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Mr. Smith is well known in Washington because of his many social blunders. He always likes to attend the various social functions because he wants to expand his circle of friends. Whenever he is invited, he goes, unless he is ill.
Recently he received an invitation to a fashionable banquet. Although he did not know the hostess, he accepted the invitation. He was secretly very pleased, because he felt that his reputation as a desirable guest was growing.
When he arrived at the banquet hall, he found that about one hundred people had been invited. He began to move a-round the hall. He spoke to other guests whether he knew them or not. He soon realized that he had never met any of the other people present, although they seemed to know each other.
At dinner he was seated beside a very dignified woman. The woman tried to be friendly even though she had never met Mr. Smith before. She spoke politely whenever he spoke to her. Between the first and the second course of the meal, she, turned to Mr. Smith and said, “Do you see that gray-haired man at the end of the table? The one with glasses.”
“Ah, yes. Who is he?”
“He’s the Secretary of the Interior!” she replied.
Mr. Smith said, “So that’s the secretary of the Interior! I’ m afraid that I find very little to admire about him, although he is the Secretary.”
The woman stiffened and did not reply. Mr. Smith continued in spite of her coldness. “I really can’t see how he received his appointment unless he is perhaps a relative of the President.”
“It hardly matters whether you like the Secretary or not,” she said. “He was chosen because the President thought he was the man for the job. If he does the job well, you should have no complaint.”
“That’s just it,” persisted Mr. Smith. “No one does the things he does, unless he is a complete fool!”
“Sir!” said the woman in all her dignity. “Do you know who I am?” “No,” replied Mr. Smith.
“I am the Secretary’s wife,” she said coldly. Mr. Smith was shocked, but he went on in spite of his embarrassment. “Madam, do you know who I am?”
“No, I don’t,” the woman replied.
“Thank goodness!” exclaimed Mr. Smith, as he quickly left the table.
小题1:Why is Mr. Smith well known in Washington?| A．He’s the Secretary of the Interior. | | B．He has more friends than other people. | | C．He always makes foolish mistakes on social occasions. | | D．He likes to go to all kinds of parties. |
小题2:At dinner he was seated beside a very dignified woman. The underlined part means ________.| A．beautiful | B．serious | C．noble | D．kind-hearted |
小题3:When Mr. Smith learned that the woman didn’t know who he was, he felt ________.| A．shocked | B．worried | C．embarrassed | D．relieved |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:D |
解析
本文记述了一个在华盛顿因犯错而有名的Smith先生在一次宴会上，由于出言不逊而自讨没趣的故事。
小题1:细节题。根据文章第一段第二句可知。
小题2:词义题。根据她的身份the Secretary’s wife可知，她应该是“高贵的，尊贵的”。选项A、B、D在文章中没有暗示。
小题3:推断题。根据前面他说的话和Thank goodness可推知，由于女士不认识他，因而他感到一点宽慰。 |
举一反三
Paul was a good athlete when he was a middle school student. He liked running and jumping and won some medals at the sports meetings. So he was tall and strong. Suddenly war broke out and the young man joined the army. He was sent to the front and killed several enemy soldiers. Two years later he raturned to his home town and found a job at the police station. People had known about his bravery by then and they all liked the polite young man.
One day a few young men had drunk too much before they came in a cinema. They danced and sang there and the film couldn"t be shown. Paul was ill that day and went to the hospital. When he was passing there, the young men were beating an old man. He went to stop them and they began to fight. He caught them all and sent them to the police station. Since then all the bad men in the town were afraid of the brave policeman.
It was a summer evening. The weather was hot and few people could stay indoors. Paul was on duty and sat by the telephone. Suddenly in rushed a beautiful girl with a book in her hand. She stood there, shaking in her shoes.
“What"s the matter, madam? ”asked Paul.
“I wish you could protect me sir, ”answered the girl.
