阅读理解 At 50 I was the first woman to travel alone to the North Pole. But wha
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my 60th birthday? What else, but a journey at the opposite end of the world, Antarctica. I began my
almost 400-mile journey on November 1st, 1997,a few days before my birthday. I walked and skied
alone. My dog team were not with me to pull my sled. Anoth
er journey of challenge and danger wasabout to begin.
The first days the weather was very good. The wind was icy but not very strong and there was
bright sunshine 24 hours a day. But changes were just around the corner. On the third day I was
struggling through stormy weather and during the nest week the wind grew stronger and I found myself
spending a whole day in my tent.
I had traveled only two hours one day when the winds increased so much that I had to put my tent
up before the winds became too strong. Within a few minutes the winds increased to a howling storm
that threatened to blow me and the tent away, but none of that happened.
1. from the text we know the writer was born on ___.
A. 1st November 1937
B. 12th November 1937
C. 22nd November 1947
D. 1st November 1957
2. Another journey of challenge and danger was about to begin. " Another journey" here means _____.
A. the travel to the North Pole.
B. another journey to Antarctica.
C. 400- mile journey on November 1st 1997.
D. a new trip that she was planning.
3. After reading the short passage, we can guess that ___.
A. the trip to the North Pole must be the same hard as that to the South Pole.
B. The trip to the Antarctica may be more dangerous than that to the Arctic
C. There was no danger though the trip to the South Pole was hard.
D. During the trip to the Antarctica, the weather, most of the time, was not so bad.
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screen. She greeted me by name and 1 talking with great enthusiasm. 2 she stopped to smile at me or
blow a kiss. She was reading 3 me an E-mail from my brother, and a lot of it was about his 4 the
phone company to give him a high speed Internet connection. It was 5 .
Rachel was there 6 a new technology called Facemail. It lets you send an E-mail that gets ready to the
receiver by a(n) 7 male or female form or by a clown. The software, which is free, can be 8 at www.
facemail.com.
Facemail faces are 9 , and they simulate(模拟) emotions 10 those you put in your text. 11 , type
in X, and Rachel blows a kiss.
The company that develops the Facemail is sure t
here are broad 12 uses.The reason E-business is not popular, the company says, is 13 buying over the Internet lacks the
human touch. But 14 you went to the Nike website and Michael Jordan greeted you by name, 15 on
you and personally closed the sale? And it is talking with Whirlpool(惠普公司) about usi
ng the technologyin a computer screen on a fridge. Then if Mom can"t be home 16 the kids get back from school, she can
leave a(n) 17 with a voice and image telling them what there is to eat.
Facemail could get hot fast. 18 , I"m a fan. But Facemail should be used with 19 . The clown looks
lively and funny at first. But if you select the clown, put a few 20 words in an E-mail and add some angry
emotions, you"ve got a Psycho mail(疯人型电子邮件).
| ( )1. A. enjoyed ( )2. A. For some time ( )3. A. to ( )4. A. hoping ( )5. A. cool ( )6. A. in place of ( )7. A. ugly ( )8. A. downloaded ( )9. A. alive ( )10. A. taken on ( )11. A. Such as ( )12. A. education ( )13. A. why ( )14. A. even if ( )15. A. waited ( )16. A. before ( )17. A. news ( )18. A. Firstly ( )19. A. interest ( )20. A. rude | B. started B. As usual B. about B. making B. cold B. in honor of B. familiar B. sold B. valuable B. based on B. In that case B. technology B. how B. what if B. worked B. while B. information B. Directly B. care B. polite | C. appreciated C. Now and then C. at C. letting C. mad C. thanks to C. possible C. seen C. lifelike C. put on C. For example C. art C. that C. as if C. carried C. once C. supper C. Personally C. attention C. happy | D. loved D. At a time D. with D. getting D. strange D. in spite of D. attractive D. made D. priceless D. looked on D. On top of that D. business D. what D. then if D. dropped D. when D. note D. Fortunately D. fun D. true | |||||
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| Mrs. Green"s telephone number was 2345, and the number of the cinema in her town was 2346, so people often made a mistake and called her when they wanted the cinema. One evening the telephone bell rang and Mrs. Green answered it. A tired man said, " At what time does your last film begin?" "I"m sorry," said Mrs. Green " But you have the wrong number. This is not the cinema" " Oh, it began twenty minutes ago?" said the man. "I"m sorry about that, good-bye." Mrs. Green was very surprised, so she told her husband. He laughed and said, "the man"s wife wanted to go to the cinema but he was feeling tired. So he telephoned the cinema. His wife heard him, but she didn"t hear you. Now they will stay at home this evening. And the husband will be happy." 1. People often mistook Mrs. Green"s number because ______ A hers was next to the cinema"s B she likes to make friends C people did it only for fun D her number and the cinema"s were the same 2. Mrs. Green was surprised because the tired man ___ A wanted the cinema but called a wrong number B said something that had nothing to do with her answer C asked her a foolish question which she refused to answer D was angry with himself for having made a mistake 3. If the tired man"s wife had heard the whole talk between her husband and Mrs. Green, she would have ______. A been angry B gone to the cinema alone C been happy D shouted at Mrs. Green 4. Which of them seemed to be clever? A Mr. Green and the tired man B Mr. and Mrs. Green C The tired man and his wife D The tired man"s wife | ||||||||
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| My father woke me up early one summer morning announcing, "Get up. You"re going with me to cut grass." The idea 1 my father actually thought I was big enough to help him in his 2 made me feel proud and 3 . From sunup to sundown my father, my younger brother and I 4 in the large yards in a rich part of Atlanta, Georgia. By the end of the day I was tired out, but felt good. I had 5 a hard day"s labour and had earned $6. One day my father found some leaves I"d 6 and pulled me aside.  "Clear away these leaves," he said 7 , "and don"t make me have to tell you to do it again." The 8 was clear. Today I value the importance of doing a job 9 the first time. It will never 10 to impress the person you are working for. After two years my father told me and my brother that he felt we were 11 enough to do lawns(草坪) on our own. Every Saturday , we 12 out early in the morning with the same desire and drive we had gained while working 13 our father. Taking care of lawns was not exciting 14 high-paying, but that didn"t matter. It taught me that any job is a good job and that 15 I was paid was more than I had before. A newspaper reporter once asked me how someone 16 possible live on a forty-hour- a -week minimum(最低的) pay. "My father never worked just forty hours a 17 , and neither have I." I replied. "If you"re only working forty hours, you probably don"t want to do 18 better than you"re doing." In every job I"ve 19 -from doing lawns to washing dishes-I have learned something that helped me in my next job. If you 20 hard enough, you can learn from any job you do. | ||||||||
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