江苏省2009高考英语答案
听力采用全国1卷的听力【答案】 1．C 2．B 3．A 4．C 5．A 6．C 7．B 8．A 9．C 10．B 11．C l2．B l3．B l4．C l5．C l6．A l7．C l8．A l9．B 20．B【解析】略21. 【答案】A【解析】考察主谓一致和时态。population是集合名词，或集体名词，即看成一个整体，所以谓语动词用单数形式。句子说的是江苏现在的人口数量和以及增长，用完成时表示现在的状态。 22. 【答案】D【解析】考查时态和交际用语说话者用I _didn't_ know，是表示现在之前他不知道。而他现在说要去看他当然是将要去看他用“will'.23.【答案】B【解析】由于金融危机，当地五星级酒店一晚收费6000元的日子不复存在了。when引导的从句做days的定语。24.【答案】A【解析】动词短语辨析break up 断绝关系。 finish up 结果成为；最终到来。 divide up 分担，分配，分享。close up （伤口）愈合。25.【答案】C【解析】据题意，computer是正在被修。26. A. help B. to have helped C. to help D. having helped 【答案】C【解析】China are expected to help reduce unemployment pressures. to help 与to hire 位置相同。27.【答案】D【解析】be sensitive to对什么敏感。Jerry is even more sensitive to emotional and relationship problems. more sensitive to与more easily troubled by 并列。28.【答案】C【解析】he could have expressed it differently.他要是用另一种方式来说该多好啊。29.【答案】C【解析】交际用语Bill, can I get you anything to drink?Bill,你想要喝点什么？I wouldn't mind a coffee 我不见意要一杯咖啡。30.【答案】B【解析】according to 根据 regardless of 不管，不顾 in addition to 另外 in terms of 就...而言.这所特殊学校接收所有的残疾学生,不管他们的教育水平和背景如何.31. 【答案】B【解析】哪儿的失业率高 ,哪儿的犯罪就率高,那可以认为是前者导致后者的原因。32.【答案】C【解析】主句 .Distinguished guests and friends are our alumni （校友） from home and abroad. Attending the ceremony of the 50th Anniversary this morning非谓语动词作伴随状语。33.【答案】A【解析】考察固定搭配，hope to do sth;34.【答案】D【解析】句中此处是一个名词性定语从句，leave 是动词，后面要加宾语。其中that 和which 引导宾语从句的话，要有先行词在连接词的前面。所以应该选D35.【答案】D【解析】代词 代are expected完形填空36. 【答案】C【解析】由文章知到，现在的大学要求学生要完成6小时Service Learning为正确答案。37. 【答案】B【解析】不完成Service Learning，否则就不予毕业。38. 【答案】D【解析】是Service Learning的例子39【答案】C【解析】在Service Learnin期间的某一时候，所以选During40. 【答案】B【解析】在进行Service Learnin，由生活常识来看，要写一个调查报告41.【答案】B【解析】支持者认为社区服务由很多益处【考点定位】名词词语辨析42.【答案】A【解析】大多数人不可能选择的社区服务符合自己的兴趣爱好。43. 【答案】D【解析】由上下文容易知道,意识到做某事为最佳答案。44. 【答案】C【解析】由上下文容易知道,真正的生活技能包括include为最佳答案。45.【答案】B【考点定位】由上下文容易知道,最后Finally为为正确答案。46. 【答案】A由上下文容易知道,在社区服务整个活动之中。through副词辨析47. 【答案】D【解析】由上下文容易知道,在社区服务期间While48. 【答案】C【解析】point out指出deal with处理 look into深入地检查,研究;调查 take down写下;记下49. 【答案】A【解析】由上下文容易知道,反对者argue争论为最佳答案。50.【答案】C【解析】反对者认为，社区服务会耗费时间，学生学习课程的时间就会更少了。51. 【答案】B【解析】由常识知道，学生在社区服务是不付钱的。52. 【答案】A【解析】作者认为，社区最大的贡献在于学生可以学到新技能……其他不符合题意53.【答案】D【解析】此处应该为转折，所以选However54.【答案】B【解析】学生有发自内心的帮助别人的要求desire为最佳答案。55. 【答案】C【解析】最佳的解决办法。56.【答案】C【解析】细节理解题Besides, women consider that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships -- not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring at the screen.可以看出women think they can have a good time and develop relationships57. 【答案】B【解析】细节理解题but a woman sees it as a means of bonding. A woman can spend two weeks on vacation with her girlfriend and, when she returns home, telephone the same girlfriend and talk for another two hours.58.【答案】A【解析】推理判断题Since women originally spent their days with the other women and children in the group, they developed the ability to communicate successfully in order to maintain relationships. For a woman, speech continues to have such a clear purpose: to build relationships and make friends.59. 【答案】C【解析】主旨大意题本文从男女看电视的反应开始谈男女注意力、性格等差异，看楚女人喜欢讲话。Women Love to Talk60．【答案】B【解析】细节理解题But I straggled with my jacket because it didn’t fit well. It was a hand-me-down from my brother,和I said，“They are my brother’s boots．My mother makes me wear them，and I hate them!”可以看出正确答案。61．【答案】A【解析】细节理解题I looked into her eyes and said．“I didn’t want to lose them．so I put them into the toes of my boots．62．A．once B．twice C．three times D．four times【答案】D【解析】推理判断题此题较难。