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At five he was collecting old newspapers to make money. And when he was 15 he si

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At five he was collecting old newspapers to make money. And when he was 15 he signed his schoolmates up to start a baby-sitting circle.
Now 20, third-year Cambridge University student, Peter Blackburn is managing director of a company with a £ 30,000 plan. And he thinks it will make more than $15,000 by next summer. He set up Peter Blackborn Ltd last year to bring out a new, color term-planner that now students all over the UK are using.
"I felt that most of the planners going around were pretty unimaginative," he says, "I believed that I could do a better job and decided to have a go".
Blackburn admits that he is putting far more effort into business than his computer studies course at university. While fellow students are out with their friends, he keeps in touch with his business office in Lancashire by movable phone. Before he set up the company he spent one holiday preparing a plan that would persuade his bank to lend him money.
"Most students work hard for a good degree because they believe that will help them get a job to support themselves," he says "I work hard at my company, because that is what will support me next year, after I leave college."
Friends believe that Blackburn will make £ 1 million within 5 years. He is not quite so sure, however. "There"s a lot to be done yet," he says.
小题1:Choose the right order of the facts given in the passage.
a. He spent his holiday preparing a plan.
b. He collected newspapers.
c. He set up his own company.
d. He asked the bank for money.
e. He set up a babysitting circle.
A.e, b, c, a, dB.b, e, a, d, cC.b, e, d, a, cD.b, e, c, a, d
小题2:When he was quite young, Blackburn _______ .
A.already made a lot of moneyB.already had a business brain
C.was already managing director of a companyD.already set up his own business
小题3: The underlined expression in the fourth paragraph "have a go," here means _______ .
A.give up this job and have a new oneB.leave the company
C.have a tryD.develop my business quickly
小题4: In spite of a college student, Blackburn _______ .
A.spends more time on his business than on his studies course
B.keep in touch with his business office by movable phone
C.seldom goes out with his friends
D.often spends whole holiday preparing business plan
小题5:Which of the following best explain why Blackburn works hard at his company?
A.He wants to do more business practice before he leaves college.
B.He wants to make more money before he leaves college.
C.He wants to get a good job like most students after he leaves the college.
D.he depends on the company for his living in the future.

