WASHINGTON – Barack Obama swept to victory as the first black president in the U

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama swept to victory as the first black president in the U

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WASHINGTON – Barack Obama swept to victory as the first black president in the US history Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. "Change has come," he told a huge group of cheering supporters.
In his first speech as victor, Obama catalogued the challenges ahead. "The greatest of a lifetime," he said, "two wars, a planet in danger, the worst financial crisis in a century."
He added, "There are many who won"t agree with every decision or policy I make as president, and we know that government can"t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face."
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states -- Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Iowa and more.
In his speech, Obama invoked (引用) the words of Lincoln and echoed John F. Kennedy.
"So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in (努力投入) and work harder," he said.
He and his running mate, Joseph Biden of Delaware, will take their oaths(宣誓)of office as president and vice president on Jan. 20, 2009.
Obama will move into the Oval Office as leader of a country that is almost certainly in recession (不景气), and fighting two long wars, one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan.
Obama has said his first order of presidential business will be to tackle the economy. He has also pledged to withdraw most US combat troops from Iraq within 16 months.
小题1:What is special about Barack Obama, the newly-elected president of the United States?
A.He has a black father and a white mother.
B.He is the first black president in the US history.
C.He defeated Republican Sen. John McCain easily.
D.He will move into the White Palace on Jan. 20, 2009.
小题2:What Obama emphasized in his first speech were ________.
A.dangersB.warsC.challengesD.financial problems
小题3:The first issue Obama will focus his attention on may probably be to ________.
A.withdraw most US combat troops from IraqB.care for environmental protection
C.declare two wars in Iraq and AfghanistanD.deal with the problems of economy
小题4:According to the passage, Obama’s attitude toward the challenges he faces is ________.  
A.positiveB.negativeC.ambiguousD.worried

答案

小题1:B
小题1:C
小题1:D
小题1:A
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My father often works very hard. And he has 21 to see a film. Here I’ll tell you  22 about him.
One afternoon, when he finished his work and  23 go home, he found a film ticket under the   2on his desk. He thought he 25 to have not much work to do that day and  26 was quite wonderful to pass the  27 at the cinemA. So he came back home and  28 finished his supper. Then he said 29  to us and left.
But to our  30  , he came back about half an hour later, I  31 him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about  32 funny thing that had happened at the cinema.
When my father was sitting in his seat, a  33 came to my father’s and said that the seat was  34  . My father was surprised. He took out the ticket  35  looked at it carefully. It was Row17,  36  . And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her 37  her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3.
38  ? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The   39  of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh,  40  , I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.
小题1:
A.little money B.much moneyC.little timeD.much time
小题2:
A.a funny story B.a good storyC.an old story D.a strange story
小题3:
A.was toB.was about toC.had to D.ought
小题4:
A.box B.bookC.glass D.paper
小题5:
A.happened B.likedC.pretendedD.wanted
小题6:
A.itB.thisC.thatD.which
小题7:
A.morning B.afternoonC.dayD.evening
小题8:
A.early B.quietlyC.quicklyD.suddenly
小题9:
A.helloB.good-byeC.good evening D.good night
小题10:
A.disappointmentB.joyC.sorrowD.surprise
小题11:
A.askedB.explainedC.toldD.wanted
小题12:
A.a B.oneC.some D.the
小题13:
A.man B.womanC.doctor D.nurse
小题14:
A.hers B.hisC.taken D.wrong
小题15:
A.and B.butC.or D.so
小题16:
A.Seat1B.Seat2C.Seat3 D.Seat4
小题17:
A.it bring B.to getC.to see D.to show
小题18:
A.Why B.HowC.When D.where
小题19:
A.designs B.colorsC.pricesD.owners
小题20:
A.I’m sad B.I’m sorryC.I’m wrongD.I’m worried

