阅读理解。     When I was an educational official in Palo Alto, California, Polly Tyn

阅读理解。     When I was an educational official in Palo Alto, California, Polly Tyn

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阅读理解。     When I was an educational official in Palo Alto, California, Polly Tyner, the president of our
school board, wrote a letter that was printed in the Palo Alto Times. Polly"s son, Jim, had great
difficulty in school. He was classified as educationally disabled and required a great deal of
patience on the part of his parents and teachers. But Jim was a happy kid with a great smile that
lit up the room. His paront8 acknowledged his academic difficulties, but always tried to help him
see his strengths so that he could walk with pride. Shortly after Jim finished high school, he was
killed in a motorcycle accident. After his death, his mother submitted (提交) letter to the newspaper.
     Today we buried our 20-yeer-old son. He was killed instantly in a motorcycle accident on
Friday night. How I with I had known when I talked to him last that it would be the last time. If I
had only known I would have said, "Jim, I love you and I"m very proud of you"
     I would have taken the time to count the many blessings he brought to the lives of the many
who loved him. I would have taken the time to appreciate his beautiful smile, the sound of his
laughter, hit genuine love of people.
     When you put all the good qualities on the scale and try to balance all the irritating phenomena
such as the radio which was always too loud, the haircut that wasn"t to our liking, the dirty socks
under the bed, etc., your angry feelings won"t amount to much.
     I won"t get another chance to tell my son all that I would have wanted him to bear, but, ether
parents, you do have a chance. Tell your young people what you would want them to hear if you
knew it would be your last conversation. The last time I talked to Jim was the day he died. He
called me to say, "Hi, Mom! I just called to say I love you. Got to go to work. Bye." He gave me
something to treasure forever
     If there is any purpose at all for Jim"s death, maybe it is to make others appreciate more of life
and to have people, especially family members, take the time to let each other know just how much
we care.1. Accosting to the passage, we know that ______.A. Jim kept to himself                
B. Jim did very well in his studies
C. Jim a parents were patient with him    
D. Jim failed to finish his high school2. By writing the letter printed in the Pain Alto Times, the author intends to ______.A. mourn her son"s sudden death in a traffic accident
B. remind people to be cautious of motorcycles
C. advise people to take the chance to express their love in time
D. appreciate more of life than ever before3. What can be the best title of the passage?A. Love your Family.                  
B. Do it Today.
C. Walk with Pride.                    
D. Appreciate Smiles.4. The underlined word "irritating" in Paragraph 4 means ______.

A. annoying
B. aggressive
C. impatient
D. thrilling

答案
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     It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck
asked DeLuca about his plans for the future. "I" m going to college, but I need a way to
pay for it," DeLuca recalls saying. "Buck said, "You should open a sandwich shop. ""
     That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in
ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $ 1,000. DeLuca rented
a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn"t cover their start-up costs,
Buck kicked in another $ 1,000.
But business didn"t go smoothly as they expected. DeLuca says, "After six months, we
were doing poorly, but we didn"t know how badly, because we didn"t have any financial
controls." All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.
     Deluca was managing the store and going to the University of Bridgeport at the same
time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They"d meet
Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. "We convinced
ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, "We are so
successful, we are opening a second store." "And they did--in the spring of 1966. Still,
it was a lot of learning by trial and error.
     But the partners" learn-as-you-go approach turned out to be their greatest strength.
Every Friday, DeLuca would drive around and hand - deliver the checks to pay their
suppliers."It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn"t necessary, but as a
result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships
established really helped out." DeLuca says.
     And having a goal was also important. "There are so many problems that can get you
down. You just have to keep working toward your goal," DeLuca adds.
DeLuca ended up founding Subway Sandwich, the multimillion -dollar restaurant chain.

