阅读理解。 Fred liked playing tricks on others. One afternoon he went to a shop
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| 阅读理解。 |
Fred liked playing tricks on others. One afternoon he went to a shop and bought some bread. On his
way home he saw Johnson, an old man about sixty riding a donkey (驴). The boy walked to the old man
and decided to play a trick on him. He thought for a moment and then he had an idea.
"Hello, my friend," Fred said in a loud voice. "Please come and have a piece of bread."
"Thank you very much." Johnson got off the donkey and said gladly." "But I have already had lunch."
"I"m sorry. I"m talking to your donkey, not to you." Fred said with a smile. Johnson understood at once
that the boy was playing a trick on him. He became angry, but he didn"t show his anger. He just turned
quickly to his donkey, held up the lash (鞭子) and hit it on the back.
"Before we set off, I asked if you had friends in the town. You said again and again that you hadn"t. Can
you explain why the young man asked you to have the bread, then?"
The more the old man said, the less he could control his anger. He finally shouted, "I"ll beat you to death
if you dare fool me again!"
Hearing this, Fred"s face turned red and he left away quickly. |
| 1. Fred ______. |
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A. was clever but not polite.
B. liked playing with donkeys
C. often help others
D. wasn"t clever |
| 2. Johnson ______ at first. |
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答案
| 1-3: ADD |
举一反三
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I was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance (保险业) company. I told him
honestly why I wanted the job-I needed to keep my family in Boston. My wife recently died of a heart
attack (心脏病). A job in Boston would help me reduce some of the extreme trauma (精神创伤) and pain
of the loss for my 16-year-old daughter. It was important for me to keep her in her high school. I could
still hardly talk about the loss of my wife. Bruce, the interviewer, was politely empathetic, but he didn"t
probe (彻底调查) any further. He admitted (接受) my loss and, with great respect, moved on to another
subject. After the next round of the interview, Bruce took me to lunch with another person. Then he
asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he, too, had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also
been married 20 years and had three children. In his sharing, I realized that he had experienced the same
pain as I had a pain that was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a beloved one. He
offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, if I need help or just want someone
to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call. Whether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that
he was there if I ever needed help. When he had no idea if we would ever see each other again, he helped
our family deal with one of the greatest losses. He turned the normally cold business interview into a caring
support for another person in need. |
| 1. The writer took part in the interview because _______. |
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A. he had lost his job and wanted to find a new one
B. he had to support his family in Boston
C. his wife had recently died of a heart attack
D. his daughter needed money for schooling |
| 2. The underlined word "empathetic" in the sixth line means _______. |
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| 完形填空 。 |
It was a cold winter"s afternoon. Robert stopped for a moment as he crossed the bridge and looked down
at the river below. There were hardly any (1) on the river. (2)the bridge, however, almost directly below, there
was a small canoe, with a boy in it. He was (3) wearing many clothes, Robert (4). He trembled and walked on.
Just then he heard a cry, "Help! Help!" the cry(5) from the river. Robert looked down the boy was (6) the
water and his canoe was (7) away."Help! Help!"he called again.
Robert was a good (8). Taking off his clothes, he dived into the river. The (9) water made him tremble all
over, but in a few seconds he reached the (10)."Don"t be afraid," he said and started to swim towards the river
bank, (11) the boy with him. But at that (12) he noticed a large motor boat under the bridge. There were several
people on the boat, all (13) his direction. Robert decided to swim towards the boat.
"Give me a hand," he shouted (14) he got near the boat. He (15) up into a row of faces. "It"s funny," he
thought. "They look so (16)"Sile- ntly they helped the boy into the boat and (17) him in a blanket. But they did
not move to (18) Robert.
"Aren"t you going to pull me (19) too?" Robert asked. "You!" said one of the men. Robert noticed that he
was standing next to a large (20).
"You! Why, we were making a film and you spoiled (破坏) a whole afternoon"s work! You can stay in
the water!" |
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The first public railroad in the world to be run by steam was opened in England in 1825. It was a single
track. The next big railroad was a double track that ran between Manchester and Liverpool. The opening
day was a success except for Mr Huskisson, that is.
Eight trains took part in the opening ceremony. There were 600 people in 29 coaches. After traveling for
17 miles, the trains had to stop for water. Mr Huskisson got out of his train to talk to a friend on one of the
other trains. He was half-way across the track when he suddenly saw a locomotive (车头) racing toward
him. It was going at a fantastic speed-23 miles per hour. Mr Huskisson panicked (惊慌) and froze with fear.
He was run over by the train, and died the same evening. |
| 1. The first railway in the world came into being in the ____ century. |
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Ａ: twenties of 20th
Ｂ: twenties of the 18th
Ｃ: twenties of the 19th
Ｄ: 28 year of 19 |
| 2. The second railroad was different from the first one in ____. |
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Computer programmer David Jones makes ￡35000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot
find a bank prepared to let him have a check card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is
18.
The 16-year-old works for a small firm (分公司) in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people
of his age is finding a job. David"s firm puts two new games on the home market each month.
But David"s biggest headache is what to do with his money. In spite of his salary, made by inventing new
programs within quite a short period of time, with bonus payments and profitsharing, (奖金和分红) he cannot
drive a car, get some money from a bank to buy a house, or get credit cards (信用卡).
He lives with his parents in their house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His firm has to pay
￡ 150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.
David got his job with the firm a year after leaving school with six O-levels and working for a time in a
computer shop."I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs."
he said.
"I suppose ￡ 35000 sounds a lot but actually that"s not good enough I hope it will come to more than
that this year." He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother ￡20 a week. But
most of his spare time is spent working.
"Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. "But I had been studying it in
books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying
on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, any-way."
David added,"I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement (退休) is a possibility. You
never know when the market might disappear." |
| 阅读理解。 |
When I was at university I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just
enough to pass exams. Others didn"t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking
in the Students" Union than working in the library.
Once, at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred
questions. Beside each question we had to write "True" or "False". While I was studying in my room the night
before the test, Fred was watching television. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night
he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan.
"It"s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I"ll take a
coin into the examination room. I haven"t studied a chemistry book for months, so I"ll just toss the coin. (throw
the coin into the air.) That way, I"m sure I"ll get half the questions right."
The next day, Fred came happily into the examination room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he
marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.
The next day, he saw the chemistry professor at the gate.
"Oh good,"he said,"Have you got the results of the test?"
The professor looked at him and smiled.
"Ah, it"s you, Baines. Just a minute."
Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and
looked at it.
"I"m terribly sorry, Baines," he said, "You failed!" |
| 1. Fred Baines usually _____ exams. |
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Ａ: didn"t do
Ｂ: passed
Ｃ: did just enough to pass
Ｄ: failed in |
| 2. Before the chemistry test Fred was ____ Calm. |
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