The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the WinD.first
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The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the WinD.first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in AtlantA. GeorgiA.can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life
Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer"s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she～a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young～tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains; "Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’And today it"d be‘Would you marry one who doesn"t?”
The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms Mitchell lived with her husbanD. John Marsh.They trade fun of the small apartment by calling it "The Dump"．
Around 1926，Margaret Mitchell had stopped working”a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it～time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
小题1:The book Gone with the Wind was＿＿＿．| A．first published in a newspaper | B．awarded ten Academy Awards | | C．written in "The Dump" | D．adapted from a movie |
小题2:The underlined phrase "tower over" in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to“＿＿＿”．| A．be very pleased with | B．show great respect for | | C．be much taller than | D．show little interest in |
小题3:Why did Ms Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?| A．Because she was rich enough. | | B．Because she was injured then. | | C．Because her husband didn"t like it | | D．Because she wanted to write books. |
小题4:Which is the best title for the passage?| A．A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell | | B．Gone with the Wind：A Huge Success | | C．An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House | | D．Margaret Mitchell：A Great Female Writer |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:A |
解析
本文通过作者对《乱世佳人》作者Margaret Mitchell故居的参观，讲述Margaret Mitchell生前的相关事迹。
小题1:C 细节判断题。A项文中并没有提及；B根据这本书改变的电影赢得是个奥斯卡金像奖，并非这本书赢得这些奖；C项Margaret Mitchell故居就是她居住的地方，也就是她当初写作的地方。她把他们居住的房子戏称为“The Dump”.故此项正确。D项错在电影改编自这本书，而非书本改编自电影。
小题2:C词义猜测题。根据第二段She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her，可知，她比较矮，这些男孩都超过她的身高。故答案为B。
小题3:细节理解题。根据最后一段第一句话Around 1926，Margaret Mitchell had stopped working”a reporter and was at home healing after an injury.可知，受伤后她才停止工作。选B。
小题4:主旨大意题。本文主要讲述了作者对Margaret Mitchell故居的参观过程中的所见所闻所想。选B。 |
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When he was fifteen, he worked 4 a servant in a school. Looking at other children studying in the classroom, he felt 5 for himself. How he 6 to have the same chance! He decided to study by 7 . In the daytime, after the sweeping and cleaning was over, he 8 stand by the window outside the classroom trying to catch what the teacher said. At night, he tried his best to remember what he 9 during the day. He worked 10 hard at his lessons that he sometimes had just three or four hours to sleep. The more he learned, the greater 11 he showed in his lessons. A maths teacher discovered him and came to like this diligent boy and 12 him to sit at the back of the class. In one exam, he was the 13 one in the whole school who reached the highest grade. He would have been given the scholarship if he 14 a regular student of the school.
Robeson 15 through six long years with his study of maths and wrote several articles which captured the 16 of some university professors. They admired his talent 17 his diligence. To give him a good chance, they hired him as a librarian and 18 him free guidance. Robeson felt 19 , for he was sure that before him there was a broad road 20 success.
| 小题1: | | A．whether | B．which | C．that | D．what |
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| 小题2: | | A．many | B．few | C．little | D．much |
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| 小题3: | | A．buy | B．afford | C．send | D．read |
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| 小题5: | | A．angry | B．ashamed | C．proud | D．sorry |
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| 小题6: | | A．hated | B．decided | C．wished | D．regretted |
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| 小题7: | | A．the teacher | B．himself | C．his parents | D．his schoolmates |
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| 小题8: | | A．could | B．ought to | C．should | D．would |
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| 小题9: | | A．had learned | B．has been taught | C．has heard | D．had been written down |
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| 小题11: | | A．joy | B．interest | C．time | D．taste |
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| 小题12: | | A．allowed | B．agreed | C．let | D．refused |
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| 小题13: | | A．worst | B．only | C．last | D．laziest |
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| 小题14: | | A．had been | B．has been | C．is | D．was |
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| 小题15: | | A．learned | B．listened | C．mastered | D．struggled |
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| 小题16: | | A．notice | B．influence | C．eyes | D．attention |
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| 小题17: | | A．except for | B．according to | C．as well as | D．in spite of |
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| 小题18: | | A．taught | B．offered | C．lent | D．sent |
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| 小题19: | | A．sad | B．angry | C．happy | D．disappointed |
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| 小题20: | | A．leading to | B．coming from | C．made of | D．covered with |
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The 47-year-old singer talks about the new album Symphony that came out of a “very dark time”, including her decision to give up trying to have children. “People have suggested I could adopt,” Brightman says. “But work is central to my life now. And so I am going to put it to one side. After a while not having children becomes the normal and perhaps that might sound alarming, to parents especially, but I have never known anything different. I’m not hurt by not having children. My life and career are incredibly rich.”
