He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days aft
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He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the rescue workers that they called him “our baby.” In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby"s grave, carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child.” He has rested there ever since.
But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “This is our baby,” says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great aunt named Maria Panula, 42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Maria gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino, from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. "We thought they were all lost in the sea," says Schleifer.
Now, using the teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby"s grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the unknown child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now, the family sees no need for a new grave. "He belongs to the people of Halifax," says Schleifer. "They"ve taken care of him for 100 years."
小题1:The baby travelled on the Titanic with his_______.| A．mother | B．parents | C．aunt | D．relatives |
小题2:What is probably the boy"s last name?| A．Schleiferi | B．Eino. | C．Magda. | D．Panula. |
小题3:Some members of the family went to Halifax and put flowers at the child"s grave on Nov. 5 _______.| A．1912 | B．1954 | C．2012 | D．2004 |
小题4:Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word recover?| A．uncover | B．find | C．bury | D．gather |
小题5:This text is mainly about how______________.| A．the unknown baby"s body was taken from the north Atlantic | | B．the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia | | C．people found out who the unknown baby was | | D．people took care of the unknown baby for 100 years |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:C |
解析
试题分析：一个泰坦尼克号沉没后发现的小男孩，让哈利法克斯市的人们感动，成为了葬在那里的“他们的孩子”。然而真相却在今年浮出水面，小男孩的身世之谜是什么？
小题1:细节理解题。由“According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Maria gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino, from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. ”可知他是和妈妈一起坐的船。故选A。
小题2:细节理解题。由She grew up hearing stories about a great aunt named Maria Panula, 42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband.和 Maria gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino, from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing.可知，男孩的名字叫Eino Panula，他姓Panula。故选D。
小题3:细节理解题。由“But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave.”可知是今年去献的花。故选C。
小题4:词义猜测题。这一家人在泰坦尼克号上走散了亲人至今仍未发现，因此是“回复，重新获得”之意。uncover揭露；find找到；bury埋葬；gather收集。故选B。
小题5:主旨大意题。人们一直以为的“他们的孩子”在今年终于有了一个身世的交代，因此是讲人们如何知道他是谁的。故选C。 |
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In the kitchen of my mother"s houses there has always been a wooden stand with a small notepad and a hole for a pencil.
I’m looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can"t be the same pencil. The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.
“I"m just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.” I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. “You still use a pencil. Can’t you afford a pen?”
My mother replies a little sharply. “It works perfectly well. I"ve always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen these days. ”
Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, “One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on.”
This story—which happened before I was born—reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is also a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible exhibits at every meal.
小题1:Why has the author"s mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?| A．To leave messages. | | B．To list her everyday tasks. | | C．To note down maths problems. | | D．To write down a flash of inspiration（灵感）. |
小题2:What is the author"s original opinion about the wooden stand?| A．It has great value for the family. | | B．It needs to be replaced by a better one. | | C．It brings her back to her lonely childhood. | | D．It should be passed on to the next generation. |
小题3:The author feels embarrassed for ______.| A．blaming her mother wrongly | | B．giving her mother a lot of trouble | | C．not making good use of time as her mother did | | D．not making any breakthrough in her field |
小题4:What can be inferred from the last paragraph?| A．The mother is successful in her career. | | B．The family members like traveling. | | C．The author had little time to play when young. | | D．The marks on the breadboard have disappeared. |
小题5:In the author"s mind, her mother is ______.| A．strange in behavior | | B．enthusiastic about her research | | C．fond of collecting old things | | D．careless about her appearance |
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I remember my mother as a strong woman. She came to America when she was 12—old enough to remember her language, she achieved scores and grades high enough to be admitted to Duke University. With a degree in computer science, she finally became the manager of a company in New York. My mother could give fluent speeches, say “wolves” correctly.
It was my mother who always stressed the importance of language. From the time I was born, I was read to. I would fall asleep to the sounds of my parents’ voices, whether it was my dad’s softly accented, or my mother’s clear English. The flow of language was unbroken, and whether in Chinese or English, the stream of communication flowed through our house.
