阅读理解     I wasn"t interested in becoming a model at first. I worked as a recepti

阅读理解     I wasn"t interested in becoming a model at first. I worked as a recepti

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     I wasn"t interested in becoming a model at first. I worked as a receptionist in a beauty shop during high school. It was in South Dakota. A woman who had worked for Vogue-a famous fashion magazine said to me, "Why don"t you go to New York and be a model?"
     So I went to New York at eighteen. I went to the first model agency, they thought that I was too
long-waisted. It was too bad since I came from South Dakota. I looked up in the telephone book. Hunting Hartford had just bought the agency. So I went there. I was in such a hurry that I couldn"t give my name to the receptionist. About half an hour later, the man who had just taken over the agency-he had been a male model before-came in. I was just staring at this unfamiliar man when he said, "You! Come into my office!"
     How do you feel as a fashion model? Quite OK, I should say. But you stop thinking when you are
working. It takes a lot of nervous energy as well because the camera goes one, two, three very fast and
you have to move very fast. I like my job because it gives me freedom. I can have half a day off to do
things I like. I can"t do that if I do a normal job. I never like becoming a secretary. They have to sit in the
office for eight hours a day, facing the same people.
     Most models, after one or two years, can"t be still very interested in it. But I like being a model.
Maybe I was a born one, as many people say.
1. Who inspired the author"s desire to become a model?
A. A woman customer in the beauty shop.
B. Hunting Hartford.
C. The author herself.
D. The author"s father.
2. Why didn"t the author return to South Dakota when she was first refused?
A. Because she had a strong desire to become a model.
B. Because South Dakota is far away from New York.
C. Because Hunting Hartford asked her not to go back.
D. Because she liked to be a receptionist at a beauty shop.
3. Which of the following is not true?
A. Hunting Hartford had an experience as a model.
B. Hunting Hartford thought the author might be a good model.
C. Hunting Hartford had always been a model agent.
D. Hunting Hartford accepted the author as a model.
4. Why did the author like being a model?
A. Because she liked the woman customer.
B. Because she liked the freedom.
C. Because she liked to have a regular work schedule.
D. Because she liked Hunting Hartford.
5. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Perseverance leads to your success.
B. Finding a job you like to do is important.
C. Both A and B.
D. Becoming a model is quite easy.
答案
1-5: ABCBC
举一反三
完形填空     I used to love to watch my high school track team train - especially the long-distance runners. But that
year, my eyes were   1   to a girl whose running style was all wrong. She ran with her arms tucked(塞进)
close to her body, bouncing(蹦) up and down in a way that must have driven her   2   crazy. My athletic
mind laughed at her strange style, and I began to think   3   her as "the Bouncer".
     In early May, my high school   4   a big sports meeting. A large group of athletes joined in the
two-mile running race - including the Bouncer. As the race progressed, she quickly fell far   5   the pack
and every runner lapped her at least once before it was over. But she just kept running,  6   up and
down - and always wearing the same smile.
     "That poor kid," I thought. "There was nothing to be  7   by finishing so far behind the pack. Why
didn"t she just  8  ?" Still, she never stopped, and her smile never changed.
     But a short while later, something   9   began to happen. As she entered the home stretch(终点直道),
a cheer began to rise, growing louder with each step the Bouncer took toward the finish line until, finally,
every person in the stands stood and cheered   10   the fate(命运) of the whole race depended on this
one lone girl, bouncing toward the finish line.
     The Bouncer just   11   to run exactly as she"d been doing from the beginning. As she crossed the
finish line, the teacher walked out onto the   12   and held her arms tightly.
     I"ve seen hundreds of races since that day, and I"ve seen thousands of runners  13   the finish line.
But I"ve never seen anything that showed the true spirit of   14   as I watched on that warm spring day
so long ago, when I saw a race won by a girl I had   15   called the Bouncer
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(     )1. A. drawn        
(     )2. A. teamates    
(     )3. A. up          
(     )4. A. hosted      
(     )5. A. over        
(     )6. A. rushing      
(     )7. A. admired      
(     )8. A. give in      
(     )9. A. strange      
(     )10. A. even after  
(     )11. A. promised    
(     )12. A. track      
(     )13. A. meet        
(     )14. A. love        
(     )15. A. bitterly    
B. shut          
B. coaches        
B. over          
B. formed        
B. away          
B. dashing        
B. enjoyed        
B. give up        
B. funny          
B. just as        
B. expected      
B. path          
B. cross          
B. victory        
B. interestingly  
C. put        
C. parents    
C. of          
C. organized  
C. behind      
C. jumping    
C. accepted    
C. drop off    
C. special    
C. as if      
C. wanted      
C. line        
C. reach      
C. sport      
C. strangely  
D. fixed          
D. classmates    
D. about          
D. ran            
D. off            
D. bouncing      
D. gained        
D. drop out      
D. similar        
D. even if        
D. continued      
D. field          
D. hit            
D. race          
D. laughingly    
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     Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis, cricket-anything with a round ball. I was useless," he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the
object of jokes in school gym classes in England"s rural Devonshire.
     It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest, then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his
mind on building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first
marathon.
     The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat
across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway"s School of Adventure in
Scotland, where he learned about the old man"s cold-water exploits(成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all
he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.
     Journeys to the Pole aren"t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his
dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn"t say "You"re completely crazy," Saunders
says.
     In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the
North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a close encounter with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
     Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he"s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
     This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 1,800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.
1. The turning point in Saunders" life came when _________.
A. he started to play ball games
B. he got a mountain bike at age 15
C. he ran his first marathon at age 18
D. he started to receive Ridgeway"s training
2. We can learn from the text that Ridgway _________.
A. dismissed Saunders" dream as fantasy
B. built up his body together with Saunders
C. hired Saunders for his cold-water experience
D. won his first fame for his voyage across the Atlantic
3. What do we know about Saunders?
A. He once worked at a school in Scotland.
B. He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.
C. He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.
D. He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.
4. The underlined word "Intrigued" in the third paragraph probably means "_________".
A. Excited
B. Convinced
C. Delighted
D. Fascinated
5. It can be inferred that Saunders" journey to the North Pole _________.
A. was accompanied by his old playmates
B. set a record in the North Pole expedition
C. was supported by other Arctic explorers
D. made him well-known in the 1960s
完形填空