1Finally it was time to have Miss Finlayson help me with my boots.2handed her my boots and stuck out my foot. Like most children, I expected the adult to do an the work. After mush wiggling and pushing, she managed to get first one into place and then, with a sigh, worked the second one on too.3she struggled to get the boots off and went through the joyless task of putting them on again．4As she pulled the offending boots from my feet，she still managed to look both helpful and interested．Once they were off．由文章可以看出作者对幼儿园老师的“刁难”了four times63．【答案】D【解析】she managed to act as though I wasn’t an annoying little girl．“我”对童年往事的回忆，对幼儿园老师的“刁难”这一主旨看出来。64．【答案】C【解析】细节理解题从文中Short-term students at QUT cannot use their ID cards to gain a discount fare on BCC public transport．You will need to buy an adult ticket to travel．Bus fares are dependent on the number of zones you have to travel．There are several types of tickets可以看出答案。65．【答案】D【解析】推理判断题问从中可以很容易看出ABC都是错误的。而D由图标看出是对的。66．【答案】B【解析】推理判断题一名交换生在QUT学习5天并且每天都做，如果他买Single，每次只能一次，而学生不可能一天制作一次，只有Weekly最划算。67．【答案】B【解析】细节理解题The topsoil layer is made up of small particles of rock mixed with rotten plant and animal matter called humus（腐殖质），which is black and gives the topsoil its dark colour。 This layer is usually rich in nutrients，oxygen，and water．68．【答案】B【解析】推理判断题This layer is lighter in colour because of the lack of humus．Beneath the soil lies a layer of bedrock。可以看出答案69．【答案】C【解析】推理判断题Eventually the water reaches a layer called the water table．Under this is bedrock through which water cannot percolate．可以看出答案70．【答案】D【解析】水渗透下来以后，泥土中有机质和其他物质和水按常识是和水混在一起，然后分解。看出答案。71、【答案】self-centred／subjective【解析】Each person may believe that he is correct and that the other person’s view is wrong．需要将其意思转换为是自我为中心的或个体主观的意思。72、【答案】involves【解析】从文中第二段内容可以找出。73、【答案】determine／define／know／understand【解析】neutral messages that you receive from others all play a role in determining who you are．可以找出答案，然后对信息进行一下转换。74、【答案】expectations／hopes／desires／wishes【解析】communication involves others in the sense that a competent communicator considers what the other person needs and expects when selecting messages to share．信息定位后转化一下，使之适合于表格。75、【答案】occurs／happens／exists／arises【解析】由Communication Occurs almost every minute of your life．转化而来76、【答案】reading／understanding/knowing【解析】if you are not communicating with yourself（thinking，planning，reacting to the world around you）77、【答案】behaviors／acts／action（s）／activities【解析】you are observing others and drawing inferences from their behavior．78、【答案】conveying／expressing【解析】We are continually picking up meanings from others’ behaviors and we are constantly providing behaviors that have communicative value for them．转化而来79、【答案】erase／remove／delete/change【解析】You cannot go back in time and erase your messages to others．80、【答案】can’t／cannot【解析】Your second experience with a similar setting and person made far different results．转化而来参考范文：The mouse is a most effective device used by people to communicate with a computer．For most people, it’s almost impossible to operate a computer without a mouse, let alone surf the Internet. A well-chosen mouse is really handy, flexible and convenient in controlling the screen. With the functions of inserting, deleting, moving and copying, it enables us to edit test, browse web page and download what we want. It can even bring us a flood of music, movies and PC games. Just imagine, all this can be done with a cute mouse.A convenient tool can certainly make our work easier, but it doesn’t always help in a positive way. Too much ready information on our fingertips leaves little room for knowledge pursuing. Too many ready answers make us less excited in finding truth. Relying too much on mouse clicking makes us lazier and less creative both mentally and physically.