One October morning in sixth grade, after my mother had left to catch the train to the city, I left the house for the bus stop. I was surprised when I saw our car, the door hanging open. As I drew closer, I saw my mother lying on the ground.
In the hospital, it was hard to believe that the lady who lay before me was my mom. My mother could not remember my name. As the leaves changed colors, it became clear that the stroke had created a wall between my mother’s mind and mouth: her mind was not any less clear, but the words she spoke were not what she meant.
The battle my mother faced taught me the importance of language. Without it, identity does not exist; relationships cannot be formed; stories cannot be told; directions cannot be given, and knowing anything about anyone is impossible. Without language, communication cannot take place. Without language, one cannot express the beauty of a sunset or the kindness of a stranger. The world would pass us by in silence.
小题1: From where might the author’s mom come to America?| A．China | B．England | C．Russia | D．Canada |
小题2:From the second paragraph, we can know ________.| A．the author was taught to read since she was born | | B．the author’s father spoke English poorly | | C．the author couldn’t fall asleep without being read to | | D．the author’s parents taught her language by talking a lot |
小题3:According to the last two paragraphs, the author’s mom was unable to _______.| A．think clearly | B．express herself well | | C．speak | D．open her mouth |
小题4:The underlined word “stroke” in the 4th paragraph most probably refers to ______.| A．an accident | B．a hit | C．an illness | D．a robbery |
小题5:This passage is mainly about _________.| A．a strong mother | | B．the importance of language | | C．a family disaster | | D．the significance of teaching language |
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Oprah Winfrey, born in 1954, is all American talk show host, best known for her multi-award-winning talk show. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world. It"s no surprise that her endorsement(认可)can bring overnight sales fortune that defeats most, if not all, marketing campaigns. The star features about 20 products each year On her “Favorite Things” show. There’s even a term for it: the Oprah Effect.
Her television career began unexpectedly. When she was 16 year old, she had the idea of being a journalist to tell other people’s stories in a way that made a difference in their lives and the world. She was on television by the time she was 19 years old. And in 1986 she started her own television show with a continuous determination to succeed at first.
TIME magazine wrote, “People would have doubted Oprah Winfrey’s swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white males, she is a black female of big size. As interviewers go, she is no match for Phil Donahue. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, she makes up for in plainspoken curiosity, rich humor and, above all understanding. Guests with sad[stories to tell tend to bring out a tear in Oprah’s eye. They, in turn, often find themselves exposing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience.”
“I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew. It doesn"t matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to fall if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you"re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages, you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction” as Oprah addressed graduates at Harvard on May 30, 2013.
小题1:The Oprah Effect refers to _______ | A．the effect on a business | B．the power of Oprah’s opinions | | C．the impact on talkshows | D．the assessment of Oprah’s talk show |
小题2:What can be inferred about Oprah’s television career?| A．She once gave up on her choice | | B．Her swift success has been expected. | | C．It lives up to her parents’ expectation. | | D．She must have been challenged by white males. |
小题3:The message from Oprah to graduates at Harvard is that _______.| A．success comes after failure | | B．failure is nothing to fear | | C．there is no need to set goals too high | | D．pushing physical limits makes no sense |
小题4:Which of the following best describes Oprah Winfrey?| A．Dull and pushy. | B．Honest but tough. | | C．Caring and determined. | D．Curious but weak. |
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Once I invited a group of friends round to my house, telling them that I was going to record their speech. I said I was interested in their regional accents, and that it would take only a few minutes. Thus, on one evening, three people turned up at my house and were shown into my front room. When they saw the room they were a bit alarmed, for it was laid out as a studio. In front of each easy chair there was a microphone at head height, with wires leading to a tape-recorder in the middle of the floor. I explained that all I wanted was for them to count from one to twenty. Then we could relax and have a drink.
I turned on the tape-recorder and each in turn seriously counted from one to twenty in their best accent. When it was over, I turned the tape-recorder off and brought round the drinks, and for the rest of the evening there was general cheerful conversation—interrupted only by the fact that I had to take a telephone call in another room, which unfortunately lasted some time.