“Protect? ”Paul said in surprise. “For what? ”
The girl showed the book to Paul. The young man understood at once: it was a book about Ghosts（鬼）！
小题1:Paul won some medals because ____. [ ]| A．he was a middle school student | | B．he was tall and strong | | C．he kept doing morning exercises | | D．he was good at running and jumping. |
小题2: Paul was ____ after he joined the army. [ ]| A．a good athlete | | B．a brave soldier | | C．a polite policeman | | D．a brave policeman |
小题3:Paul sent the young men to the police station because ____. [ ]| A．they made some trouble（闹事）at the cinema | | B．they drank much in the restaurant | | C．they wouldn"t see the filin | | D．they wanted to fight with him |
小题4:Paul sat by the telephone that evening because ____. [ ]| A．he was waiting for an important call | | B．he was going to call somebody | | C．he was on duty | | D．he wasn"t afraid of hotness |
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TYPING
This course is for those who want to learn to type, as well as those who want to improve their typing. The course is not common. You are tested in the first class and begin practicing at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed. Each program lasts 20 hours. Bring your own paper.
Course fee: $ 125 Materials: $25
Two hours each evening for two weeks. New classes begin every two weeks.
This course is taught by a number of qualified business education teachers who have successfully taught typing courses before.
UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS
This twelve-hour course is for people who do not know very much about computers, but who need to learn about them. You will learn what computers are, what they can and can’t do and how to use them.
Course fee: $75 Equipment fee: $ 10
Jan. 4, 7, 11, 14, 18, Wed. & Sat. 9—11:30 a.m.
Joseph Saunders is Professor of Computer Science at New Urban University. He has over twenty years of experience in the computer field.
STOP SMOKING
Do you want to stop smoking? Have you already tried to stop and failed? Now is the time to stop smoking using the latest methods. You can stop smoking, and this twelve-hour course will help you do it.
Course fee: $30
Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23 Mon. 2—5 p. m.
Dr John Good is a practicing psychologist who had helped hundreds of people stop smoking.
小题1:If you choose the UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS course, you will have classes _______.| A．from Monday to Sunday | | B．from Monday to Friday | | C．on Wednesday and Saturday | | D．on Saturday and Sunday |
小题2:The STOP SMOKING course will last ______.| A．for half a day | | B．for three hours | | C．for a week | | D．for four weeks |
小题3:Mr. Black works every morning and evening, but he wants to take part in one of the three courses. The most probable course he will attend is ______.| A．typing | B．understanding computers | | C．stop smoking | D．all the courses |
小题4: If you want to learn computer and at the same time you want to improve your typing, you will pay _______.| A．$ 75 | B．$ 15 | C．$ 115 | D．$ 235 |
小题5:The typical difference of “Typing” from the other two is ______.| A．people with different skill levels may learn at different speed | | B．you will take a test after the course | | C．you will pay the fee before practicing | | D．you will pay less money |
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Dorothy Brown was very happy as she sat in the theatre listening to the music. Today her little daughter Lauren was giving her ___1___ concert. She had been waiting for this ___2___ for years and years. “Now it is here at last,” she thought. “How beautiful her ___3___ is.”
The song made her ___4___ to the days when she was Lauren’s ___5___. As a young ___6___, Dorothy wanted to be a concert singer. She studied ___7___ in France, Italy and in the United States. “You can become a fine ___8___ in the future,” her teachers told her. “But you must be ___9___ to study hard and work for many years. There will be ___10___ time for anything but music in your life.”
Dorothy was ___11___ at that time and she was ___12___ that music was all she wanted or needed to ___13___ her life. For almost a year Dorothy ___14___ of nothing else. Then she ___15___ David, a young engineer travelling Europe. They soon fell in ___16___. David asked her to be his ___17___. Dorothy also wanted to marry David. But she loved ___18___, too. She didn’t know what to do. David was against her being a singer. He said, “If you want to be a singer, you must forget about getting married. You can’t ___19___ do both.” Thus her days were gone and would never return.
Now Lauren became a singer instead of her, which was her ___20___.