答案

小题1:B
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:D
解析

小题1:排序题。根据作者介绍文章的先后顺序可作出判断。
小题2:推理判断题。从文中第一段叙述他5岁时收集报纸卖钱,15岁时又和同学一起创办了babysitting circle,由此可推断他从小就有商业头脑。
小题3:词义推测题。根据文中I believed that I could do a better job and decided to have a go.这句话可知,他认为他能比别人做得更好,所以决定去尝试。
小题4:细节理解题。文中第四段第一句Blackburn admits that he is putting far more effort into business than his computer studies course at university.表明,他在商业方面付出的努力比学习要多得多。
小题5:推理判断题。文中倒数第二段I work hard at my company, because that is what will support me next year, after I leave college."表明,他致力于经营公司是因为大学毕业后要靠公司养活自己。
举一反三
A German taxi-driver, Franz Bussman, recently found his brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before.
While on a walking tour with his wife, he stopped to talk to a workman. After they had gone on, Mrs Bussman said that the workman was closely like her husband and even suggested that he might be his brother. Franz laughed at the idea, pointing out that his brother had been killed in action during the war. Though Mrs Bussman knew this story quite well, she thought that there was a chance in a million that she might be right.
A few days later, she sent a boy to the wokman to ask him if his name was Hans Bussman. Needless to say, the man’s name was Hans Bussman. And he really was Franz’s long-lost brother. When the brothers were reunited, Hans explained how it was that he was still alive.
After having been wounded towards the end of the war, he had been sent to hospital and was separated from his unit. The hospital had been bombed and Hans had made his way back into Western Germany on foot. Meanwhile, his unit was lost and all records of him had been destroyed. Hans returned to his family house, but the house had been bombed. Guessing that his family had been killed during an air-raid. Hans settled down in a village fifty miles away where he had remained ever since.
69.Which of the following can be used as the best title of the passage?
A.Living Not Far.              B.A Chance in a Million
C.Coming Back to Life  D.Back after the War.
70.Walking along the street, _______.
A.Mr. Bussman recognized his brother at the first sight.
B.Mrs. Bussman thought of her long-lost brother.
C.Mr. and Mrs. Bussman talked to a workman because he looked like his brother.
D.Mr. Bussman happened to meet a work-man and talked to him.
71. Which of the following order is RIGHT?
A.He walked back to Western German
B.He was wounded when the war was coming to the end.
C.The hospital was destroyed by bombs.
D.He came back to his family house.
e. He was sent to hospital.
f. His unit of German didn’t exist any longer.
A.b, a, e, d, f, c           B.b, e, c, a, f, d   
C.b, e, a, c, d, f           D.b, c, f, d, a, e
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The following is a true story. It happened in the northern end of Queens land, Australia, where all kinds of animals live in the forest.
Lisa, a 33-year-old woman, went to prepare lunch in the kitchen, leaving Barney, her three-year-old son, playing by himself in the back garden.
Suddenly, a sharp cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears, and Lisa rushed into the backyard in a hurry and found a big snake entwining(缠绕) the little child with its terrible body and trying to eat the boy as its delicious dish! It was a boa(蟒)! Lisa was terrified and quite angry. She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth.
It was fearless mother love that made Lisa forget what she faced. She took up an old hoe from the ground and beat the boa with all her might.
One...two... With the hoe, Lisa beat the snake repeatedly, but useless. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Lisa’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.
Suddenly Lisa put away the hoe and threw herself to the boa, opening her mouth and bit into the boa’s back as if trying to eat a rare steak(牛排). Lisa was really mad!
Blood was spurting(喷射) out of the boa’s body and covered most of Lisa’s body. The boa was so badly wounded that it let go of Barney and moved back into the forest hurriedly. It had never known how a man had such terrible sharp teeth! On halfway home, the boa died.
It was fearless mother love that saved the little boy.
61.When she rushed into the back garden, Lisa found  ______
A.a boa eating her son         
B.her son was playing with a big snake
C.her son in danger of losing his life    
D.her son was fighting with a boa
62.Lisa failed in fighting against the boa at first just because ______.
A.she was bit by the boa       
B.the boa was too strong
C.the hoe was not sharp enough 
D.she was afraid that she would hurt her son
63. Lisa bit the snake because ______.
A.she was mad      
B.she thought her teeth were much sharper than the boa 
C.her son was entwined by the boa
D.she hadn’t got any other way to fight with the snake
64.The best title for this passage is ______.
A.Mother and Boa            B.Fearless Mother Love
C.A Boa and a Boy            D.Saving a Boy from a Boa
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“It was all his own idea, ” says Pat Peters, the 38-year-old wife of Palo Alto, California high school football coach Bob Peters, 39. Bob had just drawn up a “motherhood contract” -a document(文件) stating that for 70 days this summer he would take over the care and feeding of the couple’s four children, plus all household chores(杂务). Although he didn’t even know how to make coffee when he signed, he was quite confident.(He thought the experience would make a nice book.)
After 40 of the 70 days, he was ready to give up. “I was beaten down, completely humbled, ” admits Peters. Three weeks later he spoke to the local press(also part of the bargain), stating, “Not only is motherhood a difficult task, not only is it never-ending, it is an impossible job for any normal human being.”
Bob and Pat were high school sweethearts. After they were married in 1960, she worked as a secretary to help put him through university. Since then Bob has been the football and wrestling coach at Palo Alto’s Cubberley High while Pat raised the kids.
Then two years ago Pat went back to work as a secretary at Cubberley. “I had been around children so much,” she sighs(叹气), “I couldn’t talk to a grown-up.” She continued to run the household, however-until Bob signed the contract, whereupon she decided to relax and enjoy it.
Although Peters had consulted(咨询) with his school’s home economics teachers and the head of the cafeteria(食堂), his meals were sometimes a disaster. “I tried to slip the butter I’d forgotten under the eggs after they were frying, ” he says. For the last three weeks, the family ate out a lot—sometimes having Macdonald’s hamburgers for lunch and dinner.
As for housekeeping, a home economics teacher had told Bob that a room always looks clean if the bed is made. “I found an easier way-I shut the doors, ” he says. Soon the kids were wearing the same clothes for a week. “I made them wear their shirts inside out, and when we went to pick up Pat at work they turned them right side out so they would look clean.”
Now that Bob has publicly admitted he was wrong, he is routinely(日常地) sharing the child-raising and household tasks with Pat. The tentative(暂定的) title of his book about the summer is taken from something he shouted at the kids one day.
小题1:The couple signed the contract because _______.
A.Pat complained a lot about her doing the housework all by herself
B.Bob loved taking care of children and wanted his wife to have a good rest
C.they agreed that husband and wife should share household tasks
D.Bob thought it easy to take care of the family and wanted the experience for a book
小题2:It was agreed that if Bob failed to keep to the contract, he would have to _______.
A.pay a certain amount of money
B.do all the housework for years
C.say sorry to his wife
D.admit publicly he was wrong about motherhood
小题3:What can we learn about Pat Peters?
A.She was hard-working and selfless.
B.She was pretty and kind-hearted.
C.She was tired of the child-raising and household tasks.
D.She did not love Bob any longer.
小题4:Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.Bob managed to keep the kids’clothes clean.
B.Bob tried to cook good meals for his children.
C.Bob frequently took the kids out to eat because he was too busy at work.
D.Bob taught the kids to make their beds every day.
小题5:Which of the following can best end the news story?
A.“My experience of being a mother.”
B.“I’m proud of you all, my dear!”
C.“Wait till your mother gets home!”
D.“Motherhood: an impossible job for anyone.”

