阅读理解。 When Boris left school, he could not find a job. He tried hard and pes
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but they had problems of their own. He answered advertisements until he could not afford to buy
any more stamps. Boris grew annoyed, then depressed, then a little hardened. Still he went on trying
and still he failed. He began to think that he had no future at all.
"Why don"t you start your own business?" one of his uncles told him. "The world is a money-locker.
You"d better find a way of opening it."
"But what can I do?"
"Get out and have a look round." advised his uncle in a vague sort of way. "See what people want;
then give it to them, and they will pay for it."
Boris began to cycle around the town and found a suitable piece of a waste ground in the end.
Then he set up his business as a cycle repairer. He worked hard, made friends with his customers
and gradually managed to build up his goodwill and profit. A few months later, he found that he had
more work than he could deal with by himself. He found a number of empty shops but they were all
no good: in the wrong position, too expensive or with some other snag(障碍). But at long last, he
managed to find an empty shop on a new estate where there were plenty of customers but no
competition.
Boris and his assistant taught themselves how to repair scooters and motor-cycles. Slowly but
surely the profits increased and the business developed. At last, Boris had managed to open the
money-locker and found bank notes and gold coins inside.
B. Encouraging.
C. Boring.
D. Disappointing.
B. The world is a money-locker
C. No education, no future
D. Difficulty of starting a small business
B. developing a waste ground
C. cycling around the town
D. buying empty shops
B. he had a lot of old customers there
C. there were good opportunities there
D. he could make good use of his skills there
B. found a lot of gold coins by accident
C. set off in a successful career
D. had great difficulty running his business
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support from around the world after writing an online "Bucket List" of things she wanted to do
before dying.
Alice Pyne, l5, created an Internet blog in which she described her fight against a cancer of
the white blood cells. " I"ve been fighting cancer for almost four years and now l know that the
cancer is gaining on me and it doesn"t look like I"m going to win this one," she wrote.
For her list, the teenager took inspiration from the 2007 film "The Bucket List", in which two
terminally ill (患绝症的) men, played by Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, draw up a list
of things they wish to do before they die.
On her list, at the site www. alicepyne. blogspot. com, she has included making everyone sign
up to be a bone marrow donor (骨髓捐赠者), swimming with sharks, meeting boy band Take
That and getting a purple iPad computer.
Messages of support and offers of help quickly flooded her webpage and it became one of the
most talked about subjects on Twitter.
"Oh dear and I thought that I was just doing a little blog for a few friends!" she wrote after her
site attracted huge attention. "Thank you so much for all your lovely messages to me."
Pyne, who lives with her family in the northwest English town of Ulverston, revealed (透露) the
management of Take That had arranged for her to see the band after reading her blog. A group of
local lawmakers have also joined forces with the Anthony Nolan blood cancer charity to encourage
people to join its stem cell register.
B. People sent gifts to her from all over the world.
C.A lot of people offered to donate bone marrow to her.
D. People around the world sent messages to support her.
B. say goodbye to a few friends
C. give comfort to two terminally ill men
D. catch people"s attention
B. is calm to know that death is approaching
C. is very sad to know that she will die
D. is still quite confident in fighting against cancer
B. To get a cool computer.
C. To swim with sharks.
D. To ask people to donate bone marrow.
B. help Pyne in any possible way
C. donate money to Pyne
D. meet Pyne in person
test their skills in recognizing a suspect ( 嫌疑犯 ), the policeman showed the first blonde a picture
for five seconds and then asked how she could recognize him. She thought it easy, for the suspect
had only one eye. The policeman felt disappointed at this funny answer. He showed the second lady
the picture for five seconds and asked her how she would recognize him. The second blonde giggled,
flipped her hair, and said, "Ha! It"s easy to find the one-eared person!" Her answer also made the
policeman angry. Turning to the third lady, he asked, "This is your suspect, and how would you recognize
him?" He added quickly, "Think hard before giving a stupid answer." The third blonde looked at the picture carefully for a moment and said, "HMMMM ... the suspect is wearing contact lenses (隐形眼镜)." The
policeman was surprised and speechless, because he really didn"t know himself if the suspect wore contacts or not. "Well, that is a good answer. Wait here for a few minutes while I check his file." He left the room and went to his office, checked the suspect"s file in his computer and returned with a beaming smile.