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When Jeanne Calment entered the world in 1875, telephones and automobiles still lay in the future. Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso were not yet born. The Eiffel Tower was 14 years from being built. As a teenager, she met Vincent Van Gogh, near her home in Arles, in the south of France. He was “very ugly, ungracious (举止粗俗的), impolite, sick—I forgive him, they called him loco (精神失常的)”, she recalled. When she died last week at age 122, she was the world’s eldest person. (There are others who claimed to the title, but only Calment had the official documents to prove her age.)
Each February 21, her birthday, she would share the secrets of long life. Some years it was “a sense of humour”, others it was “keeping busy”. “God must have forgotten me,” she once explained. The truth probably was that she had good genes: her mother reportedly lived to be 86 and her father 94.
Her life had its sadness: she outlived her husband, her only daughter and her grandson. According to a friend, she was imperturbable. “If you can’t do anything about it,” she reportedly said, “don’t worry about it.”
In her last years she was nearly blind and deaf, but her health remained good. She ate a few bars of chocolate each week and continued smoking until a few years ago, when she could no longer light her own cigarettes. She never lost her sense of humour. On her 110th birthday, she commented, “I’ve only ever had one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it. “Her longevity made her famous; her spirit made her eternal (永恒的).
小题1:Why does the author mention Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and the Eiffel Tower?
A.To show that Calment had seen famous people and things.
B.To emphasize that Calment was born a long time ago.
C.To indicate that Calment is just as famous.
D.To admire the knowledge that Calment had.
小题2:The author believed that Calment’s longevity is mainly due to ______.
A.a sense of humorB.being kept busy
C.belief in GodD.good genes
小题3:The underlined word “imperturbable” means ________.
A.calmB.humorousC.friendlyD.healthy
小题4:Toward the end of the story, the author seems to be impressed by Callment ’s _________.
A.spiritB.religious beliefC.knowledgeD.longevity

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Suzie goes to her art class Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. She always looks forward to those days when she can do creative things all afternoon. She loves ___41___ bowls and cups out of clay. Last month she learned to put ___42___ into a hot oven, called a kiln, to make it hard and strong. After the pottery(陶器)has __43____ down from the kiln, sometimes she ___44___ it with all different colors. Bright colors are her __45____, although sometimes she likes to paint in "___46___ colors," like brown and dark green. What Suzie likes best about art is the good feeling she gets ___47___ she has finished __48____ on a piece of art. And then when she takes it home to show her parents she feels so __49____ of what she has made.
On Wednesdays Suzie does something else that she really ___50___. On Wednesday afternoons she writes articles for the school newspaper. When she first ___51___ to her school, she wrote an article about how it feels to be a new student in a new school. Her second article in the newspaper was about a teacher at her school who had just finished writing a book. On the day the newspaper comes ___52___, the first thing Suzie does is to ___53___ where her article is in the newspaper. And at the beginning of her article, are the words: By Suzanne Jefferson.
On the way home from school yesterday, Suzie ___54___ to thinking about how __55____ art and writing are the same. In art class she thinks of  __56____ things to make, and then spends a lot of time making it look just right. And when she writes articles for the school newspaper, she thinks of creative things to  __57____, and then spends a lot of time making it  __58____ just right. And when she has finished writing a really good sentence, she feels almost as if she has made a beautiful piece of art.
Suzie  __59____ home so she could write something short before dinner. She already had lots of ideas for next month"s newspaper. And she wanted to make sure that none of her creative ideas  ___60___ away before she wrote them down permanently on paper.
小题1:
A.usingB.paintingC.drawingD.making
小题2:
A.bowls B.pottery C.cupsD.clay
小题3:
A.dropped B.cooled C.comeD.fallen
小题4:
A.rubs B.cleans C.brushes D.paints
小题5:
A.bestsB.friendsC.favorites D.fears
小题6:
A.brightB.earth C.blackD.deep
小题7:
A.beforeB.whenC.that D.until
小题8:
A.working B.painting C.puttingD.taking
小题9:
A.worried B.anxiousC.happyD.proud
小题10:
A.promises B.wants C.hates D.enjoys
小题11:
A.gotB.sentC.moved D.returned
小题12:
A.upB.inC.out D.about
小题13:
A.read B.search C.overlook D.check
小题14:
A.began B.wentC.got D.started
小题15:
A.soon B.much C.longD.far
小题16:
A.relative B.creative C.productive D.active
小题17:
A.tell B.talk C.speak D.say
小题18:
A.feelB.lookC.soundD.appear
小题19:
A.rushedB.walkedC.got D.went
小题20:
A.left B.forgot C.floated D.kept

