A thief entered the bedroom of the 30th President of the United States, who met
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A thief entered the bedroom of the 30th President of the United States, who met him and helped him escape punishment.
The event happened in the early morning hours in one of the first days when Calvin Coolidge came into power, late in August, 1923. He and his family were living in the same third-floor suite(套房) at the Willard Hotel in Washington that had occupied several years before. The former President’s wife was still living in the White House.
Coolidge awoke to see a stranger go through his clothes, remove a wallet and a watch chain.
Coolidge spoke, “ I wish you wouldn’t take that.”
The thief, gaining his voice, said, “ Why?”
“ I don’t mean the watch and chain, only the charm(表坠). Take it near the window and read what is impressed on its back,” the president said.
The thief read, “ Presented to Calvin Coolidge.”
“ Are you President Coolidge?” he asked.
The president answered, “ Yes, and the House of Representatives（众议院）gave me the watch charm. I’m fond of it. It would do you no good. You want money. Let’s talk this over.”
Holding up the wallet, the young man said in a low voice, “ I’ll take this and leave everything else.”
Coolidge, knowing there was 80 dollars in it, persuaded the young man to sit down and talk. He told the President he and his college roommate had overspent during their holiday and did not have enough money to pay their hotel bill.
Coolidge added up the roommate and two rail tickets back to the college. Then he counted out 32 dollars and said it was a loan(借款).
He then told the young man, “ There is a guard in the corridor.” The young man nodded and left through the same window as he had entered. |
答案
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:C
小题1:D
小题1:A |
解析
小题1:根据Coolidge awoke to see a stranger go through his clothes, remove a wallet and a watch chain.
及下文描述可知这个贼没钱付房租,主要是来偷钱,故选D.
小题1:根据The former President’s wife was still living in the White House.可知前总统的妻子也就是前第一夫人还住在白宫，故选B.
小题1:根据Then he counted out 32 dollars and said it was a loan(借款)及上文描述可知这是为了帮助这个年轻学生度过难关，故选C。
小题1:根据two rail tickets back to the college.可知他们得乘火车回学校，故选D.
小题1:根据短文描述一位心的善良的总统遇到小偷，不想法惩罚他而是借钱给他度过难关，所以这个贼被送进监狱是不可能的，总统也不会像记者宣扬这件事，也不会要求年轻人还钱，最可能的是年轻人自己来还钱，故选A。 |
举一反三
Last Tuesday I took two daughters, aged five and seven, to town by car. It began to rain 36 , so I decided I would leave the children in the car 37 I rushed into a shop. I warned the girls not to 38 anything and told them I would be back within a few minutes. Then I locked all the doors and left 39 happily out of the window.
I returned to the car in less than five minutes but the girls had 40 ! I could hardly believe my eyes. The car doors were 41 locked, the windows tightly shut and on the back seat were only two coats. Being 42 , I ran to the corner of the street 43 there was no sign of them. I rushed up to an old lady nearby and asked 44 _she had seen two small girls but she said “No”.
Feeling quite sick with fear, I sat on the driver’s seat, and went to stop trembling (发抖). Suddenly, I heard a merry laugh 45 me. I got out of the car, ran round to open the boot (车尾行李箱) and inside were two very red-faced and 46 children. They had obviously pulled out the back seat, climbed behind it and then been unable to push the seat forward again. 47 tears in my eyes, I leaned forward and pulled their ears.
| 小题1: | | A．heavy | B．hard | C．big | D．quick |
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| 小题2: | | A．before | B．since | C．after | D．while |
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| 小题3: | | A．talk | B．reach | C．hear | D．touch |
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| 小题4: | | A．them | B．her | C．herself | D．themselves |
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| 小题5: | | A．discovered | B．disappeared | C．described | D．delivered |
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| 小题6: | | A．even | B．again | C．already | D．still |
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| 小题7: | | A．foolish | B．proud | C．frightened | D．pleased |
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| 小题8: | | A．where | B．which | C．that | D．when |
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| 小题9: | | A．what | B．when | C．whether | D．how |
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| 小题10: | | A．behind | B．over | C．before | D．with |
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| 小题11: | | A．worried | B．excited | C．surprised | D．interested |
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When my father was dying, I traveled a thousand miles from home to be with him in his last days. It was far more heartbreaking than I’d expected, one of the most difficult and painful times in my life. After he passed away I stayed alone in his apartment. There were so many things to deal with. It all seemed endless. I was lonely. I hated the silence of the apartment.