     Once a farmer had some puppies to sell. He painted a(n)  1   advertising the pups and set about nailing
it to a post on the edge of his
yard.  2   he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a sudden pull on his trousers.He_3_down into
the eyes of a little boy.
     "Mister, "he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies."
     "Well, "said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his  4  , "these puppies come from fine
parents and  5   a good deal of money."
     The boy  6   his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of
  7   and held it up to the farmer. "I"ve got thirtynine cents. Is that enough to take a look?"
     "Sure, "said the farmer.
     And with that he  8   a whistle, "Here, Dolly!"he called.
       9    from the doghouse and down the road ran Dolly  10   by four little balls of fur. As the dogs made
their  11   to the fence, the little boy noticed something else moving inside the doghouse.  12   another
little ball appeared, this one noticeably smaller. The little pup began walking unsteadily toward the others,
d oing its best to  13  .
     "I want that one, "the little boy said,   14   at the runt (矮个子).
     The farmer knelt down at the boy"s side and said, "Son, you  15   want that puppy. He will never be
able to  16    and play with you as other dogs would."
     With that the little boy   17   back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his
 18   . In doing so he showed a steel brace(支柱) running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a
  19   made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, "You see, sir, I don"t run too well myself, and
he will need someone who understands."
     The  20   is full of people who need someone who understands.
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(     )1. A. sight
(     )2. A. Then  
(     )3. A. put
(     )4. A. nose  
(     )5. A. spend
(     )6. A. raised  
(     )7. A. notes
(     )8. A. let out
(     )9. A. Up  
(     )10. A. came
(     )11. A. step
(     )12. A. Quickly
(     )13. A. get up
(     )14. A. moving
(     )15. A. mustn’t
(     )16. A. run
(     )17. A. stepped
(     )18. A. clothes
(     )19. A. simply
(     )20. A. farm
B. paper  
B. Before
B. looked
B. neck  
B. spare
B. lifted
B. change
B. carried out
B. Over  
B. followed
B. way
B. Slowly
B. stand up
B. pointing
B.don’t
B. sit
B. talked
B. dresses
B. specially
B. country
C. information
C. As    
C. knelt  
C. head    
C. make    
C. fell    
C. sugar  
C. put out
C. Out  
C. went    
C. walk    
C. Oddly  
C. catch up  
C. calling
C. can’t
C. walk    
C. climbed
C. sweaters  
C. carefully
C. city    
D. sign      
D. After      
D. stared    
D. face      
D. cost      
D. dropped    
D. goods      
D. left out  
D. In        
D. caught    
D. drive      
D. Sadly      
D. move up    
D. turning    
  D. needn’t
D. stand      
D. fell      
D. trousers  
D. newly      
D. world      
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      Where we live, on the eastern shore of Maryland, the gentle waters run in and out like fingers slimming at the tips.
     The Canada geese know this place, as do the white swans and the ducks.In autumn, they come home
for the winter.Once or twice each year, snow and frozen rain move into the area.When this happens, if the river is at its narrowest, there is a freeze which hardens the water to ice.
     One morning, a friend of mine set the breakfast table beside the huge window, which overlooked the
Tred Avon River.Suddenly she leaned forward and cried out, "There is a goose out there."
     We saw the figure of a large Canada goose, very still, its wings folded tight to its sides, its feet frozen
into the ice.
     Then from the dark skies, she saw a line of swans.They floated from the top of the sky downward
and at last landed on the ice.My friend was on her feet now, with one hand against her mouth, unbelieving.As the swans surrounded the frozen goose, she feared that life it still had might be pecked(啄) out by
those great swan bills.
     Instead, those bills began to work on the ice.The long necks were lifted and curved down, again and
again.It went on for a long time.At last, the goose"s head was lifted.Its body was pulled.Then the goose
was free and stood on the ice.And the swans stood in the air watching.Then, as if it had cried, "I cannot
fly."Four of the swans came down around it.Their powerful beaks chipped off the ice held in the feathers.
Slowly, the goose spread its wings as far as they would go, and moved slowly into the sky.
     This is a true story.I just think of it in the bad moment, and from it comes only one hopeful question:If
so for birds, why not for man?