Talking about growing up in a large family in Berkhamsted （father a property developer who later committed suicide）, she says: “I was gifted as a child, and very musical. I seemed to be good at anything to do with the arts. At 5 I understood the music I was dancing to and had an eye for costume.” She first appeared in a West End musical at 11 and hated boarding school.
Brightman led the saucy dance troupe（辣妹三人舞）Hot Gossip and had her first hit with I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper in 1978. At 18 she married a music manager called Andrew Graham Stewart. “I was probably in love but I can’t remember. Girls change such a lot between 18 and 22. It didn’t really work out.” In 1981 she was spotted by Lloyd Webber. She became his leading lady in Song and Dance, Requiem and Phantom of the Opera. They married in 1984.
Brightman says she felt hostility（敌意） “from the beginning. I haven’t tried to understand it. I’ve done very well everywhere else, especially the UK, where I now live. I just accept it for what it is. The more you are away from Britain, the more you appreciate it. But I don’t miss it, although I miss my family. Our profession can be uncomfortable but I enjoy what I do. I get on with it.”
小题1:The first paragraph tells us that ______.| A．Brightman is very popular around the world except in America | | B．Brightman’s musical style is a mixture of opera, pop and jazz | | C．the British people don’t like her for her style of music | | D．Brightman is much older than Andrew Lloyd Webber |
小题2:Brightman decided to give up having children because ______.| A．she could adopt one | | B．her life and career were unbelievably rich without children | | C．she felt it normal not to have children | | D．she was too busy |
小题3:The following statements are true except ______.| A．Brightman first appeared in a West End musical at 5 | | B．Brightman disliked life on campus | | C．Brightman was very gifted when she was young | | D．the saucy dance troupe made Brightman famous |
小题4: The underlined word in the fourth paragraph probably means ______.| A．located | B．admired | C．followed | D．found |
小题5:What does the author try to say in the last paragraph by quoting Brightman’s words?| A．Brightman has to accept the fact that she isn’t liked in Britain | | B．Brightman lives in America but she loves her own country | | C．The British coldness towards Brightman led to her hatred to her homeland | | D．Brightman was at a loss why she was not welcome in Britain |
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Their hamburgers were sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity（一致性）, for the brothers had developed a strict routine（程序）for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks’ sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became surprisingly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundred during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.
Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954 when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the special attraction of the brothers’ fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise（特许经营）other copies of their restaurants. The agreement included the right to duplicate（复制） the menu, the equipment, even their red and white buildings the golden arches（拱门）.
Today McDonald’s is really a household name. In 1976, McDonald’s had over＄1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most surprising successes in modern American business history.
小题1:This passage mainly talks about ＿＿＿.| A．the development of fast food services | | B．how McDonald’s became a billion-dollar business | | C．the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald | | D．Ray Kroc’s business talent |
小题2:Mac and Dick managed all of the following business except ＿＿＿.| A．a drive-in | B．a theater | | C．a cinema | D．a barbecue restaurant |
小题3: We may infer from this passage that ＿＿＿.| A．Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy, for they sold their ideas to Kroc | | B．the place the McDonald brothers chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-in | | C．forty years ago there were lots of fast-food restaurants | | D．Ray Kroc was a good businessman |
小题4:The passage suggests that ＿＿＿.| A．creativity is an important element of business success | | B．Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothers | | C．Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray Kroc | | D．California is the best place to go into business |
小题5:Which of the following statement is NOT true?| A．Today McDonald’s is very popular in the world. | | B．The first twenty-two years of McDonald’s is the most surprising success in American business history. | | C．Mac and Dick McDonald were content with their business at first. | | D．It is convenient to eat in a drive-in. |
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Later I graduated with honors in the University of Maryland in Mathematics and IT. The main field of my science research was the technologies used to collect data from unsystematic sources as well as large quantities of texts and science data. I was the author of dozens of articles in leading American academic magazines.
The greatest event in my life happened when in 1998 I was preparing for the defense（论文答辩）of my Doctor’s degree in Stanford University. There the fate made me meet Larry Page—a young computer genius. Larry belonged to the intellectual society. Larry and I quickly became friends when we worked together.
