One August afternoon, Richard Allen dropped off his last passenger, Mrs. Carey.

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One August afternoon, Richard Allen dropped off his last passenger, Mrs. Carey. Lifting two grocery bags, he followed her across the yard and stood on the step of her house. Glancing up, he saw a large wasp（黄蜂） nest under the roof. Allen had heard that wasps can become more likely to sting (sting, sting, stung蜇) in summer. He mentioned this to Mrs. Carey, who had opened the door.
“Oh, they don’t bother me,” she said lightly. “I go in and out all the time.”
Anxiously, Allen looked at the nest again—— to see the wasps flying straight at him. “Hurry!” he shouted to Mrs. Carey. “Get in!”
She stepped quickly inside. Allen ran for his mini-bus. Too late; they were upon him. Just as he jumped aboard, half a dozen red spots showed on his arm, and he felt more on his back and shoulders.
As he was driving down the road, Allen felt as if something was burning at the back of his neck, and the “fire” was spreading forward toward his face. And immediate anxiety took hold of him. Allen knew that stings could cause some persons to die. But he had been stung the previous summer and the after-effects soon passed. However, what he didn’t know what that the first sting had turned his body into a time bomb waiting for the next to set off an explosion.
Miles from the nearest medical assistance, Allen began to feel his tongue thick and heavy and his heartbeat louder. Most frightening, he felt his breathing more and more difficult. He reached for the radio mike（话筒）, trying to call the mini-bus center, but his words were hardly understandable. Signals were also poor that far out. He knew a rescue team was on 24-hour duty at the Amherst Fire Department’s north station. So his best chance was to make a run for it.
Rushing down the mountain, Allen tried not to panic, focusing his mind on each sharp turn. He was almost through the last of them when he felt sure he was going into shock（休克）. Just then he reached for the radio mike again.
“Call fire station,” he shouted, concentrating to form the words. “Emergency. Bee sting. Emergency. There in ten minutes.”
“Five-ten,” the center replied.
Hold on, Allen thought. Keep your eyes open. Breathe. Keep awake.
At last he reached the station. Two firemen ran out. Allen felt their hands grasp him before he hit the ground. You made it, he thought.
小题1:It is mentioned in the passage that wasps are more likely to attack when _______.

A．there are huge noises	B．strangers are approaching
C．the air is filled with food smell	D．the hottest season comes around

小题2:Allen didn’t know that if stung by wasps again, he would _______.

A．have no after-effects	B．suffer from sharper pain
C．surely lose his life	D．become more sensitive

小题3:Allen failed at his first attempt to send his message to the mini-bus center because _______.

A．he was unable to speak clearly	B．his radio equipment was poor
C．he was in a state of shock	D．no one was on duty

小题4:Which would be the best title for the passage?

A．Allen, A Helpless Driver	B．Wasps, Bloody Killers
C．A Race Against Death	D．War Against Wasps

答案

小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:C

解析

小题1:从第一段：more likely to sting (sting, sting, stung蜇) in summer可知。
小题2:由全文内容可知。
小题3:由but his words were hardly understandable.可知。
小题4:由全文内容可知被黄蜂蛰以后自己的自救、求救措施，否则面临死亡。

举一反三

Last night was the last game for my eight-year-old son’s soccer team. It was the final quarter. The score was two to one, and my son’s team was in the lead. Parents surrounded the playground, offering encouragement.
With less than ten seconds remaining, the ball suddenly rolled in front of my son’s teammate, Mickey O’Donnell. With “Kick it!” echoing across the playground, Mickey turned around and gave it everything he had. All around me the crowd erupted. O’Donnell had scored!
Then there was silence. Mickey had scored all right, but in the wrong goal, ending the game in a tie. For a moment there was a total hush. You see, Mickey has Down syndrome(综合症) and for him there was no such thing as a wrong goal. All goals were celebrated by a joyous hug from Mickey. He had even been known to hug the opposing players when they scored.
The silence was finally broken when Mickey, his face filled with joy, hugged my son tightly and shouted, “I scored! I scored! Everybody won! Everybody won!” For a moment I held my breath, not sure how my son would react. I need not have worried. I watched, through tears, as my son threw up his hand in the classic high-five salute and started chanting, “Way to go Mickey! Way to go Mickey!” Within moments both teams surrounded Mickey, joining in the chant and congratulating him on his goal.
Later that night, when my daughter asked who had won, I smiled as I replied, “It was a tie. Everybody won.”
小题1:The underlined word “hush” in paragraph 3 means ________.

