Question

【題目】One evening a young woman walked on the beach. She ________??to see the footsteps（足跡） she had left in the sand, but they had already been washed away by the water. When she turned to continue her walk, She was surprised to see an old woman ________??by a fire.

She walked up to the old woman and asked, “Where did you come from? I didn’t see you here a minute ago.”

________??answering her question, the old woman said, “Sit with me, my child. I have something to show you.”

As the young woman sat down beside the fire, the old woman handed her a book. She turned the pages of the book one by one and was ________?to discover they told the story of her whole life, from the early days of ________?to the present. But when she turned to the next page, she found it empty. And the rest of the pages in the book were all empty.

“Does this mean my life ends tonight?” she asked.

“No, my child. It means tonight your life?________.”

At that time the old woman took the book into her hands and began to tear(撕掉)each of the pages that had words out of the book. She then threw ________?into the fire until all left were empty pages. She handed the book of empty pages to the young woman.

“You see,” she said, “just as the water washed away your footsteps in the sand, your past is forever gone. What you ________????have is here and now. Each moment is the beginning of the rest of your life and you should live it to the fullest, because you won’t live that moment a(an) ________?time. For your future, you are free to shape it as you wish, ________?it has not yet been written.”

【1】A. turns??? B. turned??? C. is turning

【2】A. sitting??? B. to sit??? C. sat

【3】A. Thanks to??? B. Instead of??? C. As for

【4】A. tired??? B. sad??? C. amazed

【5】A. childhood??? B. adulthood??? C. old age

【6】A. ends ?????????????????? ??? B. lives??? C. begins

【7】A. them??? B. it??? C. her

【8】A. hardly??? B. lately??? C. truly

【9】A. other??? B. another??? C. second

【10】A. whether??? B. because??? C. then

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】B

【4】C

【5】A

【6】C

【7】A

【8】C

【9】C

【10】B

【解析】試題分析：本文講述的是一位女士在海灘散步時(shí)發(fā)生的故事。當(dāng)她追尋自己的足跡時(shí)，遇到了一位老人，老人手中的書(shū)寫(xiě)滿了年輕女子的過(guò)去一切，老人把那本書(shū)撕碎、燒掉，同時(shí)告訴她：今天是她生活的開(kāi)始。人的過(guò)去永遠(yuǎn)過(guò)去了，人們所擁有的是此地和現(xiàn)在，每一時(shí)刻都是生命的開(kāi)始，人們應(yīng)該充實(shí)。

【1】B考查動(dòng)詞及語(yǔ)境理解。句意：她轉(zhuǎn)身去看足跡。A. turns三人稱(chēng)單數(shù)的一般現(xiàn)在時(shí)態(tài)形式；B. turned一般過(guò)去時(shí)態(tài)形式；C. is turning 現(xiàn)在進(jìn)行時(shí)態(tài)形式。結(jié)合上下文，短文用一般過(guò)去時(shí)態(tài)來(lái)講述的，本句也用一般過(guò)去時(shí)態(tài)。故選B。

【2】A考查動(dòng)詞及語(yǔ)境理解。句意：她驚奇地看到一位老人坐在一個(gè)火爐旁�？吹侥橙嗽谧瞿呈拢�see sb. doing sth。故選A。

【3】B考查短語(yǔ)及語(yǔ)境理解。句意：沒(méi)有回答她的問(wèn)題，老人說(shuō)。A. Thanks to幸虧；B. Instead of代替，頂替，而不；C. As for至于，對(duì)于。老人說(shuō)出了下面的話，而沒(méi)有回答她的提示。而不：instead of。故選B。

【4】C考查形容詞及語(yǔ)境理解。句意：她一頁(yè)一頁(yè)地翻看這本書(shū)，并且驚奇地發(fā)現(xiàn)講述了她整個(gè)一生的故事。A. tired疲勞的；B. sad傷心的；C. amazed令人驚異的。從一位陌生人手中的書(shū)里，發(fā)現(xiàn)了寫(xiě)著自己一生的故事。感到驚奇。故選C。

【5】A考查名詞及語(yǔ)境理解。句意：從童年到現(xiàn)在。A. childhood童年；B. adulthood成年；C. old age老年�，F(xiàn)在是一位年輕人，可以推測(cè)出是比年輕人更早的時(shí)間段，即：童年。故選A。

【6】C考查動(dòng)詞及語(yǔ)境理解。句意：不，孩子，意思是今天晚上你的生活開(kāi)始了。A. ends結(jié)束；B. lives生活；C. begins開(kāi)始。同前句的ends（結(jié)束）相對(duì)，開(kāi)始：begin。故選C。

【7】A考查代詞及語(yǔ)境理解。句意：然后她把它們?nèi)舆M(jìn)火爐里直到只剩下空白頁(yè)。A. them它們；B. it它；C. her她。指代上文提到的復(fù)數(shù)名詞pages，用them。故選A。

【8】C考查副詞及語(yǔ)境理解。句意：你真正擁有的是此地和現(xiàn)在。A. hardly幾乎不；B. lately最近；C. truly真實(shí)地，真正地。聯(lián)系上文：過(guò)去的永遠(yuǎn)去了，真正擁有的是現(xiàn)在。故選C。

【9】C考查形容詞及語(yǔ)境理解。句意：每一刻都是你的余生的開(kāi)始，你應(yīng)該過(guò)得充實(shí)，因?yàn)槟悴粫?huì)過(guò)那個(gè)時(shí)刻第二次。A. other別的，其它的；B. another再一次，另一次；C. second第二。人不可能過(guò)同一時(shí)刻兩次，another不與不定冠詞a/an連用。故選C。

【10】B考查連詞及語(yǔ)境理解。句意：未來(lái)，你可以按你想要的方式去塑造因?yàn)樗�還沒(méi)有被書(shū)寫(xiě)。A. whether是否，表示疑問(wèn)；無(wú)論，表示條件；B. because因?yàn)椋�表示原因�?/span>C. then然后，表示時(shí)間的傳承。因?yàn)槲磥?lái)還未開(kāi)始，所以我們可以自由地塑造。表示原因，用because。故選B。