Linda Evans was my best friend –like the sister I never had ,We did everything t
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Linda Evans was my best friend –like the sister I never had ,We did everything together: piano lessons ,movies, swimming , horseback riding.
When I was 13, my family moved away . Linda and I kept in touch through letters ,and we saw each other on special times — like my wedding and Linda’s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often .One day a card that I sent came back , stamped “Address Unknown”. I had no idea about how to find Linda.
Over the years, I missed Linda very much. I wanted to share happiness of my children and then grandchildren . And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died, There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.
One day, I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman —Linda’s married name.“There must be thousands of Wagmans.”I thought, but I still wrote to her.
She called as soon as she got my letter, “Mrs , Tobin!”she said excitedly, “Linda Ev-ans Wagman is my mother.”
Minutes later I heard a voice that I recognized at once, even after 40 years . We laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled. And there’s one thing that Linda and I know for sure; We won’t lose each other again!
小题1:The writer went to piano lessons with Linda Evans .| A．at the age of 13 | B．before she got married | | C．before the writer’s family moved away | D．after they moved to new homes |
小题2:They didn’t often write to each other because they .| A．got married | B．had little time to do so | | C．didn’t like writing letters | D．could see each other on special times |
小题3:There was an empty place in the writer’s heart because she .| A．was in trouble | | B．didn’t know Linda’s address | | C．received the card that she sent | | D．didn’t have a friend like Linda |
小题4:The writer was happy when she .| A．read the newspaper | | B．heard Linda’s voice on the phone | | C．met a young woman who looked a lot like Linda | | D．wrote to the woman whose last name was Wangman |
小题5:They haven’t kept in touch .| A．for about 40 years | B．for about 27 years | | C．since they got married | D．since the writer’s family moved away |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:A |
解析
试题分析：本文讲述的是2个好朋友40年以后再次见面的故事。
小题1:C 细节题。根据文章前3行Linda Evans was my best friend –like the sister I never had ,We did everything together: piano lessons ,movies, swimming , horseback riding.When I was 13, my family moved away .可知在搬家之前，她们一直都在一起。
小题2:B 细节题。根据文章第二段3,4行Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often可知主要是因为她们都很忙，所以联系才变少。故B正确。
小题3:D 细节题。根据文章第三段最后2行And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died, There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.可知她的身边缺少一个像Linda这样的好朋友，所以才会感觉到空虚。故D正确。
小题4:B 细节题。根据文章最后一段1,2行Minutes later I heard a voice that I recognized at once, even after 40 years . We laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives.可知能够再次见面，我们很兴奋。故B正确。
小题5:A 细节题。根据文章最后一段第一句Minutes later I heard a voice that I recognized at once, even after 40 years .可知我们大约40年不见了。故A正确。 |
举一反三
Audrey Hepburn（奥黛丽·赫本）won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, Roman Holiday, which was released in 1953,But she is remembered as much for her aid work as for her acting.
Born in Belgium in 1929, Audrey’s father was British and her mother was Dutch. Audrey was sent to live at a British school for part of her childhood . During World war Ⅱ , she lived and studied in the Netherlands .Her mother thought it would be safe from German attacks . Audrey studied dance as a teenager and during college. But when she returned to London after the war she realized she wasn’t going to be a ballerina（芭蕾舞女演员）. So she began taking acting parts in stage shows. Later she began to get small parts in movies.
But it was Audrey Hepburn’s move to America that brought her true fame .In 1951 she played the character“Gigi”in the Broadway play of the same name to great critical praise. Two years later, Roman Holiday made her a star at the age of 24.
Audrey make more than 25 movies. Among her most popular roles was Hoolly Golinghtly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961. There years later she played Eliza Doolittle in my Fair Lady.
She was married two times and had one by each husband. In 1989,the UN Children’s Fund named Audrey a goodwill ambassador. She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF(联合国儿童基金会) projects .The UN agency said she was a tireless worker. She often gave 15 interviews a day to gain money and support for UNICEF projects.
Audrey Hepburn often said her loyalty to UNICEF was the result of her experiences as a child during World War II. She said she knew what it was like to be starving and to be saved by international aid . She was a goodwill ambassador until her death in 1993 from colon cancer.
小题1:In Paragraph 1,“her aid work”means .| A．winning an Academy Award as Best Actress | | B．taking acting parts in stage shows | | C．making her own movies | | D．acting as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF |
小题2:The reason why Audrey lived and studied in the Netherlands was that .| A．she wanted to be a ballerina | B．her parents were from Britain | | C．it was safe there | D．the education there was excellent |
小题3:We can infer from the passage that .| A．Audrey’s parents lived in Germany during World War II | | B．Audrey lived in America in the 1950s | | C．Audrey was made to give up dancing | | D．the character“Gigi”in the Broadway play was her most popular role |
小题4: is NOT mentioned in the passage about Audrey Hepburn| A．Marriage | B．Identity | C．Contribution | D．Religion |
小题5: is the right order for Audrey’s life.
