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     One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered the ha

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     One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered the hall of a small hotel in
Philadelphia. Trying to get out of the rain, they came the front desk hoping to get some shelter for the
night.
     "Could you possibly give us a room here?" the husband asked.
     The clerk, a friendly man with a winning smile, looked at the couple and explained that there were
three conventions in town. "All of our rooms are taken," the clerk said. "But I can"t send a nice couple
like you out into the rain at one o"clock in the morning. Would you perhaps be willing to sleep in my
room? It"s not exactly a suite, but it will be good enough to make you folks comfortable for the night."
     When the couple declined, the young man pressed on. "Don"t worry about me; I"ll make out just
fine." the clerk told them. So the couple agreed.
     As he paid his bill the next morning, the elderly man said to the clerk, "You are the kind of manager
who should be the boss of the best hotel in the United States. Maybe someday I"ll build one for you."
The clerk looked at them and smiled. The three of them had a good laugh. As they drove away, the
elderly couple agreed that the helpful clerk was indeed exceptional, as finding people who are both
friendly and helpful isn"t easy.
     Two years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten the incident when he received a letter from the
old man. It recalled that stormy night and enclosed a roundtrip ticket to New York, asking the young
man to pay them a visit.
     The old man met him in New York, and led him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th street. He
then pointed to a great new building there, a pale reddish stone, with turrets and watchtowers thrusting
up to the sky. "That," said the older man, "is the hotel I have just built for you to manage." "You must
be joking," the young man said. "I can assure you I am not," said the older man, a sly smile playing
around his mouth.
     The older man"s name was William Waldorf Astor, and that magnificent structure was the original
WaldorfAstoria Hotel. The young clerk who became its first manager was George C. Boldt. This young
clerk never foresaw the turn of events that would lead him to become the manager of one of the world"s
most glamorous hotels. 1. The purpose of the following author writing this story is to________. A. give people a good laugh
B. cover some facts
C. promote the business of WaldorfAstoria Hotel
D. deliver a lesson2. Which of the following statements about the story is NOT true ?A. The story took place at about one a. m. .
B. The old couple was too poor to afford a luxurious room.
C. The clerk was willing to help those in need.
D. The clerk received an unexpected invitation from the old man. 3 The underlined word "conventions" in Para 3. can be replaced by________. A. rooms    
B. suites
C. meetings    
D. hotels 4. Which of the following proverbs suits the story the best?A. Every little thing helps.
B. Make hay while the sun shines.
C. Man proposes; God disposes (处理, 决定).
D. One good turn deserves another.
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完形填空     I was fifteen months old,  a happy kid until the day I fell.It was a__1__fall.I landed on a glass rabbit
which cut my eye badly enough to make it blind.Trying to save the eye,  the doctors stitched (缝合) the
eyeball together where it was__2__,  leaving a big ugly scar (疤痕) in the middle of my eye.The attempt
__3__,  but my mother,  in all of her wisdom,  found another doctor who knew that if the eye were
removed__4__,  my face would grow up badly distorted (扭曲),  __5__my scarred,  sightless,  cloudy
and gray eye lived on with me.As I grew,  this sightless eye in so many ways__6__me.
      I walked with my face looking at the__7__so that people would not see the__8__me.Yet my mother
would say to me,  at every turn,  "Hold your head up high and__9__the world.If you hold your head up
high,  it will be OK,  and people will see your__10__soul." She continued this__11__whenever I was
trying to hide.