1. Which would be the best title for the passage?

A. Why Not for Man?   
B. Graceful Swans
C. Swans" Brave Act    
D. I Just Couldn"t Believe It!

2. What happened to the Canada goose?

A. It was deserted by other geese.    
B. It was stuck in the ice.
C. It was wounded and couldn"t fly.  
D. It was lost in the water.

3. At first the author"s friend was worried that________.

A. the swans would not help the Canada goose
B. she didn"t care about this matter any more
C. the swans wouldn"t identify with the Canada goose
D. the swans would peck the Canada goose to death

4. What did the swans do when they saw the Canada goose couldn"t fly?

A. They chipped off the ice held in its feathers.
B. They waited patiently for the ice held in its feathers to melt.
C. They came down and lifted it up to the sky together.
D. They stayed with it and protected it.
完形填空
     Robert was a life insurance(人寿保险) salesman. Try __1__he might, he was still unable to get a
couple to sign up for a policy(保单). "I certainly don"t want to frighten you into a __2__," he announced,
standing up to__3__. "Please sleep on it tonight, and __4__ you wake up in the morning, let me know what you think."
     People can be motivated by many different __5__. Fear is the common one.__6__many people find that other kinds of motivation are usually __7__ effective in getting more out of those with whom we live and
work.
     A twelve-year-old girl took her younger brother, who __8__from a mental disability, Christmas
shopping. As they went into a department store, the__9__accidentally hit a display, knocking shoes in every __10__. At that __11__ a(n) angry clerk grabbed the boy by the arm and __12__, "Pick them up."
     "No," the boy screamed in defiance(反抗).
     "Pick them up," the clerk__13__.
     "No," the boy shouted back.
     His older sister began picking up the __14__. Then the boy started to __15__. Before long, the boy,
his sister and the clerk were __16__ together to put the shoes back in __17__.
     When they finished, the girl taught the clerk a(n) __18__ lesson with these words: "You have to
encourage my brother to do it in action."
     If you live or work with other people, you may benefit from the older sister"s advice. If you want people
to respond to you, try encouraging them in action. People prefer __19__. When you fill people with what
they want, you"re __20__ to get what you want out of them.
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