2013年高考英语江苏卷 - 阅读理解D
Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism. 马克·吐温被称为美国小说的创始人，他推广了聪明文学以抨击种族歧视，理应受到额外褒奖。 I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story. 之所以说是聪明是因为反奴隶制小说在内战前就已经是文学的重要组成部分了。H.B.斯托的《汤姆叔叔的小屋》就是其中最著名的例子。这些早期的小说直指奴隶制，但也有少数列外，马克·吐温将他对奴隶制和偏见的攻击植入故事里，而故事表面看起来则是是其他的事情。他通过小说吸引读者让他们参与这场讨论。 Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn , Twain’s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck the mass rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums”. More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurrences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it.) 战后，马克·吐温似乎不得不一次又一次地应对种族主义的挑战，至少现在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》仍是最受争议的小说。马克·吐温被广泛阅读的的小说中只有几本书像《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》一样经常被下架。从前，人们讨厌这本书，因为人们认为它很粗鲁。马克·吐温写道，那些禁止这本书的人认为这部小说是"垃圾，只适合贫民窟"。最近这本书因为书中的人物，逃跑的黑奴吉姆以及频繁出现的“黑鬼”一词而备受抨击（备受抨击的的"黑鬼吉姆"这个词从未出现过）。 But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction — a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.” 但这样的攻击无论是过去还是现在都很愚蠢，没有抓住重点。这部小说强烈地反对奴隶制。吉姆从他被强行带走的蓄奴州开始搜寻家人的行为是一种英雄主义的行为。J. Chadwick指出，吉姆这个角色是美国小说中第一个承认奴隶有双重人格的，即"一个是生存于白人奴隶文化之中的声音，另一个是作为个体的声音，吉姆本人，是父亲，也是男人"。 There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master’s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold south, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife. The slave’s light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave. 这样的例子还有很多。马克·吐温的悬疑小说《傻瓜威尔逊》对种族信仰，甚至是许多自由派的种族信仰发起了挑战。当时人们普遍认为黑人不如白人聪明，尤其是智力方面，马克·吐温的小说写了孩子出生时将两个孩子互换的故事。一个奴隶生下了她主人的孩子，生怕孩子被卖到南方去，于是就用自己的孩子换了他主人妻子的孩子。奴隶的浅肤色小孩生长在白人家庭，并在蓄奴阶级的态度和教育思想中长大，而主人妻子的小孩被送到黑人家庭，并在奴隶的态度和教育思想中长大。 The point was difficult to miss: nurture, not nature, was the key to social status.The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech，for example—were，to Twain，indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims. 有一点很明确：决定社会地位的关键是养育而不是本性。人们歧视的是黑人本身的一些特点，比如说话的方式。马克·吐温认为，这些特点正是奴隶制强加给奴隶的。 Twain’s racial was not perfect . One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth--mostly with white men performing in black-face---and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not. 马克·吐温的种族论调并不完美。依然令人不安，例如，他在自传中用了很长的篇幅来讲述他在青年时期非常喜欢"黑鬼秀"，而那些表演大多是由白人扮成黑人，他母亲嘲笑表演者时他很开心。但我们没有理由认为马克·吐温把这个表演看成是现实的写照。他经常攻击奴隶制和种族歧视表明他拥有敏锐的意识。 Was Twain a racist? Asking the questioning the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century. 马克·吐温是一个种族主义者吗？在21世纪，问这个问题就如同问林肯是不是一个种族主义者一样睿智。如果我们用当前经过深思熟虑的道德标准作为辨别的“智慧”来解读过去的文字和态度，那么我们只会发现错误。林肯认为黑人不如白人，只有战斗并且赢得战争，才能解放他们。马克·吐温生长在一个蓄奴州，当过兵，创作了吉姆这个形象，跟过去任何一个小说家相比，他也许更能提醒人们种族之间的不公并且唤醒他们的集体良知。
2011江苏高考英语试题
2011江苏英语试题
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题：每小题1分，满分5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
例：How much is the shirt?
