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Brazil is the greatest football nation in the world. There are 170 million Brazilians. How many of them are football fans? 100 million! All of them think they know all about football. This makes life very difficult for the Brazilian team managers. When things go bad for the Brazilian team, the newspapers would demand that the team manager should leave his job. “If we win, they me in heaven,” a manager once said. “If we lose, they put me in hell(地狱).”
You can’t escape football in Brazil. There are football matches on every street and beach. On television, the results of football matches come before the main news programs. There are six television channels(频道) in Rio de Janeiro. On Sundays each channel shows a different football match.
Brazil is not the richest country in the world, but the government spends lots of money on football. It cost more than one billion pounds to prepare for the 1978 World Cup. That’s 10 pounds for every Brazilian man, woman, and child. And many Brazilians don’t earn as much as 10 pounds a week. Is it worth it?
“Brazil must have a great football team,” says one journalist. “If it costs one billion pounds, that’s all right. If the government doesn’t give us a good team, then it will become unpopular. Football is more than a game in Brazil.”
Football is more than a game in Brazil. This is certainly true in its largest city, Sao Paulo. The most popular team is Corinthians. Corinthians’ fans are the most loyal and emotional in Brazil. When Corinthians win, production(产量) in the Sao Paulo car factories increases by fifteen per cent. When they loses, it drops. At one time Corinthians won the national championship for the first time, for four days fans danced and sang in the streets,
Why are people so loyal to one football team? What makes a football fan? One man says, “Without Corinthians my life would be sad. Corinthians bring some joy and excitement into my life. We all need that, don’t we?”
小题1:In Paragraph 1, what the manager said means_______.
A, he is respected by newspapers        B,. he will probably be killed by fans
C. he is judged on his team’s results     D. it’s difficult for him to get good scores
小题2:All the following statements about the Brazilians and football are true EXCEPT _______.
A．all the Brazilians know all about football
B．football has an influence on politics in Brazil
C．the Brazilians spend a lot of money on football
D．Corinthians’ fans are always supporting their team
小题3:Some people danced and sang in the streets for four days in Sap Paulo because_______.
A．production in the Sao Paulo car factories increased
B．Corinthians won a national football championship
C．Corinthians won the World CupD．the newspapers put a team manager in heaven
小题4: People are loyal to their football team mainly because _______.
A．it brings joy and excitement to their lifeB．they could always count on it
C．it can increase the car productionD．they could see hope in it

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小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:A
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One evening, Mr. Green was driving his car along a lonely country road. He had __36__$10,000 from the bank in town. Suddenly a man in rags（衣衫褴褛） stopped him and asked for __37___. Mr. Green told him to get on and continued his way. __38___ he talked to the man, he _39___ that he had just broken out of prison. Mr. Green was very afraid at the __40__ of the money. Suddenly he saw a police-car and had a __41__ idea. He __42__ on speed and drove as quikly as possible. Then he found the police-car running _43___ him. After a mile the police-car passed him and ordered him to _44____. A policeman came up. Mr. Green hoped to tell him about the trouble but the man put a gun to Mr. Green’s __45___.
The policeman said he wanted Mr. Green’s name and _46__ amd Mr. Green obeyed. The policeman wrote it down in his notebook and put it in his __47___. “You _48___ appear at the police station,” he said, Then he talked to Mr. Green about _49____ driving.
Mr. Green started up his car again. He had given _50___ all hope of his $10,000, but as he reached a more lonely part, the robber said he wanted to __51___, Mr. Green stopped and the man said , “_52____, You’ve been _53___ to me. This is what I can do in __54___.” And he handed Mr. Green the policeman’s __55__, which was stolen while the policeman was talking to Mr. Green.
小题1:
A．takenB．heldC．broughtD．drawn
小题2:
A．moneyB．helpC．a liftD．a ride
小题3:
A．AsB．SinceC．ThenD．Because
小题4:
A．recognized B．learnedC．supposedD．expected
小题5:
A．sightB．ideaC．touchD．thought
小题6:
A．fastB．brightC．strangeD．practical
小题7:
A．putB．gotC．tookD．had
小题8:
A．behindB．withC．afterD．ahead of
小题9:
A．goB．stopC．standD．park
小题10:
A．headB．shoulderC．backD．neck
小题11:
A．numberB．homeC．placeD．address
小题12:
A．carB．pocketC．handD．trousers
小题13:
A．shallB．willC．wouldD．need
小题14:
A．carefulB．fastC．carelessD．dangerous
小题15:
A．outB．awayC．upD．in
小题16:
A．run awayB．break away C．set outD．get out
小题17:
A．I’m sorryB．You’re welcomeC．That’s all rightD．Thank you
小题18:
A．kindB．politeC．knownD．necessary
小题19:
A．allB．factC．returnD．the end
小题20:
A．gunB．penC．moneyD．notebook

