阅读理解。 In 1977, Jack, an Italian-American who lived in San Francisco, flew fr
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In 1977, Jack, an Italian-American who lived in San Francisco, flew from America to Italy to visit his relatives. On the way, the plane made a one-hour stop to refuel (加油) at the New York Airport. Thinking that he had arrived, Jack got out and spent three days in New York, believing he was in Rome. When his relatives were not there to meet him, Jack thought they had been caught in the heavy Roman traffic mentioned in their letters. While looking for their address, Jack could not help noticing that modernization had changed most, if not all, of the ancient city"s landmarks. He also noticed that many people spoke English with strong American accent. However, he just thought that Americans got everywhere. He also believed that so many street signs were written in English especially for the Americans. Jack spoke very little English himself so he asked a policeman in Italian the way to the bus station. As chance would have it, the policeman came from Italy and replied in the same language. After twelve hours traveling round on a bus, the driver handed him over to a second policeman. After brief argument with the policeman, Jack was very surprised to find that the Rome police had employed someone who did not speak his mother tongue. Jack did not believe he was told that he was in New York. In order to get on a plane to San Francisco, the policeman raced him to the airport in a police car with sirens (报警器) screaming. "See," he said to his interpreter. "I know I"m in Italy. That"s how they drive." |
1. Where did Jack live? |
A. In Italy B. In San Francisco C. In New York D. The story doesn"t mention |
2. Why did Jack spend three days in New York? |
A. He thought he had arrived in Italy B. He did not want to go to Italy C. He wanted to see some relatives first in New York D. He wanted to have short rest in New York |
3. Which of the following is Not true? |
A. The first policeman could speak Italian fluently B. The second policeman could not speak Italian at all C. Jack had a brief argument with the second policeman D. Jack could speak much English |
答案
1-3: BAD |
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Two thieves came to a house to steal something, they dug a hole in the wall of the house. There lived many mice in the house. The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl (爬行) into the house. "Look! In comes one," she said to the man in the house. He was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside, "She found me when I was just in." But the thief outside didn"t believe him, so he said, "Let us two try to crawl into the house together." At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house, too. The woman saw the mice and shouted, "In come two, catch them!" The two thieves were terribly frightened. The man in the house said, "You saw them come in but where are they? I will catch them tonight." The two thieves started running away at once. The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before. The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came before the house. The man and the woman were ploughing in their fields. The rein(缰绳)broke and the woman came home for a rope. She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some. She picked out two which looked like mice. At the time the man couldn"t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up. The woman showed the sweet potatoes to the man and said, "How they look like the two of last night." The man said, "I asked you to fetch a rope, why don"t you hurry for it?" The two thieves ran away very quickly without their sweet potatoes. |
1. The two thieves failed to steal anything from the house because______. |
A. they were found out B. they were frightened by what they had heard in the house C. they didn"t work together well with each other D. mice stopped them from doing so |
2. From the last paragraph, we know that ______. |
A. the two thieves were famous selling sweet potatoes B. the woman recognized the two thieves C. the woman pretended to know nothing about the two thieves and made fun of them D. the two thieves didn"t know that they were not found at all |
3. The woman said, "How they look like the two of last night." Here "the two" refers to ______. |
A. the two thieves B. nothing C. the mice D. the ropes |
完形填空。 |
Yesterday evening I was watching the evening news on TV. The news was about a prize for scientific discoveries. The 1 said something that caught my 2 . "All great discoveries," he said, "are made by people between the ages of 25 and 30." Being a little over 30 myself, I wanted to 3 with him. Nobody wants to think that he has passed the age of making any 4 . The next day I went to the public library, spending several hours, and 5 to find the ages of famous people and their discoveries. The announcer was right! First, I looked at some of the 6 discoveries. One of the earliest, the famous one that 7 that bodies of different weights 8 at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he 9 his world-changing Theory of Relativity. Well, 10 of that. Yet I wondered if those "best years" were true in other 11 . Then how about this in 12 ? Surely it needs the wisdom of 13 to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look when these people 14 their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln 15 the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six! But why don"t best years come after 30? After 30, I 16 , most people don"t want to take risks or try new ways. Then I thought of people 17 Shakespeare and Picasso. The 18 was writing wonderful 19 at the late age of 50, 20 the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was 90! Perhaps there is still hope for me. |
( )1. A. announcer ( )2. A. mind ( )3. A. disagree ( )4. A. chance ( )5. A. happened ( )6. A. last ( )7. A. found ( )8. A. disappear ( )9. A. invented ( )10. A. plenty ( )11. A. fields ( )12. A. election ( )13. A. age ( )14. A. finished ( )15. A. led ( )16. A. guess ( )17. A. as ( )18. A. first ( )19. A. painting ( )20. A. when | B. conductor B. care B. talk B. discovery B. wanted B. scientific B. proved B. move B. improved B. enough B. science B. politics B. brain B. won B. devoted B. know B. to be B. writer B. idioms B. while | C. speaker C. attention C. meet C. research C. succeeded C. oldest C. doubted C. drop C. published C. much C. courses C. leaders C. living C. started C. began C. believe C. like C. poet C. fiction C. who | D. hostess D. surprise D. advise D. fortune D. managed D. modern D. showed D. fall D. made D. all D. ages D. society D. leadership D. defeated D. gave up D. agree D. about D. former D. works D. after | 完形填空。 | Last night, I was waiting for a taxi. After 5 minutes, I was 1 . The driver seemed to be angry. I asked him what the 2 was. He said he had just come from the airport without a 3 , which was basically $70 in lost fare. Over the course of that ride, the anger slowly 4 . He mentioned he had read an article saying the 5 people are the ones that give, so he hoped he"d have more 6 to give in his life. I was starting to 7 being with him! We continued talking about why 8 is so beneficial both to the giver and the receiver and different ways to 9 it. As we arrived at my destination, I 10 my fare. But I pulled out an extra $20 and said, "Since we"ve been talking about giving this whole time, I wanted to share that 11 with you. I"ve already paid my fare, but here"s an extra little bit. You can 12 it, since you"re already down $70 from the airport. But if you want to experience the 13 of the gift, then tell the next passenger in this taxi that their ride is a gift from another and they can 14 their gratitude in whatever way." The man turned toward me, tears in his eyes, and said, "Sir, I have a better 15 . You give that $20 to a 16 person around here and I"ll treat the next passenger with a 17 ride myself." Wow. This man was 18 10 minutes ago. I got out and walked around trying to find someone who needed help 19 heading to my destination. It was an honor meeting that driver and 20 the lesson of how everyone is capable of giving. | ( )1. A. gotten off ( )2. A. question ( )3. A. friend ( )4. A. died out ( )5. A. happiest ( )6. A. kindness ( )7. A. mind ( )8. A. collecting ( )9. A. practise ( )10. A. printed ( )11. A. adventure ( )12. A. refuse ( )13. A. direction ( )14. A. share ( )15. A. gift ( )16. A. homeless ( )17. A. long ( )18. A. bored ( )19. A. after ( )20. A. learning | B. put down B. time B. stranger B. appeared B. poorest B. chances B. stop B. giving B. explain B. recorded B. information B. raise B. power B. earn B. idea B. native B. comfortable B. tired B. before B. preparing | C. called up C. problem C. driver C. died down C. richest C. suggestions C. allow C. receiving C. watch C. paid C. language C. keep C. weight C. forget C. opinion C. nice C. free C. rude C. when C. finishing | D. picked up D. cost D. customer D. died off D. strongest D. money D. enjoy D. existing D. consider D. examined D. feeling D. spend D. size D. miss D. ride D. brave D. safe D. angry D. as D. providing | 完形填空。 | I used to find notes left in the collection basket of the church; beautiful notes about my homilies(布道) and about the writer"s thoughts on the daily readings. The 1 fascinated(吸引) me. But it was a long time 2 I met the author of the notes. One Sunday morning, I was told someone was 3 for me in the office, a young woman who said she 4 all the notes. When I saw her I was 5 , since I had no idea that it was she who wrote the notes. She was sitting in a chair in the office. Her head was 6 and when she raised it to look at me, she could barely 7 without pain. Her face was disfigured(畸形), so smiling was very 8 for her. We 9 for a while that Sunday morning and agreed to meet for lunch later that week. As it 10 we went to lunch several times, and we shared things about our 11 . We spoke of authors we both had 12 , and it was easy to tell that 13 were a great love of hers. She suffered from a disfigurement that cannot be made to look 14 . I know that her condition 15 her deeply. Yet there was a beauty in her that had 16 to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words came from a wounded but 17 heart. She possessed a fine-tuned sense of beauty. Her only 18 in life was the loss of a friend. The truth of her life was a desire to see 19 the surface for a glimpse of what it is that matters. She found beauty and 20 and they befriended her, and showed her what is real. | ( )1. A.collection ( )2. A. since ( )3. A. preparing ( )4. A. cast ( )5. A. shocked ( )6. A.high ( )7. A. stand ( )8. A. sweet ( )9. A. chatted ( )10. A. turned out ( )11. A. ideals ( )12. A. known ( )13. A. travel ( )14. A. friendly ( )15. A. hurt ( )16. A. something ( )17. A. cheerful ( )18. A. fear ( )19. A. on ( )20. A. success | B. ideas B. after B. praying B. left B. dissatisfied B. bowed B. smile B. bitter B. discussed B. turned to B. beliefs B. recognized B. prayer B. pleasant B. impressed B. nothing B. interesting B. sorrow B. in B. hope | C. notes C. when C. waiting C. dropped C. frightened C. leaned C. speak C. ugly C. ate C. came out C. hobbies C. read C. writings C. attractive C. frustrated C. link C. loving C. defeat C. within C. grace | D. basket D. before D. looking D. collected D. disappointed D. shaken D. cry D. difficult D. greeted D. came to D. lives D. heard D. books D. unusual D. affected D. connection D. excited D. regret D. beyond D. happiness | 阅读理解。 | Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest, which took place in Harbin, China. Three-person teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems. The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty. Then they figured out the requirements of each. They designed ways to test their solutions. And they wrote the needed software systems. Even the winning team from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given limit. Stanford"s team solved five problems and finished in fourteenth place. Stanford was one of twenty-one American universities that took part in the contest this year. The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Contest. The first final competition was held in 1977 at the Association for Computer Machinery Computer Science Conference. Today, a network of universities holds area competitions that send the winners to the world finals, now organized by IBM. Contest spokesman Dong Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships. They are also guaranteed an offer of employment or internship (实习) with IBM. He said, "We have had past world champions that IBM has gone and employed in our Zurich research laboratory and are now working on some of the leading edge materials in science and physics. We have a world finalist from China who"s been working on the Watson Supercomputer that in the near future will be playing Jeopardy (一种超级计算机名称) against the best Jeopardy players in the world. So this competition is an opportunity to be recognized and to be recruited (招聘) by some of the top technology and research firms around the world." | 1. From the first paragraph we can figure out there were____ programmers taking part in the contest. | A. 3 B. 88 C. 246 D. a lot of | 2. From the last paragraph we know that ____. | A. the winners will be offered a job in IBM B. this contest provides a chance for the universities C. this competition is held every four years D. many big companies are short of programmers | 3. What is the best title of this passage? | A. The Best Top Contest B. The Battle of the Brains C. The Difficult Competition D. Courage and Wisdom Needed |
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