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“Depend on yourself” is what nature says to every man. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. But all these only help you to help yourself.
There have been many great men in history. But many of them were very poor in boyhood, and had no uncles, aunts, or friends to help them. Schools were few and low. They could not depend on them for an education. They saw how it was, and set to work with all their strength to know something. They worked their own way up to fame.
One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupils, “I cannot make worthy men of you, but I can help you make men of yourselves.”
Some young men have no ambitions(抱負) to do anything; and they are to be pitied. They can never succeed unless they see their foolishness, and change their courses. They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live, unless they accept the advice of parents and teachers, and depend upon their own honest and serious efforts.
小題1:The best title for this passage is ________.
A．Depend on Yourself
B．Don’t Depend on Your Parents
C．Nobody can help you
D．The Good Advice
小題2: From the passage we know that many great men in history ________.
A．learned everything themselves in boyhood
B．didn’t receive any education
C．had no relatives or friends
D．depended on themselves to become famous
小題3:Which of the following is TRUE?
A．Parents can make you succeed.
B．Great men in history were very poor.
C．Teachers would not like to help you to be a man.
D．Only you can make yourself a great man.
小題4:Why have some young men failed in everything?
A．They have no ambitions.
B．They are to be pitied.
C．They have changed their courses.
D．They have seen their foolishness.

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:D
小題4:A

試題分析：本文敘述了我們應(yīng)該依靠自己，他人只能幫助我們。這是文章的主旨，也是第一段中的主要意思。文章從正面舉例說明歷史上的偉大人物是怎樣依靠自己的力量獲得最后成功的。最后一段從反面舉例，談到現(xiàn)在有些年輕人不努力使自己成為對人類有益的人，并給出自己的建議，與題目和文章開頭呼應(yīng)。
小題1:標題歸納題。根據(jù)“Depend on yourself” is what nature says to every man.故選A。
小題2:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)They worked their own way up to fame故選D。
小題3:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)But all these only help you to help yourself. 故選D。
小題4:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Some young men have no ambitions(抱負) to do anything A
點評：文章標題是文章的點睛之筆。標題歸納題在英語閱讀理解題中屬深層理解題，它要求考生在通讀全文的基礎(chǔ)上，準確把握文章大意及作者的寫作意圖。一般說來，標題應(yīng)該具有概括性、針對性、簡潔性三個突出特點。其中概括性，是指標題應(yīng)最大程度地覆蓋全文，囊括文章的主要內(nèi)容，體現(xiàn)文章的主題；針對性，是指標題的含義要直接指向文章的主要特點；而簡潔性，則是指標題應(yīng)言簡意賅，能吸引讀者的注意力，并喚起讀者對文章的閱讀興趣等。
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　　He said, "What do those look like to you?" He pointed down the row of toll booths.
　　"They look like……toll booths. What do they look like to you?"
　　He said, "Vertical coffins. At 8:30 every morning, live people get in. Then they die for eight hours. At 4:30, like Lazarus from the dead, they reemerge and go home. For eight hours, brain is on hold, dead on the job. Going through the motions."
　　I was amazed. This guy had developed a philosophy, a mythology about his job. Sixteen people dead on the job, and the seventeenth, in precisely the same situation, figures out a way to live. I could not help asking the next question: "Why is it different for you? You're having a good time."
He looked at me. "I knew you were going to ask that. I don't understand why anybody would think my job is boring. I have a corner office, glass on all sides. I can see the Golden Gate, San Francisco, and the Berkeley hills. Half the Western world vacations here……and I just stroll in every day and practice dancing."
小題1:According to the first paragraph, in most cases, how do you describe the relationship between drivers and toll booth?
A．most intimateB．very tenseC．pretty ordinaryD．extremely hostile
小題2:Why did the author go to San Francisco?
A. To attend a party
B. B. To have a meal
C. To dance with the worker in the toll booth
D. To hand in the repair fee of his car
小題3:The underlined name “Lazarus” mentioned in the eighth paragraph probably refers to a person___________.
A. who was very active in his life
B. B. who was dead and revived from death
C. who was going to San Francisco
D. who liked dancing at work
小題4:According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A．The author passed by the toll booth every day.
B．The worker enjoyed his work very much.
C．Only western people like to spend their holidays in the Berkeley hills.
D．The dancing worker was getting badly along with his colleagues.
小題5:After hearing what the worker said, the author would probably_________.
A．go to the worker’s senior to complain about his bad attitude towards job.
B．go climbing the Golden Gate and the Berkeley hills to have a vacation.
C．learn to take a positive attitude to job and appreciate valuable things in life.
D．go back home instead of wasting time traveling to San Francisco.

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