①The first time she began to play in movies
②She returned to London from the Netherlands
③She won an Academy Award as Best Actress
④She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF projects
⑤She played a part in My Fair Lady| A．②①③⑤④ | B．①②③⑤④ | C．②①⑤③④ | D．①②⑤③④ |
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[1]Although known as an extraordinarily successful businessman, Warren Buffet comes off as a pretty ordinary person.
[2]Looking back on his childhood, one can see how serious he was about making money. Buffet used to go door-to-door and sell soda pop. Later, he also worked at his grandfather’s grocery store. At the ripe age of 11, Buffet bought his first stock(股票). When his family moved to Washington D.C., Buffet became a paperboy for The Washington Post. While still in school, he was making $175 a month, a full-time wage for many young men.
[3]From the beginning, Buffet made his fortune from investing. He started with all the money that he had made from selling pop, delivering papers and so on. Between 1950 and l956, he grew his $9, 800 to $14, 000．From there, he organized investment partnerships with his family and friends, and then gradually drew in more people through very attractive terms.
[4]Buffet applied to Harvard Business School but , making it to be one of the worst admission decisions in Harvard history. The outcome ended up affecting Buffet’s life deeply, for he ended up attending Columbia Business School, where he studied under Benjamin Graham, the father of securities analysis who provided the foundation for Buffet’s grand success.
[5]Buffet is a person of habit—same house, same office, same city. He doesn’t collect houses or cars or works of art, and he hates companies that waste money on such goods. Instead, he has established the Buffet Foundation, with a detailed plan on how to invest his money more wisely to society.
小题1:What kind of person is Buffet according to Paragraph 1? (no more than 10 words)
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小题2:What does the writer intend to tell us in Paragraph 2? (no more than 10 words)
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小题3:According to Paragraph 3, how did Buffet start his investment? (no more than 10 words)
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小题4:Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (no more than 3 words)
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小题5:Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5.(no more than 10 words)
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WHEN John Gurdon was 15, he ranked last out of the 250 boys in his grade at biology. He also came in last for every other science subject. His teacher wrote in a : “I believe he has ideas about becoming a ; on his present showing this is quite foolish.”
Luckily, the teacher’s words didn’t Gurdon’s love for science. He kept working hard. He went to lab earlier and left than anyone else.
On Oct 8, 2012, 64 years later, the British professor the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka had contributed to the research and therefore the award.
Gurdon got the honor his research into cells and cloning. When he was studying at Oxford, he did some on cells. He took a cell from an adult frog, moved its , and put them into an egg cell. The egg cell then into a clone of the adult frog. His research for the first time that every cell in the body contains the same genes.
At that time, many people accept Gurdon’s idea. But later it helped to Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first cloned mammal in history. It also led to important findings in the use of cells. For example, from someone’s skin can turn into any type of tissue in the body. This is good news for those who have diseased or damaged tissue.
Gurdon always remembers the he had when he was 15. He even put the report on his desk as a daily to himself.
“When you have , like an experiment doesn’t work, it’s nice to remind yourself that perhaps you are not so good at your job and the teacher may be ,” he said.
However, the facts suggest Gurdon is pretty good indeed.
| 小题1: | | A．report | B．letter | C．passage | D．program |
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| 小题2: | | A．musician | B．scientist | C．manager | D．millionaire |
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| 小题3: | | A．stop | B．mean | C．inspire | D．reflect |
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| 小题4: | | A．sooner | B．later | C．more hurriedly | D．more happily |
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| 小题5: | | A．won | B．founded | C．dreamed of | D．applied for |
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| 小题6: | | A．accepted | B．refused | C．collected | D．shared |
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| 小题7: | | A．instead of | B．in spite of | C．because of | D．in place of |
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| 小题8: | | A．reading | B．writing | C．change | D．research |
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| 小题9: | | A．baby | B．power | C．genes | D．features |
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| 小题10: | | A．cut | B．grew | C．went | D．formed |
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| 小题11: | | A．predicted | B．studied | C．proved | D．provided |
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| 小题12: | | A．couldn’t | B．shouldn’t | C．mustn’t | D．needn’t |
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| 小题13: | | A．save | B．drive | C．feed | D．create |
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| 小题14: | | A．everyday | B．medical | C．physical | D．illegal |
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| 小题15: | | A．cells | B．hairs | C．water | D．blood |
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| 小题16: | | A．fools | B．scientists | C．patients | D．doctors |
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| 小题17: | | A．friend | B．teacher | C．classmate | D．neighbor |
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| 小题18: | | A．rule | B．paper | C．reminder | D．reward |
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| 小题19: | | A．prizes | B．diseases | C．meals | D．problems |
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| 小题20: | | A．right | B．wrong | C．happy | D．welcome |
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When two Bangs meet
SHELDON Cooper is a scientific genius on the popular American TV show, The Big Bang Theory (《生活大爆炸》). He finally met his match last year: Stephen Hawking.
This is not the first time that the scientist has appeared on TV. He has also been on Star Trek (in 1987) and The Simpsons (in 1989). Each time, he played himself.
