北京2015年成人英语三级考试全新模拟试题(1)
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Part II Reading Comprehension (30%)
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the following passages:
He was in the first third-grade class I taught at Saint Mary’s School in Morris, Minnesota. All
34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. Very neat in appearance, he had that happy-to-be-alive attitude that made even his occasional mischievous delightful.
One morning my patience was growing thin when Mark talked once too often, and then I made a novice-teacher’s mistake. I looked at Mark and said, “ If you say one more word, I am going to tape your mouth shut!” But he talked again. Without saying a word, I proceeded to Mark’s desk, tore off two pieces of tape and made a big X with them over his mouth. After class he said to me, “Thank you for correcting me, Sister!”
The years flew by, and before I knew it Mark was in my class again. One Friday, things just didn’t feel right. We had worked on a new concept all week, and I sensed that the students were growing frustrated with themselves—and edgy with one another. So I asked them to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then I told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.
It took the remainder of the class period to finish the assignment, but as the students left the room, each one handed me the papers. Charlie smiled. Mark said, “ Thank you for teaching me, Sister. Have a good weekend.”
That Saturday, I wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and I listed what everyone else had said about that individual. On Monday I gave each student his or her list. Some of them ran tow pages. Before long, th4e entire class was smiling. “Really?” I heard whispered. “I never knew that meant anything to anyone!” “I didn’t know others liked me so much!”
No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. Several years later, after I returned from a vacation, my parents met me at the airport. From them I knew that Mark was killed in Vietnam. So I attended the funeral. After the funeral, Mark’s father took a wallet out of his pocket. “They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it.”
Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. I knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which I had listed all the good things each of Mark’s classmates had said about him.
Mark’s classmates started to gather around us. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, “I still have my list. It’s in the top drawer of my desk at home.” Chuck’s wife said, “ Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album.”
That’s when I finally sat down and cried. I cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again. [NextPage] 1. When Mark was in the third grade, he ___.
A) was very shy and quiet
B) was rough and disobedient
C) never talked without permission
D) often talked without permission
2. One Friday, the students were growing frustrated with themselves because ___.
A) the new concept they had been working on was too difficult
B) they were not interested in learning the new concept
C) the teacher was not familiar with the new concept
D) the teacher became very impatient with them
3. After the funeral, Mark’s mother thanked the author for ________.
A) correcting Mark for misbehaving at school many times
B) giving Mark the list of all the good things said about
C) teaching Mark for such a long period of time
D) asking Mark’s classmates to have dinner with them
4. The reason why the students kept the lists of all the good things is that ___.
A) they missed each other after they departed
B) they wanted to show the lists to their husbands or wives
C) they valued the teacher’s effort for copying all the good things about them
D) they treasured what made them feel good about themselves