A.￡19.15 B. ￡.9.15 C . ￡9.18
答案是B.
1.What does the man like about the play?
A.The story B. The ending C. The actor
2.Which place are the speakers trying to find?
A. A hotel . B. A bank . C.A restaurant.
3.At what time will the two speakers meet?
A.5:20 . B.5:10 . C.4:40.
4.What will the man do?
A.Change the plan. B.Wait for a phone. C.Sort things out.
5.What does the woman want to do?
A. See a film with the man . B. Offer the man some help. C.Listen to some great music.
第二节 (共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小问题，从题中所给的A、B、C、三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置，听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6.Where is Ben?
A. In the kitchen B. At school C. In the park
7.What will the children do in the afternoon?
A. Help set the table B. Have a party C. Do their homework
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8.What are the two speakers talking about?
A. A family holiday B. A business trip C. A travel plan
9.Where did Rachel go?
A. Spain B. Italy C. China
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10.How did the woman get to know about third-hand smoke?
A. From young smokers. B. From a newspaper article.
C. From some smoking parents.
11.Why does the man say that he should keep away from babies?
A. He has just become a father. B. He wears dirty clothes.
C. He is a smoker.
12.What does the woman suggest smoking parents should do?
A. Stop smoking altogether. B. Smoke only outside their houses.
C. Reduce dangerous matter in cigarettes.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13.Where does Michelle Ray come from?
A. A middle-sized city. B. A small town. C. A big city.
14.Which place would Michelle Ray take her visitors to for shopping?
A. The Zen Garden B. The Highlands C. The Red River area.
15.What does Michelle Ray do for complete quiet?
A. Go camping. B. Study in a library C. Read at home.
16.What are the speakers talking about in general?
A.Late-night shopping. B.Asian food. C.Louisville.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17．Why do some people say they never have dreams accdording to Dr Garfield?
A.They forget about their dreams. B.They don’t want to tell the truth.
C.They have to bad experiences.
18．Why did Davis stop having dreams?
A.He got a serious heart attack. B.He was too sad about his brother’s death.
C.He was frightened by a terrible dream.
19．What is Dr Garfield’s opinion about dreaming?
A.It is very useful. B.It makes things worse.
C.It prevents the mind from working.
20．Why do some people turn off their dreams completely?
A.To sleep better. B.To recover from illnesses.
C.To say away from their problems.
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）
第一个：单项天空（共15题：每小题1分，满分15分）
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的ABCD四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
例：Is si generally considred unwise to give a child ____he or she wants.
A.however Bwhatever C.whicecer D.whenever
答案是B。
21------I hear you ____ in apub .what’sit like?
------Well ,it’s very hand work and I’m always tired , but I don’t mind.
A.are workingB.will work C.were working D.will be working
22．The fact that so many people still smoke in public place _______that we may need antionwide campaign to raise awareness of the riks of smoking.
A.suggest B.suggests C.suggestedD.suggesting
23．-----Tommy is planning to buy a car.
----I know .By next month ,he__enough for a used one
A. saves B .savedC.will save D. will have saved
24．Between the two parts of the concert is an interval, __________ the audience can buy ice-cream.
A．WhenB．WhereC．thatD．which
25．In that school, English is compulsory for all students, but French and Russian are _________.
A．specialB．regionalC．optionalD．original
26．It was never clear _______ the man hadn’t reported the accident sooner.
A．thatB．howC．whenD．why
27．Teachers have to constantly update their knowledge in order to maintain their professional ___.
A．consequenceB．independenceC．competenceD．intelligence
28．--- Are you still mad at her?
---Not really, but I can’t ______ that her remarks hurt me.
A．denyB．refuseC．rejectD．decline
29．— Linda didn’t invite us to the party.
— ______? I don’t care.
A．For what B．So what C．What’s on D．What’s up
30．— You look upset. What’s the matter？
— I had my proposal _______ again.