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An important question about eating out is who pays for the meal. If a friend of yours asks you to have lunch with him. You may say something like this, “I’m afraid it’ll have to be some place cheap, as I have very little money.” The other person may say, “OK, I’ll meet you at McDonald’s.” This means that two agree to go Dutch, that is, each person pays for himself. He may also say, “Oh, no. I want to take you to lunch at Johnson’s”, or “I want you to try the steak(牛排) there. It’s great.” This means the person wants to pay for both of you. If you feel friendly towards this person, you can go with him and you needn’t pay for the meal. You may just say, “Thank you. That would be very nice.”
American customs about who pays for dates(约会) are much the same as in other parts of the world. In the old days, American women wanted men to pay for all the meals. But, today, a university girl or a woman in the business world will usually pay her own way during the day. If a man asks her to dinner or a dance outside the working hours, it means “come as my guest”. So as you can see, it is a polite thing to make the question clear at the very beginning.
小题1:In the old days _______ often paid for all the meals.
A.womenB.men
C.university studentsD.businessmen
小题2: “To go Dutch” means to _______.
A.go to play outsideB.eat out
C.pay for oneselfD.go to a cheaper eating place
小题3: “McDonald’s” here means _______.
A.a tea houseB.a gate
C.an officeD.an eating place
小题4:If you feel friendly to the person, _______.
A.you should pay for himB.you needn’t pay for him
C.you can accept his invitationD.you can’t accept his invitation
小题5:We’d better know who will pay for the meal _______.
A.at the beginningB.at the end
C.in the middle of the mealD.after drinking

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Connecting with Patients
Dr. Paris often treats several generations of a family over many years. “He’s seen us through two births, one operation, multiple earaches, a broken wrist and a recovery from a serious traffic crash,” says Jill Farrow, a 43-year-old lawyer whose first visit to Dr. Paris was as a teenager. During the birth of her younger son, Farrow began bleeding badly. Dr. Paris managed to solve the problem in a delicate procedure. “Twenty years ago, she probably would have died,” he says. Today, when he performs school sports physical examinations for the Farrow boys, 10 and 11, he is always reminded that lives are changed forever by doctors just doing their jobs.
To be a mix of country doc and somewhat adventurer, the 55-year-old family physician moved to Hailey after completing his residency(医生实习期). He hoped to practice medicine there and ski at nearby Sun Valley. Unfortunately, the only job opening was for an emergency-room doctor in Missoula, Montana, 300 miles away. Dr. Paris took it. "I"d ski all day and then drive all night to be in Missoula for a 48-hour shift," he recalls. "I"m lucky to be alive." Knowing he couldn"t keep up with his eight-hour commute(通勤), he began taking flying lessons.
In 1981, Dr. Paris joined a small medical practice in Hailey, a former mining town with a population at the time of 2,109. As Hailey grew in the shadow of Sun Valley"s booming popularity, Dr. Paris"s own practice expanded to seven physicians, including his wife, Kathryn Woods, who is also a family doctor. They met in 1986 at a certification exam in Denver when, in a room full of men in stodgy suits, Woods arrived wearing a Lycra biking outfit and carrying the front wheel of her bicycle (which she couldn"t lock up outside). Dr. Paris asked her out on the spot. In 1989, they married.
小题1:What Jill Farrow says is to indicate ________.
A.how weak the bodies of her family
B.how hard it is to be a doctor
C.how brilliant the physician’s skill is
D.how easy it is to deal with such problems
小题2:Dr. Paris often reminds himself that ________.
A.lives of people should not always stay the same
B.people can rely on themselves to change their life
C.doctors should change their own life
D.it is the duty of a doctor to heal the patients
小题3:Why did Dr. Paris move to Hailey?
A.Because he can be a doctor and an adventurer there.
B.Because he has to finish his residency there.
C.Because his children are fond of skiing at nearby Sun Valley.
D.Because he has to be an emergency-room doctor there.
小题4:We can infer the doctor got married probably at the age of ________.
A.27.B.37.C.17.D.47.
小题5:This passage is intended to ________.
A.introduce Dr. Paris
B.praise the doctor’s excellent medical art
C.describe the doctor’s adventurous experience
D.tell the doctor’s love affairs

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