阅读理解 Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson tells us at the beginning of his lo
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biography(传记), "is the founding father who winks at us."By that, Isaacson explains, he means
Franklin is the most human-and most modern-of the men who shaped the American republic.We
admire Washington, Jefferson and Adams, but they remain creatures of the 18th century.The man
we encounter in"Benjamin Franklin"-funny, pragmatic and selfaware-seems like one of us, or at least
someone we"d like to be.
Unlike Washington"s cherry tree, Franklin"s kite was real.His experiments with electricity made
him one of the great scientists of his day.He was a middleclass businessman whose success as a printer
and a journalist allowed him to retire at 42-and he devoted the rest of his life to his country.He was
diplomat who persuaded the French to back the American Revolution and the author of the first great
American autobiography.He was an excellent swimmer.There was almost nothing he couldn"t do well,
except write poetry.But what truly distinguished Franklin was his talent of being great and human at the
same time.He owned slaves as a younger man, but in his last years became an abolitionist(废奴主义者). When he fathered an illegitimate(私生的) son, he acknowledged his fatherhood and took the
responsibility of raising the boy.
He seems strange today in the joy he took in compiling and creating all those selfimprovement
maxims he published in Poor Richard"s Almanac(年鉴)- "early to bed, early to rise"and so on.
Generations of lazy boys could have been happier without that.But he was no hypocrite.Isaacson tells
us Franklin practiced what he preached, and often laughed at himself while he did so.
By a happy accident, this is the second excellent biography of Franklin to appear in two years, after
Edmund S. Morgan"s inspiring"Benjamin Franklin."
1. What type of literature does this passage belong to?
A. Research paper.
B. Book review.
C. Biography.
D. Short story.
2. The underlined word"maxims"in Paragraph 3 probably means________.
A. proverbs
B. standards
C. requests
D. orders
3. With the fact that Franklin shouldered the responsibilities of raising his illegitimate son, the
author wants to prove that________.
A. Franklin had made a big fortune in his business before he got devoted to polities
B. Franklin might be the only parent to support the child at that time
C. Franklin was a great man who seems human to us
D. Franklin was improving his character when he got on in ages
4. The underlined word"himself"in Paragraph 3 refers to________.
A. Richard"s Almanac
B. Walter isaacson
C. anyone of the readers.
D. Benjamin Franklin
5. In which part of a magazine can we most probably find this article?
A. Society and the Arts.
B. World Affairs.
C. Business Report.
D. Advertisement.
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Walking over to the offender, I asked for the__1__.Frozen, she refused to give it to me.I waited, all
attention in the classroom on the quiet__2__between teacher and student.When she finally__3__it over
she whispered, "Okay, but I didn"t draw it."
It was a handdrawn__4__of me, teeth blackened and the words "I"m stupid" coming out of my mouth.
I managed to fold it up calmly.My mind,__5__, was working angrily as I struggled not to__6__.I figured
I knew the two most likely candidates for drawing the picture.It would do them some__7__to teach them a lesson, and maybe it was high time that I did it!
Thankfully, I was able to keep myself__8__.
When there were about six minutes remaining, I showed the class the picture.They were all silent as I
told them how__9__this was for me.I told them there must be a reason__10__and now was their chance
to write down anything they needed to tell me.Then I let them write silently while I sniffed in the back of
the classroom.
As I__11__the notes later, many of them said something like, "I"ve got nothing against you," or "I"m
sorry you were hurt." Some kids said, "We"re__12__of you." But two notes, from the girls who I__13__
were behind the picture, had a list of issues.I was too__14__, too strict…
Reading those notes, I realized that over the course of this year, instead of__15__my students, I had
begun commanding them to__16__.Where I thought I was driving them to success I was__17__driving
them away.
I had some apologizing to do.But the next day in the classroom, one boy and one girl each handed me
a card.The one__18__by all the boys expressed sincere regret for the ugly joke.The one from the girls
asked for__19__.
This was a lesson for both the kids and me.Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge
the__20__.
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( )14．A.talkative
( )15．A.forcing
( )16．A.appreciate
( )17．A.actually
( )18．A.decorated
( )19．A.thankfulness
( )20．A.friendship
B．competition
B．thought
B．graph
B．however
B．cry
B．harm
B．controlled
B．forgetful
B．above
B．finished
B．fond
B．promised
B．mean
B．encouraging
B．apologize
B．normally
B．offered
B．forgiveness
B．education
C．argument
C．turned
C．picture
C．therefore
C．explain
C．favor
C．uninterested
C．regretful
C．beneath
C．read
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C．immediately
C．signed
C．compensation
C．knowledge
D．conversation
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D．poster
D．besides
D．argue
D．punishment
D．relaxed
D．hurtful
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D．ashamed
D．confirmed
D．considerate
D．teaching
D．achieve
D．generally
D．bought
D．communication
D．future
years, who was a __1__and needy man. When Sheikh asked about him, he was told by people that
the man he was__2__was a rich man and no longer poor. Sheikh__3__to pay a visit to his friend.
__4__talking with his friend, Sheikh asked him the __5__for the change in his situation. The man
replied that he had been so poor that he was forced to__6__some properties(财产)that belonged to
him, like furniture(家具). By selling these things, he had__7__some money enough to start a __8__
with.
As he was on his way back to his house with the__9__, he saw a poor lady__10__by the road.
The man asked the lady the reason, and she__11__that her husband died and her children were__12__.
Hearing this, the man felt__13__for her, and on seeing that she__14__the money more than himself, he
gave all the money to her. He__15__home and spent the night, sad and__16__for his family.
The next morning, __32__he was summoned(召唤) to the house of a rich man. He was told by the
rich man that he had six thousand bags of__33__which he wanted to sell quickly and the man could buy
it at a__34__price on loan(借用) from him. The poor man did so and sold the rice__35__. He took
some more bags several days later and in this way he was able to make much more money. Soon he
became rich.
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 Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. However, I was not thinking aboutthe golden chain when I had to help people who__1__their way and parked in front of my house. I was growing tired of helping so many people. Almost every__2__I was awaken during a sound night"s sleep and had to__3__someone out. Many times I was__4__by some penniless motorists who did not even thank me for the help that they received and some even complained that I could have done __5__. One day, a young man with a week-old beard climbed out of a__6__automobile. He had no money and no food. He asked if I could give him some__7__, offer him gasoline and a meal. I told him that if he wanted to work for me, he could cut the grass, but__8__the work wasn"t necessary. Though sweaty and hungry, he worked hard.After working all day, he sat__9__to cool himself. I thanked him for his work and gave him the money he__10__. I then offered him some__11__money for the task particularly well done, but he shook his head, __12__. I never saw him again.He probably thought I helped him out that day, but that is not the__13__it was. I didn"t help him, whereas he helped me to__14__people again to repay their trust in me. He helped me to once again want to do something for those who are__15__. I wish I could thank him for__16__some of my belief in the basic__17__of others and for giving me back a little of the__18__ I had lost. Because of him, I once again felt myself part of a golden chain of kindness that__19__us to others. I may have fed his body that day, but he fed my__20__. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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