A．turned over B．turned on C．turned off D．turned down
31．Recently a survey _______ prices of the same goods in two different supermarkets has caused heated debate among citizens.
A．compared B．comparing C．compares D．being compared
32．We’d better discuss everything _______ before we work out the plan.
A．in detail B．in general C．on purpose D．on time
33. It sounds like something is wrong with the car’s engine. , we’d better take it to the garage immediately.
A. Otherwise B. If not C. But for that D. If so
34. ---I left my handbag on the train, but luckily someone gave it to a railway official.
---How unbelievable to get it back! I mean, someone ______ it.
A. will have stolen B. might have stolen
C. should have stolen D. must have stolen
35. ---You could always put the decision off a little bit longer.
---_____ If I leave it much longer I might miss my chance.
A. That’s reasonable advice. B. Isn’t it a good idea.
C. Do you think so? D. I can’t agree more.
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的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。
A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting （诱人的）apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater, 36 a bar of chocolate if given the choice, 37 , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the 38 he felt and the more he wanted that apple.
39 as high as he could , but even as his tallest 40 he was unable to touch It. He began to 41 up and down , as high as he could, at the 42 of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple . Still it remained out of 43 . Not giving up , he though , if only he had something to 44 on . His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to 45 the things inside , like his lunch box , pencil case , and Gameboy . Looking 46 , he hoped he might find an old box , a rock , or , 47 luck , even a ladder , but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use . He had tired everything he could think to do . 48 seeing any other choices , he gave up and started to walk 49 . At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his 50 , and how he really wanted that apple . The more he 51 like this , the more unhappy he became.
52 ,the boy of our story was a preetty smart guy,even if he cloudn’t always get what get he wanted .He started to say to himself .,This isn’t 53 ,I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well.There’s 54 more Ican do to get the apple_that is unchangeable-but we are supposed to be able to 55 our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better?
36.A. preferring B.offering C.receiving D.allowing
37.A. so B.then C..but D or
38.A.sadder B.angrier C. hungrier D.tastier
39.A. expanding B. stretching C.swinging D.pulling
40.A. strength B. length C. range D.heigh
41.A.jump B.look C. walk D.glance
42.A. tip B. stage C. top D. level
43.A hope B. hand C. sight D. reach
44.A. put B. stand C. get D. hold
45.A. break B. shake C.take D. strike
46.A. up B. forword C.down D. around
47.A.for B. with C.on D. of
48.A. After B. Through C .Without D.Upon
49.A. back B. away C. up D. down
50.A. wishes B. beliefs C. efforts D. goals
51.A. thought B. imagoned C.tried D. cliamed
52.A.Therefore B.However C.Moreover D.Otherwise
53.A. skilful B. cheerful C.harmful D. helpful
54. A. something B. anything C.everything D.nothing
55.A．change B.express C.forget D.describe
太长了，有邮箱么
2008年高考英语江苏卷 - 阅读理解D
It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of the dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son. He was working on his future, and nothing could stop him.
杰克已经有一段时间没见到这位老人了。大学、工作和生活本身都成为了障碍。事实上，为了追求梦想，杰克在全国到处飞。繁忙的生活让杰克几乎没有时间思考过去，也没有时间和妻儿在一起。他在为自己的未来而努力，没有什么能阻止他。
Over the phone, his mother told him, “Mr. Belser died last night. The funeral is Wednesday.” Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days.
在电话里，他的母亲告诉他：“贝尔瑟先生昨晚去世了，葬礼在周三举行。”当他静静地坐在那里回忆童年时光时，记忆就像历史影像在脑海中闪现。
“Jack, did you hear me?”
“杰克，你听见了吗？”
“Oh, sorry, Mom. Yes, I heard you. it’s been so long since I thought of him. I’m sorry, but I honestly thought he died years ago,” Jack said.
杰克说：“哦，对不起，妈妈。是的，我听见了。我很久没想起他了。对不起，但我真的以为他几年前就去世了。”。
“Well, he didn’t forget you. Every time I saw him he’d ask how you were doing. He’d reminisce about the many days you spent over ‘his side of the fence’ as he put it, ” Mom told him.
