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When people hear a president speak, they seldom think about others helping to shape the presentation
(报告). Today, however, presidents depend on writers such as J. Terry Edmonds to help them communicate
(交流) effectively. Edmonds is the first African American ever to work as a full-time speechwriter for a U.S.
president; he is so the first African American to serve as director of speechwriting for White House. His is
an all-American story of success.
Edmonds grew up in Baltimore, Maryland; his father drove a truck, and his mother worked as a waitress.
A great reader, Edmonds showed a gift for writing at his high School, Baltimore City College After graduating
in 1967 Edmonds went on to Morgan State University.
Edmonds began his career in business, with jobs in public relations and communications. He joined the
world of politics as news secretary for his congressman (国会议员) from Baltimore During Bill Clinton"s
presidency, he wrote speeches for Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and worked in a
number of job in the White House and in governmental departments President Clinton then appointed (任命)
him to the office of directory of speechwriting. Following the 2000 elections Edmonds returned to Morgan
State University as the school"s special assistant to the president for 2001-2002. |
| 1. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text? |
A. Edmonds proved himself to be good at writing at high school.
B. Edmonds graduated from Morgan State University in 1967.
C. Edmonds was the first full-time speechwriter.
D. Edmonds served the White House after 2000. |
| 2. Edmonds entered the world of politics first as _____. |
A. news secretary for a Congressman
B. a speechwriter for President Clinton
C. news secretary in the White House
D. a speechwriter for Secretary Donna Shalala |
| 3. The text is most likely to be found in a book about _____. |
A. popular science
B. historical events
C. successful people
D. Political systems |
答案
| 1-3: AAC |
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Four people in England, back in 1953, stared at Photo 51. It wasn"t much–a picture showing a black X.
But three of these people won the Nobel prize for figuring out what the photo really showed—the shape of
DNA. The discovery brought fame and fortune to scientists James Watson, Francis crick, and Maurice
Wilkins. The fourth, the one who actually made the picture, was left out.
Her name was Rosalind Franklin. "she should have been up there," says historian Mary Bowden. "if her
photo hadn’t been there, the others couldn’t have come up with the structure." One reason Franklin was
missing was that she had died of cancer four years before the Nobel decision. But now scholar doubt that
Franklin was not only robbed of her life by disease but robbed of credit by her competitions.
At Cambridge university in the 1950s, Watson and Crick tried to make models by cutting up shapes of
DNA’s parts and then putting them together. In the meantime, at king’s college in London, Franklin and
Wilkins shone X-rays at the molecule (分子). The rays produced patterns reflecting the shape.
But Wilkins and Franklin’s relationship was a lot rockier than the celebrated teamwork of Watson and
Crick. Wilkins thought Franklin was hired to be his assistant. But the college actually employed her to take
over the DNA project.
What she did was produce X-ray pictures that told Watson and Crick that one of their early models was
inside out. And she was not shy about saying so. That angered Watson, who attacked her in return, "Mere
inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. Clearly she had to go or be put in her place."
As Franklin"s competitors, Wilkins, Watson and Crick had much to gain by cutting her out of the little
group of researchers, says historian Pnina Abir-Am. In 1962 at the Nobel prize awarding ceremony, Wilkins
thanked 13 colleagues by name before he mentioned Franklin. Watson wrote his book laughing at her. Crick
wrote in 1974 that "Franklins was only two steps away from the solution."
No, Franklin was the solution. "She contributed more than any other player to solving the structure of
DNA. She must be considered a co-discoverer," Abir-Am says. This was backed up by Aaron Klug, who
worked with Franklin and later won a Nobel Prize himself. Once described as the "Dark Lady of DNA",
Franklin is finally coming into the light. |
| 1. What is the text mainly about? |
A. The disagreements among DNA researchers.
B. The unfair treatment of Franklin.
C. The process of discovering DNA.
D The race between two teams of scientists. |
| 2. Watson was angry with Franklin because she _____. |
A. took the lead in the competition
B. kept her results from him
C. proved some of his findings wrong
D. shared her data with other scientists |
| 3. Why is Franklin described as "Dark Lady of DNA"? |
A. She developed pictures in dark labs.
B. She discovered the black X—the shape of DNA.
C. Her name was forgotten after her death.
D. Her contribution was unknown to the public. |
| 4. What is the writer"s attitude toward Wilkins, Watson and Crick? |
A. Disapproving
B. Respectful
C. Admiring
D. Doubtful |
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The Peales were a famous family of American artists. Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his
portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution. He painted portraits of Franklin and Jefferson and
over a dozen of George Washington. His life-size portrait of his sons Raphaelle and Titian was so realistic
that George Washington reportedly once tipped his hat (脱帽打招呼) to the figures in the picture.