A．cheer.

B．cry

C．laughter

D．silence

小题2:What did the author worry about when Mickey scored and hugged his son?

A．The result of the match would fail his son.

B．His son would shout at Mickey for his goal.

C．Mickey would again hug the opposing players.

D．His son would understand Mickey’s wrong goal.

小题3:It can be inferred from the passage that _____.

A．both teams liked and respected Mickey

B．both teams were thankful to Mickey for his goal

C．Mickey didn’t mind though his goal was wrong

D．Mickey was a kind-hearted boy and hoped everybody won

小题4:The purpose of the author in writing the passage is _____.

A．to tell a joke to make readers laugh

B．to suggest we should not mind losing

C．to show enjoying a game is more than winning a game

D．to present his son’s fine qualities of understanding others

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A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work..
He may have the idea that he is not capable of it. It is easy to get such an idea even though there is no justification for it. A child may think he is stupid because he does not understand how to take the most of his mental faculties, or he may accept another person s mistaken estimate of his ability. Older people may be handicapped by the mistaken belief that they are incapable of learning anything new because of their age.
A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real effort, because he feels that it would be useless. He won’t go at a job with the confidence necessary for success, and he won’t work hardest, even though he may think he is doing so. He is therefore likely to fail, and the failure will strengthen his belief in his incompetence.
Alfred Adler, a famous psychiatrist（精神病医生）, had an experience which illustrates this. When he was a small boy he got off to a poor start in arithmetic. His teacher got the idea that he had no ability in arithmetic, and told his parents what she thought in order that they would not expect too much of him. In this way, they too developed the idea, "Isn’t it too bad that Alfred can’t do arithmetic?" He accepted their mistaken estimate of his ability, felt that it was useless to try, and was very poor at arithmetic, just as they expected.
One day he became very angry at the teacher and other students because they laughed when he said he saw how to do a problem which none of the other students had been able to solve.
Adler succeeded in solving a problem. This gave him confidence. He rejected the idea that he couldn’t do arithmetic and was determined to show them that he could. His anger and his new found confidence stimulated him to be at arithmetic problems with a new spirit. He now worked with interest, determination, and purpose, and he soon became extraordinarily good at arithmetic. He not only proved that he could do arithmetic, but he learned early in life from his own experience that , if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may astonish himself as well as others by his ability.
This experience made him realize that many people have more ability than they think they have. And that lack of success is as often the result of lack of knowledge of how to apply one’s ability, lack of confidence, and lack of determination as it is the result of lack of ability.
小题1:The underlined word “justification” most probably means ________.

A．reason

B．rightness

C．need

D．demand

小题2:What is the main idea of this passage?

A．The basic principles in doing math problems.

B．Our idea about ourselves may have a negative influence on our work.

C．Our ideas do not always have and influence on us.

D．All actions are caused by impulse.

小题3:What does Alfred Adler’s story tell us?

A．Many people have more ability than they think they have.

B．Anybody can become a mathematician, if he has determination.

C．Arithmetic is actually very easy.

D．Most teachers are wrong when they evaluator their students.

小题4:Why did he become angry one day?

A．Because the teacher and other students laughed at him.

B．Because they challenged him to do a difficult arithmetic problem.

C．Because he couldn’t solve the arithmetic problem.

D．Because he was very poor at arithmetic.

小题5:What idea did Alfred’s teacher have?

A．He was slow in arithmetic.

B．He should work harder.

C．He should be transferred to a special school.

D．He should not tell his parents that he was slow.