"Wow! I can"t believe it ... it"s TRUE! The suspect does in fact wear contact lenses. Good work! How
were you able to make such a wise observation?" "That"s easy," the blonde replied, "he can"t wear glasses because he only has one eye and one ear!"
B. Their observation must be keen.
C. They must be humorous.
D. They must be good at thinking.
B. the picture was just a side of the suspect
C. the suspect must be a disabled person
D. the suspect was caught by the policeman
B. The second blonde may be accepted as a detective at once.
C. The third blonde is good at thinking and needn"t any training.
D. All of them may be given more training courses or fired.
comets which other scientists had made. The orbit of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical problem. He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems.
However, Halley had a friend named Isaac Newton. Who was a brilliant mathematician. Newton
thought he had already which he had done it. He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the shape of an
ellipse.
Now Halley set to work. He figured out the orbits of some of the comets that had been observed by
scientist. He made a surprising discovery. The comets that had appeared in the years 1531, 1607 and
1682 all had the same orbit. Yet their appearances had been 75 to 76 years apart.
This seemed very strange to Halley. Three different comets followed the same orbit. The more Halley
thought about it, the more he thought that there had not been three different comets, as people thought. He decided that they had simply seen the same comet three times. The comet had gone away and had come
back again. It was an astonishing idea! Halley felt certain enough to make a prediction of what would
happen in the future. He decided t
hat this comet would appear in the year 1758. There were 53 years to go before Halley"s prediction could be tested. In 1758 the com
et appeared in the sky. Halley did not see it, for he had died some years before. Ever since then that comet been called Halley"s comet, in his honor.
B. by means of his own careful observation
C. by using the work of other scientists
D. by chance
B.1705
C. 1706
D.1707
B. the orbit of a comet
C. Newton and Halley
D. Halley and Halley
B. Halley made his discovery by doing experiments.
C. Isaac Newton was a famous mathematician.
D. The orbit of a comet had the shape of an around.
Once upon a time, there was a large mountainside, where an eagle"s nest rested. The eagle"s nest
contained four 1 eagle eggs. On
e day an earthquake rocked (使震动) the mountain 2 one of the
eggs to roll down the mountain, 3 a chicken farm, which was in the valley below. The chickens knew
that they must 4 and care for the eagle’s egg, so an old hen (母鸡) 5 to hatch (孵) and raise the
large egg.
One day, the egg hatched and a beautiful eagle was born. 6 , however, the eagle was raised to be
a(n) 7 . Soon, the eagle believed he was 8 more than a chicken. The eagle loved his home and
family, 9 his spirit cried out for more. While playing a game on the farm one day, the eagle looked to
the skies
above and 10 a group of eagles soaring in the skies. "Oh," the eagle 11 , "I wish I could soar like
those birds." The chickens shouted with 12 , "You cannot soar with those birds. You are a chicken and
chickens do not soar."
The eagle 13 staring at his real family up above, 14 that he could be with them. Each time the
eagle would let his 15 be known, he was told it couldn’t be done. That is 16 the eagle learned to
believe. Slowly, the eagle 17 dreaming and continued to live his life like a chicken. 18 , after a long
life as a chicken, the eagle 19 .
You become what you believe you are; so if you ever dream to become an eagle, 20 your dreams,
not the words of a chicken.
contained four 1 eagle eggs. On
e day an earthquake rocked (使震动) the mountain 2 one of the eggs to roll down the mountain, 3 a chicken farm, which was in the valley below. The chickens knew
that they must 4 and care for the eagle’s egg, so an old hen (母鸡) 5 to hatch (孵) and raise the
large egg.
One day, the egg hatched and a beautiful eagle was born. 6 , however, the eagle was raised to be
a(n) 7 . Soon, the eagle believed he was 8 more than a chicken. The eagle loved his home and
family, 9 his spirit cried out for more. While playing a game on the farm one day, the eagle looked to
the skies
above and 10 a group of eagles soaring in the skies. "Oh," the eagle 11 , "I wish I could soar like
those birds." The chickens shouted with 12 , "You cannot soar with those birds. You are a chicken and
chickens do not soar."
The eagle 13 staring at his real family up above, 14 that he could be with them. Each time the
eagle would let his 15 be known, he was told it couldn’t be done. That is 16 the eagle learned to
believe. Slowly, the eagle 17 dreaming and continued to live his life like a chicken. 18 , after a long
life as a chicken, the eagle 19 .
You become what you believe you are; so if you ever dream to become an eagle, 20 your dreams,
not the words of a chicken.