Charles Willson Peale gave up painting in his middle age and devoted his life to the Peale seum,which he
founded in Philadelphia. The world"s first popular museum of art and natural science mainly covered paintings
by Peale and his family as well as displays of animals in their natural settings Peale found the animals himself
and found a method to make the exhibits more lifelike. The museum"s most popular display was the skeleton
(骷髅) of a huge,extinct elephant,which Peale unearthed on a New York farm in l801.
Three of Peale"s seventeen children were also famous artists. Raphaelle Peale often painted still lives of
flowers,fruit,and cheese. His brother Rembrandt studied under his father and painted portraits of many noted
people,including one of George Washington. Another brother, Rubens Peale, painted mostly landscapes and
portraits.
James Peale, the brother of Charles Willson Peale, specialized in miniatures (小画像). His daughter Sarah
Miriam Peale was probably the first professional female portrait painter in America. |
| 1. What is the main topic of the passage? |
A. The life of Charles Willson Peale.
B. Portraits in the l8th century.
C. The Peale Museum.
D. A family of artists. |
2. The author mentions in Paragraph l that Washington tipped his hat to the figures in the painting to show
that _____. |
A. Charles Willson Peale"s painting was very lifelike
B. Washington respected Charles Willson Peale"s work
C. Washington was friendly with Raphaelle and Titian Peale
D. the painting of the two brothers was very large |
| 3. Which of the following is NOT the child of Charles Willson Peale? |
A. Titian Peale.
B. Rubens Peale.
C. Raphaelle Peale.
D. Sarah Miriam Peale. |
| 4. The author"s attitude toward the Peales is in general _____. |
A. puzzling
B. exciting
C. admiring
D. disappointing |
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Gordon Ramsay is one of Britain"s best-known chefs. He is one of the only three chefs in the country
to maintain three Michelin stars for their restaurant.
Gordon was born in Scotland but was brought up in England after his family moved to Stratford. He
played football as a teenager for Oxford United Football Club"s youth side and was spotted by a scout (球
探) for Rangers. He became a professional player at the age of 15. After a knee injury that left him unable
to regain full fitness, he was released from the club.
At the age of 19 Ramsay now turned his hand to cookery. He worked under Marco Pierre White and
Albert Roux in London and Guy Savoy and Joel Robuchon in Paris before becoming head chef of the
newly-opened Aubergine restaurant in 1993. By 1996, the restaurant had been awarded two Michelin stars.
In 1998 Ramsay opened his first own restaurant in Chelsea. The restaurant gained three Michelin stars in
1999, making Ramsay the first Scot to gain the achievement. From there his empire has expanded rapidly,
opening a lot of restaurants.
Ramsay has published six books on cooking and also appeared in two documentaries (记录片)-Boiling
Point in 1998 and Beyond Boiling Point in 2000. The series showed that Ramsay is a hot-tempered man in
the kitchen; he was seen yelling dirty words at his staff and throwing equipment around. Food critic Gill,
who was famously fired from Ramsay"s Chelsea restaurant, has said that Ramsay is "a wonderful chef, just
a really second-rate human being". |
| 1. Ramsay had to leave the club because _____. |
A. he wanted to be a cook
B. he didn"t have a gift for football
C. his knee was badly hurt
D. his family moved to England |
2. What"s the right order of the things that happened to Ramsay?
a. opened his own restaurant
b. appeared in Beyond Boiling Point
c. received three Michelin stars
d. became a professional footballer |
A. a, b, c, d
B. a, c, d, b
C. d, a, c, b
D. d, b, a, c |
| 3. From the last paragraph we know that Ramsay is _____. |
A. an excellent chef as well as a respected man
B. friendly and good at cooking
C. a successful writer and a second-class cook
D. is famous but hard to get along with |
| 4. It can be learned from the passage that _____. |
A. Ramsay became a professional footballer at 15
B. Three Michelin stars are awarded to the best restaurants
C. Boiling Point and Beyond Boiling Point are Ramsay"s books
D. Ramsay opened his restaurant after learning cookery |
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Barack Obama was born in Hawaii with a Kenyan father and an American mother. His father, Barack
Obama Sir, married his mother, Ann Dunbar, while studying at the University of Hawaii. The couple
separated two years after Obama was born. His father ultimately returned to Kenya, where he became a
noted economist. He died in a car accident in 1982.