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It was 3:12 a. m. when nine-year-old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of burning. Except for the crackling(爆裂声)of flames somewhere below there was not a sound in the two-storey house at Baldwin, Long Island. With his father away on night duty at a local factory, Glenn was worried about the safety of his mother, his sister Karen, 14 and his 12-year-old brother Todd. He ran downstairs through the smoke filled house to push and pull at Karen and Todd until they sat up. Then he helped each one through the house to the safety of the garden. There, his sister and brother, taking short and quick breaths and coughing, collapsed on the lawn.
The nine-year-old raced back into the house and upstairs to his mother’s room. He found it impossible to waked her up. Mrs. Kreamer, a victim of the smoke, was unconscious, and there was nobody to help Glenn carry her to the garden. But the boy remained calm and , as a fireman said later, “acted with all the self-control of a trained adult.”
On the bedroom telephone, luckily still working, Glenn called his father and, leaving Mr. Kreamer to telephone the fire brigade and ambulance service, got on with the task of saving his mother.
First he filled a bucket with water from the bathroom and threw water over his mother and her bed. Then, with a wet cloth around his head he went back to the garden.
He could hear the fire engine coming up, but how would the firemen find his mother in the smoke-filled house where flames had almost swallowed up the ground floor?
Grasping firmly a ball of string(线绳) from the garage, Glenn raced back into the house and dashed upstairs to his mother’s room. Tying one end of the string to her hand, he ran back, laying out the string as he went, through the hall and back out into the garden.
Minutes later he was telling fire chief John Coughlan: “The string will lead you to mother.” Mrs. Kreamer was carried to safety as the flames were breaking through her bedroom floor.
小题1:Why did Glenn run downstairs first?
A.He wanted to find out what was happening.
B.He was worried about his mother’s safety.
C.He wanted to save his sister and brother.
D.He went to see if his father had come back from work.
小题2:How did Glenn help the firemen to save his mother?
A.By throwing water all over her and her bed.
B.By carrying her to safety with his brother.
C.By pushing and pulling at her.
D.By tying a string to her hand.
小题3:What did Glenn do to protect himself?
A.He put a wet cloth around his head.
B.He threw water all over himself.
C.He hid himself in the bathroom.
D.He rushed out to the lawn.
小题4:Glenn saved his family because___________.
A.his father had taught him to do so on the phone
B.he had learned something about first aid
C.he had dealt with the emergency calmly and wisely
D.he had followed his mother’s instruction

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After a year of preparing herself, Laura Dekker has been given permission to sail around the world. “I was so happy that I almost jumped into the river,” Laura said, after learning of the court’s verdict(判决).
The 14-year-old was born on a ship in the South Pacific, and currently lives with her father on a boat. When child protection agencies heard about her plan to sail alone, they took the case to court and prevented her from making such a dangerous voyage.
Since the decision, though, Laura had been preparing with her father to convince the court that she was ready. Later on, she received the books and other materials she would need for school while she was at sea. She added safety equipment to a new, big ship. And she took her first aid course to learn several survival skills, like how to put out fires on the boat, take care of her own injuries and deal with lack of sleep. She also planned a safer course --- adding alternate routes(备用路径) to avoid pirate attacks, and planning a course that would have her on dry land as she moved from port to port across the globe.
Even with all of the added preparations, the trip still has its risks. In early June, 16-year-old Abby Sunderland, an American, had to abandon(放弃) her attempt to become the youngest sailor to travel around the world. Her ship’s mast(桅杆) broke due to rough waters in the Indian Ocean, and she was rescued by a French fishing ship.
Laura plans to take longer than Abby for her voyage, and is using a larger and more stable boat. If she finished successfully in less than two years, she will take the title from current record-holder Jessica Watson, of Australia, who was 16 when she completed the journey.
小题1:Which of the following is TRUE of Laura?
A.She prepared the voyage at the age of 12.
B.She lost her mother after she was born.
C.She was allowed to sail around the world finally.
D.She wanted to donate money made from the voyage.
小题2:At first, child protection agencies were against Laura’s plan because ____.
A.it was considered to be a dangerous trip
B.Laura had to finish her schooling first
C.it would cost Laura too much time and money
D.Laura wasn’t prepared for the sailing alone
小题3:What is Mr. Dekker’s attitude towards Laura’s trip?
A.DoubtfulB.SupportiveC.UncertainD.Neutral(中立的)
小题4:Paragraph 3 mainly talks about ____.
A.how Laura convinced the court
B.why Laura needed to study at sea
C.how Laura prepared for the voyage
D.where Laura could avoid pirate attacks
小题5: The person who keeps the record comes from ____.
A.HollandB.AmericaC.IndiaD.Australia

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