A proud father has named his son after a computer software term. Jon Blake Cusack, from Michigan,
told local newspapers the US traditional way of adding "Junior" after a boy"s name was too 1 .
So, when his son was born last week, he decided on the name Jon Blake Cusack 2.0, as if he were
a __2__ upgrade. Mr. Cusack admitted that it took months to 3 his wife, Jamie, to accept the idea.
Mrs. Cusack said she asked several friends whether they can accept this name or not. All the men, she
said, felt the name was __4 . However, her women friends did not think so. "I think the women
___5__ like it," she said.
Mr. Cusack told the local newspaper he got the 6 from a film called The Legend of l900, in which
an abandoned baby is given the name 1900 to remember the year of its 7 . "I thought if they could do
this. Why can"t we?" After little Jon 2.0 was born, Mr. Cusack even sent a celebratory e-mail to the family
and friends designed to look as if he and his wife had 8 a new software.
"I wrote things like there are a lot of new features from Version 1.0 with 9 features from Jamie",
he said. And he is already planning for his son"s future. "If he has a 10 , he could name it 3.0," he said.
( )1. A. ordinary
( )2. A. software
( )3. A. advise
( )4. A. cool
( )5. A. take up
( )6. A. plan
( )7. A. growth
( )8. A. created
( )9. A. newer
( )10. A. son | B. usual
B. program
B. suggest
B. bad
B. add up
B. opinion
B. birth
B. founded
B. common
B. child | C. normal
C. machine
C. persuade
C. out-of-date
C. end up
C. thought
C. name
C. discovered
C. additional
C. friend | D. common
D. computer
D. ask
D. strange
D. get up
D. idea
D. time
D. found
D. scarce
D. daughter | | 完形填空 | My first job was at a local diner, where I worked for seven years and learned so many lessons,
especially from a fellow waitress.
Helen was in her 60s and had extraordinary self-respect, something I was really lacking. I 1 to
Helen because she was doing what she loved- 2 people--and nobody did it better. She always
made everyone, customers and co-workers, 3 and feel good.
Being a waitress changed my life. One of my 4 customers was Fred Hasbrook. He always ate
an omelet, and when I saw him coming, I tried to 5 it on his table as soon as he sat down.
Thanks to the newfound confidence I 6 from Helen, I 7 having my own restaurant. But
when I called my parents to ask for a loan (贷款), they said, "We just don"t have the 8 ."
The next day, Fred saw me and asked, "What"s up? You"re not smiling today". I 9 my dream
with him and said, "Fred, I know I can do more 10 somebody would just have faith in me."
11 he handed me checks totaling $ 50,000--along with a 12 that read, "The only
collateral(抵押) on this loan is my trust in your 13 as a person. Good people with a dream should
have the chance to realize that dream."
I took the checks to Merrill Lynch, where the money was provided for me. I 14 working at the
diner, making 15 for the restaurant I would open during the break. My plans failed, 16 ,and I
lost the money.
Later I decided to apply for a job at Merrill Lynch. 17 I had no experience, I was 18 and
ended up becoming a pretty good agent. 19 I paid back Fred the $ 50,000, plus 14 percent annual
interest. Five years later, I was able to 20 my own firm. | ( )1. A. looked on
( )2. A. helping
( )3. A. smile
( )4. A. regular
( )5. A. have
( )6. A. found out
( )7. A. set about
( )8. A. courage
( )9. A. shared
( )10. A. while
( )11. A. Long ago
( )12. A. letter
( )13. A. devotion
( )14. A. finished
( )15. A. wishes
( )16. A. instead
( )17. A. Even though
( )18. A. hired
( )19. A. Fortunately
( )20. A. design | B. looked forward
B. respecting
B. comfort
B. average
B. offer
B. picked up
B. dreamt of
B. way
B. told
B. until
B. Long before
B. sign
B. responsibility
B. practiced
B. suggestions
B. therefore
B. As long as
B. refused
B. Eventually
B. open | C. looked up
C. serving
C. drink
C. common
C. leave
C. got back
C. tried on
C. idea
C. exchanged
C. if
C. Before long
C. word
C. honesty
C. continued
C. decisions
C. though
C. Because
C. encouraged
C. Personally
C. set | D. looked back
D. praising
D. sing
D. fresh
D. do
D. took away
D. went about
D. money
D. spared
D. unless
D. Long after
D. note
D. effort
D. enjoyed
D. plans
D. meanwhile
D. As
D. discouraged
D. Excitedly
D. expand | Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Lisa. That"s where the similarities
ended.
I was tall and she was small. My thick black hair had been recently cut short into an untidy style. Her
natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great. I was 12 and one of the oldest in the class while
she was 11 and the youngest. I was awkward and shy. She wasn"t. I couldn"t stand her, considering her
my enemy. But she liked me and wanted to be friends.