Obama"s mother"s second marriage was to an Indonesian man named Lolo Soetoro. The family moved
to Indonesia and Obama remained there until he was 10 when he moved back to Hawaii and lived with his
grandparents, while studying on a scholarship at the elite Punahou Academy.
He has seven half-brothers and sisters in Kenya from his father"s other marriages, and a half-sister,
Maya Soetoro-Ng, from his mother"s second marriage.
After finishing college in 1983, Obama worked for a New York financial consultant and a consumer
organization. He landed a job in Chicago in 1985 as an organizer for Developing Communities Project, a
church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods.
Three years later, Obama went to Harvard Law School, where he became the first black president of
the law review. He worked as a summer associate at the Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago, where he met
his future wife. After graduation from Harvard in 1991, Obama practiced civil rights law at a small firm
in Chicago. He became a lecture in constitutional law at the University of Chicago in 1993.
Obama won a seat in the Illiao state Senate in 1996. During this time in the legislature he worked on
welfare and ethics legislation, as well as a measure requiring electronic recording of police interrogations
and confessions in homicide investigations.
Obama won a heavily contested US Senate seat in 2004, carrying 53 percent of the Democratic primary
vote in an eight-candidate race. He easily won the general election, In the Senate he compiled (编辑) a liberal
voting record, but was one of the few Democrats to back a measure on class-action lawsuits. He opposed
the appointment of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court.
The nonpartisan (无党派的) National Journal ranked him as the most liberal member of the Senate early
this year, based on his voting record in 2007. He was ranked 10th most liberal in 2006 and 16th most liberal
in 2005. |
| 1. What happened to Obama when he was a child? |
A. His father died in a car accident
B. His mother married a Kenyan father
C. His parents separated and his mother remarried an Indonesian man
D. He studied at the University of Hawaii |
| 2. In which year did Obama go to Harvard Law School? |
A. In 1983
B. In 1985
C. In 1988
D. In 1991 |
| 3. Which of the following sentences in right? |
A. His mother was divorced from his father when he was two years old
B. Obama moved back to Hawaii and lived with his grandparents until he was 10
C. The nonpartisan (无党派的) National Journal ranked him as the most liberal member of the Senate because
he won the general election
D. He met his future wife in Chicago while studying on a scholarship at the elite Punahou Academy |
| 4. How many sisters and brothers does Obama have? |
A. 7
B. 8
C. 0
D. 9 |
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Jean Francis Grander was perhaps the most daring man who ever lived and perhaps the craziest. His
greatest desire was to entertain and amaze people. He measured his success by the number of people who
fainted dead away after witnessing his death-defying (极其惊险的) feats.
Grander, a blond Frenchman, toured North America in 1850, billing himself as "Blondin". Blondin"s gift
was excellent balance. This talent coupled with a great desire to surprise and shock his audiences, made
Blondin an incomparable performer.
His most famous feat was walking across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Blondin"s "stage" consisted of a
rope tied 1,100 feet across the falls. The rope hung some 160 feet above the rocks and boiling water below
the falls.
Simply walking across the falls was not exciting enough for Blondin; he later had to ride across on a
bicycle. Then, in another performance, he calmly walked across blindfolded (被蒙住的眼睛). At still another
time, he carried his terrified manager on his back and walked over the falls before thousands of breathless
audience.
But Blondin was undoubtedly his own worst critic. He was never satisfied with hfs act and always tried
to attract his audience with his balancing feat. One of his most daring walks was made in the darkness of
night. Blondin became so famous on his tour through North America that his last performance was attended
by an admiring Prince of Wales. |
| 1. Why does the author think that Grander may be the craziest man in the world? |
A. Because he enjoyed entertaining people by terrifying them.
B. Because many people died after seeing his feats.
C. Because his greatest desire was to entertain people.
D. Because he was an incomparable performer. |
| 2. What does the underlined word "feat" in this passage mean? |
A. excellent performance
B. tour
C. famous event
D. victory |
| 3. What can we infer from the first sentence in the last paragraph? |
A. Blondin was very content with his own performance.
B. Blondin was not very good at criticism.
C. Blondin never thought that his performance was satisfy.
D. Blondin didn"t like criticism. |
| 4. The author"s attitude towards "Blondin" is _____. |
A. critical
B. admiring
C. negative
D. depressed |
| 5. Which of the following can NOT be drawn from the passage? |
A. Blondin"s success had something to do with his character.
B. In order to be Successful,one should be a critic of himself.
C. Blondin conquered his audience simply by his talent.
D. People can get pleasure from a terrifying experience. |
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