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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
James Bender, in his How to Talk Well (New York McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1994) relates the story of a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it.
The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
“Why， sir,” said the farmer,“didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen(花粉) from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow corn of low-quality, cross-pollination(异花传粉) of my corn will steadily degrade(降低) the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”
He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn can’t improve unless his neighbor’s corn also improves.
So it is in other aspects. Those who choose to be at peace must help their neighbors to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.
The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.
1. We can learn from the passage that James Bender is ________.
A. a writer B. a manager
C. a farmer D. a reporter
2. Why did the farmer share his best seed corn with his neighbors?
A. Because his corn couldn’t improve unless his neighbor’s corn also improved.
B. Because he wanted to compete with his neighbors.
C. Because the good corn is fit to be grown for everyone.
D. Because his neighbors asked him for help.
3. Which of the following best describes the farmer?
A. selfish B. foolish
C. wise D. hard-working
4. The best title for this passage may probably be ________.
A. The story of a farmer
B. A special interview
C. Growing good corn
D. An award-winning corn
B
When you are upset, who do you like to be with?
Some of my friends can stand firm when they are heavily down on their luck. They choose to mix with successful people who have got all the smiles of fortune. By doing so they want to be goaded into pulling themselves together. They are able to keep calm no matter how arrogant(傲慢的) those people are.
I admire them for what they have done, though I am not equal to it. When I’m down and out I like to be with those also in trouble, for we are in the same boat having sympathy for each other. They understand how I feel about it and we have a lot to talk, to exchange advice and to encourage one another.
But most likely what I’ll do in my frustration(挫折) is to sit alone by myself. I won’t care if I am ignored by the entire world. Neither will I pay any attention to others. What I do care is to face myself, for my wound can be healed only by self-examination. Whether it is to cry my eyes out, to have a painful self-examination, or to abandon myself to grief without food or sleep for three days on end, I know I have to get myself through the misery. One has to get up where one falls-everyone knows that. So it’s no use for anybody to come along with advice trying to comfort me. It requires my own efforts to get fully realized of what the failure means to me and draw lessons from it.
To put it frankly, it is hard for a frustrated person to get along with others. But if one can solve the problem of dealing with oneself, and get over all the difficulties, one will find it rather to start all over again.
5. The underlined part in the second paragraph means that ________.
A. they want to make friends with successful people
B. they hope to be stimulated (刺激) to get up where one falls
C. they are able to get help
D. they have to face the situation
6. According to the passage, the most effective way to get out of trouble is ________.
A. to mix with successful people
B. to talk to those friends also in trouble
C. to face oneself bravely
D. to stand firm
7. The best title of the passage will be ________ .
A. Facing frustration
B. Talking your frustration out
C. Turning over a new leaf
D. Failure is the mother of success
8. Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?
［答案解析］
1. A 根据第一段的第一句得知答案。
2. A根据第四段得知答案。
3. C 综合全文得知答案。
4. C 本文是围绕Growing good corn展开的。
5. B 根据上下文得知：通过和春风得意的人在一起，希望可以刺激自己重新站起来。
6. C 根据第四段得知答案。
7. A “ 面对挫折” ； B是“把你的挫折说出来”，这只是第三段的段意；C 是“翻开新的一页，改过自新”；D是“失败是成功之母”。
8. C 本文的结构是“总(1)－分(2、3、4)－总(5)”。
[作者单位：河北省唐山市路南区第五中学]
责任编辑：王 伟
A
James Bender, in his How to Talk Well (New York McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1994) relates the story of a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it.
The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
“Why， sir,” said the farmer,“didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen(花粉) from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow corn of low-quality, cross-pollination(异花传粉) of my corn will steadily degrade(降低) the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”
He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn can’t improve unless his neighbor’s corn also improves.
So it is in other aspects. Those who choose to be at peace must help their neighbors to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.
The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.
1. We can learn from the passage that James Bender is ________.
A. a writer B. a manager
C. a farmer D. a reporter
2. Why did the farmer share his best seed corn with his neighbors?
A. Because his corn couldn’t improve unless his neighbor’s corn also improved.
B. Because he wanted to compete with his neighbors.
C. Because the good corn is fit to be grown for everyone.
D. Because his neighbors asked him for help.
3. Which of the following best describes the farmer?
A. selfish B. foolish
C. wise D. hard-working
4. The best title for this passage may probably be ________.
A. The story of a farmer
B. A special interview
C. Growing good corn
D. An award-winning corn
B
When you are upset, who do you like to be with?
Some of my friends can stand firm when they are heavily down on their luck. They choose to mix with successful people who have got all the smiles of fortune. By doing so they want to be goaded into pulling themselves together. They are able to keep calm no matter how arrogant(傲慢的) those people are.
I admire them for what they have done, though I am not equal to it. When I’m down and out I like to be with those also in trouble, for we are in the same boat having sympathy for each other. They understand how I feel about it and we have a lot to talk, to exchange advice and to encourage one another.
But most likely what I’ll do in my frustration(挫折) is to sit alone by myself. I won’t care if I am ignored by the entire world. Neither will I pay any attention to others. What I do care is to face myself, for my wound can be healed only by self-examination. Whether it is to cry my eyes out, to have a painful self-examination, or to abandon myself to grief without food or sleep for three days on end, I know I have to get myself through the misery. One has to get up where one falls-everyone knows that. So it’s no use for anybody to come along with advice trying to comfort me. It requires my own efforts to get fully realized of what the failure means to me and draw lessons from it.
To put it frankly, it is hard for a frustrated person to get along with others. But if one can solve the problem of dealing with oneself, and get over all the difficulties, one will find it rather to start all over again.
5. The underlined part in the second paragraph means that ________.
A. they want to make friends with successful people
B. they hope to be stimulated (刺激) to get up where one falls
C. they are able to get help
D. they have to face the situation
6. According to the passage, the most effective way to get out of trouble is ________.
A. to mix with successful people
B. to talk to those friends also in trouble
C. to face oneself bravely
D. to stand firm
7. The best title of the passage will be ________ .
A. Facing frustration
B. Talking your frustration out
C. Turning over a new leaf
D. Failure is the mother of success
8. Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?
［答案解析］
1. A 根据第一段的第一句得知答案。
2. A根据第四段得知答案。
3. C 综合全文得知答案。
4. C 本文是围绕Growing good corn展开的。
5. B 根据上下文得知：通过和春风得意的人在一起，希望可以刺激自己重新站起来。
6. C 根据第四段得知答案。
7. A “ 面对挫折” ； B是“把你的挫折说出来”，这只是第三段的段意；C 是“翻开新的一页，改过自新”；D是“失败是成功之母”。
8. C 本文的结构是“总(1)－分(2、3、4)－总(5)”。
[作者单位：河北省唐山市路南区第五中学]
责任编辑：王 伟