Hawking, 71, is perhaps the world’s most famous scientist after Albert Einstein. He has spent his whole life studying the beginning and the end of the universe, including the Big Bang (宇宙大爆炸) theory.
The Big Bang theory explains the early development of the universe. According to the theory, about 13.7 billion years ago everything was all squeezed together in a tiny, tight little ball, and then the ball exploded. The results of that explosion are what we call the universe.
Hawking has always tried to make science more popular with people. His book: A Brief History of Time was published in 1988. In the book he shares his understanding of the universe in simple language. The book tries to explain many subjects about the universe to common readers, including the Big Bang, black holes and light cones (光锥).
Hawking’s achievements are even greater if you think about his disability. When he was 21, Hawking caught a bad illness that slowly stopped him from moving or talking. Now he sits on a wheelchair with a computer by his side. To communicate, he moves two fingers to control the computer’s mouse. He chooses his words from the screen, which are then spoken by a voice synthesizer (合成器).
Hawking also believes that there might be aliens in space. However, he believes they are probably very dangerous, so we should not look for them. “I imagine they might exist in very big ships ... having used up all the resources from their home planet,” Hawking said in a British documentary named Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking.
小题1:What does the “two Bangs” in the title refer to?| A．The director of “The Big Bang Theory” and the founder of it. | | B．The director and the actor of “The Big Bang Theory”. | | C．The founder of the “Big Bang” theory and its spreader. | | D．The scientific genius on TV show and the one alive in real life. |
小题2:Acting in The Big Bang Theory is Hawking’s _____ time on TV.| A．first | B．second | C．third | D．fourth |
小题3:According to Paragraph 5, Hawking wrote the book A Brief History of Time especially for _____.| A．scientists who study the universe | | B．people who know a lot about the universe | | C．people who know little about the universe | | D．people who only know simple language |
小题4:The Big Bang theory mainly explains _____.| A．how the universe started | B．what the universe is like | | C．how old the universe is | D．how the universe exploded |
小题5:According to the passage, which of the following about Hawking is TRUE?| A．He was born with a disability. | | B．He uses a computer to communicate. | | C．He believes aliens are our friends. | | D．He encourages people to look for aliens. |
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I grew up in a small town and the main entertainment was Friday night high school football. It was just a sleepy little town where parents wanted to raise their children away from crime and of a big city, and where teenagers like me leaving to find something bigger and better.
All that changed one summer night. My friend Lisa, Martin and Tyler held a party for my eighteenth birthday at Lisa’s house. they kept handing alcohol to me I was pretty . I asked Tyler to take me home. With some , we made it out to his car and drove home. News came next morning. My friend Martin was in a car accident. That night after Tyler and I left, Martin, who was more drunk than me, got into his car and towards the highway to go home. Driving on the wrong side of the road, he never saw the truck coming. The driver didn’t see him to avoid the car. They hit head on. Martin died immediately, and the driver was thrown the truck windshield（挡风玻璃）and died a week later.
Whenever I back on that day, I can’t help thinking that it was my to drink so much that night. things would be different. I know Martin the choice to drink and drive that night, but a part of me will always feel for what happened.
I may not change the world with my story, but I do hope that by my story I can make you that you not only have a responsibility for yourself but also for others. Don’t ever think that your choices are yours . Every choice is like a stone dropped into water—each ripple (涟漪) represents someone who your choice . That’s quite an influence, isn’t it?
| 小题1: | | A．death | B．fashion | C．danger | D．challenge |
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| 小题2: | | A．succeeded in | B．dreamed of | C．applied for | D．agreed to |
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| 小题3: | | A．As | B．While | C．When | D．Although |
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| 小题4: | | A．lost | B．drunk | C．frozen | D．sleepy |
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| 小题5: | | A．fun | B．difficulty | C．hope | D．method |
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| 小题6: | | A．died | B．injured | C．killed | D．hurt |
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| 小题7: | | A．constantly | B．frequently | C．clearly | D．equally |
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| 小题8: | | A．headed | B．walked | C．pushed | D．fled |
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| 小题9: | | A．in trouble | B．in time | C．in danger | D．in place |
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| 小题10: | | A．above | B．below | C．into | D．through |
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| 小题11: | | A．turn | B．hold | C．look | D．get |
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| 小题12: | | A．desire | B．fault | C．right | D．chance |
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| 小题13: | | A．Thus | B．Nevertheless | C．Otherwise | D．Therefore |
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| 小题14: | | A．faced | B．avoided | C．regretted | D．made |
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| 小题15: | | A．responsible | B．disappointed | C．sensitive | D．embarrassed |
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| 小题16: | | A．remembering | B．sharing | C．declaring | D．stopping |
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| 小题17: | | A．explain | B．escape | C．limit | D．realize |
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| 小题18: | | A．alone | B．finally | C．merely | D．perhaps |
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| 小题19: | | A．clean | B．deep | C．still | D．fresh |
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| 小题20: | | A．affects | B．inspires | C．attracts | D．benefits |
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