But one evening the silence was broken: I heard crying outside. I opened the door to find a little cat on the steps. He was thin and poor. He looked the way I felt. I brought him inside and gave him a can of fish. He ate it and then almost immediately fell sound asleep.
The next morning I checked with neighbors and learned that the cat had been abandoned by his owner who’s moved out. So the little cat was there all alone, just like I was. As I walked back to the apartment, I tried to figure out what to do with him. Having something else to take care of seemed like the very last thing I needed. But as soon as I opened the apartment door he came running and jumped into my arms. It was clear from that moment that he had no intention of going anywhere. I started calling him Willis, in honor of my father’s best friend.
From then on, things grew easier. With Willis in my lap time seemed to pass much more quickly. When the time finally came for me to return home I had to decide what to do about Willis. There was absolutely no way I would leave without him.
It’s now been five years since my father died. Over the years, several people have commented on how nice it was of me to rescue the cat. But I know that we rescued each other. I may have given him a home but he gave me something greater.
小题1: When the author first saw the cat, she_____________.| A．was very happy | B．felt sympathy for him | | C．didn’t know what to do | D．was angry with his crying |
小题2: The underlined sentence in the third paragraph implies that the author___________.| A．needed something to fill the empty apartment | | B．was too busy and tired to keep a cat | | C．loved to stay alone in the apartment | | D．needed something to take care of to kill time |
小题3: The cat rescued the author by ____________.| A．making her feel better in her hard times | | B．giving her courage to go on with her life | | C．helping her tidy the department | | D．telling her what life is |
小题4: We can learn form the passage that _________.| A．Willis was named after his previous owner | | B．Willis didn’t like staying in the apartment | | C．the author and Willis were both homeless | | D．time passed quickly after the author adopted Willis |
小题5: What’s the best title for the passage?| A．A little cat | B．A painful experience | | C．How to take care of animals | D．What I got from a little cat |
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Few of us haven’t read Cinderella, the story of a young woman living in poverty who meets the prince of her dreams. Some might not want to admit it, but there is a hidden Cinderella in everyone’s heart—we all wish we could achieve recognition or success after a period of obscurity(默默无闻).
Mary Santiago has that secret dream, too. Her story is featured in Another Cinderella Story, a film set in a US high school.
Mary is shy but loves to dance. Compared with other girls, she is invisible. However, her world changes completely when a famous teenager pop singer, Joey Parker, appears.
Joey is everything the rest of the boys in her class are not—kind, handsome and desirable. Mary and Joey’s paths cross at a ball. They meet and fall in love with each other. But when Mary has to rush back home, she leaves behind her MP3 player, which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl of his dreams. Of course, there is a wicked(邪恶的) stepmother, who turns out to be Dominique Blatt and she takes in Mary after her dancer mother dies. Dominique treats Mary like a maid and does everything she can to make sure Mary doesn’t get into the top dance school. Her two daughters are equally determined to stop Joey falling for Mary, even if that means embarrassing her.
The story, though it mostly follows Cinderella, does add a few modern day twists to the classic fairy tale. Refreshingly, the film, unlike many high school films, does not focus on looks, although the actors are all beautiful. There is also a lot less materialism in Another Cinderella Story than in many similar movies.
“The movie takes the Cinderella fairytale as its jumping off point,” writes movie critic Amber Wilkinson. “The focus is firmly on following your dream.”
小题1:The first paragraph is mainly to ____________.| A．build interest and lead us to Mary’s secret dream | | B．remind us why Cinderella is popular all the years | | C．inform us of the main topic of the whole passage | | D．tell us how interesting the fairy tale Cinderella is |
小题2:In the movie, Mary Santiago is the main character who _____________. | A．is brave in expressing her love | | B．is attended badly by the stepmother | | C．has a dream of meeting a prince | | D．is embarrassed by the pop singer |
小题3: What can we infer from the passage?| A．Joey is just like other boys in Mary’s class. | | B．Mary’s mother influences her a lot in singing. | | C．Not many people have a dream to be realized. | | D．The MP3 player helps Joey in finding Mary. |
小题4:The passage is mainly about ___________.| A．an introduction to a film | | B．a review about a film | | C．an essay about dreams | | D．an advertisement of Cinderella |
小题5:According to the passage, Another Cinderella Story ________. | A．follows Cinderella with nothing new | | B．pays more attention to the looks of the actors | | C．encourages young people to follow their dreams | | D．focuses more on materialism than other films |
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A trip to the bookstore with my granddaughter is always a big event. She __36__ in it for hours, touching the books, running her hands over the covers, looking at a few ___37___ here and looking at a few pages there.