1. A. sorry B. successful C. first D. wonderful
2. A. dance B. moment C. show D. party
3. A. voice B. face C. dress D. life
4. A. think of B. bring back C. go back D. come back
5. A. age B. friend C. mother D. teacher
6. A. musician B. pop star C. lady D. girl
7. A. French B. music C. piano D. dance
8. A. actress B. student C. singer D. dancer
9. A. prepared B. learning C. driven D. waiting
10. A. some B. any C. no D. enough
11. A. eight B. eighteen C. eighty D. eighty-eight
12. A. lucky B. sure C. afraid D. fond
13. A. fill B. live C. lead D. take
14. A. heard B. knew C. talked D. thought
15. A. saw off B. learned from C. heard of D. met with
16. A. love B. feeling C. music D. touch
17. A. assistant B. teacher C. wife D. student
18. A. him B. engineering C. herself D. music
19. A. certainly B. possibly C. only D. mainly
20. A. thought B. hope C. purpose D. will |
My husband, Tom, is a born shopper. He loves to look at things and to touch them. He likes to compare prices between the same things in different stores. He would never think of buying anything without looking around in several stores. I, on the other hand, am not a shopper. I regard shopping as boring and unpleasant. If I like something and can afford it, I buy it immediately. I never take a time to look around for a good sale or a better deal (交易). Of course my husband and I never go shopping together. Doing shopping together would be too painful for both of us . When it comes to shopping, we go our separate ways.
Sometimes I ask my son Jimmy to buy some food in the shop not far from our home. But he is always absentminded. This was his story.
One day I said to him , “ I hope you won’t forget what I have told you to buy.” “No,” said Jimmy. “ I won’t forget . You want three organs, six eggs and a pound of meet.”
He went running down the street to the shop. As he ran , he said to himself over and over again , “ Three organs , six eggs and a pound of meat.”
In the beginning he remembered everything but he stopped several times. Once he saw two men fighting outside a clothes shop until a policeman stopped them. One of them was badly hurt. Then he stopped to give ten cents to a beggar. Then he met some of his friends and he played with them for a while. When he reached the shop, he had forgotten everything except six eggs.
As he walked home, his face became sadder and sadder. When he saw me he said, “ I’m sorry , mum . I have forgotten to buy oranges and the meat . I only remembered to buy six eggs , but I’ve dropped three of them.”
小题1:The husband loves shopping necause_________________.| A．he has much money | | B．he likes the shops | | C．he likes to compare the prices between the same items | | D．he has nothing to do but do shopping |
小题2:The wife doesn’t like shopping because___________________.| A．she has no money | | B．she has no tome | | C．she doesn’t love her husband | | D．she feels it boring to go shopping |
小题3:They never go shopping together because_____________________.| A．their ways of shopping are quite different | | B．they hate each other | | C．they needn’t buy anything for the family | | D．they don’t have time for it |
小题4:Jimmy didn’t buy what his mother wanted because_____________________.| A．the shop was closed that day | | B．the policeman stopped him | | C．he forgot some of them | | D．he gave all the money to the beggar |
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I feel very excited at the thought that in another week I shall be with you again on holiday. I have enjoyed my stay in England very much indeed. Mr Brown and classmates are nice to me, but, as they say in England, “There’s no place like home.” and I think you feel this above all at Christmas time.
I am leaving here early on Thursday, the 23rd, and I shall arrive in Basle on Friday morning, so I shall be home somewhere about lunchtime. Can you meet me at the station, as I shall have a lot of luggage?
In some of my earlier letters I have told you all about the other students here. Well, I want to ask my Polish friend Jan to come and spend Christmas with us. Will that be all right? His father and mother died last year, he can go home for Christmas, and he has no friend in England except the Browns. He is a nice boy. I know you all like him, and I feel sure he will enjoy Christmas with us. It is very short notice, but you are always pleased, I know, if we bring our friends home. however, I have not yet invited him, as I thought it was better to ask you first. Please let me know as soon as possible if it will be all right.
小题1:The writer was very excited at the thought that ________.| A．she would be back home with her new friend | | B．she would be with her parents in another week | | C．her parents wanted to see her very much | | D．she would go on staying in England |
小题2:She wanted some one to meet her because ________.| A．she was told to do so | B．she would be tired out after the trip | | C．she would carry a pile of things | D．she didn’t know where the station was |
小题3:The underlined sentence “There’s no place like home” means ________.| A．There is not a place that the writer likes | | B．There is no place that the writer can live in | | C．The writer’s home is not in London in fact | | D．East and west, home is best |
小题4:These paragraphs are taken out of a ________.| A．magazine | B．letter | C．book | D．newspaper |
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