Question

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it’s helpful to do kind, peaceful things. One of my favorite ______ to do this is by developing my own helping rituals（习惯）. These little acts of ______ are opportunities to be of service and reminders of how good it feels to be kind and ______.

We live in a rural area of the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of what we see is ______ nature.One of the ______ to the beauty is the litter that some people throw out of their windows as they are ______ on the rural roads. One of the few ______ to living in the rural areas is that public services, such as litter collection, are less ______ han they are closer to the city.

A helping ritual that I practice ______ with my two children is picking up litter in our surrounding area. We’ve become so accustomed to doing this that my ______ will often say to me in pleasant voices, "There's some litter, Daddy, ______ the car!" And if we have______, we will often  pull over and pick it up. It may seem strange, but we actually ______ it. We pick up litter in parks, on sidewalks, practically anywhere. Once I even saw a (n) ______ icking up litter close to where we live. The man whom I didn’t know smiled at me and said, "I ______ saw you doing it, and it seemed like a good idea."

Picking up litter is only ______ of an endless supply of possible helping rituals. You might like holding a door open for people, visiting and ______ lonely elderly people in nursing homes, or shoveling snow off someone else’s driveway. Think of something that seems effortless ______ helpful. It’s worthwhile, personally rewarding, and sets a good example. Your acts of kindness can ______ others to do the same things. And everyone ______ from this.

1.A. things         B. activities       C. ways            D. places

2.A. kindness      B. education       C. instruction      D. amusement

3.A. polite        B. curious          C. challenging      D. helpful

4.A. dirty          B. beautiful      C. different      D. simple

5.A. explanations B. answers         C. changes         D. weaknesses

6.A. running      B. walking         C. driving         D. jumping

7.A. reasons      B. disadvantages    C. principles       D. Days

8.A. available      B. important      C. satisfying       D. dangerous

9.A. generally      B. casually         C. regularly       D. deliberately

10.A. friends       B. parents          C. colleagues       D. Children

11.A. stop        B. start           C. repair          D. speed

12.A. faith         B. time            C. money            D. material

13.A. enjoy       B. need             C. see             D. get

14.A. cleaner     B. neighbor         C. adult            D. stranger

15.A. seldom        B. often            C. never           D. First

16.A. many         B. that             C . one             D. all

17.A. comforting   B. respecting       C. treating        D. teaching

18.A. just        B. yet              C. still            D. even

19.A. force         B. inform           C. encourage      D. remind

20.A. remembers     B. involves         C. suffers          D. benefits

Answer

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.B

5.D

6.C

7.B

8.A

9.C

10.D

11.C

12.B

13.A

14.D

15.B

16.C

17.A

18.B

19.C

20.D

【解析】

试题分析：

1.C考查名词辨析。things事情；activities行动；ways方法；places地方；我最喜欢的方法就是养成自己帮助他人的好习惯。本句表示我们要养成帮助他人的习惯。故C正确。

2. 考查名词辨析。Kindness善意；education教育；instruction指导，说明；amusement娱乐；这些小小的善意的行动就是提醒我们善良并乐于助人是多么好的感觉的好机会啊。故A正确。

3. 考查形容词辨析。Polite有礼貌的；curious好奇的；challenging挑战性的；helpful乐于助人的。本句要填的形容词与kind表示相似的积极含义。根据上句中养成帮助他人的好习惯可知D正确。

4. 考查形容词辨析。Dirty肮脏的；beautiful美丽的；different不同的；simple简单的；我们生活在旧金山海湾，我们看见的是美丽的自然景色。故B正确。

5. 考查名词辨析。Explanation解释；answers回答；changes变化；weaknesses弱点；这个美丽的地方的弱点之一就是人们开车的时候所扔的垃圾。故D正确。

6. 考查动词辨析。run奔跑；walk步行；drive开车；jump跳跃；根据本句中：这个美丽的地方的弱点之一就是人们开车的时候扔出窗外的垃圾。说明他们是在开车。故C正确。

7. 考查名词辨析。Reason理由；disadvantages劣势；principles原则，校长；days日子；根据后句litter collection可知本句叙述的是生活在乡下地区的不足之处。故B正确。

8. 考查形容词辨析。Available存在的，可以利用的，可以得到的；important重要的；satisfying令人满意的；dangerous危险的；本句表示乡下地区可以使用的垃圾箱要比城里的更少。故A正确。

9. 考查副词辨析。Generally一般说来；casually随意地；regularly有规律地，经常地；deliberately故意地；我和孩子经常做的帮助他人的习惯就是捡垃圾。根据句意可知这是我经常做的事情。故C正确。

10. 考查上下文串联。根据上文9空后的with my two children可知应该是我的孩子经常对我说。故D正确。

11. 考查动词辨析。Stop停止；start开始；repair修理；speed加速；当孩子看见垃圾的时候，应该让我停车捡垃圾。故C正确。

12. 考查上下文串联。如果我有时间，我就会停车捡起垃圾，而不是信誉，金钱或者材料。故B正确。

13. 考查动词辨析。Enjoy享受，喜欢；need需要；see看见；get得到；虽然我们经常停车捡垃圾听起来很奇怪，但是我们很享受这样的事情。故A正确。

14. 考查上下文串联。根据下句The man whom I didn’t know可知这是我不认识的陌生人。故D正确。

15. 考查副词辨析。Seldom很少，几乎不；often经常；never从未；first首先；这个陌生人对我说：我经常看见你这样做，似乎是一个好主意。故B正确。

16. of….“…之一”；捡垃圾只是帮助他人的诸多习惯之一。故C正确。

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19. 考查动辨析。Force强迫；inform通知；encourage鼓励；remind提醒；你善意的行为可以鼓励他人做同样的事情。

20. 考查动词辨析。Remember记得；involve涉及；卷入；suffer遭受；benefit使…受益；你善意的行为可以鼓励他人做同样的事情。每个人都会从中受益。故D正确。

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