“嗯，他没有忘记你。每次我见到他，他都会问你过得怎么样。他常常回忆起你在他家院子里度过的许多日子，”妈妈告诉他。
“I loved that old house he lived in,” Jack said.
“我喜欢他住的那栋老房子，”杰克说。
“You know, Jack, after your father died, Mr. Belser stepped in to make sure you had a man’s influence in your life,” she said.
“杰克，你知道吗，你父亲去世后，贝尔瑟先生介入进来，确保你的生活中有男人的影响，”她说。
“He’s the one who taught me carpentry. I wouldn’t be in this business if it weren’t for him. He spent a lot of time teaching me things he thought were important. Mom, I’ll be there for the funeral.” Jack said.
“是他教我木工的。如果没有他，我就不会从事这个行业。他花了很多时间教我他认为重要的东西。妈妈，我会参加葬礼的。”杰克说。
Busy as he was, he kept his word. Jack caught the next flight to his hometown. Mr. Belser’s funeral was small and uneventful. He had no children of his own, and most of his relatives had passed away.
尽管杰克很忙，但他信守诺言。赶上了下一班飞往家乡的航班。贝尔瑟先生的葬礼规模不大，平平淡淡。他没有自己的孩子，他的亲戚大多数都去世了。
The night before he had to return home, Jack and his Mom stopped by to see the old house next door one more time, which was exactly as he remembered. Every step held memories. Every picture, every piece of furniture … Jack stopped suddenly.
在他不得不回去的前一天晚上，杰克和他的妈妈再次路过隔壁的老房子，这正是他所记得的。每一步都有记忆。每一张照片，每一件家具……杰克突然停了下来。
“What’s wrong, Jack?” his Mom asked.
“怎么了，杰克？”他妈妈问。
“The box is gone,” he said.
“盒子不见了，”他说。
“What box?” Mom asked.
“什么盒子？”妈妈问。
“There was a small gold box that he kept locked on top of his desk. I must have asked him a thousand times what was inside. All he’d ever tell me was ‘the thing I value most’,” Jack said.
“他把一个小金盒锁在书桌上。我肯定问过他一千遍里面装的是什么。他总是告诉我是他‘最珍视的东西’，”杰克说。
It was gone. Everything about the house was exactly how Jack remembered it, except for the box. He figured someone from the Belser family had taken it.
它不见了。除了盒子，房子的一切都和杰克记忆中的一模一样。他认为是贝尔瑟家族的人拿走的。
“Now I’ll never know what was so valuable to him,” Jack said sadly.
“现在我永远也不知道是什么对他如此有价值，”杰克悲伤地说。
Returning to his office the next day, he found a package on his desk. The return address caught his attention.
第二天回到办公室，他在办公桌上发现了一个包裹。回信地址引起了他的注意。
“Mr. Harold Belser” it read.
上面写着“哈罗德·贝尔瑟先生”。
Jack tore open the package. There inside was the gold box and an envelope. Jack’s hands shook as he read the note inside,
杰克撕开了包裹。里面有一个金盒子和一个信封。杰克读到里面的纸条时，双手颤抖，
“Upon my death, please forward this box and its contents to Jack Bernett. It’s the thing I valued most in my life.” A small key was taped to the letter. His heart racing, and tears filling his eyes. Jack carefully unlocked the box. There inside he found a beautiful gold pocket watch. Running his fingers slowly over the fine cover, he opened it.
“我死后，请把这个盒子和里面的东西转交给杰克·伯内特。这是我一生中最珍视的东西。”信上贴着一把小钥匙。他的心怦怦直跳，泪水盈眶。杰克小心地打开箱子。他在里面发现了一块漂亮的金怀表。他用手指慢慢地抚摸着精美的封面，打开了它。
Inside he found these words carved: “Jack. Thanks for your time! Harold Belser.”
他发现里面刻着这样一句话：“杰克。谢谢你的时间！哈罗德·贝尔瑟。”
“Oh. My God! This is the thing he valued most …”
“哦，天哪！这是他最珍视的东西……”
Jack held the watch for a few minutes, then called his assistant and cleared his appointments for the next two days. “Why?” his assistant asked.
杰克拿着手表看了几分钟，然后打电话给他的助理，取消了接下来两天的会议。“为什么？”助理问道。
“I need some time to spend with my son,” he said.
“我需要一些时间和儿子在一起，”他说。
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