问题 单项选择题

Randy Kraus was paralyzed. His left side was useless. But his right hand was (1) enough to lift a bucket to his forehead. Once, he’d been a police officer and owned a private-eye agency. Once, he’d been p and able. Now, he felt he was nothing.
His (2) started with Parkinson’s disease, but it didn’t (3) there. In July 2002, the 60 year old Kraus went into the hospital for an operation to control the shaking. (4) , during the operation, he had a stroke. He was paralyzed. The (5) man, who loved golf, could think, but couldn’t (6) . Kraus wanted the doctors to (7) it to him straight. "You may never walk again, " they told him. "Maybe you won’t (8) be able to talk. "
Once at home, he (9) he couldn’t lift a fork or take a drink by himself. Physical treatment was so painful and slow. What did he have to (10) for So now Kraus held the gun against his head. (11) the cold metal on his skin, he began to consider not his pain, but the pain he (12) cause his wife, daughters and grandchildren. He didn’t pull the trigger.
"You are where you are", his exercise physiologist, Andrew Garud told him. "The pace would be slow; the pain would be (13) . But as long as you are (14) , you have the ability to get better. " After three months of (15) with Garud, Kraus wanted to see if he could (16) . He could. Then he took three steps, sat down and cried like a baby. One step (17) to another. Next he managed a short walk. It was the hardest (18) of Kraus’s life.
Garud kept saying he could (19) more. Now, Kraus can brush his teeth, shave himself and get around the house with a walker. Little success only the paralyzed can (20) understand.

A.sharp
B.dull
C.familiar
D.real

答案

参考答案:D

解析: 文意:进步会很慢,而且确实很痛苦。由此推断出应填real。故选D。

阅读理解

阅读理解。

     We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively (被动地). We achieve it actively by direct

experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.

     We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place

in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is

passive. If we achieve knowledge by passive learning, it's not surprising that we depend on it in our

everyday communication with friends and co-workers.

     Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told

even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor (谣言).

     Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn't

show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn,

whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes

down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared.

Typically, the original message has changed.

     That's what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words

changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative

touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping (打上标记) it with their own personal style. Yet those

who hear it think they know.

     This process is also found among scholars and writers: A statement of opinion by one writer may be

re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue,

unless it happens to someone to question the facts.

1. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in _______.

A. doing a medical experiment

B. solving a math problem

C. visiting an exhibition

D. doing scientific reasoning

2. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.

A. active learning

B. knowledge

C. communication

D. passive learning

3. The writer mentions the game Rumor to show that _____.

A. a message may be changed when being passed on

B. a message should be delivered in different ways

C. people may have problems with their sense of hearing

D. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor

4. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Active learning is less important.

B. Passive learning may not be reliable.

C. Active learning happens more often.

D. Passive learning is not found among writers.

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