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The painter Georgia O’keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and grew up on her family’s farm. At seventeen she decided she wanted to be an artist and left the farm for schools in Chicago and New York, but she never lost her bond with the land. Like most painters, O’Keeffe painted the things that were most important to her, and nearly all her works are simplified portrayals of nature.
O’Keeffe became famous when her paintings were discovered and exhibited in New York by the photographer Levered Stieglitz, whom she married in 1924. During a visit to New York in 1929, O’Keeffe was so moved by the bleak（荒凉的） landscape and broad skies of the Western desert that she began to paint its images. Cows’ skulls and other bleached（变白的） bones found in the desert figured prominently（突出的） in her paintings. When her husband died in 1946, she moved to New Mexico permanently and used the horizon lines of the desert, colorful flowers, rocks, barren(贫瘠的) hills, and the sky as subjects for her paintings. Although O’Keeffe painted her best known works in the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s, she continued to produce tributes（贡品、颂词） to the Western desert until her death in 1986.
O’Keeffe is widely considered to have been a pioneering American modernist painter. While most early modern American artists were strongly influenced by European art, O’Keeffe’s position was more independent. She established her own vision and preferred to view her painting as a private endeavor. Almost from the beginning, her work was more indentifiably American than that of her contemporaries in its simplified and idealized treatment of color, light, space, and natural forms.
小题1: Which of the following best tells what this passage is about ?
A．O’Keeffe was a distinctive modern American painter.
B．O’Keeffe was the best painter of her generation.
C．O’Keeffe liked to paint only what was familiar to her.
D．O’Keeffe used colors and shapes that are too reduced and simple.
小题2:Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an influence on O’Keeffe’s paintings ?
A．Her rural upbringingB．Her life in the West
C．The works of European artistsD．The appearance of the natural landscape
小题3:Which of the following is most similar to O’Keeffe’s relationship with nature?
A．A photoghrapher’s relationship with a model.
B．A writer’s relationship with a publisher.
C．A student’s relationship with a teacher
D．A carpenter’s relationship with a hammer.
小题4:Why is O’Keeffe considered an artistic pioneer ?
A．Her work became influential in Europe.
B．She painted the American Southwest.
C．Her paintings had a definite American style.
D．She painted things that were familiar to her.

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About once a month I have to go to Bedford for my work. One day I went into a   21  there to have something to   22  . The waiter took my coat and put it in a small room.
About an hour later I was   23  to go. The waiter   24  me my coat. Something fell out of the pocket onto the floor. It was a small white box. I took a   25  look at the   26  . “Oh, you’ve brought   27  coat,” I said to the waiter. “It looks very much like mine,  28  it is quite new, and this isn’t my box, either.”
“Oh, then I   29  someone has taken your coat and left his,” said the waiter. “This kind of thing   30  sometimes.”
I opened the box. There was a beautiful gold   31  in it. The waiter and I   32  to go to the police station.
“Has anyone lost a ring?” I asked at the station.
“Yes,” said a policeman. “A young man who came in this morning lost a ring, he lost it in London.”
He   33  the young man. A few minutes later, the man arrived.
“Yes, this is my ring,” he said. “How can I   34  you, sir? You see, I paid a lot of money for this ring and   35  I lost it on the train!”
After I told him the   36  of the coat, he said, “You haven’t been on the train. I haven’t been in the hotel, so how did my ring   37  in the coat?”
“Did anyone sit or stand next to you on the train?” asked the policeman.
“Yes,” said the young man. “But I don’t remember his face.”
“You may remember this   38  ,” said the policeman. “Was it like this one?”
“Yes, it was,” said the young man. “But my friend here isn’t the thief.”
The policeman laughed. “No,” he said. “The thief on the train stole your ring, and   39  our friend here, he went into the hotel to get some food. Only he didn’t take the   40  coat away with him.”
小题1:
A．hotelB．restaurantC．companyD．shop
小题2:
A．doB．buyC．eatD．make
小题3:
A．askedB．gladC．invitedD．ready
小题4:
A．showedB．returnedC．broughtD．dressed
小题5:
A．specialB．closeC．usualD．near
小题6:
A．waiterB．boxC．coatD．pocket
小题7:
A．no one else’sB．another’sC．other’sD．someone else’s
小题8:
A．butB．andC．insteadD．for
小题9:
A．knowB．wonderC．supposeD．find
小题10:
A．appearsB．happensC．meetsD．changes
小题11:
A．ringB．coinC．penD．sign
小题12:
A．realizedB．thoughtC．wantedD．decided
小题13:
A．searchedB．rememberedC．telephonedD．asked
小题14:
A．returnB．thankC．payD．help
小题15:
A．thenB．soC．yetD．however
小题16:
A．thingB．priceC．storyD．problem
小题17:
A．comeB．putC．setD．get
小题18:
A．personB．ringC．boxD．coat
小题19:
A．afterB．beforeC．likeD．as
小题20:
A．rightB．goodC．sameD．other