Or at least that was how it would appear. For, of course, the microphones were not connected to the tape-recorder in the middle of the room at all but to another one, which was turning happily away in the kitchen. The participants, having seen the visible tape-recorder turned off, paid no more attention to the microphones which stayed in front of their chairs, only a few inches from their mouths, thus giving excellent sound quality. And my lengthy absence meant that I was able to obtain as natural a piece of conversation as it would be possible to find.
I should add, perhaps, that I did tell my friends what had happened to them, after the event was over, and gave them the choice of destroying the tape. None of them wanted to—though for some years afterwards it always seemed to be my round when it came to the buying of drinks. Linguistic research can be a very expensive business.
小题1:The writer asked his friends to count from one to twenty because _______. | A．he wanted to record the numbers for his research | | B．he wanted to find out whether the tape recorder was working | | C．he wanted to make his friends relax before real recording started | | D．he wanted his friends to think that was all he wanted to record |
小题2:The writer went into another room to ________.| A．get a natural recording of his friends’ conversation | | B．stay away from too much drinking with his friends | | C．bring a telephone into the front room | | D．answer a long distance phone call |
小题3:The writer turned off the tape-recorder because _______.| A．he had to answer a phone call | | B．he wanted his friends to enjoy some drinks | | C．he thought the tape-recorder might bother his friends | | D．he wanted to make his friends believe he had finished the recording |
小题4:Which one is true according to the passage?| A．The writer destroyed the tape. | | B．The writer’s friends destroyed the tape. | | C．The writer did tell his friends what had happened. | | D．The writer’s friends like to drink. |
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Working Christmas Day
It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25．I was a nurse that day, sighing about having to work on Christmas．Just then five bodies showed up at my ，a pale woman and four small children．
“Are you all ? ” I asked doubtfully．
“Yes．”the woman said and lowered her head．
But when it came to the of their problems，things got a little strange．Two of the chlidren had headaches, weren’t accompanied by the normal symptoms of being ill．Two children had earaches，but only one could tell me which ear was ．The mother complained of a but seemed to work to produce it．
“It may be a little while a doctor sees you．” I explained．
“Take your time；it’s warm here．”She ．
Whne they were waiting，I checked the chart．They had no —they were homeless．The waiting room was warm．I looked out at the by the Christmas tree．The youngest one was saying to her mother．The oldest one was looking at the Christmas tree．
I went back to the nurses’ station and the homeless family in the waiting room．The nurses，complaining about the working Christmas，began to feel pity for a family just trying to get on Christmas．The team went into action，as we do when there’s a emergency, but this was a Christmas emergency．
We a simple dinner for our Christmas guests in the hospital cafeteria．They needed ，so we collected from different departments candies and other things that could be presents．
As the family walked to the door to leave，the four-year-old came running , gave me a hug and whispered，” Thanks for being our angel today．”
| 小题1: | | A．on business | B．on holiday | C．on duty | D．on purpose |
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| 小题2: | | A．desk | B．book | C．computer | D．chair |
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| 小题4: | | A．highly | B．secrecy | C．happily | D．weakly |
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| 小题5: | | A．treatments | B．descriptions | C．suggestions | D．solutions |
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| 小题7: | | A．controlled | B．reflected | C．attacked | D．affected |
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| 小题8: | | A．break | B．trouble | C．mistake | D．cough |
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| 小题9: | | A．before | B．after | C．until | D．unless |
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| 小题10: | | A．hesitated | B．announced | C．responded | D．regretted |
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| 小题11: | | A．identity | B．address | C．money | D．problem |
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| 小题12: | | A．nurses | B．doctors | C．patients | D．family |
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| 小题13: | | A．something | B．nothing | C．everything | D．anything |
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| 小题14: | | A．informed | B．mentioned | C．rejected | D．criticized |
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| 小题15: | | A．relaxed | B．busy | C．free | D．warm |
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| 小题16: | | A．mental | B．physical | C．medical | D．vital |
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| 小题17: | | A．shared | B．enjoyed | C．prepared | D．delivered |
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| 小题18: | | A．medicine | B．courage | C．houses | D．presents |
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| 小题19: | | A．cheap | B．available | C．healthy | D．convenient |
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| 小题20: | | A．back | B．forward | C．around | D．away |
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