第一节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，共15分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑.
Once upon a time, a daughter ___1___ to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to ___2___ it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon follow.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He ___3___ three pots with water and placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter complained and ___4___ waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes, he turn off the turners (开关). He took them out of the pot and put them in a bowl. Turning to his daughter, he asked, “Dear baby, what do you see now?”
“Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she quickly replied.
“Look closer,” he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were ___5___.
He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she ___6___ the hard-boiled eggs. Finally, he asked her to sip (抿) the coffee. “Dad, what does this really mean?” she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and the coffee beans had each faced the same boiling water. However, they ___7___ differently. The eggs were fragile (易碎) with the thin outer shell protecting their liquid inside until they were put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were___8___. After they were ___9___ to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which one are you?” he asked his daughter. “When the disaster knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
“Dad, I want to be a coffee bean,” said the daughter.
All his efforts paid off and the daughter realized that in life, challenges happen to us all, but the only thing that truly _______10_______ is what happens within us.
1. A. said B. told C. spoke D. complained
2. A. accept B. make C. change D. escape
3. A. put B. placed C. mixed D. filled
4. A. cautiously B. desperately C. impatiently D. eagerly
5. A. soft B. round C. tasty D. ripe
6. A. ate B. smelt C. observed D. broke
7. A. boiled B. occurred C. smelt D. reacted
8. A. unique B. favorite C. delicious D. common
9. A. added B. devoted C. exposed D. connected
10. A. means B. creates C. matters D. changes
【答案】1. D 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. C 7. D 8. A 9. C 10. C
