完形填空 I took up skydiving in my twenties.At the time the accident happened, I
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airfield was quiet when I __1__.On board were Chris, who was taking a tourist, and Ants, the
cameraman.Chris indicated I should exit first and the other three would __2__.Later I knew it was this
__3__ that saved my life.
At 12,000 feet Chris rolled up the door and nodded that it was time for my exit.I put my foot on a
step just beside the door, and in a(n) __4__ the propeller blast (螺旋桨气流) threw me against the
__5__ of the plane, half in, half out.I pushed and got my other leg out of the door, but in doing so I
found myself __6__ the body of the plane towards the tail.My parachute (降落伞) got caught and my
__7__ and legs were pushed backwards, powerless, in the strong wind.
I was strangely __8__.To a skydiver, being at 12,000 feet is a good thing.Altitude is your friend；
being close to the ground is deadly and will kill you.
Ants appeared and __9__ slowly towards me, his legs held by Chris in the door.Ants reached out
and got hold of my foot.With the weight partly off, I found myself falling away from the plane, __10__
freed.I waved and smiled to indicate I was fine.
It was actually very __11__.If any one of a number of factors had been different, I would have
__12__.I could have hit the plane with my head.If I had been the last to exit, the pilot alone would have
been unable to free me, and even if he had been aware that I was __13__ underneath the plane, he
would still have had to land at some point.
Blue Skies, Black Death is the skydivers" mantra (咒语)．On the one hand, there"s the freedom
and __14__ of the open sky.But in order to __15__this joy, you must accept that there is usually only
one result if something goes wrong.
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| Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson tells us at the beginning of his long (but never boring)new 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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| It was her giggling that drew my attention.Note taking really wasn"t all that funny. 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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| One famous artist Sheikh went back to his hometown. He hadn"t seen one of his friends for many 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 about