Reading comprehension. Not long ago I was invited out to dinner by a girl c
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Reading comprehension. |
Not long ago I was invited out to dinner by a girl called Jane. I have met Jane only twice, and she was very beautiful. I was very pleased. "She loves me" I thought. "I am sorry at such short notice." She said when I arrived, "but we suddenly knew there were going to be thirteen people at the table,so we had to find someone else." Believing that the number 13 is unlucky is a typical of superstition. Recently I came across a little group of worried people.They gathered round a man lying on the pavement (人行道)beside a road in London. They were waiting for an ambulance, for the man had been knocked down by a passing taxi. He had stapped off the pavement and into the street in order not to walk under a ladder (梯子). To see a black cat in England is lucky. But if you see a black cat in India, it is considered very unlucky. There, if you are about to set out on a long journey, and someone sneezes, you should not go. If you break a mirror, you will have seven year"s bad luck. Just superstition, of course. |
1. Jane invited the writer out to dinner because ____. |
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A: she liked him B: she wanted to have twelve people at the table C: she wanted to marry him D: she wanted to have fourteen people at the table |
2. A man was knocked down by a passing taxi as a result of his ____. |
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答案
1. D 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. B 8. D |
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Reading comprehension. |
One bright sunny day our class went to the schoolyard. Miss Brooks told us to look for something on the ground that belonged to us. We looked and looked. Finally Mike cried. "I know, It"s my shadow on the ground." We saw that each girl and boy had a shadow and Miss Brooks had a bigger one. I tried some funny tricks. When I moved, my shadow moved. When I ran, my shadow ran, too. But I could" t catch it at all. Then Jess found a long and thin bamboo pole and stuch it in to the ground. Even the pole had a shadow. All this started me thinking about shadows. I did not have a shadow the day before, when I walked in the darkness. My shadow is never with me in my room at night when the light is out. I can"t stop thinking about me and my shadow and about what makes shadows. I am going to look for more shadows because they are lots of fun. |
1. The story took place on a ____. |
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A: cloudy day in the schoolyard. B: rainy day in the schoolroom. C: fine day in the schoolroom. D: fine day at the schoolyard. |
2. Miss Brooks told her students to look for something on the ground because ____. |
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完形填空。 |
Mr Black was once a policeman. He was a kind person. He liked to have a walk in a park after breakfast. It was very cold 1 a winter morning. Mr Black was walking along the street when he heard a 2 for help. He turned around but could 3 nobody. He stopped and looked here and there. At the moment, a boy ran to him. The boy was in such a hurry 4 he couldn"t say a word except 5 towards the river in the park. Mr. Black ran to the direction as fast as possible. 6 of them ran along the river and saw a girl in the water. She was 7 a piece of wood. It was carrying her away. It was too 8 . Without a word, Mr Black took off his clothes as quick as he could, jumped into the river and saved the girl onto the bank. |
阅读下文,从所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。 |
Mr White is talking to a psychiatrist. Mr White: "Every night when I get into bed, I think that someone is under my bed. I then get up and look. There is never anyone there. When I go under the bed and lie down, I get the idea that there is someone on top of the bed. I then get up and look and I never find anyone on top of the bed. This goes on all night, up and down, up and down. I nearly get mad. Do you think you can help?" Psychiatrist: "I think I can. All you have to do is to visit me twice a week for the next two years and I think I can cure (治愈) you. The visits will costs $75 an hour." Mr. White: "That is an awful lot of money for a working man like me. I"ll have to talk it over with my wife and let you know." The next week Mr. White phoned the Psychiatrist. Mr. White: "I won"t be back, sir. My wife solved the problem. She cut the legs off the bed." |
1. Mr. white is _____ . |
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A. ill in mind(精神) B. crazy about sports C. interested in his bed D. afraid of someone in his house |
2. The psychiatrist works as a _____. |
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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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阅读理解。 |
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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