We were searching day and night on the Internet. We were finding a lot of information but with the feeling we still couldn’t find enough of what we were looking for. Naturally the idea for a search engine that would allow specific information to be found in the endless pool of data was born like it came to us. It wasn’t our plans but we gave up the education at the university. You know the next part, maybe we managed to turn an ordinary garage in Meplo Park, California, the U. S. A. into our first office, in which Google was born. With excitement we typed the name of the thing which we created with love on September 14th 1998—www. google.com. Now, after those years we bought this garage. As a symbol it will always remind us that everything is possible.
小题1:Sergey Brin actually graduated from ＿＿＿.| A．the University of Maryland | B．the University of Moscow | | C．the University of California | D．Stanford University |
小题2: From the passage we know that Larry Page ______.| A．was Brin’s important partner in starting Google | | B．was born in a rich merchant family | | C．was once a student in the University of Maryland | | D．was a professor from Stanford University |
小题3: Which is the right order of what happened?
a. My family moved from Russia to the U. S. A.
b. I met Larry Page.
c. I was given a computer as a present on my 9th birthday.
d. Google was born in an ordinary garage in California.
A. c-a-b-d B. c-b-a-d C. a-c-b-d D. a-c-d-b
小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?| A．The History of Google | B．The Great Contribution of Google | | C．The Great Success of Google | D．The Birth of Google |
小题5: Which of the following statements is TRUE?| A．The main field of my science research was computer. | | B．I wrote many articles in leading American magazines. | | C．Larry is one of my classmates. | | D．When I was 5, I got my first computer “Commodore 64”. |
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Bissel is a small village of the West Sahara. It lies next to a l.5-square-kilometer oasis（绿洲）, from where three days and nights are generally required to go out of the desert. However, before Ken Levin discovered it in 1926, none of the Bissel villagers had ever walked out of the desert. Reportedly, they were not unwilling to leave this barren land. Many had previously tried but failed, always somehow finding themselves back at the oasis after several days of trying to walk out.
When interviewed by Ken Levin, an expert at the British Royal College of Sciences, the villagers explained that no matter which direction they walked it always brought them back to the village.Why couldn’t the Bissel villagers walk out of the desert? Levin was very puzzled. He had, by himself, managed to walk north from the village and reach the nearest town in three and a half days. He decided to carry out an experiment to solve the mystery. He and a Bissel villager called Argutel, would walk out of the desert together. They prepared enough water for a half-a-month journey and two camels. But this time Ken Levin didn"t bring his compass. Levin would follow Argutel.
Ten days later, they had walked for about 500 miles but were still in the desert. On the 11th morning, an oasis came into their view. They were back at Bissel. Levin now understood why the Bissel people couldn’t escape the desert. They had no knowledge of the North Star, which had for centuries provided sailors and other travelers with a point of direction. In the desert, if a person goes forward relying only on their senses, they will not be able to travel in a straight line. Rather they will travel in a very large circle and eventually track back to where they began. Levin explained to Argutel the function of the North Star and said, “As long as you rest in the daytime and walk towards the brightest star at night, you would be able to walk out of the desert.” Argutel did as he was told. Three days later, he came to the edge of the desert.
Now in the West Sahara, Bissel has become a bright pearl, where tens of thousands of tourists come every year. Argutel’s bronze statue stands in the center of the town. On its base are the words: __________________________________.
小题1:Ken Levin asked Argutel to walk to the north in order to ________.| A．prove that people could walk out of the desert see | | B．how far away Bissel was to the edge of the desert | | C．tell people not to walk in circles | | D．show Argutel was a great person |
小题2:According to the passage, Ken Levin ________.| A．knew Argutel before he came to the village | | B．came to Bissel to do experiments on behalf of his college | | C．became the first man to walk out of the desert from Bissel Village | | D．taught Bissel villagers knowledge of the North Star when he first arrived |
小题3:It can be inferred from the passage that ________.| A．Ken Levin didn’t walk south because it would take more days | | B．the use of a compass was necessary to walk out of the desert | | C．tourism in Bissel has been greatly developed and improved | | D．Argutel became the leader of Bissel after his return |
小题4:Which of the following can most probably be found at the base of Argutel’s statue? | A．A new life starts from the fixed direction. | | B．Where there is a will, there is a way. | | C．A long journey starts with the first step. | | D．Two heads are better than one. |
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