( )1. A. food ( )2. A. between ( )3. A. colder ( )4. A. smoke ( )5. A. people ( )6. A. captain ( )7. A. make ( )8. A. light ( )9. A. everything ( )10. A. continue ( )11. A. light ( )12. A. flew ( )13. A. notice ( )14. A. good ( )15. A. unusual ( )16. A. searching ( )17. A. back ( )18. A. decided ( )19. A. when ( )20. A. make sure | B. help B. out B. deeper B. wave B. houses B. owner B. lose B. wind B. anything B. turn B. fly B. stopped B. attention B. second B. funny B. expecting B. up B. advised B. while B. search for | C. rest C. beyond C. saltier C. sand C. ships C. name C. keep C. darkness C. something C. change C. bird C. stayed C. look C. third C. common C. considering C. about C. persuaded C. as C. listen to | D. stop D. in D. warmer D. wind D. lights D. person D. save D. water D. nothing D. sail D. plane D. looked D. interest D. long D. interesting D. studying D. down D. invited D. after D. look out | |||||||||
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I work in a major U.S. factory. We make refrigerators. Four thousand five hundred new refrigerators every day. It is a union workshop and it"s gradually shrinking as many blue collar factories seem to be but that is not what this story is about. This story is about one man who works in this huge factory. I"ve seen him around for years but never paid much attention. He always seemed just a little strange. A little short. A little... scruffy (肮脏的). Always the same old red ball cap. And always a garbage bag in one hand. He walks around this big old factory on his breaks and his lunch time collecting aluminum (铝) cans. Day after day, month after month on hot days and cold days. Over the years I"ve followed him as he walked to his old pickup truck on the coldest day with snow blowing and everyone with their collars turned up and their hands in their pockets. He would be there with a 40 gallon garbage bag full of aluminum cans. He"d toss it into the back of his truck and jump in and I"d reach my car and jump in and we"d all race to the exit of this big half empty parking lot. Today I was working on a broken machine in this factory and the can man came by with his bag picking up cans. Our manager was standing there because the machine I was working on had been "down" for a couple of hours and he was getting worried that we might run out of the parts for one of the assembly lines(装配线). I was finishing and I stood up just as the manager asked the can man what he did with all those cans. I"d never thought to ask him that question because I always just assumed he cashed them at the recycle center. The can man said: "I give them to my neighbor. He"s disabled and can"t hold a job." I blurted out: "You mean you"ve been collecting all those cans for all these years to give to your neighbor?" "It isn"t much," he said, "but I give them to him. He can"t hold a job." Right then and there in that factory I found myself staring at him. He was wearing a T-shirt and an old red ball cap and he had a garbage bag full of aluminum cans in his hand! I don"t even know his name, but I thank him for the lesson he"s taught me. | ||||||||||||
1. It can be inferred from the passage that ______. | ||||||||||||
A. the author didn"t like the can man before knowing about his story B. making friends at work was not encouraged C. the author drove a very old pickup truck D. aluminum cans couldn"t be recycled | ||||||||||||
2. Which of the following is true according to the passage? | ||||||||||||
A. The manager was angry seeing the man picking up cans in the factory. B. The author thought the can man sold the cans for extra money. C. The manager was worried because he might be short of cans. D. People in the factory all looked down upon the can man. | ||||||||||||
3. What"s the possible meaning of the underlined phrase "blurted out" in the last paragraph? | ||||||||||||
A. said suddenly without thinking much B. screamed at somebody in anger C. spoke in a low voice thoughtfully D. shouted to somebody cheerfully | ||||||||||||
4. What lesson does the author learn from the story? | ||||||||||||
A. Never judge a person by his appearance. B. Don"t work in a factory as a blue collar worker. C. Always treat neighbors as family members. D. Kindness is from the bottom of one"s heart. | ||||||||||||
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When we ask students what they want to be, they often talk about unusual jobs, things like teachers and doctors. But if you think about it, many people don"t plan to do their jobs. They just start doing them by accident. We have talked to two people with unusual jobs. Emily is a dentist (牙医) but she doesn"t work with people. She works with horses. After university she took care of animal"s health for several years, but she noticed that there were few people who could help horses" teeth. She decided to go to college and study again. Then she had to buy special tools, but she is never out of work. She"s always very busy taking care of horses" teeth. "I couldn"t be a dentist for people now," Emily said, "because I really enjoy working with horses." As soon as David could read, he read books about robots, but the robots he built today don"t look like the strange robot people in his books. He builds robots for industry. Early one morning he made up his mind to study maths, science and computers so that he could break into the world of robot engineering. "Some of the maths is very difficult," says David, "but you must study maths to be an engineer." Fortunately he got top marks in all his math exams. | ||||||||||||
1. Emily doesn"t want to be a dentist because __________. | ||||||||||||
A. the pay is low B. she has to buy special tools C. she will be out of work D. she likes working with horses | ||||||||||||
2. To become a robot engineer, David __________. | ||||||||||||
A. need to worry B. bought a lot of robots C. had to study hard D. didn"t have to go to college | ||||||||||||
3. David got top marks in all his maths exams, although __________. | ||||||||||||
A. maths was not easy to study B. he had to study maths to be an engineer C. he could break into the world of robot engineering D. he made up his mind to study maths, science and computers | ||||||||||||
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It was on a winter morning, near Oxford, Maryland, that I set the breakfast table beside the huge window, which __ 1__ the Tred Avon River. The snow decorated the shore in white. For a moment I stood quietly against the bookcase, appreciating what the night"s snow had __ 2__. 3 I leaned forward and peered (盯着看) close to the frosted window. "It really is!" I cried out loud. "There is a goose out there!" I __ 4__ to the bookcase and pulled out a pair of binoculars (望远镜). Into their sights came the __ 5__ of a large Canada goose, very still, its wings folded tight to its sides, its __ 6__ frozen to the ice. Then from the dark sides, I saw a line of swans. They crossed __7__ the west of the broad river, moving __ 8__ to the east. As I __ 9__, the leader swung to the right, and then the white __10__ of birds become a white circle. It floated from the top of the sky downward. At last, as easy as feathers coming to earth, the circle __11__ the ice. The swans __12__ the frozen goose! Amazingly, those bills (啄) began to work on __13_. The long necks were lifted and curved down, __14__. It went on for a long time. At last, the goose was free and __15__ its big webbed (有蹼的) feet slowly. The goose __16__ its wings as far as they would go. The swans took off and __17__ on their eastward journey, in perfect formation, to their secret destination. __18__ them, rising with incredible speed and joy, the goose moved into the sky. I watched them __19__ they disappeared over the tips of the farthest trees. Only then did I realize that tears were running down my cheeks. This is a true story. I do not try to interpret it here. I just often __20__ it in the bad moments, and tell myself, "If so for birds, why not for man?" | ||||||||||||
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