerite's arrival, she passed away.
One morning the Duke, who had remained at Bagneres caught sight of Marguerite as she turned a corner of a gravel walk.
It seemed as though he was seeing the spirit of his dead child and, going up to her, he took both her hands, embraced her tearfully and, without asking who she was, begged permission to call on her and to love in her person the living image of his dead daughter.
Marguerite, alone at Bagneres with her maid, and in any case having nothing to lose by compromising herself, granted the Duke what he asked.
Now there were a number of people at Bagneres who knew her, and they made a point of calling on the Duke to inform him of Marguerite's true situation. It was a terrible blow for the old man, for any resemblance with his daughter stopped there. But it was too late. The young woman had become an emotional necessity, his only excuse and his sole reason for living.
He did not criticize her, he had no right to, but he did ask her if she felt that she could change her way of life, and, in exchange for this sacrifice, he would offer all the compensations she could want. She agreed.
It should be said that at this point Marguerite, who was by nature somewhat highly strung(excited and nervous), was seriously ill. Her past appeared to her to be one of the major causes of her illness, and a kind of superstition(迷信) led her to hope that God would allow her to keep her beauty and her health in exchange for her regret and shame.
And indeed the waters, the walks, healthy fatigue and sleep had almost restored her fully by the end of that summer.
The Duke accompanied Marguerite to Paris, where he continued to call on her as at Bagneres.
This connection, of which the true origin and true motive were known to no one, gave rise here to a great deal of talk, since the Duke, known till now as an enormously wealthy man, now began to acquire a name for the prodigality(揮霍).
67. Why did the Duke take Marguerite’s both hands when he saw her?
A. His daughter and Marguerite were once good friends.
B. Marguerite is his daughter’s spirit.
C. Marguerite resembles his daughter.
D. They haven’t seen each other for long.
68. What’s the right order of the events?
a. The Duke accompanied Marguerite to Paris.
b. Marguerite set out for Bagneres.
c. The Duke took Marguerite as his daughter.
d. The daughter of the Duke passed away.
e. Marguerite took a gravel walk
A. e-c-b-d-a B. c-d-e-b-a C. b-d-e-c-a D. d-a-c-b-e
69. From the passage we can guess that Marguerite _______.
A. doesn’t believe in God
B. was once a woman without a good fame
C. was strange to all the people in Bagners
D. kept her own way of life while living with the Duke
70. According to the passage, Marguerite went to Bagners _______.
A. just for a gravel walk B. to find her sister
C. to visit the Duke D. for treatment
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The summer I was ten,my mother decided to bring us to the world of art.My brother and I were not very excited when we realized what my mother meant.What she meant was not that we could take drawing classes or painting classes but that we would have to spend one afternoon a week with her at the Fine Arts Museum.Before each visit to the museum,she made us read about artists and painting styles(風格).It was almost as bad as being in school.Who wants to spend the summer thinking about artists when you could be with your friends at the swimming pool?
First we had to read about ancient Egyptians(古埃及人)and their strange way of painting faces and then go to look at them at the museum.My 12-year-old brother thought this was so funny,but I was not interested.Later we had to learn about artists in the Middle Ages who painted people wearing strange long clothing.We had to look at pictures of fat babies with wings and curly(卷曲的)hair and with no clothes on flying around the edges of paintings.I certainly couldn’t see what was so great about art.
On our last visit to the museum,something happened when I saw a painting by a woman called Mary.In it,a woman was reading to a child.The colors were soft and gentle,and you could tell by the mother’s expression how happy she was just to be with the child.I couldn’t stop looking at this painting!I wanted to see every painting Mary had ever made!It was really worth looking at so many paintings to find a painter who could interest me so much.
1.The aim of the mother’s plan was to ________.
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A．take them to visit the museum |
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B．introduce them to the world of art |
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C．ask them to read about artists |
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D．show them different painting styles |
2.What was the writer’s experience in the museum before the last visit?
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A．She came to feel her mother’s love. |
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B．She liked many paintings. |
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C．She hardly enjoyed herself. |
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D．She could understand the pictures of fat babies. |
3.What made the writer go through a change that summer?
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A．One of Mary’s paintings. |
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B．A strange way of painting. |
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C．Artists in the Middle Ages. |
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D．Her mother’s instruction. |
4.From the text,we can see________.
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A．the importance of curiosity |
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B．the effect of art |
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C．the value of learning |
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D．the power of family education |
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