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A Charlotte, NC, lawyer bought a box of very rare and expensive cigars, and then insured them against fire among other things．Having smoked his entire great cigars within a month, the lawyer filed claim （索赔） against the insurance company．
In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires"．Of course the insurance company refused to pay, giving the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal way．
The lawyer brought the case to the court and out of everybody’s expectation, he actually won! At the end of the trial the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was crazy．But the judge said that the lawyer held a policy （保险单） from the company in which it had promised that the cigars were insured and that it would insure them against fire．Because the company didn’t say what is considered to be unacceptable fire, it had to pay the claim．
Rather than put up with long and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the punishment and paid $ 15 ,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the rare cigars lost in the "fires．"
After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested and accused him of arson （纵火罪）．With his own insurance claim from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was charged with burning his insured possessions on purpose and was sentenced to 24 months in prison and a $ 24,000 fine．
小题1:The lawyer had smoked all the cigars ___．
A．by designB．by mistake C．by accidentD．by contract
小题2:The proper order of the lawyer’s activities is ___．
a．having the company paying his claim
b．having himself put in prison and fined
c．having smoked all the cigars
d．bringing the company to the court
e．insuring the box of cigars
A．ecabdB．acebdC．ecdabD．cedba
小题3:The underlined word "it" in the third paragraph refers to ___．
A．the box of cigarsB．the insurance company
C．the policyD．the claim
小题4:Which of the following sayings is the best suitable for the lawyer?
A．Whoever sits against heaven, it falls in his face．
B．A bad beginning makes a bad ending．
C．Accidents will happen．
D．Even the wise make mistakes sometimes．

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When Ben Franklin was only a boy, he always wanted to know about things. He was always asking his father and brothers “What?” and “How?” and “Why?”
They couldn’t always tell him what he wanted to know.
When they couldn’t tell him, Ben tried to find out for himself.
Many times Ben did find out things that no one knew before. The other boys would say, “That Ben Franklin! He’s always finding out something new!”
Ben lived close to the water. He liked to go there to see the boats. He saw how the wind blew them across the water.
One day Ben said to himself, “Why can’t the wind help me float across the water? And I’m going to try.” Ben got his big kite. He took hold of the kite string and ran with it. The wind took the kite up into the air. Then Ben jumped into the water.
The wind blew the kite high into the air. Ben began to float across the water. Soon he was on the other side, and he had not worked at all.
One boy shouted, “Look at Ben floating across the water! His kite takes him to the other side without any work!”
“Yes,” said another. “He’s always finding new ways to do things.”
小题1:When he was only a child, Ben             .
A．liked to fly a kite by himselfB．always asked easy questions
C．always liked to play with waterD．always liked to find out how things worked
小题2: His father and brothers            .
A．couldn’t answer all his questionsB．could answer all his questions
C．tried hard to find out something new for him
D．were too busy to answer his questions
小题3:How did Ben Franklin float across the water?
A．The other boy took him across it.B．The water carried him across it.
C．The flying kite took him across it.D．A boat took him across it.
小题4:He found out many things that            .
A．children didn’t knowB．his father and brothers knew
C．people didn’t knowD．most people knew

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