     Mama"s words were of great help for me to face the world__12__.As a teenager,  even though I
tended to look down to hide my shame,  I found that sometime when I held my head up high and let
people know me,  they__13__me.In high school,  I was__14__both academically  and socially.I was
__15__elected class president.My mother"s words helped me begin to realize that by letting people
look at my face,  I let them__16__the intelligence and beauty behind both eyes,  even if they couldn"t
see it on the__17__.
     Now I"m a happy wife and great mother.The message "Hold your head up high" has been__18__
many times in my__19__home.Each of my children has felt__20__invitation,  and the gift my mother
gave me has lived on in another generation.
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(     )2. A. separated      
(     )3. A. failed        
(     )4. A. quickly      
(     )5. A. then          
(     )6. A. protected      
(     )7. A. floor      
(     )8. A. shy            
(     )9. A. deal with      
(     )10. A. different    
(     )11. A. sentence      
(     )12. A. bravely      
(     )13. A. disliked      
(     )14. A. comfortable  
(     )15. A. nearly        
(     )16. A. touch        
(     )17. A. surface    
(     )18. A. discussed    
(     )19. A. brave    
(     )20. A. their    
B. sudden    
B. destroyed  
B. tried      
B. entirely  
B. if        
B. affected  
B. world      
B. elderly    
B. see        
B. beautiful  
B. passage    
B. proudly    
B. liked      
B. valuable  
B. even      
B. observe    
B. outing    
B. heard      
B. peaceful  
B. my        
C. big          
C. cut          
C. succeeded    
C. carefully    
C. still        
C. stopped      
C. front        
C. ugly        
C. laugh at    
C. lonely      
C. opinion      
C. simply      
C. hated        
C. successful  
C. hardly      
C. watch        
C. head        
C. talked      
C. sweet      
C. its        
D. bad        
D. hurt        
D. managed    
D. slowly      
D. so          
D. interrupted
D. people      
D. strange    
D. face        
D. honest      
D. message    
D. fairly      
D. noticed    
D. special    
D. still      
D. recognize  
D. scar        
D. written    
D. exciting    
D. her        
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     Both my parents came from towns in Mexico.Then I was born in El Paso,  Texas,  and when I was
four,  my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.
     Even though we struggled to make ends meet,  my parents stressed to me and my four brothers and
sisters how fortunate we were to live in a great country with limitless opportunities.They influenced us
with the concepts of family,  faith and nationalism.
     I got my first real job when I was ten.My dad injured his back working in a cardboardbox factory
and was retrained as a hairstylist.He rented space in a little shopping mall and gave his shop the fancy
name of Mr Ben"s Coiffure.
     The owner of the shopping center gave Dad a discount on his rent for cleaning the parking lot three
nights a week,  which meant getting up at 3 a. m..To pick up rubbish,  Dad used a little machine that
looked like a lawn mower.Mom and I emptied garbage cans and picked up litter by hand.It took two
to three hours to clean the lot.I"d sleep in the car on the way home.
     I did this for two years,  but the lessons I learned have lasted a lifetime.I acquired discipline and a
strong work ethic (道德),  and learned at an early age the importance of balancing life"s competing
interests-in my case,  school,  homework and a job.This really helped during my senior year of a high
school,  when I worked 40 hours a week flipping burgers at a fastfood joint while taking a full load of
college preparation courses.
     The hard work paid off.I attended the US Military Academy and went on to receive graduate
degrees in law and business from Harvard.Later,  I joined a big Los Angeles law firm and was elected
to the California State Assembly (州议会). In these jobs and in everything else I"ve done,  I have never
forgotten those nights in the parking lot.The experience taught me that there is dignity in all work and that
if people are working to provide for themselves and their families that is something we should honor.

