Question

【題目】

A Small Red Ribbon

Everyone wants to win a first-place blue ribbon, to be the best in something.

Even little children in kindergartens(幼兒園) want that blue ribbon. In _________, I was never a blue-ribbon person. In a running ribbon competition, I was always the last. In baseball, I usually dropped the ball. During the spring of my kindergarten year, our class had a field trip to a park in a _________ about twenty miles away. Making that drive now very easy to do but when you’re six and you’ve lived in a town of 300 people all your life, going to a big town of a few thousand people is really something.

I don’t remember too much about it. But there was one that I will never forget — the three-legged competition. The parents tied(捆綁) our feet together. I was in pair with a little boy. He was very _________ at sports in our class. He usually won at everything but I didn’t. I knew that our pair didn’t have a chance to _________, and I’m sure he knew he was in trouble. The gun sounded(槍響了) and we were off. Some pairs were stumbling(絆腳) and falling all around, but we stayed on our feet and made it to the other side. _________, when we turned around and headed back, we were in the lead. There was another pair a few metres behind us. But only one pair had a chance to win.

A few metres from the finish line, something terrible happened: I stumbled and fell. We were so _________ to the finish line that my partner could have easily pulled me across the finish line and won. But he didn’t. He stopped, _______ down and helped me up — just as the other pair crossed the finish line. As a result, we received a small red ribbon for coming in second.

I still remember that moment when the young boy decided that helping a friend get on her feet was more important than winning a blue ribbon. And 13 years later, I still have that little ribbon because it tells me that a friend like this boy is the one who really _________ a lot.

【1】A.sportsB.musicC.artD.courses

【2】A.countryB.cityC.townD.village

【3】A.badB.angryC.goodD.surprised

【4】A.winB.fallC.waitD.run

【5】A.WorriedlyB.UnbelievablyC.SecretlyD.Unluckily

【6】A.strongB.braveC.cleverD.close

【7】A.brokeB.layC.movedD.reached

【8】A.dependsB.meansC.expectsD.thanks

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】C

【4】A

【5】B

【6】D

【7】D

【8】B

【解析】

文章介紹了作者在比賽中從沒有獲得過藍絲帶，一次比賽中，和小伙伴共同努力，馬上就要獲得藍絲帶的時候，但作者意外摔倒了，她的小伙伴并沒有把她拖過終點，而是把作者扶起來，這給了作者啟示，這樣的朋友才是真正的朋友。

【1】句意：在運動上，我從來不是一個擁有藍絲帶的人。

sports運動；music音樂；art美術(shù)；courses課程。由下文“In a running ribbon competition, I was always the last.”可知，跑步總是最后一名，我在運動方面不擅長，故選A。

【2】句意：在我上幼兒園的一個春天，我們班到20英里外的一個鎮(zhèn)上的一個公園進行了戶外教學。

country國家；city城市；town城鎮(zhèn)；village鄉(xiāng)村。由下文“going to a big town”可知，他們是去一個大城鎮(zhèn)，故選C。

【3】句意：他在我們班級非常擅長運動。

bad壞的；angry生氣的；good好的；surprised吃驚。由下文“He usually won at everything”可知，他通常贏，他體育很好。固定搭配“在……擅長be good at”，故選C。

【4】句意：我知道我們這一組沒有機會贏了，我確信他知道他有麻煩了。

win贏；fall降落；wait等待；run跑步。由上文“He usually won at everything but I didn’t.”可知，他經(jīng)常贏，但是我不是，我們兩個組合到一起，沒有贏的機會，故選A。

【5】句意：令人難以置信地是，當我們轉(zhuǎn)回來往回走的時候，我們處于領(lǐng)先地位。

Worriedly令人擔憂地；Unbelievably令人難以置信地；Secretly秘密地；Unluckily不幸地。由上文“I'm sure he knew he was in trouble.”可知，我們沒有機會贏，但是現(xiàn)在處于領(lǐng)先地位，所以是令人難以置信地。故選B。

【6】句意：我們距離終點如此的近，以至于我的小伙伴本可以輕易地把我拉過去，然后贏得比賽。

strong強壯；brave勇敢；clever聰明；close近的。由“easily pulled me across the finish line and won”可知，我們離終點線是近的，故選D。

【7】句意：他停下來，伸過來手，幫助我起來，這時，另一組過了這個終點線。

broke打破；lay放置；moved移動；reached伸手。由“helped me up”可知，他將我扶了起來，故選D。

【8】句意：13年過去了，我仍然還留有這個絲帶，因為它告訴我，像這個男孩這樣的朋友才是真正有意義的朋友。

depends依賴；means意味著；expects期待；thanks感謝。由上文“helping a friend get on her feet was more important than winning a blue ribbon”可知，這個小男孩做的事情，意味著很多，很有價值，故選B。