I never ___38__ the full importance my five-year-old Grand Angel placed on these trips, until the day I suggested she pick the book she liked best, __39____ we could go home for dinner. Her response（答复） was __40___.
“But Grammy, I ___41___ them all the best. All the covers are be-yoo-tiful and all the pictures are bee-yoo-tiful and they’re all __42___. Just like people. Remember when you told me about people?”
I most certainly __43___ when I told her about people. I had explained that we are all __44___ in our own different way. Each of us has a story to ___45___ and no two stories are similar. We learn by ____46__ our stories and listening to the stories of others. Difference is the thing that makes each and every one of us __47___. I had no idea that she’d connected the lesson with ___48___. Actually, no one book was ___49___ than any other book. They were equally beautiful and equally special(特别的).
With dinner still ___50___ and our stomachs beginning to make noise, ___51___ time was finally at hand. But how to choose? I suddenly ___52___ the right question when I asked, “Which book wants to go home the most with you today?” After a short moment of ___53___, her eyes lit up. She ran to a specific book and ___54___ it from its place on the shelf. The main __55____ was the picture on the cover, a turtle with sad eyes. “We need to find out why the turtle is sad,” she said.
| 小题1: | | A．reason | B．act | C．question | D．problem |
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In 1971, a young man who grew up very poor was travelling across the country, trying to make a new __36__ for himself. Along the way, he had __37__ run out of money and was forced to spend the night in his car. This 38 until one morning, after a week of sleeping in his car, he walked 39 into a restaurant and ordered a big breakfast.
After eating his first good meal in 40 , he found himself 41 to the waiter, telling him he had lost his 42 . The waiter, who was also the owner, walked 43 the chair where the young man had been sitting. He bent down, 44 a $20 bill that looked 45 it had fallen on the floor and said, “Son, you must have 46 this,” the owner said. The young man couldn’t believe his 47 ! He quickly paid for the breakfast, left a 48 , bought gas with the change, and headed West.
On the way out of town, he began to understand 49 the fellow did. Maybe nobody dropped the money 50 . “Maybe that fellow just knew I was 51 and he helped me in a way that didn’t __52__ me.” Right then he made a promise to help others if he could.
Later, he worked very hard and became a rich man. Now, he lives near Kansas City. Each year he 53 thousands of dollars. He is known as the “Secret Santa” because at 54 time each year, he personally hands money out to those on the streets and at hospitals. “I’ve lived the story, so I know it certainly more blessed（带来快乐的） to give than to ___55__, because it comes back to you many many times over,” he says. “It restores some faith in humanity.”
| 小题1: | | A．conclusion | B．impression | C．start | D．surprise |
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| 小题2: | | A．unexpectedly | B．completely | C．strangely | D．necessarily |
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| 小题3: | | A．continued | B．began | C．spread | D．struggled |
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| 小题4: | | A．hopefully | B．nervously | C．carelessly | D．excitedly |
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| 小题5: | | A．hours | B．weeks | C．years | D．months |
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| 小题6: | | A．turning | B．lying | C．smiling | D．joking |
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| 小题8: | | A．behind | B．near | C．before | D．under |
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| 小题9: | | A．took out | B．picked out | C．took up | D．picked up |
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| 小题10: | | A．even if | B．as if | C．as well | D．even so |
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| 小题11: | | A．placed | B．put | C．dropped | D．removed |
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| 小题12: | | A．luck | B．word | C．promise | D．action |
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| 小题13: | | A．message | B．note | C．mark | D．tip |
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小题14:A. what B how C. where D. that
| 小题15: | | A．after all | B．above all | C．in all | D．at all |
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| 小题16: | | A．in danger | B．in pain | C．in trouble | D．in charge |
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| 小题17: | | A．astonish | B．embarrass | C．interest | D．discourage |
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| 小题18: | | A．gives up | B．sends out | C．puts away | D．gives away |
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| 小题19: | | A．breakfast | B．Christmas | C．church | D．New Year |
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| 小题20: | | A．steal | B．provide | C．receive | D．rob |
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