1. DeLuca opened the first sandwich shop in order to _____.A. support his family
B. pay for his college education
C. help his partner expand business
D. do some research2. Which of the following is true of Buck?A. He put money into the sandwich business.
B. He was a professor of business administration.
C. He was studying at the University of Bridgeport.
D. He rented a storefront for DeLuca.3. They decided to open a second store because they _____.A. had enough money to do it
B. had succeeded in their business
C. wished to meet the increasing demand of customers
D. wanted to make people believe that they were successful4. What contributes most to their success according to the author?A. Learning by trial and error.
B. Making friends with suppliers.
C. Finding a good partner.
D. Opening chain stores.
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完形填空     The three youths leaned over the metal rails along the sea-walland watched a few fishermen pull in their
nets. About thirty metres away,a boat pulled alongside the slippery steps leading _1_to thesea.
    Hey,look !"exclaimed Rahim."Those two men are  __2__heavy rocks. I thought we no longer do muscle
labour in thistechnological_3__."
    "You don"t _4_a crane(起重机)to unload less than a dozenrocks,do you?"smiled Joshua.
    But those men don"t__5__to have muscles at all Michael, rather surprised. Jioshua smiled.
    "They are__6__labourers who know how to spread the weightof the rocks they _7 . See how the man
positions the rock just atthe slope of his ___8___. Some of the rock"s weight is set_9_hishead,some on
the right hand and some on the left hand. His body isn"t bent.His legs are well_10_."
    "You"re right, Josh. He may have a small build, _11_hecertainly well knows his job.Dear me! And to
think we have beenstudying _12_!"Rabim thought about all that was happening.Suddenly, he said, "
Technology won"t _13_the human being completely , it appears.
    "I don"t think it will, " __14_ Joshua. "You can harvest a cropof potatoes or wheat with one of those
large,multi-purpose tractors, but you _15_use that equipment to harvest tea leaves andtomatoes, will you?"
    "You  can  get  a  computer  to  _16_ multiple-choiceassessments,but you cannot get the computer to
produce or assessessays , can you?" asked Michael.
    "Well, the washing machine leaves my shirt collar quite as _17_as ever-that"s domestic technology for
you! "said Rabim.
    "One day, perhaps, there won"t be anybody _18__who cancarry a large rock the way those men do.
It"s not going to be a very _19_ world, I"m afraid, "sighed Michael.
    "You"re too much of a pessimist (悲观主义者), Mike, "saidJoshua. "__20__will always be other things
that will make the world
exciting."
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     Margaret , married with two small children , has been working for the 1ast seven years as a night
c1eaner, cleaning offices in a bigbuilding.
    She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elderchild became seriously ill. "I would have
liked to go back to it, butthe shifts(工作班次)are all wrong for me, as I have to be home toget the
children up and off to school."
    So she works as a cleaner instead,from 9 am till 6 am fivenights a week for just£90 before tax and
insilrance. "It"s betterthan it was last year , but I still think that people who work " unsocialhours" should
get a bit extra."
    The hours she"s chosen to work mean that she sees plenty of thechildren,but very little of her husband.
However, she doesn"t thinkfhat puts any pressure on their re1ationship.
    Her work isn"t physically very hard, but it"s not exactlypleasant, either."I do get angry with people who
leave their officeslike a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have todo it,perhaps they"d
be a bit more careful. "
    The fact that she"s working all night doesn"t worry Margaret atail.Unlike some dark buildings at night,
the building where sheworks is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. "Since I"vegot to be here,
I try to enjoy myself-and I usually do,because of theother girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time
never drags."
     Another challenge Margaret has to face is the !reaction of otherpeople when she tells them what she
does for a living.They thinkyou"re a cleaner because you don"t know how to read and write, "said
Margarit. "I used to think what my parents would say if theyknew what I"d been doing, but I don"t think
that way any more. I don"t dislike the work though I can"t say I"m mad about it."
1. Margaret quit her job as a nurse because__________
A. she wanted to earn more money to support her family
B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure
C. she needed the right time to look after her children
D. she felt tired of taking care of patients
2. Margarel gets angry with people who work in the office because_________. 
A. they never clean their offices
B. they look down upon cleaners
C. they never do their work carefully
D. they always make a mess in their offices
3. When at work , Margaret feels__________ 
A. light-hearted because of her fellow workers
B. happy because the building is fully lit
C. tired because of the heavy workload