1. Before my father got injured,  we________.

A. didn"t like living in the USA
B. lived a poor but happy life
C. were lucky to move to the USA
D. had many ways to make money

2. When he recovered,  to make a living my father________.

A. ran a small shopping mall
B. did a parttime job
C. worked as a barber
D. became a street cleaner

3. Working in the parking lot for two years had taught me________.

A. how to obey school discipline
B. how to do two things well at a time
C. that discipline and work were of equal value
D. that I must do as many things as possible at a time

4. The author tells us in the last paragraph that we should be proud of those who________.

A. have done all kinds of jobs
B. are cleaning the parking lot
C. have achieved a lot in their lives
D. are bearing their responsibilities
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     I have a close friend named Jim Forest. When I first met him eight years ago, he was working with
the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Last__1__, Jim Forest came to__2__. I usually wash the dishes
__3__we"ve finished the evening meal, before sitting down and drinking tea with everyone else. One
night, Jim asked if he might__4__the dishes. Then I said, "__5__, but if you wash the dishes you must
know the__6__to wash them." Jim replied, "Come on, you think I don"t know how to wash the
dishes?" I answered, "There are two ways to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in__7__
to have clean dishes and the second is to wash the dishes to wash the dishes." Jim was delighted and
said, "I__8__the second way-to wash the dishes to wash the dishes." From then on, Jim__9__how
to wash the dishes. I transferred the "responsibility" to him for a whole week with heavy snow outside.
     If while washing dishes, we only__10__the cup of tea that__11__us, as a result, we__12__to get
the dishes out of the way as if they were a(n)__13__, then we are not "washing the dishes to wash the
dishes". __14__, all of us are not__15__during the time we are washing the dishes. In fact, we are
completely incapable of__16__the miracle of life while standing at the sink. If we can"t wash the dishes,
the chances are that we won"t be__17__to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will
only be thinking of other things, barely__18__of the cup in our__19__. Thus we are sucked away into
the future and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.
     Do you__20__wash the dishes to wash the dishes or to have clean dishes?
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him. After the party, he invited her for coffee. She was surprised. In order not to   2   rude, she went along.
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(     )2. A.show    
(     )3. A.As      
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B. feel        
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B. realize    
B. care        
B. intelligent  
B. school      
B. requirements
B. When        
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B. style      
B. passed      
B. now that    
C. visit    
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C. Since    
C. nervous  
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C. recognize  
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C. responsible
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D. respect    
D. appear    
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D. anxious    
D. bring      
D. Excited    
D. claimed    
D. sense      
D. childhood  
D. interested
D. admit      
D. attend    
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D. way        
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     We all remember bosses we"ve had over the years. But some bosses, for one reason or another,
stand out above the rest. Christy Bulkeley was one of those bosses.
     Christy was the young publisher at the small Upstate New York newspaper where I worked 35
years ago, one of the first female publishers in the USA.I was green as a reporter.
     A feminist of the first order, she believed women were equal to men, that newspapers could be run
by women. More than a few old newspapermen didn"t believe what Christy believed, and I"ll make it
clear that we didn"t always get along. The maddest I ever saw her was when I wrote a profile of Helen
Hayes, referring to the famous actress as Miss Hayes. She went angry. The title "Miss" was forbidden at
the newspaper. Christy was a Ms and would remain one, even after marrying.
     She stood out in a crowd, which perhaps was what made her seem awkward in social settings. She
had short red hair, smoked cigarettes that swung from her very long fingers, and dressed in a style all
her own.
     She also had the habit of crossing her fingers if you were talking to her. Obviously it reminded her to
ask a certain question once you were done talking. It seemed to work for her.
     But she was always fair, she praised good work, was happy when the staff put out an extra effort.
     She_was_a_good_sport, too. Every Halloween I had a party. One year I dressed as Christy. I wore
a red wig (假发). I smoked a cigarette. I found a pair of kneehigh boots and a flowered blouse and I
walked around with crossed fingers. It was an annual event where many arrived uninvited. I never knew
who would show up. It was a night of surprises, and what a surprise it was when Christy appeared at my
door. I stared at her. She stared at me, then broke the silence.
     "The blouse is all wrong," she said.
1. Why does the author remember Christy Bulkeley?
A. She once helped the author a lot.
B. She was the author"s one and only boss.
C. She was an extraordinary boss in many ways.
D. She was the first female publisher in America.
2. What can we learn about the Upstate New York newspaper at that time?
A. It often introduced famous actors and actresses.
B. It reflected the equality of men and women.
C. It was very popular with older people.
D. It showed many people"s different ideas.
3. By saying "She was a good sport", the author means that Christy was________.
A. generous and humorous  
B. a sports lover
C. fashionable and active  
D. a funny joker
4. The author"s purpose in writing the passage is to________.
A. tell us how to be a good boss
B. ask us to get along well with our boss
C. advise us how to be a good boss
D. share the story of his boss with us