One day, she invited me over and I said yes-I was too shocked to answer any other way. My family
had moved six times in six years, and I had never managed to develop any friendships. But this girl who
wore the latest fashions wanted me to go home with her after school..
She lived in a fun part of town that had two pizza places, an all-right bookstore, a movie theater and
a park. As we walked from the school bus stop through her neighborhood, I tried to guess which house
might be hers. Was it the white one with the perfect lawn or the three -story house with a front porch? I
got very surprised when she led me into an old apartment building. She lived on the fourth floor in a
two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister.
When we got into the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies, which was
my next surprise. I had never played with them. We sat on the floor, laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. We found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older and both had
wild imaginations. We had a great day that afternoon.
Lisa was loved by the whole neighborhood. The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines; the
movie theater gave her free tickets…Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each
other"s houses and spent every free moment together.
Lisa, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through the rough years of early adolescence
and taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: your worst enemy can turn out
to be your best friend. | | 1. The writer and Lisa were similar in the way that . | A. they were both tall
B. they had the same hair styles
C. they were both new students
D. they were of the same age | | 2. One day Lisa invited the writer . | A. to go to the movie
B. to go to walk in a park
C. to go to her home
D. to go to a pizza place | | 3. In the passage the writer described Lisa as a girl who was . | A. friendly and lovely
B. rich and happy
C. quiet and lonely
D. awkward and shy | | 4. Which of the following did the writer learn from Lisa? | A. How to make up stories.
B. How to deal with enemies.
C. How to live a better life.
D. How to make friends. | Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was
seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake
his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning
from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties(地方特色菜)in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale,
he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for
dozens of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine
about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like
making drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students.
They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were
passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.
Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He
says Lieberman"s charisma is key. "Food TV isn"t about food anymore," says Flay. "It"s about your
personality and finding a way to keep people"s eyeballs on your show."
But Lieberman isn"t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show,
Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company was looking
for some one to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights,
Lieberman got the job. | | 1. We can learn from the text that Lieberman"s family ____. | A. have relatives in Europe
B own a restaurant.
C. love cooking at home
D. often hold parties | | 2. The Food Network got to know Lieberman ____. | A. through his taped show
B. from his teachers
C. at one of his parties
D. on a television program | | 3. What does the word "charisma" underlined in the text refer to? | A. Lieberman"s fine cooking skill.
B. A way to show one"s achievement.
C. Lieberman"s after-class interest.
D. A natural ability to attract others. | | 4. Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job? | A. He could prepare meals in a small kitchen.
B. He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals.
C. He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches.
D. He was famous for his shows on Food TV. | | 5. What can we learn about Lieberman from the text? | A. he is friendly and active.
B. He is clever but lonely.
C. He enjoys traveling around.
D. He often changes his menus. | | 完形填空 | We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we"ve
become used to suddenly disappears. __1 _, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I __2 _ to see -- or
look at -- on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter __3 _ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On __4 _ days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime __5 _ out
neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. __6 _, she was an ordinary working
woman. Of course, I __7__ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how
__8__ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I __9__ her.
"Did she have an accident? Something __10 ?" I thought to myself about her _11 _. Now that she was
gone, I felt I had __12 her. I began to realize that part of our _13 _ life probably includes such chance
meetings with familiar _14 _: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who _15 _ walks her dog along the
street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are _16 _ markers in our lives.
They add weight to our _17 of place and belonging.
Think about it . _18 _ while walking to work, we mark where we are by _19__ a certain building, why
should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though _20 _ person? | ( ) 1. A. Make
( ) 2. A. happened
( ) 3. A. what
( ) 4. A. sunny
( ) 5. A. took
( ) 6. A. Clearly
( ) 7. A. believed
( ) 8. A. long
( ) 9. A. respected
( )10. A. better
( )11. A. disappearance
( )12. A. forgotten
( )13. A. happy
( )14. A. friends
( )15. A. regularly
( )16. A. common
( )17. A. choice
( )18. A. Because
( )19. A. keeping
( )20. A. unnamed | B. Take
B. wanted
B. how
B. rainy
B. brought
B. Particularly
B. expressed
B. often
B. missed
B. worse
B. appearance
B. lost
B. enjoyable
B. strangers
B. actually
B. pleasant
B. knowledge
B. If
B. changing
B. unforgettable | C. Give
C. used
C. which
C. cloudy
C. carried
C. Luckily
C. remembered
C. soon
C. praised
C. more
C. misfortune
C. known
C. usual
C. tourists
C. hardly
C. important
C. decision
C. Although
C. passing
C. unbelievable | D. Have
D. tried
D. when
D. snowy
D. turned
D. Especially
D. wondered
D. much
D. admired
D. less
D. fortune
D. hurt
D. daily
D. guests
D. probably
D. faithful
D. sense
D. However
D. mentioning
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