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“If it rings one more time, I’ll hang up,” Amy thought hopefully, as she waited for someone to answer. Apologizing wasn’t an easy thing to do.
“Hello,” a woman’s voice said. There was no backing out now.
“May I speak to Missy, please?”
“Just a minute.”
In much less than a minute, Missy was on the phone. “Hi, who’s calling?” asked the cheerful voice.
“It’s Amy. I just wanted to tell you that I’m sorry about what I said to you. I didn’t really mean it.” Amy paused, trying to think of what to say next.
“Thank you, Amy. No hard feelings.”
“Missy, you’re a very nice person. You’re a lot nicer than I am!”
Missy laughed. “You’re not so bad, Amy. By the way, I’ve got some great news. Mr. Grumbell said that you were the only candidate for class president. He talked me into being a candidate too. Isn’t that cool?”
Amy didn’t think the news was cool. Missy was very popular; she’d get a lot of votes. Fortunately, Amy was in a gracious mood. “You’ll be a tough opponent, Missy,” she said. “May the best woman win.” “Thanks, Amy,” Missy replied. “But you might even win.”
Amy had to laugh. “Hey, I’m the one who’s supposed to make comments like that!”
小题1: Amy called Missy on the phone to _______.

A．tell her that the Titanic sank	B．tell her she needed a brain
C．apologize for insulting her	D．ask her to run for president

小题2:Amy was hoping that no one would answer the phone because _______.

A．she was too tired to talk

B．she felt uncomfortable about apologizing

C．she was afraid she had dialed the wrong number

D．she was wearing pajamas

小题3:If one of the following statements is true, which is it?

A．Missy was home alone.

B．Missy’s mother answered the phone.

C．Missy’s father answered the phone.

D．Missy’s little sister answered the phone.

小题4:Which word best describes the girls’ conversation?

A．Nasty.	B．Uncomfortable.
C．Sad.	D．Friendly.

小题5:Missy let Amy know that she wanted something that Amy wanted. What was it?

A．She wanted to have the most friends.

B．She wanted her own telephone.

C．She wanted mushrooms on her pizza.

D．She wanted to be class president.

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My father had returned from his business visit to London when I came in, rather late, to supper. I could tell at once that he and my mother had been discussing something. In that half-playful, half-serious way I knew so well, he said, "How would you like to go to Eton?"
"You bet," I cried quickly catching the joke. Everyone knew it was the most expensive, the most famous of schools. You had to be entered at birth, if not before. Besides, even at 12 or 13, I understood my father. He disliked any form of showing off. He always knew his proper station in life, which was in the middle of the middle class, our house was medium-sized; he had avoided joining Royal Liverpool Golf Club and went to a smaller one instead; though once he had got a second-hand Rolls-Royce at a remarkably low price, he felt embarrassed driving it, and quickly changed it for an Austin 1100.
This could only be his delightful way of telling me that the whole boarding school idea was to be dropped. Alas! I should also have remembered that he had a liking for being different from everyone else, if it did not conflict with his fear of drawing attention to himself.
It seemed that he had happened to be talking to Graham Brown of the London office, a very nice fellow, and Graham had a friend who had just entered his boy at the school, and while he was in that part of the world he thought he might just as well phone them. I remember my eyes stinging(刺痛) and my hands shaking with the confusion of my feelings. There was excitement, at the heart of great sadness.
"Oh, he doesn’t want to go away," said my mother, "You shouldn’t go on like this.” “It’s up to him," said my father. "He can make up his own mind."
小题1:The house the writer’s family lived in was ________.

A．the best they could afford	B．right for their social position
C．for showing off	D．rather small

小题2:His father sold his Roils-Royce because ________.

A．it made him feel uneasy	B．it was too old to work well
C．it was too expensive to possess	D．it was too cheap

小题3:The writer’s father enjoyed being different as long as ________.

A．it drew attention to him	B．it didn’t bring him in arguments
C．it was understood as a joke	D．there was no danger of his showing off

小题4: What was the writer’s reaction to the idea of going to Eton?

A．He was very unhappy.	B．He didn’t believe it.
C．He was delighted.	D．He had mixed feelings.

小题5:What was the writer’s reaction to the idea of going to boarding-school?

A．He was very unhappy,	B．He had mixed feelings.
C．He was delighted,	D．He didn"t believe it.

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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, d

B．b, e, a, d, c

C．b, e, d, a, c

D．b, e, c, a, d

小题2:When he was quite young, Blackburn _______ .

A．already made a lot of money	B．already had a business brain
C．was already managing director of a company	D．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 one	B．leave the company
C．have a try	D．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.

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