D. bored because time passes slowly
4. The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret"s parents would__________.   
A. help care for her children
B. regret what they had said
C. show sympathy for her
D. feel disappointed in her
完形填空
    There was a very special teacher who made a far-reaching difference in my life.
    Fa11,1959,the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School was about to begin, "Who" .
I asked a senior, "is  Mrs McNamara, my l0th grade English teacher?" He just__1_and said something
about my being in _2_. Soon,l understood what he meant. Mrs McNamara had a pattem of __3_that she
repeated again and again. We would have a literature reading task for_4_.The next day, when we came
to class, there would be two or three topics on the blackboard_5__ to the homework reading. We were
_6_ to write an in-class essay about one of the topics. The following day , she would _7_ the corrected
and graded essays andeach person would be called_8_to stand in front of the class and to _9_ his/her
essay. The class were required to criticize(评论) that  essay ,__10__ the grade of everyone in class
would  be reduced.
     The first time that I _11 her read-write-criticize method . I had not _12_ to do the homework and had
written something without knowing what it meant._13_the extreme embarrassment I sufferred,standing
before my classmates , _14_ myself. No one laughed
at me;no one would be _15_ enough ,or foolish enough ,to do that  in Mrs McNamara"s class. The
embarrassment came from_16_and along with it came a strong_17_not to let it happen again.
      Mrs McNamara kept all of our written work in files;it was easy to see the_18_ in writing that had
occurred. What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place, at least for me.
What Mrs McNamara_19  me to do was to see myself as others see me and, having done that.l could
improve myself. And I_20__. Thank you,Mrs McNamara.
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阅读理解
     For a while, my neighbourhood was taken over by an army of joggers(慢跑者 ) . They  were  there  
all  the  time : early  mornings, noons,and evenings. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young
couples in Adidas shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. "Come on !" My friend Alex encouraged me
to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. " You"ll feel great. "
      Well,  I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up
jogging seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience,
jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who
left our neighbourhood jogging army,l"m not alone in my opinion.
      First of all ,jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet take a  real pounding (重击) running  down  a  road  for  two  or  three miles. I developed foot,leg, and back problems. Then I read about a
nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging,
and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn"t kill hundreds of people, but if you have any
physical weaknesses,jogging will surely bring them out , as they did with me.
     Secondly,  I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty-five minutes
isn" t my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say, " I love being out there with just
my thoughts. " Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and
most of them were on how much my legs hurt.
      And how could I enjoy something that brought me pain? And that wasn"t just the first week : it was
practically every day for two months. I never got past the pain level, and pain isn"t fun. What a cruel  way 
 to  do  it !  So  many  other exercises , including  walking , lead
to almost the same results painlessly , so why jog?
       I don"t jog any more , and  I  don"t think  I  ever will. I"m walking two miles three times a week at a
fast pace, and that feels good. I bicycle to work when the weather is good. I"m getting exercise, and I"m
enjoying it at the same time. I could never say the same for jogging,and I"ve found a lot of better ways to
stay in shape.
1. From the first paragraph, we learn that in the writer"s neighbourhood ___________. 
A. jogging became very popular
B. people jogged only during the daytime
C. Alex organized an army of joggers
D. jogging provided a chance to get together
2. The underlined word "them" ( Paragraph 3) most probably refers to _________.
A. heart attacks                
B. back problems
C. famous joggers                
D. physical weaknesses
3. What was the writer"s attitude towards jogging in the beginning? 
A. He felt it was worth a try.
B. He was very fond of it.
C. He was strongly against it.
D. He thought it must be painful.
4. Why did the writer give up jogging two months later? 
A. He disliked doing exercise outside.
B. He found it neither healthy nor interesting.
C. He was afraid of having a heart attack.
D. He was worried about being left alone.
5. F"rom the writer"s experience,we can conclude that________. 
A. not everyone enjoys jogging
B. he is the only person who hates jogging
C. nothing other than jogging can help people keep fit
D. jogging makes people feel greater than any other sport